CHAPTER FOUR: You will do as I ask
ISABELLA
"Come on Bella! You know you want to." Michel said. He was currently right up next to me, his whole body pushed up against mine. I was backed up against the wall. I couldn't harm him in any way because the last time I tried that, it had horrible consequences.
"No, Michel. We can't. I'm, not....ready yet." I said. When I was in a situation like this, I would start to lose my cool and my lying skills would deteriorate.
"Not ready yet?! You have been with me for almost a year Isabella! How can you not be ready?!" He practically yelled. We didn't yell because we didn't need to and we didn't want to wake Renesmee. I didn't want to raise my voice. I never did.
"I just think we should wait Michel. Get to know each other better. You know I love you, but I need to know you better." Everything I had just said was a lie.
"You love me? If you loved me you would have let me have my way with you, you idiotic woman!" I sucked in a breath. Reason number... I had lost count, of why I didn't like Michel, at all.
Okay so that was a lie too. Michel really wasn't that bad of a person. He was just not my type. He needed somebody else in his life. Somebody who really loved him.
"Yes I do. But I just don't-"
"SHUT UP! I have had enough! You are going to do what I tell you to do and nothing else!" He said and slapped me. He SLAPPED me! He had never, ever hit me before. I gasped.
It hadn't really hurt that much. I was still stronger than him, but he was a male. Damn.
He shoved him mouth against mine and started rubbing his hands all over my body. It felt wrong. When I imagined sensual and sexual things, it was never like this. It was more like how it used to be, with Edward...
He forced my mouth open and stuck his tongue in. I didn't try to fight him. It was no use. He would just hurt me more. He started to unbutton my shirt. Rubbing his finger tips over my abdomen and lower back. I wanted to gag.
I had never shown him anything before, on purpose. He had seen me, I think, when I had given birth to Renesmee. It wasn't really birth though. Michel had sliced open my stomach and the hard covering over Nessie with his teeth. Then healed me with venom.
He had then bitten me to change me, well so had Renesmee.
"Michel STOP, please..." I pleaded.
"No." He whispered and continued his attack on me.
"Mama?" I heard Renesmee's tiny voice say. Michel moved away from me and towards Renesmee. He better not touch her. I quickly buttoned up my shirt and tried to get to her before he did.
He smacked her face, "DON'T EVER INTERUPT US AGAIN!" He roared and walked over to the couch. I raced over to my now crying daughter. Her face was covered with her hands. I scooped her up and raced upstairs.
"I though I put you in bed. What are you doing up? Are you okay?" I asked as I took her upstairs. She was hurt.
"I heard a noise and I came downstairs. I though you might be hurt. Mama, why did he hit me? I'm okay, it doesn't hurt." She was crying harder now.
"Oh sweetheart, you don't need to worry about me...Don't cry over your mother. Are you sure?" I cooed.
"I was worried about you, but I thought you..." She stopped. "What about him?" She asked, pointing to the diamond on her bracelet. I knew what she meant. She hadn't answered my question.
"Sweetheart you have to believe me that I didn't want what just happened down there. Michel was doing that to me. Trust me I do love him though sweetie." I said to her while pointing to the diamond. I couldn't say anything about him while Michel was here.
Nessie knew that, I had made sure she knew. "Okay mama. I believe you. I love you."
"I love you too sweetie. Now go back to sleep. I'm sorry you got hurt." I said.
"Sing me the lullaby please mama." She asked while closing her eyes. I started to hum my lullaby until I was sure she was asleep. I braved myself and headed back downstairs, I wanted to yell at Michel, I probably would.
"Next time, you will make sure your daughter is under control!" He warned me.
"Why what will you do if she interrupts your attempts again huh?" I was getting angry now.
"You'll see!" He warned me. I raced back upstairs and picked up a book. I went into Renesmee's room to read the book and make sure he would hurt her again. Then did my plotting again. I had to get out of here before it was too late. I just had to.
Let's fast forward again. This time about two years into the future (Still in Isabella's perspective) I know I like to fast forward, I'm just skipping you through the boring parts.
"ISABELLA! You won't stop me again!" Michel roared. He flung me onto the bed. Oh crap. He still hadn't gotten his way yet. Although I was sure tonight would be the night.
