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This is just a little filler is get the story moving along and also to introduce Jacob in the next chapter. Hope you all enjoy it. Please R&R
Routine
Bella Pov
Today marks my fourth week of living on the Reservation it has gone by so quickly, I spend my days either doing my school work that my dad brings round every evening when he stops by for dinner or helping Emily in the kitchen with the cooking. Kim has really come out of her shell and is at Sam's and Emily's almost every evening and weekends, now that she is over her shyness her personality is really coming through as a bubbly girl with a great sense of humour just like Jared's. The pack has also changed it is not just about the wolves anymore us girls seem to be viewed as being a part of the pack, Sam and Jared are just like first cousins and I see some similar characteristics in all of us. Paul and Emily are like older siblings, i am finding that I go to Emily for support and advice it's nice having somebody to go to my mum was great but I always thought her advice only reflected her actions not opinions. Paul is the overprotective older brother that is always ready to give me the truth no matter if it's what I want to hear we also laugh at the same things but we also have our arguments that Sam and Jared find very amusing because I'm the only person who can make Paul say sorry but I'm sure they make him apologise.
I have not seen Edward or the rest of his family since the baseball game and not spoken to him since my second night here, I don't really miss him that much anymore I do think about him and hate when Sam, Jared or Paul talk bad of him but they don't really talk about him as much as they used to in front of me. I know that they meet the Cullen's every day for an update on James who has yet to be caught, his scent is all over Forks and some areas of La Push but nowhere near any places that I have been. Sam thinks the wolf scent is hiding mine making it harder to trace so now we go through a ritual of hugs before I step out the door with the idea that it would hide my scent.
A week after I moved to the Reservation dad went back home to Forks after the Cullen's promised to patrol the house and station at all times, I did worry to begin with but after the first week and nothing happened and James' scent not being found near him I began to relax a little. Sam had set up a few rules that the Cullen's had to respect around my dad and that was not to approach him unless he is in immediate danger and they are not allowed to ask him about me or my whereabouts. At first dad refused any of the Cullen's following him but after me bursting into tears and Billy giving him an ear full he eventually agreed to.
Sam and Jared introduced me to their mothers and it was great getting to know my Aunts have I now have to call them, the only hard part was that I had to keep the wolves a secret which was hard to begin with as the only people I had been around all knew the secret but it has gotten easier to just concentrate on my great grandmother as they knew more about her than Billy through their own grandmothers. Hearing about my great grandmother's story and the way the tribe banished her made me feel so sorry for her and I did question myself if I really did belong amongst these people after what they done to her. They told me how the three sisters would meet up secretly right up until they died, with the help of Sam and Jared we have tried to trace my great grandmother's remains but they are not in Forks cemetery even though my great grandfather is and she is not in the cemetery on the Reservation with her sisters. There is some speculation that she could have been buried with her sisters secretly as they are buried side by side and not with their husbands. After talking to Billy about this he is planning on speaking to the rest of the council and have a memorial stone put in the cemetery on the Reservation next to her two sisters. The most interesting thing we did find out about my great grandmother was that her name Tala meant wolf in Quileute, which of course we were all really happy with because of my connection with the wolves now, and them all agreeing that my place is with the wolves.
My mother was not very happy when she found out I was living on the Reservation and threatened my dad that she would come and get me to move to Florida with her and Phil, once I explained to her about us being part Quileute and wanting to get to know all about our heritage she was excited and has spoken to both Sam's and Jared's mother's loads of times building a relationship with them and promising to come visit as soon as Phil was not so busy.
Two weeks after moving here Emily and I both came down with the flu it was then that we realised just how much the wolves relied on us especially Emily and her cooking, none of them could really cook, Sam was only able to reheat tinned food, Jared was banned from the kitchen after burning bacon to such a degree that it caught fire and ruined the pan and all Paul could make was sandwiches. After two days of eating tinned mushroom soup and ham sandwiches Emily's aunt stepped in and started bringing food around for all us. Paul told me that the Elders were so concerned about our welfare they decided to tell her that the Legends were true it also helped that she was Harry's wife so they knew the secret would be safe, she was Sam's ex-girlfriend Leah's mother so she would be quite spiteful to Emily so after just one day of Sue Clearwater's visits and watching Emily get upset I faked that I was well and took over all the cooking for everybody. Sam was the only one who realised so he made sure he was at home more than the other two to help me and make sure I still rested, he was thankful for what I was doing, plus Paul accidently let his thoughts slip that I was ill when Edward was around and he once again threatened to cross the treaty line this time with Carlisle to treat me so with me up and about stopped a war from happening.
My dreams are still happening they are not always nightmares some are weird dreams of another wolf that is not in the pack, my nightmares have not really changed and I still dream about being ripped apart by everybody I know but sometimes they also have the unknown wolf in them and he is fighting Edward and being hurt. I have not told the others about this wolf just in case it is me being weird, I still quite often wake up screaming or am woken up by one of the wolves protecting the house when they notice my heartbeat change. Paul is the only one who stays with me all night when it is his turn to patrol the house, Sam and Jared just usually stay until I am asleep then either goes back in with Emily or back to the couch I think it is the imprint kicking in with them that makes them pull away from any other woman apart from their imprint not because they are uncomfortable about staying.
Yesterday was my last day at school before summer, because it was a sunny day and after lots of begging dad, Billy and Sam I was able to go into school and hand in any work due and all my books, Sam insisted on staying in the woods next to the school all day. Jessica and Mike kept asking why I was now living in La Push so I told them the public story that I'm distantly related to some of them and my dad thought I should spend time with them and get to know them, plus I was unsettled with starting at a new school half way through the year so he though t it would be easier for me to be home schooled until September, they bought it all without too many questions and the ones I could not answer I would start a different conversation Jessica asked constantly about my relationship with Edward but I couldn't answer her because I didn't know what was happening with that. I was glad when the day was over and Sam was stood waiting for me by my truck to take me home with the news that Paul got into a fight at school and has now been kicked out of their high school and between Billy and my dad they had managed to get him a place at Forks high school with me in September, so I am looking forward to going back now that my brother would be with me in every class after it was arranged he would be with me in each lesson to help him settle in.
Today I am planning on going round to Billy's and getting to know Jacob all over again, I still have not seen him since the beach trip with so much going on I knew I needed my story fall proof as I'm not the best liar and could not risk him finding out about the wolves yet. I was sad when Billy told me that Jacob is showing all the signs that he will be phasing soon, I have seen how Sam's plans all changed when he phased and was unable to go to college but Billy insisted along with Sam that it was a great honour to protect the tribe.
I don't know how long I am going to be here for I am hoping that James will be caught before I start back at school so that I will be back living in Forks, this seemed to upset everybody else that I don't plan on moving down her permentely but after I promised them I would be down every evening if just to do my homework at Sam's and Emily's and I will stay every weekend when Sam is patrolling so that Emily is not alone they did seem to cheer up. I know I still have to deal with Edward in September at the moment I don't know my feelings about him anymore, I thought I loved him but being away from him is making me question if I ever really was in love with him.