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Chapter 15

Bella's POV

Edward wasn't sleeping.

At least not when he was with me, when I slept over he was always awake when I fell asleep and always awake when I woke up. He looked tired all day. When I didn't sleep over he looked well rested.

I wasn't sure what was going on. I tried to talk to him but he just kissed me and said he was fine.

"Bella?" Edward asked me one day while I was making us lunch. "Do you want to go out to dinner tonight?"

I looked up in surprise. We didn't usually go out; mostly we just went to each others houses.

"Like a date?" I asked smiling

He ducked his head and smiled slightly "Yeah like a date" He is so cute

I walked over to him and sat in his lap "Where are we going to go?"

"To dinner" he said leaning forward and kissing me on the nose.

I groaned softly "Do I have to dress up?"

He laughed gently "Alice said to come over at four so she could help you get dressed"

I groaned again and buried my face in his shoulder "Edward! She's just going to give me a makeover and complain about how 'I know nothing about fashion'" he laughed again pulling me closer.

"She wouldn't take no for an answer but I made her promise not to go overboard"

Alice, not going overboard, not likely I thought to myself.

I arrived at the Cullen's house at four. Alice answered the door looking furious.

"Bella" she hissed "your late"

I looked at my watch in confusion it said 4:02. I held my watch out to Alice "Seriously?" I asked incredulously "two minutes past?"

She grabbed my hand and pulled me inside "We need all the time we can get" I followed her not knowing whether to be offended or not.

The next two hours consisted of Alice and Rose, who was waiting in Alice's room, pampering me and doing my hair and my makeup. During the process they would not allow me to look in any mirrors so I was afraid of what the end result would be like.

Finally Alice announced that they were finished. She walked over to her closet and pulled out a black dress. "Alice…I dunno" I said eying the low neckline. It didn't look like something I would wear or even be able to pull off.

"Bella" she said disapprovingly as she handed me the dress "It's going to look perfect, trust me"

"Fine" I sighed and started pulling off my clothes. Once I pulled it on Alice led me to the mirror to take a look. My jaw dropped the reflection in the mirror looked nothing like me. I looked…pretty, my hair was curled softly around my face, the makeup around my eyes made them look bigger and brighter, I looked down at my dress and speaking of bigger. I actually had cleavage.

Alice and Rose walked up beside me giggling softly "Like what you see" Alice teased "I told you the dress would look good. Edward's going to love it"

I blushed slightly and smiled at them "Thanks guys" I pulled them into a hug.

Alice laughed "It's six. Edward will be waiting"

"Oh right" I said and moved to walk out of the room but Rose grabbed me before I reached the door.

"Wait don't forget these" she said handing me a pair of silver high heeled shoes.

"That would've been a shame wouldn't it?" I mumbled taking the shoes from her and strapping them on.

"Have fun" they both said as I was walking out the door. I smiled back at them.

I walked towards Edward's room nervous of what his reaction would be.

I pushed open the door. His room was empty but I could hear water running in his bathroom so I knew Edward must be in there. After a moment I heard the water being turned off and then the bathroom door opened.

Edward walked out and he froze when he saw me. He looked perfect as always he was dressed in a blue button down shirt and jeans.

He looked me up and down and I couldn't help but notice his eyes linger on my cleavage.

I blushed furiously and looked down at my toes.

"Bella" he said his voice sounding croaky "you look…beautiful"

I looked up at him smiling at me sweetly.

I smiled back "So do you" he chuckled softly and walked towards me.

He wrapped his arms around me and kissed me deeply. I responded immediately melting in to him. After awhile he drew back.

"We should go" he sounded reluctant. I pulled his face back down to me and kissed him again.

"How about we just stay here" I whispered into his mouth.

He kissed me back but then pulled back again "Come on we'll be late" he said and grabbed my hand puling me after him.

"Fine" I grumbled and he chuckled again.

"So where are we going?" I asked as he opened the car door for me.

"To the Italian restaurant" he replied starting the car.

"Yay" I said clapping my hands "my favourite"

He smiled at me and as always my breath caught in my chest "I know"

When we arrived at the restaurant I couldn't help but notice the amount of attention Edward got from females. They were constantly checking him out. I even caught the waitress who was showing us to our table checking out his butt. I resisted the urge to scream at her that no one got to check out his ass but me. What I couldn't get over was that Edward didn't even seem to notice, the only person he looked at was me this made me fall in love with him all over again. He barely even spoke to the waitress, just a mumbled thankyou.

"It's so rude" I said after the skanky waitress had taken our order.

"What?" he said with an adorable confused look on his face.

"How they just…ogle you right in front of me"

"Ogle me?" he said scrunching up his face "Why would they do that?"

I laughed thinking he was joking but he kept looking at me in confusion.

