Chapter 6
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Bella's P.O.V
I proceeded to tell Tanya my life story starting off from when I first met Edward up to my meeting with her.
'It started when I first had biology, there was only one seat available in the class so I had to sit next to this guy. As soon as I got close to him he tensed up. He was hostile towards me for no apparent reason I could tell by his body language, he looked like he was in pain. Every single one of his breadths looked laboured and forced. As soon as class was over he fled from the lab like a man on fire. l learned shortly afterwards he asked to be moved from my class but was refused. The next day he didn't turn up to school, I thoroughly believed it was because of me and I was right but I only found out that little tid bit weeks later.'
"Tanya are you ok you seem a little tense? "
"I'm fine" she replied coarsely "Please continue with your story".
"So he came backā¦.."
'Well he came back two weeks later and much to my surprise he started talking to me. He wanted to get to know me apparently I intrigued him he couldn't 'read me' like everyone else. He asked me to sit beside him at lunch which was unheard of, he never sat with anybody other than his family. His siblings seemed nice enough maybe a bit distant from the rest of the student population, well when I say all his sister was a complete bitch, but not just to me, she was one to everyone but still seemed to loath me for some reason.
One day when I was getting in my car after school a guy from my group of friends I hung out with lost control of his van and skidded across the carpark on some ice. He was headed straight towards me and would have crushed me had it not have been for him. He stopped the van from crushing me. I was taken to hospital and treated for 'shock' and possible 'head injury' by my doctor. I didn't have a 'head injury', he just claimed that so he could deny what I saw. So I naturally confronted him over it.
"You saved me, you ran over and stopped the van from crushing me" I whisper yelled at him on the corridor of the hospital.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I was standing right beside you the whole time, maybe you hit your head harder than what you thought" came his clipped arrogant reply.
"I won't tell anyone what I saw, I promise"
"Who would believe you anyway" he replied as I walked away from me. He ignored me for a few weeks after that incident.'
Tanya interrupts my story with a question.
"So he saved you then ignored you, knowing you were suspicious of what he was?"
I nod back.
"Ok then" she hurmphs back in frustration.
'I went out with'
"On a date, with who? " Tanya stops my story again with this harsh statement.
"I wasn't on a date, let me continue" I roll my eyes in exasperation.
'I had gone out with Angela and Jessica to the nearest city. I wanted to get a book from a local bookshop for my research into 'him'. I had agreed to meet up with my friends at a restaurant not far from the shop. When I was walking down the street a group of guys started hassling me I tried to get away from them but they wouldn't leave me alone, when a car came barrelling down the street toward us. It was 'him' he told me to get into his car, at the time I was scared shitless by 'him' and the group of guys, he looked terrifying.
"Afterwards I found out he had been following me the entire time I had been out with my friends. At the time I thought it was nice, he was so protective but now when I look back I think about how stalkerish it was, you know"
The more I speak the more I seem to anger Tanya. She has this far away feral look in her eyes as if she's planning to murder someone.
"Bella did he ever hurt you?"
"Hurt me"
"Yes"
"Physically or mentally because he has done both but only one on purpose I think. Why?"
"How did he hurt you?"
She's up on her feet pacing around the room, glancing back at me from time to time with this caring look in her eyes.
"If I continue with my story I'll get to it. I kind of want to get this all of my chest in one go you know"
"One of my family friends lives on a reservationā¦."
They have old tribal legends, stories they tell to younger generations passing them on, my friend told me about them.
"We have this legend that we are descendants of wolves" Jake snorts.
"So you don't believe it" I ask.
"That we turn into giant wolves, no I don't believe in that crap. They are supposed to be the protectors of the tribe, the ones who turn in wolves" he continues with his ramblings.
I persist in my questioning, finally feeling that I'm getting somewhere in my search.
"What are they supposedly protecting the tribe from" I laugh. Trying to keep my tone light hoping to keep the conversation going so I get the answers I so desperately want.
Jake chuckles and says in a spooky tone "the cold ones" he smirks.
"What are the cold exactly Jake"
"Vampires" he snorts "as if they were real" he adds.
Vampires I think how could I not have thought of that? It all makes perfect sense now, super speed and strength, why they didn't come to school when the sun was out. It was all falling into place now.
"So you found out about your ex from your best friends legends"
"Yes but I kind of goaded the answers out of him."" The next part of the story is where all the fun begins"
Tanya notes the fear, anger and sarcasm in my voice. She sits down beside me and grasps my un-injured hand gently and squeezes it kindly, helping with my distressed state.
I look at her and smile while taking a breadth to compose myself before I continue. Her presence alone is reassuring to me but I don't know why. I do take comfort in the fact that Tanya is here with me now, listening to me and not judging me.
'The day I confronted 'him' over what he was, was two weeks after Jake told me the story. Time enough for me to confirm that he was indeed a vampire.
