Okay guys, so this is a pretty epic chapter to write. Hope you love it.

So yesterday, Stephenie Meyer called me and said she would sign over all rights to Twilight to me. After I readily accepted, she yelled APRIL FOOLS! into the receiver. FML.

review? make me feel better?

JAKE POV

"Hey it's Bella, not in my room right now so leave a message and I'll make an attempt to get back to you."

The voice-mail message had been disappointing the last 5 times, and it was disappointing now. I hadn't seen her since lunch and we had planned to watch a movie. Now, it was 4:00. Bella was everything I imagined she'd be when I first saw her. Funny and sarcastic, beautiful no matter what she was wearing, nearly always smiling…and not good with time management.

Calm down Jake, she isn't your girlfriend. You stand up girls all the time.

It was true. I was supposed to have gone to Leah's room to chill out and talk an hour ago, but instead I had stayed in my room, waiting for Bella to pick up the phone. Maybe that made me a terrible friend, but Leah would understand when I explained.

Leah was completely in support of me wanting Bella. At least she tried to make me think that. I knew her too well to not understand what was really going on. She hated Bella more than anything. She hated Bella because I loved Bella. And she had every right to.

If you had asked me two years ago who I could see myself spending the rest of my life with, I'd say Leah in a heartbeat. She was my closest and oldest friend. We had done everything together. And when it came to the appropriate age, we experimented together. The years in separate schools hardly fazed us. It was nothing to wake up in the middle of the night and have a cab drive me over to her house, or for her to come over to mine. We slept together, and we slept together.

It didn't mean anything in the beginning. But then I started to notice that she was everywhere to me. I'd see her modeling on billboards in the Upper East Side, and think to myself: she's coming over tonight to rock my world.

Two years ago, there'd been no Bella. I had been the bad ass with the sexy partner in crime. And there was no doubt, Leah was sexy. Tan skin, dark sweltering eyes, and straight brown hair. Her body radiated a "fuck me" appeal that no guy had ever been able to resist.

And that's why I would pretend to be in the dark about her plan to break Bella into pieces. Edward was in love; completely smitten by Bella Swan. But he had forgotten the lure of a good fuck. Leah's plan would work.

The phone rang. I jumped up, knocking books off the bed in my hurry to answer it.

"Hello?" I said. Her voice shivered through my being. Would I ever get over it?

"Hey Jake, I'm sorry about the delay. I was with Edward…" She trailed off. She knew I didn't like Edward. She felt bad for mentioning him. I hurried to lighten the situation.

"Oh it's no problem, I fell asleep so…" I could practically hear her smile through the phone.

"Okay, so I have like...30 bucks in cash and The Goonies. Want me to come over in an hour or so and we'll order out?"

I almost laughed. Leah never ate Chinese food.

"Good plan. Talk to you then."

I had barely hung up the phone when my door opened. There was Leah, looking amazing in red Parkville sweats and a white spaghetti strap tank.

"Hey." I said, sucking in a breath as she moved forward. Her eyes were dark and upset. She was here because I should've been in her room 2 hours ago.

"Hey, what happened to 'let's hang out later, I'll bring the Tofu?'" The hurt in her voice was almost completely hidden. I know her better than she thinks.

"I'm so sorry; I got back from lunch and totally crashed. I JUST got up…" It was classic bullshit, but she'd pretended to fall for it.

"Oh, well that's okay then." She walked into the room and sat on the desk. "So how's it going with Bella?"

L POV

Just woke up my ass. But it wasn't a big deal. I could talk to him now. His eyes lit up at her name. It was disgusting.

"She's good. We're watching the Goonies in an hour." That glint was still there. It was hard to look at him like that. I had to get rid of it.

"That's good, I walked in on her and Cullen like 45 minutes ago. They were going at it."

I rolled my eyes, and when they reached him again, his eyes were back to normal.

"How's that plan coming along Leah?" he asked. I almost rolled my eyes again, but I fought it back. He didn't have to know how much I wanted to ditch the plan and jump into his arms.

"Pretty well, I'm the manager for Varsity Lax, which is what Edward plays, so I figure I'll just flirt with a shitload of his team mates and piss him off. Until he drags me away somewhere and I seduce him. It shouldn't be that challenging. Of course, you'll be playing Lax too, so I'm not sure how to fit Bella into this, but I'll work on it. Maybe I'll have you warn her about me? It'll make her trust you, seeing as I'm your best friend and she knows that."

The Bella part hadn't been part of the plan before. Actually, the words spouting out of my mouth was only part of the story. There was more, a lot more. But he didn't need to know that. Not until it happened.

Jake was nodding his approval. "Seems fool proof," he said, getting up off the bed. This was where he thanked me for my cunning by ripping my heart out. He walked over to the desk, slipping his hands around my waist and pressing his lips to mine.

He bit my lower lip before sucking it into his mouth. And when his tongue flicked out to meet mine, I couldn't' stop myself from letting out a small whimper. I hit myself mentally for that one.

He smiled against my lips, as if I made him happy. I pulled him back against me, letting my tongue explore his mouth softly for a few moments. His hands were set on the small of my back and mine were at his neck. I wrapped my legs around his torso and I felt his arms snake up through the material of my tank top and unclasp my bra.

He broke the kiss, making short work of tearing my top off my shoulders and letting the bra fall to the floor, mingling with homework and soda bottles. He ducked his head and took a nipple into his mouth. I groaned. This wasn't right. This was masochistic and self destructive and stupid.

But it felt amazing. So I leaned my head back, giving him better access to my chest. But then it stopped. I opened my eyes and noticed he was scrutinizing the clock. Bella was supposed to be here soon.

