Hello!
Today is a good day...seriously, there's like a goofy grin on my face when I think about it. HA-HA-Ha...Ah...yeah, sorry ^_^.
Hm...well this took a while to update yes, no? Well I hope you guys like this chapter. Just so there is no confusion, it starts the same day the ch 3 ended, but at night.
I don't own Twilight.
"So I have a question," Jacob said as he watched Bella preparing their dinner.
It was Friday night and Jacob was at Bella's house keeping her company as their fathers readied themselves for the next day's festivities. Bella thought that their fathers would be out in La Push fishing all day tomorrow, but they were actually getting ready to throw Bella a small party at the beach. Charlie would spend the night in La Push and Jacob would spend the night with Bella, keeping her company and making sure she suspected nothing.
"I don't want anything Jake," Bella said as she began beating four eggs.
"Well that was not going to be my question," Jake said smiling, "and you will need more than that if you want to feed me."
"Jake!" Bella shook her head when he began beating twelve eggs, "You can't possibly eat that."
Jake laughed and shrugged his shoulders. He took more food out of the refrigerator and made Bella sit at the table as he cooked a massive pile of food.
A few minutes later Bella watched in awe and horror as Jacob finished every bite of his meal.
"Where do you fit all that," she asked shocked.
Jacob laughed and thought, werewolf.
"On to my question."
"Jaaaake," Bella whined.
"What's wrong with you? You have been out of it since I got here," Jacob said as he looked at Bella who absently scratched at the table with a fork, "Did something happen at school?"
Bella sighed and threw the fork in the sink, "I might have offended a friend."
"What friend, that Angela girl?"
Jacob knew all of Bella's friends, they were constantly at La Push, he also knew the only one that Bella really cared about was a girl named Angela.
Bella shook her head.
"Then why does it matter, I thought the other girls were all bleh," Jacob said, making a face.
Bella shook her head, "It was another friend, Alice Cullen."
Jake's smile faded.
"What did she do?"
"It's because she had told me that her parents didn't approve of who she liked, so I asked her who it was," Bella took a deep breath, "She said she liked a girl, stared at me for a second, and then she walked away."
Jacob notice how Bella's face twisted into a frown when she mentioned that Alice liked a girl. He continued staring at Bella for several minutes before she spoke again.
"I thought the point of me telling you was you helping!" Bella snapped, then put her head on the table and muttered an apology.
"What did you do when she told you," Jake asked.
He wondered if Alice had seen the same expression he had seen just now. If that was the case then it was understandable that the girl walked away from Bella.
Jake grimaced internally he couldn't believe was defending a leech.
Bella was at a loss for words as she tried to remember what exactly was going through her head when Alice told her she had feelings for a girl.
"Stop pacing!," Rosalie said, not looking up from the magazine on her lap.
"I shouldn't have said it, I shouldn't have told her," Alice chanted over and over again, not replying to Rosalie's comment.
She knew Rose didn't mean to be as rude as she sounded. It just took knowing her for a decade or two to distinguish the difference.
"Yes, please stop pacing it's so annoying. Besides, it won't change the facts Alice dear," Edward said, enjoying Alice's distress, "Anyways, shouldn't you be more worried about changing the outcome of your vision?"
Alice growled at Edward, she was getting tired of his snide remarks but she was careful enough not to start anything with Edward. Esme was in her room cleaning up, and Carlisle was in his stud. Avoiding her.
If that was possible when they lived cooped up in a house, however big it might be, there was no avoiding. They were vampires.
Alice kept her thoughts to herself more out of the love and respect she held for Esme, whom it pained to see her children fight. Alice did not want to be the reason Esme stopped smiling.
She didn't particularly care much for Carlisle's thoughts.
"It appears I have no choice in that matter," Alice responded, thinking of making every choice that could possibly stop Bella from becoming a vampire.
Anything and everything, she even considered leaving Forks, something she didn't want to do.
Her vision however, remained, for the most part, unchanged.
Alice waited for Edward's reaction to what she had showed him, as she watched for his response she had the idea that he might have something to do with Bella's future.
As she began to entertain the thought Alice felt a vision pulling in her subconscious, Edward's growl snapped her out of it before she saw it.
"Stop being a jerk Edward, and hurry up I want to hunt already," Emmett said.
