Innocent Heart

Chapter Five: The Rescue

Bella Swan

I immediately climbed out of the tub despite my trembling body due to his touch. Jessica and Angela wanted me to join them in Port Angeles to celebrate my first day at Forks High. This sounded ideal, a great night out and an escape from Edward. He needed to stop making such unreasonable demands, a good dose of teenage spirit might help. And so my plan was to get dried, get dressed and head on out despite whatever Edward had to say about it. I was going out and I would come back here when I wanted.

I began by getting dried after my bath not being able to stop myself from cleaning up the bathroom before I began to blow dry my hair and straightened it out with the heat and my brush. Once this was out of the way I moved to my wardrobe and stood there almost frozen and lost on what I was supposed to wear, living with the Cullen's meant you got a brand new wardrobe and fashion was just lost on me. I left the room and grabbed the house phone in my room and used my mobile to get Jessica's number from it. I didn't want Edward seeing any of my texts.

"Hello?" Jessica answered.

"What are you guys gonna wear? What should I?"

"Oh come over early and we'll sort it"

"Great, you got a lift to the city?" I asked, in my previous place Forks was a city away.

"We'll sort it."

With that I dressed into black trousers and a plain blue blouse, a small black clutch and black ankle boots. Not knowing how wild the girls plans were for the evening. I tried not to worry so much over what Edward would think, not wanting to ruin my fun. Getting out of the Cullen mansion was easier said than done. I stepped out of my room and past my now destroyed bedroom door thanks to Edward. I began to head straight down the hall not passing anyone as I did and closer and closer to the front door. I stepped closer and reached for the doorknob and it opened easily, with no one outside standing guard to stop me.

I didn't want to take anyone's car and so I took off on foot down the driveway. I understood there was a bit of a walk ahead of me into town but I didn't care, it felt great to be out of the house. When I finally and I mean finally made it into town I used a payphone to call Jessica from having taken a note of her number and left my tracking phone where it belonged, far away from me. Jessica picked me up in her car and brought me over to her place were she claimed she would have something for me to wear. Angela was already inside Jessica's bedroom waiting for us, she was trying on a strapless top in front of the mirror when we entered the room. She was very attractive, long hair and curvy, she didn't even look like she wore bras. Jessica had a wide selection of makeup and outfits laid out.

"Well now that is how you start an evening" I smiled taking the seat in the chair in the corner, I liked her already.

"That's the goal"

Jessica gave me some tips, and while Angela tried to pull me onto her team Jessica insisted my outfit had to match their theme of the evening, after hours of the girls insisting, I caved and tried on an outfit that matched Jessica's. I felt a little weird in such a dress but in the end of the process I kind of warmed up to it and the girls were impressed. Jessica and I were both wearing low cut white dresses that stopped in a line between the top half of our thighs, while the upper part hugged the curve of our boobs the fabric between the navel down to the top of our thighs was light and fluffy.

Once our make over was done we were out the door.

We ended up having the perfect time and this had been just the confidence boost that I had needed. To the two of them I was just the new girl at school, they didn't know I was engaged to Edward Cullen to pay off Charlie's debt, I was free to be myself tonight and not worry over anything. While at first the conversation had begun a little uncomfortable and with plenty of silences and false starts, it was quite natural now, conversation flowing back and forth.

I'd never been to a club but thankfully Angela got us in through the bathroom windows which wasn't easy but we got it done. While most teenagers drank beer and did drugs and all I had consumed all evening was a little wine, all the other guys couldn't help staring at the three of us as we danced and got the club a bit more jumpy.

Before I realized I was actually enjoying myself and loving that I got to do it all on my terms. Everything seemed to be coming together, and for once I was actually enjoying myself with people my own age, I'd been such an old soul until tonight. But now I was just free and I was dancing for once! When the music turned down, and the girls decided they were going to grab another drink, it wasn't long until there was a small huddle of guys wanting to dance with the girls, especially Angela, they all seemed to just flock to her.

I was at the bar with Jessica when a tall dark haired stranger approached me, he seemed to be in his late twenties, and was surprisingly handsome. I hadn't noticed him before, perhaps because he wasn't staring at us from afar like the other boys in the club. He leaned in close to me, his hand falling upon the side of my waist, I looked up to meet his eyes, they were dark blue, and his jawline was sharp, he really was very good looking.

"Would you like to dance?" He asked.

I felt my cheeks flush with heat in surprise of his invitation.

"That's sweet of you but no I'm here with someone." I smiled, I really wished I wasn't.

"Oh I don't mind a threesome" He teased with a smile and a wink.

I laughed a little surprised at his boldness.

With that the guy nodded and walked away, Jessica then returned to my side with two drinks in hand.

"Who was that?" She asked, looking after the handsome stranger.

"No one, just a guy"

"A hot guy, you should have gone with him"

"It's girls night." I said

"I'll drink to that." She said

I took the glass from her and as she necked it I tossed the shot over my shoulder and down to the floor before she could see me.

After a few more songs we were all dancing again, but it wasn't long until Angela had a particular guy that was getting a little too comfortable with her. She kept turning him down, but he wasn't having any of it, Jessica and I tried to intervene but he wasn't budging. It wasn't until the guy went to touch her again that she slapped him.

I was scared, I'd never been in this type of situation before and I hated conflict. I found myself rushing over to Jessica's bag and I immediately punched in Edward's phone number after several seconds trying to remember the last two digits properly. I waited patiently for the phone to pick up.

"Who is this?" Edward answered on the forth ring.

"It's me, it's Bella," I said not attempting to contain the fear in my voice "Look, can you please come and get me?"

I pressed my finger into my other ear to tune out the music around me.

"Where are you?" Edward demanded.

"In a club, Port Angeles. It's called Devilish Desires."

"What the fuck are you doing in Port Angeles? You know what I told you, do you have any idea who goes to that fucking place? Do you?"

I took a deep breath in, trying to stay calm.

"Can you just come and get me please?" I begged.

"Why, the hell would I do that?"

I pressed my lips into a tight line "Because...I'm scared."

There was silence on the other end of the phone, I heard him exhale heavily.

"Stay exactly where you are"

With that Edward hung up on me.