Happy Sunday, there will be more posts this week, because we have to have all 16 chapters posted before Christmas. Oh and just so you know, there will be a few more things posting before the end of the year.

Chapter 5

I chuckle at the small smile that plays on Bella's face as she flashes me the business card Jasper gave her.

"Well, we may as well try," she says.

I shake my head but follow her. It takes us a little time to come up to the strange looking shop. Bella walks in and even holds the door open for me.

"I've been expecting you."

Bella and I turn to see a tiny-framed woman, wearing colorful clothing, standing in the middle of the shop.

"Yeah, because Jasper called you," I say and Bella looks at me.

"No, he hasn't called me yet," the small woman says, and Bella and I turn to her.

"You can hear me?" I ask, but the woman says nothing.

"Hi," Bella says after a few minutes.

"Hi, you're Bella, right? Your boyfriend has disappeared."

"I'm Bella, but no boyfriend," Bella says shakily.

"He's a boy and your friend," the woman says.

"No, NO ... he's ... is jus ... just a boy ... he ... he doesn't like me. His little sister, she's my friend. So ... so, I ... I'm helping her fin ... find him."

I give Bella a strange look as she stutters all that information out.

"No, you and he are friends. The reading I've done from when I started to dream about you said he's your friend – your soul mate."

Bella chuckles shaking her head as she goes red.

"Wait, you used to be friends, but he doesn't remember?" the woman asks and Bella nods a little.

"We have never been friends," I yell, but the strange woman speaks over me.

"Your friend is alive for now."

"How do you know?" Bella asks the question that was in my head.

"Because, I can't see or hear him, but you can."

"What?"

"I can see those who've died, but haven't yet crossed over. The fact that I can't see him tells me something else has happened. But you must get him back to his body and soon."

"Why can I see him?"

"You both are connected; your souls are tied together."

Bella nods as I shake my head. This strange woman—who calls herself Alice—gives Bella pointers to help find me. She also says some other strange things.

"I'm here if you need me, but, Bella, hear my warning—do not go to see him alone, he will hurt you."

Bella seems a little surprised, but nods before walking out.

I just look at this Alice character. What the hell is it with me and crazy chicks?

"Edward, I know you're still here because I can feel you. You are coming closer to losing her—to losing Bella. When you remember where you know her from, it's going take you by surprise. I feel it and if you keep this up, it will be too late."

I roll my eyes.

"Edward, she's in danger, real danger — he and his friends will hurt her so much more than what he's already done. You must protect her, or she'll be someone I will be seeing soon."

I stop and just look at Alice. Is that her way of saying that Bella might die?

I seem to be in a daze as I make my way back to Bella's home. When I get there, I find Bella with Morgan, only making pizza this time.

"Okay, that will take twenty minutes, so you get washed up."

Morgan smiles and runs off.

"You're very good with her," I comment and Bella looks at me.

"Thanks, I think."

I clear my throat. "So, you still haven't told me how we met."

Bella sighs just looking at me. "It's not important."

"Alice seems to think it is."

"Edward—" Bella stops talking when she hears Morgan running back in.

"I'm all washed up."

"Good, now you can get your homework out?"

Morgan pouts and Bella shakes her head at her. I chuckle as she walks over getting her school bag.

"I shouldn't talk to you when Morgan is awake, it will only upset her if she overhears me," Bella says softly and I nod in agreement.

The night passes with not much happening. As soon as Morgan is asleep, Bella gets to work on trying to find my body. This time she calls back to the hospitals looking for any patients listed as John Doe. Only finding one, she lets out a sigh as she hangs up the phone.

"Let's hope it's you," she says looking at me. She looks at me for a few more minutes before standing up. "I'm going to head to bed."

I nod and walk to Morgan's room. Just like last night I wake to hearing Bella crying and screaming in her sleep. I walk to her room, and she does everything she did the night before.

"Do you always have a lot of nightmares?" I ask.

Bella just nods at me. "I used to have them every night."

"Why? I mean, from what I saw, your dad, Charlie and mom ..." I trail off unsure of her mom's name.

"Renee."

