Please read: This story contains scenes that some readers may find triggering, including non-detailed descriptions of sexual assault and self-harm. I will put another warning before each chapter that includes either of these and please, please, please if it is going to hurt you in any way just ignore it or PM me and I will send you a clean version of that chapter- pretty much just a summary but where applicable I will try to make it as good as possible. The chapter that you're about to read now contains assault scenes, but unfortunately there really isn't any other way for me to explain it other than writing this- but still PM me and I'll try my hardest if you need a clean version. There is some language in here, nothing too bad and a bit of violence as well as non-detailed sexual assault and self-harm, therefore the story is rated M as a precaution
Authors Note: Hello again everybody! I've finally come to you with a new story and I wanted to say thank you so much for all the love on my last one! I'm planning on this being around 50 chapters- give or take- so unlike my last, this is not short. I'm not very good at planning or pacing for that matter so it could be WAY longer or shorter, we'll have to wait and see- myself included. I've missed writing a lot recently and with the current events there literally is no better time to do it but now. I'm SO excited for Stephenie Meyer's new book 'Midnight Sun' to be released soon, when I heard about it yesterday, I was absolutely frantic! I'm ranting now but I really hope you enjoy this story- set in early Twilight but including aspects of New Moon, I wanted to note that Bella knows about Edward's secret far earlier than she did in the books and this chapter is short- more of a prologue than anything else.
Disclaimer: I do not own The Twilight Saga in any way, all of my stories are based on the wonderful work of Stephanie Meyer who of which I am highly grateful. Without her wonderful work in creating The Twilight Saga, the world would be an incredibly boring place.
Bella's POV
I walked along the dark alleyway; the bookstore I'd been searching for unhelpful- although I hadn't been expecting it to be big in Port Angeles. I had run out of books to read and I was getting rather bored. I decided to go back to find Angela and Jessica, hoping to be back in time to have dinner with them and picked up my pace a little bit. We were all shopping together- well, the girls were shopping while I went looking for books. Edward hadn't wanted to let me go, but I promised him I'd be fine in such a small area and I chuckled a little at the thought of his unnecessary worry.
My body felt sluggish and my mind was drowsy, sleep wasn't coming very easily lately, and I supposed the consequences were starting to set in. I focused on putting one foot after the other without tripping and my thoughts drifted off to how I had met Edward and his beautiful family who had been unusually kind to me at school. Sure, at first they'd kept their distance but as far as I knew that was something they had always done and instead of taunting me or laughing at me as I stumbled my way throughout school, they'd pick up my books for me, smiling hesitantly and walking off.
Edward, the one in my grade and in a few of my classes sat next to me in biology and had always been leaning as far away from me as possible. A few times I had caught him staring at me from under his dark eyelashes but what startled me most was how unnaturally cold his skin was. I had been passing him a microscope during a class activity once and our hands touched lightly, however even though the touch was incredibly light the coldness of his skin had bothered me. As well as this; the speed of which he got to me the day that Tyler's van had almost hit me was far from any human capabilities, and I had made a note to talk to Jacob about it later.
Jacob was my friend who I had known since we were young, I could remember a few faint memories of him since my return to Forks but I had been spending a fair amount of time out at the reservation with him recently and one afternoon I enquired him about the Cullen's. He told me about their legends, none of which he himself personally believed. I, however had, and slowly I had started to piece it together. The day when I'd discovered the truth about that family, I confronted Edward about it after school.
Edward looked rather torn that day and had avoided me for quite a while until he had realised how sincere I was whenever I said that I wouldn't tell anybody. He trusted me and I sat with him at lunch, he'd drive me to and from school and every evening he would come to my house and sit with me while I slept- keeping it a secret from Charlie along the way. Soon enough I noticed that my feelings had begun to change for him, his for me as well and we'd kept it a secret that we were 'dating'. A few days from now he was planning on formally introducing me to his family- I had already met Dr. Cullen briefly the day of the van incident and the rest I knew from school, apart from Edwards mother. The thought of having to face his flawless family made me shudder with anxiety and fear, not because I would be in a house full of vampires, but because I was scared of what they would think of the fragile little human that had fallen in love with one of their own. I took a deep breath to calm myself and smiled at the thought of seeing Edward soon.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?"
The voice came from the darkness surrounding me and I whipped my head around behind me, snapping out of my thoughts and turned to look at the two men. My mind screamed 'danger' and my instincts roared at me to run. The sun had completely disappeared, and I realised how late it must be getting. Turning ahead, I walked as fast as I dared without tripping over and made my way throughout the little alleyways, hoping desperately that I would make it to a main road. I stole a quick glance behind me and saw the two men following, seeming rather unbothered by my rush. I willed my feet to move faster, panicking when I almost stumbled and made my way through a rather small lane, only to stop with dread as I noticed a few more men blocking my way. I was cornered. My mind froze in utter horror, what were they going to do to me? There was no way I'd ever be able to run from them all, and within the nasty looking men some were three times my size within the group.
"Look what we've scored ourselves Jim," one of the larger men said. A chorus of snickers surrounded me, and I was just about to scream when I felt a hand over my mouth, preventing any noise from escaping.
My mind started to panic, and I was gasping for breath, breath that I wasn't getting because of the large hand preventing it.
"Now, now, little girl, we wouldn't want anybody else finding out about this would we?" the man who I supposed was Jim snarled. "Behave for us you piece of filth, it will make it a lot easier for you as well."
Jim wasn't like the others; he wasn't too big or bulky, but it wasn't hard to tell that he was the leader and he was certainly somebody you wouldn't consider messing with. His eyes held longing and an unconcealed load of desire that made me sick.
I was knocked to the ground and felt my hands restrained behind me by two large, scary men. They held my arms so tight that I could hear them snapping slowly and I hissed in pain. Jim, knelt on top of me and started touching me, kissing me so harshly that I could do nothing but panic and groan in agony.
Taking this as encouragement he chuckled, "Good girl."
I felt my clothes being ripped off, his as well and I looked up to see his face. Lust was written all over it and as he was distracted by… other things I took the opportunity to spit at him.
He stared at me, "This one knows how to fight," he chuckled. I felt a searing hot pain across my face and realised that one of the others had punched me, or maybe they'd slapped me? I wasn't sure, my mind was tearing itself to pieces as the last effects of adrenaline wore off and the pain became too much for my destroyed body to bear. Shutting itself down, my consciousness slowly slipped away- for this I was grateful- but I managed to hear Jim's last few words that almost made me choke in disgust and dismay. "Come on boys," he muttered, "There's enough to share, join in."
It only got worse from there…even while I was unconscious.
To be continued…
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