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BPOV
Over the next two weeks, things returned mainly to normal. Rose still hadn't moved back, afraid to return exactly to the way things were, and blocked in by her lease. Jasper and Emmett switched off every other night each person spending every other night at the apartment. Emmett didn't want to push Rose, and Jasper still wanted to be there for her. Emmett still had her engagement ring in his room, constantly reminding him that they were no longer engaged and still recuperating from their blow up.
Eve had turned two, and I couldn't believe that my baby was growing so quickly. Alice had planned her a whole party, and I honestly had fun.
"Bella!" Emmett yelled, racing down the stairs.
"Morning Em." I said, laughing at his unnecessary speed.
"Is dad staying at Sue's tonight?" He asked.
"Yep." I mumbled. "Happy Valentines Day to me." I laughed, know Emmett was staying at Rosalie's.
"Well why don't you have Edward over?" Emmett asked. "Maybe he even has something planned for you." He waggled his eyebrows and I laughed at his ridiculousness.
"Yeah, he's probably got a self-defense lesson and restraining order lined up." I said, sort of serious. "Getting away from Mike would be the best present ever."
Emmett looked at me angrily. "You tell me if he touches you again." He said seriously.
I nodded. It had been a week since I'd talked to him.
"Hello my little slut." Mike called from behind me as I walked to Edward's locker. I ignored him. He cut me off, stopping in front of me.
"Mike, just go away." I said, exasperated.
"Oh no," he whispered, sticking a finger at me, poking my shoulder. "I think I'd rather stay and make you mine."
"Right." I muttered, turning to walk away from him. He grabbed my shoulder and spun me around.
"Don't turn away from me." He said powerfully.
"What do you want Mike?" I asked, tired of his games.
"Well, you, obviously." He said, running a hand on my arms again.
"Over my dead body." I muttered, turning again. This time, he grabbed my wrist, pulling hard and popping my elbow. I spun around quickly, hissing in pain.
Tears filled my eyes. "Mike!" I whispered. "What are you doing?"
"I told you not to turn away from me." He said, squeezing my wrist harder. I winced.
"Is everything okay here?" Mr. Greene asked, turning a corner and seeing Mike's hold on me.
"We're fine." Mike said, letting go of my wrist. I didn't take another chance. I ran.
I hadn't had a run-in with him since then, but I passed him in the hallway everyday and he would wink at me.
"Don't think about it Bells." Emmett said, grabbing his keys and heading out the door to pick up Rose.
I dropped off Eve at the Cullen's house, like I did every morning and then Edward and I made our way to school. I didn't want to have to see Mike at school, but I knew that it was unavoidable.
"Bella, are you okay?" Edward asked opening the door for me to get out.
"Yeah, fine," I replied distracted.
"Okay, let's go to class," Edward smiled, taking my hand and walking to my first class of the day, music, one of my favorite classes. It was a class I shared with Edward.
We got there early, but went in to the room anyway. Today was a big day. We all had to sing for the class. It was like a Valentine's Day serenade. I had brought my guitar, ready to play while I sang.
"Hey love?" Edward asked, breaking me out of my thoughts.
"Mm-hmm?" I responded.
"Want to play a game?" Edward asked.
"Random much?" I giggled.
"You know you love it," he joked, "Anyway, you are too quiet so I decided we are going to play a game."
"Okay. What are we playing?" I asked.
"Twenty questions," he smiled.
"Oh good God!" I shook my head laughing.
"Question number one is what's your favorite color?" he asked.
"Green," I replied nonchalantly.
"Oh," he said as his eyebrows rose.
"Yup. My question is what's your favorite girl name?" I asked.
"I like Eve's name, but I also like Leila," he answered.
"Pretty!" I smiled.
"What's your favorite season?" he asked.
"Okay, umm… winter." I smiled. I loved winter because everything was so pretty. But for the uncoordinated winter is the worst season.
"What about your clumsiness?" he asked.
"What about it?" I questioned, "What's your favorite holiday?"
"Well of course Christmas, but would it be cheesy to say that I love Valentine's Day?" he asked.
"Of course not baby," I smiled.
"Would it be okay if I asked you to come to dinner with me for Valentine's Day tonight?" Edward asked nervously.
"Of course baby. I would love to go with you," I smiled kissing him.
"Okay class, settle down," Mrs. Christen shouted over the chatter.
"We'll finish this later," Edward mouthed to me.
"Okay class. There are a lot of people that have to perform their songs. So, who would like to go first?" Mrs. Christen asked.
"I'll go Mrs. Christen," Jessica said standing up.
