Noelle stared across the kitchen table past her brother. She fingered her mug that was filled with a hot tea concoction that her mother made. Jackson sat with his hands folded out in front of him staring at his sister.

"Would you look at me please?" he asked of his sister.

"I am looking at you Jackson." But he knew when she was full of BS. This was one of those times.

"No you're not. Look at me Noelle! I'm not a monster, well technically speaking maybe, but I'm just the same person I always have been. Plus you can look at and talk to Jake and hug him but you can't do that to me?"

"Well I haven't actually seen him turn into a wolf Jack," she said taking a sip of her mother's tea. "Have you told Makenna yet?" she asked changing the subject. Makenna had gone back to Yale early shortly after her fight in the café with Noelle. She had no idea about all that transpired under her roof.

"Nope and it's gonna stay that way. At least until she comes back in the summer."

"Lovely. So I get stuck with the burden of keeping your wolfish tendencies a secret then?"

"Noelle what is wrong with you? Why are you acting like such a brat?"

"Because everything's about you and it's like people forget that other people have problems too you know?"

"No I don't know, are you okay?"

"I'm fucking swell Jackson. I have recently learned that my brother is a werewolf and my boyfriend has been practically MIA for the last two weeks and I'm pissed off and emotional all the time and I hate it!" Noelle had started to cry and she wiped her tears away. She hated people seeing her cry but it was happening more than ever now.

"If it's any consolation Noe, Jake's doing stuff with the pack," said Jackson as he touched his sister's arm.

"What are you gonna do about school?" she asked changing the subject. She didn't want to talk about Jake anymore it would just piss her off even more.

"Harvard?"

"Yeah, you go there right?"

"Don't be smart Noelle. And I'm going to finish up my thesis here and when I'm done I'll e-mail it to my professor and probably head back there in a few weeks after things with the pack get straightened out. Plus, I'm pretty much done with my thesis anyway. I just need to crank out 10 more pages and a bibliography and I'm good to go."

"You always were several steps ahead," Noelle said. She drunk the rest of her tea and put her mug in the sink and sat back down. She was able to look at her brother for the smallest bits of time now, but every time she did she could not get the image of him as a gigantic wolf in her kitchen out of her head. It gave her the shivers.

"Well I have to go, we've got a pack meeting."

"Another one?"

"Yup," said Jackson.

"Okay well be careful please."

"Always am. Bye little sis." Jackson got up from the kitchen table and gave Noelle a kiss on the cheek. He left the house soon after and made his way to Sam's house. He arrived there in no time and after a few minutes Paul and Jared walked through the door and everybody was ready for the pack meeting to start.

"First I want to start by saying that it's been about two weeks since Jackson has joined the pack and he's been doing a wonderful job and is a blessing to the pack." Everyone clapped at Sam's statement and Leah placed a kiss on his cheek. "Now, onto our order of business, Emmett has been telling us that the vampires have been moving locations and Alice is not at all sure what they are doing, but we're still patrolling just in case. Tonight we've got Jackson, Leah and Seth on the first shift for the night. Then we've got Jared, Jake and Quil tonight.

"When can I go?" asked Brady.

"When you grow up."

"But I'm a sophomore."

"Doesn't matter, your mom would ring my neck if I had you patrolling the woods at all hours of the night," said Sam. Brady sat back in his chair and gave a long sigh.

"Anyway, how's things going with Bella?"

"They're good. She's okay and she said she's going back to Dartmouth when spring rolls around. She thinks it'll be better for everyone if she's over there," said Jake.

"For once I agree with the bitch," said Leah. Jackson chuckled quietly at his girlfriend and Jake shot her a look. Jackson gave Jake a look back. He didn't like Jacob sticking up for Bella when he was dating his little sister.

"Stop calling her a bitch," Jacob hissed.

"Stop acting like one and maybe I will," Leah said back.

"Guys will you shut the hell up!" Paul yelled. The two were silent and their attention went back to Sam.

"Thanks Paul, anyway so as I was saying we have no idea what's going on with the vampires, but the last I heard there were some gruesome deaths in Oregon that look a lot like vampires."

"Has Emmett said anything that could be useful?" asked Jared.

"Well he did say that Alice and Jackson were going to come if the vampires gave us anymore trouble, but otherwise if they've gotten side tracked with other business, we should be thankful."

"Sounds good."

