"OH MY GOD!" Jacob yelled, he ran after the house that was on fire, his house. We all stood in front of the flaming house. Jacob kept shaking his head. He ran towards the house, I ran after him trying to stop him.
"Jake, no!" I screamed for him; he kept going, fast. Quil grabbed me and held me to the ground. Paul went in after Jacob. The firefighters tried to stop them, but they couldn't. A few seconds later Paul was slowly dragging out Jacob's body."
"NOOO!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. I started bawling my eyes out.
"He's still breathing." Paul said. I fell to his body. He was bleeding, burned, and scratched. Paul didn't look nearly as bad. We took him over to the hospital where Carlisle works. We called him and he was there before we got there, waiting for us. After he examined Jacob he called us into the room.
"He's in a coma." he said. I was still crying. "His left leg's broken, and his right leg is sprained., he has 2nd and 3rd degree burn all over, and a few stitches on his head." I sobbed in Quil's chest.
"Shh, shh. It's going to be okay." he said comforting me. I wiped the tears from my face and sat by his bed.
"I hate to say this, but visiting hours are over." Carlisle said.
"Can't I spend the night here with him?"
"Of course." Carlisle told me.
"Whatever you need, just call me." Quil said.
"Okay." I said nodding. I gave him one last hug and then everyone left. I sat there in my chair, next to his bed, watching him, praying for him to come out of this coma and soon. I couldn't stand to see him like this. I laid back in my chair and never took my eyes off him. It looked like I saw him twitch, but it must have been my mind playing tricks on me. I closed my eyes and dozed off.
I staid there for weeks waiting for him to wake up.
When I woke up the next morning, I woke up to one of my worst nightmares; Jacob laying there in a hospital bed, in a coma helpless.
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in." I said.
"Hey, how are you?" Whitney asked walking in with a thing of ice cream, she put pickles inside of it.
"Worried."
"Aw, it's gonna be okay. He's gonna be okay."
"I hope so."
"Is there an air freshener in here?"
"No, don't think so, why?"
"You don't smell that?"
"No..what does it smell like?"
"Wet dog, but like 20x worse!" uh-oh, it's starting.
"We need to talk." I said to her.
"About?"
"Well, two things actually."
"And they are…?"
"Well, im not sure this is the right environment to discuss it."
"Just say it quietly."
"Fine. First, there's no easy way to say this, but your turning."
"Turning?"
"Into a….vampire." she starred at me with wide eyes of fear.
"What?" she chuckled thinking I was joking.
"You are. Haven't you noticed, your turning paler everyday?"
"No, I've always been pale."
"Okay, but what about the smell?"
"Smell?"
"You smell wet dog, that's because Jacob's a werewolf. You two are mortal enemies, you stink to each other."
"What do I smell like to him?"
"Well, it's hard to explain, because there's not really a smell. Whenever they smell a vampire, it's like breathing in ice cold fire. It burns and feels like dry ice, but sometimes it smells like…a corpse, honestly."
"But, how?"
"Have you noticed any spiders in your room or house lately?"
"Yeah."
"They're not spiders."
"They sure as hell look like it."
"They are spies, turned in to spiders, sent from the volturi. I first saw one in my room, I had Jacob take it outside and I guess since they couldn't get me, they went to you."
"Why would they go to you?"
"Because they know I'm a threat to them."
"So what's number two?"
"Well…" I smiled at her. "You pregnant!"
"What?"
"Yeah! Look down." she looked down at her tub. "Pickles and ice cream?" she set the tub down on the table, disgusted.
"Okay, how the hell do you know this now?" I put my hands on her stomach, I could feel the baby. With my mind she felt what I felt.
"No way!"
"But wait, if Im a vamp, how can I be pregnant?"
"You're not a full vamp yet. And you were pregnant, before you were bitten."
"Oh, my god."
"Your gonna be a mommy!" she smiled and gave me a hug.
"Paul?"
"You have to tell him."
"How do you think he's gonna react though?"
"No clue."
"I think he'll be happy, with half of it."
"Maybe you should let me be close when you tell him about the vampire part."
"Yeah."
"Have you been to the house?"
"Yeah. The damage isn't that bad. We're all gonna work together to fix it; even the Cullens."
"How'd you get the Cullens wrapped into this?"
"…They wanted to help." she said carefully. I just nodded, and looked back at Jacob.
"Tomorrow, I'm gonna take you out." she said.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you deserve a day without worrying. we'll go to the spa, the mall, a fancy restaurant, all my treat. And then if you want you can sleep at my house or I can bring you back here."
