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We went back downstairs and Emmett dumped the contents of the duffel bag on the table, looking for a clue. But there was just money and no clues.
Bella sat down defeated and Edward tried to comfort her, but is was of no use. She slipped through our finger again. Maybe she would come back and maybe we would never see her again. Rage flooded through me and I grabbed the table and tossed it in blind anger. The bag fell in the ground together with the money. Get yourself together Jake, I told myself and a little ashamed I grabbed it to clean up the mess I made. But as I did I noticed there was something hidden in the bottom. When I grabbed it I felt something hard in the fabric. I ripped open the duffel bag and some papers and some cards fell out.
'What's that?' Carlisle asked while he grabbed the papers. I watched over his shoulder as he inspected them.
'What are they?' Rosalie asked.
'It's a list of financial deposits made to an address.' Carlisle said. 'In the last six months a few thousand dollars was sent to this address. Renesmee wrote down when she sent it and how much she sent.'
'What the fuck' Jasper mumbled as he stared at the papers.
"Why does she roughly sent 2500 dollars every month to this address? It makes no sense.'
Alice was desperately trying to do her mojo to find her, but with the vail still active she couldn't see her.
'Goddammit' Emmett muttered and picked up the cash. 'We have no idea who this girl is, it is almost impossible to track her down.'
'We did it before, we can do it again' Jasper answered. 'We can't give up on her.'
'Does anyone know why she did leave Victoria and this man?' Bella asked the room. She was once again devastated. 'What happened to her that she got this way?' Edward asked. All questions without answers, we all wanted to know badly but no one could shine some light on these matters except Renesmee.
'We can't give up on her. Look at how he treated her, she probably never knew love and kindness in her life. We can't blame her for that, we can still give her a happy life.' Esme said.
Then suddenly the doorbell rang. The sound was so out of place that it took a few seconds for us to realize what happened and that we needed to open the door. Carlisle was the on who walked to the door and opened it. Seth gave a warm smile and walked in. It was kind of Seth that he came to help, but there was nothing he could do at the moment.
'What are you doing here Seth?' I asked him a bit irritated. It wasn't meant to sound so harsh, but I was annoyed and chagrin. Jolly good Seth however didn't seem to notice at all.
'I wanted to thank you guys. You are true lifesavers.' He beamed. Everyone in the room exchanged looks, but no one knew what he was talking about.
'What are you talking about?' Edward hissed irritated. His golden eyes went over Seth questioning. Seth hadn't even been there with the fight, so there was no reason to thank them at all.
'For your donation, it really helped save the school. We can renovate the gym now and we don't need to close next year!' Seth explained himself. Suddenly it became a little clearer what he was talking about. 'Seth did Renesmee make the donation?' I asked him.
Feeling that something was wrong he gave me weird look. ' Yeah of course, who else? Did she come home okay? She left early and I didn't got the chance to thank her yet. I had to bring Elouise home first, that's why I'm so late. Is she upstairs?'
'Oh thank god' I mumbled and sat down.
'What's going on Jake?' Seth asked confused. His eyes went over the floor which was covered with dollar bills. He gave me a questioning look, but didn't press the matter.
'We thought she ran off.' I whispered while I closed my eyes and let my head rest on the chair.
'I don't believe she did. I think she will be home soon.' Seth stated and folded his arms. 'Have some faith in her okay?' Feeling out of place, Seth headed home soon after. I couldn't blame him. We waited until she returned. There was this heavy silence while we waited. As an outsider I wouldn't want to be here either. Every minute seemed like hours. But after 15 minutes we heard the scraping of the key that was put in the lock. The backdoor opened and she walked in with her heels in her hand and keys in the other. I was so relieved when I saw her, my heart jumped. She was all dressed up, her hair was tied up in a bun and she was wearing a green dress that looked beautiful on her. She put her shoes down and walked into the living room. She was welcomed by stern faces and questioning eyes. Her eyes went over the room and ended by the ripped up duffel bag on the table.
'What the fuck?' She mumbled.
'Where were you?' Edward hissed through his teeth.
'I was at the fundraiser for Seth's school.' She hissed back.
'And you didn't thought we would be worried when we came back? We just had a bloodbath, we fought an entire coven for you. And you didn't even think about leaving a note to inform us that you are okay?' Edward was furious. Venom was dripping from his fangs. His golden eyes burned with anger and rage, he was quite intimidating this way. Renesmee probably thought the same because she took a step back.
'Edward..' I warned him. He needed to back off a little. 'Shut it Jacob. Don't interfere.' He warned me.
'Fine, next time I'll leave a goddamn note. Happy now?' She hissed back.
'Happy? No I'm not happy at all Renesmee. What was that out there? Who was that man and what did he do to you. What is this?' He grabbed her papers. 'In what kind of trouble did you get yourself and what kind of trouble do we need to get you out off?' Even though he was still speaking with a raised voice he wasn't screaming anymore.
Her eyes went over the papers. 'That's none of your business.'