"Okay, Ms. Stanley," she said sitting down at her desk.
Everyone sang, Angela and Ben stuck out the most, they sang together, and it was gorgeous.
"Mr. Cullen?" Mrs. Christen asked, "Would you like to go?"
"Sure," he shrugged his shoulder, walking over to the piano.
He sat up straight at the piano and rested his hands gently on the piano keys. He began to play and it sounded amazing. I recognized the song automatically, "How to Save a Life" by The Fray, I loved this song. When he stopped playing and singing, everyone was speechless. He walked back over to me and sat down in his seat at the table. I smiled at him and he took my hand. My hand was shaking and he squeezed it comfortingly then it was my turn to go.
"Good luck love," Edward smiled.
"Thanks," I sighed, standing up.
I walked to the front of the room to begin playing. I took my guitar out of its case and began to play one of my favorite songs, "Concrete Angel" by Martina McBride. I took a deep breath and began to sing. At the end of my song everyone applauded and I blushed.
The bell rang and the class all stood to leave.
"Okay, good job today class. I will see you on Friday in class," she smiled. I stood up and grabbed my purse, but when I turned around to get my books Edward had already had them, standing by the door waiting for me.
"You coming love?" he laughed.
"Yeah, yeah," I muttered walking over to him and taking his hand.
The rest of the day passed uneventfully without too many run-ins with Mike. The one time I did see him in the hallway his eyes trailed up and down my body then he winked at me. Edward, thankfully, didn't see him. I knew if Edward saw, Mike would've never known what hit him.
School ended, but I had managed to not finish my English test.
"Edward, if I call you in like twenty minutes will you come get me?" I asked sweetly. "I have to finish a test."
He smiled brightly at me. "As long as you don't take too long." He said with a kiss. "I don't want to be late to our Valentine's dinner."
I smiled and kissed him quickly. "I wouldn't miss it for the world." I whispered against his lips. "I'll call you." He smiled and raced out to the parking lot.
It took me about fifteen minutes to finish my test; I didn't have a lot of questions left anyway.
I turned it in and walked to my locker to grab my phone. I had just gotten the door open when I heard him.
"Well well well, if it isn't the little whore," Mike smirked evilly.
"What do you want?" I asked.
"Well, I talk to James every week you know." He said matter-of-factly.
"That's great for you." I said slowly, as if talking to a complete idiot.
"He told me that talking to you like this wasn't really going to bug you."
"He's right." I said, looking in to my locker.
"That your daughter?" He asked, pointing to the picture taped to the back wall.
"What's it to you?" I asked, worried now that he had brought Eve in to it.
"No reason, she just looks like she'll grow up to be as big a whore as you are."
I didn't even realize I had hit him until I heard my knuckles cracking.
My ribs were next, as Mike's fist met them hard, pushing me back so that me head hit the corner of my open locker door.
I couldn't breath. As I fell to the floor, I saw Mike's feet running away. Coward.
My ribs hurt so badly, and when I touched the back of my head, blood stained my hand.
My vision was going black as I pressed the first speed dial I could get to.
Edward.
"Help me." I murmured before everything was black.
EPOV
I looked at my phone and saw that it read Bella. I flipped it open and answered it.
"Hello love." I said with a smile.
"Help me," came a weak voice on the other side of the phone.
"Bella?" I asked in a panic. The line went dead.
I snapped my phone shut and ran out the front door of the Swan's house without telling anyone where I was going. I jumped into my car and immediately pulled out of the driveway. When I pulled up to the school, I grabbed my phone and ran in the front entrance, nearest our lockers. As I got closer I noticed that someone was lying down in front of a locker. Bella was lying, bloody, in front of her open locker, unconscious and barely breathing. I dialed 911 before I even got all the way to her.
I rattled off where we were and what I saw before I hung up and smoothed her hair as she whimpered in her sleep.
An ambulance got there as I went numb, racing to follow them and ride in the back with Bella.
We got to the ER quickly, the paramedics racing Bella back to a room and telling me to wait for a few minutes in the lobby. I sat down and ran a hand through my hair, grabbing my phone and sighing at the call I had to make.
"Hello?" Emmett answered.
"Hey Em, it's Edward," I said.
"What's up?" he asked.
"Listen, you guys should get to the hospital," I said. "Bella's hurt. Just get here. I'll have the doctor explain when you do. Oh, and tell you dad please?" I asked.
"Yeah, we'll be right there," Emmett answered; hanging up the phone.
It only took everyone else five minutes to arrive at the hospital and when they did Carlisle came out and brought us to Bella's room.
