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"Ang?" I quietly asked.
"Yeah?" She answered. I propped myself up, leaning all my weight on my elbows.
"...Do you think I was wrong for leaving Edward? Should I have, you know...stayed with him?" I questioned, needing reassurance that I had made the right decision.
After the series of events that happened earlier today, the least I needed was for Edward to bring up Chelsea and as much as I hated to just leave him at the club like that, I couldn't bare to be around him after that.
She abruptly sat up in a sharp angle, and gave me a discerning glance.
"No! I don't know why you always want to forgive him! He's obviously no good for you. You need to leave him alone, Bella!" She snapped.
I was taken aback at the ferocity of her tone. Angela had never snapped at me like that, but I wasn't surprised she did it on the topic of Edward. Angela wasn't Edward's biggest fan, whatsoever.
"He's an asshole, Bella. You know, you shouldn't have even went to the club with him. Finding out he cheated was enough."
My eyes grew wide, and I had immediately stopped listening to her once she called him an asshole.
"Yah, I guess your right..." I nonchalantly said, not believing a thing I'd said.
I got out of the subject when my blackberry rang, "Barbie Girl" played loud from my phone.
"Is that Alice!" Angela questioned, laughing hysterically.
I rolled my eyes, and nodded, picking up my phone, and pressing talk.
"Hey Alice, what's up?" Her call sparked something in me, given that Alice hadn't made a late night random call in forever.
"Bella...Edward!" She cried, hysterically. "H-h-he's been in a car accident. He's at the hospital. They say, it's pretty bad..." Her words of tears trailed off.
My heart instantly dropped, eyes snapped open and my mind went into over drive as I listened to her.
Bad
What the hell did she mean, bad? I thought to myself as I hopped up, and slipped on my shoes, whilst still holding the phone to my ear.
I ran down the stairs quickly, and loudly, completely not caring about Angela's siblings, and parents that I was probably waking up.
"Bella? What is it?" Angela called after me.
"Later!" I said my voice cracking.
I hopped into my truck, Angela had taken me to get from Tony's a while earlier. My heart was pounding out of control, and my tears had made themselves known.
By the time I reached the hospital, I was hysterical. My sobs were pulling from my chest louder than ever, and there were tears flooding my eyes. It was a wonder I had made it to the hospital without crashing, myself.
The thought brought on a fresh round of tears. I drove around the parking lot frantically, the were only a few spaces left in the back. I pulled the truck into the space and jumped out running for the tall building looming over me in heartache, and pain.
I crashed through two sets of doors leading into the lobby. I ran up to the nurses' station forgetting about all the others in the room. There was only one nurse sitting there looking as bored as ever. Her carmel skin went nicely with her dark blue scrubs she was wearing. He dark brown almost black hair was pulled into a tight ponytail and small glasses rested on the bridge of her nose.
She glanced at me, and bitterly asked. "Can I help you...?"
No. I am just here to sit around and see all the dying people.
I opened my mouth but nothing cane out because of the heavy sobs. The phone rang, it had one of those shrill sound tones that was high pitched, and loud. She rolled her eyes at me, and picked up the receiver.
"Forks General, Maria speaking." She sound so rude. I closed my mouth and slowly slid my eyes shot as I didn't want to think about where I was. I wanted to cover my ears, but my hand were sternly glued to my side. I silently took in the hospital's stench of sterilizers, and just...sickness.
Maria hung up the phone, and looked up at me again.
"Who're you looking for?...are you hurt...or..."
"Edward Cullen." I choked out, she bit her lip and silently whispered "whoa, yeah I saw him, he look bad..."
"Are you family?"
I shook my head. She sighed.
J-just t-tell m-me th-that he's gonna be o-o-kay. I begged her. She looked at me, and then her face wiped smooth into a non-caring mask of nonchalance. I didn't take offence to it, you couldn't get emotionally involved in everyone's problem when you work at a hospital, or you'd be fucked up.
"Please take a seat."
I turned, and went to sit in one of the hard folding chairs and stared out of the clear doors, and into the dark night. I couldn't believe the situation. It wasn't only a thrust upon Edward, but his family, and I also.
If I had stayed with him, I could have driven him home...I could have prevented this, but instead I was hell bent on getting away from him, and Chelsea as possible. I was too selfish to think past the fact that he had cheated on me, and that I wanted nothing to do with Chelsea that I had just left him there. I was appalled that he would even bring her up. I should have though of the possibilities of what could have happened. I could have stopped all of this. I was probably the only person on Earth that wouldn't worry about a stress drinker driving themselves home, after possibly breaking his heart. Edward was too worried about saving face in front of his parents that he wouldn't have called his parents and he had always told me that whenever he got drunk he felt as if he was emasculated in some fucked up "that only made sense to Edward" kind of way.
I should have stayed, or called to see if he was Ok, or...
I stared down at my fidgeting hands in shame. All of this could have been prevented.