"Come on" I said in disbelief "Look at you" I waved my hand at him.

He looked at me with a weird expression like he didn't believe what I was saying. How could he not know how beautiful he is?

"Their probably wondering what a beautiful girl like you is doing with a loser like me" he said looking at his hands.

I looked back at him he had to be joking "More like the other way around" I mumbled softly.

He looked up as though he was going to respond but I cut him off quickly wanting to change the subject.

We talked a bit about school until the food arrived.

While we were eating I tried to get him to open up a bit. We mostly always talked about me as he always changed the subject when I asked about him.

"So" I said slowly I decided to ask something easy "When you were a little kid what did you want to be when you grew up?"

He didn't say anything for a moment concentrating on his pasta "I don't remember" he replied.

"Come on, you had to have wanted to be something like a fireman or a police man. I know I always wanted to be an astronaut"

He smiled softly "You would make a cute astronaut"

I sighed "Edward please, I just want to know everything about you"

He was silent "Bella, really I don't remember"

"Ok" I sighed again. I guess he wasn't going to open up tonight.

We sat in silence until we had finished our dinners. "You ready to go?" Edward asked.

I nodded.

He paid the cheque and we left the restaurant. As we were leaving I saw the waitress slip a piece of paper to Edward. He looked at it and I saw that it had her phone number on it.

He handed the paper back to her without a word, wrapped his arm tightly around my waist and pulled me towards the door. I looked back and glared at the waitress who looked embarrassed.

I laughed quietly as we walked out. He smiled back and pulled me into a kiss.

"Do you want to get ice cream?" he asked as we were walking past the ice cream place. I nodded happily.

As we were waiting to order I saw Edward glaring at someone. I turned around and saw a guy a little older then us. He was staring straight at me, he had greasy brown hair and something about him made him look creepy.

"Edward" I said pulling him forward.

"He's staring straight at you" he replied shaking in anger.

"Just ignore him" I said as we walked towards the counter to order.

I ordered a vanilla cone and Edward ordered a chocolate one. When we turned around to leave I saw that the creepy guy had left.

When we were outside Edward started patting his pockets "Shit" he said.

"What"

"I left my wallet inside" he turned around "I'll be right back"

"Ok" I said as he walked back towards the ice cream place.

I looked around there wasn't many people around as it was getting late. I heard my phone beep. I started to reach into my bag to pull it out when if felt someone grab my arm. I dropped my ice cream as someone pulled me into the ally way.

"What" I started to shriek but was stopped when a hand clamped down on my mouth. I was face to face with the creepy guy from before.

"Hey beautiful" he said. I started to squirm trying to get away from him but he was too strong "Your boyfriend sure is stupid leaving you alone"

I felt tears prickling my eyes and I tried to bite his hand. He pulled his hand away and before I could scream he pushed his mouth onto mine. I trashed my head around trying to get way from him but he grabbed my throat painfully and forced me to stay still. He placed his hand back over my mouth.

"Com on baby you know you want it. Look at what you're wearing" he said as he pointed towards my dress "you're just asking for it" he grabbed one of my breasts painfully in his hand I felt my tears running down my face.

His hand started to move up my thigh but he was suddenly ripped off me. I fell to the ground in relief as I saw Edward, he looked murderously angry.

He walked over to the guy who was on the ground and started punching him.

"Don't you ever touch her" he yelled at the guy while he kicked him in the stomach "You pathetic piece of shit" he continued to beat the shit out of the guy and I could tell he wasn't going to stop.

"Edward!" I cried out. I couldn't let him kill him. This guy wasn't worth Edward going to jai for.

He turned around his hands covered in the guy's blood. He seemed to realise what was happening. He ran towards me and kneeled in front of me.

"Bella baby are you ok? I'm so sorry" he sobbed as he grabbed my face in his hands.

I wrapped my arms around him and kissed his neck. I felt myself shaking. "I'm ok now" I whispered.

He hugged me to him tightly and we sat there for a moment.

Suddenly we heard a car starting up behind us and speeding away Edward turned around in alarm the guy must had parked his car in the ally way.

"Shit" Edward said angrily "Bella we have to go to the police"

"No" I said firmly "I don't want my Dad to worry"

Edward sighed and I could tell he didn't agree "Ok" he said "Are you sure you're ok?"

I nodded slightly

"I'm never leaving you on your own ever again" Edward promised kissing me softly.

"Good" I whispered back.

Edward's POV

I wanted to take Bella on a date. We had never gone out anywhere so I wanted to take her somewhere special. I had asked Alice what food was Bella's favourite and she told me it was Italian. Alice then had insisted that she get to dress Bella for the evening, I at first refused knowing Bella wouldn't like it but Alice wouldn't take no as an answer. She annoyed and bugged me until I gave in. Although she did promise not to go too far, somehow I doubted that.

