I had been sitting in my truck outside his house for what seems like hours and hours, but when I looked at the time on my cell phone it said 1:10pm. Okay, so it hasn't been that long I have only been sitting here for about 5 minutes. I know hes in there, and the only reason I know is because as I was pulling up to the house I seen him run from the trees just outside his yard and straight inside, atleast I think it was him. And why was he coming from the trees? He probably thinks I didn't see him, but I did. I should just leave and save myself the heartache that I know is going to come. But he's my best friend so I figured the least he could do is tell me what I did wrong. What exactly did I do to him that made him want to stop talking to me, after he swore, no, he promised me he would never hurt me. But thats exactly what he was doing. Its been 2 weeks 3 days 17 hours and 26 minutes since I last seen him. Sigh.
Finally, I mustered up all the courage I could, took a deep breath, got out of my truck and started walking up to the door. As I was walking up to the door I began to feel like I was being watched. But looking around and not seeing anyone I continued to the door. I reached the door in a few short steps, great now I just have to knock. I took another breath and went to knock on the door. But before I could even knock the door swung open.
I stood there in complete shock. Who was this man? There is no way this was him, it couldn't be. But when I looked into those beautiful deep chocolate eyes of his I knew it was him. When I seen him last he looked nothing like he does now. What happened to him, now don't get me wrong. He doesn't look bad at all. As matter of fact he looked finger lickin good. Yes I know I said we were best friends. But he is always telling me he loves me and wants to be more than just friends. I kept telling him I wasn't ready, that was until yesterday. I took in all his new features his feet which were currently bare at the moment, all the way up to his abs. Wait, what..where, why wasn't he wearing a shirt, not that I minded at all. I realized I had been staring at him with my jaw hanging open. I quickly shut it, and when I looked up into his eyes I was actually a little scared. At first I could see a glint of happiness shine through, but that was quickly followed by guilt and than anger. I gulped, and was getting ready to open my mouth, but he beat me to it.
"What are you doing here Bella? I thought I told you I didn't want to see you ever again." Jake grunted out through his clenched teeth. Okay, that was true he did say that, my final attempt at trying to reach him on the phone which he had finally answered, is when he told me this.
"I..I know thats what you said, but I couldn't just accept that you truly meant that Jake I.." I was cut off by him.
"No, Bella, I really truly honest to god did mean it. So LEAVE NOW! I don't want you hear, why can't you get that through your head! " This time he yelled at me.
"But Jake w..why are you doing this to me. Why are you speaking to me like this. Is it because I wasn't ready, is that why?" I was getting a little choked up, but I was trying to be strong I didn't want to cry not in front of him. I did enough crying over the last two weeks.
"No Bells, damnit thats not why. I need you to leave now. Im just not good enough for you, not anymore." He wasn't yelling this time, his voice was back to normal, but still had a bit of a tone to it. But when he said that I felt a lump rising up my throat. Thats exactly what he said to me when he left. I slowly wrapped my arms around myself, attempting to hold myself together. I came over here to tell him that I was ready. But than he knowingly through that in my face, he had to of known what those words would remind me of. I only told him what he said to me when he left me. I did however leave out the part of him being a vampire and all. Before I even had a chance to stop the tears they were already trickling out, and down my cheeks.
I went to turn away from him and walk away. Maybe I was wrong, maybe he didn't want me anymore. Before I could even take my first step I felt him grip my arm and spin me towards him. He had me crushed up against his chest, and his arms wrapped around me, he lowered his head to my shoulder.
"God, Bells, I am soo sorry. Damn it. I shouldn't have said that. I promised you I wouldn't hurt you and here I am doing exactly that." He took a deep breath before he continued. "Bella.." Whatever he was about to say I'm not sure he just stopped talking. I looked up at him and thats when I saw them. Walkng towards us were four huge guys. They each had this angry look on their faces. Jake's arms unwrapped from around me and he pushed me behind him. I didn't know why he did this, but when I peeked around him I saw one of the guys walk closer to us than the others.
"Damn Jake you never follow orders, she needs to leave NOW. You know you can't be around her anymore." He looked right at me when he said this. His eyes locked with mine, I couldn't look away. I was lost in the moment with him. He hadn't made the move to look away either. Our weird little moment was broken when Jake pushed me further behind him. And thats the moment when all hell broke loose.
I couldn't believe the sounds I was hearing coming from Jake. I swear it sounded like he was growling, but the sound wasn't coming from just him. I tried to peer around Jake to see who else was growling. What I seen was the same guy who I was locked eyes with hunched over somewhat and shaking. He was shaking so bad, but he all of a sudden stopped when he noticed me staring. He took one last look at me and Jake, he whispered something so quiet to the guy standing next to him I couldn't even hear it. And than just like that he was gone, he took off running back in the direction from where they first came.
The other guys just stood there until the older looking one told them something and they all left, well except for him. He turned toward us and walked up to us. He had a bit of a glare on his face just looking at us. He began speaking to Jacob first in Quileute, I guess he didn't want me hearing what he had to say. And by the look on Jake's face I could tell it wasn't something good. This was really annoying me I wanted to know what the hell was being said.
"Hey! How about you repeat that in english this time so I can hear what you have to say too. I know it has something to do with me." I yelled at the guy.
"Your right it does have to do with you, but right now that's not for me to say what it is that's wrong. But Jake is right you two really can't be friends its not safe for you to be around him anymore. So come on Jake we gotta go." He had some nerve telling me this.
"Who do you think you are. You can't go bossing people around, especially not someone who is MY friend. How could you tell me who is or isn't safe for me to be around. Jake is perfectly safe to be around, trust me I have been a lot worse than him. So why don't you take your macho brooding self back to where you were before you interrupted us!" I yelled at him.
"NO, actually your wrong its not safe for you to be around him at all right now. You have no idea what you are talking about. He is not good for you. So like I said before Jake, lets go."
I couldn't take this anymore I was so sick of people saying who was and wasn't safe for me to be around. It was my choice who I was around and when I was around them. Bad enough I had to deal with this crap from him. I wasn't about to deal with it coming from this guy.
He took a step away but stopped turned to look over his shoulder at Jake. They had some sort of silent conversation or understanding of some sorts because Jake started to follow him. Oh hell no, I was not about to lose my best friend over this guy. I followed right behind Jacob and grabbed hold of his arm making him stop walking. The guy having noticed this was now glaring at me. But I wasn't backing down, as matter of fact I did something that I probably will regret for a long time coming. I walked right up to him and slapped him hard across the face. OUCH! Shit that hurt, god I hope I didn't break it. The guy looked stunned at first and raised his hand to his cheek and rubbed where I just slapped him at. Jake grabbed hold of me around the wrist that wasn't hurt and pulled me back towards him again. I looked up to him and seen the same shocked face on him as the guy. I don't blame him I couldn't believe I just did that either. I'm not normally like that, I just couldn't help it though, the guy just pissed me off. We all just stood there silently waiting for the next thing to happen. Either that or they were waiting for me to start swinging again.