Bad to the Bones
Chapter 16
With every step I took the light seemed to fated. This wasn't the way I thought I would die. I had thought that I would die in a peaceful time. I would have a man with who I grew old and with who have children and grandchildren with. Now the light was screaming at me to come, but I didn't want to go. Everything that happened for the last few weeks were showed to me. Everything that Edward had said to me came back.
I knew who Edward was from the first moment I met him. He wrote these words on the school board: "From now on she is my property."Then when he dragged me with him to the woods he talked to me about Charlie and that he wanted revenge: "Because you are Isabella and you are the daughter of Chief Swan." A lot happened since that day. He got into a fight with Mike and of course won without trying: "She is my girl and she will always be." Though at that moment Mike did reach Edward. I almost knew for sure that Edward was a little threatened by Mike; otherwise he would have never said it. And then that time came when I actually like it when I was with Edward. We were at my house and just watching some movies. He sniffed in my hair and said that my shampoo smelt nice: "I love strawberries." It was really one happy moment, although it was almost the only happy moment I had with Edward. But that day didn't go as planned he didn't like me as I did him: "Isabella you are already helping me by falling in love with me." For a long time he didn't bother me anymore but when I saw him again he had a cut in his hand and he thought it was funny: "I can't stop because I am having too much fun." "You are so predictable, you know." That was the day when I went with him to his house and discovered a video on his phone. We really had a big fight and I would never forget the scream that came out of him. Edward was a broken man.
"The hungergames just started." That really was something, the hungergames. I still don't know why he is calling it hungergames but that was really one hell of a week. Soon after that day Edward got arrested by my father because they thought that he kidnapped me for a day. For some part that was truth, no it was entirely truth. But it was kind of funny what Edward had said to Charlie: "The only thing you ever did well was getting a daughter. She really is smoking hot." It didn't take long and I was living in Edward's house, what was moreover very nice. "How did you sleep?" It was one of the first things he said to me. The other things were about Victoria and Alec: "The name of that stupid redhead is Victoria."A few days later I read the story of a family who had been killed. Edward was so angry on me: "Did you enjoy the story?" He had yelled it in to my face. Another time when he was mad at me was when I caught him making out with Victoria. "This is what I mean about you being irresponsible. Do you have any idea of how much trouble you are in?" First I was mad at Edward for cheating with Alec's girlfriend. I had sympathy with him but that absolutely fated when I saw him standing in the basement. And then the other happy moment came me and Edward taking a break from the hungergames and enjoying each other's company: "Good morning, sweetheart." But the happy moment fated almost immediately when we went to school. I got the note with the threat on it. Of course I blamed Edward. "Bella." The voice he said it with made me realize he didn't do it. Of course it was James. How could I have not believed Edward. But most of all: "I am sorry Bella, I am sorry for loving you. No!" He yelled for me. For those last weeks he had pretended like I didn't mean anything to him, but I am. He came all the way to me to sacrifice himself to safe me. Edward would give his life for me. That last incident began to play over again in my head.
"Now you see how it is to see someone die. You killed my sister from the inside out. Now I am going to kill the only one you care about." I was only focusing on Edward but with every second my vision became more unclear. I was crying out of impotence, but I knew for sure that Edward felt that even stronger. James took my hair in his hand and pulled my head rearwards so my neck was exposed. Slowly the knife came closer to my neck, my heartbeat exaggerated and my breath became uncontrolled.
"Do you have any last words to say to her, Edward?" In his eyes there were tears.
"I am sorry Bella, I am sorry for loving you." Edward let his head fall. I felt my heart almost beat out of my chest. That last second was the longest I had ever experienced and then everything went black. The last thing I heard was Edward screaming: "No!" I didn't know what had happened but I was standing on a bridge and there was a big white light that was screaming for me to come.
My brains tried to digest everything that had happened. But it seemed like it wanted to protect me, from all the bad stuff. It knew that I wasn't ready to go back. I felt the choice that my body gave me: go to the white light or wait until you are ready to go back.
