Hey everyone! Holy shit, y'alls is the best, I was gunna update earlier but I couldn't between graduation, prom, and friend crises, I couldn't I''m so sry, cuz y'alls really kicked ass on this one!!!! SO instead as an apology present for you, I'm posting TWO chs in one!! anyway I hope you like it, I love you all for the reviews, so thank you! PS This one is for CullenCovenMember, I know what I said, and I'm super sorry, so this ones dedicated to you!
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The extravagant cake did nothing to settle my emotions, instead became more of a problem when it threatened to come back up every time I bumped into Lauren, thereby reminding me of my devastating task. Edward asked multiple times if something was wrong, every time I responded with, 'nothing', just shrugging him off. The party quickly came to an end, with a medley of goodbyes and well wishes from a couple of people I had met earlier in the summer. Lauren was one of the last people to leave, she even came up to me to say goodbye. Keeping with her facade she pulled me into a hug, saying she hoped there were no hard feelings, and that she just wanted to part on good terms. Her insincerity made me sick and when she pulled me into a hug I whispered into her ear,
"No matter what, you'll never have him."
"Yeah, well now, neither will you." She sniped back cruelly. I said nothing and just let her walk out.
"What was all that about?" Edward asked as he came up behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist and nuzzling my neck.
"Nothing." I said, smiling at him, his eyes lifting to meet mine.
"You sure?" He asked, "You seem pretty shaken up." He commented, nipping at the skin.
"I already told you Edward, I'm just-" I tried to explain with a smile, he shook his head and spun me around, pulling me close to him, my stomach tingled uncontrollably.
"Tired? Bella, I'm not an idiot. What's wrong?" He asked sincerely, brushing back a piece of hair that had fallen out sometime that night.
"Have you ever had to make a decision, that you knew would hurt you, but it was what was best for someone else?" I asked.
"What? Bella, what are you talking about?" He asked with a smile and furrowed brow.
"Nothing. It's nothing." I reached up a hand to cup his cheek, trying my hardest to memorize his face before I had to lose it. His eyes met mine, filled with confusion as I reached up and kissed him. I wrapped my arms around his neck, and he pulled me as close as humanly possible, not letting an inch of air between us. I felt all of our love we had for each other in that kiss. Our tongues intertwining as the noise around us disappeared. All of our problems seemed to slip away from us as we clung to each other. Too quickly it came to the end.
"Bella." He whispered softly as he pulled away. "What-" He began, but was cut short by Emmett who came up, clapping Edward on the back, but Edward never tore his questioning eyes from mine.
"Working on sexytime number two?" He asked, one hand on each of our shoulders.
"Emmett, could you give us a sec?" Edward asked, not looking away from me.
"Nope, on any other occasion, I would say yes, especially the way you two are google-ly eyes-ing each other, but Jasper and I have a little something for our Bell here now that everyone's gone." He said, trying to pull us out to the back porch, but Edward wouldn't let him.
"Em, please? I'll bring her out in two seconds." Edward asked, borderline begging.
"Edward, it's fine, we can talk later."
"Bella-" He tried to argue, but Emmett stopped him,
"Edward, this is for Bella, so suck it up and let's rock." Emmett said with a laugh as he pushed me into the back yard, Edward followed reluctantly. There was a long table that had been covered with drinks and finger food earlier, but now the only things on it were two microphones. Alice, Rosalie, and Jasper were already out there,
"Okay, so before we pack it in," Emmett announced climbing up onto the table,
"Jasper and I have our own little going away present for Bella. Gather round." Emmett said to us. We all clustered around the front of the table.
"You ready Bella?" He asked as Jasper climbed up on the table to join him. I nodded apprehensively.
"Mind you, neither of us has singing experience, however I think we did a pretty good job. Ready?" He asked turning to Jasper who nodded. They both looked to Alice, who pressed play on a radio, a familiar tune began to play out of the speakers. Jasper and Emmett both began to sway up on the table.
"Listen Baby!" Jasper began singing to me. I buried my face out of embarrassment as I laughed,
"Ain't no mountain high, ain't no valley low, ain't no river wide enough baby." It was choreographed perfectly, on the high, Jasper raised his arms in the air, on the low, Emmett ducked down, and when he sang wide enough, the two slid apart hands in the air. Emmett sang next,
"If you need us call us, no matter where you are, no matter how far," For this, he used his hand to fake a phone, while Jasper raised his hands and looked around in confusion before using one hand, lifting it up to his eyebrows as if shielding his eyes from the sun as he looked off into the distance.
