My Bella (WATTY AWARDS 2012)

My Bella

"I don't want you to get hurt. I'm not turning it down, but if he doesn't want to, I'll still dance with you. Fair?"  

"Fair. I can see your point anyway." Edward looks outside. "It's starting to rain."  

"Good." Bella smiles. She sees Todd walk in. "I'll talk to you later, Edward."  

Edward smiles. "Nice to meet you Bella."  

"Nice to meet you too, Edward." Bella waves and walks to Todd. "I missed you."  

"It started to rain and I thought of you." He kisses her head and hugs her.  

"Thanks. Why don't we go dance now?" She pleads. 

"Um.. I don't wanna.. Why don't we just go and play poker upstairs?" 

"Poker?" Bella stepped back. "What kind of poker?"  

"Strip poker." Todd smiles.  

She looks at him, wide eyed. "Just one dance!" She pleads. "Just one small dance.."  

Todd pushed her against the wall. "Dance later, poker now, understand?"  

"Why don't you want to dance?" Bella asks, tears forming.  

He leans closer. "Because I want to see you naked, not dancing." He kisses her neck but Bella pushes him away.  

"I don't want to play poker, okay? Especially strip poker!"  

"You'll play or else." Todd threatens. 

"Or else what?" Bella asks, not afraid.  

"Fine, we're over!" He punches her and pulls her friend Lyra to the side and kisses her, fiercely, rubbing his body on her. She kisses back and holds him and moans.  

Bella runs off, outside into the rain. She sits on the grass and cries in her knees. She calls herself names for being with someone that only wanted to see her naked. She thought he loved her.  

Eventually, an hour later, Alice finds Bella crying.  

"Bella?" Alice sits by her. "Bella, what happened?"  

Bella looks up at her, blood coming out of her nose and a black eye. 

"Oh my gosh, Bella!" Alice takes Bella back inside the house and to her room. Rosalie was on the computer. "Rose, do you think you can help me out here?" 

Rosalie stopped typing and she looked at Alice and Bella and gasped. "Who did this to you?" She asks Bella, worried. 

"T...T..Todd.." She cries, tears falling out her eyes.  

"She needs a new dress, something similar.. And we should redo her hair and cover her face up. Alice, go get something to clean off the marks." Rosalie orders. She opens her close and takes out a dress similar. She puts Bella in a chair and checks her dress size. "Perfect."  

Alice got a towel, alcohol, and a few other things. "I'll help."  

Bella wasn't gonna protest over a makeover. She was still crying, so what could she say?  

After Bella gets dried off, her hair gets re-done and only part of her face was able to be fixed from the makeup.  

"Can't I just go with it showing?" Bella asks.  

"Won't your parents worry?" Alice asks, confused.  

"My dad's a cop." Bella says, looking at Alice.  

"Oh, good thing too." Rosalie sighs. "That's all we can do, Bella." She sighs. "I'm sorry."  

"It's fine..." Bella sighs and looks at herself in the mirror, sad.  

Edward walks past the room and sees Bella, Rosalie, and Alice and backs up. "What happened?"  

Everyone looks at Edward and Rosalie sighs. "Todd, that jerk from the football team, hit her." She says, angry. 

"It's not his fault." Bella mumbles.  

"Bella," Rosalie starts. "It is his fault. He wouldn't hit you on accident. Don't blame yourself."  

Bella wiped another tear that fell down and sighed. "Fine.."  

"Good." Alice smiles.  

Edward walked to Bella. "Are you okay? Do you want me to say something to him?"  

"N..no.. I don't want you to get hurt because I said something." She says, looking at him.  

Edward pushed some hair out of her face. "Do you still wanna dance?"  

Bella nods and they walk out the room. 

"I can see the sparks with them." Alice whispers to Rosalie. 

"I agree." Rosalie smiles. "I'm happy for Edward though.. He still gets to dance."  

Edward pulls Bella to the dance floor and everyone stares and glances at Bella, most taking a double take. Most people, girls especially, knew what Todd was capable of and felt bad for Bella. Others didn't know what to say. 

"Thank you, Edward.. This is all I wanted.. Just to dance..." She smiles at him.  

"You're welcome. Do you have a ride home?" He asks her, smiling back. 

"I did.. But I don't anymore.." She says, remembering Lyra and Todd making out in front of her.  

"I'll drive you home. Just tell me when." He says, looking straight at her.  

"After this song is over." She tells him. 

After the song ended, Bella was sleepy from all the crying she did. Edward drove her home and Bella was to tired to take out the key, so Edward pushed the doorbell.  

Charlie opened the door and looked a little confused. "Is everything okay??"  

Renée walked to the door and gasped. "Bella?"  

Bella sighed. "Thank you, Edward."  

"You're welcome." Charlie took Bella from Edward and Edward left.  

"Bella, what happened?" Charlie put her on the couch. 

"I knew a party was a bad idea..." Renée says, upset.  

"Todd.. He wanted to play Strip poker.. But I wanted to dance.. And I yelled at him and he punched me.. Rosalie and Alice.. They tried to cover it up... But it was too much.." Bella says, looking at them. 

"Bella, who was that guy?" Renée asks, talking about Edward. 

"Edward is Rosalie's brother..." She whispers and holds her head. "He danced with me after the incident.. And he offered to drive me home.."  

"Thank god, at least one guy out there is decent!" Charlie stands up.  

Bella rubbed her eyes and revealed her black eye. Her nose began to bleed again too. 

"I'm going to kill that Todd guy if it's the last thing I do."  

Renée sat Bella up and gave her a tissue to stop her nose from bleeding.

And that's how Bella and Edward met.