I Do Not Own Twilight Or Any Of The Songs In This Story.
There are a few things that I've changed like Paul and Sam are in school to. This is my first twilight story, be honest if you like it or if you don't, enjoy! :)
Chapter One: My New Life.
"Dawn Cooper? Is that you?" a voice I'd never thought I'd hear asked behind me, I turned around to meet my favourite Uncle.
"Uncle Billy" I whispered holding back a sob as I ran into his arms.
"Its okay, Dawn you're going to be okay, sweetie" he said wrapping his arms around me.
"I missed you so much" I cried
"Oh god, Dawnie look at you, why didn't you tell me?" He sniffed holding back his sobs.
"I didn't want anyone to get hurt because of me; so many people have already gotten hurt..." I trailed
"Hey now that was not your fault, you hear me?" he demanded
"It doesn't matter how many times I hear that, Billy It's still my fault"
He went to protest but Charlie beat him to it.
"It's really good to see you, Dawn" He smiled
"You too, Chief" I grinned walking over, I hugged him Charlie was my knight in shining armour, he saved me. He was the one to notice my bruises when others wouldn't and asked me about them at first I was hesitant, I didn't want him to get hurt but he assured me that he wouldn't, that's when we got closer in our relationship, I'd met him before at Billy's when I used to live on the reservation.
He hugged me just as tight, which was strange for Charlie, he doesn't usually show emotion like this but it was definitely a good strange. Billy and Charlie were like second dad's to me, I was glad to feel safe again.
"All your stuff is already in our new guest room, some of the boys from the reservation came over and built a bathroom and a bed, desk, wardrobe things like that, for you" Billy smirked I found that weird Jake, Quil and Embry hated the reservation boys, hell I hated them when I was here although it had been so long, jeez I hadn't been here since I was little, 10 years old I think.
"They didn't have to go to so much trouble"
"Yes they did" He chuckled
"Come on, let's go" Charlie smiled once we reached the car I froze.
Charlie saw me hesitate at the car door, he came around, put his hand around my shoulders and said "His never going to hurt you again, Dawn his in jail"
"What about when he gets out? And he finds me" I asked in a shaking voice
"I won't let him get anywhere near you" he promised
Feeling a little but better I got in the car. It didn't take that long to get to Billy's from the station. Since I was seventeen Billy had to officially adopt me, I thought that, that would bother Jake but Billy said he was ecstatic to see me again, although he didn't know the whole story, I planned on telling Jacob and the boys though, they had a right to know they were my best friends.
"There's no sign of Jake in here so he must be in the garage working on his car, you can go out there, his expecting you" Billy smiled rolling into the lounge room, Charlie had already left saying that I was already in rolled in La Push High so all I needed to do was get some stuff at the office. I wasn't even here a day and I had school tomorrow, talk about fun I thought sarcastically. I spotted the garage and hesitantly opened the door. "Uh Jacob?" I asked poking my head in. I wasn't expecting another tanned guy starring at me.
"Yeah that's me, who are you?" Jake asked he didn't remember me, of course since I was now fully grown and damn he was too.
"Jacob Black, you seriously don't remember you're B.F.F?" I laughed
He shook his head even more confused.
"I shouldn't be surprised since last time you saw me I was, what? 10 years old?" I smiled hoping that would give him a hint.
"Dawn!" he yelled racing over to me, he hugged me so tight I thought I was going to explode and started spinning me around in circles while the other I recognised was Quil laughed
I should tell him now, before I chicken out,
"Uh Jake, I was wondering, did Billy say anything to you about why I'm here?" I inquired
"Not much actually he just said that you were coming back, that something happened.
"Your both not gonna like what I'm about to tell you" I whispered
"You can tell us anything, Dawnie" Quil smiled gently
I walked over to him and hugged him tight; I could always count on them
"Hey where's Em?" I asked which made him stiffen.
"Later, right now tell us about why your here" I had never seen Quil so serious before, it was kind of scary.
We all took seats; everyone was silent as they waited for me to start.
"Ok what I'm about to tell you I just want you to know that I'm not telling you for pity or for you to be nice to me I'm just telling you this because I want you to know" I nodded
"I should probably start at the start, the moment everything went downhill; I was at this party Justin, my boyfriend wanted me to go, he said this was going to be a really big moment for me, I had no idea what he meant until he asked me to go up to one of the rooms, he wanted to...you know...but I didn't I was a virgin still am, I wasn't ready and he knew that, he got angry and went out to get us a drink, he came back with two cups full of beer I was unsure at first but it was my first beer and I didn't think he would hurt me, that was until I felt dizzy, I instantly knew what happened, he had drugged me, he even admitted it and said that he always gets what he wants and he wanted my virginity, apparently our whole entire relationship was a game he had a bet with his friends that he could get laid I knew he was kind of a player but I didn't realise how cruel him and his friends are"
I looked around at the two boys sitting next to me and they looked pissed.
