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I groaned. What a great way to spend Christmas day, falling off a snowboard in freezing cold weather onto wet snow. Not that I had anything against snow. But if you fell every two seconds from standing on a snowboard, you'd hate it too. And my balance on a snowboard, well, let's just say it sucked. Great.

Chapter 37: Snowboarding

BPOV

So we had driven to a mountain that I didn't even know existed. (AN: I don't even know if there are mountains in Washington. Pretend with me.)

I was balancing on the snowboard. Well, attempting to. The snow, being snow, was wet. And slippery. And the fact that the board was supposed to slide on it didn't help.

I was clinging to Edward's arm, but my feet were still slipping beneath me. Stupid snowboard! Though, I of course didn't say anything because it was a gift. We were waiting for Alice to come back from the gift shop.

"Bella, just try and stand up. I promise I won't let you fall." Edward tried to reassure.

"Edward, you don't get it! This thing is out to get me!" I said. If I tried to stand up, then my legs would either split, slip in front of me, causing me to land on my butt, slip behind me, causing me to fall on my face, or slip too far left or right, causing me to land on my side. I had gone snowboarding before. Not pretty.

We were on the top of the slope and were going to go down to the bottom. Seems easy enough. But it was also a race. As in, me racing against vampires. Little human Bella. And they had promised not to cheat, at which I snorted at.

"Bella, this'll be fun! Fun to watch you fall." Emmett said, muttering the last part just loud enough for me to hear, which ended in loud guffaws.

"Shut up Emmett!" I snapped. Not everyone could be as graceful as a vampire. I mean, I wasn't not graceful, but I wasn't exactly little Miss Ballerina Tutu either. And balance on a snowboard in snow was hard. It was a lot easier on concrete, when we were just trying them out.

"Shh Bella. He's just trying to get a rise out of you. Don't worry. You'll be fine." Edward tried reassuring me again. And it failed, again.

"Jasper, some help please?" I asked Jasper. Maybe he could calm my frazzled nerves.

"I've been trying for the past ten minutes Bella. Your emotions are all over the place. You are officially and emotional wreck." I shot a glare at him. Stupid, perfectly balanced vampire!

"So… what exactly are we waiting for?" Emmett asked. Again. He wasn't very patient.

"Alice." I said simply. No need to explain her. She was her own adjective and noun, no explanation needed.

And then when she came back, I was scared. Not because she had ten bags in her hands, but because that meant that we were actually going to snowboard. As in, go down the hill. By ourselves.

"Okay, are you guys ready? This is going to be so much fun! Esme and Carlisle are at the advanced slope. But we're going to have fun! I know it!" Alice exclaimed, her usual happy, chipper self.

I nodded nervously. There was no going against Alice.

Emmett winked at me, smiling. "Break a leg Bella!"

"Okay, on your marks. Get set. Go!" she said and everyone took off.

I leaned my weight forward and felt my stomach drop.

"Alice! I thought this wasn't a raaaaaa- aahhhh!"

The mountain was steepening and the speed was increasing. The board underneath me was falling down the hill, me being attached to it. I had no control over the board. Which I was supposed to. But it just wouldn't listen to me!

"Go Bella go!" Alice cheered after me. I would normally have turned to glare at her, but I was afraid that that would turn off my balance.

"Edwarrrrrrrrd! How do you stop this thing?!" I screamed. I wanted to stop. I needed to stop if I was going to leave in one piece.

And then I saw it. A cliff. One of those little cliffs that land you on the next hill that's right below it. The ones where you snowboard or ski off of and land. When you're and expert? Yeah, there was one of those. Right in front of me.

I felt my snowboard move under me feet, and felt the absence of ground under me. I was flying through the air. I raised my glove-clad hand to cover my eyes, screaming the whole while "AHHHHHH!" if I had any fluid in me, I would have peed my pants. No wonder Alice told me not to drink any water this morning.

Then I landed with a harsh thud and felt my legs give beneath me. They had landed slightly behind my body, so I was in an upward slant, my head about a foot in front of my feet. I felt myself hit the cold snow and begin tumbling down the hill, which was even steeper than the one that I was on before.

So now I was rolling down the hill, snow gather on me with every spin, so I looked like a giant snowball. I gave up screaming because it did nothing. Where was Edward? Alice? Rosalie? Even Jasper? I knew Emmett wouldn't do anything.

When I felt the ground even out a little, I let out the breath I was holding. Solid, no sloped ground! And then as I was spinning and my vision was completely off, I saw it. A green and brown blur. That I was heading straight for.

With a sickening crunch, I had managed to land myself right up against a tree. This is what happens when I go snowboarding.

