Hello peoples! I know that this was deleted by some randomly evil hacker but we're trying to keep it up and running. For those of you who are new to the story, I know that the first chappie doesn't apparently fit in with Eragon, but take it from us, Eragon will come in eventually. The first two chapters are seperate for literary purposes, even though they're meant to be read together.Thanks for reading and don't forget to review!
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"Edward, I am fully capable of watching myself at a party! It's not like I'm trying to cliff-dive or ride my motorcycle again," Bella told him, with an edge of agitation creeping into her voice.
Edward grimaced at the memory. "It's not like I'm forbidding you to do anything. I just want to watch out for you."
"Of course you'll let me do stuff. As long as it has absolutely nothing to do with Jacob!"
"Come on Bella, he tried to, well, seduce you! And you don't even care?"
"As far as I've ever known, seduction usually applies to girls twisting the guys."
"You know what I mean!" Bella made a strange face as he reminded her of that one kiss. "Look, he can't even control his impulses. I let you visit him in the past, haven't I? And where was little miss 'I-can-look-out-for-myself-when-werewolf-hits-on-me' then?"
Bella sighed. Angela's party was important to her. Almost as important as her upcoming wedding and transformation. It was quite likely going to be the last time she would see all her friends until years later when she could control herself. "Look, I'll be careful and you can keep a constant eye, or rather, brain on everyone's minds. I'll even go so far as to let you drive me there. But I'm going and that's final," Bella announced with the kind of finality that always made Charlie willing to follow her whims and worked on Jacob most of the time.
Edward sat in thought for several seconds. They sat in silence for minutes. "If I can bring you there and pick you up, I guess it won't wind up too bad. But you are going to be picked up at promptly eleven, okay?"
"But that'll give me just four hours for saying goodbye to everyone!"
"You could wait longer for your transformation..."
"You already know the answer to that."
"I can hope."
"You wish." Bella grabbed her jacket and walked over to the exit. "I love you," she whispered. She hated leaving Edward on a tense note.
Edward insisted on bringing all of the Cullens to drop Bella off. "When he sees the fact that I'm not alone in protecting you he'll leave you alone," he said darkly. No matter how much he begged and pleaded, he would bring all of them and she would have a bunch of vampires watching over her. He also insisted on getting her there in his car, not the familiar truck in her driveway at Charlie's. Even though it was slower than anything created in this century, her truck was like a friend. The only non-vampire friend she'd be able to see before long for years, she reminded herself.
The car was silent as the trees whipped by. "Edward, how fast are you going?" Bella questioned.
"Don't worry about it," he told her.
"How fast are you going?" she repeated.
"Edward, I told you not to go over 100. It hurts the engine," Rosalie nagged.
"I'm not going over 100."
"How fast are you going?"
"99."
"Slow it down a little bit! We're not in a Ferrari."
"Rose, it's just fine."
"Edward, just take it down to 90. At least."
"I have better reflexes than you. You have to go 90. I don't"
"Edward Cullen, please slow down a bit. I think you might be scaring Bella," Esme said. Edward pushed the brake slowly. Bella watched the speedometer go down two or three miles per hour. She returned her gaze to the trees practically flying past. The moonlight made them visible, but the light of a star above the mountain peak made them shine. Its was the brightest star in the sky, like a laser among matches.
The invisible line where the vampires had to stop appeared, along with their unofficial greeter: Jacob. "I'll take it from here, my friends," he announced so politely that it mocked them.
Bella undid her seatbelt and got out. "Bye!" she yelled to the carload.
"Wait a second, Bella, the party is over there." Edward pointed in the exact direction that their boundary followed. "We'll go with you," he said carefully eying Jacob.
"She'll be safe with me," Jacob said calmly, making each word polite and short.
"I'll feel better if we make sure that she doesn't fall down along the way."
"Gosh, I feel like royalty. I get seven bodyguards!" Bella gleefully exclaimed in an attempt to stop a fight.
"Of course Queen Isabella. Now where do you want to go, my lady?" Jacob said, deeply bowing. Esme gave a forced laugh.
