BPOV

"Bella.....what are you doing?" Jacob groaned from the bed.

I hushed him, my heart racing in an unfamiliar pattern as I hid behind the curtain. My fingers were shaking as they reached for the net, and with the reflexes of a cornered rabbit, I pulled back the net and gazed into the dark street below.

There was nothing.

All that stirred was an hungry fox rooting through the bin of my neighbours.

The rush of disappointment had long lost it's foreignness on me. Instead I let me head rest against the window, and berated myself for getting hopeful. I was being absurd. Who was I expecting to be standing outside my house at this time of morning? I was a nobody. Nobody would be interested in me....So why was I standing here like some eager school-girl waiting for her boyfriend to ring her after their first date?

Doesn't a small part of you hope that--

I told my inner voice to shut up whilst I shrugged my shoulders non-commitedly as Jacob's answer. Even when I heard him sigh exasperatedly and heft himself of our sick pool of love-making I didn't turn around. It was almost like I was ashamed...

Well you are, aren't you?

I told you to shut up!

Jacob's kiss on my neck was featherlight and I couldn't help but shiver. Why was he being so tender? The roughness I could handle--oh boy I could handle it all night long-- but the tenderness? It made me feel like a whore. Even if I never sold my body to another man, Jacob touching me almost felt wrong.

"What are you thinking?"

Do you really want to know?

"Tell me Bella....it seems like I know nothing about you anymore...."

Says the man who had his head between my legs just an hour ago.

"Are you thinking about him?"

The question had caught me unawares, and I swivelled around quickly, my hair whipping Jacob's face. His gaze was almost accusing and his shirt covering my naked body and almost reaching my knees burned my skin guiltily. "Is that what you think?" I demanded, trying to inject as much venom into my voice. The betraying beat of my heart said otherwise.

Ba-Boom. Ba-Boom.

If Jacob had detected the quickening of my pulse rate, he didn't let on. Instead his scalding palm cupped my cheek and I found myself leaning into it and shutting my eyes. If I cleared my mind and concentrated hard enough, I could almost imagine the hand holding me was plummeting into the minus centigrade. Icy cold to the touch.

Ba-Boom. Ba-Boom. Ba-Boom.

Jacob's whisper into my ear was clandestine and obviously a phrase used most commonly between lovers. It almost seemed alien to me.

"Fancy having another go?"

Already his hand was trailing up my freezing thigh, inching closer and closer to the dryness that awaited him. I almost felt tempted to close my eyes and go along with it. Pretend that the eyes so lovingly caressing my skin was golden copper instead of intense brown....The hair running through my fingers like silk were bronzed to its tip instead of black and volatile. The lips greeting my own were searing cold instead of boiling raw.

"I can't do it."

I pulled back whilst shoving Jacob a stride back too. He caught his balance and stared, surprised at my cowering form.

"Bella?"

"Just go..." I choked out and turned around to let him dress in peace. For a minute there was no noise behind me, and I could almost picture Jacob boring holes into my back. But obviously having got used to my rapid mood swings in the past few months or so, he managed to pull on his jeans and head out. Anyone to come across him bare-chested, outside my house would surely run away in fright.

But that little thought didn't amuse me.

The moment I heard the door slam shut behind him, I was racing to the shower, intent to clean every single pore on my body. I didn't care if it took me the whole night, I just wanted to stop smelling like Jacob and sex. The bedsheets had to go, for a must. Anything, anything to get rid of this guilt.

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EPOV

The moment I stormed into the house, Alice was running down the stairs. Even if she came up to around my chest, that never did stop her from charging into my path whilst I was angry.

It was like waving a red flag to a bull, and hell I was prepared for round one.

"Why did you bring us here?" I raged, pacing up and down our main living room as if I was a demented beast. When I reached the grand piano, I did a heel turn and resumed my relentless striding once again.

"Edward!" Alice seethed as I shot her a scathing look. "Keep that up and you're going to wear a hole into that floor! Is that what you want? For me to fork out another thousand bucks?"

"I thought nothing got in the way of the Cullen family, including money" I sneered, Alice's peace-making failing to hit its mark. I think it was partly because I could hear the rest of them, standing just outside the door and listening into our conversation. On any other day, the idea of Emmett hiding under a scrawny Alice would've amused me for nights to come, but now it seemed everything but. So Emmett couldn't come out and face me like a real vampire?

"EMMETT! GET THE HELL IN HERE!"

"Edward!" Alice admonished, gazing at me pleadingly. Shw wrung her hands anxiously and from her mind I could already tell she was going through the sixty-two positions to sedate an angry vampire. When her mind lingered on a particular position, which involved me in a head-lock and Alice smirking triumphantly, I gave a little growl.

"Don't you dare," I warned and flitted to the other side of the room, just to prove the point that Alice would never be faster than me.

"What's wrong with you?" she frowned. "Every night you go off god-knows-where and refuse to let us, your closest family members into it. And so far every night you've come back with the biggest smirk on your face until today---What's wrong, Edward? Did some human piss you off?"

I assessed her with my critical eyes, before finally grinning in a way that I'm pretty sure would have all of Chicago running for their handguns. "Not human," I informed, gnashing my teeth violently. Alice looked worried but yet I could tell that my aura was making her intrigued. Hell, I could practically read her mind.

"Werewolf."

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To everyone: I know, a tad on the short side. This story's gonna have loads of chapters anyway so what the hell....Thanks to my 2 reviewers last time! You rocked :)

To Max's stalker (an inside joke, to the people who are sneakily reading this): I desperately need to know what the questions are on Pg 91 in the chemistry text-book. Can you PLEASE email them to me?? :):)

To Everyone again: Next chapter is gonna include an attempt on Jacob's life and Bella seeing a certain bronze-haired, golden-eyed god.....Though they're not gonna run into each others arms or something corny like that.

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