I sit there in a rock hard chair not really noticing anything or anyone around me. My eyes can barely register if there is light or darkness. I felt several people hugging me and I am sure the noises I hear are real but it all seems so distant. I look at either side of me and there is my mother and Lauren both looking the same as me. I stood to walk out of the room that was filled with family members you only see at times like these and I wanted none of it. I dug my keys out of my purse and darted straight for my car but was stopped by a pair of strong arms, "No Bella you shouldn't drive not at a time like this."

I didn't even feel the pain of the keys being ripped out of my hands. I threw myself towards my piece of shit car and banged on the truck. Why was this happening? Nathaniel didn't deserve this, none us of did. All my stuff was scattered around my car and picked up the biggest rock I could find and demolished the back window. If they wouldn't give me my keys then I would just hot wire it. I could hear them coming towards me to stop the madness that I had been engulfed in. "I got her!"

I didn't recognize the voice that was right behind me and I didn't stop my mission of getting the hell out of here, "Bella… Bella, you can't drive right now, it isn't safe for you or anyone else. Not to mention it won't help your family if you end up with your brother." My breath got caught in my throat as I turned. The sun shined behind his head and it made Edward look even more like a God and then everything went black.

I woke with a terrible headache and I felt like my stomach would eat me alive. When I looked around I could tell I was in the hospital but I couldn't remember why. I pushed the red button on the control that had been placed in my hand and a nurse came running in, "Oh, you're awake. Don't worry I will get the doctor for you." She was gone almost as quickly as she had appeared. Then a tall hansom man I now recognized walked in. "Hey Bella. How do you feel?" I forced my body up so that I was no longer lying down, "Well my head hurts and I feel like I could eat a whole cow but other than that just depressed. Oh my God! How is my mom?"

The doctor came in and looked me over and told me I could go home tomorrow morning as long as I ate the food they brought me. That was not a problem it was gone before the nurse left the room. Edward sat in the corner under the TV just looking at me and never bothered to answer my question. "You know I don't need a babysitter and if you're just going to stare at me you can leave." I was being a bitch but I was tired of the silence and he was just staring. He got up and walked out of my door. I didn't care.

I dialed my house phone wanting to see if anyone had called me but Lauren answered my phone, "Lauren why are you at my apartment?" "I just can't go back to my place." I sighed,"Well has anyone called for me?" "No but you're mom is coming to see you in the morning." "Good then she can bring me home." I hung up the phone and turned the TV on.

The sound allowed me to drift off into a conscious sleep. I could hear all the machines around me and then it caught my senses. I smelled food, real food and my mouth watered. I didn't open my eyes as a followed the smell afraid it might be a really good dream. Then there was a spoon with food on it at my lips and if it was a dream it was too real. I opened my eyes and there was Edward with the same food I ordered at dinner the night of the accident. "I know you don't need a babysitter but I thought you might like a friend."

I took the food from him and he sat and inhaled his own dinner. "So how long was I out for?" I pushed the mute button on the remote. "A few hours, the doctor said it wouldn't have been so bad but you were exhausted and hadn't been eating properly. Clearly we took care of that problem just now." I laughed as I tossed the now empty take home plate to the foot of the bed.

"Thanks, for being here, I mean. My family doesn't really like hospitals and even though it seems like they don't care I know they do it's difficult right now. So I heard you are due to be in Los Angeles in two days." He ran his hands through his wild hair, "Yeah well I have meeting with some of the people that work for us there but I was thinking maybe I would take some time off soon." I smiled when he said that but it reminded me of my job.

I looked at the clock on the wall, "Holy shit is it really two in the morning? You need to go get some sleep and I am sure if I don't rest they won't let me go home tomorrow." He stretched for the ceiling as he stood and grabbed the garbage off my bed, "Well then I'll leave because I hate to see you stuck in here."

He tossed the trash in the can next to my night stand and then kissed my forehead, "Sleep, for tomorrow is a new day." I rolled my eyes, "I don't care if is new or old just as long as it is better than today." He slowly walked out my door and I closed my eyes hoping to have a good dream.

I woke the next day and my mom was stroking my hair. The doctor left my discharge papers for me to sign. I signed them and got the hell out of there. My mother wanted me to go with her to the cemetery but I couldn't, she was disappointed but not mad. She dropped me off at home and with a great surprise to me Edward was there on the steps. "I brought you something." He reached behind him and pulled out a familiar cup of coffee. "You're the light of my life." He laughed, "Mike said enjoy it and feel better."

I opened the door and nodded for him to come in. Once inside I found a note on the table next to my door with my name on it. I opened it: Bella thanks for the place to stay. I am going to see my family. I'll see you when, if, I come back. Love ya. Lauren.

I sighed and threw the note in the trash. Edward followed me to the couch and sat as far away from me as it would allow. "So what do you want to do?" I looked at him glad he decided to speak. "Anything that will cheer me up." He scratched his head, "Well, I don't know if this will interest you, but a movie my company paid for is showing in town. The director is trying to get as much publicity as possible. He asked if I would go tonight since I'm so popular. I understand if you don't want to go, cause I really don't want to either."

