*4 years later*

finally bella was now 13, her panic disorder was gone but she has a few panic attacks every now and then without her fathers knowledge. emma taylor and max d are still bullying her, but now it's physical.

kylie and tommy are still friends with bella which is good.

bella is still skinny and light as a feather and also short.

THIRD PERSONS POV:

bella woke up from what she thought was a nightmare. even tho bella is now 13 she still gets horrible nightmares that she can't explain to her own father.

she slowly tip toed to her fathers room at 3 am and opened his door.

she saw her father dead a sleep on his bed.

bella wanted to go back to her room as she heard a bang from downstairs making her quickly go inside her fathers room and shut the door making her father wake up.

"bella was that you?" mattia said in his deep tired voice.

"n-no i- had a- a bad-d dream and then i came to see you and then i h-heard a b-bng downstairs" bella said with fear all over her face.

mattias face softened at bellas innocent reaction. bella never changed since she was a kid she hated loud noises and always had nightmares or bad dreams almost every week.

mattia got up and hugged bella as bella hugged him tightly.

"stay here i'm gonna go check it out" mattia said as bella nodded and sat on her dads bed.

it's been a few mins and bella was getting more scared. the door finally opened and her dad came in with a scared look on his face.

"w-what happened?" bella asked.

"there was nothing there" mattia said making bella freak out.

"no i'm just playing it was alvaro in the kitchen" mattia said as bella sees her uncles face pop out of no where.

"you scared me!" bella said throwing a pillow at the both of them as they both laughed.

alvaro left to his room and mattia walked in seeing bella zoning out.

"what's wrong?" he asked her.

"why am i always having bad dreams, isn't it supposed to stop when you get older?" bella said remembering all those horrifying things she had seen.

mattia stayed quiet and sat down next to her on his bed.

"can you tell me what are the bad dreams?" mattia asked as bella tried to describe what she saw but nothing came out of her mouth she kept stuttering and moving her hands to draw something but end up crying for feeling stupid.

mattia understood it was something that scared her and tried to calm her down. when she finally calmed down she started to fall asleep on mattias lap.

when mattia wanted to place her head on his pillow her shirt lifted up revealing a red mark on her waist.

mattias eyes widened. at first he didn't believe it so he wanted to open a flash on his phone but bella moved so he couldn't see clearly.

he shrugged it off and eventually fell asleep.

a few days have passed and mattia has been noticing bellas strange oddness.

MATTIAS POV:

somethings off with bella i noticed little things she's been doing after i saw that red mark on her waist.

when we would eat dinner i noticed bella keeps backing away when anyone came close to her. what does that mean?

and when alejandro placed  a plate on the table that sounded loud bella kinda flinched. i mean i didn't really clearly see cause i was distracted by a notification from

cynthia...
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sorry guys this is short and i haven't posted in awhile do to personal events but HAPPY NEW YEARS everyone.

i made the girl cynthia because that's the only person i thought of.

i'm sorry to all of cynthias supporters and fans i don't mean to make cynthia look like a bad person it's just she's not gonna be a very good person in this book.

hope you guys understand. have a good day and hopefully 2021 is gonna be a good year :)