Chapter 1

Bella Swan is in a not so hot relationship with Mike Newton and have no idea how to get out with him not knowing, so when Edward Cullen step up to defend Bella when Mike hits her do she sees Edward as an escape route or does she stay with Mike

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As I look into Edward's eyes I knew he was the one for me. Never in my 22 years of living did I ever think I would have found someone so perfect, so beautiful, that I thought it was to good to be true every single day. He smiled at me and said, "You are truely dazzling me with your beauty every waken moment that I am with you", when in reality it is he that do that to I. I didn't feel the tears come down my cheeks and about time I did feel them I had a small water stain on my new silk pajamas that Edward brought for me just yesterday. He asked me, "Why I was crying" and I said, "Because I was happy to have him with me", when in truth just by his words, and after all I have been through I finally found someone I feel I could spend the rest of my life with. But before we go on to the years of my existence with the most wonderful person in the world, lets go back to before he came into my life and the first time we came into each others.

"Mike I don't want to talk to you anymore okay, so just leave me alone." "Bella I am sorry I cheated." "I was stupid." "Can you forgive?" "No Mike now get away." "What's your problem Bella, I said I was sorry so why don't you just forgive me already!" "Mike just leave me aloooooooooone!" He gave me a quick kiss on the cheek and said alright, that he would talk to me in first period. I said alright as he walked off to class. "Hey Bella are you alright?" Ang said as she saw Mike heading for the stairs. "Yeah Angela I'll be fine." Angela sighed and said "You need to stop giving him so many chances, he just going to keep on doing that because he knows you let him." "I know, but I love him okay." "I feel you should just let him go, I mean why stay with someone you know who will hurt you repeatedly, if I was you......... Alright Angela damn can you stop interrogating me like I did a crime!" Angela was silent. "Im sorry I wasn't making it any better was I." "No but its okay you care about me that's all, Im sorry I yelled at you, its not your fault its mine, do you forgive me?" "Yeah I'm just worried about you bella." "I know Im fine really." The first period bell sounded. "I'll see you at lunch alright." "Kay."

"Its been four years since Mike and I started dating, and he already changed into a different Mike, not the one I had strong feelings for in the beginning of our relationship", Bella thought to herself as she walked into the class not wanting to because Mike was in there, and not wanting to because Mr. Brown was at the board writing long ass equations for us to do in like what an hour and some minutes, I mean come on dude were are sophmores, shit to be honest I barely remember any off the stuff I did in the ninth and eighth grade, but that was Mr. Brown for you, always saying if you dont take the challenges in school and conquer them how will you take the challenges that are in the real world. Hey Bella, Tyler said as I sat down in front of him breaking me out off my reverie, Mike wanted me to give this to you. I took it and look at it like something was going to pop out at me, but eventually I opened it. And it said:

Hey bella I am so sorry that I cheated on you it was stupid. I was stupid for doing that.

Please forgive me. I promise to be faithful from now on and to show you that I mean it and that I care for you I am taking you out to dinner and then we are going to have a

walk thorugh riverside park so we can get some ice cream from the stand at the end of

the walkway and later on I have a surprise for you . I love you.

First I look at the note and then at Mike. Right on his face I saw our whole relationship since the 6th grade and then he gave me that familiar smile and mouthed the words I am sorry and that he loves me. I turned around but didnt know what to write at first: wondering if I should go with Angela's advice and dump him and his cheating ways for good or should I give him another chance, me knowing that deep down he is a sweet person and that he loves me and didn't mean to hurt me like he did.

Tell you what I will do bring me to all those places you said you were going to bring me to

and afterwards I will see whether you are worthy enough to be forgiven but if you do somthing

like this again Micahel Sam Newton I will never forgive you and I will leave you for good no

matter where you say you'll take me.

I gave Tyler the note and got out my math binder and in the process saw what time it was which gave me less than an hour to copy down the equations and try to turn it in by the end of class. As I got out my lucky pencil Tyler tapped me again, and when I turned around to see what he wanted I saw that it wasnt Tyler but Mike so when I asked him "what he was doing in Tyler's seat" he said "he just wanted to say he would go with what I asked and to see if I want to go sit in his car for lunch" I smiled and said yeah which he then stood me up and kissed me full on the lips for a mere 3 minutes that led the class into saying oooooohhh followed by Mr. Brown turning his back on the board to see what the oooooohing was all about and saying Mr. Newton if you spend more time on your math work and less time macking on Miss Swan you would probably go alot further with your life, now will you go back to your seat.

