This is my life
Chapter 17
EPOV:
"I call Dr. Carlisle Cullen to the stand" James said.
Carlisle stood up and walked up. Bella turned her head towards him, as if watching him. He sat down in the witness stand.
"Dr. Cullen, do you swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?" the baliff asked.
"I do" he said.
James stood up and walked forward towards Carlisle. "Dr. Cullen, how do you know Miss Swan?"
I am her Doctor" Carlisle stated.
"And how did you meet her?"
"My son, Edward, brought her to me when she was in serious condition" Carlisle said.
"And how did he say he found her?" James asked.
"Edward said that he went to go talk to her after school, so he drove to her house. The door was open slightly but he didn't go inside.
He saw the blinds were open and when he looked inside to see if she was home, he saw Bella on the floor, bleeding. He panicked and rushed inside and grabbed her, checking to make sure she was breathing, rushed out, and drove to the hospital where i checked her over" Carlisle said.
I could tell that the jury believed him, their thoughts told me so.
'What a caring young man. You don't see many of those anymore' a lady in a blue suit thought to herself.
'Well he didn't break the laws so we can do anything to the young man' a man in a brown suit thought.
"I see, your honor, i have to medical reports and abuse statement that Dr. Cullen filled out" James said, while handing them to the judge and to the jury speaker.
"I am done with my witness" James walked back to his spot by Bella and sat down. Laurent got up and walked up to the front of the room.
"Dr. Cullen, how do we know that you just made this whole story up? Do you even have witnesses?" he asked.
Carlisle nodded "James has a copy of the witness statements".
"But how do we know?" Laurent asked once again.
"Well, one: I like my job and would like to keep it and two: I just said that that James has my witness statements" Carlisle said.
SPOV:
'Man this lawyer is pissing me off' i thought. The young copper haired vampire smirked. hmm...
'Can you hear me young vampire?' i thought. He nodded his head, still smirking.
'Why the hell are you here?' I thought again.
He looked towards the young girl in the front...Bella? He is here for Bella?
'Miss Swan? You're here for Miss Swan?' I thought asked him.
He nodded. 'How are you with her? Doesn't she tempt you?' i asked.
He shook his head and thought to me 'she doesn't tempt me anymore'.
'Woah! You can talk to me via your mind!' I thought...
I was just coming back to the real world just as the vampire doctor was finishing up "I just told you that I gave James my witness statements".
Haha this guy was funny. He just told Laurent off! Finally someone did! He was pissing me off! i was getting bored of just sitting here when I knew that the old man was guilty.
I felt like making Laurent miserable right then so I decided to send out vibes of amusement towards him and see what he does. When i shot the burst of emotions towards him, he suddenly burst out in psychotic laughter.
"Bwahahaha- excuse me" he said, going to sit down quietly.
I turned back to James "are you done with your witness?" i asked. He nodded and Dr. Cullen went back to his seat. I turned to Laurent "your witness" I said.
Charlie Swan stood up and walked towards the witness stand and sat down. The bailiff brought a bible and swore Charlie in.
"Mr. Swan, can you please tell us about your relationship with your daughter?" Laurent asked, standing back up.
BPOV:
I love my daughter. She meant the world to me. I took care of her after he mother died but i guess it was never enough for her" Charlie said, trying to act innocent and depressed.
"And what did she do to show her disappreciation of you services?" Laurent asked.
"She would yell, kick, and scream! All she did was make noise! I tried to give her what she wanted when I got the money but she never seemed satisfied that I had spent my monthly paycheck on her" Charlie said.
"Continue please Charlie" Laurent said.
"She then started giving herself marks on her body, giving herself to men, and she would even come home at midnight drunk. She even came home pregnant!" Charlie exclaimed.
I stared at him opened mouthed…I never was pregnant, people tended to avoid me. I turned my head slight to look at James and he just rolled his eyes at Charlie.
"Very good Charlie. Your honor I am done with my witness" Laurent walked over to his seat and sat down, while James got up.
"Mr. Swan, you say Bella drinks?" James asked.