"Just call our names, we'll be there in a hurry, you don't have to worry." Jasper cupped his hands around his mouth and pretended to call out. Then ran to the other side of Emmett before he pretended to wipe sweat from his brow in relief. They both came in to sing the next part.
"Cause baby there ain't no mountain high, ain't no valley low, ain't no river wide enough to keep us from gettin' to you baby." They did the same moves as before as we all laughed and cheered them on.
"Remember the day he set you free, we told you, you could always count on us girl, and from that day on, we made a vow, we'll be there when you want us, someway, somehow." Jasper sang while Emmett flapped his hands as if he were a bird being set free, then he pointed at me, before pointing back at himself for the, 'you could always count on us' bit. Then he pretended to pray, before they both broke out into the chorus,
"Cause baby there ain't no mountain high, ain't no valley low, ain't no river wide enough to keep us from gettin' to you baby."
"Oh no darling, no wind." Jasper sang, Emmett waved his arms around like wind before singing,
"No rain, no winters cold, can stop us baby." Jasper did the make it rain gesture before wrapping his arms around him and shivering, then he held his hand out to us, "stopping us".
"No, no baby 'cause you are his love, you ever in trouble, we'll be there on the double, just send for us, oh baby." They sang together.
"Our love is alive, way down in our hearts, although we are miles apart. If you ever need a helping hand, we'll be there on the double, just as fast as we can." They each gestured to their hearts before sliding apart and then running back together quickly.
"Our love is alive way down in our hearts although we'll be miles apart, and if you'll ever need a helping hand we'll be there on the double just as fast as we can." They then repeated the chorus once more before finishing with their hands in the air. As soon as they were done we burst into cheers and both boys bowed in thanks. Jasper jumped off the table and Emmett made to follow him but as he did, the tip of his foot got caught on the tablecloth. He fell forward in slow motion, we watched him fall face first and there was nothing we could do to stop it. His hands shot out to brace his fall and there was a sickening snap as he landed, followed by a wail of pain.
All of us rushed forward to Emmett's side as he rolled onto his back, clutching his arm in agony. Jasper and Edward propped him up so he was sitting upright with his back against the side of the house. His teeth were clenched and he was lightly banged his head into the wall as a distraction. Rosalie rushed to his side, kneeling next to him and comfortingly brushing his hair back with her hand as he groaned. I knelt down on his other side while Alice ran inside. Jasper and Edward rushed over as well, Edward looking for Emmett's injury.
"Holy mother fucking shit on a fucking alter, oww." He moaned, and we all saw his left wrist. His hand was no longer in line with his arm, it looked as if it wasn't attached. His hand was below his arm, like a step. Edward gingerly took Emmett's injured hand in his, pulling Emmett's finger so they were flat.
"Emmett, can you bend your fingers?" Edward asked slowly.
"I'm hurt Edward, not special, and yeah I can move them, but barely." Emmett demonstrated, but all he could really do was make them twitch.
"Ahh, shit!" He breathed. Edward examined his hand before turning to Rosalie,
"Rose, go get a plastic bag filled with ice and hand towel." Rosalie nodded and went into the kitchen, at the same time, Alice came back out carrying a glass of water in one hand and something in her other fist.
"Okay, I called Esme and Carlisle, they're going to meet us down at the hospital. Here." She said opening her closed hand, inside were three Aspirin.
"God, I've never been so happy to see you as I am now." Emmett laughed weakly, Alice smiled and dropped the pills into his mouth. She brought the glass up to his mouth and he took a few deep gulps.
"Alright, I think it's safe to say that at the very least, it's fractured." Edward told Emmett,
"But, by the looks of it, I really think it might be broken. I mean, you landed on your wrist." He finished with a laugh.
"Shut up, if my wrist wasn't hurt, I'd pummel you right now." Emmett said with a smile and a shaky laugh as he leaned back and closed his eyes, taking deep long quivering breaths. His forehead was glistening with sweat as Rosalie came back in with the ice and towel. She handed everything to Edward, who lifted up Emmett's hand and put the towel beneath it. He rested Emmett's hand on top of it, then put the ice carefully on top of his hand. Emmett let out a groan and a hiss,
"And here I thought I was clumsy." I joked with him as a means for distraction, he laughed through his wince. Edward then wrapped the rest of the towel around the injury,
"All right, that should keep it stable, now it's time to get to the hospital." He said standing up, "Jasper and Alice, why don't you guys take one car, Bella, Rose, and I will take Emmett." Everyone agreed,
"Jasper, want to give me hand with him?" Edward asked referring to Emmett who was still seated on the floor. Jasper nodded and the two of them managed to get Emmett to his feet. I went in front of them, and opened all of the doors to make it easier for them to get Emmett out of the house while Alice and Rosalie went around turning off the lights and closing up the house. Once Jasper and Edward got Emmett into the car, Rosalie climbed into the back seat with him. I jumped into the front, while Edward got in to the driver's seat. In a matter of moments we were racing out of the drive way. I turned around to see Alice and Jasper not too far behind in Alice's Porsche keeping up with Edward near reckless driving. We made to the hospital in record time, Edward just pulled in right up front and he and Rosalie got Emmett out of the car while I ran inside to inform the nurse at the desk that Emmett was coming in with a severely broken wrist. She nodded and told the nurse next to her to get a wheel chair, she did and rolled it out to the door where Emmett was being dragged in. He was plopped into the wheelchair and the nurse wheeled him into an exam room.
