"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

-Joe Klass.

A few weeks had past since my birthday. It took almost two weeks for Leah to act civilized towards Gabriel and I. She was slowly starting to come around. She didn't like being at my house when Sam and Emily were there but whenever those two were away, we'd hang out in my room and I'd introduce her to some of my favorite T.V shows. Leah would never admit it but I think I was growing on her.

Anyway, Jacob's other best friend also phased into a werewolf and joined the pack; His name was Quil Ateara and he was a wonderful addition to our little pack of crazy misfits. I liked him; he had so many embarrassing stories about Jacob to tell me and was insanely funny. Oh, he also imprinted. It was weird on the imprinting worked especially when the imprintee was so young but, like Jacob stated earlier. Males would be anything for their imprintee…whether it was a friend, a brother, or a lover.

Things had been peaceful these last few weeks until Edward took Bella to Florida earlier in the week. Last night Victoria was in our territory. She had been in Cullen's territory but jumped the border and when one of the Cullen's…Emmett, I believe, tried crossing…Paul foolishly tackled him instead of the red-headed leech. Let's just say…things were awfully tense now. Jacob was waiting for Bella to come back to tell her the news knowing Edward wouldn't have told her of Victoria being in the area again. What the red-headed leech wanted and was doing here was any of our guesses. We just had to be alert and cautious now.

"We're doing, what?" I questioned with an eyebrow cocked.

My handsome boyfriend was pacing in my room looking conflicted and angry, "Bella isn't answering my calls. I know she isn't answering yours and I bet it has something to do with that leech of hers. He won't have her anywhere near us, Serena." Jacob looked up at me with a determined gaze and I could see how angry he was over this leech dictating Bella's social life now.

I sat down in my wicker chair, "So, that requires ditching school?" I mused quietly.

Jacob nodded, "I just want to talk to Bella. I know that leech isn't telling her what happened the other night."

I sighed dramatically and got up going to change out of my shirt, "Well, I suppose it is time to meet Edward Cullen. I have a bone to pick with him anyway." I threw Jacob a sassy grin. He rolled his eyes but I didn't miss the way they lingered on my naked back. I blushed softly and dug around for a tight fitting, black v-neck. Ever since that night in his room…Jacob and I haven't exactly had a moment alone. Things were a bit hectic with school, training, border patrols, vampire problems, and Sam being dead-set on making sure I remain a virgin until I was eighty.

It was a bit daunting but I was glad Jacob was being patient, just like I was, and being content with what little time we did have together. It was nice. He did take me out on occasional dates to the little café I adored. We also cuddled in the living room and watched movies with the rest of the pack whenever we had a free night. I think it gave Sam a piece of mind too.

"I don't want you near him…but knowing what you can do…I think I'd like to see you kick his ass. God knows I can't without breaking the treaty." Jacob snorted with a dark smirk.

I laughed softly as I tugged on the black, thin shirt, "I think everyone is going to get a kick out if once you phase for your next patrol." I pulled on some light denim skinny jeans.

Jacob was, obviously, watching me change without any shame, "Why are you changing again? What was wrong with what you were wearing before?" His voice was full of confusion and amusement.

I threw his a saucy grin, "If my boyfriend is going dressed in all black then so am I." I shrugged throwing on some black knee-high black boots. I put on a sleeveless black army jacket and I was set. Jacob got up with an intense gleam in his eyes while his arm was automatically curling around my waist and pulling me into him.

"I think you look drop, dead gorgeous." Jacob whispered before playfully brushing his lips against mine.

I smiled softly at him, "You look drop, dead handsome. There is no way Bella won't be able to see us." I chirped happily pressing my lips eagerly on his. Jacob made an impatient sound at the back of his throat before gripping the back of my head and deepening our kiss.

All too soon, before we could go any further. Sam was yelling for us to stop kissing and to get our butts out of the house. Jacob sighed with annoyance but I was smiling goofily at my boyfriend. Jacob's face softened instantly as he caressed the side of my face, "I'm demanding a day off. I don't give a damn what Sam says. I need a day to spend with my girl." He murmurs and for a moment it looked like he wanted to say something else but didn't.

