I didn't scream, but I had to make sure this mirage was hopefully real.
"Alice?" I whispered with anxiety. She gave a warm smile and motioned her hands into a praying position, and made to lay her head down on them, while closing her eyes. She was telling me to sleep. I didn't know if she was telling me to do so cause someone was coming, or if she wanted me to rest for real. I took it as acting asleep, for I had just sleep, well passed out, for an immeasurable amount of time. And I didn't feel weary, yet. So I softly laid my head down on my pillow and attempted to slow my breath, Alice was here and I was so energized. And before I closed my eyes, I saw Alice pretending to sleep too. Pretending because vampires can't sleep.
Suddenly, I heard why Alice gave me forewarning. Hurried footsteps were coming down the hall. Alice had probably seen them coming a couple minutes prior. I slowed down my breathing extremely, hoping they would think I exhausted from being in this hospital.
"Shh, this is Isabella's room?" said a man's voice. Clearly, he had not spoken or seen Charlie, because he would have instantly corrected him to call me Bella. There must have been a head motion, because I didn't hear anything and I heard them cross the threshold of "my room".
"Hm, her heart rate seems to be exaggerated. She must have been up a couple of minutes ago…" As his voice, the same voice as before, trailed off, I understood that he implied I was currently sleeping.
"Who's this?" The other voice asked. So he could talk. He was obviously indicating Alice, who was technically asleep. And her act was probably better than mine, because she didn't even have to breathe, so she could really put on a performance. At this thought, I laughed, which was supposed to be to myself, but it accidentally slipped out of my "sleeping" mouth. Shocked at my body's unintentional noise, of course my breathing quickened to maybe a normal sleeping pace. (I was exaggerating my breathing). But the second voice serendipitously noticed my heart rate monitor, and probably glared at me for a long time. I could feel I was under her gaze for the longest time, while his partner snooped around the room. Finally though I heard footsteps leave the room, and I could finally hyperventilate with fear.
"Alice, who were those men?" I asked anxiously. These men were obviously not part of the hospital staff, if they did not attempt to "wake" me, give me medicine, or check/refill any of my cord or wires attached to me. Or even "wake" Alice and ask what she was doing here, or if I was okay. So many things that hospital staff would do, but these men didn't.
"Those…were…well, you're not going to be pleased, Bella. They were of course vampires. I've been keeping tabs on you, and I saw they were coming. Then I asked Edward what they were thinking and…and, uhm Bella?"
Knowing the fact Edward was alive and clearly willing to help me was a little too much for Bella to understand.
Bella wasn't me anymore, and I had just figured that out. Bella was the whole person, who had love. But then, love absconded her, and left her broken, as a part. A part of a puzzle, that only her and Edward had been in. I was no longer whole, for Edward was never coming back. I could no longer be—
"Bella!" Alice was screaming at me, while she, as gently as she could, was shaking me. Trying to get a hold of me…Bella…whoever! The body that was hurt and without love, anymore. The body was out of breath and probably about to pass out…but then Alice said something that could possibly have brought Bella back to that body, back to me. To possibly make me whole again.
"Bella, stop. You can be incoherent in a second, but listen. These vampires have captured Edward and…" Alice was still rambling on, but something needed to be explained to myself. Now, how this made me whole I don't exactly know. Was it the fact that I knew Edward was alive? Possibly, but I could be hyperventilating for that reason. Was it that maybe I felt like he got what he deserved? He left poor Bella alone and crushed, while he got to go on and live his life. He said I could live mine, but there was no way I could call being slashed up internally living. Hm, probably not, for I believed there was still a part of my heart that still loved and cared about Edward. There was, there had to be, because I wanted to and needed to be with Edward—forever. Maybe that was it, because I needed to be with him forever, and knowing he was captured would only hurt myself, because my heart could only be filled by our love and care for one another. So it was decided, well two things. One, I was me again; I could be temporarily whole, because I would see Edward. And being near him would fill the gap, for a little while; no pain (even for the littlest while) compared to unending pain was greatly favored. And two, I had to go save Edward, with Alice of course.