Alright, thank you everyone who has voted! It was a very close call but the winner is…

"I'm fine Edward." I whispered and squirmed out of his arms. I grabbed my necklace and rubbed it, almost instantly calming down. He looked curiously at my locket.

"That's a beautiful looking locket. Does it open?" he asked. Immediately I shook my head.

"Nope." I said.

"That's a shame. Who gave it to you?" he asked.

I smiled softly and looked down at the golden heart. "The love of my life." (A/N-Its starting to get hard to write. I'm writing this while listening to When You're Gone.)

Edward touched the locket and closed his eyes. For a small second of shredded hope, I thought he was remembering. But then he pulled his hand back and smiled.

"Whoever he is, he's lucky to have your love. Is it the same guy that broke your heart?" something flickered behind his eyes. Sympathy, anger? And dare is say it, jealousy?

I nodded. "The very same. He gave it to me a month before he proposed to someone else."

"Did this idiot say anything in there?" Edward smirked. I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah. He said 'I'll love you forever.'" I bit my lip as tears gathered in my eyes. "I guess he just forgot." I whispered as a tear made its way out of my eye. Edward pulled me into a hug.

"It's okay Bella." he whispered as I sobbed into his chest. I heard a few people coming up the stairs.

"What's wrong with her?" I heard Jane asking, sounding harsh. Of course Edward didn't hear that. He passed me to Alice.

"She's just upset about some douche bag who broke her heart." Edward said angrily. I let out a strangled hiccup that was supposed to be a laugh and I swear I saw Alice smile a little. Alice passed me to Rose who ran her fingers through my hair.

"Are you okay Hun?" she pulled away and brushed a couple tears away. I nodded.

"I'm sorry you guys." I apologized turning red. "God this is so embarrassing.

"No it isn't Bella. You're grieving." Alice hugged me again looking sympathetic.

Rosalie smacked Edward upside the head. "Jackass." she muttered.

"OW! What did I do?" Edward whined rubbing his head.

Rose paused for a second. "You reminded Bella about the guy who broke her heart." she hissed. He looked upset.

"I'm sorry Bella." he apologized.

"It isn't your fault." I said. "I'm going to go to bed. Night." I waved and went into my old bedroom. That night I cried myself to sleep.

5 days later…

I walked down the stairs and into the kitchen.

"Morning." I yawned. Everyone was eating lunch already so I gathered all my food, and began to eat.

"So what's on the agenda for today?" I asked.

"Well we're going to the beach." Alice smiled. I groaned. I didn't want to go to the beach! "Come on, please?"

"Um, fine." I sighed.

"Yay!" Alice cheered.

Then we looked outside.

"NO!" Alice screamed. It was pouring heavily, and I swear I heard thunder. It looked so dark outside, I could've sworn that it was actually six at night instead of 1 in the afternoon.

"Sorry Ali-" lightning hit. Both me, and Kasey jumped and hid under the table.

"What are you two doing?" Emmett asked and his voice was near laughter. Kasey looked at me touched my arm and nodded.

"You want me to tell them?" I mouthed and she nodded. We got out from under the table.

"I think that you guys deserve the truth." I said. They all looked at me curiously. I motioned for Kasey to take off the scarf. She did as she was told and everyone stared at her bandage.

"Kasey what happened to you?" Emmett asked. Kasey grinned deviously, and began to take the bandage off.

"Kasey." I chuckled. She was trying to scare them. Everyone gasped at the sight of her stitched up throat.

She began to talk in a raspy but clear voice. "I'm not a mute."

I glared at Kasey and she shrunk back. "Sorry mom." she put her bandage back on along with the scarf. I swear that I saw a sparkle in Esme's eyes when Kasey called me mom.

"Well, as many of you know about my past." I said. Everyone nodded besides, Angela, Ben, Leah, Jane, and Alec. "Well, the man that had taken care of me-more or less-had sold me into unwilling prostitution at the age of 15." Angela, Ben, Leah, and Jane's eyes widened, and Alec wouldn't meet my eyes.

"Anyway, I took up a second job-"

"What's your real job?" Jane asked.

"I own a fashion industry, La Belle." I said ignoring Alice's sudden widened eyes and glare.

