Why Edward? Why?
Chapter 7: Brief Guilt
The guilt felt like gooey cheese, in my gut - clawing at my insides. I had passed the awful infection onto my husband. Some wife, I was. Dr. Irina was still talking.
Edward hadn't said a word. He had shaken his head at my words and squeezed my hand tighter. My guilt was clawing away at me.
"Is there anyway...that you could find out who had ... had it first?"
She raised her eyebrows and a frown appeared on her face. But she continued all the same - "Well, yes there is. A new form of medicine has been admitted and we tested it on your urine samples, seeing as its part of the procedure -" She drew a piece of paper with notes on it from the big file in her arms and scanned it.
Edward was holding my hand so tight; I was scared he was going to squeeze it off. I looked at him, confused.
He looked like...he was hiding something. What was that something?
I narrowed my eyes, the tension so thick, I could of cut it with my knife.
Dr. Irina furrowed her brow and counted on her fingers, surely she could count.
"Give me a second please." she muttered, dropped the file and took her piece of paper with her.
She had been out the room for five seconds when I walked over to the file and reached out for it.
I felt a hand stop me. "What are you doing?" Edward hissed.
I glared coldly back "It has my name on it, I'd like to know how much of a pathetic woman, they're making me look. Let go of me Edward." he released me. I glanced down at the file and saw the top sheet.
Name(s): Dr/Mr. Edward Anthony Cullen & Mrs. Isabella Marie Cullen.
Age(s): 21 & 20
Case Study: Chlamydia & Baby Issues
What the hell? "I'm sorry, but what the fuck, does "Baby Issues" come into our freaking tests?" I seethed. I glanced at Edward's name. "Your "Dr/Mr. Edward Anthony Cullen"." I noted.
He seemed to nod. I glanced down again.
"Why are our ages here?" I asked.
"Just normal hospital procedure. Most of the files, they main documents contain basic things." I continued reading the sheet as he spoke:
Isabella Marie Swan
D.O.B: September 13th 1987
Spouse(s): Mr/Dr Edward Anthony Cullen
Parents: Charlie Swan & Renee Dwyer
This information made no sense to me. Was I really still the same person, who at the age of 15 fallen head over heels for the man before me? The one who embarrassed herself completely, trying to get him to notice her? The sweet innocent girl who was as described as her mother: a little angel.
I couldn't see myself as a little child or teenager anymore. My memories seemed to mean nothing.
I turned to Edward. I didn't deserve him. But...something made me feel un-easy about him. I was sure he was hiding something from me.
And I was going to find out: if it was bad - he wouldn't comfort me anymore and would push me away. That's what I deserved - wasn't it?
I heard footsteps toward our room. Dropping the file on the desk, I hurried back to my plastic chair next to Edward and he picked up my hand and rubbed smoothing circles on it.
The door squeaked as Dr. Irina came back in, still with a slightly confused look on her face.
"Sorry about that...I'm relatively new to this scheme as it's a new procedure. I can confirm now that it was Edward who had Chlamydia first."