I hung up after having received Jacob's voicemail once again. I didn't bother to leave a message. What was the point, he wouldn't answer it anyway. I fell backwards onto my bed. I couldn't stop myself from thinking horrible thoughts, from thinking that Jacob was just another Edward. I did it again.

I ripped open the hole in my heart by thinking about the man that had left me for dead in the forest. It was Sam Uley that had saved me that night. I guess this could be considered my payment because now he had Jacob in his freakish cult, I just knew it in my gut. Mono my ass. Downstairs I heard the front door slam announcing that Charlie had left for his day of fishing. He had offered to stay home saying that he didn't really have to go in the rain but I pretty much pushed him out the front door.

I lay in silence for a total of 6 minutes and 23seconds before I felt like an electric waved passed over me. Why hadn't I thought of going to see him before? I jumped up so fast I may have been mistaken for one of them.. There I went again, thinking of them. I didn't know it was humanly possible to feel so much emotion for one person. I tightened my grip around my keys as I slammed the front door behind me. I raced towards the reservation despite the fact that I could barely see what the hell was in front of me. I turned my windscreen wipers onto a higher speed. I pulled down Jacob's driveway. A figure caught my eyes. Is that really who I thought that was? Jacob all but stomped towards the forest. His hair, which had been more than halfway down his back last time I saw him, was at almost a buzz cut. Right there on his shoulder was massive black circle. What was that? My eyes widened. A tattoo, he had gotten a freaking tattoo. I knew the mono story was bullshit. Some one who had mono would not be walking through the pouring rain in nothing but cut offs. I threw the door open to my beast. I jumped down onto the ground and slammed the door behind me.

'Jacob!' I screamed. I knew he had heard and seen me but still he continued heading in the direction of the forest. I ran to reach him. 'Jacob!' I yelled again grabbing hold of his arm and forcing him to turn around. His skin burned against my flesh causing me to jump slightly in surprise.

'Go home Bella.' He snapped looking down at me. His eyes weren't cold and hard like I had expected them to be but sad and even a little guilty.

'I thought you were sick. To sick to answer my calls or get out of bed let alone get a hair cut and a tattoo!' I was starting to shiver from the rain already.

'Jake!' I turned towards the booming voice calling Jacobs name. In the distance I saw Sam Uley. Behind him were all of his little pussy-whipped bitches.

'Really you're one of them now?' I looked at him with disappointment. I thought he had been stronger than that. Then a thought ran through my head, what if it was because of me? 'Jake if this is about what I said at the movies I'm sorry. I didn't mean never, I just meant I wasn't ready maybe if you just give me a little time?'

Jacob almost looked heartbroken at this. 'Bella its not you.'

'It's not you it's me right?' I sighed throwing my arms out and letting them fall to my side.

'It is me Bella. Look ok I cant be around you anymore. I'm not good for you. Why don't you ask your little blood-sucking leech's about it.' He voice came out harsher than expected but the stab at the Cullen's was what shocked me the most.

'I don't know what your talking about..' I whispered. Both of us knew that I did but it was still worth the shot to protect their secret. I would always protect them even if they would no longer protect me.

Jacob rolled his eyes and snorted. ''Please. That little act might work on Charlie and your friends but you're not fooling me. Go home Bella, and don't come back.'

I watched as my best friend, my protector and my strength to carry on walked away from me or rather ran. Ran to his new found posse. I don't know how I managed to get home but I already was a master of distraction. I did all of my homework for the next two weeks, I cleaned the entire house and I cooked dinner all by six. I left Charlie's in the microwave and put a note on the table saying where his dinner was and that I had gone to bed early due to not feeling well.

I'm not sure what was making me feel so ill. It may have been the rain or it may have been the fact that I had just lost the most important person in my life for the second time. First Edward and now Jacob. The thought of Edward set a whole new wave of tears from falling down my cheeks.

'Bella.' Whispered a raspy musky kind of voice. One that I knew all too well as Jacob. I looked up from my pillow and saw Jacob at the foot of my bed.

He went on to explain that he was sorry for how he had acted today. That he had a secret that wasn't his secret to tell. Apparently the killer part was that I already knew. Urging me to remember that day at the beach with the legends about the cold ones, he bade me goodnight and shot out the window like it was nothing.

My mind couldn't rest, it was constantly buzzing with ideas and memories. Then it hit me at 3am. I sat bolt up right knowing now exactly what had happened. This was all their fault. Sam Uley and the rest of his stupid little group were to blame for this.

I barely waited till sunrise. I floored it to the reservation as fast as I could. It was one of the benefits of being the chief's daughter. No risk of being fined for speeding. I knocked on Jacob's front door until Billie opened it.

'Is Jacob in? I really need to see him.' I looked as seriously as I could down as Billie. He looked back up at me with a look in his eyes that he no longer was concerned for my safety.

'Sorry Bella, he's not in right now. Could I take another message?' I shook my head, ignored Billie and walked straight into the house, heading straight for Jacobs room. I flung the door open to reveal Jacob, his feet hanging off the edge of the bed just like his arm. I heard voices outside and someone laughed. I knew that laugh. It was Quil. I turned around and sprinted out of the house in their direction.

'What did you do to him!' I screamed.

'Jacob been spilling secrets again has he? Figures he'd find away around it.' Jared muttered.

'Jacob hasn't told me anything. He's only joined your pathetic group because he's so terrified of you!' I couldn't help but yell. I was just so angry at them.

They all burst out laughing. One that I distantly recognised as Paul stepped forward. 'Yeah Bella. We really terrify him. Because it's really like any of us asked for this to happen.'

I couldn't stop myself. My angry boiled over the top and before I could even think my hand impacted on his face. Hard.