EDWARD
I answered my phone almost without giving it time to ring.
"Hey Edward," came Bella's always relaxed voice. She sounded alright... alive at least. I was panicking, why was I always panicking? "I need you to pick me up."
"Its early, what happened?" What if her dog had hurt her? Attacked her? Maybe she was giving up trying to play both sides.
"Nothing, okay. Jake's going to bring me to the border." Nothing had gone really wrong between them then. Pity. "Then I need you to drop me off back home."
"Okay," I sighed. "I'm on my way now. Love you."
"Love you." It didn't sound like her heart was in it though. I sighed and slid the phone into my pocket before heading out to the car.
I arrived before Jacob, as always. Maybe he drove slowly to spend more time with Bella, I couldn't really imagine a werewolf not being as much of a speed freak as me. With a sigh I got out of the car and leant against the paint, looking into the distance. After only a few minutes headlights appeared, closely followed by Jacob's wreak of a car. The dog grinned as soon as he saw me, Bella didn't even seem to notice. She was engrossed in a book or something, I remembered her clutching Romeo and Juliet when she left the house. That was so like Bella, her few hours with the werewolf and she spent them reading. Maybe she just wasn't relaxed enough about me.
Jacob leapt out the car and round to Bella's side. The cheeky grin was still on his face but when I looked in his mind all I could hear was him reciting some stupid old nursery rhyme. Maybe he was smarted than he looked.
Not hard.
Bella seemed to realised where she was. She smiled at me, a soft blush entering her cheeks and lightening my heart. Jacob helped her out of the car then took her hand.
I got a shot of his mind then and started forwards but Jacob muttered something in Bella's ear and next thing I knew he was kissing her. If my heart had been beating, it would've stopped at that moment. I wanted her to pull away, fight him maybe.
Then he moved away and said something else I couldn't catch before propelling her towards me. As he turned to the truck he raised a hand to me and I heard something else in his mind.
'Weren't expecting that, were you leech-boy.'
I ran forwards and hugged Bella tight the moment she crossed the border. She stank of dog but at that moment I didn't care at all. "What was that about?" I whispered, trying not to sound jealous. There was a pause before she replied.
"We were just going through lines, Shakespeare. It was nothing." She moved away to get into the car. She was almost definitely lying for him.
That was the first time I started to wonder if the dog was actually competition.