He grabbed Edward by the collar and with surprising ease, dragged Edward out.
Rosalie gave her husband a small smile as he walked out the door. Now that Edward and his hateful commentaries were out of the house, she debated with herself on whether to say something to Alice to calm her down but she couldn't think of anything helpful. She was still having trouble accepting Alice's attraction to Bella, not because they were both girls, but because Bella was human.
Vampires and humans obviously did not mix well.
As Rosalie though this she felt a cold wave of worry wash over her body, followed by an immense pain in her chest. As quickly as they had come the feelings were gone.
She eyed Jasper darkly and said, "That was not necessary."
Jasper looked at Rosalie embarrassed and a pained look came across his face, Rosalie knew then that he had not meant to transfer Alice's feelings to her.
He was having trouble controlling his gift while Alice was in such an unsettled state.
Jasper closed his eyes and took a deep calming breath, Rosalie felt the change and looked over to Alice, who seemed barely affected by Jaspers manipulations.
Her pacing had slowed, just a bit.
"She needs our support," Jasper said as he took several more calming breaths, trying to pack more calm into Alice.
"I support her," Rosalie said.
Jasper looked at her skeptically
"I do! She is overreacting. Isabella didn't say anything to imply rejection."
Jasper's lip twitched up when Rosalie called Bella by her full name, it was her way of trying not to get attached. There was a sting of pain accompanied with Bella's name whenever Rosalie said it.
"You realize this could end their friendship right?" Jasper said, "Humans take longer to accept this sort of thing. Things like this aren't natural for them. It does not sit well with their society."
Rosalie knew that there were still a lot of humans who didn't like the idea of same sex couples. There were several thumps heard overhead, someone upstairs was pacing, and a low buzzing sounded in Rosalie's ears, said someone did not want his conversation heard. She locked eyes with Jasper, apparently there were still vampires that didn't like the idea either.
Alice moaned and grabbed at her hair, "Shouldn't have told her."
Rosalie eyed Alice and murmured, "Imagine what will happen when she finds out we're vampires."
Alice, Jasper and Rosalie's eyes snapped to the ceiling when they heard a loud thump, someone had dropped something upstairs, there was a crash, or possibly thrown something.
"I think that is not something we should be considering," Jasper whispered low enough that only they could hear, "They are having enough trouble understanding her feelings for Bella, telling her what we are is not an option for them."
Alice nodded slowly, she wanted very badly to tell Bella, even if Carlisle didn't approve.
One problem at a time, deal with this first.
At that moment Alice's phone started ringing, she took it out and was shocked to see who it was since she hadn't had a vision of receiving the call.
"Bella!" Alice said as she struggled to open the phone.
Alice pushed the button too hard and ended up breaking it.
"NO!" Alice yelled and threw the broken phone at the wall before collapsing on the floor, her body shaking with dry sobs.
Jasper calmly took out his own phone and dialed Bella's number.
"Hello?" Bella said sniffing, "Alice is that you?"
"Ah," Jasper paused, "No."
Jasper passed the phone awkwardly to Alice.
"Hello," Alice whispered.
"Hey," Bella answered just as quietly, "I wanted to know if you were mad at me."
Alice looked at Jasper and Rosalie who both had small smiles on their faces.
"No, I thought you were mad at me. I thought you wouldn't want to be my friend anymore."
"No!" Bella yelled into the phone, "It just, surprised me. I am so sorry if you thought I wasn't going to be your friend. I fully support you. I look forward to maybe meeting this girl you like."
Alice smiled when she heard Bella say this.
If only she knew.
"You are so weird," Jake said.
Alice frowned, she was surprised to hear him with Bella at such a late hour.
She looked at the living room clock, not that she really needed to, as a vampire she had an excellent sense of time, Alice double-checked anyways.
It was nearly midnight.
"Who's that," Alice asked, trying to sound as calm as she could, but her voice cracked.
"My friend from La Push, who said you were right by the way, about the purple smoke thing."
"Oh," Was all Alice could think to say.
She wasn't happy to hear a wolf was over at Bella's house.
She wasn't happy to hear a boy was at her house at this hour, she felt Jasper use his gift to try and settle her emotions, she gave him an appreciative smile.
