"Choose me, Bella. It's either me or him. You can choose to be just like him, or you can be with me. Make your choice."

Why was everything so unclear? I stared into dark, serious eyes and felt uneasy and sick. I knew I had to make my choice, but what would it be?

The vampire, or the werewolf?

I shook my head. "I...I don't know, Jacob."

He closed his eyes for a moment, trying to control himself. When he opened them again, his expression was harder and his fists were clenched. "Bella-"

"Why are you making me do this?!" I was angry now. He had no right to make me choose!

"You can't just have both of us. I'm not willing to share, and he isn't either." He reasoned. When did he become so logical?

I struggled to straighten out my thoughts, thinking of the pros and cons of both men. And for some reason, I had a feeling that a decision so simple sounding, shouldn't be this hard. If I truly, really loved Edward, why didn't I just leave Jacob? Why was the prospect of me becoming a vampire suddenly so far-fetched and crazy? Isn't that what I wanted in the first place? I was so confused.

"Choose me, Bella." Jacob repeated. "Just pick me." He looked so pained then.

I don't know what made me do it - maybe the sound of his voice, the look on his face, the comforting warmth of his arms, unlike Edward's freezing coldness - I nodded silently, and I could feel a tear running down my cheek.

"Okay."

I awoke with a strangled sob, sitting straight up in bed fearfully.

Just a dream. It was just a dream.

Edward, who had been laying beside me, had his arms wrapped around me, stroking my hair and humming my lullaby. He kissed away the tears on my cheeks.

"What did you dream about?" He asked softly.

I drew in a shaky breath, throwing my arms around his neck carefully. "Oh, just me. And Jacob...and you."

That was obviously enough of an explanation for him, because he just nodded and laid me back down gently. He laid next to me, still humming my lullaby softly.

And as I was drifting off to sleep again - but it was almost morning - and I thought how ironic it was, that the day before I become a vampire, I have my last dream about the one thing I had been avoiding in my dreams and my thoughts:

About choosing Jacob over Edward.


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