Bella's POV

I heard a faint beeping noise and slowly opened my eyes to a bright light. As my vision became clear I realized I was in Carlisle's study, lying on a a soft cushion.

"Bella, how do you feel?" a voice asked me. I looked around and saw Carlisle next to me. Beside him was Esme.

"My head hurts," I answered. He nodded.

"You have seven stitches in the back of your head," he told me.

"Bella, what happened?" Esme asked, while taking my hand. I closed my eyes for a moment trying to clear my head and figure out how to talk again.

"Tanya," I heard Carlisle say. Where was she?

"I'm so sorry Bella." Alice? I haven't heard her voice sound so caring in so long. "I'm sorry for everything," she apologized. Was this a joke? Did Carlisle and Esme make her do this?

"Bella, can you sit up?" Carlisle asked. I nodded and slowly sat up with his help.

"What do you want?" I asked Alice with a glare.

"I swear I didn't know... None of us did. I thought you wanted him to..." she trailed off in a whisper.

I looked at her for a long moment. She had better not ask for forgiveness. After all she had let Tanya do to me. She was supposed to be my sister and bestfriend and this is how she treats me? Not even asking for my side of the story, just assuming. I thought she knew me better than that.

I could honestly understand her being angry that it happened like that and even that she saw it the wrong way but she had absolutely no right to be so cruel.

She still had that expression on her face. That expression that made me hate her even more... Pity. I didn't care if she really was sorry. There was no way I would welcome any one of them back with open arms.

I turned away. I didn't want to look at her. It made me sick to me stomach.

"Will you please forgive me?" she asked.

My breathing came hard and my fist balled, then I clicked out.

"How dare you!" I screamed. "After all she put me through now you care?" I was ready to jump off the bed and onto her, but Carlisle held me back, telling me to calm down.

I was so mad I didn't even notice the machine next to me had picked up speed.

"I understand," she said as she hung her head. "For the way I've treated you, I don't deserve your friendship." Looking to Carlisle and Esme, she turned and left the room.

I wasn't sure if she just wanted me to feel sorry for her, but that guilt trick wasn't working.

"Can I go home?" I asked Carlisle. I know Charlie didn't want me back at the house with him, but I'd rather live in my truck again than live in a house with Tanya, my ex-boyfriend and my ex-bestfriend.

"I recommend you have to let those stitches heal first. That'll be at the most two or three more weeks," Carlisle answered. I sighed and laid back down. That meant having to look at Tanya and all the other Cullens. This was going to be a long two weeks.

Charlie's POV

Two days later

It's been an entire two weeks without Bella and not one word from her. I was beyond worried.

I knew that the first people she would go to are the Cullens. I just hope that boy isn't forcing her to do things she doesn't want to do. I would break his neck.

The phone rang and I rushed to recieve it, hoping it to be Bella and praying she was alright.

I answered the phone and sighed. On the other line was Bella's principal, Mr. Massey.

"Hello, Chief Swan. This is principal Massey. I'm sorry to disturb you but I was wondering if there was anything wrong with Bella," he stated.

Wrong with Bella? Was our fight interfering with her school work?

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Well Miss Swan hasn't been to school in a few days and I was wondering if she was hurt."

Bella, not going to school? That wasn't like her. This had better not be that boy's doing.

"Ummm... Bella isn't here at the moment," I shut my eyes tight. I shouldn't have said anything.

"Did she move back to her mother's? If so I'll have to take her out of roll," he said.

"No, that won't be nessacary. She's living with... her boyfriend and his family," I told him. There was a pause on the other side of the phone.

"...Oh, I see. Is he the reason she hasn't been to school?" He was starting to get nosy and I was starting to get annoyed pretty quickly.

"I'm not sure. This is the first I've heard of Bella not being at school when she was supposed to, but I will get to the bottom of it. The Cullens are good people," I exclaimed.

"Cullens? When you said Bella's boyfriend, you were referring to Edward Cullen?" he asked.

What was this, 20 Questions?

"Yes. Is there a problem?" I mentally kicked myself. Why am I staying on the phone longer than I need to? Quick Charlie think of something to get off the phone.

"Well there are some students that have been talking about these new students and the Cullens. One of them is dating Edward now,"

What? I hung up the phone without another word and dailed the Cullens. Dr. Cullen answered the phone.

"Hello?"

I hated to be rude, but I had to find my daughter.

"Where is Bella?" I yelled into the phone, while grabbing my keys.