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You Promised Forever
A/N: This story was adopted from I-Have-A-Dark-Side. I will be revising some of the chapters before finishing it. We both hope that you enjoy the story! Read and Review!
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Chapter 20: My Life
(Isabella's POV)
"Are you there yet?" Jasper's voice rang out through the car. He was on the loud speaker and had been since I had left him twenty minutes ago when I had left the house. I was heading to Emily's were I was staying the night while the Pack, Jasper and the gang were out at the baseball field while Jasper continued training everyone.
"Jasper, Leah is running right beside the road that I'm on in the woods in order to protect me; I'm fine now, so please, stop worrying." I said laughing softly though I knew that there was nothing humorous about the situation. I just wanted him to take a breather and not to worry.
Leah was also coming to Emily's house with me so that there would be a wolf in the house with us, but mainly because she wanted to catch up with me.
"I'll stay on the phone with you until I know that you're there. So humor me, please baby? I just want to make sure that you're safe." I heard Peter making fun of Jasper in the background followed by a thump and then finally laughter began coming from all of them.
I can guess what had happened; Peter was most likely making fun of Jasper. Char most likely smacked him around on the head causing Trent and Chase to laugh at their friend's misfortune. I'm good.
Emily and Sam's house came into view and I smiled, remembering the many happy memories that were formed inside those four walls of the house. But there was one that was not so happy memory; the one that shattered my heart and made me run away. We won't think of that one.
"I'm here," I answered while watching Leah run off into the woods no doubt phasing back and making herself presentable, and by that I mean not naked.
Jasper sighed, "Ok, I'll see you soon darlin'."
"Yeah, see you soon." I said sadly. We haven't been apart from each other in a while and the thought was strange and slightly unnerving, but I knew that it was necessary.
"I love you sugar, so don't go doing anything to wild." He said with a hint of humor in his voice, though he was very serious in many ways.
I gasped in mock horror. "Me? Doing something wild? Nope! You're thinking of a different girl!"
"Uh-huh. Whatever you say, darlin,'" I could hear the smile in his voice and I could picture his expression in my mind. A sexy smirk was spreading across his lips while his eyes smoldered me with his gaze. Yummy!
"I love you! I'll see you soon." I said before hanging up with a smile.
I grabbed my stuff from the seat next to me and was about to open the door when it was yanked open before I could even touch it. Kim stood there bouncing up and down like she was a Mexican jumping bean.
"BELLA!" she screeched causing me to go temporally deaf.
I smiled and let her practically drag me out the car and into her arms. "Oh Bella, I've missed you so fucking much! I couldn't even describe it if I tried!" She dragged out the 'O' for effect.
"I've missed you too Kim, all of you!" I whispered my throat suddenly thick with emotion.
"Jesus, let her breath, Kim." Leah barked out a laugh as she saw me going a funny shade of purple in Kim's iron grip.
Thankfully, Kim let me go and smiled showing my teeth and all. "Come on, Emily's inside." Kim said dragging me by the hand while Leah picked up all my stuff from the floor where I had dropped my bag upon Kim's attack.
I stepped through the door and was flooded with the familiar scent of baking. I smiled instantly noticing that nothing seemed to have changed. The same pictures still lined the all of the walls; even the ones with me in them. The furniture even seemed to all be in the same place.
"Bella?" A soft motherly voice sang out.
A smiled spread my lips. "Emily," I sighed wrapping my arms around her.
She looked the same like everything else. She even had on the same apron on that I remembered her having all of those years ago. It was as if I hadn't left at all, that I hadn't been gone for a couple of years.
"It's good to have you back, Bella! We've missed you." Emily said softly.
"Yep, it sure is! I know that we'll be catching up later, but for now I smell food and I'm starving!" Leah said with her nose twitching as she sniffed out the source.
Emily and I laughed together before Emily and Leah headed off into the kitchen. It was strange seeing them get along; Leah always was so bitchy before around her and now it was as if a flip had been switched. I suppose her imprinting meant that she now has her soul mate and she can finally let go of Sam.
Mental note to self, remember to ask about Leah's imprint.
I headed into the lounge where Kim was flicking through DVD's. She spotted me and smiled. "Hey, I was just seeing what movies that we should watch tonight."
"Sounds good," I replied while making my way over to the back door. I loved the garden here. It was always filled with flowers and exotic looking plants. Of course it was pitch black so I could see nothing.
Something had caught my eye; someone sitting on the back porch all alone. "Who's sitting outside?"
Kim stiffened and began to fumble around with the DVD's. "What about this one?" she asked holding up 'The Proposal'.
"Kim?" I pressed sternly.
She sighed, "Vanessa, her name is Vanessa."
"Ok," I shrugged not quite understanding her reaction to the girl outside. "Who is she?" I pressed further.
Kim stayed silent for a while before slowly turning to face me. "Vanessa is Jacob's imprint." She finally confessed.
Oh, that was why she reacted like the way that she did.
"Oh," I sighed not quite knowing what else to say.
