Chapter 11.

Peter

Jasper and I were playing on call of duty when I suddenly smelt the vilest scent I had ever had the misfortune to smell.

"she didn't!" Jasper growled. "oh she fucking did!"

"what the fuck is that?" I asked in disgust. God, my nose was hurting with the stench.

Bella opened her doe eyes "trying to sleep here!" she muttered grumpily.

I looked over to the front door that was about to open.

"Bella!" cried the tiniest woman I had even seen. Dear god! She looked like she should be perched on a mushroom!

"Alice!" Bella squealed and ran to hug her friend.

"how was your weekend?" the little one smirked. Ohh fuck! Alice had visions.

"fine" Bella said. I could tell she would be blushing slightly.

Alice turned to me "peter! Its so nice to meet you. I'm sorry about your wife. She's a whore"

She sat down on Jasper's knee. He just looked at me as if to say 'sorry dude'

Bella looked mortified "alice!"

"what? I'm only saying" she shrugged.

"its nice to finally meet you, sugar" I chuckled. This girl was perfect for Jasper. She tells it how it is.

The nasty smell got so strong, I could taste it.

Bella turned to sit back down and smiled at me.

A tall, shirtless native boy with bulging muscles stepped through my door.

Alice beamed.

"don't I get a hug Bella?" he said flashing a lot of white teeth.

She turned so fast, I'm willing to bet she made herself dizzy.

"Jake!" she gasped.

I wanted to groan. that was jake!

"In the flesh" the boy grinned. Bella dived at him.

"oh, jake. I've missed you so much……how did you get here?….how are you?…. Oh jake!"

She was crying now. The boy just laughed "typical Bella"

"shut up" she sniffed.

He was still holding her to his large chest. He bent and kissed her head.

The need to growl at the boy was so strong.

"come meet peter" Bella said taking his large dark hand in her tiny pale one.

His eyes locked on to me. A large growl ripped from his chest. He was shaking like mad.

I was on my feet before he could even blink.

"a human drinker" he snarled and tried to push Bella behind him. Like I would ever hurt her.

"Jacob, hush. Peter isn't like the others" Bella scolded.

"look at it's eyes, Bella! How can you say he isn't like the others"

It's eyes!

"you had better watch who your talking to boy!" I growled.

"Jacob black! How dare you talk to him like that. Peter saved my life! You apologise, now" Bella demanded. She moved away from him and came to stand by me. I couldn't help but smile.

"sorry" he said through his teeth.

"no problem, kid" I smiled.

Bella took my hand "I'm sorry peter. Sometimes Jake can be a real pig. he's not usually like this"

I gave her hand a slight squeeze "no need to apologise, kitten"

Jacob was watching me with narrowed eyes.

"come sit down" Alice chimed.

"holy shit! Look at that TV" Jacob gasped.

Jasper chuckled.

Jacob took Bella's hand and pulled her over to the couch. He sat down and pulled her to sit on his lap.

"I'm sorry bells" he said burying his face in her hair.

"its ok, jake. I'm just happy to see you" she told him.

"Bella" he said. He raised his head to look at her "you seriously stink" he chuckled.

"fuck you! I smell great" she said nudging him.

"you smell like a leech….no offence" he added. I rolled my eyes. How original!

"so how bad are you hurt? He asked her, looking down at her bandaged leg.

"it looked worse than it was. My leg is burned and I had a branch stuck in my shoulder. other than that it's just cuts and bruises"

"can I see your shoulder?" he asked and went to move the neck of her t-shirt.

"NO!" she shouted. Everyone looked at her oddly.

"I…uh… I don't want to uncover it" she said lamely. Jasper looked over at me with a 'what the fuck?' face. i Shrugged but knew full well that she didn't want them seeing her bite mark.

She caught my eye and smiled.

"is there any food around here, I'm starving" Jacob said .

"your always starving" Bella laughed getting up.

She walked into the kitchen closely followed by the puppy.

"what the fuck. Alice!" Jasper hissed when they had gone.

"what?" she asked.

"why is he here? Edward will be able to read his mind now, for fuck sakes!"

