Don't kill me! I know it's been a while but I finally got my computer (who i've named Voldemort for dying 7 times hehe) to work, but it has so many attachments that I have to sit at my desk any time I want to use it *sigh* anywho, here is a much awaited chapter. Enjoy! :)

Chapter 20

BPOV

Four months ago, I made the biggest mistake of my life, and now I'm living in my worst nightmare.

TJ makes me go over his house every day after school and beats me up. Sometimes it's so bad that I can barely walk the next day. He tells me he does it because I need to learn how to respect him and that he loves me, but I know there's only one person who really does, and I broke his heart.

TJ follows me around all day to make sure I don't talk to anyone, so I have to sit by myself at lunch. Sometimes he'll pull me out of school during that time so I can't talk to them, but he normally just follows me around outside like a vulture. He also destroyed my cell phone and gave me a really crappy one so he can keep track of my phone calls and texts; so there's obviously no hope of calling the police or my friends. Luckily he doesn't follow me at home, so I'm able to do some things he normally wouldn't let me do, like use my music room.

The first time I did use it, Emmett came in and demanded answers from me. I had to stay quiet though, because I knew if I told him anything, TJ would find out and kill them.

I can't even look at E- him. I do hear everyone else talking about him sometimes, saying how much of a zombie he's been. By that point I try to close myself off to everything, or I'd break down.

Everyone's coming over to my house again, but I stay away from them. I usually hide up in my room or lock myself in my music room. He doesn't come over though; he goes to school, then goes home and locks himself in his room. I heard Alice telling everyone that one day, through the vents in my music room. She also said that Esme is the only person he ever opens the door for, just because she brings him food.

Today, TJ just finished beating the shit out of me, and that's when I realized I was out of cover up; I left it in my bathroom. So, I drove home, and ran upstairs to my room, grateful that no one was here.

I closed the door and went into my bathroom. Then I took off my hoodie, leaving me in my tank top and jeans, to examine the bruises. Oh yeah, did I mention that I can't wear t-shirts anymore? TJ left bruises up and down my arms, and on my thighs and neck. I have some on my back and stomach, too. I also have a black eye and a bruise on my left cheek.

I quickly found the cover-up only to realize that I didn't have any here either. Now I have to go to the store looking like this.

I sighed and examined the bruises some more.

"He's hitting you again isn't he?" I whipped my head around and noticed Jasper standing in the doorway of my bathroom. "Don't even try to deny it."

"Jasper," I said with tears forming in my eyes. "How…?"

"I'm not stupid Bella," he said answering my unfinished question. "I saw the bruises on your wrists when we went to see you in Phoenix. You're lucky Rose and Emmett didn't see them."

"He's going to kill me," I replied finally letting the sobs take over. Jasper hugged me while I continued to cry.

"Bella, it's okay. We'll get you out of this mess, but you have to tell me what's going on."

"I can't," I whispered. He pulled away from me.

"Of course you can," he replied. "He's not around, so you have nothing to worry about; he can't hurt you."

"You don't understand," I said. "It's not me I'm worried about, it's-." I couldn't finish my sentence because it was too painful to say his name and my phone buzzed.

'Get your ass over here now!" the text read.

"I have to go," I rushed.

"No, you don't. You're staying here."

"Jazz, I can't. He'll kill him if I don't go."

"Kill who?" he asked.

"Edward," I whispered, letting the tears fall.

I went over to my dresser, took the envelope off, and handed it to Jasper.

"What's this?"

"Give it to him for me please," I said. "Give it to Edward." Then I got another text saying 'If you're not here in 5 minutes, you're gonna get it.'

"I will," he promised.

"I really have to go now," I rushed out while slipping my hoodie back on and heading towards my door. I decided to drop a little hint to him so that maybe he could help me a lot sooner. "TJ wants me to practice for the talent show." Then I ran out of the room.

"I'll get you out of this B," he said. "I promise."

I ran out of the house, out to my car, and drove off towards TJ's house, feeling a little better for finally telling someone.

JPOV

As soon as Bella left, I took my car and drove back to the Cullen's house.

When I see that son of a bitch, I'm going to kill him for coming after her.

