AU: this is finally when Ronnie gets her answers by a naive Jacob!

Chapter 9

Putting Pieces Together

I have been scrounging up enough facts about this Mr. Edward Cullen.

1. He is extremely pale.

2. His skin is ice cold.

3. He's extremely strong aka stopping the car with his bare hand.

4. He's extremely fast aka got to me really fast to stop the car from crushing me.

All of these clues left me wondering what Edward truly was. Was he human? Did he have super powers? And what did he mean that he was the bad guy? I know I shouldn't be looking so much into this

but I cant help it that he interests me so much. Its like my own personal mystery to figure out. Why couldn't he just tell me, it would make my searching a lot easier. But I shouldn't be worrying about

this anyways, I have friends to meet up with.

It was currently 9:30 in the morning and I was all ready to go. I told my mom and dad about it last night, and they were so happy that I was a actually hanging out with some friends outside of school. I

invited Charlie to go but he had football practice. On a Saturday…I know, stupid. And unfortunately my mother is letting Lorraine come with me. I think I might as well kill myself now. Usually Lorraine

would never go anywhere with me, but since she'll have a chance to hang out with older kids and go to a beach she was pleading. To bad I didn't tell her the beach would most likely be freezing. I

guess she'll have to freeze in her capris and blouse, that was way to fancy for a beach. Me? I was wearing jeans that I could get dirty and a purple v-neck long sleeve shirt with a pretty black scarf I

stole from Lorraine. Hopefully she wont notice. I figured to just through my hair up in a ponytail and put on some light make up.

After waiting for Lorraine to get ready, we only had 15 minutes to get to Marks moms diner. Why must I bring her?

"Lorraine, hurry up!" I shouted up the stairs. I barley heard her 'Coming.' before she literally ran into me.

"Ugh. Watch where your going." she said brushing off her shirt.

"Umm… you ran into me." I said glaring at her.

"Whatever. Come on."

I sighed and walked to the kitchen to tell my mom that we were leaving. I spotted her watching the Nigel and Kyle play with the pots and pans. Her face was of pure adoration. I wish to have that same

expression when I look at my own family. I at least want 4 kids. Hey, what can I say, if you come from a big family, then you want one. Hmmm…I wonder how many Edw-. Woah…why am I thinking this

way?

"Hey mom, we're leaving now." I said regretting even disrupting her loving gaze on her little tikes.

She looked up with a smile. "Okay sweetie. When will you be home?" she asked concerned.

"Umm…probably not until later, so don't wait up. I'll call you when we're on our way."

"Alright. Its good that your bringing Lorraine with you. I know you two don't get a long to well, but your sisters." she said frowning a bit.

"No problem. Bye, love you." I said over my shoulder.

"Love you too." she said.

Once we arrived at Marks moms diner Lorraine went straight to her friend that she invited without permission. Regular Lorraine.

I sighed and walked over to an excited looking Mark and Kevin. "Hey, sorry about my sister, my parents made her tag along with her friend."

"Oh, that's fine." he said glancing over at Lorraine briefly. "I guess she'll just have to sit in the back." he laughed. I smiled slightly at his lame joke.

When I finally noticed the weather it was slightly warmer, about 55 degrees with partly cloudy skies. Well I guess its better than nothing.

It took about 45 minutes to get to the Quileute Indian Reservation or known as La Push. It would've took 30 minutes if it wasn't for Mark trying to convince Kevin it was better for me to sit next to him in

the front then in the back. Lets just say Ashley was very mad, but I don't even like Mark in that way.

We finally parked in a rocky made parking lot and I could smell and hear the waves of the ocean already. I almost fell out of the car in my excitement. We all brought the food and supplies to one of the

many fire pits on the beach. I watched the grey waves rush in and out. I've always been interested in the ocean, ever since I was little.

After a bit of chatting and trying to tune out the complaints of Lorraine being cold some kids walked up to us. They had extremely tan skin and long black hair. I looked up from my new interest- burning

driftwood, it changes colors because of the salt- and saw 3 boys that looked around our age or a bit younger.

"Hey, you guys from Portland?" One asked. He had that natural laid back look and carefree smile.

"Yeah. I'm Mark, that's Ashley, Lauren, Lance, Kevin, Natalie, and the new girl, Ronnie Baker." Mark introduced us.

"Hey, I'm Jacob, that's Embry and Quil." he said pointing to his other friends. They almost looked like triplets. Jacob looked back to me curiously. "Hey aren't you the daughter to Tom Baker?" he asked.

I nodded. "Yep. That's my dad."

He smiled brightly. "Then you must be the one that stuck with the old, slow truck." he exclaimed.

"Its not that slow." I tried to defend my beast. I don't know why, but Jacob made me feel like I didn't have a care in the world.

"Have you gone over 50 yet?" he asked, mirth shining in his eyes.

"Umm… no." I said uncertainly.

"Good, don't." he laughed. that's when I looked over at Lauren who was looking like she just came up with an evil plan.

"So Jacob how do you know Ronnie?" she asked snottily.

It didn't even look like he noticed her evil-ness. "Are dads are friends." he said glancing at me. I smiled slightly, aware of Lauren.

"Oh, so Ronnie why could Edward Cullen come?" she asked smirking at me.

I blushed heavily. How the heck did she know I invited him? Before I could even answer though Embry or Quil… I don't know which one said, "The Cullen's don't come here." I clearly saw the warning in

Jacobs eyes when he looked at…him. That comment left me speechless. Why wouldn't the Cullen's be aloud on the Res.? I looked at Jacob with an eyebrow raised. He just shrugged it off.

Then I got a perfect idea. Its time to test my skills. "Hey, Jacob you wanna take a walk?" I asked smiling at him shyly. This better work.

His eyes widened a little bit, but he nodded finally. It looked like I dazzled him like Edward does to me.

After finding out that Jacob was 15 turning 16 in 2 months and he lived with his dad while his sisters went to college I finally got the courage to ask him my question. "So, what did he mean by 'The

Cullen's don't come here'? I asked kind of randomly.

Jake looked up surprised at my question. He looked flustered and nervous. He was so cute. I almost laughed out loud at my antics. "Uhh…well its knid of a secret."

"Come on, I can keep a secret." I said smiling looking up through my eyelids.

He gulped slightly. "Well supposedly our tribe, the Quileute tribe is descended by wolves. The there are the 'Cold Ones' who are the natural enemy to the wolves. But these certain 'Cold Ones' were

deemed different than the others. They were told to have yellow eyes. So we made a treaty with them that if they stay off Quileute lands than we wont tell the pale faces." he said in a wise voice.

"So, what are the 'Cold Ones'?" I asked interested to get to the point.

"Its just a legend Ronnie." he said laughing it off.

"Please, tell me." I asked looking into his dark brown eyes trying to look innocent.

"Well the pale faces are known to call them… vampires." he paused. "See its ridiculous, I know."

That's when all the pieces began to fall together. Of course, the speed, the strength, why the Cullen's were so pale and ice cold. Also, why they stayed away from human contact. It all made perfect

sense. But why is Edward having contact with me? But the real question is why aren't I scared? I decided to not believe my theory until Edward tells me or admits to my proof that I have. All I know is

that if he would've wanted to kill me or hurt me, he had plenty of chances to do so, but didn't. This thought made me believe that the Cullen's were simply trying to blend in and be normal.

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