A/N: This is for all those people pressuring me to post a Cabin Fever Chapter. Lysvia (my favorite crazy pregnant chick) and the rest of you… you know who you are *evil glare*
I'd like think this chapter makes up for the fact that I haven't been able to update it for a few days and probably won't be able to again for another few days. Damned Real Life crap.
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Anywhoo, enjoy the chapter and as always, I don't own twilight, I do have a two year old who has taken to calling me Lynn – my real name btw- instead of Mommy. Lil' bitch.
BPOV
"Are you comfortable? Is there something else you want me to get for you?" asked Edward intensely as he tried to prop another pillow behind my back. I've been home for only three days and this shit was already getting beyond annoying. My ribs were healing better than expected and the cuts and scrapes on my face looked a million times better in my opinion. Of course, I don't think Edward will be happy until I am one hundred percent healthy and back to my original condition when he fell asleep on the couch almost a week ago. I just wanted him to stop hovering.
"I'm fine, really Edward. Didn't Emmett say he needed a bit of help at the office today?" I hinted. I had actually called Emmett and begged him to do anything he could to get Edward out of the office and he had promised to do what he could to help.
"Yeah, but I'm not leaving until Rosalie and Alice get here. I want someone with you at all times," sighed Edward as he ran to grab his laptop from the office. He laid it on the table and looked at me with surprise.
"What? Did you think I would sneak out in the two seconds you left me alone?" I chastised angrily. He frowned at me for a moment before stepping behind the couch to give me a gentle kiss on the head.
"Please don't be like that Bella. I'm just looking out for you. I feel completely to blame for the accident and if me pampering you is driving you nuts, then too bad." Edward ambled towards the door after we heard a quick knock, most likely from Rosalie. He welcomed her in with a big hug and she sat down beside me on the couch. "Don't move the couch too much, it might hurt her ribs."
"You need to calm the fuck down Edward. She broke her ribs, she's not in a full body cast. Even Dr. Thomas said she would do well to get up every now and again,' said Rosalie, noticing my frustration.
"She does get up every now and again… it's called going to the bathroom. I'll be home around five and I'll bring dinner with me, so don't even try to get up and make anything. I'm looking right at you when I say this Bella." Edward grabbed his laptop and walked out of the apartment, closing the door firmly behind him. The moment he was gone, I grabbed the extra pillow and threw it across the room, almost breaking the vase which held the white roses he had delivered for me yesterday. Yet another peace offering.
"Keep that pillow handy for when you want to smother him in his sleep later," joked Rosalie as we leaned back against the couch comfortably together. "Looks like things are going well," she laughed heartily as there was another knock on the door and Alice let herself in.
"How did you get Dr. Doofus to leave anyways?" asked Rosalie curiously as we watched Alice unload three containers of Ben & Jerry's onto the table. She stepped into the kitchen and grabbed each of us a spoon before handing them over to us.
"I had Emmett call him with a fake emergency at work. I promised him you would put out this weekend, orally speaking, if he could do it. I'd never seen him so excited in his entire life," I added as Rosalie frowned at me.
"I don't think we're ready for that yet."
"Okay, as much as I don't want to talk about my brothers' sex lives, which is really difficult to do since my two best friends are now dating my brothers, I feel the need to add something here," sighed Alice as she opened her container of Phish Food and eagerly got a spoonful. "Emmett is the father of your kid; you've already been there and done that… and more with him, so give the dude a blow job. He confessed his feelings to you in front of our entire family for god sakes."
Rosalie opened her own container of Mission to Marizpan and groaned as we discussed our sex lives. "Does anyone find it weird that you two are pressuring me to service my boyfriend orally?"
"Since when are you such a prude Rosalie? Service him orally? I feel like I am talking with my mother. Yes, I think it's weird I'm trying to convince you to suck my brother's dick, but this entire situation is weird, so let's go over it shall we. If I can't talk to you guys about Jasper and I, then I'm screwed." Alice definitely had a point. We decided to no longer think of Emmett and Edward as her brothers and Rosalie slipped into a major rant about not wanting to move to fast now that she and Emmett had finally reconciled.
