Chapter six:

The second Carlisle and I entered the hotel room Alice was in my face.

"How is she?! Is she okay?! Did you tell her we've been missing her?!" she demanded so fast we could barely understand her.

"Alice! Give him some space to breathe" Carlisle said.

I was grateful for Carlisle's words. At any other time I would have been touched by how much Alice cared about Bella, but today she just felt too smothering.

Alice begrudgingly backed away from me. I went and sat as far away from them all as the room would allow. We all sat in an airy silence.

"You look terrible" Rosalie informed me.

"Gee thanks" I shot back at her.

"Look, I just don't understand why you're doing this to yourself. We left for a reason, didn't we?" she whined.

It was at that moment that I kind of snapped.

"Well, I just don't understand why you have to be such a selfish, inconsiderate bitch!" I shouted.

Rosalie's eyes widened in shock and she reached out and slapped me right across the face. The second her hand made contact with my face everyone in the room seemed to jump back in shock.

"Rosalie!" Esme gasped in horror.

"What?" she barked. "He's fucked up our family! I'm not the only one thinking it!"

"Everybody calm down!" Carlisle commanded.

We were silent again. Rosalie wouldn't look at me. I hated her in that moment. I hated her because she was right. I was hurting everybody by being here: my family, Bella, and Charlie! I knew that, but that didn't make me want to stop. I was far too selfish for that. I loved Bella far too much to let her go again.

"Rosalie. I think you should step outside for a moment." He said, his voice gentler now. "Emmett, you go with her."

Rosalie didn't move until Emmett got up from where he was sitting and wound an arm around her shoulder. I could tell from his face he was upset with her, but he wasn't going to show it. He understood that she wasn't in the best headspace. None of us were.

When they left the room I let my head fall into my hands. And let out something that sounded like a sob, but not quite.

Alice came and sat beside me, wrapped her arms around my waist, and leant her head against my back. Her closeness had a different effect on me than it had before. Instead of it being smothering; it was comforting.

"Edward?" Carlisle said, quietly. "I know that this is very hard for you, but we do need to talk about what our options are in this whole situation."

I nodded weakly and carefully twisted out of Alice's embrace. I straightened out my spine and took a deep breath, preparing myself.

"Bella is suffering depression and hallucinations" Carlisle told us. "She is indeed very, very unwell."

Esme's eyes filled with tears and Alice let out a shriek. Even Jasper looked stricken.

"It seems as if Bella and you have developed an unhealthily obsessive relationship. So, when you left it caused her to break down" Carlisle was not speaking to us as a father, but as a doctor. "Now you get back and she improves because her obsession is somewhat fulfilled. By being together you are both feeding your own obsessions."

"That can't be healthy" Jasper pointed out.

"You're right Jasper. They are so heavily obsessed with each other it makes it almost impossible for either of them to function alone. The problem is by coming back Edward has improved her condition... in a way. So, if we were to leave then it would by no doubt lead to her breaking down again and she'd be right back where she started."

"Leave? What do you mean?" I yelped in shock.

"Edward... you left because you weren't good for each other. That hasn't changed" he said.

"How can you say that? She's in that hospital because I left. You said it yourself we can't function properly without each other. How can I leave now?" I shouted, hysterically.

"It's just not heal-" he defended.

"Please Carlisle" I begged, cutting him off. "Tell me what you think I should do. Not as my doctor, but has my father."

Carlisle seemed taken aback by my request. He looked at me in the strangest way. In a way I'd never seen him look in all the years I'd known him.

"I think you should do what you think is right."

And with that he walked into the bathroom and shut the door.

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