BPOV
We had left the school. I looked back, making sure that no one was watching. I sighed, everything in life seemed screwed up. It couldn't get worse than this.
"Sorry Bells." Emmett frowned and I shook my head.
"Emmett, you didn't do anything. Edward was being a jerk. I can't wait to get back at him." I laughed and he grinned. Emmett held my hand tightly as we reached home. His home, my home, our home. I liked the sound of that.
"We'll leave you two alone." Alice winked and dragged Jasper to their room. "Oh and Bella, "she warned, curtly "Don't answer your phone." I could hear the beg in her voice. It was a figment of my imagination, I was just becoming paranoid.
"Oh, okay." What a strange order. I thought. Emmett pulled me into his arms and ran to our room at vampire speed.
1 hour later….
"B. come on, you've been doing homework for an hour, you need a break." Emmett moaned and I smiled up from my trig homework.
"Oh, fine." I pouted, I leaned closer to him and he held me close, kissing my neck, my wrists, my arms. My cell rang and I reached to pick it up moaning. My new Iphone vibrated on the bedside table. It had been a welcome gift from Emmett.
"Don't answer it." He whispered in my ear. "You're all mine." He said seductively.
I got up and reached for the phone, "It might be important." I insisted and pressed the talk button. "Hello?"
"Isabella Marie Swan!" A voice hollered. I held the phone away from my ear and winced. It was Charlie it had been a couple of weeks since we'd spoken. Not since…the move. He hadn't bothered to call me, probably to busy finding precious Jacob, the son he never had.
"Yes Charlie, " I asked coolly. "What may I help you with?" My voice was monotone and solid.
"I answered my office phone today and guess what they said?" He asked.
I kept my voice calm and uninterested, "And I care why?" Emmett ripped a piece of paper and wrote quickly. He passed me the note.
Easy Bella. Stay calm.
It said. I shook my head and turned away. "It was about you!" He screamed. "I just found out my daughter ditched school and ran off with her so called boyfriend Emmett Cullen from your principal."
"What daughter are you talking about?" I asked coldly. There was no answer on the other side. "Do you mean the daughter you threw out of your house because you cared more about Jacob Black than her? Because in my book I have no father, unless you count Carlisle. " I slammed down the phone and let out a sob. I hadn't said that, I wouldn't believe that I had said that. I couldn't talk, I couldn't do anything.
"Bella, " Emmett held me rocking me back and forth in his arms. I didn't deserve this, not Emmett, not the Cullens, nothing… I deserved to die.
"Stop Emmett," I tried to push away, but he held on. If it weren't for the big arms wrapped around me I would fall to pieces. "I don't deserve you, I don't deserve any of this, I don't deserve your family, I don't deserve anything. I deserve to die." I cried. The whole house was quiet.
"Bella." He glared at me while I cried. "Don't you ever say that again! I don't deserve you. You are an angel don't ever say that." He ordered, anger swelling in his words. I looked up into his butterscotch eyes.
"It's true." I hiccupped, trying to calm down. "I.." hiccup "I'm a monster." I let my head fall limply, my hair creating a curtain around my face.
"Isabella listen to me right now." Emmett held my tiny face in his big hands and forced me to look into his eyes. "You are not a monster. You are an angel, sure you said some very harsh things to your father, but that doesn't mean anything." He wiped the tears off my face and kissed me gently. "I'll love you forever, and you can't do anything about it."
I was sitting in Emmett's lap, perfectly content,I had finally calmed down, when he dropped a bomb over my head.
"Bella, I was thinking..." Oh. Shit. This could be two horrible things he could love someone else and want to break it off, or... Had he really meant what he had said earlier? Was he just trying to make me calm down, then to only break my heart?
"I love you, and...i want to marry you." I hid my face in my hands. It was matrimony, the most vile, horrible swear word in my dictionary. Sighing, I looked up from my hands and in to his golden eyes. I decided right then what I had to do. "I …I.." I couldn't think. I didn't have time to think. Why did I need to think? I knew the answer already. "Emmett. I.."
Edward broke through the wall with a crash. Plaster and dust flew everywhere causing me to cough loudly. I gasped, neither of us had known he was in the house.
"NO!!" he yelled, "NO! You cannot marry him. He'll hurt you Bella."
I crossed my arms, he had gone to far. "You hurt me." My eyes narrowed, "Emmett has never hurt me. I've only hurt him, is that so hard to understand? I don't deserve him, not the other way around. You have Rosalie. Just leave us alone." I screeched. He aimed his fist at me, or I thought he had and I put my hands up to block it. It had been to Emmett but I had blocked it. I heard the snap of my wrist but I felt no pain, I felt nothing. Nothing except anger towards Edward.
"Oh my god Bella." He whispered and Emmett held my wrist limply.
"I am going to kill you for this Edward." Emmett growled menacingly.
"No one is going to do anything." I winced the pain was registering in my mind. "If either of you sets hands on each other without my permission I will leave and never come back." I meant these words. I couldn't live with myself if either one of them was killed.
"Fine," he muttered, "Let's go B. I'll take you to the hospital." Emmett took me into his arms.
