A/N – Okay, I don't wanna give too much way but there's some twists coming up and I can't wait to reveal them all, so here comes Chapter 2, which has a few details revealed in it itself, enjoy.
Chapter 2 - The Welcome Wagon
Bella POV
Once the rain had subsided I came to the conclusion that nothing would happen today, nothing. I was more than positive, so the first thing I did was pry myself from Jake's arms, he had fallen asleep during the big rain storm, while pushing him off me, he groaned and rolled over, adorably ruffling his hair with his hand and then rubbing his eyes, finally opening them to meet my chocolate brown ones.
"I was enjoying my dream and you woke me up" he mumbled, still groggy from his sleep, his voice was croaky but I just winked and said, "Dreaming about me?", he opened his eyes fully and sat up, taking my hands in his. "Always". He stood up and stretched.
"So is there a particular reason you woke me?", I shrugged and stared at him, "I thought maybe we could go to the beach now the rain is gone and maybe go meet the new residents of La Push". He stared at me and smiled "Bella Swan, I never knew you would be so nosey, after all, you don't live in La Push, why would you want to see who's just moving in?", he smirked and I shrugged "I just thought it would be nice to go welcome them, don't you?" he slouched and rolled his eyes, I continued "Plus, it might be a hot guy for me to drool over, you remember our talk earlier about that?" He bit his lip and walked over to me before seizing my shoulders in his hands and crushing me to his chest. "Now you listen to me Bells, you are mine, and there will be no drooling over any men other than me, got that?", He looked so tense but then he smiled and I melted into his embrace.
"Of course, I would never look at another man when I have you" I laughed, "But still, let's see who the newbie's are, huh?", he shrugged and grabbed his shirt before we headed for the door.
It didn't take long for us to get to the beach, and pretty soon after we arrived we were leaving, apparently we weren't the only ones wanting to enjoy what rain free time we had at the beach, I guessed that every person from La Push was here, bar 9 or 10. Jake dragged me off and soon we were walking to Emily and Sam's house. We walked in to find Sam, Jared and Embry sitting at the table while poor Emily stood in the kitchen, cooking. "Hey, do you need any help?" I asked as I entered into the small kitchen, Jake sat at the table with the others but kept his eyes on me. "Yeah, sure, The sooner this is all cooked the sooner I can relax" Emily giggled. Once we'd finished serving the food, I glanced at the clock, it was already 2pm. Where did the day go?
"So Bella said there's some newbie's in the rez?" asked Embry, looking to Jake. "Yeah, we were actually gonna go and see who they are, hopefully they won't be scared off by the huge wolf men" he joked as Sam looked at him. "Good idea, we need to check them out, see if they've brought baggage that we don't need." He smiled as he dragged Emily to the door, Jared didn't say a word, he just sat there, obviously he wasn't up for meeting new people, Embry wasn't to enthusiastic either, so me and Jake just followed the others.
We walked to the next street, spotting the big moving truck from earlier almost immediately, The house it was parked outside of was small, as were most houses here but this one was slightly bigger than the Black's house and it's garage had the door wide open, there was a young boy dragging some boxes inside as two young girls played on the grass, a woman opened the front door as we approached.
"Hello there." She smiled. We each returned the smile before Sam spoke. "Hello, I'm Sam Uley, this is my fiancé Emily, this is Jake and his girlfriend Bella.", he indicated to each of us with a finger before wrapping his arm around Emily. "We just came to say welcome and meet the new residents of La Push".
The woman smiled and replied, "Hi, I'm Caroline Watts, the two monsters behind you are my twin daughters Sarah and Natalie, and over there is my son Tyler, he's just unloading some boxes into the garage."
I turned to face the garage as Tyler appeared from inside, he wasn't looking, obviously paying attention to the boxes piled in front of him while listening to music through his headphones. "Would you like to come inside?" Caroline offered. Emily smiled, "Yes, that would be lovely". Sam, Emily and Jake followed her inside, I paused for a moment, my eyes still on the garage door.
