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As Jacob carried me through the darkening forest and the temperature dropped with it, I became more and more glad that I was so close to someone so warm.
I shivered and Jacob automatically pulled me closer to his chest.
I winced. Well, maybe I wasn't that glad.
"So where exactly are we going?" I looked around, trying to figure out where we could possibly be, but it just looked like any other part of the forest.
"You'll see when we get there. Patience Bella!" He smiled down at me, and despite how much I didn't really want to, I smiled back.
Soon, we came to a small clearing at the side of a sheer rock face. Once we were out of the shelter of the forest, we could feel the wind blowing fiercely through the trees and air around us. Behind us, the sound of wood cracking and breaking echoed through the forest.
Jacob put me down and started rummaging through the huge backpack he had brought. At first I was relieved not to be so uncomfortably close to him anymore, but then I just started to get cold. I had a sudden urge to run and jump back in to his strong, warm arms. To let him protect me against the cold snow and wind of the oncoming storm, that Alice had correctly predicted. I quickly shook off the feeling and looked up into the clouds.
In the short time I was standing there waiting, small snowflakes began to fall from the darkening sky. I watched as one fell and landed on my sleeve. I watched as it stayed there for a moment, cold, beautiful, and absolutely perfect, before melting away from this earth forever. I looked away. For some reason, the thought of that snowflake disappearing like that made me shiver.
I think I knew what that reason was.
"Can you stop standing there like an idiot and help me?" I turned around and saw that Jacob had already pulled out a small green tent and was starting to set it up. I rolled my eyes and went to join him.
"Put those together." He ordered pointing to a bundle of poles on the ground.
"Yes sir." I whispered to myself sarcastically as I picked up the bundle and started straightening them out. Jacob finished positioning the material against the sheltering rock face and turned to me, waiting for the poles still laying tangled in my hands. He put his hands on his hips and pretended to look at an invisible watch on his wrist.
Oh so he wanted to be like that did he?
I threw the poles at him, turned around, and stalked away to the other side of the clearing. I spotted a pile of needles underneath a pine tree and sat down, facing away from where Jacob continued to fumble with the mass of poles, pegs, material and who knows what else.
I looked up at the sky through the branches of the tree. It was slowly turning an ominous shade of black as even more snow began to fall and swirl around in the wind. I could almost feel the temperature slowly dropping as the storm drew nearer.
My hands unconsciously moved to the bracelet around my wrist. I moved my fingers over the small wooden wolf and cold crystal heart. Suddenly, I remembered what I had been thinking on the way up the mountain. I lifted my wrist to eye level and looked closely at my graduation present from Edward. Was it really a diamond like I thought? It must be worth a fortune! Just thinking about it made me blush a little. How could Edward give me something so expensive? Now things were thrown even more out of proportion. He knows that I would never accept it if I had known.
But I didn't know. I was going to have to talk to him about it next time I saw him.
Next time I saw him.
I didn't know when the next time I would see him would be. What if I never saw him again? Just that thought sent chills down my spine that had absolutely nothing to do with the weather. He had left once, and I had lived through that. But this was different. I couldn't, I wouldn't, live through him leaving this way.
I realized that there were tears running down my face.
"Bella?" Jacob's loud husky voice echoed against the rock wall. It shook me out of my trance. I carefully wiped away the tears and took a deep breath. Calming myself.
I stood up and brushed myself off. I hadn't even noticed it, but the wind had picked up more and the snow wasn't really falling anymore. It was blowing and swirling around. I just hadn't noticed it while sitting under the tree.
I took another breath and made my way to the tent. As I tried to walk I could feel the freezing wind and snow pushing me back. It was going to be a long, cold night.
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A/N: Hi everybody! thanks for reading chapter 2!
I'm not sure when chapter 3 will be out. I'm not exactly a very fast writer if you haven't noticed lol.
Please review! I always love reading them!!
