AN: To answer some of your questions, the Cullen's are going to be human. Only Edward and Emmett are sibling, but Alice, Rose, and Jasper are still adoptive kids of Carlisle and Esme. Again I'm sorry for not updating soon. Here is a new chapter, I hope you enjoy.


Previously : "Bella, like I said as long as I'm alive, I will make sure no one ever hurts you, I'll always be here to keep you safe, never forget that," when he said this I could feel myself getting tired by the minute and soon after that I fell asleep but before I drifted off I felt a coat being pulled over top of me and Edward whispering a 'good-night' to me.


EPOV:

I was livid as I drove Bella over to my house. I can't believe the man she calls a father abuses her. No one should ever go through something like this, no matter how bad they are. Bella is such a good person, or so I hear, why would anyone want to hurt her? What happened to her mother?

Glancing down at Bella, I realized that she was sound asleep. I pulled my coat over her to keep her warm, and turned up the heat. "Good-night," now all I had to do was tell the family. I don't know how I'm going to do this. But, one things for sure, Bella is never going back to that house alone.

Pulling into the driveway at the house I noticed Carlisle's car parked in the driveway. Good, he's home. Now all I have to do is tell them what Bella told me. Turning the engine, I slipped out of the car and made my way over to the passengers side door.

Pulling Bella into my arms, I could feel how light she was. This was not normal, even small, tiny Alice weighed more than this. Frowning, I shut the door behind me and headed up for the house.

I found Esme and Carlisle in the family room along with Alice and Jasper. Closing the door, they all turned to look at me. "Edward, is that Bella?" Alice said rushing over to Bella's side. I nodded my head and moved over to the couch to place her down.

"Mom, dad, I know you might be mad but I couldn't leave her at her house after what she told me. You see, Bella is being abused by her father," I heard Esme gasp, along with everyone else in the room. I lowered my head, praying they weren't mad.

"Edward, are you sure that's what's going on? Those are bold accusations," Carlisle said as he checked over Bella. He lifted the hem of her sweatshirt and gasped. Shaking his head he headed out of the room, shortly followed by Esme.

I looked over to Alice to find her silently crying into Jasper's chest. I heard thundering footsteps coming downstairs as Emmett entered the room. "Yo, Edward. Where have you be--," He stopped mid-sentence when he noticed Bella laying on the couch.

"Is that Bella?" he asked more quietly now. I just nodded my head and sat down next to her sleeping form. "What are we going to do with her," Alice slowly asked, peaking over at me. "Well, actually, that is what Esme and I have discussed. When Bella wakes up, I need to hear from her, her side of the story. The we'll ask if she wants to press charges, which I strongly suggest, then get her checked out. And she will be staying here, if she chooses," Esme wrapped her arms around Carlisle while he spoke.

Everyone nodded their heads in agreement. That's when Rose made her presence known. "Where is she going to sleep?" she asked quietly. I thought for a second, indeed where was she going to sleep. "Well, we've thought about it. Edward," he said turning to me. "Would you mind giving up your bed? You could sleep on the couch in your room if you'd like, to give Bella the bed for now," I nodded my head before bringing Bella's sleeping form into my arms.

Slowly, and gently I placed Bella on my bed and pulled the covers over her. She looked so peaceful while she was asleep. Like she had no care in the world. Grabbing the extra blankets from the closet, I made my way to the couch against the wall. I layed out on it, realizing that my feet hung off the edge. Sighing I closed my eyes trying to get some sleep.

In the middle of the night, I started to hear some noises. Being a light sleeper, they brought me from my slumber. Looking over to Bella, I still found her asleep, but mumbling things in her sleep.

"No, Don't" she turned over. "Leave him alone. Charlie, Edward was just helping me," My heart stopped. She was having a bad dream about Charlie, and I was in it. "Don't touch him, take me not him," I jumped up and went towards Bella to wake her up.

"Bella, it's just a dream. Please wake up, it's just a dream," I shook her body, noticing tears falling from her eyes. She started to moan, when her chocolate brown eyes met my green eyes. She took one look around the room before screaming bloody murder.


BPOV:

I was having the worst dream, I knew nothing good would come from Edward knowing my deep, darkest secret. I felt someone slowly shaking me, trying to wake me. I heard a silky voice trying to bring me from my dream. Slowly, and hesitantly I opened my eyes.

I took one look around the room, not knowing where I was, and screamed as loud as I could. I felt someones hand come down on my mouth, shushing me, preventing me from screaming. Thinking the worse, which would be Charlie, I started to kick my legs around and throw my arms, trying to break free. The form, it was too dark to see who it was, just went to straddle my body to keep me from moving.

Suddenly a light was turned on in the room, and I found my eyes meeting a bright pair of green eyes. Funny, I always thought Charlie had brown eyes. Then it all clicked. This wasn't Charlie, it was all just a dream. Charlie wasn't here. These were Edwards eyes. Now, I was confused. Where the hell am I?

Edward noticed that my whole body seemed to freeze with new fear. What was I doing here? How did I get here? "Bella, it's just a dream, he'll never hurt you ever again. Please believe me," then it all clicked. I remembered everything, that day at school, them seeing my bruise, hiding away in the tree house, Edward finding me, him knowing, him driving me to his house.

This must be Edwards house. I bit down on his hand, telling him to remove his hand from my mouth. Edward jumped. "Did you have to bite me?" he questioned checking over his hand for damage. I just smiled innocently at him. "I'm sorry. What did you tell your family, about me being here?" In a way, I hoped he told them, so I wouldn't have to. The other side of me was embarrassed and didn't want them to know that side of m.

