I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT!

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There will be acts of violence in this chapter, but again there will not be rape.

CHAPTER 4

The following day Jake came over to help me pack, he said that Paul couldn't be here right now but he would be here later to help me. Ben and Angela were at her parent's house so they couldn't be here to help this time, and Jessica was out of town with Randall. Rachael and Marcus were babysitting this weekend so they wouldn't be able to help either.

"So, have you found a place to stay yet?" Jake asked me as we were packing up the kitchen. I knew that he wasn't going to like what I told him.

"Yeah, um, last night after you left, Edward took me over to one of the apartment buildings that he owns, I'll be paying the same amount there as I was here in rent, so that will help out a lot." I thought maybe this would help easy the blow of when he actually saw the place.

"Oh, so you will stay with him them? Don't you think it's a little early to live with the guy, I mean you have only gone out on one date? Are you even dating yet? You met him what 2 weeks ago right? Why would you be living with him?" Jake sounded really upset and hurt that I would be there.

"I'm not living with him; he owns the apartment building that's all. Yes I have only known him for 2 weeks, but he still offered me the apartment. As for us dating, I don't know, like you said we have only been out on one date, we were going on our second one when all of this happened. The building has a lot of security to it also, when we first walked in the doorman greeted us right away, and Edward showed him a picture of James and said that he was not allowed in the building or outside of it; if he was around they were instructed to call the police right away. You have to have a keycard and pass code to even get in the place, so that will help to keep him out I hope."

"Let's hope so, it sounds like the security in this place is good. That was nice of him to offer one of his apartments for you to rent, he does know that once James finds you again that you will be out the door moving right?"

"I don't know Jake; let's see what happens here ok. Maybe the security will be good enough that I won't have to move, I would really like that. I'm tired of moving, this packing up your life to start over is getting ridiculous, I mean why should I have to move every time he finds me, why can't the police do what they are supposed to do? Why where we not notified that he was getting released?" I was ranting, I knew it but I was frustrated that this was happening again. Jake came over to me and wrapped me in his arms, I broke down then, I was scared that James was going to live true to his words, but at the same time I was angry that I had to move again. I guess in a sense I didn't really have to, but there was no security here and I knew that with him out of jail that I needed to move someplace that had security to it.

"Shh, it's going to get better right? I mean you have this wonderful guy here who is your lawyer, he will find out why the hell you weren't notified about his release, and you also have a guy who is looking out for your security, not to say that I don't but I really did drop the ball on this one. Plus you have great friends who would love for you to stay here with us and not have to move across the country again." I nodded my head, I didn't want to have to move across the country again either, it didn't work out so well the last time, I figured if me moving to another state didn't stop him from finding me then I should be by my friends, so I moved back. I don't know how long we stayed like that, but we were interrupted by a knock on the door, I wasn't expecting anyone so I asked Jake if he would answer it for me. I stayed in the kitchen just out of the way so nobody could see me but I could still hear everything that was going on.

"Hi, can I help you with something?" Jake asked the person at the door.

"Yes, I'm looking for Bella is she home?" I didn't recognize the voice so I had no idea who it was.

"She's not here right now; can I ask who you are? I can let her know that you stopped by."

"My name is Emmett, I'm Edwards's brother, and he said that you guys might need help packing things up and moving into the new apartment." When Emmett introduced himself I walked over to the door.

"Jake it's ok, he is Edwards's brother. Hi Emmett, nice to see you again." I smiled at him, he seemed like a great guy but I hadn't really talked too him much.

"Hey Bella, that was a smart idea to stay hidden from the door; I would have been kind of pissed if you would have answered. I know that Edward has told you that I work at the shop with my wife Rose, but I also do security as well." I moved out of the way so that he could come into the apartment, Rose was right behind him also, I wasn't expecting her to be here and help us.

"Hi Rose, nice to see you again," she was intimidating and I wasn't sure how to take her yet either, she was quiet the whole time we were at the pizza place.

"Nice to see you too, I see that you have someone here with you." The tone she used I think that she thought that Jake was my boyfriend or something and that I was leading Edward on.

"Yeah, this is my best friend Jake; his boyfriend Paul will be here later to help us out." I thought I would just get that out of the way now so there was no confusion later. This way she also knew that he was in no way interested in me. It was a common problem with us, people always assumed that we were together because we would hold hands walking down the street or he would kiss me on the cheek.

"Oh, that's nice of him." I could tell right away that was what she was thinking.