I tried to hide the smile that was spreading across my face, "Which movie?" He was staring at his feet, "Où La Danse Vivants Avec Les Morts, it's French." I slightly remembered reading about it in the paper but I don't remember what it is about. "Sounds like fun, if I don't have to dress up." He finally broke the staring contest with his feet and looked at me, "You can wear a potato sack for all I care." I turned so I was now sitting Indian style facing him, "I can see it now, 'Cullen Takes Homeless Girl to the Movies' all over the papers tomorrow." He chuckled as he grabbed the paper off of my coffee table, "It would go nicely with this one."

He tossed me the paper and I looked at the gritty black and white picture of Edward standing by an ambulance the head line read 'Cullen's Charm Causing Girl to Faint'. I almost died when I connected the dots that it was me in the ambulance. "Holy shit! I can't believe this." He took the paper from me, "Don't worry they don't know your name or the real situation behind the episode. However, I do understand if this changes your mind about tonight." I shook my head, "I need a distraction and what better distraction is there than hanging out with you." "Well the movie starts at 8:00, so we probably need to arrive at 7:00, so what should we do until then?"

I looked around the apartment trying to think of anything that could kill hours of time. "How about Monopoly?" He laughed probably because I am such a dork, "Ok Monopoly it is!" I Stood up and grabbed the game because turned on my iHome, "You better be nice about Monopoly because I could go borrow my cousin's Candy Land." He ripped the box out of hands and started to set it up, "No, this is prefect. I like monopoly." I rolled my eyes at how eager he was, and then we started the never ending game.

Edward had completely kicked my ass at Monopoly and left me to get ready. Luckily he said it was nothing but casual, and I was relieved when he showed up in a button down dress shirt and jeans. I had a black button down top and a pair of dark blue hip huggers on with my boots that Angela called my hooker boots. Edward looked uncomfortable as we headed down the street toward the movie and it got worse with every step.

We finally reached the theatre and he bowed his head and grabbed my hand, "I'm so sorry they weren't supposed to tell anyone." He could see the confused look on my face and pointed in front of us and there they were. The cameras and reporters. He looked horrified and ashamed; he had been here for me the last few days and I would be here for him now. I squeezed his hand and dragged him forward, "Just ignore them. Pretend it is just you and me… with lighting in the background." He smiled at me, "Fine but you better remember that when the tabloid reads Cullen sleeps with girl in theatre." I elbowed him in the ribs, "And who said I am that easy?" We both took one last deep breath before we headed straight into the lions den.

After twenty minutes of trying to force our way in the building we made it. "Some of the questions were just inappropriate. I mean why would anyone answer some of those?" He never answered me but just shook his head. "Hey Edward thanks again for coming!" A tall skinny guy smacked Edward on the back, "Felix this is Bella, Bella this is the director Felix." I shook his hand and then he saw somebody else, "Please excuse me." "Um he is a little…" "Excited?" I nodded. We walked through the crowd and got seats at the end of the third row. Felix gave a speech about the movie and made Edward stand and wave but he refused to speak. Finally the lights dimmed.

The opening credits began and Edward wouldn't stop fidgeting. He was beating the hell out of his knee when I grabbed he hand, "Are you okay?" His leg began to bounce up and down, "I forgot what this movie was about at first and now I remember. It has this guy who stalks a girl and eventually kills her but keeps her body around and sleeps with it. It kind of grosses me out." Just when I thought I couldn't get any worse I got uncomfortable. It went to a scene where the lead guy was jacking off in his car while watching this girl fuck her boyfriend.

I looked around and nobody else was fazed at all. Edward wasn't even watching the movie anymore and it wasn't what I expected. I grabbed my purse and his hand. He looked at me like I was crazy as I pulled him out through the back door and headed down the street. "What are you doing?" I turned to look at him, "I enjoyed the thought behind going to see the movie but I could tell it sucked by the first few minutes. Not a good movie at all, not worth wasting my time to watch." I said sarcastically. He smiled and placed his arm over my shoulder, "I'll have to tell my dad that was a waste of time and money for our company..." I melted into his embrace.

I led him to my work and walked in threw the back door. "What are we doing here?" I laughed at him, "Just wait it's a surprise." I put a bag of popcorn in microwave in the break room and then got two cokes from the vending machine. He grabbed the popcorn and followed me up the latter in the hallway. He kept making a lot of noise so I had to shush him the whole way up but finally we made it to the lighting station.

Embry, the head of the lighting crew, came over and hugged me and pointed to the empty area of the catwalks. Edward sat down next to me, "So this is what you do for fun, sneak around the catwalks?" I handed him a coke, "Well I get to see every play performed here for free and I also get to laugh in the actors faces later when they mess up."

