Ch37: We Aren't Friends
Leah's eyes widened as she realized what he had done. She was shaking so hard, that she was sure she was going to phase. Don't phase. Don't phase. Please don't phase!
She snatched her hands out of his. She took a heavy breath counting to ten like she used to calm down. She sucked on her teeth and stopped herself from whacking him in the face with her hand.
"I. Can't. Believe. You." She said through gritted teeth.
She didn't even realize Alpha commands could work on her but it was working in full force. It reminded her of the night that Jake and her slept on his living room floor and she commanded him. So the commands worked on each other, if only she could Alpha command his ass back, but apparently Alpha commanding him would be something 'stupid' because she couldn't voice the words that really wanted to come out of her mouth.
"You'll understand later babe." He said softly. To hell I will! She could tell he wanted to touch her or calm her down based on how he stuck his hands in his pocket so he wouldn't. She was sure she would bite his hand now if he even tried lifting it.
Her legs were already willing her to move back towards her house. Her wolf, who had been content, happy and silent was making her appearance loud and clear now. She was furious and violent. Leah had to leave before she said something she would regret. She really wanted to hit him hard, but instead she moved away from him.
Whenever he got through playing make up and found Bella, Leah was going to kill him. She thought as she walked angrily home through the woods. She really wanted to punch something but that would just hurt her and she was already hurt yet again by that asshole. Who did he think he was? Leah could decide for herself. She could handle herself she thought as she walked home.
Collin and Brady were walking towards her.
"No. No. No. No. Thing one and thing two I'm not in the mood…" Leah stopped and kicked a rock that was in front of her and they all watched it hit a tree and crumble into pieces.
"Jake just called Embry and told us to come find you and take you home and stay there." Collin said.
Leah balled up her fist, closed her eyes and screamed, for a full thirty seconds before she ran out of air, Collin and Brady jumped back. She ignored them and began stomping all the way to the path that led to her house.
She couldn't get mad at them for following their stupid Alpha. Even if he was stupid! Did she already think that? Hm, well he was pretty stupid at the moment. Leah was thinking of fifty ways to kill him as Collin walked ahead of her and Brady walked behind her. They let her fume in silence.
She was grateful for once they didn't make any snide comments because she wasn't in the mood to hold back anything. She was sure she would snap off anyone's head if they even looked at her wrong. Collin opened the front door and Leah walked in with Brady trailing behind her. From the noises in the kitchen she knew her mom was still home but she wasn't ready to speak with her just yet. Claire was in her playpen with a few toys. Angela, Kim, Rachel were on the couch disagreeing about if reality tv shows were better than sitcoms.
"Leah what do you think?" Kim asked as she saw Leah.
Leah walked past them up the stairs, "I'm taking a nap for forever and infinity so good day, good night, and good life."
She walked in her room, closed and locked the door. She turned around and put her back against the door but before she could take a breath, or fall face first on her bed and cry like she really wanted to she saw Emily sitting on her bed.
Apparently it was going to be one of those days.
Jake watched her storm off, before he asked for Alice's cellphone again. She handed it to him reluctantly. Jake ignored her anger of emotions. She was livid and he didn't need the anger with him at the moment so he tried to make it as tiny as possible. That worked even though his mark was already being a pain in the neck. But he had to disregard that and get his mind focused.
He redialed Embry's cell talking fast, "Hey bro, have Collin and Brady make sure Leah gets home safely and tell them to keep it simple. No jokes. She's in a funk."
Jake ended the call and handed the phone back to Alice, before looking at the two vampires that were staring at him as if what he did was foolish.
"I actually don't feel sorry for all the making up you're going to have to do when this is done." Rosalie cracked a smile.
"She's going to destroy me." Jake rubbed his hand over his face.
"You deserve it." Rosalie snickered.
Seth ran over clapping Jake on his back. "You pissed Leah off again?"
"Yup." Jake didn't need to answer it, he was sure that Seth could feel her anger too.
"Should we start writing out your headstone now?" Seth chuckled and Jake shook his head sighing. Seth continued. "Anyways the guys want to know if they should phase back or stay wolves."
"Uh, I need you and Em with me, everyone else stay in wolf form and see if they get any strange scents. We will check in with them when we get more information." Jake said. Seth nodded before running off.
"We can see if Emmett, Carlisle, Esme or Jazz got anything out of Edward yet. Come on." Alice said, as Embry and Seth ambled over together and stood beside Jake. Jake turned in the direction that Leah had went and heaved a sigh. He was only trying to protect her and their baby. She would have to understand when he planned on talking to her later.
"You coming?" Embry and Seth stopped and turned to look at him.
"Yeah give me a second." Jake closed his eyes and thought about all the love he had for Leah, making sure she could feel it over her anger before jogging to catch up with his second and third in command.
Leah's fingers gripped her door, pieces of wood scraped into her fingernails. "Isn't it rude to just invite yourself into a bedroom?" she was still in a bitchy mood. For some reason Jake's emotions were calming her a bit but she was still pissed at him no matter how much love he was sending her way. No matter how much she still loved him. He commanded her damn it! He knew how much she hated that.
"Well yeah but I had the feeling you were avoiding me and it was the only way I could talk to you." she said standing up.
Leah thought she really didn't look good pregnant. Some people just didn't take on the extra weight well, she really hoped that wouldn't apply to her when she started gaining weight. Leah was pregnant with Jake's child. If she wasn't so mad at him or if Emily wasn't in her room, she would smile right now.
