Chapter 6
Chapter 6
"Memory is the thread of personal identity, history of public identity."
- Richard Hofstadter (1916 - 1970)
Billy's POV
I invited Charlie and Bella over to dinner tonight and Jacob wasn't too happy with that idea. He still hasn't gotten over Bella. I knew Bella never meant to hurt him but she was in love with a vampire just like Rebecca. So Jacob decided to stay with Emily and Sam for dinner until The Swans leave. I grabbed a shoebox from my desk and put it on the counter near the dinner table. Finally, the door rang and there was Bella and Charlie.
"Hey Billy!" Charlie smiled at me.
I smiled back, "Come on in Charlie, Bella."
After an hour, dinner was over and all of us were having a wonderful time. Charlie then got a call from the station saying there's trouble at Port Angeles. I offered Bella a ride home when she wanted to go home. So we sat outside of my porch and I had the shoebox on my lap.
"Bella, this is for you." I gave her the box and she opened it.
"Pictures?"
"Of Rebecca's past."
Bella's POV
I went through the pictures and couldn't believe how beautiful Rebecca was. She reminded me of Pocahontas all of a sudden because of her long, black hair. She looked happy in all of her pictures from when she was a baby until the age she died. Then, I stopped when I saw a picture of her in a white dress.
"That was the day when she got married," Billy told me. "She wanted me to walk her down the aisle and I did."
"She looks beautiful." I added.
"She did."
"Why are you showing me all of this?" I asked, "I mean, you could of give it to Charlise."
"It's better if I give this to you." He told me.
Suddenly, I saw Jacob and the pack arrive in their cars and I felt my heart beating fast. I knew I should of stayed home studying. They were bigger than I remember the last time we saw each other. I felt like a small child in a playground with a bunch of bullies.
"Bella!" yelled Emily as she ran to hug me.
I laughed as she let go of me and smiled at the rest of the pack.
"I thought you went home." Jacob told me.
"I had to show Bella something," Billy said to him before I could speak.
Jacob looked down to my hand and I realized I still had the picture of Rebecca in my hand. He looked up to me then to Billy then back to me.
"I-I should go," I went to get my things.
But before I could step foot on the porch, I heard a whimper inside the forest behind me. I turned around and saw nothing but the bushes and trees.
"Bella, what's wrong?" Billy asked.
"Shhh…" I hushed him.
I walked up to the bushes waiting to hear the sound again but nothing came. I sighed and turned around, apologetically.
"My imagination," I shrugged.
"Bella, behind you!" yelled Emily.
I turned around quickly and saw an injured brown wolf behind me. I raised my hand up to stop Jacob and the others from coming any closer. I bent my knees down to the ground and I could hear the wolf's ragged breathing. Slowly, I reached to touch the wolf but it growled.
"Everything is going to be okay," I reassured him. "I won't hurt you. I promise."
I went closer to the wolf, my hand still reaching towards it's head. Finally, the wolf let me touched him and I felt his fur, it was soft. Then, I saw blood coming from his side.
"Rebecca….it hurts." It was a male's voice but it came from my mind.
Was this coming from the wolf?
"What's your name?" I whispered only the wolf to hear.
"Jonathon," he responded back to me. "What's wrong, Becca. You don't remember your own brother?"
"Billy, did Rebecca have a brother?" I asked him.
"Yes, her older brother is two years younger than me." He told me.
"Why you ask?" he asked me.
"Because we need some medical attention for him." I told him.
"Jonathon?" Billy sounded shocked.
"Can you transform back?" I asked.
"I'll try." He responded back to me.
Then, I saw the wounded wolf transform back into a muscular, half-naked man. He had short, black hair and black eyes, he was extremely handsome. But when he transform, the wounded from his waist was suddenly gone. I forgot that werewolves could heal instantly. I saw him stared at me closely.
"You're not Rebecca," he questioned. "But you look-"
"Jonathon what happened to you?" Billy interrupted him.
"I was attacked by other werewolves, they almost killed me but they didn't. I managed to escape and I saw your house." Jonathon explained.
Like the others, he saw the picture of Rebecca in my hand and he grabbed it and stared at it. His eyes widen and I saw him lifting the picture and his eyes went to me then to the picture, me to picture, picture to me, and I really didn't like to be stare at for so long.
"I'm Bella." I introduced myself.
"You're Isabella Swan?" he asked me. "Chief Swan's daughter?"
"Yes."
Jonathon's POV
I couldn't believe I mistaken that girl to be my baby sister. I mean, the only thing different from the two is their eyes and that's the only thing I know that is different. But being around her, reminds me of what happened between Caleb and her and the accident of nineteen years ago. But Bella understood me in my wolf form. That's not impossible, is it?
I ate a lot of food and water in Billy's house but I couldn't help but be not a gentleman because I was starving. I looked at Bella again and wondered why she isn't wearing the necklace I made for her or did her so-called father hide it from her?
"Thank you, Billy." I was satisfied.
"You're welcome, my old friend."
"So Bella, you know about werewolves?" I asked her.
"She knows about everything," Billy told me.
What does he mean 'about everything'?
"She's dating vampire." Billy explained to me.
I thought time stopped around me. It can't be. I looked at Bella.
"You're dating a bloodsucker?"
"You can't keep me away from him!" yelled my baby sister's voice in my mind.
"I forbid it!" I yelled back
"Yes." Bella answered me.
I put my hands in front of my face, blocking anyone to see my expression.
"I'm in love with him," She responded to me in a fierce tone.
I felt like I couldn't breathe, that I was trapped inside a small little box with less oxygen inside.
"I love him! And he loves me too!" She said as she touched her chest with her hands.
"I'm also engaged, we will get married over the summer." She said to me.
"We've been married for a year now," Rebecca's voice said to me. "I'm four months pregnant, Jonny. If you want to kill him, then you're going to have to kill me first."
I looked up and saw Isabella's chocolate brown eyes.
"Jonathon, it's about your sister." A police officer told me, "She was found dead by the river. She was murdered."
"Are you okay?" Bella's voice asked.
"Yes, Congrats." I told her not looking at her anymore.
Silence.
"I have to go." Bella said.
"I'll give you ride." Emily said.
They both left the house. Bella…can it be? I looked at Billy's eyes and I already knew answered.
