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Justin is gone now. I am safe. For now. After he was done with me, he went chasing after mom. He said he wouldn't be home until tomorrow, since he was "taking Renee' somewhere special". Ugg, by special he means the motel. He disgusts me! But I won't think about that. I have time alone for once. Rare and precious time. I hobbled over to the bathroom and turned on the sink. I let the cool water pool in my hands, and then I splashed it onto my blooding and swollen face. It felt good, much better than Justin's kicking leg in my face and unforgiving fist on my skin.
Just as I was dabbing my face dry with a towel, the door bell rang. I wondered who it was, then panicked. What if it was Justin and mom? What if Justin hadn't finished his beating? I knew it would be worse if I didn't answer to him, so I crept down the hall and cracked the door open.
But it wasn't Justin, or mom. It was a boy about my age, pretty tall, with quaff auburn hair. Behind him stood a VERY small girl who had a huge smile across her face and was practically bouncing! She was holding hands with a very awkward looking boy with tight lips and a stiff body. His blond hair was messy and curly and quite nice.
"Um…hi?" I said still not completely opening the door. I was suspicious….who were they?
"Hello, were the Cullen's!! Well some of them, we just moved in next door and we thought we would come say hey!" the small bouncy girl spoke up first.
"Im Alice Cullen, this is Jasper" she nodded to the blond guy "and this is Edward! "
"Oh well, I'm Bella Swan, it's nice to meet you" it sounded more like a question; I wasn't sure what to make of these sudden neighbors!
"Rosalie, Emmett, Mom, and dad are still unpacking, but they'll be over soon! Umm….can we come in maybe?....you know…"
I was in shock a little. They just showed up! But it was polite, so I let them in. They trailed in and I led them to the couch.
"So where do you go t- OH MY GOD!!!! Your face!" Alice screamed at me as I sat down, I was too tired to put on makeup!!! CRAP!!! What am I going to tell her??
"Oh I um…fell down the stairs?" I mumbled. I had totally forgotten about my bruised and swollen face, and I'm pretty sure my lip was purple….
"Bella are you sure? That's an awful bad injury on your forehead! Maybe we should take you to the ER. There open all night." Edward said.
"Yes, you don't want to get that infected, Bella" Jasper murmured.
"Oh its fine, I've had worse!" I said. They gave me a funny look so I added "I'm unusually clumsy…."
They looked like they weren't convinced, but they didn't say it.
"Well anyway, where do you go to school?" Alice questioned.
"Forks high school"
"No way! We're starting there tomorrow!!!" she squealed.
"Great, I can show you around!" I said. I could care less, but hey, what's to lose?
"That would be great, although Alice will have people wrapped around her finger by the end of the day!" Edward murmured to me quietly. I quite like his voice it's kind of sexy, yet smooth and relaxing…hmmm…… Stop it Bella, you just met him!!! The doorbell then I got up to answer it, but gasped at the stabbing pain in my leg when I got up. I fell back to the couch and Edward caught me. He pulled me down and propped my leg up.
"Yeah, you definitely need to go to the ER, Bella. No question about that." He said firmly. I agreed, my leg was definitely injured, why hadn't I noticed that? I was probably just used to the beatings by now. But I couldn't go to the ER; they would see all my scars and know something was up …
The door bell again and again. Crap, Justin does that. I panicked and said "hold on, I'm coming!!!"
I sucked it up and stood up, holding on to Edward for support and then hopping over to the door. I could feel the tears springing in my eyes from the pain.
"Bella!!!" Justin screamed at me "why didn't you answer" he got quiet at the end though, as he saw the Cullen's behind me.
"Oh, well who's this, sweetie?" I caught the edge of anger on his voice, but I ignored it.
"This is the Cullen's; they're our new neighbors, Justin. They came over to say hi. "
"Oh well how nice" he said with a (fake) smile "but it's your bed time Bella and I need to ta-"
"Um, sir." Edward interrupt him "I not sure if you're aware that Bella appears to have a broken leg, and needs to be taken care of soon, if not immediately"
Justin grunted and shifted his weight to the other leg "right, well how did you do it this time?"
Ugg, I so badly wanted to rat him out! I wanted everyone to know what a lying, awful, mean man he was!! But I didn't. I couldn't.
"Oh, I um…fell down the stairs, Justin"
"Hmm, right well I'll take you to the doctor or whatever…or something'"
It was Alice who spoke this time "oh, we would be glad to take Bella if you want us to, sir!"
"Right, right. Sure go ahead" he mumbled incoherently and went to his room with a can of beer in his dirty hands.
LATER:
"Well, Bella what seems to be the problem?" the doctor asked in his soothing, kind voice. Nothing like Justin's harsh and rough one, or mom's non-existant one.
"Well…I have a injured leg. That's about it." I said, staring up at the ceiling.
I just want to get this over with and get out of here!!!
The Cullen gang somehow ended up in the room too, but I wasn't complaining! I was warming up to Edward….
"Well we will have to do a x-ray to see all the damage and then we'll start getting a cast on, okay?"
"Yeah sure, do what you need to do!" I said.
EVEN LATER:
Ugg, I'm finally out of there! And my secrets safe, and so am I! I just gave Doc. The same stairs story and he ate it up, I don't think he really cared that much…. Turns out there was just a fracture and the bone wasn't completely broken, but I have to wear a cast for a while. (Authors note: yeah, I don't know this whole process, so just go with it...3)
I really don't want to go to school but a) it's better than staying with Justin and b) I kind of want to spend some time with Edward….