*I don't own twilight. That belongs to Stephanie Meyer
Chapter 2
His words sent chills down my spine. I could feel myself vibrating, although I wasn't sure whether that was from fear or from Jacob trying to stop himself from phasing in my truck. His face was scrunched up in concentration, trying to hold himself together while deciding how to proceed. He turned his head and his eyes met mine. An odd expression entered his eyes for a brief moment, however before I could analyse it, it was replaced by one of pure determination. He started the truck again and began to pull away from the house. I tried to calm my breathing as I looked in the rear-view mirror, and I noticed something I hadn't before, a very familiar car parked on the side of the road.
"STOP!" I shouted. Startled, Jacob complied, and I was out of the truck running towards the house before he could react. It was a miracle that I made it to the house without tripping. I heard Jacob's alarmed shout after me as my hand closed around the doorknob. I threw the door open and rushed inside, pausing when I reached the living room. As stood there my common sense caught up with me. What was I doing?
But I didn't have to worry for my sanity long before a bell-like voice reached my ears. "Bella?"
"ALICE!" I all but screeched as I threw myself into her stone cold arms. "What are you doing here?!" I asked taking a step back to look at her face. The first thing I noticed was her jet black eyes. "Oops!" I said taking a couple more steps back and colliding with something very solid and very warm.
I tilted my head up and looked at Jacob's furious face, thankful that at least, for now, that look wasn't directed at me, although I did have a brief moment of fear for Alice. "What are you doing here?" He growled making my earlier question seem much more accusatory.
After a brief moment of gazing at him curiously Alice, completely ignoring Jacob, returned her gaze to me. "Bella, would you mind explaining to me how you are still alive?"
"What do you mean?" I asked, confused.
"You jumped off a cliff! I saw it! What I didn't see was you getting out!" Alice's voice seemed like more of a hiss near the end and I felt Jacob's subtle shudder from behind me at the mention of my earlier activities. "How could you do that?! How could you be that stupid?"
I met Alice's glare evenly and tried to seem casual with my reply. "I wasn't trying to kill myself, it was for fun…" I trailed off seeing her incredulous gaze. "I'm fine, alright? Jacob pulled me out. Besides a bit of a sore throat I'm fine." I leaned back against Jacob a little as I said this, silently thanking him for saving my life again.
"You were pulled out? Then why didn't I see it? Who was it?" Alice asked confused. I made a motion towards the 6' 6" pillar of anger standing behind me and Alice's gaze hardened. "Really? Well how chivalrous. A very loyal dog, however I think it's time you put him outside Bella."
I was shocked at Alice's harsh words, but Jacob started quivering behind me again so I snapped out of it fast. "Alice! Jake is welcome here, just like you always were! You have no right to kick him out of my house!"
Alice sighed and rolled her eyes at me. "He's a werewolf Bella, and a young one at that. He's not that good of company to keep. He's dangerous."
"The general consensus is that hanging out with vampires is dangerous too, especially ones that haven't eaten in a while." I retorted, leaning further against Jacob trying to get him to calm down. It seemed to work.
Alice pressed her lips together in a hard line but nodded once before flitting to the coach. "Charlie will be here soon, he's just leaving work. I can't see when he'll get here though." She turned to glare at Jake again. "It seems I can't see past the mutt." I could almost feel the smugness radiating off of Jacob at her last comment, pleased that he could thwart her like that. It didn't hurt that it clearly aggravated Alice as well.
I turned around and looked up at Jacob, seeing he was looking down at me, an unreadable expression in his dark eyes. "Charlie is going to notice you don't have a vehicle here…" I said cautiously, trying to avoid the subject of the vampire in my living room.
He nodded slightly, still staring into my eyes. "I have to talk to Sam anyway. We need to discuss things." It was my turn to nod at him. I didn't want him to leave. He stared at me for a couple more seconds then pulled me into a hug, sighing into my hair. "Be careful, please. I don't want to lose you." Alice snorted daintily from the coach, and with one last glare in her direction, Jake turned and left.
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