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"If you got 'em baby, use 'em." Jacob replied to the third time I called him a showoff for picking up the bikes today. How in the world did this boy have biceps that were as big as my head? I swear he was just a kid, you know...with werewolf in his blood, but, whatever!

But they were extremely distracting, which was a plus in my books.

"Yeah, yeah. You're just a silly teenage boy who's trying to impress a girl with your huge muscles." Sure Jacob's humongous biceps weren't sparkling, but I guess they'd work. "I have seen bigger." Taylor Lautner's muscles were pretty huge, but I guess Jacob's would be bigger soon enough...Whatever. We left the subject of muscles pretty quickly and he started talking about his friends at the reservation school. He told me a lot about Quil and Embry. "Quil and Embry? Are those supposed to be Quileute names?"

"Quil's a hand-me-down, and I think Embry got named after a soap opera star. I can't say anything, though. They fight dirty if you start on their names—they'll tag team you."

I scoffed. "I bet you could take them." I punched him hard on the arm, but it didn't look like it actually hurt him. Damn Jacob and his abs..."I bet I could take them."

"Jacob?" Speak of the devil…I think Quil and Embry were coming. Funny enough, Jacob muttered the same thing. Oh duh, of course he did, it was in the book. "Jake? Are you out here?"

"Yeah!" He shouted back. I could definitely have some fun with this. The boys came around the corner quickly. I was guessing that the tall one was Embry, since he was supposed to go wolf any day now, and the other dude with the short hair was Quil. "Hey, guys, this is my friend, Bella."

"Charlie's niece, right?" The short one asked, sticking his hand out.

I nodded, taking it to shake. "And you are?" I put up the friendly front that I always used with Jessica and Mike at school. I was sort of wondering why I had to start now, rather than when I first got here with Jacob. Maybe Jacob was different…oh shut up, stupid thoughts…

I think Quil only breathed really deeply just to make his chest look bigger. "I'm Quil Ateara."

Ugh, what was with wolves having crushes on me? I laughed at his expression anyways. "In all technicalities, I'm Isabella Marie Swan," Actually, in all technicalities, I was Melody Jayne Waters, but I did have official documents that my name was now Bella. I'd have to tell my parents about that soon...but that wasn't an issue at the moment. I shook his hand anyway.

I turned to the tall one. "So that must make you Embry," I stated, sticking my hand out.

He blushed, just like I used to when I was around...don't even go there. "Yeah, that's me. Embry Call."

Jacob wasn't kidding about making fun of their names. Quil was glaring at me like he was about to wolf-out on me at any second. I wasn't even gonna to lie, he was kind of creeping me out. He stopped glaring, though, when he glanced over at the piles of metal that were used to be in the shape of bikes. "So what are you guys doing?"

"Playing with bits of scrap metal, nothing out of the ordinary." I threw Jacob a glance, hoping he would catch the look and not tell them about our project. I didn't entirely trust Embry because he was going to be a wolf soon, and I really didn't need him letting it slip to Sam in his mind that I was working on motorcycles. He might let it out to Charlie, who would tell Aunt Sarah, who would literally kill me. I would not put it past her to do so, no matter how I felt when I was around Jacob.

Jacob went ahead and told them anyway, the betrayer. I don't think I'd be able to tell him a secret anymore..."Don't worry Bella, they won't tell anyone about our project," he turned towards the guys. "Bella and I are going to fix up these bikes." As expected, they both practically pounced on the bikes and started talking in the foreign language that only mechanics could speak.

That was when I instantly lost interest. I went and sat in the Rabbit, which didn't look that bad when you were on the inside. I laid my head back, and even dozed off a little. I was so exhausted from having Victoria in my dreams. But being stupid and sleeping, I had a hazy sort of dream. It was about the most stupid thing I had ever dreamed.

Okay, it was more terrifying than stupid.

I was riding my fixed up motorcycle down the road when all of a sudden three huge wolves were running all around me.

