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Chapter Two:

Headline News

Urgh…why do I feel so sore? I though as I tried to open my eyes, they've been closed enough time. When I finally manage to open them, Alice was reading a bridal magazine.

Was I in a coma? I couldn't but wonder. You don't see Alice reading a bridal magazine if it weren't because she is planning her weeding with the latest trends. When Alice looked up and notice I was awake, she came running towards me with a big grin across her face.

"Bella!" she yelled at me. I couldn't help but to smile back. I was ready to use my voice even if years have truly passed without me using it.

"Alice...," I sounded groggy, not a pretty sound. She looked at me but before speaking again, Charlie had come inside. He hasn't aged a day. I couldn't help but giggle. He looked at me confuse which only made the joke even funnier.

"How are you, Bella?" he asked seriously like the police cop he was, soon enough he would be interrogating the doctor that had treated me. Everyone today had perfect timing, like if the synchronized with my thoughts.

Dr. Cullen also known as Carlisle, barged in the room. He took the chart checked it, went to my left side and check the monitors that were motoring my heartbeat and other medical stuff. He nodded and scribbles something down on the chart and looked at me.

"How are we feeling today?" He too looked too young, maybe Alice was reading a bridal magazine for unknown random reason.

"Fine,"

Carlisle wrote something else down and frown at me, when I looked at Alice which was standing in the head of the bed, she was looking down disappointed. My eyes moved to Charlie that was pacing in short distance inside the room. When Charlie was like this is because he had to face something difficult and painful, I remember when my mom left him.

"Dad, what's wrong?" I asked him, he looked up but his eyes never met mine. I knew it was difficult for him so I tried Alice.

"Alice…," She didn't face me either.

"Carlisle, if you dodge this bullet…I might never forgive you," He looked at me and his wasn't accompanied by a smile like it always was.

"Isabella, we did a CT scan to diagnose what happen and we found a tumor in your brain. But the tumor is inoperable and sadly we cannot extirpate it. By the size of the tumor, it had being growing no more than a year ago. Sometimes nothing happens until a rush of adrenaline kicks in. In this case it was the stress cause by worrying.

This type of tumor gives the patient no more than six months to life, we caught it too late and it has grown big enough to spread in certain important areas of the brain. I am so sorry, Bella,"

He finished explaining… and I couldn't believe what I had just heard. Alice kept looking down and Charlie stopped pacing, he sat down put his hand over mine and looked down as well.

"I want to see her!" A big male voice of Emmet echoed the halls; his voice was loud enough for it to creep inside the room. Carlisle moved outside and there was complete silence for the several minutes later.

I looked at the window and saw Rosalie pacing in the hallway. I caught a glimpse of Emmet, but it disappeared quickly.

"Alice…," She knew exactly what I wanted. She opened the door and motions them to come it.

She entered quickly with her head down and Emmet was strong, because even though he flashes one of his big silly playful smiles at me, he was hurting and scared. I knew that guy that much.

"You're the only one who has smile for me today. A smile has always made me stronger and I thought my best friends knew more than you," I said flashing a smile.

"Aw, lil sis. No matter what I will smile just for you," he said going to my right side and Charlie sat still in his seat not moving an inch. He came and holds my hand which he brought to his lips and gave it a quick gentle kiss.

Rosalie didn't smack him on the head like she usually did when he teased me. I didn't like that at all.

"Guys, please stop it!" I yelled as I grew mad. All five pairs of eyes looked at me.

"I am dying…I don't want my last six months filled with sadness, pity or anything bad! I want my friends, my family and my life back. Just because something bad happen that doesn't mean we'll let it change us. Got it?" They all looked at me scared, relieved and God knows what else.

They didn't spoke again, so I change the topic.

"Alice, answer me this. What is up with you and a bridalmagazine?" I asked, she looked at me and blushed. Before she could speak again, I did.

"No fricking way!" I exclaimed. Had Jasper propose to her so early? I was now nervous of the answer. We were in our senior year…but I had no idea if he did or didn't.

She moved her hand up and flashed the ring.

"Oh my God, I cannot believe this!" Emmet moved and she came next to me. She smiled and blushed as she stared at the ring.

"When? Where?"

"When you got to the hospital, as I promise that you'll be with us in that day. After he knew about you, he got in one knee and proposes. Carlisle has it, even though we were lucky enough that someone else recorded it, because she was bored with her phone," She explained, Carlisle which now was standing in front of the door shoved out his phone from his front pocket, opened it and gave it to me.

Alice was pacing worriedly around the room and Jasper was sitting behind his leg shaking up badly, the image gave a large zoom to Jasper head.

"Apparently, she found him hot," I said, which made Alice laugh and said a quite 'yeah'.

Carlisle had come out from a room and talk to Alice, the video didn't have sound. They whisper and she began to weep.

