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Chapter Eight
Bella's POV
"Hey." I made my way through the throng of people in Quake as I tried to hear the voice on the other side of the phone. "Hold on a minute." I pushed my way through until I was outside and put the phone back to my ear.
"Hey, you still there?" I asked.
"Yep, here and waiting. Where are you?" He asked.
"Quake. I'm just walking home now though." I told him.
"On your own?"
"Yes, on my own. I'll be fine don't worry."
"No. Wait where you are, I'll be right there." I was about to vehemently resist, telling him that I was capable of walking home on my own, when he hung up.
"Argh!" I grumbled and stopped, settling in on the curb floor to wait.
It was less than ten minutes later that a truck pulled up next to me and the door swung open.
"Get in." He said.
"You know I would have been fine." I said, reluctantly getting in the cab of the truck.
"Yeah, sure. Call me difficult then, because I don't think a girl should be walking on her own in a city this size at night."
"That was completely pig headed, you do know that right." I laughed and he joined in.
"Yeah, I know, but I still think it."
"Okay, I'll give you that. I still would have been completely fine though."
"I have no doubts."
I looked around outside the cab of the truck and noticed we were going in the complete opposite direction of my house.
"Where are we going?" I asked.
"I just need to think." He answered.
"What if I wanted to go home?" I questioned.
"Do you want too?" He asked me.
"No." He laughed as I just shrugged off his question.
He took me to a peak that overlooked the Golden Gate bridge and we both got out and sat on the front of his truck.
"This is spectacular." I said.
"Yeah. I come here a lot to think." I smiled and relaxed for the first time since Phoebe read aloud from the Book of Shadows. I hadn't tried my powers since that day when my shield just happened on it's own to protect me from the car. Phoebe had tried many times to get me too because apparently I was 'a lot more than just a shield'. I didn't want to know what else I was though, so I avoided it. Until I had too - like with Jeremy and Javna. Even then it was just spells.
"What are you thinking about?" I asked him to get off my own thoughts.
"I'm thinking about quitting football." He said so quietly that I almost didn't hear him.
"What? I thought you loved football, Isaac."
"I like it sure, but love it? Nah, I was in it to please my Dad."
"Oh." I couldn't think of anything else to say to that. I'd seen him practice and he was really good, so I had just assumed he loved it. Obviously I was wrong. I realized we were more alike than I knew, other than the fact we both didn't get to meet our moms and having the same favorite ice cream. We were both doing something we didn't want to be doing. Granted his was normal and mine was supernatural but it still applied.
"I used to play soccer." I told him, without thinking about it. It was so easy just to talk to him. I had never spoken to anybody about what I had felt after I lost Grams, not even my Dad, but apparently I was going to now.
"Why did you stop?" He asked quietly, out of respect, already knowing that this was going to be hard for me.
"I loved it. If I didn't have practice- I would just play for fun, and then-" I hesitated.
"Then?" He whispered.
"Then my Grandmother died." I whispered, stopping to take a breath to relax myself.
"As far as I was concerned, my life was, well not perfect - but close too. I was doing good in school, I was playing soccer - which I loved. My Dad was and is amazing, and every chance I got I would visit my Grams. We didn't even do anything special together, but the time we did share I will always cherish."
The silence was almost overwhelming until I blurted, "she taught me how to cook. Well, not just that, she taught me to always be myself and to stand up for myself if I needed too. She taught me a lot and she loved me. Loved me for me and not how everyone at school or back home saw me. Just me. Whether I was moody and pissed and gave her the silence treatment or whether I was ridiculously happy and doing silly dances around her kitchen, she loved me. Unconditionally." I could see Isaac was about to comment so I held my hand up to signal that I wasn't finished. "The last time I saw her, we had an argument. She wanted me to move out here. She said- she said, that I was giving up on my destiny" I scoffed the word that I now knew meant my destiny as a witch "by staying in a 'back water' town. She told me that my Dad didn't know how to handle a teenage girl, so I should come live with her and my sisters." I laughed slightly without humor. "My Dad has always been my only parental figure, ever. Grams to me was just Grams. Unlike my sisters as she practically raised them so she was a semi-mother figure to them, but not to me." I took a deep breathe to be able to continue. "I didn't take her insinuating my Dad's way of raising me was anything other than perfect well and I- I-" I sniffed and wiped the tears that had silently crawled down my face away before carrying on. "I told her that my Dad was the only person to be there for me whenever I needed someone. That when I broke my leg four years ago, he was there by my side holding my hand while she and my sisters had sent a card. I told her that if she continued to slight my Dad that she wouldn't see me again and that because he's the only family I'd ever had, that he was all I needed." I stopped and thought back to that time. "I didn't speak to her again for six months, until Piper called me to tell me she was in the hospital. I didn't even get here in time to see her be-before she-" a sob caught in my throat and I stopped speaking, knowing that he knew what I meant- I had quit everything I loved because I'd lost someone important to me and the last time I'd seen them I'd made the mistake to trash the love they gave me. Big arms encased me in a hug which I welcomed.
"You didn't know what was going to happen to her. The most important thing is that even after all you said to her, she would know you still loved her."
"How do you know?" I asked when I got my sobs under control.
"Because although love requires a brave heart to give it, it's still the most simple thing in the world to give unconditionally. Most of the time you don't even know it's happened but once you give love, it's hard to get back completely." I turned slightly in stunned silence in Isaac's arms to face him. After a minute I spoke.
"Wow. I didn't know a jock could be so deep." He laughed.
"Yeah, bet you didn't. Like you said, she loved you. An argument- no matter how bad -wouldn't have stopped her loving you." I smiled softly.
"Thanks."
"No problem." I turned back to the scene in front of us, still in his arms and returned to silence.
It wasn't till we got back in the truck quite some time later that either of us spoke.
"So your quitting the team, huh?" I asked.
"Yeah."
"What are you going to do instead?"
"I don't know, but with my GPA I could do anything I want." He stated with a smug smile.
"You know, I always thought it was weird you kept up a perfect point average." I said with a teasing laugh.
The front door of the manor was opened before I could even get to it and I was dragged inside by a furious Prue.
"Where the hell have you been!" She yelled.
"Out on the peaks with Isaac."
"You left before us and we got home before you, you should have called." Piper said, more calmly, but still annoyed.
"You guys aren't my parents and I am eighteen, what I do is my business and it wasn't like I was in danger. I was only with Isaac." I said calmly knowing there was no point in shouting.
"We may not be your parents, but were your sisters - older sisters - and we didn't know were you where. Do I have to remind you what happen to Phoebe just last night?" Prue said, referring to Javna. I groaned. "Go to your room." I was taken aback by her order.
"No." She went to speak but I cut her off. "I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't want to stay here. I didn't want to become a witch and I sure as hell didn't need to bond with any of you. I just want to finish my time here and go home!" I felt a sort of stirring in my gut as my tirade built and by the end I was seeing blue surrounding me. I didn't think anything of it until my surroundings became fuzzy and then cleared, showing me my living room back home in Forks.
"I'll have to call you back Billy." I looked to my Dad on his recliner putting the phone down on his best friend and opened my mouth to speak, but nothing came out.
"Guess we've got to talk kiddo." He said getting up.
I huffed out a laugh and managed a, "ya think?" before I passed out.
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