I rolled my eyes and hopped off the desk, leaning down to collect my bra from the floor and my shirt from the bed. "I'll see you around Jake." He grabbed my waist and gave me one more chaste kiss before letting me go without saying goodbye.

Bella had won again. But it was no real matter. She may have won the battle, but I would win the war.

E POV

"Edward, I want to know everything that happened with Renesmee." Jasper was looking straight at me, the gravity in his voice radiating throughout the room and holding me down to my seat.

How had it gotten to this? I had been with Bella not one hour ago. And then she went to meet Jake and I came to my room. And after attempting to do some homework for 10 minutes, Jasper had come in.

I had an uttermost respect for Jasper. The way he treated his friends, the way he treated my sister, the way he treated everyone around him. He didn't mean anyone any harm unless he had to. He was easy going and southern. What everyone wanted in a friend.

And he deserved to know.

"Renesmee Sawyer was Jake's first love. She tested everything he wanted or thought he wanted. I remember nights when he'd be in my room pacing, debating over calling her or not. He'd talk to himself in the mirror ever morning, practicing how he might sound when he greeted her.

She took out the best of him, and made him ashamed of the worst. He was scared to hook up with her. He swore he would scare her away. And then she gave herself to him. And he swore he'd never want to make love to anyone else again

He was so…happy. Jake was suave and collected, and he was wanted by every female in this building, but Renesmee changed everything. I think there was a part of him that was afraid of what he was losing, so when he went home over break, he hooked up with Leah, his best friend from home. Well, more than that. One time, she came home over break, and…well…with both of us."

Jasper rolled his eyes. This wasn't part of the story.

"Anyways, Jake really did love Renesmee, and he told her. Well of course he broke her heart. I'm exactly sure about what happened on her side, but Jake was a mess. He didn't go to class for a week; stayed in his room; he wouldn't even talk to me."

Jasper's eyes were dark with pain. Why was this hurting him? "Jazz, what were you to Renesmee?"

J POV

So this was the story. This was the truth of what had happened. She had withdrawn from me one weekend, and then I had lost her. She was my closest friend, and this Jake had torn her to pieces. And now he was back and after Bella?

"Renesmee told me almost all of the things that you are telling me now. Except she shut herself off after Jake cheated on her. One day, she went to talk to Jake, and she came back...broken. I couldn't stop her from getting attached to him, and I couldn't stop him from hurting her…"

The post-confession Jake that Edward had described was almost as bad as Renesmee. She didn't know how to deal with her hurt, so when a girl in her dorm had offered her Cocaine, she jumped at the chance to lose herself.

Edward was speaking again. "Well apparently, she started doing Cocaine. And when Jake found out he almost got kicked out for being in her hallway and banging on her door. She agreed to meet him in the woods. And that night…well, that doesn't matter. Because the next day she was gone and he left the day after that."

I wouldn't push him for details then. It wasn't important. I needed Alice. I thanked him for the information and he swore me to secrecy, and I left his room.

My head was spinning with the information. I didn't know what to make of it. And I didn't want to deal with it at all right now.

B POV

The Goonies was one of my all time favorite movies; Take out was my all time favorite dinner; and Jake was growing to be one of my all time favorite people. When I walked into his room, he was cleaning it up for me, attempting to clear out a space among the books and socks and other miscellaneous items that were scattered on his floor.

I held up the movie and reached for his phone, dialing out for the food service. He shouted out what he wanted and they told us it'd be here in an hour

He scrutinized my movie pick. Apparently, he wasn't a fan of Spielberg. "This, to be frank, looks quite stupid." I merely huffed. I'd prove him wrong.

And I did. By the end of the movie he was nearly crying from laughter. We were lying on his floor; take out boxes strewn across the floor like wounded soldiers. "I've gotta show this one to Leah" he said between hilarious misquotations. The name stirred me out of my reverie.

"Leah? She's the one in my French class now right? You two know each other?" Of course he knew her. She was the most annoying little slut. Always flirting with Edward and trying to piss me off.

He turned to me and nodded. "Leah is my oldest friend. She knows everything about me. And I'm pretty sure she's madly in love with me." I rolled my eyes. "You tend to have that effect on girls. You know I overheard some lowerclassmen obsessing over you in the bathroom today?" He turned to face me, tracing his finger over my exposed shoulder.

"I know, I have that effect on girls…at least, most of them…" He was doing it again. Subtle hints that he could get every girl except the one he truly wanted, every girl except for me.

"Jake…" he resumed his position on the floor beside me. "I can't feel that way about anyone. Not after Edward." I could feel the disappointment radiating off of his body. He shifted towards me again.

"Aren't you afraid? Aren't you scared that he's going to hurt you or something? You thrust your heart in his face and begged him to suck the blood out of it…"

His eyes were angry. But he wasn't mad at me, or Edward. He was angry at himself. Angry for something he'd done in the past.

"Jake, I trust Edward. I'm the happiest I've ever been. And I'm not gonna leave him…ever." I willed my voice not to shake. Jake stood up and began pacing around the room.

"Ask him about Leah. Ask him." His voice was calm. But his body language showed the opposite. I stood up too. Jake was my friend and I was hurting him. Since when was life this complicated?

I walked over to him tentatively. "Okay, I'll ask him. I promise." He stopped pacing and turned to look at me. And in that second, I rushed towards him and wrapped my arms around him. It was a big bear hug that was warm and friendly. I breathed in deep against his chest. It was a different scent than Edwards, but almost as comforting. I looked up to see him looking down at me; inching his face closer to mine.

"I gotta go Jake, homework." I broke out of the embrace and picked the movie up off the floor. I think I was out in the hallway before it dawned on him what had happened. He poked his head out of his door and yelled "Bye Bella!" down the hallway.

I didn't turn back.