.A/N: firstly there are two who sent me reviews that I couldn't reply to cuz they were anon. so thank you Lizzie for reviewing blushes what u wrote touched me, thank you. And Thank you Peson even though you didn't tell me what you think of the story, but thanx and I really do hope I read the rest. Thank you for all who reviewed and I hope you like this one. Secondly, I am sorry that it took me so long to update, but I suffer from insomnia so it's hard to write when you didn't sleep for over a month. So I hope that I wrote this one well, cuz I can hardly open my eyes LOL!!

Chapter 8: The call

"Edward" Bella mumbled in her sleep. She was in a really bad condition since Edward left her. Her temperature was high, she was extremely cold most of the time, her breath was really hard to be taken, and she was too weak to do anything. It has been two days since she last so Edward. She spent half of them crying and the other half fainting. Alice never left her side, and Carlisle was with her most of the time. More than once she tried to tell them to talk to Edward and bring him back, but they always said the same thing, that he was doing the right thing and that she didn't know what happened. She tried to know but Edward told them that he didn't want her to know. More than once when she was asleep she imagined his voice beside her, she opened her eyes to see his empty chair beside her bed. It was harder than she'd ever imagined.

"Edward" She mumbled again. She felt a cold stone hand on her head.

"She's getting worse" She heard Alice's worried voice beside her.

"When was the last time she ate" Carlisle's worried voice asked.

"Before he left, she's been refusing meals since."

"That's not helping at all" Carlisle said grimly, "Try to wake her up. Try to feed her"

"Bella?" She heard Alice's sweet voice call her. She felt Alice's hand on hers. She called her name quietly again. Bella was curled on her side with her eyes shut. She moaned, she didn't want to open her eyes on a room with no Edward.

"Bella, you have to wake up. You have to eat something" Alice told her sweetly.

"Is Edward here?" She whispered with effort.

"Sorry Bella" Alice said with a broken voice.

"Then no. I don't want to eat." She whispered holding her stomach. She was very hungry but she ignored her hunger.

"Your killing yourself" Alice said with sadness in her voice, "Please"

"I'm not hungry" She lied.

"Carlisle?" Alice told hopelessly. She felt him walk closer to her bed.

"It's not what he would've wanted, you know" Carlisle told her with his wise voice. Bella didn't answer, "He left you to keep you alive, and your killing yourself with your own will. What do you think he would have said about this?" Bella didn't answer, she felt a sting of guilt in her chest but ignored it. She shook her head and that made it spin.

"He wouldn't have said anything because he's not here." She said with a shaky voice. Tears were starting to fall on her check again, "I miss his voice so much" She whispered to herself. That gave Alice an idea.

"What if you heard his voice? Then will you eat?" Alice said quietly, but you could here her smile. Bella opened her eyes and turned to her other side to look at Alice.

"Can you do that?" Bella asked hopefully. Alice smiled and nodded.

"Only if you promise to eat" Alice said smiling. Bella thought about it and said,

"Ok, but on one condition" She said looking at Alice, "I hear his voice first then I eat" Alice thought about it then smiled.

"Ok" She stood up but stopped, "promise?" She said raising one eyebrow.

"I promise" She said quickly smiling. She sat up in her bed, "What are you going to do?"

"I'll go to him and I'll let him call you on your cell" She told her with a smile. Bella's heart lifted.

"When?" Bella asked impatiently.

"Whenever you want"

"Now" Bella said quickly.

"Now?" Alice said surprised.

"Now" Bella assured her with a smile.

"Ok, then. See you in a while" She said walking to the door.

"Alice" Bella her voice still shaking.

"Yes" She said turning around.

"Thank you" She smiled. Alice smiled back.

"Anything for you two" She said before she left. Bella entwined her fingers, waiting impatiently. She looked in front of her and found Carlisle looking at her with a smile.

"What?" She asked trying to control her voice.

"You love him that much?" He asked with a wide smile.

"More than I can explain" She said blushing not looking at him.

"He loves you more than you know. He never stopped talking about you." Carlisle told her. Bella looked at him her heart pounding.

"Really?"