"Bella! Bella! Are you okay?" Edward's frantic voice said, but it seemed as if my head was underwater. His face swam in and out of vision, appearing before disappearing.

"I'm so sorry Bella! Alice, how did you not see this?" he said, first to me then to Alice.

"She changed it when she decided to cover her eyes but by then she was tumbling too fast for us to be able to stop her without giving ourselves away."

The background 'music' to this was Emmett's laughter. He was no doubt doubled over by my predicament. But I was too out of it to care.

"Alice, she's not responding. I've been trying to get a response out of her for the last minute." He had? Huh… I would have thought that I'd have realized that. "I think we should call Carlisle." He said, concern and worry lacing his voice.

That sounded like a good idea. A doctor who could save me.

When I heard another laugh though, I almost growled. This was not funny!

"She-she was serious when she said she was bad at-at snowboarding!" Carlisle would have sounded out of breath to any other human, but I knew it was from laughing so hard. Stupid vampire.

"Here Edward, lay her down here." Where? I felt a warm mattress and pillow beneath me, so I assumed that we were inside.

He took off my jacket to inspect my arm. I felt his cool hands poking and prodding the skin and bones to see if anything was broken.

"Her arms seem fine." He said before moving onto my jean clad legs. I hissed when he touched my right leg.

"It seems that her right leg is broken. I think we should take her to the hospital too, so we can get a CAT scan of her head. I hope she didn't have a concussion." Carlisle was in full doctor mode now. About time. I hoped that this would teach them not to laugh at me or my pain.

I still heard Emmett laughing in the background. Scratch that. They still found it hilarious. Well, a certain someone still found it hilarious.

I tried to talk and communicate with them that I was fine. My leg was probably only bruised. But I couldn't find my voice. So I just gave up and closed my eyes, beginning to drift off.

"Bella, don't go to sleep. Not yet! Carlisle, she's starting to fall asleep!" Edward's frantic voice snapped me out of my half conscious state.

Yes, I was trying to sleep. Now shut up!

"Try and keep her up Edward. If she had a concussion, sleep wouldn't be an option."

Damn tree. Damn snowboard. And on Christmas? Life sucked. And then I realized that if I was going to be in a cast, then I'd be in a cast for the rest of my human life. Inhibited in a cast. For the rest of my human life. No walking by myself. No running.

Tears began to well up in my eyes. Not from pain- that was a dull throb- but from self pity. Then I felt a wave of calm sweep over me. Jasper. I smiled and fought to stay awake.

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At the hospital, they took a CAT scan to show that I had no concussion. But they took an X-ray to show that I had broken my right leg. Damn Sam.

"Edward?" I croaked. I was doped up on drugs and could feel it.

His eyes immediately snapped to mine. "Are you okay Bella?"

I nodded slowly. "I'm not going to say I told you so." I muttered before drifting off to sleep.

Emmett POV

When we had arrived back at our house from the hospital, Edward set Bella down on his bed before turning on me, for I had stupidly followed him to his room with him.

"This is your fault Emmett!" Edward hissed at me.

"My fault? How the hell is it my fault?" I snapped back.

"Well, you were closest to her. You could have saved her!"

"You heard Alice. If we saved her, we would have revealed what we were!"

"And, you told her to break a leg!"

"Well, that was for good luck, you know! I didn't know she'd take it literally!" I defended myself.

We glowered at each other, staring each other down. Neither one of us was willing to back down.

"Stop." Bella murmured. We both looked at her to see if she had waken up. "Stop. Or I'll hit you with a pickle!"

Sleep talking. Definitely sleep talking. Unless those drugs had some effect on her brain…

Edward smacked me upside the head.

"Hey!" I whined.

"She's sleep talking!" he growled at me. I stuck my tongue out at him like the mature guy I was, stomping off towards Rosalie. She'd comfort me.

Aww! I love Emmett!

So this chapter is long, 1,829 words! And I just typed up Chapters 42 and it's about 2,000 words! and another one, don't remember, is over 2,000 so these chapters are really getting longer!

I'm really sorry about not being able to update everyday anymore but I no longer have time to type up a chapter every day. So sad...

And has anyone read A Tale of Two Cities? Is it any good?

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oh and preview of chapter 38: Packing

"Are you sure it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that every time I'm near you, your heart speeds up? Or the fact that your eyes glaze over a little. Or, of course, my wonderful kissing abilities."

Each time he said something, he brought his lips a little closer to mine. They were barely an inch apart now.

I couldn't take it anymore. I pressed my lips to his, tangling my hands through his hair.

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