Here's your chapter everyone. Its longer than the other two chaps so be happy about that.
I lay on my bed staring at the ceiling fighting off sleep as long as I could. I didn't want to dream, I always had horrible dreams. Tonight's nightmare wasn't so much of a dream as it was a memory, the reason I left my home.
"Bella what the hell was that back there? I saw you looking at that guy" Ryan screamed at me, as he dragged me into his house. His parents are out to dinner of course, I hardly ever see them.
"Ryan I swear I wasn't, I only look at you" I begged him, tears flowed down my face. He had already been yelling at me the whole car ride home and I knew what was coming I just tried so hard to make him see the truth.
"Stop lying whore!" He slapped me, hard. I fell to the floor and curled up in a ball sobbing quietly. He picked me up and shoved me against the wall, his hands painfully gripped my arms and the wall was cold and unforgiving against my back. I tried to turn away and leave but he grabbed my arm roughly and pulled me back sharply. I fell again.
"I wouldn't have to do this if you were a better girlfriend Bella, if you could just do something right for once in your life then we could be happy. Instead we aren't, don't blame me for this when its your fault." His words cut me like a knife, things he said so often it was hard to see them as anything but true. Why else would he treat me like this? It was hard to imagine it was his fault, the typical golden boy, instead of mine, the nobody. I really didn't do anything though!
He pushed his body into mine so I was trapped by him and the wall, it kept getting harder and harder to breath. He kissed my neck, I just stood there and let him. I cant fight him, its better for me to just stand here.
"Its not all about you Bella" he murmured moving to my face. He kissed me roughly, I stood immobile and terrified. He pushed me further against the wall, kissing me deeper. I just stood there still, I disgusted myself how could I just let him do this? Its not right. I tried to move away, but Ryan didn't let me.
"What the fuck do you think you are doing?" he snarled, his blue eyes I once found so beautiful now made me sick to my stomach. He grabbed me and threw me to the floor face first.
My side hit the coffee table, I cried out in pain. My head smacked the table with a thud, and I closed my eyes. For what I feared would be the last time.
I woke up panting and crying, as I normally do. I shook away the memory and popped one of the pills Dr. Cullen gave me. They really do make my rib feel much better.
I walked out the front door to find Edward Cullen leaning against the hood of his car, I jumped back in shock my heart pounded quickly in my chest.
"You look surprised" Edward noted, I could detect a hint of sadness still in his voice though I couldn't comprehend why, maybe he didn't want to pick me up.
"I guess" I mumbled looking down, my previous dream still had my hands shacking.
"I told you I would pick you up" Edward told me as he walked over to the passenger side and opened my door for me, I didn't answer I just got it.
"How was your night?" Edward asked as he drove down the road to school.
"Fine" I lied, I tend to do that a lot lately.
"Did you take the medicine?" Edward asked like a concerned parent.
"Yes, please tell you dad thank you for me it helps a lot" I asked him looking at the forest passing by outside the window.
"Alright." Edward told me as he stopped the car. I opened my door before he had the chance to and stepped out into the never ending rain.
"Would you like to eat lunch with me today?" Edward asked as he walked next to me, I thought for a moment but I found that I did actually want to eat with him.
"Ok yeah, thank you." It was better then being assaulted by questions from Jessica, Edward walked me to my class. Mike waved at me and came to sit down next to me when he walked in.
"Hey Bella." He whispered.
"Hi Mike." I answered still looking straight ahead.
"How are you?" he asked, I frowned not good I answered in my head but I'm never actually good.
"Fine, and you?" I asked politely.
"Great" He smirked then the teacher called the class to order I gratefully paid attention. As soon as the bell rang I was out of my seat and rushing out the door.
"Bella wait" Mike called jogging to catch up with me, he grabbed my arm to slow me down. I winced and he dropped it quickly.
"Are you ok?" He asked.
"Oh yeah, I just ran into the door a couple of days ago." I laughed nervously, Mike smiled a little.