"Oh yes. The day you two started talking was the first day Edward felt so alive. He was so happy, he kept laughing and telling jokes all the time." Bella smiled her heart pounding with happiness. "The day you told him that you knew what he was and you didn't care. That made him the happiest man on earth."

"But he didn't look happy when I told him" Bell remembered his serious face.

"A part of him was afraid, but the other part was happy that you accept him because he never accepted himself and he never thought he would ever find someone who will accept him. He wanted to tell you everything, he didn't want to keep any secrets from you. It made him happy. The feeling that he was he could be himself, well mostly, made him thrilled." He now was sat on the chair beside her bed, "Can you keep a secret?" He asked looking at her.

"Yes" She said happily.

"Well, Edward has a picture of you in his drawer. Whenever you were away from him, he would lock his door and look at it. He never got bored"

"But I didn't give him a picture"

"Do you remember the time he had to leave you in school and went to get you your truck and the keys?" Bella nodded, "He found a picture when he was looking for the keys"

Bella's smile was huge. She didn't know that. She knew he loved her but she didn't know that he loved her that much. She was speechless.

"He always said that he owes you. You were the one who gave him his life back." Bella felt a tear fall on her cheek but this was a happy tear.

"He was the one who made my life worth living. He doesn't owe me anything." She said wiping her tears, "He is my life" Carlisle's smile widened.

"Then you're even" He whispered but Before Bella could answer she heard her cell ring. She quickly took it and answered.

"Bella?" She heard Edward's voice.

"Edward" She said excited, "I miss you so much"

"I miss you too, sweetheart" Edward told her happily, "Tell Carlisle to stop spilling my secrets everywhere, I can hear him." Bella laughed, it was the first time she laughed in days.

"But I'm enjoying it" Bella said innocently. Edward chuckled.

"Alice told me you weren't eating." Edward told her, "If I hear that one more time, I won't call again"

"You'll call again?" She said hopefully.

"If you eat" He laughed. She heard his laugh and didn't talk. She wanted to sit like this and hear him laugh forever.

"You there?" He asked worried when Bella didn't talk.

"Yes, I'm just listening to your voice and your laugh, I just miss them." She sighed.

"I miss you dazzling me" He told her with his irresistible voice. Bella laughed.

"Yea right." He ignored that.

"I love you" He told her with almost a whisper.

"I love you" She whispered back. He sighed.

"That's something else I miss" He said.

"Come back" She whispered.

"I can't" He said with a pained voice.

"Why?" Bella said quietly.

"Because I love you" He said with a sigh.

"How long will you stay away?" She asked not sure that she wanted an answer.

"I dunno" He said quietly. She wanted to change the mood.

"What were you doing? Where you admiring me in the picture" She teased. He laughed.

"Yes" He admitted. She felt her face hot, "I'll send with Alice some food. And you'll eat it." He ordered.

"Oh really?" She smiled, "It depends on what you'll send? A soap sandwich? Or a nice cool bottle of Detol?" She mocked. He laughed harder.

"No, I sent you a plate of mushroom ravioli. It was the first dish I bought you" He said, Bella's heart pounded fast, he remembered that?, "Are you blushing?"

"No" She lied, he laughed.

"Oh I want to see that"

"What made you leave?" She asked quietly. He fell silent for a while, "Tell me"

"I don't want you to be afraid of me" He said grimly.

"I won't" She assured him.

"You will" He said quietly.

"Trust me" She whispered.

"I do, but…" He struggled to talk, "You once said that you feel safe with me"

"Yes"

"I don't want that feeling to leave you. I want you to know that I'll protect you from anything." He paused then added, "Even from me" A voice in the back of Bella's had warned her that she should be afraid but she couldn't make herself afraid. She heard a knock on the door.

"That should be Alice" Edward said. He was right, Alice entered with a plastic bag I her hand. "I'll let you eat now"

"Wait" She didn't want to hang up, "Will you call me again?"

"Will you eat?" He asked,

"Yes as long as you call"

"Then, yes as long as you eat"

"I love you" She whispered.

"I love you" He said before he hung up. Bella left her cell, trying to keep those three last words in her mind. But she couldn't fight back her thirst to know why did Edward leave. Is he going after James in secret? She thought. Then she shook her head and took her food and started to eat so that he would call her again.