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By the time I was done eating breakfast, Charlie had already left for work. As he was leaving he had told me to have fun with my friends today. As good advice as that is, I'm not entirely sure that's what will happen today. According to Edward, Kate wants to meet a werewolf, so in theory she should be okay with meeting Jake. I'm more worried about how Jake will react to not only the fact that there are more vampires here, but also that one of them wants to meet him.
After cleaning up my breakfast mess, I decided to make the first call; the one that I thought would be the hardest. I know Jake would have no problems coming over, but I want to give him all the information right away about Kate coming over so that there aren't any surprises for him since he tends to have a temper at times.
Grabbing my phone as soon as I entered my room, I plopped down on my bed and dialed Jake's number.
"Hello?" A very groggy sounding Jake said.
"Hey Jake; I didn't wake you up did I?" I asked knowing full well that I did.
Ever since he joined the pack, his schedule was practically turned upside down. So I'm sure he probably just fell asleep not too long ago.
"Sorta Bells; what's up?" Jake asked, sounding slightly more awake.
"Well, I was wondering if you could come over and meet a friend of mine?" I asked.
I didn't want to just ask him to come over because then he'll think it'll be just us and I don't want to mislead him at all. I also don't want to tell him right away that my friend just so happens to be a vampire, I'll tell him that after I get an answer from him.
"You had to call this early to ask me that?" Jake asked, sounding slightly annoyed.
Even though he sounds annoyed, I know he really doesn't care when I call him. I guess to him he thinks that the more I call the closer he gets to having me leave Edward for him. That's so not going to happen and I've told him this, but whatever.
"It's not that early Jake; I could have called you before I had breakfast. I actually wanted to reach you now to make sure if you haven't already, that you don't make any plans for this afternoon so that the three of us can hang out." I said.
Again, I made sure to say that there will be three of us, not two so Jake doesn't get any ideas.
"I'm always available for you Bells; I'll be there. Is there a specific reason you want me to meet this friend of yours?" Jake asked hesitantly. "This isn't like a set up or anything, right?" Jake asked nervously.
The question made me laugh and I had no chance of even trying not to laugh at him. I'm sure he's pouting now at me laughing at him; but I can't help it. The idea of a vampire going out with a werewolf, their natural enemies, is just hilarious. I don't ever see that happening. The most I'm hoping for between the two supernatural groups is that Jake can put up with Kate long enough for her to actually meet him.
"No, not all Jake." I told him once I calmed down.
"Then how come?" Jake asked sounding curious.
"You have to promise not to be mad." I said first.
Whenever someone asks you that, chances are you're going to get mad at what they're about to say. I don't know why people say it, or even I just said it, it's almost like I'm just setting Jake up to get mad.
"What is it Bella?" Jake asked, his temper starting to show through a little from the warning.
"Well, the Cullen's vegetarian cousins are in town to help with the wedding and Edward said that one of them has never met a werewolf, so I thought you could meet her for two seconds." I said as quickly as I could to get it all out before Jake could interrupt me.
"There are more bloodsuckers here!" Jake yelled into the phone.
I heard some background noise that sounded like he was rummaging through his room.
"Be nice Jake; they're family and they're not staying that long. Can you just come and meet one of them?" I asked.
"If they even think about crossing the boarder –" Jake started, but I cut him off.
"Don't even go there Jake, I don't want to hear it. You don't have to come over if you don't want to but I'm still inviting Kate over to hang out." I said knowing that if I said I was going to still hang out with a vampire alone that he'll come over regardless of how he feels about vampires. It's a bit manipulative, but whatever, that's what he gets for judging without knowing someone first.
"No, I'll come over, in fact I'll just head over now and we can hang out before the leech gets there." Jake said.
Well, that explains all the noise I was hearing in the background; he was trying to find clothes to wear.
"That would be awesome since I haven't hung out with you in a while. But please, try not to call her any names and be an adult, please." I said.
"No promises Bella. Will Edward be there also?" Jake said, the question coming out sounding a little tense.
"No, it'll just be me you and Kate." I answered. That's more motivation for Jake to come over because he'll be able to spend time with me and not worry about Edward being here. It's gotten a little harder for me to get to the reservation recently and Jake doesn't like coming here since if he does to visit me, Edward will be there as well.
"Good, I'll be there in about an hour okay Bells?" Jake asked, sounding a bit calmer.
I didn't really want him to be here that early but I guess I'm okay with it if that means he'll agree to meet Kate and at least try to be nice to her and not a jerk.
"Sure Jake, I'll be here." I said.
