APOV
I woke up and got dressed. I didn't feel like taking a shower at this moment so I guess I'll take one tonight. I wore baggy hip huggers and a black polo with red converse. It was a once in like forever-sunny day so I decided to not wear a jacket. I grabbed a Chewy granola bar and walked out to my truck. It roared to life and I was on my way to school.
English, Math, Health, and Photography went by like usual. Angela and I talked during first and second and went our separate ways during third, and then in fourth I had to deal with a way to talkative Mike.
Then finally lunch came around and I was happy. Yes. Me the strictly no emotion girl was happy. I haven't been this happy since Angela told me she was paying to see my favorite movie for me at the theaters for my birthday.
I got my food and walked over to the table. I noticed something. Edward wasn't there.
"Hey!" Alice said cheerfully.
"Hey." I said sitting down. "So where is Eddie boy at?" I asked. They all seemed to stiffen.
"He just has a small cold. He'll be fine though." Emmett said.
"Oh. Tell him get well." I said and took a bite of my pizza.
"Do you mean that?" Alice piped up.
"Not at all." I said with my mouth full.
"That is nasty." Rosalie said.
"You think? I don't know why people say…" I took another bite "…. that. Its not that disgusting to me." I smiled at her.
"Your on the other end. Of course it wouldn't." She glared at me.
"So you are saying that it is disgusting because you are the one that has to see it?" I asked.
"Yes."
"Alice?" I asked.
"Yeah?" She asked me.
"Do you think it's disgusting?" I asked her.
"No, not really." She said. She wasn't even paying attention really. She was staring off into space really.
"See." I smirked at Rosalie. She just stuck her tongue out at me. "Very mature for a senior to stick her tongue out at a junior." I nodded at her. She, again, stuck her tongue out at me.
Then it happened. It happened a lot to me ever since the school started. This thing were I heard everything, felt everything, and saw everything, my mind wasn't my own and everyone around me disappeared. I was in a black void. It made me feel unwanted or just a nuisance.
"She is so stupid." A voice in the void said.
"No wonder her mom left her." Another.
"She should just die." Another.
"I bet she has no one." Another.
"Leave me alone!" I called into the void.
Why? Why did this have to happen? Why did I get these things that made me feel worthless? What happened to me? Why? Why? Why?
"Artemis? Artemis? Wake up." Some guy called to me.
"Hey… Is she ok?" I think that was Alice.
"I don't know." The same guy that called me asked.
"What do you mean Edward?" Alice asked. I guess the one calling my name was Edward. I thought he was sick.
"I can't seem to read her mind." Hot guy named Edward say what?
"She will wake up in a few seconds." Alice said. How did she know.
"No, I am awake right now. What was that about reading minds?" I asked.
"You heard." Edward asked frightened.
"Uh-yeah. I thought you were sick. What are you doing at school?" I said opening my eyes to look at him. He was actually on the other side of the room.
"We aren't at school." Alice said.
"Say what?" I asked sitting up. We were actually in one of those creepy white rooms that you see in the hospital… Wait… don't tell me.
"We are at the hospital. You blacked out." Edward said.
"Great." I said slinging my legs over the bed.
"You shouldn't get up." Edward told me in a voice that didn't have even a hit of emotion in it. I decided that I hated that voice.
"Screw you." I glared at him and got up. I hate to admit it, but he was right. I immediately got light headed and began to fall. Then I awaited the pain. But none came.
"I told you." Edward said. I opened my eyes and found myself in his arms. He was holding me bridal style.
"Pu… Put me down." I stuttered and blushed. I noticed that he wasn't breathing. "How can you talk and not breathe at the same time." I was going to put my ear to his chest to see if it was my imagination but he dropped me on the bed. "Hey! Imma patient here!" I yelled at him.
"Talk and not breath at the same time? I think you're a patient at the wrong kind of hospital." He looked at me funny. Like he was worried.
"Yep, that's me. The crazy girl that no one wants. I guess your right, I do belong in a mental hospital." I turned over on my side so I wasn't facing him. Alice had gone to go get the doctor.
"I didn't mean it like that." He whispered.
"I guess you heard the rumors." I didn't look at him.
"Yeah."
