It's finally here! The chapter where all mysteries are solved….

Falling In The Black

Chapter 10: Once Upon a Time

Previously:

This story was definitely going to be a difficult one to swallow.

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BPOV

"Hello Bella, my name is Alice, Edward's sister." The ballerina said as she walked into the room in the brightest yellow flats I had ever seen.

"Your name is Alice, that's my name to!" I heard my daughter say as she jumped off of her uncle's lap and half ran half skipped to pixie now standing next to my bed.

"Well then you definitely have a very special name, do you want to know why?" Alice asked my daughter who was now in her arms and nodding with an imminent curiosity.

"Well it means, honest and caring and those are two of the most wonderful things a person can have." Alice said as my daughters eyes widened with amazement.

"Mommy do you think it's true, am I honest and caring?" My little Alice asked as she wriggled her way out of the girls arms and onto my bed. I was still a little freaked out so I nodded and smiled. I could see her eyes light up as she ran back to Jacob's lap to tell him the good news. Then Alice turned to me.

"So Bella, I hear you've been getting acquainted with my brother." The older Alice said as she sat on the edge of my bed. Again, I just nodded, nervous about where this was going.

"Don't worry, I'm not here to tell you to stay away from him or any of that, I just wanted to meet you." She said with one of the most reassuring smiles I had ever seen.

"Well, It's nice to meet you then." I said nervously.

"I also came to ask you a question. Is that ok?" She said taking a more comfortable seat at the end of my bed.

"Yes of course" I said trying to sound casual.

"Well I wanted to know, since you have become to much better acquainted with my brother if you wouldn't mind going to a party of sorts." She said with an almost scheming smile, but her smile didn't seem threatening .

"A party, you mean like a Royal Ball, like in the fairy tales?" My Alice said with the widest smile on her face.

"Yes, like a Royal Ball!" The bigger Alice said with the same enthusiasm, as she turned to me.

"Well it sounds nice but I doubt I would have anything to wear, and even then I doubt your brother would want to go with me." I said trying not to look at the disappointment on my daughter's face.

"Don't say that, I'm sure he would love to go with you, and as for your attire; I've got it taken care of don't worry." The big Alice said with a face that no one, especially me, could say no to.

"Like a fairy god mother! Mommy you have to go, she is your fairy godmother and this is your fairy tale, and that wicked witch can't win!" My daughter said with a set determination that this was my fairy tale. I heard the bigger Alice laugh as she picked my daughter up, placing her onto her lap.

"You have a very intuitive daughter, so do I have an answer?" She asked, and for one brief moment, while I really looked at her I could see why my daughter said fairy godmother the minute she saw her.

"Ok." I said simply not expecting the choking hug I got in return. She smiled and hugged my daughter good bye as she walked out of my room as gracefully as before.

"I hope you know what your getting yourself into." I heard Jake finally speak as he stood up dropping the picture on my lap before walking out with my daughter. Leaving me alone to stare at my past.

EPOV

"Now I bet your wondering what kind of call would force a father to get out of bed and leave his family without a second glance" Nikki said reading my mind to avoid an interruption.

"Well we never really found out, but we did know a few small details. No my father was not some super spy! My dad was involved with a lot of people."

"What kind of people?" I asked.

"Women." She said the shame and hurt starting to leak out of her façade, I could only nod as she continued her story.

"We always knew he had someone else, my mother knew, but she was to stupid to let him go. Obviously that was her downfall. It started with him coming home late from "work" and then it led to him being gone for days, and even weeks at a time. There was a time when he left for a month."

"Well what was he doing?"

"We didn't know at the time, but eventually we found out that he had another family. He had found his high school sweetheart when he went to the high school reunion only a year before he actually left. Turns out they hit it off, again. Only a few months after they met turns out the girl got pregnant."

"He was the father?"

She laughed. " Yes he was, we all assume that might be why he left, that the hospital called when she was giving birth and he packed up and left. But you can never be to sure about these things. We always thought he was getting involved in drugs and gangs because he would come home badly beaten and bleeding."

"Why was that?"

"Turns out he got into a lot of fights with that girls family and especially her family, but he just wouldn't let her go! He got a call from her when she was giving birth and he left, didn't pack just ran to her side, and he didn't look back. He killed our family he really did. But you know what don't tell Bella this but I'm glad he left."

I couldn't help but be shocked. " Why? Did he hurt you guys, abuse anything like that?"

She laughed again, I didn't understand why it wasn't a funny question.

"It was nothing like that, he just, well he was happier. He came home beaten and pretty much half alive, we had to drive him to the emergency room every time he came home. One time our neighbor did because he passed out in her front lawn and refused to move. But he was happy, he would smile when he came home like that. He, well, he loved her."

"Oh." I was shocked but it was understandable.

"Of course I wish our family could have made him happy, but you can't determine what will make a certain person happy, that's their decision, and when they make that decision your not supposed to keep them from it. I think Bella knows that, she would've never let him go out that door if she hadn't.

ALRIGHT I COULDN'T! If I told you the whole story in one chapter it would be no fun. But more of the story is coming in the next chapter! Promise! Thank you for reading and please review! Thank you to my beta to for doing a wonderful job!