'None of our business? I would like to know why my six year old daughter transfers 2500 dollars every month to some address in Los Angeles.'
Tears were welling up in her eyes as she stared at the paper. 'It's none of your business' She repeated again. She turned around but Edward called her back.
'Don't you walk away from this Renesmee. '
So she turned back around and walked over to Edward, at first I thought she wanted to slap hem. But instead she pressed her hand on his cheek and closed her eyes. They stood there for a while and Edwards expression turned to a horrified one. When she pulled back her hand tears were rolling down from her eyes.
'Happy now?' She hissed.
Edward just stared at her in shock. She turned around and rushed to her room, slamming the door hard. I could hear her sobbing from here. The poor girl. I turned my attention to Edward who was staring into space, still with that horrified expression on his face.
'Edward?' Bella whispered as she tried to get contact. He snapped out of it and sat down in the couch. It was a first that I saw Edward Cullen so distressed.
'Edward dear, what happened there?' Esme asked as she laid a comforting hand on his shoulder.
He sighted very deep before he spoke. 'She showed me what happened.'
We waited until he would tell us what happened. I didn't knew what to expect, but whatever I did expect this was not it. The secrets she tried so hard to hid from us came to light now, but a part of me hoped they would be buried forever..
'She showed me a night in a hotel room. She was staying there with her father, or the guy that's pretending to be' He said bitter. 'He and some others were having a drink. They were talking about the new distribution network of the pills they just produced. Renesmee was tired, she was reading a book about the history of Russia and was slowly falling asleep. But she was ashamed to fall asleep, because the others would make fun of her for being part human.'
He cleared his throat and I could see he was having a hard time telling her story to us.
'Eventually she did fall asleep. When she woke up the other men were gone. She got up and washed her face, she then walked over to her father who was working on his laptop. She sat down and drank some of the left-over blood that was on the table.'
He stopped again. He cleared his throat again, he grabbed Bella's hand and eventually continued the story after a long pause.
'The blood tasted weird and she knows something is wrong. So she stands up but gets dizzy, Emelio that's the name of her self-proclaimed father, notices and catches her. He pulls her on his lap and askes if she is feeling okay. She isn't and he can see that, so he picks her up and carries her to bed. He slowly starts to undress her. But as he is doing so he starts groping her, she tells him to stop but he doesn't. He just tells her to make herself useful for a change. He climbs on top of her and holds her down sinking his teeth in her artery. But before he can continue a man walks in. He sees what's happening and tries to stop it. He hits Emelio on the head with a book and irritated he steps of Renesmee and sinks his teeth in his neck sucking him dry. While doing so Renesmee fled out of the room..'
The room was silent when Edward finished the story.
'Oh my lord.' Esme said as she cried tearlessly.
'The poor thing.' Rosalie said.
Edward and Bella said nothing, but held each other. There was so much pain in everyone's eyes.
RPOV
I climbed out of the window and onto the roof. The air was cold, but I didn't mind. I laid down and gazed at the stars while I let my tears run freely. It was a mistake showing Edward what happened, but he was pressing so much that I didn't know what to do else. I felt ashamed, knowing that they would look at me with pity. I didn't want to be pitied, fortunately for me nothing more happened that night. I came of good, but I never wanted to see that man again.
It wondered how look it would take before they tried to talk to me. I also wondered who would come first. I didn't want to see any of them, I just wanted to gaze at the stars and bawl my eyes out for a while.
It was Rosalie of all people who came up first. I sighted when I saw her manicured nails grab the ledge to climb up.
'Hey' She said.
'Hey' I answered. I was too tired to pick a fight right now.
She handed me a bottle of whiskey and a glass. 'Don't tell Edward I gave you this or he'll kill me.'
'Sure. Thanks' I said and open the bottle and put it straight to my lips.
'I'm really sorry for what happened to you Renesmee.' She said.
'It's okay. I'm over it' I took another swing from the bottle.
'I don't think you really ever get over it, the same happened to me in my human years. But till this day I still feel the hatred and bitterness. I keep wondering when that will ever stop.'
'We'll see' I just said.
'Do you want to talk about it?' She asked me. I chuckled 'About the fact that my so called father drugged me while my mother was gone for a weekend and tried to molest me and drink my blood? No thanks I think I keep that one to myself kay?'
'If you ever do want to talk about it, I understand okay. You can always come to me. I know what it does to a person.' She stood up and dusted off her jeans.
'Thanks' I said. She gave a nod and with one fluent move she jumped off the roof. I stayed on the rooftop for quite a while, I wasn't ready to face them yet. After a while Carlisle and Jacob climbed on the rooftop as well.
'Hey you' Jacob said. Carlisle looked to the bottle disapprovingly, Jacob however took a swing himself.
'How are you holding up Renesmee?' Carlisle said as he sat down next to me.
'I'll manage.' I answered and got back the bottle back from Jacob.
'I am so sorry this happened to you Renesmee.'