"Ok, well then I'll see you Monday yeah?" Alice said, disappointed that she couldn't bring up the courage to ask Bella to spend the day with her tomorrow, "Say hi to Chief Swan for me."
"It will have to wait until tomorrow, he's not here," Bella laughed.
Rosalie frowned, "She's home alone with a guy, at this hour?"
"Why until tomorrow though," Alice asked softly, she had a feeling she wouldn't like the answer.
"Our dads are getting ready at La Push for a long day of fishing," Bella said, "Jake is here to protect me from the bad guys, or that's what he's saying."
"Alone with a guy all night?" Rosalie said, fidgeting in her seat.
Alice looked at her then at Jasper, asking him silently to try to calm her down.
"Oh, then will you be free tomorrow ," Alice asked hoping she would be able to see Bella.
"Going out," Jake answered, which made Alice hope Bella had the phone on speaker, otherwise he would have to explain how he could hear the conversation.
"Oh, I see," Alice said, disappointed.
"You can come," Jake said.
Alice stared at the phone in her hands, had a wolf really just invited her to come along with him and Bella? Rosalie and Jasper were both staring at Alice.
Jasper was shaking his head vigorously, while Rosalie was nodding hers. Alice wasn't sure whether Rosalie was agreeing because she wanted Alice to spend time with Bella or just didn't want Bella alone with Jake.
"Alice," Bella asked slowly, "Would you like to join us?"
"Of course she would, but I'm not going in your slow truck Bella, ask her if we can use her car," Jake said.
"Yeah, we'll take my car, don't worry," Alice said.
"Yay!" Bella shrieked, "Ok well, be here tomorrow at 9, we're going to Seattle."
"Ok, goodnight," Alice said smiling and hung up.
Alice stared at the phone in her hand, wondering if the conversation had really just taken place.
"Are you crazy?" Jasper yelled at Alice.
Alice smiled at him, she appreciated his worry.
"I was in the looney bin as a human wasn't I?" Alice said and turned to Rosalie, to see what her reaction might be, to Alice's surprise she was smiling.
"We need to hunt then pick out your clothes."
The next day...(Bella's b-day)...
"Nice car by the way," Jake told Alice as she drove.
Alice looked at Jake from the rear view mirror and thanked him.
They had already spent half the day together and Alice was surprised to see the wolf acting civil towards her. There had been no dangerous moments; it was as if both of them had forgotten they were enemies. Alice though it had something to do with the fact that Jake liked her car and she had let him drive it to Seattle.
She was pleased to see that he drove nearly as fast as she did and handled the car with nearly the same expertise. Bella on the other hand thought they wanted to end her life and had hardly spoken to them during the first half of the trip.
"So where are we headed now," Bella asked Jake.
He had been the one calling the shots, seeing as it had been his idea to bring Bella out to Seattle. Though he had let Alice do some shopping, much to Bella's dislike.
"Gas station," he said.
"My tank is nearly full," Alice said staring at him, they had re-fueled less than an hour ago.
"Mine is half empty," Jake said, making Bella laugh.
"More snacks Jake?" Bella said and laughed when Jake nodded his head and rubbed his stomach.
Alice pulled into the next gas station they saw. It was partially surrounded by trees and made for a decent place for Alice to get some fresh air. Something she thought Jake also needed. Just because they were acting normal didn't mean their scents weren't too strong for each other.
Alice got out and walked to the front of her car, leaned against the hood and took in a deep breath to clear her lungs of the wolf smell. She heard Bella and Jake get out, and was surprised when Jake walked up to her.
"That girl is HOT!" Jake said, putting his arm around Alice and pointing to a girl who was leaning against the side of the gas station, "Tell me she isn't hot."
Alice stared at the girl, then at Jacob. She was shocked at the temperature difference and was felt uncomfortable having him so close.
"Jake, why do guys think that as soon they find out a girl is gay they can talk to them about other gfirls like that," Bella asked, pushing him away from Alice playfully.
"Hey I talk to you about girls like that. You've never had a problem with it before. In fact you joined the conversation with enthusiasm, remember."
Bella looked at Alice and blushed, making Alice raise an eyebrow at her.
Jacob stiffened when he saw Bella's blush and glared at Alice.