"Bells? You okay?" I was snapped back from my trance by Jake's voice. I looked back to see him standing in the door way. "Yeah, I..." I trailed off, he looked over to the garage before grabbing my hand. "You...?", I glanced back and followed him inside while replying, "I just thought I recognised Caroline's son". He smiled at me "Yeah, the pale faces all look alike. I punched his shoulder as he laughed. We entered the kitchen and found the others sat at the table while Caroline walked over with a jug of lemonade, pouring some into glasses for us before sitting, we sat down.
"So, what made you decide to move to La Push?" I asked suddenly, she glanced over, I had been silent up until now, she just shrugged and smiled, "My family needed a fresh start and I found a job as a teacher, I love small towns and this seemed perfect.", Sam nodded and continued with the conversation. "So, is it just you and your three children?", she nodded and replied, "Yes, has been for a while as well, my husband died in a car accident four years ago.", she looked down at her hands as Emily placed a hand on her shoulder. "Sorry, we didn't mean to pry, it must have been hard on you", Caroline smiled. "You're sweet, yes, it was, raising two small, three-year-old twins while trying to keep a rebellious teenage son in check was pretty tough".
I couldn't help but feel sorry for her, I shivered. Why?
"Are you cold?" came a soft voice as I looked up to see everyone watching me, Caroline stood and walked over to a small box on the wall, turning the heat up. "I thought it would be sunny, trust it to rain on the day we move in, huh?" she laughed. "I'm grateful that you would come to welcome us here, it means a lot, we're not used to this", Sam glanced at her and nodded. "We just felt it would be right to welcome you, the rez is a close community and we all look out for each other."
"Well that sounds wonderful, I hear it's famous for having all these bonfires where some old tribal legends are told.", Everyone nodded. "Actually, there's one happening tonight, why don't you and you're family join us?" Sam asked. I looked at Jake and he smiled. "Sure that would be-"
"Hey mom" she was cut off by the sound of a low, deep voice. I looked up to see her son had entered the house, he glanced at everyone and smiled. "I'm done with the unpacking, mind If I take a walk, look around?", Caroline merely nodded "Sure, be careful though and don't go too far.", He laughed and turned on his heel, "Yeah, yeah!", He was out of the room as fast as he had entered. "Sorry about that.", Caroline practically whispered. Emily smiled again, why was everyone smiling so often? Was it that contagious? "It's fine, we should actually get going, leave you to unpack properly, we'll see you tonight?" She asked. Caroline nodded. "Sounds great, where is it?", Sam spoke before anyone even opened their mouths, "Down at the beach, you're welcome to bring all your family, it starts at 7pm".
We left the house in a hurry, Sam obviously wanted to fill the pack in on the new people, it went better than I thought it would, I thought they would be weird, guess not. "We're gonna head home, tell Jared and Embry that the new people passed the test", he grinned, "If you see the others let them know I'm looking for them." He hurried off, dragging Emily with him. I slowly my walking, taking easy steps as Jake took his face in his hands. "You okay?", I nodded and placed a kiss on his lips before saying "Let's go back to the beach, hopefully it's less crowded now.", He just shrugged. "It'll probably still be the same, people will be setting up for the bonfire.", I smiled "we could just go to our usual spot and watch the waves.", He nodded. "Sounds perfect."
Jacob POV
Bella was right, the beach was less crowded, there were still a few people there, laying down some beach towels and stacking wood in a huge pile for the bonfire. We walked hand in hand down by the waves. "Hey isn't that Tyler?" I asked, pointing to a pale boy sitting on some rocks just ahead. Bella nodded "Yeah, why don't we go talk to him, introduce ourselves properly." I just nodded and she dragged me off.
He looked up as we approached and smiled. "Hi", we both smiled and I spoke first, "Hi, I'm Jacob, this is Bella, my girlfriend.", He nodded "I'm Tyler", we just looked at each other. "You were at my house earlier, right?", we nodded in unison. "Yeah, sorry I didn't introduce myself before, I just needed a break."
