Hey, people! I feel a lot better today and I got my five reviews, so here's the next chapter! I was amazed. I uploaded this chapter at midnight, and and hour later I had four reviews! I hope you like this chapter as much as the last one. Please review! Again, I'll need five reviews before I'll update. Enjoy!
To Serendipity: I'm glad that you like it! Yeah, Jacob can be kind of annoying, but he has to be for this story. Hope you like this chapter!
Jacob's POV:
I walked away from the back door and headed in the direction of Old Quil's house. Sam had mention that he was eating lunch there today. Good. Old Quil would know, too. Leah thought that she would be able to do this without us figuring it out? She was sadly mistaken.
I kept walking through the forest. I didn't want to phase, in case Leah was in wolf form. I didn't want her to know that I knew. I didn't even feel like blackmailing her. I wanted to know how to handle this. This had never happened before, not that I knew of. Something had to be done.
I was about half way to Old Quil's when I heard someone behind me. I heard their heartbeat and breathing. I continued to walk, and just when I was about to turn on them, whoever it was grabbed me arm and shoved me.
Leah's POV:
I grabbed Jacob's arm and pushed him down. He's lucky that's all he got. I had half a mind to beat the crap out of him. He had not right to listen in on my private conversations!
"You know, I really hate you, Jacob." I growled. "You really should mind your own business."
"This is my business, Leah! You letting a vampire in like that, it's dangerous!" Jacob yelled. Well, two could play this game.
"Oh, and you have a lot of room to talk! You imprinted on Renesmee! she's half vampire! I never followed you around and listened to your conversations! I only supported you. What's so different about this?" I asked.
"What's different is that he could hurt you. He is a full grown, venomous vampire! What if her gets it into his head to try and kill us. And what if by then, we all trust him and we don't see it coming? We can't really trust him, Leah." Jacob replied. What sucked was that he was kind of right.
What if that did happen? I would never be able to live with myself if any one of my brothers were hurt. Ugh. This whole situation just kept getting more and more confusing.
"Yeah, but what am I supposed to do? I can't just stay away from him. I love him." I admitted.
"I'm not saying you have to stay away from him, but like Emily said, try just being friends with him." Jake said.
"Wait, how did you know I was there?" he asked.
"Oh, please. I could hear you breathing. And I heard you swear when I said imprint." I said.
"Oops. Guess I need to work on being stealthy." Jake said. We laughed at the thought of a werewolf practicing being stealthy.
"Um, Jake. Were exactly were you headed before I stopped you?" I asked. He squirmed and winced as I asked. What in the world could he have been doing?
"Uh, I was going to see Sam."
"But, why? Is something wrong?" I asked.
"No, nothings wrong. I just thought... that Sam should know." Jake said.
"You were going to tell Sam." I said.
"Yeah," Jake squeaked.
"Jacob. I'll give you a three second head start to get away before I kill you." I said, deadpan.
He processed my words and took off. He phased and looked behind him to see if I was following him.
He shouldn't have done that.
I phased and chased after him. He tried to get away from me, but I caught up with him quickly.
I lunged for his throat.
Bella's POV:
Jacob gave Renesmee to me and took off after Leah. Good. Now I didn't have to pretend. I broke down into dry cries.
Every time I looked around the room, I expected to see Rosalie standing as far away from Jacob as she possibly could. And wrinkling her nose whenever he got too close. I missed her. In the last few months of her life, we had become best friends. I loved her. She was my sister. Less fashion crazed that Alice, but enough tokeep me in check. She helped me through my pregnancy with Renesmee. She knew where I was coming from. I wanted to keep Renesmee, and she helped me. I could never really thank her for that.
I decided to do something productive. I went upstairs to try to cheer Emmett up. I brought Renesmee with me. She always made him laugh.
I took the stairs two at a time. I turned to the second door on the left and opened it a little. Emmett had moved from his bed to his desk. He was writing something. I wondered if Edward could hear what he was thinking.
I opened the door all the way and stepped into his room. I usually didn't come in here. To tell you the truth, I was afraid of what he had in there. But it was painted blue and had more car magazines than anything.