"I'm sorry, but your only allowed to have two people in the room with the patient." She informed us once Emmett was settled onto the exam table. I nodded,
"I'll go wait in the lobby for Alice and Jasper." I said, then gave Edward a kiss and Emmett a pat on the back before exiting the room. Alice and Jasper were already situated in the waiting room when I came out.
"So, how is he?" Alice asked over the top of a magazine she had pulled from a bag she had brought.
"Fine, they just got him in the exam room and the doctor's going to be in there soon." I said plopping down in the empty chair next to her. She set down her magazine and went into her bag,
"Here, I brought these for us." She said pulling out two pairs of sweats and two t-shirts. I thanked her and we went into the bathroom off of the waiting room to change.
"Thanks again, Alice." I said once I had gotten the sweats on.
"No problem, I figured you wouldn't want to be in that dress while we're here. Leave it to Emmett to force us all to the hospital at twelve in the morning." She said with a laugh.
"Aren't you worried?" I asked as I changed in my stall. Though I had broken my share of bones in the past, and knew it was no big deal, I couldn't help worrying about Emmett. I heard Alice chuckle a little at my question.
"No, not at all, Emmett's Emmett. He'll be fine. One time when we were kids, we were playing out in the woods behind our house, pretending to be explorers. We found this old tree house built up in one of the trees. I was too scared to go up, and Edward said we shouldn't because it wasn't safe, nevertheless Emmett climbed twenty feet up into the tree. As soon as he went inside we heard the wood start to crack, and Emmett fell through the floor boards. He fell right through to the ground, he broke one leg in two places, the other at the ankle and he was completely covered in blood and dirt." We both exited our stalls at the same time and she continued her story,
"The doctors had told Carlisle and Esme that he'd be lucky if he walked with a limp, but after months of physical therapy and years of perseverance he ended up walking fine, and now he's our school's star football player, so, no, I'm not worried about a simple broken wrist. And you shouldn't be either, okay? You've been beating yourself up all night." She said, wrapping a comforting arm around my shoulder, giving it a reassuring squeeze.
"I'm sorry, it's just between Emmett, me leaving, Lauren, a severe lack-"
"Lauren? What's she done now?" Alice asked surprised. There was my opening to tell Alice, tell her what was happening.
"Nothing, she, uh, just tried to be all buddy, buddy after the party, it was just really annoying." I lied, Alice nodded,
"Look on the bright side Bella, at least now you'll never have to deal with her again." She said with a smile as we exited the bathroom. I faked a laugh,
"Good point, I knew there was an upside to this whole thing."
At that point Esme and Carlisle walked in, he went straight into the exam room after a polite wave to us, and Esme came over.
"What happened?" She asked us.
"He fell off a table." Alice said simply.
"Care to elaborate on how my son broke his wrist falling off this table?" Esme asked as if she had to ask this type of question frequently.
"Emmett and I climbed up on a table to sing our song for Bella, but when we got down, he tripped and fell on his wrist." Jasper explained, Esme winced.
"Oh no. What room did they bring him to?" She asked looking around.
"Room 6." I answered, then pointed it out for her.
"Thank you, honey," She said to me, then placed a kiss on Alice's forehead, "I'll be back in a little while, don't wander off." She said with a smile before giving me a kiss as well and heading off to see Emmett.
I let out a deep yawn and tried to find a comfortable position in the hard waiting room chair. Eventually I fell asleep, only to be shaken awake,
"Bella?" Alice called.
"Hmm?" I hummed groggily opening my eyes and looking around at the empty waiting room,
"Hey, Edwards going to have to stay with Emmett for a little while longer." She informed me.
"Is Emmett going to be okay?" I asked, my voice clouded with sleep.
"Yeah, but Edward has to follow him, just something for his job, Jasper and I are going to head home, do you want to go with us or wait for him?" She asked.