"I don't know…"
"Why not? You deserve it."
"Okay, but I can't let you buy everything."
"Yes you can, I want to do this."
"Not everything!"
"Why?"
"Because."
"Fine." she said, but I had a feeling it was just to get me to shut up. "What do you want for lunch?"
"I don't want to eat."
"Syd, you need to eat!"
"Why?"
"So you don't die. It wouldn't be good it when Jacob comes out of his coma, your not here anymore!" I starred at her.
"I can't believe you just said that!"
"What?" she said with a smile.
"Fine, Chipotle."
"Ur usual?"
"Yes." I reached in my purse and gave her a ten dollar bill.
"What's this?"
"For my food."
"No." she said and put the money back in my purse.
"I'll be back in a half 'n hour?"
"Okay." she gave me a hug and left.
I sat in the room never looking away from Jacob for that whole half 'n hour.
"I'm back." Whitney said after she knocked on the door twice then walked in.
"Hey."
"I even went to Starbucks, just for you." she said with a smile.
"Thank you."
"Don't worry about it." she handed me my stuff and we turned on the T.V then ate.
"How's your food?" she asked me.
"Good, yours?"
"Good." when we were done, we sat and talked some more. After a few hours she had to go home to watch her brother; and it was just me and Jacob. I walked over to his bed and combed his hair with my fingers, softly; Carlisle walked in.
"Hi." I said.
"Hi."
"Is he doing any better?"
"Well, all of his numbers are excellent, he is definitely going to come out of his coma, soon."
"Wait, what do you mean he's gonna come out."
"Well there's always a chance that someone might not come out of the coma and die." he saw the panicked look on my face, "but he will survive, I guarantee it." he said quickly reassuring me.
"What are the side effects for when he comes out of his coma?"
"Memory loss, personality change, oh and he will be reset."
"Reset?"
"He wont be able to change into a wolf, until he gets extremely mad again."
"Why?"
"I haven't done much research, but it is very common in our situation."
"Okay, and there's no way to tell when he'll come out of it?"
"Well, I can give you a prediction."
"Please."
"Within the next 10-20 days."
"That long?"
"That's quick for comas."
"Oh."
"Don't worry, I think it'll be nice if you got out of this room though. It's not healthy to stay here 24/7."
"Actually, Whitney is kidnapping me tomorrow and she is treating me to a whole day of pampering."
"That's good. Are you okay for a visitor?"
"Sure." he left and someone else walked in. "Bella?"
"Hey, cuz."
"What are you doing here?"
"Carlisle told us how Jake got hurt and I wanted to see him, and to see how you were doing."
"Oh, well, he's doing great actually, he should be coming out of his coma in the next 10-20 days."
"Awesome, so how are you?"
"Worried."
"But you know he's gonna be fine."
"Yeah, but there's a 98% chance that he will have memory loss."
"Oh."
"Yeah, I can't believe it. I hope he still remembers me."
"How could he not?"
"I don't know, he wont be a wolf anymore."
"How?"
"He'll have to go through the process again, because he wont remember it."
"Oh. I wonder what else he wont remember."
"Yeah." It's sort of depressing knowing that he most likely wont remember me. He won't remember anything that we've been through, our first time together, his proposal, everything.
"Well, I have to go. I'm helping build your house."
"You? The uncoordinated of the uncoordinated?"
"Yeah." she laughed.
"Thank you."
"Don't worry about it." I gave her a hug and she left.
"Now here comes the hard part." I said to myself. I took out my phone and dialed a phone number.
"Hello?"
"Leah?"
"Sydney?"
"Yeah."
"Hey."
"Hi."
"Whats up?"
"I have something to ask you, I need a favor."
"Sure, anything."
"Could you watch Alexie for me?"
"Yeah."
"Just for tomorrow during the day, I'll pick her up at 10."
"Okay, is she at Whitney's house?"
"Yeah."
"Okay."
"Thank you so much."
"It's the least I could do."
"Mhm, k bye."
"Bye." I hung up. I sat back in my chair and fell asleep.
I woke up to a whole bunch of doctors hovering over Jacob's bed.
"Whats going on?" I asked scared. "What's wrong?"
"Jacobs half way out of his coma." Carlisle said.
"Half way? How is that possible?" the rest of the doctors left so it was just me and Carlisle.
"His wolf part, is out of the coma, but his human side is still in the coma."
"How can you tell?"
