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Lyrics from Shinedowns If you only knew

Chapter 3

"He was going to kill me"

"What? What do you mean he was going to kill you?" I asked. I might have been pissed at her. She might no be my favorite person at the moment, but over protective Jake, The Jake who was still in love with her, was seeing red because of those six words she just spoke.

"Exactly how it sounds Jake, He was going to kill me. Remember when you expressed how you felt about me and all that?" I nodded and motioned for her to continue.

"Well I left here and went home with everything you told me still ringing in my ears. I was in my room looking through old photos and found a bunch of me and you from when we were kids, and even more so from our teenage years. Me and you at the beach, Outside the movie theater buying tickets. At the carnival, or just hanging out in yours or my living room. I don't have a childhood memory that didn't involve you Jake." She said. She was looking me right in the eye while telling me this. I don't know if it was to see my reaction or to prove she wasn't lying to me.

"What's that have to do with anything Bella?" I asked her.

"Because Jake, We used to be inseparable. I never wanted to leave your side. We did everything together. I remember every countless time I ended up crashing at your house, and you crashing at mine. Somewhere along the line of memory lane, I came to the realization that I loved you too Jake. I was in love with you. I couldn't picture my life without you." She was starting to cry again… Part of me wanted to reach out and hold her, comfort her, tell her everything was okay…But the other part of me wanted to hear what she had to say first.

"Anyway, I knew then that I wanted to be with you too. But I had to break it off with Edward first. So I decided to go over to his house and tell him how I felt. See I thought if he really loved me he'd let me go and let me be happy. But I couldn't have been more wrong." From the tone in her voice I could tell this conversation was going in a direction that would probably end with me hitting something. I looked away from her, and I was clenching my jaw so tight it felt like my teeth would shatter, but I motioned for her to continue anyway.

"When I told him I loved him but I loved you more and I wanted to be with you, he freaked Jake. He hit me and grabbed me by my throat and told me I couldn't leave him. That if I left him he'd kill me and then find a way to kill you for taking me from him. That he would kill you anyway just so you were outta the picture. If I didn't do what he wanted. I didn't know to believe him or not but the look in his eyes terrified me. He said that he was going to give me a ride home to get some things and that he was taking me away from here so that I would see that he was the right choice for me. That's when I called you and told you I had to go with him…not that I wanted too but I had to Jake, I couldn't take the chance of there being an truth to his threats, Jake I couldn't lose you like that." She stopped then. She started sobbing so hard she couldn't get any words out. She walked over to the chair on the porch and sat down putting her head in her hands. I could see her shoulders shaking for her sobs. But I couldn't pull myself to go comfort her just yet.

That fucker put his hands on her. All I saw was red. I started seeing pictures in my head of him hurting her and I punched the wall to my left cracking the wood under my blow. I didn't mean to startle her but I did. She looked up at me with wide, tear filled, frightened eyes and I realized that I probably just made a mistake.

"I'm not going to hurt you Bella…You know that, and I know this is hard for you to tell me, but can you please tell me why it took you 6 years to come home?" I asked, this is the part of the conversation I've been waiting on hearing. I really wanted to know why it took her so long to come home.

"I cant even begin to tell you how many times I tried to contact you or get away. If I tried to call you he smashed my phone. If I tried to write you he'd burn the letters. Eventually it got to the point where there was never any paper, pens, or phones except his cell phone around. I was literally a prisoner Jake. 5 years. See he messed up one day about a year ago. He went to gas up the car because once again we were moving somewhere else because he had this fear someone would recognize me and take me away from him. So when he left to do that, he figured I had given up trying to get away so he left me in the apartment we were in at the time" Her eyes were wide with excitement as if she did this only yesterday, and she was smiling.

"That bastard, that smug little bastard really truly believed that I had given up and that I wanted to stay with him. So when he was down the street and around the corner, I grabbed a backpack some clothed and the money he kept in a draw in our bedroom for emergency situations which was about 2 grand, And then I ran. Ran as fast as I could as far as I could away from there. Luckily I wasn't that far away from here I was only in British Columbia but I didn't want to take the risk to come back just yet. I knew once he realized I was gone this would be the first place he looked. He'd have come back to forks to see if I came back to you." She said, all the while never taking her eyes off of mine.

"So I rented a car and spent the last year in California working as a cook in a restaurant. I saved up enough money to buy my own car, and possible get my own place. But after a year I had to come home. I couldn't even begin to imagine what you thought of me. What anyone thought of me. I figured id come home to a very angry and distraught Jake, and I was right. But you see why I had to leave. I honestly thought he'd come after you Jake and I couldn't handle the thought of you getting hurt because of me." She said and one last tear rolled down her cheek. I wanted so bad to reach out and snatch it up with my finger and hold her close to me but I didn't out of fear that she'd just run away again.

"Bells, You have to know that he wouldn't have been able to lay a finger on me. I mean have you seen the size of me compared to that toothpick?" I joked as she tried to hide a small smile forming on her lips.

"Jake, I didn't really think about that when he had his hands around my throat okay? Only thing I was thinking about was making sure I didn't give him a reason to act on his threats. I didn't care at that point what he did to me, only thing I thought about was keeping you safe." That was Bella for you. Always thinking about everyone else before herself.

If you only knew

I'm hanging by a thread

The web I spin for you

If you only knew

Id sacrifice my beating

Heart before id lose you

Before I knew what I was doing, I had walked over to her and put my arms around her. Id be lying if I said it didn't feel good to have her in my arms. I felt her little arms wrap around my middle. I laid my cheek on top of her head and inhaled her scent. Oh how I missed how she smelt like strawberries. Always strawberries. But all of this was cut short when I realized something.

"Bella, where is Edward now?" I pulled her back so I could look at her face, she looked scared.

"I don't know Jake. He's probably still out there looking for me. Oh Jake what if he comes here looking for me, I don't want anything to happen to you…" She was rambling, she only did that when she was scared or nervous.

"Relax, Your safe here, and stop worrying about me. He wont touch you or me okay so relax…Come on lets get back inside before the old men start making up stories.." I said with a chuckle.

So with that I followed her into the house, all the while silently promising to kill that bastard if I ever saw him.

Silently from the trees surrounding 'his' house I watched as she wrapped her arms around him. I knew she'd come back here. She couldn't hide from me forever. She was so predictable…

"It's only a matter of time Bella, You belong to me and I will reclaim what's mine. In anyway possible, You will be with me"

Soooo...What do you think? And what do you think will happen next? Im working hard on the next few chapters for you. I will tell you this, there will be a confrontation but it wont be with Edward. Someone else is upset with Bella for leaving and wants to speak there mind? Can anyone guess who?

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