A/N: OMG!!! You guys are so freakin' awesome! Not many reviews, but lots of peeps adding me to their story alerts and fav author. I am so flattered that you guys have accepted me after just one chapter! I hope you guys stick with me because I have so much planned for this story. You should see my notes, it's crazy!

I need to take a second to thank a few people. A very special thank you to shelbielyncullen. She is a truly wonderful friend who has read my chapters as I have written them offering her notes and advice. Thank you so much! I appreciate your friendship more than you know!

Second thank you goes out to my brother and his wife. They also helped form the beginning chapters and were a tremendous amount of support to me. Jeremy thanks for always being honest. Katie thanks for being the best sister a girl could ever ask for.

Last, but certainty not least, a big BIG thank you to my beta gjmom!

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Wonderwall

The person of which you have a total infatuation with

A person with an indescribable aura, making them seem so perfect, almost intangible

The person that you feel could be the one to "save you" from whatever unhappiness or emptiness you feel

The person you feel could complete you

Your soul mate

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CHAPTER 2: IMPRINTING AND OTHER DISASTERS

JPOV

It had been a bad fucking three weeks.

The night I proposed to Bella was the happiest of my life. I had promised to take care of her and told her that no one would ever hurt her ever again the way that bloodsucker had. I was so sure she would say yes but terrified she would say no at the same time. When she did say yes it wasn't like it is in movies. She didn't cry and jump up and down. She didn't throw her arms around me so I could pick her up and swing her in a circle while we kissed and everyone around us looked at us like we were crazy.

No Bella was a thinker. So she sat on our tree at our spot at First Beach and held the box in her hand while worrying on her bottom lip and thinking…..and thinking. Then she looked up at me with tears in the corner of her eyes and asked me one simple thing.

"Jake, if I say yes do you promise to stay with me forever. I just don't think I can live through another broken heart and…."

Still on one knee, I cupped her cheek and looked deep in her eyes. "Bella, I promise you are safe with me and I will take care of you. I love you and want nothing more than for you to be happy. Say yes and I will spend the rest of our lives showing you all the love and happiness you deserve. Yes Bella, I promise to stay with you forever because that's how long it will take to show you all of that and so much more." I could have kept going but no amount of words would ever ease the fear she had that I would leave her the way that leech had.

Bella took a deep breath and I could see a hint of a smile around the corners of her mouth. "Yes Jake, I'll marry you."

I should have never made that promise, not with everything I knew about imprinting. For a long time I felt like it was just a myth. Then I convinced myself that Bella was my imprint and for some reason I couldn't see it. Like she had some sort of shield around her that kept me out, but that she was still mine….my imprint.

Then I took her out for our anniversary three weeks ago and fucked everything up. If it was an Olympic sport I would have medaled gold for this fuck up.

I made reservations months ago for this new restaurant in Port Angeles. Even though I called the week the restaurant opened, I still couldn't get a reservation for the night of our anniversary. I settled for the Friday night 4 days after our anniversary. Bella didn't mind though. She said it gave her 4 more days to put off shopping for an anniversary present. The way Bella loathed shopping I'm sure she had just got me a gift card like she did every year, but was saying that to make me feel better.

When we got to the restaurant the hostess seated us and explained they were short handed so it might be a while till our waitress would be able to get to our table. We used the time to exchange gifts, mine of course was the gift card and I gave Bella a Kindle with all her favorite books already downloaded to it, and then talked casually while we waited. We were in the middle of talking about Bella's dilemma of teaching another year or finishing her book when I heard THE voice. The voice that sounded like music and was soothing and more beautiful than anything else. When I looked up and my eyes met hers I was so sure it had happened that I almost cried.

Cried because I was so happy.

Cried because I was going to break my promise to Bella.

I had imprinted.

It was obvious the waitress felt something too because I could read it in her eyes. I saw the love and the joy and the…..tension.

