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Chapter 8

Beautiful Mystery

"Jake?"

"Hmm," he murmered. His hand stroked the top of her head. Isabella was leaning her head against his chest as they both lay in his bed.

"Can I tell you something?"

He stopped stroking her head and pulled her away to get a good look at her. "What's wrong, Izzie?"

She frowned. "I know I have to do something, but I don't know what."

Jacob laughed. "Is that all?"

Isabella huffed, clearly thinking that it was not something that could be laughed at. "Jake!"

"Sorry, babe. What I meant was, when the time comes, we'll figure it out. I'll be here for you in the mean time."

Sure, she wanted to say, but she couldn't bring herself to say the words. She knew that she would slowly die from the mark if she didn't figure out what she needed to do, that's what her father had told her. Isabella just couldn't bring herself to tear the news to Jacob. It'd only been a week since she'd almost died and Jacob still felt like he was to blame. No words ever left his lips anymore that told her that, but she knew. She could feel it. If she suddenly told him that she was still dieing, she wasn't so sure that he'd be able to handle it.

"Yeah," she finally said. As an after thought, she added, "I hope it's sooner than later."

"Come on," Jacob told her, sitting into an upright position.

"Where are we going? I was comfortable!" Isabella's lips jutted out into a pout.

He laughed at her silly behavior. "We're going swimming, with the pack."

His news brightened her mood considerably. In those weeks previous, the wolves had started acting nicer to her. Sam had changed his attitude toward her too, although Isabella was sure that there was something more to it than that, but she didn't voice her opinions.

Kaila had come back to stay with her and Jacob, with Billy's permission. Today she was spending the day with the Cullen's. Kaila had taken a liking to Renesmee. Isabella was relieved when she found the two had bonded. She'd been afraid that Kaila would forever be afraid of being alone with vampires because of what she'd gone through. But it seemed liked Renesmee was doing a great job of helping her through it.

"Sweet!"

Quickly- as she had gotten used to doing things fast- she raced off to her room to change. She shut the door behind her and snatched the black and pink bathing suit, throwing it on quickly. She was about to leave the room when she stopped. Deciding against just wearing that, she tossed on a pair of swim trunks.

"I say we go cliff-diving," Isabella suggested as she met up with Jacob, who was standing in the living room with Quil and Embry. "Where's the others?"

"Sam, Seth, and Leah are patrolling." Embry explained.

Isabella raised her eyebrows in confusion. It wasn't that late and usually the wolves patrolled a little later in the night. What could make Sam start sooner?

"Paul and Jared are outside."

She nodded her head. Obviously it was something that wasn't important to them so they wouldn't bother explaining it and she wouldn't bother asking about it.

"Let's go then, slowpokes. For a bunch of wolves, you sure do things slowly," she smiled innocently, before pushing open the front door and making her way to Paul and Jared.

"Pauly!" she screamed, leaping onto his back. In such a short time Isabella had grown close to Paul, despite his short temper. Deep down he was a good guy who just got a little over board at times.

Paul chuckled. "Hello to you to, Izzie."

Jake and the others came bounding over. "You know," Quil started. "One of these days you're gonna leap and he's going to move aside!" The wolves were sent into a fit of laughter. Isabella jumped down from Paul and huffed, jutting her lips out in a pout.

"Aw." Jacob wrapped his arms around her, leaning his cheek against hers.

"That's not fair," she complained.

"What's not fair?"

"Stop playing innocent Jake. You know I can't resist you when you do that!"

He laughed. "Yep. That's why I do it."

"Yeah, well-" as she spoke, her ears caught the sound of a haunting melody.

"What's up," Paul asked. Emrby and Quil's attention turned to her as well.

"That song."

The wolves shared glances, worried. "What song?"

"That song. It's so… so sad."

Isabella wasn't aware of the way the wolves stared at her as if she were suddenly mad. She didn't notice that she was the only one who could hear it. All she was aware of was the melody that called to her.

And then she spotted her. Standing on the cliff a tall and slender girl stood overlooking the waters. Her long golden blond hair swayed in time with her long white dress. The mysterious girl was frozen in one spot.

"Look!"

They all turned to where she was pointing.

"There's nothing there, Izzie."

"Jake. The girl. Don't tell me you can't see her."

"Izzie. I can't see her. And no one else can either."

Isabella ignored him. She pushed through the wall of wolves-with some struggle- and started walking toward the cliffs.

"Izzie," Paul's voice boomed, demanding her to stop.

"It's okay Paul." She reassured him, not stopping.

Isabella watched the girl closely as she neared her. She was at the bottom of the cliff when the girl finally turned her head. Isabella couldn't help but gasp. She was so beautiful, more so than the vampires with their natural beauty. The girl's blue eyes could be seen from far distances, radiating in the sun.

The girl turned around and stepped forward, off the cliff.

"NO!" Isabella screamed. She dashed forward to save the girl, to do anything she could. She was mesmerized.

"Izzie, stop!"

"Izzie!"

"Don't!"

The screams of protest to her actions went ignored. She pushed herself to run as fast as she could, leaping of the edge of the cliff. The melody returned, louder and louder as she neared the water below her.

The water splashed as it made contact with her body.

Isabella struggled to reach the top to breath, but stopped when she felt something grasp her hand. Turning around she was shocked.

Floating in front of her the girl gripped her hand, smiling.

Oh Lord, such a short chapter after such a long period of time. Yes, yes. I AM so sorry! But, I'll be updating this story more and more. I already have about 50 % of the next chapter written. I pretty much have an clear outline for where the story goes. The last chapter is already written!! But, I'm not sure how many more chapters are going to be in between this and the last one. So, I'll be posting the next chapter... sometime within the next two weeks, hopefully. I've got a little bit of writers block for the last bit of the next chapter. That's mostly whether or not I want to keep the girl (the blond one) a mystery or not. Eh. Leave me reivews telling me what you think!

And, on a side note: I started another Twilight story. It's a Paul story! It's called The Road is a Minefield. Give it a look and review it! I'd love your opinions on it.

-Unforgettable