Previously: "Stop," I whispered. My eyes were squeezed tightly shut. "Please.."

"And she is being comforted by those two while she sees you again smiling, but this time you are holding another women." Edward spoke in a calm voice. "Now all I am seeing are hunter green eyes and a bright smile. Them joking around and passing flirty comments to one another. Hugging, soft kisses being passed between the two. Him holding her while she pours her heart out to him." He turned his head toward someone behind me cocking his head to the side. "You love her."

I whipped my head around in time to see Paul dropped his eyes to the floor.

Chapter Twelve

[Paul's POV]

"Not in the way you think. She is my sister."

Edward snorted, "The comments you've made to her during class weren't exactly platonic."

"It was us joking around. Everyone knows how we are towards each other." I growled back when Sam snarled at me. "You know it's not like that, Sam."

"Then why is he seeing her kissing you!?" he bellowed.

My entire body vibrated with the growl that came out of my chest. "Because she was hurting and I was there for her when you weren't!"

"So, what? You just took advantage of my imprint when she was in a bad time. Is kiss all you did? Or did you fuck her too while she was in that fucked up state?" Sam had stepped closer to me, he face right in mine and I was now standing to my full height. Fucker still had a good five inches on me.

"I didn't take advantage of her... I only did what she asked me to do." I whispered in a deadly voice.

Sam curled his top lip. "You admit it!"

"I didn't admit to doing shit!" I shouted, "The only thing I did was hold her when she asked me to. She was hurting Sam, she wanted to feel like someone cared, other than her family." Sighing, I growled out in frustration when I noticed Sam was still vibrating. "You know what? Fuck it. I love her, is that what you wanted to hear? That I love the women that is destined to be your soul mate. The women that forgave you after she went through hell because she thought that she would never have a chance with you. I. Love. Her. I cant change how I feel and I don't want to."

When Sam bared his teeth at me I just sighed again and walked out of the house. I guess Bella was right, you can love someone so much that it hurts especially when the person you love has someone else.

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I wasn't exactly sure where I had ended up that first night. I just knew that I couldn't stay in La Push right now. Don't think I don't care about Bella. Because I truly do love her but I could just sit there and watch as she possibly di.. I cant even think that. It sucked. I wanted her to be better. I wanted her to be okay. But I couldn't stay.

The guys understood why I needed to get away for awhile. Well, Sam didn't care. I wasn't even going to tell him but the fucker was eavesdropping on my conversation. He flat out told me he was happy I was leaving. I would come back though. I just needed to clear my head. I was going to go visit some of my family that lived on the rez that Emily is from.

When I finally let myself take a rest, I found a dry spot under a pine tree and curled myself up as much as I possibly could. I sent up a silent prayer. Please don't take Bella away from me. I need her more than I've ever needed anyone. Don't take her away from me God. I whispered it in my mind just before I fell asleep.

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[Bella's POV]

I woke up to an annoying beeping sound and something was shoved up my nose. Ugh! Not another hospital!

"Bella?"

My eyes snapped open and I turned my head sharply to my left. Bad idea. My head throbbed and I felt dizzy. "Fuck.."

"Oh thank God!" Sam murmured and buried his face in my hair. "I thought I had lost you."

"What are you talk about Sam? And why the hell am I in a hospital? What happened?" I asked trying to get him to look at me.

"You don't remember?" I shook my head. "Bella, you almost bled to death because some leech tried to kill you."

"Oh." Was all I could respond with.

"You really don't remember?" Sam asked and I shook my head.

"The last thing I remember was having dinner with you last night." Sam gave me a pained look. "What?"

"Bella, you've been in a coma for the last month." Sam whispered in a pained voice. "I thought I had lost you for good."

The smell of salt filled my senses as Sam turned his face away from me. "A month?" I whispered.

"Yes," he sighed. "We have all been worried. The guys are waiting downstairs for you to wake up."

I smiled, "Go get them then!"

Sam was up and out the door before I finished the sentence. It was then that I got to look around the room. I wasn't in a hospital. I was in a house. An expensive house. The walls were covered floor to ceiling with bookcases that were practically busting with books. I could smell the old leather and ink. It smelt like home to me.

"Bella?" I heard my name whispered.

Jacob had his head poked around the door. His brilliant smile shined in the dim like and he was at my side in an instant. "God Bells. Never again. You hear me? I thought I had lost my sister."

I swatted his arm. "I am tougher than you think Jake. Some silly little leech cant keep me down."

Embry snorted from the back of the room. "She took a good bit of flesh out of you though. Scared the shit out of all of us."

"I wish I knew what happened. I – I don't remember anything."

Seth shot across the room and landed on top of me. His body shaking and the muffled sobs almost broke me. "I thought I had lost my sister!"

"Hey, you would have still had me!" Leah huffed from Embry's side.

Rolling his eyes at me Seth whispered, "Yeah but you my favorite."

"I heard that!"

"Good!"

The room was filled with laughter after that. I wiped my eyes and looked at everyone. Well, almost everyone.

"Where's Paul?"

AN: Blah. Okay, I don't like this chapter either. My mind really isn't into writing at the moment. But I owed you all an update. So here it is. I know its short and I'm sorry. Hope you all enjoyed it anyways.

Until next time.

XoXo – Jenn