"Nice job" he chuckled complementing my supposed clumsiness, I had to bite back a glare.
"Yeah." I agreed. We walked to class silently, my mind tried to reason with my body there is no reason to be afraid. None of these guys are Andrew; none of them have ever hurt me. But who ever said fear was rational? Actually I'm pretty sure no one says that.
Edward met me outside of my Spanish class and walked me to an empty lunch table. He held a massive tray of food and slid it into the middle of our table.
"Take anything you want." he told me. I didn't move, he sighed.
"Please Bella, I got this for you. Aren't you hungry?" Edward begged. It was my turn to sigh, I hesitantly reached out and grabbed the bagel.
"How was your morning" Edward asked as I munched on the bagel.
"Fine, how was yours?" I asked. He smirked, my breath caught in my throat he is so shockingly beautiful. How could this angle want to waste his time with me?
"Uneventful." he answered finally. We were both silent but I desperately wanted to hear his godly voice again.
"Tell me about your family please?" I asked him, looking up from my bagel into his soft topaz eyes. I lost my train of thought and forgot what I asked him only a second ago.
"OK, Carlisle, and my mom Esme adopted all of us. Jasper and Rosalie are twins." Edward told me
"That's really nice of them to take in all of you." I pointed out, as if he didn't already know that. Edward nodded.
"I couldn't imagine two better people." he agreed, I could tell by the way his eyes shone when he talked about them he really loved and admired them. I smiled, its good that he has them.
"Now tell me about your family?" he questioned carefully. I sighed, I would much rather just listen to his voice then tell about my dreary family.
"My mom Renee and Charlie divorced when I was little, I lived with my mom in Phoenix but I visited Charlie over the summer for a bit. My mom just got remarried to Phil." I told him, his eyes seemed to harden when I told him about Phil.
"Do you like Phil?" he asked softly, I immediately saw what he thought and half smiled. Not even close Edward, I thought to myself.
"He's ok, kind of quiet. Maybe a bit too young for my mom but nice enough, he makes her feel younger I guess. She's always been kind of a free spirt and he's good for her." I shrugged a little bit smiling, I was still amused that he thought Phil would do this. He glanced to his blonde brother and looked a little relieved. The blonde boy smiled a little, in reassurance. That's a little strange.
"Who's who?" I asked nodding towards his family. Edward didn't even look at them as he told me.
"You already know Alice. Jasper is blonde, Rosalie is also blonde hence the twins. Emmett has brow curly hair" I nodded to show I was listening. We chatted about random topics for the rest of lunch, I was surprised to find myself smiling a little and actually interested in the conversation. Edward Cullen was very easy to talk to. The bell rang and Edward and I walked to biology in silence. The whole class looked up at us in shock as we walked in together; I looked down at the floor feeling the blush rush to my face.
Mr. Banner shoved a video in the player and announced we would be watching a movie today. I couldn't pay attention to the movie though. Edward was sitting less than an inch from me, our arms almost toughed. Half of me was frozen with fear but the other half longed to just reach over and touch him.
Edward waited for me outside of my gym class and walked me to my truck. I smiled at him, he grinned crookedly back.
"Thank you Edward, for everything." I said quietly before I slammed the door of my truck.
EPOV
"Thank you Edward, for everything" she told me quietly, blushing lightly. My throat burned with thirst, but her words warmed my heart. I walked back to the car with a smile on my face.
I am helping her. My family was waiting for me by my car.
"How is she?" Alice asked, she had really taken a liking to Bella since she first saw her.
"Better... I think." I told them, I could never be to sure about her. She still has nightmares every night and wakes up crying. I frowned, how could someone hurt her? Who would do that to her? I know its not Charlie, or Phil.
BPOV
I was sitting at the kitchen table when the phone rang making me jump.
"Hello?" I asked,
"Hey Bella, its Charlie I think I'm going to be home late. There's this dog that wont let anyone near it" Charlie said sadly.
