13
"EDWARD," screamed Esme, busting into my room. I fell out of bed and looked over at her. She had a look of panic on her face.
"What the fuck, Esme?" I snapped.
"We need to go to Bella," she cried, frantically. I jumped to my feet.
"What? Why?" I asked.
"She needs you," she said, thrusting her cell phone into my hands and pulling me out of my room.
"Hello?' I asked, putting the phone up to my ear.
"GET OFF OF ME," screamed Bella in the back ground. "HE'S GOING TO KILL HIM."
"Get your ass here now," ordered Carlisle before he hung up.
I shut Esme's phone and climbed into her car. She peeled out and sped through town. What the fuck had happened to Bella tonight? She was fine when she dropped me off. Esme pulled her car up behind the gym in a matter of minutes. I jumped out before she even had the time to cut the engine and ran up the backstairs. A short, pixie like woman was standing at the back door, holding it open.
"Hurry your fucking ass up," she hissed.
I ignored her as I ran into the apartment. I could hear Bella's screams from outside. I followed them to a back bedroom, where I found Jasper, Emmett, and Carlisle all trying to hold Bella down as she thrashed around on the bed. Charlie, Renee, and a blond woman were standing against one of the walls just watching with looks of sheer fear on their faces.
"FUCKING GET OFF OF ME! HE'S KILLING EDWARD," growled Bella, pulling her arm free of Emmett and slugging him in the jaw. He fell off the bed. Bella reared back and smashed her fist into Carlisle's face, causing him to fall back. I ran over and pushed Jasper out of the way and pulled Bella into my arms.
"It's ok, Bella," I whispered. She stopped struggling against me and relaxed into my arms. "No one is hurting me."
"Have to save you," she mumbled.
"You did," I whispered, pulling her down so that we were laying down. Bella clutched onto the front of my t-shirt.
"Don't leave me," she whimpered.
"I won't leave you, Bella," I whispered. "I promise."
Slowly, everyone walked out of Bella's room, leaving us laying on her bed. Carlisle pulled her blankets from the floor and laid them on top of us without saying anything. It was an unspoken gesture of the trust he had in me. I tightened my arms around Bella as she whimpered again in her sleep. I just held her tight as I fell back to sleep with her.
I was shaken awake when I felt Bella pull out of my arms. I groaned and opened my eyes. She was sitting up on the side of the bed with her knees pulled up to her chest. I sat up and laid my hand on her shoulder. She looked at me from over her shoulder. Her eyes were full of fear. Does she feel like this every morning?
"Are you ok?" I asked.
"I don't know," she muttered. "What are you doing here?"
"You needed me," I said, simply, laying back down on the bed. Bella turned so that she was facing me and laid down but she was curled up into a tight ball like she was afraid she was going to fall apart.
"Hmm," she hummed. Her eyes were wide open as she stared at me. "Did I…hurt you?"
"No," I said, softly. "But Carlisle and Emmett…"
"Oh shit," she muttered, burying her face in her pillow. "Just what I needed with Renee here."
"Renee going to be a bitch, huh?" I asked.
"Yeah," she sighed, looking over at me. "I'm sorry for making you come over here and deal with my crazy."
"First of all, you are not crazy," I said, rolling onto my side and looking at her. "You've had a lot of fucked up shit happen to you but you are not crazy. Second of all, you didn't make me come over here. Bella, I am your friend and I will be here to hold you every and any time you need me to, Ok?"
"Ok," she whispered. "I guess we should get out there. I can hear the assholes in the kitchen."
"Ok," I smiled.
I climbed off the bed and held out my hand to Bella. She smiled as she placed her hand in mine. I pulled her over to her bedroom door and out into the kitchen. Carlisle and Esme were standing in front of the stove, cooking eggs and bacon. I looked over at Bella, who was trying really hard not to laugh. Emmett was sitting next to the blond woman from last night. He had his head down as she whispered in his ear. Jasper had the pixie woman in his lap. Charlie and Renee were sitting in the other two seats, gazing upon the others like they were dancing naked in the moonlight or something. They all looked up at us as we came in.
"Oh shit," gasped Bella, taking in Carlisle's black eye and Emmett's swollen, bruised jaw. "I am…so…sorry," Bella cried, her eyes filling with tears.
"It's ok, Bell," smiled Emmett. "We took it like a man."
"Yeah, Emmett only cried for five minutes," smirked Jasper.
"Shut the fuck up, Jas," growled Emmet.
"I didn't…" fretted Bella. I slipped my hand out of hers and wrapped it around her waist, pulling her into my arms.
"They know," I whispered into her ear, sliding my other arm around her. "They aren't mad at you."
"You can't know that," whispered Bella, wrapping her arms around my waist.
