A Dance Of Time

Chapter 7; Talk

I cursed under my breath as the heat of the engine burned my palms but I ignored it as I continued.

"What happened?" Belle's worried voice vaguely burst through my concentration as she asks.

" Torture, that's what." I grumbled under my breath as I fixed the tacky old trucks parts, jitters, bolts, cables, pipes and even the chains. I kicked the ground using the skate board to get out from underneath. My mother nor Charlie were home, and since we lived right next to one another we decided to use my mother's garage to fix the 'classical truck' of Bella's.
My fingers and palms held blisters,scorch marks and dead skin. Luckily my fingers are still fine otherwise I'd have problems in archery and I really like that.  I wrapped white rags around my hands as Bella gave me a worried look.
"Oh, don't worry about this, it's nothing." I say.
" Get in the truck, we're going to the Hospital no complaints." Bella says and got into the truck,I grumbled but got in.

You promised the world and I fell for it
I put you first and you adored it
Set fires to my forest
And you let it burn
Sang off-key in my chorus
'Cause it wasn't yours
I saw the signs and I ignored it
Rose-colored glasses all distorted
Set fire to my purpose
And I let it burn
You got off on the hurtin'
When it wasn't yours, yeah

We'd always go into it blindly
I needed to lose you to find me
This dancing was killing me softly
I needed to hate you to love me, yeah

To love, love, yeah
To love, love, yeah
To love, yeah
I needed to lose you to love me, yeah
To love, love, yeah
To love, love, yeah
To love, yeah
I needed to lose you to love me

I gave my all and they all know it
Then you tore me down and now it's showing
In two months, you replaced us
Like it was easy
Made me think I deserved it
In the thick of healing, yeah

We'd always go into it blindly
I needed to lose you to find me
This dancing was killing me softly
I needed to hate you to love me, yeah

To love, love, yeah
To love, love, yeah
To love, yeah
I needed to lose you to love me, yeah
To love, love, yeah
To love, love, yeah
To love, yeah
I needed to lose you to love me

You promised the world and I fell for it
I put you first and you adored it
Set fires to my forest
And you let it burn
Sang off-key in my chorus

To love, love, yeah
To love, love, yeah
To love, yeah
I needed to hate you to love me, yeah
To love, love, yeah
To love, love, yeah
To love, yeah
I needed to lose you to love me
To love, love, yeah
To love, love, yeah
To love, yeah

And now the chapter is closed and done
To love, love, yeah
To love, love, yeah
To love, yeah
And now it's goodbye, it's goodbye for us.

I sang as we drove, Bella occasionally butted in to sing along which made us laugh.
I entered the hospital after telling Bells to stay in the car which she reluctantly agreed to. I walked up to the reception and smiled brightly at the lady.
"Ma'am, can you please help me? I've burned my hands." I say holding my hands up, my face gaining a tinge of worry. She looked up surprised and when she saw my hands she nodded her head vigorously.
"I'll call one of the doctors, go to room 7 on floor 2. He'll be waiting for you there." The lady says. I nodded and went to take the stairs. Trailing my hand along the railings I hummed in disbelief as I saw thousands of flashes of Carlisle down these very stairs, amazing he must've came here over and over again during the centuries and decades. I walked down the hall until I reached room 7,cringing at who it belongs to but shrugged. I knocked three times before I heard brief shuffling and a lull in conversation that had been transpiring behind the door.
"Come in." Carlisle's voice said. I gave a tired sigh and entered the room, smiling up at Edward who frowned in confusion then at Carlisle. Who blinked rapidly at my arrival before his desk phone went off.
"Hello?..(eyes widened and he scanned me up and down before his eyes rested narrowed on my hands.I shifted under his scrutiny )...Oh,I see..... Yes, I understand, thank you, Miss Deloris." He placed the phone down and stood up motioning for my to sit down, I did and removed the rags, growling at my palms that had swollen, dam it, shoulda put some ointment on them. Edward was leaning against the wall on the other side as Carlisle took some medical tools and sat down in front of me.
"What happened?" He asks.
"Bella's truck, I waited two hours for it to cool down but when I went to change its batteries and fix it's engine, my hands got burned. By the way I thought you only worked here on the weekends? " I ask looking between the two in confusion. Carlisle nodded ever so slightly.
"Well... yes, I do. But I needed a distraction." Carlisle says, avoiding eye contact, I smirked knowingly and Edward broke out in fits of laughter, I glared.
"Kay, I was wondering if your family would like to come to a concert in a few days, um, I think next week Saturday. Wanna come?" I ask, twitching slightly, in nervousness, dang I hate having the jitters.
" Uh, sure, but sit still, and how come you aren't screaming out in pain? I'm using alcohol here." Carlisle says confused.
" Oh, mostly because I get hurt a lot, well not as much as a certain somebody, but because of how many after school activities I have I get hurt a lot so I'm used to having alcohol be thrown on my wounds and bruises. No beggy." I say shrugging. Edward had grimaced at the memories of Bella having fallen and nearly getting herself killed and all the other accidents. Carlisle winced as well but more at my words.
"What do you do?" He asks.
"Uh, well I practice Archery, fencing, the violin, ballia, arts and medical sciences whenever my cousin feels like paying for it." I grumbled the last sentence but knew they could hear it. My hands were bandaged in no time. I hopped of the stool grinning.
"Thanks, Carlisle. Bye guys!" I say and skipped out of the room and down the stairs and right into Bella's blasted truck.
She looked me over and nodded in approval at my bandaged hands.
"Hey! This is your stinky old trucks fault not mine!" I nearly shouted as Bella reversed. She cringed and gave me a look that said;" I will kill you." I stuck my tongue out like a child and crossed my arms only to Yelp at the sudden contact on my skin. Jeez,this is gonna take a while to heal,so about four weeks then consort.
"Yeah,well the truck was being manhandled so of course it's gonna burn ya." Bells sang. I shuddered.
" I don't see anything hanging down there, how could I possibly manhandle the truck if I ain't a man?" I ask. Bella's cheeks turned several shades redder than usual and shot me a glare.
"You know what I meant!" She says as we parked in front of her house,the truck didn't make any noise anymore and was instead purring like a kitten which was so much better.
"Sure,sure. Anywho I'm painting the truck as soon as the weekend starts." I say and jumped out and looked at the police cruiser.  "Your dad's here." I point out.
" I have eyes." Bella shot back as she scrambled up the porch to get inside. I grinned and followed after her.