I don't own twilight. What I own is my character's behavior, personality, background, and plot of my story.
Author's Note at the end.
Bella runs to the dining room like her life depends on it, and it does. Cece is her life, her everything. She reaches the dining room and the sight before her breaks her heart. Cece is lying down on the floor on her back. Her face is red with the smell of vomit permitting the air, a sign of peanuts allergy. Her face, and neck are swollen and tears are streaming down it.
Her knees go weak and she falls to the ground, so she closes the rest of the distance between them crawling on the ground. This is bad. So bad. The amount of peanuts must have been huge because Cece's throat has never gotten swollen in all of the times that she has ingested peanuts by mistake.
Her hands shake as she runs them over Cece's face and rubbing her tears away as she barely whispers, "In my closet, the kit." Marco runs to her bedroom but she doesn't follow him with her eyes as they won't leave Cece. She starts humming for her trying to calm her down and tells one of the bystanders to call the 911.
"Mummy why?" She breathes out.
They never do. Most of the time her allergic reaction is so little that all they need is an Epi Pen and they are good to go. Not this time. They definitely need the hospital this time.
"It's okay sweetie, everything will be alright."
"But you called 911. We never call 911," Cece cries out between her gasps out for air.
"We just wanna be extra sure sweetie. Daddy is getting the Epi pen and we will use it and everything will be alright," she tells her in a soothing voice disregarding everyone around them. It seems that for once in his life Edward is being useful and stopping everyone from crowding them.
"FUCK," is screamed from above. Her stomach sinks. Marco yelling that could only mean one thing. She hopes against hope that it's not what she is thinking. It can't be what she is thinking. Bella always carries one with her even if Cece is not with her. She recalls putting it in the closet. It was one of the items that was checked off the packing list and double checked. She always places it in the corner of the upper right shelf of the closet in any place they stay. Steps thunder down the stairs and she looks up to meet the disappointed eyes of Marco.
She shakes her head muttering, "No," to herself as he gets closer to her, and once he reaches her she tells him, "Stay with her. Do CPR if needed. I am going to find them."
As she runs upstairs she passes some of Tanya's friends coming down the stairs not sure what is going on. She ignores them and keeps running to their bedroom. Once there, she finds the room torn apart. It seems that Marco turned everything upside down in his quest to find the kit. She goes on the same tornado of destruction looking for the kit but to no vain.
Right as she is about to fall apart and never be back in one piece again, Edward rushes into the room and tells her, "Tanya brought a kit with her."
At lightning speed, she rushes past him to his room where Tanya is shutting the door with a kit in hand. She doesn't say a word. She doesn't make any expression. She snatches the kit from her and runs down the stairs.
One second she is falling to her knees beside Cece.
Another second she is raising her T-shirt.
A final second finds her cradling Cece's head in her lap as she watches the swelling go down slowly. She runs her fingers through Cece's hair, hums to her, and holds one of her smaller hands in hers as Bella feels her soul return to her.
She can feel the resident of the house crowding them but she doesn't pay them any mind until her name gets called. Only then does she look up and meets Alice's eyes.
"911 won't be able to come due to the snowy roads. They need an hour. Do you still want them to come?"
Bella nods her head, her voice too hoarse to speak. She realizes that tears are streaming down her face and wipes them away.
Marco comes to her and kneels beside her, "Let's wait for them upstairs Bella," he tells her softly with only the closest to them hearing him.
"But the room is a mess," she tells him her voice sounding raspy.
"You can stay in ours," Alice chimes in.
"Stay with Cece in their room while I upright ours," Marco tells her. Bella nods her head and tries to get up but between Cece's weight and the mountains of exhaustion that seems to have tumbled on her, she finds it exceedingly hard to do that, so Marco picks up Cece off her and cradles her to his chest the way one might cradle a child.
She tries to get up but her knees shake too much for her to stay upright and Jasper rushes to her side to help her stay upright. Cece whines about wanting her mummy, but whatever Marco whispers to her seems to placate her as she closes her eyes and rests her head against his chest.
With the help of Jasper, she takes a couple of steps before remembering the kit, "Tanya, thanks for your help I don't know what I would have done without your help," she tells her as she stretches her hand with the kit toward Tanya.
"Keep it. I only bought it for Cece and you never know when you will need it again. We don't want what happened to repeat itself, now would we?" Tanya asks at the end and Bella notices the slight smirk on her lips.
Not sure what to do, she looks at her outstreached hands, and it's a good thing that Bella has Jasper holding her up because the strength of Hercules wouldn't have kept her upright with the realization that downed on her.
The kit is pink, Cece's favorite color. It also has her initials. This was no accident. Tanya orchestrated it all.
Hello lovely people,
I hope this chapter was up to your expectation. I second-guessed myself while writing it so many times cause I don't want to disappoint you. That said, it goes without saying that any constructive criticism is not only wanted, but also appreciated.
I don't want to get your hopes up only to get disappointed since y'all want to see Edward kick Tanya to the curb, so I want you to know that the next chapter will be an interaction between Edward and Bella, and the one after it will be a confrontation between Edward and Tanya.
Till my next update,
Stay safe.