Jake and I walked outside and down to the beach. We walked in silence. I was getting a conversation ready in my head, although like the last one I planned, I knew it wouldn't go right.

Jake moved next to me and I broke the silence. "So you're a werewolf?!"

Jake sighed. "Yeah, last time I checked."

It was as if he hated the thought of it.

"Few people in our tribe have the Gene. When bloodsuckers move nearby, the fever sets in for those who do have the gene. Theres nothing that can be done."

Jake looked at me with a half smile. I could see the pain in his dark eyes.

"Can't you find a way to just… Stop it? It's kinda wrong."

Jake stopped in his tracks. I shouldn't have said that.

"Wrong? God Bella you're such a hypocrite! Just because I'm not the right type of monster for you!"

The right type of monster? It was nothing to do with him being a werewolf. He had it all wrong.

"Jake it's not what you are, it's what you do! You've killed people Jake."

He seemed offended. "Bella we're not killing anyone!"

I took a deep breath, asking a question that I half knew the answer to. "Then who is?"

He looked me deep in the eye. "The things that we're trying to protect you people from. The only thing that we do kill." Jake paused. "Vampires." He spat the word out as if it were poison.

Alice. "Jake you can't! I…"

"Don't worry." He cut in. "We can't touch you're precious little Cullen's. Unless they break the treaty."

I started to remember the treaty, the information slowly leaking into my system.

"You can't kill Vampires, they'll kill you!"

He scoffed. "Well we took out that leach with the dreads easy enough didn't we?"

Laurent. They killed him?

"You mean Laurent?!"

"Yup, and his red headed girlfriend is next."

"Victoria." The word struck pure fear into my heart, freezing me on the spot. "Vic-Victoria's here?" I just about managed to get the words out. My breathing suddenly got a lot quicker and my pulse was racing.

"She was. We chased her all the way to the Canadian border the other day. The problem is she keeps coming back, and we don't know what she's after."

I knew exactly what, or who she's after. Maybe it was time I let Jake in to a bit of the Cullen's lifestyle. After all, he has no idea what happened last year with James and Victoria.

"I do." I paused, and calmed my breathing down. Me." It was me she was after.

Jake was horrified. I told him the full story and afterwards he took me home in my van. He was very distracted but seemed to be concentrating enough to be able to drive.

Ten minutes later we arrived at my house. Charlie was out again. Must have been called into work late.

"Don't worry about Victoria, we have this place covered." He put his arm round my shoulder. I could feel the warmth through my jumper.

"Just be careful Jake, she's fast. You have no idea just how fast she is." I looked him in the eye and shrugged his arm off me.

He laughed. "Your lack of confidence in us is a little insulting Bella." He looked at me and smirked. "Right, well I better go. Got a Vampire to kill."

I couldn't believe how easy Jake thought it was going to be. How many Vampires had he dealt with before? He didn't know half of Victoria's power. Not every Vampire is as easy to kill as Laurent was. I watched him run off into the blackness, back to wherever he was about to go. Hunt for a vampire? I wished him all the luck in the world. I walked into the house and went straight into my room and opened my new computer. There was an E-mail from Alice.

" Bella,

Sorry I haven't got back to you, I've not been around a computer lately, but I'm going to be back in forks for a couple of weeks. Don't come to the house, I have guests. Guests you won't want to meet. I'll come and see you every so often.

Alice. "

I sighed after I had read the message. She had "Guests"? What kind of guests? My curiosity got the better of me, and I almost ran to my car, at which time I was stopped… By Alice.

"Alice!" I hugged her and she wrapped her arms around me.

She pulled away and I could see in her eyes she was hungry. "Bella I told you not to come to the house! You didn't listen to me."

"I'm sorry Alice I just wanted to see your company."

She looked at me lovingly. "My company is some friends from Texas. They don't stick to the lifestyle we do so it wouldn't be wise for you to spend time around them."

So they killed humans. Jake wouldn't have that.

"I send them away for their meals though." Alice said.

Meals. I like the way she put it. Alice stroked my hair and I pushed into her hand. Alice suddenly looked round. I looked behind her, and stood there was a woman. She was beautiful. She had long flowing red hair and deep crimson eyes to match. She smiled at me. I grabbed Alice even tighter and pulled her close. I was scared.

Alice sighed and looked back at me. "This is Amber."

"So you're the girl Alice is always going on about." The red eyed vampire walked ever so close to me. She had a very distinctive southern drawl.

"You're Alice's guest?"

She looked at Alice, the way Alice looks at me. "I guess you can say that." She looked back at me and smirked.

I wasn't best pleased.

"Amber please, don't wind her up. Just go now okay, you've met her."

She seemed pleased with herself. "Okay Alice I'll leave. I'll be back late thought, Seattle will keep my busy." She winked at Alice.

"Just go." Alice said, a bitter tone in her voice.

With that, Amber had gone. Disappeared. Alice dragged me inside the house and up into my room.

She lay me down on the bed and kissed me. "Go to sleep Bella you look as if you've had a tiring day."

She was right. I had. "Why don't you go and hunt Alice, your hungry."

Alice shrugged. "I'll hunt when you've fallen asleep. I want to spend as much time with you as I can." She smiled widely at me, I fell in love yet again.

I changed into my nightwear and got into bed. Alice lay next to me and put her arms around me, her coolness sent a little chill down my spine but I loved the feeling. It was the feeling of Alice. I couldn't get what the vampire had said out of my head though, it was running through my mind. Was Alice doing anything with this vampire? It was too much to think about at this time, I would ask her in the morning.