I hope you all enjoyed the last chapter!! The songs for this chapter are "Thank You" by Dido, "Don't Sleep" by Lordikim, "Pillow Talk" by Doris Day. I have a thing for old movies too. Anything with Doris Day just rocks. Redline is one of my favorite movies too. I have a thing for fast cars and this has it baby! Enjoy!
BPOV
"Emmett please put me down. I can walk up the stairs by myself." my feet dangled over his hands. We were heading for my bedroom.
"Bella you heard what your doctor said you are to take it easy for a week. No exceptions. Please don't be difficult. Let me do this ok." He took the last two steps as one. Everyone else followed us into my bedroom.
"Emmett I know what my doctor said. No baths till my follow up appointment, soft foods, take the antibiotics and no driving." I was not happy with the no driving part. I still had not taken my new car out. I wanted to though just to see what dad had done with it.
He set me on the bed and fluffed my pillows. Everyone looked at me and it made me nervous. I noticed a rolling tray like the one in the hospital. It had my laptop on it, a portable DVD player, water bottle and anything else that could be thought of. I also noticed a walkie-talkie. I picked it up and looked at Alice.
"Alice don't you think you went over board just a bit much?" I rolled my eyes at her.
"Bella I have so many new clients to meet. You have meetings and you are going to do them from here. That way you can compile the food they want and then email it to Angela. You never have to leave here and you are keeping to the orders. I know you would have kept yourself away from the business. The nurse is on call during the day. She is here to make sure you take your medication, eat and whatever else needs to be helped with." She sat next to me on the bed.
"I told you all I don't need a nurse. I am not a baby I can take care of myself." I was not happy that I had a nurse babysitting me.
"Bella we all have work to do. We tried to rearrange it but we couldn't. She is here to make sure you don't do anything stupid and hinder your recovery." Rosalie was nice about it but the look on her face me stop my argument about it.
"Fine I will deal with it though it does not mean I have to like it." I crossed my arms at my chest.
"I also got some of your favorite movies. Pillow Talk, Redline and all the others that I could find in that mass collection you have downstairs." Alice put them on the night table next to me.
I looked over to my dresser and saw two of the most beautiful flower arrangements I have ever seen. The first one was a summer mix of all sorts of flowers. Some I recognized like the Freesias but others I did not. The other one was blue and white roses. It was small but was still perfect. Alice noticed me looking at them.
"The roses are from our parents, Mr. Xavier and me. I know how they are your favorite. The other is from the Cullens. By that I do mean all of them. Carlisle and Esme have taken to you just like they have me." She held my hand and smiled at Jasper. I noticed Edward's eyes get big when he heard Alice say that blue roses were my favorite.
"Thank you everyone and please thank your parents they are beautiful." I yawned and slowly tried to get comfortable in my bed. The shower I had before I left wore me out. I have never been so sore and tired in my life. Emmett, Jasper, Rosalie all gave me soft hugs and headed downstairs. Edward stayed behind and just smiled at me. What the hell was that smirk for? His lopsided smile was nice but this time it was just weird. Alice stayed behind which usually meant something was up or she need to talk. She scooted over to sit next to me.
"Bella you had me so scared. You fainted and then the next thing they were wheeling you into emergency surgery. Please if you are not feeling well tell me ok?" She had tears down her cheeks.
"Alice I thought it was nerves. If I had known I would have gone into the doctor. I would never intentionally keep anything from you and I never will. You are my family." I gave her a hug. She wiped her eyes and smiled. I knew she was feeling better.
"Alice can I ask you one thing? Why is Edward being so nice? I mean right up until I got sick he was an asshole. What changed him into a normal human being?" I looked sideways at her awaiting her response.
"Bella I am not going to go into what exactly happened as it is not my story to tell but he is trying ok? Give him a chance. I noticed he fed you your soup at the hospital. Maybe something will happen between you two." always the matchmaker and nothing would stop her either unless I put my foot down.
"Alice I won't pry but please we are going to try to be friends and nothing more. I remember the dates you sent me on. What a fucking mess those were... "I chuckled at some of the dates that she tried to set me up on and shivered. I started yawning and tried to stay awake.
"I am going to try not to interfere. Not saying it won't happen but I will be on my best behavior. I am going to let you get some sleep. If you need anything just catch me on the walkie-talkie or the nurse is just right downstairs. Let her do her work that is why she is here Bella. We are all headed over to start going through things in the attic room. If I don't get it all cataloged now it will never happen." She smiled at me as she got off the bed and closed my bedroom door as she left. I snuggled back down and tried to relax a little.