"Bella?" A broken voice cried from somewhere in the room. I looked in the secretaries station, and my name was called again. A small hand rested itself on my should and I spun to see the owner.
Esme.
I launched myself into her arms and sobbed into the side of her neck. She hugged me tightly, and mumbled words of reassurance against my hair. I knew taht I wasn't the one who really needed it. She pulled away from me, and grabbed my hand in her own, and pulled me to the desk.
"I'd like to see my son." She said shortly to Maria. Maria lifted her head, and look at Esme before standing.
"Yes," She looked at me, and narrowed her eyes at Esme, "family only."
"This is his fiancée." My eyes widened as I looked at Esme, then tried to fix my expression so that I didn't blow her lie.
"Ma'am, he's like 18..."
Are you calling me a liar? We'll address this later with Carlisle, but I would like to see my son, and her fiancée.
Maria walked around her desk and headed down the long white hallway, doors were propped open with beeping coming from about each one of them.m
Maria stopped in front of a door where Jasper was sitting. He was rested on the wall next to the door with his head tilted backwards and an expression of pain hid on his face as he listened to Alice's cried in the room.
"Here we are but the doctor tending to your son said only one person at a time. But of course Dr. Cullen demanded at least two..." She trailed off and I stopped listening and sank down next to Jasper.
I sniffled and tried to stop crying, at least for Esme. She had tears rolling down her face so fast that when they hit the floor it almost sound like rain. Jasper tipped his head down at me, and saw that he had tear tracks running down his cheeks. He picked up my hand, held it tightly and whimpered, "It's not good, B."
I felt another sob wrack through me and I laid my head on his shoulder. Esme was still standing and looking through the rectangular porthole in the door.I would say she had been doing well holding her tears back until she got a glimpse out of the window. She crumpled to the ground, wildly sobbing. She wrapped her arms around herself tightly, and rocked back and forth.
"My baby!" She repeatedly cried. I crawled over to her, and wrapped my arm around her. Jasper stoof silently, and knocked three times on the door before opening it a lil bit and speaking to Alice, and Carlisle.
"They're here." Footsteps came closer to us, and I looked up and into Carlisle's wets blue eyes. I scooted away from Esme as he bent down and gathered his small wife into his arms. Alice came out shortly, and hugged me tightly without saying a word and sat in Jasper's lap, wrapping her arms around his neck.
"Do you want to go in now, honey?" Carlisle asked softly to Esme who shook her head.
"I d-don't wanna' see h-him l-like th-this." She cried.
Carlisle nodded and her words brought me to tears to an almost flooding level. Carlisle looked at me and nodded his head towards the room. I stood up, and walked into the room.
It smelt strongly of medicine, but for the first time the first thing I noticed. I saw him lying in the bed, he looked so pale, the part that wasn't covered by dark blue, and purple bruises. His face was in a peaceful almost relaxed set, his eyes were closed. The corner of his mouth was raised around the tube that was down his throat. He had white bandages wrapped around. his head and they were slightly tinted red. His mouth was propped open with a tube down it, breathing for him. His hands were limply lying on the bed next to him. I froze in the doorway and my tears slowed. I felt slightly relieved that he didn't look as bad as I had expected. From where I was I could see a deep bruise on the little part of Edward's chest that wasn't cover bu the gown.
I walked slowly to him, and took his hand. I bent forward and kissed his unbandaged cheek softly and ran my thumb over the back of his hand. I took a seat in the hard folding chair much like the ones in the waiting room, next to him.
"Ahem." I heard from the doorway. I looked away from Edward to stare at a youthful looking young lady in the same white jacket Carlisle was wearing.
"Hello, my name is Dr. Manford, I am guessing that you are Edward's fiancée..." I nodded at her.
"Well the rest of the family already knows this but, Edward was driving whilst intoxicated and hit a small car driving opposite directions. The collision caused Edward's car to go off the road and flip a few times," She walked to Edward's opposite side, and held a hand above Edward's chest. "He was propelled up and forward into the steering wheel causing three broken ribs." That explained the bruise. "He also hit his head multiple times that concluded in a concussion, which soon resulted in a coma." A sob r ripped through my chest.
"We think that he will be out for about a week, but when he wakes we will have to take him in for brain surgery, he has a TBI we'd like to work on soon as his body is physically capable to hand surgery." I nodded and brought Edward's hand to my face placing a kiss on his palm. "He should be able to hear you so if you'd like to try and get him to come around by talking to him that is usually a good thing. I'll be back in the morning to tend to Edward, but for now have a great night."
I nodded at her, and looked back at Edward. The room door opened but I noticed that it didn't close. I looked at it, and Alice was standing with Jasper behind her.
"We'll be back later, OK?" I nodded, and she left the room. I looked back at Edward.
"This is allmy fault, baby. I am so sorry. I-I I love you, Edward." I said for the first time. I laid my head on the side of his bed, and drifted off to sleep.
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