It was kind of boring, because while the wolves were really fast, they couldn't exactly outrun a motorcycle, because apparently in my dream, motorcycles were faster than dogs. But then a certain someone entered into my dream (if you guessed Edward then ding ding ding you were correct). As I was driving down the road with the wolves, a white blur was streaking its way through the trees. Eventually, the streak stopped moving in the middle of the road. I woke up screaming when both the wolves and my motorcycle barreled into Edward in the middle of the road.

I don't think Quil was going to have much of a crush on me anymore. I knew I just made him jump three feet in the air just by the sheer pitch of my scream. Jacob, though, hardly batted an eyelash and ran over to the Rabbit to make sure I was okay. "Bella! Are you okay? Did something…bite you? Hurt you?" He asked frantically. I shook my head over and over trying to get the image of him being run over by a motorcycle out of my head. "We're boring you so much that you had to scream, aren't we?"

I choked out a laugh of disbelief. "Even if I did feel like that, I wouldn't actually do that, Jake." I managed to pull myself together much faster than I usually was able to. Maybe because Jacob was rubbing my back. Jacob and Emrby helped me out of the car, and we walked back to Quil. "Sorry, guys, how long was I out?"

Okay, maybe Quil was into the whole 'crazy' thing because he still looking pretty infatuated. "Only an hour. You know, Jake, I think she was saying your name in her dream. Isn't that right, Embry?"

Embry nodded. "I definitely heard a couple of 'Oh, Jake'-s coming from the Rabbit." I blushed, which was something I hadn't done since my birthday. Which was THREE MONTHS AGO. Did I mention how much I missed Edward?

Jacob held me back when I tried to strangle his friends and dragged me outside the garage. Embry and Quil were still laughing their heads off inside.

I stopped struggling once we were outside and my blush got hotter when it was just me and Jake."I wasn't really doing that, was I? If I was, I am so sorry. I probably need to go…"

To my surprise, Jacob burst into laughter! Evil dog! "You didn't say anything at all, Bella. You just scared the crap out of Quil and Embry when you screamed, so they were paying you back for scaring them. And if you need to go," he looked pretty sad for the first time today, "I guess I'll just finish taking the bikes apart tonight and figure out what more we'll need to get started rebuilding them. When do you want to work on them again?"

Erica I knew would probably kill me if I didn't say tomorrow, and I kinda actually did want to come back. "Tomorrow?" I could hear Quil and Embry shushing each other so that they could hear Jacob and me talking. "That is, if your wing men don't mind…"

Jacob burst into a huge smile, which made me smile as big as him too. Hey, the guy was my sun. "That would be great!" Hmm, maybe I should warn them now not to think of this as anything other than two friends working together, but I couldn't find it in me to burst his bubble tonight. Maybe tomorrow….or the next day. Yeah, definitely the next day.

"Okay, well, you figure out what we need to buy and I'll ask my mom if I can max out the credit card she gave me for emergencies. I also have some money from my job," I told him.

"Bella! I don't think I should let you pay for everything," Jacob insisted.

I shook my head stubbornly at him. "No way! I brought the metal for you, my mechanic to fix. I'm going to pay as much as I need to turn these babies into bikes." Exactly was how much I needed? "Besides, I forgot to work into the deal that I needed lessons to ride it. Think you could do it?"

Quil and Embry snickered some more from behind the door, and I could tell that Jake was starting to get mad at them. No trembling like he was going to burst from his skin, though, thank goodness. "Yeah, I think I can help with that. I still don't think…"

I slugged him on the arm. "Shut up with the money stuff. I'm paying, so get over it. If I had taken these to a mechanic, how much would they have charged me?"

He nodded thoughtfully. "Good point." I loved it when I won. I really did. Still, he let it go after that, and I distinctly heard the word 'push-over' used by one of the boys. Even though they were entertaining me immensely, Jacob growled at them. "That's it, get out."

"Alright, alright, I'm out of here." I waved to Jake. "See you tomorrow with Mr. Visa in hand." I had barely walked three steps before I heard 'oofs' and groans coming from the garage. I had to stop before I could go. I really wanted to see Jake throw the guys out because it just had to be funny. I walked back to the garage.