I had told the restaurant we were celebrating our 5 year anniversary so we could get a better table so I was sure the waitress had been made privy to our situation. I could tell she was conflicted between ravishing me and maintaining a professional demeanor so as not to get bitch slapped in the middle of the restaurant by another man's wife. She didn't know Bella so she didn't know that would never happen.

After she took our order and left, neither Bella nor I said anything for what felt like forever. We didn't even look at each other. Then she finally spoke.

"So…you imprinted."

My gut told me to deny it as convincingly as possible, but I couldn't lie to Bella, "Ya, I think I may have. I doubt it though because I'm still thinking I was supposed to imprint on you. I mean I guess I will have to talk to Sam and get his imput…"

"Bullshit Jake," Bella snapped, "I was at the bonfire when Embry imprinted. I've seen the look you wolves get when you see THE one and that was definitely the look you just gave Amanda or Andrea or whatever her name is."

"Her name is Abigail."

Open mouth insert foot. That was a big fucking mistake. First I just affirmed I had been paying attention to the details concerning our waitress and second the passion in my voice confirmed my passion for her.

Bella took a deep, calming breath. "Jake, thanks for the gesture with the dinner and trying to make this less uncomfortable, but I just want to go home."

"Bella, we should at least stay and eat dinner and talk about this." I wanted to try and ease her discomfort, not sure if talking about it was the best plan, but I also needed to stay so I could talk to Abigail. Less than 10 minutes after imprinting and already I couldn't stand to have her out of my sight.

"No Jake, you stay and do whatever it is you need to do. I am going to take the car and go home."

And then she walked out. I guess she expected me to walk or get home as a wolf. By the next morning, Bella was already packing boxes and I was consulting Sam on how to go about divorcing Bella.

My cell phone ringing brought me back to the present. The caller id showed it was Bella and I knew I had to face the moment I had been dreading. The divorce papers were ready to sign.

"Hello."

"Hey Jake, it's Bella." She was trying to mask her depression, but I could still tell it was there. I could feel it even over the phone.

"Hey Bells I was just going to call you." I was trying to hide my awkwardness at the conversation that was coming, but Bella knew me so well – almost better then I knew myself – I was sure she could sense it. "Are you coming to La Push later this afternoon with Charlie?"

"I hadn't planned on it. Why?"

"It's just….ummm….well, the papers are ready to be signed." My voice was so clouded with tension I barely managed to get the words out at all.

"Oh…wow…well I could probably come over for a bit to take care of that. I can't stay long though because I have dinner plans here in Port Angeles at 7." I could tell this was hard for her. Who could blame her? Not me. I was the fucker who broke the heart I spent months repairing and may never be able to be whole again. I was the fucker who broke my promises to her and was leaving her on her own.

"Everything is drawn up all you have to do is sign it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes," I replied with a little more ease this time after sensing that this conversation was going way better than I thought it would.

"Okay, sounds good." Another one of her short and to the point answers. I was getting used to those as they were all I was getting from Bella lately.

I decided to make an attempt at casual conversation even though I knew going back to a platonic relationship would be difficult. "By the way Bells, how's the new place?"

After I imprinted and it was obvious we were divorcing, Bella and I sold our house and split the proceeds. I moved back in with Billy and Bella got an apartment and stayed in Port Angeles to keep her teaching job. "Good. It's a little small and feels even smaller since I haven't unpacked, but it has potential. When I am all unpacked you and Abby should come by for dinner."

I was a little shocked at the invitation. Bella had never seemed interested in getting to know Abby and I didn't expect her to. But I could tell she was trying so I accepted. "That sounds great Bella. Just let me know. I know Abby would love to meet you. Well, officially anyway."

"OK Jake I'll see ya later."

"OK. Bye Bells."

I flipped my phone closed and opened the kitchen drawer. There they were. The symbols of my broken promises. The divorce papers. After this afternoon, it would be over. I could feel my eyes welling up and went to my room to call Abby. Even though it was an awkward situation, she was my perfect other half and would be able to give me the comfort I needed.