He attacked me, tearing my clothes and his in the process. I didn't sob while he raped me. Once again I lied to him, I pretended to enjoy it. However I didn't think this through.
Later that night, after Michel had gone to hunt. Without us. I reminisced about that night. If I had not lied and made sure he knew I wasn't enjoying what he did, he would do it every night until I did enjoy it.
But making him think that I did enjoy it...well maybe that wasn't such a good idea either. It was time to think of a plan.
I headed into Renesmee's room. We were still living in the same place in Edmonton. Michel had changed work many times, so it wouldn't look like he wasn't aging. Our neighbours loved Renesmee and always wanted to see her, but she was still aging faster then normal children.
Her aging had slowed remarkably. She looked to be around six or seven, maybe even eight; when in reality she was only three.
We needed to move soon, they were becoming suspicious of us. In more ways than one.
When Renesmee awoke I was sitting silently in the chair in her corner. I wasn't aware that she had woken up. She came and sat down on my lap and wrapped her arms around my neck. "Mama are you okay? I heard what happened last night..." She said.
"Oh sweetie, I'm okay, I'm fine. I really wish you hadn't heard that. I would rather you not have." I said to her.
"I know mama. We need to-" She stopped,
"He isn't here,"
She smiled, I knew her so well, "We need to leave mama. Get out of this place. Without Michel."She said.
"I know." I said. I left her to get ready and headed downstairs. I noticed something out of the corner of my eye as I made her breakfast. I headed outside to the back yard. It was only a neighbour. But what on earth were they doing at our back fence?
I walked over to the fence and stuck my head over, "Excuse me but what are you doing?" I asked our neighbour Laurelle.
"Oh...I'm...Uhhh...I think I lost my earring!" She said. I could see perfectly well she was wearing earrings and that she had a camera.
"Then what is the camera for?" I asked her.
"OH, this, it helps me. See if I miss anything then I can play the tape again and observe if there was anything there." She said. She was a smart thinker.
"Would you care to help me?" She asked. I couldn't go over the fence, I knew that. Wait, my head was over the fence.
I stuck my hand out to experiment. Michel had forgotten about the bonds. I walked over to the back gate and opened it, walking out. I got to the line of trees. I smiled. "I'm sorry I can't. I have to go!" I said. I raced back inside to see Nessie eating her breakfast.
"We have to go!"
"What?"
"Michel forgot to place the bonds this morning. We have to hurry!" I said. She knew what I meant. She raced into her room to pack her things into a backpack. She knew we didn't need much. I had told her once what to pack if we were going to run.
I raced into my room and packed my own things. I made sure to grab the important necessities. We met in the hall and I raced back to the kitchen. I packed some human food for Nessie. I made sure we had everything. She grabbed a few books from the shelf, her favourites and mine and we raced outside.
I ran, and ran and ran. Renesmee was beside me the whole time. Sometimes she was even on my back. I made sure to put up a shield to protect us from Michel following us.
I think we ran for three days. I didn't even know where we were. We ended up in a town called Marathon. I had asked in a small shop. Renesmee was tired of running so I lodged us into a hotel. I knew Michel was mad, anybody would be.
I couldn't believe that he had forgotten about it. I guessed it was because of our little affair on the night before. He had gone out hunting and then gone to work. Obviously forgetting to lock us in. He really was a dumb vampire.
I never did find out what Laurelle was doing, I thanked her though. I would never have known if it wasn't for her.
We were still in Canada, although now we were on the wrong side of the country. We would cross over the border, head down to Missouri, across to Nevada, then up to Washington. I didn't want to race along the border because I knew that would be where Michel was.
I hoped to god that Edward and the Cullen's were still in Forks. I knew they probably wouldn't be though. Three years was way to long. People would have noticed. If they weren't there, I would maybe go to Jacob.
Maybe.
I couldn't go to Charlie. I couldn't. I had read on the internet that I had been proclaimed a lost cause. That I was dead. There were no traces of me at all. They had all followed my scent to the river, and then it had disappeared.
Michel had a car waiting at the end of the river bank. Then he burned the car and we went of foot from there.
Never staying in one place to long.