"Well, I came in to check up on him, and his left eye was open. It wasn't his human eye though, it was the color of his wolf eye."
"That's strange."
"Yeah, I've never seen it in all my years."
"But, is that good?"
"Yes…and no. it's good, because he'll be completely awake any day, hour, minute, or second now. But it's bad because since he's in between human and wolf, his blood pressure, heart beat, and other numbers will be kind of hard to read and measure. It wont be impossible, but very difficult."
"Okay." I said with a smile. I walked over to him and starred at his open eye.
The next morning Whitney took me out for the day. We went to the mall and got underwear, bras, regular clothes, and some casual/going out clothes, dresses. After we shopped for about 4 ½-5 hours, we went to the spa. We got facials, massages, pedicures, manicures, and used the sauna. When we were done and glitzed up, we went out to dinner. After dinner I slept at her house.
I woke up the next morning, and quickly got dressed.
"Hey I never told you the good news." I said to Whitney.
"What?"
"He should wake up any second now."
"Really?"
"Yeah. And I really wanna be the first face he sees. I need to know if he's gonna remember me or not."
"Well, after we eat, I'll drive you up there."
"Loba, I feel like today's the day. It's gonna happen he's gonna wake up today."
"Chuchi don't get your hopes up."
"I wont."
After we ate, like she promised, she drove me to the hospital. She sat there with me for the whole day. At around 3:30 it happened. I heard a cough. Me and Whitney looked at each other. I rushed over to Jakes side, I saw his other eye open, his eyes were his light brown 'wolf eyes'.
"Get Carlisle." I said back to Whitney. She ran out of the room and came back with Carlisle. When she got back she called all the guys and they were at the hospital with us within 10 minutes.
"Who are you?" Carlisle asked Jacob.
"Jacob Black."
"How old are you?"
"Almost 18."
"So far so good. Who do you recognize in this room?"
"Well, you you're Carlisle, Edward's dad, that's Seth, Leah, Paul, Embry, Quil, Sam, Jared, I remember your face, but not your name." he said to Whitney.
"Whitney, im with Paul."
"Oh right right!" he didn't say my name.
"Anyone else?" Carlisle asked him.
"No."
"No?" I asked him.
"Hi." he said.
"You don't remember me?"
"No I'm sorry. Your so beautiful I don't know how I could forget you. How do I know you?"
"I'm Sydney, your fiancé."
"Fiancé? I'm engaged to you?"
"Kinda. None of this is ringing a bell?"
"No I'm sorry." I sat down and Quil sat next to me with his arm around my shoulder.
"I'm gonna go." I said.
"No." Jacob said.
"Why, you don't remember me, you never will, why should I stay around?" I said and walked out.
"I wanna get to know you." he said after I closed the door. I can't believe he doesn't remember me. I knew this was gonna happen, but it still hurt when he said no. How could he remember Leah and not me? I didn't know where to go, I just walked around outside. I went down to the beach and sat down on a log. I looked out at the water and the crashing waves. Everything Jacob and I have gone through was running through my head. When he gave me my ring, when he kissed Leah and we had that fight. All his attempts of trying to get me back, when we did make up, our first time, everything! I started vibrating I felt around for my phone, when I found it I could see Whitney's name on the front.
"Hello?" I asked.
"Hey, where are you?"
"At the beach."
"I thought I would let you know that they are releasing Jacob now. Carlisle says he's stable enough. He'll just need a little help, like bathing and waking him up every few hours while he's sleeping to make sure he's alive."
"Okay."
"So what are you gonna do?"
"I don't know, what can I do?"
"Do everything to make him remember you."
"Yeah, maybe."
"I'm gonna come get you."
"No. I wanna be alone."
"Okay, but not for the whole night."
"Fine."
"Bye Chuchi."
"Bye Loba." I grabbed some pebbles and skipped them on the water. It was freezing out, but I was too numb to feel a thing. After about an hour later I wasn't alone.
"Mind if I join you?" I looked back and it was Jacob.
"Sure." I said looking back at the water. He looked so good, I couldn't take it.
"Sydney, right?"
"Yeah."
"You say we were together?"
"Mhm."
"Do you still want to be?"
"Of course, I love you, but I don't know if I can if you don't remember me. I'd have to make you fall in love with me all over again."
"Well, that shouldn't take too long, you gorgeous and to be honest I have a crush on you." I blushed. "Did I make you blush?" he said in fake shock. I looked at him.
"Ugh this isn't fair."
"What?"
"This, you! I love you, your sense of humor, the way you look, the way you make me feel, your protection over me, everything."
