Okay, there is one more chapter after this before a huge time skip/block of filler chapters. Don't worry, about every three chapters or so there will be some plot progression, and I plan to fly right out of the gate after all of these fillers, so expect the pace to increase in about seventeen chapters or so.

I forgot to put the disclaimer in the last chapter, as well as this message:

The summer festival is loosely based off of the Quileute festival, but came completely out of my head. Any similarities are purely coincidental.

Disclaimer: I only own me OCs and my plot stuff. Everything else belongs to Stephanie Meyer.

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Call of the Forest 37 The End of the Festival (BPOV)

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Leah was supposed to patrol during the bonfire, but I switched with her so she could be close to Danny.

"Thanks for doing that Bella-Leah really appreciates it." Sam told me as Jake, Embry, Seth, Nix and I all started toward the forest.

"It's no problem Sam-Leah deserves this happiness."

"Yeah, have a good time on patrol."

"Thanks Sam."

All five of us broke off in different directions to strip and phase.

"So Bella, why don't you and Jake patrol the border with the Cullens, and we can take the rest?" Seth suggested as soon as we were all in our wolf forms.

"Just don't do anything you wouldn't want the rest of us to see…" Embry started saying suggestively before being interrupted by a very hard head-but to his flank, courtesy of Jacob.

"Don't even think about it." Jake snapped, protecting something in his head even more than he usually does.

"Sheesh Jake-that hurt!" Embry whined as he slowly stood up, shaking the leaf litter from his coat.

"Sorry Em…"

"No worries Jake." Embry replied as he nudged Jake with his shoulder.

"Let's get moving then Jake." I said before trotting into the woods.

"Wait, Bella" Jake called, running after me "Are you upset that we won't be able to see the closing ceremony thing?"

I slowed my trot, to let Jake come up beside me "Kinda…"

"We could watch from on top of a cliff… There's a lot of cliffs in one area of the border, if we time it right, we should be able to watch from there…"

"You're the best Jake, thanks…"

Seth, Embry and Nix were all making gaging noises in their heads, but I paid them no mind as I licked Jake's face.

"I thought you weren't going to do that again…" Jake mumbled in a far-away voice.

Jake and I were running along a gorge that made up a large part of our border with the Cullens, when something moving in the brush on the other side of the gorge caught our eyes.

We both slowed down and glanced towards the opposite side of the gorge, and the thing stopped moving too. When Jake was about to howl, I recognized the vampires standing on the other side of the gorge as Emmett and Alice.

"Wait Jake-its Alice and Emmett!"

"What do they want?"

"I don't know." Jake and I looked at each other, before looking back at Alice and Emmett.

"We'll wait for you two." Alice said.

Jake and I went in different directions, and phased before pulling on our clothes.

"What do you want?" Jake growled. I gripped his arm, and he relaxed a little.

"We need to tell Sam something important. Carlisle wants to meet with the pack tonight…"

"Don't you know that there is a festival going on right now? If we all leave now, then people will get suspicious. Not to mention our families will notice. Did you ever think about that!" Jake yelled. I proceeded to rub his arm some more.

"I'm sure that Carlisle will agree to meet us whenever we can, right Alice?" Jake was starting to shake, signifying that he was starting to phase.

Getting the hint, Alice responded "Yeah. See ya later Bella." With a wave, Alice and Emmett took off into the woods of their territory.

"Sheesh Jake." I said after Alice and Emmett left "They just wanted to tell us that Carlisle wanted to talk to us…"

"But they didn't even think about us! We do have appearances to keep up-we can't always go running off on a whim…!"

"They didn't know that the Summer festival was today Jake…"

"I don't believe that Bella! It's been the talk of Forks for god knows how long!"

I didn't have anything to counter that with.

We just stood on the gray stone of the gorge, letting Jake's anger diffuse into the air.

"We should get back on patrol now Jake…"

"Yeah… The fireworks are starting soon…"

Jake went into the woods to phase while I phased were I was on the gorge.

"Hurry up Bella-We're late!" Jake panicked as he broke into a full-on run through the forest. All he was thinking about was the perfect cliff for us to watch the fireworks.

As I chased after him, I couldn't sense Embry, Seth, or Nix anywhere. "Jake, is it just me, or did the others phase back?"

"No time to think about them Bella, come on-we're almost there…"

We broke out of the forest and into a small clearing, the salty scent of the ocean spray assaulting our noses. I padded out onto the stone beside Jake.

"This place is wonderful Jake, but shouldn't we be closer to the border…"

"Don't worry about it Bella-they know that there's a festival going on now. This is just for us."

The shrill whistle of a firework shooting into the sky cut through the night before a huge orb of color materialized from the end of a bright tail.

A cool breeze ruffled my fur, and I shifted closer to Jake, our fur bristling against itself, combining into a potpourri of Jake's russet fur and my golden fur.

"This is amazing Jake…" I sighed.

"Is this worth going on patrol for?"

"Definitely." I responded, resting my head on Jake's shoulder.

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