.:Painless:.

Chapter 2

My heart is pounding against my ribs. The foot steps echo down the hall,with mumbling between my mother and father. Suddenly, he raises his voice, "Bethany, this house better be in the perfect condition I left it in, or you can kiss your sorry ass goodbye!". My breathing picked up, the shaking was now moving my body. The tears flowed from my sore eyes and I started to whimper. "BETHANY!" The devil roared at me, I could hear this leather shoes quickly walking down the hallway. The sobs were now racking my body, and Jonah simply jumped of the mess and abandoned me again. "Im going to murder that dog."I whispered through clenched teeth. My father, in a usual black suit, appeared in the doorway of the living room, with my mother not far behind. "What is it Dar- Oh My!" My prissy mother exclaimed. My father started breathing heavily, like always before my beating. I tried to raise my shaking hands as he came at me, but he was stronger than we and grabbed my neck as he slammed me into the wall. My headache rushed through my head once again as his alcoholic breath plugged up my nose. I slowly turned my head away and whimpered, hoping he would just leave. But it never seems to work out in my favor. He grabbed the back of my head and pushed me down onto the floor, taking out a lock of my dark black hair. I screamed but it was cut short as he kicked my wind pipe. I gasped for 3 seconds before the air was let back in. Breathing hard, I looked back up at his ugly damned face, and he was smiling down. The cruelest smile you could imagine, "Please..' I tried but he only rammed his italian leather shoes into my gut. 10 more of these painful kicks followed. When he was done, I lay on the floor, holding my ruined stomach. "You stupid bitch, this will be the last time you wreck our furniture with that piece of shit dog!" He nearly screams at me. He then grabs one of my legs and I pulling me out towards the door. Not caring what my head is knocked against, he drags me to the white doors. Slamming me against one with as much force as possible, then out the door into the frigid snow, leaving me. "Don't EVER come back in my house!" He screams at me and delivers to the back of my head a blow with his foot, knocking me unconscious. I open my eyes to gaze at the warming colors of dawn, before the darkness consumes me.

The light. It blinds me. To others, it doesn't. It leads them, to a place where you are free. No hurting, no crying, but love...... As if this place existed. The winter sun was blinding me. My eyes squint open to the foggy yellow sun staring at me. Its warm, compared to my half frozen body. I move my arm and legs slowly to see if there still attached. No pain. I sigh with relief as I move my frozen hands through the snow to get my aching back up off the ice covered ground. As I get into a slouched sitting position, my stomach reminds me of the beating. My spain seers through my entire lower half making me moan. "Fucking Basterd" I whisper to myself. My remembers the beating too as my headache pains retrieve their place and the new ones join. I place my hand on the place where my hair was ripped from its roots. It was completely noticeable. I ran my rigid hand through my hair, shaking slowly. It wasn't actually as bacd as last time, I thought. How long has it been since? I look back around at the house of hell, and notice the cars aren't gone. Snow is piled on top and there was no fresh foot prints. "Well they're definitely not letting me in until sunset." I say to myself. Better get up Bethy. I sigh and inch upwards on mu unsteady feet. My legs allow my to stand and I start off. Walking I don't know where. Just away from there. The forest seems to invite me, birds chirping and the cold wind blowing in my face. I smile for the first time in 2 months. Chills shiver down my spine, as I walk forward into the unknown.