"Why?" I asked quietly
"We think it was abused" Charlie answered slowly.
"What's going to happen to it?" I asked breathlessly.
"I don't know Bells we will probably have to put it to sleep if she bites anyone" Charlie told me. Tears came to my eyes, so they would kill a dog just because she is scared. It's not her fault she was abused.
"Where are you?" I asked.
"Um, on the edge of La Push, Cherry street, why?" Charlie asked.
"I'm coming" I said and hung up the phone before he got a chance to respond. I rushed out of the house grabbing my keys. I found the house easily, Charlie's cruiser was parked across the street and a few people were on the lawn.
I jumped out of the truck and ran in the front door of the house ignoring the protests from the people. Charlie stood against the back wall of the room, a few large tan boys were walking slowly towards a dog.
"Bella?" Charlie asked but I paid no attention to him. I turned my attention towards the dog and boys. The dog was a spaniel of some kind, and pretty small maybe thirty pounds and a foot or a foot and a half tall. The boys inched towards her and she growled and pushed herself into the wall more.
"Stop!" I screamed at them, they all turned to look at me in confusion. "What do you think you are doing?! This dog is scared to death, she's been hurt and she's confused. Now you three are cornering her? How is that going to help?" I had to take a breath for air.
"So your just going to catch her then kill her? How is that fair? Its not her fault people can be horrible! So this dog gets abused and now she gets to die? No, that's not right." Tears were welling up in my eyes at this point. "Let me try" I said a bit quieter. Everyone turned towards Charlie.
"Bells it might hurt you." he said quietly walking over to me and putting his hand on my shoulder. I turned to face him and gave him my best hopeful look.
"I'll heal if it does, but you have to let me try." I begged him and Charlie nodded gently squeezing my shoulder. I moved to sit down Indian style ten feet or so in front of the dog. I didn't move I just looked at her, she looks like the dog from Lady and the Tramp. But maybe a bit bigger.
After about ten minuets of so I moved about a foot closer. She whimpered but didn't growl.
"Shh, its ok I wont hurt you" I soothed her quietly. As I waited again for her to get comfortable with me, then I move forward again. She pushed herself back against the wall more. I murmured things to her tying to get her to calm down.
This went on for about thirty minuets when I was finally about a foot away from her. I reached out slowly, my hand trembled in the air. She stuck her nose out and sniffed my hand, she finally licked my hand delicately. I smiled, I did it.
I scooted closer and petted the top of her head. After a minuet of two she crawled closer to me and sat in my lap, tears in my eyes spilled over. I stroked her back gently.
"Bella see if you can get her outside" The biggest boy told me, I nodded but didn't look up from her big sad brown eyes. I held her to my chest and stood up, she whimpered quietly and licked my arm.
I walked outside slowly, suddenly a dented and battered blue car screeched to a stop in front of the house and a grimy man jumped out of the car.
"What do you think you are doing with my dog?!" he yelled storming towards us, Everyone else was just now running out of the house.
"Taking her away" I snapped with new found bravery. The dog growled at him, showing her teeth.
"Stupid dog!" I yelled and reached out to hit her. Instinctively I moved so my body protected her, forgetting about my own injuries. The man hit my side, of course the side with the broken rib.
I gasped and fell to the ground letting the dog go, she cowered against my side whimpering and licking my face. The man tried to come near me but she growled and snapped her teeth at him, he was about to move but Charile's partner yanked him away and threw him in the back of the cop car.
"Bella!" Charlie panicked rushing towards me but he couldn't get to close. The dog growled at everyone trying to come near me, her tail was between her legs.
"We need to get her to a hospital" the tan boy said. The dog growled and snapped at anyone reaching out for me.
"Shh Lady its ok, they wont hurt you" I wheezed out petting her softly, she looked down at me and licked me helplessly. I picked her up and painfully got to my feet, tears were streaming down my face. I limped to my truck, Charlie got in the drivers side and turned the keys quickly spinning around and driving as fast as my old truck would go to the hospital.
