Breaking Point

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Bella's face breaks out into a huge smile as she sees Jacob walking up towards her. In her excitement, she doesn't register the anger and frustration gracing his otherwise handsome features. She waves at him before jumping up and running into his arms. Jacob is completely caught off guard by this greeting and stands frozen as Bella hugs his chest tightly.

"I missed you so much, Jake." Bella says trying to fight back tears. His body is so warm, a distinct contrast to Edward's frozen body, and she finds her head swimming as Jacob's familiar smell of forest, morning dew and motor oil engulfs her. His beating heart is like a sweet lullaby and she wishes she could listen to it every night before she drifted off to sleep.

Jacob looks down at the small girl hugging his chest tightly as if her life depended on it. He lets out a defeated sigh as he combs a hand through his hair. Truth is he has missed Bella not as much as Leah but he's missed her. Jacob wraps an arm around Bella's shoulder and lightly pats her back.

"I missed you too, Bella." Jacob says letting out a long breath. "But,"

"Don't they just make the perfect couple?" Lance's voice cuts Jacob's off as his head shoots up to see not only Lance standing off smirking at him but Leah as well. Jacob's throat goes dry as he sees the hurt and resigned look in Leah's eyes.

"Leah," Jacob breathes out but again is interrupted.

"I'm just happy to see you've found someone to love, Jacob." Lance pushes.

"Yea, you and the Swan girl are never apart." Another wolf throws out.

"Jacob?" Bella whispers as Jacob steps away from her. Jacob doesn't hear Bella's questioning or Quil and Embry trying to get him to walk away from the situation. All he hears are the accusations being thrown at him.

"You're only interested in Leah because you believe that she should belong to you." Lance throws out.

"It's a shame you'll never be good enough for her." Another male throws out.

"Jacob?" Bella calls again as she reaches out for his arm. Bella jumps back startled as Jacob yanks his arm away from her and glares down at her. His eyes are black as coal as he fixes her with a look that can only be described as pure hatred.

"I don't love her, I don't even like her. I didn't invite her. I never wanted her!" Jacob yells out as he points at Bella as if she's beneath him. His words cut her deeply as all eyes look at her, the girl that has crashed a birthday party. Tears begin to prick at Bella's eyes as she stands looking at Jacob feeling crushed.

"Oh, now you've gone and hurt her feewings." Lance mocks in a baby voice as Jacob looks at Bella apologetically. The guilt is quickly replaced with anger as he whirls around to face Lance and his lackeys.

"Go home, Bella!" Jacob yells in frustration. He tries to tell himself that he'll apologize to her after all this has blown over but he knows that he can't risk letting her in anymore. But she only stands there as if frozen, crying like a Madonna statue.

"Gah, Jake, you're an even bigger ass than me." Lance states and he laughs.

"Shut up! Shut the fuck up!" Jacob yells, his heart pounding and his hands clenching into tight fists. A chorus of 'oohs' breaks out among the group as the wolves all gather around to watch a fight. Leah walks over to Bella and hugs her tightly trying to get the girl to snap out of her haze as getting Bella safely to Forks has become one of her concerns.

The music continues playing but the chattering and laughter has died down as all eyes turn towards the alphas and Jacob Black. Taunts are being thrown out and despite what Jacob says it only brings about more comments thrown right back at him. He wants to fight, he wants to unleash the wolf; he's so close that he can hear the beating of everyone's hearts. But he knows that he can't because of Bella, if he phases then Bella will know the secret and she'll be killed. Pale faces can't be trusted to keep their secrets.

Jacob is so angry and flustered that the world around him has started spinning. His stomach tightens, his chest starts constricting and his breathing has gone haywire. He wants to pull his hair out and cover his ears to stop the maddening words being thrown out at him. He orders them again to 'shut the fuck up' but they don't listen and because it seems to be the best he can do they call him 'baby' and 'bitch'. The taunts don't stop and are then coupled with everyone that he has known since birth laughter. They are laughing at him; laughing at his pain, his sorrow, his embarrassment, weakness and his pathetic anger.

"ENOUGH!" Leah yells as she's finally had enough. Comforting Bella was getting her nowhere and she was grateful when the twins had shown up and offered to take her home. Quil and Embry are unable to speak up, as it is an argument between alphas, which only the full-grown wolves or the alphas can intercede in. "THAT'S ENOUGH! Jake, you need to calm down."

"SHUT UP! I DON'T NEED YOU!" Leah freezes as she turns around in surprise to find Jacob glaring at her. Her head tilts to the side, her eyes narrowed, lips parted slightly as there's a 'what the hell?' look upon her face. "This is all your fault!" Jacob accuses as he narrows his eyes at Leah, there's unshed tears in his eyes. "You stupid, stuck-up fucking bitch." Leah's eyes soften as she turns around to face him completely and the look she's giving him only enrages him more. "You just had to go and be the fucking Alpha Female. You're the one that threw my love away like it was trash. You're the baby and the stupid bitch here, not me."

