Living a Lie
Chapter 28
BPOV
"Demetri, I can't handle your anger, I need a break," I said as I walked away.
"But baby, wait!" he called after me. I walked to my truck, turned it on, and drove away.
When I got home I did two hours worth of homework and took a shower. When I got out of the shower I decided to go downstairs for a snack. I was greeted by Demetri sitting at the table.
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Nobody breaks up with me," he said. It was hard to understand him because he was slurring his words. He was obviously drunk. Demetri got drunk when he got mad and he would beat me. I didn't blame him for it; it was my fault for making him angry most of the time. But this time was worse. He was more drunk than usual.
"Demetri, go home and get some sleep. You're drunk." He was eighteen and I was sixteen.
"Don't tell me what to do, bitch," he said as he slapped me hard in the face. I collapsed to the ground from the impact of the hit. He kicked me telling me to get up. I crawled quickly away from him. I hid behind the couch. He grabbed me by the hair and yelped. He grabbed my arms tight and I yelled again.
I heard our back door slide open. In came running someone.
"Hello?" I heard Edward yell.
"Eddie!" I called. Demetri pushed me on the floor and I screamed. Edward came into the room and saw me lying there. He came over to help me up. Demetri came after him. Edward punched him and knocked him out. He pulled Demetri out the door and into the front yard.
"Bella! Are you okay?" he asked. "I should have told someone, I knew that keeping your secret was going to end badly," he scolded himself. He picked me up and carried me to his house. He helped me climb up the ladder on the edge of his house and we went into his room through the window. He held me as I shook with fear.
"Shhh, shh, it's going to be alright," he chanted. As I slowly stopped shaking I calmed down.
"Are you okay?" he asked, checking to see if I was bleeding or had any new bruises.
"Yeah, I think so," I whispered.
"Bella, you should have told someone. He could have really hurt you, Bells."
"I was too scared about what would happen to him. I thought I loved him, but I guess I didn't."
"Well, it's over now," he sighed. He held me in his arms and it felt like an electric current was running through me. We looked each other in the eyes for what seemed like hours and he gradually leaned down and kissed me. That electric current turned into and electric shock. I deepened our kiss.
"Bella! What are you doing?" I heard Alice whisper-yell as she came in and shut the door. Edward and I quickly broke away and I looked at her with an apologetic smile.
"Alice, I can explain!" I said. She started walking out and I followed. "Alice, wait!" she walked into her room and quickly went in before she shut the door.
"Alright, explain," she said as she sat on her bed.
"I broke up with Demetri. He was beating me Alice," I said as I rolled up my sleeves to show her the bruises I always hid. She gasped. "He came to my house, drunk as usual, and started beating me because I broke up with him. Edward came and helped me. Well, one thing led to another and we were kissing."
"Bella, I don't really care, it just kind of took me by surprise. You two were like siblings."
"It took me by surprise too."
"Just go back to Edward, but don't get caught by my dad," Alice cautioned.
I tip-toed back to Edward's room and crawled back onto his bed. I leaned in to kiss him. He kissed me for a second and slightly pulled away.
"Bella, this is wrong," he sighed.
"What do you mean?" I asked feeling rejected.
"Bella, I don't want to hurt you in any way. I'm in love with you; it would kill me if I hurt you. It's wrong for me to do this and if we go out and it ends badly, I don't want that to jeopardize the way you think of me," he confessed.
"Edward, I love you too," I smiled.
"Really?" he asked, his crooked smile playing on his lips.
"Yeah," I grinned. He cupped his hands around my face and kissed me. I sat on my knees and wrapped my arms around his neck. One of his hands moved to my waist. We pulled apart and laid down. He kissed my forehead.
"I love you, Isabella Marie Swan," he recited.
"I love you too, Edward Anthony Masen Cullen," I smiled. He held me in his arms as I fell asleep.
We woke up to someone clearing their throat. We looked up to see Carlisle and Charlie standing in the doorway.
"Shoot," Edward muttered under his breath.
"What do you two think you're doing?" Charlie asked, anger filling every word.
"Uh, sleeping…?" I said, the statement sounding more like a question.
"What I meant is 'why are you two in the same bed'?" Charlie snapped.
"I don't know, we were talking and we fell asleep," Edward lied.