Leah absently touched her flat stomach for a second pulling her hand back to her side before Emily noticed. "There's not much to talk about, I said everything I needed to say at your house. That was the end of it." Leah looked at her.
"I thought so too but then I began to think." she began walking around Leah's room touching things as she went.
Oh no, everyone was doing too much thinking lately and it always turned out to be bad on Leah's end. "Not my problem." Leah shrugged. "Can you get out already? I'm really not in the mood and I can barely control my temper right now."
Emily seemed to ignore her, "You see I did you a favor with taking Sam away from you."
What. The. Fuck? "Are you really trying to justify the bullshit that I asked you to let go? Get the fuck out!" Leah didn't feel like raising her voice. The calm way Leah was speaking to Emily seemed to be scaring her more than her anger would have.
"No, hear me out. You would have never paid any attention to Jacob had I not got Sam." Emily said.
Leah thought about it and balled up her fist, "You don't know that, I don't even know that. I'm with Jake now I don't give a fuck about Sam, not in that way at least. He was my first love and that's it. I let it go. Why can't you?"
"He still won't let you go." Emily flinched. Leah could hear someone walking up the steps. If they knew Emily was up here, then they were probably checking to see if she was alive.
"That probably has something to do with the fact that you took him away from me when we both still loved one another." Leah shook for a second before taking a breath. "But that isn't my problem. You wanted him so bad so now you deal with it." Leah said as there was a knock at the door.
"Is Emily in there?" It was Collin he sounded nervous.
"Yup." Leah answered rolling her eyes at her.
"She's still alive right?" Collin was definitely worried.
Leah unlocked and opened her door moving out the way so Collin could see. "See for yourself."
"Oh." his eyes scanned the room, "well... um...alright, your mom finished the food so if either of you guys get hungry, come downstairs. Brady is eating like a garbage disposal so I'd come soon." he closed the door after he saw that Emily looked fine.
Emily looked like she was about to leave also but she stopped when she was in front of Leah. Leah's wolf thought she was really testing her patience right now. "Why didn't you invite me to the 'spectacular' group date that Kim won't stop talking about? And you still never got back to me on the Maid of Honor thing. The wedding is less than two weeks away I need to know."
"The group date thing wasn't planned and I'm leaving that answer at that. I decided I'll go to support you guys and the pack but as far as being your Maid of Honor, you need to find someone else." Leah said steadily.
"But why?" Emily's eyes were already pooling with tears.
Leah stepped to her, Emily was shorter than her but she needed to make sure Emily understood the words that were about to come out of her mouth. "Simple. We. As in You and I. Are. Not. Friends." Leah spoke each word clearly stepping back towards her door. "Now as much as this was such a great talk. I'm starving...aren't you?" Leah opened her door. Emily ran to Leah's bathroom and shut the door behind her. Leah shrugged. "Guess not." she walked down the steps.
If Emily wanted to bawl her eyes in the bathroom all night that was on her. Leah didn't want that conversation, but she did feel better getting some of her feelings out. Leah was still upset at Jake but she didn't have to take it out on everyone else, so she was going to eat all she wanted and have an okay time, plotting up the ways to get him back when he came back to her.
Edward wasn't much of a help as when they reached the Cullen's. So they had to rely completely on Alice's visions. She had said that most of the visions were near the Forks Airport, which explained why Edward had ran off that way once he had read Alice's mind. Alice was as far away as she could get so she could 'see' clearly.
"How long can he stay like that?" Embry was side glancing at Edward.
"We can stay in one spot for a really long time, but probably until he got hungry, otherwise he could stay that way forever." Emmett was standing next to them with his arms crossed.
"Ugh." Embry shuddered.
Alice ran in the house. "It's either an old abandoned building, or an hotel in Forks, both seem to be by the airport. I really don't think they would want to be anywhere too public, so the abandoned house makes sense. And the alley I saw in my vision before is right next to it! We can find her." Alice's eyes were lit up with excitement.
"My pack can't help too much if this is in public." Jake shook his head.
"It'll be dark and the building is huge. No one goes down this street at night. It's not a great neighborhood." Alice was already holding an iPad in her hand and began pressing buttons with her fingers. "See." she showed them what the building looked like.
Jake looked at Seth who was rubbing the back of his neck. "I dunno Jake, this looks bad, like a set up almost. It's on your call though."
"How do we know they aren't playing with your visions?" Jake turned to look at Alice.
"We don't..." Alice deflated from her spurt of excitement.
"If we're going to do it we need to do it now. If we let it get too dark they'll have bitten her already." Jasper came over and said softly glancing at Edward when he was done.
"That is what she wants." Jake scratched his chin. "Fuck this is hard, I wish Leah was here."
"Why did you send her home anyway?" Embry asked.
"Yeah, why?" Seth seemed like he wanted to ask that question for a while now.
Jake ran his hand over his face. He walked himself right into that one. Seth was going to kill him. He still didn't know if he should help Bella. And Leah was still pissed at him, even though she had calmed a bit, he could still feel her bumbling anger. And if he told the pack that she was pregnant before she could even finish letting it sink in, she was defintely going to murder him.
Our poor Jake can't win lol :)
He'll get it together though... i hope :)
I keep trying to figure out when this story is going to be over. It feels never ending with the drama but I'll end it soon lol... Thanks for sticking with me lovies!