She had also picked out what I was to wear as she claimed I didn't know how to dress myself properly. After feeling slightly offended I looked at what she had picked out and decided that it would look alright.

I was finishing getting ready and was ready to go and meet Bella but as I walked out of my bathroom I froze. Bella was already standing in my room. She looked so beautiful. Her hair was softly curled and her eyes looked even bigger than normal. I looked her up and down and my eyes lingered on her chest. The dress was cut low and you could see the tops of her breasts, all I wanted to do was throw her on the bed and take her dress off. I looked up and saw her face was pink and she was staring at her feet. I hoped she hadn't seen me staring at her breasts.

"Bella" I said my voice hoarse "you look…beautiful" beautiful was an understatement.

She looked at me with her smile that made my knees weak.

"So do you" she said and I laughed I couldn't even compare to her.

I walked towards her unable to keep my hands off her for much longer and wrapped my arms around her and kissed her. She responded immediately and pulled me in harder. After a moment I stopped and pulled back "We should go" I said reluctantly but she pulled me back for another kiss.

"How about we just stay here" she whispered seductively.

Ok I wanted to say and I kissed her back but I knew I wasn't ready for what I knew would happen if we stayed. "Come on we'll be late" I said and pulled her after me.

"Fine" she grumbled and I laughed at how cute she was.

"So where are we going?" she asked as she slid into the car.

"To the Italian restaurant" I replied as I started the car.

"Yay" she said clapping her hands "My favourite"

I smiled at her "I know"

Once we arrived at the restaurant I noticed how close the waitress seemed to be standing next to me and started to feel uncomfortable. I tried to distance myself from her.

"It's so rude" Bella said after the waitress had taken our orders.

"What?" I asked confused was she talking about me?

"How they just…ogle you right in front of me"

"Ogle me?" I said what was she talking about? "Why would they do that?"

She laughed but I was still confused.

"Come on" she said as though in disbelief "Look at you" she waved her hand at me as thought to prove her point. She couldn't mean for the way I looked, there was nothing attractive about me.

"Their probably wondering what a beautiful girl like you is doing with a loser like me" I said looking at my hands.

"More like the other way around" she mumbled. I looked up in shock ready to tell her she was crazy she was the most exquisite creature in the world and I was disgusting.

She changed the subject quickly to something about school and we didn't talk about it again.

"So" Bella said slowly once the food had arrived "When you were a little kid what did you want to be when you grew up?"

I froze just like I always did when someone brought up my childhood I concentrated on my food "I don't remember" I replied which was true.

"Come on, you had to have wanted to be something like a fireman or a police man. I know I always wanted to be an astronaut"

I smiled softly imagining her as an astronaut "You would make a cute astronaut"

She sighed "Edward please I just want to know everything about you"

I stayed silent "Bella really I don't remember"

"Ok" She sighed again.

What did I want to be when I was a kid? Anybody but me.

We sat in silence I fretted silently wondering if she was mad at me.

"You ready to go?" I asked once we were done.

She nodded.

Once I paid the cheque and we started to leave I wondered if I should grab her hand but I was scared she would pull away and I knew that would kill apart of me. As we walked past the waitress she gave me a piece of paper. I looked at it and saw that it had her phone number on it. I couldn't believe she would give me that while I was obviously on a date.

I handed it back to her without saying anything. I wrapped my arm around Bella's waist and pulled her towards the door.

I heard Bella laughed quietly and I knew she wasn't angry with me. I smiled back at her and pulled her into a kiss.

"Do you want to get ice cream?" I asked as we walked past the ice cream place. She nodded adorably.

As we were waiting to order I saw a guy looking at Bella intently with a determined look on his face. I glared at him, how dare he look at her like that. I wanted to punch him and tell him to never look at her again. I saw Bella look towards him and she turned around and pulled me forward.

"Edward" she said warningly

"He's staring straight at you" I said angrily.

"Just ignore him" she said as we walked towards the counter to order.

Once we had got our ice creams we noticed the guy had gone good I thought.

When we were outside I realised I had left my wallet in the store "Shit" I said.

"What"

"I left my wallet inside, I'll be right back"

"Ok" she said as I walked back towards the ice cream place. Once I got inside I asked the girl at the counter if she had seen my wallet she said she had to ask the owner. I waited for a couple of minutes until the owner came out and asked me for my name. Once I had told him he handed over the wallet.

"Thanks" I said and walked back out of the store. I couldn't see Bella anywhere. I wondered if she had gone to wait at the car. I started to walk towards the car when I saw her ice cream lying on the ground. My stomach clenched something was wrong. I heard a voice coming from the ally way near where I had left Bella.