"It didn't look like you two fell asleep 'talking'," Carlisle said.
"We did, honest," I tried lying, but it didn't go over as well as I anticipated.
"Bella, do you have an explanation for this lying? And the truth, it is way too obvious when you lie," Charlie barked.
"Alright. The truth," I took a deep breath. "I broke up with Demetri yesterday. He was beating me for the past two months. I didn't break up with him sooner because he had an anger problem and a drinking problem. When I broke up with him, he got drunk and came into our house and beat me," I showed Charlie all of the bruises I had, which made him angrier. "Edward came and helped me. We came back here and we kissed. Then we realized that we loved each other and we fell asleep like that. Nothing happened," I assured them.
"Bella, you're coming with me. I think you should go live with your mother for a little while," Charlie said coming over to me and pulling me by the arm out the door.
"Dad no! stop! Eddy!" I yelled.
"Bella, stop it! Now come on!" he yelled. Tears were streaming down my face. When we got home, Charlie basically pulled me up the stairs and into my room. "Start packing, you have a flight for this afternoon," he said before walking out.
I packed and cried. Everything in my room reminded me of Edward. I heard a knock on my window. I looked over to see Edward. I went over and opened it. He pulled me into a tight hug and I wrapped my arms around his neck and cried.
"Shh, everything will be fine, I promise," he told me.
"No, it's not! My dad is sending me out of state to live with my mom," I sobbed.
"Bella, you have to go. I will come visit you. I'll talk to you every single day. Take this with you," he said as he handed me his favorite shark tooth necklace.
"The day I take this off, is the day I will stop loving you," I promised, knowing that I would never imagine taking it off. I went over to my nightstand and got my favorite teddy bear that he had given me when I was sick. I would sleep with him every night.
"Bella, this is your favorite bear," he stated. "Are you sure?" he asked. I nodded.
"I love you," I said softly.
"I love you too," he said before leaning in to kiss me. His tongue grazed my bottom lip and I willingly opened my mouth. He stuck his tongue in and started tasting my mouth. When we pulled apart he kissed my tears away.
"No more crying," he told me. I mouthed okay. He kissed my forehead for the last time and went back out the window. I finished packing and took my bags downstairs.
"You ready?" my dad asked.
"No, and I never will be."
"Well I think that moving in with your mom will be the right thing for you. Bella, you can't go around saying you love every boyfriend you have and you can't keep boyfriends that abuse you. Now, let's go to the airport." We drove for about an hour to the airport where my life was going to start becoming dull. I said my farewells to my dad and told him to tell Edward that I will miss him, even though I knew my dad wouldn't send the message. I got on the plane and started off for Jacksonville.
The plane landed a few hours later and my mom was waiting for me. I walked over to her trying to act as if I was excited to be here.
"Hey mom!" I exclaimed.
"Hey baby! I missed you!" she said as she hugged me. We went out to her Suburban and put my luggage in. We drove about ten minutes to her house and I went up to my old room.
I came downstairs when someone rang the doorbell. I opened the door to see a tan guy with black hair and dark eyes.
"Hi," I said.
"Hello, I'm Jacob Black." He held out his hand for me to shake.
"Bella Swan," I said returning the shake. And that is how I met Jacob.
I woke up then and gasped for air. I was sweating really badly.
"Bella! Are you okay?" Edward asked.
"I just had a flashback, but in my dream."
"What about?"
"When we were sixteen, the day when Demetri beat me up and we fell in love and I moved to Jacksonville. I woke up when I met Jake."
"Wait, you remember when you and I fell in love?" he asked surprised.
"Yeah, and when Charlie shipped me off to my mom's house."
"Wow," was all Edward could say.
"Yeah, speaking of which, I don't have your necklace," I said.
"When you told me that you had a boyfriend I ripped up your teddy bear and threw it out, so I can't really give it back to you," he said apologetically.
"Its fine, I can't give you your necklace either. Jake asked me about it when we were going out. I told him that an ex gave it to me and that I forgot that I had it on, I threw it out." I smiled apologetically.
"It's fine. I have you instead," he laughed. He leaned down and kissed me. Renesmee started crying and he broke away. I got out of bed to go to her crib.
