Marie's POV
As I walk down the hallway leaving Bella's room I realize how selfish I am being. It has been three years since I have seen her and I can't get the confidence to stay. The Cullen's seem like nice people, but I can't come here and intrude in their lives. This is the first time in years that I have been around vampires and I am so surprised by their sweet nature, well not Edward's. As I walk down the first flight of stairs to the second floor I over hear the Cullen's conversation.
"Alice, have you recently found any movement from the vampire?" Esme asks her.
"No." Alice says sadly.
"Maybe this is a good thing, that way we don't have to worry about her anymore." says Carlisle.
"Yeah, I guess so." Alice again says sadly. I walk down the hall then to the stairs into the family room where everyone is present. I try to avoid eye contact with anyone and walk straight out the door. Esme and Carlisle come out the house as I am walking down the stairs.
"Where are you going?" Esme asks sweetly. I look into her gold eyes and sigh. "You are welcome to stay, dear." She sweetly says. I shook my head.
"I can't do that." I mumble looking to the ground.
"Yes you can and you will." she says as she walks down the stairs.
"We welcome you to our home till we find your parents." Carlisle says genuinely. I look to the ground for a few moments while Carlisle and Esme have a full conversation with their eyes. "Are your parents still alive?" Carlisle finally asks. I nod once.
"If you do not want to live with your parents you are still welcome here." Esme says.
"Thank you." I say sympathetically.
"Would you like us to help you get your things?" Esme offers.
"I do not have anything here, it is all in Britain." I tell them.
"Alright, we will go shopping tomorrow."
"No, thank you." I say shaking my head.
"We honestly do not mind preparing-"chimes in Carlisle, but I stop him before he can finish.
"I can't take your money. You worked hard for the money you have and I will not take it." "You seem like very nice people but," I stop talking and sigh. "I must go." I say turning on my heels. I hear Esme sigh behind me.
"We can't keep her here against her will" Carlisle tells her. I groan and turn back around.
"Look, if I stay, you can't buy me anything but food, Okay?"
"Marie, you need clothes." Esme says gently. We looked at each other for a few moments, and then Esme finally sighs. "Alright, we will not buy you any clothes, but you must take some of Alice's clothes."
"I can't take someone's clothes without asking them." I disapprove.
"Alice only wears things once, so after she wears it, you may have it." Esme says.
"That's ignorant!" I yell frustrated. Esme steps back looking at me shocked. "All the people that are homeless and doesn't have any clothes on their back and she complains about wearing the same thing twice. That is so selfish!" I say full of rage. "I refuse to live in a house where people do not care about anybody but themselves."
"We care about you." Carlisle says gently.
"Yeah right, if I wasn't Bella's sister and she wasn't dating Edward, neither of you would have even looked twice at us." I yell aggressively. The two of them froze for a second.
"You're Bella's sister." Esme practically whispers. It was kind of a question/statement but I wasn't sure. Esme and Carlisle shared a look. Rosalie and Alice came out the house, standing behind their parents.
"She never mentioned having a sister." Carlisle says to himself.
"You aren't her sister." Alice says coldly with her arms crossed over her chest. I walk away to leave.
"Please, stay." Esme begs softly. I stop in my path and sigh. I turn to look at her hopeful face.
"Fine, I will stay but only if you promise not to buy me things without my consent." I say gently.
"I promise." Esme smiles.
"You aren't welcome here." Alice says again coldly.
"Oh well, your opinion about her staying here doesn't matter." Esme tells Alice. "Come inside." Esme gestures with her hand for me to follow. I stand there for a moment.
"Sorry Esme, I do not take joy in living somewhere where I am not wanted." I reply softly then left their land. I can hear Esme yelling at her children as I walk down the driveway. I feel the tears start in my eyes, but I push them back and continue to walk forward. I have lived where I was obviously not wanted for my entire life and now that I am 19 I will not be doing that again. Alice comes up behind me and I continue to walk.
"I use to tell Bella all the time, 'if you have nothing nice to stay, it is best to stay silent.'" I quote as I continue to walk. "If you have something else rude to say to me, I do not want to hear it." I tell her without looking back.
"I came to apologize." She says.
"Why, because your mom told you to?" I ask arrogantly.
"Yes, but I also want to apologize because I shouldn't have been rude to you even though you were being rude to me." I snort at her apology.
"How was I being rude to you?" I say never looking in her direction as she walks beside me.
"You were criticizing what I do with my clothes." I stop to look at her.
"Yeah I did and I do not regret anything I said."
"Well you should because you can't walk in our home and try to tell us how we should do things."
"I didn't, Carlisle invited me into your home and I wasn't telling you what to do. I was stating that what you do is selfish considering the people out there who do not have clothes."
"Well excuse me for not wanting to wear clothes twice!"
"Well, if you don't want to wear it twice then give it to a homeless shelter. You know, the people that actually need the things that you throw away." I reply sarcastically.
"Listen, my parents really want you to stay here so if I told you that I don't mind you living here, will you stay?" She asks after a long sigh.
"If you promise to give your unwanted clothes to charity, I will stay."
"Deal." She says and we shake hands and walk back to the house.
"So, are you really Bella's sister?" She asks as we walk.
"Yep, I take it that the two of you are very close."
"Yes, we are best friends but I don't understand why she wouldn't tell me she had a sister."
"I'm sure it just slipped her mind." I say trying to soothe Alice. Alice sighs as we walk into the house. Everyone is present when we walk into the living room. I immediately feel uncomfortable and stand with my hands in my back pockets. Everyone is staring at me so I look out the window trying to avoid eye contact.