"Jacob insisted that she be here. You know, so she's safe with Leah being here and all." She looked panicked and scared and I couldn't help but laugh at her expression; a deer caught in the headlights came to mind.
"Kim, it's ok." I reassured her. "I might go and say hello."
I don't know why, but I felt the need to go and meet the girl who owned Jacob's heart. She is, after all, the girl who now has my old life.
I slowly opened the backdoor and went to sit beside her. I didn't say anything. I just sat next to her not knowing what to say though I knew that I should say something.
But I didn't have to because she spoke first. "He fought it at first. He said that his wolf craved graved me but the man in him loved you. It has taken him a long time for the man in him to love me like his wolf does." She paused, never once looking at me, but was clearly talking to me and knew who I was. "I see it though sometimes; he goes all silent and I know that he's thinking of you." My heart was beating erratically; this stranger's words were affecting me so much.
She tilted her head and looked at me for the first time with her near black eyes meeting mine. "They all do it from time to time; I see the sadness in their eyes as they glance at a photo with you in it. They've never took any of them down, they've never let you go."
"I've never let them go either." I whispered.
We stared at one another for a while, both silent and sad.
"I'm sorry for taking him away from you." She whispered after a while.
"Don't be, you're meant to be together. He loves you and always will with all of his heart. Please don't be sorry about that." I pleaded with conviction.
She sighed as a single tear trickled down her cheek. "He's forced to love me; you have his heart because he wanted you to have it. He chose to love you."
I shook my head. "I don't believe that. Do you want to know what I think imprinting is?"
Her brows furrowed but she nodded anyway.
"I think that imprinting doesn't force you to love someone, but speeds up the process of something that would eventually happen naturally. I think that an imprint just makes the bond between two people stronger, but even without it the two of you would be together." I let my hand rest on her arm. "I think that even without the imprint you would have found each other. You're perfect for one another! That is precisely what imprinting means!"
She stared at me in awe, her jaw slack and her eyes wide. I smiled softly trying to try to coax her into talking. After a while she shook her head softly from side to side, her expression unreadable.
"I see now why they all love you, why they all missed you as much as they did." She whispered. "You're kind to everyone, even those who have hurt you and those who don't deserve your forgiveness or kind words of advice." Her eyes lowered as her hand began to rest on my own hand, "or your support and comfort."
"You make me sound like some kind of Saint. I'm far from it Vanessa. I'm kind because what's the point of being mean? I forgive because in time you always forget the reason that you fought to begin with but people leave it too long to make amends. I offer support and comfort because I know what's it's like not have it and no one should feel that way." I replied trying to keep my emotions in check though I did a pretty lousy job of it because tears began to trickle down my cheeks.
I heard her sniffling and I looked to see more tears as they left streaks down her own cheeks. "Sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry." I whispered sadly and guiltily.
She laughed softly, "You haven't... Ok, well you have, but they're not sad tears. They're just..." she trailed off.
"They're just tears." I finished for her knowing exactly what she meant.
She nodded while smiling at me, "Yeah, exactly."
In that moment I knew that I liked her and that she was perfect for Jake. I knew that if the future continued in our favor that maybe we could be friends.
"Let's go inside. I think that Kim's planning a movie marathon." I said standing up and smoothing my clothes down. I offered her my hand and she took it, lifting herself up from the step.
At her full height she was a little taller than me with long raven black hair that stopped half way down her back that was almost exactly like mine but straight instead of thick curls. She had soft feminine features and a golden complexion. She was truly beautiful.
"Come on then, I think I can smell Emily's muffins." Vanessa said with a smile on her lips.
I laughed, "Her blueberry muffins are legendary."
"You can say that again!" We both looked at each other and smiled.
"Thank you," she whispered as we got to the back door.
"What for?" I asked, my brows furrowed with confusion.
She shrugged. "Just, thank you."
I smiled and squeezed her hand before we stepped into the living room. We both divided towards the pate of blueberry muffins at the same time, laughing as we did so.
._.-;'~0~';-._.
I threw a pillow at Kim who wasn't quick enough to dodge it.
"That's not fair!" She said while clutching her stomach and doubling over in laughter.
"Oh, come on! I remember it as clear as day! You ran into that guy and then afterwards helped him pick up his stuff that fell out his bag! Oh God..." she trailed off laughing hysterically with tears streaming down her cheeks.
"When you picked up that box of condoms you turned the brightest shade of red I've ever seen. You out did yourself that day, Swan." Leah finished the story for Kim while everyone was laughing and clutching their stomachs and reached for the nearest tissues.
"Ha-ha, ok, very funny guys. Can we stop now?" I sulked while still smiling.
"Not a chance, Swan!" Leah retorted while smiling fondly at me before her expression changed. Into what, I can't quite say.
"You've changed; I have a feeling that you're not so easily embarrassed or as shy as you used to be." Leah noted as if she had been observing me like I was some experiment.
I took a sip of my drink and reached for a piece of chocolate that was sitting between me and Vanessa. "I've changed in a lot of ways, but you're right, I'm not as shy or easily embarrassed as I used to be anymore." I shrugged. I'm used to the new me, though I suppose that they're not.
