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Chapter 7: No More Pity
We found out where Alice lived. Mike didn't let me have a car, so we had to take Edward's Volvo. Alice lived only about 45 minutes away. We had a few short conversations, but he did most of the talking. All my life I've never been much of a talker; because of my shyness. And also from what I was hiding. But I think the main reason I wasn't talking was because I was scared. I was scared of Alice's reaction. What if she didn't forgive me?

We became best friends in our junior year of high school. She wasn't one to stay mad, only if it was a really big and bad situation. But this was a big and bad situation! All throughout the car ride that is what I mainly thought about. But now, here I am in her driveway; having a mini panic attack.

"It all makes sense…" Edward whispered, breaking my train of thought.

"What all makes sense?" I asked facing him.

"Erm…nothing." What made sense? I'm a very curious person. This was going to bug me. There was a short pause.

"I-I guess I better g-go." I stuttered.

"I'll stay here. Good luck." Edward smiled. WHAT?! He wasn't going with me? Okay I can do this…I can do this. I thought. Without thinking I opened the door very quickly and jumped out. But that wasn't the best idea. My foot got caught on something and I tripped. I grabbed onto the door for support.

Shoot, my clumsiness was kicking in again. As I ran to the door, I heard Edward laughing in his car. I took a deep breath and knocked on the door. A part of me hoped she wouldn't answer because I really didn't want to face her, but a part of me wanted to be reunited with my best friend again. I wanted to have the childish sleepovers with her even though we're grown up. She would always remind me that it's okay to have your childish moments. I don't know how I survived without her all those ye-

"Bella?" I looked up and saw my best friend. My perky, pixie of a best friend was standing in the doorway. Just hearing her squeaky voice call my name made me break down. I cried and hugged her tight. Making sure it was her. That she was actually here, with me.

"Alice! Oh Alice! I missed you!" I cried. I could feel her small, petite hands wrap around me and hug me back. We both let go at the same time. I wiped the tears rolling down my cheeks and smiled at her. She smiled back, but it was gone all too soon. And I saw a side of Alice I don't think I have ever seen before.

"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?! I HAVE TRIED CALLING YOU AND EVERYTHING! I HAVE LEFT MESSAGES AND EVERYTHING! FOR A WHILE I THOUGHT YOU DIED OR SOMETHING! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" And with that, she fell against the door frame and starting crying her eyes out.

"Oh, Alice, I'm so sorry! Could I please explain it to you inside?" I waited for her to calm down and she finally nodded her head. We both got up. She closed the door and led me towards the kitchen. She pointed to the table in the middle of the room. I sat down. Alice went to the kitchen sink, probably to clean herself up. That's when I looked around the kitchen. It was medium sized. The walls were a calming bronze color. There was an Island in the middle and the small round table I was sitting at was in a corner next to a window. I looked out of the window to see it was bright outside. So sunny, the perfect weather to make someone happy. But not me. Everywhere I went I had an invisible rainy cloud over my head.

"I don't have all day, Bella! You have five minutes! Five!" She hissed at me. I flinched back. I wasn't used to this kind of Alice. I wanted my best friend Alice!

"I was…I…uh…I um…" I stuttered.

"Spit it out Bella!" Then it clicked in my mind. Edward doesn't know I was raped by Mike. I only told him Mike was abusive. But Alice needed to know the whole story. I wasn't going to hid anything from Alice.

"I-I…I can't say it Alice." Then I noticed some paper and a crayon on the table. What was Alice doing with crayons? I pushed that thought out of my mind and reached for the paper and crayon.

Enter text here."Bella, what are you doing?" I ignored her comment and just wrote out, I... W-A-S... B-E-A-T-E-N... A-N-D... R-A-P-E-D. When I finished I took a deep breath. I really hope I could still trust Alice. I hope she didn't change over two years…I noticed Alice was sitting next to me so I slide the note to her. I could tell by the movement of eyes that she was reading it slowly. When she finished, she burst out crying. She leaped out of her chair to hug me. I would usually try to pull back, but this was my best friend.

"Oh, Bella!" She cried. "I am so sorry I yelled at you! I just-" I cut her off and removed her hands from my back.

"I knew this would happen." I muttered under my breath.

"What?"

"Alice, I don't want you to forgive me out of pity, I want you to forgive me because you truly understand that I couldn't come in contact with you. And you don't know the whole story, so you can't forgive now."

"I'm sorry Bella, you're right. Please tell me what happened. Who did this to you?!" I took a deep breath, and started to tell her everything. When Mike changed, what he started doing to me, why he didn't let me talk to any of my friends or family, and why he even started acting like that. I didn't mention Edward. I don't know why, but I just didn't feel like explaining him to her just yet, but it was bound to come up soon. While I told her everything, silent tears rolled down her cheeks. I didn't like seeing her like this.

"Bella, I feel so bad! I should have never given up on you. I should have kept trying to get a hold of you! I feel so bad!" She put her face in her hands. Seeing her like this made me cry. I wiped the tears from my cheeks and hugged her.

"Alice, stop beating yourself up about that. It's not your fault! Please understand that." I felt her head nod against my shoulder. I released the hug and I continued talking. "So do you forgive me?" I asked innocently. She laughed.

"Of course I do-" But we were interrupted by the most shocking and possibly the most saddest question in the world.

"Mommy, could naptime be over now? I can't sleep anymore…" She-She had a daughter…and then everything went black.

A/N-I would like to thank Marissa for helping me edit this chapter. The last chapter, I forgot to tell you the song for it, so obviously I will tell you now, It is Unwanted by: Avril Lavigne. And the song for this Chapter is- "Say this Sooner" by: The Almost. I think the lyrics kind of go with the chapter. And Marissa (Uvabunchies) recommended it to me. So YAY MARISSA! =] ha ha

And I know I haven't updated in a while, but that was because I got my laptop taken away for about a week...so that sucked. Anyway R&R please thanks for reading!