"To the party, Jeeves!" Bella shouted laughing. They walked into the woods, the vampires as stiffly as humanly (or rather, vampirely) possible.
Calmly Angela served the chips. Even she had noticed the tension that surrounded the campfire. Bella was talking a mile a minute with the Cullens clustered around her. Jacob stared at Bella amiably, but met Edward's eyes with unadulterated loathing. She sat down by Bella, rubbing sand off her jeans. "How are you guys? I haven't seen you around," she asked them. Please calm down, she silently begged Edward and Jacob. As if in response to her words, Edward loosened.
"I'm fine, Angela," Bella said. "Edward, could you get me a burger?"
"Certainly," Edward answered gently and lovingly. He got her a burger.
"Like a freaking servant," Jacob muttered into his hot dog.
"What did you say?" Even when he was being insulting, Edward managed to sound wonderful.
"Nothing."
"You said something, Jacob."
"I just said that you're a freaking spineless servant when it comes to her. But you know you're the worst possible person for her!" he yelled over the flickering fire.
It didn't take much for Angela to notice this kind of stuff and this was more than she could ignore. "Jake, it's okay, you guys don't need to fight right now," she said reaching out her hand to try to calm him down.
"You stay out of this!" He twisted out of her reach.
"It's not my fault that she didn't choose you," Edward said without a single note of the yelling anger that showed through his tense body.
"Look, this is supposed to be a party. Parties are fun and happy times, not the place to try to kill someone," Angela shouted over the low growls of Jacob. Odd, she'd never thought Jacob would growl if he got angry. Dogs did that, not teenagers.
"Jacob, please, not here. We don't all know," Bella begged, glancing at Angela.
"Then we'll leave the area," he answered as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"No!" Angela shouted. The bonfire put out giant tongues of flame as if to match her anger. Jacob sat down, staring at the soaring flames and scooting closer to Bella. Edward squatted next to Bella first, keeping his body ready to move in protection.
Angela suddenly felt tired like the flames had sucked out some of her energy. She slumped down on the sand next to Alice.
"What happened?" Alice asked calmly, still watching the once-again-small fire.
"Don't worry about it. A log probably burst or something," she answered, not quite sure either.
Bella sat between Jacob and Edward. How wonderful, to be able to sit between your two loves and keep them from killing each other. This is a perfect night, she thought to herself. For some reason Jasper was trying to send calming waves at them. Bella didn't know why. Tonight was just perfect.
Jasper looked over at Alice. "How about a walk?" he suggested.
"Sure!" Bella answered. "Edward, it's beautiful and you know how nice it is this time of year…" Bella continued babbling on and on. Edward nodded slowly, eyeing Jacob with a look that suggested an overprotective parent. Embry and Quil, Jacob's buddies stared at Alice and Angela and grinned as they nodded vehemently. Jacob's eyes widened at the chance and his grin was a little too ready. How sweet of Jasper, Bella thought. I get to take a walk with them!
"Then it's settled!" Alice happily announced without the slightest glance at the teens who were trying to grab her attention. "To the woods!" Jacob kept step with the Cullens and with Bella, trying to start a conversation. Edward stared at him until Bella pressed her fingers into his arm.
"He's not going to kill me and there are way too many witnesses for him to try to hit on me, especially Angela. She doesn't know," Bella whispered gently. He loosened his arm around her and directed her angry stare into the brush. Jacob gave her a triumphant grin as he tried to engage her on the topic of college. Instead of paying attention to his hidden meaning (you better be alive at the end of college), she stared at the mountains. They seemed so…small compared to the vast sky. Directly above the highest peak was a star, so close the peak that it might've been a radio tower if it wasn't so bright. It shone brilliantly, expanding until everything, the forest, her companions, and even the mountains. Jacob's voice fell away into the starlight, like he was underwater. Then she was floating in starlight, too surprised to say anything. She could hear Jacob cussing under his breath and Edward calling her name along with another sound, like crooning or a lullaby. The words were strange and unfamiliar; they didn't even seem to be English. Or Spanish. Or any language she knew, for that matter. They lulled her to sleep. Sleep. Sleep.