Hello, babes! How are you on this blistering, summer day? Good? I'm glad. If not, then my little story should be just the thing to perk you up! Good, right? Right, then. I guess you should read the chapter. So read now.

DISCLAIMER (sucha big word..) : Twilight, to my dismay, is not mine. So get over it. JUST KIDDING! If it was mine though, I wouldn't be on here writing fanfics. I would be doing fun things with my money. And I would give some of it to charity, Of course. So this really has nothing to do with the disclaimer, but OH WELL! what're you gonna do? right?

Have Fun Reading dolls!

Luckily, before I got too panicky, I remembered that it takes a few minutes for the venom to start spreading. And after about thirty seconds he removed his teeth from my neck and kissed where he had bitten me.

Everyone was staring at me anxiously awaiting my first… something… anything. Then suddenly, I felt what I had been dreading. Searing pain had consumed my body, and taken over, telling me that the venom was flowing soundlessly through my veins, and slowing the pulse of my beating heart.

That's when I screamed. I screamed like someone would if they were being pushed off of a tall building. And I had every right to, just the same. It felt like someone had set me on fire and little needles were pricking my skin all over. Like I was naked.

Which of course made me look down to check and see if I still had clothes on. I did. Good thing too, because whether or not I did I still would've screamed. Again. Only this time it was higher because I felt like, in addition too the needles and fire, someone had punched me in the stomach a few thousand times.

Edward, looking very alarmed, muttered something like "Dear God" and asked, "Bella sweetheart, are youalright?"

Then, before I could answer, Alice jumped in and, while picking me up, added sarcastically, "Yeah, Edward. She's great. She just likes to scream for the hell of it!" Then she whisked me upstairs to Edward's room, with Edward in tow, and set me on the couch in a sitting position.

"Do you need me to lay you down, Bella?" she asked sounding very much like a doctor. And, speak of the devil; Carlisle came in carrying two pillows and a blanket.

"Just in case," he informed, more to Edward and Alice than to me.

Then, after yet another of my insanely ear splitting screams, Edward, Alice and Carlisle got to work with me, whispering to each other all the while. Carlisle said he'd be right back, and ran down stairs. I thrashed about violently and screamed my little, slow beating heart out, but Edward held me down firmly and gently with his strong marble arms, protecting me from what I might do to myself.

Alice, on the other hand, was working herass off trying to make me comfortable. She laid me down and put one pillow under my head, the other was put under my feet, and put the blanket lightly, so as not to smother me, over every inch of my body, including my face. Then she pulled it back to about where my collarbone was.

Carlisle had come back by then with a wet cloth, which Alice persisted on dabbing my face with. And, to my absolute surprise, Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper,and Esme came in and tried to comfort me.

I screamed some more and a few minutes later Rosalie, beautiful, angelic, vampire who doesn't like me, Rosalie, came and held my hand, letting me squeeze it when I had to scream.

Then something crazy happened.

"Alice?"

"Yes, Bella, I'm right here."

"Alice? I can't see you. Edward? Hello? Rosalie! Carlisle! Is there anyone here? Please someone stop the burning!"

Edward's PoV:

There is something wrong. Something is verywrong. I can't tell what though.

"Bella we're right here," I tried to soothe her. I crouched next to the couch and grabbed her other hand, rubbing circles in with my thumb.

"No!" she screamed.

I was anxious now. More than I had everbeen. What was wrong with her?

Carlisle. What is wrong with Bella?

Nothing is wrong with her. She is just seeing what her worst fears are in her head. It happened to all of us during the process. Don't you remember?

Oh. Yes, now I do. Thank you.

But I could see in his head, that there was something more.

"Bella," I tried again. "We are all right here. No one has left. Rosalie has one hand and I have the other. Alice is right behind you. Esme, Emmett, and Carlisle are in the corner trying to find a way to help in any way they can."

"Wh-where's Jasper?" she whined. She could hardly get the words out before screaming again.

"He's not here right now, Bells. He will be back in a minute."

At this she started crying and I felt helpless beyond the point of sanity. I stroked her cheek, catching tears, and kissed her trembling lips. I had to do something.

Alice? Isn't there something I can do?

No, Edward. I truly am sorry, but all we can do now is wait.

Bella let out a cry, and it tore my dead heart apart.

Only a few more hours. Just four I think. That was Emmett. Alwaysthe optimist.

Thanks. I know it's hard for you to see her like this too. Then to myself, But not as hard as it is for me.

At that, I realized, I had no inkling of what time it was. I looked at the clock, our little joke, and it said MONDAY 4 am. I had lost track of time worrying about Bella. That's when I noticed her screams turned to whimpers and she wasn't writhing quite as violently as she had been earlier.

Alice was slowly stroking her hair and singing her a lullaby in her singsong voice.

"Rock a bye Bella,

On Edward's couch.

When you wake up,

You'll be quite a grouch.

But that's all right,

We'll all forgive you.

Because soon you'll realize,

How many people love you."

That song made me realize how much I loved Alice. She had always been there for me. Always was on my side. Not once had she said anything mean or crude about my human lover. She always knew how to make things better. But my train of thought was interrupted when Bella said my name, startling me.

"Edward?" she asked pitifully.

"Yes, Bella. I'm right here."

"Will you kiss me?"

I laughed softly. She was so cute, my Bella.

"Yes, Bella." Anything for you.

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