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EmPOV
We were in the middle of
dinner when my cell phone vibrated in my pocket. I took it out while
looking around me to make sure I wouldn't get in trouble. To my
slight amusment, the five other members of my family that sat around
me took their phones out as well. I looked down at my ID to see whom
it was that had texted me.
"Edward?" said six voices at
the same time. I hit the 'read' button. There were was one simple
word there. Sorry.
"Edward!"
said Carlisle, Jasper and I at the same time, realizing something
wasn't right. We ran up the stairs and into his room. He wasn't
there. I ran into his bathroom. At first I didn't see anything, but
then I noticed that the tub was full and the water was close to going
over the side of the tub.
"Carlisle!" I yelled. I
turned off the taps and pulled my half-unconscious brother out of the
tub, clothes and all. I carried him back into the main part of his
room. His body began to shiver.
"Maybe we should get him into something dry." I suggested. No one moved. The girls had arrived and were all standing frozen in the doorway. Carlisle and Jasper were staring at my brother's now fully unconscious body in my arms.
Five minutes later, I was
laying him back onto his bed, in dry clothes. Alice was in tears,
sobbing into Esme's shoulder.
"Why didn't I see this? I
should have seen it. We could have stopped it! Why didn't I see it?!"
Carlisle was trying to calm her, without much success.
"Alice,
listen to me. He must have done it on impulse. That's why you didn't
see it. Last second decision. It's not your fault. No one is to blame
for this. He's going to be okay. We got to him. That's all that
matters. He'll be fine." I studied Carlisle intently for a
moment. His voice was level, and he was acting as calm as ever, as if
nothing strange had just happened, but his eyes told a completely
different story. They were wild with fear for almost having lost one
of his sons. Rose and Jasper were hugging each other. Jazz was trying
to keep Rose calm. He was telling her what Carlisle was trying to
tell Alice. Edward would be okay. I turned back to Edward and pulled
his blankets over him.
There was a few minutes
of silence until someone finally spoke.
"Alice? Can you see
when he is going to wake up?" asked Carlisle.
"Not until
well after dark. Around midnight or one in the morning. But he won't
come out of his room or anything, cause he'll feel really guilty
about this. He'll be afraid we won't be able to forgive him."
Alice replied. We all nodded quietly. Well this sucked. I wouldn't be
able to see my little brother again until tomorrow. I wouldn't be
able to talk to him and see what was going through his head and why
he didn't just talk to one of us if things were getting that bad.
But, I knew why he did it. The next two days were going to be the
hardest of his life and he didn't want to face them without Bella,
especially seeing as to how it was because of Bella that they would
be the hardest days of his life.
None of us were hungry
anymore. No one went back downstairs to clean up our plates or
anything. We all just went to our respective rooms and thought about
nothing but Edward. I sat down on my bed and stared at the wall
behind Jasper's head.
"Em?"
"Yeah, Jazz?"
I looked at him. He was sitting in a similar position to
myself.
"Thanks for finding him Em. I would have never
thought to check in there. I never thought he would have been
desperate enough to do that." Jasper said in a strangled
voice.
"None of us did, Jazz. And, as for checking in there,
I just happened to notice the door open and thought I should check
there. I didn't know he was in there. I almost left until I noticed
that the water was running and about to pool over the side." I
said. This was hard for me to talk about. I didn't feel as happy as I
thought I should. I had just saved my brother's life. I should be
elated. But, I wasn't. All I could think about was-
"Emmett
McCarty Cullen, don't even go feeling like that! He won't hate you.
You saved his life. He'll be thankful that you found him in time.
Don't ever feel that he would hate you for this. He might be pissed
that he didn't do what he meant to do, but he won't be mad at you."
Jasper had never used
my full name before. Wow. That certainly got my attention. I should
stop being so ridiculous. Jasper was absolutely right. I knew he was.
I lay back again the bed and contemplated what Jasper had just said. My eyes drooped without my permission and I fell asleep, unaware that I was even tired. The stress must have started to get to me, and this was my body's way of coping with it all.
Before I fell into my
slumber, I spoke once more.
"Oh, and, Jazz?"
"Yeah,
Em?"
"Don't ever use my full name again. I might have to
beat you to a pulp if you do."
"Okay. I won't. I didn't
mean to in the first place. It was just the shock of it all, you
know?"
"Yeah."
A/N: ooooh. I'm a bitch. I'm sorry. haha. I wasn't planning on doing that to poor Edward, but, I did. And, it makes for more chapters later. Otherwise this story would have ended much sooner. There are only a few chapters left. 3 chapters and the epologue. Hope everyone is enjoying this story. Reviews would make me happy! =D.