This made tears dwell up in my eyes.

Jasper heard the conversation and stood up. He hugged Alice for what seem to be a long time. He whispered something in her ear, and her sobs were less. She looked into Jasper's eyes and nodded.

Probably he was reassuring her that everything was going to be alright…and that she accepted that if it was just a moment.

He searches his pockets and this time the sound on the video was clear.

"Alice Cullen. Sometimes bad things happen and sometimes good things happen. I was going to do this in a week, but it seem that right now it will give you more happiness, hope and the thing you deserve the most. She is your best friend, someone who has been with you all this years, and your friendship with her can be compare with ours," Alice smiled a little.

"I promise you'll have the best day of your life surrounded by all the people you love and cherish. I do this now, because the circumstances that have been presented to us made that wish I have for you a little bit difficult. Hard times will arrive but, I wish that we will get through them together and that in those times we can find peace and happiness in what is meant to happen." He said pulling out a navy blue box and knelt in front of her.

"Alice Cullen… will you marry me?" he said. She looked at him with shocked eyes and was confused for a moment.

Maybe she was feeling guilty while she was happy and I was in the hospital in grave danger.

He looked at her. "We'll be all together, she will happy you count her in…she will be happy she got to see you and you got to see her in that day…in our day," he said. Alice looked at him and flashed a big smile.

"Yes…Jasper Hale. I will marry you surrounded by the people we love," she said, he slid the ring in her small finger, stood up and kissed her. He smiled… and she did as well.

The only thing I felt that moment was pure joy. They thought of me. They found a way to be happy when all of this came crumbling down.

"Alice," my voice cracked up. She wrapped her arms around me and hugged me tightly.

"Thank you," I whispered to her.

"All for you, babe," I couldn't help but laugh.

Then I wondered where Jasper was.

"Where is he?"

She didn't face at me.

"Are we back to ignoring me?" I asked.

The door opened and Jasper came in. Wow, people had some timing today. I smiled at him.

"Congrats," I said to him. He looked at me nodded and smiled. Not one word. Something was wrong and it wasn't about me dying.

"I feel that most of you are hiding something from me, but I'll let it slide; just because I am tired."

I fell into a dreamless sleep.

I heard a door opened, so I opened my eyes. I saw no other but Edward Cullen stumbling around the room as if he were drunk or dizzy.

"Edward?" His head snapped at me.

"Hi, Bella" he said, I never heard anything like his voice. It was something magical and musical; a voice worth hearing every day of my life.

"What are you doing here?" I said repositioning myself to be more comfortable.

"To see you, of course" he said sitting on the bed. His eyes looked directly at me.

"How do you know me?" I asked.

"We were friends a long time ago. You were 7 years old and I was 14 years old. But we stopped seeing each other because my mom had died and it became…hard for me. I had to go away." He explains.

"Where were you?"

"I was in various places moving from one place to another. But I lived in Nice, in Beaune, later I moved to England, and lived in London. Japan for a little while and came back here after returning to London again."

"I envy you, going to all those places…but I want to go to Italy above everything else," He looked at me and smiled.

"Maybe you will soon," I huffed.

"Yeah right,"

"What are you doing back?"

"I came back to be with my family, but they aren't too happy to see me,"

"I don't think that's true, but if it weren't for you telling me your last name was Cullen I would've never guess, you were siblings. She...they never spoke about you," He hung his head in disappointment.

"Yeah, I know,"

"Bella, would you like to go out with me Friday?" he asked looking directly into my eyes. I was surprised he asked me out of the nothing. We are talking about something and the he asks a question that has nothing to do with the topic. Alice had told me not to mess with him, but I couldn't help myself being intrigued by him.

"Yeah, I like that," he smiled.

We spent hours after that, talking about each other; which was our favorite color, favorite movie, kind of music, and stuff like that. I learn that Edward like things that were deep and meaningful. He loves foreign movies and action packed movies like any other guy. His kind of music was classical, Celtic and alternate rock. He also likes deep conversations that get nowhere, in other worlds, philosophy. I told him he would make a great teacher one day.

He loved the world and what it contains. The different cultures and people, he loved being surrounded by different people. He wanted to feel something more than pain and sorrow, he wanted to be found and remembered.

"Edward?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you miss her?" I asked him

"No, I don't anymore. After she was murder, she left a letter, which she wrote again every time something changed in our lives and in her last letter she told me that life is about exploring new things and mixing them with the old. She wrote that she wanted to travel the world and I found her halfway and she met me half way" I didn't mention 'murder' again, since that most be why the family was hurting.

"That's good," I said.

"You know," my eyes reached his. "It's four in the morning" I laughed and nodded.

"You know, that visiting hours are over?" he laughed and nodded.

