I'M SO SORRY! I completely forgot about this story as I am so busy with college but from now on it will be regular updates I promise you.
Bella still hung around with the Cullens as always but she barely let them through her bedroom window anymore and if she did only when she felt it necessary so that the Cullens wouldn't get suspicious about her behaviour. The Cullens already were suspicious and worried especially Edward who decided to speak to Carlisle about it.
"Carlisle, we have to do something. This is the sixth day in a row now that she's barely spoken two words to us or come over to the house. At first I thought she was just busy but today she came into school with dark circles under her eyes as though she hadn't slept." Carlisle promised his son that he would speak to Bella's father Charlie about her mysterious behaviour and that she was probably just tired. As if luck would have it Carlisle was required to go to the police station in order to examine a body (or maybe not so lucky after all). This gave him the perfect opportunity to be able to speak to Charlie without him hopefully alerting Bella to anything. Charlie was waiting outside the front of the station for Carlisle. They climbed i9nto the police cruiser and set off for the sight, it was during this journey that Carlisle decided to approach the topic of Bella.
"Charlie, my family and I are concerned about Bella. According to Edward she looks like she hasn't been sleeping, she's very subdued and basically not acting like her normal self. Has anything happened lately?" Carlisle knew that he had to be delicate about this as if he said anything wrong then Charlie may become angry and that would certainly put a strain on things. Charlie suddenly became nervous and hoped that if he denied everything that the topic would be left alone.
"No nothing. She's probably just staying up late reading or something. Most likely Wuthering Heights, after all it is her favourite book." Although, Charlie should've known that Carlisle leaving the topic alone was like watching the skies to see flying pigs, basically it was impossible and would never happen.
"I don't believe that Bella is simply exhausted Charlie. She is very quiet and barely talks to anybody anymore. If there is anything wrong with her you can tell me, I and Esme see Bella as though she is another of our children." Charlie's nerves reached critical level as he tried to find a way to avoid the subject. He wanted to help Bella but knew that if he told anyone about her secret then she would hate him or at least never speak to him again. Also, it was Bella's secret to tell in her own time and to whomever she wishes. Before Carlisle could open his mouth to reply the scene of the murder came into view and the conversation was abruptly cut off. They both opened the doors of the car and stepped out onto the muddy banks of Queets River. The rest of the day was spent with Charlie making inquiries and Carlisle examining the body so there was no way for the conversation to start up again much to Charlie's great relief.
Meanwhile, Bella had forced herself to go to the Cullens house so that they had no reason to start with the millions of questions she knew would've been coming her way had she avoided this visit. The silence was so tense and awkward that you could cut it with a knife although it was soon broken when Alice came bouncing into the room and dragged Bella off so that she could play Bella Barbie. It was around five fifteen that Bella headed off home despite the fact that Alice wanted her to stay the night but Bella knew it was just a ploy to get information out of her. As much as she loved Alice she was extraordinarily nosy.
Bella was just coming up to her house when she saw a familiar long black haired woman and her heart sunk into the pit of her stomach. She knew that she couldn't avoid this head on collision especially since Janet had already seen her but she'd hoped that she might've been able to avoid it for just that little bit longer. Bella pulled up and opened the driver's door stepping out onto the dusty driveway, she wanted to walk as slowly as possible so as to delay the inevitable but she knew that if she didn't get it over and done with soon then she would still have that overwhelming feeling of dread remain.
"Where have you been? You should've been waiting here for me! I got worried when I realised that you weren't here. You don't know anyone here; you could've been with strangers." Janet pretended to look concerned for Bella but she knew that it was a way for her to try and get into favour with her again. She was also trying to add a side dish of steaming hot guilt so that Bella would agree to visit him in prison, it wasn't going to happen. When she was with Jimmie, Janet always tried to pretend to be a mother to her and hardly ever let her make her own decisions, when she wanted to visit her own mother Janet always looked extremely reluctant but she went along with it for fear of losing her control over Bella. She knew that she had to stand up for herself and knew that she could do it because now Jimmie wasn't there always squeezing her hip painfully hard telling her to shut up.
"Janet cut the crap. I know you weren't concerned for me at all and just be aware of two things. One; I don't answer to anyone, especially you and I am not going to be at a specific place at a specific time just because you tell me to and two; I can be friends with anybody I choose, you nor your son control my life any longer so butt out!" Bella felt an extreme sense of satisfaction fill her as she said this and no fear overtook her when Janet's simpering, fake little smile turned into an ugly, feral snarl.
"Listen here you ungrateful little bitch! I practically brought you up and treated you as though you were one of my own. Your mother is a useless whore jumping from your sad excuse of a father to her new toy boy. Now, good little girls listen to their mothers and you are going to listen to me! You are going to visit Jimmie in prison, you're then going to tell the police that you lied and that Jimmie didn't do anything to you and then when he's released like he rightly should be you will be together like you're meant to. You will leave your father's house and never see him or your mother again, I don't care what excuse you have to make but you will make one or you will pay. Do you understand me?" Bella saw red, it was one thing to insult her but never insult her family and she drew her head back and spat straight into Janet's face, she stood there stunned into silence but then she pulled her hand back and punched Bella in the face. She felt the blood squirt from her nose and she put her hand to her nose to try and stem the bleeding as much as she could. Janet reared up when she heard police sirens coming closer to us and sped off towards her car pulling out of the driveway and speeding off, Charlie's cruiser skidded to a halt beside the house and he ran over to me.
"Bells! Jesus what happened to you?" I simply shook my head, turned away and said nothing only heading upstairs to quickly grab a tissue from the bathroom and lie on my bed and silently cry into my pillow, I ended up falling asleep like that.
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From Maddie xxxxxx