Chapter 8: What am I supposed to do now?

Renesmee's POV

I could feel myself slowly coming back into awareness. I fought hard to wake up, but the pounding in my head made it extremely difficult. Slowly the memories of what happened started to come back to me. The book, the note, the robbery, and then getting shot and being rushed into the emergency room for emergency surgery. I was pretty sure that this was the order that everything happened in.

"She's waking up" I heard someone say. It sounded like Edward. I was immediately jolted into awareness. I sat up as fast as I could. I screamed as I felt immense pain explode in the back of my neck, leg, and back. The three places that I had been hit by speeding bullets.

A pair of cold hands instantly captured me and gently pushed me back onto the bed.

"Don't move so fast, you are still very injured" Edward said. "Actually don't move at all" he added.

"How long was I unconscious" My voice sounded very raspy. I think that meant that I had been unconscious for quite some time.

"A week" Jacob answered; alerting me to his presence. "God Nessie you had us all scared half to death, don't ever do that to us again" he said.

"I'm sorry. I must have put everyone through hell" I said.

Edward said "Yes you did. We are just glad that you finally woke up. We were scared that you weren't going to wake up"

"Oh gosh" I said.

"I'm going to go look for Bella, she's been extremely worried about you too" he said. Once he was gone it was just Jacob and I. I wondered where the rest of my family was.

Jacob got up and moved closer to me. His eyes stared at me intensely.

"Nessie it's so good to finally see your eyes open again" he said.

"I'm sorry Jake" I said. I knew it wasn't my fault for the current situation but I still felt the need to apologize anyway for some reason.

"It's okay, let's just concentrate on you getting better now" he said. Getting better, it sounded like a foreign term right now. Every part of my body ached immensely. I grimaced.

"Are you feeling okay?" he asked.

"No. Everything hurts" I said. His face immediately grew concerned.

"We'll call Carlisle so he can give you medicine, he'll want to know that you are awake anyway" Jacob said.

"Has Carlisle been the one taking care of me this whole time?" I asked as Jacob ordered my medicine over the radio thing. I vaguely remember Carlisle being the last person I saw before I passed out.

"Yes, he performed a pretty extensive surgery on you and he's been monitoring you ever since" he said.

I heard the door open and in came Bella and Edward.

"Nessie!" Bella shouted with so much joy in her voice.

I smiled "Bella" I said.

"Nessie thank god you're awake" she said. She came over to me and hugged while carefully avoiding causing me any further injury.

"How are you feeling?" she asked.

"In pain, but Carlisle's bringing me painkillers" I said.

Suddenly there was a loud commotion behind them. I looked behind them and saw a golden retriever barreling his way over to me.

"What the-" I shouted before the dog stopped at my bedside and started licking me to death. I smiled and laughed.

Okay whoever said that laughter is the best medicine really needs to use their own self as an experiment. Oh well, the dog was adorable and it was worth it, well sort of.

Then the doctors came in to get him.

"Wait he's her's" Bella said. I secretly smiled when I realized what she was trying to do.

"I'm sorry but animals are not allowed in here" one of the doctors said.

My eyes bulged out of my head when I saw Bella slip him a large amount of money. Where the heck did this family get so much money? Then I remembered that the Cullens in Twilight had a massive fortune, but that was pure fiction. Then I remembered what the note said about the whole series being true. I still wasn't entirely sure that I believed that though. It seemed kind of far-fetched. But then how did this mysterious person find me? The mysterious person that claimed to have known me, and that she was Stephenie Meyer herself. None of this mad any sense.

"Yeah sure" a doctor said; snapping me out of my thoughts. "Just clean up after him"

Once the man left I looked back at the adorable dog who was just staring at me and panting.

"I think I'll call him Buddy" I said. Carlisle then came in with the medicine.

"Nessie, it's so good to see you awake" he said.

"It's good to be awake doc" I said, smiling at the same time despite the pain I was still in.

"What is a dog doing in here?" he asked.

"He just came running in here. He kind of followed us in" Bella said.

"He looks like he's making you happy Nessie" Carlisle said.

"Yeah, he sure is. You know what, instead of calling him Buddy, I'm going to call him Seth" I said.

Jacob let out a howl of laughter that permeated the whole room.

"Buddy is a pretty common name, and Seth has always been my favorite wolf besides Jacob. It seems fitting in a way since dogs are descended from wolves anyway" I said. Jacob continued to shake with uncontrollable laughter.

"I'm glad someone finds it funny" I said.

"Jacob shut up" Edward said.

After a while Jacob finally calmed down.

I could have sworn that I heard Jacob whisper "I can't wait to tell Seth that Nessie named a dog after him" but maybe I imagined it. Then again, stranger things have been happening.

"So Nessie, you needed pain killers, am I correct?" asked Carlisle.

"Yes please" I begged.

"Okay I am going to give you some morphine. This will take away the pain" he injected the medicine into my IV.

"Now I'm going to go call your family, they are going to be so happy that you are finally awake" Carlisle said.

"Where is my family anyway?" I asked. I thought for sure that they'd be here.

"Unfortunately your parents couldn't take any more time off of work to be here and your sister is in school. They've all been here every moment of their spare time though" he said.

I still felt bad for what happened. It sucks that this one event disrupted everyone's lives greatly.

"Oh and thanks Carlisle, you know, for taking care of me" I said.

"Of course Nessie, you mean more to us than you realize" he said.

I felt the drug overpower me not long after he left.

When I woke up again I was surrounded by everyone. It felt good to be so loved and cared of. The following days were hard since I was still stuck in the hospital. Yet, they weren't too difficult because I had been transferred to a room with a television set in it. Also, somehow the Cullens paid off the hospital staff so that my new dog, Seth, could stay with me for long periods of time. I was happily surprised that my family let me keep him. I think it's just because they saw how happy that he made me.

My life continued in a relatively peaceful manner at the hospital. That all changed about a week into my stay though.

I had the news on, even though I wasn't really paying attention to it as I ate my breakfast. That is until I heard the next news report.

"Good news for all you Twihards out there. It seems that critically acclaimed author Stephenie Meyer has decided to put pen to paper one more time with her latest installment in the Twilight saga with a new book called Sunset. I hold here in my hands what is currently the only copy of the brand new book-"

I nearly choked on the milk that I had been drinking, and accidentally sprayed it all over my bed, when my book appeared on screen.

This was not good, this was not good at all. The note said that it was imperative that I read it before anyone else does, and now everyone else knows that it exists.

The sound of someone knocking on my door startled me. It was just a nurse.

"Miss Renesmee, this letter was left for you at the front desk" she handed me a note, and I was honestly afraid to read it.

"Thank you" I said.

Once she left I quickly unfolded the note.

Dear Renesmee,

It has come to my attention that you have lost possession of the book that I gave you. As I said before it is imperative that you read it before anyone else does. There will be a consequence of disastrous proportions if this book is read by anyone else. Get it back immediately.

My heart skipped several beats.

What was I supposed to do now?

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