AN: Hi everyone, this is my first fanfic so bear with me. This story is set during new moon time, except Edward hasn't left. Bella and Jacob are still human; there are no werewolves (yet!) Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Fine, I don't own Twilight, stop making me feel bad about myself!
_Bella_
"Urgh, do you have to go?" Edward asked, his marble white fingers lightly tracing my jaw line.
I sighed quietly, staring up into his liquid gold eyes. What he said was true, did I really have to go? I could call Jacob now and cancel, he wouldn't mind, would he? Then I would have the day free to spend with Edward, my one and only, the other part of me.
But I'd really missed Jake lately, ever since Edward came back from his camping trip with Emmett and Jasper, I'd been spending every waking (and sleeping) moment with Edward. I really needed to spend some time with Jake, to let go of all my worries and relax for a few hours.
"Yup, I do," I announced, watching as Edward's face fall, "Relax", I told him, "I'll be perfectly fine. Jake won't hurt me, what do you think he is, a monster?" He just raised one eyebrow and stared at me expectantly.
Rolling my eyes, I placed my right fist over my heart. "I, Bella Swan, solemnly swear that whilst I am away, I will refrain from dangerous or risky activities, drugs, alcohol or violence. I will do my utmost best to keep myself safe, so that I may be returned to you in the same condition you left me in. Amen, Alleluia, blah blah blah. Are you happy now?"
Edward just smirked at me. "Fine, you win, get in the car.
_Jacob_
"Yes! Bella's here," I called upstairs, hanging up the phone, "see ya later dad."
I ran down the gravel driveway and headed off to the boundary line. I don't have a clue why the Cullen's aren't allowed on the reservation, but then, the Quileute elders have always been strange, dad included. I spotted the shiny Volvo after only a few minutes of running, seriously, by how much I'd been growing lately, you'd think dad was slipping steroids into my breakfast cereal. But whatever, life's weird.
I ran over to the car, opened the door and swung Bella out, swinging her around in an enormous, bone-crushing bear hug.
"Owww, the pain," cried Bella dramatically, "I can't take it anymore!" She tilted up her head and grinned at me. "Woah Mr BFG, what kind of drugs have you been taking lately? You're freaking enormous!"
"Yeah whatever, shortie, you're just jealous."
"Yup, definitely, I'm totally jealous, I just wish I was a vain, extremely strong, over 7 foot tall sixteen-year-old boy. Sure," she rolled her eyes at me.
"Okay fine, come on, grab your stuff and let's go already!" I whined at her.
Bella turned to Edward, a look of utter romance crossing her beautiful face. He leant down and whispered something in her ear which made her warm eyes which were like chocolate buttons light up with obvious love. A low growl built up in my throat but I quickly covered it up with a fake cough. Why, oh why didn't she look at me like that? Life just wasn't fair.
After a devastatingly long minute of the two love birds staring deep into one another's eyes, Bella reluctantly tore away her gaze and looked at me, "Okay, let's go."
I swung her bag onto my shoulder and lifted her into my arms, ignoring her squeals of protest. But as I began to run back the house, I couldn't resist. I turned around and stuck out my tongue at Edward, mouthing the words, ha-ha, she's mine now! The grumpy idiot just scowled at me, then whipped around, got into his flash car and drove away.
"Yay, now Mr Grumpy Guy's gone, let's go have some fun!" I grinned.
"Can we work on your car?" Bella asked, looking up at me.
"Sure thing, Miss Swan, your wish is my command."
I pulled up the old, creaking garage door and sat Bella down on the half-rotten couch. With that, I grabbed my tool set and began to work on tuning the engine. We chatted for a while as I worked and Bella watched, occasionally helping with the odd job, although every time she even touched the car, something 'strangely went wrong.'
'Yo Bells, can you chuck me that hammer over there on the shelf, I need to hammer in this nail?"
Bella saluted, "I'm on it, Sir Jacob Sir," she grinned and picked up the hammer, tossing it lightly between her hands before throwing it across the room towards me.
What happened next rolled over the tape in slow motion, no matter how many times I replayed it in my mind.
I lifted up my hands to catch the spinning hammer, but as I did, the light captured Bella's face as she laughed, her voice tinkling like bells. She looked so breathtakingly beautiful, I was gobsmacked. My jaw dropped and I stood there, like a complete and utter idiot, my mouth hung open like a goldfish.
"Jake, look out!" Bella screamed.
The moment was shattered as the hammer continued to fly towards me. I instinctively reached up my hands to catch it, but I was too late. The hammer whacked me on the head and I stood there, stunned, before slumping back down onto the couch.
"Ohmigod Jake, are you okay?" Bella rushed over to where I lay, my head throbbing. She leant over me and I looked up to see multiple Bella's crossing over one another.
"Yeah, I'm all good, I'll be-"
But Bella never got to find out what I would 'be' as I began to shake uncontrollably, the anger swelling up inside me until I felt like I would explode.
