Life After Edward

Edward’s POV //thoughts are in slashes like this//

I could tell Carlisle was hiding something from me. He just kept thinking about the last time I visited and how happy Esme was to know I was coming today. The car smelled of human blood, and I was glad I had just hunted. The smell still made my throat hurt, but I just rolled down the window to air out the car. It wasn’t completely helping, but it was better. As we pulled into the drive I heard Alice telling everyone I was here. Everyone started thinking different things, so everyone was hiding something from me.

“Alice?” Carlisle called her to come outside. Alice came quickly, and gave me a hug. Carlisle grabbed a cooler from the back seat and handed it to Alice.

“Can you get a cup ready?” Carlisle asked her. She nodded and headed back into the house. I couldn’t figure out what they were talking about, they were getting good at hiding their thoughts from me.

“Edward, there is something I need to tell you before you go in.” Carlisle looked at me seriously.

“What is going on?” I asked him.

“Bella…”

“What happened!?!?”

“She is inside and she...” I didn’t let him finish. I rushed inside the house. For the rest of my existence I’ll never forget what I saw. Bella was lying in a hospital bed, in the middle of the living room. She was paler then I had ever seen here. She had an IV in her arm. I knew she hated that. What could be wrong with her?

Alice came out of the kitchen with a cup in her hand. I couldn’t see what was inside, but I could smell it. Blood. Alice handed the cup of blood to Bella. “It will probably be easier if you try not to smell it,” Alice told her. Rose helped Bella sit up. Was Bella about to…? I couldn’t even think the question to myself. When Bella began to sip on the drink everyone forgot to hide their thoughts from me.

//“Please let this work.”// Alice was pleading in her head.

//“She should just let me end this.”// Carlisle was thinking.

//“I wonder if she’ll become one of us because of this.”// Jasper was wondering.

//“Let this help the baby. Let this help the baby.”// Rose was chanting in her head, which made no sense to me.

//“Please let this work. I want to be a grandmother so much.” //Esme was pleading like Alice. It hit me with this thought that Bella was pregnant.

//“If this works, Edward’s gonna be a father, that’s weird.”// Emmett was thinking, which shocked me completely. Then it hit me, Bella was pregnant, with my child.

I walked to stand next to Bella. I can’t believe she was drinking blood for the thing that was inside her.

//“It’s killing her. It wasn’t letting her eat. We think it may be more like you than her. This might be the only way to save her. She refuses to let me get it out of her now.” //Carlisle said in his head knowing I was listening. I nodded.

When Bella finished her drink, she handed the cup back to Alice. She already looked a little stronger, or at least she was holding herself up. When Bella looked up at me, everyone started doing their own thing to give us some privacy.

“Hello,” was all she said.

“I’m so sorry Bella,”

“You didn’t love me. You didn’t want me anymore, I understand.”

“Bella, I’ve always loved you. I left because I thought it was best for you.”

“Best for me! You thought leaving me was best for me!?! LOOK AT ME!!! Do I look better off to you!?!” The yelling was too much on her. She held onto her stomach in obvious pain. Alice was by her side in half a second.

“Breathe for me Bella.” Alice cooed at her, holding her hand. I grabbed her other hand, but she yanked it away from me.

“Get…away…from…me!!!!” Bella said through gritted teeth. I backed away.

I ran out the door. I heard Jasper and Emmett behind me, but I didn’t stop. I had to get away.