"You're surprisingly quiet over there Swan," said Alice once Rosalie had finally gotten her rant off of her chest.
"Oh. I didn't mean to be. It was just nice to discuss something other than my sore ribs or my scars," I said as I took another bite of my Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road Ice Cream. "It's nice to not have Edward around driving me to drink, which I am dying to do, but I can't because of the darned meds."
"If it helps at all, Emmett and I are going on a date tonight and I will drink vicariously for you," suggested Rosalie as I laughed and then grabbed my ribs as it was slightly painful. Alice and Rosalie both noticed me wince and immediately turned sour. "Oh Christ, not you too."
"What? We didn't say anything," sighed Alice as she finished off her ice cream first and threw the container into the sink.
"Let's go back to talking about girly things like fellatio or nail polish. I'm tired of thinking about the accident." The girls both nodded their heads and we fell into an easy discussion about what Jasper loved about sex. I was surprised to hear some of the things he enjoyed and even found myself laughing a few times as Alice worked desperately to duplicate his 'O' face as she called it.
"You've seen 'Office Space' Bella… the 'O' face is from that movie," Rosalie reminded me after I laughed and winced again at the image Alice had given us. "Aren't you going to tell us about Edward?"
"What did you want to know? You need to know how he likes his cock sucked?" I asked with a nervous laugh as Rosalie shook her head eagerly. "He enjoys when I use my teeth, so let's leave it at that."
"Oh you're no fun Bella. It's like that car that hit you took your sense of humor," stated Alice as I turned towards her with anger on my face, shocked she would say that. "I didn't mean it like that. I just thought we were all opening up and honestly you didn't share much."
"Sorry I disappointed you Alice," I said ruefully as she came to sit beside me on the couch and pulled me into a hug. I winced immediately and pushed her away from me, my ribs now aching more than they had since I got home from the hospital. "Would you guys be horrible disappointed if I went to sleep? I'm really tired," I lied as Alice stood from the couch and began to clean up the ice cream containers and spoons.
"That's fine Bella. I'm sure we can leave you alone for a few hours before Edward gets home. I'm certain he would appreciate the fact that we let you rest," said Rosalie as she gripped her purse and gave me a gentle hug.
"I'm really glad you and Emmett reconciled Rosalie. You guys are made for each other and now Logan can leave us alone about hooking you two up," I said with a slight laugh. "Make sure you bring him over on Sunday." Rosalie nodded her head and slipped from the apartment quietly as Alice stared at me from the kitchen. "What's wrong?"
"Did you want to sleep on the couch or in your bed? I'll go get you a blanket if you want to sleep on the couch, or I can help you to your bed if you want," she offered genuinely, clearly feeling remorseful for hurting me a moment ago.
"I'll be fine Alice. You can head home and show Jasper why he should never have split from you in the first place. Use that tongue technique you told us about today," I added with a wink as she smiled at me happily.
"Have a great rest Bella. I'll call tomorrow before I come back over to visit." Alice wandered from the apartment and I slowly rose from my spot on the couch to lock the door. I glanced around the apartment, unsure of what to do with myself since I wasn't tired in the least. I glanced up at the clock and noticed I was late to take my meds, so I poured myself a glass of water and popped the pills easily, swallowing them down with the cold water.
When I walked into our bedroom, I noticed an unnatural amount of laundry had piled up, so I grabbed some darks and immediately started a load, even though the action of lifting the bucket was slightly painful. I was feeling great for actually doing something around the apartment, even though I knew I would face the wrath of Edward later for it. I went to the office and sat down to check through my emails, of which there were dozens. I had two from Angela, both checking in to see how I was doing since Esme had filled her in on the accident. She was already curious as to whether we were going to postpone the book tour, but that was two months away, so I responded to her not to worry because I would be more than ready to go away in September.
