First off, I would like to say I'M SO SORRY! I had a virus on my laptop and everytime I uploaded, it would delete it. It annoyed a lot of you - and I cannot appologise enough. Hopefully, this chapter is enough to make you forgive me? I DO NOT OWN ANY TWILIGHT RELATED REFERENCES.
The crows a cawing in the trees
Waiting for one last meal today
The wolves cry at the sound of screams
As my mind takes me on a journey
A lonely wolf comes to my side
My pain I do try to quickly hide
I lay there waiting for it to go
Torture is all my mind seems to know
Quietly I drift into a dreary dream
Only to be awaken by a scream
The blood flows down the wolfs mane
As I lay there flooded with pain
-Branden Aeling
"Hello?"
"Hi Billy, it's Char-ella. My name is Bella" I had hoped to sound pissed and strong, but that quickly escalated. Not only had Jacob not spoken a word to Jill and I since his outburst, but now Billy was telling us he had mono. What the fuck is mono?!
"Bella, I've told you: Jacob has mono. He can't play with you at the moment" it would have hurt less if he slapped me in the face. I turned to Jill, who was on my right hand side. My phone was on loudspeaker, so she heard everything Billy had just said.
"Billy! Put Jacob on the phone right now!" Jill yelled, gripping on my bed sheets tightly. It was terrible to say, but I was more concerned about the damages she would cause than her mental stability.
"Oh, hello Jillian"
"Put him on" her voice was surprisingly deep, reminding me of a lot of the La Push boys whose voices were breaking. I mentally smirked.
"Sorry, I have to go. Bye" he hung up before Jill could rat him out. She stared at the phone for a few minutes, wide eyed and mouth slightly open. I took the phone out of her hands before she could throw it out my window.
"Who the fuck does he think he is?! First he fucking lies to me, then he has the decency to lie to my fucking face! 'Oh yes, my little boy has fucking mono'!" my face scrunched up as an attempt to cover my laughter as soon as she started mimicking Billy.
"I love the amount of times you said 'fuck' in seven seconds"
"It's a gift" she started pacing, which was then that I lost it. I nearly fell off the bed with the rolling around I did. Tears were streaming down my eyes as I imagined Jill saying all that to Billy's face. A loud smacking sound echoed around the room, making me fall silent. It was then that I felt a burning sensation on my leg.
"What the fuck?!" I screamed, trying to blow on my leg. A large handprint was starting to form on the pasty white skin I knew all too well. If only I was still in my awesome world where I slightly had a tan.
"Don't laugh at me – I'm pissed off" by now her voice was down to a lower octave. I didn't know if her injuring me made her less angry, or if she just had a short attention span. I was going with 'all of the above'.
"Okay, what if we sent him a basket of colourful fruits? You know, this must be pretty exciting for him – he's all grown up"
"Let me guess, the card will say 'congrats, you can turn into a fucking fury monster'?" Jill stopped her pacing to look at me, one perfectly waxed eyebrow turned upwards. Her blue skinny jeans and tie-died crop top fitted very well with her blue eye shadow and eye liner. I was very impressed.
"Not in those words" I mumbled, knowing she had caught on to my greeting card. I flicked through a Cosmo magazine lying around on the floor as I waited for Jill to come up with one of her brilliant plans. Her phone chimed for a second before she pulled it out of her back pocket.
"Who the fuck is this?" she wondered out loud, typing something not a second later.
"What is it?" I asked, placing the Cosmo back on the ground and sitting up on my elbows. It was a surprisingly comfortable position.
"Some guy keeps texting me. His name is Peter, or Patrick…it's something starting with 'P', I know that much" she rambled on, placing the iPhone in my hand. I flicked through the messages and nearly started my laughing rampage again.
Hey, it's Paul…call me?
It's me again, just wondering if you got my last message. It's Paul again, by the way.
I was wondering if you wanted to go down to La Push with me? It's Paul…again.
Paul again - I don't know if this is the right number, but please text me back.
"This is some serious stalker shit" I commented, placing the phone back in her awaiting palm. She bit her bottom lip as she stared at the glowing screen, tapping her fingers nervously on the screen.
