Chapter 11: Meet the Pack

Chapter 11: Meet the Pack

As we walked through the trees into the parking lot I saw Cal's car along with Rizzo's, Aiden's and Shadow's. Cal had recently gotten rid of his Monte Carlo, and now had an orange Mustang GT with black racing stripes. Rizzo's black F430 Spider was parked a couple spots down next to Aiden's yellow FJ. Across the parking lot was Shadows black Vanquish; I noticed that Shadow had gotten the Chinese symbol for "stronger" painted on the tail of her car in blood red. It went perfectly with her new life style choice. I was starting to think Jake had just run here when I spotted his bike parked toward the back of the lot next to a bike that looked similar to the one I had, but it was black with "Bite me" painted on it in red and silver.

Once we all cleared the cover of the trees we split up, Erin and Sarah went with Rizzo, Sonny went with Shadow, G and Ami went with Cal, which left me and Alec riding with Aiden. I walked over to the FJ and threw my stuff in the back. I went to climb in when Jake caught my wrist. "Where do you think you're going?"

"With Aiden to La Push."

"And leave your bike here; I think not." I looked back over at the bikes and realized it was my bike sitting there.

"You painted my bike!"

"Yep. Do you like it?"

"Yes! It's perfect!"

"Glad you think so. Now, come on."

I closed the door after telling Aiden I wasn't riding with him and ran over to my bike. I kicked my bike to life remembering how it felt to fly down the road on my bike. I had a sudden urge to go extremely fast. Cal pulled up along side me to ask where we were going. "We're headed down to La Push, the town by First Beach."

"Oh, ok then." I knew the rest of them knew where they we were goin because Jake had already told them, Cal was to busy to pay attention. I turned to Jake who was now idling next to me. "Race ya!?"

"You're on." I shifted into first gear and sped out of the parking lot, Jake on my heels. The scenery was a green blur as I flew down the street. I glanced behind me to see Jake gaining on me, so I sped up. We reached La Push in no time at all. I slowed down a little, hoping nobody would walk out in front of me. Jake's house was soon in view, and growing fast. I cranked my brakes skidding across the ground stopping a hundred and fifty feet later, spinning my back tire around to the right. Seconds later Jake was in front of me, so his front tire was only inches from mine. "I win!"

"Sure, Sure. I was just going easy on you."

"Jake you and I both know my bike is faster than yours."

"So." I laughed.

A couple minutes later Shadows Vanquish was skidding to a halt, stopping only a foot from the side of my bike. "SHADOW! You almost hit my bike!" I yelled as she climbed out of her car. She laughed, "The key word there is almost." I sighed. Seconds later Cal's Mustang was right next to the Vanquish. We all waited out by the cars for Rizzo and Aiden to drive up. "I guess they decided to follow the speed limit." Cal said fifteen minutes later. I was about to say something along the lines of, stupid slow paced idiots, but thought better of it realizing I was normally like that. When Rizzo and Aiden finally drove into view I heard Cal mumble 'finally!' I smiled. I looked over at Jake to catch his eye, it wasn't necessary, seeing as he was already looking at me.

"Are they coming?"

"Yeah they're on their way."

"Cool."

We walked back to the garage and waited for the rest of the pack to arrive. It was only a couple minutes before I could hear Paul arguing with Sam over the new additions.

"I'm telling you this is a bad idea, Sam. We don't even know these people and we're trusting them with one of the biggest secrets ever!" Paul yelled.

"We can't fight those bloodsuckers off on our own. I trust Bella and Jake. If they think it's safe for them to know, I will agree." Sam snapped.

Paul didn't say anything else on the subject. A couple seconds later they walked into the garage, Paul still mumbling to himself.

"Hey Bella" Quil and Embry chorused.

"Hey guys." I replied

"Jake" Sam greeted

"Sam"

"Bella would like to introduce your friends?" Sam asked.

"Sure. These are my friends; Erin, Shadow, Sonny, Rizzo, Sarah, Ami, Gabby, Cal,

Alec, and Aiden."

"Cool. I'm Sam, this is Paul, Quil, Embry, Seth, Leah, Collin, Jared, Brady, and you already know Jake." He said pointing to each of them in turn.

"You're all werewolves!?" Rizzo asked a hint of astonishment in her voice.

"Yes, we are." Sam answered.

"Are there more of you?" Sarah asked.

"Nope, at least, not in our pack."

"Ok, so now what?" Seth asked.

"Well I think we should change you either tomorrow or Friday. That way we have enough time for the transformation, and a little training time/ before the battle." Sam told us.