As Mr. Brown saw that he was going to his seat he turned back to the board, which gave Mike a chance to kiss me right on the cheek as he went to sit back down. With 10 minutes to the bell I was able to finish up all the equations and turn it all in so I reached in my bag to get vampire diaries when I felt Jessica Stanley and Lauren Mallory glaring at me like I was some kind of experiement and that they were scientists doing the expirement. I knew Jessica liked Mike since the 6th grade so when she finally was forced, not encouraged by Lauren, to ask him out already because she was sick of Jessica talking about him and her everytime they got together, he said he's not looking for a girlfriend right now and she was heartbroken which led her to confiding in Lauren,her supposed to be,but in my opinion is not, best friend since 1st grade, who is an evil vicious girl who does nothing but do bad things to people who were or are mean or cruel to Jessica. (Hint, Hint)

Every since they found out that Mike and I have been with each other for four years, I have been getting the glare from them both or in Lauren's case the evil eye. I gave them what I thought was a friendly smile but all I got was Jessica looking like she wanted to beat me up, but wouldnt dare because she's the Reverend's daughter of our small town church and wouldn't do something like that that would mess with daddy's reputation and the phrase, "if looks could kill", is the way I would describe Lauren's glare because that is exactly what she would have done to me for letting Mike kiss me like that and right in front of Jessica too. But I wasnt worried about her neither because my dad Cheif Swan in town are close friends with Cheif Mallory and made Lauren promise she wouldnt do nothing bad after that incident last summer at camp when she scared Ang and me from going near Mike because it made Jessica upset, or a certain person wouldnt be getting her skull guitar she asked for this christmas. Which I'll be surprised to say that she is actually holding out her promise and that except for the glares they are not as bad as they were when we were in middle school, but that is a entirely different story that you will here another time. I wanted to say Jessica despite how much you hate my guts that Mike isn't what you thought he was or that he isn't the always-good-guy-never-hurt-a-girl-he's-dating guy that you made him be in your mind. I wanted to say if I were to switch lives with you just for a week just to show you how he really treats his girlfriend I would. I wanted to say in the beginning he might act like your typical high school boyfriend, but during your relationship with him you will see sides of him that you never thought he had. I wanted to say that he lies, cheats, and isn't faithful and that despite all that he do, despite all those times that he hurt me, choked me physically and tried to sexually abuse me repeatedly I'm still with him, I'm still giving him chances, Im still forgiving him because I need to keep his love to know that no matter what he do to me when it all comes down to it he will always love me. But I didn't and I especially didnt say that last one cause I know he'll just take it out on me and say that I am making him do this to me. The bell rung but I didnt hear it I was to busy thinking about my past how I was a different Bella before I met Mike and a way different Bella now, so when Mike shook my shoulders I jumped up and screamed, which caused the people still in Mr. Browns class to stare at me like I had 3 eyes or something. "Bella are you alright," Mike kept asking me the whole way to study hall which even though was driving me nuts I ended up saying that I was fine.

When we got to study hall Mike grab my booksack and told me to sign in while he got me a computer and him a table. I had an essay to do and he was looking over some old notes when Edward came over and we started talking about an upcoming english project. I asked Edward could he be my partner for the project to see if Mike would trust me or have some kind of faith in me, but that little ship sinked before it got a chance to leave the harbor. In my peripheral vision I saw Mike staring at us and he looked like he was pissed that I didnt ask him to be my partner like I usally do and also like I usually do it consist of me ending up doing the whole thing by myself and him on myspace or texting his ass-whole of a cousins Paul and Jared. Once I saw that I became extremely angry at him because how could downgrade me like that thinking automatically that I wouldn't be faithful when I was even when he wasn't repeatedly and I became angry at myself for not realizing that Edward was a nice person and also quite the dazzler to and for a split second I was about to ask Edward did he want to go out with me, for a split second I was going to go over to Mike and break up with him, for a split second I was seeing a different bella, an Edward's Bella, one that will be happy and will always find that Edward is what HE seems to be which is a real sweetheart and not an ass like Mike is, when his younger sister Alice called him over from the other side of the library which led him to say he said he had to go but that he would give me the answer during the week. Once Edward was out of sight Mike came by me and looked like he wanted to hit me which wouldn't be the first time. "Bella how could you." "You know you and me always did our english projects together." "No Mike I did all our english projects by myself while you slept around with these sluts or text ass-holes 1 and 2" I said and that was truth. " He slap so hard I thought it echo off the walls and reverberated back to me. The shocking part was not that he slap me in public because that wouldn't be the first time, nor was it that he slap me yet again. The shocking part was when I looked around us I saw that everyone heard us and the slap. I couldn't stand here with him or with them staring at me like that so I just ran out the library when he grabbed my hand. "Bella he said you know that is not true." "Really Mike! Really!" " We really gone go through this again?" I pulled my hand away from his and walk off. He grabbed it yet again. "Okay I'm sorry" he said as he turned me around then as usual he would fake like he was the victim saying I should not make him to this to me.

