The Twilight Saga is owned by Stephanie Meyer. I own the couch I sat on all day writing this!
A/N this actually started out as a Drabble which turned into a one shot but now has three chapters I may extend it later but not on my to do list yet. It is a little angsty at first.
Chapter 1
Jake how could you?
Bella was only eight but she understood too much for her age, she had been let down by most of her family in her short life but she blamed herself she believed that she bored everyone and that nobody really wanted her around.
She thought her dad got bored with her so her mom took her away to Phoenix, what other reason would there be for her Daddy not to fight to keep her with him, why else would he have packed her bag and put it into the trunk of the car and then go back into the house without so much as a "bye Bella."
She also understood that her Mommy also got bored with her but she called it Renee time or as Bella considers it I need a break from Bella time. When this happens she is sent back to her father anything from a couple of weeks to a couple of months Bella never knew when she would be sent away or when she would return home, sometimes she would find out she was leaving that morning and other times she would find out that she was been sent home a few hours before her flight. She never got to say goodbye to anyone and she never knew when she would see them again.
Renee was getting bored with her more and more so she was spending more and more time in La Push with her Dad. At first she was ecstatic because she thought Charlie wanted her there but she quickly realised that was not the reason. Renee's boyfriend kept changing his mind about whether she wanted Bella around or not so Renee sent her back to her dads to give them alone time.
Today she had overheard Charlie tell Billy on the phone that Renee did not want her back she was to stay here for good, and Charlie was furious he didn't have the time or the skills to have her here all the time, and what about Tracy he couldn't remember the last time he got to spend any time alone with her he felt like he was a school boy sneaking around with his girlfriend when Bella was around. This surprised her she didn't know Daddy had a girlfriend and she didn't understand why he didn't tell her or introduce her; maybe his girlfriend was just like Phil and didn't like her either. Uncle Billy calmed him down and reminded him that Sarah would mind her when Charlie was busy or needed alone time.
So this is how she found herself in Aunty Sarah's house. Normally she loved being here as this is where her Jake lives, Jake was her best friend and he always played with her and seemed to enjoy spending time with her, until this visit. He was different now he had loads of friend around all the time mostly boys and they didn't want to play with a stupid girl; girls were icky especially pale faced friends. So this visit Jake and Bella would pretend to Aunt Sarah that they were going to play with together but once they were out of her sight they would separate and he would go play with Quil and Embry and she would sit in the woods alone and wait for him to collect her on his way back home so Sarah would see them return together. They never spoke anymore and she did not understand what she did he just told her one day that they were not playing together anymore and she was to stay at that tree until he came back for her. So that is what she did.
Until one day, he forgot to collect her as he got invited to the beach with Quils family so Bella stayed by the tree all day, she was hungry and thirsty but she was scared to leave in case Jake came back and was angry she was gone. It started to get dark and she was scared but she stayed because she trusted Jake would never forget about her and he would be back. It got completely dark and she was so cold and she wouldn't be able to find her way home now anyway as she couldn't see anything. The noises in the forest scared her, she could hear the wolves howl and they seemed so close. She was so cold, she was used to the heat in Phoenix not the cold and damp of La Push, she curled up in a ball at the base of a tree and cried. She cried because her mother was so selfish, she cried because her father didn't care about her, she cried because Jake didn't love her anymore either and she cried because as always she was all alone and she was scared so very very scared.
She couldn't sleep but eventually she stopped crying something inside her just broke, she was not sad she just didn't care about anything anymore. When the sun came up she stood up and made her way back to the Blacks house she walked out of the forest and walked up the back steps and into the kitchen, the whole family were sitting there eating breakfast not one of them seemed to have even noticed that she was gone. She banged the door shut and walked into the living room and picked up her bag which was still sitting beside the sofa from the day before.
"Sweetie! How did you get here, what happened? Sarah asked kindly.
"I never left." Bella snapped. "Your darling son left me in the woods yesterday like he does every time I come to visit while he plays with his real friends and tells me to stay until he comes back but yesterday he never came back." She spat.
"I notice how you all missed me including my darling father, but don't worry I am quite capable of minding myself and I don't need to be babysat or minded, and Billy you can tell my father I don't care who he is sleeping with I lived with Renee I doubt anything I see or notice will surprise or shock me, but don't expect me to speak to him or any of you again." She then turned to her ex best friend and looked him straight in the eye. "Jacob Ephraim Black, I never want to see or speak to you again and you are DEAD to me."
Bella refused to go to the Blacks house ever again and true to her word she pretty much ignored them and her father from that day on. They all eventually gave up trying to apologise for forgetting about her and not realising she was missing. Jake tried the hardest to make amends, he felt so guilty for what happened, and he knew she adored him but his friends convinced him that he couldn't have a girl as a best friend. He will always regret his actions and even found it hard to forgive his friends. His Mom was another story completely, she was devastated she couldn't even think of a punishment for Jake as she was so full of remorse for raring a child who would do that and also was so angry with herself not to realise that Bella was missing, she just presumed that Charlie had collected her when she was out. She was extremely angry that Charlie had never came to collect his child but Billy then told her he had agreed with Charlie that Bella could stay overnight if he arranged a date with Tracy. Billy forgot to tell Sarah and he presumed Charlie had collected Bella when she was not there when he got home from work.
