Chapter 7

Bella POV

I was fighting. Fighting and not caring of what I was killing. I just needed them gone. They had taken them in cold blood. We were the only ones left and no one cared. No one!

I heard a cry of pain, whilst I was tearing them to pieces. I turn to find my mother with blood all over her clothes, looking at me with disappointment in her eyes. It's not true, she can't be here. Why? Because she's dead.

I saw her have her head ripped clean off, whilst trying to protect my baby sister, Lily. Then she was a meal for three female Vampires. I also saw my baby sister become a meal to a male Vampire.

I had tracked them down. I ran to find them. The Vampires that killed my family!

Benito, Maria, Lucy and Nettie that was there names. They created vampire army's. But they wouldn't survive. They trained them well, but they still fell. The Volturi tried to stop me, but I wouldn't let them. Vampires had killed my family and my friends.

They would all die!

All I remember is red covering my eyes, screams of pain, growling, screeching, metal of arms being ripped off, shouting, pain, blood, venom, more screams and pain, chains being wrapped around my arms and legs, skin ripping, beatings, screaming, blood, blackness, numbness, whispers, giggling, water, being dragged, doors opening, being thrown, laughing, more shouting, my head hitting the floor, doors closing, darkness.

A week later

Pain, whips against my back, skin tearing, screaming, laughing, shouting, silent, darkness, hungry, thirsty, whispering, talking, more shouting, footsteps, drip, drip, drip, drip, silent, darkness, more silent, footsteps, running, screaming, yelling, bang, bang, bang, bang, doors opening, soft glow, fingers, shaking, familiar, nice, warm, someone saying "Bella, Bella Come back to me, BELLA!"

"BELLA!" Someone was shaking me "Bella, Are you ok?" I open my eyes to see a worried Charlie.

"Yeah, I'm ok" I say sitting up. I rub my eyes to get the sleep out of them.

"Are you sure?" He asks.

"Yeah, it was just a memory," I say then look back at a still worried Charlie. I grab his hands in mine, "Hey, I'm fine, it happens sometime. Okay?"

"Yeah, just don't scare me like that again, Okay?" He says whilst pulling me into a hug.

"I promise Charlie" I whisper into his ear. We stay like that for a few minutes before Charlie gets up off the bed.

"I only came in here to tell you that I was going to work and that if you needed anything, just give me a call." Charlie says before he kisses me on my forehead and then walks out of the room that I slept in last night, but not before yelling over his shoulder "Bye Bells!"

"Bye Charlie, have a great day at the office dear" I yell back, lying back down in bed. All I could hear was him laughing whilst getting into his car and leaving.

I love seeing Charlie with a smile on his face, it was a delight to see after Remee died of old age almost 30 years ago he was never the same. She was human and they were together for over 50 years before she died. They weren't soul mates and Remee had no idea about what he was but they were in love and happy together.

They had a child together who is an Angel named Angela Webber. Remee named her Angela because when she was born she looked like an Angel, I got a kick out of that one.

Angela uses Webber as her last name because that was her mothers last name. Angela is with my brother Luca traveling around the world because they are soul mates. Charlie was very protective at first and hated Luca, but I talked him around. Angela and Charlie are really close and call each other most night.

I know the real reason, Charlie didn't what Angela to leave, it wasn't because of Luca, it was because he is lonely and Angela reminds him of Remee. Which I think is sweet but he never got over her and I don't think he ever will.

I get up out of bed and get ready for the day in La Push.

Leah POV

I was taking an order from a customer at the diner to are cook Terry when they walked in.

Sam Uley, Paul Lahote, Jacob Black, Quil Ateara and Embry Call, Aka the Gang of La Push. The only one missing is Jared Cameron but I did hear that his girlfriend was in the hospital, so maybe that's why.

They just wondered in like they own the place and went to a table in my area in the corner. Which in itself pissed me off. They couldn't go to any other table or area or even another diner, NO! They had to come here. I started shaking a little.

I went over to place their order. I knew that if I asked my mother again she would say the same thing like she always does, "Leah you need to grow up and start acting you own age, Sam has moved on, now why don't you?"

