Sorry for some of the language in these chapters.
The Guardian
Chapter Five- Isa
He pulled the phone out of the wall. Then he kept saying:
"Why are you making me do this to you?" And other shit like that; I just stared at him coldly. Then he grabbed my hair and we argued as I asked him to leave me be, but, he refused. Charlie put one hand around my throat and squeezed. After about a minuet or so of being unable to breathe right, I kicked him and was able to break away from him and I ran to the front door, again.
Charlie, the 'Police man', caught up to me in the doorway and pushed me to the ground to start punching and kicking me.
I was bleeding too hard to even think properly. The only thought that could pass though my brain… the single thought surprised me to the bone.
Edward…
What the fuck—why the hell am I thinking about Edward? Ace is my boyfriend; well at least I think he still is. Edward is just a friend, nothing more. Though the way Alice would talk to me about him, it seemed as though we were in love.
TGbyELV
"So… How's it going with Edward?" Alice had asked me once during class. The teacher was, at least, half asleep at him desk right after he had let us talk quietly while he was to 'grade papers'. Right.
"Um, good, I guess. Why are you so interested? I mean it's hard to ask him that when he hasn't been to school in like the past week." I exaggerated. She giggled lightly beside me; I couldn't help but giggle along.
"He's always talking about you; I started to think that you guys were talking on the phone or on AIM or something like that." I shook my head in response as the bell rang.
TGbyELV
My father was pounding my head into the floor now. I wanted to laugh so HARD! I mean it was like a 37-year-old man straddling his 17-year-old daughter, slamming her head into the floor repeatedly. Some one could get a seriously wrong picture out of that. I gasped in pain as I heard a loud crack.
Then…oh no! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't speak…I couldn't move. My vision became blurry with big black spots as I felt the weight on my body being lifted. My eye's shut on there own accord as I felt the blood stream out of the big wound in my head. I was already on my deathbed.
Wow…so this is what it feels like. To be beaten so hard that it kills you. Now I know what they mean by love can kill and tough love. I would have rolled my eyes, but I found that I couldn't. I could barely move my chest to breathe in what little air I could.
I could fell my body being moved, from the cold hard floor…so something that felt warm and…safe? Then there was a big crash, like I could care though, a soothing voice was echoing in my brain. Coaxing me into the darkness…and I let it.
I don't know how much later it was when I woke up, it had felt like a minuet though. A different voice this time was trying to get me awake. He was shaking my shoulders and kept placing a wet towel onto my forehead. I groaned in response to the cold touch, which reminded me of Edwards's skin. The first day that I had actually felt his skin it was piercing cold, leaving a burning sensation in its wake.
I groaned again, as I started to hear voices.
"I can't believe her own father would do that to her." I heard Alice mumbled fast voice, it was usually filled with happiness, but it was filled with sorrow.
"I can't believe that we were too late. We could have prevented all of this." It Edwards voice now.
"How is she?" I heard a voice that I have never heard before in my life, but it sounded and older and sweet.
"Pretty bad, the bleeding finally stopped, but I wouldn't doubt she's still bleeding internally." It was Alice again.
"Bella, honey, wake up." Edward's voice broke through my fogged brain. I moaned in response. "Bella, please." Edward begged. I moaned again and opened my eyes.
"Edward?" My voice rang my own eardrums to the max. I almost closed my eyes but Edward stopped me.
"Please, Bella, don't close your eyes." His sweet voice said. I could have sworn that he was at least a couple inches away from me.
"Edward she can close her eyes if she wants to, what if she's tired. You would be too if that happened to you." I saw Edward give Alice a knowing look before he turned back to me.
"I just don't want to give her the chance to go to sleep again..." he murmured softly, but I still heard. His eye's seemed caring, as did Alice's.
"She wont Edward, I can see that." Alice whispered back, and I made a funny face as they both chuckled at me. It was that I got enough time to look around and I notice that I was not in my house any more. Actually I didn't know where I was at all. All I knew what that I was under a roof with Alice and Edward... and Emmett. As he just walked through the wooden door with a big smile on his face after glancing at me and Edward. I rolled my eyes as I sat up.
"What happened?" I asked, everyone looked away, their faces showing their emotions. Anger.
"You... Your father... he uhh... he was going to kill you." Edward mumbled, turning to look me in the eye, but now all of the Cullen kids were in the room, watching me with pity in their eyes. I tried not to show it, but I was surprised. How could they have known? I have never told anyone anything. Not even my best of friends.