"Anything else we need to go over right now?" Sam asked the pack.

"No." Everyone said. Sam let everyone leave and he retired to bed where Emily was waiting for him.

Noelle had finally got the nerve to talk to Jake. It seemed as if he had been avoiding her and whenever she went to the house he would always send her away, but she needed to be there and she needed to tell him what was really going on. She didn't bother to tell her mother (who was home for once) where she was going. Instead she grabbed her winter jacket, threw on her Ugg boots and headed out the door in her little car. She drove to the Black house and after locking her doors, she walked up to the steps and knocked on the door. Before long the door opened and it was Jake. He was back from the meeting at Sam's.

"What are you doing here?" he asked, "I told you not to come here."

"Why Jake? What's going on with you?"

"It's nothing it's just you can't be here right now." Noelle pushed the door wide open and barged in like Jake did the day he told her Jackson changed into a werewolf. She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw who was in the kitchen.

"What the fuck is she doing here?" Noelle asked. Bella of all people was in the kitchen in only a skimpy tank top and short shorts. "What the hell is going on here Jake?"

"It's not what it looks like."

"Well you wanna tell me what this is then, because I don't like what I see. She's half dressed and so are you!"

"I always walk around without a shirt, don't be ridiculous."

"I know you didn't call me ridiculous just now." Noelle said raising her voice with every word.

"Just calm down okay. She's here because of the vampires."

"You told her about the vampires Jake? You shouldn't have!" Bella yelled from the kitchen.

"Fuck you Bella, stay out of it!" Noelle snapped in her direction. She would be damned if this pasty bitch would interrupt her conversation with her boyfriend.

"I'm only trying to help you out. If the Volutri know you know about vampires they'll come after you next," Bella said.

"I don't need your help Bella and you should shut up when people tell you to do so. Maybe if you minded your own damn business for once in your life, you wouldn't be in the situation you're in now!" Noelle yelled.

"Noelle, stop yelling my dad's going to sleep and you need to stop swearing in my house."

"Fine, you want me to stop swearing in your house?" Noelle went to the front door and opened it up and stepped outside. "I'm outside the house now Jacob! So now I'm going to fucking swear whenever I want okay?"

"Noelle, seriously stop. You're embarrassing yourself."

"I'm embarrassing myself? At least I'm not shacking it up with the same girl who dumped me multiple times for a fucking vampire Jacob! At least I've got enough self-respect to not be with someone who treats me like shit all the time. We're done!" She yelled from the doorstep.

"Noe, wait please!" Jake ran out of his house after his girlfriend, but she wasn't having any of it.

"Don't talk to me right now. Just go back inside and play house with your little girlfriend okay?" With that she got in her car and pulled out of Jake's driveway. She got back home and had tears in her eyes. Her somber expression was noticed by her brother who was on his way out to go patrolling with Leah and Seth the first half of the evening. He was beginning to think this entire vampire thing was completely pointless, but he was always up for a little action nevertheless.

"You okay Noe?" Jackson asked. He decided to pull her in for a hug to see if she would shrink away. To his surprise he didn't. They were finally getting somewhere.

"Yeah," she sniffed as she scrunched up her face in a lame attempt to hold back tears but they kept pouring forth. "No," she admitted shaking her head.

"What's wrong?"

"Jake and I got in a fight."

"Why?"

"Bella was there at his house and she was like half dressed. And I think she's living there and I think that she's been living there for about two weeks because that's when he started avoiding me." She cried into her brother's chest again and he gave her another hug. When he saw Jake again he was really going to rip him one for sure!

"There are other fish in the sea Noe. It'll be okay I promise."

"No it won't," Noelle said pulling away.

"Of course it will. It just feels like that now, but in time you'll be fine."

"It's not gonna be fine Jackson."

"Why not?"

"Because...I-I'm pregnant."

Thank you nizi love, Team Space Heater, Peaceful Meadow and Loverofgoodstories27 for the reviews and I'm glad you're enjoying the story. Thanks to all who favorited and alerted this story you all are amazing!

Poor Noelle can't ever catch a break and Jacob, what was he thinking? He should've known that Noelle would find out Bella was living with him eventually. Do you all think anything happened between them? Do you think Noelle and Jake are imprints that are just going through a rough patch? What about these phantom vamps running around the Pacific Northwest attacking everyone but their intended target, Bella? Once again the questions never stop.

Till next time =)