"Yes she does" Charlie said.
"Then why, sir, did we find bottles of miller light beer and vodka with your DNA in it?" James asked.
"Bella is a slob, I picked it up after her"
"Sir, the DNA was on the mouth piece of the alcohol! That means someone, which the DNA says is you, drank from the miller light beer and left evidence for us to find" James said.
"What are you trying to say?" Charlie asked, getting straight to the point.
"That maybe you are the one that drinks, that you hurt Bella, that maybe your story is false and inaccurate" James said.
"I highly doubt that" Charlie said.
"Mr. Swan! Your daughter is being abused! She claims that you did it! What do you have to say for yourself?!" James asked exasperated.
Charlie just stayed quiet but I could tell that he was close to breaking down. James, I could tell knew that as well, so he kept pressing on.
"Are you the one abusing her, as she claims Mr. Swan?" James asks. Charlie doesn't answer him.
"Did you leave the marks on her body?" James asks Charlie.
"Are you or are you not abusing Miss. Swan?" James asks, which pushes Charlie to his breaking point since he jumps up and screams.
"ALL RIGHT! I DID IT! I WAS ABUSING BELLA! THERE YOU HAPPY! SHE KILLED MY WIFE! MY WIFE IS NO LONGER HERE BECAUSE OF HER!! HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL?!" Charlie yells to James and the jury, most likely hoping that they will give him a break and side with him. There is a collected murmur of gasps from the audience.
"Order! Order in the court! I said ORDER!" Judge Stephanie yells. She starts to bang her gavel on her desk, when low and behold…it breaks. The top of the gavel goes flying threw the court room, hitting Laurent in the head and knocking him down off his seat.
Stephanie stops banging and says "oops" while looking to her bailiff for help. He brings her another gavel, but she has no use for it seeing as the court got quiet after the top broke off.
James looks to the Judge and says "I am done with my witness your honor" and he walks back to his seat.
"Okay, so the jury will discuss the situation, the court will regroup in about 3 hours. We can all go to lunch in the meantime" and with that said, Judge Stephanie gets up and walks out the court room.
I sit back in my seat and get up with James and head over to Jake and Billy. Jake rushes to me yelling "Oh my gosh Bella are you okay? Did she hit you at all?"
"No Jake, I was on the opposite side of where the top flew off to. Both James and I are fine". And with that I walk back towards Edward and his family.
Edward rushes up to me and grabs my hand "Bella are you okay? How are you?" he asks.
"I am fine Edward, just tired and stressed. I don't want to be around Charlie right now as you can see" I say.
"Well, why don't we go to lunch and clear your head" Alice suggests.
"Of course Alice, what a great idea, Bella go and invite your friends that you just talked to over there. We can take them out to lunch with us" Esme said, trying to be polite.
"Oh sure, I'll go ask them right now" I rush off and asks them. They gladly accepted. I walked them over to the Cullens, and walked to the restaurant down the block. I sat next to Edward and Jacob and decided to order a chicken salad. Jake ordered two hamburgers…apparently a werewolf ate a lot…wow.
By the time we all were finished it had been 2 hours…since we decided that half the time we were going to talk and not eat. We started to head back over to the courthouse around 1 o'clock.
"Okay, so let's go see what that judge has to say about this, Bella" Billy said, pulling me after him. Edward and his family followed after us.
EPOV:
We all sat down when we got in. Judge Stephanie was already seated when we walked in so we didn't have to stand up for her. The jury walked in. James and Bella sat up front and next to them, strapped down in his seat was Charlie, glaring at Bella.
Stephanie looked to the jury "has the jury reached a verdict?"
The head juror, a male Hispanic man, stood up with a paper "We have your Honor. We the jury find the offender guilty on 1 account of rape, 1 account of child neglect and 1 account of child abuse".
"Considering the accounts, Mr. Swan you are sentenced to 80 years in prison without the possibility of parole. As for Isabella Marie Swan, we have decided to send you with your cousins, Mr. Billy Black and his 20 year old son Jacob Black".
