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  /> hard.”
  i became aware atered above my left ear.
  ”orised.
  ”that's what i thought.” his voigly, sounded like he was
  suppressing laughter.
  ”how irailed to clear my head, get my bearings.
  ”how did you get over here so fast?”
  ”i was standing right o you, bella,” he said, his tone serious
  again.
  i tur up, and this time he let me, releasing his hold around my
  waist and sliding as far from me as he the limited space. i
  looked at his ed, i expression and was disain by
  the force of his gold-colored eyes. what was i asking him?
  ahey found us, a crowd of people with tears streaming down their
  faces, shoutiher, shouting at us.
  ”don't move,” someoed.
  ”get tyler out of the van!” someoed.
  there was a flurry of activity around us. i tried to get up, but edward's
  d pushed my shoulder down.
  ”just stay put for now.”
  ”but it's cold,” i plai surprised me when he chuder his
  breath. there was ahe sound.
  ”you were over there,” i suddenly remembered, and his chuckle stopped
  short. ”you were by your car.”
  his expression turned hard. ”no, i wasn't.”
  ”i saw you.” all around us was chaos. i cruffer voices of
  adults arriving o i obstiument;
  i was right, and he was going to admit it.
  ”bella, i was standing with you, a of the way.” he
  uhe full, devastating power of his eyes orying to
  uhing crucial.
  ” my jaw.
  the gold in his eyes blazed. ”please, bella.”
  ”why?” i demanded.
  ”trust me,” he pleaded, his soft v.
  i could hear the sirens now. ”will you promise to explaio
  me later?”
  ”fine,” he sly exasperated.
  ”fied angrily.
  it took six emts and two teachers — mr. varner and coach clapp — to shift
  the van far enough away from us t the stret. edward
  vehemently refused his, ahe same, but the traitor told
  them i'd hit my head and probably had a ost died of
  humiliatio on the looked like the entire
  school was there, watg soberly as they loaded me in the back of the
  ambula to ride i. it was maddening.
  to make matters worse, arrived before they e safely
  away.
  ”bella!” he yelled in pani he ree ocher.
  ”i'm pletely fine, char — dad,” i sighed. ”there's n with
  me.”
  he tur emt for a seio to
  sider the jumble of inexplicable images g chaoti my
  head. when they'd lifted me away from the car, i had see
  ian car's bumper — a very disti fit the tours of
  edward's shoulders… as if he had braced himself agaih
  enough forage the metal frame…
  ahere was his family, looking oah
  expressied from disapproval to fury but held no hint of
  for their brother's safety.
  i tried to think of a logical solution that could explain what i had just
  seen — a solutiohe assumption that i was insane.
  naturally, the ambula a police escort to the ty hospital. i
  felt ridiculous the whole time they were unloadi made it worse
  was that edly glided through the hospital doors under his own
  prouher.
  they put me in the emergen, a long room with a line of beds
  separated by pastel-patterains. a a pressure y
  arm aer uongue. sihered pulling the
  around to give me some privacy, i decided i wasn't obligated to
  wear the stupid-looking neck braymore. when the nurse walked away, i
  quifastehe veld threw it un