So sorry about the little chapter snafu guys, was my mistake as I didn't double check the chapter I put up as I was in a hurry. But it's nice to see how involved you all are getting in this story, enjoy my loves.
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Chapter four
BPOV
It had been three days since I had shown up on Esme's door step, two since Rosalie had showed up unannounced and one day since I had torn through all of my old things that Es had kept for me.
I had managed to go through all the boxes and after six hours of sorting through my past managed to come out with only two boxes of things that I wanted to keep. Es had dropped the rest off for me this morning at good will before she had to go into the office at the garage to fix some kind of fuck up, before heading to the salon to check on the girls and deal with a few of her regular clients.
So I had the house to myself and absolutely nothing to do. I can't leave the house for fear that someone will see me and tell my dad, or worse E that I'm back in town. I so don't want to deal with that. So sitting on my fat ass watching Netflix again it is.
After breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen for Es I made myself a cup of green tea and headed into the lounge room to pick something to watch.
After deciding on season three of Dawson's Creek I settled in for the day. This sofa was possibly the most comfortable sofa in the world and it didn't take long before my eyes started to droop and Pacey and Joey faded from my vision.
I was sitting on my front step waiting for E to show up and drive me to school, I knew I should have taken the lift my pops offered me. But nooooooo I had to be cool and wait for my boyfriend to drive me to school on his new Harley.
It was really cold out here and I was just glade that it's not meant to rain today, that is if the weather man was to be believed because those clouds sure did look like they were full of rain to me.
Finally I heard the sound of an engine coming up my street and E pulling up my drive way.
I stood up and walked down my drive way to wait for him to shut the bike off. With my back pack thrown over one shoulder I crossed my arms and jutted my hip raising a perfectly plucked eye brow at him.
"7:30 huh?" I asked and took a glance at me watch, it was 10 after 8.
"Sorry, my dad stopped me. He had like 100 rules for me before I could leave the drive way." He shrugged and handed me a helmet to put on.
"Yeah well now we are going to be late to home room and it's all your fault." I told him while to clipped the helmet up and slid on the bike behind him wrapping my arms around him.
"I said I was sorry." He said as he kicked the bike to life and we sped off to the high school.
10 minutes later we were pulling into the lot and E was parking his bike next to Emmett's. He was leaning against it with Rose settled between his legs waiting on us.
"Well finally." She called to us and pushed away from Emmett, as she walked you could just make out the curve of her belly. I still couldn't believe that she was pregnant and that she was keeping it, at 16 I just don't think that I would be able to do that. "We are so going to be late." She told me as she shot E a nasty look.
"I know." I shot E the same look and shoved the helmet at him, "See you at lunch." I told him with a quick kiss and left with my arms linked with Rose.
I heard a slap and Emmett call out 'Shit dude!" before the doors closed behind us.
"So what did you guys have a quickie or something this morning?" Rose asked as we headed straight to home room, by passing our lockers.
"Are you kidding? I was freezing my ass off waiting for him. Apparently the Prez was reading him the riot act before he was allowed to leave his drive way this morning." I told her and pushed our home room door open just has the second bell rang. Mrs Peters shot us a look that clearly said she was not impressed, Rose shrugged and walked to her seat and I followed her, it's not like we were going to miss much, it was just home room. "Charlie offered me a ride but E was so excited to give me a lift on his new bike that I waited around for him, but I swear one more morning of me freezing my butt off and I'm getting my daddy to drive me, at least there is a heater in his truck." I told her while going through my back pack to find my lip balm for my wind chapped lips, I needed to get a closed faced helmet for this kind of weather. At this rate I was going to have old cracked lips in no time.
"You're Daddy?" Rose laughed and pulled a bottle of water out of her bag and continued to sip on it.
"Yes my Daddy, get over it." AH HA! I found my lip balm right at the bottom, after slathering my lips with it I then had to pack all my books back in my bag.
"Well you can always ride with me, Em won't let me ride with him anymore, it's not safe." She looked down to her tummy while she ran her hand over the small bump.
