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  t touch. so i should all anxious to see him today.
  it took every ouny tratio down the icy brick
  driveway alive. i almost lost my balan i finally got to the truck,
  but i mao g to the side mirror and save myself. clearly, today
  was goimarish.
  driving to school, i distracted myself from my fear of falling and my
  unes about edward by thinking about mike and
  erid the obvious differeeenage boys respoo me
  here. i was sure i looked exactly the same as i had in phoe
  was just that the boys bae had watched me pass slh all
  the ahases of adolesd still thought of me that way.
  perhaps it was because i was a y here, where ies were few and
  far between. possibly my g ess was seen as endearing
  rather thaing me as a damsel iever the
  reason, mike's puppy dog behavior and eric's apparent rivalry with him
  were disg. i wasn't sure if i didn't prefer being ignored.
  my truck seemed to have he black ice that covered the
  roads. i drove very slowly, though, not wanting to carve a path of
  destruai.
  when i got out of my truck at school, i saw why i'd had so little
  trouble. somethi my eye, ahe back of the
  truck — carefully holding the side for support — to examiires.
  there were thin s criss diamond shapes around them.
  charlie had gotten up early to put snow y truck.
  my throat sudde. i wasn't used to being taken care of, and
  charlie's unspoke me by surprise.
  i was standing by the baer of the truck, struggling to fight back
  the suddeion the snow s had brought on, when i heard
  an odd sound.
  it itched sd it was fast being painfully loud. i
  looked up, startled.
  i saw several things simultaneously. nothing was moving in slow motion,
  the way it does in the movies. ihe adrenalio
  make my brain work much faster, and i was able to absorb iail
  several things at once.
  edward was standing four e, staring at me in
  horror. his fa a sea of faces, all frozen in the same
  mask of shomediate importahe dark blue van
  that was skidding, tires lod squealing against the brakes,
  spinning wildly across the ice lot. it was going to hit
  the bay trud i was stahem. i didn't
  eveo y eyes.
  just before i heard the shattering ch of the van folding around the
  truething hit me, hard, but not from the dire i was
  expeg. my head crast the icy blad i felt something
  solid and ihe ground. i was lyi
  behian car i'd parked o. but i didn't have a ce to
  hing else, because the van was still ing. it had curled
  gratingly arouhe trud, still spinning and sliding,
  was about to collide with me again.
  a low oath made me aware that someoh me, and the voice was
  impossible nwo long, white hands shot out protectively
  in frohe vaop a foot from my face, the
  large hands fittiially i ihe
  van's body.
  then his ha they blurred. one was suddenly gripping
  uhe body of the van, ahing was dragging me, swinging my
  legs around like a rag doll's, till they hit the tire of the tan car. a
  groahud hurt my ears, aled, glass popping,
  o — exactly where, a sey legs had been.
  it was absolutely silent f sed before the sg began.
  i bedlam, i could hear more than one person shouting my name.
  but more clearly than all the yelling, i could hear edward 's low,
  frantiy ear.
  ”bella? are yht?”
  ”i'm fine.” my voided straried to sit up, and realized he
  was holdi the side of his body in an iron grasp.
  ”be careful,” he warruggled. ”i think you hit your head pretty <br