He's looking for a scapegoat, something to unleash his pain, anger and frustration upon, and someone else to feel as low and impotent as he does in this moment. Somewhere he knows that he doesn't mean any of these words but he's unable to stop the word vomit that is now spewing forth from his lips.

"And now you're trying to get me calm down? Why? So that you can be with Lance, is that it? You don't want me to phase because then it means actually having to show a real interest in me. THAT'S IT, ISN'T IT?" Jacob screams as he snatches Leah by the arm and shakes her.

He didn't think it was at all possible but the world is spinning even faster and he's starting to get dizzy. Leah looks up at him with a deep frown, her eyes are glistening and he knows that they are mirroring his own eyes, his own pain. He lets her go and stumbles back as he's now unable to breathe, his body is shaking, and his pulse is pounding so loudly that he can literally feel it in his neck, his hands, ears, chest and stomach. His skin feels like it's on fire; it's uncomfortably hot. The shaking in his body is getting worse as he tries to open his mouth to defend himself from the verbal assaults that are still coming and to apologize to Leah, to Bella – to everyone for being weak.

But he's unable to articulate the words, only groans, whines and whimpers are able to slip out. As if losing the ability to speak wasn't bad enough but then his eyes begin to burn and his vision becomes blurry. The tears are starting to form, pooling up in the wells of his eyes. He knows that he can't cry – not now, not when all of the wolves are surrounding him. Crying is a sign of weakness for his kind and if he ever hopes to have their respect, or what little is left, he has to fight them.

So he tries to hold them back and speak the words that so desperately want to get out. The words, however, have caused his throat to dry and swell up. He's choking on them, literally, as they come out shaky. He shuts his eyes tight to block out the spinning and dizzying vision as realization dawns on him how silly he sounds and there's more laughter. He doesn't understand how they can just stand there and laugh at him. They find his anger laughable when really all he wants to do is rip someone's head off.

"SILENCE!" Billy's voice booms and echoes throughout the rec center silencing all the noise and the music cuts off. Billy had heard some yelling and screaming but nothing that sounded like fighting but when the twins explained to him what was going on and that they were taking Bella home, he walked in to see what was going on with his son.

Billy walked in on all of the teens and young wolves standing in a huge circle with Jacob and Leah in the middle. The culprits were obvious as Lance, Daniel and a few of their specific clique members were the only ones laughing while everyone else stands frozen looking on. Jacob was shaking violently and it was his close proximity to Leah, much too close for a possibly soon-to-phase alpha.

Jacob doesn't hear his father's order that causes all of the noises to stop but the bass from Billy's voice snaps, something inside of him breaks – the sense of defeat is so overwhelming and crushing that he feels weak in the knees.

He barely registers the presence of two bodies pressing into his sides as he stares down at the floor. The shuffling of many feet walking away do not bring about the relief that he's been seeking since the incident began and he only feels nauseous as a warm, soft hand gently strokes his cheek and he closes his eyes allowing himself to fall into the darkness and humming of his own body.

A/N: Alright so here goes the next update. The next update for Wake-up Call will be put on hold because I have a book club meeting next Sunday and I'm not even quarter of the way done. It's my shame! DON'T LOOK AT ME! …I'm hideous. And then after that is my sister's bachelorette party and then the wedding stuff finally comes to ahead. I will be SO glad when this is all over.

So just some quick food for thought before I gallop off into the sunset to grab me my scoop of Grater's ice cream for $1.40 and get cracking on reading while waiting for the sneak peek preview of Walking Dead Season 2 during Breaking Bad. But what do your Mom/Dad/parent/guardian say to you a lot? I realized what my mom says a lot while chatting with chelley and that is 'I can't stand you'. Given when she says that I've said something smart or contrary to what she wants.

Example, my mom has a friend who lives in paranoia that someone is going to find her out and so she has all of her mail delivered to our house. She gives her address as a PO Box and so I might make a comment here or there about the mail forwarded to her address and that's when I get a, 'I can't stand you'.

Or, my sis's guest list has hit 288 people and when you do the math and expect most people to bring someone with them…598 people! Well I'm going to have a small wedding affair which just BLOWS my mother's mind and she can bully my sister into giving into the whims of her inviting someone she went to elementary school with and then happened to meet at a Women's Health meeting. Or invite our cousin's half-brother who has never said more than two words to us and I never knew or cared to know, I'll be honest, existed until about two years ago. So when I say, 'I'm not inviting, Mark, he's not part of my family' then she turns, stares at me long and hard, realizes that I'm not backing down and shakes her head with a 'I can't stand you/her'.

LOL.

So if your parents say something like that a lot, bring it to their attention and milk 'em for all their worth. What am I after? Simple – Mom's baked spaghetti. My sis goes for jewelry but as you can see everyone has their thing that excites them. For me it's food – good, delicious, tasty, savory and mouth-watering FOOOOODDDDDDD!

Read and review cuz reviews = loves and a vote for Jacob to phase…within…the…oh…let's say *coughs* two more chapters. \(^o^)/ WOOOHOO! ICE CREAM!