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twilightjen - they can swim really fast, but the way Hayley's thinking, is that if she swims away, Jake will still be able to see her because he's in the water right now. he'll be able to see her when she's swimming away, even if he can't make out what it is. so she decides not to take the chance and try and hide

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"That is how life is - full of surprises."
-Unknown

(Jacob POV)

"Jared! You idiot! Let go of me NOW!"

I turned away from Quil and saw that Jared picked up Hayley bridal style and was bringing her over to the side of the cliff.

"Aww, come on Hale! It'll be fun!" he taunted.

"Jared! Now!" she screeched.

At this point I was pissed. There was no way in hell that he should be picking her up and bringing her there! She was fucking afraid of heights! That douche! I started shaking, and I knew that I was gonna phase soon if I didn't calm down or if Jared didn't put her down.

"Let her go, Jared," I growled. He let her down and and she started panicking. What was wrong?

She started running towards the edge of the cliff and before I could stop her, she jumped off. We all ran to the edge of the cliff and watched her dive in.

"You made her do it, Jared! Nice!" Paul high-fived Jared.

We waited a little while until Embry said, "Guys? She's not coming up."

I growled in anger and jumped in after her. My body hit the water and I surfaced to get air. I went back down under and started to look around for her. But there was nothing here.

I started freaking out. Where could she be? Did she drown? My heart started hurting just thinking about it, and a whimper escaped from my mouth. She had to be here, she just had to! I don't know what I would do if she wasn't.

I saw something from the corner of my eye. I turned and saw a huge orange fish tail.

What the fuck?

I swam over to the fish tail. It turned around the corner of the cliff, and I followed it. It stopped when its front part was in a small alcove in the rock of the cliff, and I grabbed onto it's fin. It froze when my hand touched it, and I started to swim closer to it's front. I've never seen anything like it. It looked amazing. I peered in the alcove. Yeah, I know. Not the smartest thing to do, but I was a freaking werewolf. Not much can hurt me except for those damn bloodsuckers.

I saw brown hair floating in the water, and a girl's body that was connected to the fish tail. Wait...

Holy crap! First werewolves, and then vampires, and now freaking mermaids! Is their any other magical creature that exists that I don't know about? I reached into the alcove and touched the mermaid's arm to get her attention. She turned around and I finally got a good look at her.

Holy fucking shit.

Her hand flew to her mouth and her eyes widened when she turned around. I let go of her arm and swam back up to the surface.

Saying that I was in shock would be the understatement of the year. My girlfriend, the person I loved and would do anything for, my imprint, was a freaking mermaid!

But I guess that I can't complain. I'm a werewolf. Maybe this would even make her take the news of werewolves and vampires and imprinting better. When Jared told Kim, it was like hell came and took over Forks. Kim wouldn't talk to Jared, and he became a mess. And then when Sam told Emily, Emily flipped out and wouldn't see him for a while. But that also might be because Sam left Leah for Emily.

Hayley's head broke through the surface of the water. "Jake?"

I tried to, I really did, but I couldn't talk. I was completely speechless. How could I respond to something like this? But I knew it didn't change anything. I still loved her and would protect her no matter what. But it might allow me to convince Sam into telling her about the legends and the werewolves...

"Aw, come on Jake! Say something, anything!"

"Wha-how?"

"Well at least I know that I didn't put you into shock," she mumbled. "Okay, so umm, you do know what I am, right?"

I'm not dumb. "A mermaid." I finally obtained the ability to talk normally again.

"Jake, you gotta promise me that you won't tell anyone. Okay?"

"No, you have to let me tell the guys! Wouldn't telling them make everything easier?" I know for a fact that it would make things easier for me.

"No! Jake, you said you would make sure nothing happened to me. Don't go back on your word now! I can't have anyone else knowing about this, otherwise really bad things can happen, alright? I've already gotten into one encounter with a scientist that wanted to experiment on us. I don't need another one. Please, please, please don't tell," she pleaded.

