Hunted (A Twilight Fanfic)

Chapter 3

     I heard the door open, someone else walked in.



     “How is she?” Uncle Charlie. I bet I gave him a scare.



     “She’s getting stronger. She lost a lot of blood. But she will be fine, a little sore for a few days but she’ll be fine.” That was Carlisle. At least I was going to be fine, physically. Emotionally? I don’t know. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to get that woman’s face out of my mind.



     “Maybe I should call her parents.” No! Charlie couldn’t call my parents, not now. I only had two months left of school and things were getting very interesting.



     “No,” I rasped. I sounded just as bad as I felt.



     “Chloe?” It was Bella. I opened my eyes slowly. “Hi.”



     “Carlisle, she’s awake.” I looked around briefly as Carlisle walked over to me.



     “How are you feeling?” I closed my eyes. Was her seriously asking that? I had a broken arm and my shoulder was throbbing. And that was with the pain killers. I slowly opened my eyes.



     “Horrible, everything hurts.” I looked around the room. Charlie was standing behind Carlisle on one side. On the other side were Bella, Edward, Alice, and Jasper. They were all staring at me. “But I’ll be fine,” I said quickly, I couldn’t let Charlie call my parents.



     “We were so worried,” Alice said as she walked closer. I stared at her. Worried? She didn’t even like me. This must be for Bella’s benefit. Did any of them really care?



     “what happened?” I looked at Bella. I couldn’t tell them the truth. They would never believe me.



     “I…I don’t remember.”



     Bella smiled, “that’s fine. We’re just glad you’re going to be ok."

     I spent the rest of the day pretending to sleep and replaying the conversation I had overheard in my head. Blood sucker? Leeches? What did that mean? If it was meant literally that would mean that they suck, or possibly, drink, blood. But that was impossible. Which meant…what?  I needed to figure it out. Or at least have a good enough idea that I could get someone to tell me. Jacob. I needed to talk to him. He seemed to want me to know what was going on. Maybe he would tell me. But I would have to find him first. And to do that I would need to come up with a good reason as to why I needed to see him.



     I spent the next two days sitting in the Hospital. Most of my time I spent sleeping or reading. Bella had brought me three of my favorite books. Pride and Prejudice, The Old Man and the Sea, and A Tale of Two Cities. She also brought me a copy of Wuthering Heights. Though I have no clue why. According to Carlisle my shoulder was healing nicely, whatever that meant. I had stopped taking painkillers after day one. My shoulder constantly hurt now, but at least I wasn’t constantly sleeping.



     I was finally getting released from the hospital today.  I had spent a total of three nights and almost four days there. Someone would be here soon to pick me up. I had all of my stuff together, clean clothes on, and my arm in a sling. And I had to go to school tomorrow. I missed one day and Charlie was panicking. I think he’s afraid my parents will find out. But really, one day? It doesn’t matter. Someone is outside my room. Finally. I’m being rescued. But who was it? The voice was familiar but I couldn’t remember who it was. My door opened, Jasper walked in. I stared at him for a moment. What was he doing here?