Chapter 2
Edward was crouched protectively in front of me. I moved behind him. Demetri, out of no where took a lunge, but Edward being able to read minds, saw it coming and pushed me out of the way and lunged back at Demetri all in one swift movement.
"NO!!" I shouted as I heard flesh being ripped. I was too afraid to look who had been attacked. I heard the thump of a limb hitting the ground, and another after another. I still had my eyes closed. I had retreated into the forest, prepared to break down sobbing if I had too.
I heard the faint sound of matches being struck against a rock. Then two cold arms slipped around me as if to hug me. I sighed and opened my eyes and looked into the golden eyes, of Alice Cullen. She looked if she could cry she would.
"I'm sorry Bella, we were too late."
"NO!!!!!!"
I shot up off the couch and Edward was holding me as I was sobbing, running my hands up and down his cold arms.
"Bella, tell me what's wrong," he said, soothing me, "what was it about?"
"Nothing," I said. I didn't want the mental image back in my head. He sighed, and looked into my watery eyes.
"I wish so much that I could read your mind, love," he said, kissing my forehead.
"I'm Sorry," I mumbled into his chest.
"There's nothing to be sorry for," he said.
"I know," I said, drawing in a shaky breath. He kissed me again on the forehead, and Carlisle and Jacob burst in.
'Oh good Bella you're awake," Carlisle said, "I think we know what's wrong with you."
"Good," I said, ready to get some medicine in me and get better.
"Well there isn't an exact name for it but, legend has it that, if a male vampire is around a female human too much, she will contract a disease. Vice versa, it works too. They say that you will get flu like symptoms but worse, and that your eyes will turn red like a newborn vampire and you will be weakened for a while but as long as," he paused there, "Edward, Emmett, Jasper, and myself stay away from you for a month or two, you will get better and you can come and go as you please."
"A MONTH OR TWO!" Edward and I screamed at once. I looked over at Edward and he had a worried look on his face, and I knew he was thinking back to the months when he left me before, because I was too.
"Bella its necessary," Jacob said, looking a little smug. He was probably thinking, "If she was with me this wouldn't be happening, she wouldn't be in pain again," because Edward let a deep, warning growl escape from his barred teeth. "But I'll be there for you. Again," Jacob said, throwing Edward an accusing look.
"Edward, stop it," I said, "Just ignore him." He sighed and turned towards me.
"Alright Carlisle," Edward said, still looking at me, "you'll have to call the school to tell them ill be out for a while and as will the rest of my brothers and sisters, and that…" Carlisle stopped him here.
"Edward, I'm sorry but this isn't a long term fix. If you want to have Bella, she'll have to be changed, because as soon as you go near her again, the symptoms will come back, stronger then before. At least that's what I think."
"No, she can't be changed," Edward said, and my heart broke a little more. "Bella, love, we will find another solution, I will NOT let your life be taken away so soon."
"Edward please, change me now, I want to be with you, forever," I said, pleading. For a minute, it looked like he was actually considering it.
"No Bella, not now, it's too soon."
Carlisle just sighed and said to Rosalie, "Rose, will you please take Bella home, you're the only one of us who hasn't spent much time with Bella, you won't affect her condition."
"Yes, Carlisle," she said grabbing the keys to her car.
"Bella, don't worry," Edward said, "Ill see you soon, I promise I wont leave you." Those words stung, because they were the words spoken by him before he left me before.
"Bella, he won't, I can see it," Alice said, reassuring me. I nodded and climbed into Rosalie's car.
"Bye, Edward, and everyone else," I said, holding back tears. Edward stared straight at me as we pulled out of the drive, never taking his eyes away.