"What," Alice asked, barely moving her lips, talking so Bella would not hear the conversation.
"You're not going all, crazy leech status, are you?" Jake asked.
He seemed surprised by the fact that Alice was not attacking Bella.
"No."
"Oh," Jake said and straightened up.
"So Bella," Alice said, "What girls does this guy talk to you about. Does this handsome devil have a girlfriend?"
Bella looked between Alice and Jake before slowly shaking her head.
"Psh," Jake pushed Alice lightly, "No."
Bella laughed, but eyed the pair curiously.
"But we have talked about who Bella thinks the hottest person in your school is. I believe she mentioned a girl named Rosalie?" Jake said, turning a questioning glance at Bella.
"Weren't you going to buy something," Bella asked Jacob and pushed him towards the gas station.
Alice stared at Bella.
She thinks Rosalie hot?
"You thought Rose was," Bella nodded shyly before Alice could finish the question, "Not Edward, or Jasper or Emmett?"
Alice stared at Bella, thinking that maybe the fact that she had thought Rosalie was the hot gave her hope.
"Well, it was obvious it had to be someone from your family, you guys are beyond humanly beautiful," Bella smiled shyly at Alice, "You and Jasper were ruled out first. Then Emmett, because Edward is, you know hotter. But Rosalie gets attention from both genders so it made her the hottest. Does that make sense?"
Alice nodded her head in response, but asked quietly, "Why was I ruled out first?"
"Uh, you don't fit my definition," Bella said, like it was just obvious.
Ouch, that hurt.
"Oh," Alice said, pushing herself off the car's hood and taking a few steps forward.
Alice stared at the girl by the gas station. She had an hourglass body. Curves in all the right places. Alice looked down at herself, she barely had curves at all.
Bella watched Alice silently.
Oh crap I think that wasn't the best thing to say.
Nice one Bella you hurt her feelings.
Bella walked up to Alice and put her chin on her shoulder.
"Alice, please don't take it the wrong way," Bella tried to look at Alice's expression, but she was staring at the hot girl, who was now chatting with Jake.
"I'm not," Alice said quietly, "I get it, she has a great body. She's beautiful."
Rosalie or that girl?
Bella saw Alice looking at the girl.
"What? God no!"
Alice turned and stared at Bella and received a pleasant shock when their noses brushed.
Bella seemed unaffected.
"What do you mean?" Alice whispered, her eyes locked on Bella's lips.
Don't get carried away, Alice thought to herself and backed up a bit.
Bella smiled, "She is hot," Bella looked at the girl, "Great legs, great boobs, great everything."
Alice turned away from Bella, which made Bella smile.
Bella had never pegged Alice for the insecure type. It comforted her to know a girl with beyond human beauty felt insecure.
Is that wrong?
"She looks like she belongs in one of those calendars, you know, or those posters" Bella said.
"You say that like it's a bad thing. All the girls in those are hot too," Alice said and was surprised to feel Bella nod.
"Those women, in my opinion," Bella said, "can be ugly. I mean, no one buys the calendars for the dates you know?"
Alice nodded her head, she did know. Emmett had one from every year since he was turned. Jasper picked one up whenever they went to a different country. And even Edward eyed them every now and then.
"Now don't get me wrong, I am sure they are nice girls. The thing is when I hear the word hot that's what I picture. The word sort of objectifies a girl no?"
"It doesn't matter," Alice said, "No one would ever think that about me."
Alice and Bella watched as Jake and the girl disappeared behind the building. Jake shot them two thumbs up just before he was out of sight.
"That's a good thing," Bella whispered into Alice's ear which made Alice shiver and lean into Bella, "You are beautiful, amazing, gorgeous and I am sure, when the time calls for it, sexy."
Alice let out a mocking laugh.
"So you don't like hot, but sexy is fine," Alice asked, trying hard not to let her thoughts get carried away.
Bella nodded, "It is fine. Hot demands attention from everyone, it is for everyone. It also makes someone want you as a onetime thing. For only one thing. Sexy, on the other hand," Bella paused and moved her hands to Alice's waist, "is not in clothes and body alone. It's in a look, a body movement, a touch," Bella moved her hands slowly up Alice's subtle curves, Alice's shirts lifting slightly with the friction. Bella let out a slow heated breath, "Sexy is meant to make one person of your choice, happy. At least that's my opinion."