This kid wasn't too bad, for a pale face. He seemed down to earth, maybe a little bit of a loner but perhaps the rez would change that. We sat down beside him. Bella leaned forward and stared at the water. "So, are you going to be attending the school here?", he shook his head. "No, I'm eighteen, I graduated a couple of months ago.", Bella smiled, "Me too". He returned the smile and looked at me, "What about you?", I rolled my eyes and replied "Unfortunately, I'm only seventeen, I still have this last year of school.", he looked down before glancing back. "Hard luck, man".
We sat in silence for a few moments, I felt a little awkward, but I'm sure I'd get along with him after a while, he wasn't a complete loss. "So where did you guys move from?" I asked, trying not to seem like I was prying though I could use all the info about this new family to tell Sam later. "Chicago".
Bella laughed, "Wow, great place, I went there once." I looked at her and raised my eyebrows. "What?" she asked, I cocked an eyebrow again. "Okay, so it was pretty crappy." I laughed at her defeat, I always knew when she was lying.
"Yeah, It was pretty crappy, especially the last few months there.", Tyler was now looking at his shoes, kicking his feet in front of him. "Something bad happen?" I asked, Bella listened intently as he began. "Yeah, you could definitely say that, I was kind of...abducted.", my eyes practically burst out of my head, wow, this pale face had a dark past. "I'm sorry", I looked away, risking a glance at Bella who was silent like me.
"It's fine" he finally replied. "I couldn't talk about it at first but I find it's easier to do that now.", I looked at him and nodded. "You don't have to tell us if you don't want to", man I felt bad, this poor guy was sitting here talking to us about being abducted and we weren't exactly helping by prying more. "No, no, It's fine, so basically It happened when I ran away from home..."
Tyler POV
I wasn't used to telling new people about what happened but for some reason, I felt that Jacob and Bella could be trusted. "You don't have to tell us if you don't want to" was what slipped from Jacob's mouth, I didn't mind to be honest, it felt good to tell people, made me feel a little less closed off. "No, no, it's fine, so basically it happened when I ran away from home..." I started, I inhaled a breath and continued. "I ended up running to some run down shelter, they were pretty full so I couldn't find a place to spend the night", I hesitated, this was when I was going to be left alone on the rocks while they ran off screaming that I was crazy.
"And then I ran into him" I choked. They both looked at me before Bella asked "Who?". I looked at her, I didn't wanna say everything so I left out his name. "I'm not sure, I don't think I ever found out his name, he just said he would help me, then he mentioned the weirdest thing, he said my mind was fascinating, it was closed off." I looked down and laughed. "Sounds crazy, right?", They just looked at each other, somehow I felt like they didn't quite agree, like they knew more than they were letting on, I pushed on. "Well, He took me in, he had an apartment rented and said he'd be coming and going a lot so I was free to crash there whenever I wanted" I looked out to the water that was now slowly making it's way up the shore to the rocks. "I must be crazy to have accepted the offer of a complete stranger but he seemed so...compelling, like there was a gravitational pull", They both tensed. What was I missing here?
"You know, I think I should go..." I jumped down and started to walk away before a hand grabbed my wrist, I turned to see Bella was now standing beside me. Jacob stood behind her, he must be like 6"7 or something because he was tall. I myself am only 5"9 at best, maybe 6"1. "Don't...please tell us the rest", Bella seemed to be pleading. I hesitated, they'd definitely think I was crazy if I told them the rest, but something in Bella's eyes told me she'd believe me, "Okay, uhm...So this one night, he was out, I decided I needed some air so I tracked him down to this bar, he was pretty tense and ignorant that night, so I left for a walk, I went outside, looking around to find someone was watching me". I stopped and breathed in, here we go, I thought.
"He just watched me, before saying "Hey you!...", I didn't reply of course but after a while I thought I'd have to but then he came outside and told me to go back into the bar before I heard him mention something about me being his", I glanced over to Jacob who had now placed his hands on Bella's shoulders, he seemed to be seriously thinking, taking in my words carefully.
