Twenty-Five.

Edward.

She was totally killing me. I had no idea what she was about to say, but it certainly wasn't what I was expecting.

Her eyes glazed over with tears before she continued. She looked away from me, like she was somewhere else entirely; lost.

"It was like something out of a horror movie. There was blood on the floor, the ceiling, the walls, everywhere. Dad was in a pool of blood on the floor just outside the storage space. The knife was still in his back."

Her tear filled eyes spilled over as she tried to blink away the horrific scene. I squeezed her hand, but feared getting too close.

"The safe in the storage space was open, and empty. Dad always kept his guns there. He had a pretty decent collection."

She took a few deep breaths and wiped her eyes with the back of her sleeve. I handed her some tissue.

"I just lost it. I don't know what happened to me. I panicked. I knew immediately that something awful happened and that he was dead. I fell to the floor and held him to me. He was ice cold. I laid there and cried for hours; hours and hours. He was my everything. He was my only parent. He was my dad. He was my hero. He was gone," she cried.

I couldn't stand it any longer and I pulled her to me and held her tighter. My heart ached for her.

"I was in shock. I didn't want to tell anyone that I'd found him like that. I thought if nobody knew, then it wouldn't be real. They wouldn't take him away. The phones started ringing sometime after dark. Charlie's phone, then my cell phone, over and over, back and forth. I refused to move. Eventually I feel asleep from exhaustion."

She was quiet for a few moments.

"It was sometime on Monday morning when they found us. Everything happened so fast and was so chaotic. I don't remember if it was Jake or the police that got there first. I just remember waking up to a lot of commotion and people trying to pull me away from him. I screamed and screamed. I didn't want to go. I didn't want to never see my Dad again."

"Bella, I am so fucking sorry, baby. You should've never had to have seen something like that."

She just cried, apparently lost in thought. Several minutes passed before she had the nerve to continue.

Author's Note:

Thanks for the reviews! 3 The next chap will be posted tomorrow. Bella will go into more detail about how she ended up on the cruise ship.

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