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Chapter 7: Bella Revealed, Part Two

Bella's POV

We sat in a long awkward silence before anyone of us said anything. I glanced at Edward and he was shaking his head back and forth. I managed to find my voice and asked him what is wrong.

"I guess I am in shock, knowing that you turned to alcohol to solve your problems," Edward said.

"Wow. I didn't know vampires could go into shock," I said to him.

Then he said,

"Believe me, it's a first."

"Edward, you have to understand the loneliness that I was feeling. I had no one, not really anyway. At home, things started to get worst. My mom and I started getting into these arguments like all the time. Each time I would leave the house to go hang out with Shannon and Manny because I knew that they already had a bottle waiting."

"Night after night I would come home wasted and Renee never noticed a thing because she was too caught up in what Phil was doing. Some of those nights I would party with a lot of guys whom I didn't know. That was possible because we all had gotten fake I.D's so we were able to get in the club."

"What can I say? I was feeling like I was having the time of my life when I was drunk. School became irrelevant. I went some days, but most days I was too hung over to grace the school with my presence."

Edward spoke then saying,

"What changed? What made you finally believe that you need help?"

I sighed and begin to speak,

"One day the school ended up calling my house telling my mom that my grades have been slipping and not to mention the fact that I was missing too many days out of school. I was out with Shannon and Manny once again when my mother kept calling my cell phone. I just ignored the call every time until I eventually turned it off all together."

Later that night I finally went home around midnight, which was kind of early for me and I was slightly buzzed. When I came through the door, and was heading for the stairs, the lights in the living room came on. I went into the living room to find my mother there with a pissed look on her face. She finally spoke through clenched teeth saying,

"Bella, it is after midnight. Where have you been?"

I said to her that I was hanging out with my friends. Then she said,

"I have been calling you all day. Your school called and said that you have been missing a lot of school and your grades are slipping. What do you have to say for yourself Bella?"

I said to her in a cold voice,

"What does it matter to you? Don't act like all of sudden you care about what I do. All these months, you act as if I don't exist. You and I are always arguing like we are cats and dogs or something. What happen to it being two against the world mom? Well, I guess that consists of you and Phil now so why bother caring about what I do?"

With that I ran up to my room and grabbed my stash of Vodka and chugged it down. This was pretty much a routine by now. We fight and say our words to one another, I storm off to my room and drink the night away, and Renee would usually go to Phil, only tonight was different. I didn't expect her to burst in the door and find a Vodka bottle to my lips.

"Isabella Marie Swan, what are you doing with that Vodka bottle?" she said to me.

"What does it look like Renee?" I said to her.

She looked around my room and saw empty bottles in my garbage can and freaked out. She came over to me and snatched the bottle from my hands.

I said to her with tears running down my face,

"Give it back to me Renee".

I tried to take the bottle away from her, but she decided to toss it out the window. I was so desperate for that drink that I actually tried to jump out the window after it, but Renee grabbed me and pulled me into a tight hug. I was fighting against her grasp wanting to go and get the drink, when I realized what I really wanted was my mom to hold me like she was doing. I began to hug her back and sobbed on her shoulder forever from what it seemed like.

She finally said to me,

"Bella I am so sorry. I never knew you felt this way. I didn't know you turned to alcohol to get away from your problems rather than just face me. As your mother, I should have seen this right away. We will get you some help, okay baby?"

I spoke now to my mother saying,

"I can't let you take all the blame. I should have come to you and told you how I was feeling. I was just too mad and frustrated I guess."

I looked up to my mom with tears in my eyes and said,

"Mom? I really need your help."

Renee started crying and said,

"We will get you some help first thing tomorrow."

The next day Renee called the guidance counselor at my school and asked her if she knew of anything or anybody who could help me. The counselor gave her a few numbers to call and before I knew it I had somewhere to go. It was a group called A.A, which stands for Alcoholics Anonymous and it, actually consisted of kids around my age. I realized that I wasn't the only kid who turned to alcohol to escape their problems. Things were starting to change for the better.

My moms acknowledge me more and things kind of were returning back to normal. I must admit that was doing so well. I ended up having two slip ups though. It's no surprise that those slip ups happened when I was around Shannon and Manny and that was when I made my decision to rid myself of temptation. I decided that I should move to Forks with Charlie so that I could be in a different environment. Of course Renee didn't want me to go but she knew it was best for me.

Charlie didn't give me grief about the whole thing because he doesn't like drama and I think he didn't want me to breakdown on him. When I moved to Forks, Charlie and I found a group that meets in Port Angeles and I started attending meetings there and thats it. So that's the whole story Edward. I looked out the corner of my eye and Edward was pinching the bridge of his nose.

He spoke saying,

"You were going to these meetings and how is it that I had no knowledge of this?"

"I attended the meetings while you were hunting with your family and it was a quick decision to make because I didn't want Alice to see what I was up to", I said to him.

"Being with you Edward has truly done me justice. I have been so happy with you that I haven't thought about drinking and that's a great thing…At least it was until…" I trailed off.

Before I knew it, Edward had both hands on either side of my face and said, "Until love?"

I then said in a whisper, "Until Shannon and Manny came back into my life. I know something is not right."

When I looked into his eyes I noticed that they were black as night and he had deep purple circles surrounding his eyes.

I glared at him as I said, "You need to hunt Edward. I will be fine, just please go and take care of yourself."

"You can't possibly think that I will just leave you here with them, do you? After the story you just told me, I'm not leaving you here with them."

I pleaded with him saying, "Edward go hunting with Alice, I will be fine. Please?"

I knew he would give in to that so he pulled out his cell phone and called Alice. He talked so quick to her on the phone that I barely caught any of it, but I did catch it when Edward told her that he would be there in a minute.

At that moment he pulled me into a tight hug and kissed my hair, then my forehead, and finally planted one on my lips. I started feeling lightheaded and I think he noticed because his lips were gone all too fast. With that, we walked down the stairs and saw that Manny was asleep on the couch and Shannon was staring out the window. She didn't even look up at us. Edward was leaving out the door when he turned to me and put his hand to my cheek saying,

"Please be safe and I hope you are prepared to listen now."

I looked at him puzzled because I didn't know what he was talking about and he noticed my confused expression.

"She is ready to talk to you now love. She doesn't have Manny holding her back since he is sleeping. If there is any problem, please call me Bella. I won't be far and neither will my family. I love you Bella,"

was the last thing he said before he disappeared into the darkness.

All I could do is whisper I love you too into the darkness and I knew that if he didn't hear anything else he heard that.

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