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EPOV

I walked into the house to find Jasper, Alice, and Emmett staring directly at me. Jasper was feeling my emotions. Emmett was sitting there with an obnoxious smirk on his face.

Maybe we weren't as far away as we thought I thought to myself.

Edward, I need to talk to you, I heard in my mind from Alice. I expected her to have seen what was going to happen between me and Jacob. I moved my head a fraction of an inch in a nod.

We quickly made our way upstairs to my bedroom. Alice turned to face me.

"Don't hurt him, Edward, he's already been through enough." Alice said.

"I won't. I just don't know what to do. How is this supposed to happen? We're enemies, I don't understand." I looked away.

"I don't know how it works either. I do know one thing though. When a werewolf imprints his main concern is his imprintee. If you hurt him Edward, it affects him more. Be careful."

"Alice," I groaned in frustration, "what am I supposed to do?"

"I honestly don't know, but in every one of my visions, you are there with Jacob." Alice said quietly and then she gracefully left the room.

"Uughhh." I moaned. Why was this happening to me? Why now? I needed to move past all this. I needed to move past Forks entirely. I sighed and went back downstairs.

Emmett and Jasper were still sitting on the couch, but Emmett was the only one watching the baseball game very intently. Jasper had his eyes trained on me. He could feel my frustration, and he quickly calmed the atmosphere in the room.

I sat down in a chair next to the window. I closed my eyes and thought about what I would do with the situation with Jacob. What kind of relationship did Jacob want or need? I certainly couldn't be his lover, I wasn't gay. I understood that he needed to be around me, but how?

For hours I debated in my mind the scenarios I could choose. I heard Carlisle and Esme return home, but someone must have filled them in because they left me alone. I was grateful for that. In the end, I chose to be his best friend, whatever that entailed. We would have to get through this together.


In the morning, I grudgingly made my way to Forks High School. Going to school really had no point for me. I already knew the work, there was nothing to do there. Everyone avoided me except my family, of course.

I knew that if I was truly being honest with myself, school was only uninteresting becase Bella wasn't there. I always looked forward to seeing her. Bella was the favorite part of my day. What do I have to look forward to now? Jacob I instantly thought. No I argued with myself.

I went through the day off somewhere in my own little mind, not paying attention in any of my classes. This made the day quickly though, and I was relieved. As the bell rang I retrieved my school books and headed to my Volvo.

As I approached my car I noticed a dark, hooded figure leaning against the door. Jacob. I knew I would see him at one point or another, but I didn't think it would be here.

"Jacob, I-" I began.

"No, you listen to me, leech." Jacob said gruffly. "I don't want to be here but I needed to see you. I don't know what is going on with me, but I don't want this. I can't want this." he said more quietly.

"Jacob," I tried to begin again.

"No, you don't understand. I can't control this." his voice faltered. "Please don't hate me."

"I know you don't have control over this. It's okay Jacob, honestly. This is new for me too. We will take our time with this imprint thing." I looked over. Jacob was running his hands through his hair and tugging at the ends.

"Edward, I need to explain how this works. We need to sort this out. Can we meet somewhere, just you and me?" he looked at me, his brown eyes boring into mine.

"Sure how about the baseball field?"

"Yeah, I'll meet you there." he said quickly and strode away. I got in my car. I didn't know when I was supposed to meet him so I headed over there.

When I arrived I saw Jacob sitting on a large rock with his head in his hands. It made me hurt to see him so frustrated. I quietly walked over to him and sat on the ground below him. I waited until he was ready to talk.

"Edward," he started, " I honestly do not have a clue how this happened? What I wanted to tell you was how the imprint works." he paused. "I don't need to be your lover or anything, I just need to be in your life. When werewolves imprint on someone, the one they imprint on is usually their soul mate. I don't know if you want this Edward, but I need this. I ache physically and emotionally when I am not around you for a long period of time. Last night was almost unbearable for me." Jacob finished.

"I have a better understanding now, I guess. So does this mean we're friends? I asked.

"Sure whatever you want, as long as I can be around you."

"This imprinting thing isn't temporary, is it? I asked, part of me hoping it wasn't.

"No" Jacob said looking down.

"Have you told the pack yet?"

"No, I need time to adjust to this. I never believed that this was possible." I nodded. We were quiet for a while. I listened to his thoughts.

I wonder if he is okay with this. I hope I'm not hurting him. I need him so bad. I care for him too much. If he doesn't want this I will find a way to leave, no matter how much it hurts. He is the most important thing to me now. I want to see him so much more than I should. My best friend….. Jacob thought. I sucked in a breath at his words. He cares so much how I feel. This is so different. We went to hating each other to best friends. Unbelievable.

I closed my eyes and tried my hardest not to listen to Jacob's thoughts. We both sat in silence. After what seemed like a few minutes, I opened my eyes. Jacob was staring at me. His expression was half confused and half awed. He kept staring at me. I stared back, but he didn't look away. I found myself listening to Jacob's thoughts again.

This is so new. He looks so….. Jacob broke that thought as he turned his head, distracted. I desperately wanted to know what he thought I looked like. I heard a gasp from him.

I turned to look to see what was wrong. He was staring at something in the shadow of the edge of the forest. A tall, dark brown wolf. It was Sam. He was looking right at us. Sam put his head back and howled. I saw Jacob shiver, just a little bit beside me.


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