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-bellaswancullen

When I had awoken from yet another horrible dream, I looked at the clock. It was only 4 am. I decided that if I was going to be able to stay in this school, I was going to have to stay ahead on my academics. I looked at my schedule and saw that I had my special Ed. Training class and my medical class today. With both subjects, I had about 9 units today; three classes. It was going to be a long day and I needed to start running again. I grabbed the books that I was going to need for the day and exited the room down into one of the study rooms. I was empty except for one other person. I sat as far away from the door and the other person as possible. I sat down at one of the cubicles and turned on the lamp.

And so my day began. By the time I had finished looking through the first six chapters of each book it was six o-clock. I can't believe that it only took me two hours to go through 12 chapters. Then again, I always have been a fast reader, and a quick learner. I had about two pages, front and back, of notes for each chapter.

I walked back up to my room and noticed that both my roommates were still fast asleep. I quickly, or as quickly as my bruises would let me, changed into my running outfit. I wore a black sports bra with a navy blue cami and a pair of navy blue sweats. They were really old, and had been given to me by one of my best friends back in Forks. The only thing in my outfit that was new was my running shoes. They weren't exactly new, I had owned them for only a couple of months, and they were broken in well.

As I headed down the stairs to the main floor, I began to stretch my arms. As soon as I exited the building, I sat down on the ground and started to stretch the rest of my body. I winced at the pain that shot through me as I bent the wrong way. The ER doctor that I had seen in Washington said that I was really lucky that I had not broken any of my ribs, but a few of them were bruised very badly. He had said that I need to take it easy for a couple of weeks, and not start running again for a little while. He thought that I had tripped and fallen down the stairs. If only he knew! I thought to myself as I got off the ground and winced again.

As I started my run, I started off slow, more like a slow jog, fast walk. My body was aching and protesting allover, but I ignored it. After about an hour of slowly warming up my body, I began to run faster. By the time that I was running at my regular pace, my breathe was coming in short painful gasps. I could barley breathe because of the pain that my ribs were causing. As I looked up to see where I was, my head began to spin fast. I felt nauseas, and I didn't know where I was anymore. Before I knew what was happening, I hit the ground hard. I never saw them, but I heard someone calling to me. I didn't know who it was and I as the blackness started to enclose around me, I welcomed it, the safe feeling that I had become so accustomed to.

EPOV

I had woken up at five thirty like I always have, and got ready for my jog. Even though my main sport was hockey, I was still the captain of the cross country team, and had to be able to stay in shape. I had taken my usual route through the school, and had ended up in the meadow near the President's Residence/ Alumni Advancement building. I had just turned around to head back to my dorm when I saw a girl start to fall to the ground. I ran over to her a fast as I could to see if she was alright, but as soon as I got to her, I knew that something was wrong and that her life was being threatened.

I grabbed my phone out of my back pocket and called my sister. "Hello?" a very groggy, sleep filled voice answered the phone.

"Alice I need you help right now. I was on my morning jog and found a girl that had just passed out in the middle of the field over by the President's Residence/ Alumni Advancement building. We have to get her to the hospital and to dad as fast as possible. Will you get out of bed and get over here with your car now! Please!" I said almost pleadingly.

"Ok, ok. I'm up." I heard some moving around on the other end of the line, and knew immediately that she was putting on a pair of sweats and a sweatshirt. "Rose, Rose will you get your god damn butt out of bed. Where did you put my keys? ROSE!" I heard her practically scream.

"Ok. I'm up, I'm surprised that didn't wake Bella up." I heard Rose reply. Bella? Who's Bella? Oh… she must be there new roommate. I thought to myself while I continued to try and wake the girl up. "Uh… Alice. Where is Bella?" I heard Rose say with panic filling her voice.

"Oh God. Oh God, Oh God!" Alice was starting to panic. "Edward, what color hair does the girl have?" she asked seriously.

"Um… it looks like a chocolate brown, why?" I asked starting to get irritated at the fact that Alice was still in her dorm.