"They're all wrong."
"That is why they are called rumors."
"Some are true though." I told him.
"What ones?" He asked.
"You'll find out. I'm sure."
"Why-"
"I have a question for you." I sat up and looked at him.
"What?" He asked hesitantly.
"Your eyes. They were gold in the lunchroom yesterday. In Biology they turned coal black the second my hair whipped around. But now, they are gold again. How? Why?" I asked. He stiffened.
"You have a good eye." He shot me death glares.
"Don't change the subject."
"Because they do.
"Then why did you look at me like I was food?" I asked him narrowing my eyes.
"You have no idea how true that is." He turned form me.
"Huh?"
"Nothing. You going to have to find out yourself." He said looking at me.
"I will."
"I wish you wouldn't." he looked at me with concern.
"Why."
"The doctor will be here soon." He started to walk out of the room.
"Don't go!" I called before he could open the door. He looked at me funny. "I don't like being alone in hospital rooms. I also don't like being with doctors by myself." I grabbed my pillow and tied to hide behind it.
"No more questions." He said.
"What! I cant do that. I have a lot that I want to know."
"Then you are going to be stuck in this room by yourself." He reached for the door again.
"I'll leave." I said flatly. He stopped.
"You wouldn't."
"You don't know me."
Then the door opened to reveal a very hot doctor.
"Hello I'm doctor Cullen. You can call me Carlisle." Blond hair, gold eyes, and he was a Cullen? I have died and gone to heaven.
"Artemis Swan. Do you have a change of clothes I can change into." I asked. It was the first time I had a look at what I was wearing. I must have fallen into my food because I had pizza sauce all over me.
"I do. First I will have to ask you some questions though." He told me and I nodded. I was glad when Edward sat down in the chair next to the door. "What is the last thing you remember?"
"Lunch. I was making fun of Rosalie." I smiled and Edward snickered.
"Do you know how long you were out?"
"Now that you mention it, it feels like I have been out for about a half hour." I said looking for a clock. There was none.
"It is now four in the mourning." Edward said.
"Holy hell!" I yelled. "I was out that long?" Lunch was at 11:45am. I can't believe I didn't notice. I looked at the curtains and sure enough it was dark out. "Holy hell." I said a little quieter this time.
"I think you had a anxiety attack. I will give you medication for it. You cant drive while on the meds so I will have Edward pick you up and drop you off." Carlisle wrote down some notes.
"WHAT!" Edward and I shouted.
"You heard. I'm sorry about this but Alice doesn't have a car right now and Rosalie apparently doesn't like her. You will have to bear with it." He said mostly to Edward.
"How about those clothes?" I huffed.
"Right away." Carlisle walked out the door followed by Edward. He left me alone in the ugly room.
I decided to get out of the nasty clothes that I was in right away. I thought a girl nurse would deliver them to me. I was now in my red lace underwear and bra. I don't know why I like the lace so much; I guess it's just comfy for me.
Then someone walked in. Boy was I dead wrong about the whole girl nurse thing.
Standing in the door why, with his mouth hanging open and his eyes wide, was Edward Cullen.
"Crap." I moaned.
"What is that?" he asked pointing to my birthmark.
"A birthmark." Was he stupid?
"Of a red moon." It wasn't a question.
"Yeah. Now can I have the clothes?" I asked not likening the way he was looking at me.
Silence.
I walked over to him and grabbed the clothes. The door was closed so I wasn't worried about the whole someone else seeing me thing.
I put on the clothes that Charlie had apparently left me and walked out the door. I met Carlisle in the hall.
"Here are your meds, and I have already checked you out of the hospital. You can leave when you and Edward are ready." He smiled at me.
"Why can't I drive myself?" I asked blushing when he mentioned Edward.
"The meds make you drowsy."
"Well isn't that great?" I asked sarcastically and walked off. Edward was beside me in a matter of seconds.
"Do you know what that mark is?" he asked. I guess he was talking about me birthmark.
"Yeah, it means I was born with it." I turned a corner and went thought some sliding doors and we were out of the antiseptic smelling hospital.
"But do you know what it means?" He asked pressing a button on his key. A silver Volvo beeped in response.
This is going to be a long, long ride.