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CHAPTER 13

Tanya's Story

It had been a month since I had been released from the hospital and gone back to school. I still remembered what my first day back at school was like. It was something I had been dreaded, but it had to happen eventually. Everywhere I looked, people were staring, or at my belly to be more exact. The hushed whispers followed my every footstep. Thankfully, I had Edward by my side, as well as Alice. They walked on either side of me, acting like bodygaurds and shooting glares at whoever had the audacity to stare openly at me. I had kept my head down in order to avoid everyone. I couldn't look them in the eye, I couldn't face them. I knew what they were thinking, what they were whispering to their friends and I felt so ashamed.

Edward and Alice never left my side for the first few days of school. They were with me all the time or at least one of them was. I was beginning to think they were taking turns. Since I had a restraining order against Tanya, my class schedule had to be altered. This resulted in me to having more common classes with both Edward and Alice, which was great. I didn't know how to make it up to them. They had changed everything in order to 'protect' me.

I had quit the cheerleading team. I was going to have to anyway, but the whole thing with Tanya was one more reason for me to do so. I couldn't say that I was going to miss it. Sure, I liked it, but having no worries sounded very appealing to me. That also meant that I couldn't go to Edward's away games.

"I have practice after school, so you'll drive back with Alice, okay?" Edward told me as he walked me to my last class.

"Does Alice know?" I asked, stopping in front of the door of my final class. The teacher hadn't arrived, so we had a few minutes.

"Yes, I talked to her earlier. She'll wait for you by her car." He kissed my cheek and was getting ready to leave, but stopped when I spoke again.

"Will you make it for the appointment?" I asked, biting my bottom lip nervously. This afternoon I had an appoinment with Angela for an ultrasound and Edward had promised me that he would be there. He was so exicted to finally see the baby, to hear its heartbeat and see it move.

"I wouldn't miss it for the world. But I won't be able to pick you up. We'll have to meet there. Is that okay?"

I nodded and placed a light kiss on his lips before walking into my class. I went to sit at my desk at the back of the room, waiting for the lesson to start.

"I heard that she ripped the condom, so she could trap him with the baby." A girl who sat in front of me whispered to her friend, who was sitting next to her.

"I heard that the baby isn't Edward's but Jacob's. You know that kid she was good friends with."

I shut my eyes tightly, trying to block them out with no success. I should've gotten used to people talking shit about me by now, but I hadn't. Even after a month, they were still talking about it, but I didn't blame them. In this small town we were living in, news like mine would never die.

Half way through class I recieved a text from Alice informing me that she was going to go see the cheerleader's coach so she could quit cheerleading and that she would be a little late. Alice had told me before that she wanted to quit. I instantly felt guilty, because what happened between Tanya and me was the reason behind it

Alice loved cheerleading and she was so happy that she got into the squad. I tried miltiple times to make her change her mind, but with no luck. She had already made up her mind.

After class ended, I went to wait for Alice at the bleachers. I had a perfect view of her, so I'd know when she would be ready to go. As I was waiting, I pulled out my geometry book and decided to do some of my homework as I waited. The parking lot was empty as everyone had already gone home. The day today was surprisingly warm and sunny.

"Geometry. I hate it," Tanya said, sitting next to me on the bench.

I jumped from my seat and closed my book, getting as far away from her as the bench allowed me. "You're not supposed to be near me.'

"Oh come on, we both know that those restraining orders were uncalled for." She crossed her arms.

She had a point but that still didn't stop me from being scared of her. Who knew what she had in mind to do?

"I'm not here to hurt you. I just want to talk to you." Her voice was soft and her eyes were calm. I had never seen her appear so peaceful and that scared me a little.

"Well, I don't want to talk to you." I made a move to stand up, but she put her hand on mine and stopped me.

"Please. You don't have to talk. I just want you to listen and I swear that you'l never see me ever again when I'm finished."

I thought about it for a while. I could give her that. I still wanted some answers about her relationship with Edward. "Okay, but on one condition. I want to know about your relationship with Edward. He hasn't told me about it, he says that it was not his story to tell. I suppose it's yours? Will you tell me?"

She looked down at her hands and smiled a sad smile at me. "I will. I was planning to, anyway."

"Okay, then. Talk to me."

"First of all, I want to tell you that I'm sorry for what I've put you through. Before and after you got with Edward. It was unacceptable of me. I don't expect you to forgive me and I don't want you to, really. I don't deserve it."

I nodded, showing her that I was listening to her. "Okay."

"I'm going to start the story from the very beginning. As you know my mother died when I was ten." Her mother died from a heart attack. It was awful. People were mourning for her death for days. She was one of the most loved women of the town and also the wife of the Mayor. "My father and I were heartbroken. It was very difficult to see my mother being buried in the ground, to see her lifeless body, to feel the coldness of it as I was kissing her goodbye. I closed myself off after that and so did my father."

I understood everything she was saying. I had gone through that too and I knew how hard it was to lose someone so very important to you, to lose your mother.

