I didn't purposefully not post a chapter for so long to build suspense. I have been busy with studying for tests and homework, I hope this makes up for it.

Chapter 23

I remember the horrified look on Edward's face when I tipped backwards. I remember Alice being shocked, her vision must not have went as planned. I remember Jenna's smug face as my foot left solid ground. Mostly, I remember Yvonne's look of utter concentration as she ran towards me. Everything went in slow motion. Yvonne's steps seemed too slow to catch me, even when she ran at Vampire speed. I opened my mouth wide to scream, but nothing came out. My eyes widened in horror as I realised I was going to die. Faintly, I heard Emmet shouting below me. I was falling too fast and his arms were solid like rocks, so if he were to catch me, I would split into three. As I fell backwards, I realised how beautiful it was here. It's funny the things you notice when you're falling to your death.

I resigned myself to dying, and the only thing I wanted was to see Edward's face one more time and to tell him I loved him.

But I wouldn't get that chance.

Just then, I saw a flash of Blonde and Yvonne was diving towards me. There was a mad glint in her eye, and I noticed they were no longer red. They were not as strong a topaz colour as Edward's, they had flicks of crimson through them. Her arms stretched out towards me, and wrapped themselves around my waist. She then twisted her body, and suddenly she was underneath me, holding me above her head. I was still convinced I was going to die, but I was grateful that Yvonne was trying to save me. I closed my eyes, waiting for impact.

I felt Yvonne hit the ground first, her whole body produced shockwaves which vibrated right through my bones. Suddenly, my body whacked into the ground, and I hit my head really hard. I lay there dazed, hearing a high pitched scream from the roof. It looked like someone ran from the roof into the woods. Emmet leaned over me.

"CARLISLE!" he part shouted, part screamed. "SHE'S BLEEDING!"

Then Edward pushed him out of the way, franticly staring at my face.

"Bella, stay with us. Come on, Bella!" he whispered to me.

I smiled at him. "I love you, Edward."

I got my wish. Then I gave up.

I woke up in the house, on their table. I tried to sit up, my head pounding.

"Just stay down, Bella. You had quite a fall."

The room started to spin, so I listened to the voice and lay back down. I couldn't recognise who was the owner of the voice, it sounded muffled. I turned my head to the right just a tiny bit, to see Yvonne and Alice sitting next to me, both of them wearing doctor's masks.

"Why are you wearing them?" I managed to force out.

"They can't handle the smell," came a voice from my left. Alice and Yvonne looked at the person and I shifted my head to the left. Edward was sitting there, staring at me lovingly. It didn't escape my attention, that he wasn't wearing a mask.

"Hello beautiful. How are you feeling?"

I sighed and closed my eyes. "I think I'm ok? I have no idea what happened though."

It was getting easier to talk with time.

"Well," Edward hesitated. "Jenna pushed you off the roof. And Yvonne saved you." He looked at Yvonne with great admiration and appreciation.

"I've never loved you as much as I do today," he told her.

"Aw, shucks. After 100 years of being your sister, you finally decide that you love me. That makes me feel good," her voice was laced with sarcasm, but in her eyes, I could see that she was happy he told her this.

"Where is Jenna?" I started to panic. What had happened to her?

"She ran. Very far. I saw Edward literally going to rip her limb from limb. You should have seen his eyes, Bella. It's the scariest thing I've ever seen," Alice told me.

"Why didn't you get someone to catch me, Alice?" I asked, confused. "You must have seen this coming, that's why you were on the roof."

"No, I saw her pick you up and carry you away, she tricked me." Alice screwed up her face and looked really upset at this. "I've never been tricked before."

"Well, we'll give you two love birds some time alone, won't we Alice," Yvonne said rather forcefully, then she winked at me.

"If we have to," Alice muttered.

Then it was just Edward.

"What have I hurt?" I asked, scared of the answer.

"You've broken your wrist." I groaned. That was the last thing I needed. "Also, a few stitches on the back of your head. Yvonne managed to make sure you wouldn't get any serious injuries, but you still put out one hand to try and save yourself." He shook his head, as if he couldn't believe I had done that.

"This was supposed to be a good day, the day I met your family. And then I go and nearly die." I sighed. "Now they have learned I am very accident prone."

"They are all worried actually. Especially Esme. All she saw was you falling off the roof. Carlisle didn't want to take you to the hospital when he could treat you here. And we couldn't think of a story to cover this." Edward explained. "Emmet and Jasper ran after Jenna, but she went into wolv- I mean she managed to get away," he corrected himself quickly. I didn't know what he was hiding but I didn't really mind, I was in too much pain to concentrate.