"We need to talk" I tell him after school one day.
"Ok" he whispers back to me in a somewhat defeated manner.
I walk into the woods beside our school to confront 'him'.
Tanya clenching my hand tighter in hers, not enough to hurt me but bring me out of my musings.
"Wait, you walked into the woods with someone you believed to be a vampire, are you crazy or do you have a death wish?"
"Nothing happened to me since I'm sitting here aren't I" "But I know where your coming from, since 'he' left I've had time to think things over and I know how stupid I was".
"Good" she hums back in response.
He followed me for about five minutes before we came to a complete stop.
"I know what you are" I say, my voice wavering nearing the end. "Your skin is pale white and ice cold, you avoid the sun, you are superfast and are strong enough to redirect a moving van"
"Say it" he replies, his voice full of authority.
"Vampire" I gasp out.
"Yes"
After the conversation in the woods we became closer as I knew his secret and he didn't have to hide from me.
We began to date, soon he became my world. He was my first serious boyfriend.
He invited me to meet his family, apparently they wanted to meet the human girl who captured his heart. I was welcomed into the family and treated as one of their own, they soon became my real family too.
It all started to go downhill the day they invited me to their baseball game. There was a storm that day. I was enjoying myself, I felt like I was really part of the family, that I was loved. A group of nomads came by they wanted to play too. No one noticed them until they were in the clearing with us. My family tried to hide the fact that I was human but it was no use the wind was blowing my scent straight to them.
There were three of them, two males and a female. One of the males James thought that I was just a snack being played with and wanted to 'taste' me too. When my family said no he took this as a challenge, he considered himself a hunter and I was his next prey or victim as he liked to call it.
"So this vampire decided to make you his next meal" Tanya gasped.
She was completely horrified, she pulled me closer towards her body. I was practically sitting on her lap by this point.
"Yep he wanted to get to me as he saw it as a challenge to try and get past a whole coven of vampires" I replied back promptly.
Tanya shook her head in a disbelieving manner, completely gobsmacked by my calm nature over the whole ordeal.
James had gotten me to leave my supernatural body guards by tricking me to believe he had my mother. I foolishly went to him hoping he would let my mother go. The worst part was thought that he never had her in the first place, I had been duped.
"Bella, Bella, Bella. So good of you to finally show up". He sang out condescendingly.
"Let my mother go" I pleaded.
He smirked at me and even had the audacity to laugh. He pushed open the storeroom door to show a tv with one of my old family movies playing.
He broke my leg, well snapped like a twig really. Knocked a good bit of information from my brain with a nice concussion a few broken ribs, cuts and bruises and a nice scar on my wrist where he bit me.
Tanya snarled gutturally and ferociously at that piece of information, with a pained roar to finish with. I don't know how I managed to move so quickly out of her arms and across the room without falling over or hurting myself.
Tanya was over beside me in an instant. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry" she whispered to me as if I was startled deer ready to bolt.
She held my head in her hands, with them wrapped around my cheeks and neck, getting me to look at her.
"James bit you, how are you not a vampire then?"
I didn't reply right away, I was still in a bit of shock.
"Hey, you're ok, I'm not mad at you, I won't hurt you I promise"
"'He' eh 'he' sucked the venom out before it began changing me" I shook out, my voice stuttering a bit.
"Where did he bite you?"
I just held out my uninjured hand in response. She quirked up an eyebrow but said nothing, opting to pull my sleeve up instead. She frowned when she saw the scar on my arm but didn't comment.
I didn't realise I was holding my breath until she commented on it.
"Breath, little one it's ok".
I did as she asked but then Tanya did something I was not expecting, she lifted up my wrist and kissed my scar. I swear I nearly fainted from the kiss and all the blood rushing to my face from the blush.
She smiled at me and caressed my hand "come on finish your story then we can talk".
We sat back down on the couch and I continued my tale.
I recovered from my injuries even managing to go to prom. A few months passed and soon it was my birthday. I didn't want anything but 'his' sister wanted me to have a party, she threw me one despite my protests. While I was opening my presents I got a paper cut. 'He' pushed me out of the way of his brother attacking me, but 'he' pushed me into a glass table, it cut my arm so badly I had to get stitches.
Days later after none of his siblings turned up for school 'he' brought me out into the woods and proceeded to destroy me. He told me I was just a plaything for his family something to pass the time on. I didn't mean anything to him. He broke up with me and left taking him and the only family I have ever known with him.
I became cationic and depressed. I didn't feel that I had a soul anymore with no purpose in life. It got so bad that Charlie my dad kicked me out because he couldn't deal with me anymore. I've been living in Seattle ever since. How could I explain to Charlie that the reason I was like this was because my mate left me?
Tanya winces and says "I only have one more question what was the name of your mate?"
"Edward Cullen".
