Nevermore (rewriting)

Nevermore Chapter 2

A/N Thank you all for your support, It's your comments and votes that keep me inspired! It really means a lot to me! Listen to the song I put on the side, it really sets the mood for the last part of the chapter.

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I knew I had fainted this time, but... where was I? All I remembered from last time was having a couple of flashbacks, but this, nothing like this.

I was standing in the middle of a clearing, and it was a breathtaking panorama. There was a lake with crystal-clear water that emanated from the most beautiful waterfall I had ever seen. The place was paradise to say the least, there was bright green grass everywhere along with different types of flowers. Tall trees surrounded the clearing. Everything around me looked so unreal, like it belonged in a painting or a movie, or... a dream. I must be dreaming, I thought.

I remaned still, completely perplexed by the beauty of it all, wishing it wouldn't go away. For the first time since Emmett had died, I felt a strange sense of peace overcome me, and I let myself fall down and breathe fresh air into my lungs. Everything here was so rich, even the oxygen, I soon felt better and better until I didn't even want to wake up at all. Why wake up  and go back to the mess my life had become? 

After a few minutes of lying in the grass and twirling a flower in my fingers, I sat up and scanned my surroundings, only to find something strange under the foliage of the trees, something that looked like a pair of giant, white wings. I closed my eyes and opened them again, straining my vision to see if it had just been a fiction of my imagination. But the wings were still there, and they unfurled to show a young boy, about my age, sitting at the at the base of a huge magnolia tree. He seemed to be distracted with something in his hands, a white rose. And then I looked up at his face and the realization hit me like a blow to the stomach. Emmett.  Before I knew it, my vision was going dark. No! I fought to stay unconscious, to stay in this strange place, to stay with him, but it was too late.

I woke up in the hospital, to Natalie frantically shaking me, "I knew it, I knew you stole some of my birth control pills, but you have to take them regularly Alice! Otherwise it doesn't work!" She said.

I was at a loss for words. Pregnant. At sixteen... and Emmett. Emmett was dead and yet I had seen him so clearly. 

I only realized I was crying when I saw the look of pity on Natalie's face "Please don't tell mom and dad." Was all I could usher after a few minutes of silence, even though I was actually crying from the emotion that seing Emmett had brought upon me.

"I can promise for now, Ali, but they're eventually gonna find out when your stomach starts growing."

"Just for now then, don't tell them, please."

"I won't, I promise."

Thank god that by the time I was discharged from the hospital the next morning my parents weren't back yet. My sister drove me home and we sat in my room, we were both silent for a while.

"Did the nurse say anything while I was gone?" I was the first to break the silence.

"Not much, just that you're three weeks pregnant, and you need to take care of yourself and so forth."

"Natalie, do you believe in angels?" I said before I could think twice.

"I think so, why do you ask?" When I didn't answer she chuckled and said, "Do you remember when you were little and you swore you could see them? You must have been about three years old. You would run around the house telling mom and dad where they were and what their names were, they found it all so cute, your imaginary friends."