I pulled up to the house and walked inside with Bella's letter in my hand. When I walked into the living room, Rose and Emmett were staring at the TV while Alice was pacing.

"Where were you?" Alice asked. I didn't answer her; I just sat down on the couch and thought about everything Bella told me. "Jazz?"

"It's worse than I thought," I said. "Worse than any of us thought."

"What is?" Rose asked. I didn't answer her; instead I continued my rant.

"It's happening all over again, and we're not doing anything to stop it!" Finally, Emmett decided to say something; he hasn't spoken at all since this has started.

"What the hell are you talking about?" he said.

"I'm talking about how Bella is risking her life to save that goddamn zombie upstairs!"

"W-what?" Rose asked.

"Bel-la is slow-ly dy-ing to save his life," I said as if explaining to a retard. I know it's a bit harsh but they needed to understand. "And all he does is lock himself in his goddamn room!"

"That's it," Emmett said while getting up and heading towards the stairs.

"Where the hell are you going?" Rose asked.

"Well if you guys aren't gonna kick his ass, then I will." Then he started storming up the stairs, but Rose went up to him and pulled him back towards the couch.

"Hold on!" I yelled. "Nobody is kicking anyone's ass."

"Why the fuck not Jasper?" Emmett retorted. "If he loves her like he says he does, he should be doing something!"

"Well you're one to talk," Alice muttered.

"What the fuck is that supposed to mean?" Emmett replied.

"What she means is," I said. "That you were doing the same damn thing that he is when Rose broke up with you."

"No I'm not!"

"You most certainly are!" Alice yelled.

"You hid in your room for two damn weeks, eating and saying nothing to anyone that whole time."

"Well she wasn't getting the shit kicked out of her!"

"She might as well have been!" I yelled.

"Jasper!" Rose gasped.

"I didn't mean it that way Rose, but he needs to understand."

"I need to understand?" Emmett said. "I'm not a fucking idiot Jazz, I understand!"

"No you don't!" I yelled back. "Because if you did, you'd realize you're doing the same exact thing as he is!" All the rage left Emmett's face and he sat back down on the couch. "We all are."

I sighed as I sat back down, after getting up during my rant. I rubbed my hands over my face, stressed out from the fight and everything else that has come up today.

"What are we going to do?" Alice asked softly after a few minutes of silence.

"We get Edward and come up with a plan," I said.

(So tempted to end it here, but I owe you guys so...)

EPOV

Loneliness and depression are the two words that described my life perfectly for the past for months.

Ever since B-she broke up with me, I've reverted back to the ten year-old boy whose parents just died. I haven't spoken to anyone since it happened, and I've only been getting one to two hours of sleep a night.

I only open the door for Esme since she brings me food. I don't really eat it though; I pick at it while she talks to me, trying to get me to speak, but I have nothing to say; there is nothing to say.

Carlisle has tried numerous times, but I know I'll get the same speech I got when they adopted me; "You'll get through this" and some other stuff. It won't work though; she took everything when she left. I have nothing.

I heard yelling going on downstairs, which was unusual, but I ignored it. Then, all of a sudden, it got eerily quiet. I didn't let it bug me so I continued to just stare at the ceiling while I while laid down on my bed.

"Edward, please open the door," Alice said. "We need to talk to you; it's important." I sighed. This was the third time today Alice used that to get me to open the door. It obviously wasn't that important since none of them have tried anything drastic.

I heard whispering and a loud smack before it got very quiet again.

"If you don't open the damn door in the next five seconds, I'm breaking this shit down," Emmett said. I sighed again. Well I had two options; either open the door and be bothered by these people who claim to have something important to tell me, or, have Emmett break my door down, upset Esme, and have to be annoyed every day until it gets fixed. I think option one was safer.

I got up from the bed and slowly unlocked and opened the door before Emmett said "one." When I stepped out though, I felt a sharp pain on the back of my head before everything went black.

When I woke up, there was more whispering.

"What the fuck, Emmett!" Jasper whisper-yelled. "I told you to knock him out if he didn't come out of his damn room, not to knock him out when he did."

"Well we got him downstairs didn't we?" Emmett retorted. Moron. "It's a good thing Carlisle has those medical books; they sure do come in handy." He hit me with one of Carlisle's medical books! That hurt like hell.