I hate her, can't she see that I can't move on. I can't forgive him like she did straight away or my father for that matter. I hate him too.

I get to their table and keep my eyes on my writing pad, ready to take their orders. I don't smile or talk nicely, I just say "What do you want?" and wait. Though I don't know why I bother they always order pretty much everything on the menu including the desserts. I swear they are pigs with the amount they eat. I don't understand how they stay in shape either, not that I look or anything.

Another thing that pisses me off about them is that they are all happy, whilst my life is filled with anger, pain, resentment and longing for love and friendship but never trusting anyone to get that close again. Sam took that away from me.

The only people that I care about are Seth my brother, Collin and Brady who are like brothers to me and that's it. Everyone I get close to ends up leaving or betraying me in the end, like Emily Young, my cousin, we used to be best friends/sisters, we told each other everything their were never any secrets between us and we always took care of one another.

When Sam went missing, Emily was there for me and helping me search for him. She helped me get though everything. She made me eat and drink something, she made me go to bed when all I wanted to do was keep looking for Sam.

She went home for a few days just before Sam came home, and came back two days later. She welcomed Sam's safe return home and I thought everything would go back to the way things were. I didn't even know that was the day I lost him. They started fucking each other behide my back and I had no idea it was happening until Sam broke up with me and told me.

I remember that day so clearly that it felt like it only happened yesterday.

Break-Up Flashback

There was a knock at the door and I knew it was Sam. Seth was sleeping at Collin and Brady's tonight. Mum and dad were at Billy's for reasons unknown, so it would be just me and Sam for a few hours.

I opened the door and ran straight into his overly heated arms that felt like it was burning me, but I didn't care it was Sam, I love him and everything about him. I kissed him but I felt him tense so I pulled back.

"Are you okay?" I asked worried

"Yeah, I'm fine Leah," He said before pushing me backward softly "Come on let's get in side"

"Okay" I say but was still slightly worried. We head inside and head straight to the couch in the living room. We sit down next to one another, whilst I try to cuddle into his side but Sam turns and faces me. "Sam, Are you sure you are okay?"

"Yeah, I'm good Leah, I just want to talk to you" He says, his face clear of emotions.

"Okay, Talk" I say knowing that what ever Sam was going to say, it wasn't going to be good.

"I don't know how to tell you this, so I'm just going to come out and say it, for the past week I have slept with another women," He takes a deep breath, "A women that I love"

It was silent for a while, I couldn't feel anything, I was just numb. "I'm so sorry Leah" At that all I felt was anger.

"Sorry! That's all you have to say is SORRY!" I yelled at him whilst jumping off the couch and standing in front of him. "Did our love mean so little to you that you had to find another women. When you proposed to me did that mean NOTHING to you!? Did you ever care about me?" I was still yelling but now I had tears running down my face.

"Of course I cared Leah!" He said standing up from the couch "I will always care about you, I always have . . . God! I wish I could tell you why but I can't, all I can say is that I wish this had never happened to me. You know that I hate being fourst to do something that I don't want to do, but I can't help it it's to strong. This thing between Emily and m. . . !?"

"EMILY! AS IN EMILY YOUNG! AS IN MY COUSIN!?" I scream, then continued when he nodded "YOU FUCKING MY COUSIN, MY BEST FRIEND, MY SISTER!" I seethed in rage.

"Leah please listen to me!" Sam tried to reason but I wasn't having any of it.

"NO! GET OUT NOW!" I screamed whilst hitting him over and over in the chest, until he grabbed both my arms to try to keep me still, but I put up one hell of a fight.

"Please Leah! I still love you! I never wanted to hurt you like this"

"LOVE! You don't know the meaning of love. If you love someone you don't cheat on them with their cousin!" I yell, whilst pulling my arms free from his tight grip, "If you love someone you don't play with their feelings," I say crying again, "Men are supposed to love and protect their fiancée, not hurt and betray them the way you have." He was trying to hold me to him at this point but I wouldn't let him, I kept pushing him away.

"I am so sorry, Leah." He says crying himself. . . Good I hope he feels the pain I do because it feels like my chest is caving in.

"No you're not" I say walking to the door and opening, "Leave!"