"I told them the truth," at that I felt my stomach drop. "Edward, what am I going to do? Charlie is bound to find out in not in La Push, and I never was. He's going to be so mad," I stopped feeling my eyes burn from the tears that were threatening to fall. Edward just shushed me and spoke quietly. "Bella, we aren't letting you go back. My dad is going to offer you to stay here, away from Charlie. Please tell him yes. That way Charlie can never get to you," I just nodded my head, not being able to find my voice.

Edward rolled off my body. I already missed the feel of his body on mine. Woah, where did that come from? His body on mine, I just met the guy. He moved next to me on the bed, balancing on one arm, turned towards me. Sitting up, I mimicked his position.

"Now, would you like to tell me about that dream you were having?" he asked looking into my eyes. Taking a deep breathe, I nodded my head. Launching into my dream, telling him every detail.


Bella's Dream :


I was sitting outside the house on the porch, waiting for Edward to come over so we could work on our project for school. I was glad for once that Charlie wasn't home. There is no way he'd let Edward within ten feet of his house.


I saw Edward's silver Volvo pull onto the street. I couldn't stop the smile from forming on my lips. Every time I say him, I would smile. Even though Edward didn't know my secret, he knew mostly everything else about me.


Edward walked over to the steps, backpack in hand and a smile on his face. "Hey there. Ready to start?" he asked once he reached me. Slowly I stood up. It has been two months since we were assigned the parenting project, and I had the belly on. Edward noticing my struggles helped me up.


Both of us lost our footing, sending us tumbling to the ground. The look on his face was priceless. I was use to the frequent trips to the ground, but seeing Edwards face made me break out into fits of laughter. Edward soon joined in.


Then my heart stopped, I looked over to the driveway to find the police cruiser parked behind Edwards car. This was not good. Edward was for one, here at his house, and two was on top of me. This was not going to go over well.


"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? GET OFF OF MY DAUGHTER! ISABELLA MARIE, GET YOU BUTT OVER HERE THIS INSTINT!" screeched Charlie as he exited the cruiser. Edward jumped up from the ground and slightly positioned himself in front of me from Charlie. I looked at him in confusion when I looked over at my dad, and saw him with is gun in his hand.


"No, don't!" I screamed jumping in front of Edward. Leave him alone. He has nothing to do with this. He was just trying to help me, honest. Please don't do this here," I begged. "What do you expect me to do, huh? I find this boy on top of you. You're just as much of a whore as your mother was," I felt tears form in my eyes.


I didn't even realize but Charlie was slowly making his way over to where Edward and I were standing. I felt Edward tense behind me. So quickly, I almost missed it, Charlie pulled Edward from behind me and held the gun to his head.


The tears wouldn't stop falling now. "Don' t touch him, please, take me not him," I begged. Charlie just smiled and threw Edward to the ground pulling me to him. "Now, I can take care of you, just like I took care of the woman you called a mother," I barely heard Edward screaming my name as I felt darkness take over my body.


End Of Dream.

I didn't even realize that I was crying when I finished, but Edward just pulled me in his arms and just rocked me. I felt oddly comforted. After about 10 minutes of crying I looked up at Edwards face. "I'm sorry, I probably ruined your shirt," I felt his chest rumble with his laughter. "I could probably care less about the shirt. Are you okay now?" he asked. I just nodded my head and readjusted myself in his arms. He didn't protest.

I woke up finding the sun shining into the room. I felt oddly peaceful, and relaxed. Moving to get up, I felt something from letting me up fully, Edwards arms were tightly wrapped around my waist holding me to him.

Chuckling, I slowly shook his arms, trying to wake him up. "Edward, time to get up. Lets face this day together. Common," his eyes finally opened and stared right back into mine. After a second his grip tightened slightly as he smile his gorgeous smile at me.

"Good morning gorgeous," he smiled. I just shook my head at him. Yeah right, me gorgeous. Has he see his sister? She could put models to shame. (AN/They are human, but they still look like they did in the books when they were vampires. ) "Good morning to you too. Now, lets get up and face this day," I hoped up from the bed waiting for him.

He groaned before reluctantly getting out of the bed to follow me. Edward walked silently behind me as we walked downstairs. I stopped at the bottom, not knowing where to go. Edward chuckled realizing my dilemma. He grabbed m hand and walked slightly ahead of me.

He was still laughing, his beautiful, cheerful laugh, when we entered the kitchen. I started to laugh quietly at Edwards reaction. Soon we were both in fits of laughter, leaning on each other for support.

"Uh," I heard someone say from behind us. We both suddenly froze, turning around. There behind us was the entire house watching us with confusing and amazement in their eyes. I just squeaked and jumped behind Edward to hide myself.

"Well, I can say this, I have never seen Edward laugh that much in my life," Carlisle said smiling brightly at me. I just blushed bright read and looked down. He then cleared his throat. "Now, onto bigger matters. Bella I think we need to have a talk about Charlie. Could you please have a seat?" I looked to Edward with scared and pleading eyes, but slowly nodded my head.

This was one conversation that I never wanted to have. I knew what was bound to happen. One they would ask what really happened to my mother. Two, they would ask what he does to me. And thirdly, they would ask if I wanted to press charges.

No matter how much I wanted to see him behind bars, I just could never bring myself to tell anyone, or press charges. No matter how much I don't like what he does to me, he still is my father, my flesh and blood, I could never fully hate him. One thing that runs through my head is, with all of this that he has put me through, there has to of been something I did wrong, or something wrong with me for him to treat me this way.

Maybe I deserved everything Charlie has ever did to me.

AN: Okay. Here is the next chapter. Let me know what you think. Again I'm sorry for not updating in awhile. I'll try to keep the updates coming as best as possible.

Love always,

BellaKristina xOXo