Shortly after I had perused all of my e-mail, I curled up on the couch in my den and slipped into a comfortable sleep. Unfortunately, I slept on my side, which Dr. Thomas said was strictly forbidden, and when Edward came home around five, like he said would, he was furious to find me alone and in pain.
"What the fuck? I am going to kick those girls' asses for leaving you alone," he said with a loud growl as he picked up me up off the couch and took me to our bedroom.
"Leave them out of it, I made them leave Edward," I admitted once he had me lying on the bed on my back. He brought me my medication and a glass of water before finally sitting on the bed and looking at me with disappointment.
"Why would you do that?"
"I wanted some fucking peace and quiet. I haven't managed five minutes to myself since I got hit by a fucking car, so cut me some slack," I yelled at him as he hopped off the bed and stormed out of the room, slamming the door tight behind him. I didn't follow and instead fell back to sleep.
When I woke up several hours later, my stomach was growling and Edward wasn't in bed beside me. I looked at the clock and noticed it was twelve thirty in the morning. I tentatively got out of bed and found him fast sleep on the couch. I didn't want to bother him so I grabbed a few pieces of pizza that was untouched from when he came home and slowly made my way back into the bedroom to watch the 'Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.'
When I woke up the next morning, the ache in my side somewhat subsided, I wandered back into the living room to find Edward gone, and a simple note left on the kitchen counter.
Gone to spend the weekend with Emmett and Logan
-E
No, I love you. No, I'll miss you. No, You're being a completely stupid fucking bitch. Nothing.
I crinkled the note into a ball and threw it on the floor before I walked back into the bedroom to curl up and cry myself to sleep.
EPOV
"I don't fucking get it," I groaned to Emmett as he covered his ears to soften the blow from my yelling.
"I don't get why you are at my place at eight in the morning on a Saturday. Rosalie's asleep in my room and Logan is sleeping in his room, so please try to keep your voice down," chastised Emmett as I gripped the cup of coffee I had brought with me and sat down on his couch.
"I spend the last week trying to make sure she is safe and taken care of, and she flips out at me for being too concerned. Aren't I supposed to be concerned when my girlfriend gets hit by a car?" I asked him as he joined me and took a bite from the glazed donut I had brought him. I actually brought a dozen because I knew that was the only way I was getting into his apartment so early in the morning. Emmett couldn't resist a decent glazed donut.
"Yes Edward, you are supposed to be concerned, but are you sure your concern hasn't slipped into something more akin to smothering?" asked Rosalie as she strolled into the room, her hair looking like a birds nest and a huge smile on her face.
"Good Morning to you too Rosie," I retorted as she smiled at the donuts and quickly grabbed one, only to face a growl from Emmett. She took a seat on his lap and fed him a bite of her donut as she stared at me curiously.
"If you are here with us, who's home with Bella?" she asked curiously.
"No one. She wanted to be left alone, so I slept on the couch last night and came over here this morning after going out for a two hour drive. Did you know the ferry to Bainbridge Island doesn't open till five thirty in the morning? I got there way too early to wait for the fucking thing," I explained to them as they both frowned at me.
"I think you should go have a rest on the couch and I will go over and see Bella," said Rosalie as she kissed Emmett's forehead and jumped off of his lap.
"She wants to be alone Rosalie, why do you think she got rid of you yesterday and snapped at me last night. She doesn't want us there," I admitted as I felt myself start to tear up again. I liked to consider myself a very masculine guy, but in the last week I had cried more than I ever had in my entire life. This morning being no exception when I finally left the apartment and hopped into the Volvo for a long drive, which did nothing but make me more frustrated and lonely.
"Okay, I'll call her then," sighed Rosalie as she walked over to the counter and picked up her cell phone. She wandered back into the bedroom after she got Bella on the phone and unfortunately, we couldn't hear any of their conversation.
"Anyways, let me stay here tonight and I'll go back home tomorrow. Hell, I'll even take Logan out for the day so that you and Rosalie can fuck like animals for the entire day. We'll come home around six with dinner… what do you say?" I pleaded with Emmett, but before he could answer, Rosalie came back out of the bedroom fully dressed.
