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Chapter 26

Edward's POV

Today my mother finally convinced me to go home. It's been two weeks and there are no real changes. The doctors keep telling me daily that if she doesn't awaken, there's a small chance she ever will. I keep thinking this is a cruel joke and any minute Bella will wake up.

The only good news we'd received was the judge denying Tanya bail. The bitch ruined my life. She took Bella away from me more than once. She denied me the chance to be a real father from the beginning. I see my son and spend a few minutes with him every day but it hurts. Yes, he looks like me but I see so much of Bella in him. This little boy could lose his mother but I'd never let him lose his father ever again.

I shower and shave at home before trying to eat something. I got a few bits of an apple down before it threatens to come back up. I can see Sue in the next room, playing with Ry. His mother should be the one here playing with him, feeding him. Grief washes over me as I sit on the floor in my kitchen. Tears start to pour down my face. Next thing I know I'm breaking dishes, so mad about everything. I would have kept going if two arms didn't wrap around me.

"Dude, chill. She wouldn't want this, plus you're scaring the baby."

I never thought in a million years I'd be taking comfort from Jacob Black.

"Come on. Let's go somewhere." Jacob remarks pulling me away.

"I need to get back to the hospital."

"No, after this you need to come with me."

He was right. I hated to admit it but I was no state to be around my son or Bella. We drove for about ten minutes before stopping at a warehouse like building.

"Did you bring me here to kill me?"

Jacob smiled one of his rare smiles. "No, when Bella wakes up she'd never forgive me if I did. Not to mention your son needs you. No, for the last few weeks I've been coming here. I've become decent friends with the owner."

I get out of the car and follow Jake inside. We go up a flight of stairs that open into a huge room. There're all types of boxing equipment here.

"Don't give me that look, Cullen. It helps." He hands me some tape and gloves. "Don't tell me you don't know how to use them."

He takes my hands and starts taping them. "This is so you won't hurt yourself." He slides the gloves on my hands lacing them up. He holds a heavy bag in place. "Hit it. Let all the anger out on this bag. Hell, imagine that bitch's face if it helps."

I start punching harder and harder as I go. I didn't realize I'd started crying again until Jake pulled me into a hug. "We all miss her, man. We just have to have faith she'll wake up."

"But what if she doesn't? I can't live in a world where she doesn't exist."

"You have to. If Bella doesn't make it that little boy is going to need a father. He's going to need all of us to tell him about her and how great she was. If anything happens her you're still family. You'll still have all of us to lean on."

"I should never have left. I should have come back as soon as the phone number stopped working." I remarked.

"Edward, that's all in the past. You need to live in the present. We can't change our mistakes, we just have to learn from them."

"She may never wake up, and if she does she might not be the same Bella."

He pats me on the back and smiles. "Don't you know her enough yet. This is just Bella being stubborn and hard headed. She is going to wake up the second we all think she won't, and be the same smart mouth she's always been."

"This actually has helped but I'm going to need another shower and to clean up the mess I've made at home."

"You know, Sue or your mom would've already cleaned that up. Why don't I take you home to shower again then drive you to the hospital?" Jacob states giving me a grin, hoping to convince me.

"Bella's lucky to have you." I finally state, earning an eye roll.

"In a few months, I'll be married to her sister and Seth will be off at college so we might need you to take over for us a while."

"You don't even have to ask."

Jacob was true to his word, he drove me to the house to shower. When we got there, all the cars were gone.

"Jake, did you bring your cell phone?"

"Yeah, it's right here." He starts digging through his pockets only to come up empty. "Shit, I think I left it on charge in my room."

"We have to get to the hospital. They wouldn't all have left unless something happened."

The twenty-minute drive felt like it took forever. The whole time I prayed I wasn't too late to say goodbye. The least I needed was to say goodbye. Jake pulled up to the entrance as I jumped out of car. Please don't let me be too late. I slammed my finger into the button for the elevator before deciding it was taking too long. I ran up the stairs, taking two at a time. I willed my legs to take me faster but by the time I reached Bella's floor I was out of breath and my legs felt like jelly. I ran towards Bella's room only to stop when I saw everyone hugging and crying. I was too late.

Bella's POV

I was so tired of fighting with my body. It felt so heavy. I tried to move small things first like a finger or my toe but it was like my brain wouldn't give the signal. I kept hearing my family but I still couldn't tell them that. I heard Esme everyday trying to coax Edward into eating and showering. I heard my dad tell me about the latest sport scores. I heard my mom humming the song she would sing anytime I was upset or scared.

Mostly I heard Edward. I heard him pray for me, begging me to open my eyes or squeeze his hand, or just tell me how much he loves me. I tried to use all their voice as my focal point to move or anything. I missed my baby, I missed the way my dad's mustache twitched, I missed my crazy sisters, I missed my overprotective brothers, but most of all I missed green. Green was the color home. It was the trees outside my bedroom, the nursery I rocked Ry to sleep in but most importantly it was the color of their eyes.

In between voices was blackness. I felt like I was drowning. My body felt like it was being pulled under every day. I fought to get free all the time. My lungs burned from trying so hard. Sometimes it got so bad I wanted to give up but then I'd hear their voices and fight again.

I heard a man talking but I couldn't make out his voice or what he was saying. I didn't recognize this voice. I felt myself starting to drift only this time it was bright again. I wasn't at my house this time. I was at my dad's but it was different. It looked like when Nana Swan use to live here. I walked from room to room touching things. It smelled like lilacs and cookies. I knew this smell. I remember sitting on nana's lap while she read to me just breathing it in.

"There you are my dear."

"Nana?" I whispered confused on what was going on and why I was seeing her.

"Oh, look at my little Bellarina. You've gotten so big. You are more beautiful than the last time I saw you." Nana remarked with a soft smile as she looked me over.

"Nana? But how?"

"Always told you the Lord works in mysterious ways."

"Did I die?" I wipe away tears, scared of her answer.

"Oh sweetheart. Don't cry. You'll see them again. Dying isn't the end. I've been with you every day since I passed."

"Nana, I love you but I want my baby. I can't leave him."

"You'll never have to."

"I want to see him grow up."

"You will."

"It's not the same as being there, holding him, helping him get dressed."

"He has his father."

"But he needs a mother."

"And he'll have one. Eventually Edward will forgive Tanya and they'll raise Orion."

"What? No! Edward would never do that."

"Sweetheart, haven't you learned anything? Men just like getting their dicks wet wherever they can."

"You're wrong! He loves me."

"Is that why he had sex with her while he was married to you?"

"They didn't have sex. He told me they didn't." This isn't like my grandmother. Then I notice small differences. This isn't my nana. This person is just cruel.

"So, naive. Men will say anything for a warm hole."

"No!"

I felt my heart start racing. What's going on? I felt an electrical charge run through my body and then it all disappeared.