We each said our goodbyes and we ended the call about a minute later. That wasn't as bad as I thought it would have been. I thought I would have had to try and convince him to come over. I'm glad I didn't. Now I just have to call Kate and see if she can come over or not. If it means meeting a werewolf, I'm sure she'll want to as long as she doesn't have any plans already of course. If she does have plans then I guess I'll just be hanging out with Jake all day.
Without putting the phone down, I dialed the number I have long since memorized. I'm by now Alice already knows that I'm going to be calling, so it wasn't a surprise that the phone barely rang once before someone answered it.
"Cullen residence." Esme said over the phone.
"Hey Esme, is Kate there?" I asked.
I heard some laughter in the background, a little growling then a smack that I'm sure was Emmett getting hit upside the head. I've heard that happen plenty of times so I'm fairly used to the sound.
"Yes she is; here she is dear." Esme said then I'm sure handed the phone off to Kate.
"Hello Bella; to what do I owe the pleasure of having you call for me?" Kate asked in an overly fake polite tone.
In the background there was more laughter and someone growling then another smack. Instead of just asking what I wanted to, curiosity got the best of me.
"Sounds like you guys are having a lot of fun over there." I commented, hoping that would be enough for her to tell me what's going on without me asking.
"Of course we are; though I'm sure if it was just me and you, we would have even more fun together." I'm so glad that she can't see me blushing over the phone. "Alice knew you were going to be calling and asking me to hang out today; so I made sure my schedule was all clear for you. Emmett and I made a few comments that Edward may or may not have appreciated and is a little upset." Kate said, explaining what was going on.
"Please be nice to my fiancé, I'm kind of fond of him." I said in an amused tone.
It was meant to be a joke, but Kate seemed to take it a bit more seriously than what I meant.
"Only fond of? In that case, stealing you from him will be a lot easier than I though." Kate said sounding very serious.
I'm not really sure what to make of what she said. I know she can't be serious. I mean, why would she, a female mind you, want to try to take me from my fiancé? The same fiancé that happens to be my soul mate vampire, she's a vampire; she should know that soul mates belong together and can't be separated.
"Um, okay, so Edward said that you wanted to meet a friend of mine; Jacob Black. So I just wanted to know if you wanted to come over sometime this afternoon to meet him?" I asked, choosing to ignore her comment.
"Edward said I wanted to meet him? Why exactly would I want to meet him when you're the only one I want to meet?" Kate asked in a teasing tone.
I know if I looked in mirror my face would be completely red right now. I don't know what to make of Kate's words; I'm just going to say that she's just a very flirtatious person and what she's saying means nothing. Even though I hear growling in the background, that for some reason I think is Edward, I'm going to just ignore what she said.
"Well, Jake is a werewolf and according to Edward you've always wanted to meet one." I explained.
"That's very interesting Bella. I had thought werewolves were killed off centuries ago. If he really is a werewolf, I would very much like to meet him." Kate said.
She still sounds very serious and for some reason I don't like Kate sounding that way. I'm almost tempted to say something, anything, to get back into her joking manner; even if it causes me some embarrassment.
"That's what Edward said. You can come over anytime this afternoon, Jake and I will be here already." I said.
"When is Jake getting there?" Kate asked.
"He's on his way now." I answered.
"So you want some alone time with him? I think it's only fair that I get some alone time with you as well." Kate said; her teasing tone back in place.
"Um, well, I guess that would be okay." I said, not really sure what to say.
"Perfect, you did tell me yesterday that you would pay for a movie for us today. I'm a little excited now." Kate said in an excited voice.
Did I just agree to go out on a date with Kate? Did Edward just hear me accept to go out on a date with Kate? I really need to fix this before it gets out of hand.
"Um, Kate, just to make sure it's clear, we're just going as friends." I said.
I don't want to just cancel on her, I would feel rude doing. Plus I actually do want to go to the movies with her. But just as friends, not as a date.
"I understand, friends testing out their compatibility for an actual relationship. I understand perfectly." Kate said.
"Wouldn't that be a date though?" I asked, slightly confused.
"You're right, that would be a date. I guess that is what we're doing later tonight. Well, I better let you go Bella; I wouldn't want to keep you away from your wolf boy that's coming over. I'll just go with Alice and Irina and get ready for our date. I'll be over and ready later. Bye." Kate said in a rush.
Before I could even think of something to say, the line was already dead. I still don't know if I just accepted date or not, but I really think I did. I also think I made it clear that we aren't going on a date… at least I thought I did.
I hung up my line and put my phone in pocket before heading downstairs to wait for Jake. I'm not really sure what we'll end up doing while we wait for Kate to show, I'm guessing we'll just talk or watch T.V. or a movie until she gets here. I also don't think Kate will get here until after lunch so that she doesn't have to be the only person to not eat, though for some reason I don't think she would mind being odd person out.