I groaned from the pain and immediately reached my hand up to the source only to find that I was tied to something; a chair.

"Look, he's waking up," Rosalie said. I opened my eyes to find all four of my supposed friends watching me. Then I remembered they tied me to a chair.

"Why the hell am I tied to a chair!" I yelled.

"Look, he speaks," Emmett said causing Rose to glare at him.

"Because you need to hear this," Jasper answered. "And we all know you won't willingly stay down here and talk to us." Well, he did have a point there.

"Fine," I said with a sigh and no emotion. "What?" Then the doorbell rang, and Rose ran to the door.

"What are you guys doing here?" she asked surprised.

"Alice called us," a guy answered. "She said it was urgent." Who did Alice call?

Then I heard footsteps and looked up to see two people trailing behind Rose; a guy and a girl that looked to be around our age.

The guy was tall and muscular, almost as much as Emmett, with dark hair and brown eyes. The girl was shorter with light brown hair and hazel eyes. They were both tan.

The guy saw me and smirked.

"So, I'm guessing the dude tied to the chair is Edward," he said. How in the hell did he know that?

"Yep," Alice replied.

"Cool. So what's going on that we needed to fly out here for?" he asked. "And where's my favorite klutz?" When nobody said anything he looked around waiting for something to happen. "Haha you guys are hilarious. Seriously, where is she?" Again, nobody said anything. "You're kidding me right?"

"No," Emmett said. "We're not."

"Dammit!" he yelled. "It's all my fault that sick son of a bitch has her!" What?

"Matt, calm down," the girl said. Matt? Oh that must be B-her friend from Phoenix. The girl must be Kayla.

"How the hell do you expect me to calm down Kayla! That bastard has my best friend."

"She's my best friend too, if you forgot," Kayla replied. Who has who?

"Will somebody untie me from this damn chair already," I said frustrated. "Or at least tell me what the hell is going on!"

"TJ took Bella," Jasper answered.

"W-what?"

"TJ threatened Bella," he said. Then he came over to the couch next to where I was "sitting" and sat next to me. "He's hitting her."

I didn't know what to say, but the tears rolling down my cheeks summed it up.

Matt jumped up from he's seat on the couch.

"I knew that asshole was doing something!" he yelled. "I should have seen it!"

"None of us saw this coming Matt," Rose said. "So it won't do any of us any good if we start blaming ourselves now." Matt sighed and sat back down.

Jasper got up and finally untied me to a chair. Then he handed me and envelope.

"Bella asked me to give this to you," he said. I hesitantly took the envelope and opened it.

Edward,

I'm so sorry for what I've put you through these last few months. I would have never done this, but it was the only thing I could do at the time to keep you and everyone else safe.

I want you to know that I never intended to hurt you, but it was inevitable with the situation. I wish there was some way I could take it all back and start over again from the day I made that awful mistake. I should have said something to someone, or called the police at least. But, I wasn't thinking clearly at the time, so I made a bad decision.

I know that saying sorry will never make up for what I did, no matter how many times I say it or write it down. I also understand that you may never forgive me, and may never want to speak to me again, but I want you to know something; I love you; always have, always will. I understand that this probably won't change anything, but I just wanted you to know. And if, by some slim chance, you can find it in your heart to forgive me, than I swear to you, I will do anything and everything I can to make it up to you.

I'm so sorry.

Love,

Bella

By the time I finished reading this, there were more tear stains on the letter, then there were from when she originally wrote this.

"What does it say?" Kayla asked.

"She still loves me," I whispered while tearing my eyes away from the letter.

"Alright," Emmett said. "So now that you finally got your head out of your ass, what are you going to do about it?" I opened my mouth to say something, but came up with nothing. I sighed.

"I don't know," I admitted.

"I'll tell you what you're going to do," Jasper stated. "And it involves the talent show on Friday."

OOOH CLIFFY! I know i'm so evil, but with the way my story works out, this chapter has to end here. I can't promise you a date for the next chapter, but I'm hoping that it should be up soon. I've already started writing it, but it still needs major editing and other stuff. In the mean time, if you haven't already done so, check out my other story 'Solstice.' It's lacking the love that this story is getting. So drop a nice review or two on that story.

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