Carlisle walked into the room.

"How are you feeling, Bella?" I was pretty sure he would have heard the answer I gave to Edward, but I answered him anyway.

"Not bad, I think I have some minor injuries, nothing too bad," I joked. He gave me a small smile then proceeded to examine my head.

"Well, you're right, nothing too serious. It isn't a major break in the wrist, only in one place, but it will take time to heal."

For the first time I looked down to examine my injury. It was my left hand, which was ok, since I'm right-handed. It was in a cast already. I twisted it round to see that Carlisle had made a great job of it. I liked to consider myself a master of inspecting plaster casts, as I had had a few of them in my life.

"Can you try and sit up for me?" Carlisle asked. He and Edward helped me to sit up, as I was still feeling dizzy. I sat on the edge of the table for a few minutes, waiting for the room to stop moving.

"How am I ever going to explain this to Charlie, or worse. My mom." I grimaced. "I'm supposed to start filming next week."

"It might be a while before that heals enough for you to take it off, I wouldn't bet on being able to film for a while," he told me sadly.

I muttered something about how she would kill me for this when Esme walked in.

"Oh darling! Are you ok?" She ran over and hugged me. I was slightly taken aback that she was so worried when she had only just met me. "I was horrified when I watched you fall." She looked scared, as if she was re-watching the whole thing in her mind.

"Esme, dear, Bella's still in shock, let's give her some space." She nodded and Carlisle placed his arm over her shoulders and they walked out the room.

I looked back at Edward and smiled.

"What should we do now?" I asked. I tried to move again, but I was a little stiff. I shuffled myself off the table and nearly tumbled to the floor. "Why was I on the table anyway?"

"Well, Esme could wash whatever blood from your head away, but if it was on the couch, well… let's just say it would make us hungrier faster," he explained. I had forgotten about the blood.

"Are you ok? You know, not wearing a mask and all?" I gestured to his mouth with my good hand.

"Yeah, all good. I was too worried about you to think about eating you," he joked. I liked that he could joke about the subject now. "And in answer to your previous question, we are going to do nothing. You are going up to my room and resting."

"Progressing to the room again, Edward? Aren't you a busy one!" Emmett boomed from the doorway. He laughed at my startled face. "I just came in to see the injured one." In a few strides he was by my side, looking at my cast. "Oh by the way, Esme wants to see you." He told Edward.

Edward looked puzzled but nodded and left the room. Emmet gave me a devilish grin and the next thing I knew, he was holding my cast. There was a blur of his hand and then he let it go. I looked down and saw it was covered in writing. The largest one I could see said 'EMMETT WAS HERE'. I looked more closely at the smaller ones. 'Eddie loves Bella', 'Bella is small', 'Eddie finally has a girlfriend' and 'I'm probably going to be killed for doing this' were a few of the things scribbled in black sharpie pen.

"I've never done that before, that was fun!" His face was lit up and it made me laugh at how he found it so fun. "Come on I want to show you something." He picked me up bridal style, much to my protest. I was kicking him and hitting him with hand. I even tried whacking the plaster cast off him, but nothing worked. I actually managed to hurt myself more.

He finally set me done in the back garden, where I saw there was a human shaped hole in the ground.

"What's that?" I asked, thoroughly confused.

"That is where Yvonne landed. That tiny little thing made that hole." Emmett was laughing so hard at this, he ended up on the floor.

"Emmett!" I heard two voices from inside the house screaming at him.

"Oops, gotta go. I'm going to hide until they cool off." He laughed again, then shot off into the woods at an alarming speed.

Yvonne and Edward got outside at the same time.

"Where did he go?" She snarled. I thought I would help him out a little bit, so I pointed in the opposite direction. She took off running, snarling and hissing.

This I laughed at.

"What did he do to your cast?" Edward looked shock. He done a quick scan of everything written. "I'll wait 'til he comes back. I won't go in the wrong direction, unlike my idiot sister," He muttered.

"It's not that bad, it's rather amusing actually," I told him.

"Sure," he said unconvincingly. I smiled up at him. "Tomorrow, do you want to go to Port Angles and grab some dinner? I want to make it up to you for having that episode today." He grimaced.

"Sure, but you won't eat anything?"

"That's why I said I would take YOU out for dinner." He smiled back at me, then leaned down for a kiss.