"Geez Beckett. I was about to send out a search party."
Milly smiled as she pushed the last branch aside and stepped onto the road opposite the Black's house. She had been in mute shock ever since that meeting with Edward not thirty minutes ago. He was more breath taking, more mysterious and sensual than she could ever have imagined.
"Sorry Jacob am I late for supper?" Milly queried walking alongside Jacob across the street.
"No no that's fine. You shouldn't go walking in the forest alone though…day or night. It isn't safe."
"Right ok. Woods alone bad. Got it." Milly said walking into the Black's house.
"Why is it that I don't believe this will be the last time?" Jacob said with a smirk.
Milly turned and gave him a cheeky grin.
"I'm going to have to keep my eye on you aren't I Beckett?" he said narrowing his eyes.
"You strike me as the kind of guy who has his eye on everything, now come on your dad's probably waiting."
Jacob smiled and followed Milly through to the dining room where Billy was already waiting with a smile.
He angrily pushed aside branches as he sped through the wood back into town. The sun was just starting to set and he had fed enough to see her now and so that was where he was heading, but his thoughts were not in the usual place they were. She no longer solely occupied his mind, another did. He frowned at his unwelcome thoughts. He knew he would never love another the way he did Bella, she was his reason to live, to breathe…well on the occasion that he did anyway and now this person turned up that smelt exactly like Bella. That's why he had headed in her direction and behaved as if it was Bella he was talking to. Her scent was exactly the same. He closed his eyes and thought of her, her long blonde hair sweeping like curtains in front of her face, a face that was perfectly oval with a slight dusting of freckles over a button nose. But what he remembered most were her eyes. Her bright blue eyes that looked as if they were reading his soul…if he had one.
He emerged from the wood and looked upon Bella's house with the sun dropping just behind it. He frowned at the sight. He was suddenly very confused, he wanted to go in and see her so much that his heart hurt just thinking about the way her eyes would light up at the sight of him but at the same time he wanted to find out about this mysterious person who had suddenly turned up, but knowing that she was staying at the Reservation he knew that he couldn't. He shook his head at the sudden turnaround of his thoughts. His thoughts that for the past year had always only been about Bella. Now suddenly he was torn between them. He hated this Milly. This random person who had turned up and literally within a few seconds turned his world upside down.
He growled under his breath and pushed all thoughts of this blonde girl out of his mind and that was when his stomach flipped as Bella emerged from her house. Her long dark hair blowing in the sudden breeze and he knew then. Bella is where he wanted to be and within a second he was in front of her making her gasp with shock.
"Hey" she said with that smile on her face that she used just for him.
"Hey" he responded and grasped her gently around the waist. This was where he should be and where he wanted to be…