At the hospital, Carlisle and an old doctor friend patch up Bella and notify Charlie of her accident. While Edward waits for Bella to wake up, he struggles to distract himself from the despair he feels at her suffering. After she has a blood transfusion and smells different, Edward thinks, “this brief distortion was too strong a reminder that, at some point in the future, the scent that had compelled me for so long would be lost to me forever” (595). Carlisle manages to smooth things over with Charlie, who is still concerned about how seriously Bella took her relationship with Edward and who is confused as to why Bella left so suddenly. Bella’s mother Renée arrives at the hospital, and Edward notices that her thoughts feel like someone screaming. When Renée arrives at the room, she realizes that Edward is Bella’s boyfriend. She starts trying to scope out what kind of person Edward is, wanting to see if he seems good enough for Bella.

Renée goes to sleep for the night, leaving Edward to think. He realizes that Alice has been avoiding him. When he goes to find Alice, she gives him James’s camera, warning him that he will not like watching the video.