Nightmares, horrible nightmares about Laurent, he actually did the unspeakable. In my dreams, he actually did what he promised he would do. But he lied, I didn't enjoy myself and I didn't like it. I woke up because someone was shaking me. I opened my eyes and saw Bella staring at me concerned. She was about to say something until we heard a knock on the window. We both stared at it, not moving to scared to do anything. The second time, Bella slowly walks over and gives a relief sighs. She opens the window and says to the person outside that he scared them. I didn't hear his reply but I was guessing he was gonna come up since Bella backed up. I saw Jake come through the window, I stayed in bed not wanting any male company near me. Apparently Jake didn't get the memo, he came to sit next to be on the bed. I stayed very still, he frowns apologizing.
"For what?" Bella asked confused to why he was apologizing. There could be a million things he could be apologizing for and I didn't know why, so I want to know.
"I wish I could explain, but I literally... can't. Have you two ever had a secret you couldn't tell anyone? One that wasn't for you to share? Well, that's what it's like for me. But worse. You two have no idea how tight I'm bound." Jake says. I knew what he was talking about. He wanted to tell us that he was a wolf, but he couldn't because of an alpha order.
"I, uh, we hate this. We hate what they did to you." Bella tells him. Jakes looks at me with such sad eyes. Looks down at my arms that were uncovered. He looks at the bite marks from James and the bruises from Laurent.
"I mean, the killer part is that you two already know. For some reason, I know that you know, Amelia. Because well it's you, you know everything" he pauses and looks down before he continues. "Bella, remember at the beach when I told you about the story?" She nods.
"The story about the cold one." Bella says, making him frown.
"I guess, I can understand why that's the only reason you'll remember it," Jake says. It got quiet until Bella speaks up.
"There's got to be something that you can do?" Bella asked him, more like she suggested.
"No, I'm in this for life" Jakes replies sadly.
"Maybe we should get out of here for a while. Just leave this town. Just, you, Bella and I" I speak up for the first time. Making them all stare at me wide eyes.
"You two would do that?" Jake asked Bella and I. Bella nods.
"We'll do it for you. I can see that you're unhappy, Jake. As your friend, I can not allow that. Let's leave, we can go anywhere you'll like. Just say the word" I tell him honestly, holding his hands to let him know I'm being serious. I don't want to be here, this town left only has bad memories for me. It looks like Jake is thinking about, possibly planning out what he'll tell his dad and so much more. Then takes his hands away from me and stands up shaking his head.
"It's not something I can run away from, Amelia. But I would run away with you. If I could, I would. Leave forks with the both of you but I can't." We hear a howl coming from the woods. Jakes looks outside before continuing. "I gotta go before they start wondering where I'm at. Please try to remember. It'll be so much easier if you guys knew." Jakes says before hugging us. He was about to jump out but turns to me "Embry, he misses you." And with that, he jumps leaving Bella and me sad. Why didn't he just take my offer, maybe I'll take my offer and leave?
The next morning, Bella dragged me out of bed saying that we gotta go to Jake's house. She has an idea of what was last night about. She told me she has a dream about a wolf. She had a theory and needed to try it out. We got to his house and Billy answered.
"Girls" Billy greeted us. I nod at him but Bella ignored him.
"Where is he?" she asked Billy kinda rude.
"He's not here" Billy begins to say but Bella rudely interrupts him by walking inside his home.
"I'm sorry, but we need to see him," she tells him heading to Jake's room. I apologized to Billy for her behavior. We both walk to Jake's room and we see him there sleeping. Bella and I heard howls coming outside the house. I looked out the window and saw Mr. Wolf and his goonies. Bella went storming outside and I sigh, this is going to get messy real quick. I passed Billy once again apologizing for Bella's behavior and for intruding in his home. He says its okay that we're like family. I nod and went outside, just in time to see Bella slap the one dude I didn't know his name. His body began to shake violently, but before he turned to a wolf, I ran to Bella screaming her name, pushing her to the side so she wouldn't get hurt. As he turned to a wolf, he manages to cut my arm but it wasn't so bad. Just a little scratch, just need to stitch up. I held my bloody arm as I heard Jake call our names.
"AMELIA! BELLA!" Jake screamed out.
"RUN, JAKE RUN!" Bella screamed at Jake. Instead of running he turned to a massive wolf. He had a nice light brown fur color, he got to us and started to fight with the other wolf. Their fight caused them to go into the woods. Mr. Wolf looks down at my arm and growls.
"Take them to Emily's place and have her look at Amelia's arm." Mr. Wolf tells Jared and Embry. Embry slowly helps me up, looks arm and tells me that it's just a scratch. Bella comes over takes me away from his hold and wraps her arms around my waist.
"Guess the wolf is out the bag" Embry jokes, trying to lighten up the mood. I crack a smile, only he would. Bella and I went inside her truck, Jared was giving us direction to how to get there. We stopped in front of a nice house, small but nice. The boys did some type of yell. Coming out of the truck Bella suggests that we should check on Jake.
"I hope Paul gets some teeth in him. Serves him right." Jared says making Embry shakes his head. They start to walk to the house but Bella and I stay behind.