Alice knew that if her heart wasn't dead, it would be racing. Having Bella so close was unnerving her, she was fighting the urge to turn and kiss the girl.
Alice turned to Bella to see her expression, hoping to see her own feelings returned. She saw Bella's warm brown eyes staring at her intently, Bella had a smile that made Alice's heart melt.
Bella opened her mouth to say something , but a red flash in the trees caught her eyes.
Alice turned to see what Bella was looking at, but saw nothing.
As if realizing her position and what she was doing for the first time, Bella stepped away from Alice shaking her head slowly. She was looking at her hands a confused expression on her face.
Bella looked at Alice smiled, "Sorry about that."
"Yeah?"
Bella didn't catch Alice's questioning tone; she was distracted by Jake who was jogging over to them.
"Hey Charlie called. He said they just caught a big one and wants us over there before the guys finish all the fish," As Jake said this he winked discreetly at Alice.
They all got in the car, before Alice drove off she glanced at Bella, who was still staring at her hands.
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Alice and Jake sat in the car as Bella put away everything Alice had bought her.
Alice looked at Jake, "I guess this is where I say goodbye."
"Why?" Jake looked at Alice confused.
"I'm not allowed in La Push, remember," Alice said staring at Jake, who seemed as if he had actually forgotten Alice was a vampire.
Jake got out of the car, but when Alice started the engine, he motioned her to wait. Alice watched as he pulled out a phone and began talking. She couldn't hear what he was saying, but after a few minutes he got in the car smiling.
"Can I possibly drive the car to La Push?"
Alice nodded slowly, "I can take Bella's truck home I guess."
Jake laughed, "No I mean, it would make them so jealous, me driving into La Push with an awesome car and two beautiful girls."
Alice stared at Jacob as if he wasn't human. Which he wasn't but he was acting out of character for a werewolf.
"I talked to Sam, our alpha, he says that it might be a good idea to have you over on friendly terms, so that you can go over the contract we have. Seeing as it was not our generation of wolves that made it, he wanted to make everything clear, maybe change the boundaries."
"Why," Alice asked, getting suspicious.
"There is a store by your house that sells these drinks we all love, but we can't buy them without breaching the contract. We haven't had one since you guys moved here. It's a bit of a hassle to keep sending someone to buy crates of the stuff."
Alice knew about what store he was talking about, it was the only one that far out from the town, it was also close to her house, meaning the wolves couldn't be near it.
"Oh, the contract is too strict then."
Jake shrugged his shoulders and smiling said, "Most of us just want the drink," he laughed when Alice shook her head and mumbled something about children, "So are you willing to come and negotiate?"
Alice agreed and Jake smiled, "Oh, and I told them about your car, can they drive it?"
Alice eyed Jake silently before shrugging her shoulders slightly, "We'll see."
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Bella stared at everyone who was standing in front of her singing happy birthday. Everyone she knew from school and La Push was there. Bella had never seen Charlie with a bigger smile on his face.
When everyone was finished singing Bella walked over to her dad and hugged him.
"I didn't want a party Charlie," Bella whispered in his ear.
Charlie chuckled, "It's not a party. It is a social gathering and it just so happens it is your birthday. It is mere coincidence."
"Coincidence?" Bella said smiling, "I guess it is also coincidence there is a birthday cake with my name on it."
Charlie nodded and Bella laughed, shaking her head before she went to thank everyone that was present.
Alice stayed next to Bella, watching the wolves closely; there were more than she originally thought. There was even a girl. Alice felt sorry for her, it had to be hard.
The wolves had glared at her when they first saw her, but Sam had calmed them down and Alice joined them and Bella around the fire. Alice made sure to stay close to Bella.
At first, no one wanted to direct their attention to Alice; they hardly acknowledged her presence, until Jake mentioned how Alice had come into possession of her Mustang. The pack found the whole ordeal entertaining and Alice began telling stories about her family. Making sure not to let any information slip that might cause suspicion in Bella.
In turn, the wolves told her about their people and their legends. Including how they had first become wolves. Alice was surprised to find out that the wolves sitting around her were not true werewolves, but in fact shape shifters. Bella sat quietly listening to Jake as he told the story of the first vampires that his ancestors had met. She seemed really interested in the story.