"Please Leah, lets talk about this, please!" Sam begged.

"Why?" I say

"Because I don't like how things are and I didn't want things to be this way"

"Okay lets talk," I say still standing next to the door, "Are you going to leave Emily?"

"No"

"Are you in love with her?"

"Yes"

"More than me?" I know I was setting myself up on that one, but I needed to know.

"Yes"

"Then what do you want from me, Sam?" I yell, not caring if anyone hears me.

"I DON'T KNOW!" He yells, shaking a little.

"Then get out, Sam. Even if you did leave Emily, I wouldn't want you back after being unfaithful," Then I start getting angry again because he won't leave, "Sam, I will never forgive you, you have hurt me way too much for me to forgive you !"

"Leah please!"

"No Sam! Can't you understand I can't talk to you now, because it hurts, really hurts, standing here now is killing me, okay. Don't you understand that? Please just go!" I yell whilst pointing out the door.

He left without another word.

End of Flashback

I remember crying until my parents came home that day. My mother gave me a hug and said that everything would be ok and then left to start cooking but my father, he just said that it was for the best and then left to watch some sport on the tv. They didn't care that I was heart-broken and hurting, cooking and sports were more important than me. They had already forgive Sam and Emily and I hated them for it.

They only person in my family that did care and didn't forgive Sam was Seth, he held me when I cried, he stayed with me when I had nightmares at night, when my parents kept inviting Sam and Emily over for lunch Seth helped me get out or though it, he got me a punching bag to let my anger out on it and put up with me when I bitched at him for no reason.

Seth is my younger brother by four years and he didn't have to do that for me, he could have gone out with his friends instead he took care of me and I love him for that. What surprised me the most was Collin and Brady because that helped too. They would play pranks on each other and get me to help, they would ask me to help with their homework or a bully at school or just little things, and helping them was nice and in a way it kept me in the here and now, instead of the past. I owe them a lot for what they have done for me.

You are problem wondering why I didn't hang around my own friends instead of my brother and his. Well, when Sam told everyone the next day that him and Emily were a couple, everyone thought that they were cute together and didn't think that Sam could do anything wrong, so no one believed me when I told them that he cheated. I lost my parents, my friends and everyone in town to Sam, they all thought he could walk on water and I was thrown to the curb. To top things off Sam didn't say a word.

The only ones that believed me were Seth, Collin and Brady. Everyone else just thought that Sam broke up with me and I was taking it badly. And they wonder why I'm a cold and bitter bitch to them.

"Leah?" Sam says standing in front of me. I didn't see him get out of his seat and walk over.

"What?" I said waiting for Terry to give me an order.

"Can I talk to you?" He asked

"You are" I say bluntly, then turn to pick up the order Terry just put on the side before turning again, "I'm working and I'm not gonna listen, bye Sam"

For the next hour I worked and stay away from their table, a part from when I gave them their food but I didn't say anything, I just kept busy but now and then I could hear them cheering and patting Sam on the back but I didn't care.

I was giving change back to a customer where a girl walked in and everyone got quite, including Sam's group, everyone were just staring at her, including myself. The girl was very pretty for a pale face because it looked like her skin was glowing, she was about 18 years old, she looked tiny at about 5,4 maybe 5,5 at the most, her hair were in ringlets that were a beautiful chocolate-brown that reached her hips, with chocolate-brown eyes to match.

She was wearing the tiny pair of blue denim short that fit her in all the right places, a tight light pink tank top that showed her belly button off, a small black leather jacket that stopped at her hips with the sleeves rolled up just below her elbows and black cowboy boots. She had legs that ran for miles and her breast had to be at least a C just hitting a D. She was beautiful.

She walked over to me and sat in a chair in front of me whilst I was pretty much checking her out. Everyone started talking again.

"Hi, Are you Leah Clearwater by any chance?" the girl asked with a slight Texan ascent, smiling at me.

Why would she want to know who I was? No one wants to know me, not after Sam, everyone just thinks they know me from when I was a kid or stories they have heard, but they don't know shit about me. So someone asking me is really weird.