We lapsed into silence as everyone seemed to be thinking. The newest episode of Vampire Diaries was playing in the background. It's ironic as everyone in this room - apart from me - was linked to a wolf, or in Leah's case an actual wolf.
"Where have you been Bella? What have you been doing since you left?" Emily asked as motherly worry began slipping into her tone.
I decided there and then that I would tell them - maybe not everything, but most things apart from the bad. The depression, the harming; they didn't need to know all of that. So I told them about New York, Pins and Sasha, who I'd realized that I left them in the dark with no word from me in days.
I suppose that when your old life surrounds you, you tend to forget about the new life and the people that worry. You just get surrounded by memories and the people from your past. But being here isn't my past, it's still very much my future- the girls, the Pack- I don't have to forget them and leave without a word again. My new life and my old life can become my life. There's nothing new or old about it. It is just mine; my life to live with those I love.
._.-;'~0~';-._.
I awoke to a muted voice and plenty of shuffling sounds. Unaware that I had actually fallen asleep, I shifted and screwed my eyes up before opening them slowly. The room was filled with the Pack all standing smiling. And then there was Jasper.
"Jasper?" I whispered. His reply was to smile softly as his red eyes started swimming in affection.
A blanket was thrown over me and someone else. Her raven black hair seemed to mingle with my mahogany mane and I realized that Vanessa and I had fallen asleep leaning against each other. I smiled as I looked at her. In her sleep she looked even more beautiful and innocent, a quality that I no longer possessed.
A low chocked cough made me look at Jacob who was staring intently at me and his imprint. We were wrapped in the same blanket leaning against each other. He smiled while tears pooled in his eyes. The Pack was also looking at the both of us with smiles tugging at their lips.
"She's perfect, Jake, really."
"Thank you, Bell's." He grinned thankfully.
I smiled before craning my head to search for Jasper, still not quite believing that he was here in La Push.
He seemed to realize that I was confused. "Sam said that it would be ok to come and get you as long as I don't kill anyone." He smiled ruefully.
I nodded and untangled myself from the blanket trying not to disturb Vanessa. We had a night filled with laughter, food and movies along with gossip and girly talk. We were all exhausted and we must have fallen asleep one by one.
"Let's get you home." Jasper said while wrapping an arm round my waist to steady me. In my exhausted state I couldn't work my legs as I began reminding myself of the old Bella who couldn't really control her legs even when she was fully awake.
"Night guys," I said threw a yawn.
That got gruff laughs before whispered goodbyes and promises to see me soon. Jasper carried me the whole way home, bridal style running through the woods. I talked groggily telling him about the night, about Leah and her imprint, about how I felt towards Vanessa and I even tried telling him what was going on in the latest Vampire Diaries episode. He laughed and looked down at me in his arms fondly.
I was drifting off and vaguely realized I was in a bed, with Jasper stripping me down to my underwear and tucking me under the covers when a question popped into my mind.
"Did you call the Cullen's?" I asked, my voice low and sleepy.
For a while there was no reply and I slowly started to drift off again. But as I felt sleep pulling me under I head the unmistakable sound of his voice.
"Yes, they'll be here by tomorrow morning."
I fell asleep with the darkness taking me, but the words floated through my mind as clear as day. They'd be here, all of them no doubt... but can I face them?
A/N: Okay, this was once again a filler. I wanted Bella to meet Jake's imprint, even though it was only briefly. What do you think will happen with the Cullen's when they come to town. What will happen between Bella and Edward and Jasper and Alice?
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Choice E.Bella remains human, but discovers that she can manifest her gift as a human and help her family that way.
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Summaries:
Unimaginable Outcomes: Natalie Swan and her sister Bella move to Forks to live with their dad, Charlie. After starting school, they meet the infamous Cullen family where Natalie finds out that she's the human mate of the God of War & will learn about love, loss, sacrifice, & adventure as she takes a nose dive in to the supernatural world of mythical creatures. A Twilight Story Jasper/Natalie Bella/Edward
Unbreakable Faith: After the Cullen's left town, Bella's cousin, Faith, comes to live with her & Charlie. All the women on Faith's mother's side have the gift of foresite, meaning that she knows about the supernatural. But that's not all. When she was born the spirit of an important member of the vampire world had entered her mind but this only the beginning of Faith's journey! Jas/Faith Bella/Ed
Once Bitten: Adopted from Wolf of Skadi: Liberty was found in a frail state by the Cullens while they're hunting. After taking her home & helping her heal they discover that she is a Dhampir & the daughter of Aro Volturi who's not the fair ruler that they had thought him to be. She's an assassin & now on the run for refusing an order. How will her new mate & family manage to save her? Jasper/OC
Never as it Seems: What Jasper Whitlock remembers from his time in the Southern Wars isn't what happened at all. After unknowingly leaving his mate, Marie, to the hands of her power hungry sisters, he continues on with his immortal life. After 90 yrs with no word about what happened to her Major, Marie is rescued & reunited with him only to find that what he remembers of her is nothing but brutality.
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