"Wouldn't it be cool if that stuff was really real?" Bella said after the stories had been told. The wolves exchanged glances with each other and Alice before breaking out in laughter.
Bella pouted and crossed her arms, "You guys are mean."
Alice smiled at Bella and hugged her; she was pleased when Bella remained in her arms for most of the night. Although, the action caused the wolves to stare at her suspiciously, Alice knew they thought she would attack Bella.
Shortly after it got dark people started leaving. Soon it was only Bella, the wolves, and Alice on the beach. Charlie and Jake's dad had gone into the house to fry up their fish.
Sam pulled Alice apart from the group and spoke to Alice quietly.
Bella glanced at the pair every now and then, wondering what they were speaking about so privately.
"So, how do we do this?"
Alice shrugged her shoulders, "We can throw out the old one and try to settle on new rules."
Sam was not too happy about the idea at first. He thought Alice was going to ask to be able to feed nearer to Forks, or to be allowed a human every now and then. Alice had crinkled her nose at the idea.
"I've never tasted human blood. I intend to keep it that way."
Sam looked at Alice shocked, "You are a couple decades old aren't you?"
Alice widened her eyes in shock, "Are you calling me old?"
Sam looked at Alice, worried that he might have actually offended her.
Then Alice laughed, and he shook his head, he did not expect that from a vampire.
"You've never had human blood?" Sam asked glancing over to Bella.
Alice shook her head.
"And your family?"
"Edward, Jasper, Esme, Carlisle and Emmett have. I haven't."
"You left out the blonde," Sam growled.
"She has done things that are not mine to tell, sorry."
Sam was not sure what she meant but he dropped the subject immediately.
In the end it was stated that the wolves would be free to roam anywhere, they had no boundaries but could not be in wolf form near the Cullen's house. For safety reasons, Alice didn't want anyone attacking a wolf and starting a war. The Cullens still had the same restrictions as before. Sam had tried to change a few things, but Alice insisted that the liberties and changes should benefit his pack, since it was their land.
As part of their new rules, the Cullen's would have to notify the wolf pack if any vampire friend would be visiting, so that they would not mistakenly attack them. Alice also told him about her and her family's abilities.
Sam had been interested in finding out that Alice could see the future and when Alice said that they seemed to be failing recently with Bella, he pointed out that the times she could not see Bella were times Bella was with or near a wolf.
Alice then realized she could not see a wolf's future, or the future of a person that was with a wolf. She would have gone to Carlisle with the information, but he had been avoiding her.
Alice then asked Sam to take care of Bella when she was around them.
"Well, if you'd like you and your family could be allowed in La Push."
Alice laughed when Sam made his offer.
"Sorry, I don't think they would last long. They are not as tolerant of your kind." Alice hoped the comment had not insulted Sam and was pleased to see him smile.
"In any case you are allowed to come back; I think the members of the pack would be disappointed if they didn't get another chance to drive your car."
Alice smiled and agreed to Sam's new set of rules.
"That's great!" Jake said as he walked up to Sam and Alice, "We all agree that Alice's scent is," Jake paused and sniffed the air, "tolerable."
Alice laughed and pushed Jake away playfully, "Try being the only vampire on wolf territory. I think I might have to burn my clothes."
Alice wasn't joking, she would burn her clothes when she got home.
Jake pretended to be offended and then went back to the fire, where Bella was staring at Alice.
Alice locked eyes with her and smiled, Bella smiled back but Alice noticed Bella had hesitated in returning the smile.
She ran towards Bella but before she got there, Leah tackled her to the floor.
Alice fought every instinct in her to push Leah off her and tear her apart, instead she looked up at the girl growling as silently as she could. Warning her.
Leah had Alice's hands pinned down above her head and she leaned into Alice, ignoring the growl.
Alice stopped growling when she became aware they were in a suggestive position, and that Leah's closeness was only making it worse.
"What's the matter leech," Leah whispered in Alice's ear, "can't take a little competition?"
Alice glared at Leah who smirked and sat up releasing Alice's hands.
Alice looked over to Bella who was staring at them with a curious look in her eyes, when she realized Alice was looking, Bella turned away blushing.