"Renee and Charlie may be the 'goody two-shoes' type of people—who stick their nose where it doesn't belong—but they seem nice, well to you that is. They have called you, what three or four times so far?" I say knowing they have called her just before she takes Morgan to bed.

"Yeah, they're great."

"So what's the reason for the nightmares?" I ask again.

"Does it matter? They'll always be a part of my life?"

"You sound defeated." I hate people who don't fucking try to overcome their shit.

"I'm not defeated, just facing the fact that they'll always come and go."

I roll my eyes at her and then lie back in the chair.

"My parents' bed is free if you want to go in there, or you could share mine or Morgan's bed."

I open my eyes looking at her. "You would share a bed with a guy that dislikes you?" I ask shocked.

"I just thought I should offer."

"No thanks, I've never shared a bed with anyone apart from Morgan. That's only been a handful of times; she's getting too big to share now."

Bella says nothing back to me, so I shrug and go to sleep in the chair.

"Help!"

I sit up in the bed looking around. I see I'm in bed at the unit house. I look around seeing that the other two boys I share a room with are sound asleep.

"Help, please stop, it hurts!"

I move out of my bed and walk slowly down the hallway. I frown seeing her thrashing around in her bed. I move to her and gently touch her arm, but it makes her cry more.

"It's me, little bit," I say softly and she turns looking at me with her tear-filled doe eyes.

"I'm sorry, I had another bad dream."

I smile at her. "It's okay, I've got you."

She moves closer and hugs herself close to me. "Why won't they go away?"

I close my eyes hearing the pain in her voice. "They will."

"No, they only leave when you are here, and you're going to go home and I'll be all alone."

"What? No, you'll make new friends."

"No one likes me. I don't know how to make friends."

I chuckle lying down with her. "Tell them about your day, about you. Just talk to them, and they'll see how amazing of a young girl you are. As for me, if I go home, I will still come back and I will always be your friend"

"Pinkie promise?"

"Pinkie promise," I hum and she hugs me again before going back to sleep.

The buzzing of the alarm fills my ear and I sit up feeling unsettled about the dream I had last night. I haven't thought about the unit home in such a long time, not since the day I walked out of there.

Bella again feeds, helps wash and dress Morgan before dropping her off at school. After that she gets on the bus, paying for both of us to go to the hospital. I chuckle at her stuttering that she was not thinking and was meant to be going with a friend. The bus driver just gives her the 'I got a crazy rider on board' smile.

Bella talks to the front desk. The nurse tells her that they can't let her in to see John Doe.

"So what do we do now? I ask.

"I was thinking about sneaking in?" Bella says as she bites her lip.

"The good girl's going to do something bad, that's against the rules?" I chuckle a little, but again, something flashes on Bella's face and I frown when I see her face change. It's like watching her put on a mask.

"ICU is this way."

"Bella?" I say but she doesn't reply to me. I let out a sigh as I walk up the stairs with her. "I was just joking, Bella." Again I'm met with only silence from her.

"You walk down the hallway and see if the coast is clear," Bella whispers.

I move away from her and walk down seeing the desk is unmanned. I wave at Bella who runs down and starts to fiddle with the computer.

"You are in room three-three-one."

I nod but see a nurse coming our way.

"Hide," I yell and Bella ducks into the nearby room. I watch the nurse head into the staff room and look back at Bella.

"It's clear."

Bella runs down the hallway and into another room. I close my eyes not really wanting to see myself.

"It's not you," Bella says with a sigh.

"It's not?" I say opening my eyes seeing an older street man lying there on the bed. "So where the hell am I?"

"I don't know but we, or I better get out of here."

It takes Bella little time to walk back down the hallway. She stops at the room she went into and shakes her head walking away again.

"So, what do we do now?" Bella asks and I shrug.

"Could Ed have hurt you?"

"No."

"Did you get in to a fight with James?"

I glare at her. "What is it with you and James? Did he fuck you then dump you?"

Bella drops her eyes from me. "No," Bella says walking away from me. I look at her the whole way home and she's different. There seems to be something else there, almost as if she's pulled more away from me. Making me think she has fucked James. Just the fucking thought hurts me so much, that I want to hit something?

"Bella, we need to talk so that you can find me," I say trying to move past this feeling.

