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"You little whore!" He said tightening his grip on her neck. "I told you before that I left you were not allowed to leave this house no matter what. And now I come home and I find not only did you leave the house but you took those bitches with you!"

Bella's fingers reached and try to pry Mike's fingers from her throat. "Mike…can't… breathe." She gasped "Please…" She begged again sucking in as much air as she can. She could feel Mike's grip getting tighter on her throat. She was sure this was going to be it. Bella Swan was going to die today. Finally letting go of his hold on her throat Mike threw Bella into the adjacent wall hitting her dislocated shoulder.

"You're such a disobedient little dog. That's what you are." He said walking toward Bella grabbing a fist full of her hair dragging her to the bathroom. He slammed her head into the door before throwing her onto the cold tile floor. Opening the curtain to the tub Bella saw a tub full of water. This doesn't bode well at all. Getting up as fast as possible Bella tried to make a break for it she couldn't just stay here and let him do this to her.

Before she could even make it out of the bathroom Mike had grabbed her by her hair again tossing her back into the bathroom, hitting her on her head on the tub. "What do you think you're doing you little bitch?" Mike picked her up by her bad shoulder throwing her into the tub.

Bella struggled against Mike and his strong hold he had on her. This was going to be her last moments on this god forsaken planet. Grabbing onto Mike's hand she clawed and scratched at him pushing against Mike trying to sit up hoping to get a breath in. No such luck Mike was already standing above her with both hands holding her underwater. Trying with all her might Bella kicked and splashed water all over hoping she would be able to escape her attacker somehow. Gasping for breath she could feel the water filling her lungs. Bella could feel herself choking on the water that had totally filled up her lungs. This was it Mike had finally won and Bella was going to die.

"Bella!"

Bella shot up from her bed coughing and holding onto her neck and covered in sweat to see Alice and Rose on either side of her. Looking around she saw that she wasn't at her place but she was with Alice and Rose. Quickly grabbing each of them she hugged them. "What time is it?" She asked seeing the sun light pouring into from her window.

"Elven. But forget about that what happed are you ok?" Alice asked looking intently at her scared friend.
"Yea I'm fine." She lied

"Bullshit." Rose called on her friend "What happened Bella. We're here for you we want to be able to help you with everything."

"Yea. We're going to be here forever girlie you can't get rid of us." Alice said with a playful nudge.

"Alright." Bella said with a smile knowing she had support that was never there before. "I had dreamt that you guys instead had taken me back to the house instead of here and he had…attacked me again… but this time he had killed me." She said shaking her head with a shiver. Her eyes welled up with tears. "It was far too real for my liking." She said once more shaking her head.

"Awww, Honey don't worry we're here for you always and forever." Alice said pulling her into a hug.

"Don't worry. We're not going to let anything happen to you…ever. No matter what happens." Rose said giving her friend one final hug. "Listen, Bella." Rose said suddenly getting very serious. "We wanted you to come stay with us so long ago we had plans to tray and ask you to move in with us but we had no idea how to get in contact with you. If you had not had contacted us last week we would have had no way of seeing you. We're sorry that we couldn't get you to move in with us sooner… we could have avoided this." Rose said looking very solemn.

Bella looked at Alice and she had the same grave look on her face. "Don't worry about it." She said with a wave of her hand. "It wasn't your fault. I don't think I was going to be able to leave until I was ready anyways."

"Bella we have to go to the restaurant." Rose said giving Bella a hug.

"Are you going to be ok home alone?" Alice asked staring intently at her friend.

"Yea I'll be fine I can relax and enjoy some time with Sam." Bella said encouragingly to her friend. "Mike said I wasn't allowed to keep her in the house so it will be nice to be able to spend some time with her." She said nodding again hoping that she wouldn't make her friend worry too much.

"Alright then we'll see you later tonight." Rose said giving her one last hug before the two of them exited with room.

Bella got out of bed to watch her two friends get into the car and drive off. Looking around the place Bella thought she should get more familiar with the place seeing as she is going to be living here. She smiled thinking that she really could get used to the idea of that. In her own room she had a huge closet and her own bathroom. Her own bathroom! Just for her. Mike had always said it was 'their' things, even though Bella was the one working and buying everything.

Walking out into the hallway there were four doors. The first door was Rose's room; the second was the bathroom, right across from the staircase; the third was a linen closet full of soaps and towels, the last room at the end was Alice's room.

Down the staircase Sam was sleeping on the couch, she perked up and trotted toward Bella looking more carefree than she had seen her in a long time. Walking into what was a very sizable kitchen Bella couldn't help but smile and nod. This place defiantly looked like something Rose and Alice had put together. There was a long island and a huge fridge perfect for entertaining anyone.

Opening the fridge Bella grabbed a container of milk and cereal. Bending down she picked up Sam's dog bowl deciding to feed her before she sat down to eat herself.

After fixing Sam's food Bella sat down and poured her cereal. Looking back at Sam she watched her eating her gulping down her food. Bella figured she wasn't fed yesterday since Mike never did anything to help Bella she didn't think she had a moment yesterday to take her dog container outside. Thinking about Mike made Bella a little upset. He had so much influence in her life; because of him Bella had lost contact with Rose and Alice. Everyone that was important to her Mike had managed to drive them off. If she hadn't called Rose and Alice when she did she was sure that her nightmare would have come true. No Mike, no stress everything seemed perfect she could defiantly get used to this.

