I couldn't remember what happened next. I do, however, remember my knees falling under me, and the tears pouring down my face. I woke up in Edward's bed with his blanket wrapped securely around me. I felt around the bed, hoping to find Edward next to me, and he was. I instantly turned to face him and buried my face in his chest.
"I'm so sorry, love," he murmured.
"It's not your fault," I assured him. I looked up underneath my lashes to see an unreadable expression on his face.
"I promised you that I wouldn't let him hurt you, and look what just happened." His tone was now mad, as if he were upset with himself. He had no reason to be. How could he know that James would do such a thing?
"Edward, listen to me. None of this is your fault," I said sternly. I didn't want him beating himself up over something he had no control over.
"Well I'm still going to do everything in my power to make sure that he doesn't do this again. We need to tell the cops," he told me. I knew he was right.
"Yeah, I know. I just don't want to tell them and have James get ever madder than he is now," I said. Just the thought of what James would do to me if I told the police made me shiver in my place.
"I know, Bella, but you can't keep letting him do this. I think we should go to the police station today. You can get a restraining order."
I couldn't say that I didn't agree with him, or that I didn't wan to give him a restraining order, but I was just scared.
"Okay," I said lightly.
"I love you, Bella," Edward said as he pulled me tighter against his chest. I draped my arm over him and rested my head right under his shoulder.
"I love you too, Edward."
He lightly pulled my face up so that I was looking him in the eyes, and I was shocked by how much emotion was in them. Even if he didn't verbally tell me how he felt, I could tell by the way he was looking at me right then. I stretched my neck up so I could place my lips against his.
"Can we go to the station today?" I asked. I figured that if I was going to have to do this, I needed to get it done before I had to go back to work.
"Of course, love," he told me. He slowly disentangled himself from my hold and walked to his closet. "Do you have any clothes with you, or do we need to go to Alice's?" he asked. Luckily, I had packed some jeans and a tank top with me, so I didn't have to go back to her house. I really didn't want to walk in on her and Jasper.
"I brought some stuff," I called back. I crawled out of the bed and made my way outside, cautiously looking around first. Who knew where James was? For all I knew, he could be outside Edward's house, in a bush or something, just waiting until he found me alone.
After looking around, and finding nothing suspicious, I went to Edward's car to grab the rest of my clothes. As I walked back into the house, I saw Edward standing shirtless in front of the refrigerator, trying to find something to eat I assumed, and lightly singing Supermassive Black Hole by Muse. The sight made me smile. Though Edward could be serious at times, this is who he really was, and that's why I loved him.
"Supermassive black hole. Supermassive black hole. Supermassive black hooooole," he sang. I couldn't help but erupt into laughter. He turned to look at me with an embarrassed look on his face, which only cause me to laugh harder.
"You think that's funny, do you?" he asked raising one eyebrow. He looked extremely sexy.
"Just a little," I said while I was still laughing.
"Well, Ms. Swan, I don't find it very polite for you to be laughing at me," he said jokingly as he took two long strides towards me, causing me to back up.
"What are you going to do about it?" I questioned.
Before I knew it, Edward jumped into a full sprint. I quickly turned away from him and started running up the stairs, laughing the whole way. Unfortunately, I was slow compared to Edward and he easily caught up with me, grabbing my waist and picking me up with absolutely no effort. He ran into his room and placed me on the bed, hovering over me. His lips instantly attacked mine and I wrapped my arms around his neck, pulling him as close as possible. His kisses were trailing down my jaw and neck when my phone rang. A part of me wanted to ignore it, but the only people that called my phone were Edward, Emmet, and Alice, so I had to answer.
"Hello?" I asked, having to bite my lip to suppress my moan as Edward kissed an extremely sensitive spot on my neck.
"Hey, Bells. It's me," Emmet said. I instantly sat up from the bed so I could get away from Edward. I could not talk to my brother with Edward doing that.
"What's up?" I asked.
"Nothing really. I just wanted to see how you were doing," he said in his big brother voice. There was a voice inside me, telling me to keep my plans for later today a secret, but I knew I couldn't keep that away from him.
"I'm okay. I'm getting a restraining order against James today," I told him.
"What? Why? What happened?" he questioned. I could tell by his voice that he was mad.
"I've gotten a couple of threatening notes from him, so Edward and I thought it would be a good idea for me to get one," I said.
"He left you notes? Where?" he pressed.
"One at Alice's and one at Edward's," I told him without thinking. Great. Now he was going to go all big brother on me for staying at his house.
Just as I suspected, the next words out of his mouth were: "You're staying at Edwards?"
"Well, Alice had her boyfriend come over so I didn't want to stay there, and I felt safe staying with Edward," I explained.
"Oh. Well, you know that you can always come here," he said.
"I know, but I don't want to bother you," I told him. I know that he is my brother, and he would always be there for me, but I always hated asking for any sort of help.
"You won't, I promise. Anyways, I better let you go get that thing over and done with. I'll talk to you later, though. Okay?"
"Okay. I love you, Emmet," I said.
"Love you too, Squirt," he replied as he hung up the phone.
"I think we should get ready," I told Edward.
"Okay," he answered, giving me a chaste kiss.
After I got dressed we made our way to the station. Going there brought back so many memories of my father. He used to be the police chief before he and my mother died. This was going to be a hard day.
Edward could tell something was up, because he turned down the music and grabbed my hand, giving it a light squeeze.
"Are you okay?" he asked, concerned.
"Yeah, this is just going to be hard. My dad used to work here," I explained. I never really talked about my parents with him, or anyone else for that matter. It hurt too much.
"I'm sorry, Bella," he said sadly. He lifted my hand and gently kissed it.
"It's okay. It happened so long ago. I should be getting over it, but I never talk about them, so I hold on to all of these memories," I answered. I could feel the tears brim my eyes and I quickly brushed them away.
"I'm here for you, Bella. If you ever need to talk about anything. You know that, right?" he asked. I knew that I could trust him with anything, and I knew that I needed to start talking about my parents.
"I know. Thank you," I told him.
The rest of the car ride was relatively quiet. The only real sound was the music in the background.
We got to the station in record time, a result of Edward's crazy driving. When we got in we were greeted by a beautiful lady who obviously only had eyes for Edward.
"Hello, I'm Tanya. How can I help you," she asked. She leaned over just a little, and lightly squeezed her breasts together, causing a one way look down skank street. This was ridiculous. I came here to get a restraining order, not to watch someone flirt with my boyfriend.
"I'd like to get a restraining order," I said harshly. She leaned back and faced me, giving me the evil eye.
"Okay," she said.
She handed me some papers that I had to fill out, so I did. It actually felt good to make it official that James could no longer legally come near me.
When I handed her the papers, she said that she needed to run them through a couple people, and she would call me when she was done.
"How long will this take?" I questioned.
"About a day," she snapped back.
"Thanks," I said before grabbing Edward's hand and walking back to his car. "I'm glad that's over with," I sighed.
I couldn't wait until all of the technicalities were dealt with, and James got the order. My life was meant to be spent with Edward and the people that loved me. Not with him.