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Beyond my screams of pain I could hear people conversing. My hearing kept going in and out of focus, sometimes it sounded like they were right next to me, other times it sounded as if they were across the room. I felt feverish, cold and hot at the same time. And then I heard him.
"Bella. Bells, can you hear me? Try and nod your head, ok?" I did my best, and he noticed it. "I can't stay any longer. I have to leave, because when you wake up there's a pretty good chance you're going to try and eat me." I felt pressure on my forehead, then my lips. "Bells, I will always love you, even if you smell and we can't be friends. I'll watch Charlie for you, ok? And know that I'm not leaving you here to drive you crazy, but this was the only place we knew to take you. Sam says that if you know what's good for you, you will actually follow the Cu- you will actually follow their path and not eat people. Animals are ok, I guess. As long as you don't go around killing off wolves." he attempted humour. "I hope everything works out for you, Bella. Maybe once you can control yourself we can see each other again. I'm just sorry it wont be like it used to be. And I'm sorry that I couldn't stop this from happening." He squeezed my hand and I heard him getting up. "I'm so sorry, Bella. Goodbye."
The fires that had consumed my body began to die down. I started gasping for breath, feeling as though I hadn't breathed in the longest time. My vision was blurry. Either too focused or not enough. I fell off of whatever I had been laying on and crawled around looking for something to lean on. I found a wall of cool glass. Already it was all clicking. I closed my eyes and tried to think happy thoughts. When I opened them however, any happy thoughts I had flew out of my mind. I was looking at a place I thought I would never be welcome in again. I didn't know which would have been worse, seeing It as it had been the night of my ill-fated birthday party, or seeing it completely empty. I got the former. There were no white sheets over the furniture. It was as if they still lived here, except for the unkempt yard I saw from the window, and the broken front door. I assumed that was the work of Jacob or one of his werewolf cronies. I wondered what the Cullens would think of me.
A snapping twig broke my thoughts and brought me back to the present.
Jacob ambled up to me with a slightly confused look in his eyes. Trailing behind him were Seth and Embry. Seth still hadn't started aging, but Embry had. He was the "oldest" of the three, with a child on the way. Both of them seemed to like me, something I was grateful for. But that didn't mean we were friends. Jacob, on the other hand was as friendly to me as two mortal enemies can be towards one another. After the usual greetings ("leech" and "mutt" among the nicknames), we stood awkwardly until Jacob broke the silence.
"So, Bells, not that I don't love getting a call from you, but what is this all about?" he asked, as if he had somewhere to be.
"Well, I thought it would be a good idea to warn all of you that a vampire might be coming in to town. Actually, there was one here today, but she left. I'm not sure if it will be just him, but Carlisle Cullen might come looking for me. I just thought it would be fair to tell you so you don't freak out." I spoke fast for a normal person, trying to get it out quickly and hoping Jacob wouldn't blow up like I thought he might.
"A Cullen! Bella fucking Swan! What the hell is a Cullen doing back in Forks? Why would you let them come back, after what Ed- what he did to you!?" Jacob was shaking so hard, Seth was gripping him and trying to keep him from making the wrong move.
"Jake, calm down. I'm sure I want this just as much as you do, but can we try to find a way to work this out where you and your friends don't kill someone who can give me answers?" I knew he would ask me annoying and painful questions, but I was certain Carlisle would also give me answers. "I need to know, Jacob. I need to know about all of what's been going on with hi-with them. "
"Why, Bella? So that you can forgive them and run off to be with Edward? A guy who never gave a shit about you? You must be that desperate!" Jacob was only saying these things out of pain, not with an intention to hurt me. However, he was shaking so hard that Embry came up too to help Seth restrain him. And he had hit a nerve with me.
"Jacob Black, calm down this instant! Do you think I called them up and invited them here? Do you think I asked them to come for tea or told them, hey, I miss you guys, why don't you come down and we'll harass a bunch of werewolves? What kind of a person do you think I am? I know what they did to me and I don't want them here, but I can't stop it! And before you say a word," Jacob had just opened his mouth and tried to interject, but I spoke right over him "you cannot stop them either! Not because you don't have the strength to, but because they were my family! Just because they left me and told me they didn't want me anymore doesn't mean that for that short time, they weren't my family!" apparently over 70 years of knowing someone doesn't mean that you always know the right thing to say to them. Faster than I could even blink, were-Jacob took the place of human Jacob. He growled at me, and pounced.
But something stopped him.
Sorry, I was in the mood to do a cliffy. So here's the deal. If you review, I'll send you a sneak peek of the next chapter (but more importantly: do you even care? :P). But I wont actually post the next chapter until I get 5 more reviews, or until I get too antsy to wait any longer. just tell me how you think i'm doing, or if i should keep going.
And if you haven't yet, I recommend you go rent atonement. That movie has got to be the best film I have seen in a very long time. And will probably be the number one movie on my list until 12.12 teehee.