"I need Dr. Cullen" I told my dad quietly between my gasps for air. He looked at me and nodded frantically. Lady still growled and snarled at everyone who came near me. Charlie frantically asked the ER nurse to get Dr. Cullen she took one look at me and nodded pushing numbers into the phone.
Dr. Cullen arrived a moment later just as Edward and Alice glided through the doors, Edwards eyes widened in surprise when he saw me gasping and crying leaning against the nurse's station holding a dog but Alice didn't seem too surprised.
Edward rushed to my side worriedly, well he tried to but Lady snarled at him and he stopped hesitantly as if he was debating letting the dog bite him or not.
"Bella what happened?" He asked worriedly, his face was alive in concern. I just shook my head. As Charlie told Dr. Cullen what happened, Edward and Alice listened in. A nurse brought a wheel chair for me I sat down slowly with Lady on my lap, she was in panic mode growling at Everyone and anyone. I pet her and whispered calming things to her. It kind of worked, well kind of but she distracted me from the pain in my ribs.
Edward pushed me into a private room, everyone else followed of course. I leaned my head back in the wheel chair and closed my eyes, Lady licked my cheek softly.
"Bella could you get on the bed?" Dr. Cullen asked, I nodded and opened my eyes, I shoved Lady gently, she jumped off and I stood up slowly. Edward pushed the wheel chair away and helped me up, Lady growled at him viciously but he didn't pay any attention to her.
Edward had his arm around my waist supporting most of my weight, and I wasn't scared that he would hurt me, ok well maybe a little but not really it felt kind of nice. Lady continued to growl at him until we got to the table and I jumped up moaning softly, then Lady whimpered.
"Ok Bella, we are going to give you this so you don't hurt as bad and we can take x-ray's" Dr. Cullen said holding up a needle. I grimaced, I hate needles I turned my head to the side away from the needle. Edward kneeled down so our faces were at the same level and only a few inches apart.
"Bella," he murmured softly I looked into his eyes and smiled a little.
"Are you alright?" he looked pained, like someone was burning him, an angle shouldn't look like that.
"Will you ask Charlie if I can keep Lady?" I asked very quietly he nodded and turned towards Charlie.
"Chief Swan, Bella wants to know if she can keep the dog." Edward asked him, they both looked towards Lady whimpering in the corner, she was watching me, wining and fidgeting.
"Bells, if you want a dog we can find a better one. She would be really hard to take care of." Charlie told me.
"I want that one, she needs me. No one else wants her," I mumbled, Edward translated louder for Charlie.
"Bella she's been abused, she may never trust people ever again." Charlie said a little quieter. My body shook slightly with sobs, Edward held my hand and rubbed soothing circles in it. I gripped it tightly, I knew he wasn't thinking about Lady anymore.
EPOV
She let me hold her hand as she cried for this dog, the dog that seemed to be just like her.
"She trusts me" Bella mumbled between her tears.
"She trusts Bella" I echoed for her, but I wasn't talking about the dog but, talking about Bella. She's letting me near her, she's letting me try and help. I knew Charlie would give in soon, he was already almost broken. He wasn't a stupid man, he seemed to know something had happened to Bella. It was hard to hear his thoughts though, I seemed to only be getting some of them not all.
"Please," she said just loud enough for Charlie to hear her, he let out a sigh of defeat.
"As long as you know how much work this is going to be." He told her sternly, but she just grinned and Charlie softened, he thought about how she doesn't smile much. Her scent still killed me to be near, but there is no way I can leave now. Its just not possible anymore.
Carlisle gave her the drugs and her eyes drooped quickly and she fell into a deep hopefully dreamless sleep. They wheeled her away to get x-rays and a CAT scan. Charlie, Alice and I sat quietly in the waiting room, with Lady cowering the corner of course. A couple of nurses tried to pet her, but she just growled. It was mildly amusing.
