It's always darkest before the dawn. What if Edward doesn't come back in Eclipse, instead they meet again later in life. Edward leaves for an entirely different reason, not because of Jasper. Also just because Edward is too young for this story he's forever 22, not 17.
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"Ringggg Ringgg Ringgg" I roll out of bed banging my head on my side table while I groggily attempt to turn off my alarm. "Two more minutes" I mumble to no one in particular and throw my face back onto the pillow. I give up trying to go back to sleep when the alarm goes off again and with a sigh I get up. I pull on some old sweatpants and go to the crib.
"How the fuck did he sleep through that?" I grumble jealous of his sleep. Of course he choses to sleep now, after keeping me up till 3am, crying about who knows what. I rub the sleep out of my eyes and decided I should try to get some work done before he wakes up. I pick um my phone; "Oh shit" Today is orientation. I was supposed to leave ten minutes ago. I grab the first semi decent clothes I see and pull them on, grab Masen's bag, grab Masen, and am out the door six minutes after waking up.
I run into the kitchen already ten minutes late and am delighted to see Charlie made me a bagel with cream cheese, knowing that I wouldn't have time to get my own breakfast. I hand him Masen, scarf down my breakfast and run out the door in a vain attempt to arrive on time.
"Shit!" I pull into the parking lot twenty minutes late thanks to Seattle traffic. It took two and a half hours to get from my apartment in Port Angeles to SeattleU and I had the entire ride to think about all the things I could do wrong. I slammed the door of my battered old truck and raced into the admissions building.
"Hey I'm a new student, where's the Academic Convocation?" I ask the lady at the front desk. "Down the hall and on the left. You're late." She says in a dry monotone. "Thanks " I reply already racing to the room.
I slip into the back of the huge lecture hall and hear an older man talking about how "The next four years will be pivotal in the rest of our lives". I hear someone whisper under their breath, "Yeah, we might do drugs, drop out, and at some point we might die." I laugh and turn to look at the stranger. He sees me and smiles, "Sorry, that's my uncle, I've heard this spiel a thousand times, I'm Jake." Wow, he is seriously attractive and actually talking to me. "Hi, I'm Bella, you excited for classes to start?" I ask him hoping I might have found a friend here. "Well hoping and dreading, I've known most of my professors since I was a kid and I'm not looking forward to my uncle's reports back to my father about how I'm doing" he said with a grimace. "So where are you from?" he asked. "I'm from a small town about four hours away called Forks" I replied "but I took a year off before college and worked in Port Angeles." "Wait seriously? So am I, well I live on the reservation so we wouldn't have gone to the same school, but that's so cool." He says practically beaming at me. I laugh, "Well I guess we'll have to get together and talk about the rainiest town in America sometime" I joke. "Definitely, I hope we have some classes together, here's my number if you wanna hang out sometime" he replied.
After we left the Convocation we decided to grab lunch in the cafeteria and check out the seen. "So what classes are you taking?" he asked taking a huge bite out of his sandwich. "Well I'm majoring in language with a minor in political theory, but I have to take a lot of prerequisites this semester. You?" I ask. "Well, honestly I don't know what I'm majoring yet but I'm leaning toward engineering and architecture, so I'll be taking a lot of math" he response with a mouth full of lettuce and baloney. I can't help but shudder at the thought of all that math. He laughs at my revulsion.
After lunch I tell him I have to go look for an apartment and we agree to meet for lunch on the first day of classes. I had already seen some of the nearby apartments but I looked at a few more before finally finding one that was in my price range, semi close, and not totally disgusting. Satisfied with my new home I signed the lease and agreed to move in the next day.
The drive home felt considerably shorter than the drive there and I was pleased with how the day had turned out. When I arrived home I saw Charlie sitting in the living room holding Masen's hands and trying to teach him how to walk. I have to say raising Masen without a father has been in no way easy but Charlie really has been fantastic. Of course thinking about Masen's father always brought back bittersweet memories for me.
I had been devastated to wake up the morning after the best night of my life to find Edward gone with out a trace. The first few weeks after he left were the worst of my life. I searched everywhere for him and asked everyone, even the school and the hospital but no one knew where they went or why the left. I was so distraught I didn't even think twice about it when I started throwing up in the mornings. Finally, on Christmas morning I took a pregnancy test. At first I was shocked, I didn't think it could be possible, but it happened, and this baby was the only part of Edward I had so I held onto it. I didn't tell anyone for a while but finally in march I had to tell Charlie. He was angry at first, then disappointed, but he supported me and decided to do anything he could to help. I will always appreciate and love my father for all he has done.
*Clarifications- Edward is a vampire but Masen isn't or at least Bella doesn't think so.
This is NOT a Bella Jacob fic we just haven't met Edward yet and I always thought Jake was a good friend for her.