With study hall over he asked me did I still want to go to his car for lunch and I just ignored him which made him even more mad to the point where he grab me and shoved me into the lockers as he held my neck in his hand "I said do you want to still to go to my car for lunch" he said feircely I shook my head yeah and he let go of the grip he had on me. As soon as we got into the car I started crying and when he saw this he looked like he was deeply hurt for what he did to me. "Im sorry bella I just dont like you around Edward he is a bad person. When I didnt say anything he turned my head so that I had to look at him and kissed me sweetly like he used to when we were in the 6th grade and that made the whole situation confusing on his part because almost everytime he did me wrong and he knew it he always seem to know how to get himself back in my good graces and confusing the most on my part because he did just what I said he would do, make me forgive him because he knew I would, because when he asked I forgave him and that my friend is the part that still have me dumbfounded. We sat there for 10 minutes when he began to kiss my hand, then my arm, then my neck, saving my lips for last because he knew he won me over right then right there. DAMN I should have just broke it off with him it would have been better than this pain I have to endure at this moment, at every moment that I am with Michael Sam Newton.

When I finally got out of the car, I waited to see if he was going to walk me to class but he said he had to get a book for history. I said alright but knew he was lying and I wasnt hurt because I did this to myself. As soon as I was at my locker I saw Ang there waiting for me with a paper bag in her hand. "Hey Ang what's up?" I said and "what's with the paper bag?" "You said to see you at lunch and I did" she said alittle hurt. "Oh Ang I am so sorry Mike asked me did I want to go to his car for lunch and I said yeah forgetting that I told you that we were going to have lunch together." "It's okay I didnt wanted to a burden which is why I didnt go looking for you so I just ate lunch in the cafeteria and then went into Mr. Greene's room. "I really am sorry Ang." "I know it's not like you did it on purpose right." "Of course not Ang I wouldnt do that to you you are my best friend." "Hold these for me I said as I put my makeup on." "What's that on your neck Bella" Ang said as I applied blush to me cheeks. "Oh nothing I did that in my sleep." "You did what looks like a neck burn in your sleep" she said disbelivelingly. Ang knew it was Mike that did it, she knew it was Mike that always did it but she wanted to hear from me. "Bella" she said in her stern voice that always made me feel like a little kid. "Ang dont okay he didnt mean to." "Yeah right like he didnt mean to give you that scar on you left leg for not coming to first period which is the reason why you dont wear shorts or capris or open toed shoes for that matter." "Ang i said dont." "I am really worried about you Bella I think you should just break it off with him and go out with Edward." "I know wait what did you say." "I think you should just............. not that part the part about Edward." "Oh he was in the cafeteria today with Alice and they joined me at our table since they didnt have no more seats left and that I think they thought I was eating alone." "What did he say." "Nothing much just that he and Alice saw you in the library and said what you two was talking about and when he left to go get a couple of things out of his locker it was just me and Alice and she said that he said that he really likes you but didnt know how to ask you since you were going out with ahole." "I think it is cute that he's all shy and tongue tied around girls his age." I stood still for what felt like an eternity. "Bella. Bella okay your starting to scare me what's the matter." "Nothing said as we headed of to class."

My last two classes were a blur with me thinking about what Ang said. I thought I finally got a way to be free of this no relationship relationship, but all I had to do was close my life with Mike up for good and I could tell from then on that it wasnt going to be easy because just like Mike isn't faithful he's not understandable either. I knew I was just going to dig myself into a deeper whole than I already was in, so I had to endure those supposedly secret feelings that Alice told Ang that Edward felt for me.

When school let out I went straight over to Mike to give him his goodbye kiss or to try at least. So when he back away I stop and looked at him dumbfoundedly." Are you cheating on me Bella he said out of the blue like he just asked me what time it is? "What? "What are you talking about Mike." Eric here said he overheard you and that bitch talking about Cullen." "First off how dare you accuse me of cheating without hearing me out first. Instead of listing to your bitch you should get the facts yourself and second off how dare you talk about Angela you dont know her like that." "I know enough of her to see what you dont see and that is she is jealous of our relationship and have tried to sabatage it by bitching to you about why dont you leave me and that I am no good." I slap him good and hard too and walked off to my car. I started the engine put my top down and drove off into the sunlight like nothing happened.