Swapping Wives

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This is probably my last post of the day, sorry guys but the weekend for me is over (I hope I have another three day weekend soon) and I have to go to school tomorrow.

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Chapter 4: Maria

Bella

Emmett walked out of the storage room with the box.

I followed behind him until we were back into what I called my temporary room.

"You were my best friend" He said opening the box.

"You had just found me after I witnessed my father and my mom having this big argument." He pulled out a photo album and handed it to me.

I looked at it curiously before taking it and sitting down on my bed to look through it.

"My dad was worrying about how to find a job and when I found out your dad was a cop I figured maybe he could help my father find one. He did, the moment my dad got a stable job was when my parents stopped fighting. We became best friends. "

I looked through the photo album seeing pictures of a small boy and myself. I assume the boy was Emmett.

The more I thought back on it the more everything made sense. I did know a boy with Emmett's name back in forks but I had no idea that this was the same Emmett.

"When we got older I would pull you into my pranks and you'd make me focus on studying. I swear it was a pain to get you out of your room away from your books." He said chuckling taking a seat next to me.

"I remember that. I didn't know you were that Emmett. You look so-"

"Different? Yeah. Not the same lanky guy I was back in high school huh? I totally would have made it on the football team if I was like this back then. Now you can finally trust me and believe that I will not hurt you." He said turning the page in the album.

"Why didn't you ever say anything?" I asked, if he knew it was me all this time. Why did he keep silent?

"As you can see I was struggling with my marriage myself Bella. I planned on saying something after I was sure Rosalie and I were okay. She just never changed. Trust me, if she slept with someone else then their wife or girlfriend would be in this room. It just happened to be you." He said looking at the pictures.

"How do you even know she cheated with Jasper?"

he laughed, he still had that booming laugh.

"Elevator camera. I had Rosalie followed and your husband just happened to be there. I called up the hotel and did a few things and soon I could see everything that was going on. Though this took a few hours to plan it worked out. You might not have been here if they waited to get to the hotel room but she attacked him the moment the doors closed. It was pretty obvious what happened afterwards." I swallowed back nausea as he told me what happened.

I loved Jasper dearly, the pain never lessened whenever I found out about his latest conquest.

"Why would you stay with someone like that Bella?" He asked "What happened with you and Edward?"

I let out a weak laugh, Edward Masen and I used to date back in high school. We were still together when Emmett moved away.

"When you left Jasper moved to town. Him and his girlfriend Maria." I told him.

"The first girl he cheated on you with?" he said, it confused me too.

"Yeah. Edward went to a party one night and got wasted. I went to his house to see him the next day and saw him and Maria in bed together. I called Jasper crying. He was so upset that we just bonded together after that."

Emmett nodded slowly as he processed the rest of the information.

"So, how did he get back to her?"

I felt tears sting my eyes as I thought about it.

"You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to."

"No, I need to. I've never had anyone I could talk to about these things." I told him.

"Not even Angela?" he asked

"No. Jasper made me lose contact with her years ago." I confessed. Angela Webber was one my only real female friend. She still tried to call me sometimes but Jasper was always around when she did. I could never answer the phone.

"Bella you're making it sound like he was controlling you, like Masen all over again." I laughed at the irony.

"It was! So, Jasper and I were married for a year when Maria showed up. I was with child." I said thinking back at the memories.

"Bella.."

"For some reason Jasper just wouldn't touch me. He kept saying he was afraid of hurting the baby." I said

"Not uncommon." he commented

"That's why I didn't question it. I went out with some co-workers, the girls at the office. Though they weren't talk about talk about your troubles at home kind of friends. I told Jasper I might be late. I got home earlier than intended and caught him in bed with Maria. I was so upset that I just wanted to get away from him. I ran out and got into the car. I had tunnel vision. I didn't even notice the truck coming at me." I trailed off into a sad smile "I lost the baby. I was in the early stages of my pregnancy so no one knew about it. No one except for Jasper who paid the doctors to the quiet. That's why the only thing the Media found out was that I got hurt. Nothing about our unborn child."

"That was just the first time he cheated?!" Emmett said getting off of the bed. I looked at him as he started pacing.

"After the result of the first time he STILL continued?!" My eyes widen, I could see the anger rolling off of Emmett.

"It was years ago Emmett!"

"And why didn't you leave him?!" He turned to me making me flinch. His face softened as he went towards me. "Bella he is no good for you."

"I felt like I needed to try to fix things. Charlie told me to leave him and I didn't. We lost contact after that."

"Lost contact or Jasper wouldn't let you speak to him?"

"...That and That led to Charlotte." I said.

"Charlotte..They never said much about her."

"Jasper paid them not to. Why would he want the media knowing he ruined his brother's marriage?" I said closing the photo album, placing it beside me in bed.

"What?"

I looked up at him smirking.

"Yep, Charlotte was his brother, Peter Whitlock's wife."