Dangerously Beautiful • Carlisle Cullen

Chapter 10: Family Drama

The hospital was quiet, not eerily, but it wasn't as rambunctious as it had been in recent days. With in the few days, Colette had asked for her head to be shaved, and to donate what could be.

With the break in the day, Colette considered taking a nap, seeing as she didn't get many during the day.

Upon closing her eyes, a knock rang out from her door. "Whoever you are, you better have a damn good reason." Cole mumbled out, her eyes still closed as she heard a chuckle from her favorite doctor. "I think you may want to open your eyes for this one Cole." "Why?" She asked as she opened one eye, immediately wide awake upon the sight of her niece.

"Belle!" Colette shouted gleefully, catching the doctor by surprise. "Why didn't you tell me it was my niece, Carlisle!" The Doctor chuckled as he moved over slightly, letting the teen by him as he made his exit.

"Hey aunt Cole. Dad finally let me come visit." Bella said shyly as she stood awkwardly at the end of her aunt's bed, messing with her fingers. "What do you mean finally? What happened?" Cole asked and the teens eyes widened slightly remembering her father told her not to stress her aunt out.

"He said you had some memory problems." Bella opened up, but if anyone could read the reclusive Bella Swan, it was her aunt. "You're not telling me something. What happened." "It wasn't anything too bad." "Bella." "It wasn't, I promise." "Isabella!" "I almost got hit by a car in the parking lot of the school." Bella broke under the looks of her aunt.

"What! You could have died!" Cole shrieked. "But I didn't. I already had this talk with dad. I'm fine, a bump on the head is all." Bella promised, her hands out in front of her trying to settle her aunt. "A bump on the head! What did someone push you out of the way? Why didn't Charlie tell me! I'll have whoever hit you arrested!" Colette ranted not even seeing the astonished look on her niece's face.

"Edward saved me." Bella blurted out causing Cole to stop in her tracks. "Who?" "Edward, Edward Cullen." Colette stared at her niece, a smile slipping onto her face. "This is the boy you were talking about!" "No." "Is too! Isabella, don't you lie to me! Is he cute?" Cole asked her and a blush rose on Bella's cheeks. "He is." "Can I meet him?" "Aunt Cole! He just saved me, it's not like he is my boyfriend!" She squeaked out, her face bright red as her eyes could have  burned holes in the linoleum that covered the floor.

"That doesn't matter! I want to meet the boy who saved you, and you may or may not have feelings for." "I don't have feelings for him!" "You just said he was cute." Cole pointed out and Bella huffed. "Well if I like Edward, then you like Dr. Cullen!" Bella exclaimed but instead of the shocked look she expected, Bella saw a small smirk come to her aunt's face.

"Ew! Aunt Cole! That's his dad!" Bella scoffed looking at her aunt in horror as her face drained of color. "So. I almost dated your mom's brother once." "That's it, this conversation is over." Bella said, shivering as the thought of her aunt and her uncle Todd together. "What! She dates my brother I date hers!" "No, nope, please stop talking." Bella begged her aunt as Colette laughed.

The pair had chatted and soon it came time for Bella to leave. "I'm sorry for leaving so soon, but I've got homework to do. One of the downfalls of coming in mid year." Bella pouted. "You're bright like father Belle, you'll do fine, but I do want to meet this Edward." Colette told her and Bella raised an eyebrow. "Sometime! Just sometimes. You know I'm not gonna live forever." Cole said, but wished she had kept her mouth shut as Bella's eyes drew sad, tears collecting in them. "You're gonna beat this. You have to." Bella told her aunt, more like demanded it, glancing at her aunt's head wrap that she had been trying to avoid eye contact with since her arrival.

Colette Swan was the only female in her life that she could be a kid around. Her mother depended on her to practically run the home, Charlie couldn't cook, and knew very little in the ways of the washing machine, but her aunt, she was someone who could be there for her. Bella was allowed to be a child, carefree, no responsibilities, just a wholesome child, that was until she left her watchful eye.