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This chapter's song is: Welcome To My Life by Simple Plan because its all about how life sucks sometimes and that is how both Bella and myself feel. It is totally my song about how I feel most of the damn time. It has got great lyrics, so listen to it.
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Chapter 21
I woke up naturally still glued onto Edward. Rose was brushing my hair gently and Alice was murmuring to her quietly. Jasper and Emmett were sitting on Jasper's bed playing cards. Esme was still asleep and Carlisle was talking to a nurse. Mom and dad had gone to a nearby hotel. Edward was still asleep, his mouth open slightly. I tightened my grip around his waist as I stretched, I wasn't going to let go of him for a second. He shifted in his sleep, so his arm wrapped around me once more. I smiled and shuffled closer to him. Rose stopped brushing my hair and walked over to Emmett and Jasper and watched their game. Alice followed suit. A faint smile lingered on Edward's lips and he rolled so that his face was pressed into my hair.
'That got rid of them,' he whispered, I jumped slightly and he chuckled in my ear. I turned my head to be face-to-face with him and he kissed me softly. I moved my arms to around his neck and he smiled against my lips. After about a minute of it like that, he pulled away, panting quietly. He kissed my forehead.
'How are your legs?' he asked gently rubbing the cast on my left leg. I sighed.
'I honestly hadn't thought about it,' I said. As if on cue, my right leg ached painfully and itched terribly. I gasped and bit my tongue. Edward looked at me, concern etched across his face. Tears stung my eyes. I closed them tight and sat up to try and reach my leg. Edward put his arms around me and pulled me into his chest, stroking my back and muttering calming and soothing words and I sobbed into his shoulder. After a while my leg had stopped bothering me and I fell asleep on Edward's shoulder. Being an invalid is tiring, I guess. When I woke up, I didn't open my eyes but just listened to what was happening around me.
'Hey Ed, how did ya get her to sleep through it all?' Emmett asked.
'She just fell asleep after her leg had stopped hurting her,' he seemed to shrug causing me to move slightly.
'I bet she's awake!' Alice chimed in.
'Let's try it, shall we?' Jasper laughed. Someone tried to lift my eyelids, I squeezed them shut.
'She's awake,' Rose said. 'Now leave her alone, you morons!'
'Thanks, Rose,' I whispered. The guys, except for Edward, laughed. Then I realised we were moving. I pried my eyes open and leant onto Edward's shoulder and looked up. We were in a car.
'Where we going?' I asked groggily, sitting up.
'Home,' Alice said simply.
'Which one?' I muttered yawning.
'College, Bells,' Rose said from the front. Emmett was driving, like always. Jasper was sitting by the window in the back and Alice was in the middle. Rose was shotgun and I was on Edward's lap by the other window in the back. Emmett slowed down as we reached the gates of NYU. Rose flashed her badge at the security guard on duty. A strange burning suddenly aroused in my stomach, I realised that Jake was normally there but he was in jail. My mouth burned with an acidic taste. Emmett drove on towards the guy's buildings. He pulled up at the front. Edward wrapped an arm around my waist as he helped me out of the car. I shook uneasily when I stood but Edward scooped me up into his arms and I was not complaining! We walked up the stairs to Emmett's room. It was the biggest out of all of the guys. Edward sat on the couch with me on his lap.
'Have you even been in your room?' I asked him. He smiled.
'Yeah for about three weeks when you were in a coma, I was locked in; both the window and door keys had been taken from me. I was too keen to see you,' Edward admitted. I lay back on his shoulder. Alice was lying on Jasper's bed, staring up at the ceiling while Jasper ran his fingers through her hair. Emmett was grabbing some sodas for us all and Rose was curled up in the corner of Emmett's bed, muttering to herself.
'Rose? What are you doing?' I asked quietly. She looked at me, grinning.
'I'm singing to myself. I sung to you a lot while you were unconscious. You were always more peaceful when I did. It now calms me too,' she whispered, and then closing her eyes, her lips began to quiver again with her silent song. I smiled, I remembered moments of my long sleep, I don't like calling it a coma, I could hear her singing voice vaguely through the heavy lethargic cloud that rested over me. I smiled.
Emmett handed Edward two sodas and walked over to Rosalie who stretched out and took one from him. Alice sprang up and grabbed two, taking them back to Jasper and sitting on his bed. It was very quiet. All I could hear was them slurping their drinks.
'The court case is next week,' Emmett stated. Jasper nodded.
'Do we all have to go and be witnesses?' Alice moaned.
'Hm…yeah. You, Rose and Bella are actually going to be victims in this case. Only us guys get to be witnesses,' Jasper told her. It was quiet again.
'God, this is so, so boring. We really need to get out and do something. I don't know a party or something. I really can't stand wearing sweats and doing nothing for hours on end anymore, I need to get out!' Alice almost shouted, jumping up and grabbing our room keys, she ran out of the door. Jasper followed her quickly, not willing to let her go even if all the attackers had been caught. Rose stood up to follow but walked over to me and bent to whisper in Edward's ear. I tried to listen but she said it too low. Edward then swung me up and handed me to Rose. I shrieked but grabbed on around her neck quickly. Then we walked, well Rose did, out of the door.
I kept asking Rose if I was too heavy because I could probably walk but she was strong and carried me the whole way. Alice's room was one of the only ones in our set of dorms that hadn't been cordoned off as a crime scene. As we walked up our normal corridor I couldn't help but feel sad, the majority of the rooms were taped shut and the walls around them falling to disuse and crumbling in a few places. Rose involuntarily stopped just outside my room. I held out my keychain which I had as a necklace and she opened the door, removing the police tape carefully. I gasped as she walked in. The whole room looked like a bomb had hit it. I buried my face in Rose's shoulder, she patted my back gently shocked by the scene too. I raised my head to look in her eyes, they seemed to be bottomless pools of depression, tears welling at the lids. She regained her composure and walked out locking the door behind her and replacing the tape. We all had so many memories there. I sniffed and sighed but smiled at Rose as we continued down the corridor.
Because Alice was in fact Alice, she kept lots of mine and Rose's clothes in her huge closets. So neither of us had any doubts of something to wear. Except for the fact that I only have skinny jeans and I was wearing two rather large walking casts. Rose set me down on Alice's bed and shooed Jasper from the room. He gave us all one last sweeping glance, then kissing each of us on the cheek and telling us to call them when we were done he left. Alice jumped out of the bathroom armed with straighteners and curling irons and a very fierce look on her face.
'Rose,' Alice commanded. 'Hold her down!' Rose grabbed me and pulled me into her chair, then because we'd be through this so many times before, they handcuffed me to the chair with two sets of fur-lined cuffs. I groaned in frustration.
'Now, now, Miss Swan. You want to look good don't you?' Alice teased. I nodded.
'Then let us style you into our very own Princess Swan!' Rose laughed. I couldn't help it I laughed too. My first proper real laugh in almost a year. Alice threw a box of chocolates onto my lap and both of them practically wet themselves laughing as I desperately tried to reach them but my hands were tied down.
'You're going to have to behave to get them Bella!' Alice laughed, picking up the hairbrush. Rose grabbed her make-up bag smiling deviously.
And so the torture began.
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