Thanks for the support and the song. You guys are super duper. I love all your suggestions and will try to put the ones that fit into the story. : Oh, and Bella can't see any of it because the only vision she can get of Bella is Bella dead.
BPOV:
I don't know what I was thinking- asking to stay with the Cullens. But it was too late to turn back now because I was in their house. We were all sitting on the couch in the living room, saying nothing. All of them were looking at me funny.
"I only want to stay tonight." I told them, coming up with a reason off the top of my head. "I've never broken anything before and I'd feel better at your house. Charlie will need me to make dinner for him tomorrow though." It was a good thing Charlie had gone on a vacation fishing trip.
"Bella, is there something you should tell us?" Alice asked.
"No," I said slowly. It was my burden to bear not theirs.
"Are you sure?" Rosalie asked.
"Yeah, Bella, are you sure? I mean you look pretty beat up." Emmett pointed out.
"I'm clumsy. That's all." I repeated for the thousandth time. I really should just wear a bag from the neck down.
"Alright," Alice said slowly. I doubted she believed me but she'd never get me to tell her, no matter what. "Rosalie, would you come upstairs with me for a second?"
Rosalie looked at her, slowly peeling her eyes from me and then nodded.
"Eddie bear, let's go to my room." Jocelyn didn't wait for Edward to respond before pulling him up the stairs. I winced. That hurt almost as much as a broken leg, watching the guy you love be pulled up to another girls room. He sent me one last fleeting look before disappearing up the stairs.
"Esme, why don't you and I go and make Bella some dinner. She must be starved, not getting any lunch or breakfast." Carlisle suggested.
"I'll go fix your bed." Emmett hoped off the couch and ran up the stairs.
Wow, everyone had managed to clear the room in about two minutes, leaving me alone with Jasper.
"What's going on?" I asked. There must be some reason behind leaving me alone with Jasper.
"Nothing's going on, Bella." Jasper said smoothly.
"You're lying." I stated and he frowned.
"Fine," Jasper muttered. "I asked them all to leave because I need to speak with you." He looked straight into my eyes and I looked away. There was no lying when you looked directly into any of their eyes. They were like some magnetic force, compelling you to be nothing but honest.
"Go ahead," I told him. My voice was hardly audible.
"Bella, something isn't right. I know you aren't just tripping or whatever you claim. You're feelings are, honestly, all over the place. You're always in pain and you're always sad. That's not normal. Please, let me help you."
"I don't need help." I spat. "I'm fine." I stood up, but just fell back down when I realized I had a cast on my leg. "Okay, I need a little help." I admitted.
He chuckled and a small smile appeared on his leonine face but it was all wrong. It wasn't a happy smile. It didn't reach his eyes.
"I'm sorry. I just-" I stopped there. I couldn't say anymore.
He nodded and gave me a brotherly kiss on my forehead before carrying me up to Alice's room. Her and Rosalie were sitting on the bed along with Emmett and Edward. They were all whispering with their heads ducked together too fast and to quietly for me to hear.
"What's going on?" I asked.
The all pulled away suddenly and Alice almost fell off the bed. That was unusual. They must have been really caught up in their conversation for me to have not heard them. "Nothing," Alice recovered quickly.
I gave them a disbelieving look. It obviously was not 'nothing.' "Please, tell me." I pouted.
"Seriously, Bella, it's nothing. Don't get yourself all worked up." Rosalie put in.
"Tomorrow right?" Alice asked in a low voice and I probably wasn't supposed to hear it. Judging by the way that their nods were all extremely inconspicuous, that would be a no. What was going on tomorrow
I scowled at them. There was totally something going on tomorrow that they won't tell me.
"Can the boys please exit the room?" I asked. "I want to get changed."
They left the room and Alice and Rosalie both helped me get changed into a pair of fleece pajamas that they had smartly ripped the right leg off of. I was suddenly bushed. Weird, I had slept all day yesterday and I was still tired. Breaking your leg took a lot out of you, I guess.