"Well if we're at least waiting for tomorrow what are we going to do tonight?" I

asked.

"I don't care. What do you guys want to do?" Sam said. I looked at my friends.

"Can you tell us more about the pack?" Cal asked.

"Sure but we can't tell you everything till you're actually one of us." Sam replied.

"Cool." Alec said.

Jake backed out his rabbit so we had more room for everybody. A couple hours later my friends knew almost as much as I did. It was about 6:30 when we decided we should go get some food. After a half hour long discussion, ok it was an argument, over where we should go we finally decided to go down to Seattle and eat at a Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet. Jake went to tell Billy where we were going, while everybody else headed back to their cars. Since there were more of us going we had to fill the cars, not just go with who we wanted too. In the end Jake had to let Sam drive his Rabbit, while Jake and I rode our bikes.

We arrived at the restaurant a couple hours later, and had to wait for the party room to empty out; I guess that's what happens when there are twenty-one people in your group. After eating enough food to feed a small army, the pack was finally full. I kinda felt bad for the owners of the restaurant; the two-hundred and ten dollars they got didn't even cover the amount of food Jake and Sam ate, let alone all of us.

Once we got back in La Push we all split-up, going to different houses for the night. Rizzo and Sarah went with Sam. Shadow and Sonny went with Embry. Erin went with Leah, who she had gotten along with from the start, and Seth. Ami and Gabby went with Quil, after convincing Cal that nothing was going to happen. Cal, Alec and Aiden all went with Jared; leaving me to go with, Jake, Collin, Brady, or Paul. Hmmm… who am I going to stay with?? Please note sarcasm

About an hour after we got back from dinner, Jake and I were sitting on the couch in his living room watching Hills Have Eyes, when there was a knock at the door. "Billy? You home?" oh crap. Charlie. I looked over at Jake and he whispered for me to go back into his room. Once I had closed the door, leaving a sliver for me to look out, Jake answered the door.

"Hi Jake; is Billy still awake?"

"No, I'm sorry he's not."

"Ok, um, have you heard from Bella lately?"

"Yeah, I talked to her yesterday at her camp."

"You haven't heard from her since then?"

"No, why is something wrong?"

Charlie nodded, "The camp called to tell Bella she forgot her t-shirt and something else. She's gone."

"Oh, um… I'll help look for her tomorrow morning if you like. Have you checked with the Cullen's?" he said it so politely I almost didn't believe my ears.

"Yeah, Edward," he said his name like he was nothing more than dirt on his shoe, "said last time he saw her she was with you."

"I don't know where she could be, but I promise to help look for her tomorrow morning. I wouldn't be much help right now, running on three hours of sleep."

"Ok, thanks Jake. I'll probably be back tomorrow. Unfortunately." He gave a small smile before turning and disappearing from my view.

I waited for Jake to close the door and wave me out of hiding, before I came out.

"Well I guess the transformation will be taking place tomorrow."

"You could call him and tell him you and your friends got bored and went down to

Seattle for a shopping spree."

"Yes, I could; but what do I tell him if he asks when I will be home?"

"Tell him you will be home by next Thursday. The transformation should be over by then, if you follow the normal time frame."

"Ok, I'll call him first thing in the morning. If I call him now it might look suspicious."

"Yeah, just a little"

We went back to watching the movie, but I wasn't as into it as I was before. When the credits had started rolling across the screen Jake spoke up. "You can take my bed. I'll sleep out here."

"That's not fair. It's your house and it's you bed; besides you won't fit on the couch."

"Bella I'm not letting you sleep on the couch."

"Well I'm not letting you sleep on the couch either; ya know, we could both sleep in the bed. I don't mind sharing." I said playfully.

"Billy would die if he ever found out."

"Well then, he just won't find out now will he?" I asked, my voice more seductive than I had intended.

"No, I guess he won't."

I smile. As we walked back to Jake's room I was suddenly upside-down.

"Jake put me down!" I whisper-yelled, not wanting to wake Billy. The only response I got from him was a chuckle. Once we got into his room he flipped me right-side-up and set me down on his bed. I crawled under the covers one side of the bed and smiled when Jake crawled in on the other side, flicking off the lights. I rolled over so I was facing him and snuggled up against his warm chest.

"I love you, Bells." Jake whispered.

"I love you too." I whispered back.

"But I love you more."

"Maybe, Maybe not." I retorted.

I reached up and gave him a quick kiss before snuggling back up against him. His arms tightened around my waist as if to say, Don't-you-even-think-about-trying-to-leave. I smiled and let myself be pulled into unconsciousness.