Part 3 - Talking and Reactions
After a while, Patrick Sr said
"OK, Bell, what is going on, how come you are back, where is Renee at?"
Bella sighed and shared a loaded look with Matt, who wrapped an arm around her tighter, as he knew her full story of what was going on, and it was hard on her still to this day. Others took noticed of this, and was wondering and worried of her doing so and Matt holding her tighter as she was trying to keep tears at bay that was welling up in her eyes, that they didn't see but Matt did, and he wrapped his arm around her at that point.
He just said
"It will be OK, baby. I am here too." At that she just snuggled into his chest, and he just held her like a protector would do with his chosen one, and the others were more worried of his words towards her.
After a moment, she pulled away and took a tissue that Matt gave to her, and she dried her face and nose, before she turned and said
"As you know, or most of you knew, I was here few years ago, and I met Matt first, then I got meet Patrick and Mary aswell Michael and Eddie, as they were in the store, while Matt, my mother and I was grocery shopping together. And you also know that shortly after that, I left with my mother, who didn't and couldn't stay any longer here, for she wanted to get to move on, and I tried my hardest to get to hear me out on wanting to stay here, I even told her that I could stay with Mary and Pat here, but she didn't want to hear any of it and took me the day after to our next place, and that was in Phoenix, Arizona, where we lived until recently, when she and I got to Florida, and she met her husband #4, Phil Dwyer. And he is a perfect man towards her, I do like him alot better then other men before him. Anyways he work as a coach for a minor league all-boys' team and had to travel alot in his work with them, and it began to make my mother rather unhappy and uncertain about it, and in the end, I had to tell her to go after and I would go to my father's place to finish high school. And she agreed and was thankful for my selfless nature, and so I went to stay with my father in Forks, Washington about a year ago now."
She took a break, as next parts were going to be hard on her to tell them about, and Matt knowing most of it, knew this and could see it on her face, how she struggled with saying the next, so he took the word for now and said
"When she tell you the next part of the story of how she came here to see me, just don't hate her or make her afraid, it took me awhile to calm down enough to show her that I was not angry at her or anything, if anything I was damn proud of her courage to do things to get loose from situations and get here to me, to us again."
Bella gave him a grateful look, and she then took over as the others had both worry and confusion on their face, and she took a peak towards the children outside to see that none of them were coming in to hear her say these things next;
"I came rather recluntly to Forks, as I never hidden my sheer dislike of Forks or nearby reservation of La Push, but I decided to be a bigger person about it, and let it go for now at least, for I did really want to have some stability to do my last months of High School and graduate, and get into my favorite, 1st choice of college when I was done with it. And luckily I did so too, but back to the story, I came and first night dad let his best friend since childhood and his young son come over for a game, and I decided to take an early night, as I had told my dad, that my car was coming through being shipped from Florida for free by a great friend of Phil's and that made my dad rather bummed out, for I realised when we got back to his house, there was this very old looking orange-red car standing there, and I figured out that he had gotten it for me, despite I had told him on phone before I left mom's, that I am shipping my own car over. He didn't seemed to have heard that and went ahead for this car. Now he didn't know what to do with it, since I had re-told him about my car coming."
She took a break to drink her water, and then continued, while Matt rubbed her back gently;
"Jacob was the same boy as before, staring at me with unwavering lust at me, and it made me very uncomfortable, but when he heard that I was there to stay until my graduation next may, which was just a month and half ago when I graduated early from high school with highest grades that school had ever seen anyone to have at their graduation. He got rather bummed out about my plans were at this time, and I think he began his plans to see if he could make me change them and stay put with him. Despite he is only what 15 now, and I am 18, turning 19 in september, and I had no interest in him nor any other boys in town, as my feelings were already by then strong for Matt. Not that I got to tell him about them for him before I with my mother left."