"Com on baby you know you want it" the voice said "Look at what you're wearing, you're just asking for it" my blood ran cold as I realised it was Bella pinned into the wall. I started to run towards them when I saw the sick bastard grab her breasts and move his hand up her thigh. I was going to kill him. I grabbed him and with all my strength ripped him off her. I walked over to him and started punching him in the face I felt the blood start to pour from his nose.

"Don't you ever touch her" I screamed at him and started to kick him in the stomach "You pathetic piece of shit" I wasn't going to stop until I had made him pay for what he had done.

"Edward!" I heard Bella cry out.

I turned around and saw my angel sitting on the ground, tears running down her cheeks and her eyes begging me to stop before I did something I'd regret. I ran towards her and kneeled in front of her.

"Bella baby are you ok? I'm so sorry" I grabbed her face in my hands needing to make sure she was ok.

She wrapped her arms around me and I felt her kiss my neck. She was shaking. "I'm ok now" she whispered.

I hugged her tightly never wanting to let go.

Suddenly we heard a car behind us speeding away I turned around. The guy had gone how could we not have heard him get up?

"Shit" I said angrily "Bella we have to go to the police"

"No" she said panicking "I don't want my Dad to worry"

I sighed we couldn't let him get way with it, but I would do whatever she asked. "Ok" I said "Are you sure you're ok?"

She nodded.

"I'm never leaving you on your own ever again" I promised and kissed her softly.

"Good" she whispered back.

Bella's POV

Edward stayed true to his word, insisting on staying the night especially since Charlie was away for the weekend. I was grateful, I didn't know how I would cope being alone.

Edward held my hand the whole way home glancing at me every few moments to check if I was ok. I was still shaken from what had happened but I felt completely safe with him. When we arrived at my house I went to take a hot shower wanting to wash away where that guy had touched. It had made me feel dirty. Once I was clean I dried myself and put on my pyjamas.

When I walked back out into my room I saw Edward lying on my bed deeply asleep. I smiled at how cute and sweet he looked. I walked over and brushed his hair out of his eyes. I lay down next to him and snuggled in closer and quickly fell asleep.

I was dreaming, as always about Edward, when I was suddenly awoken. I looked around in confusion wondering what had woken me up so suddenly when I heard Edward thrashing around next to me. He was whimpering softly. He kept repeating "No" over and over again and sounded like he was in agony. I rolled towards him just as he yelled out "Please don't" and started sobbing. I couldn't bear for him to be in pain. I shook him gently and placed my hand on his chest. "Edward" I whispered "wake up, it's just a dream".

I heard him shudder and all of a sudden his hand flung out and struck me straight in the face. I shrieked in pain and rolled away from him. I felt him jump up from the bed "Bella?" he said his voice shaking "Oh my God I didn't…I thought….I'm sorry" he reached towards me and I instinctively flinched away.

I heard a sob leave his throat and he ran towards the bathroom and shut the door. I felt tears running down my face. My face throbbed slightly from where his hand had struck it.

I could hear him sobbing from the bathroom. I knew this wasn't his fault. I got up slowly and walked towards the bathroom. I knocked softly.

"Edward" I called "Can I come in?"

I could hear his sobs quieten a little. "Edward" I called a bit louder.

"No" I heard him whisper. "Stay away from me"

I couldn't take the pain I heard in his voice. I pushed the door open and my heart broke, I felt my eyes fill with tears again. He was sitting in front of the bath with his head resting on his knees and his hands pulling at his hair. His shoulders were shaking with the force of his sobs.

I knelt in front of him just as he had done for me only a few hours earlier. "I could never stay away from you" I whispered softly.

He didn't look up but I heard him whisper into his knees "I don't deserve you. You could do so much better"

I grabbed his hands pulling them away from his hair "Never say that" I said furiously.

He sobbed even harder.

"There's no one better for me then you" I whispered.

"Yes there is" he said angrily finally looking up. His beautiful eyes were filled with so much pain I had to look away.

"How about some one who doesn't hurt you? How about someone who doesn't freak out when you try to touch his dick? You can't possibly want me" he said and I felt my tears fall down my cheeks "I'm broken Bella. Can't you see that?" he pulled his hands away and covered his face.

I grabbed his hands back "Edward I love you. I know you didn't mean to hit me. You thought I was someone else didn't you?" he closed his eyes and moaned softly "Who did you think I was?"

He sat there silently for a long moment.

"Edward" I asked slowly "Do you love me?"

He opens his eyes suddenly "You know I do" his voice full of emotion.

"Then please tell me" I beg "Who did you think I was?"

He looks at me and I know that he's about to tell me but there is something in his eyes that frightens the hell out of me and I want to walk away. I don't want to hear another word because I know whatever he has to say is going to destroy a part of me.

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