Sup people! So this is my new story and it's a Embry Call imprint story so...yeah. And just to assure you guys you will not be waiting for months before I update and worrying I might drop this story, I'm happy to tell you I already have 21 chapters completed. :) So let me know what you guys think and I hope you enjoy it.

Disclaimer: Sadly, Twilight does not belong to me and all rights go to the author, Stephanie Meyer.

Chapter 1: Hiding

Darkness. That what seemed to fill my life these days. Just complete and utter darkness. So I guess it's fit that my hiding spot be in the darkness of my closet. Okay I know what your thinking. My closet's probably the first place he'd check but to be honest I doubt my father even knows I own a closet.

Hi, my name is Grace Uley and I'm 17 years old. You may be wondering why I'm hiding from my dad, well the answer is pretty simple. He beats me on a regular basis. He has been ever since we "lost" mom. I say it like this because if you ask me I'm the only one who lost her. I mean she couldn't have meant much to him since he was the one who killed her. But she had meant the world to me. I was 6 at the time and I'll never forget it.

*Flashback*

I was waiting in my room for my mom to come in and tell me what was going to happen now. Yesterday was the day we had found out the truth. Mom and me had gone to the school on La Push to register me for first grade. My dad had thought it was a good idea for me to be homeschooled and we had homeschooled me for a year but then I decided I wanted to go to a real school with other kids my age and my mom agreed. Dad however did not and tried vigorously to keep me from going to public school but in the end mom and me over powered him. I had never understood why me being homeschooled would matter so much to him until we got to the school. Then it all became crystal clear.

"Hello I'm Mrs. Uley and I'm here to sign up my daughter for first grade." mom told the lady at the desk in the front office.

"Mrs. Uley?" the lady asked her.

"Yes."

"Are you by chance related to Allison Uley? Because if so I was wondering if you could tell me if she's okay?" The lady asked mom. I guess at mom's confused face the lady felt the need to explain.

" I know it's strange to ask now after it been seven years since Joshua left her for that little whore who slept with a married man but it was just so awful. I mean having an affair when your married is in itself terrible but add the fact that he was married with a four year old son too and it makes it horrible! Poor little Sam is 10 now and he doesn't have a father because his dad left him and his mom for some slut." Then the lady leans in and whispers to mom, "I heard that he married the slut not four months after ending it with Allison."

Well with that mom grabbed my hand and ran out with me without even registering me first. I didn't understand what the things the lady said meant. When I asked mom she simply told me daddy had lied to both of us.

When we got home there was a note from daddy saying he had to go somewhere and would be back in the morning. Mom then brought me to bed and told me not to get up in the morning until she came and got me. Even though I was more than confused about all of this, I knew something was seriously wrong and I had a feeling my life was about to change.

So here I wait in my room for mom to come and get me. Just then she burst though my door with a bag in her hand throwing my stuff in it frantically.

"Gracie we have to leave now! I talked to your father and we're no longer safe here. We can't trust him anymore! Grace no matter what happens you must never trust Joshua again, do you understand me?" She yells frantically at me. I nod and she grabs my hand and runs with me downstairs.

We're almost to the door when he catches us. He appears from around a corner and mom quickly puts herself in front of me.

"And where do we think were going?" He asks us.

"Please Joshua just let us go. Please I promise we'll never come back to the rez and you can just move on with your life as will me and Grace will." Mom begs dad, her voice cracking out of fear.

"Oh no Mary I can't let you leave because if I can't have you then no one can."

"Well then let Gracie go please! She's just a child she doesn't deserve any of this."

"Ah but I can't for she has witness all this right now so she needs to stay here so I can make sure she never tells anyone." By this point mom was shaking with fear and tears were steaming down her face. I was surprised that she found the courage to talk again.

"Joshua you may be able to trap us here but you'll never get us to love you. I will never love you again!" she spoke. Dad sighed.

"That's unfortunate because I meant what I said early. If I can't have you no one can!" Then he grabbed her by the neck and pressed her against the wall.

"Mom!" I yelled and tried to pull dad off her but he kicked me in the stomach causing me to fall. Dad was slowly and I'm sure painfully choking the life out of my mom. I wanted to help her, to save her but I couldn't get up. My eyes met my mom's before her body went limp and her eyelids fluttered closed. Dad just dropped her lifeless body to the ground before turning to me.

"If you ever tell anyone about any of this or anything that may happen in the future I will do the same to you." he threated. "Also you are never to step a foot out of this house or have contact with another person again. I don't care if the house is on fire and burning to the freaking ground, you will burn along with it. Do you understand me?" I just nodded unable to do anything else. I knew I would never forget what happened that day.

*End of flashback*

And I never did forget. I still have the same nightmares I've been having for the past 11 years. I also did what he told me. I have never left this house or spoken to someone besides my dad for 11 years now. And in those years, dad has become abusive. Like I said I'm beaten on a regular basis even if I haven't done anything. I get about 5 beatings per day if I'm lucky.

When I was little I had no idea what had happened but now I'm older and I do. Dad had been married with a son named Sam when he met my mom. I don't believe he ever loved mom so I don't know why he did what he did but he got my mom to care for him. He never told her about his wife Allison or son Sam so mom hadn't known what she was doing to that family. Dad then abandon his old family with the excuse that he was in love and he wanted a different live. I, in no way believe that to be true but like I said I have no idea why he did what he did. Well at least I know that he was always a jerk and it's not just me.

I think about Sam a lot. It upsets me that I have a brother, someone left who might care about me, if he knew about me that is, but that the thing right there. He doesn't know about me and probably never will. I imagine meeting him a lot and what he would be like but I know this will never happen. We will never meet and he will never love me as long as a man named Joshua Uley is still breathing. This angers me beyond words that there's a chance Sam could love me but I'll never know for sure.

I have lost almost all hope that I will one day be rescued form this hell whole. I mean how could I not? Like I said I've never stepped a foot out of this house in 11 years. No one knows I even exist. The only thing I can do is hide and hope he doesn't find.

Its seems I won't be so lucky today as I hear footsteps approaching my closet and I instantly being to shake. Now all I can do is close my eyes and wait for it to be over. Maybe if I am lucky my eyes won't open again.

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