"Yeah, I'm Leah. Who are you?" I asked curious. She looked like she was about to answer when Paul came over

"Bella? Bella Swan right?" Paul asked sitting really close next to her, I didn't like that for some reason.

"Yeah, and your Paul, I met you at the hospital yesterday," She stated before looking at me again, "Can I have a coffee please," then with a fake sign "there's too much blood in my caffeine system" She said making me laugh. It had been a while since I laughed with another female, it felt good.

"Yeah sure, How would you like your coffee, Bella?" I asked, liking this girl already.

"Black, two sugars please" She said with a smile.

"Coming right up" I say smiling back and getting straight to work, whilst listening to Bella and Paul's conversation.

"Would you like to come over and join us?" Paul asked

"Naw it's ok, it looks like y;all celebrating something" Bella said in return.

"They won't mind, the more the merrier" Paul said.

"What are y'all celebrating?" Bella asked, sounding likes she knows already, weird?

"My friend Sam Uley asked his girl to marry him and she said yes" Paul said like he was really happy for them.

I felt a like someone had punched me in the chest but I covered it up quickly. Marrage? There was a time when that was me. I don't love him like I use to but apart of me with always love him, he was my first love after all.

I put two sugars into Bella's coffee whilst stirring it and put it in front of her, she handed me the right amount of money before I told her how much it was, then saying a small 'Thanks', in which I nodded at. I went to clean and sort some things out from behide the counter, just so I could keep listening to what they were saying.

"Wait! Did you just say Sam Uley?" Bella asked kinda shocked.

"Yeah, why?" Paul asked confused.

"As in Joshua Uley boy?" Bella asked loudly, shocking everyone into silent who heard. How the fuck would Bella know about Joshua Uley?!

"How do you know Joshua, Bella?" I asked since Paul was in shock and no one else was going to ask anytime soon.

"I met him whilst I was traveling about four months ago, he was with a women, from the tribe he was living in, called Ashley Blake. She was nice and all but he treated her like dirt, he thought that all women were only good for breeding or a good fuck in his case, cooking, cleaning and taking care of their men and children. Most of the men in that whole fucking town shared the same thoughts on it and if a women, that was of age, was single she was up for grabs." She said, like it was normal.

Oh My God! I was fucking horrified at what I just heard. I can't belive they think of women like that, sexist mother fucker! I could hear Paul . . . growling?

"What happened?" I asked, ignoring Paul.

"Well, lets just say I bet that all the men that tried to 'get with' me, are still trying to find their genitals from where I booted them and are most likely starving by now," I gave her a confused look, "Oh I told all the women what happened, they were appalled and I may have given them all a few ideas as to handle the issue" Bella explained.

"Like what?" I asked smiling in interested. I could see a few women leaning in, waiting for an answer because there are a few men around here who think like that.

"Not cooking for the pricks for started, making sure that they can't order take out from all the local areas, making sure they can't go to anyone else around the tribe to do it for them. One women went to her man's mother and told her everything, then watched as his mother tour him a new asshole whilst inviting her friends over, eating food and laugh their ass's off watching," She said laughing, I was laughing so hard that it hurt, as were all the women whilst the men went pale, "I will admit that was the funnest thing to watch in my whole life"

"Oh my God you have to tell us more, this shit is good" I said trying to calm myself down, I could hear the women agreeing.

"How about you don't" a pale Paul suggest.

"Why? Afraid it will happen to you, Paulie" Bella asked, making me laugh that much harder at the name she called him. I haven't laughed this hard in my whole life.

"No of course not but . . ." Paul said but Bella interrupted him.

"Then y'all have nothing to worry about," Bella says before drinking her coffee.

"PAUL!" Sam shouts from across the room, making everyone go quite again.

Paul, Bella and myself all look over at Sam, who is tapping at his wrist suggesting the time. Which I don't understand, time for what?

Paul looks at the clock on the wall before saying "Shit!" then looks over at Bella and says "I'm sorry, I have to go I forgot I have to do something, but hopefully I will see you around La Push sometime?" Paul looked hopeful.

"Maybe, I guess we'll have to see" Bella smiles at him.

"Okay then, I guess I'll see you around then . . . maybe" Paul smiles, before looking over at me, which surprised me, "Bye Leah"

"Bye, Paul" Both me and Bella say.