"No way, Jacob's a natural. Did you see him phrase on that fly? I got fives that Paul didn't touch him" He tells Jared. He stops when he realizes that we weren't following. "Come in girls, we don't bite," Embry says with a teasing smile. Making Jared rolls his eyes.
"Speak for yourself," he tells Embry.
I sigh, bring Bella with me before slowly walking to the house. Before going inside, Embry stops to say that we shouldn't stare that it bothers Sam. Bella asked why would we stare but they didn't say anything. They continue to walk inside. Once we walked inside, there was a beautiful russet skin lady in the kitchen. I heard Bella gasp, she had claw marks down on her left side of her face.
"Who are they?" the beautiful lady asked the boys.
"Bella and Amelia. Who else" Jared replied. She looked shocked once she heard my name. Why would she?
"Hmm, so you two are the vampire girls?" Emily says smiling towards us. I nod but Bella said something dumb and funny.
"So, you're the wolf girl?" Bella says making Emily smile. I turned to Bella.
"Really? Wolf girl? C'mon." I say making Jared, Embry, and Emily laugh.
"Guess so. Well, I'm engaged to one" Emily says looking at me. She puts down a freshly bakes muffins on the table. Jared and Embry went straight to get one. "Hey save some for your brothers. And ladies first. Muffin?" She asked us.
"Yeah thanks," Bella says but I decline. I really didn't want to move my injured arm.
"Leave it to Jake to find a way around Sam's gag order," Emily says.
"Hmm, he didn't say anything," Bella tells him.
"That's a wolf thing. Alpha's orders get obeyed whether we like it or not. Oh Amelia, check it out we can hear each other's thoughts." Embry says making me smile at him. Even though he's a wolf he hasn't changed a bit.
"Would you shut it? These are trade secrets. Damn it! These chicks run with vampires" Jared said to Embrey. Causing me to laugh at them.
"Can't really run with vampires. Cause they're fast." I say teasing Jared.
"Yeah? Well, we're faster. Freaked out yet?" He says leaning forward.
"You're not the first monster, we met" Bella inform them. Making me frown, I wouldn't call them monsters. Not monster, the supernatural.
"Jake's right. You two are good with weird." Sam says as he goes over to Emily and kisses her scar. Sam and I held each other's stare, I didn't notice when Jake and the guy named Paul came in. I broke eye contact with him as Paul came and sat down on the table and took a muffin. Bella and I look at Jake, telling us to come with him. Before I had the chance to move Sam stops me.
"You should let Emily check out your arm," Sam says to me.
Bella looked over at me, silently telling me she wasn't going to leave me. I sigh and told her its okay. That I'll be over there in a few minutes. She agrees and walks over to Jake and they both leave. It was quiet in the house, Emily left to go get the first aid kit. The wolves were either sitting down or standing around the kitchen table, and I was standing up next to the couch.
"I'm sorry," Paul says breaking the silence.
I look at him, he looks pretty sincere. I nod, saying it's okay and that it's just a scratch. He smiles and starts to eat his muffin. Sam was staring at the cut, making me feel insecure. Emily comes back with the first aid kit, moved Jared out of the way and told me to sit down. She told me that Sam's better at stitching things up, I understood what she meant. She wanted Sam I stitch me up. I look at Sam and nod. He comes over and starts to clean out the cut. While this was happening it was really quiet, they were all looking at us. Sam was all done but before he walks away. He holds the arm that has Jame's bite mark. He asked what happen. Before I had the chance, Jake comes running in looking all worried.
"I know what the redhead wants," Jake says looking at them. I was confused, were they talking about Victoria.
"Redhead? As in Victoria?" I ask looking at Bella. She nods and explains to them how we know them. She told them what happened last year. When she explained how I got the bit mark, Sam was shaking and he looked at it.
"So that's how you got it?" he asked me.
"Yes, but don't worry Dr. Cullen saved me. There are still good vampires out there" I say covering my arm. I don't know why I was still defending them. Maybe I'll always defend them even though they hurt me. He didn't reply but he gave out orders. Saying that they're going to watch the house and look for the redhead. By killing the redhead they were protecting us and the town. Embry and Jake would take the first watch, so they rode back with us to Bella's house. I thanked Sam for stitching me up and told the others it was nice meeting them. Embry, Jake, Bella and I got home. Getting outside the truck Jake said that we shouldn't worry that they have it cover. Bella told them to be careful.
"She's fast. You guys don't know how fast she really is." I tell Jake and Embry. They both looked at each other and smiled.
"You know your lack of confidence in us is a little insulting" Jake says smiling at me. I rolled my eyes at him.
"Alright, well we have to go," Embry said to Jake.
"Yeah, we got a vampire to hunt," Jake says making Embry and I laugh, Bella just smiles. The boys left and we went to her room. Bella and I were in her room getting ready for bed. She was staring at me, I raised my eyebrow in question.
"Did you see the way Sam was staring at you? It was like a brotherly stare. I can't explain it. Whenever he would look at you his eyes seemed sad. He got really angry when he found out about James' mark. And another thing you guys kind of have the same eyes." She tells me. I just waved it off, saying he's just like that because we're human and that we're weak. Later that night I couldn't sleep, with the nightmares of Laurent and with what Bella said. I had a lot on my mind. Why would she think he would stare at me like that? a brotherly stare? As if.
