Mute girl

Chapter six

Disclaimer - unfortunately for me I did not come up with the original characters or plot! Everything here (except for my own plot line) belongs to Stephanie Meyer and I am just a slightly eccentric fangirl messing with our wonderful protagonists!

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Bella's PoV:

We sat there for hours, until I had no more tears. School was over by the time anyone disturbed us and I wondered briefly, as the bell rang, how we'd gotten out of all those lessons. "Ahem." Someone cleared their throat behind us and I whipped round to see Alice, Jasper, Rosalie and Emmet all standing behind us.

"So what do we do now?" Rosalie asked Edward, she obviously didn't think I was going to talk. "We can't let her go back home, but there's no legal reason for her to be anywhere else before we file a report."

I shook my head dramatically at what she said, Charlie was the chief of police, no one would listen to us if we tried to get him arrested! "I agree with Bella - we should kill him now." Edward stated clearly, anger boiling up out of him. I felt a jolt running through my body when he said that - the entire reason that is kept this a secret for so long was because I was scared that Edward would do this. He would get really really angry and kill Charlie, meaning that they would all have to sort out the mess of murder, and it would be all my fault. 

I shook my head again and wrote out another note.

Please don't kill him, that will only make it worse.
I'll go back home tonight and tell that you're getting suspicious, I'll promise to be good and then he'll stop. He only did it because I deserved it. You don't need to do anything.

I wrote it out really quickly; I didn't bother too much with handwriting or spelling before I passed it over to him and watched his reaction. At first I couldn't read his face but then it became all too clear, anger spreading across his features quickly. "Bella this is not your fault! I can't believe that he's made you think that! You don't deserve any of this and I hope that the man rots in hell for everything he's done to you!"  I flinched back from him when he started yelling and I sat with my back pressed against the window, my hair hiding my face from them all.

I heard shuffling beside me as one of them sat down next to me and tilted up my chin so that I had to look them in the eye.
Rosalie.
"Bella, he's never going to stop and there's nothing you can do about it. He would abuse you even if you were the most perfect daughter in the world because it's got nothing to do with you. I need you to listen to me now; I know that I've never been exactly welcoming to you, but I was actually in a similar situation and so I know that it is not your fault. We've got to get you out of there now, even if it means reporting Charlie as soon as we leave. Do you understand Bella? It's not your fault."

I stared in absolute shock at Rosalie; this was the most she'd ever said to me and I was more than a little surprised at what she'd told me about her own experience. I nodded lamely and pushed my chin back down; I didn't feel like I could face them all just yet.

Rosalie and Edward both stood up and Edward held out his hand to me; I took it hesitantly and pulled myself up onto shaky legs. I was led out of the school and through the car park with the rest of them forming a protective circle around me; even though there was no one in sight.

Edward, Alice and I took the Volvo while Rosalie drove the others back to their house; giving me time to wonder where exactly we were going. I was sat in the back with Edward and Alice in front of me, birth of them talking about possible plans.

"She's not eighteen yet so she'll have to go into foster care..." Said Edward sadly.
"No! We can't let that happen - I can see that if she goes into foster care then she'll be moved down to New York to another abusive family - she has to stay here." That was Alice, who was obviously skimming the future for anything bad.
"Then where can she go? She can't stay with us can she?" Edward didn't sound so sure about what he was saying. I wasn't sure if it was because he didn't know if I could live in a house full of vampires or if it was because he didn't want me to be there.

"Well... I can't see anything bad happening if she does..." Alice said very quietly, but I knew that Edward could hear her. "Her future is changing every second, I can't really be sure about anything."
Edward made a strange noise under his breath (which I'm pretty sure was a lot of very explicit words) and seemed to make up his mind about something.
"Okay, we let her stay with us until we can figure out something a bit safer. I'll have to ask Carlisle and Esme but I know that they'll say yes; they both love Bella like a daughter. I say we drop her off home now with me and you coming in through her bedroom window to help her pack. Then we get her the hell out of there and drive back to the house."

Alice agreed to this plan and I shook in the back seat like the coward I was at the thought of going back home again. Neither of them asked me what I wanted to do, which made me feel a little indignant, but they knew that I wasn't going to say anything and that I would probably pass them a note or something if anything was wrong. But I wasn't focused enough on the conversation at that point to feel really annoyed, because with Edwards speedy driving we had just pulled up outside the house.

I gulped hard and stepped out the car. None of this was made any easier by the fact that both Edward and Alice could hear my heart thumping like drum really loudly. I took another deep breathe as Alice shot me a supportive smile and Edward held my hand protectively. They were both standing right next to me now, using vampire speed no doubt. I walked up the little pathway to the door and took out my key, fumbling with the lock a couple of times before I finally managed to get the door open.

"Dad?' I called into the apparently silent house.

A/N I know I'm evil for leaving you on a cliffhanger but I'm really really tired and I can't be bothered to write out the next couple of thousand words so please don't be mad! *ducks behind table as people start throwing rotten fruit*

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