"I want Edward to take me. Emmett just… stay here." I wasn't sure what I was doing. His face fell and he left the room sadly. My voice had come out so bitter I wasn't surprised. The pain in my wrist felt like it was on fire. "Let's go Edward." He tried to draw me up in his arms but I fought with him. "I am going to walk." I gritted my teeth.
"No, you are not." He shot back and put him in his arms, I struggled but quieted down when I realized I had no chance of winning. I lay limply in his arms as he carried me to the car. Edward drove faster than usual, whizzing past a traffic cop. He ignored it and kept driving until we reached the hospital.
My wrist was numb, in so much pain that I didn't feel anything. We rushed to the emergency room and Carlisle came in looking grim.
"What happened?" He asked, eyeing Edward with a look of disappointment.
No one spoke. "Edward went to punch Emmett and I caught the blow instead." I finally said. Edward left the room and I was glad I needed some time to think.
"You're going to need a cast Bella." Carlisle eyed my wrist, poking at it softly.
I groaned. "How long?" Could it get any worse? All of Forks was going to know about it. What was the cover story?
"At least two months." I sighed, this would put off the "change" even longer.
"What's the cover story?" We couldn't tell everyone the truth, that would be a catastrophe.
Carlisle's calm face crunched up and anger radiated his face. I had almost never seen this expression. "I don't know but I have the mind to kick Edward out of the house."
"No," I retorted. "It's okay, it's just a broken wrist. It's not that big a deal." He shook his head.
"He's really gone to far this time Bella. I don't know if anyone's willing to put up with it."
"I am." I said quietly. I didn't love Edward, at least not the way I loved Emmett, but I didn't want him to leave.
"Bella, may I ask you something?" Carlisle asked, his voice politely fluid. I nodded. "Do you love Emmett?"
I knew the answer without even thinking, "Of course."
"Do you love Edward?"
I thought hard, no, I didn't love him. "No, not the way he wants me to, but like a brother or friend. He doesn't get it though. I'd rather have him as a brother than nothing at all." I confessed. Tears trickled down my face, all the times we had spent together, reading, the meadow, they all meant nothing now.
"That's what I thought. Maybe you should tell Edward this. I'll be back. In the meantime pick a cast color."
I laughed, "Sure Dr. Cullen." He slipped out of the room. A few minutes later I heard a knock on the door. "Come in." Edward stepped into the room. He slouched, his hair messier than usual, a frown permanently on his face.
"Oh, hey Edward." I didn't look up from the color chart.
"Bella did you mean what you said?" His eyes pleaded, begged me to say the opposite.
"Yes." I choked out.
He turned away, looking out the window, "You know, I always expected you to leave me. Maybe for some human or something, but not for my brother."
"I'm sorry." I looked down. I couldn't think of anything else to say. What could I say that would make it better?
"Does everything we ever went through mean nothing to you?"
"Edward, try to understand." I cried. "I won't forget any of it, I will always love you…in a way, but I love Emmett more than you can possibly understand. I love him so much it hurts. I can't do anything about it." I stared up at Edward, his beautiful face looking worse than broken. He looked dead, truly lying in a casket dead. He looked like me when he had left.
He pulled me towards him and kissed me, I felt emotions run through me, love, anger, sadness. But love towards my brother, my friend. "Sorry Bella." He choked out as he let go of me."
I let him hold me , "I'm so sorry Edward. Be happy with Rosalie. Please." I needed him to be happy, or else I couldn't be happy.
"I don't love her Bella. I love you. I've always loved you."
"What about the times you kissed her and held her? They couldn't have meant nothing." I struggled to understand. They seemed so good together, like two pieces of a puzzle, but what had gone wrong?
"Don't be mad, okay? I'll tell you. Just don't be mad." I nodded. How could I be mad when he was falling apart piece by piece? A paper slowly being shredded. I couldn't be mad no matter how bad it was.
"Rose and I never loved each other. We just wanted you guys to break up and come back to us. But…we ended up loving each other in the process. But I always loved you. Always, even if there was a fraction that loved her, most of my heart will always be yours."
"Oh Edward, I am so, so sorry." He kissed me lightly on the head.
"Friends at least?" he asked gently.
"Of course, always, silly." I chuckled. My heart was whole again. I could commit myself to Emmett.
"I'll wait outside."
"'Kay." I yawned. It had been a very long day. I fell asleep, probably the cause of the drugs that had been injected in my body.
"Isabella, wake up." I felt a cold hand shake my shoulder lightly. I felt the weight of my left arm. The cast was on. The ugly, white cast was plain on my arm.
"You can go home now." I looked up into the obsidian eyes of Carlisle.
"Oh, thanks!" I sat up, giving him a hug. "Is Emmett here?" I asked looking around the room.
His eyes darkened, "No, he's…at home I believe. Edward is here." I frowned. How come Emmett wasn't here? "All right then."
Edward strolled into the room, eyes black with thirst. "Let's go Bella." He held out his arm and I took it to steady myself. The room was spinning and I wasn't sure I could stand properly.
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