A/N: okay, so I'm thinking I'm going to need a Beta..b/c I keep forgetting to go back and re-read this stuff to make sure there are no errors. Any takers?? Also—review please. =] I love you!!
Fifteen
Fifteen minutes later, I was still sitting in the driveway. The pains were so intense and coming so quickly I could barely get a breath in between them. I kept calling Alice's phone, but she wasn't answering. Surely she didn't leave hers here too right? I mean, what are the chances of them both leaving their phones, on the same night, when I would desperately need them? Oh, that's right. This is my life we're talking about. Of course that would happen to me. Because God despises me for some unknown reason. Okay, I had to get to the hospital. I started the car, and backed out slowly. No need to run over any squirrels, or you know…ants or something.
Naturally, it started to rain, and dusk was setting in just nicely. I flicked the headlights on, and clutched my stomach as yet more pains came and went. I knew I was driving incredibly fast for my liking, but I desperately needed a hospital. I was beginning to worry for the baby now; I had no idea what was going on, and could only hope and pray to the God who hates me that I wasn't in labor. If I was, the baby would surely be stillborn. I was only 7 weeks. No baby, not even partial werewolf, could survive outside of the womb this early. It just wasn't possible, and I knew it. This was why I was doing 95 mph, in the pouring rain, on a winding road. The pains were more getting worse by the minute, and I was getting more worried. A particularly bad cramp had me clutching my stomach and glancing down to see if I was bleeding yet. When I looked back up, it was too late to do anything.
APOV-
I was about to make my first kill of the night when my vision stopped me in my tracks. I hadn't realized I'd been screaming until it was over, and everyone was standing around me. I looked around for Edward, but I couldn't see him. "Where is he?" I yelled to anyone who'd answer. "He's a few miles north of us why? What's happened Alice?" Jasper asked, calmly as usual.
"Oh no no no, this is bad! This is so bad! Oh, Bella! I have to get to her, now!" I exclaimed, walking away from my family. Oh! How could I have not seen this? And our phones! Oh, how I could have been so stupid! "Tell Edward to meet me back at the house in an hour! Tell him not to waste time!" I yelled, making a run for it. Oh, please don't let me be too late! It took me only a few minutes to reach her, but the sight of it all made me cringe. If I could have cried, I'd have been sobbing hysterically right now. Edward's Volvo was completely wrapped around a telephone pole. The driver's door was caved in totally…and no sign of Bella though she had to be in the car. There was no way she could have gotten out. She was only…only human after all. Oh my gosh! Please let her be alright!
"Bella!" I screamed, walking around the car. "Bella! You answer me right now!" I screamed louder. I busted out the already cracked window on the passenger side, grabbed the door frame, and ripped it away from the wreckage. I kneeled over broken bits of the car, knowing I was denting it further, and not caring. All that mattered was saving Bella. She could not be dead. I would have seen that for sure. After just a couple glances, I knew she wasn't in the vehicle. That was impossible! How would she have gotten out? I moved away from the totaled Volvo, and began searching around it. The back windshield was completely shattered; maybe she'd…been thrown from the car before it hit the tree. Oh! That stupid dog! If he'd have never touched her, I would have seen this clearly! But, that baby being half werewolf clouded my vision just as the others did! I hated this! I walked back to the street, glanced the opposite direction, and gasped. There was Edward, standing in the pouring rain, staring daggers at me. I knew he'd hate me for this. It was my fault! My entire fault! Stupid Alice!
EPOV-
"Edward!" Alice yelled, running towards me. I knew this wasn't her fault; I desperately tried not to be angry with her for this. She never could see clearly when the dogs were involved. Especially with Bella. She stopped just inches from me, and I could see the distress written all over her face. The torment of not knowing this would happen, or where Bella was at that moment. I did the only thing I could do, and pulled her to me as she sobbed tearlessly.
"Alice, it's not your fault okay? We just need to find her, now, before something worse happens." I consoled her emotionlessly. My life…or existence rather was sure to be over the moment we found Bella. She was human, and she was dead. She could not have survived that crash. Seeing my car in broken pieces, wrapped around a pole, other pieces scattered about the highway, I knew. She was gone.
Still, as the others showed up we searched. None of us missing an inch, investigating every little trace of scent that even came close to Bella's. I was just about to give up when Alice gasped.
"What about…"She trailed off before finishing the sentence, but I finished it for her. "Under the car? Alice, be serious. How could she have gotten under the car?" Rosalie snapped, crossing her arms. She wasn't letting me read her thoughts, but Jasper's emotions proved what I was thinking. She was feeling guilty. For what I wondered?
"If…umm, if she was thrown from the car…before it wrapped around the pole…she could have landed…there." She choked out, walking slowly towards what used to be the Volvo. I didn't care about the damned car. All I cared about was Bella…and how I could end this pitiful existence once we discovered she was…dead.
Emmett and Jasper each went to opposite ends of the car, and lifted slowly. I didn't look. I couldn't, but it turned out, I didn't need to anyway. Alice and Rosalie both screamed, and that was enough for me. I hung my head, and walked away. Not far, just far enough that I couldn't immediately see the remains of my beloved flattened out by a stupid automobile that I insisted she drive instead of her old truck. I collapsed to my knees just as guttural dry sobs wracked my body. I had left her once, because of my stupidity. This time, she had left me, in an entirely different way, but for the very same reason.