Chapter 7

Sorry, its still Nessie's POV, but I have to get this story out! :- ) I can't stop in the middle!

I don't own Twilight, never did, never will. Sad sad day.

Nessie's POV

I followed my mom down the stairs of Charlie's house. Noticing all our guest were still standing in the Kitchen.

"Um, well I'm going to stay here tonight with Charlie," I mumbled. "we are going to go eat and then I'll come over." Glancing at Nahuel, I found he was still looking at me.

"Oh, we will talk later than. I am very interested in your life here." A low voice replied. It was Nahuel. I was surprised his voice didn't hold much of an accent.

"why don't you have an accent?" My hands flew to my mouth, I really hadn't planned on asking him, it just slipped out! "Sorry!" I all but yelled, " I didn't mean to sound rude. You just surprised me. I thought you were from Brazil or something." My face was hot, I was sure that I was bright red from blushing. I heard Alice giggle and then Jasper shifted a little and a wave of relaxation washed over me.

A loud clomping sound came from the stairs and we all looked to see Charlie coming down the stairs.

"ready to go?" I asked, eager to get out of this situation.

"yeah, just let me grab my keys." I'm sure he was eager too. He wasn't so comfortable with the supernatural.

"Hey gramps?" I yelled as he walked towards the door, "want to drive my car?"

His eyes lit up! Of course he would want to drive my car. He and Jacob were alike in that sense. My dad was too I guess, they all loved cars, the faster the better.

"Sure Nessie, if you don't mind." He replied. I laughed.

"Of course not!"

We walked out to the car and Charlie climbed into the front seat. My parents followed us out, Dad still looking very confused, and I'm sure behind that calm face, he was angry too.

"Now Chief Swan," began my mother in a joking tone, " do drive the speed limit, we wouldn't want an accidents!" She smiled and I giggled.

"Oh shush your mouth Isabella!" he replied in a joking tone.

Finally, we left Charlie's house. He drove us to the nearest pizza parlor, just down the road a few miles.

"this place is relatively new." He said. "not really popular yet, most people avoid coming here because it's where all the kids hang out."

That made sense, it would be kind of difficult to explain to people about me anyway. I tried to avoid being seen in public with Charlie. We usually just hung out at his house or I hung out in La Push.

As we walked into the pizza parlor, everyone's eyes were on us. Or me more specifically. It was full of teens, from the gangly 13 year-olds who were covered in acne, to the 18 year-old high school Seniors, who looked at me without a trace of embarrassment at being caught.

"can we have a booth in the back?" Charlie asked the waiter. That was perfect for me; my head was swimming with questions about my mom and Jacob.

"What would you guys like?" the waiter asked.

"two cokes and a pepperoni pizza." Charlie replied, than realizing that he had ordered for me he mumbled, "Is that alright Nessie?"

"Yeah, that's exactly what I wanted! Thanks!" I tried to be cheerful and remain on his good side. If I wanted to get any answers from him, I had to begin with flattery.

The waiter left, and Charlie looked over at me nervously, he had pretty much ran out of things to talk about a three years ago. I figured I might as well start with the big question.

"hey gramps, what was Mom like in high school?"

He looked at me skeptically. "why don't you ask Bella that yourself?"

"well, she just says that she was basically the same. And I want to know your side." I smiled at him, hopefully he would just spill. But knowing Charlie this would be hard.

"Bella was…" he thought for a moment. "shy, she only came here because Renee was going to follow Phil you know." That I did know. Or at least I knew who Renee and Phil where, though I had never met them. I nodded at him to continue.

"she had some friends, but I never saw her as happy with them as she was with your dad and Alice. I was so glad she finally had some good friends. But, I wasn't so sure her dependence on Edward was healthy. After all she was just seventeen. It just crushed me to see her hurt when he left."

I was in shock but I tried to recover quickly. But my mind was still wheeling; my dad had left my mom? Why? What was he thinking? This was an interesting discovery, one I'd have to find out more about. But as it was, Charlie had more to say.

"That's when she and Jacob became friends again." I had to interrupt him.

"Again?" I asked.

"Yeah, well you knew that Billy and I are great friends?" I nodded. "well, we used to take the kids fishing when Bella came up for the summers. She and Jacob played, well she played mostly with his twin sisters but he was there. Anyway Jake was the reason Bella kept going with her life. She was so depressed and upset, but when she hung out with Jacob it seemed to get better."

Hmm… Jacob and my mom were friends in high school? I'd wondered why she was so cool with us being together. Now it made a bit more sense.

"Well, I was so sure that Bella and Jacob were starting something, you know what I mean? He was over all the time, and if he wasn't here, she was over in La Push. I knew Jacob had a thing for her, he had it pretty bad. I'm pretty sure he was in love with her, but Bella was in no place to have a thing for him, and it didn't matter anyway after Edward came back. Although, after Edward came back Jake fought for her pretty hard. He spent two years trying to break them up. He ended up leaving for a while, but came back just in time for their wedding. I suppose he was hurting pretty bad, just had to get away."

Again, if Charlie was paying any attention, he would have seen my face drop. At that moment I was livid. I had never been more angry in my life. Jacob Black had been in love with my mother!?!?! WHAT THE HELL!?! I tried to compose my face, and it seemed to work as Charlie prepared to go on, but my heart was breaking into pieces on the floor. How could he not tell me?

"I have the funniest story about that too! One night, Bella came home in a right fit! She was clutching her hand and yelling at Jake who was trying to follow her into the kitchen. I found out that Jake had kissed her! She got so mad at him that she punched him in the face! She hit him so hard that she broke her hand!" he was grinning as he shook his head.

At that moment our pizza and cokes arrived. Charlie dug in without a glace at me. I had completely lost my appetite.

I don't know if I had ever felt so much pain in my life. Today had to be the most emotionally trying days of my life. He loves me, but he loved my mom. He imprinted on me, but only after trying for two years to convince my mom to love him. I couldn't handle this, why would he do that? How could he do that? I thought we had gotten all the secrets out his morning, when he told me about the imprinting. WAIT! What if they only reason he was no longer in love with my mom was because he imprinted on me?!?! It took all I had not to fall to pieces right there. I had to compose myself.

After the longest meal of my life, Charlie finally moved to pay the bill. The drive home was silent, evidently our conversation before pizza had used all his conversation skills. As I followed him into the house he turned at looked at me quizzically.

"don't you have to go over to the Cullen's house?"

"Oh yeah, I have to grab something quick." I tried to cover up the fact that I had forgotten. But I did have to do something in my room before I left. I ran up the stairs and grabbed my cell. I had a missed call from Jacob. Turning off my phone and slamming it shut I threw it on the bed. There was no way I was going to call that lying dog anytime soon.