"I can't read her." Edward says extremely low where no human would have been able to hear him. Everyone's eyes except Jasper's, left my face and turns to Edward. "It feels worse than when I can't read Bella." Jasper finally turns in Edward's direction.
"I can feel her emotions but I can't control them." Jasper whispers. Everyone talks in low tones and I continue to stand there like I don't hear anything. Bella comes downstairs unaware to the room full of people. It actually looks like she's sleep walking. She yawns as she walks down the stairs then walks into the kitchen. She comes back into the living room with a bowl of fruit (still oblivious to the room of people) then walks back upstairs. I smirk as I watch her move. Everyone sits there silent after Bella left. I feel extremely tired but I do not know the Cullen's very well, so I continue to stand. Edward finally moves and goes upstairs with Bella while Esme offers me to go upstairs to the room where I slept last night.
"Maybe we can go out tomorrow to make this room more you." Esme offers.
"No thank you, I like the way it is." I tell her with a forced smile. She smiles back and went back downstairs. I lock the door behind her and jump onto the bed and fall right to sleep.
I wake up hearing a knock on the door. I lay there for a moment, not sure if I actually heard the knock. The person knocks again. With a sleepy voice I tell them to 'come in'. Rosalie and Charlie walk through the door. I immediately sit up on the bed. The two of them stand there staring at me with their hands over their chest.
"Wha-what are you doing here?" I stutter to Charlie. Alice walks through the door next and stands at Charlie's side.
"You are not welcome here." Alice voice was deep as she talks to me. She slowly walks over to the bed. "I packed all of your clothes while you were sleep. You are going back to live with your dad." I stop breathing as her words finally reach my brain.
"I-I don't want to go. Please Alice, don't do this." I beg.
"Oh, stop whining." Charlie complains. "Get up." He orders. "
"No, I am not coming back to your house. If Alice doesn't want me here, I will leave but I am not coming home with you." I shout. Charlie leans over the bed, grabs my arms while telling me to stop complaining as I scream. Charlie pulls at my arms while Alice helps him. Rosalie stands by the dresser with a smirk on her face as I continue to kick and scream trying to get them to release me. Before I knew what was happening Charlie placed his handcuffs around my ankles and another set around my hands. I lay there helpless while Alice and Rosalie leave the room. Charlie picks me up and throws me over his shoulder. When we arrive to his house, he walks upstairs, then into the attic where he had plywood everywhere. A few pieces of wood had small circles on the outer part of the plywood and in the middle held a big circle. Charlie walks to the corner of the attic, standing me up on my feet. He took the handcuffs off my hands and ties a chain to each of my hands and wraps them around two bars. He took my legs pulling me up by the handcuffs and ties another chain around the chain that holds the handcuffs together. He then ties the chain to the roof of the attic, leaving me hanging upside down. He takes bread out of his pocket and stuffs it in my mouth.
"Chew it." He orders and I obey. Once I finish eating the bread he went back downstairs closing the door to the attic. The only light for me to see is the light coming through the small window to my right. I hang there wishing I was dead but a little thankful that he gave me food before he left me here to die. This is why I left years ago to get away from Charlie. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Charlie, Bella, and I are driving on our way to the airport to drop off Bella, so she can return back to Phoenix. Bella's flight leaves at 2 in the afternoon. The three of us sit in the airport waiting for Bella's plane.
"Dad, I am going to the bathroom, I will be back." Bella tells him. Charlie shrugs and I go with Bella to the bathroom. While she washes her hands I decide to tell her I am leaving.
"Bella, I have decided to leave Charlie and live in Australia."
"Huh, why?" She asks.
"I don't want to live with Charlie anymore so I have decided to go out on my own."
"Will you come back to see me?"
"I will…one day. I promise." She gives me a hug as we hear them call her flight over the speaker.
"I'm going to miss you." She cries.
"I will miss you too, love you."
"I love you too. Email me every day." She whispers then leaves for her flight. My flight leaves at 1 in the morning, which I think is perfect. Charlie went to sleep at 11 and once he was sleep I finish packing all of my clothes. I email Bella right before I left the house to get on my flight to Australia.
My flashback is interrupt by a cough. "Is anyone there?" I ask hesitant. There was another cough.
"Marie, is that you?" Bella chokes.
"Bella?" I ask.
"Where are you?" She asks.
"I am by the window, come here."
"I can't come, can you move?"
"No, I'm chained up."
"I wish I was in chains because these ropes are killing me." She complains.
"Bella, I need you to try and untie yourself."
"What?" She asks confused.
"Bella, I am upside down and I am not sure how much longer I can stay this way before all of my blood rushes to my brain."
"Okay, I will try." 20 minutes goes by while Bella struggle to get the ropes untied. I began to get inpatient but try to keep faith that she can get herself untied.
"Bella please hurry." I beg
"I'm trying, I'm trying." She replies. I scream. "What's wrong?" She asks.
"There's a rat!" I try swinging to the side to keep away from the rat. I scream again. "There are three of them!" I scream saying more to myself than to Bella. My sight goes black. "Bella." I choke. "Bella." I whisper. I became unconscious.
I feel someone shaking me and calling my name. "Marie, Marie get up." Everything was blank again for a few more minutes. "Marie!" Bella yells. I blink a few times.
"What?" I ask confused.
"You were screaming and then you stopped screaming for almost two hours then you started screaming again. Then you began to say Charlie's name and I was getting scared. " She says in panic. I look around and see that I am in the room that the Cullen's provided for me. Alice and Jasper are standing by the door, Emmet and Esme are standing by the window to the left of me, Bella sits on her knees on the bed to the left of me and Carlisle stands to the right of me. It all came to me, I was dreaming.
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