Finding Where I Belong
Stephenie Meyer still owns the characters.
AN: Hey everyone here is the next chapter I hope you like it and please review I really do enjoy reading what you guys think.
Chapter 26
The next morning I woke up to the smell of coffee. Edward was sitting next to me on my old bed already fully dressed and holding a cup of coffee from the local coffee shop out to me.
"Good morning love, it's time to get up." Edward said as I sat up and took the coffee from his hand and took a sip before I replied "what time is it?"
"It is just after eight. Emmett and I have already gone and got all the packing supplies that we need. There are bagels down in the kitchen so come down whenever your ready so we can get started." Edward said before getting up and kissing my forehead before walking out of the room.
About an hour later as Edward and I were just finishing up in my room there was a knock on the front door so Edward told me to get it while he finished up.
"Jacob!" I said surprised to see it was him at the door.
"Hey Bells long time no see" Jacob said as he brought me into a bone crushing hug.
"What are you doing here?"
"Well I came by to check up on things here but I guess I don't have to do that now."
"Come on in we were just packing some things up."
"Hey Em come see who's here." I yelled up the staircase after I let Jake in and a couple minutes later Emmett, Edward and Rose started coming down the stairs.
"Well if it isn't little Jacob Black, how the hell are you?" Emmett asked as he and Jake did the whole man hug thing.
"I'm good Em. Happy late birthday by the way."
"Thanks dude. Oh this is my girl Rosie and that's Bella's man Eddie." Emmett said when Rose cleared her throat.
Edward rolled his eyes at his nickname before he stuck his hand out to Jake and said "It's actually just Edward and it's nice to meet you."
"It's nice to meet you guys as well. So could you all use some help getting packed up we could use my truck I don't think everything will fit in that little car I saw parked out front and you wont have to pay to rent a moving truck."
"Yeah Jake that would be really great thanks." I said
"No problem, it's not like I have anything else to do today but would it be cool if I called my girlfriend Nessie I really want you guys to meet her."
"Sure Jake the more the merrier. So is Nessie short for something?" Emmett asked
"Oh yeah her real name is Vanessa but everyone calls her Nessie."
"So how is your father doing, I've missed him to." I said
"Well he's in a wheelchair now but he's doing really well."
"Awww dude that sucks why is your old man in a wheelchair now?" Emmett asked sticking his foot in his mouth like usual.
"Emmett that was rude." I said as Rose smacked his head for the thousandth time it seems since they met.
"Ow what? I was just curious."
"It's OK I don't mind talking about it." Jacob said before I could respond.
"About a year ago my dad was up on the roof of our house replacing some shingles when he lost his footing and fell off the roof and because of that fall he's paralyzed from the waist down."
"Oh Jake I'm sorry that's horrible." I said as I gave him another hug.
"It's OK we're both fine now but when it happened I was scared that I would lose him to. Well anyway I should go call Nessie and pick her up." Jake said as he got his phone out and headed for the door.
"Oh Jake bring Billy by to if he's up for it. Emmett and I would love to see him again right Em?"
"Yeah dude bring your old man."
"Alright cool I will I know he will want to see you guys to." Jake said before waving and telling us that he would be back soon.
"So I take it Jacob is another childhood friend?" Edward asked as we went back upstairs to get a couple boxes out of my room to put in the trunk of the Volvo.
"Yeah Jake grew up with Em and I. We all used to go fishing with our dads and we used to spend every holiday and birthday together." I explained to him
A few minutes later as I was putting a box in the trunk of the car I heard a very familiar nasally voice that I thought I would never hear nor did I want to hear again.
"Well well well if it isn't mousy little Isabella Swan." Lauren said as I turned around to face her.
"Lauren how are you?" I asked with a fake polite smile.
"I'm fine, but I'm surprised to see you I thought I would never see your face in this town again after what happened to your parents. What are you doing here anyway?" Lauren asked with a sneer on her face that I wanted to slap off but I refrained from doing so and instead answered her question as nicely as I could.
"Well Lauren not that it's any of your business but we are getting things in order for our old house."
"We? Who else are you with?" She asked being nosy as ever and before I could respond Edward came out of the house with a couple more boxes from my room in his hands.
"Hey love I'm gonna leave these giveaway boxes on the porch so that we can put them in Jake's truck when he gets back to take to goodwill."
"OK sounds good." I said before Lauren spoke again.
"Who is this hottie?" She asked which made Edward grimace and shudder slightly but I reluctantly answered anyway.
"Umm Lauren this is my boyfriend Edward, Edward this is Lauren."
"Oh wow your boyfriend? Why is he dating someone like you?" Lauren asked with an ugly glare on her face.