"It's ok Rose, most people have thought that we are together but he want's nothing to do with me that way, we have been best friends since we were in diapers. Our parents were friends so we grew up together also." Rose nodded in understanding, I could tell that she was trying not to pass judgment but it's hard when you don't know that Jake is gay.

"So how did you know that I was moving today? You know what never mind, I know how." I shook my head and laughed, he had said that his brothers would be able to help me today, and I hadn't called to tell him that I needed the help so he just sent them anyway.

"Jasper, Alice, and Edward will be here in just a couple of minutes, I wanted to see how you would answer the door. Ed said that Jake didn't know who I was so it would be best to send me up first, this way if you answered the door you knew who I was but if someone else answered they wouldn't. I don't know if you have met Jasper yet so we didn't want to send him just in case."

"Ok, well thank you for helping me, my other friends were busy this weekend and couldn't help out. They always have before, even when I lived across the country, they all flew out to help me pack up and move back here."

"How many times have you moved?" Rose asked me curiously.

"3 times in the last 3 years. I'm so sick of packing up and moving because of that jackass, I wish they would lock him up and throw away the key, but even that won't stop him. He found out where I lived when I was out of state also, he was still in jail then, so he had to have someone following me or something. I made sure that my name was unlisted in the phone book and that nobody but my friends had my address or phone number, but somehow he managed to find me again. That was the second time; this is my third when I moved into this building 6 months ago. Now it will be my fourth time in 3 years, yippy joy!"

"Wow," was there only reply. I guess Edward didn't tell them that part.

"How much did Edward tell you about the situation?" I asked just as there was another knock on the door, I just looked at Jake for him to answer it, when Emmett said that he would because he was sure he knew who was at the door. When he came back in Edward, Alice and a man I didn't know walked in, I'm guessing that he must be Jasper.

"Hey," I said as I got up to go met Edward, I wrapped my arms around his waist and he wrapped his arms around me and kissed the top of my head in greeting.

"Hey, how did you do last night? Did you get any sleep?" He asked me, I just shook my head, I didn't sleep much last night, I was too worried that he would come back and finish the job that every little noise made me jump. "Well tonight you will sleep soundly in your new apartment. I want to introduce you to Jasper; I know that you met Alice when you put in your application at Twilight." He said as he turned me around in his arms so that my back was to his chest but his arms were still around me. "Jasper, this is Bella and her friend Jake, guy's this is Bella." I noticed that he didn't put a title after my name so I didn't know what to think about that.

"Hi, nice to meet you Jasper," I said as I shook his hand in greeting.

"Nice to meet you as well, I have gone over your application also, once you get settled into the new apartment come on over to Twilight and we can talk some more."

"Ok I will, thank you," I said. I directed everyone to where they could start and gave them boxes and the packing supplies they would need. I still had a lot of items that were already packed up so those were loaded into my truck and the truck Emmett had brought over with him. Edward took them all over to the new apartment to unload and then come back, we continued this well into the night only stopping to eat. Around 10pm, Jasper and Alice said they would be back in the morning to help finish up what was left. Emmett and Rose said they would also be back to help. Paul and Jake were going to take one last load over to the new place and call it a night themselves. Since the bed was still here I decided that I would stay here tonight because while my couch looked comfy, it was a killer on the back to sleep on.

"Thank you everyone for your help today, I don't know how I would have got as much done without you all." I said as everyone was leaving for the night, I gave everyone a hug when they left. I was really grateful that they helped out, it would have taken be days to get this all done and loaded if it would have been just Jake and I doing it.

"What time do you want me here in the morning?" Edward asked me on his way to the door.

"I guess around 10am, that way everyone will have had a good nights sleep and it's not too early in the morning, there isn't much left that will go over there."

"Are you going to stay here again tonight? I know that you said you slept but I can see it in your eyes that you really didn't. Why don't you go over to the new place?" He asked me, he seemed like he wanted to say something else but then just stopped.

"My bed is still here, and though the couch looks comfy it's not. I have fallen asleep on that more times then I care to admit and I always wake up the next morning with back pain."

"You could always stay at my place; I mean I have an extra room you can stay in. Then you will at least get some sleep, not having to worry about that guy finding you. He wouldn't be able to get in anyway; you have seen how the security is there."

"You live there too? I didn't know that, why didn't you say anything?"

"I was going to take you there this weekend and try to cook dinner for you, but things kind of got in the way." I felt really guilty that he had all of these plans and I screwed them up. "Hey, don't feel guilty about it; it was not your fault in anyway. Like you said they should have notified you about him getting out of jail, so you had no idea, things happen. I'm not mad about it, if that's what you're thinking." He said gently, I could see in his eyes that he wasn't mad about having to cancel our plans or any plans that he had for us this weekend.

