Chapter 5.

A few days after Emmett talked to Jasper the restaurant switched hands and we were on our way out of Forks. Jasper and Alice had been helping us move into Emmett's other house, which was amazing. It was out in the country away from everyone, there was plenty of room for Shasta to run and play, and we were far enough away from other people that I could go outside and play with her. After a week of constant moving we were in.

"So what do you think?" Emmett asked on our first night in the house. We were sitting in the living room watching some movie he had picked up and Shasta was in the floor playing with her ball.

"I like it here," I told him, "I feel at home, and that's something I've never felt" Shasta came running over to me pawing at me leg until I picked her up.

"I'm glad you do. I want you to know you can stay here Rose, and that your safe here." Emmett said.

"I think that's starting to sink in now." I said leaning back against him. "Do you ever wonder why we never even considered dating in high school?"

"Cause back them we were both at different points in our lives. You were trying to get away, and I wanted to stay where I was. If you hadn't been my tutor we never would have crossed paths." he said.

"I suppose that's true."

"I have known then though, about everything, my heart would have been sit on you. We would have been together from the start and no one would have hurt you." Emmett wrapped his arm's around me pulling me tight against him. "Now let's get some sleep we have company coming by tomorrow."

Emmett's mother, step dad, Alice and Jasper, and Emmett's younger brother, his wife and their daughter, where coming by the house for a house warming party. This would be the first time I was formally introduced to all of them but Alice and Jasper. I was nervous and had this been a few months earlier I would be taking hit right now to calm my nerves. Emmett assured everything would be okay, I wasn't so sure, I'm not exactly the girl you bring home to momma.

"Edward and Bella are here Rose." Emmett called and I went downstairs to join him. Emmett's brother looked nothing like him, he was tall and slender with sandy hair and green eyes.

"Bella will be in, in just a moment she's getting Nessie out of the car." Edward said, and Emmett nodded.

"Rosalie, this is my little brother Edward, Edward this is-"

"Rosie, is that you?" I turned to see yet another face from my past in the doorway.

"Izzy Swan, glad to know your doing okay after all this time." I smiled.

"It's Bella Cullen now, " she said, "and this is my daughter Nessie." She motioned to the sleeping girl in her arms.

"Looks like life's better for you now." I said. Bella had ran from Royce a couple years ago, and we never heard from her again. She was one of the few Kylie and I had taken under our wing, so we worried about her when she left.

"You too, when did you get away?" she asked as we took our seats.

"A few weeks ago, he caught me with Emmett, so I ran."

I told her.

"Well I'm glad you finally got away. How's Ky?"

"She was waiting on me to leave she's probably halfway to Tennessee by now." I told her.

"That's good, Royce is probably furious you were his two best girls." Bella said. There was a knock at the door and I went to answer it finding Alice, Jasper, there two little girls and Esme.

"Hey cousin." Jasper said giving me a hug, Ally and Abby ran past us to Emmett, who gathered them up in a big hug. I led them to where everyone else was and we all sat down while the girls played with Shasta in the floor.

"So Jazz how's the diner?" Emmett asked.

"It's a bit harder then I thought, but I like it." Jasper smiled.

"I'm just glad ya'll are out here where Rose is safe." Esme said. "Royce has been walking by the diner everyday waiting for you to stop by Rose."

"If he does it again Esme let me know and we maybe able to do something about." Edward told her.

"Yeah, if Royce thinks Rose will come there, or if he knows about Emmett he won't stop. Rose was one of first girls and his best. He knows she makes money, and she doesn't use like the others." Bella said.

"Esme I don't want you to be involved in all this." I looked across at Emmett's mother, taking in her small frame, knowing that Royce wouldn't care that she was an older women.

"Hun, your with my Emmett, your part of the family now," Esme smiled. "This isn't the first time we've been through this, he came after Bella too."

"He'll chase after Rose longer though, he won't worry about a restraining order." Bella told them, "He'll just get her and send her somewhere else so no one can find her. It's not hard to get girls like us to dissaper."

"She's right, most of the girls back at the house are runnaways, and girls that were kicked out. Most if them don't even go by their real names. Royce sends girls away and sells them to other guys all the time." I added.

"We won't let that happen." Emmett said. "Jasper and I will keep you safe, and will Edward start getting some legal papers together.

"This is his fifth offence, he should be getting charge with soliciting, possession, and rape. That is if all the girls will speak out."

"I'm sure they will, if they know it'll keep Royce away." Bella said and I agreed. But we both knew this was dangerous Royce had friends powerful friends.