Alice sighed, what was it about Bella that had supernatural beings attracted to her.
Alice turned back to Leah, "Unless this is going somewhere can you please get off me?"
To her amazement Leah blushed at the comment and got off Alice awkwardly, she walked back to the bonfire and sat next to Bella. Alice sighed and laid on the sand while Leah started a conversation with Bella. Jake walked over and sat next to Alice, he was looking at Leah and Bella.
"You don't have anything to worry about with Leah, she is only protecting Bella."
Alice scoffed at Jake, "Yes that was exactly the meaning that came across when she tackled me."
"Ah, well it wouldn't of been right to have one of the guys to tackle you would it?"
Alice shook her head.
"We just wanted you to know, we might possible like you more than any of your family, but we will protect Bella at any cost."
"I wasn't planning on attacking her, neither was my family, we have excellent control," Alice thought about that a second, "Except Edward, but we can deal with him. Bella will not be in harm's way if we can help it."
Jake nodded, "We weren't talking about physical harm. Bella is more than capable of dealing with any physical harm inflicted on her; emotional harm however is another story. You live forever, anything you have with her will end. We will not tolerate you stringing her along for a year or two just to break her heart."
Alice stared at Jake.
"You know."
He nodded, " A blind man would be able to see it from a mile away," he glanced at Bella, "Bella is just blind and two miles away."
Alice giggled, that seemed like a strange way to put it.
"So do we have an understanding?"
Alice nodded.
Shortly after she was finished talking with Jake, Alice received a call from Edward. He yelled at her for having gone to Seattle with a wolf, where he thought she still was. After a few minutes, Alice hung up the phone realizing Edward was going to keep yelling at her.
She decided to leave shortly after.
Bella walked with Alice to her car. They passed Charlie on the way, he had a pained look on his face. Bella made a mental note to ask him about it after she had seen Alice off.
Bella headed back to the beach after she could no longer hear the motor of Alice's car.
When she got to the beach she saw that everyone was in a circle around Jacob. Bella could barely make out the fact that her father was at the center of the circle with Jake.
Bella pushed through her taller friends and was shocked to see Charlie handcuffing Jake and reading him his rights.
"Charlie?" Bella's voice was quiet, but her father heard her and looked at her with sad, pained eyes.
"What's going on dad," Bella asked her father as he walked past her, making Jake walk in front of him.
Charlie did not talk to Bella until Jake was in a police car that had shown up.
"A girl has disappeared in Seattle. She was last seen at a gas station, with him," Charlie nodded his head towards Jake, but did not look Bella in the eyes.
"I'm sorry sweetie, but he is a suspect I have to take him down to the station."
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Bella sat at her father's desk in his office. She had been watching the gas station's surveillance tape for the last six hours. She had arrived at the station at one in the morning. It was now seven. She had watched the tapes way past what the police had and was about to turn the television off when she noticed a woman walking up to the car Bella knew was the missing girl's.
The woman looked familiar to Bella but she couldn't remember where she had seen her before.
Bella was sure she would remember hair as red as that woman's, but she couldn't come up with where she had seen it.
Bella showed her father the part of the tape where the woman drives off in the car. After a few hours they found out the girl had not known this woman.
Now the main suspect was the red haired woman, but Jake remained a person of interest.
Charlie went to Jake and told him he could make a phone call if he wanted. Maybe get someone to bring him some decent food, seeing as he wouldn't be released yet. Charlie took Jake to the room where the phone was in and left to give Jake some privacy.
Jake picked up the phone dialed a number, Sam picked up the phone.
"Sam we have a problem."
"We'll get it cleared up don't worry," Sam said, trying to reassure Jake.
"That's not it. Charlie told me they have a new main suspect."
"That's excellent!" Sam was practically shouting into the phone, making Jake flinch away from it.
"I saw a picture of her; they needed to know I had never seen her before."
"Well then good. When do you get out then?"
"She was pale, with red hair."
Sam got quiet on his end of the phone.
"They can't figure out the color of her eyes. They think there was a glare, or she was wearing contacts, I don't think I have to say anymore do I," Jake waited for Sam to respond.
"I'll call a meeting Jake, we'll track her down and keep her away don't worry."
Jake hung up the phone.
So how was it?