Get Outta My Head
EPOV
I saw Tanya at the local coffee shop ordering a muffin. She leaves crossing the street to the library. I silently follow her. She goes inside to a table where she meets a guy I know to be named Demetri. They hug and sit down and talk. I can't ear them, but I have a pretty good idea about what there talking about. Me. He's spreading lies about me to her. I see them laughing now, he's probably making fun of me. Why is she laughing?
I see Demetri reach for her hand. He grabs her arm, I think he's hurting her. He moves her sleeve upwards to reveal an ugly bruise I had accidently left her the day before. His face shows concern. I try to get close enough so they won't see me. I hear him say "Did he do this to you?"
I can't see Tanya's expression, but I know that she will tell him the truth.
"Yes, he did. I don't know what I did for him to hurt me like this."
I didn't hurt her. I just grabbed her so she wouldn't leave. She's lying to him. She's spreading lies about me. I thought she loved me. I love her. I only want what's best for her.
"You have to leave him, especially if he's hurting you like this. You deserve better than this," Demetri tells her. "Yes I know what I have to do. I don't want to live like this anymore, I love him but I don't want to be like this anymore." Tanya tells him.
She's going to leave me. No. I can't let that happen. I don't know why their lying to each other, I would never hurt her. I love her, I can't let her leave me. I need her.
(…)
I wait quietly in Tanya's room, waiting. I hate when she makes me wait for her.
She comes in, she sets her things down on the floor and lays on her bed.
I click on the light, she jumps up from the bed. "Edward! How did you get in here? What are you doing here?" she whispers, so her sleeping father won't hear.
"Same way I always get in here, to watch you sleep." I reply with a smile.
"Ohh, okay, I had no idea you watched me sleep."
"Tanya, why were you at the library talking to Demetri? I thought we agreed you weren't going to be friends with him anymore." I said.
"Uhh…we had to meet for a school project. And I never decided not to be friends with him. You just assumed since you didn't like him that I would stop talking to him. And Why are you following me?" she said with an angry tone I didn't like.
"I don't want you to see him anymore. And I heard what you were saying. You can't leave me." I said
" I'm sorry Edward, this is getting more and more complicated. I think we shouldn't see each other anymore. Since the last couple months, its been painful, physical and emotionally."
"What are you talking about, I would never hurt you."
She raises her shirt over her stomach to show a big long scar, and raises her shirt sleeve to show multiple bruises. I look terrified at her.
"There are more I can show you, there's a bruise on my neck that you left yesterday. Oh and a gashes on my legs when you kicked me."
"Those were all accidents, and you know it. You made me angry. You made me do it."
She punches me in the face. My nose is bleeding. I look at her confused. 'What'd you do that for?"
"You made me do that, you made me angry. I'm so sorry Edward, it was accident" she says in a mocking tone. "That's how you sound. Ridiculous. Please leave. I don't want to see you anymore."
"What?" I lunge for her and punch her in the face over and over and over and over. My knuckles bleed from the constant meeting from my fist to her face. She's unconscious, I check her pulse she still alive. I look at the blood on my hands. I'm a monster, I don't understand how I could hurt her.
I walk downstairs to wear her father is sleeping on the couch. I wake him up. "Your daughter needs your help. I'm so sorry" I whisper. He looks at me confused, then runs up stairs. "TANYA! WAKE UP!' he screams. I call the ambulance, there on their way.
All that happened after that and before I met Bella is a blur.