.A/N: Ok so I was sleeping and I suddenly woke up, why? Because I felt guilty for not updating. I was so busy and I'm so sorry. So here I am, up early in my holiday. Really early, like I doubt that anyone else in the country is awake. Lol. I made myself some cereal and here I am writing this A/N hoping you'd forgive me.
"iole01" I'm sorry to say that I can't seem to find a place for more Jasper POVs in this story. So I will have a one-shot up for you soon. I already have it written on paper. Hope you're not upset with that.
Recap:
He was about to answer when we heard Bella moan wearily. His head snapped. And I looked at her. Her head was moving slowly and her eyes were fluttering.
Bella was coming back!
I saw her
I do not understand
How could she see
The one that is maybe on land
Or in the sea
EPOV
"Bella," I breathed as I watched her eyes struggle to open. She wearily pulled her arm out of the covers and wiped her forehead lazily from the sweat that I had just noticed. She pushed her hair out of her face and half opened her eyes.
"D…Damien," She mouthed tiredly. He was at her side at once. It hurt me a little that I wasn't the one she asked for once she opened her eyes, but I knew she would need her time. So I kept silent.
"I'm here." He whispered to her and took her hand. "How are you feeling?"
She stared at him at first, her face confused as if trying to understand what he meant. "I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?" Her voice was a little weak but her voice was honest.
I furrowed my eyebrows. Didn't she faint? Didn't she know that she fainted?
"Bella…" Damien started looking at her strangely, "You fainted"
She pulled her eyebrows together, "No, I was asleep"
Asleep? No, she definitely wasn't asleep. I carried her and she didn't wake up, I called her name more than once and she didn't wake up, I ran with her in the cold weather and she still didn't wake up. How could that pass for sleep?
"Bella…You weren't," Damien told her in confusion.
She sighed and pursed her lips, "Help me up, please?"
I let my eyes drop to the floor at once. I did not want to witness her inability to sit up on her own. Something caused by me and only me. But I had to. Won't I help her get through this? Then I'll have to face some of these painful moments.
I forced my eyes to look at her but Damien had already sat her up. I had to stifle a sigh of relief. She was still struggling to find a comfortable position, when she met my eyes.
"Edward!" She gasped.
Why did she look so stunned to see me? Was I that unwanted? I held back the pain, I didn't want it to show on my face and stared at her as evenly as I could.
She looked at Damien with her, still, stunned expression, "Is…is he really t…there?" She whispered in fear. I swallowed loudly.
Damien pulled his eyebrows together, "Yes Bella. What is it?" He touched her forehead, checking her temperature I presumed, then let his hand fall.
She met my gaze again her eyes wide, "Why did you come?" She whispered almost on the verge of tears.
Pain mingled with confusion and I almost didn't know how I was feeling, "Y…You told me…" I barely whispered in fear of rejection.
"What?" She laced fingers in her hair and tears started running down her face, "You haven't spoken to me in four months, Edward. How did I tell you anything?"
And it was the first time in my existence to actually feel my heart stop. It was like I just realized it wasn't beating. Four months? I just talked to her about an hour ago.
"Bella what do you mean four months? You just talked to Edward today!" Damien said anxiously, standing up.
"What? No. He left me four months ago. That was the last time I saw him," she argued in confusion.
Damien looked up at me. That's not normal for her, he informed me, and that made me all the more anxious. How could she have memory loss? I met her eyes and tried to decipher her thoughts. It was hard and didn't always work, but I wouldn't lose anything if I tried.
How could Damien bring him here without telling me? Does he know that I can't walk? And what does he think Damien is? I found her panicking thoughts. While staring at her I reached in my pocket and pulled out my cell phone. I needed Carlisle before I made any wild assumptions.
"Did she wake up?" was his first sentence once he answered.
"Uh… Yes… but I think you should come."
"Is there something wrong?" Anxiously.
"Maybe you should see for yourself, because I do not know what is going on." I said while still staring at her.
"All right then. Give me five seconds," and he hung up.
I put the cell phone back in my pocket and Bella followed my hand with her eyes. "Carlisle's coming." I told her quietly. She gasped again.
"Carlisle!" She breathed as if it had been a century since she last saw him. Her heart beat was faster than normal and she looked so confused, almost as confused as I was.
