Sorry this is so late- I had a really bad headache.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that can be recognized as Stephanie Meyer's. Everything else does however belong to me.
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Call of the Forest 52 Remembering Our Past-Bella (BPOV)
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~March~
There are many things in this world that we don't understand: Vampires, Werewolves, all of the 'gifts' in the world…
The secret life that stays hidden from the view of the general populace of the World, the worst possible thing to happen to you is to be thrust right into it just like I was, though; I think that I would've ended up in it anyways.
According to the legend, a female wolf only phases when she has a ton of pent-up emotions, and I had those in abundance when Jake left me- being with the Cullens just delayed the inevitable I guess.
Despite everything bad that exists in the World, and by being shoved into the world of the supernatural, I can't help but feel at home in this strange world.
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"But mooooooom I dun wanna leaf Jakey and Seffy and Emmy. Thewe wy fwends." I whined as my mom made me pack up almost all of my stuff into cardboard boxes.
"You'll see them again soon Bella dear." Mom soothed as she stroked my hair, calming me down a little.
I relented, my young mind not processing Renee's definition of 'soon' as being 'for two months every Summer'.
During those sixty days that I would spend about fifty of them with Jake, Seth and Embry, nine with Charlie, and one upset over having to leave everyone behind again.
This cycle repeated for the next four years, me missing birthday parties, playing with my friends, and just those three in general.
The year of my thirteenth birthday, four years after my mother had torn me from my friends, one phone call changed everything…
The phone started ringing while I was sitting on the couch reading 'Romeo and Juliet' for the third time and Renee was in the kitchen trying to cook god knows what.
"Bella dear, could you please answer that?"
"Why mom? I'm just getting to the good part!" I called back. She never understood why I loved reading so much, let alone the classics that made her fall asleep as soon as I started talking about them.
"I don't know what one of those completely uninteresting books you're reading Isabella, answer the phone!"
"Fine." I pouted as I slammed the book shut, well more like slapped- you can't slam paperback books shut too well. Leaving the book on the couch, I walked over to the phone and picked it up "Hello?"
"Bells? Is that you?" Charlie's voice came through the ear piece, sounding stressed.
"Dad? What's wrong?"
"Bells, um… Get your mother on the phone."
"MOM! DAD WANTS TO TALK TO YOU!" I shouted towards the kitchen, forgetting to cover the mouth piece.
"Sheesh Bells, remember to move the phone next time you do that okay?"
Mom came up behind me then, drying her hands on a towel before she took the phone from me.
"What do you want Charlie?...She what?...They must be taking it hard…Yeah, they always did get along well together…He's what?...Sure Charlie, I'll send her for a few weeks…Okay…Bye." She hung up the phone before I could ask her what was wrong "Bella, go pack your bag-you're going to go visit Jake tomorrow."
"Really?" I asked, not believing what I had just heard- we just got off on our two-week long spring break, and I usually only visit Forks during the Summer.
"Yeah" I started bolting for my room "and Bella" I stopped, looking back at my mom "I think I'm going to go get take-out for tonight, I don't feel like cooking right now."
Whatever Charlie had said must've been pretty serious for my mom to give up cooking something right in the middle like she did.
I quickly drug my bag out and started shoving clothes into it as fast as I could- I was so excited to see Jake, and Seth, and Embry…
I didn't pay any mind when Renee gave me a card envelope addressed to Jake and Billy to give to them.
The next morning I was on a plane bound for Settac airport in Washington.
Charlie was waiting there for me when I got off the plane, and I greeted him with a huge hug, not so much because I was happy to see him as I was excited to be back in Forks and being able to see my friends again.
When we were in the cruiser, Charlie finally spoke to the elephant in the room "Did Renee tell you why you're here Bells?"
"To spend time with my friends?" Come to think of it, why was I here? No matter how much I'd beg before, she'd never cave in and let me visit… What was so different about this situation?
"I guess she didn't." Bells, look at me.
I turned, facing Charlie as he was paying attention to the road spread out in front of us.