Matt just rubbed her back still, and smiled to himself, and so did the others at her love admission for Matt, their son/brother/uncle. She then after another drink got back to talk;
"Shortly after this night, I began my first day at the high school, and almost straight away I had immature boys following me around like lost puppydogs, no pun intended there (giggling while they laughed or chuckled at her chosen words there.), and I had to try to be nice to them and letting them down gently as possible, as I never had been at this time a violent person or had a strong voice to say anything to make them stop in more powerful ways of words. I wanted to keep peace and make sure it wouldn't go to having raising my voice, as I hate to do that part. And after few weeks, it started to work, but then another boy, that I now know is a vampire (Gasps of shock here by the others, Matt gave a small growl at this, and it made Bella gentle slap his chest to stop that.) and he had in his stupid head that I was his mate, when deep inside of me, I knew that I already belong to Matt, for my heart knew back then, that he was my choice of love and mate for life already, I dont know how I could even know that back then. So I tried to prevent him to even get that close to me, but somehow his bloody dazzling got me, and I was easily distracted for good while by him and his 'coven of family', and after a while they all could notice that his and even their dazzling didn't work on anymore, and tried to get me to really date Edward, that is his name, and I did for their pleasure, but I never let him kiss me or even get that close to me. I even told him to stop his stalking me, as I knew by this time that he would sneak into my bedroom at night to watch me creepingly to sleep in my bed every night. I even drilled those windows down one of the days that my father was at work, so Edward would not have a chance anymore from then on to do so anymore. And time went on, and my 18th came, and Alice, his 'sister' forced me to celebrate it at their house. It ended in a disaster to say the least."
She again took a break to drink, and Matt held her waist, as she came closer to the most heartbreaking part of her story, and the others were shocked and worried as she did pale abit more, and Matt noticing it through their shared bond that they had now with each other, just held her waist while she laid her head back onto his chest for now.
Patrick Sr said
"What happened at this birthday party that you didn't even want to have in first place, Bell?"
Bella sighed before she said in a monotone, almost dead voice, that scared them to see and hear on her;
"I was opening presents of them, and I came to the present that Rosalie and Emmett had gifted me with, and I got a papercut, and next I knew I was being flung back into some glass cabinet, and I felt pain from my arm, and when I looked at it, I had a shard of glass in it, and I was bleeding more, and I could hear Jasper growling and snarling, as he had or have most trouble around human blood after becoming a veggie, for they only drank from animals, and he wanted at this time to have my blood for I smell so good to all of them. Carlisle took me to his home office, as he work at the hospital as a resident doctor, and stiched me up with 10 small stiches after getting the glass out and clean my wound up from infection and whatnot. He told me about his story of how he became so easy around blood and so forth. He even told me that the reason Edward hadn't changed me was for he felt that they had lost souls when changed into deadly, venomous vampires, and didn't deserve to change others. After that, Edward took me and my gift home, and he became rather reclusive and advoiding me after that. 3 days later, he still believed at this time that we were dating, so he broke up with me, in a very cruel way to say the least, if we really had been dating, it would have broken me more than it did. For I became a zombie, not for we never dated in first place, but the way he broke up with me and left me all alone there in the woods behind my father's house."
All of them were in shocked silence of her story at this point and worried for her, and Matt just held her gently to his side, as he knew the next part were going to be hardest to hear for them from her.
She took another zip of her glass, and said
"I was like that for 4 months, as I don't remember much of those months that came after that, more than I went on to do school but I had stopped talking and had screaming nightmares, according to my father at least, and he wanted to in the end of it, to either admit me to mental facility or force me to go back to my mother, who too was worried for me and my psyche, but I woke up by then, and told him that no I am not leaving, for I never dated Edward, that was just what yourself and others in this town aswell himself and his stupid family thought, for I was almost always with them or him. But that was not the truth, dad, I told him, and I told him that I would get back on my own tracks in the morning. And so I did, I began to talk again and hang out with my what I believed to be real human friends, to let go of the supernaturl for a while, and be normal again. It worked, for my nightmares dwindled and I became more alive again, like I had been before meeting the Cullens' family in first place. Then one day after school, I came home to see my father with Billy and his son, Jacob, yes same boy I met on my first day back with my father's care. He had changed abit but not alot at this time, he had grown taller and bigger than myself, as he before this had been slightly smaller than my 5"4 stature, now he was towering me at over 6 feet tall."
At that most were looking at each other with wonder and shock of her tale so far. Matt just kept holding her waist, and rubbing her side gently, as he too had troubles with everything as she hadn't told him in details this much earlier of what really had happened with her father, he knew some parts of it, but not in this detailed as she was doing so far.