Jasper said throwing his hands up.

Yeah, not to mention that Bella and I were just getting cosy!

Alice rolled her eyes "I'm not stupid you know. I went and met him in Seattle. I blindfolded him so he wouldn't know where we are"

"clever" I chuckled.

"did Bella tell you what happened?" Jasper asked me. I nodded "yeah, she told me"

"what all of it?"

"yeah. We made a deal. She told me about Edward and I told her about charlotte"

"wow. You're the first person she has spoken to about it all. She just skirts around it with us" Jas said.

I felt good knowing that she trusted me.

"peter" Bella called from the kitchen.

I got up and went in to see her "what's up, darlin?"

"I was just telling jake about the kind of people you…er...feast upon" she smiled "and how you helped me with everything. He wanted to….."

"I want to apologise, properly this time" Jacob said cutting her off. He held out his hand.

"apology accepted" I said shaking his hand. God damn, his hand was hot! Why isn't he sweating?

"awww, my guys!" Bella said she kissed his cheek and hugged him to her right side, burying his head in her hair and pulled me to her right side. She smiled and kissed my lips gently.

Ohh yeah! I didn't get a cheek kiss.

When Bella pulled away from us both she beamed "burger and fries"

"sounds good" Jacob said happily sitting down.

"what are you pussy's hugging about, this time?" Jasper laughed as he and alice walked in.

"fuck you, Whitlock" I said giving him a shove.

"so does anyone wanna tell me why Jake's here. Not that I don't love it, but just….why? Wont Edward know where we are now" Bella said.

"after you said you were going to call and then didn't. I began to worry" jake told Bella.

"understatement. There were three hundred missed calls and ninety-eight messages" Jasper chuckled.

"and when I was hunting, I was having visions of you and then everything after Jasper showing up, vanished. So I knew what I had to do. I called jake from a pay phone in seattle and then blindfolded him and stole a car" alice smiled.

"you and stealing cars!" Bella laughed as she put sauce on the burgers.

She handed a plate to Jacob then came and sat beside me with her own.

"so Edward wont know I'm here?" she asked happily.

Alice nodded.

"I can stay!" Bella cried and hugged me tightly.

"stay? Here you mean" Jasper asked.

"yes silly. I want to stay here. Peter said we can" Bella told him.

"but maybe peter wants his privacy" jake butted in.

"nope. I'd love it if you would stay here" I said grinning. My Bella was staying!!!

Bella grinned widely and placed her hand over mine on my leg under the table.

I turned my hand over and laced my fingers with hers.

I was dying to get her on her own again. I wanted to know what was going on with us. It was obvious that we liked each other a lot but was she willing to try at a real relationship?

She held a chip in front of my mouth.

"urgh, that tastes like dirt!" I said swallowing quickly.

"what the fuck!" Jacob said "did you just eat a fry?"

"Bella made him whipped" Jasper grumbled.

"she did not" I laughed.

Alice was watching Bella and I knowingly. Just what did she know?

"what's up ally baby? Your feeling all mushy, like you do when you watch love story films" Jasper asked alice.

"oh its nothing. I was just thinking about a vision I had last month" she shrugged.

"is this the one that made you plan a weekend hunt a month in advance. The same time that I had my accident" Bella asked.

Alice looked the picture of innocent "I don't know what your talking about"

Bella rolled her eyes "sure you don't"

"so, hows things back home?" Bella asked Jacob.

"great. Emily's pregnant. She found out last night. Assward keeps hanging round the treaty line hoping to hear my thoughts for any news of you" he laughed.

"I'm happy for em and sam. They deserve it. But Edward's a stalking bitch!" Bella muttered. I stroked her hand with my thumb that was still under the table.

"embry and I had a huge fight. But other than that, same old" Jacob shrugged.

"a fight about what?" Bella asked.

Jacob sighed and played with his burger bun "you"

"me!" Bella squeaked "what abut me?"

"embry thinks he's in love with you"

I stiffened. Who the hell was this embry guy?

