Feel free to kill me for not writing in sooo long. I actually got a recent review that reminded me that I haven't written anything in more than a month. Please don't be mad! I'll explain the thons why this chapter is so late:

I was on vacation in Colorado and thus I was away from my computer for a whole week.

A few days after I got back from Colorado I got a message about my story 'Chat' maybe some of you have read it. Anyways, it was against the rules and reported so much that I got in trouble and wasn't allowed to post anything for awhile.

I started a new story and that kind of kept me busy.

So I hope you all aren't upset with me and I hope this chapter is enjoyable."I'm sorry," I said after standing up.

He glared at me. I tried not to flinch away. This wasn't his fault, it was mine. If I hadn't broken up with him the he wouldn't want to kill me. However I also know if I hadn't dumped him than it is very likely that I would not be engaged to Emmett at the moment. Emmett walks over and grabs my shoulders.

He looks at me intensely and then kisses me. It's something you see in the movies and think is stupid, but then when it happens to you, you just want to melt. "It isn't your fault Rose. It's all his… You're innocent," he whispers in my ear. Once he says this it is my turn to kiss him and that's what we do for the whole morning.

We stand there, looking into each other's eyes and kissing.

***

After awhile of standing there in my father's meeting room we realize we have been left alone. Emmett pulls me down onto a chair and we sit there. I curl into Emmett and I suppose I fall asleep because suddenly I'm back reliving my past…

"Rose you can't stay with him," Vera said. She was very upset when I told her about his odd behavior as of late. But I didn't listen to her.

"Why not, Vera? Why can't I have a happy ending just like you?" I asked her. It was vicious; I could hear the venom in my words. Vera and I had always been friends. She was a bit younger than me yet she was already married with a baby boy.

"What's happened to you? The Rose I used to be friends with would've seen right through this douche bag."

"And the Vera I used to be friends with wouldn't have questioned the 'douche bag' or my happiness."

She looked at me with disappointment and I acted as if I didn't care about what she thought. But I did… she was my best friend… my soul sister. I cared about everything that involved her.

She walked away that day and I haven't spoken to her since then.

That night mare faded away. It was short, but it was just long enough to reopen a long ignored wound. But I had no time to dwell on it because another nightmare came rushing in behind it…

"Come on Rose," he said. He was on my bed. Or… our bed. Even in the dream my mind blocked out his name.

"No, I can't," I said. I didn't want to have sex with him. Even though I thought that I loved him, I just didn't want to.

He got mad and left that night. The next morning I woke up and he was in the kitchen making breakfast. When I sat down to eat the pancakes he had made me I saw something I really dreaded. There was an open box, with an engagement ring inside.

I looked up and knew that he saw me acknowledge it. I couldn't hide it. There was a smug expression on his face.

"What do you say?" he asked me. I looked at the ring once more and I started to shake my head.

"N-no, I can't," I told him. Then he got angry.

"You said that last night, Rose!" he yelled. He got up and punched the wall. I stared at him. Yes, he had been violet before but not this much.

"Tell, me what you can do! Is singing and acting the limits of what you can do?" he stored to the counter and took a knife from the drawer. I sat there and stared in shock; however he put the knife down and came to stand behind me.

"Rosie," he said. He ran his hands on my shoulders and towards my face. That's when I made a mistake… I flinched. I showed him I was afraid of him and that made him even angrier.

He smacked me again and again. At last I fell from the chair and curled in the fetal position on the floor. I lay there for awhile and then I heard laughter. There were four other people there. I could tell how many by the different voices.

"See, men? Isn't my Rosie pretty?" he asked. They all laughed some more.

"Well I don't know man, she's to curled up. We can't see her properly," one said. They all agreed. They were all over me then. They didn't rape me… I didn't lose my virginity. But they did touch me a lot. They also hit and kicked at me. I just kept my eyes closed and waited for it to be over.

When they left I got up. He looked surprised that I could stand. I walked into our room and put on clothes. Then I grabbed a huge suitcase that belonged to him and rolled it into the kitchen.

"Get out," I told him. At first I thought he would hit me again. But he didn't, he never said anything the whole time he packed his things. As he was leaving he did say something though.

"You'll pay, Rose. You'll pay," he said. Then he left and slammed the door behind him.

The nightmare ended and I was awake. I kept my eyes closed though. So, what if I had sort of lied about how exactly we broke up. I told everyone he had proposed at night and that I had kicked him out of the apartment that very night.

Well I had kicked him out in the late afternoon. But he had proposed in the morning and along with his friends, beaten me for about five hours that day. I couldn't tell Emmett that though. I just don't know what he would think.

"I know you're awake, Rose," Emmett said and I opened my eyes. He was looking down at me and smiling.

"How did you know?"

"Well, when you're asleep you snore, softly. So when you stopped snoring I knew you had woken up."

"I snore!?"

"Only a teeny tiny bit, darling."

I blushed. I felt like a high school student all over again. He called me darling!

"Oh, ok," I say.

"You're blushing, honey," he said. He called me honey!

"Why do you keep calling me names?" I ask.

"If I'm going to marry you," he says, "then I want to have a pet name for you. Edward and Bella and Alice and Jasper have ones for each other… it's only fair."

I laughed but then I said, "You said 'if you're going to marry me'."

"Well… I'm just not sure how you feel about marrying me after what happened last night."

"I'll always feel like marrying you, Emmett."

"Really?"

"Now you're the one blushing."

"Oh shut up," he said. We laughed and then he looked serious again. "Rose, you never told me who your boyfriend was."

I looked at my hands. Saying his name pulls out the stitches that took so long to fix the wound he made in my heart. But I take a deep breath and I say his name for the first time in so long, "Royce King."

Emmett stiffens and looks so angry. I ask, "What is it?"

"I should've known it was him," he said, "he always boasted about dating a superstar. And when I worked for him he always knew my weak spot."

"Why!? Why, did he know your weak spot, Emmett?" I ask, but I feel as though I already know.

"He's my step-brother," he said.

HA! I bet none of you saw that coming. =) At first I was going to have Royce be Emmett's best friend from when they were in high school. But then I thought I would make it more dramatic. So, it will be explained better by Emmett and Bella in the next chapter (Royce is their step brother after all). I hope you all liked that and I hope you all review. Also, I promise to write sooner this time. =)