"She got hit pretty hard. Do you have any idea what happened to her?" Carlisle asked, looking to me.
"No, but I have an idea." I said with gritted teeth.
"She has a few broken knuckles. She punched something. Hard," Carlisle said.
I nodded, wanting to hear more. "She go hit back, my best guess is in the ribs. A few of the lower floating ribs were fractured, the only bad one punctured her lung."
He pointed to a small tube that was coming out of the side of her rib. "Her lung deflated, which made it hard to breathe, and this chest tube is filling her lung back up with oxygen. She'll have this tube in for another day or two, just to make sure."
"And her head?" I asked softly. There had been so much blood…
"Mild concussion. I put in a few stitches, but she'll be fine besides a mild headache. It's the ribs that will be the worst for her. She cannot carry Eve. At all. Okay?" Carlisle asked, looking to the whole family. We all nodded.
"No stairs. No excessive walking. No dancing for a while. It will take a month or so for the ribs to start healing. She'll also need to be in a small brace for her hand. Got it?"
Again, we all nodded.
"Charlie, you're police chief." Carlisle said, "I want you to get a hold of the video camera footage of the hall where Edward found Bella."
Charlie nodded, kissing his bruised daughter on the bed.
"When will she wake up?" He asked.
"Tonight or tomorrow." Carlisle said.
Charlie nodded and walked out of the room, ready to find out what had happened to Bella.
Rose cried as she looked at Bella's still form. She handed me Eve as she took Emmett's hand and pulled him in the room. They talked to her for a minute before they both walked out, ready to sleep back at Rose's apartment.
"Bye Edward," Rose smiled sadly walking into the waiting room to wait for Emmett
"Edward, you take care of my little sister for me, alright?" Emmett asked.
"Of course Emmett. I would do that even if you hadn't asked me," I smiled.
"Thanks," he replied hugging me then walking out to the car with Rose.
Eve fell asleep eventually, and I placed her in a spare crib Carlisle had brought down from the nursery. When Alice left, she took her along.
"I'll tell the office why you won't be at school tomorrow." Alice said softly.
"I have to be here when she wakes up," I answered.
"I will see you when we come back tomorrow afternoon," Alice smiled.
"Thanks for everything guys. Bye Jasper, Alice," I said. They walked out the door and out to their car.
I laid my head down on the bed and took one of Bella's still hands. I couldn't help but let the tears fall from my eyes. I closed my eyes and let the sleep overcome me.
When I awoke in the morning Bella's eyes were still shut. I looked at the clock in the room and saw that it read nine thirty. I decided to talk to Bella, hoping that it would help. I took a deep breath in and then I began to talk to her.
"Bella, love, you have to wake up. You have to wake up for me, and Eve, and for our families and friends. You have to wake up because I don't think that I could spend a day without you here with me. I love you so much! Please wake up for me! I love you." I was sobbing by now.
"I missed Valentine's," someone whispered. I looked up, my vision blurred by tears, and saw Bella staring down at me.
BPOV
I opened my eyes to see Edward holding my hands and crying. He was speaking to me, but the only thing I heard him say was, "I love you."
"I missed Valentine's," I whispered, feeling humorous and slightly guilty at the same time. He lifted his head up to look at me, the tears still in his eyes.
"You're awake?" he asked.
"Of course I am," I smiled weakly.
"Bella, oh thank God." He hugged my hips tightly, never moving his hands, afraid to touch me.
"What? I was out like maybe a day?" I asked, joking, but unsure at the same time.
"Love it killed me to see you lying there like that. You looked so broken, weak and defenseless. It was horrible! And while you were lying there, I was sitting here in this chair trying to imagine my life without you. But I couldn't. Bella you and Eve are my life now. I can't imagine trying to get through a day without waking up with you next to me, or seeing you smiling when you drive to school with me in the morning," Edward explained.
"What… what's wrong?" I asked.
"I still have more to say, then it will all make sense. I love you so much, and when I saw you I couldn't imagine my life without you. So that it why I am asking you this today. I know that we haven't been dating long, and I know we are so young. But you are the one I want to live the rest of my life with. You're the one I want the storybook with. The kids, the grandkids, the rocking chairs. I know that I didn't come prepared for this, but I need to ask you this. Isabella Marie Swan, I love you with all my heart, mind and soul. So will you become my wife?"
A/N Ah... I'm evil! I know, but my story will be updated soon. Thank you so much for reading! Yay! Please review! I will update when I get at least eight reviews and enough time! Thanks again for everything you guys do!
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