"aw crap" Bella groaned "stupid horny werewolf's"

The others laughed. I didn't think it was funny. Not fucking funny at all!

"its not his fault, bells. There's just something about you" he shrugged.

Bella glared "let me guess. I look like a porn star?"

We all laughed this time.

"what. Where the hell did that come from?" jake laughed.

"that's what Jace said. He said even covered in cuts and bruises I scream 'I'm naughty, do me!' fucking pervy men"

"jace said that!" Jasper growled.

"who the fuck is jace?" Jacob asked.

"my friend" Bella told him "relax, both of you"

"what kind of friend says something like that?" Jacob asked.

Bella narrowed her eyes at him. "the same kind that said my lips would look amazing wrapped around his dick! Or the same kind that has sexual fantasy's about a friends then tells her. IN DETAIL! don't go there, Jacob black"

Jasper and I were both glaring at him.

"I was drunk! Give me a break" he blushed.

My mobile began to ring.

It was jace. "speak of the devil"

"hello"

"hey man, put Bella on"

"I'm good, thanks for asking" I mutter dryly and hand her the phone.

"hey jace" Bella laughed.

"hey beautiful. How are you feelin?"

Everyone was watching Bella. Listening to the conversation.

"I feel great, thank you. good as new"

"that's good. Listen, I'm on my way over. Vicky has sent you some stuff. I just wanted to let you know before I show up"

Bella smiled "oh, that so nice of her"

"yeah, she feels real bad about….. You know, before. And she thought that you might want some clothes and shit. So anyway, I'll be there soon"

"okay, and jace… tell her thank you for me. I really appreciate this"

"will do honey" he said before hanging up.

"who's Vicky?" alice asked with a confused look on her face.

"ohh, I er.. Forgot about that. Its, uh. Its Victoria" Bella said fidgeting.

"WHAT!" all three of them shouted.

"how did I not see this?" alice asked more to herself.

"are you fucking crazy! This bitch wants to kill you" Jacob said angrily.

Bella sighed. "no she doesn't. the only reason she was after me, was because James lied to her. She thought we killed him for nothing. She's actually kinda nice"

"nice" Jasper spat "evil more like"

"you can say that again" Jacob agreed.

"do you really think that victoria would still be alive if she was going to hurt Bella. She was in my house. I would have killed her is she tried to hurt Bella" I told them.

Jasper nodded "okay man"

"roll on when I become a vampire. Maybe the you can all stop worrying" Bella huffed. I wrapped one arm around her.

"hate to break it to you, Bella. But even fifty years into the future, everyone is still overprotective of you" alice told her.

"really" Bella said sadly.

"but you'll be really, really happy" she smirked.

'OOoo, why?" Bella asked excitedly.

"I cant tell you just yet"

Bella scowled "damn pixie!"

"knock, knock" jace called. "dear god! What the fuck is that smell?"

I chuckled as he walked in.

"oh…" he stopped "heyyyy Jasper" he said and gave him a man hug.

"good to see you jace, man. This is my mate, alice and this is Jacob" Jasper told him.

"ahhh, the wolf" jace nodded. "nice to meet you"

He picked up Alice's hand "ma'am" he said kissing it.

"god you guys are smooth bastards" Bella laughed.

Jace turned and kissed her cheek "damn right we are………fucking hell, Bella. Did you bath in peter or what? You stink of him"

Bella rolled her eyes "no jace, we've been making out all day"

Everyone's eyes widened.

"I'm kidding" Bella laughed "god. I live with him, I'm wearing his clothes, we touch and hug. I'm bound to smell like him"

She lives with me! oh hell yes!

"you live with him, bells?" jake asked eying me up.

"oh you know what I meant" she said waving him off.

"anyhow" jace said shaking his head "the bags are on the couch" he told Bella.

"thanks jace" she smiled.

"can I talk to you a minute, Pete" jace asked.

"sure" I said standing up. Jasper raised one eyebrow. "we'll be right back" jace told him.

I followed jace out and in to the woods. He stopped when we were out of hearing distance.

"you kissed her" he said straight away.

I nodded "how did you know?"