"I didn't see your car in the lot?"
"Es dropped me off, my car needs a tune up so it's at garage. I can pick it up after school." She told me, as the bell rang with got up to head to our lockers but Mrs Peters stopped us.
"Cutting it a little close this morning ladies, aren't we?" god I hated this power tripping bitch, you're a teacher love, outside of these walls your nothing. But out loud I responded with, "Sorry miss, car trouble" shrugged and walked out.
"So what are we doing this weekend?" Rose asked as leaned on the locker next to mine.
"Es wanted me to pick up a shift on Saturday at the salon, Lettie is out this weekend. But we can hang out on Sunday."
"Why didn't she ask me to pick up a shift on Saturday? She knows I need the money." Rose huffed and slammed my locker door closed, making me jump back.
"It's cool chick, I was finished in my locker anyway." I mutter sarcastically and shrugged my back pack over my shoulder.
Rose was half way down the hall by the time a court up with her and she was still muttering to herself.
"Rose I would stress too much over it. I asked Es for an extra shit if she had any, and you're working three days after school this week anyway. You don't want to over work yourself." Told her and found my seat in my Math class.
"Yeah yeah." She waved a hand at me and opened her books. I guess that was the end of that conversation.
By lunch she was over it and we were talking about baby names and laughing about the silly choices that Emmett was coming up with.
"I kid you not, if we have a boy he wants to name him Augustus, like the little fat kid from 'Charlie and the chocolate factory'."
This was how the boys found us at the lunch table laughing and giggling.
"What's so funny over here?" Emmett asked as he swung his giant leg over the bench seat and faced Rose, while Edward jumped up onto the table in front of me.
"Oh nothing, just girl talk…. Augustus" I couldn't help the fit of giggles that followed, which set Rose off again and left Edward puzzled.
"How could you Rosie!" Emmett stood up from the table and stared at her in disbelief. Anyone would have thought she had told me his deepest darkest secret.
"Oh calm down you big goon." She pulled the front of his shirt down so that he fell down back into his seat, "You'll get over it."
Laughing I looked away from them as they started to make out, I didn't need to see these two trying for baby two when baby one was still in the oven.
"How was the first half of your day Baby?" I looked up at him as he puffed out a lung full of smoke.
"Fine, I showed up today, so that was enough to almost give Mr Greyson a heart attack." He chuckled and slid down to sit next to me on the bench.
"Haha well that would be a successful morning" I laughed and leant in to kiss him softly on the lips. "What else happen? Anything interesting?" I asked between kisses.
"It wouldn't be school if anything of actual interest happened now would it?" he pulled me closer to him and deepened the kiss, holding my face in both hands and running his tongue along my lips, begging for me to open up to him, and who was I to tell him no?
I moved to wrap my legs around his waist and my arms around his neck. I tilted my head to the side just enough to deepen the kiss even move, his hands slid from my face down my sides and stopped to cup my butt in his large hands and pull me, if possible, closer to him.
"Mmmmm, lets skip the rest of the day and go back to my place." He left a trail of hot kisses down my neck and across my collar bone.
"Oh god," I moaned and pushed my chest into his.
I had almost forgotten that we were sitting in the school yard until the end of lunch bell sounded and Emmett wacked Edward in the back of the head with his back pack.
"Ok that's enough of that, let these pervs pay for that shit." Emmett laughed and pulled Rose under his arm and they laughed together and headed back into the school.
I gave him one final kiss, stood up and grabbed my back pack, "I'll see you in Bio babe." Smiling I headed back into the school. God that boy was going to kill me.
By the end of the day I hadn't seen E again and I really wasn't surprised, there was no way after being that worked up at lunch that he was going to stay until the end of the day and not be able to touch me.
Rose and Emmett were standing at my locker at the end of the day waiting on me.
"Hey B, E asked me to tell you that he would see you at the club house after school, he had some shit to take care of." He shrugged and kissed Rose, waved to me and headed out to his bike.
