Consider Me Drafted chapter two...

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~AliceSwift

Edward and I were lying on my bed together. His arms were around me, cradled in his chest, my back to him. Our intertwined hands were infront of me and his hand was stroking my hair. It was silent except for our whispering and murmuring to each other. I couldn't believe how much pain those murmurs brought to me.

"So when do you leave?" I asked in a small voice, not sure if I wanted to know our curent relationship's experation date or not.

"In two weeks." I closed my eyes and tried to hold back tears.

"That soon." I said, barely even hearing myself.

"Yes, I couldn't believe it either."

I couldn't process all the thoughts that were running through my head at the moment. They all ran together in strings of pain and emotion. Swirled around my brain and made their way down to my heart. Making me hurt even more than I already was. Then one thought became tragically clear to me.

This was real.

I was really sitting here with Edward Cullen, my Edward Cullen and he was telling me that he had been drafted. This wasn't something that we were hearing about. This was something that was happening to us.

"This- this can't happen." I said as tears came spilling over. He must have heard it in my voice because his arms tightened around me. I knew he couldn't stand it when I cried. He would comfort me but he didn't want me to be in any pain period. He turned me to face him.

"Bella listen, no matter what happens, I'll still keep my promises to you. I honestly can't dream up a life without you and I can't remember what my life was like before you were in it. Bella, I love you and now more than ever I need you to understand that."

"I love you too." I told him, not knowing what else to say. I felt the same way about him and I knew that he knew that, I also knew that he knew that I couldn't take much more of this. "Just promise me one more thing?"

"Of course." he said stroking my cheek. I put my hand over his and our fingers slowly intertwined.

"Tell me that we'll spend as much time together as possible before you have to go. If these are my last two weeks with you then I want them to have as much you in them as possible." he smiled.

"I want the same." he kissed me softly on the lips and then looked into my eyes. After a minute or two of looking into eachother's souls he shook his head, taking himself out of his thoughts. "You should get some sleep." he played idly with my hair for a moment before moving his hand away from my face, wrapping his arms around me, and closing his eyes. I turned over and closed my eyes, trying to figure out how I could get some sleep with all of this worry in me.

"Goodnight Bella." he whispered in my ear with a slight laugh in his voice.

"Goodnight Edward." I whispered back with a smile.

Right now I was in Edward's arms. He was here with me for right now. That was all that mattered.

The next morning I woke up to sunlight streaming through my windows. It took a moment of looking around the room to figure out what had happened last night. Edward had been drafted and I had been heartbroken, but today was Saturday and we had all day together. I rolled over to find Edward still asleep next to me. I ran my fingers through his already messy, bronze hair and then kissed him. He woke up when I pulled away.

"Good morning." I said, expecting my voice to be hoarse and sick sounding, but to my pleasant surprise it wasn't.

"Good morning." he smiled and rolled his eyes.

"What was that about?" I asked.

"You're cute in the morning." he said and kissed the tip of my nose. I laughed and his smile almost made my heart stop.

"I don't want to do anything today." he said and I nodded.

"Me either."

"We should just stay like this, all day. Here together and just talk." he said as if reading my mind. That was exactly what I wanted. Just to spend time with him and not have the pressure of being with people or in public, just being able to be ourselves with each other.

"I think so too."

"But first..." he flipped the covers off of himself and then got up and headed for the door.

"Where are you going?" I giggled.

"I'll be right back just stay here." he closed the door silently behind him and I laughed again. I turned over onto my side and layed down smiling.

Awhile later he came back with a stack of pancakes. We split it and talked while we ate.

At times I even forgot. I forgot that I would only have this time with him for two more weeks before he would be torn away from me and sent off to fight. But it was always there. He would laugh and I would think about the long periods of time I would have to bare without hearing the beautiful sound, he would smile and I wold think about how many months I would have to go without seeing him, he would hold me in his arms and I would think about the length of time I would have to go without his embrace.

He was currently leaning against the wall, me in his lap, his arms around my shoulders. My head rested up on his shoulder and he would kiss my head and whisper in my ear and tell me that he loved me. What surprised me is that we didn't talk about his leaving, we talked about things we normally would. Like school and our friends and other subjects that we would have anyway.

"I know she's insane but I love her as a teahcer." I said, standing up for Ms. Griffieth, my enthusiastic history teacher.

"But you never think she's too crazy?" he eyed me.

"No, just the right amount of crazy to teach." I smiled and he kissed the top of my head for what seemed like the millionth time. The thing was that it never got old. I never got tired of him loving me.

"What am I going to do with out you Bella?" he stoked my hair softly.

"I don't know."

"Will you wait for me?" he asked and sounded sincere.

"Of course, it's you I'm worried about." I said, listening to his heart beat under his tee shirt.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"I mean that there are many other girls out there, and so many of them have so much more to offer you than I could. You could fall in love with some nurse who could take care of you when you got hurt, or someone who can cook, or someone with a gorgeous face and pretty hair that you meet somewhere along the way." I played with my fingernails as I spoke to him, he took longer than I though he would to answer.

"Bella, do you think I would do that to you? Do you think that some girl I'll meet could ever replace what you give my heart?"

"I'm not worried about you going off with them, I'm worried about them intoxicating you. It's very easy to become confused and emotional when your out there, at least it is for Jasper. I don;t wan them taking advantage of you and you falling under their spell."

"But that'll never happen, because the only thing Ill be thinking about out there is you. You and only you. You're the only thing on my mind half the time anyway." This made me happy. To know that when he thought of me he thought of me as something more than just his girlfriend like I had been to other boys before him. I was a place in his heart.

"The same with you." I said with a smile and my heart rate picking up.

"Bella, I love you more than my own life. I'd give anything to stay with you, but right now they need me. I have to go."

"I know. I know." I said slowly.

I knew that this was stupid. To be thinking about myself instead of what he would be going through, but I couldn't help but feel bad. He was heading off to fight and I was backing down. Not an equal equation. I had to be strong. For Edward.

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~AliceSwift