I felt a flurry of butterflies in my stomach as I blushed lightly, "Maybe if I bug him enough, he'll give you a day off." I whispered quietly as I grabbed my bag and we walked out of my room, hand in hand. I could hear Emily scolding the boys for eating most of the food and not leaving anything for Jacob and I. Sam was barking out patrol times for each of them. The boys were complaining and whining, like always, expect for Seth and Gabriel. Seth, for some odd reason, loved running patrols. Gabriel didn't mind. Despite the Kitsune not being werewolf…he was a full-fledge member of this pack. No one cared that Gabriel wasn't wolf. Everyone liked Gabriel. Even Jacob had grown to like him.

"Aw," I pouted when we rounded the corner, "You guys are such jerks." I put on a sad expression on my face as I rubbed my stomach with my free hand, "I skipped out on dinner last night…and now, breakfast too?" I sighed trying my best not to smirk when their happy expressions turned guilty.

"Shit," Paul muttered looking around the table and grabbing a half-eaten muffin from Embry's plate, "Here! You like banana muffins, right?" Paul grinned.

Embry frowned at Paul and smacked his head, "Idiot, that's not a proper breakfast for my best friend!"

"Maybe if she wasn't making out with Jacob, she would've had some food!" Jared slyly threw a smirk in our direction. They all knew, very well, that Jacob and I had not been making out.

Jacob growled in warning, "Don't make me kick your ass before school has started, mutt."

Jared threw his hands up in surrender, "Chill, I was joking. Besides, you two are ditching anyway. Go take her out to eat or something." Jared suggested snatching the half-eaten muffin out of Paul's hand and stuffing it into his mouth.

Paul gave him a disgusted look but didn't comment. "Ditching school, huh?" Emily looked at Jacob then at me, "Should we be worried?" Emily questioned with a smile on her lips as she looked up at my older brother.

My brother snorted waving it off, "Serena's passing all of her classes with straight A's and Jacob doesn't give a shit. He might have the same grades as Serena but the mutt could care less about school." Sam shrugged not being bothered by Jacob's lack of presence at school.

"How come you force us to go to school?" Paul demanded with a frown.

Embry snickered, "Because we have average scores in school. We're complete idiots compared to Jacob and Serena."

Jared nodded along, "Yeah, even if our four brains combined, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't make up a forth of their smartness."

"Four?" Quil furrowed his eyebrows.

"Seth's fucking smart too." Paul shot a dirty look at the youngest wolf, who was grinning like an idiot.

I giggled poking his cheek, "You keep smiling like that, Seth, and you're going to spilt your face." Seth growled playfully at me and tried to bite my hand. I stuck my tongue at him, "Geez, you're still hungry?" I teased as Jacob began to lead us out of the kitchen.

"We're going out to eat," Jacob lied smoothly, "We'll be back in a few hours."

Sam gave Jacob a glare, "Since you're ditching I expect you'll be able to do your patrol early. Be here within three hours." Sam ordered.

Jacob didn't seem bothered at all by this, or so he led on, but shrugged, "Sure, it gives me the rest of the afternoon to spend with Serena." Jacob smirked at my older brother who scowled back in response.

"Serena, darling?" Emily's soft voice spoke up.

I blinked and looked towards the older woman, "Yeah, Em?"

"When you two come back, do you think you can do some chores for me? I have to step out to go get groceries'." God, how can I ever say no to Emily? She was like the older sister I never had. She reminded me a lot of Lily and my mother. I was glad Sam had her. He wasn't as strict when Emily was around, she kept my brother grounded.

I beamed a smile, "Sure, anything for you!" I chirped as Jacob and I began to make our way towards our bikes.

"Serena, don't forget we have training with Leah around six!" Gabriel hollered as the boys began to gather their things for school.

"Wait, why so late?" I questioned as I swung my leg over on Raven and settled myself comfortably in the leather seat.

"Late lecture." Gabriel answered vaguely before going to his room, which used to be an office but Sam fixed it up for Gabriel a while back.

I nodded before putting on my helmet and nodding towards Jacob. Jacob and I sped off towards Forks High School to cause some drama. I grinned darkly to myself. Oh, Edward…you better prepare for the take down of the century.

_break_

"Ew," I scrunched up my nose as we parked along side the stairs leading up to Bella's school, "Reeks of desperation, depression, and anxiety," I muttered to Jacob as I took off my helmet and grinned, "Smells like home." I joked making my boyfriend laugh.

