AN: Sorry these chapters are so short. I just, well ya know, don't really have anything to fill them. Although, I update a lot, I just like to end the chapter. I just wanted to tell you that it's early summer, just so you know why there isn't any school. Okay, third chapter is going up as soon as this is written! I promise, but to tell the truth, I have no idea what is going to happen in the end. I'm as clueless as you are, I just know what gonna happen before you do. Kind of like Alice, but not really. Enjoy!

I woke up in an unfamiliar bed. I lifted myself so I was still on my stomach, but resting on my elbows.

"Finally you're awake," a voice said from the corner. I jumped and landed on my back. It would have been funny, but it hurt and I screamed out shortly and stopped. "I'm sorry," he said, rushing over to the bedside.

I laid there gasping for air, the pain. "It's okay," I wheezed. "You didn't mean to. Where am I?"

"My house. Charlie and Billy went to California for some fishing tournament… at Lake Lopez, a trout tournament, I think it was. They'll be gone for a little while, about a week, maybe more. I found the note and I needed to get home, so I decided that I would take you here, just to I could keep an eye on you. Did you know I had time to go out on patrol with the pack, change your gauss, make dinner for the two of us, and get you another set of clothes before you woke up?"

"What?"

"I had time to go on patrol with the pack, make dinner for the two of us – not a very good dinner; not like the ones you make but a dinner all the same."

"Before that."

"Oh, I changed your gauss; the doctor said I would have to do it regularly."

That's when I noticed that the gauss wrapped around my breast and stomach area. I didn't have my bra on, or a shirt for that matter. All I had were his blankets that lay over me. I didn't worry about him seeing anything when I get up. The gauss is thick and he did a throw job.

"Bella, don't worry, I wouldn't do that. I know you wouldn't want me to. I got Sam's fiancée, Emily, to do it. I thought you wouldn't mind a girl doing it, and no one other that you two were in the room."

I smiled at him. It was a genuine smile, not a fake one that I would have given him, if I was depressed that Edward left. I'm not, at all. He left me broken, but not the same as before. He left me injured, really injured. Hospitalized.

"Okay, Jake. What are we gonna do to keep me busy? Not that I don't like sitting in your room half naked, I just really would like to keep busy," I said, teasing.

I thought I saw a red tint to his russet kin, but it could have been nothing.

"Would you like to go to the garage? I finished the rabbit and I want to modify it," he responded.



I threw the blanket off me, swung my legs over the edge of his bed, and stood up. I ignored the stiffness as I walked over to his dresser and opened the drawer while asking, "Can I barrow a shirt? Mine is all bloody."

"Sure, go ahead."

I pulled out a green shirt that said, "Vegetarians are ruining our forests" in bright yellow. I laughed as I put it on. Jake looked confused so I turned to him and pointed to the words. He grinned.

We got to the garage and I sat as I watched Jacob explain that the oil needed to be changed and he was gonna do something with the thingy majig.

I stepped out of his way when he reached around me for some bottle of fluid, but being me I tripped and landed on my knee. It started to bleed a little.

Jacob took me to the house to fix up my little scratch, much to my protests. He looked at me oddly and I just couldn't take it. I got angry and my stomach felt… weird.

Jake felt my forehead and gasp.

"Bella you're burning up… you're at hot as… me," he said.

I started to sweat, and shiver. Like I really had a fever, but my skin didn't feel odd. It was my bones.

"Jake, what the hell is happening to me?" I asked as I started to shake. It felt more like vibrating.

"Shit," Jake cursed. He picked me up and ran out of the house, and into the forest. I was still shaking. He gently set me on the squishy floor, and then walked away. He just walked away from me.

I heard something, and then I saw a russet wolf walked out to me.

He nudged me. He pushed me. He licked me and I get mad.

I started to shake more violently, I felt pain.

I was changing, but not the way I wanted before…