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Chapter 1 – Homecoming and arguing

EPOV

I slammed the door in Alice's face. I didn't want to hear her arguments once again. I couldn't. I knew far to well that if I'd listen to them, I'd give in to temptation and go back.

To Bella...

Bella, with her long, brown and beautiful hair. Her tempting lips, that begged to be kissed. Her pleading eyes, with that tiny sparkle in them. Her laugh, that beautiful laughter that sounded as small silvery bells.

My Bella.

"You can't hide forever, Edward!" Alice screamed to me through the door.

I ignored her.

"You know darn too well that you'll give up sooner or later! Let it be sooner, please! Esme is devestated!"

I ignored her once again.

I heard Alice spin in her heel and walk away, muttering to herself.

They had all tried to persuade me to go back, or at least forget about her. But I knew that both options were impossible to fulfil. If I went back, I'd hurt her, sooner and later. How would I be able to live with myself if I did?

And if I didn't go back... If I forgot about her...

That was even more impossible. She was, and still is, my everything. That would be like never seeing the sun again, to forevere be banned to the dark.

I sighed and went to look out the window. The rain poured down outside, and somehow it felt comforting. Like I wasn't the only broken piece in the world.

"Bella..." I whispered.

BPOV

"C'mon, Bells!" Jake shouted.

I laughed, he was so ardent, so glad. His whole face shone with an inner light. He had so much energy inside him.

I ran after him in my sneakers, not nearly as fast as Jake.

I stopped when I came to the top of the cliff. After much persuading from my side, I had finally made him go cliffdiving with me. I think it was just because he didn't want me to do it all by myself, but I was glad anyway.

We took off all our clothes except the swimwear and he took my hand.

"You're positive you want to do this?" he said. I nodded.

"I'm not going to chicken out now, ya know!"

And with those words we were off.

The fall took much longer than I had exspected. One second, two, three. I heard the splashing sound right before I landed in the water. At first I felt a slight panic over being disoriented, but I soon felt Jake drag me up.

The water was cold, and we quickly got out of the water.

"That was awesome!" I bursted out. Jake just smiled back at me, and I felt a small tingle in my stomach.

It had been six months since he left and it was the beginning of May. It wasn't like I'd forgotten about him. I knew deep inside that I never would. However, ever since Jake had saved me from drowning, I've kinda made up my mind to at least try to be happy. If for no other reason, at least I didn't want to worry Charlie. And Jake made me feel alive again. Not the way he had. Noone would ever made me as alive as he did. But when I was with Jake, I could be myself. He comforted me when I all of sudden started crying over him. He didn't judge me, and that made me strong.

We walked slowly by the river's edge, hand in hand. Jake's golden skin was covered with tiny droplets of water, and I couldn't help to peek at his astonishing muscles. He'd gotten more muscles during the last months, and wasn't at all as lanky as he'd been before. He looked a lot more athletic now, and with his shiny, black hair he looked like a model.

A breaze from the ocean made me shiver a little, and Jake looked at me with worried eyes.

"You're cold, aren't you?" He stated, but then started to smile. "What are you looking at?"

He knew damn to well what I was looking out, that little teaser, and I blushed.

"Anytime, girl."

I got even redder and looked away.

"You've got goose pimples," he pause, and then smiled slyly, "well, I know the perfect cure for that!" He said and scooped me up in his arms.

I, ineffectively, tried to force me to put me down on the ground.

"You're not a radiator, Jake!"

"For you I am."

I rolled my eyes and he laughed. Then I noticed that he was walking back to his house instead up on the cliffes for our clothes.

"Hey, my clothes!"

"I'll get them later. Otherwise I'd have to let you go, and we wouldn't want that, would we?"

Back at the house, he got me a pair of his sweatpants and one of his T-shirts. Need I say that they were a lot too big for me?

We bunked up in front of the TV, but neither of us really watched it. I think it was about some pregnant old lady or something, but I'm not sure.

I sat in Jake's lap and smelled his neck. It smelt good. One part forest, and one part... Jake.

He placed one of his hands on my hip to move me closer. His other hand twisted a coil of my hair beteween his big fingers.

When I looked in his eyes, I smiled. I got a smile in return, before his mouth covered mine.

"Hi, beauty." He whispered softly when we stopped to gasp for air.

"Hello handsome." I answered.

JPOV

I looked at my watch over her shoulder and sighed. It was really time for her to go home. I had Charlie on my side now, but I didn't want to stretch the boundaries too far.

"It's time for you to get home, " I stated with a sad voice. I was glad when I noticed that her mood also got worse when I said that.

Sometimes, I still doubted that she really liked me. Maybe it was silly, because every time I kissed her I could hear her heart bolt away. But still... I couldn't help to wonder if she still loved that leech.

She noticed how my mood crached and questiongly raised an eyebrow. I felt one of her tiny hands on my cheek when whe turned my face to hers.

"What is it, Jake? Why do you just crash sometimes, like you start to think about something?"

Her eyes made me blurp it out.

"Do you still love him?"

"What?"

She looked away when she said it, and I knew that she knew what I was talking about him.

"Have I done something to make you think I don't love you? 'Cause I do, Jake, I really love you?"

"More than you loved him?"