"You know, I feel it."
"You feel what?"
"I feel this strong bond between us."
"That's because you imprinted on me."
"I did?"
"Yeah."
"Man, I don't remember anything!"
"But, so did Embry."
"What?"
"Yeah, but I always liked you more in that way."
"Well, I'm gonna be completely honest. I can see why I loved you." he said with a smiled, it made me smile. He scooted closer to me and wrapped his arm around my shoulder. I looked up at him, and my lips were tingling. I wanted to feel his lips on mine again, taste his warm sweet breath, and wrestle his tongue like before. I starred at his lips, when I realized I had zoned out I looked up at him starring at me.
"Sorry."
"Don't apologize, it's something your used to, right?"
"Yeah." I said with a light laugh at the end.
"Well, I want things to go back to normal." he said and kissed me. It was so good, if possible even better than before. It lasted for a long time. When we pulled apart we were both out of breath. I smiled and rubbed his cheek, then gave him a peck on the corner of his mouth.
"You're a good kisser."
I laughed. "You too."
"Why don't you come back home with me?"
"I don't know."
"Why?"
"It's gonna be hard."
"I understand."
"No, you cant, I still cant get over that I'm the only one you don't remember. I'm gonna have to sleep different, I don't know."
"I promise this wont be awkward at all." I didn't look at him. "Look at me." he moved my chin over and up to look into his eyes, his normal chocolate eyes. "I promise."
I closed my eyes and said, "Okay." he smiled and grabbed my hand.
"C'mon, lets go home." he said and pulled me up. We walked hand in hand on the shore. We walked back home, but it took us a little longer than usual because of his legs. When we got there it looked different. We walked inside and everyone was there, they looked at us.
"Hey." Quil said to me.
"Hi."
"So um, the house."
"The house."
"We had to change it."
"what do you mean?"
"Go upstairs and look." I starred at them all, I walked up the steps, Jacob behind me, everyone else behind him making sure he didn't fall, because his legs are weak. I looked around and couldn't find my room.
"Where's my room?"
"You don't exactly have your own." Quil said slowly.
"What do you mean?"
"It was destroyed in the fire, that's where it started. We saved all we could, but we couldn't rebuild it. We combined your room with Jake's room." I opened the door and walked in. It was beautiful, bigger. I had some things in there, and so did Jacob. It all looked so romantic and perfect.
"Oh." I said. "So what are you doing with that area?"
"It's becoming a patio. It was the easiest thing to do. And plus we thought that you and Jake were at that point where you needed to share a room." Paul said.
"We were." I said looking down.
"So this is our room?" Jacob asked.
"Yeah. But, don't worry I'll sleep on the couch."
"No, I will. It'll be less awkward."
"How is that less awkward?"
"Jacob's sleeping on the couch." Sam said. I looked at him. "It'll be easier to check on him, and easier for him to get what he needs."
"Fine. Your right." I sat down on the edge of the bed and felt the sheets. They could all sense what I was feeling. I looked up at them and they were all starring at me. "What?"
"Nothing." Embry said kinda quickly.
"Jacob can I talk to you in private for a minute?"
"Yeah, babe." he walked over to me, I got up pushed everyone else out and closed the door. I sat on the bed next to him.
"Okay, you already know how I feel, and I kinda know how you feel. I need to ask you, do you want to be with me? I'll understand if you say no, because you wanna go see other girls and be single, but I need to know."
"Of course I wanna be with you. Like I said before, I want everything to go back to normal for you, for us."
"So this is real again."
"This is real." I grabbed his face and kissed him. He lightly pushed me backwards, so I was laying on my back and he was on top of me. We kept kissing and soon after his shirt came off. He pulled my shorts off and I did my shirt.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
We stopped and looked at the door.
"Yeah?" I asked.
"Whitney wants you."
"Okaay." I grabbed Jacob's shirt and put it on. I made sure it cover everything and opened the door.
"Oh no you don't." Jacob said pulling me back to bed.
"What?" I said laughing.
"You cant leave looking like that and expect me to just sit here."
I laughed. I kissed him then he let me go. I walked out and he walked with me.
"Yeah?" I asked going down the steps.
"Whats going on here?" Whitney asked looking back and forth between shirtless Jacob, and me in Jacob's shirt.
"Were back together."
"Aw im so happy for you!" she said and hugged me. I laughed. I couldn't stop smiling.
"Kiss." Paul said.
"What?" I asked.
"Yeah, kiss him!" Whitney said. I looked at Jacob.