"We can explain how we know." Edward said quickly.
What is this kid a mind reader? What the...! Now he's smiling. Does this guy confuse me or what?
Edward P.o.v
Her emotions where places clearly on her face for everyone to see. I could tell that she was trying to hide it but it wasn't going to work. She was surprised how we knew.
"We can explain how we know." I mumbled just loud for her to hear. Her emotions changed and I swear I heard Jasper chuckle. Her expression was priceless it made me smile. She was trying to hard to not show her feeling when she already was. Carlisle and Esme came in right then, good timing to. It looked like Bella was going to ask me something because he expression changed again into an angered one. I couldn't help but chuckle lightly as I stood from my stop on the edge of the bed, letting Carlisle have complete access to her.
"Bella, this is our father Carlisle." I introduced them.
"Hello, Isabella." He shook her hand gently. "This is my wife Esme." Esme and Bella shook hands before Carlisle shooed everyone out of the room except for me, of course. His excuse:
I don't want Bella to freak out if she's left alone with a male adult. He thought to me, it was reasonable. But then he should have had Alice stay or something. He was up to something but he was blocking his thoughts now. Just like everyone else in the house, well, except for Emmett. But they never tell him anything. (Heh, I love Emmett.)
"Now Isabella,"
"Bella." She had corrected him; he smiled back and sat down on the edge of the bed.
"Bella, do you remember anything that happened?" He asked her.
Bella P.o.v.
I shook my head lightly. I had exactly no memory of what happened. Well, except of what Edward had said. My father had beaten me so hard that I had no memory left. They both must of read my mind. I was really starting to get frustrated with this.
"Bella, yes, your father had beaten you. Edward and Alice had gotten there right in the nick of time though. If it weren't for them, you might not be here right now. And no one would of known." Awwww…that's sweet. Wait, what?
"How did you know?" I asked looking to Edward who had retreated to the corner wall of the room. He didn't show his emotion but I could tell he was racking his brain for something to say.
"Bella, that's not important right now. But we promise to tell you later." Carlisle cut in, saving Edward. He and I sighed at the same time. After I was silent for a moment, Carlisle pulled out some doctor looking things and started a small check up on me. I guess there was nothing more to discus.
Edward P.o.v.
After the small check up that Carlisle had given Bella, she looked tired. After all she was laying a bed, my bed. I don't think that she even noticed that she was in a guy's room. That or she couldn't tell the difference. Carlisle left with one last thought.
Let her sleep Edward, she's been out for three days. I sighed to myself.
"Isa, you need sleep." I said in a seductive voice as I walked back over to the side of the bed. She sighed, seemingly not affected by my tone of voice.
"Edward I'm not tired." She countered. I made a face that I was told looked 'sexy'.
"Yes, you are Isa." I said sitting down on the edge of the bed and leaned back so one bare footed leg was on the bed and the other was hanging off, making weird circles in the soft carpet. Some habit I believed I had taken from my real mother.
"No, Edward. I'm not. And It's Bella. Not 'Isa'." She made an indifference face that quickly changed into one of anger as she saw no waver in my expression.
"Oh, Bella. Silly, silly Bella." I chuckled, as I saw her eyes glaze over for a moment before returning to their normal brown color. I smiled secretly, it was beginning to work.
Edward, Carlisle said to make her go to sleep, no piss her off. I chuckled at Jasper's choice of words. I was the same reaction from Bella again. I knew how to get her to sleep now. "Bella...why don't you wanna go to sleep?" I moved my arm so it was around her small shoulders. I could feel a small shiver of excitement running up and down both of our spines. But that just made me want to keep my arm there no matter how much I had to move it later.
I heard her mumble something but it was incoherent to my ears. I chuckled again, leaning in so she could feel my body beside hers now. Her eyes seemed to be off somewhere else, probably just like her mind, which I just so unluckily am not able to hear. I almost sighed, but it would of blown everything that I was working for.
"Bella…you know you need to sleep." I was breathing into her ear now, her eye's slowly closing. I smiled, almost done.
You're seducing her aren't you? I heard Alice's thoughts coming into my brain like a bullet. Damn, could she think and talk fast. Sometimes it hurt to even try and listen to her think. What am I doing? I'm almost done, and I'm leaving the task unfinished.
"Bella, nothing will happen. I swear." That was the key. Her eyes drooped closed, fast asleep.