Chapter 1
History
I was 14 when my step-dad started molesting me. It happened for 2 years before my best friend put a stop to it. My name is Bella Swan. For 2 years I was put through a living hell at the hands of my step-father Aro.
Aro married my mom when I was 13. The first year he was great to me. He treated me like his own daughter. Then my mom got pregnant with my brother Alec. That's when Aro started to pay attention to me. My mom was never in the mood to have sex with me so he started pursuing me.
I hated the nights my mom had to go to work. Aro would force himself on me when I came out of the shower. I always thought I had done something wrong. I couldn't understand why he was doing this to me. I never let anyone know. I just threw myself into my studies and my extra-curricular activities. I stayed as late as I could at school.
When Alec was born, Aro stopped for awhile but then my mom got pregnant with my sister Jane. He started up again and this time he was a lot rougher. I would have to wear long sleeves in the middle of summer to hide the bruises from my friends.
The last time he touched me he broke my jaw. I screamed in pain and ran from my home. I ran until my legs couldn't carry me anymore. I called my friend Alice and her twin brother Emmet. Emmet was my big teddy bear He and Alice we're my closest friends in our group.
Our group consisted of me, Alice, Emmet, Edward, Rosalie and Jasper. Edward was an only child. Rosalie and Jasper were twins like Alice and Emmet. Rose is dating Edward, Alice is with Jasper, and I am with Emmet. He didn't know until that night what was going on.
When I called them I could barely talk. I told them where I was and I needed them to come get me and take me to the ER. I should have never told Alice to bring Emmet. He took one look at me and saw red. They took me to the ER and thankfully Dr. Cullen, Edward's dad, was there.
I hated having to write down what happened to me. I knew when Emmet read it he would get Edward and Jasper and go after Aro. Alice and Rose stayed with me in the hospital. We had a police officer outside our door just incase my mom or Aro showed up.
By the time Emmet got back to the hospital my mom had already been there cussing me and calling me a whore. She told me I brought this on myself and shouldn't be flaunting myself around Aro. I told her I was pressing charges and that I was no longer her daughter. Dr. Cullen said I could stay with him and his family. Emmet, Edward and Jasper went and got my things from my mom's and took it to the Cullen's home the day I got out of the hospital.
I knew I would have a huge court battle ahead of me but I knew I would have my friends and their families behind me. We went to court three months after I moved out of my mom's house. I testified but would not look at my mom or Aro. I looked at Emmet the whole time. He had been my rock through everything. Dr. Cullen had let him stay with me every night since I had come to live with them.
Aro received 15 years in jail and I was granted my petition to become emancipated. I still am allowed to see Alec and Jane, but only if someone else is with me. The last 6 months have been a living hell but my life is finally turning around. If it weren't for Emmet and my friends I would be dead by now.
