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A/N: I'm so sorry I couldn't post this earlier! I was a bit occupied with my frantic panicking for my mid-term exams. But now, I will just shut up and let you guys read.

Oh, and I merged some dialogue from both New Moon and Eclipse. Tell me how it works out! :)

Chapter 4

He wasn't trembling anymore. He looked at me with half-hopeful disbelief. "I thought we were talking about your disgust for werewolves."

"No, Jake, no. It's not that you're a . . . wolf. That's fine," I promised him, and I knew as I said the words that I meant them. I really didn't care if he turned into a big wolf — he was still Jacob. "It's just that . . . isn't one mythical kind plentiful to handle in one lifetime?"

"You really, honestly don't mind that I morph into a giant dog?" he asked, his voice joyful.

"No." I sighed, and turned to Edward, ignoring Jacob's disgusted grimace when Edward tightened his arms around me. "Now what were you talking about earlier, Edward?"

Edward sighed. "Bella, I don't think it is a good idea to say anything now."

"Why?" Jacob inquired with a sneer, his good mood vanishing. "Don't mind me. I'll just sit back and enjoy the show."

I glared at him, thoroughly annoyed. "Get out," I demanded.

"Why?" he said again.

"Get. Out."

"Come on, Bells! I will only leave if he leaves . . . no good trusting the bloodsucker," he muttered.

"I can say the same for you, mongrel," Edward retorted. "And, fine, I will leave if it gets you away from Bella." He turned to the window, after giving me one last glance.

"Don't leave me!" I cried, frightened that I would once again lose him, moisture finally brimming over the edge of my eyes and smoothing easily down my cheeks.

Edward's eyes beheld agony as they met my teary ones. I found myself back in his arms

Jacob grimaced. "Ew."

I untangled myself from Edward's grip, and plopped myself onto the bed, folding my hands together in my lap. "Stop it. Jacob — get out. Please," I begged, as I stared into his dark, black eyes.

He sighed. "We will meet again. And that is a promise."

I sighed.

Edward rolled his eyes. "That's not happening, Jacob."

"Geez! Can't you stop looking into my mind!"

"Good night, Jacob," I muttered curtly.

"Nite, Bells. Nite, bloodsucker." Abruptly, Jacob's expression shifted, and he was staring at Edward with an odd, speculative expression. His eyes narrowed like he was trying to do a difficult math problem in his head.

I felt Edward cringe. I glanced up at him, and his face was distorted in what could only be pain.

"That's funny," Jacob said, laughing as he watched Edward's face.

Edward winced, but smoothed his expression with a little effort. He couldn't quite hide the agony in his eyes.

I glanced, wide-eyed, from Edward's grimace to Jacob's sneer. "What are you doing to him?" I demanded.

"It's nothing, Bella," Edward told me quietly. "Jacob just has a good memory, that's all."

Jacob grinned, and Edward winced again.

"Stop it! Whatever you're doing!"

"Sure, if you want." Jacob shrugged. "It's his own fault if he doesn't like the things I remember, though."

I glared at him, and he smiled back impishly — like a kid caught doing something he knew he shouldn't have by someone who he knew won't punish him.

"Just . . . just go."

"Fine," he grumbled, and silently crept towards my window, and jumped — though I couldn't hear as much as a light thud.

I heard someone hyperventilate through sobs, only to realize that it was me.

"Shh . . . everything will be fine," Edward soothed, as he seated himself on the bed with me, my face in his hands, kissing my tears away, kissing my forehead, the hollow beneath my ear, the tip of my nose, the edge of my jaw . . . .

Kissing all but my lips.

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