Hi, I'm back with a whole new story including most of my favourite characters. Remember I don't own any of these characters as Stephenie Meyer thought of them first and claimed them. Now without further ado, I present to you the first chapter of For Your Sake. By the way, I plan on using the plot of this story for a book I might publish some day so I just want to tell you all not to pinch any of my ideas.
For Your Sake: Chapter 1
EPOV
I got out of my bed groggily as I switched off my alarm clock at 6 am. A lot of people would say I'm crazy for getting up this early but if they knew my father, then they would think that I am the most sane person there is but than again I preferred not to be associated with my father, whom I hated passionately, might I add. I splashed cold water onto my face to knock these unpleasant thoughts out of my head as well as to wake myself up. I got dressed and ran down the stairs as fast and as quietly as I possibly could so as not to wake my father, if I could, I would take my mother and leave this place behind as far as possible.
But I was still underage, and my mother was too ill to take responsibility of the both of us and leave. I could never leave my mother alone to cope with my father; she was much too weak and afraid of him to fight back against him, who gambled, smoke and drank and sometimes got violent towards her. However, he daren't do anything whilst I was in the room, he used to abuse me as well, until I got tall enough to tower over him, I was also stronger than him now thanks to the long hours of hard labour I had suffered at the gym for the last couple of years, for my mother's sake.
It was a small comfort to think that I was nothing like my father, apart from his broad shoulders and build; I had inherited nothing else from him. Whenever I looked at him, at how rude, selfish and greedy he was, I would always decide that I would be the complete opposite and I suppose that in turn was what had helped to make me a better person. I came into the kitchen where my mother was making breakfast for the both of us; I gave her a peck on the cheek which she barely acknowledged as she kept peering anxiously up the stairs for the sound of my father's footsteps. Although this was her usual routine, I could not stop the surge of anger and hatred for my father that overcame me for reducing my mother to this condition.
Mom placed a plate of breakfast in front of me as I smiled back at her, I always made sure I was smiling in front of her, to try and reassure her, to ease some of her misery.
"Are you going to Esme's house later on?" I enquired, hoping that the answer would be yes. Esme was my friends, Alice and Emmet Cullen's mom, she looked after my mom as she knew that she was ill but I always made sure that she never found out what the reason for mom's illness was as Esme thought that my father protected and loved my mom. The trouble that would be caused if she ever discovered that that was a lie would be irreversible.
"I'm not sure, maybe" mom answered nervously, she was always nervous even when she was out of this monster's dungeon, sorry, I mean our house.
I nodded and finished my breakfast before giving my mom another peck on the cheek before leaving the house. I hated leaving my mom alone in the mornings but I had to go to school, at least I had the comfort of knowing that she would be leaving for work soon. I walked over to Emmet and Alice's house, my ride to school for this morning. I knew how to drive but with my father always gambling, our family didn't have the money to buy me a car of my own. We just about managed to satisfy our daily needs thanks to my mom working.
I knocked on the Cullen's front door, my anxiety for my mom making me impatient.
"Hey Eddie" Emmet boomed as he opened the front door with his usual goofy grin plastered onto his face.
"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that, Emmet?" I sighed in exasperation.
"Err, let me see, last time I counted, it was about the billionth time" Emmet grinned at me as I rolled my eyes at his childishness.
"Alright, where's Alice?" I asked.
"Last time I checked, she was still getting ready" Emmet shrugged.
"Well, tell her that if she doesn't get down here now, we'll be late, it's only school for god's sake, not an audience with the president" I said tetchily.
"Edward, man, you need to relax, she'll be here in a minute, why are you always so tense in the mornings?" Emmet responded. I said nothing, how could I possibly tell Emmet of all people that the reason I was so tense in the mornings was because I was always so racked with worry for my mom?
"Okay, let's go" Alice trilled as her small pixie-like form bounced out of the front door, the sunlight bouncing of her spiky, jet black hair. I sighed at her ever-lasting- energy. I didn't sigh because I was frustrated or sad or anything. I sighed because I knew that Alice and Emmet together was an exhausting bundle of work that you could not let out of your sight for even a second and that was just what I needed to take my mind off my troubles at home. I needed my loyal, trustworthy friends who were such great friends that you could never find anyone as good as them even if you searched through the whole world.
My friends who would never abandon me were Emmet and Alice Cullen, Rosalie and Jasper Hale, and Bella Swan. They were all so loyal, kind and trustworthy, but despite all of this, I still could never tell them about my father because they would get involved and try to help. My father would most likely get taken away to prison or something but that was not why I did not tell anyone about him, I hated him and wished with every fibre of my body that he wasn't part of my life but if he were taken away, that would destroy my mother for she loved him still and believed that he did too and I could never hurt my mother like that.
I got into the car with Alice and Emmet, glad that I could turn to my friends and know that they would help me by taking my mind off these things even though they were all unaware of all of this, but I was still glad that they were my friends.