"Who is it?"
"That guy that went crazy at the Halloween party…you know the one" she tilted her head for a second, making her look like a very lost puppy. And then, her eyes brightened up.
"Him?! Well who the fuck gave him my number?!" she demanded, stamping her high heels on the hardwood floor. There were enough dints in the floor thanks to her, so I didn't bother stopping her.
"Jacob" we said at the same time. She was more angry, whilst I was stating the obvious. Of course I expected it sooner or later, since they were in the same pack…or tribe. Was it called a tribe? Well, I was guessing since they referred to themselves as 'brothers' they would do favours for each other, such as handing out contact information.
"That fucker" she seethed. She stared at me a for a second longer before bolting for the door. I screamed after her as I nearly tripped down the stairs. She ripped open the door and walked very fast in the direction of La Push.
"Stop!" I called after her, trying my best to run in my sky-high stiletto shoes. I was wearing black skinny jeans and an overly large 'Vote for Pedro' top. I didn't bother looking bangable today, if you didn't already know that. Finally, after some miracle, I clutched onto her shirt.
"What are you doing?" I asked her, finally stopping her rapid footsteps. She huffed for a second before stamping her foot on the ground.
"He's being a fucking jerk all because he's morphed into a beaver!"
"Did you just refer to Jacob as being a vagina?" I chuckled, putting a hand to my mouth. A ghost of a smile appeared on Jill's face before we both laughed uncontrollably.
"He'll look like one now" she giggled, clutching onto my shoulders for support. In a totally weird and uncalled for way, she was right. Eventually, we started walking all the way to La Push again, giggling along the way. On the plus side, at least we knew what card we were going to give him.
"Should we get him a bowl with his name on it, and maybe some treats?" Jill asked, looking through the many dog items on the rack. We decided to go to the local La Push pet store, where we could get a few things for Jake that he would hopefully appreciate.
"I like the bowl idea, but instead of the treats maybe we'll get him a few toys" I flicked through the dog magazine article. I thought it would help, but it mostly said stuff about male dogs not peeing properly.
"Got it!" Jill exclaimed, holding up a huge dog bowl with Jake's name on it. I was surprised she could hold it up at all.
"Hurry up – we need to pay" I called out to her figure, playing with a few other animals' toys. She rolled her eyes and skipped over to me. We walked up to the check-out station, and saw a fifteen year old boy with a red vest. His name tag read 'Seth'.
"Is that all today, folks?" he asked after he had scanned our things. I stared at him: tanned complexion, brown eyes, short hair, rather tall…yep, he was going to turn into a wolf.
"You wouldn't happen to be Seth Clearwater, would you?" I asked, leaning on the metal table top. His eyes widened for a second, before he nodded.
"The very one" he held out his hand, which I gladly took.
"Bellsey Swan, and that thing over there is Jill Hansen" I nodded over to Jill, who was playing with some of the collars and dried dog food on display. He chuckled before handing the receipt to me.
"Your dad is friends with my dad" he observed. No shit.
"Yeah, where's your sister?" the change in subject made him look at me weirdly…well, who wouldn't?
"At my house, probably. Or down at La Push beach" I waved goodbye and called Jill over to me. A plan was starting to form in my head, and I was loving it.
"Fuckery!" Jill yelled, watching as huge water droplets fell from the now dark blue sky. She growled for a few minutes before rubbing her hands together.
"I'm not walking anywhere in this weather" she hissed.
"I would suggest my car, but Jake still has it at his place" That dick didn't bother driving it back – another thing I was pissed at him for doing. Jill stared in thought for a second before cursing lightly under her breath.
"What you're about to see will shock you" before I could ask what she was going on about, her tattoos started glowing the same colour as her eyes. A light non-existent breeze swept through her hair, making it look like waves. She uttered a few words silently. Every second she became paler and paler until I had to hold her up right. Her eyes snapped open, her irises glowing a turquoise colour.
"Did it work?" she whispered, combing the hair in her eyes behind her ear. I looked up around the parking lot, and that was when I saw it. It's black and glowing features were something to drool over, but it was the leather seats in the front that left me awe struck.