As soon as he saw me, he crumpled up the paper and hid it. "Hey, Bella. Whatcha' up to?" he said in mock cheerfulness. I raised an eyebrow and snatched the paper from his hands before he could stop me.
When I saw what was written on it, I almost wished I hadn't.
It said:
"Dear Rosalie,
I love you. I have always loved you, and I will love you forever. For eternity.
I don't understand why you did what you did. I suppose it is just something that I'll ponder until I see you again and can ask you. I don't know when that will be, but if you know, then I promise. It's a date.
I wish you hadn't taken Irina's place. I'm glad Irina's okay, but I would much rather have you with me now. I never even got to say goodbye to you. At first, I was mad at you. I wondered why you did this to me. Why you left me here all alone.
But then I realized that you had your reasons. I don't know what they were, but it helps knowing that you did it with some justification in your mind.
I also realized that you didn't leave me all alone. You left me with a loving family and friends who care about me and will help get me through this. I am thankful for that.
I am not mad at you anymore. I have forgiven you. I guess there was really nothing to forgive. In one way or the other, you did the right thing.
I am writing this because, as I said before, I never got to say goodbye to you. I needed some way to let these feelings free.
I will never get over you. I truly will love you forever. But I will try as hard as I can to get over this. To be as happy as I possibly can, for you. And for me.
As I sit here crying (technically) and writing this, I am remembering everything that has happened between us.
I think of the first time I saw you, through my vampire eyes. I remember thinking that you were the most beautiful thing in the world.
I remember falling in love with you. I remember telling you everything that I could remember about my human life. You were so fascinated, even though I thought my story was extremely boring. You loved me and wanted to know everything about me, is what you said.
My next memory is of our wedding. What a beautiful day it was. I remember your white dress, and the flow of your hair in the wind. That was the happiest day of my life. I hope that it was the same for you. I want to remember you exactly as you were on that day. June 24, 1923.
I think of our honeymoon. I won't go into details in case Renesmee finds this. I will say that it was wonderful and extraordinary.
I remember our vow renewal. I remember every kiss and every touch. I am so glad that I have a vampire mind to help me remember those things. I don't ever want to forget anything about you.
I won't forget you, but I have decided to move on and get on with my life. It won't be the same, but I have to try.
An now I will say goodbye to you, as best I can considering that I didn't have a chance to do it in person.
I love you with all my heart. I can't seem to say that enough.
Goodbye, Rosalie Hale.
-Emmett"
I glanced over at him. He almost looked embarrassed. I knew that I shouldn't have read it. It was very personal. Meant for his and Rosalie's eyes only.
It was so sweet. I had no clue that Emmett could be so poetic and loving. He was always making jokes, that it never shown through. I had never realized it, but he only showed that side of him when it was just him and Rose. She brought out that part of him that no one else could.
"Emmett, I'm sorry. I... I shouldn't have read it." I stammered and gave him the letter back.
"No, Bella. It's okay. I'm glad you read it. I'm glad that someone besides Rosalie and myself knows how I feel about her. Now I think I'll be okay." Emmett grinned. It felt like I hadn't seen that grin in years. It was a small oasis in this desert of an ordeal.
"I'm glad your feeling better about this. That letter was really sweet. I'd never heard you talk about anyone like that before." I said.
"I really love her. She's the only one that I could ever talk about like that." he said.
"I know. Hey, do you want to come downstairs and hang out. I think we were just about to watch the football game." I mentioned.
"Alriiight!" he said, smiling. I laughed and we jogged down the stairs and into the living room. Everyone looked at him, silently asking if he was okay, and then looked at me as if asking me how I did it. I hadn't done anything at all. It was all Emmett. He needed to say goodbye, and that's exactly what he did.
I was so proud to have a brother like him.
So there you go! I really liked this chapter, especially Emmett's letter to Rosalie. I hoped you guys liked it. You'll see what happened to Leah and Jacob in the next chapter. Please review. 5 reviews = the next chapter. Sorry it took me longer than expected to get this chapter up. I only get an hour at a time on the computer, and this chapter took me a while. See ya! Review! :)