I settled my helmet on my seat before leaning against Raven watching the students look curiously at us while they passed by. The girls were ogling my boyfriend while the boys ogled me. It was charming and amusing in a way, to me anyway. Jacob didn't look too happy about the males staring at me like I was a piece of meat.

"I didn't know our school smelled like that." Jacob glanced at me reaching out to tuck a stray hair behind my ear.

I smiled affectionately at him, "Not our school," I whispered pecking his lips lightly, "My school in Vegas."

"I'm pretty sure this sleepy, small town high school is nothing compared to a Las Vegas High School." Jacob snorted.

I smirked, "You are absolutely right. You know, in my first year in high school, our school quarterback was attacked by a rival high school's football team," I remembered that day quite clearly, "They tried throwing him over the second level railing."

Jacob looked at me with shock, "Are you serious?" Jacob asked with bewilderment, "They would go so far? They could've killed him!"

I shrugged, "It just goes to show what kind of town Las Vegas really is." I whispered quietly. I would know. I've seen the ugliest part of the city, more so then I would like to admit, but I knew there were also positives to the city of sin.

Jacob looked like he wanted to say something but something caught his eye. His expression darkened considerably and his posture stiffened. I blinked then followed his eyesight and saw Bella getting out of a shiny Volvo. The man, who was getting out of the same car, had to be the infamous jackass named Edward. My eyes remained neutral as I ran over his appearance. He wasn't as well built as the one who crossed the border the night. This vampire was lightly built, a bit scrawny, bronze hair, and honey-colored eyes. He was a bit taller then Jacob, as well. He had slightly high cheekbones, and an angled jaw-line.

I could see the attraction, I would be honest, Edward looked like a decent-looking guy, and had I not known about vampires then yeah, I would've thought he was even handsome but, sadly, that was not the case. All I thought was ruining that pretty, little face of his and see how long his face could go under pressure until I heard the sound of diamonds crying.

I smirked darkly at the thought then wiped the smirk clean off of my face as his eyes went from Jacob onto me. How I was going to kick this vampire's ass was beyond me, I mean, we were at high school, like, right smack in the front of the school with teenagers watching warily and phones at the ready. I gave a small, inner eye roll. I wanted to smash that face but not here. I wanted to pout. I was really looking forward to tearing Edward a new face.

"Hey," Bella said looking happy to see us; unlike her leech, "What are you guys doing here?"

Jacob kept a brooding expression on his face, I guess, he was still mad at her. I, on the other hand, moved to give Bella hug. I saw Edward stiffen visibly and his jaw clenched. "How was your trip? How was your mother?" I asked with a sincere voice.

It seemed to have relaxed Bella from the tension between our boyfriends, "It was great. She's doing great, by the way, she said she really wants to meet you." Bella informed with a small, happy smile before glancing between Jacob and Edward, "Um, so, what are you two doing here?" Bella asked again.

"Just checking to see if you're still human," Jacob's harsh tone made Bella's smile drop and then Jacob turned to Edward before I could chew his ass out for saying such a thing to Bells, "I'm coming here to warn you," Tension hung tightly in the air and I positioned myself in between the two glaring males, just in case, but I was still close to Bells if things got ugly and I needed to push her away into safety, "If your king come on our land again…" Jacob allowed the threat to hang in the air.

Bella looked between Jacob and Edward before settling on Jacob, "Wait, what?"

Ah, so Jacob had been right. "You didn't tell her?" I scoffed finally gracing Edward with a deadly glare.

Edward's jaw clenched, to the point, where I thought his jaw bone would shatter from such pressure, "Leave it alone." Edward growled under his breath but it was directed at Jacob. Edward wasn't even sparring me a glance and it was pissing me off. I clenched my jaw and felt the tension darken.

"Tell me what?" Bella demanded a bit angrily.

"Emmett and Paul had a misunderstanding," Edward finally relented but his eyes were glaringly on Jacob, who was smirking, "There is nothing to worry about." He tried to assure. Jacob gave a bitter laugh while I hissed in anger. Was he seriously trying to keep in her the dark? After everything he did to Bells, he was going to pull this shit with her?

"Listen to you," Jacob leaned off of his motorcycle with venom in his voice, "Did you lie to get her out of town, too?"