"I lost contact with my friends and with the outside world in general. I didn't want to talk to anyone. I lost focus on school and my grades were slipping. My father was never home. Either he was working till late or drinking away in different bars and strip clubs. I don't even know how many nights I have spent alone in the house, crying under the covers of my bed, praying that my mother would come back and take me into into her loving arms and give me a warm hug. But she never came." She wiped the few tears that had fallen from her eyes. I didn't even realise that I myself was crying until I saw her do that. Pregnancy hormones were kicking in.

"One night, he came home at midnight, fairly early for him. I was still awake in my bed, trying to understand why this happened to me. Why would God take away my mother? Why had it been her and not me? Or my father? She was the best person in the world and she didn't deserve that. I was saying a prayer when he kicked my door open with so much force that it banged against the wall and made the few pictures that were hanging on the wall fall down. I pulled my head from under the covers to see what was going on. " She let a humourless laugh. She wasn't looking at me now. She was looking past my shoulder at nothing in particular. Her eyes weren't moving and they were so hard and blank. It was like the life in her had been taken away from her.

"I wished I hadn't. I sometimes think about you and your father, about the relationship you have. Everytime I see you two together I see the love you have for each other. The mutual love, repsect and support you have for each other. I see how much your father cares for you. I know that he would die for you. I saw how much he took care of you after your mother's death. I saw how much he sacrificed so you would be happy and comfortable. My father never did that for me. What my father did to me was rape me over and over again every night."

I gasped. Rape? Sobs erupted from inside of me as I pictured a ten year old, helpless, ten year old Tanya being tortured like that by her own father. I couldn't even imagine how she must have felt going through this. In just a short while she had lost her mother and father, as he turned into this monster.

"My body was sore every day after the endless nights of his abuse. I wasn't even realising what was happening. I didn't know what he was doing to me. All I knew was that it hurt, that it burned and that I didn't like it. A while later I released it, through a movie. I tried to escape that night. I didn't have a plan, I didn't have anywhere to go, but I couldn't just stand there and take it. As you see, I didn't succeed. It was the month I didn't come to school in sixth grade."

I remembered that. She was gone for a whole month and then she came back looking like nothing happened. We didn't know much about her absence. "I remember, fell off your bike and broke your leg," I said between my sniffs.

"More like someone pushed me down the stairs and I broke my leg and had concusion. Anyway, around the time I was fifteen, Edward and I became close. We were best friends. One time my shirt had riden up and he saw my bruises. He asked how I got them and as much as I tried to lie to him, he didn't buy it. Eventually I broke down and told him everything. He wanted me to go to the police and report him. I knew I couldn't do that. It would be my word against the Mayor's and even though I was scared, he wouldn't be accused regardless of anything. He had too much power."

"He had?" I blowed my nose with a Kleenex and offered one to Tanya, which she refused to take.

She ignored my question and continued. "Edward was pushing me to do it, but he finally realised that we weren't strong enough to fight him. No one was. He then came up with this idea. My father-"

"Don't call him that!" I hissed. How could she, after all the things he put her though, still call him 'father'?

"Alfred, then, was dying for fame and money. Carlisle is the best surgeon there is and everyone loved him. Needless to say he's loaded. Edward suggested that we could fake our relationship. My fath- Alfred," she said once she noticed my look. "was pressing me to make him date me. It's good publicity, he had said. Edward believed that if we would pretended that we were together, then he would stop raping and beating me, as he said he would. It worked. He stopped coming into my room late in the at night. He was always home for dinner. He started calling me his daughter again and was even smiling to me once in a while. Things were back to normal."

I let out a loud sigh, as I tried to process everything. I knew that something was wrong with Edward's and Tanya's relationship but I never thought it was something like this. Everything sounded like it was stolen out from Law & Order.

"Edward and I started going on and off. We were testing the waters."

"Testing the waters? You can't play games with something like that!" I said.

"Well, we wanted to see if he had gotten tired of me, so we could eventually break up. Edward was falling for you and I knew I couldn't keep him forever. He wouldn't always be for me. I didn't want him to sacrifice his life for me. But once we called our relationship off, Alfred would start again. So , Edward would come back to me. I tried multiple times to lie to him and make him believe that Alfred wasn't touching me, but he always saw through me." Tanya paused and took a big breath. We stayed silent after that. I knew that she need time before she continued. It wasn't easy for her to say all of that to me. I knew that. She must feel humiliated.

"You and Edward then slept together and he wanted out. The boy was so in love with you that he wasn't caring about anything. There were onyl a few months till I would be finally eighteen and I could finally get away from Alfred, so I let him. We broke up. I though that I could endure it. I was enduring it for years, a few months would be nothing to what I would take when I would become eighteen. But I was wrong. I was so spoiled. I loved my peaceful sleep and my body too much to endure all of that pain again. I wanted him back. I was selfish. I learned that you were pregnant and I decided to play a little with you. I knew edward didn't want kids and that he wouldn't be too happy about it, I wanted to scare you away. I knew that by doing that I'd force you to tell him and then things would be ungly, but you didn't. Getting the captain's place was just a bonus. But I got impatient and...well, you know what happened."