BPOV
I woke up in a dark room that wasn't my own to the consistent beeping of a heart monitor I groaned, I hate hospitals. I slowly opened my eyes, and looked around to see my hand with a needle and a tube sticking in it and a tube going up to my nose.
"Bella?" a musical voice sounded form the corner, I knew it immediately as Edward's. I looked around for him, he was sitting in a chair to the right of my bed.
"How are you feeling?" he asked anxiously.
"Better, thanks for helping me keep Lady." I told him as I saw her hiding in the corner.
"That was all you. Charlie only said ok because you smiled, you never smile." I frowned how would Edward know I don't smile.
"How do you know that? You've seen me smile." At least I think he has, everything was a little fuzzy right now.
"Yes that's true," he thought for a moment "but I've also seen you when you think no one is looking and I assume that's what your like at home when people aren't staring at you." he told me I looked away from him, that may be true but he is lying I know he is.
"What time is it?" I asked suddenly, desperate for a change in subject.
"Around 12" he answered hesitantly.
"You aren't supposed to be here are you?" I asked. He smirked.
"Not really, I snuck back in. Visiting hours ended" he told me.
"Why?" I asked, why would he want to stay with me when he had so many better things to do I'm sure.
"I didn't want you to wake up alone," He said quietly, I smiled that's really nice. Andrew never even came with me to the hospital, he let me wake up alone, and think of cover story's alone. I frowned and my eyes drooped.
"Go back to sleep Bella, you need your rest" Edward told me. I wanted to tell him no, but my eye lids felt extremely heavy.
I was standing at the sink; it was full of dirty dishes. I recognized the room as my kitchen back in Phoenix. I had sudsy water up to my elbows as I scrubbed a plate clean. Footsteps sounded behind me and I turned to see Andrew walking into my kitchen, my throat closed in fear and I quickly looked back at the dishes. Even though I knew how this would go, I couldn't seem to stop myself from following the same pattern as I did before.
"Bella, hurry it up." He snapped, I nodded and scrubbed the food off faster. I could feel his stare burning holes in my back. I started to get nervous. My nerves made me clumsy, as I reached for a drying for the plate I was holding the dish slipped out of my grasp and smashed on the floor.
"BELLA!" Andrew shouted as some of the suds and water hit his T-Shirt. I winced as he stormed over to me.
"Look what you did! Could you do this one thing with out messing up? Is that so hard Bella? Apparently it is for you" He screamed grabbing a fist full of hair on the back of my head. He shoved my face in the sink, the water burned my eyes. I hit the counter with my palms trying to get him to let me breath.
I tried clawing at his hand but he just pushed my body into the counter letting out my remaining air. I inhaled in the water, black spots started to could my vision. Right before I was about to pass out he pulled me out and threw me onto the floor.
My head Cracked against the floor, blood covered the floor as I turned to my side and tried to breath.
"How do you like it" Drew snarled, kicking pieces of the broken plate at me. I still couldn't breath, I tried to cough up the water. I was losing so much blood from my head though, it made it hard to see.
My eyes flew open, my breath rapid. My hand flew up to the back of my head and felt the jagged scar. I tired to control my breathing but it still felt like I was choking on the water.
"Bella, its ok your safe now." Edward murmured, I quickly turned to face him. My eyes were wide and tears fell from them, he was very close to me. He must know for sure now, I sobbed and brought my hands to cover my face so I didn't have to see the disappointment on his face.
What Edward did surprised me though, he reached out for me and climbed onto the bed pulling me onto his lap. I moved my hands to hold him to me as I cried into his chest. Edwards arms gently wrapped around me and I fisted his shirt in my hands and just let him comfort me.
"Its alright, I wont let anything hurt you." Edward whispered, I just held him tighter and continued to cry. He cant promise that, no one can.
Thanks for reading i know this chapter is kind of sad but edward is here.. yay! anyway i need reviews to write... i need someone telling me they actually care when i post or not. so be a dear and review