Out of nowhere there came to stand a mirror in front of me. In front of me was standing a girl with long brown hair and a pail face. She was wearing a light blue dress that fitted perfectly by the colour of her skin. The dress showed her curves perfectly, she looked good. At least if you didn't look at the dagger that was plucked into her left shoulder. Blood was dripping out of the wound but she was still a life. The girl I was looking at was I. It scared me to death, so I was really in the waiting room to go to heaven. I looked down to my hands and there was blood on them it had solidified. I was never able to look at blood without getting sick, but being here it didn't seem to bother me. I slowly began to disappear in the mirror; instead I could see what happened in the basement. I was laying on the ground and around me there was a large amount of blood. Edward screamed what seemed to satisfy James. On Jacob's and Alec's face there was sadness, the both didn't want this to happen to me. They just wanted to get back at Edward.
"Now you are not such bad boy anymore." Edward ignored him and wanted to crawl over to me but Alec and Jacob kept him in place. He tried everything to get to me.
"Let him she is already dead." James ordered the two other boys. He didn't know how fast he wanted to be next to me. Edward's hand slowly made circles on my cheek. Tears flowed from Edward's face, he bowled his head and he put his head on my chest.
"I am so sorry, so sorry. I wished I never loved you then you would still be here. I am so, so sorry." He kept repeating it. Behind him came to stand James. He had a gun in his hand and he had it pointed to Edward.
"Do it. Do it." Edward yelled, he didn't have anything to live for anymore.
Again the mirror started to fated.
"You are Isabella Swan." I turned around and now I was looking at a beautiful looking women. She had brown eyes and the same colour hair as Edward.
"I would like to thank you. Edward began to live again when he met you." She smiled to herself, probably about what she was thinking.
"I am Edward's mother, his real one. At this moment you have to make an important dissension. Do you want Edward to live or do you want to live." I wanted to answer the question but she stopped me.
"Do know that if you choose yourself Edward would be dead instantly. If you choose him there is still a change that you both can survive. Choose with your heart." She didn't say anything else. It didn't matter what she would have said my choice wouldn't change. Of course I choose for the life of Edward. He sacrificed himself now it was my turn to do the same.
"I choose Edward too live." I yelled it in the skies. That minute I fell to the ground and everything went black. I didn't know what happened after.
James and Edward were standing in front of me. They were both looking at me in a scary way. The both of them had a big smile on their faces and they were both reached out for my hand. Slowly I reached my hand to Edward's but I stopped when other people appeared behind him: Victoria, Charlie, Renee, Phil, Alec, Jacob and Jane. All of the reached there hands out for me to grab them.
"Don't choose wrong Bella. It will be your death." Edward said to me. I looked in every one of their eyes but none of them seemed honest.
"Go away." I yelled and ran away as fast as I could, but they followed me into the woods. I screamed but no one heard me, I was going to die. My feet kept going until I fell. All of them bowed and looked me in the eyes, I screamed for my life.
Beep... Beep... Beep... It capped going on, again and again. I opened my eyes; I was in a white room. For a second I thought that I was still in the waiting room to go to heaven but I wasn't I was in the hospital. Next to me there was placed a stereo who played a lubally. It was warm and happy but it was also filed with fair and sadness. I looked around me there wasn't much to see then that Edward was sitting in the back. When I realised he was there my heartbeat started to exaggerated. The constant Beep... went faster. That seemed to wake Edward up because he was going from one side to the other. When he finally opened his eyes they found me instantly, for a few seconds he needed to look at me before he realised that I was awake. He stormed out of his chair and in a second he was standing next to me.
"You are awake. You are awake." A smile arose on his face. He took my cheek in his hand and looked deep into my eyes.
"I love you. I love you." He said if for several times before I opened my mouth.
"I love you too." My voice sounded terrible but I didn't care neither did Edward. He began to laugh out of happiness.
"You didn't leave me. You are here awake and you love me." His forehead was against mine.
"Yes." It was everything I could say, but I didn't need to say anything more.