"All I could say how alike he was towards what you look like today, with your height and stature, I mean. (She blushed slightly, and the others gave looks of wonders and shock still.) That day I found out by himself of the so-called scary stories were all true, that he too was a shape-shifter and his form was of a wolf, and he strongly believed when we laid eyes that he had imprinted on me, but frankly he hadn't for I didn't feel that way about him nor that pull that I now know I can feel from your brother here, whom I uncounsiessly had chosen as mine back when I first met him. Either way, I told him that I would not tell anyone about these things, and left it at that, but I also strongly told him that I was not into him nor anything else on that matter, nor even to someone in the town either. It made him rather pissed to hear me say so, and that was when he tried to attack me and kiss me by force."
At that most were shocked or choked up at her words, even Matt was and was growling besides her, and she gave a look to calm the hell down, and she then said
"What he didn't understand or could see when he was getting closer to kiss me, was my hand curling up and I was taking a stance of standing slightly taller and when his lips were very close, all I did was raise my fist and then smack, I hit his cheek hard I thought, but instead I could hear my hand give a cracking sound and pain shut up in my arm and I went to stomp around in the pain I felt, and I told him to get me back to the house so I could get to the hospital for I believed it was broken, my hand I mean. And he in his shock of my action had no choice to listen on my command, and as soon we came back from it, our fathers stood there waiting on us, had huge smiles until they could see my pain on my face and Jacob's face showing hurt and disbelief at this. I told them what had happened and to keep that creep far away from me as Jacob and I would never ever happen nor did I even like him in that way, and I got into my car, and drove with what I suspected only at the time, with a broken hand. I know I should have gotten someone else but those three stooges stood there in their shock and disbelief of what I had just told them about what had happened. I shortly after got my hand in a cast, for I had broken few of the bones, and I was in that cast for 8 weeks."
"Bloody hell, baby. I knew you had told me some of it, but not all of it." Bella just sighed, and said
"I didn't want to repeat my story, Matt. I am sorry." He just shook his head and said
"No I understand, baby. But gods, what the hell is wrong with these peoples?"
"I dont know, but my father has never hidden the fact that he so badly with Billy Black wants me to be with Jacob in a romantic way, for he felt that was the man I was to be with. Stuck in Forks or La Push for good like himself is to this day. But that was never my own dreams or hopes for life, I wanted to be free but also knew that you were and are my choice in love and life to be with, Matt."
At that most of them were smiling at her saying so, and he grinned wider at this, and Mary said
"What happened after that, sweetheart?" Bella sighed, and said
"Well after that, I went behind my father's back, and got a restraining order against Jacob filed and sent to him, so he knew he was stay 100 feet away in any ways when we were forced to be around each other after that. Which happened alot, as he still wanted to be with me, despite my words of never happening, for I didn't feel that way towards him. He thought I was still hung up on Edward and his leech family, but I had not only tell him but the pack of his, that I had no feelings towards Edward nor anyone else in town, I also told them that Edward and I never once dated, it only became a rumour of others thinking that we were for how close we were getting to each other, and also told them I am a virgin aswell, so calling me leech lover was wrong of them to say, for I never ever slept with the most prudish, virgin vampire boy, for he felt that belongs in martial bed, his words not mine. But even I knew I would not sleep with him or anyone else in town, for I didn't want it to end up like my parents' had, even though the two had not used a condom at conception of me being born from their actions. My mother printed into my head to never sleep without a condom, and never marry before your 20's. I also told them that Jacob and I was not either an item, for I didn't even like him in that way, and when asked who I was then interested, I told them to mind their own damn business and leave me the hell alone and make sure that Jacob too did so, and if he even got that close I would not hesitate to use my knee next time. It made them get him to finally leave me the hell alone when seen together, and I got to know that Sam, was the Alpha of their pack, and he ordered Jacob with an Alpha order of doing so. It made me happy and safe to know that, and shortly after that, I graduated from High School with highest grades that school had ever seen. And even then my father kept trying to make me stay put and give a new chance to Jacob. But I told him to finally stop controlling my life and choices of life, and that I didn't even like nor love that little boy and he should give up already and move on with his pathetic life. Next week after graduation, is when I left for South Dakota University, and now here we are."
She took another zip, and Matt just held her towards him in a gentle grip, and she snuggled up easily into his chest. The others sat there, reeling and taking it all in for themselves of her story.