APOV:
"This is so frustrating!" I complained to Rosalie. Edward can't read her mind. I can't see her in visions. And she won't tell us what's going on!
"I agree." Edward said as he came in and joined our conversation. He was probably as frustrated as I was because he was in the same boat. What's so great about a power if it doesn't work.
"How'd you ditch Jocelyn?" Emmett asked in all seriousness. Jocelyn never left Edward's side unless he practically ran.
Edward chuckled. "I told her I had to go to the bathroom."
Emmett laughed once. He wasn't in the mood for joking. "That girl is dumber then a pole.
"How can we make her tell us?" Rosalie asked. I had been wanting to know that too. How to make Bella come clean.
"If only it was like in Harry Potter... with that magic potion stuff that makes you tell the truth." Emmett mused. I rolled my eyes at him. He could be such a moron sometimes, especially since he wasn't even kidding. "But that probably wouldn't work on her either."
After Emmett's lame-brain comment, we sat in silence. No one really knew what to do. "How do we figure this out?" I finally yelled in a whisper.
A low voice came in from the door, malice evident in it's slightly nasal tone. "Why not just spy on her?" Jocelyn suggested as she leaned against the door frame.
"Of all the down right, inconsiderate...brilliant, smart... Oh, Jocelyn, thank you!" I cried
Before I could control myself I had jumped up and hugged her. She froze and had her arms locked to her sides and her neck craned away from me. "You're welcome."
Once my brain caught up with my actions, I released her. I can't believe I just hugged a girl with an I.Q. of a piece of toast. She instantly disappeared back to her room, not wanting to be hugged again. Huh, maybe hugging her wasn't so bad, if that's all it takes now to get her to leave...
"Spy on Bella?" Rosalie asked, uncertain.
"That doesn't seem like a really big invasion of privacy." Emmett admitted.
"Don't you see, it's the only way to find out what's going on. Bella's as stubborn as a mule and she certainly won't tell us on her own. If there's something bad going on, we need to do something. And sitting on our butts isn't going to get us any closer to finding out what's going on with Bella." I argued.
"I agree." Edward backed me up. I smiled at him.
"Let's vote. All for spying on Bella, raise your hands." I raised my hand and so did Edward and Emmett. "Those who oppose." Rosalie raised her hand while scowling at her husband.
"Okay, so when do we want to do this?" I asked. "I'm thinking tomorrow night would be best- get it done as soon as possible."
But before they could respond, Bella's voice resonated through the whole room. "What's going on?"
We all pulled away suddenly but she had caught me off guard and I completely fell off the bed. I was certainly not used to "Nothing," I recovered quickly.
She gave us a disbelieving look." Please, tell me." Bella pouted.
"Seriously, Bella, it's nothing. Don't get yourself all worked up." Rosalie put in.
"Tomorrow right?" I asked quietly so Bella wouldn't hear. They all nodded slightly. Bella didn't seem to notice.
"Can the boys please exit the room?" Bella requested "I want to get changed."
We helped Bella change into pajamas with the right leg ripped off of them. She went right to bed and I went to go talk to Jasper about how his conversation with Bella went.
"Not so good," He admitted. "She wouldn't tell me a thing. I almost got her right at the very end though. 'I'm sorry. I just-' and then she stopped there. It's so infuriating."
I frowned. She really was stubborn.
"Jasper, there really is something going on isn't there?" I asked sadly.
He wrapped his arms around me and nodded. I was glad I had someone I knew could be there for me whenever I wanted, that I could trust with anything in the world and I knew he was all mine. Bella didn't seem to have that at all. And no matter how much I tried to believe nothing was wrong with her, I knew there was something.
Tomorrow night came quickly. We went to school as if nothing had happened. Kids asked a lot of questions though about Bella's leg. She seemed to get a lot of attention from Mike Newton, who loved to carry Bella's books to each class- much to Edward's dismay.
