Edward's POV
We rushed to the hospital and went to the emergency ward. Carlisle opened his eyes widely when he saw us. "What are you doing here?" he asked.
"How bad is the condition of Charlotte Watsford?" I asked my adoptive father, ignoring his first question.
"How do you know one of my patients is Charlotte Watsford?"
"Alice had a vision. We know this girl from college, Lewis has some classes with her. There was a fight between Cleo and Charlotte today and Cleo feels guilty now that she knows Charlotte tried to commit suicide." I explained. "They know each other from the past. Charlotte is a former mermaid, but she lost her powers in a battle with Cleo, Emma and Rikki."
"She's stabile. Her life isn't in danger anymore, but the cuts will leave huge scars. You can tell Cleo, she'll be alright. And now I have to go to my other patients." Carlisle said.
"Wait, can we see her?" Esmee asked her husband.
"Shortly, she's in room 05." Carlisle sighed and then ran off. We headed to room 05 and saw a red-haired girl laying in a bed. She was asleep.
"The poor thing." Esmee whispered. "What could have driven her so far?"
"There has to be more than just the fight with Cleo, right?" Jasper asked. I nodded. "Probably, yes."
"Edward can read her thoughts?" Esmee asked.
"I can try, but people that are unconscious mostly don't think, I guess." I tried to read her mind, but nothing came. "No, nothing." I said. Esmee sighed deeply. "We'll come back in the morning." She said and we left the hospital.
Arrived home, the mermaids, Lewis and Will already had gone to bed. It felt a little strange to have all of a sudden 7 people asleep here, while usually nobody slept here. Alice told they had to make a great effort to get Cleo to bed, but with some vampire-strength they had been able to. "How's the girl?" she then asked.
"She'll be fine, says Carlisle. But I'm more worried about her mental condition rather than her physical." Esmee said. Of course, it was Esmee who said this, she was always the mother-type. Loved everybody unconditionally and took care of the people who needed it. "I'm going back in the morning. Now I'm gonna go hunting, I'm starving. Anyone who wants to come with me? We all agreed and left the house.
Bella's POV
When I woke up, I saw Cleo's, Claire's and Will's sleeping bags were empty. I went downstairs and found them sitting at the kitchen table, talking to Alice, Jasper and Edward. "Good morning my princess." Said the last one, when I entered the kitchen. "You want breakfast? Esmee has made way too much, like always, so take whatever you like."
"Where is she?" I asked, while making a baguette with cheese.
"She's at the hospital, with Charlotte." Carlisle said, while entering the kitchen. "Good morning everyone."
"How is she?" I asked.
"Her life is out of danger. She'll be better soon. Normally she has to wake up today. The effect of the sedative I gave her, should be stopped working by now. Esmee is gonna call us when Charlotte wakes up." Carlisle said.
"That's good." I smiled. Cleo sighed. "Yeah, I'm so glad she survive, even we're not best friends, I never wished her to die."
"We know, honey. You didn't mean to drive her so far." Lewis said, coming downstairs. He kissed her on the cheek and ate a pancake.
Edward's POV
2 hours later, Esmee called to tell us Charlotte had woken up. We rushed into 3 cars to the hospital and arrived with 13 people at the hospital and going to Charlotte's ward. Cleo and Lewis entered first, holding hands and both terrified for Charlotte's reaction. We saw her talking to Esmee. She smiled softly when she saw us entering. "Hallo everyone." She whispered.
"Hey Charlotte. I'm sorry for yesterday. If I had known you were going to do this, I wouldn't have yelled. But is it this just because of me? I never meant to hurt you this much. Never." Cleo apologized.
Charlotte nodded. "It's okay, Cleo. Esmee explained me. I'm sorry for following you everywhere. I hoped we could become friends, but I understand now, it isn't that easy for you."
"But why did you try to kill yourself anyway?" Rikki asked.
Charlotte looked at her, not comprehending. "Why would you care?"
"Hey, we may not be friends. But that doesn't mean I'd be happy if you killed yourself. And I'm just curious what could have driven you so far?" Rikki defended herself.
"Because I felt alone." Charlotte answered dry. No emotions at all were in the voice.
"Alone?" Lewis asked.
"Yeah. My mother and aunt died in a car crash 2 weeks ago. And then Cleo said to me I had to leave you alone. And I understand why she said it. Really, I do. But, it's just… I realized then I had nobody left in my life. I felt alone." Now she almost started crying. I thought it was curious how a person's emotions could change so much in only one second. Charlotte's thoughts were rushing through her memory lane of the last couple of weeks. From the memories she had, right now, I could tell she was really depressed. She had literally nobody left.
"Oh." Was the only way Rikki could react. Even she was speechless now.
Esmee thoughts were obvious now. She looked at me, I shook my head. There was absolutely no way Charlotte would move in with us. It wouldn't take long before she should find out what we really are and she would tell it to the world. Wouldn't she?
Hey, maybe not. She promised to keep the girl's secret, so maybe she could keep our secret too. I now nodded to Esmee. She knew this meant, we could consider the idea and discus it with everyone before making up our minds. But I could imagine some people wouldn't be wild of the idea of Charlotte moving in with us.
And I had been right! Rikki was against it, so were Rosalie and Will. But since Rikki and Will were only here temporarily, only Rosalie's contra-vote counted. That was still 6 pro's and because America is a democratic country, we would suggest to Charlotte to move in with us.