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No babbling. Right to the second part of eighth chapter! ;)

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Disclaimer : All the characters belong to Stephenie Meyer. :( I apparently own only Serena (Remember, Bella's room-mate? :D ) And well, a new character, Carson! :P

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"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."

When I'm With You

Chapter – 8.

A Broken Heart – II

EPOV.

I shut the door behind me and started to go as straight as an arrow to the office. Well, to call the nurse of course. Bella was alive. It didn't make me any happier though; there seemed something strange about her. I thought she'd be delighted to see me. She did, but something seemed missing in her smile. And her eyes, they looked as if they held emotions she couldn't share with me. It was unlike her.

I was carried away by my trail of thoughts. Everything seemed so aberrant right now.. So off-color.

I slammed into a small girl, making her fall down.

"Ow!" She complained.

"I'm so sorry!" I was alarmed. I helped her up silently cursing my thoughts.

"You act as if you're an owl who can't watch anything in the daylight. Are you short of sight?" She scowled.

I released her hand. Huh. Did I really seem like one? I was appalled. Is that what small girls talk like?

Aren't they supposed to be like, I don't know, girly and sweet?

"I'm sorry." I muttered, ashamed of myself.

She blushed. And I found that kind of weird. Why did she do that?

"Are you alright?" I questioned.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She answered instantly.

She wore a yellow floral skirt and a crimson blouse with similar patterns. She had auburn eyes and albino hair.

"I was pre-occupied, I didn't watch where I was going.." I trailed off.

"Oh, that's totally fine." She giggled, batting her eyelashes. "I'm glad that I ran into you." She added, her voice a little too-sweet.

What was she? Five? Six? And trying to flirt already!

Things could get any peculiar, could they? I didn't want to buy any trouble.

"Well then. Get going."

"Why don't you go first? Is it because you don't want to leave me?"

She batted her eyelashes again with that same seductive voice.

"Listen, Missy. I haven't got all day." I backed off from her.

"At least ask my name! " Her face fell into a pout with her lower lip jutting out.

"Easy. I don't wanna know." I said and walked past her.

"I'm Carson! You never even took my number! Handsome, wait! In case you change your mind, you can call me!"

What the hell was she talking about!? She's just a kid for crying out loud! Kids can be such a pain in the nerve these days. I began to flee away from her.

Did those words just come out from the mouth of a six-year old? And being terrorized by a kid was completely out of the blue. What if she was a stalker?

Okay, I'm losing it.

It was the first time I was experiencing such absurd things. My very first time. How many guys had strange thoughts playing in their heads like, 'What if that kid was a stalker?'

I decided to go get the nurse before I lost it completely.

I had a feeling that those familiar pair of auburn eyes was following me around. Or so I imagined. Either way, that girl was giving me the chills.

I'd called the nurse and decided to bid goodbye to Bella before the meds started to kick in.

I flung open the door, only to find a soundless Bella fast asleep. She's sleeping already?
Wow. The meds sure do work rapidly. Well, at least that's how Bella seemed. Asleep.

Okaay.. What shall I do now?

I caressed by neck, pondering what to do.

Less than five seconds passed and someone knocked the door gently.
Do people usually knock doors at the hospital?

That was surely something to wonder about.

I unlocked the door anyway.

It was not good to not react, right? So, I had to react. Thus, I gasped aloud. Not that I intended to. It happened abstractedly. I bet my eyes had ballooned.

So, I was right, was I? What the hell was that little thing doing here?

"Hey there, Handsome!" She chirped giving me the evil eye.

Chill it. Chill it. It's not the end of the world yet.

"What are you doing here?" I hissed.

She rolled her eyes, but I found it oblivious. I raised my eyebrow and she went, "I missed you. I didn't mean to sound stalkerish." The sad face was back on. Any guy would've believed her instantly, but not me.

It's strange how I always knew your eyes never left my back, I thought.

"Just go away." I groaned.

She ignored that and walked in.

What's she trying to do? Sound spooky? Perhaps not.

For the love of all that's holy, she's only a kid! You must not find her creepy, irrationally.

I couldn't digest that fact. She seemed plain wicked!

Dude, did you know you've lost your mind?

Just shut it already! I yelled at that voice, silencing it.

Her eyes traveled around the room landing on Bella for a fraction of a second and back on me.

"Could you please leave me alone? You think I don't know what's going on? Just scoot away from here!"

I don't even know why I care for a girl whom I don't know.

I was laughed at by that idiotic 'voice'.
Brave enough. You never knew her intentions behind the actions. She might have turned out to be a good person.

I scowled internally.

She was speechless for a few seconds and then the waterworks started.
"You..don't..want me?" (A/N : Bells, New Moon. LOL =D) It seemed as if she was choking. She started sniveling loudly.

"Why is life so unfair!?" She shrieked.

That's what it'll offer you if you don't act your age. I thought bitterly.

"What's going on?" Bella asked in a hazy voice. Great, I thought. Not only did the little creature cause trouble, but also awoke Bella who was at peace.