Hearing a car pull up in the driveway, Bella felt her heart beat accelerate. She wasn't expecting anyone here all day and she was sure if someone was going to stop by Alice and Rose would have told her. Sliding off her chair she walked to the front door just in time to see Mike getting out of her little Nissan Sentra headed right for the door. Rushing over to the sliding doors on the other side of the room she quickly locked them before heading to the stairs taking a seat. Not even wanting to breathe too loud in case Mike heard her, she sat as close to the wall as she could.

"Bella?" Mike said knocking on the door. Looking over at Sam Bella could see her teeth bared and a growl coming from her chest. "Come on, Baby, I know you're in there." He said in his sickly sweet attempt at being charming.

At one point in time it was sweet and Bella liked it. But now it just made her stomach churn. She knew that it was a matter of time before he would hit her again. She couldn't go back there again.

"Please, baby, I'm so sorry let's work this out, please." Mike said trying to sound sincere. "Baby, Honey, I know I was wrong. I'm so, so, so sorry I shouldn't have treated you like that. Come on open the door please babe. I won't ever treat you like that again." Mike said pleading through the door.

Maybe Mike was really going to change. He had never said sorry like that before and he was sounding sincere. Maybe, just maybe this time he really did change. He might have finally realized that he had taken advantage of her and shouldn't have treated her like that. This could be a new life for her finally. She could finally have the family that she really wanted, a dream that she thought she had left in the dust a long time ago.

Shaking her head Bella turned to run up the stairs. There was no way she was going to return to that life style. She had thought before that Mike had changed. There were times when she was packing her things and he said that he would change so much that Bella had finally decided that she would stay. But look at how it turned out in the end it was all the same she would do something that would make Mike mad and he would go back and hit her telling her that it was her fault she was getting punished for doing something wrong. Bella had bruises all over back and legs from crouching while Mike was hitting her.

Before shutting the door Bella called for Sam letting her in the room locking the door behind her. Either Mike was going to leave…or he was going to break down the door. Bella really didn't like those odds but at this point she didn't really have much of a choice.

"Open this fucking door, Bella; I know you're in there." Mike bellowed now pounding on the front door.

Running to her bed Bella jumped up throwing her covers around her. As child-like as it sounded but she felt safer like Mike couldn't get her. Hearing him pound on the door though, Bella wasn't so sure how safe she was right then. Calling Sam Bella started to pet her canine companion's head trying to calm her nerves.

"Bella!" Bella woke to a start to hear her best friend pounding her pixie-like fist on the door. "Open up Bella!"

Looking for Sam Bella saw her wagging her tail staring at the door. She smiled thinking how convenient it was to have a friend who could tell her who was at the door. Groggily Bella got out of bed stretching her stiff muscles trying to get them to relax a bit. Opening the door she saw her friend standing in front of her with concern all over her face.

"Why did you lock the door?" Alice asked hugging her friend.

"Mike came to the house. He was banging on the door and demanding that I open it for him. He was saying how he was sorry and that he didn't mean any of it and he wanted me to come back. After I didn't answer he started pounding on the door. I was scared he was going to break it down so I came in here and locked the door." Bella said thinking that she should omit the part where she had a miniature lap in judgment and almost opened the door for that bastard.

"Well it's a really good thing you didn't open the door." Alice said pulling her friend into another hug.

"I have a way we can deal with that if that bastard decides he wants to show up again." Rose said walking into the room.

"Yea what?" Alice said confusion in her voice.

"Get an alarm system." Rose said matter a factly.

"Yea! We can do that plus three girls living in a house alone? We probably should have invested in one a while ago." Alice said nodding her head. "I'll go make a few calls." She said hoping off the bed making her way downstairs.

Rose moved over to Bella taking Alice's spot putting her hand on Bella's. "Are you ok? I know that must have been hard for you." Rose said sounding truly concerned for her friend.

"It was really scary to say the least." Bella said nodding her head and pulling her fingers through her hair. "I think I think I'm going to quit my job at the law firm they can find a new secretary. I don't want Mike to find me there. If I'm home I can lock the door but I can't lock an office door."

"Bella." Rose said a smile spreading across her lips. "I think I might have a solution to that problem relatively soon." Rose said practically jumping up and down.

"Well out with it already." Bella said smiling for the first time today.

"You can get a job at the restaurant! We just had to let go of one of the waitresses and I was going to have to go through the horrible process of having to meet new people and interview them but instead I can just hire you!"

"Yea that's great and all but I've got a dislocated shoulder." Bella said motioning to her cast.

"We can take care of that. I'll just let you take my job as hostess for a little bit and I'll do the waitressing. I don't mind it won't be a big deal." Rose said shrugging her shoulders. "Come on lets go tell Alice she's going to be stoked!" Grabbing her good hand Rose pulled Bella out of her room downstairs.

Maybe things were actually turning around for Bella she could have a future, maybe not the one with a husband and kids. But a future where she wouldn't have to take nightly beatings and have to worry about what kind of clothes she's wearing to cover herself up or having to wear makeup on her legs. Yes this was looking like it was going to be a very good future for her.