About ten minutes later, after just sitting on the couch and reading a book I had left down here, my doorbell rang. Marking my spot in the book and putting in down on the couch cushion, I went to the door and opened it. On the other side was a happy looking Jake.
Without warning, Jake gathered me in his arms and twirled me around in greeting. Once he put me back down on the ground, I couldn't move at all from being so dizzy. Jake laughed at my apparent dizziness and put a hand on my shoulder to help stabilize me.
"Geez Jake, what a way to say hello." I finally say once I have my bearings.
"Sorry Bells, but it's been a while since I've last seen you without any bloodsuckers, I just got really happy is all." Jake said with a huge grin.
"Don't call them that, it's not nice." I scolded as I let Jake in.
He made a bee line for the living room and I heard the T.V. go on almost as soon as he was in the room. I made my way to the kitchen to get something to drink, it's still way too early to even think about getting something started for lunch, but I'll at least get something to drink.
"What anything to drink Jake?" I yelled out to him.
"Whatever you're getting is fine Bells." Jake yelled back.
Grabbing two bottle waters, I then made my way back to the living room and found Jake on Charlie's chair looking fully relaxed and watching some random show on T.V.
"Charlie would so kill you if he caught you on his chair." I teased as I tossed him his water.
"I know; that's why I'm sitting in it with him not here. This thing is way too comfy for him to hog it all to himself." Jake said.
I opened my water and started drinking it as I sat back down in the spot I was before.
"Did you have anything in mind to do while we wait for Kate to show up, or did you just want to watch T.V.?" I asked as I sat my water on the coffee table.
"We can just chill and watch T.V. Then when lunch rolls around we can go to the diner and get some food if you don't mind." Jake said.
"Sounds like a plan." I agreed.
That's exactly how my morning and early afternoon went. We didn't really do much talking as we watched T.V. and I actually ended reading the book I had down there before we left for the diner. During lunch, when Jake wasn't stuffing his mouth, we talked about random things that I'm not really sure how they came up in conversation. On the ride back to my house, we started talking about the past. We talked about how close we used to be when we were kids and how close we were during the beginning of high school and how we grew apart. Jake then started to blame a lot of things, like our distancing, on the Cullen's, mostly Edward. As he started this, we pulled up to my house with Kate standing by the door apparently waiting for us to show up.
"That's the leech?" Jake asked through clenched teeth as I parked my truck.
"Don't call them that Jake." I said for the millionth time. "And yes, that's Kate." I said.
As I crawled out of the truck, Jake made sure to get out quickly and made his way over to my side and stood a bit too close to me for comfort. I think he was trying to be the protective best friend against the scary vampire, but the thing is, the vampire isn't scary and he's annoying me.
"So this is the mutt?" Kate asked as we approached her.
"Don't call him that. Can't you guys at least pretend to act civilly towards each other?" I asked as I opened the door.
"He started it." Kate mumbled, reminding me of a little kid getting scolded.
I could practically feel the anger rolling off of Jake as he walked into the house right behind me. I went straight to the living room and sat down on the couch. I'm not really sure what to do now that they're both here; I guess I'll just go with the flow.
Jake followed my lead and sat down right next to me on the couch and Kate sat on Charlie's seat. Jake looks very tense and it sees he's trying everything he can think of to not get any madder that he apparently is right now. Kate looks the complete opposite. She looks very calm and actually seems to be a little amused by Jake.
"So, why did you want to meet me?" Jake said.
His voice was a little hesitant, almost like he was trying very hard not to call Kate any names, but also didn't want to use her name.
"Honestly, no I didn't. Edward totally made that all up. Although, once I heard that you were a werewolf; that did catch my interest. So you change every full moon then right?" Kate asked.
Edward lied to me? I don't know what to feel more, hurt or anger. Why would he lie to me? I felt a little pain in my chest at the betrayal from Edward. I know it wasn't really a big lie; he only put me in a really awkward position with having a werewolf and a vampire, two mortal enemies, in my living room. I'm just very thankful right now for Alice's visions, that she knew I was going to be calling and what I was going to be asking Kate. If they didn't now, that would have been really embarrassing to me.
"Every full moon? I don't think so, I can phase whenever I want to." Jake said, clearly gloating to the clearly uncaring vampire.
"Well, that is interesting, but not unexpected. Werewolves were all killed out a long time ago, you are not a werewolf. You must be a shifter." Kate said, once again not sounding like the playful Kate that I've gotten to like… as a friend of course.