"Edward?" She was sitting up straight with her elbow propped on the bed. She stared at me perplexed, her eyes swaying between the creature and me.

"You must be Bella!" Okay, how in the world did the creature know that?

"Yes.. Edward, who is this?" She asked me and I wracked my brain for answers.

"She..er, was just leaving." Sounds pretty pathetic, I know.

"Liar! Put your hands on fire!" She looked at me and for a split sec I believed she was innocent. God, please help me!

She turned to Bella and went, "I got lost. So I asked him where room 205 was. And he gave me a rude answer asking me to get out. And started to babble about how he hated being here! He wanted to be away with his girlfriend and not you- "

Bull crap! What did that monster just say? I don't even have a girlfriend ! She's gone bonkers! And how dare she lie like that! That's the blackest kind of blasphemy! (A/N : LOL. :D)
What made her think I didn't wanna be with Bella!?!

"Just stop it already! Who is the one bluffing here!?!" I yelled and tears welled up in her eyes. She could be the actress of the century.

"See! Is this a way to treat a person? And he doesn't know how to treasure friendship! That's why he wants to ditch you for his girlfriend!" I had to stop some things. And explain some other. I cannot let that thing ruin my life.

"Stop. It. Asshole." I said in a harsh tone. Blame me or whatever for calling a kid names. I don't care. This thing deserves it.

"Stop what?" She behaved like a goody-goody girl.

"That's it." My expression was grim, I guess. I caught that creature by the arm and dragged her out of the room.

"Lose a life, whoever you are!" She grinned at me and I was kind of astonished that such a wicked thing even existed.

"Buzz off. I don't want to ever see you again."

With that I came inside and shut the door tight. But I couldn't find my feet after watching Bella with such an expression on.
Ancient sadness had invaded her face and she kept her head down avoiding my gaze.

My goodness. Did that really bother her? What the asshole had said?
Things seemed to be far worse than I'd imagined.

I slowly moved towards her and she denied to look up even after I sat beside her.

"Bella." No reaction. Nothing.

I couldn't take it anymore. I forced her to look at me by tilting her face up. And my heart literally broke when I saw tears trickling down her face.

I pulled her hands out and wound it around my neck. I didn't know what to do than cup her cheek with my hand.

Silence again.

She swallowed and asked, "Is it true, then?" So she'd believed those bunch of lies? Unbelievable.

"What do you think?" My voice seemed so calm, which was unexpected. Just a few minutes ago I was freaking out and had yelled at someone.

She didn't answer. I raised an eyebrow to prompt her.

She reluctantly closed her eyes and said, "No." What was wrong then?

"Then why are upset?" I murmured so softly that I doubt she even heard me. I seemed so feeble now, holding her face between my hands. Not that monstrous guy who had yelled at that thing.

"I don't know. It's too much to digest.. to even imagine what she'd said.." I instantly pulled her into my chest and buried my face into her hair.

"Then don't think of such things. Which would never, ever happen." I murmured as smooth as velvet into her hair.

"Who was that?" She whispered once I knew she'd stopped crying.

I slowly explained everything to her. And my voice remained calm the entire time, like I was conversing with a toddler. I told her everything starting from that girl flirting with me and following me around to what happened here.

She pulled away and looked at me. Her eyes were still wet from the crying. We simply gazed into each others' eyes for some time. There were no necessity for words. It was like I'd laid down the history of my life in front of her, and even without that she had everything about me memorized. I know, it sounds weird to say that, but it was as if she was the only person who understood that.

She opened her mouth to speak but I placed a finger on her lips. I knew what she was gonna ask.

"No, of course not." I shook my head. "I don't have a girlfriend." I knew how that felt like. Worrying that your best friend would corner you after starting to hang out with his girlfriend.

Amusement touched her eyes but subsided soon enough.
"You know I love you." She nodded. And the corners of her mouth turned up.

And I'm sure my face was reflecting hers. What can I say? Her happiness was contagious.

BPOV.

I had a fair idea of what was going on, although Edward was clueless. Who do you think is the evil mastermind behind all of this? Jessica. Like, duh.

Will that female ever rest? Why does she pick my life, of all of them, to mess up with?

And poor Edward. He had no idea of what was going on. Except being stalked by some kid.
Jessica is one shameless ass! I feel like punching her lights out.

I don't even know how to explain this to Edward. Would he believe me? I doubt it. Since the bitch has left a good impression. According to him, that is.

This can't be allowed to happen forever. Things have to stop. Eventually. They will.

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

A/N :

Okay guys. Now how was that? :D

I'm so sorry if I'm making Bella look like a helpless kitten. Next chapter's title - Something's Unleashed.

Which I'd bet won't take so long to write. So.. Well, want a sneak peak? :D

Here you go :

Jessica - "Ha! You don't even deserve her. You're too blind Edward."

Edward - "Just suck it up, you whore. You're not the queen of the world, you know."

The chapter after that :

Bella : "No, Edward..Don't. You can't do this to me. It's my birthday.. Please. Don't be so merciless."

Edward : "I have no choice, Bella."

Now, for the interesting part. :D REVIEW! :)

~Janz