The door was opened and Carlisle entered the room. "Hello Bella," he said in a friendly tone. Bella just stared at him with eyes wide. "What is the problem?" he asked as he walked to her bed.
"Bella…" Damien started, "When was the last time you saw Carlisle?"
"Four months ago" She answered at once and Carlisle froze.
"Excuse me?" Carlisle thought he had heard her mistakenly. He looked at me with his forehead ceased. I nodded at him. He turned back to Bella. "Bella? Are you sure that the last time you saw me was that long?" he asked as he, too, checked her temperature.
"I'm not positive, but I can't remember any closer time," she admitted, leaving Carlisle's eyes to meet mine. "Please come," she whispered to me and held out her hand. I automatically went to her and took her hand, as if I was under a spell. How could she not remember what had just happened? How could she have forgotten the past week that swiftly? I knew human memories weren't strong but I doubted that they were that weak.
"Did she hit her head while she was passed out or anything of that sort?" Carlisle asked in confusion.
"No." Damien answered since I seemed to have lost my voice.
Bella took my hand and almost cried. She squeezed it and whispered, "why did you leave?"
Not that question again! Please, this usually brings a whole round of pain that there was no more room for. I looked at Carlisle for help and his mind was racing with possibilities of what could be wrong with Bella.
Suddenly Bella's hand left mine. "Ouch." She winced and her palms pressed against her temples.
"Bella?" the three of us said at once. She pressed her hands tighter and squeezed her eyes closed. She moaned in pain and bit her lip.
"Bella, what do you feel?" Carlisle inquired quickly.
"Bad. Head. Ache." She strained. Carlisle ran out of the room to get her some Tylenol. Her breathing hitched and she bit down hard on her bottom lip.
I felt so helpless watching her suffer like that without being able to take away her pain. What more could I have done to her? Why couldn't she remember us? Why was she in pain now? Why wasn't I the one enduring the suffering instead of her? She did not deserve what I put her through. She deserves to be cherished, not to suffer!
Will I ever be able to show her how sorry I was? Will I ever deserve to be forgiven? Will she ever forgive me?
Focus Edward! I growled in my head. Yes, I had to focus. I could worry about all that later. Right now she was in pain.
Carlisle was back in the room with Tylenol. "When was the last time she ate?" Carlisle asked in a rush.
"Breakfast," Damien replied.
Tears started running down Bella's scrunched face. I was about to go insane, "Carlisle!" I strained from between my gritted teeth.
"I can't give her a pain killer unless she's eaten!" He said desperately.
Damien pulled out a small bar of chocolate from the drawer of her bedside, he had kept it there because she sometimes got hungry at night. "Here," he said as he opened it and tried to shove a piece in Bella's mouth, "Bella, you have to eat it so Carlisle could give you a pain killer," He said firmly.
"Please Bella!" I pleaded.
"Come on Bella. One bite is all I need," Carlisle said desperately.
"W…wait…" She strained between gritted teeth.
Wait? How could I wait? Wait for what? For her torture to increase? For my brain to explode? "Please, just eat for the sake of my sanity!" My voice broke.
Her eyes squeezed tighter than before and she nodded hesitantly. "B…but just…o…one."
I nodded to Damien and was thankful to whatever made her still value my sanity. He put the chocolate bar on the tip of her lips and she was barely able to nibble.
But suddenly she gasped and her hands fell from her. Her eyes opened and she burned her eyes in mine. "The headache……it's gone…" she whispered in confusion.
"So suddenly?" Carlisle asked stunned.
"As suddenly as it came I guess." She shrugged then she stiffened, "I remember now," she whispered. She looked from me to Carlisle then her eyes fell on Damien. Her eyes were wider and she quickly clutched his shirt tightly in her hands. "Damien!" She gasped.
"What's wrong, Bella?" He asked worriedly.
I felt my forehead cease and I leaned back. What was going on? Why was she so confusing today?
"I just saw her!" she whispered.
"Saw who?" He asked her eyes searching hers frantically.
"Rosalinda."
A/N: Dun Dun Daaaa!!!! Cliffie :P! again sorry for the late update. Ok, can I ask you guys something and please really tell me what you want. I wanted to take you a few months back to Damien and Bella's relationship and how she struggled with her paralysis and all the stuff you didn't see. SO do you think that's a good idea to do or should I put it in a separate story as an outtake??
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