'I don't really want to talk about it if you don't mind. It's not that I'm traumatized or something, I come of good. I just never want to see him again.'
'You are a though one' Jacob said.
'Edward is really sorry that he pushed you so far, he told me he would keep his distance until you are ready to hear his apology.' Carlisle said.
'Okay'
'There's just thing I don't understand Renesmee. Why the money? Why do you go out of your way to transfer that much every month.' Carlisle asked me in a soft voice.
I sighted. I was tired, there was no need for anymore secrets.
'It's for the widow. When Vinny came in and tried to stop my father he saved me. He gave his life to protect me. He was one of our runners, he was human and barely tying ends together before he came to work for us. He transported the drugs from one place to another and I know that's bad. But he was such a sweet guy, he used the money to take care of his family. He was just a normal guy who got fucked over by the system, he had no records no nothing. But what he did got was a debt because of one of his medical bills. So the job he got with us was an outcome, but he died trying to protect me. A few weeks later I found out that his family had no money to pay for the funeral so I send them money to pay for it. A few weeks after that I found out that his wife had lung cancer, stage 3. So I decided I would keep pitching in, for as long that they needed it.' My throat ached of all the sobs that I didn't let out.
A warm arm got wrapped around me, the heat that radiated from it was actually quite nice. A cold hand grabbed mine and pinched it.
'That's really sweet of you Renesmee. I will contact my colleagues in the hospital there and I will make sure she will get the best treatment available. Also I will make sure all de medical costs will be taken care off. ' Carlisle reassured me. I sighted in relief and nodded. 'Thank you'
'You don't have to do this alone anymore Renesmee. You're part of the family now and we're in this together. Is there anything else I can do for you?'
I shook my head. 'No thank you. I'm just tired. '
"Then I will let you get ready for bed' He said and stood up. He gave me a comforting smile and within a flash was off the roof. Now it was just Jacob and me.
'I am so sorry Ren' He started.
'You too?' I groaned. 'I don't need to hear it. Please stop'
'That's not what I mean. That day in that AirBnB, what happened between us. That was..'
'Okay.' I interrupted him. He gave me a weird look. 'Don't be sorry for that, like I said I'm over it. I am not afraid to start a sexual relationship. I am perfectly fine with that, it's just my father is an asshole who couldn't keep his hands to himself.'
'Guess so'
'You know it wasn't the first time he tried something like that. The first time I told my mother, she didn't believe me and told me I was just in puberty. That I was just faking it, because of the lack of attention I was getting. My father would never do something like that she said, we were such a happy family. So she shook it off completely, pretending it never happened. It's just that I can't forget it you know, I try to block it out but I can't. That's why I left them. I tried to contact my mother frequently after that. But he is so controlling, if she does something he doesn't like he threatens to remove the vail from us and she is so scared that the Cullens will find her that she does everything he says.' I blurted out. I surprised myself by telling him all that.
'I will kill him next time I lay eyes on him. I promise you that.' Jacob said. He noticed he was shaking heavily but I didn't mention it. We sat in silence for a while, his warm arm was still around my shoulders. The only reason I hadn't removed it yet was because I was enjoying the heat that was radiating from it.
'Seth stopped by.'
'Oh what did he want?'
'He wanted to thank you for the donation.'
'Oh right. Well I was just glad I could help' I shrugged. It keeps those kid happy, it keeps the teachers happy because they still had a job and it wasn't like I needed the money anyway.
'I didn't knew you were going there, otherwise I would have accompanied you' Jacob said.
'It was fine, Me and Seth talked a great part of the evening. I still had fun, the people were really nice to me. Well most of them that is.' I said.
'Was there someone who wasn't nice to you then?' Jacob asked curious.
'Yeah there was this girl, with straight brown hair. Her eyes were a different color, one was green and the other was brown. She didn't seem to like me very much. She was staring at me with so much hate. I didn't know what I did to her, but whatever.' I said trying to describe the girl the best I could. My mind was a little fuzzy and is was hard to recall her from my memories right now.
'Right that's probably Elouise, don't you worry about her. It's a little complicated.' Jacob said gazing up to the stars.
'Why?'
'Well for starters she is Seth's imprint' Jacob said still gazing up to the stars.
'She is what now?' I asked confused. What the hell was an imprint?
'That means that someday when she is ready for it they will come together. They are soulmates, only she is still way too young for that to happen. Besides he is her teacher, so there is no way that is a possibility right now. He will tell her when the time is right.'
'So she is the girl he was talking about.' I mumbled 'When he said he liked someone'
'Yeah I guess so.' Jacob nodded.
I took an other swing, letting the alcohol warm me from the inside. I closed my eyes for a while enjoying the silence.
'If you are tired why don't you go to bed?' Jacob asked me. I shook my head.
'No I don't want to go inside yet. I need some peace and quiet from a while.' I answered.
He nodded. 'Okay, I understand.'
So we continued to sit there in silence, until I fell asleep...