"Es is going to pick us up out the front." Rose told me while shaking her head at the retreating Emmett, "I honestly don't know what I see in that guy."
"My guess is about 8 inches is what you're seeing." I added as I closed my locker with a shrug.
"Bella!" Rose slapped my arm and burst into a fit of laughter, "OK so maybe your right." She added with a giggle.
Es was waiting in her black Cadillac,
"Hey baby girls." She greeted us with a smile as we climbed in.
"Hey momma Es." I kissed her cheek as I climbed into the back seat so that Rose could take the front.
"How was school my Darlings, I didn't get a phone call today so I'm guessing it was rather uneventful." She pulled out of the parking lot and headed toward the garage and club house.
"Yep pretty boring, just another school day."
"How long did my son actually stay on school grounds today?" she asked ideally as we drove through town.
"Until lunch, he almost gave his math teacher a heart attack with his simple presence." I told her as Rose and I argued over the radio.
"Well at least he showed up today, that's a start, even if it was only to been seen on his new bike." As we pulled into the lot I spotted Emmett and Edward working on their bikes with a few of the boys from the garage giving them pointers.
"I think your car was ready Rosalie, but just double check with Lettie, she's helping out in the office this week." As we got out of Esme's car Rose headed in the garage office and I followed Es into the club house.
"Oh Bella before I forget will you grab the camera out of Carlisle office, I need to get a photo of the boys with the first Harleys."
"Sure Es, I headed back to Carlisle's office to find the camera.
I found the camera straight away on the end of Carlisle's desk and ran back out to the yard where Es had the boys sitting on their bikes waiting for her to take their photo.
"Found it Es!" I called from the door and ran over to them, Edward and Emmett didn't seem too impressed with this whole ordeal. The boys from the garage were trying not to laugh at them with Es still standing there but it didn't seem to be working very well.
"OK, big smiles boys!" she held the camera up and the boys put on the biggest smiles they could force. "Oh that's perfect! Now I want one with Edward and Bella" she looked back at me over her shoulder with the perfect motherly smile, how could I say know to that face.
"Come on babes, get that sexy ass over here" I rolled my eyes at that but none the less headed over to climb on behind him. He pulled my arms around him and I snuggled into his back.
"Perfect"
"Es! I'm home!" I startled when I heard the sound of the front door slam close. My eyes popped opened and I sat up with a start, it was dark outside and the TV was on an ADD loop.
OMG! Carlisle!
"Carlisle?! What are you doing home?" Es shouted down the stairs, I heard her feet not long after, at that moment I heard glass shatter on the entry way floor, I spun around to see Carlisle standing in a puddle of wine and broken glass.
"Bella" he looked from me to where I can only image Es was now standing in the entry way, "what the hell happened to your face?!"
Why is that the first thing that these people say to me? Is a simple 'Hi Bella' too hard for them.
"Carlisle I thought you were staying at the clubhouse tonight?" Es ignored his question and brought his attention back to her.
"Is this why you have been making up fights with me? Making me sleep at the clubhouse? Because your harbouring this little run away?!" he wasn't quite yelling, but he defiantly was calm either.
"Harbouring is such a hard word…" I started to interject,
"Quiet you!" he pointed at me, but didn't take his eyes off Es. "What the hell is going on Es, your keeping secretes from me? Hiding an enter person, a person who happens to be my best friends daughter? A daughter that ran away with our grand"
"Carlisle! Please! She needs our help, please; what happened in the past needs to stay there" she cut him off and began pleading with him, "Look at her face, don't you think there is a reason I have kept this from everyone? We wanted to get Bella back to perfect health before Charlie seen her, or Edward for that matter" Es came over and sat on the arm of the sofa and wrapped an arm around me.
"What happened Bella? Who did this?" Carlisle walked into the room, he was still tense but he seemed to more focused on the bruises on my face than anything else. He held my chin in his large calloused hands turning it from side to side to see every bruise.