"I'm going to see Bella. Don't wait up." Rosalie grabbed her purse from the counter and left the apartment before either of us had a chance to say anything.
"Great… thanks little brother. You ruin my morning BJ and now my woman just stalked out the door to see your crazy girlfriend. Today is going to suck balls," Emmett commented as Logan strolled out of his room rubbing his eyes.
"What's a BJ?" he asked curiously as I couldn't help but laugh at the audacity of this kid.
"We were talking about BJ's Wholesale Club. It's like Costco, we went there two weeks ago remember?" Emmett asked of Logan as he nodded his head.
"I remember. You bought a year's supply of toilet paper and I got that new truck," he said with a laugh as he turned on the television to the Disney Channel and parked his ass in front of the TV. "How's Auntie Bella?" Logan asked of me as I frowned again.
"She's okay. She's out of the hospital and your mom just went over there to see her," I explained to Logan as Emmett got off the couch to determine some sort of breakfast for Logan.
"Okay Logan, it's either donuts or oatmeal for breakfast," Emmett said coolly as Logan yelled out 'donuts', not even budging from his seat on the floor.
"I think I should make Auntie Bella a card or something to make her feel better," he said genuinely as I tousled his hair for a second and he groaned at me.
"I think that's a wonderful idea Champ," I said genuinely to him as he hopped from his seat and grabbed his crayons and some paper from his bedroom to make her something special.
Ever since the accident, Rosalie and Emmett had gotten increasingly closer and had even admitted to Logan that they were back together. Logan had taken to bringing more of his things over to Emmett's and leaving them there since he liked Em's apartment better than Rosie's and hoped they would move in here. I had to laugh when Emmett explained to me that when they did move in together it would be to a house so that they had more room for future kids. They just got back together and were already planning houses and babies. Meanwhile my girlfriend was plotting ways to get rid of me.
During the middle of the afternoon, Emmett called Rosalie to see when or if she would be coming home and he ended up having to go into the bedroom to deal with the call, which surprised me. When he came back out a little while later, I was shocked by what he had to tell me. "Apparently Bella's pretty mad at you… both for leaving this morning and for being overbearing since the accident."
"What the… frig?" I asked as Logan sat beside me on the couch watching the Transformers movie. Damned inability to curse.
"She wanted to talk to you this morning and you took off leaving behind a note that you were gone for the weekend and she was pretty fucking upset," explained Emmett as Logan glared at him and warned him for using such a bad word. "Anyways, she ended up slipping in the shower this morning when Rosie was there and they are at emergency getting her ribs rebandaged."
"Why didn't you tell me this? This is the exact reason I didn't want her being alone for christ sakes," I yelled as I jumped from the couch and grabbed my keys from the counter.
"Bella doesn't want you there, Edward."
"What do you mean she doesn't want me there?" I retorted angrily as he glared at me furiously.
"She's expecting you to go in there and scream 'I told you so', which is the worst possible thing to do man," said Emmett as he tried unsuccessfully to be the voice of reason.
"Well what the hell am I supposed to do?" I pleaded with him. Emmett looked at me remorsefully and shrugged his shoulders.
"You should just say sorry. That's what momma always tells me to do when I do something wrong," suggested Logan as Emmett and I both looked at him and smiled. "We can go and see Auntie Bella and I can give her the card I made her. Can we go see her daddy?"
"Yes," I replied as Emmett growled at me. "Come on Champ; get your card and those cookies Grandma Esme dropped off yesterday. Even if your dad isn't coming, you and I are going to the hospital."
It only took us five minutes before we were down in Emmett's car and heading to the hospital to see them. Emmett frowned at me the entire time while Logan bounced in the back seat, excited to see Bella. I was a nervous wreck though. I could apologize and she could still flip out at me and next thing I know she's living with Alice and Jasper while avoiding me altogether. This might be one of my worst ideas to date.
"What the hell are you doing here?" stammered Rosalie as she walked out of Bella's room and wandered towards the three of us.
"Hi Momma," exclaimed Logan as he hugged her legs tightly and she scowled at me.
