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Bella POV
I sat in the truck with my arms folded and waited for Mia to come back. I looked out of the passenger seat window and I saw her slowly walking back to the truck with her head down. Uh-oh, something bad had happened.
I got out and walked over to her, her eyes were full of tears and her cheeks were flustered. What did he say to her? It had to be something bad to make her cry like this, Mia hardly ever cried. I wasn't going to stand for it.
"Mia, what the hell has happened? What did Jake say?" I said as I approached her.
She looked at me and her cheeks were soaked with the falling tears coming from her eyes. It was weird seeing her like this.
"I just want to get the fuck out of here Bells, I can't stand being near him anymore" I was shocked at her response and grabbed her in a hug but she winced as I put too much force into it. I let her go straight away and guided her back to the truck.
I looked over at Jacob with an angry expression and he only stared back with a fierce glare.
"Sit in the truck Mia, I'll have a word with him" I opened the door for her and helped her on the seat and I walked over to Jacob who was still stood near the woods opening.
As I walked past the four boys standing outside of his house, I recognized Embry straight away. He had his hair shorter and he looked just as fierce as the rest. What was with them tonight?
I stormed over to Jacob and stopped a few feet away from him. His dark eyes were different, they weren't the kind and warm ones that I was used to, they were serious and harsh.
"So I guess you want to talk to me too huh?" He said. I wasn't going to let him make me cry, not a dog in hell's chance.
"You're damn right I do. What the hell just happened? What's going on with you Jake?" I said. I needed to know why my so called best friend was acting this way and why he had suddenly changed his attitude.
"I told Mia we couldn't be friends and I don't think she took it too well" He said and it didn't sound like he was bothered by it at all.
"That can't be just it Jake. I doubt Mia would be crying over that. Did she ask you about last night? What did you tell her?"
"I told her all I knew, that I only remember being ill and thats it. I don't remember her getting hurt or a fucking wolf turning up and attacking her. It's not my fault if I'm not more help is it?" He said all too harshly. I really didn't like this change at all.
"You know that I've been calling you don't you? Why haven't you been in touch to tell me you are OK? I've been worried sick Jake because I saw Mia bleeding to death last night and I thought the same happened to you" I said and my expression softened as I thought about that traumatizing sight of Mia being carried out of the woods, covered in blood.
"Like I said to Mia, I've had a lot going on lately and I haven't had the time. I don't know what happened to her OK?" He shouted back at me. How dare he talk to me like that.
"Jake, what the fuck is your problem? Why are you being like this?" I asked.
His attitude was really getting on my nerves, Jake never spoked to me like that. He was always so pleasant and lovable but now he was acting like a monster.
"You want to know why I'm like this? Why don't you ask those filthy bloodsuckers you call friends of yours? They will tell you"
I stood there frozen in shock and I forgot to blink. My eyes starting stinging because I had opened them so wide and the wind was blowing into them. My throat became dry and I forgot to swallow. My head started to spin and the last sentence he spoke repeated in my mind. The main word that was swirling around in my head was bloodsuckers.
"Wha-... What did you say?" I said and my voice was shaking.
Why did he call them THAT? I thought.
"It doesn't even matter, go back to the Cullens and never come back here again. We can't be friends either Bella, it just wouldn't be right. I'm sorry but it's the way it's got to be"
I couldn't believe what he just said. He didn't want to be friends with me anymore, how could I go on without seeing him everyday? He was supposed to be my personal sun and now he was nothing but a monster. I was screaming inside.
"You know what? If that's the way you want it to be then fine, I'm not going to beg. If you want to hang around with the likes of Sam Uley and be an asshole then you do that because I'm sure as hell not going to stick around and tolerate it. Goodbye Jake"
I stormed past him and purposely banged into him, it felt like banging into a brick wall. I could feel his eyes on me as I walked back to my truck in a huff and I didn't care what he was feeling. How could he be so cruel to us? What had we done to make him feel like this? Did he know what the Cullens were? Why did he call them bloodsuckers?
I opened the door to my truck and slammed it shut behind me and I made the whole truck wobble. Mia looked at me with a concerned expression and she must have guessed that my conversation with Jacob didn't go well either from the look on my face.
"Let me guess, he was a total prick to you too right?" She said.