"Nothing happened, I managed to call my dad as one of his friends came in, I whispered the address to him and said hurry while they were arguing about who would go first his buddy said that a girl he wanted didn't want to do it and he ran out of drugs to persuade her so he thought he'd have a go with me, Justin won of course and went to undo his pants and as my dad stormed in he quickly did them up, god I was so scared he was going to..., after that all my friends disowned me, they believed the lies Justin planted about me coming on to him, my dad went to the police but we didn't have any evidence and all his friends and all my friends stood by him saying that he didn't do a thing and...This isn't even the worst part of it"
"Not even the...are you kidding me? I don't think I can hear much more without punching a wall or something" Jacob said through clenched teeth
"Calm down, Jake please I need to finish this" I sighed
"It had been a couple weeks, it had been my 17th birthday a week before they threw a party, not for me of course but I went anyway just to show them that their whispers and betrayal didn't faze me, it was about 5 minutes in that I knew I shouldn't of come, I saw Justin with my best friend making out about to go upstairs and I ran crying, I called my dad and he came as fast as he could with my mum and Mattie my six year old little brother, once I was in the car he immediately jumped into my lap and hugged me tight, he always seemed to know when I was upset without words and how to make me feel a whole lot better" I smiled sadly clutching the locked he got me.
"What's it say? On your locket" Quil asked curiously pointing to the necklace
"Mattie gave it to me on my 17th birthday, it says 'To the bestest awesomest sister in the entire known universe xx' on the front then on the inside it says 'I love you more than anything, love the world's greatest brother, Mattie' there's also a picture of us and on the back 'A brother couldn't ask for a better sister'" I spoke quietly trying to hold the tears I know would soon fall from my face. He was such a sweet brother.
"Mum and Dad were talking about the baby, mum was pregnant with a baby girl and she wanted to call her Amy while dad wanted to call her Elizabeth after his beautiful wife he said, Dad was too caught up in mum, he didn't see and I was focused on Mattie who had fallen asleep in my arms to see it..." I choked back a sob
"See what?" Jacob asked gently moving to sit next to me
"The drunk driver swerving into our lane, I felt the car swerve, I tried to protect Matt as much as I could but he had woken up because of the blinding light and he...he was trying to protect me...that night he died in my arms, that night everyone I love was gone" I was now full on sobbing; I couldn't hold it in anymore.
Jacob placed his arms around me, comforting me, which brought on more tears, I hadn't been comforted in so long. When the sob's died down I continued
"After that, my Uncle Jim took me, I didn't really know him, I'd met him a few times and he wasn't the kindest person there is but I thought that we could, I don't know, comfort each other, we both lost people we loved, but when I arrived he was so cruel towards me, he blamed me for all of it, hell I blamed me but he really did, he hated me" I sniffed
"At first he would just yell at me, call me names, he would tell me I was worthless, he called me a murderer, then the punching started, then the kicking, he got bored soon after that and took his cigarette and burned me just behind me ear, he moved onto cutting not long after, the worst thing he did was when he got a knife and cut me five times along my stomach 'for the lives I've ruined' he said, one for Mum, one for dad, one for Amy, one for Mattie and one for him" I mumbled pulling up my shirt to show them, they all gasped at the scars.
"After that I needed medical attention so he took me to the folks hospital, the doctor I had noticed my other scars and bruises and called Charlie I was hesitant at first when they wanted to know what happened but I was just so tired, so I told them, Charlie helped me after that, he was really there for me and they rest you know" I choked back another sob as I finished my story.
"I'm so sor—" I cut him off before he finished
"I said at the beginning no pity remember?" I smiled sadly as did Jacob
"You're safe now that's all that matters" Quil said coming over to my left side to rub soothing circles into my back.
"I'm not so sure" I said shakily
"What do you mean? He's in Jail, right?" Quil asked
"Yeah, but I mean what if he gets out and finds me again"
"That won't happen" Jake said confidently
"How do you know? How do you know for sure?"
"I just do and even if it does we would protect you, your safe with us" he smiled lightly
"No one is going to hurt you again, Dawn, we'll make sure of it" Jacob comforted.
"Thanks, guys" I smiled through tears
"So, school tomorrow, you up for it?" Quil grinned
"Ugh, no" I groaned
"Oh come on, Dawnie we'll be there it won't be that bad" Jake smirked
"Yes, it will be that bad, all the gossip, ugh" I shuttered
"Let's hope we have some classes together" Jake replied
We sat there for a couple hours getting to know each other better, then Billy called me and Jake in for dinner which included take out, that's it, I'm cooking from now on was my thought. After dinner Billy told me that everything was sorted out and he asked the principal that I be in most of Jake, Embry or Quil's classes I still had to find out where he was, all I had to do was go to the office and get my schedule, locker number, lock, all that stuff. Apparently it wasn't alphabetically like my other school; it was just random lockers...Joy. I put all the books, pens things like that I'd need in my side bad. I hesitated with my laptop thinking people might take it; I'd ask Jake in the morning. I took my pyjamas out and my iPod. One of my favourites floated through my ears.
It instantly had me in tears.
Hush, baby don't cry
Just get through this night
Overcome
Cuz all that you are
Is broken inside
But they'll never know
They'll never know
I drifted off to sleep as my last tear fell; it reminded me I hadn't exactly told them everything. They didn't need to know, no one did.