"Not if it's about James and me!"

I swallow as the hurt feeling increases.

"Bella," calls out a feminine voice.

I look around to see Jessica walking our way. I grin looking her up and down.

"Now, I wish it were her that was helping me. Then at least I would have something nice to look at," I say. I know I'm being an ass, but this whole thing with her and James fucking hurts to think about.

"Why have you missed class?"

"I've just had something to handle." Bella's voice sounds odd and I look at her but her face is blank.

"I took notes for you, are you coming out with us tonight after your shift?"

Bella looks a little pale. "Shit, I need to try and find a sitter."

Jessica just looks at Bella as she walks away and into her home.

"A sitter? You're really going to go out partying when I could be lying in a ditch somewhere?" I yell.

"I thought you'd be happy, after all it will give you something other than my ugly face to look at."

"Oh, so you are jealous? Look, guys like looking at girls like Jessica," I say smugly but it feels odd, it feels like I'm just pretending. "It is not my fault you have a crush on me," I say as I follow Bella, and those pictures on the wall catch my eyes.

"Don't worry you've killed the crush. I was wrong; everything I ever thought about you was wrong," Bella says stopping in front of them.

"You make it sound like it's my fault. You're the crazy one, with a wall of pictures of me. Who does that?" I yell hitting the wall knocking most of the pictures off of it.

I sigh closing my eyes taking a deep breath. When I open my eyes again, Bella's on her knees scooping up a picture frame that has broken.

"You destroyed it!" Bella says with a sob.

"I was angry, I'm sorry. It's just a stupid picture of me anyway."

Bella doesn't even look at me, she just drops the frame and walks away. A few minutes later, she's back with a trashcan, she throws the broken frame in it. I watch as she just looks at the wall. Before I can speak, she starts taking them all down, and throws them on the hallway table before she walks away from me.

I wait a few minutes before walking to the sitting room. I swallow as I hear her asking whoever she called to watch Morgan so she can go to work.

"Bella, I'm really sorry," I say again, but she doesn't even look at me.

The night goes by with her not talking. I watch as she puts Morgan to bed with a smile. I can see her smile is faked, and doesn't reach her eyes. Morgan's only just fallen asleep when Bella's boss calls her and fires her for failing to turn up twice in a row.

When she's done with the call, she heads into the bathroom and the shower comes on. I pull at my hair, sitting down out in the hallway just looking at the empty wall. My eyes move to the ground and something catches my eye. I move closer to it seeing that it's a butterfly on a piece of wood that says Ed and Little Bit. I close my eyes as memories fill my head.

"Come on, little bit," I say taking her hand leading to the art room.

"What are we doing, Ed?"

I smile at her. "We're making a special frame for a photo that's being taken today."

"But you're leaving today?"

"I know, but this will be the last time I will get a photo with you, and this time I want you up front with me."

"But—"

"No buts, little bit, she's a bitch." I sigh when she looks down.

"Isabella, look at me." She slowly moves her head up looking at me.

"You are the prettiest girl I've ever met. These last sixteen months with you here made my life so much better."

"Come on kids, it's picture time," Kate yells and I wink at little bit.

I hold her hand the whole way out and stand with the other kids.

"Come on, Bella," Kate yells.

I look down to see little bit just peeking out from behind my leg. I place my hand on her shoulder and she stops shaking.

Once the picture is taken they take another one and hand it to me. I pick little bit up and run inside, placing the photo in the frame I just made with her.

"You're my best friend and I'm going miss you," I say as I hug her close to me.

I swallow standing up looking down at the picture, my eyes go right to the photos that are on the table and I see myself. As I take a closer look at myself, sure enough there is a little girl peeking out. My eyes go to the others and the girl is in each of them, but often in the back, and I'm always looking her way.

They are some showing her a little older, and I'm not there anymore, but she's in every single picture. I move into the living room looking at the family photos. I feel a sob slowly coming over me when I see the same little girl looking back at me. All the pictures show her from a little bigger girl than in the pictures with me, to the Bella she is today.

"She was with me at the unit home?" I ask out loud closing my eyes trying hard to remember more.

A/N: Well he is finally waking up ... What are your thoughts?

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