BPOV
I arrived at school and parked my truck. I then got out and waited for all of my friends. Rosalie and Jasper arrived first and I was talking to them when we all saw Edward, Alice and Emmet arrive. Emmet ran towards Rosalie and engulfed her in a passionate kiss whilst Alice sprinted gracefully towards Jasper and gave him a small peck on the cheek. We all glanced at Emmet and Rosalie who still hadn't separated and we rolled our eyes.
"Good morning, Bella" Edward greeted me.
I felt my heart accelerate as I looked up at him, at his disarrayed, bronze hair, his shimmering green eyes, his adorable crooked smile, and every other beautiful feature of him. My heart was beating so loudly that I was surprised Edward couldn't hear it and tell how deeply in love with him I was. But why would it ever make a difference to him? He only thought of me as a friend, his clumsy, silly friend.
"Well, it's not going to be a good morning for long as we have biology next" I replied teasingly but was secretly thrilled that I have a lesson with Edward, the prodigy of beauty.
Edward chuckled and a thrill went through me upon the sound of his musical laugh. His glance wandered off to Emmet and Rosalie who were still making out and his smiled turned into a grimace. Alice and Jasper, like us, were also staring at Emmet and Rosalie.
I heard Alice mutter from beside me "Okay, this has gone on long enough, any longer and they'll be treated to a sight of my breakfast".
I laughed and was about to tell her to make sure that she project her breakfast onto them rather than on my shoes but she had already whizzed away from my side to a boy who was drinking some water from a bottle. Edward, Jasper, and I watched her converse with the boy when she returned to us with the water bottle in her hand. We all stared at her quizzically, but she just grinned and opened the bottle.
Then so swiftly that I almost missed the movement, Alice jerked the bottle upwards whilst aiming in the direction of Emmet and Rosalie, causing a torrent of water to cascade in the air and land on the couple, drenching them from head to toe. Emmet and Rosalie broke apart with a gasp as the water soaked them. Their expressions were so puzzled and their hair was plastered to their heads as drops of water dripped from them forming a large puddle at their feet. They looked hilarious, looking so soaked and confused that we all burst into laughter. Comprehension dawned on Emmet's and Rosalie's faces as they saw the water bottle in Alice's hand.
Rosalie's expression turned livid as she looked away from her dripping hair and to Alice whose laughter instantly shrivelled up as she saw Rosalie's furious face.
"You. Got. My. Hair. Wet!" Rosalie snarled at Alice menacingly and Alice looked scared as she realized how angry Rosalie was.
"Hey, you lied, you said your friend was dehydrating" a boy accused Alice as he walked up and snatched the water bottle out of Alice's hand before walking away again.
Rosalie let out a screech as she lunged for Alice, or should I say, tried to lunge at Alice as Jasper caught Rosalie and endeavoured to restrain her whilst Alice squealed and ran to cower behind Edward who, like me, was shaking with silent laughter as he tried to refrain from laughing hysterically aloud.
"Don't worry, Rose, I'll teach her a lesson she won't forget" Emmet grinned at Rosalie who stopped struggling in Jasper's arms.
Jasper let go of Rosalie and ran to stand by Alice's side, near Edward. Emmet walked up to Alice, stooped down and started shaking his head wildly from side to side so that millions of drops of water fell on Alice, soaking her as well. However, Rosalie was standing nearby and so received a handful of water in her face as Emmet shook his head. Alice and Rosalie both squealed at him to stop, whilst Edward, Jasper and I rolled about laughing.
"Emmet, you giant moron, you just got me even more wet! Stop it!" Rosalie screeched so loudly that several other students turned to look in our direction.
Emmet froze in the position of a crouch with his back bent and his head down as he stopped in the middle of shaking his head dry. He stood upright very slowly to see Rosalie's furious expression.
"Hey, Rose, baby, I didn't see you there" Emmet laughed shakily.
Rosalie turned to Alice, who was also looking at Emmet angrily as her spiky hair dripped water, and said "I'll kill you later after you help me kill this idiot".
Alice nodded and they turned to glare at Emmet.
"Emmet, I'd say you have three seconds to start running" Jasper choked out through his barely concealed laughter.
Emmet needed no more telling, he gulped, swivelled around and sprinted away in the opposite direction as though his life depended on it which was the case because Alice and Rosalie were ready to kill him.
"Emmet Cullen, I am going to murder you!" Rosalie shrieked as she ran after him, Alice right on her heels.
Jasper, Edward and I burst into laughter as we watched Emmet race around the parking lot frantically with Rosalie and Alice chasing after him.
"Well, we'd better get to class or we'll be late, I don't think Emmet will even live to explain why he was late" Jasper said in between laughs.
Edward and I nodded, laughing too hard to even speak.
We entered the building. Edward and I said bye to Jasper as we walked together to our biology class. The two of us walked without saying anything to each other, still chuckling now and then as we thought of Emmet running for his life.