"I don't know I just don't want to be in your way tonight. Don't you want to go out, it's a Saturday night, you should be going out to the bars picking up chicks and having a good night, not worrying about how I sleep."

"I don't want to go out unless you are going with me, I really do like you and would like to see where this relationship goes; do you not want that?" He was nervous when he asked me, of course I wanted it but I wasn't sure if he did.

"Yes I do want that, I just wasn't sure what was going on with us is all. I mean do I introduce you as a friend or someone I am currently seeing? I mean I don't know, the last boyfriend I had well you've met him, he turned out to be a real treat." I said sarcastically.

"I don't want to rush you into something that you're not ready for, I would love for you to be my girlfriend but if it's too soon then that's ok too, we can just date for now and then go from there. I would like to be exclusive even if we are only dating." He led me over to the chairs in the kitchen that were left, they stayed with the apartment so I wouldn't be taking them with me, it was probably a good thing too or we wouldn't have anywhere to sit down.

"I do want to be your girlfriend, it's just I don't want you to get mixed up in all of the shit going on right now. This guy will go to any length he can to get to me and if he knows that we are together he will go after you too. I already feel bad that he has ruined the weekend that you had planned for us and if he were to hurt you I wouldn't be able to hand that." I was quickly loosing my emotions and I needed to get them in check. I sucked in a deep breath and blew it out slowly when Edward came to stand right in front of me and placed his hand on my shoulders.

"..About that. We all have things in our past that we're not proud of, but what can you do about it? Nothing, yes the police should have done there job in letting you know that he was being released, they also should have kept a better eye on him to make sure that you were not the first person that he went to. You are very tired, why don't you just come to my place for tonight, then tomorrow we will have everything all packed up and moved into the new place. You will be able to get some sleep, and then we can talk more about this in the morning ok?" He was so caring it made me want to cry even more, I just nodded my head and followed him out.

I must have fallen asleep on the way there, because I could feel someone shaking my arm. I slowly started to open my eyes when I did I was met with green ones.

"Hey sleepy, we're here now, come on let's get you up to bed." He said as he helped me out of the car, I was leaning on him for support because I was so tired. I don't remember getting into the elevator or him unlocking the door. The last thing that I remember was him carrying me to the bedroom and placing me on the bed, then taking off my shoes, I felt him kiss my forehead and wish me a peaceful nights sleep.

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I was walking into the old apartment to finish packing, I had told everyone to give me a few minutes. I wanted to make sure that I had everything, do one last check of the place, when I felt someone come up behind me and put there hand over my mouth so I wouldn't scream.

"You know you'll never get away from me, you can run all you want but I will find you. Your boyfriend won't help you either. In fact you won't be seeing him anymore because I have already killed him." He told me, I could feel myself shaking in fear. I could feel him moving around and then there was something pressing into my back.

"I have a gun here, you will walk in front of me and down the stairs, and if you make any motion or sound that will alert someone I won't hesitate to shoot you." He pushed me forward so that we would start walking, I wanted to slam the door closed to alert someone that something was wrong but I didn't want to take the chance of him shooting me or anyone else. I did as he said and walked down the stairs, when we got to the bottom he opened the door where he had a car parked. The windows were tinted so dark that nobody would be able to see in, I knew that I was going to die today. When we got to the car he put me in the driver's side and told me to move over and put my seatbelt on. I had no idea where we were going or what he was going to do with me. He suddenly pulled over to the side of the road and reached into the glove box and pulled out a blindfold.

"I am going to put this on you now, I don't want you to try anything funny either, remember I have a gun." I nodded my head I looked out the window too see if I noticed anything familiar that I could remember but I didn't. When he had the blindfold on me he started to drive again, we were in the car for what felt like hours when I felt him turn onto a dirt road. Finally he came to a stop and shut off the car; he opened my door for me and grabbed my arm roughly to pull me out of the car. I could hear him unlocking a door, there was complete silence, not even the birds were making a noise. He led me over to a chair and told me to sit down; when I did he tied my hands and feet to the chair and took off the blindfold. When my eyes finally adjusted to the light I looked around to see where I was at, it looked to be a cabin of some sorts. The floor plan was completely open, you could see everything, the only door was what I guess to a bathroom because I didn't see one, and you could see the bed that he had been sleeping on and the kitchen.

"What do you want James?" I finally asked him, I had been silent this whole time not sure if he was going to go crazy or not.