We watched the actors put on a pretty good performance of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I was surprised at how well my friend Tiffany did at playing Maggie. At the end Edward stood up and applauded for the entire cast even for Jason who fell off the stage. "So do you want to go meet the people I work with or run away?" He helped me off the latter, "Oh no I want to laugh at the guy who fell off the stage." After laughing at Jason and signing a few autographs, by a few I mean that everyone I work with has at least three, we headed back to his hotel. Where luckily there were no paparazzi.

"I can't believe people want your autograph just because you have money. It's weird." He shrugged his shoulders, "I agree but I guess that's what happens when your family owns one of the largest Entertainment labels out there. I became famous when I started hanging out with people like Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed, and Kid Rock. Since I know these people I am there for famous not to mention I'm rich."

Once we were in his hotel room he pulled out all the bottles of alcohol the mini-bar had, "You picked monopoly, now I pick the drinking game." I rolled my eyes and sighed as I approached him and all the bottles. "Fine, but if I get wasted and am sick tomorrow I will be yelling at you." He shrugged and sat across from me at the table, "So how do we play?" He gave me a devilish grin and it scared me a little, "Well we can play Truth or Drink, or Guess the Artist?"

Something about the second scared me more than his smile so I chose Truth or Drink. He got to go first and he chose to drink, "It is easier to tell the truth when I am already influenced." I sighed at his stupidity, "Truth." It took him a while to come up with a question and I was worried it would be embarrassing, he asked, "Where were you born?" Not exactly what I expected but I would take it, "Washington State and then my family moved to North Carolina." He chose to drink again and I surrendered more truth, "Age?" I rolled my eyes this was too easy, "22." This time he didn't even say anything he just drank it. "First boy-friend's name?" I actually had to think about that one, "Um, Thomas, I think."

After he drank three small bottles he didn't reach for another allowing me to ask a question, "Favorite childhood memory?" He laughed, "When I went to work with my dad." I bit my bottom lip to keep from smiling at how cute it was. The he ruined the moment, "First kiss, who and where?" I blushed at the memory, "Andrew at Church camp." I couldn't even look at him but I could hear the laughing "Favorite type of movie?" "I watch anything but horror movies. I don't like to be scared." He opened his mouth to ask a question, but I stopped him when I grabbed a bottle and downed it.

His mouth dropped probably because I drank it all at once. "Why New York?" he wrinkled his forehead like he didn't understand, "Of all the places to "vacation" why New York where you would definitely be noticed?" "It was the first available flight away from my home. My family was driving me crazy and I needed to get away, so here I am. So why did you come here?" I had planned on drinking but it wouldn't kill me to answer this one, "Well Nathaniel moved here to join the force and I missed him, so when I was accepted at NYU he let me move in with him. I dropped out and just never moved back." The memory of Nathaniel burned deep down in my stomach, so I grabbed two bottles and drank them both at the same time. "Hey it wasn't your turn!"

I wiped the single tear that had escaped and he shut up, "Sorry. Forget I said anything…Well you downed two drinks so ask me two questions." I really didn't want to ask anything else I just wanted to get drunk, so I just blurted out two generic questions. "Favorite color and shoe size?" "Nope those are too easy and can be found on Google."

I was shocked he wouldn't answer them because they were too easy, "Fine I have one but you probably won't answer it." "Shoot!" I was a little skeptical because he had been asked this several times but refused to answer it, "Why were you kicked out of school?" He sighed and reached out grabbing three bottles and drank them.

I followed his move and drank two more. It was then that I caught a glimpse of the clock; it was already after 1am, "Edward I should probably go home." I stood up to head for the door but tripped over my own two feet landing on the bed. "Ok but please let me make sure you get there?" He got up to walk out the door and went into the closet instead. I laughed so hard I actually fell off the edge of the bed.

"How bout I call you a cab?" He helped me off the floor. "Sounds like a good plan." He swept a piece of my hair out of my face and lightly kissed me, "I hope that was better than Church camp." I sighed, "I don't know for 13 Andrew was a damn good kisser."

He raised his eyebrows and kissed me again but more this was demanding than before. He actually took my breath away and when he pulled away I smiled but couldn't force myself to look up at him, "How bout now?" I bit my bottom, "Andrew who?" We both laughed and kissed again I could taste the alcohol that we drank on our breaths and we fell onto the bed.

Neither his hands nor mine could stay in one place. He abandoned my lips and attacked my neck. I had to use this moment to try and clear my head before lust and alcohol over powered me. "Edward, we need to stop."

He pulled away and looked into my eyes; his eyes could hypnotize a comma patient enough to make them wake up. Why did I say we need to stop? He leaned down and kissed my forehead and then grabbed the phone off the night stand. "Yes I need a cab called please…Thank you."

He looked at me still trapped under his body. "The cab is waiting." He rolled over onto his back next to me. I sat up a little hurt by the tone in his voice. I grabbed my purse and left the room. The elevator doors were barely closed when the tears began to fall freely. I made it home but it was all one big blur mainly because of my tears. I crawled into my bed and cried myself to sleep.

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