Discalimer: I do not own Twilight.

Full Summary: Bella moves to Forks to live with her dad after trying to get away from her past which seemed to be everywhere back in Phoenix. Along the way of trying to heal herself and putting a show for everyone in the town, she does not expect to make friends... much less meet a captivating green-eyed boy that just so happens to be her new friend's best friend. Maybe he can help her. Or maybe her past will catch up to her and make her run like she did in the past. Or maybe, just maybe... she'll fall in love.

A/N: SHOUT OUT to Kgunter34! I won't hold you for very long but I'd like to thank you all for reading and giving my story a chance :) And now, drumroll please, I'd like to introduce you to the next chapter... um tissue warning (is that what they call it?) This kinda has a lot going on. You've been warned -_-

Chapter 14:

"How could you do this to my boy?!" Mrs. Newton shrieked at me the moment that I stepped into the Principal's office. Her voice overshadowed the voices of her husband and Crowley's parents.

"Mrs. Newton, please calm down. We don't know what happened yet," Principal Carter and the officers said, trying to placate the furious parents.

"I want her thrown in jail for assault!" Mr. Crowley shouted angrily.

"Then you won't mind if I return the favor, right?" Charlie's icy voice appeared behind me. He put a calming hand on my shoulder, standing at his full stature and looking as authorative as ever in his uniform.

"What are you talking about?" Mrs. Crowley asked him tearfully.

"My daughter acted out in self defense." Charlie spoke up and the room fell silent.

"That's not true!" Newton and Crowley began to protest.

"We saw what happened," Jasper's voice startled me and I tensed. "Bella acted out in defense because Tyler and Mike were dragging her around."

"Shut up!" Crowley burst, looking furious and terrified.

"We have witnesses," Charlie said angrily. "Don't think you'll be able to snake your way out of this one," he said, narrowing his eyes at both pricks. "By the end of the week, you'll both be either serving some time in a juvenile center or have restraining orders placed against you with or without my daughter's statement."

"And how are you going to do that?" Mr. Newton asked Charlie angrily.

"You watch me." Charlie said darkly. "Just because these two punks think they can push around a girl, my daughter no less, doesn't mean that they won't face the consequences. You'll regret the day that you put your hands on her."

I watched as both Tyler Crowley and Mike Newton's eyes went wide with fear as they realized that Charlie wasn't playing around. He was dead serious.

The officers left, knowing that their Chief was on the scene.

"Come on, Bells." Charlie said quietly, helping me out of the office with the Cullens following us at a distance. "You should get those checked," he told me quietly.

I looked down at my right hand, noticing for the first time the trail of blood that was dripping down from my knuckles and down my hand and onto the floor.

I sighed and he kissed my forehead.

"I feel like I should give you some sort of gun to keep you out of danger. You're always stumbling into problems." he said, looking at me with a bit of amusement.

I rolled my eyes at his words. They almost made me smile. I had, after all, stumbled over Jasper.

"I'm going to go ahead and get everything settled." Charlie cleared his throat awkwardly as he glanced over his shoulder at the Cullens not too subtley. "Are you all right for driving home?" he asked me and I nodded, smiling weakly back at him when he looked at me anxiously.

"All right. Well, you call me if you need anything." he said quietly and I nodded again, watching him as he walked away leaving me and the Cullens alone.

"So how've you been?" Emmett asked, clearing his throat nervously.

"Hospitalized," I said quietly, without looking at them, "as I'm sure that you've heard already. Carlisle was there after all."

There was no accusation or resentment in my voice. I couldn't hold it in me to be mad or upset anymore. I just felt numb... ever since Renee and Phil's latest and last visit. It was just a statement without emotion.

"You hurt yourself," Rosalie said as she glanced down at my bandaged forearm.

Another statement. One that I didn't acknowledge as they all looked at my forearm with concern.

"I'm clumsy," I said, chuckling humorlessly. "Thank you for what you did but you didn't have to." I said finally and they looked at me confused. "I said that I wouldn't tell anyone," I whispered and looked at Jasper, "so don't worry about trying to get some leverage over me. I don't need anyone's pity so can you just clear out?"

They looked at me in what seemed shock.

"Bella, we weren't trying to get leverage over you," Alice said, looking at me with a hurt expression. "We really wanted to help you."

"We're your friends, Bella." Jasper said, looking at me pleadingly, wanting me to understand. Understand what, I didn't know. And I didn't understand.

"Friends?" I asked, skepticism and anger coloring my tone. "Friends who have done what for me? What did you do, really? Did you help me and protect me when I was almost raped? Did you help Charlie put them in jail?"

"Bella, you didn't make a statement when you could have," Emmett said quietly. "We've been trying-"

"I didn't do anything because I said that I wouldn't tell anyone." I said furiously. "Did you think I was happy knowing that they were just a few rows away from me in class? That I could see them everyday? But then again, you're my friends right? Yeah. You went out and told the police what really happened. You helped Charlie when he demanded justice. You didn't turn your back on me."

They stared at me open mouthed, stunned into silence by my fury and sarcasm. My accusations. They knew what they had done. They hadn't helped Charlie. And by doing that, they had turned their backs on me.

"I helped you, Jasper." I whispered as angry tears welled in my eyes. "A stranger on the side of the road. I didn't know you and I didn't pity you. I just knew that you needed help because you were hurt. Can you see how you returned the favor?"

Jasper lowered his eyes, sad and ashamed tears welling in his eyes.

"What I do from here on out isn't any of your business. Its mine. I'll take care of myself so you don't have to take pity on the clumsy Police Chief's daughter," I spat angrily before turning on my heel and heading towards my truck.

I wiped away my angry tears before they could fall and pulled out of the school parking lot, driving away from the Cullens.

A/N: Don't you hate it when people disappoint you? I swear to you that things will start looking up. Although I love writing drama and angst, or whatever you prefer to call it, I love me my HEA!

- Eli