"What did I do that was so wrong that you would cheat on me? I mean was I not caring enough, did I not spend enough time with you? What! What did I do?" He was getting more and more upset, I wasn't sure what to do now, and every time I told him that I didn't cheat on him he didn't believe me.

"I swear to James I never cheated on you, why don't you believe me? It hurts me so much to know that you don't trust me James." I was trying to play it off that he was hurting me, maybe he would feel some sort of compassion, but that backfired on me.

"You stupid bitch! I trusted you! I would watch you everyday flirt with all of those men, I saw how they lusted after you! And yet you still sit here and tell me that you never cheated, you lying bitch!" He slapped me across the face, I tried to fight back the tears but it was no use, there were flowing down my cheeks. I could hear James mumbling to himself about something, I was worried now, I didn't know what he was going to do. He walked over to the kitchen and pulled out a knife from the block, and started walking back over to me.

"WH…What are you going to do?" I asked him shakily, I had a sick feeling that he was going to use that one me.

"Awe, don't look so scared, this won't hurt you to much I promise," he said with a gleam in his eye.

"Would you really want to hurt me like that James? I thought that you cared about me."

"Well I did in the beginning, but now, I just want to watch you suffer like I did. Do you know what they do to you in jail?" I shook my head, I had no idea what jail was like, but I doubted that they had knives in there. "They like to make you think that your safe and then torture you slowly, make you think that it's all in your head while they do it." Great is that what he was going to do to me now? "I think that's what I'm going to do to you, torture you just like they did to me, slowly." He brought the knife up to my skin and slowly started to drag it down my arms, pushing just hard enough to break the skin so the blood would bead up. I was trying so hard not to scream out in pain.

"Please, please don't do this James, I swear on my life that I never cheated on you, you have to believe me. I'm begging you please don't do this." I was openly sobbing now, pleading with him not to do this. "What do you want me to do? I will do anything, just please stop."

"What I want is for you to tell the truth, until you do I will keep doing this, did you know that your blood has a unique color to it?" He was looking at the blade closely, examining my blood I guess. When I was silent to long he dragged the knife over my other arm, I screamed out in pain and he just laughed.

"Ah yes, there's that sound, the sound of true pain." This man was sick in the head, how could anyone want to watch someone suffer in pain. "Now are you going to tell me the truth?"

"Yes, please just stop, anything." I thought I would try it his way and see what would happen, I knew he was going to kill me but maybe this will speed things up a little. "I did cheat on you, I don't know what happened."

"See that wasn't so hard now was it," he said just as he brought the knife up to my chest. I screamed as loud as I could hoping that someone might hear me.

"BELLA! BELLA! Come on wake up baby, wake up." I could hear someone sobbing, when I opened my eyes I was meat by scared green ones. "Oh thank god, I was trying so hard to wake you." He said as he held me in his arms while we both cried. I didn't realize that I was screaming out loud, I knew that his room was down the hall and I wondered who else I woke up.

"I'm so, so, sorry that I woke you up, I didn't know that I was screaming out loud. I hope I didn't wake up the neighbors." I said once I had finally calmed down some.

"No, you were yelling in your sleep so I came in here to see what was wrong, I tried to wake you up. I was shaking you and then you started to scream, I didn't know what else to do so I just started to talk to you and try to wake you that way."

"Thank you, I really am sorry that I woke you up."

"You didn't wake me; I was in the living room watching TV when I heard you. Do you want to talk about it?" I shook my head no; I really didn't want to relive that nightmare. "That's fine, if you change your mind I will be here to listen." He tightened his hold on me for a while; I was starting to get sleepy again while he held me. "You should try to get some more sleep; I'll be in the living room if you need me ok?" I shook my head no; I didn't want him to leave yet.

"Um, would you stay in here with me, at least until I fall back to sleep? I mean unless you don't want to that fine I understand." I said looking down at my hands while I twisted them together. I saw Edward place his hand on mine to stop me from fidgeting and put his finger under my chin so that I would look at him.

"I will gladly stay here with you until you fall asleep, nothing is more important than making sure you are safe and comfortable. Let me go shut off the TV and lock up, then I will be in ok?"

"Ok, thank you," I said, he got up from the bed and went to take care of the things he needed to. While he was doing that I went into the bathroom and washed away the tears, I came back into the room and curled up under the covers and waited for Edward to come back. When he did, he was in a pair of sleep pants and no shirt; he climbed into the bed with me and pulled me close to him.

"Goodnight love, try to get some more sleep."

"Goodnight," almost as soon as I said the words I was out for the rest of the night.

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