"Oh God!" Alice almost yelled. "I'm on my way Edward. Call dad and let him know that we are on our way with a good friend of ours." I heard the line go dead. I was dumbfounded. What was going on? How did they know who this girl was? I quickly cleared my head and dialed my father's cell number.

"Dr. Carlisle Cullen here."

"Dad it's, Edward. Listen, Alice and I are on our way to the hospital with a really good friend of ours. Can you please get over there now and help us out?" I knew that today was supposed to be his off day, but as an ER doctor, a father, and a family practitioner, he was almost always on call.

"Ok, but before you move her, make sure to check her head neck and back, just like we used to do, ok?"

I heard the soft purr of Alice's car. I looked up to see her driving onto the grass. The university staff was going to be furious, but we would just pay to have something else put in. "Ok dad I will. I have to go Alice is here." With that I hung up the phone.

"Oh God. That is Bella." I heard Alice whisper as I checked Bella for all the life threatening injuries my father had told me to look for. After finding nothing wrong I turned to Alice.

"Alice, stop just standing there! Go open up the door so I can put her inside." Her breathing was really slow, and very ragged. I was really concerned for this girl, NO, Bella I scolded my self. I picked her up bridal style and slid into the back seat with her. I kept her in my lap the whole drive to the hospital. As soon as we had entered the hospital parking lot and had stopped. I saw my father standing outside the door with a bed waiting for her. Alice came around and opened the door up for me again, and I slid out of the car. Before I laid Bella down on the bed, I noticed how light and fragile this small girl was. But she is the same grade level as Alice, which means she is the same grade level as me. There must be something really wrong with her.

After I laid her down on the bed, my father wheeled her into one of the private rooms and started to examine her. He asked Alice to help change her into one of the hospital gowns. She walked over, and as she passed me she said, "Edward turn around please!" it wasn't a question or suggestion. It was a command.

After I turned around, I faced the bathroom door waiting for them to finish changing Bella. I heard some moving and then suddenly there was a gasp. It had come from Alice, and then I heard, "Oh my. This my be worse than we had ever expected." I couldn't help my self. I took a peek at Bella. She was lying there in her sweat pants and a cami shirt with a sports bra. When I saw her arms, my jaw nearly hit the floor.

"Oh God!" was all I could say. I couldn't take my eyes off of her. She was so beautiful, yet she was so hurt. How could anyone hurt such a beautiful angel?

"Edward!" Alice scolded, bringing me out of my thoughts. I turned back around and waited. Finally after much noise Alice said, "Ok Edward. You can turn back around now."

I turned around and there was Bella laying in one of the hospital gowns and the sheet covering the lower part of her body. "Its much worse than just the bruises that you saw on her arms. They are all over her body. It looks as if she had been beaten for some time" father said, looking in between us. "Do either of you know what happened to this poor girl?"

I shook my head sadly and heard Alice say, "No, I had just met her yesterday. She is our new roommate, and she had finally gotten in yesterday evening. When Rose and I walked into the room she had winced in pain, but I didn't know what it was from. And when she met Amber and Ashley…" a growl had escaped my throat at the names of those two girls, "she was really surprised when Rose and I stood up for her. I don't think she is very trusting. She seemed really closed off from us yesterday when we were talking about why she got here so late." Alice paused for a brief second to allow all of what she said to sink in. then she said, "Father, these injuries can't be good for her running career can they. She is the new recruit that the school brought in from America. Surly she has seen a doctor in her home town."

Carlisle looked at us both and then looked down at the fragile girl lying on the bed. "I will call the hospital from her home town to get her record. She must stay here so that I can observe her. Alice do you know when her classes start?"

"They were supposed to start today, but they all got cancelled because there is a flu epidemic going through the staff right now."

After that, father left the room and Alice and I took the seats that were next to the bed and waited until she woke up. We wanted to be there when she woke up. We wanted to be her friends, so she would have someone she could go to and trust. I wanted to get to know her better. She seemed like such a sweet girl, and she was so different from all the other girls on this campus. Maybe she would be different. Just maybe.