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Chapter 7: Death

Previously:

I smiled, tears rolling down my cheek. "Aly, you have a little gi-" I looked at her, she was laying against the pillow, but there was no color to her skin.

"Alice? Alice?!" I shook her a little, my voice becoming frantic as I started to panic.

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"Alice? Wake up, Aly, come on! Nurse!" I yelled, sobbing.

I heard a splash and looked on the floor. Blood was everywhere. "Oh no! She's hemorrhaging!" Dr. Uley yelled.

"ALICE!!" I screamed, "Wake up, please!"

"Get her out of here." None of the nurses could get me out and away from Alice so one of them went out and got Emmett to grab me and pull me out, screaming the whole way.

He carried me to the waiting room and sat me on his lap. I cried on his shoulder, soaking his shirt with salt water and felt Rosalie sit on his right and rub my back. Carlisle sat on the table and put his hand on my knee while Esme sat on Emmett's left and was holding my hand. After what seemed like an eternity, Dr. Uley came out.

"Miss McCarty?"

I looked up, startled. "Yes?"

"I'm so sorry, we did all we could," she said quietly.

"No-" I gasped, it felt like someone had knocked the air out of me and I fell on my knees, then everything went black.

I woke up an hour later and took in my surroundings; my head was on my mom's lap, my legs on my brother's. We were still in the waiting room. Dad and Rosalie sat on the coffee table in front of the chairs. I was surrounded by those who loved me most, but I noticed one wasn't here; Edward.

I sat up. "What happened?"

"You fainted after we got the news," Esme said.

"Oh," I said, looking down. "Has anyone told Edward?"

"Yes, I called him while you were unconscious, about forty five minutes ago," Rosalie said.

I nodded. He wasn't coming. I can't believe he wouldn't be here to comfort me on the day I lost my best friend. I looked up at my family. Esme and Carlisle were worried, then I looked at my brother, he was visually pissed.

"Em? Are you okay?" I asked.

He laughed a humorless laugh. "You just lost someone close to you and you're asking if I'm okay? It's amazing to me how selfless you are. No, I'm not okay. Your boyfriend should be here and he's not. I'm gonna kill him," he said looking off in the distance.

I grabbed his hand and he looked at me. "Please don't. I don't need you in jail and for Rose to raise my nephew alone. I'll deal with Edward when I go home tomorrow."

He nodded then smirked. "Well, don't do anything that would land you in jail either, I would hate to have to finish your job."

I tried to smile, but I couldn't. I leaned my head on his shoulder. Someone came walking up and cleared his throat. "Miss McCarty?"

I looked up. "Yes?"

"I'm Mr. Jenks, Alice's lawyer."

"Oh, right," I said standing up. "We met a month ago, what can I help you with?"

"Well, the hospital called me and it's time for me to go over Miss Cullen's will."

I nodded. "Okay," I whispered.

"I'm just going to make a long story short, okay?"

I nodded.

"As I'm sure you remember, Miss Cullen left you everything; her house, car, inheritance, all of it is yours."

"The baby?" I asked.

"If you want her, otherwise she will be put up for adoption."

"No, she's mine, I want her."

He nodded. "Okay, I just have some paperwork I need you to sign." He handed the paperwork to me and we walked to a desk. "Just sign here, here and here." I signed them and handed it back to him. He smiled and shook my hand. "Good luck, and thank you for respecting her wishes." I smiled and he left.

I walked to the nursery and sat down as the nurse handed me the little girl. She had dark hair like her mom's, except her hair was curly, little ringlets.

"What's her name?" the nurse asked.

I looked up startled. "I'm sorry?"

"What are you going to name her?"

I looked at the beautiful infant in my arms; she should be named after her mom, my best friend and sister, the girl who gave her life so her child should live. "Alicen, Alicen Marie Cullen."

"Yes ma'am," she turned to walk out of the room.

"Nurse?" I called.

She poked her head back in the room. "Yes, Miss McCarty?"

"What did Alice die from?"

"She died from an aneurism and severe bleeding - we did everything we could but the aneurism in the brain took her, I'm sorry."

"Okay, thanks," I whispered. She walked out of the room and I looked at Alicen. It was still unreal. I couldn't grasp that in an instant, I became a mom.

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