She looked away, and all the happiness that were here just moments ago were gone.

"Jake..." She pleaded.

I continued, mercilessly. I didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable, but I needed to know.

"If he came back, would you go back? To him?"

"I..."

"Would you? After all he's done to you?"

"I don't think so," She said after some time, "I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive him. He left me, and he promised that I'd never see him again. And that'll never happen, 'cause he never loved me."

She sounded so sad, that I immediately regretted even bringing up this conversation.

"I was a wreck, and it's all his fault," she stated, "but then something happened, something that lit up my life. Something that made me feel alive again, even though I got this big whole in my heart that still kills me some times." She paused. "You came into my life", she said and smiled sadly.

I just hugged her and held her tight.

"I love you", I whispered to her.

We sat quietly for a while before I told her that I'd better take her home or her father would come and kill me. Thereafter I drove her home in my car and kissed her good night, before I headed home. I had to get some sleep before it was my turn to patrol.

BPOV

Charlie sat and watched a game on the TV.

"Did you have fun, Bella?" He asked and shot a suspicious glance at me. He preferred Jake to Edward – he was even fond of Jake. But that didn't mean he'd support all kinds interactions between us.

"Yeah, dad. Have you eaten yet? You saw the leftovers I had put on the table, right?"

He nodded. "What about you? Did you eat at Jake's?"

I nodded back to him before I headed for sleep.

EPOV

I saw my family gathered around the table. It had taken Emmet and Rose a day's travel to come here, and Esme and Jasper who'd been hunting several hours. I knew they were all extremely curious – apart from Alice, that is. She alone knew what I was about to say.

"I want to move back."

They all understood what I meant. The reactions were all very different – Alice felt euforia, Emse felt happily calm. Carlisle was happy and Emmet anxious how Rosalie would take it. Rosalie was, surprisingly, calm and... accepting? I eyed her suspiciously.

"You've been so sad, brother," she explained. "If Isabella can make you happy, then lets move back. God knows we're own you that one."

JPOV

I could smell them. Me and the rest of the pack were watching them getting out of their cars and – faster than any human – get themselves and their belongings into that big, old house.

Why did they come back?

I watch him walk up the front steps. He looked devestated, yet eager. Like if he was longing to something. Or rather someone, and I knew far too well who it was.

My Bella.

A growl escaped my clenched teeth. Within a mere second, all the leeches were gathered and ready to fight.

I could hear Sam tell us to get out of the forest and present ourselves. He told me specifically to control myself, and to keep my mouth shut.

"We know you're there!" The oldest one, he who called himself Carlisle, spoke. He knew we could hear him.

We stepped out of the forest, and Sam transformed himself into a human. The rest of the pack did the same, but it took a bit longer than usual for me – I was so mad at them. They'd, no he'd, almost killed Bella!

He, the one who Bella had loved, turned paler than before and looked like someone had punched him in the stomach. That's when I remembered he could hear my thoughts.

"We haven't broken the treaty." The doctor continued.

"We know, we just wanted to tell you that there's another leech here, and if you don't want her to get killed you'd better tell her to leave the area."

"What?" The mother of the family said. "There aren't supposed to be any other ones hear right know. Do you know who she is?"

"She's called Victoria," Sam answered politely.

He fell down on the ground.

"What has she done?" he whispered, but everybody heard.

"She's hunting a human."

We all knew which human he talked about.

"She's not a friend of ours. Now, may you please leave our yard?" The tall, blonde female was the one to speak, and Sam nodded before he transformed. We all followed him and ran away. We had to protect Bella.

BPOV

I was awaked by the sound of something hitting the window. Sleepily I got up and looked out the window. A familiar face looked at me through the glass, and I gladly opened the window, although I was surprised.

"What're you doing here, Jake, in the middle of the night?"

He jumped in and I my mood immediately turned afraid. I didn't like the look on his face.

"Sit down, Bella. I've got news to tell you."

Scared, I sat down on my bed, still in my pyjamas. I didn't even look at Jake's half-naked appearance.

He swallowed.

"They're back."

"Wait, I don't think I heard you," she stated. "Please repeat; I thought you said that they're back."

"They are. I was over at their place just some minutes ago with Sam and the pack. We told them about Victoria hunting you, and well, then that blonde one told us to leave, so we did. Listen, Bella, don't go back to him, he almost killed you last time!"

He moved up to me and took my hand, but I pushed him back. I wasn't really able to think, but I was furious with Jake.

"You did what!" I exclaimed. "Did you tell them 'bout Victoria?"

"Yes...?" Jake said confused.

"How could you! The last thing I want is Edward coming here to "save" me!" I paused – how could he do such a thing without consulting me?

"What?"

"I thought you understood me better than that!"

He looked hurt, but I turned away.

"I'm sorry, Bells, but I didn't think that you'd mind me trying to save your life."

"Excuse me? I can take care of myself!"

He mumbled something.

"Pardon me?"

"I said that you apparently are extremely stupid if you thought you could take care of yourself."

I was hurt.

"Out, Jake."

"What?"

"Out!"

"I'll be glad to." He stated before he left through the open window.

I lay down on my bed, trying desperately to sort out everything. Edward was back. I'd had my first fight with Jake when he was my boyfriend. Edward was back...