Years past and Bella never forgot about her Jake but still refused to talk to him or his family, he also never forgot about Bella and missed her company. Bella refused to be bounced around between Mother and Father so she just stayed in La Push and refused the be minded or babysat by anyone, she went to school got top grades, came home studied and went to bed, she had no interaction with her classmates only on project work when necessary. Bella needed no one and wanted no one, or that is how she acted. But when she was home alone and no one could hear her she cried for her childhood, she cried for the lack of family and she cried for the hole in her chest that used to be filled with her Jake. But she refused to be reliant on anyone again and she just got on with living.
It all changed one night when Bella was around sixteen Bella had gone for run around the forest trail, she did this when she was thinking or bored. She was thinking of all the strange happenings in the reservation, a lot of the boys were growing really fast, much faster than normal and seemed to have no need for clothes, she had heard gossip and belief in the reservation that they were a cult or a group of druggies but the council seemed to love them and treated them with a lot of respect. Sam Uley seemed to be the leader and some of the seniors in her school started to follow him and then Jake and his friends joined the gang. Since joining Jake had stopped trying to be her friend and he seemed to be friends with Quil and Embry again after distancing himself from them for so long.
Bella was as curious as the other about what was happening in the reservation but after years of disinterest Bella didn't even know how to figure out what was happening. She had not looked directly at Jake for eight years they were now in the same class as she skipped a grade last year as she had done so many AP classes. The teachers soon learnt that Bella Swan did not work on the same groups as Jacob Black nor would she sit at the same table. When Mr Smith tried to force the issue she walked out of the class and changed her subjects straight away. Some say it was Mr Smith's loss as Bella Swan was the only student who enjoyed Shakespeare.
Bella stopped running at a particular spot of the forest trail, it was the part that overlooked the Cliffs she always stopped here and looked out at the sun setting over the ocean, she loved this time of day, and it was usually quiet and peaceful. Ever since the night she spent alone in the forest she had no fear of the forest or being alone at night.
She began to make her way home when she heard a sniggering voice. "Look what we have here." A Tall black haired pale man stepped from behind a tree.
"What do you want?" Bella demanded.
"Why, you of course." He smirked.
"Not interested." She responded and tried to step around him.
He moved faster than a speeding bullet and grabbed her. "No you don't darl'n" he leaned down and sniffed her neck. "Oh you smell divine; I think I will have a little fun with you before I devour you."
Bella gasped at the coldness of his hands and even his clothed body felt frigid. When he pulled her close she could see his face clearly and she realised this was no normal man when she saw his burgundy eyes, Bella instinctively knew that she was trapped in the arms of an animalistic killer. She could feel his strength and even though she had done self-defence classes she knew by the fact he wasn't even moving when she was trying to push him away there was no point in hurting herself more.
He began to lick her neck and Bella could not stop shaking with fear, she was so scared she couldn't even scream or move. The feeling of him touching her was the worst experience of her life. She knew she was going to die that night and she really hoped he killed her fast. Her heart was thumping so fast she didn't notice that they had company.
The predator stopped his assault and looked around. "You are one lucky little girl, I hope to get to taste you again soon darl'n." then he disappeared. She slid down the tree he had her pressed against and her butt hit the ground she opened her eyes and screamed.
Before her stood two humongous wolves they were the size of horses. They were staring at her with huge brown eyes. One wolf was staring at Bella as if she was the most important thing in its whole world while the other was looking between Bella and the wolf and he looked like he was laughing with his tongue hanging out and his body was shaking.
Bella closed her eyes and opened them again and the two wolves were still there. She sat at the base of the tree and stared at the Russet coloured wolf just as it stared at her. She then turned and looked at the black and grey wolf to see him looking between them both, something about their behaviour seemed very human to Bella and also very familiar. Both sets of eyes looked familiar to her but the Russet wolf's eyes felt part of her they actually made her feel like she was home, like she belonged. Bella never had that feeling before, the closest she ever got to that was making mud pies with Jake when they were kids.
The eyes were so human like a how could such a huge animal look so human. She shook her head and who was that creep that molested her, he did not seem very human to here either particularly his temperature his eyes and of course not to forget his strength. How ridiculous was it that she saw these wolves to be more human than the human that had just attacked her.
A few minutes later the wolf was still staring at her when she luckily had regained her voice, "Thanks guys you saved me." They nodded their heads at her and at that moment Bella realised that they were human and the other creep was not he was one of the Cold Ones from their legends, she always romanticised that those legends could be real but now she was pretty sure they were. She had been saved from a cold one by the protectors of La Push and just like that she knew who the protectors were, they were Sam's gang, they acted differently because of their ability to channel their spirit wolf and the need to protect us all. So she tried to figure out who the wolves were in front of her. She knew those eyes and the only person's eyes she ever really looked at from that gang was Jakes. Jake was the wolf in front of her, of that she was really sure.
She slowly stood up using the tree for support, "Well Jacob Black thanks for the protection but I am going to go home now."