"What's wrong honey?" I asked sweetly, even though that she couldn't answer. I picked her up and started rocking her.
Once she stopped crying, I went back to bed with Edward. He pulled me to lie on his chest. I kissed his tender lips and he had one hand on my waist and the other on my cheek. I tangled my fingers in his messy bronze hair. His tongue traced my bottom lip and a let his tongue enter my mouth. Our tongues began clashing into each other's.
He broke away only to move to my neck while I got air. We heard the door open and someone walk in. He broke away and I unwillingly rolled off of him. We looked up to see my mom standing there.
"Hey, mom," I said hesitantly.
"I need to have a talk with you two," she said seriously without saying hello.
"What about?" I asked nervously.
"I have two plane tickets."
"Okay…?"
"They are for you two."
"Seriously?" I asked.
"Yes, to Greece. So you guys can have a second chance at your honeymoon."
"Oh my gosh! No way! Edward! We're going to Greece!" I squealed and kissed him. But then, I remembered about Renesmee. I pulled away and sighed.
"What's wrong, Bells?" my mom asked.
"What about Nessie?"
"Well, she has everyone here to look after her. No one works at the same time so someone is always here to take care of her."
"I know, but should we leave her this early?"
"Bella, it is only going to be harder the later that you try to leave her. And yes, it is fine. I went to Ireland when you were about a week old and left you with your grandparents."
"Oh. Alright, then I guess we're going to Greece!" I smiled.
"Well, I have to go to work, but have fun in Greece you two! Oh! Your plane leaves tomorrow morning. Bye!" she basically ran out of the room.
"What?!" I yelled.
Alice and Rose came in instantly.
"Out! Both of you! Alice and I need to pack your bags!" Rose yelled.
"Why can't we pack our own bags?" I asked.
"Because we are going to pack it for you! Now, shoo!" we were basically shoved out of our room and into the living room. I sat on the couch and Edward went over to the DVD player.
"What do you want to watch?" he sighed.
"How about…Spiderman?" I asked.
"Sure," he said as he put the disc into the player. We were watching it and it came to the scene where Peter kissed M.J. while hanging onto his web upside down.
"I've always wondered if it was actually better to kiss like that," I said.
"Me too," Edward said as he moved my head off his lap and started lowering his head to my lips. His head was upside down compared to mine, like in the movie. When his lips reached mine, they started moving and blending into mine. My hands cupped themselves around his face as we continued to kiss. This was so much better than regular kissing. He flipped himself over without breaking the kiss and was on top of me. One of his hands went to my side while the other went to the back of my neck. My hands moved to his hair. He pulled away and gave me one last peck on the lips. He rolled off of me and lay behind me, holding me close to him.
"Better than normal kissing?" he snickered.
"Spiderman couldn't have done it better," I giggled. We finished watching the movie.
I went over to the kitchen and grabbed an apple. I went back into the living room to join Edward again. I bit into it and chewed the sweet meat of the apple. Edward leaned in and took a bite twice the size of mine.
"Excuse you," I laughed.
"What?" he asked.
"You just ate half of my apple," I joked.
"Would you like it back?" he joked back.
"No thank you," I laughed.
"Hey! We finished packing! I'm going to bed," Alice announced.
"Me too," Rose said. "No looking in the suitcases until you go to Greece!" She warned.
"Fine, fine," we laughed.
Edward and I got up and headed to our bedroom. We went to go check on Nessie. She was just waking up. I figured she was hungry so I took her out so I could feed her. I was nervous the first time I breastfed her but when she started drinking it wasn't as nerve-racking. When she finished, I grabbed a towel, threw it over my shoulder, and started burping her. When I was finished I put her back into the crib and Edward and I went back into our room and crawled into bed. Edward held me in his arms as we tried to sleep.
"Goodnight, love," Edward cooed.
"Goodnight," I said before drifting off into a deep sleep.
Hey everyone!
I am sorry that this is shorter than most of my chapers. I have been busy and thought that it would be mean to make you wait, so here is the latest chapter! I will update as soon as I can, but I have exams coming up and my teachers are piling homework onto my schedule. I finish school June 10th so I will be updating more often after that. I hope you enjoy the latest chaper and as always, please review :)
Lots of love,
Nikki