Jacob worked faster than I thought. It was only a couple of minutes before two boys were practically thrown from the garage. "If you set so much as one toe on my land tomorrow…" he stopped when he saw me laughing in the driveway. If it had still been light outside, I would definitely have seen him blush.

"Bye guys!" I waved again before hopping into my truck. I turned on the engine and drove home.

Aunt Sarah was waiting for me in the doorway when I pulled into the drive. I cautiously got out of the car. Strange, Aunt Sarah had never waited for me outside before. Oh man, was she mad that I ate the last homemade cookie that Grandma Harriet sent? The woman got very passionate about her cookies. "Hey Aunt Sarah, what's up?" I put on an innocent face. She looked like she knew something. Dear God, I hoped the Marks family didn't call her and tell her.

"Bella? Where were you today?" Okay, to lie or to not lie? I didn't want to say the wrong thing! Alright, now I was scared. "Wait, don't answer that because I know where you were today. You look happy too…did Jacob cheer you up?" Oh yeah, I forgot Billy was going to call Sarah. Okay, good, I wasn't in trouble.

"Oh, yeah! I just thought since I hadn't seen Jake in a while, I would go visit. Did Mr. Black call you?" I asked.

She laughed at my worried expression. Why was it that everyone laughs at me? But at least less people did it here. "Yes, he did. He thought that we could come down for dinner tonight, but I told him maybe tomorrow. I cooked your favourite, and I wasn't sure if you wanted to be out more than twice in a weekend. Do you think you might be up for it?"

I nodded. "Yeah, I think I can handle that," I said, walking inside. Aunt Sarah followed me. I pointed up the stairs. "I'm going to go up to bed now, though, if that's okay…"

Nobody really liked it when I went to bed because it meant that the screaming was going to start. I think Uncle Charlie even invested in earplugs. But who knew? My sun might brighten up my dreams. "Sure, sure!" She waved me off, and I was about to go up the stairs when she stopped me again. "Can I just ask you something first, sweetheart?"

Well that was unexpected. I paused with one foot on the bottom step. "Sure, what is it?"

She walked up to me and took my hands gently. Okay, what did she want to talk about? "Bella, sweetheart, do you think that maybe you and Jacob would…well, you know…?" Oh my God, somebody please tell me that she was not seriously suggesting that Jacob and I were going to be something. The only thing we were being was friends, and only friends.

I frantically shook my head. "Me and Jake? No way. We're just friends. I'm still kinda, well, you know..."

She instantly pulled me into a hug. "It's okay. I don't want you to feel like I'm forcing this on you." She pulled back. "But you remember Brad?"

I gave her a look. "You mean the guy you dated for three years before you found out he was married with a teenage kid?"

She nodded. "That's the one. I thought he was it. That he was the man I was going to marry. When I found out about his whole 'already married' thing, I was broken. I thought nobody would ever take his place, that I wouldn't be able to love again."

I nodded. "Yeah I know, you watched the Notebook non-stop."

She smacked my arm. "So not the point." Her face went serious again. "But then I met Uncle Charlie. He has made my life so much better. I opened up again." She put her hand under my chin, and lifted it a bit higher. "I just hope you eventually do the same." She leaned closer. "And if you don't, your mother will kill me."

I burst into laughter. "Nice one, Aunt Sarah." I looked back to the stairs. "So, can I go now?"

She nodded. "Course you can. Night, Bella."

As I was getting ready for bed, I couldn't help but think about what Aunt Sarah had said. But I couldn't bear the thought of ever letting go of Edward. I could barely let go of him after Breaking Dawn, how could I let go of him in real life?

I really didn't care about what Jacob said in Eclipse, how I could be happy if I ever let go of Edward. Edward was mine, I was his, and I was never letting him go. Going with her argument, she and Uncle Charlie were meant for one another. I mean, one look at them, and you would have thought that they grew up together. She always brightened up whenever he came home, he always got happy whenever she was in the room. I might be a bit happier when I was around Jake, but he would never make me the delirious happy I got when I was with Edward.

I just hoped that I could explain that to Jake in the nicest way possible.

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