I sung Nessie to sleep again that night. I couldn't remember any of the Cullen's numbers. Damn my human memory.
That night I got a phone book from the front desk and looked up Carlisle. I actually found his phone number. I called it, hoping that somebody would answer.
It rang and rang and rang. None of the Cullen's ever waited this long to answer the phone. I could just imagine the phone ringing in an empty house. I stopped and looked up Charlie's number. This was a bad idea.
"Hello?" He said. I noticed he sounded so depressed and down.
"Hi Charlie....this is....Melanie!" I said.
"Hi...how can I help you Melanie?" He asked. Still not sounding too happy.
"I was wondering if you had any of the Cullen's phone numbers?" I asked.
"Uhhh....I'm sorry but I cannot give you their information. I don't know you. Besides I lost their phone numbers. I was meant to call them sometime...but now I can't..." My face fell.
"Oh...that's alright Charlie. Have a nice day. Good bye." I love you dad. I added after I hung up. Now I had no plan. I wouldn't bother going back to Forks now. Unless...
I dialled the hospital number. "Hello Forks hospital, Jenna speaking."
"Hi, I was just wondering if Dr. Cullen still worked here." I asked.
"Oh no he left about three years ago." She said. I didn't bother being nice, I just hung up. I decided I would go overseas. Wait...I had hardly any money. I could always rob a bank, or swim...
When Nessie woke up I decided that we would hack into Michel's bank account. But I had to book a flight quickly...and had to use cash other wise he would be able to trace me.
"Now sweetie, I never ever want you to do this alright. It is a really bad thing." I said to her.
"What are we doing mama?" She asked me.
"You know we need to get away from Michel don't you? Well we don't have any money, so we are going to get into his bank account and steal some. Never do this." I said to her.
"But mama, I would never. How?" She asked me.
"I know his bank numbers because he was too stupid to hide them. I don't think he thought we would get away from him." She nodded and we headed to the bank. We hunted while we were running away.
When we entered the bank we were acting natural. People stared at us. I wasn't used to it, we hardly ever went out. They stared at our beauty. Today was a cloudy day, thank heavens. I smiled at the desk man, using Edward's trick of dazzling him to get my way.
"H-h-how can I help you miss?" He asked.
"Hi. I'd like to take some money out of my account." I said while fluttering my eyelashes. If I dazzled him enough he wouldn't realize how much I was taking out.
"Do you have your account number?" He asked. His voice was shaking. I smiled and handed the piece of paper with the number on it to him. He smiled at me as I handed it to him.
"How much would you like?" I fluttered my eyelashes again and stuck my bottom lip out.
"I would like $4000 please." I asked while doing they eye thing again, and twirling a piece of hair around my finger.
"S-s-sure thing...m-m-Miss." He said.
He handed over the money and my account number. "Thank you so much!" I said. Smiling at him.
We walked out of the bank hand in hand. I realised that the man had given me his phone number. If I could blush I would have.
Renesmee and I started running again. If we stayed here then Michel would realise that's where his money was taken out. If he was smart enough to realise something like that. We headed to New York. That night I booked tickets to Africa. They cost $1051 dollars each. Damn expensive things. The next trip available was in three days.
I would bribe somebody to do a passport by then. I needed a new one and so did Nessie.
We went to a place that looked alright; I would get the passport tomorrow. I couldn't put my real name on the passport.
Bella Cullen.
Renesmee Carlie Cullen.
I smiled. I had always wanted to have my name be that.
The next day we were on our way to Africa. This was the second time that I had been overseas. The first though was to save Edward. I smiled. "Mama what are you smiling at?" Nessie asked me.
"Well the last time I went overseas it was to save your father." I said.
"Of course. I think it's funny that he was always saving you and then you had to save him." She said.
"I know. But in a ways I did save him, I saved him from being lonely. He told me once that I saved him from an eternity of having no-one to love or no-one to love him. Such things like that."
Nessie slept mostly the whole trip. I was so happy to be away from Michel. I wouldn't have to deal with him every night and day.
When we arrived in Africa I realised that for once, my existence was looking up.
AN: That was chapter four. I know I skip ahead a lot, but I'm saving you from boring bits. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Questions? Comments? Let me know.
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