Bellas POV

The week was going by pretty slowly. I went to class, and then hung out with Alice, Jasper, Rose, Emmett, and Edward. That was pretty much my routine for a couple of days now. For as slow as the week had gone, looking back, I couldn't grasp that it was already Friday. The gang decided to spend the night out, but I still wasn't feeling up to it. I made up an essay project that was due Monday and said that I had to spend my time tonight working on that. I didn't lie, completely. I DID have an essay due, and I did have to turn it in on a Monday, just not THAT Monday.

I cleaned up the dorm a bit and settled down to watch TV with Peanut sleeping at my feet.

I decided to take a warm shower to relax my muscles and left towards the bathroom. I had begun to let the warm water run down my body to soothe it, when I heard the door open and Peanut bark. He stopped abruptly and I assumed it was Alice and Rose arriving home early.

Heavy footsteps began treading down the hall and I began to worry. Edward maybe? No. He would have knocked, knowing I was home. I could hear the bathroom door knob begin to turn and I grabbed the closest thing to me, which happened to be a scrub brush for your back. The door opened and I hit whoever it was with the back of the brush... hard. He stumbled back and I hit him continuously until he was on the floor. He wasn't dead, I could tell because he was breathing. He was just unconscious.

I grabbed my towel and ran to the living room where I found peanut with his mouth tied up with some kind of thick wire. I grabbed my cell phone and quickly called the first person that came to mind. I was in hysterics but I didn't care.

"Edward?" I asked when I heard the phone was answered.

"Are you ok? Do you need me to come over? Bella, why are you crying?"

"I don't know yet Edward, and yes, please? I just don't want to be alone right now." I sobbed.

The man had a ski mask on, and I didn't dare walk any closer. I stepped quietly over to the fireplace and grabbed to wood poker, just in case. I led Peanut out to the hall in front of the dorm and walked all the way down to wait for Edward. Once we were a safe distance from the dorm I unwound Peanut's mouth and just hugged him tight. I knew he tried. I knew because when I glanced at the man before leaving, I saw that his arm was bleeding.

Edward showed up real quickly. I met him downstairs in the main lobby and ran to him, not even caring that I was still in my towel. I just let him hold me and sobbed into his chest.

"Bella, what happened?"

"I was .. taking a ..sh-shower . And a m-man walked i-in. I, I hit him h-hard and a lot until he f-ell . Then I ca-called you. I didn't' know what e-else to do Edward." I said in between sobs.

"Someone broke into your dorm? Where is he now?" I had calmed down a little bit and was able to speak.

"I left. I left him there in the hallway in front of the bathroom. I don't know if he's still there Edward. I don't know." I began to cry again thinking about the man, and what he could have done.

Edward took the poker from my hand and walked with me upstairs. I waited in the hall as he walked into the dorm. Peanut stayed back to protect me.

Moments later Edward returned. The next two words would haunt me forever.

"He's gone."