Paul walks away with a smile on his face but looks a little depressed too, which I didn't understand but then again, maybe what he had to do was shit and he didn't want to do it. I've heard that before.

"Are you okay, Leah?" Bella asked concerned, I didn't realise that I had started staring over at Sam after Paul had left.

"What? Oh Yeah I'm fine" I said shrugging it off as nothing before asking, "What other things were there?"

"Oh um, no sex for months, not cleaning their clothes, some were making them sleep outside like the dogs they were," We both laughed at that, "not talking to them or if they like the silent, keep talking, play really load music that they don't like, no TV for sports, no fishing, no games and one women went as far as going to all the pubs her man went to and had him kicked out and then all the alcohol stores with his picture to make sure that they wouldn't serve him.

What I am saying is don't give anything to them until they give something in return, other wise men will walk all over you. They needed to learn that women are not slaves to all male needs, and if they contained to think that way than their lives were going to become hell or they were gonna lose their women." Bella finishes. I was impressed.

"Wow, I think a few men are going to have a really hard life soon" I say looking at all the women talking around the diner. I looked back to Bella to see that she had a huge grin on her face, like she was hearing something funny.

"Yeah, I suppose your right," Bella says before turning back to me, "So, what's good to do around here?"

"Not much really, I suppose you could go to the first, second or third beach, maybe surf if that's your thing, though second beach is quieter. You could go cliff driving when the water is smooth, um . . . " I say thinking, because there really isn't that much here.

"I'm gonna take a wild stab in the dark and say that's pretty much it" Bella say with a small smile.

"Yep, that's it, sorry I can't help you out more," I say feeling shitty that I couldn't think of anything about my town, "I guess you could go shopping in PA, Forks or Seattle or um . . . Oh! Wait, Bonfires," How the fuck could I forget the bonfire?

"Bonfires?" Bella asks

"Yeah, I can't belive I forgot about them but most nights there is always a Bonfire set up with food, drinks and music. A lot of people go, you would meet most of La Push if you went. Some people from Forks come as well so you wont be the only pale face there," I laugh, hoping I wasn't being racist or anything, but she laughed so I think I was good.

"Would you be there?" Bella asked hopeful. Why would she be hopeful?

"Um, No" I say before taking Bella now empty cup away from her to put to wash, at the other end of the counter. I didn't want to talk about that, no one ever believes me anyway, why would she?

"Because of him?" Bella asked, nodding towards Sam's table, who were still laughing and joking without a care in the world.

"What makes you say that?" I asked curious. I wanted to know where she was going with this.

"You look like you were broken at one point in your life, and you've looked over there from time to time, I just put two and two together," She said shocking me, "I've heard that you're the meanest bitch in town, who would bite your head off if I talked to ya, but I've spoken to ya and I'm still kicking," She smiled at that, "So I'm guessing he hurt you pretty badly."

"What makes you say that?" I say trying not to cry.

"A hurt person does everything they can to protect themselves from getting hurt again, that means keeping people at arm's length, acting tough and strong when inside you feel like your dying every time you see him." By this point a lone tear escaped from the corner of my eye, that I couldn't stop.

"Yeah, you could say that" I say wiping my face with my sleeve and looking at the floor. Bella leaned over the counter and picked my phone out of my pocket, I was about to snatch it back, but she grabbed my hand whilst still typing something on my phone, before handing it back to me.

"I just put my number in your phone, so if y'all ever want to talk about anything, or ya come up with another idea about what to do around here, just give me a call" She says before getting up to leave and walks towards the door.

"Why are you being nice to me?" I shout, everyone in the diner, including Sam's table, stops and stares at me and Bella wondering what's going on.

My mother finally coming out of where ever the fuck she has hidden, to find out why I was shouting and stops dead in her track, to listen.

Bella turns around to face me with a soft smile on her face a says loud enough for everyone to hear but talking to me,

"Isn't it funny how the memories y'all cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories y'all wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle, it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throwing away the key. It's not an act of bitterness Leah. It's an act of self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life, is it?" She questions still smiling genially, before leaving.

Wow, was all I have to say.