" Bella, where are you?" , called my father.
I had to hide my black eye from him because if he seen it he would ask questions and then he might investagate James, which would put me in the grave.
After putting a ton of foundation on, I called out, "I'm in the bedroom".
My father was a non-judgemental man, but even he was disappointed in my choice of a boyfriend and an apartment. The apartment didn't hurt me expect when the roof leaked, but my boyfriend was another story. He abuses be physically, in every way, and mentally. Usually I was a strong person, but it was like James was an animal of some sort.
It all started when I was in high school and after school, I worked in the local bookstore. James was a land developer, who was twenty one at the time and he was a regular at the bookstore because he is an avid reader. At the time he was developing the new mall, it was the first one we had besides the few outlet stores in Port Angeles. He was charming and eventually asked me out to dinner and I of course said yes because no man has ever even looked at me. After a while, I experianced all my firsts with James. But he took one thing from me that I wasn't ready to give until marriage. Yes he raped me, Bella Swan. If only people knew...
"Dad, not that I'm not happy that your here, what do you want?", I said very annoyed.
"Where is James, first of all?", he asked.
"He is at the work, why?"
Me and James had moved in together short after the incident, but I had tried to forgive him. But I was no longer in love with him. He didn't make me happy any more. I stayed for fear of my life and my father's.
Renee died six months ago, someone broke into her house and opened fire. whoever it was they were smart enough to live no evidence. Not even a trace of DNA. And her body was so mangled that you couldn't even tell that it was her. She looked like a complete different person.
"Well I got a call from Jimmy in Port Angeles police station and he told me that he seen James with some red headed girl and they were holding hands. So I wanted to tell you that you should watch your back, Bells. I would hate for you to have your heart broken.", Charlie expressed.
What heart? What red head? It really didn't bother me that he could have cheated, but it bothered me that he still made me stay here. He didn't even let me work. The excuse that he gave my dad is that he has enough money that I should just take care of the house. The real reason: he didn't want to risk someone seeing me with a black and blue and he was also scared that I would tell someone what he does to me. When was he in Port Angeles? Oh yeah last week, he had a new land that needed to be aproved.
"Don't worry dad, James and I are doing great and as for the red head, I don't know any red head maybe she is family or something. There is nothing worry about", I told him, trying to sound convincing. He seemed to buy it.
He was now walking to the door as he said,"Bella, I love you with all my heart and I just want you to watch yourself. the one thing that I learned in life is be friendly to everyone but trust no one. Everyone is possible of everything. I would hate for my work to be involving you. But anyway I gotta go to the station, I love you."
His words hit me like a ton of bricks againest a wall of glass. They were so true,but could anything help me at this point? We'll have to see and find out.
Charlie pulled out of the driveway and a new car pulled in five minutes later. Hell was about to begin...