Writing this on my way to D.C.!

Jake POV

"Wait, how many pups are we talking here?" Emmett demanded.

"None. We're not puppies. We're people." I growled back.

"Pretty hairy people, if you as me."

I ignored him, sympathizing him. He could be as sarcastic as he wanted towards me… if wouldn't give him his little girlfriends back. Speaking of tha blonde one, she piped in,

"Why are they coming? What did you tell them, dog?" She spit.

"Woah. Nicknames coming from the blonde. I'm impressed."

"I think you'll be more impressed with my left-hook, so long as you don't explain yourself." I was almost afraid of her threats. Almost, but not quite.

"Well, if the Barbie insists."

She glared, but stayed silent. The room silenced, waiting for me to explain the pack. How much should I tell them? Everything in the pack was sealed with strict confidentiality… but didn't I owe Bella at least this much? After all she'd been through, it didn't seem fair to take them away again.

"I don't think it's so serious," I started cautiously, "Sam just wants to make a few points of our treaty clear to you. You know, like how you can't come back anymore."

"What? Why?" Bella demanded.

"Easy enough to explain. Blondie over here bit you. It's against our treaty. You can't go back to Forks as long as the pack's there."

"Don't pin this on me, you mutt! I saved her goddamn life."

"Don't you mean you damned her in the first place? She's not even living anymore!"

"Are we seriously going over this again, Jake?" My best friend demanded, "Look, I wanted this. It isn't fair to punish them for giving me what I wanted them to."

"Explain that to Sam."

"Maybe I will."

"That doesn't mean he'll listen."

"Trust me, he will."

Nobody was sure of what to say next. I felt bad, breaking the news to them. It was no secret that Forks was one of the Cullen's favorite homes. They'd mentioned it several times. It was the hardest one to say goodbye to. Not to mention all of the memories that belonged in Forks. Knowing Bella, she's want to go and see those places at some point. She would also want to visit her father, which was nearly impossible now.

"I'm sorry," I apologized, "But I don't think… Look, you just have to understand that you'll never be allowed to go there."

"Never?" Edward repeated. Even though I hated him, I didn't like the tone of heartache and disappointment in his voice. It was contagious. I didn't exactly enjoy inflicting pain to people… even if it was Edward Cullen. He actually wasn't that bad.

"Gee, thanks." He muttered.

The faces of the family were sullen as reality sunk in. The closest place to a home had been taken away from them. It wouldn't seem like such a big deal if not for the fact that it was where Bella was added, where EJ was born and grew up… Where Edward's life finally began. Believe it or not, I was hurting too. The pack expected me to rejoin them in Washington after they'd talked to Carlisle. I had to go home at some point… but that meant leaving my best friend behind. It meant never seeing her or EJ ever again. They were almost like family to me, distant relatives maybe, but still family.

"What are we going to do?" Jasper muttered, looking slightly frazzled and exhausted at the same time. He was so rarely flustered, but after his wife left him, he lost his home, and all… I could understand if he wasn't feeling 100%... it seemed nobody really was.

Emmett was a hot mess, a walking wreck. He couldn't quite function and his sarcastic comments seemed forced and insincere, as if he were just a shadow of the funny person he'd been just a day ago. Rosalie was equally as bad, guilt visibly eating away at her. She looked tired and frail, the shadows under her eyes more prominent than normal. Of course, Edward was cracking under pressure, holding onto all of these secrets. Yes, we all had to hear them, but he was the one who held the frighteningly large responsibility. Bella was upset over everything. She was losing her home. She was losing her young-life childhood, the place that she fell in love, the place where she conceived, gave birth to, and raised her only child. Bella was never one to completely let go of the past, one example being her obsession over stalking the Cullen's after their depart.. Carlisle and Esme were obviously a mess, forced to watch their family crumble to dust around them. The family that they'd worked so hard to build together… gone. It was all gone. Alice was nowhere to be found, but we all knew that she had completely lost it. Let's be honest… She'd completely lost her bubbly personality, blackmailing and forcing her own family into playing twisted games of paranoia equal enough to torture. She'd gone loony. No wonder she had been in and insane asylum as a human… maybe she should've stayed there… And then there was EJ. Constantly feeling guilty about bringing trouble to the only family he'd ever known. He was growing up in this… How could he possibly stand it? The truth was simple to see. He couldn't.

The Cullens were falling, and they were falling fast, just about to hit the ground. Hard. And part of it was my fault. I had told the pack about Bella being a vampire. I was the final straw, the last nail in the coffin. I was the person who would end the Cullens, because without their home, when the lawmakers came for them, when the drama had left them broken—nearly unfixable— and nobody was happy anymore, where could they turn to?

I'm sorry it's so short! But at least I made a chapter! Thanks for reading! PS I heard that pressing the review button made a magical box appear, and typing in that box would make magical words appear, and sending those words to me would magically make another chapter appear faster! (So spread the magic, will ya?)