I tossed and turned for an hour before giving up. All that sleep I got in the hospital made it hard to sleep now. I sat up and looked at my antibiotics. Alice made sure they were next to the water bottle. I had to start taking them tomorrow morning. They were huge and I knew I would choke myself and end up back in the ER if I was not careful.
I carefully pulled the tray over and flipped my laptop open. I wanted to check my emails and send a huge thank you to Mr. Xavier. I opened an email account when we had our website done. I checked that email first and noticed quite a few inquiries that had been dealt with. Angela and Ben had been busy the past few days. They were true friends and hard workers. I would never be able to thank them for what they did the past few days. I closed that email and opened my personal one up. I also logged on to the site hoping to hear from a certain someone. I noticed he was not on but left him a private message telling him I had been sick. I also left him my personal email account and said to use that on aol too. I figured with as much as we had talked I could trust him. Anything on that profile was basic information and he was not the stalker type. Another hour passed and I was getting sleepy. Who would have thought email would be hard work?
I turned on my iPod to random and snuggled down again. This time sleep found me but so did the bad dreams. All the pain from my parent's death, the pain from surgery and whatever else I had bottled deep down inside me came out. The dream horrified me from one turn to the next. I would open a door and no one would hear me. I would open another door and hear "all her fault." Door after door things got worse. I woke up sweating and screaming. I regained my thoughts and realized that I was home.
My bedroom door was thrown open and there was Alice with the look of horror on her face. The nurse was with her but she told her she would take care of this. She saw the tears on my face and the bed was thrashed. She literally hopped from where she was to my bed.
"Bella what the hell happened I heard you scream from outside." she held me in her arms. She may have been little but she was very strong when I needed her.
"Bad dream over and over again. It was horrible…my parents….my fault…..doors opening…." I could get out small syllables before I sobbed. She just held me and let me cry till I could cry no more.
My crying slowed down and then sobbed. I now had the hiccups from crying so much. She handed me some tissues and I blew my nose. What a mess I was.
"Bella you have and did nothing wrong. When will you believe that? It was a fluke of Mother Nature and nothing else. You are going to have to deal with this sweetie." She held my hands in hers and I knew she was right. It was time for me to go back home and say good-bye.
"Alice you are right on that. I have been thinking a lot about it. It is time I went back home and dealt with all of this. How did you hear me if you were all over at the main house?" I blew my nose again.
"Everyone left to go home. I was walking back with some soup Angela made for you and then I heard you scream. Are you ok now? I don't know how much more of this excitement I can take." she giggled as she swept the hair out of my eyes.
"I am good. I am glad everyone went home I bet they were tired of being here. I think they gave up a lot this weekend. How am I ever going to thank them? I screwed up the party."
"Bella you did nothing of the sort. Everyone knows how much they mean to you. They do it cause the like us. Jasper told me they think of us as family. He said Rose told him it was nice to have sisters and Emmett mentioned that it was never dull with us around." I giggled along with her when she said that. She got off the bed went and got my soup where she dropped it. Thank goodness for Rubbermaid. I would hate to clean that mess up out of the carpet. She brought it over and said to eat while it was hot. I told her I would and that I was just going to read for awhile. She kissed my forehead and told me to rest. She would check on me later to see if I needed anything. She also mentioned the damn nurse again too just in case I forgot. Who could forget the wicked witch of the west? I was not going to be sad when she left. She was headed downstairs to finish cataloging everything on her laptop.
I put my book down and flipped open my lap top. I saw a window pop open when my AOL messenger came on.
Edward: Where have you been?
Bella: I am sorry I have been really sick. This is the first chance I have had to check everything. If my best friend found out I was not napping she would come up here and rip my lap top out of my hands. She may be little but she is scary.
Did I just say she was little? Crap I never meant to let that slip out. I hope he would ignore it and keep up the chat. Damn medication it was making me loopy. I hated to be in this fog. I did not dare to mention a nurse.
Edward: I am so sorry you are still are sick. I hope you feel better soon. I can bring you some soup.
Bella: Thank you for the offer but I have soup coming out my ears. Plus there is no chance in hell I am telling you where I live LOL.
Edward: I understand for all you know I could be some harry bald fat guy wanking off.
Bella: LOL I hope not but how do you know that is not me?
Edward: You got me on that. Truce ok?
We went on talking for hours. It felt so easy to talk to him about most things. The things I wanted kept private I just did not give the whole picture of. It was nice to have someone to talk to that did not know the real me. I loved Alice with my whole heart but I don't think she ever knew just how lonely it was sometimes. I looked at the clock and realized it was late. I could no longer keep my eyes open. I told him goodnight and pushed the tray table over. I got cozy once again and felt sleep come over me.