My heart literally broke right then. My Bella wouldn't be going with me. I could tell that my family felt the same way as I did. 'What?! We were supposed to adopt her!' Alice yelled in her thoughts.
"Mr. Black, are you really Charlie's brother?" Stephanie asked.
"Yes I am" Billy said.
"And do you except the responsibility of taking care of a minor?" she asked.
"Yes I am. And I will have help, but we have enough money" He said.
She nodded and turned towards Bella "do you recognize these people as your new family and caregivers?"
I looked towards Bella, selfishly hoping that she would say no "I do your honor" …my poor broken heart.
"Very well, you may all leave. Mr. Black, here are the papers, all you need to do is sign, then I will have Bella sign them after" She handed him papers and he signed. She then gave the papers to Bella who in turn signed them. They turned around and walked down the aisle. Charlie leaped up and grabbed her around the neck with his hand cuffs.
"I will not go to jail alone. Either she comes with me or she dies right here, right now! Your choice Judge" Charlie snarled.
WHACK!
"How about none Uncle Charlie?" Jacob asked, from behind, whacking him over the head with his fist. Charlie fell to the floor, unconscious, taking Bella with him.
I rushed forward and pulled Bella out of his way. Jacob walked back towards Bella and grabbed her from my hands.
'Thanks leech. Don't worry, I will take good care of her...even if I am a dog in your eyes' he thought. I looked at him confused.
'I know you can read my thoughts bloodsucker' Jacob thought, while smirking at me.
'Please don't hurt her dog! I can't bear the thought of loosing her because you were not careful' I thought to him.
'Don't worry leech! I'm not going to kill her! I am very well controlled' he thought to me. I nodded my head in understanding.
'I'll leave you guys to say goodbye really quickly. We have to get her settled so yea…don't take l day please' he thought and walked back towards his dad.
"Bella, you can go say bye to them if you wish. I'll be waiting over here" Jacob told her, and walked off.
"Bella, I'm sorry we could not take you in! we had it set in our hearts that you would be heading home with us! But apparently you had relatives…that you did not tell us about" Alice said, looking at Bella suspiciously.
"Alice, it's not like I did not want to tell you, I just didn't know that they were my family. They only came over a few times a year but at all the times they came over Charlie never told me that they were my cousins at all. So all in all...I'm just as clueless as you" Bella said.
"Well, Bella, I am glad that we met! I hope that you will see us sometimes. Will you be keeping in touch?" Carlisle asked. She nodded her head. Esme then came up and grabbed her in a hug. Emmett and Jasper were soon after she was done and even Rosalie gave her a hug. Alice pounced her and I took her hands in mine.
"Bella, I am so sorry that I could not fight for you! I should have been up there on the witness stand professing my love and devotion to all out there that would listen! But I couldn't and now you are being taken away from me. I just hope that we will see each other again soon love. Can you promise me that we will still be together even though we are not going to be living in the same neighborhood or house?" I asked.
She nodded "of course Edward! I could never love someone the way that I love you!" (Try figuring out what song that line is from :3).
"Then you may leave with them love. I hope that your life with them is happy and come visit me sometime please?" I asked her.
"Thank you, that's all I ask for" I said to her. She nodded and kissed my lips. I held on to her, trying not to let her go but I knew that I had to. I let her go and she wiped her tears off her face and headed over to Jacob. They headed out the door and we followed them outside to our car. I saw Bella and Jacob get in the backseat and another werewolf help Billy into their van and they drove off.
"Well, at least we can see her at school tomorrow…right Alice?" Emmett asked. We all turned to her and she went into vision mode.
"I cannot see her in our future…either she does not go to school tomorrow or Jacob comes with us but he cant because he's 20 years old, so that makes no sense at all…" Alice said.
"You guys can see tomorrow, since Alice can't see anything right now" Carlisle said to us. I nodded my head and got into the car.
Okay everyone! thanks so staying with me so far! I finally got time to update so yea…i'm happy right now. lol. I haven't had time with all the things that has been going on…like my birthday and other obligations that I had. SO I hope you enjoy this chapter and I will try to have the next chapter up soon.