Chapter 8-Gaining The Wolves' Acceptance

Bella POV

Ow, my arm still hurts, it felt like it was burning. The thought filled my head now. Then I remembered the time James, the horrible vampire who I thought held my mom hostage when I went to Phoenix and he tortured me to death, in the process he also bit me. Yes the crescent-shaped scar is still my arm and is just a bit colder than the rest of my arm. Edward took me inside the house to let Carlisle fix my broken arm and my cuts, my bruises would heal in a few more days, and as for my arm it wouldn't heal right away. Carlisle was in his room when Edward and I came inside.

"Edward, Bella hi what are you both doing here?"

It was Edward who answered for me. "Carlisle, um I was wondering if you could… fix Bella's arm, please it's still broken and she says it hurts a lot."

"Okay sure."

Carlisle took me by the arm and sent Edward downstairs to get his black bag when the medical doctor supplies in it. Edward came back in two seconds with Carlisle's black bag in his arms and set it on the table next to where the doctor was sitting.

"All right, Bella hold out your arm for me please."

I held out my broken arm and his cold smooth skin touched it lightly, it hurt badly as if my arm was burning.

"Ow, ah." I cringed as his fingers were on my arm.

"It's okay Bella. I know it hurts but it'll feel a bit better when I place it in a cast. Your arm will feel like it has extra weight on it, but that's fine."

Edward leaned on the wall and silently watched as Carlisle fixed my up my broken arm, it felt a bit uncomfortable when Carlisle wrapped the gauze on my arm, then put a shoulder sling over it, I thought he would put a cast over my arm, but the cast would feel a little too heavy for my arm, so then a shoulder sling would be more suitable. After the sling was on, Edward and I were on our way to the kitchen when the doorbell rang. Edward went to answer it.

Edward POV

I opened the door and saw Jacob standing there looking breathless as if he was a human who looked totally exhausted from running a five mile run.

"Jake, hey what's wrong?"

"Edward, my pack is after me, they know I'm friends with you and they're all coming here now."

"Okay, well when they get here, let's just explain to them, that we can be friends even though we're supposed to be enemies even though we're not."

"Good plan."

Minutes passed by as Jake and I waited for the wolf pack to come here. Finally I caught the scent, they were less than a foot away from the house, another second and they were finally here. I went to the door, Jake by my side. We saw the pack, Sam Uley leading them.

"Hello Jake, and bloodsucker."

"Hello Sam, Seth, Quil, Embry, and everyone else." Jake replied. I just nodded to each of them.

"Let's go into the forest where we can discuss this more privately." I heard Quil suggest. Jake and I nodded, and then ran after the wolf pack into the forest near my house. When we all got to the forest, we walked until we found a safe spot to talk. After a few seconds of looking, we found a good spot with nothing but trees that formed something like an isolated circle. We stood and waited for someone to speak, I saw Embry open up his mouth and start to say something.

Embry POV

"Jake, bro why …are you friends with… with… this… bloodsucker?"

"Hey, you know what Embry? He's not a bloodsucker, he's my friend, and I can be friends with whoever I want and my friend's name is Edward, not bloodsucker!" I shouted out to the pack.

"Oh no offense Ed."

"None taken Jake."

Sam growled at what I had just said, or shouted rather. He turned his back on us for a minute then stalked toward Edward and I.

"Jacob, you are such an idiot!!! What makes you think you can actually be friends with this LEECH?"

"As I said before SAM I can be friends with whoever I want! Well, I'm friends with Edward. I don't care what you and the rest of our wolf pack think!"

"Whoa, whoa what do you mean our pack?"

"The last I checked Sam, I'm still part of this wolf pack even though you're the Alpha Male."

Sam scoffed and plainly said, "Fine, we accept that you and Edward are friends now, but wait what about the Treaty?"

"The Treaty is still in place Sam" I heard Ed say.

"It is?" Quil questioned.

"Yes, it is, they're still not allowed to hunt on our turf though."

"Yeah I'm aware of that. We also made a deal not to name call each other anymore. We call each other by our own names and not names like "Wolf, pup, leech, bloodsucker, etc."

"Okay fine. We get it, but I'm not sure we should befriend the rest of them though." Seth said quietly.

I turned toward him and sighed deeply. "Seth they're good guys, and I've befriended one of them already, so what's your point?"

"Our point, Jacob is that we're confused if we should befriend them!!!!" Sam growled.

"Well I think you should at least try to be more nicer to my kind, but of course the Treaty is still in place." Edward snarled toward the pack and Sam.

"Grrr… I've had it. Enough with this whole "Should we befriend them?" stuff." Seth shouted out.

We all turned to look at Seth, who was red faced and breathing heavily.

"Yes, Seth is right. We should at least try and be nicer to the Cullens." Embry replied to break the silence.

The pack nodded in agreement, and so did Ed and I.

Edward POV

Well we convinced the pack that it's okay that Jake and I are friends, but how would my family react to this? Rosalie, I know she hates Jake so much, damn it, shoot! Rose is going to freak, she'll probably want to rip Jacob apart and then kill me too, I hope Emmett will help Rose control her temper when she see Jake and her reaction will be bad too. These thoughts rolled around in my mind as I looked over at my house.

The pack just stood there, and after a few seconds we all ran back to my house. The wolves nodded at us and ran off into the forest to go back to La Push. I sighed and looked over at Jacob.

"Well, at least Bella knows that we're friends, but we have to convince my family that your kind isn't bad at all, and that we can side with you and your pack, but we're still not allowed to hunt on your Reservation because of the Treaty."

"Of course, we just have to convince your family that we, as wolves aren't as bad as they think we are, and that we can be friends even though our kinds have been enemies with each other for centuries and all of time, until now that is." We walked up to my house and opened the door to go inside. We found everyone in the living room, Jacob and I were prepared to tell my family about our befriending.

So what do you think? Well, the wolves approved of this, thanks to some convincing. How will The Cullens react to this problem? How will Rose react to Jake and Edward finally being friends, will she rip Jacob apart? Will The Cullens approve or disapprove of Jacob and Edward's friendship?