"My second job is capturing rapists, and killers at night, and that's how I met Kasey." I looked at her seeing if she wanted me to tell her story. She motioned to herself and I nodded.

She turned to Edward, and began to tell her story in sign language.

"Why don't you just talk?" Jake asked. Kasey smiled and pointed at me, who was glaring at Jake.

"It doesn't help her recovery." I said through my teeth.

"Um, Kasey says: 'My dad had been cheating on my mother with some lady, and my mother found out. She claimed that she was leaving him, and taking me with her. He shot her twice in the back and raped me.'" Edward interpreted.

"Yeah. I found all that out on the news because he ran away. I went over to Kasey's grandma's house to talk to Kasey. When I got there, Kasey was sort of…uh, er, catatonic." I bit my lip. Esme didn't look unfazed by this.

"Esme…" I asked. "You knew."

"When I put her to bed she began to throw things around her room screaming that she wanted you, that she wanted her mom. She shouted that she thought I was going to hurt her. So I sang and she relaxed and fell asleep." Esme said nervously.

"I'm sorry." I apologized. "Anyway, I had gotten all my answers, and captured her father. I had promised Kasey that her father was my last case. I turned him into the police and would visit Kasey now and then. One day I visited her. Her grandmother was slaughtered, and Kasey was near dead. She had a slit throat and a black eye." I began to shake remembering how scared I was. Kasey grabbed my hand and gave it a comforting squeeze.

"Luckily, I was able to save her with a speeding habit that I had picked up." I winked at Alice, Emmett, Jasper, Rose and Edward. "I had ended up adopting Kasey, and when she awoke, she told me who did it, Sylvia Charmagne, her father's girlfriend. Disobeying Kasey, I naturally went after her. Sylvia was more experienced then I thought though." this was the dicey part. How I faltered because her innocent look made me think of Rose, how would Rose react to that? "I had my foot at Sylvia's throat, and I-I was going to-I wanted to-" I began to shiver. I had almost become what I loathed. Kasey was staring at me deeply.

"Bella, what's wrong?" Edward asked. I realized I was seeing the scenario. I opened my eyes and I felt tears begin to brim.

"I wanted to kill her for what she did to my baby girl." I said in steely whisper. Everyone looked at me horrified. I wiped my tears. "But I didn't. I hesitated." I looked at Rose. "She looked so scared of me. She looked so innocent. I saw you Rose. I saw a younger you under my foot instead of Sylvia. She had blue eyes, and long, golden locks. So when I hesitated she tripped me, and I blacked out." we were all quiet for awhile. Esme got up, and hugged me and Kasey.

"I'm so sorry that you both had to go through that." Esme said. Everyone had hugged us, and then Leah looked at us curiously.

"Why were you guys afraid of the lightning?" she asked.

"Whenever there was a bad storm, with lightning, Phil, the man that had raped me and sold me to other men, would get annoyed because he wouldn't be able to practice baseball. He would drink, and take his anger out on me. He would always look for me, but never thought about looking under the table." I wrung my hands.

Kasey began to do sign language again. Edward translated. "The night my dad raped me there was a lightning storm."

"Wait." Angela looked at me curiously. "Did you say Phil? As in Phil Dwyer?" she asked. I nodded. "Didn't he-"

"Alright kids. Why don't you go see if the TV works!" Carlisle suggested quickly. Angela looked at Esme and Carlisle.

"You didn't tell her?" she asked surprised. Carlisle, Esme, Charlie, Edward, Alice, Jasper, Rose, and Emmett all looked guilty. Jacob wouldn't meet my gaze.

"Tell me what?" I demanded.

"We were trying to protect her." Edward said quietly, almost to himself.

"Yeah, having her alone and unaware, how protective." Jake shot back.

"Hey you didn't tell her either pup!" Emmett said angrily.

"TELL ME WHAT GOD DAMMIT!" I shouted furious. They all stared at me sadly.

"Bella-" Esme started in that tone that suggested that she was making up an excuse but I glared at her.

"Phil escaped from prison Bella. About a year or three ago." Alice said softly. Someone screamed, maybe me, lightning hit, and the power went out.

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