She really didn't know how much control she had over me, did she? Of course I wouldn't tell anyone if she kept asking like that. I couldn't say no to her. Damn, now I had to keep it from the pack.

"Sure," I said, defeated. "I won't tell anyone. But I really think that you should, Hale. They wouldn't judge you or try and hurt you. You just gotta remember that, okay?"

"I can't tell them, alright? I just can't."

No one talked, but I could tell that Hayley wanted to say something, so I stayed with her until she did.

"So, umm, your not like, repulsed or disgusted or hate me or anything like that?" she asked nervously. She wouldn't look at my face.

I grabbed her chin with my hands and made her eyes meet mine. "Never, Hale. I could never hate you."

She smile the brightest smile that I've ever seen and she pulled me into a big hug. "Oh thank God! I never told anyone about me being a mermaid before. I mean, Rikki and Cleo and Emma have told people, and other people have found out just by themselves - ahh, I really shouldn't be saying any of this, but oh well - but I've always been afraid of what would happen when I told someone myself. I'm just really glad-"

"Hayley! Don't worry about anything. I still think of you as the same before, just now I know that you have a tail. But I do think that you're either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid for coming to the rainiest place in the U.S.," I joked.

She smiled. "Yeah, well, I can't change that. It's not my fault Sam decided to stay in La Push, and my Mom decided to get a job here."

"Jake! Hayley! Where are you?" someone yelled.

Hayley cursed under her breath and pulled out of our hug. I had to resist letting a whimper out. "How long can you hold your breath for?" she asked.

"I don't know. I've never tried."

"Follow me."

She dove under the water and I followed her. Her body flew gracefully in the water. I had to give her mermaid side credit. She looked beautiful swimming under water. I felt slightly jealous of her ability to glide through the water like that, while I struggled to keep up with her.

She turned back to me and motioned for me to swim up. I swam up and found myself behind some large rocks on the other side of First Beach. I never actually thought that I would be able to swim that far without breathing.

"Come here," she said, panicking. I looked to where she was looking and I saw the pack rushing down the beach. I swam over to her and she pulled me towards the beach area that was covered by the rocks.

"Okay, so I never told you the full gist of what being a mermaid was like, so don't freak out, okay? I'll tell you all about it later." I nodded my head.

She put her hand over her tail and she moved her hand like it was squishing a lemon. Steam started appearing from around her, and soon she was covered with it. After a few seconds the steam started to disappear around her. When I could finally see her, she was just like she was before Jared picked her up.

I think she could tell that I was astonished, because she grimaced before she took my hand and led me to the pack. We walked up to the pack and Jared turned around first.

"Hayley! Jacob!" He ran towards us and stopped right before he crashed into us. "What happened to you guys?"

"We shared a lit-" Hayley dug her nails into my hand.

"We just ended up swimming a little farther than you guys did when you jumped off. No big deal," she said.

"Why did you even jump off? You were yelling at me before for bringing you to the edge, and then you just jump off? No offense Hale, but that's a little insane."

By this time, the whole pack was here.

"Yeah, well umm, you just made me in a really big mood to go. Sometimes I just get these random urges to do stuff."

Jared shrugged his shoulders but Sam stared at her, not believing a word she said.

"So do you want to go again?" Embry asked.

"No thanks," she said quickly. "I'm just going to go back home. See ya guys."

"Bye Hale," we said.

She walked away and off of the beach.

"So, who's up for a bet?" Embry asked. Most of the pack shook their heads at him and started up the cliff, but Sam and I stayed put. Once we couldn't hear her anymore, Sam looked over at me.

"What really happened?" he asked.

"What she said. She ended up going farther than the rest of us, and when I dove in, I found her and we swam back to the beach."

He let out a sigh, his signal of telling me that he believed me for now, and followed the rest of the pack up the cliff, me following closely behind.