"I couldn't help it. I told him not to come and he was coming with or without me. Since I can barely stay away from you, I had to come," said Emmett sweetly to Rosalie as he kissed her temple and she continued glaring at me angrily.
"She really doesn't want to see you Edward."
"That's fine. Logan is going to see her anyways, not me. Not yet anyways," I said with a grin as I handed him the pieces of paper and the container of cookies and he strolled into Bella's room, leaving the door open a crack so I could hear him. I owed him two trips to see the Mariners if this plan worked as well as I hoped it would. Rosalie and Emmett headed down the cafeteria for a snack as I listened at her door intently.
"Logan… it's so nice to see you, boyfriend," she said happily as I heard him pull a chair to her bedside.
"Are you okay Auntie Bella?"
"Yeah bud, I just hit my head and hurt my ribs again. The doctors just want to keep an eye on me, so I get to stay here tonight. It's like my own little fort in here," she explained to him genuinely so that he could understand her.
"Uncle Edward and I made you these cards and Grandma Esme dropped off some cookies for you," he said enthusiastically as I heard the lid of the Tupperware container pop open and she smelled the cookies.
"Thanks boyfriend, that was really sweet of you," she replied.
"Can you read my card first?" asked Logan as I heard the papers shuffle. "Mine has the smiling flower on the front." There was silence for a few moments as Bella obviously read Logan's card which simply wished her a speedy recovery.
"Thanks so much for the card Logan. You are certainly a talented artist," she told him politely as I heard him urge her to read my card next. "I think I'll wait for a while to read this one."
"No… you have to read it now. Uncle Edward is outside waiting to hear you read it," Logan revealed as I heard him slap his hand over his mouth. "Oops, I wasn't supposed to tell you that. Do I still get to go see the Mariner's Uncle Edward?"
I stepped into the room and I could sense Bella immediately tense when she saw me. "Yeah Champ, I'll still take you to see the Mariners. I think the deal was that you brought them in here, not that you actually got her to read it."
"Thanks," he said with a grin as I gave him a quick hug and turned to Bella.
"How are you doing? Other than that god awful hospital gown, you look good," I said casually as she frowned at me slightly.
"I'm fine. I'm glad Logan is here so I can't give you the proper beat down you deserve for leaving me this morning," she said with a sad frown as I tucked an errant hair behind her ear.
"I'll forever be sorry for leaving you this morning, just like I'm always going to be sorry for falling asleep last weekend," I said glumly as she smacked me on the arm forcefully.
"The accident wasn't your fault Edward, so stop blaming yourself so we can get past this. If you keep insisting on blaming yourself, I'm going to seriously consider taking a break from us," she said reluctantly as I noticed a tear slip from her eyes.
"I'm sorry. Can you please read the card?"
"I don't really want to read it Edward. I just want to go to sleep but they won't let me because they are worried about a damned concussion," she called out loudly, as though she was yelling at one of the people at the nurses' station outside her door.
"Auntie Bella… please read the card. Uncle Edward spent a long time working on it with me this morning," begged Logan as I wrapped my arm around his shoulder.
"Are you really gonna deny this face?" I asked as I squeezed Logan's cheeks and he strained to get away from my assault. Bella let out a small laugh, followed by a grimace and finally nodded her head.
She was silent as she flipped open the card and I dropped down to my knee and waited for her to look at me. She looked up, expecting to see me there and then had to look down where I was waiting as I held her hand. "I'm so sorry for not listening to you and even sorrier for leaving you this morning, but I honestly can't imagine ever wanting to leave your side again. I know you wanted to wait, but I don't. Will you marry me Isabella Swan?"
"Say yes," whispered Logan to Bella as tears formed in her eyes and she nodded her head quickly and my breathe caught.
"Did you just say yes?" I asked, suddenly angry that I hadn't bought a ring yet. Then again, I wasn't exactly planning on proposing today or this year.
"Yes."
A/N: Aren't you glad I didn't leave it as a cliffie three sentences earlier?