"because your scents are all over each other. What happened?"

I sighed and sat down on a tree stump "I've fallen for her, jay. She's amazing"

"does Bella know?" he asked.

"no. she knows I like her but I haven't said anything else"

He chewed his lip "and does she like you back…. Well obviously, since she kissed you back"

"I'm sorry, jay. I know you like her but I didn't mean to fall for her. It just happened"

He shook his head "its cool man. I could tell from day one that this was gonna happen"

"you did?" I asked in shock "how?"

"from the start, you two had chemistry. And the way you look at each other"

Did the others see it? Would Jasper want to kill me?

"so what's the deal with the stinky werewolf?" he asked as I stood up.

I laughed "he's Bella's best friend"

"he wants more. And he's a good looking guy, for a dog" he shrugged.

"yeah, I know" I said turning back towards the house.

"so, do you mind if I adopt Bella, I like the sound of having a sister" he smiled.

I laughed "yeah, just don't ogle your sister. Or I'll break your face"

"ouch" he chuckled.

We set off back to the house at a run.

When we got back, Bella and alice were routing through the clothes victoria had sent over. Jace headed back in to the kitchen to talk to Jasper.

Bella was holding up a short, red baby doll nightie.

Oh fuck yeah!

"nice" I smirked. She blushed.

"that will come in handy" alice said sending me a wink.

My eyes widened.

"your not the only one who knows shit. Peter" she giggled.

"alice" Bella said under her breath "shh"

Alice sighed "fine"

"guys, I'm just going to go see how the packs doing" Jacob said coming through.

"okay" Bella said quickly stuffing the nightie out of sight "say hi for me"

"sure, sure" he said as he left.

Bella picked up a pair of black skinny jeans and a red, clingy jumper. "I'm going to go change.

She got to the stairs and turned back to us. She was blushing slightly "will you bring the bags up, please peter"

I smiled and gathered up the bags.

Alice made kissy sounds then giggled as she danced to music on the tv.

I set the bags down on my bed.

"Victoria picked out some good stuff" Bella said quietly. I picked up a red lacy bra off the top of one of the bags "I'll say" I gulped.

everything still had the tags on too.

Bella took the bra from me and picked up the matching panty's and placed them on top of the clothes she had picked out.

I took her hand and pulled her closer to me "I wanted to talk to you"

She looked nervous "go ahead"

"I like you, Bella. I really like you and I……" I took a breath. How could I say this without sounding like a pussy? I looked into her chocolate orbs.

"I don't wanna get hurt Bella" I told her quietly.

Her eyes were filled with tears "I'll never hurt you, peter. And I like you too. a lot"

I smiled and kissed her gently.

"I don't know how to do this anymore so I'll just say it….. I want to be with you Bella. We can take it slow, I have all the time in the world, I jus.."

She cut me off with her lips. Her hands slid up my chest to my neck. She played with the ends of my hair as I explored her mouth with my tongue.

She was smiling when I pulled back to look at her.

"I would like nothing more that to be with you, peter" she said happily.

I hugged her to me "I feel like such a pussy after saying all that" I chuckled. She laughed and smacked my chest "your such a… man!"

I kissed her again quickly. "get dressed. I'll be down stairs"

"mmkay" she said dreamily.

I headed downstairs.

"that was sooo sweet" alice whispered from the couch.

"that's really annoying, you know. Doesn't it drive everyone crazy?" I asked.

"yep" she grinned "I can tune out if I want. Like when you and Bella were getting hot and heavy on the couch before Jasper came. I really didn't want to see that!. But the rest of this little love story. I am so watching. I ca…."

Her eyes glazed over "ohh no" she said sounding scared.

"what? What is it?" I asked.

"Bella!" she called out.

"what?" Bella asked as she made her way down to us. She looked ravishing.

She noticed that alice was having a vision and called out for Jasper.

"what do you see, alice?" she asked. Jasper and jace ran in. they had been out by the pool.

"its Charlie" alice said "he's been shot"

Gasppppp!! Poor Charlie-warlie :--(

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Rose xx