"Please Carlisle I just want to forget about it, I just want to be with my family and make everything better again." I couldn't help the tears that welled up in my eyes and there was no way possible that I could hold them back.
"Ok sweet heart, everything is going to be ok" he pulled me to his chest and hugged me.
For the first time since I had left New Mexico I finally felt like things were really going to be ok. I had my family and they would make it all ok.
"Go get some sleep and we will deal with this all in the morning." He gave me one last squeeze before I got up and headed up to my room.
Hopefully I could have a dreamless sleep for the rest of the night, I didn't need to be dreaming about the past anymore. I needed to move on, to start living now. The past was over and if I had any chance of surviving in Forks I just had to figure out a way to get the rest of this damn small town to let that shit go as well.
BS
The next morning I felt rather refreshed, and thankful that I couldn't remember any of the dreams that I had had after I went back to sleep.
After a shower I headed down to have breakfast and watch cartoons with Es. I don't know why I was so shock to see Carlisle sitting at the breakfast bar, but I was.
"Good morning everyone." I smiled at them as I headed for the coffee and the cereal.
"Morning B, how are you feeling this morning?" Es never took her eye off of me as I made my breakfast, I felt like I was under surveillance.
"I feel ok, the pain has gone mostly now. I slept really good last night, I needed the sleep in to apparently." I looked up the big red clock on the kitchen wall, it was 10 after 11. I never normally sleep this late.
"Well I'm glade you're feeling better baby girl." Es said.
"Do you want to talk to me now about who left those bruises on your pretty little face? Or are we just going to pretend that they aren't the elephant in the room?" Carlisle leaned forward on the counter and levelled me with his steady gaze.
"After I eat?" I held up the bowl in my hands with a small grin.
"Eat your breakfast kid." He told me and took a sip of his coffee, Es shot me a grin and tried to stifle her laugh.
Finally I there was nothing left in my bowl and the coffee pot was empty, I had no excuses left to use and Carlisle new it. We headed in to the lounge room where I curled up on the sofa.
"Well, what happened?"
"When I left six years ago, I made my way down to New Mexico. I found a job and I meant who I thought was a nice guy that I started dating. He was a really nice guy up until about a year ago when his business started to go under and he started drinking. That's when he began taking his anger and frustration out on me. I thought that if I just made more money and took care of all the bills everything would be fine. But it wasn't. It started out him just yelling at me, and slamming doors, than he slapped me one night.
After he apologised and said it would never happen again, and it didn't, for about three months anyway. Than it started to get worse, the girls I worked with started asking me questions about the bruises on my arms and the first time he pushed me down a flight of stairs I cracked a rib and had to lie at the Hospital and tell them I had tripped getting out of my car.
About a week ago I told him that I was leaving and I couldn't take it anymore, that my body couldn't handle it anymore." I gestured to my face with my hands before laying them back in my lap. "As you can see he didn't take the new that I was leaving him too well. I asked Es not to let anyone see me like this, I don't want my daddy to have to see this." I was crying before I had finished telling my story, the three of us were so wrapped up in what I was saying that we didn't hear the front door open, or notice Edward standing in the doorway until I looked up to wipe my eyes.
"Edward!" I couldn't help the gasp that fell from my lips, I never wanted him to see this, definitely not a crying sobbing mess.
"I'll kill that son of a bitch!" and with that he turned and headed back out the door, a minute later I heard the growl of his bike start up and the splatter or stones as he flew down the dirt driveway.
"Shit! Carlisle you have to after him!" Es yelled at her husband, he seemed as though he was in shock still staring at the door that E had just left from. "GO!" she yelled again and finally he sprang to his feet and ran out the door.
"Well this day just can't get any worse." I muttered and fell back down on to the sofa. Es let out a sigh and fell down next to me slapping a hand down on my knee with a pat.
"Tis the life huh kid?"
And there we have it ladies and gentleman another chapter for you. I felt so bad about how long he took me to get the last one out that I thought I would treat you with a quick update of chapter 4.
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