"Yep, let's get the hell out of here"
I started my engine and reversed backwards. As I did, dirt started sprinting out from behind my tier's and I hoped I got it in some of those idiots eyes.
We were both silent till we came out of La Push, we were probably replaying the scenes that had just happened between us and Jake. I couldn't believe how he was with me, it was definitely the end of our friendship and I felt crushed. I too felt like crying.
"He's changed so much after one night. I can't believe it" I said.
"I always saw him like that Bells, I used to hate him remember? But last night I saw a different side of him, he was amazing and so lovable. Now he's just..." Mia started tearing up again before she could finish her sentence and they started falling down her face once again. I put my arm out to her and she snuggled into me.
I parked my truck onto my driveway and slammed the door shut behind me. Mia got out the other side and joined me by the front of the truck. No lights were on in the house so I assumed Charlie was asleep.
"So that didn't go down well huh? We'll have to try and put it behind us now Mia. He's changed now, he's become another one of Sam's arrogant followers" I said.
As I turned around to face Mia, her face looked so lost and hurt. I never expected her to react this way over him, after all she had hated him for so many years. But the kiss they shared the night before must have made her feel completely different about him. He had definitely hurt it and my heart went out to her.
"I wanted him to believe me, I begged him to listen to me and he wouldn't!" She then broke down into tears even more. She bent down to the ground, holding her ribs yet again. She was crying so hysterically and I bent down to her and held her in my arms.
"Shhh, it's OK. It will be OK" I said as I started to rock her.
"No, you don't understand. I think I'm going crazy Bella, something about last night just doesn't make sense" she said and I wondered what she was talking about.
"What do you mean Mia?"
"I saw him explode... I'm sure of it!" She said and I turned her face to look at me.
"You saw him explode? Are you sure?"
"You know what? Just forget it, it's just too crazy because he's still in good piece isn't he? I better go to bed before I pass out" and she hugged me then left my side to walk to her house.
I started wondering about what she said. She said she saw Jake explode?
Mia POV
I was glad my dad wasn't downstairs when I walked through door, I couldn't be bothered to answer questions from him. I just wanted to flop on my bed and cry myself to sleep. It took me ages to get up stairs and it made me even more tired.
I walked into my untidy room and kicked a box full of stuff out of my way. I through all kinds of crap off my bed and sat on the edge to turn the radio on. When I switched it on, a song was playing that I didn't want to hear, I wish you were here by Incubus. It was the song that was playing when I had ice cream with Jake, the song that he said would remind me of him and unfortunately it did.
I sprung up off my bed and slammed the switch down on the radio, I couldn't bare listening to that song anymore. I lay back on my bed and prayed for a dreamless sleep. But of course all I could think about was him, it was like a cloud in my mind.
Bella POV
I was having a peaceful sleep, more peaceful than I thought possible. After the night I just had, I didn't think it could be possible.
But a certain tapping sound entered my ears but at first I didn't think anything of it. The tapping noise happened again but I was too scared to open my eyes. It couldn't have been Edward because he had left two hours before.
I tried to ignore it but it started getting on my nerves so I sat up and turned on my lamp beside my bed. I looked at my alarm clock and it read 4:00 am.
I couldn't see anything in the room but then I could hear that the noise was coming from my furthest window. I wondered if it was some sort of bird.
I got up and walked towards the window to inspect it. I couldn't see anything. I opened it and stuck my head out to get a better look. There was nothing out there. As I went to put my head back inside something caught my eye on a nearby tree near the window and it made me jump. I smacked my head on the window and I rubbed it as hard as I could.
I heard someone whisper my name and I started to become really frightened, could it be a vampire ready to eat me?
No, it was Jacob.
"Jake? What are doing in Charlie's tree?" I whispered to him and he gestured to me to move. He wasn't planning to jump in was he? Yes, he swung his legs and landed with a slight thud on my bedroom floor.
"Get out!" I whispered as loudly as I could.
I looked into his eyes, they were not as harsh as they were before, they looked softer and he had a guilty expression on his face.
"Bella please, let me explain-..." I cut him off.
"I don't want to hear it Jake! You said you didn't want to be friends and yet you are here? I don't want to listen to anymore of your harsh bullshit!"