"Dress in black," I told them all before going into my room. I dress in black sweatpants and a turtle neck along with black converse. Rosalie came out wearing tight black jeans with knee-high leather boots on top of them and a very low v-neck top, of course.
"Rosalie, we don't need Emmett falling out of the tree because he's distracted by your cleavage." I hissed. She just grinned and kept walking.
I scowled at her back and followed her. If we got caught because of her, I swear to God...
We ran to Bella's house lithely through the dark, wet woods, narrowly dodging the trees by centimeters. We were soon at her small, square house.
Charlie wasn't home yet but you could hear Bella rummaging around in the kitchen. She was constantly stopping and drawing in sharp breaths or letting out low hisses. It sounded like she was trying to do it all without the crutches. Bella and her pride. We looked though the windows to see her leave and go up to her room.
"The tree," I informed them. We climbed up it and hid ourselves in the dense layer of leaves.
She was doing her homework quietly while listening to her Ipod, which was on a strangely low volume for a human to listen to it at. She must have good ears. Charlie's car drove up and we all froze, even Bella.
She quickly got up and hid her Ipod in a small box, placed it at the bottom of a large box that was filled with towels, and then put it in her closet. She then put away her books, too. She didn't bother to hide them. She just put them into her backpack and then placed that on the shelf in her closet, too and then closed the closet door. She then turned the lights off and then made a make-shift bed on the floor.
"She doesn't have a bed?" Edward asked blankly. There was definitely a storm brewing underneath his calm façade.
No one answered him. I could have sworn when Bella took me up to her room that first time that she had a bed.
This lasted for about twenty minutes. "Let's see what Charlie is doing." I suggested.
We quietly leaped from the tree and then went around to the back. Charlie was sitting on the couch watching T.V. with a beer can in his hand. He took a large gulped, belched loudly. He crushed the empty can in his hand and tossed it to the corner of the room, where about six or seven other ones were littered.
I winced. Charlie was a drunk?
"Oh, man," Rosalie whispered as she shook her blonde head. "No wonder why she went to bed."
I shook my head no. "She's not asleep. Listen to her heart beat. It's practically off the charts." I pointed out.
"She's terrified." Jasper whispered.
"Bella," Charlie roared suddenly as he tore out of the kitchen.
I hadn't realized he had gotten up. I got up and moved closer, towards the kitchen. He had been looking at the notice the hospital and the school had sent home. I felt my face pale and I quickly dashed up the tree.
I looked in just in time to see him pull Bella out of the bed by her hair and throw her onto the floor. "What the hell is that?" He yelled as he pointed to her cast.
"A cast." She whispered.
He grabbed her by the cheeks hard enough to leave a bruise. "Look at me when I'm talking to you." He snarled. "How did you get this cast?" He demanded.
"The hospital." She whispered.
"You went to the hospital?!" Charlie let go of her face enough so he could slap her. The imprint of his hand was still on her face.
"I'm sorry! It wasn't my fault! The Cu-" She went to explain but he kicked her.
"Shut up!" He yelled.
She stopped moving and winced, awaiting whatever was to come. He just pulled her up by the hair and slammed her into the wall. She bit her lip and shut her eyes.
"I don't want to hear your excuses! You stay away from the hospital! You stay away from the Cullens. A piece of crap like you doesn't deserve the hospital or friends." He taunted her as he shook her shoulders violently, causing her to hit her head several times.
He sighed when she was unresponsive. "Stupid piece of crap." He threw her aside.
Bella landed on her night table and made the lamp fall off with her. She landed on top of the glass and sliced the palm of her hand a little.
"Crap," She whispered once Charlie had slammed the door and stomped down the stairs. She slid open the drawer of the nightstand that was on the floor and took out a first aid kit and expertly wrapped her hand.
"I'll kill him!" Emmett roared.
Rosalie and Jasper quickly made a move to grab him. No one noticed that Edward was already towards the edge of the branch and about to leap into Bella's room. I quickly tackled him and we both fell out of the tree with a loud thud. We froze but no one in the house noticed.
