It's been two years since Bella left, supposedly going off to college. When in fact she was planning on transforming into a vampire like her husband Edward. Her best friend and werewolf Jake tried as hard as he could to convince her to stay but Bella was stubborn. She left and Jake was utterly and completely devastated.
Poor Jake was so in love with her that for the first six months he acted like Bella did the fall before, when Edward left. Like an empty shell, a zombie even. There were still traces of Bella throughout Forks, but he got a little better although he still wasn't back to normal. Not that he ever was.
Nothing, he concluded, would ever set him right. Life without Bella was too much to handle sometimes and slowly he noticed that getting out of his wolf form was becoming harder. Sometimes he felt like killing himself but his ties to Bella were too strong to end. So day after day he sat and waited for some kind of sign of hope of compassion would come forth for him…. Little did he know that the best things in life were forbidden.