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I didn't realize I had fallen asleep till my cell phone rang and woke me up. Bella was calling me to let me know she was on her way but there was something else. I couldn't tell what it was but she sounded weird. Not upset or anything just …anxious. I tried to get her to tell me what was going on, but she just said she would tell me when she got here. I had my doubts because she had a hard time confiding in me like she used to.

About 30 minutes later I heard her pull up in her car. Her truck finally gave up the ghost a few years back about the same time she got her teaching job so she went and bought herself a Dodge Stratus. Even before her car came to a full stop she was starting to get out and walk towards me.

"Hey Jake. You got the papers." She was half running and almost tripped over her own feet. Classic Bella. In any other situation I would have laughed.

"Geez Bella, anxious much. I know you want to get this over with but…"

"I…it's just…well…something has come up and I need to get back to Port Angeles as soon as I can. "

"Bells, what's going on? Why are you acting like this?" Her lips formed a hard line and her eyes narrowed. Yep, she definitely was up to something. And she was going to try and hide it.

"Jake, if I tell you…you'll try to talk me out of it. You won't understand."

"We have spent the last 6 years together; I think I might understand you better than you think."

She shook her head vigorously at me. "Not this. This is the one thing you don't talk about."

The silence lasted only a fraction of a second. "You are fucking kidding me! Are you insane! Three weeks apart and we are going to dredge up your bloodsucker past! Why? You don't know where he is and in case you forgot he threw you away like trash!" I had to stop there because I could already feel myself trembling and the vibrations up and down my spine. Transforming now would be a bad fucking idea.

"That's just it. I don't think he really truly didn't want me." She was walking back to her car and I followed. All the while racking my brain for a way to talk her out of whatever crazy idea she was considering.

She opened the passenger side door and pulled out a box. "Look at this. I was packing up my room and found this under a floorboard. If he truly wanted it to be as if he never existed he would have burned all this or taken it with him but instead he left it. I think he was hoping deep down that maybe one day I would find it and now I have." She paused for a moment and took a deep breath. "I'm going to try to find him Jacob."

There it was. The crazy plan is out in the open. I took a very deep breath and clenched my fists at my sides. The anger was boiling now and staying together was a big fucking challenge. "Bells." Wrong approach. Be formal, stand firm. "Bella. I realize my imprinting and leaving you for Abby has been hard, but think about this. Think about what you're doing. What about Charlie?"

"I am. That's why I am going to spend the next week doing research online to try and track down Carlisle through the AMA, then after the wedding I am leaving Port Angeles to start following leads. If it weren't for Charlie and Sue's wedding I would probably leave as soon as I had something to go on." I could hear the determination in her tone. There was no faltering her in her resolve.

Bella put the box back in her car and turned to face me. I was speechless because I knew there was nothing I could say to talk her out of this. Nothing at all and it was absolutely killing me.

"Look Jake. I am not sure how long I will be gone and I don't want to hold up yours and Abby's plans so let's sign the papers and I'll be on my way. I'm sorry this has upset you….."

"Sure, sure. Whatever." I turned and walked away not even sure if she was following. I just couldn't listen anymore. My anger had ebbed and now I just felt sadness. Bella was attracted to danger like a moth to the flame. She was going no matter what. I didn't have to watch though.

When I got to the kitchen and pulled the papers out of the drawer I caught a glimpse of Bella out of my peripheral vision. She reached out, grabbed a pen, signed by the tabs marked for her, and walked away.

"I'll see you at the wedding," she called over her shoulder as she walked away from me and out of my life.

Ya, like I said it had been a fanfuckingtastic three weeks.

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A/N: I hope you enjoyed a little more back story and JPOV! I hope you had as much fun reading this chapter as I had writing this chapter. I am working on scheduling updates to be weekly, but this one you get a little early. Look for chapter 3 next weekend. Please remember to review because reviews get teasers for Chapter 3.