Edward stepped up but took a step back when I took a step in between the two males with a lethal expression on my face, "I wouldn't do that, leech." I whispered with fierce venom.

Edward's honey-colored eyes met my blue-colored ones, "You should leave," His voice full of threat and Jacob gave off a low snarl as he pushed himself to my side, "Now." Edward spat while Bella watched the scene with mixed emotions. As if, she didn't know how to handle this situation.

"She has a right to know." I murmured reframing from slamming Edward into the ground and kicking his ass.

Jacob gave a slight, sharp nod, "She is the one the red-head wants."

Bella looked at Jacob shocked by this, "Victoria?" Then something in her head must've clicked because she was glaring at Edward with accusation, "Alice's vision." She murmured.

Edward sighed, caught, and nodded, "I was trying to protect you."

"By lying to me."

"By lying to her."

Bella and I both said in unison. Despite the intense situation, we smirked at each other for a second before turning our attention onto Edward, who was staring at me. It was, as if, he wanted to say something but reframed from doing so. Jacob, seeing this, gently grabbed my hand and tugged me behind him. I went without complaint and lazily glanced around to see students watching our interaction with open curiosity.

"Got nothing better to do?" I decided to snap at the high school students on the stairs, they all jumped startled, "Fuck off." I hissed pushing my dark aura towards them. They all paled and scattered off without a second thought. I smirked and turned back to our little group.

Bella was glaring at Jacob, "Why haven't you called me back?"

I blinked, "What?"

Jacob shifted on his feet, "I had nothing to say."

"Wait, Jacob said that you weren't answering his calls." I glared at Jacob feeling hurt and confused by his lie.

Bella looked confused and shook her head, "No, I've been trying to get in contact with him for weeks," She glared at Jacob, "Why would you lie to Serena for?"

Jacob sighed but Bella shook her head stopping him, "Well, I have tons of things to say," She glanced at Edward before telling us, "Hold on." She grabbed Edward by the hand and dragged him off a few feet to speak in private. I turned to Jacob with an open frown.

"Jacob."

"I'm sorry for lying," Jacob sighed turning his body so it was facing mine, "I just didn't want you to worry. I know you know I'm mad at her…I just didn't want to make you feel bad, you know?" Jacob rubbed the back of his head nervously. I had to resist the urge to smirk. He'd so boldly face off with a vampire but got scared at the sight of an angry girlfriend. Honestly, it was insanely amusing.

But I understood why he did it. He knew Bella and I were close. I got up on tippy toes and gave his cheek a gentle peck, "Its okay. I forgive you." I whispered gently.

Jacob smiled and once again, this weird look was in his eye, like he really wanted to say something but didn't. The emotion vanished as Bella and Edward joined us again. Jacob was grinning now, in victory, and I knew Edward must've given into the force that was Bella Swan. "Lose the grin, Jacob." Bella rolled her eyes.

Jacob shrugged innocently, "We're just going for a ride, right?" Jacob looked at me for confirmation.

"Actually," Edward spoke up with a smirk of his own, "Bella and I made a deal."

Bella shifted turning slightly pale and Jacob looked at her, "What deal?" Jacob questioned with a cautious tone.

Bella bit her lip and glanced at me, "Um, I can only go with Jacob if…if Serena stays with Edward…you know…mate for a mate…" Bella mumbled lowly shielding herself from Jacob's now furious glare.

"What?" Jacob growled through clenched teeth.

Edward smirked, "It's only fair, right? You ride off with my girlfriend and I take your girlfriend to go get something to eat, I mean, I can hear her stomach dying." Edward mocked softly.

I stared down at my stomach, "Was it that obvious?" I whispered with a frown.

"Jacob…" Bella trailed off.

Jacob looked at me, "Serena, what do you think?" I looked up at my boyfriend with mild surprise. From the corner of my eye, I saw Bella and Edward looking at Jacob with equal surprise. He was asking me? I tried not to blush and I felt my stomach do flip flops.

"I guess it is fair," I shrugged before adding with a wicked grin and looked at Edward dead on, "Besides, I have a bone to pick with you."

And in that moment, I saw a flicker of fear flash through his honey-colored eyes. It was brief and faint but I saw it and it made me grin savagely at the vampire.

"You're paying, by the way." I added with a beaming smile.

Oh, this was going to be an interesting day.