"Bells Sarah was… Jacob's mother was in a car crash…"
"And she's okay?"
"No Bells… Sarah, she… she died at the scene."
I was frozen- Jake loved his mom to pieces, he would be crushed, no much more than that-devistated…
"What about Jake?" I asked as I started to come out of my daze, during which Charlie was thankfully silent.
"Jacob, well… He's not taking it too well Bells. He curled up on the couch on Thursday, and he hasn't moved since. He's not responding to anyone- Seth, Embry and Quil can't even get him to move; he hasn't eaten or drank anything since Thursday, and we don't know if he's gotten any sleep since then…"
"He's not talking to Seth or Embry, or Quil?" I was shocked- they were his best friends, usually he wouldn't be quiet around them.
"No, and Billy's getting really worried about him Bells. You're the only other friend he has that hasn't come to see him so we figured…"
"Be quiet and drive faster dad."
I don't actually know if he did drive any faster, but it didn't matter at all. The only thing that mattered to me was getting inside of the small red house that we were now pulling up in front of.
I impatiently followed Charlie to the front door of the house, and as soon as Charlie walked through the doorway, I shot into the house, latching myself onto Jake's statue like form, extracting a sigh from him, his arms moving for being wrapped around his knees to being wrapped around my body.
Everyone's held breaths were all released at the moment that Jake's arms moved, his glazed over eyes regaining a little bit of their previous luster. I tore my head from Jake's shoulder just long enough to notice Seth and Embry, along with Tiffany Call, Sue Clearwater and Joy Atera. If Joy was here then where was Quil? Charlie said that Quil was trying to help Jake out too…
I was broken from my train of thought by Jake hugging me harder, nuzzling his head into my neck, tears finally beginning to fall.
"Amazing…" I heard Charlie mumble as he walked into the room, pushing Billy, who was crying, over what I wasn't too sure- Sarah's death or Jake coming out of his statue-like state.
I essentially spent the entire first week at the Black's house, pulling Jake back from the brink of depression with the help of Seth, Embry and even Quil.
Jake was much better the second week, so I had to sleep at Charlie's house, though I still spent the majority of my day in La Push with Jake.
The day before I was going to fly back to Phoenix, Jake fell back into his statue-like routine. I made a split-second decision that to this day I still don't regret: I told Jake that I was going to stay.
I spent the next two days pulling Jake back from the brink, while Charlie had all of my school records transferred. It's amazing how quickly things like that get done when your father is a chief of police. Granted Renee was upset about my decision, but she understood my need to be around Jake- I was the only thing holding him together; keeping him alive, I was as important to him at that time as the air he breathed.
I learned over time that Jake would just sit there curled up like he was never eating and hardly ever drinking anything with his eyes glazed over like they were, and that he was barely breathing, the only movements that he made were the shallow breaths he took, until I came back.
I stayed, and never regretted never going back to Phoenix to be with my mom, but from what I gathered, after I had moved out of the house she had found herself another man, married him, and was now living in Jacksonville, Florida.
The accident that almost cost me my life came the following year, and for a few weeks after I got out of the hospital, Seth, Jacob and Embry all but worshipped the ground I stood on, showering me with so much forgiveness that I actually started making up with Quil, mending our brother/sister relationship so that I could get away from the others' groveling.
Then Charlie was transferred to the La Push police department when the previous chief of police died to an animal attack, bringing me even closer to my friends, making us almost inseperatable.
There are many dangers out in the world, both supernatural and not, but sometimes we forget the small things that can hurt more than anything else, such as forgetting to return that phone call or sleeping through the alarm that you set so you could get ready for your date, or not having enough money for that little extra something that would make that night all the more memorable.
But sometimes, the small things that you forget make the night all the more memorable than that small trinket anyway.
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Next up is Liza's chapter, followed by Danny's, so I suggest rereading Nix and Dustin's chapters.
This is getting very repetitious, even to me. Anyone else feel the same?
I WANT CANDY! (and reviews...)