The forest calms me down, and eases my pain. I slowly venture through, not disturbing anything or anyone. Maybe, I could just live out here, I thought. Its better than that shitty place that I call "home". I sigh in relief. At least I was free until sunset. Thats usually how long it takes for me to get back in. My thoughts are interrupted by a large amount of forestry. "What the hell?'" I say, digging through it all. "Ouch, God damn it." The branches were digging into my stomach. I keep pushing through the branches until I hear the mumbling of voices, and freeze. I couldnt make out what they were saying but I slowly and quietly looked through the brush into the opening in front. And what I saw was unbelieveable, even for me. A pack of huge wolves, three, on the left side of the opening and a Indian boy with three huge wolves behind him. The boy was only in shorts and it was maybe 40 degrees tops. I shivered. "Jake we want you to come back" The indian boy said to the monsterous wolves across from him. Haha was he crazy? One of the wolves behind him whined softly. "You've torn our family apart. It's not meant to be this way." He indian says back to the wolves. Ok maybe I am still asleep. "We know that you feel... strongly about the situation with the Cullens. We know that's a problem.But this is an overreaction." One of the smaller wolves on the left of the opening growled. I don't think it was very happy about that. The indian spoke again "Sam is willing to take this slowly, Jacob. He's calmed down, talked to the other Elders. They've decided that immediate is in no one's best interest at this point." There was a short silence. I hung on to see what the hell this where this insane conversation was leading to. "Billy and Sue agree with you, Jacob, that we can wait for Bella.... to be separated from the problem. Killing her is not something any of us feel comfortable with." The indian said again. Killing Bella? I thought my dad was a crack job. The biggest wolf, a russet brown with the pack on the right, let out a snarl. the indian boy raised his hands. "Easy, Jake. You know what I mean. The point is, we're going to wait and reassess the situation. Decide later if there's a problem with the...thing." The wolf pack of three didn't seem very happy with the answer, the leader "Jacob" flattened his ears against his skull. "Jake?" the indian asked. One of the wolfs with "Jacob" snorted and took off into the woods. She passed me by 30 feet and took of speeding. The wolves with the Indian boy looked at the spot where she disappeared and I shrunk down. Who knows what these people would do to me? "Where's she going?" I heard the Indian ask. Inching my way up, i looked through the peep hole I made. The russet wolf had started twitching and his body mangled back. The hair started to disappear and what was left was another Indian boy. Though he was fully naked. I started shaking again, "Holy shit." I whispered covering my mouth. What the fuck was going on here! "Oh,Hey Jake." said the Indian with the 3 wolves behind him. "Hey Jared" said Jacob.

"Thanks for talking to me."

"Yeah."

"We want you to come back,man."

The wolf behind him whined again.I need to leave NOW, I thought. Just back up. I slowly retreated the way I had came. Don't make any noise or your dead. Slowly walking backwards. I was almost free when suddenly..... SNAP. I had stepped on a branch. The talking stopped. I froze. Hoping they thought it wasn't me. I slowly turned around. "AHH!" I screamed turning into the face of the wolf that had left earlier. I stumbled back and fell on my tail bone. The wolf growled and snarled. Coming closer and closer. I heard the tearing of brushes behind me as seven monsterous wolves burst out of the forestry. All of them snarled and growled. I tried to back up away but I only ran into a tree. They all inched closer but one, that flanked with Jacob, stared right into my eyes. Down to my soul. With the most shocked look on his face. I turned away from his gaze and started to plead to them, since they seemed to speak human. "Please, please don't hurt me! I,I'm sorry! I, I saw everything and and well, I didn't mean to! And I don't know or care, I wouldn't say anything! Please just don't hurt me." I hold up my bruised arms hoping for them to seize. They seemed to stop and look around at each other. Arguing on how to eat me I guess. Then the wolf staring at me suddenly jumped in front of me and snarled. Protecting me. They all seemed surprised and backed off. The one I ran into seemed still intent on getting to me but the wolf in front snarled. It soon let out a sigh and trotted off towards the others. The gray wolf in front of me turned to face me again, then sprinted off towards the nearest bush. I held my breath, waiting as if they would come back. The rustling in the brush stopped as a another Indian boy appeared. He walked slowly towards me, being cautious I guess. I stood up, I didn't want him near me. So when he was 4 steps away I backed up slowly, "No its fine. I won't hurt you." He said in a comforting voice. I heard laughing from behind and looked back to see Jacob and some other chick. Jacob was laughing, "Hey, Seth. I don't think she's into having you imprint on her!"