Disclaimer: As much as I want to, I don't own twilight or Edward or Jacob or Bella or anything but the storyline really.
The entire weekend dragged on endlessly; my mind torn between Edward and Jacob. My anxiety must have been palpable as even Charlie noticed.
"You alright Bells?" Charlie asked his eye brow cocked in suspicion.
"Yeah dad I'm fine" I replied whilst stirring the pasta sauce for dinner.
"Because you realise the stove isn't on right?"
"Shit…" I murmured, whilst correcting my mistake, I needed to get a grip. Charlie stared at me with a mixture of concern and thought. I had to get to the bottom of this it was eating away at me, slowly.
After clearing the dinner plates and heading up to my room under the notion of homework I texted Jake.
Jake wat did u mean bout Edwrd the other day?
The reply was instantaneous.
Theres a Quileute meetin 2nite, 8 b ther, I'll explain it all
I jumped up quickly pulling on my jeans and brushing the knots out of my hair, I stumbled across the tube of mascara Renee got me for my last birthday. I decided a little bit wouldn't hurt just to try it out. I was tired of looking plain anyway. I few slicks later, I was making my way to Gunther, spinning Charlie a tale of going to visit Jake and Billy, it wasn't really a lie anyhow.
Jake was there to meet me as I pulled up. The moon was full and round and cast an eerie glow over the forest and across Jake's face. The night was chilly, but Jake stood in a pair of sweats and slippers, he grinned at me and helped me out.
"Hey Bella, you came!"
"Well obviously, you asked me to, dork." I sassed at him, I looked up to slap him round the head but he was too tall. He seemed to have grown at least 2 inches since I saw him Friday night.
Jake guffawed at my remark and slang an arm around my shoulder.
"Tonight, their telling the stories of the Wolves of the Quileute Tribe, we've all heard them before but Sam and his buddies have taken a sudden interest." Jake's voice sneered around Sam's name, projecting his obvious dislike. He must have seen the confusion on my face as continued to explain:
"Me, Sam, Paul, Jared and the rest of us used to be close in elementary school, hell even freshman year, but half way through my sophomore year they got weird. Sam and Jared are a little older than me and they dropped out in their Senior year, they walked around like they owned they place, and people actually took it. Treated them like Gods, they even got a say in the Elder's meetings. But the final straw was what Sam did to Leah." Jake paused, his breathing rough with anger and vengeance. "Leah and Sam were completely in love then Sam went weird and left her for Emily, her freakin' cousin. He left her completely broken. I'm not saying Leah's an angel. I didn't like her much, but she didn't deserve that. At all."
Hatred bubbled in my chest for Sam as well, as we neared the clearing. A gasp escaped me, the clearing was completely transformed, there was a roaring fire in the centre with strategically placed logs, forming a semi circle around it, with Billy and the other Elders sitting on the other side of the fire, Sam sitting with them. A beautiful woman sat next to him, with smooth skin dark and exotic; her hands were woven into Sam's, her face was turned toward him, seemingly in silent conversation. I saw a hint of sparkle on her left hand, it was obvious they were in love it radiated from them. So this was Emily.
She turned sharply and I could see three deep gouged marks running from her temple to her mouth; her eyes connected with mine. I turned away quickly. Jake whispered to me.
"She was caught up in an animal attack in Canada, try not to stare it makes Sam mad."
"Hey, Jacob!"
"Jake, over here!"
Three gangly teenage boys called us over. One of them was almost as tall as Jake, with long greasy hair tucked behind his ears unlike Jake his body didn't fill out his height. The other one was a bit shorter and was built like a tank, his t-shirt was tight, to show off his pecs and biceps. The third looked younger maybe 14, he has jaw length hair, was slightly taller than me and skinny as a rake, his face was cute and he had big deep brown eyes, you could tell he was going to be a looker some day.
"Ooh, is this the Bella?" The gangly tall one mocked.
"Shut up!" Jake growled with a hidden threat, all three of them laughed.
"I'm Quill" said the muscular one, holding out his hand in fashion that can only be described as flirting, I took it all the same, flattered. "This is Embry." He pointed the tall boy. "And this is Seth." The 14 year old boy waved.
A shrill bell rang, and Jake took me to a seat by Seth and Embry.
"Don't listen to a word, Embry and Quill tell you!"
"Hmph, they do know my name Jake." I giggled.
"That's because he's always talking about his Bella, I heard you're a Senior you don't look that much older than Jake!" Seth quipped.
"Your Bella mmm?" I asked, Jake just flushed and mumbled to himself.
Then Billy started to speak.
Many, Many years before, we Quileute's have lived in harmony with nature and its animals, we have been kind and nurturing. The pale faces came along, we were able to make agreements with them and continue to live in peace. We, as a tribe are a peaceful people, we kill only those who harm us, and we have a secret weapon, the shape of a wolf.
One day our ancestors, saw a creature, like the pale faces in appearance and form, but these creatures were hard as stone, their eyes as red as blood. These creatures fed on human blood. It was our duty to protect our harmony with life to eradicate this demon. So the Gods bestowed upon us the gift of the wolf form. Our teeth became strong enough to tear threw this demons flesh and kill them. We named our defeated enemy , the Cold Ones.
The Cold ones we found were not the last of them, no , no. There are hundreds, maybe thousands. It was our duty to protect. So when our ancestor Ephraim came across a coven of 5 cold ones, his instincts were to kill, but his mind pointed that their eyes were not the colour blood, but a bizarre yellow. The leader of this coven said
"My family and I do not drink human blood, we pose no threat to you or the other humans."
Ephraim being compassionate and against the spilling of blood said.
"You may live here in peace, but you may not cross onto Quileute land, You may not drink the blood of humans and You may not create another monster like yourselves, in return we will not harm you."
The Cold Ones adhered the treaty, so we did the same. But Ephraim still did not trust these demons so he spoke to the Gods.
"Allow my people the skill, the ability to change into wolves when our enemy is near. When the cold ones return, so will we."
So we wait, now for the cold ones to return and our wolf form to be restored.
I heard the sounds of people packing away, but my mind was preoccupied. Hard as stone, eyes an odd yellow, a cold one.
"No freakin' way." I whispered to myself, but all the signs seemed to point that way…
I looked to Jake and he seemed to be having an epiphany of his own.
"I was starting to believe… I saw Cullen and I knew… but me… I… I… No… NO!" Jake had begun to shake uncontrollably, his ramblings incoherent. I shook him.
"Jake? Jake are you alright?" Sam came over and took my hand off of Jacob and said in a deep authoritative voice:
"I think you should go home now."
Jake started shaking even harder, Sam began holding him down.
"Paul, Jared, Help, Billy! It's happening."
Seth came round and led me to my truck, my mind was in a complete daze, everyone was being evacuated from the clearing. I hopped into the cab, and put the key in the ignition. Not understanding a thing.
Something darted in front of the truck and I had to pull an emergency brake. I got out to see what it was and I saw Edward crouched in front of Gunther.
"What are you doing?"
He responded swiftly: "The forest is dangerous tonight. I think I should take you home"
A/N Please review, I know I've been terrible updating but I did give you an extra long chapter. Things are hotting up! P.S. Does anyone else call knots in their hair a Susan?