"When he returned, I was kind of shocked by the look he had on his face, like he was going to kill me, he told me to run, so I did.", Bella stared at me. "Is that all of the story?" asked Jacob. I shook my head. "Just please don't think I'm crazy because I couldn't remember this for at least two months after I was found and when It came back to me, I thought everyone would want to lock me away in some mental hospital". Bella grabbed my hand and smiled reassuringly, "Don't worry, we're used to weird and crazy things.", I nodded. "Okay, well he chased after me and after catching me, he knocked me out, I don't know why but he seemed to be fighting himself, trying not to do whatever he had planned, boy was I in for a shock when I found out what he wanted.", They both looked at me as if I meant sex. "Oh god no, Get that thought out you're head" I laughed, wow, I'd never laughed while talking about this.
They both shrugged and for the first time in about five minutes Jacob smiled. "He...he tied me up and pulled out a knife.", Bella clasped a hand to her mouth as I shook my head, "Don't worry, he didn't stab me or anything, inside he cut open my shirt and.....bit me" I emphasised on the word "bit", They looked at me, I needed to show them so I pulled down the shoulder of my shirt to reveal a crescent shaped bite mark above my shoulder blade, just at the bottom of my neck. "He was kind of a....vampire".
Bella POV
"He...he tied me up and pulled out a knife.", Tyler had said as I clasped a hand to my mouth, he shook his head, "Don't worry, he didn't stab me or anything, inside he cut open my shirt and.....bit me", he really emphasised on the word "bit", I stared at him and from behind me I knew Jake was doing the same, He paused before pulling down the shoulder of his shirt to reveal a crescent shaped bite mark at the bottom of my neck. "He was kind of a....vampire".
This could not be happening. I was lost for words, I could only stare at him before turning and cradling into Jake's chest.
Jacob POV
Bella turned and placed her head against my chest, wrapping both arms around me after Tyler muttered the words we both dreaded hearing, he had been attacked by a vampire. A blood-sucker.
"Is she okay?" He asked, he was concerned and I didn't blame him, so was I but this poor kid had been through enough, I knew he'd be in for more tonight at the bonfire when, after the council had decided to welcome his family to the community, if they did, this poor guy would be introduced into more supernatural things, he'd find out about the werewolves that protect the community he now lived in.
"She's been through things even you couldn't imagine but trust me, she knows how you feel" I said, Tyler was now looking worried. Bella looked up. "I'm sorry" she said before wiping tears from her eyes. "I'm sorry you had to go through that, but don't worry, I don't think you're crazy, we don't think you are!", She gestured between me and herself. Tyler just nodded. "Look, I should get home and get something to eat, I need to figure out what I'm gonna do on my first night here." He said. I shook my head "Too late, plans for you have already been made" I grinned. He looked confused and glanced to Bella who nodded. "There's a bonfire tonight, your family are invited and I recommend that you come." I said.
He smiled. "Okay, I guess I'll see you two tonight.", We both nodded as he turned and ran off, I'm pretty sure he'd be running away from home again tonight, well I wasn't completely sure. He seemed to be pretty open minded. This pale face would actually fit in here. Bella looked at me. "Jake I know what you're thinking and I completely agree, he and his family are keepers.", she smiled and I leaned in to press my lips lightly to hers. "Couldn't agree more, but right now, we need to inform Sam, unfortunately.", I hated that Tyler had told us this secret and we were going to tell it in front of the pack who would somehow find a way of telling him we had told them tonight. Damn.
We rushed to Sam's, I barged right in to find the whole pack were waiting for us. Sam looked up, he was sitting on the couch with his arm around Emily as the pack sat in front of the TV, laughing. "Jacob?" he asked.
"We have something to tell you" was all I replied before sneaking a glance to Bella who looked down at the floor before gazing into the guys of the seven werewolves in front of us. This was going to be one hell of a night.