I couldn't believe how natural it felt talking to him about useless stuff and whatnot. But then I remember why was I here…I was going to die in six months.

Why did Edward come here, now? I thought.

Edward lay next to me in bed, my hand were above his chest and my head lying in his shoulder. I swear before falling asleep he kissed my head and said 'strawberries'. I smiled and fell into a dream.

I couldn't remember the dream the next morning. But what had waked me up was the scream coming from Alice's mouth. I groan.

"Alice…," I said, feeling a body shifting next to me. I looked up and Edward was wiping his eyes. I looked up and he looked down and smiled. I gave him one back.

"What is going on?" Alice asked.

"He came to visit me and we stayed up late talking about things," I explain, because she was my best friend I wasn't going to hide anything from her.

"Edward, get out!" she yell.

"Alice, you don't have to treat him like that, he hasn't treated me badly," I said.

"So you already charmed her…like you did with Jessica?" Edward growled and stepped out of bed.

"Edward?" he looked up and his faced relax.

"Friday, okay?" he smiled and nodded. After he left, Alice sat down in front of me.

"What's going on Friday?"

"A date, that no; I'll not cancel. We talked, I like him and he's been everywhere." I said. Alice rolled her eyes.

Carlisle had come in, which shut her up immediately.

"How are we today?" he asked.

"Pissed" He looked at me and then changes his eyes to the machines that were connected to me and write things of the chart.

"We will be releasing you-"

"Saturday!" Alice interrupted him.

"Alice, that is not fair! I like him, what is so wrong with that?" Alice kept quiet and Carlisle looked at her disappointed. Alice looked at him.

"You know what he will do! Don't let him do that to your daughter, to my best friend!" she yelled at him.

"Edward perhaps has changed and he showing mare interest in here is progress we must see where it leads." Carlisle explains.

"Will you risk it?" Alice was angry.

"I believe he has change…I take no sides, but if it means saving your brother, I have no saying in it"

"Carlisle! You can't do that, what happens when the six months are over?" her voice broke at her last words.

"Alice...please; you said it yourself, I have never fallen in love or even kissed a boy…will you let me die without loving someone, that isn't you, Carlisle, Emmet, Rosalie or Charlie?" I said to her, her hazel eyes full of confusion stared at me. Her head hung in defeat.

"Bella, I want you to be happy…but I really don't believe he will" She said.

"Maybe he'll change my life and I'll change his…I don't know. Maybe it would a story worth telling. What do you know?"

"Don't dream too much Bella. I have to go, we are choosing a venue today, remember Friday, we are going to pick invitations." She said leaving in defeat my real release date. I smiled.

"Alice, are you asking me what I think you are asking?" I said in a sing-along voice. She looked up and smiled.

"Bella Swan, will you be my maid of honor?" she asked.

"Hell yeah, babe!" I exclaim, she came running towards me.

~ Friday

I was out of the hospital by eight in the morning. Alice came to pick me up at nine, it was already Winter Break. The day I checked in, school would be over in three days, which I spent on the hospital. I was to take the finals, in two weeks.

We chose the invitation and the date was set for May 27 of the coming year, we would be on our way to graduated, go to prom, sadly I wasn't going to prom which was in July and I might not make a graduation because of the health state I will be in. Luckily Alice and Jasper will be officially eighteen by then.

Alice finally approve of my date with Edward, because she was sure I would leave things there and break it off. I wish she wouldn't put me down every five second when the topic is brought up.

We had fun, searching for the perfect venue since Jasper and her didn't come to a conclusion. Rosalie and I found a perfect venue which Alice fell in love with. We booked it for May 27 of the coming year.

Alice brought me to Forever 21 and buys me a dress for tonight's date; she didn't care what is what for as long as she could drag me shopping, she knew I couldn't deny her.

We arrived at my house, since it was obvious Edward was in hers. I took a quick bath while Alice and Rosalie prepared themselves for the makeover.

When I came out of the shower, Alice had like thousands of cosmetics lying in my desk and Rosalie had like tons of hair stuff, hairspray and whatnot.

Rosalie did my hair while Alice did my face. When I looked at the mirror, Alice had made me a princess with a light to dark blue shadow that made my eyes seductive. Rosalie had put my hair in a ponytail that flows in front of my left shoulder. It was straight and I looked hot.

I put my dressed on which was a mid thigh black strapless dress that was tight enough to make my curves noticeable. I looked great. Alice and Rosalie left, because Alice didn't want to stay to see Edward pick me up, she decided she would believe I was on a date with someone else.

Edward was leaning against the front porch after he knocked on the door.

He stared a few long minutes from head to toe.

"Beautiful," he smiled. I smiled him back.

"Ready?" he asked offering me his arm.

"As I'll ever be" I said thinking…first date with Edward Cullen!

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