"You know Lauren jealousy does not really suit you." was my reply right before Emmett and Rose came to stand on either side of Edward and I.
"Edward is dating my sister because she is a really great girl and any man would be lucky to have her." Emmett said before Rose chimed in.
"He's absolutely right any man would pick Bella over you any day. Now Laura was it I suggest you leave this property before I force you to." Rose said as she took a couple of steps toward Lauren who took a couple steps back before she turned on her heel and walked away without saying another word.
"That was so great babe." Emmett praised with a chuckle.
"Wow is that girl always like that?" Edward asked once Lauren was out of ear shot.
"Yup since the day she was born pretty much." Emmett said with another chuckle.
"Yeah she's the other skank of Forks High, she's Jessica's best friend." I added before Emmett groaned.
"What's wrong big bro?"
"Nothing really its just Lauren is gonna go blab to Jessica that I'm in town. Aww man I really should have thought things through before I came out here."
"Well I guess it's a good thing then that Jake is helping us so that we can get out of here faster and who knows maybe Jess might have gone somewhere for the weekend." I said trying to reassure him and right as I finished saying that Jacob pulled up in his old red chevy truck and as soon as he was parked I went to say hi to Billy as Jake got his wheelchair out of the bed of the truck.
"Oh my gosh Billy it's really good to see you again." I said as I gave him a hug after Jake got him situated in his chair.
"You to sweet girl. My goodness Isabella you look so much like your mother." Billy said of course making me blush which just made him laugh before he called Emmett over who was talking to Jake and a pretty girl with long black hair so I went up to them while Em went over to say hi to Billy.
"Hey Jake so I take it this is your girlfriend?" I asked as I approached them.
"Oh yeah Bella this is Nessie, Nessie this is Bella my best friend."
"It's so nice to finally meet you, Jake has told me a lot about you and your brother."
"All good things I hope and it's nice to meet you to." I said as we shook hands before I felt familiar arms wrap around me.
"Oh Nessie this is my boyfriend Edward, Edward this is Jake's girlfriend Nessie."
After Edward and Rose were introduced to Billy and Nessie we all got back to packing. Edward and Jacob went to put the giveaway boxes from mine and Emmett's rooms into the bed of the truck while Rose and Em went to work on our parents room and Nessie and I went to work in the kitchen and Billy followed us to talk.
"OK I know that Em and Rose won't want anything from the kitchen and the only things that I want to keep are my mom's old china set that was passed down to her from my great grandmother and the cookie cutters in this drawer." I said as I pulled open the drawer that held all of my old cookie cutters that my grandmother gave me for when we used to bake cookies together before she died.
"What do you want to do with the pots and pans and everything else?" Nessie asked.
"Well if you see anything that you want then you can take it and the same goes for you to Billy, otherwise it's all going to goodwill."
"That's really nice of you Bella but I'm not much of a cook, my mom tries to teach me but I'm hopeless in the kitchen." Nessie said with a laugh.
"Yeah I'm good to, I really don't need anymore things in my house." Billy exclaimed making us all laugh before we started to pack up.
A few minutes later Edward and Jake stepped into the kitchen.
"Hey are there things in here for giveaway because if not Jake and I are gonna go drop off the other boxes at goodwill."
"Actually yeah. Jake can you help Nessie pack up the pots pans and utensils all of those things are for giveaway and Edward can you help me pack up my mom's china set which has to go in the volvo with us and I'll pack up my old cookie cutters."
They both nodded and got to work and about forty minutes later all of the giveaway boxes were in Jake's truck so he and Edward went to drop those off while Nessie Billy and I went to get started on the living room.
"Alright all of the furniture is staying where it is for the time being but Nessie if you could pack up all of my parents movies and music that would be great and I'll pack up all of their books in another box."
As I was starting on the books Emmett came out of our parents room with a garment bag in his arms.
"What's that Em?" I asked curiously.
"Well it's mom's wedding dress, I figured you would want it so you could wear it on your wedding day when that time comes." Emmett said as he unzipped the bag and took the dress out which immediately brought tears to my eyes.
"Of course I want it, it's absolutely perfect." I said as I admired the dress for a few minutes before zipping it back into the garment bag."
"Rose also packed up mom's jewelery and perfume for you."
"Thanks Em your the best big brother." I said before hugging him.
A little while later Edward and Jake came back with some sub sandwiches for lunch and after we were all done eating we said goodbye to Billy before Jake took him to hang out at Sue Clearwater's for the night so that he and Nessie could come to Seattle with us since they had Monday off from school while the rest of us finished packing up what we were gonna keep so that everything was ready to go once Jake got back.