She gently touched my cheek and I could see the shock in her eyes from the heat of my skin.
"Get away from me!" I growled at her, my eyes narrowed.
"Woah, Jake, calm down. I'm really, really sorry but there's no need to growl at me. Chill out, man."
"GET AWAY FROM ME, YOU STUPID BITCH! WHY THE FUCK DID YOU CHUCK A HAMMER AT ME, YOU LITTLE SHIT!" I yelled at her, as the shaking got worse and worse. I couldn't think about anything apart from my extreme anger at the girl I loved. My skin felt like it was on fire and I was finding it harder and harder to breath. I turned around and ran outside into the garden.
That was when I exploded out of my skin.
_Bella_
"Ohmigod Jake, are you okay?" I sprinted over to where Jacob was lying limp on the couch. I leant over him and gasped at what I saw.
His eyes were glazed over and his tongue was lolling out to the side. An enormous lump was beginning to form right in the middle of his forehead and dark red blood was dripping down his face. Then, if that wasn't bad enough he began to shake uncontrollably, as if he was going to explode. I lightly pressed my hand against his cheek and my breath caught in my throat. His skin was scorching hot, as if a raging fire was burning directly underneath his skin. Suddenly, it was as if he could see again.
"Get away from me!" he growled at me. He growled at me? What was this?
"Woah, Jake, calm down." I said, holding up my hands in surrender. "I'm really, really sorry but there's no need to growl at me. Chill out, man." I couldn't believe it; this wasn't my Jacob, what was going on?
He went mad. "GET AWAY FROM ME, YOU STUPID BITCH! WHY THE FUCK DID YOU CHUCK A HAMMER AT ME, YOU LITTLE SHIT!" His words were like knifes, each one cutting deep into me. The hurt overwhelmed me, but there was also confusion. What was wrong with my Jake?
With one last scowl at me, Jacob turned around and ran out into the garden.
I followed him out then almost fainted at what happened next.
Jacob let out a roar then leapt up into the air. As he was airborne his entire body exploded into an enormous creature, bigger than any animal I'd ever seen. His fur was deep reddish-brown and his eyes were black with fury. All in all, it looked like Jacob had suddenly exploded into a- well what was it? It looked similar to a wolf, although it couldn't be. It was five times the size of any wolf I'd ever seen, larger than even a bear. But Jake couldn't be an enormous wolf, could he? People changing into animals? That only happened in fairytales and Harry Potter. It couldn't be. In spite of everything, I almost laughed out loud at myself. What a hypocrite I was. I spent all my time with vampires, for crying out loud. Who was I to say that anything didn't exist?
The wolf then turned towards me and let out an ear-splitting roar and began charging across the garden towards me. I turned and sprinted into the garage, where I knew Jacob wouldn't be able to reach me. I was right; he turned around and ran away from me, over the 2 metres tall fence and deep into the forest.
I collapsed onto the damp grass, feeling as if the world was closing in on me. How could everything change in one measly moment? One minute I'm hanging out with Jake, just chilling out, next thing I'm running from my life from my best friend/mutated giant wolf. Little bit of change there for you folks, just keeping you on your toes!
I don't know how long I lay there for, curled up into a tight ball in the middle of Jacob Blacks garden. It must have been a strange sight, I could see to newspaper headlines now;
Odd teenage girl seems to have reached insanity
In case you hadn't realised yet, La Push doesn't exactly have many interesting stories happen usually, the headlines usually read something like:
Jimmy the Seagull performs back flips to amazed fans- or something like that?
After what seemed like a minute, but very well could have been an hour, Billy came out and prodded me until I stood up and trudged back to the house, where I promptly fell down on the coach and fell sound asleep.
"Bella, honey, are you okay?"
I half opened my eyelids to see a blurred Jacob leaning over me, a look of pure concern on his face. It seemed as if all his recent anger had disappeared, leaving me lovable and caring Jake behind.
I sat up sleepily, and looked at Jake, who was perched on the couch next to me. I couldn't help but see a new look in his eyes, a weird expression I had never seen in his deep brown eyes. I couldn't help but notice how beautiful he was, the way his long, black hair hung softly down his back, and his eyes which made me feel like he could see deep within me, right to where I kept my deepest, darkest secrets.
Jakes urgent voice cut into my thoughts, "Bells, I'm so, so, so sorry for earlier, I didn't mean a single thing I said to you, I couldn't help it."
"What do you mean; you couldn't help it? You do have control over your mouth Jake, not Mr Nobody!"
"No, no, you don't understand." His face reflected pure agony at the thought of hurting me. "You see Bells, I'm not a human anymore, I'm a-"
"Oh really?" I asked, my voice dripping with sarcasm, "You're not? Because you know, after you suddenly had a psycho at me then turned into a freaking giant wolf, I totally thought that you were just a normal human, like me. Yeah, sure."
"Bella, I get that you're upset, but listen to me, I'm a-a, I'm a werewolf."