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EPOV

I said good bye to Bella and returned to my car and drove home. I had to talk to Alice. I know there is something bothering her that she has been refusing to tell me. She has been blocking her thoughts for the past couple of weeks and acting strange. Whether she wants to or not she is going to tell me what's wrong. I just couldn't shake the feeling that it had to do with my Bella.

Once I was back home I walked through the front door to be greeted by Emmet and Jasper. "Where's Alice?" I asked hoping the stress in my voice wasn't as obvious as I had thought it sounded. By the look on Emmet's face it was.

"I think she is upstairs in her room…what are you so stressed about?" Jasper asked sending me calm waves.

"Nothing, I just need to talk to Alice."

I knocked and then entered her room. She was sitting staring out the window, once she saw me enter though, she tried to mask the look of sadness that had been present on her face just a moment before.

"Alice, please tell me what is wrong…if it involves Bella I have a right to know." I said that a little bit more demanding than I had intended.

"Edward, right now everything is fine. Please stop asking what's bothering me all the time, you are starting to stress me out."

"I know for a fact Alice that there is something you are refusing to tell me. You have been blocking your thoughts from me for the past two weeks and the more time that passes the sadder you seem to become…please…tell me what is going on!" I was practically begging.

"Edward, I don't think that I should be…." suddenly Alice stood frozen in place as her eyes glazed over. Once she was done having her vision she looked at me and ran at vampire speed out of the house. She obviously was trying to hide something.

BPOV

I was shocked that I still had not started to cry. That's not like me, I am always emotional, why now when I should be bursting at the seams was I not even able to shed a single tear? The ride home was silent except for Charlie's occasional sharp intakes of breath from trying to recompose himself. I chose not to speak, not knowing exactly what to say, so instead I sat silently allowing the doctor's voice to replay inside my head.

"Bella, Charlie, after reviewing the information from the tests I am sorry to tell you that I do not have very good news. Bella, it seems that you have Cancer. Because there have been no obvious signs that would cause you to worry it has gone untreated for quite sometime. You now are dealing with a rather progressed stage. We can set up treatment here if you would like, or I can refer you to a different hospital if you would choose to go somewhere bigger." the doctor plainly stated.

Cancer….Cancer…..this was the only word that I had heard and it replayed over and over again. I don't understand how this could happen. I was so young, I had an eternity left, and did not want to leave…I didn't want to leave Edward. What am I going to tell him? Surely Alice has had a vision of this and told Edward right away. I dreaded having to see him, and see the sadness engulf his eyes as he looked at me. I dreaded the sympathetic treatment I would receive from everyone in Forks because I was sick. I just wanted to be a normal happy teenager, that could spend time with her friends and not sit and count down the months left of my life.

"Bella…I…is there…" poor Charlie didn't even know what to say to me.

"Dad, everything is going to be okay, I will do the treatment and in the end everything will be fine." I said with a sincere smile. If this was how my life would end I wasn't going to be depressed and walk around whining about it. This is the way it is and there isn't anything I can do but fight.

"Do you want something to eat Bella? I can warm you up some leftovers or we could go grab a bite somewhere if you wanted."

"No thank you dad, I think I am just going to go to bed and try to stay rested." I gave a small wave and walked up the stairs. I opened the door to my room and wasn't shocked to see Alice standing there anxiously awaiting my return.

"BELLA…tell me what the doctor said…please tell me I am wrong, that you are fine and everything is going to be fine!" Alice was almost in hysterics.

"Alice please calm down" I said a little louder than I had intended. I told her what the doctor said and watched the worry on her face become more severe the longer I talked.

"When do you start treatments then?"

"I start in a couple of days, I wanted to stay here in Forks and be with my family. I don't want to be far away with no one around to talk to." Alice knew right away that when I said "family" I was referring to the Cullen's and Charlie.

"Bella…" Alice couldn't seem to get the rest of her sentence out.

"What is it Alice?"

"When are you going to tell Edward?" She looked down and away from me as she asked.

"Alice…I thought you would have told him by now." I was shocked, why did Alice choose to not tell him.

"No Bella, I didn't tell him I didn't know what to say." I could hear the sorrow in her voice.

"Oh" I was relieved that she had not yet relayed this information to Edward. "Hey Alice, would you mind not telling him, I don't want him to know yet. I would like things to stay normal for a while before everything starts getting hectic."

"Yes Bella, that is fine but you should know that he thinks I am hiding something from him."

"Don't worry Alice, I will tell him and the rest of your family soon…just not now."

With a hug she left my room through the window, but instead of running she simply walked, even slower than a human would. I could tell she worried about me. If this is the reaction I was going to receive from everyone I wasn't sure I wanted to tell anyone. I wanted people to remain happy, and not be sad every time they are around me.

I walked to the bathroom and got ready for bed, as I was walking down the hallway I tripped and fell to my knees. "Ouch...well that is defiantly going to bruise" I thought to myself. I entered my room to be greeted by the most beautiful eyes in the world. There on my bed sat Edward…my Edward…my poor Edward.

"Hello" he said with his velvet voice before slowly kissing me.

"Hello" I replied, my voice sounding no where near as heavenly as his.

"So…what did the doctor say?" Edward asked with a little concern.

"OH…well you know, it turns out it is just lack of sleep after all…" I was hoping that horrible red color in my cheeks wasn't betraying me as I lied.

"Well that's good." Edward had clearly not been paying very much attention because I was sure my face had to have given something away.

I lay in bed with Edward by my side and stared into his beautiful topaz eyes wondering when I was going to tell him, how was I going tell him, and worrying about how he was going to take this news.

"Bella…what are thinking about" he whispered curiously still clearly frustrated that he couldn't read my mind.

"Just about how much I love you..."

"I love you too." He sighed back with a crooked smile appearing on his angel like face.

Edward…I don't know how I am going to tell you this when I know it is going to break your heart. With that being my last thought I slowly drifted to sleep as Edward hummed my lullaby.

A/N: I had some extra time so I thought I would write the next chapter right away. Thanks to the people who reviewed. I appreciate it. Continue to review and tell me what you think! Any advice you may have is welcomed.