"Well, year, but we are also called werewolves." Jake said, getting on the defensive.
"Sure, if that's what you want to believe. You smell a lot worse than a werewolf though." Kate said while pinching her nose closed for added affect.
"Like you're one to speak, you reek." Jake said; anger a little more prominent in his voice.
"As long as Bella doesn't think I smell, then I really don't care." Kate said, sending me a smile that Jake definitely saw.
"Leave Bella out of this." Jake said like he was trying to defend me from something.
"Jake, we're in my living room, I don't think I can be left out of the conversation." I said.
"Plus, it's not like I'm saying she smells bad, which you don't Bella you smell exquisite, I'm just saying I hope I don't smell bad to her." Kate said.
"She smells exquisite? That better not mean that you plan on draining her, because if you are, I will kill you." Jake said as he stood up and started shaking in anger.
"Jake! There's no reason to make threaten her. You can clearly tell by her eyes that she doesn't drink human blood, she drinks animal blood like the Cullen's do." I said as I stood up.
I don't know why I stood up. It's not like if Jake wanted to start a fight with Kate I could do anything. I could try to move quickly out of the way and hopefully not trip, but that's about it. Why would Edward want Kate to meet Jake, this is clearly something that could have happened. I can barely believe that I went along with it; but I had thought Kate wanted to, so I couldn't help but want her to do something she wanted. Did Edward want these two to fight? He couldn't have, he knows that Jake is my friend and that I wouldn't want him at risk to get hurt. Edward should also be thinking the same for his cousin, I know I do.
"Its fine Bella, he's not a threat to me." Kate said with a smirk.
"I could kill you leech, if you even think about stepping one foot out of line, I will." Jake seethed at Kate.
"No you won't, mostly because I won't do anything and secondly because of the treaty you have with my cousin. You can't fight here, if you do the treaty is void and then we get to have some fun. I don't believe the odds are in your favor. Your anger is far too out control for you to be able to think clearly in a fight, you're just too young and inexperienced to put up much of a fight." Kate said, still smirking at Jake.
"I'm leaving Bella, this was ridiculous, I shouldn't have agreed to come here. If you want to hang out again, you know where I live." Jake angrily said then stormed out of the house before I could say anything.
"Did you really have to push him?" I asked, knowing full well Kate was looking to push Jake's buttons.
"Well, he left us alone didn't he? I don't know about you, but I much prefer having just us in the house. It's much more intimate don't you think?" Kate asked as she finally stood from the chair and took a couple steps closer to me.
My face went bright red and everything I was just feeling about both Edward and Jake went right out the window as Kate gave me a clearly very seductive smirk as she walked towards me.
"Um, well, I don't…" I said, not really able to get a coherent sentence out of my throat.
Kate kept walking towards me until she was invading my personal space, but just barely not touching. I could smell her very distinct scent and if I could, I would wear it all the time as a perfume; it smells so much better than Edward.
"I agree Bella, I don't think this is that intimate, since this is your fathers' house after all and we are in the living room. If we were in your bedroom, then that would be different, but we're not… yet at least, maybe later. For now though, why don't you take me on that date you promised me? You buy the movie tickets and whatever you want from concession and I'll buy you dinner, I think that's a fair trade off don't you?" Kate asked; her face just inches from mine.
"Um, yeah, okay. I'll, um, call Charlie." I managed to get out with her being so close.
"Perfect and thanks to a certain future seeing vampire, there should be car waiting for us just outside this way we can get to Port Angeles a little faster and have more time to spend together not stuck in a truck." Kate said then abruptly made her way to the front door.
There's a car outside? I didn't hear anything pull up; I must have been too focused on Kate since she was so close to me.
"You coming, or would you like me to carry you?" Kate asked with a smirk since I haven't moved since she started walking.
"I'm coming." I said as I pulled my phone out of pocket to call Charlie and started walking towards the front door where Kate is.
"Not yet you aren't, but I'll get you there soon enough, I promise." Kate said with a smirk.
My whole face went bright red and my mouth hung open at what Kate just said. It was really perfect timing on her part for that tease, because as soon as she said it, Charlie answered and I just can't seem to find my voice at the moment as I stared at Kate walking to Alice's car parked up front.
A/N: Okay, so just to clear something up that's kind of bugging me. I'm not sure how it is the books and I couldn't find it on Twilight wiki, but I've read in a lot of stories on here that the wolves think they are really werewolves. According to Twilight wiki, Caius had them, the ones that are in tuned with the moon, all killed a while back. So I'm going off of what I think is fact that the pack think they are actual werewolves not just shape shifters. I could be horribly wrong, but oh well, it is what it is.