After I said that, Jake's face looked hurt. His eyes started watering and I started to feel bad at how I spoke to him but I couldn't help it, he had hurt me so much more than that just a few hours before.
"I'm so sorry about being a total prick earlier but I didn't mean anything I said. I swear!"
"So then why did you say it? Why say it if you don't mean it?"
"I said all of that as a cover up. Sam was listening in and he needed to believe what I wanted him to believe"
What did he have to do with this? Did he tell Jake to say all that to me? I was fuming, how dare he get involved in our friendship. I wanted to punch him.
"What has Sam got to do with this? What does it matter what he thinks?" I said harshly.
"More than you know Bella. When I said I didn't want to be friends with you anymore, it was the hardest thing I ever had to do. But I needed it to look believable, I needed it to look like I didn't care about you anymore"
"Why?" I asked. I was getting even more confused.
"I can't tell you..."
I let out a sarcastic laugh and put my head in my hand and walked towards my bed. I needed him to start making sense before I put my head through the wall.
"Well, that sure explains a lot doesn't it?" I spat at him.
He walked closer to me and grabbed hold of my hands, he had always been warm but he felt incredibly hotter than usual.
"I can't tell you because I need you to guess Bells. But don't worry, I will help you"
He was making me feel nervous, how could I possibly guess? I didn't know what was going on did I?
"You know about the Quileute stories that I told you right? Well some of them are true"
I looked at him with my eye brows raised and wondered where he was going with this.
"And which ones is that?"
He walked away from me and stared out of the window. His eyes started watering yet again, was he crying?
"I'm not the same anymore Bells, something big happened to me last night. You already know the truth, you just don't want to admit it" He said.
The truth about what? I tried my best to understand him but it wasn't sinking in.
"I don't know what you mean Jake" I said quietly.
"I pretended that I didn't know what happened last night. When Mia asked me, I played dumb because I couldn't let her figure it out"
I walked up behind him and put my arm on his back. He started shaking and he immediately spun round. His eyes were blood shot and tears were running down his face. He was scaring me.
"What happened Jake?"
It took him a few seconds to answer me, his lip was quivering and he closed his eyes. He took a deep breath and sighed.
"She asked me if I remembered anything at all about last night, I knew that she was hinting about our kiss but I told her I couldn't remember. Of course I was lying, I've done nothing but think about our a kiss all day and night. I can't get it out of my head. Something amazing was happening between us, it was such a beautiful moment with her lay in my arms as we looked at the stars above us. But then something terrible happened" He said.
His face looked like he was in pain, I felt so bad for him but I needed to know what he was trying to tell me.
"Just tell me what happened" I begged.
"It was me Bella. I'm the reason why she got hurt"
He walked over and sat on the edge of my bed with his head in his hands. He started moaning lightly and I could hear him crying. I stood in front of him and I didn't know how to react. Was he the reason why Mia was bleeding?
"Are you saying that Mia has a broken arm and ribs because of you? You hurt her? Why Jake?" I said as I bent down to him. I started to cry then.
He looked up at me with a sad expression. I could tell that he was hurt but I couldn't give him any sympathy, he hurt Mia.
"It was an accident Bells, I would never hurt her on purpose. I care about her so much. More than she will ever know"
"An accident? How did you accidentally make her bleed?" I asked. I was still so confused.
"But she said she saw a wolf, she said a wolf attacked her"
"Yes, it was a wolf. This shouldn't be hard for you to believe Bells, you hang around with the supernatural every day" he said.
I immediately stood up and looked at him open mouthed. I knew it, I knew that he knew who the Cullens were. I knew it the moment he called them bloodsuckers. But how?
"How... How do you know about-"
"I just do Bells, it's because of what I have turned into that I know what they are. But you need to guess, you need to know what I am" He said as he stood up.
He towered over me, he had gotten so tall. I then noticed that he cut his hair, I didn't like it. He just didn't seem like my Jacob.
"You said that you hurt Mia. Then you said that it was a wolf. Your not making any sense Jacob. Unless you are trying to say that you turned into a wolf then I-..."
He started nodding frantically and it made me stop my sentence. I looked into his eyes to try and see if he was joking or not but they were completely serious. Then it clicked.
"Oh my god... you... turned into.... a wolf?"
He didn't say anything to clarify but he didn't need to. I already knew I was right and I just couldn't believe it.