She put the pictures up for the whole school to see.

"You thought that if Edward found out like that, he would't want to do anything with me, right?"

"Right. I acted so foolish and careless. I never thought that you would have fainted and that you would have to be held in the hospital. I didn't want to harm you or the baby." She let out a sarcastic laugh, before she continued. "I sound so pathetic. I'm sorry. I realise now that no matter what, you and Edward are unbroken. It was idiotic of me to think that Edward would ever leave you. The boy is so in love with you."

Well, I already knew that. Edward did nothing these past monthed but to show me how much he loved me. Dates, flowers, chocolate. He even bought pregnancy books and started reading. He wanted to be prepared he had said.

"What can I do to help?" I asked, determinined to put a stop in this.

"What do you mean?" Tanya asked frowning.

"You can't except me to just carry on in my life knowing what's happening to you. That this barstard would go unpunished."

She chuckled and shook her head at me. "I can't believe you."

Now it was my time to frown. "You can't believe what?"

"After everything I put you through, after what I have treated you like, you still want to helo me." She stood up and kissed my cheek. "You are a good person, Bella. Never change." With one last look she started to go with towards her car.

"Tanya wait!" I ran after her. Well, I didn't actually run, because I couldn't. I just walked fast.

"Yes?" She stopped and turned around to see me.

"I know you didn't tell me all of those to forgive you. And, also, I am not forgiving you out of pity. I'm forgiving you because you had the dignity to explain youshelf even though you own to me nothing. Even though I was a part of the things that made you live that nightmare again. You don't own me anything. And I mean it. I know you weren't the kindest person to me all of those years but I don't blaime you for that. I blaime him. He is the one who destroyed your personality,the one who played with your mind and feelings at a such tender age. I wish there is something I can do to change how things are. Tell me something to do to stop that bastard" I hissed. I was so angry with our beloved Mayor that I wanted to stab him in the eyes.

""Thank you. It means a lot. Even if I don't deserve it! There is nothing you can do to change how things are. And believe me. From tomorrow things will be looking up to me. I promise you!" she smiled again. She is really beautiful when she smiles. For some reason I believed what she said. I knew she was going to survive. She is a fighter!

"Bella?" I heard Alice shout from behind me.

"Goodbye, Bella. Take care of your little family" Tanya said and left.

"Goodbye?" I whispered. Was she leaving?

"Did she hurt you? Because if she did I am going to cut that bitch." Alice came running to me.

"No, she didn't hurt me. What time is it? I have an appoinment at five." I tried to change the subject.

"Almost four o' clock. Let's go. Edward said he'll pick up from home." She and I turned around and went for her car.

"Yeah, I know. He told me." The rest of the ride was silent. The only thing that was sounding in the background was the country music Alice listens to. That gave me time to think.

How something so bad happen to a girl like that. It was sick and unreal. You only saw that stuff in cinema. It was surreal!

I never hated a person more in my life. Of course, I wasn't talking about Tanya. But about Alferd Denali, or the Mayor. I was so ashamed that I knew that my parents vote for him. I couldn't even imagine what Tanya has been going through all this time. All those years. She was living a drama and I was complaining about clothes and food and swollen feet. About me being pregnant. I was complaining for the best thing that happened to me. I feel so selfish right now.

Tanya's story made me think. Nothing was perfect. You have to be grateful for what you already have and not want more in life.

God gave you these things for reason. Use them. Love them.

And you would never lose.

Tanya was a bitch to me. I get it! She has a lot of issues and everything that was happening was mostly because I got in the way. If I hadn't slept with Edward, they would still pretend to be together. I couldn't help but feel responsible. I got in the way!

An hour later I was sitting next to Edward in the waiting room outside of Angela's office.

"You're related to her, why couldn't we go in first?" Edward asked, as the tapping of his foot continued.

"The woman had made an appointment before us and it wouldn't be right to take her place. Relax." I rested my hand on his thigh finally making me calm down.

"What if there's something wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong. I just had an appoinment and everything looked fine. Stop worrying." I put my hand at the back of his neck and started massaging it in order to calm him.

"When will we learn the gender?"

"I don't know. Probably around five months."

"Hmmm. What do you want it to be?" He put a hand on my belly.

"I kinda want a boy. One that will look exactly like you." It was true. The thought of having a little boy being the spitting image of his father is the sweetest thing. "What about you?"

"I don't really care as long as the baby is healthy." He leaned in and places a kiss on my stomach. I was about to respond when I go interrupted by Edward's ringtone.

He pulled his cell-phone out his back pocket and declined the call with a scrowl in his face.

"Who was it?" I asked.

"My father." His voice was called.

"Want to talk about it?"

"No."

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