Today was the day of the ball. I went into the bathroom and turned onto the water. I took off my clothes, careful enough not to hurt my new bruises. I stepped into the shower and thought about random little things; like school work, college, the dress carefully awaiting me in my floorboards, and Edward. The way he walked gracefully, the way his bronze hair was always so messy and sexy. I wish I could just touch him all over. But, I hate him with a mighty passion. He ruined my life.

Flashback - Bella's first date with Mike

"Hey Bells." Mike said with a huge smile.

"Hey Mike." I said quietly and blushed.

Mike slipped his arm around me and we walked into the restaurant. It was a nice place. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Edward making out with some blonde preppy chick, I ignored the pang of jealousy and anger in my heart and forced a smile. We sat down in a little booth. I saw Edward get up and walk over to our table and sat down. I ignored him.

"Hey Mike. Listen, there's something I gotta tell you." he said with a menacing smile.

Mike just raised his eyebrows and went into a chilled pose. Mike trys way to hard to be cool. He was nice and all, but I didn't really find him attractive in any way whatsoever.

"Bells here, once gave a blowjob to my brothers and I for 5." Edward said and laughed.

Mike looked horrified. He ran out leaving me with the bill. Tears started forming in my eyes. He had no right to say that. I grabbed the bill, walked over to him, forced his head out of a lip lock with the blonde, and punched him right in his nose. I slammed the bill down onto his table and went home to endour another hour of beatings from Charlie.

End Flashback

I got out of the shower and calmed myself down from that awful memory. I blow dried my hair and did my make up. I choose to apply the tiniest bit of black eyeliner, and shimmery black eyeshadow, ruby red lipstick, and a bit of foundation to smooth out my skin. I went into my bed room and took out my bra, deodorant, underwear, the dress, and a pair of high heels I picked up. I applied the deodorant, bra, and panties to my body and started working on my hair. As I was curling my hair, I looked at the high heels Alice bought me yesterday. They were about 4 inches high, and they were a sleek black color, but that kind of see-through material. I'm going to kill Alice. I finished curling my hair and slipped the dress over my head. I still couldn't admit to myself, the ugly duckling, I was beautiful. I sighed as the doorbell rung. I ran downstairs with my high heels in my hand. I put the wretched shoes on and then went to open the door. I stopped myself and quickly ran into the bathroom again. I applied foundation to my new bruises so they wouldn't show. I ran back to the door as I heard frustrated knocks on the door.

"Jeez hold on Alice, I'm ready." I said as I opened the door.

But instead of Alice standing there, Edward was standing there. He gasped and his face softened. Something weird was going on.

"I came to pick you up." He said in a whisper then led me to his car. Once I was inside his car, I stared at him coldly. He sighed and smiled.

"You look beautiful." he said sadly.

That did it.

"Look Cullen. You are the scum of the Earth. Now you're trying to play mind games with me! You can read minds! You know that I think I love you! You know how beautiful I think you are! You can read my mind! And you have the decency to start messing with my head?!" I screamed at him. As I screamed at him, his expression got sadder and sadder.

"I can't read your mind, and I don't know why." Edward said suddenly extremely depressed.

I can't believe I said all of that. I jumped out of the car and ran into Alice's room. I began to sob and sob. Alice held me the whole time. I told her everything. About Edward, about Charlie, about how I had to hide my stuff under the floor boards, about the bruises, just everything. When I finished, Alice was clenching her teeth.

"I swear I'll kill them all." Alice said in a scary tone.

She ran downstairs and started drastically screaming at Edward, who was on the back deck, so it was easier to hear. I looked out the window and Edward was cringing. I suddenly laughed, and laughed and laughed and laughed. I especially laughed when Alice screamed, 'And you ruined her beautiful make up you dumbass!'

Alice came upstairs and stared quizically at me as I laughed. She consold me, re-did my make up the same except giving me a clear shinny lipgloss instead of my lipstick and made a quick comment on how she liked my lip color. Then I got onto Alice's back and they all ran the way to Alaska. Thank God Alice said nothing to her family about Charlie. I begged her not to confront him either. She agreed, although she wasn't happy about it.