Chapter 6

A/N: Sorry to all, if any, that are reading this story. It's kinda my go to when I need to release. I'm struggling and I think that putting this up helps because I can complain and nobody really knows who I am. So it just seems like I am one of those annoying writers who post for attention. But I am ok with this title because it seems people who know me are giving it to me... Anyway, enough babble...

By the time I entered year 6 I was working full afternoons. I finished school at 3:30pm and by 4:30pm, I was in the building that had become my second home. Jess and I were the only original girls. All the other had become too old. Or so Jacob told me. Or they had managed to escape. Apparently his partners only wanted girls under 12. So there were 8 more girls brought in when I entered Year 6, all under 12 that went through what Jess and I went through every day.

Being the oldest, I took on the role of the mother figure. None of them compared to Jess, but I did my best to protect all of them. I had a new guy every 20-30 minutes. The other girls had one every hour or so. I was doing 4 hours. A minimum of 10 guys a night. But I never complained. Once Jacob realised exactly what Jessica meant to me, he used her as incentive for me.

The one time I got the strength to say something to him, he pulled me into Jess's room. The sight broke my heart. He had her tied to her bed. A cut across her stomach.

"Do you want to challenge me again slut?" He said while one of the other guys tugged Jess's hair.

She screamed out in pain.

"JESS!" I screamed "It will be ok honey. I promise." I turned to look at Jacob "Please leave her alone. She has done nothing! She is just a little girl! She doesn't deserve this! Please... Just don't hurt her. I will be good"

That was what he wanted to hear. He let me go. His colleague released Jess's hair but left her tied up.

"Fix her up will you. No guy will want a cut up, bloody girl." He said as he walked off.

I ran over to Jess, untied her, and cradled her into my chest. I calmed her down and cleaned her up. The cut wasn't deep. She would be fine. That was the first night I made sure she had no guy. It meant for me that I had more groups of guys. But I wouldn't have it any other way that night. I told my mother that I was spending the night at Alice's. I went home with Jess that night. She didn't sleep at all and I was doing everything I could. Every time she closed her eyes and almost went to sleep, something would happen and she would scream. I hugged her and soothed her.

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The difference between what the New Year brought me was that I had been doing weekends as well. It was becoming harder and harder to act like nothing was going on. But I managed. It was even harder because Alice had moved up the coast. She was no longer just around the corner from school. It was harder for her to get to school. So she was away most days. This meant I had no one at school. Which made it easier for Jacob to throw in midday bangs. But these were for just him. He had hated the fact that while I was in the building, he couldn't touch me. So through my lunch break, I would meet Jacob by the back gate, we would walk to his car. He would do as he pleased. I would fix my make-up, hair, whatever I needed to and head back to class. Then the afternoons would bring trying to protect as many of the young girls I could. The weekends would bring hours of torture. Only the eldest girls would be forced on the weekends. Which meant we had a larger group of customers to get through and not even half the amount of girls. Thank goodness Jess wasn't considered old enough.

The rest of the year passed by in a blur. The same routine, day in and day out. I was reserved. Even from Alice. It wasn't right, but I blamed her for not being there for me. As much as I didn't tell her anything, knowing there was someone who would just hug me and let me be the weak one for a change meant the world to me. But I didn't have that any more. I was now going through this 100% on my own. And this was a fact I had come to accept.

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Towards the end of Year 6 my mother and I had a sit down. We were going to be moving so that I could go to my high school. I had never been so excited. It meant that I would be able to escape. My only worry was Jess. I couldn't leave her behind but I knew that I had no choice.

The day I told her was an emotional one. She was crying so much. Worried about what that would bring. But I told her to convince her mother to move. Try the same thing I was doing. But she told me that she couldn't. So I was so worried.

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On Jess and I's final night together, I had asked Jacob if we could have it off. I told him that our families were having a get together and we were required to be there for it. He agreed to give us the night off, on the condition that I worked twice as hard the next day to make up for it and bring in the money they would be losing from the night.

We went to Jess's place. Her mom was busy at work and had told Jess she would probably be home very late, if at all. We had her house to ourselves.

We finally acted like normal young girls. We hired movies out, got a whole lot of junk food and just talked.

I promised Jess that nothing would change. I would always be there for her and all she had to do was write or call and I would be there as quick as I could. After all I wasn't moving far, a fact I hadn't told Jacob.

So there you have it... DO whatever... I've given up caring about anything in my life now...

Isabella Jame Swan Cullen XxX