"Edward, you moron! What do you think you're doing?" I hissed. "This is a secretive thing!"
"You're just going to leave her in the same house as that monster?!" He asked in disbelief.
"We can't do anything just yet." I said thoughtfully. You can't be rash with things like this or it might end up disastrous but we certainly need to act soon.
"You can't be serious! He could kill her!" Edward made a move to get up again but I grabbed her around the legs and he fell back down.
"What are we supposed to say to the police? We are reporting abuse that we found out about because we were spying on them in their tree?" I asked sarcastically.
"There's no need to involve the police. Let's just kill him right now." Edward tried to get up again but my grip on his legs was to restricting for him to move.
"I agree. We can hold him hostage and take turns torturing him to death." Emmett suggested who was still being held hostage by Rosalie and Jasper, who were in much better control of their anger then him. Although, they both looked completely furious and about ready to kill Charlie as well.
"No, we need to plan this out better." I said with finality in my tone.
Loud snoring echoed through the house from Charlie who had passed out on the floor in the kitchen while on his way to get another beer.
We were silent as we continued to stare blankly at the square house. It still hadn't completely sunk in with me just yet. It felt like a bad dream, a nightmare. Who could hurt an angel like Bella, especially if she was your own daughter?
A movement from upstairs caused us to freeze again. A soft thud was heard for every other footstep and Bella grunted slightly with the effort. She walked into the kitchen were Charlie was passed out. I held my breath. Would she take revenge?
Bella grabbed him under the arms and started to pull him towards the living room. She hoisted him onto the couch after a couple of tries and then went to the closet. She grabbed blankets and a pillow and tucked her father in. She placed a light kiss on his forehead before climbing back up the stairs and going to 'bed'.
If my heart wasn't already broken, it was completely shattered before. Bella had so much heart. How could someone even think of doing something like that to someone like her?
EPOV:
I watched as Bella tucked in her abusive, drunk father and my head whirled with thoughts. But mostly, I was in complete awe. She had to be the most selfless, forgiving, loving person I knew. Or maybe she just had a love of monsters, but even Charlie was a worse monster then I was. I'd never hurt an angel.
I felt myself calm while watching her. I knew it had nothing to with Jasper though, his thoughts revealed nothing but hatred for Charlie. No, it was Bella. Something about her endless love and patience seemed to calm me right to my very core.
I still wanted to kill Charlie though. Even thinking about it made my fists ball and my muscles flex with anticipation. How I wanted to ring his neck. I swear, once he first pulled her out of that bed I thought of a thousand ways to kill him. And if it weren't for the others, mainly Alice, I would have.
Although, watching this, Bella probably wouldn't have liked that. It seemed strange that after all he's done to her, she could still tuck him in and kiss his forehead.
I needed to run or hit something, do anything! I had too many emotions and thoughts running through my head right now and I knew if I stayed much longer I would do something I'd regret.
"I'm going for a run." I told Alice before taking off.
I don't think anyone noticed. They all were still standing there with expressions of anger and awe. I knew how they felt. Wanting to kill Charlie and then cry at the same time.
But the one thing I really knew was that Bella was the most amazing person I'd ever met with the strongest heart and I loved her more then anything else.
Hey girl you know you drive me crazy
One look puts the rhythm in my hand.
Still I'll never understand why you hang around
I see what's going down.
Do you feel like a man
When you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
As your lies crumble down, a new life she has found.
A pebble in the water makes a ripple effect
Every action in this world will bear a consequence
If you wade around forever you will surely drown
I see what's going down.
Wow, I'm crazy insane for writting another chapter. But I've been going off the wall here, not even kidding. I was about ready to strangle something today. So I decided I would lock myself in a room and write again. So here's another chapter. But that's it. No more. You crazy, demanding people, you! BTW i still love this song with a passion. It was my inspiration for a story that I'm writting that's like a hundred or so pages and is not even half done Face Down by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.