"I'm down." he said.
"I bet you are." I said smiling.
"We wanna see you two kiss." Quil said.
"KISS! KISS! KISS!" they all chanted. I walked over to Jacob looked into his eyes and kissed him. We started making out and everyone shouted "WOOO!" when we pulled apart we laughed. He hugged me and I stood in his arms.
"You guys are so adorable together." Leah said. I didn't see her, but I heard her.
"Leah?"
"Yeah?" she said and walked out the kitchen. I walked over to her and gave her a hug. She was surprised, but lightly hugged me back.
"What was that for?" she asked when I let go of her.
"I just wanted to show you my thanks for all you've done. You've really helped me through all this, thank you."
"Your welcome."
"This calls for a celebration!" Seth said.
"It does." I agreed.
"What did you have in mind?" Jacob asked Seth.
"Take out and movies?"
"Sounds good." I said.
"No horror movies, Sydney doesn't like them." Jacob said.
"But I'll be okay if you're- WAIT! What did you just say?" I asked starring at Jacob.
"You. don't. like. Horror.. movies?"
"How did you know?"
"I don't know, it just popped in my head!" he said with a smile.
"That's great!" I said and gave him a hug.
"So me, Embry, and Leah will go get Chinese food, Jared, Quil and Sam will get pizza, and Whitney, Paul, Emily and Alexie will get the movies, drinks, and junk food."
"Great." I said.
"So what do Sydney and I do?" Jacob asked.
"Well, you've got about an hour, do whatever it is that your heart, or other body parts, desire." Paul said then winked at Jacob.
"Ha ha you're funny. I said to Paul.
Jacob winked back at Paul. I gave Jacob a certain look.
"So, uh, see you guys in an hour!" Jacob said trying to rush everyone out of the house.
"We can take a hint." Quil said.
"We're leaving." Seth said. Everyone left and I sat on the couch. Jacob closed the door behind them, turned around and looked at me.
"So, you wanna continue where we left off upstairs?" he asked trying to seduce me with his smile.
"I don't know…" I said. He walked closer and sat next to me on the couch.
"Come here." he said. I sat on his lap, so we were face to face. He rubbed his hands up and down my back, I wrapped my hands around his neck. Instead of sitting on his lap I took my left leg and put it on the outside of his right leg, and put my right leg on the outside of his left leg. I played with his hair and then kissed him on his chest. Since I was still wearing his shirt he tried to take it off. I stopped and looked at him. I got off his lap.
"Aw, babe c'mon." he pleaded. I grabbed his hand.
"C'mon." I said and lead him upstairs. He smiled and put his hands on my hips
as we walked upstairs. When we got to the top of the stairs, he put his whole front side against my backside and we walked like that to the bedroom. He closed the door but kept contact with me. We fell forward on the bed and I giggled. He toyed with me and moved his body up and down rubbing against mine. I moaned softly. He let me roll over so I was on my back. He slid my shirt off and threw it on the floor. He leaned down over me and kissed my lips, then my neck, my chest, under my bra, and down to my belly button. He opened my legs a little and rubbed the inside of my legs to warm me up, I was cold. My breathing started speeding up, and became uneven; he chuckled lightly and quietly to himself.
"Jacob." I moaned. He poked through his boxers and it was poking me.
"Jacob?" Emily said knocking on the door. We immediately stopped and looked at the door.
"Hold on." I said. He jumped off me threw his pants on, laid down on the bed closing his eyes. I put my shorts and his shirt back on. I opened the door.
"Hey." I said.
"Hey." Emily said suspicious. She looked at my hair then back at Jacob.
"Whats goin on?" I asked her.
"Just wanted to come see Jacob."
"Oh, we were just about to doze off, hold on." I walked over to Jacob, "Babe," I said and shook him gently.
"Yeah?" he groaned in a whispered.
"Emily wants to see you." he opened his eyes, and was very believable.
"Hey." She said giving him a hug.
"Hey Em."
"How are you?"
"Good."
"So I see you remember everybody! That's great!"
"Almost. I don't remember Sydney all the way."
"What do you mean all the way?"
"Well, at first I didn't remember a thing, now I remember she doesn't like horror movies."
"Oh, well that's good, it seems like your memory is coming back slowly." she said with a smile.
"Yeah. Lets hope it all gets here soon."
"Well, I'll let you get back to sleep, I just wanted to see you."
"Thank you."
"I'll let myself out."
"Bye."
"Bye." Emily said and closed the door after her. We stared at each other.