Chapter 9

Warmness envelops me. The heat brings red behind my eyelids, and they flutter. Sam is holding my hand, slings gone. His eyes are sad, but he smiles at me.

“Time to get up,” he says softly.

I shoot up, my head throbbing madly.

"What happened?"

He seems to have practiced what he was going to say before he woke me up.

"Edward was in trouble. Jacob went after him. I don't know why, to protect him? They started fighting with Victoria but Edward was already wounded. He caught up with Victoria so much faster than we did. I don't know, Jacob had gone speeding ahead to save him, 'cause he sensed that something was wrong. It took us a while to catch up. By the time we got there, things were really messy. Edward had looked up at Jake and said, 'Take care of her. I was never right for her. I know that now,' and he jumped in front of Victoria. Jacob had this mad look in his eye, and he jumped in the way, but he was too late. He got seriously injured, and Edward…Edward couldn't be saved. Jake was like a madman after. He ripped Victoria to shreds, all by himself, even in his condition. Then he blacked out. It might take a while for him to recover."

I try to digest this all in. My first love, taken away from me. My love, my forever love, my sweet sweet love is in danger of being taken away from me too. Tears swell up in my eyes.

"Where is he?" I ask.

Sam lets some of his guard down, and looks like an innocent puppy.

"He's in his room," his eyes land on the door.

"Wait, how are you Sam?"

He laughs hollowly, "I'm great. It seems I got better when I felt Jake getting so badly hurt. I jumped and when I got in here, you were out."

I look over at Jake's room, starting to get myself up.

"Wait, Bella. There's someone in there. Actually, a bunch of someones."

"Who?" I ask.

"Go see," he says, because he can't tell me.

I walk over to the door, trying to imagine who could be here.

When I open the door, a brightness shines like the Moon. My eyes adjusting, I realize that there are four vampires packed closely together. A pang reaches in my heart. Oh how I miss them. I haven’t seen them in so long. But to see them like this…