Emily was behind Leah and the boys were coming up from behind the two vampires.

"We just want to talk to Bella. Let us see her and then we'll leave." Alice said in a demanding tone that would get her no where with Leah.

The boys were right on top of them by the time Leah had the chance to get offended.

"We have already talked to your leader about seeing Bella. You were there as I recall so you need to leave. You can see her at the arranged time and place," Jared said.

Quil came to get between Emily and I, and the Cullen, with Leah. "Let's go girls; we need to get back to the pack for the bonfire. Come on."

Jared nodded for us to go around the vampires. Leave it to the Cullens to ruin my good time.

Leah walked with us out and Quil and Jared resumed their stances about twenty yards behind us. Leah was all kinds of upset by the time we got out of the mall, "Oh My God, I hope they do something so I can rip that little leech's head off. What right does she have to talk to me like she owns the world? I should go back in there and…"

"Chill Leah! Alice is a little pain, I know trust me, but there is no reason to kill somebody over it!" I told her as we got to Sam's jeep that we had driven.

"Oh Contraire, I do believe that your boyfriend will disagree my sister!" she replied and it took me a minute to realize what she was talking about. Jake was gonna freak when he heard about this; he's been in a mad enough mood as it is!

"We are NOT telling Jake about this. You tell the boys that I will kick their Native American asses if they so much as drop a hint about this!" I yelled and Emily started laughing.

"Oh Bella, they have to tell Sam, and he's bound to tell Jake at some point. Don't worry; the other boys will make sure that he behaves himself. They Cullens are probably just worried about you anyway; everyone is trying to do the right thing by you." Emily told me. God this wasn't going to be good, Jacob was going to have a freaking cow and just start ripping their heads off with minimal to no effort.

"This is not going to end well and you both know it. Emily can't you just threaten to cut Sam off or something; don't let him tell Jake, PLEASE!" I begged but she just waved a hand at me.

We got back to the reservation thirty minutes later and to my surprise Jacob was still sitting on the porch even though it was still snowing; stupid 108 degrees. I got out and jumped into his arms because it was getting really cold, or maybe I just wanted an excuse. I tried to get Jake to go somewhere else but he decided that day to be the day to remember that I was a plain human and beaches in this weather wasn't good for me.

Emily took the opportunity to laugh at me but I just stuck my tongue out at her.

"Alright, what in Sam's Hell, no pun intended, is going on?" Jake said when he came back downstairs from putting my new clothes into his room. I gave Emily a look but she just rolled her eyes from her position on Sam's lap. Maybe if I'd at least had my wolf it would have been more intimidating!

She looked at Jake, "We had a run in with a few of the Cullens while we were out. Everything was fine and no one was hurt but they were demanding to see Bella."

Sam gave a look to Jared and Quil but soon turned it to the rest of the present pack, "If they keep trying to get to Bella we are going to have to up the security around her. Edward might be having his sister do his dirty work if they both want her back; she wasn't exactly happy with the thought of Bella calling off the wedding at the meeting. If that's what she chooses to do…" Sam said after a moment.

I felt a little bit better that Sam was giving me a choice but I already knew that I was going to call the whole thing off. Jake had my heart, he always had, and I was so wrapped up in Edward that I had lied to myself for way to long.

When Sam said that I felt Jake tense up but when I laid my head on his shoulder I felt him relax.

Seth snorted, "Why can't they just wait for one more day? I don't get what they are trying to accomplish by getting her back sooner."

Jared just rolled his eyes, "Seth, get your gullible, naive ass, out of the clouds. They think that we are trying to brainwash her and they don't care that Bella would kick our asses if we tried."

I was still lying on Jake's chest when everyone started to go onto patrol or go home. I had been talking to Emily about our new clothes but Sam was ready to go so they left too.

Jake was arguing with Billy about school when everyone was gone, "I need to be here to watch Bella, what if one of those bloodsuckers comes after her?"

"That is what the pack if for, they can protect Bella while you're at school. You are not winning this fight Jacob, just don't argue with me," Billy stated while rolling into the kitchen. Jake started to shake a little bit so I placed myself a little closer to him.

"I promised that I wouldn't let anything happen to you. What if something happened to you and I wasn't here to protect you?" Jake growled into my ear.

"Jake, I'm going to be fine. You can't always be here to protect me even if you would like to and even if I would like you to. The boys won't let anything happen to me and anyway, what are you going to do when I go back to Charlie's?" I asked him and he gave in even though he didn't like it.

I was getting ready for the bonfire or at least I was trying to but I couldn't decide what to wear.

"Try something on, I'll tell you what to wear!" Jake offered from his perch on the bed and I threw a pillow at him. We started to play fight and soon I was pinned under him. His lips were starting to approach mine and my lips were starting to tilt up by the time they finally reached each other. I was light-headed and gasping for breath by the time Jake let me go.

We were staring into each other's eyes when Billy's voice intruded,

"JACOB!"

He shouted and scared us both so much that we hit our heads on one another's. He rolled away laughing hysterically, and Jake got up to slam the door behind him.

"I can't believe he did that! Old fart!" Jacob complained. I just laughed and patted the bed next to me; he gladly filled the space. We were laying there for such a long time, everything else forgotten, that time seemed to disappear but unfortunately it didn't.

"Jacob, Bella, get your asses out to the beach before my sister kills someone!" Seth shouted from outside Jake's window. He and Paul then started to whistle the wedding march and sing 'Jake and Bella sitting in a tree'; I was ready to kill them.

Jake got up and closed his curtains but that didn't serve to shut them up.