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  ad the ce.
  ”eohe nurse, please?” he called.
  i didn't have to look up to know that it would be mike who volunteered.
  ” you walk?” mr. banner asked.
  ”yes,” i whispered. just let me get out of here, i thought. i'll crawl.
  mike seemed eager as he put his arm around my ulled my arm
  over his shoulder. i lea him heavily o of the
  .
  mike towed me slowly apus. ere arouhe
  cafeteria, out of sight of building four in case mr. bag,
  i stopped.
  ”just let me sit for a minute, please?” i begged.
  he helped me sit ohe walk.
  ”and whatever you do, keep your hand in your pocket,” i warned. i was
  still so dizzy. i slumped over oi the
  freezing, damp t of the sidewalk, y eyes. that seemed to
  help a little.
  ”wow, yreen, bella,” mike said nervously.
  ”bella?” a different voice the distance.
  me be imagining that horribly familiar voice.
  ”what's wrong — is she hurt?” his voice was ow, and he sounded
  upset. i wasn't imagining it. i squeezed my eyes shut, hoping to die. or,
  at the very least, not to throw up.
  mike seemed stressed. ”i think she's fainted. i don't knoened,
  she didiger.”
  ”bella.” edward's vht beside me, relieved now. ” you hear
  me?”
  ”no away.”
  he chuckled.
  ”i was takihe nurse,” mike explained io
  she wouldn't go any farther.”
  ”i'll take her,” edward said. i could hear the smile still in his voice.
  ”you go back to class.”
  ”ed. ”i'm supposed to do it.”
  suddenly the sideeared from beh me. my eyes flew open in
  shock. eded me up in his arms, as easily as if i weighed
  ten pounds instead of a huen.
  ”put me dolease let me not vomit on him. he was walking
  before i was fialking.
  ”hey!” mike called, already ten pad us.
  edward ignored him. ”you look awful,” he t.
  ”put me ba the sidewalk,” i moahe roent of his walk
  was not helping. he held me away from his body, gingerly, supp all
  my weight with just his arms — it didher him.
  ”so you fai of blood?” he asked. this seemed to eain
  him.
  i didn't answer. i y eyes again and fought the h all my
  strength, g my lips together.
  ”and not even your own blood,” he ued, enjoying himself.
  i don't khe door while g me, but it was
  suddenly warm, so i kneere inside.
  ”oh my,” i heard a female voice gasp.
  ”she fainted in biology,” edlained.
  i opened my eyes. i was in the offid edward was striding past the
  frooward the nurse's door. ms. cope, the redheaded front
  office reist, ran ahead of him to hold it opeherly
  nurse looked up from a onished, as edward swuhe
  room aly on the crackly paper that covered the brown
  vihe oheand against the wall as
  far across the narroossible. his eyes were bright, excited.
  ”she's just a little faihe startled hey're
  blood typing in biology.”
  the nurse nodded sagely. ”there's always one.”
  he muffled a snicker.
  ”just lie down for a mi'll pass.”
  ”i know,” i sighed. the nausea was already fading.
  ”does this happen a lot?” she asked.
  ”sometimes,” i admitted. edward coughed to hide anh.
  ”you go back to ow,” she told him.
  ”i'm supposed to stay with her.” he said this with such assured authority
  that — even though she pursed her lips — the n