"Did you just wish for a Lamborghini?" completely forgetting about Jill still lying in my arms, I dropped her without thought. She cursed loudly as I ran towards the heavenly car in the middle on the lot. The glow of the streetlight a few metres away from it gave the car a faint yellow glow.
"What the fuck?!" Jill screamed to me. Ignoring her once again, I walked towards the passenger seat, where I opened the door. It rose above my head, leaving me enough room to scoot in and make myself comfortable. I was humming the 'hallelujah' song as I fastened the black seatbelt around my torso. Jill ripped open the driver's side door and grumbled as she fastened herself in too.
"Have I told you how much I love you?" I asked, a huge grin on my face. She barely looked at me as she turned on the engine with a little button on the side of the wheel. She pulled out of the parking lot a second later.
"You dropped me"
"I'm sorry – I was in shock" I defended. She swerved the car at a roundabout, sending me into the car door. I muttered a quiet 'ow' as I realised that was Jill's revenge.
"It is a pretty good car" she chuckled, stroking the dashboard. I rolled my eyes, a smile starting to form on my face. We eventually made it to Jacob's. My Chevy was still parked near the entrance, but Jacob couldn't be found. We were doubting that he was inside his house, because all the lights were off and Billy's truck wasn't in its usual spot.
"Do you know where Emily and Sam live?" I asked Jill, who looked ready to rip someone's head off.
"No – but I'm just going to drive around the area. How hard could it be to find one small place?" she replied. Reversing out of Billy and Jake's gravel path, we set off on the road again. After an hour and a half and many tantrum's from Jill, we finally arrived at a small cottage. Loud laughs could be heard a mile away.
"Score!" we yelled together, hoping out of the new car. It felt good to stretch my legs, but nothing as good as sitting in the beautiful leather chairs. Jill took out the plastic bag with all of Jacob's toys and bowl. I waved her over and took the bag. She passed me a Sharpie when she figured out what I was trying to do.
"Done" I smiled, holding up the plastic bag that now said 'you can turn into a giant beaver'. Jill chuckled and nodded. We walked up the patio steps and knocked on the door loudly. Paul answered the door, and nearly shit himself. He closed the door a little, so we couldn't see anything but him.
"Hey Jill" he greeted. I watched as she rolled her eyes and pushed him so we could walk in.
"The party's arrived" Jill announced. I followed and watched as everyone's eyes flickered towards us, including Jacob's. "What have we missed?"
"What are you doing here?" Jacob growled, stepping towards us. I didn't know how it was possible, but he had grown a foot overnight, and had more muscles than a lot of the boys in this room.
"This is for you" I handed him the plastic bag and nearly wet myself with laughter when I saw his horrified face.
"Congrats! You can turn into a giant beaver" he read out. After a few seconds, every single person burst out laughing, including Jacob. He opened the bag and pulled out the bowl and the toys. All laughter stopped when they saw his dark expression. Jill and I looked at each other for a second before turning back to the shaking Jacob.
"How did you know?" he asked. I was taking a wild guess and saying he was talking about the wolf thing, not the beaver stuff.
"Get out!" Sam demanded. I didn't think he was trying to be aggressive, more like warningly. Was he more concerned about Jill and I about to be dog meat, or Jacob himself? Before Jill or I could move, a pair of strong arms wrapped around my torso and lifted me out of the way. Jacob morphed into a giant russet wolf not a second later, barrelling to where Jill and I once stood. I turned and met a pair of brown eyes.
"Thanks mysterious man"
"I'm Quil" he breathed, letting go of my waist. Oh! I remembered Quil…Rhi and I used to joke about him being a paedophile. Those were the days. I looked over to my right and saw Paul hugging and squeezing Jill. She was turning different shades of purple from lack of oxygen. I ran over to her and pulled her into my grasp.
"I guess we should tell them we're wolves?" Quil spoke up, taking a sip of something in a red cup. Paul chuckled, but Sam looked like he was about to blow.