"How long is he going to be?" I asked rubbing my eyes and looking up at the clock on the wall, it was already 3 in the morning.
"I don't know, maybe an hour, they've done already done the x-rays and the resetting, they just have to put it in a cast." She said.
"I'll wait for him." I told her.
"Alright, why don't you go in the room then, Carlisle talked to the nurses for you so they understand." She told me, I nodded and let her help me up. Once I was upright, I stretched and said goodbye before heading off to Emmett's room. When I went inside Emmett and Rosalie were curled up on the bed together, fast asleep, Emmett's broken arm laying untouched next to them. There was an IV being fed through his arm, I shuddered a bit at the sight of it. I made my way over to an arm chair that was in the corner, it looked much more inviting than the ones in the waiting room. I plopped down and went to get some more sleep.
When I woke up in Edward's room the next morning, with him in the bed sound asleep next to me, I vaguely remembered someone coming in and picking me up after I had fallen asleep in Emmett's room. I looked around and the room was in the same state we had left it in with rose petals strewn all over the floor. I turned to look at Edward, he was lying there so peacefully. I wanted to wake up like this every morning for the rest of my life but in two short days, I would be gone, no matter what. Even if I didn't listen to Lauren, I would still be on the other side of the country, a constant distraction for Edward. Just like James said, I would suck the life out of him if we were to stay together, and on top of that Edward would lose his internship.
Either way, I was bad for Edward, I had no choice, there was no possible way for me to stay.
"Morning." Edward said looking up at me. While my mind ran through its internal debate I hadn't even noticed him wake up.
"Morning.'' I replied, but I couldn't bring myself to return his smile. His face fell,
"Bella, what's-"
"I'm going to take a shower." I said hurriedly, shooting out of the bed and into the bathroom before he could stop me. I turned the water on and waited for it to get hot before stripping down and getting in. I washed up and rinsed off, but I didn't get out. I felt tears mix in with the shower water on my face,
"Bella." Edward called, I jumped a little and rushed to brush the tears off my face, only to discover I didn't really have to.
"Yeah." I answered, my voice breaking a little.
"Alice wants you to know, were going to the beach, after you get out." He informed me.
"Alright, I'll be out in a second." I heard the door shut and a few minutes later I turned off the water and got out.
When I exited the bathroom, I noticed Edward sitting on the couch, his elbows resting on his knees and his head in his hands.
"Edward?" I asked he didn't answer, I wanted to go over to him, but I knew I needed to start distancing myself from him so I went straight to my over night bag, as I was rummaging through it for a bathing suit, he spoke,
"Bella, have-have I done something wrong?" He asked quietly, when I turned around to look at him, he seemed sad and guilty. My heart broke at his expression and I swallowed back tears, I got up and walked over to him, kneeling down to his eye level, he looked up at me,
"No, Edward, you could never do something wrong, ever, please believe that." I said sincerely, and I meant it,
"It's just me, somethings off, but it is not your fault, okay?" He nodded. This wasn't his fault in any way, he pulled me into a hug.
"I'll let you get dressed." He said, I smiled up at him as best I could as he left the room.
Once I had my clothes on I met everyone down stairs and we piled into separate cars, but not before Emmett had the chance to show off his brand new hot pink cast. When we got to the beach, it was just like my first day here, Alice laid out the blanket and we talked and laughed for a while before Jasper suggested we play a game of touch football, a way to close out the summer.
"Dude, that's not fair, you know I can't play!" Emmett complained, holding up his cast.
"Not my fault you tripped on a tablecloth," Jasper teased picking up the football while Emmett fumed,
"Ah, I'm just playing, how about this, the second you get better, we can all come back down to the beach for old times sake, alright?" Jasper suggested, Emmett agreed grudgingly.
"Hey, what if I sit out with you?" I asked with a smile, before moving to sit next to him, punching him lightly in the shoulder. He agreed and the remaining players split themselves into two teams, Rosalie and Jasper versus Edward and Alice. They ran out a little ways and Emmett and I watched them mark off the boundaries for the end zones before they began playing.
The more I watched them, the more it hurt, I fought back another onslaught of tears as I watched Edward, laughing as he ran from Jasper, just out of reach. He seemed so happy as he spun Alice around in post touchdown bliss. Emmett broke through my revery to ask question I didn't expect. His voice was devoid of all his normal jolliness, instead it was melancholic and downhearted, and the way he asked, I had a feeling he already knew the answer.
"You're leaving, aren't you?"
I was gunna split it where Emmett fell off the table but I felt so bad for leaving the update this long I made it longer as an apology, I hope you can accept! I'm really really really really really realy really sorry guys!
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