7. Unexpected
Consciousness was beginning to appear in me, I rolled of from what I had been put on and heard a loud crack on the floor, after that I felt my head ache hard, too hard that everything turned black.
I heard a giggle.
I realized that the smack of my head hadn't been the one that provoked the sudden blackness, the room was very dark.
I tried to move my head to see where the laughter came from, but I winced when I moved my head.
"Don't you ever stop hurting yourself Bella?" I didn't need to turn my head to recognize that voice, like a wind bells, how couldn't I recognize that laughter?
"Alice, where am I?" I asked moving my head slower this time.
Alice's face could be seen through all this darkness, she was still smiling, her teeth flashing white in the darkness, so her golden eyes twinkled like stars.
"At home." I looked around and didn't found my room.
"Seriously Alice, where am I?" I tried again. She rolled her eyes and helped me up, I stumbled again but she caught me on time, she led me to the edge of the bed again and sat beside me.
She sighed. "You are at home, well, your second home if you can understand it better."
"Since when your house have beds?" She rolled her eyes.
"This is Edward's room Bella, it was more than expected of him to overreact and put a bed for you instead of you staying into the couch. He is extremely dramatic, you know how much time did it took him to bring this bed from Sleep Emporium? No more than 5 minutes. He didn't even take the Volvo."
I made a face not understanding what she was saying. "That's mad." I whispered.
"Tell me about it."
Why would he do that? I should be kicked out from here, or at least sleeping on the porch.
"So what happened Bella? Where have you been all night? Edward told me you hit your head pretty hard on a rock near the river, he didn't want to explain more, he just went in and out of your room."
Edward hadn't said anything? I hit my head? I had to tell the truth, and then Alice would know the kind of monster I was, one that cheated his extraordinary brother in her dreams.
"Um, well, I really didn't hit my head, what really happened was…" Your beautiful brother rescued me when I didn't deserve it, he should have left me there, agonizing in deserved pain until I died of sorrow.
"I'm a rotten person Alice I cheat…" A voice broke off, coming from aside the couch.
"She slammed her head pretty hard, what happened is that she told me she was going to walk no further than the garden and she cheated me while she went to the river to escape from the party, nothing personal Alice but we know Bella's antisocial skills and innate aversions to any social gathering." Edward smiled at me with tender eyes. His eyes were glimmering more than Alice's eyes were, but I could see the depth in them, he seemed to be figuring me out.
"You know what Alice, I need time alone with my future Mrs. Cullen and you have spent too much time here, please can you check for the last time if things are ready for tomorrow, I'm sure we don't want any inconvenient in the Alice's wedding of the year, we want this to be published in Fork Times don't we?" He mocked a little while Alice glared coldly at him.
"So Bella…" She made emphasis in my name. "I'm sure you want everything to be perfect for tomorrow, you are the only one that recognizes my efforts, and you are the only one that takes them seriously since some think I'm joking with a perfect wedding. I know you are not like that Bella you truly appreciate this and that's why I always wished for a sister just like you, you are hundred times better than any hideous brother which name starts with Ed and ends with ward." She pulled her tongue out to Edward.
"You're wrong; she is infinite times better than that brother of yours." He stared at me again, without smiling.
"So if you please leave us alone?" Edward repeated.
"Yes, whatever, I'm really busy at the moment, you'll see and you'll regret about mocking about your own wedding, you'll see it will be beyond perfect." She went at out the room prancing and dancing delicately, like the small dancer she was.
The last sound I heard was the slam of the door closing.
My mind go blank in the time the two brothers were talking, I was reflecting the words wedding, Mrs. Cullen, wedding, future, Mrs. Cullen over and over again.
I knew this was all a misunderstanding, a lie. Edward wouldn't want me to marry him anymore, his just covering up until tomorrow. Oh! Alice had worked so hard on this.
My heart pounded, stabbing my chest harshly when I saw the true feeling behind these words. I wanted to marry Edward.
But now it was impossible, he wouldn't want me, which is better for him, he'll find someone worth of him, he is too much good, too much precious. My heart ached fiercely.
"What are you thinking?" Edward was the first to break the silence. I didn't dare to look him to the eye.
"I was thinking when will we dismantle this?" I asked in a very low voice, without turning it into a whisper, it was almost like a rhetorical question.
"What exactly?" He looked at me truly confused.
"The wed… the wedding." I whispered, feeling those words like a kick in the stomach.
"And what is there to dismantle Bella?" This time I could not speak in a whisper.
"We are not getting married, you don't want us to get married, after what I'd done to you, it would be impossible for you to take me back, if I were you I wouldn't do it also."
He looked at me seriously, trying to comprehend what I meant but in his face I could see he found no sense on what I was saying.
"I'm glad you aren't me love. Marrying with you is something I still want and will want forever, but if you don't I'll understand, we can call this off, you don't have to feel bound to this, if what your dream in the river was what you wanted you can have it love, beyond doubt, you can have anything that you desire."