Bella's POV

I wait and I wait and I wait. Sam and Leah try to get me to eat, to sleep but I just wait. He's been in surgery for hours. But as long as he is in surgery I know he is alive. I wait. Alex and two of his other teammates, Brady and Sean show up and wait with me. Leah introduces herself as my sister and Sam as my boyfriend and I would have corrected her if I was not in this dazed state of mind. She keeps her word and every update we get she calls his parents to let them know. She takes my phone calls; many from the team until Alex sends out a text telling everyone he is here now so please contact him. Charlie calls and Sue comes to check on me when she shows up for her shift. I can tell she wants to defend Charlie's actions but she doesn't and for that I am grateful. Seth texts Leah constantly, he is worried about me mostly because he thinks I'm not coming back after screaming what I did at Charlie. And honestly I don't want to but what choice will I have. Even if Phil survives this and wakes up, it will take him months to recover. I'm 16, I can't exactly find my own place and I can't go to our apartment in Houston, it's too far away. I have to be here for him.

"You need to eat something Bella. Your boyfriend says you haven't eaten all day. We don't need you passing out on us." Alex tells me as he sits across from me. I notice it's just us.

"He's not my boyfriend. Where are he and Leah?" I ask him.

"He may not be your boyfriend but he wants to be then. He went to get some coffee and food for you. And you will eat and drink it. Honey you've been just staring into space and we are all worried. Leah went to update his parents with the latest update." He gives me a sad smile.

"Update?" I question. I didn't hear an update.

"See what I mean? Yes just a few minutes ago she came to say they have stopped all the internal bleeding and they are almost done with the surgery. Another 30 minutes or so. And then it is just a waiting game, waiting to see if the bleeding is going to break through and start again, waiting to see if he's going to wake up." He explains.

"Oh. OK. I'm sorry. You shouldn't be here taking care of me. I'm sorry, just don't worry about me." I tell him. Phil is his best friend; he should be able to just worry about him.

"Honey Phil is like a brother to me and that makes you my niece. You're family and I love you and I will take care of you." He hugs me and I tell him I love him too.

Sam comes back with coffee and a sandwich.

"Thank you really but I'm not hungry." Both Sam and Alex glare at me so I sigh and nibble at it, I do drink the coffee though and they leave me alone about it for the moment.

Soon after the nurse comes out and says he is out of surgery but they are going to keep him sedated for the next 8 hours so we should all go home and get some sleep.

"I'm not leaving." I tell everyone before they can even try.

"Bella please? Just till the morning, then I will pick you and bring you back. Promise." Sam tries and I shake my head no.

"Come on honey, you know Phil wouldn't want you here exhausted. Just let Sam take you home and get a couple of hours of sleep." Alex tries.

"Is it Charlie?" Leah asks and I sigh and say partly yes. But mostly I don't really want to go. Then Alex asks who Charlie is and why I don't want to see him and Leah catches him up on all that mess.

"OK honey, the hotel right across the street? We are staying there. If I get you and Sam and Leah a room, or two will you go there and sleep just for a while? Please?" Alex offers and I reluctantly agree.

We get to the hotel and get our room #'s and then Leah takes Sam's car to get us both a change of clothes and then run by Sam's house to get him some too.

Then the plan is for Sam to take the room beside the one me and Leah will stay in. Sam orders a pizza and Leah arrives back just before the pizza comes and I think how in any other situation this might be fun. I eat half a slice of pizza and they try for more but don't really bug me about it.

"Was Charlie mad?" I ask her not really caring but wondering anyway.

"Yeah but he'll get over it. He's madder that you're avoiding him than you spending the night with Sam honestly." She laughs and I look at her like she's nuts but then I laugh too.

"But Sam is sleeping in the other room." I tell her and she says yeah OK if that's what you really want and I look at Sam and he just shrugs his shoulders.

"So that Alex guy is pretty hot." Leah tells me and I choke on my soda.

"Um yeah I don't know. He's like an older brother or an uncle to me so…" I think about it and he is attractive. A lot of the team is but I grew up knowing most of them. My mom was 30 when she met Phil and Phil was 25 and most of the team is around the same age so around 30, 31ish now?

"He's too old for you." I see that look in her eyes and she just laughs.

"Age is just a number."

Sam been really quiet so I turn and look at him and he's crashed. Leah sees this too and starts questioning me about my feelings for him.

"I really like him Leah but I don't think he likes me like that. I'm probably too young for him anyways."

"Wow. You are clueless! You're only 3 years younger than him, well almost 4 but who really cares? Charlie maybe would care with most guys but he loves Sam, even more now that Sam is going to be working with him. Phil doesn't seem like the type to care. And Sam sure as hell doesn't care. And he does like you Bella. More than he ever liked me. He never looked at me the way he looks at you. The way he's always finding ways to touch you." She looks at me and I'm trying to figure it all out.

There is a knock at the door and Leah opens it to Alex, she lets him in and he asks if I ate and she says a little.

"Good, now go to sleep honey and don't wake up until you rested. No alarms, nothing. Got it? I will call Leah here if there is any change before you get there and she will wake up if need be." He demands and Leah's just staring at him.

"Fine Alex." I mumble and he smiles at my agreement.

He hugs me and tells me it's all going to be OK. I wish I could just believe him.

After we clean up the mess from the pizza we go to the other room since Sam is sleeping but when we get in there we see that it only has one bed while the other had two so we decide that when I am ready to sleep I will go back to the other room. I'm tired but not ready to sleep yet so we find a movie to watch and Leah drifts off to sleep. Not really watching the movie anyways I change into the pajamas she brought me and notice she grabbed the book I'm reading off the dresser. So I take the book back to the other room and turn on just the little light above my head and read.

I wake up to the sun streaming with my book bookmarked and set on the end table.