"We already knew, way before we met Jake" I answered. It took us another hour and a half to explain to everyone how we knew, without telling them the exact reason. It went something along the lines of 'we read books about wolves and shit'.
"Wow" Paul breathed, taking a step closer to Jill, who was on the furthest end of the sofa. She looked at me for help, but soon Paul was blocking her view. Loud footsteps from the patio made all of us stare at the door. Jacob soon walked through, baring all to the world.
"Nice work, Jake" I commented. He blushed before covering up his member.
"Can I get some pants?" he asked no one in particular. Someone threw him a pair, and soon he was changing outside. He walked back in a minute later, staring at Sam.
"I'm sorry" he apologised.
"They already knew, Jacob. But you could have hurt someone!" Sam roared. All of the wolves bowed their heads down in honour, as Emily, Jill and I just stared. A deep scar was scratched across Emily's face, making me feel a little sympathetic for her. A little. I still couldn't respect her after knowing she technically stole Sam away from Leah. I didn't care if they were 'soul-mates', that was still a dog move. Pun-intended.
"Psst" Jill hissed at me. I looked over at her shaking figure, pointing furiously at Sam. I watched her mouth move. Piss off Sam, she kept repeating. I stared at her like she was crazy, but then I got what she was going on about. Piss off Sam enough so that he can change, and then he couldn't harass Jake anymore. It was a win-win, except I could get killed. Oh well, it was a risk I was willing to take.
"Hey Emily" I started. Sam looked over at me, one eyebrow raised.
"Yes?" her petite voice answered. She was sitting next to Quil.
"That scar on your face doesn't look bad – but why do you say a bear attacked you?" her hand involuntarily moved to the side of her cheek, stroking the dents in her tanned face. From the corner of my eyes I could see Paul and Jake shaking their heads at me, and Sam was just shaking.
"It was a bear" she defended, staring at Sam who looked ready to blow.
"Oh come one, Emily! We all know it was that beaver over there" I circled Sam's frame with my index finger. A second later, Sam turned into a huge black wolf. It was nowhere near as big as Jake's, but it still towered over us. It bolted out of the house, leaving shredded clothes lying around. Jill and I jumped up from the sofa.
"We better go" I announced, running towards the door. In five minutes, Jake and Sam had morphed into wolves. Both of which had the decency to leave the Lamborghini alone.
"We'll see you tomorrow, Jacob?" I called, noticing everyone's eyes were on the car.
"Yeah…" he yelled back. We hoped into the car and left before Sam could come back. We had been in the car for five minutes when I saw a figure walking along La Push beach, getting drenched by the pouring rain. We pulled up next to the girl who was shivering uncontrollably.
"Leah?" I called out. She looked up at me, her long dark hair covering most of her face like a curtain. She stopped, making us stop too.
"Yeah?" in the books Leah was described as a complete bitch, but this girl was anything but. She sounded broken and sad.
"Get in" she didn't need to be told twice, as soon I was getting out of the warm car so she could slide in the back. Soon, we were back on the road.
"Thanks" she muttered. Instead of saying 'it's okay' or 'no problem' like a normal human being, I fired off the most touchiest subject I could think of.
"You're Sam Uley's ex, aren't you?" she nodded her head, tears streaming down her face. Jill nudged me, nodding her head at the girl in the back.
"If you ask me, he didn't deserve you in the first place" I tried.
"And who asked you?!" she demanded. Jesus, bipolar much? "Sorry" she apologised soon after.
"Don't be sorry – I'm a bitch" she giggled for a few seconds. I liked her, and I didn't like easily. Instead of dropping her off at her place, Jill drove to my house where we spent the rest of the day together. Jill and I taught her how to act tough and how to emotionally bitch slap someone. After we had dropped her home, and Jill left me at my house, I got a text from an unknown number.
Bella, I'm so sorry. I love you…so much – E
I stared at the glowing screen. Obviously someone was pranking me shitless right now. Instead of making a huge mistake and contacting the number, I deleted it quickly. No way was I going to let him come back this soon – I still had stuff I wanted to accomplish before having a mutant baby with the guy that left me because my blood is delicious. Yeah, I was so going to give that little vamp hell when he came back…
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