"I can see it in their eyes, Bella," I whispered.
She laid her head on my chest as she looked over at her brothers. They, along with Esme, Charlie, Renee, and the two woman attached to Emmett and Jasper, were staring at the two of us with their mouths hanging wide open.
"What?" we asked at the same time.
"Nothing," they all muttered, looking at each other.
"Are you hungry?" asked Carlisle, smiling at me and Bella.
"I guess," said Bella, looking at everyone. They were still staring at us. "What the fuck are you all staring at?"
"You are cling-"
"Hi, I'm Alice Brandon," squealed the pixie woman, interrupting Renee as she jumping from Jasper's lap and bounced over to me and Bella, who stepped away from me to avoid the excited woman. Alice thrust her hand in my face.
"Um, I'm Edward," I said, slowly shaking her hand.
"Oh, I know," she giggled. I looked over at Bella with wide eyes.
"Alice, stop," laughed Bella. "You are scaring him."
"Is that true?" asked Alice, giving me piercing look.
"Yes," I admit. Alice smiled at me.
"Good," she chirped. "Then I won't have to threaten to rip off your dick if you hurt her."
"Oh my god, Alice," growled Bella. "Shut the fuck up."
"Come on, Ali," laughed Jasper, pulling the mini terminator back into his lap. "We don't want to traumatize the boy."
"Too late," I grumbled. The blond girl sitting next to Emmett stood up and came over to me.
"Listen here, kid. You had better be the real deal here or I will not only help Alice rip off your dick, but I will pour salt and lemon juice in the wound. Bella, here, is my little sister and nobody, and I do mean nobody, hurts her and gets away with it. Do we have an understanding?" She asked. I just stared at her with my mouth hanging wide open.
"Fuck my life," groaned Bella. Miss Rambo cocked her eyebrow at me.
"Well?" she snapped. "I know you can speak, so….fucking speak already."
"I…shit…." I trailed off, looking over at Bella. "I'm sorry."
"For what?" Bella asked. confused.
"You are around this shit all the time, aren't you?" I asked.
"Yes," said Bella, seriously.
"I am so sorry," I laughed. Bella busted out laughing. "Seriously, I am. I mean shit, first I have the little terminator over there, threatening to rip off my manhood, but then, Miss Rambo here threatens to rub salt in my wound. That shit's cold."
"They're harmless," scoffed Bella, smiling.
"If you say so," I snickered, looking up at the blond. She was glaring at me. "Oh, I understand. You're scary and I should fear you."
"I think I like you, kid," smiled the blond. "I'm Rosalie but you can call me Rose."
"Edward," I smiled, back.
"Well, shit," pouted Emmett. We all looked over at him. "I was fucking counting on her to scare you."
"Emmett, I have an older sister," I said, pointing at Esme. "Plus, my mom makes these two look like amateurs."
"You bet your ass she does," snickered Esme, giving me a high five.
"Are you all fucking insane?" snapped Renee. Bella tensed up next to me so I slipped my arm back around her as we all looked over at her. She was glaring at her brothers and Bella while Charlie just looked bored. "We need to talk about what happened last night."
"No, we don't," muttered Bella, turning and pulling me back toward her room. Renee stood up and grabbed her arm. Bella turned around and went to hit her but I caught her fist in mid-air. "Don't grab me, Renee."
"Don't run like a baby," sneered Renee.
"Don't tell me what to do," snapped Bella.
"Someone needs to," yelled Renee.
"Well, it's fucking not going to be you," snapped Carlisle. "You can't just come in her after nearly two years and pretend you fucking care, Ren."
"Shut the fuck up, Car," grumbled Renee.
"I don't think I will," said Carlisle. "You and Charlie left us, remember?"
"We are not talking about that right now," snapped Renee. "We are talking about the…fit or whatever Bella had last night."
"I don't want to talk about it," muttered Bella, turning back to her room.
"I don't care," replied Renee, grabbing her arm again. I pulled Bella behind me before she did something she would regret.
"Look, I don't know you and honestly, I don't really care if she gives you the need for a nose job or not, but Bella's made it clear that she doesn't want to talk about last night right now. If I were you, I would back the fuck off of her," I said, calmly.
"Who the fuck do you think you are?" growled Renee.
"He's my friend," snapped Bella, stepping out from behind me. "Unlike you and that asshole you are married to, he gives a shit about me and my feelings."
"Bella-"
"I don't really want to hear it, Renee," interrupted Bella, pulling me toward her room.
Renee yelled at her to stop but Bella just ignored her and pulled me into her room and slammed the door shut. She turned and looked at me for a second before she jumped into my arms, wrapping her arms and legs around me and crushing her lips to mine.
