Elena's POV: (Opening thoughts)
Bella is buying tickets, everyone has cancelled besides Jake and Mike. Which means why Elena and Jake are here together it leaves me with Mike.
Bella has just finished getting the tickets and we are heading back towards the men. I have just got off of the phone with Eric.
"Jessica bailed," I tell the two. "And Angela got the stomach flu, so Eric's taking care of her."
"It's just us four," Bella tells them.
"Great," Jake says and he smiles at us.
Mike looks a little less enthusiastic.
We are now in the movie. Okay maybe this is a little more violent then I thought. Even what they are saying is violent. I glance to my right where Jake and Bella are holding hands and sharing a bucket of popcorn. Then I glance to my left where Mike has his hand, palm up resting on the arm rest.
He probably wants to hold my hand but it is not going to happen.
I move my eyes back towards the screen.
"Okay I think I'm gonna throw up!" Mike says and all three of us look around as he runs out of the cinema looking a little green.
The three of us decide to follow him rather then continue watching the movie. He had run into the toilets just down from the room.
"Jeez," Jake says as he comes out after Bella and I. "What a marshmallow. Elena you should hold out for someone with a stronger stomach. Someone who laughs at the gore that makes weaker men vomit."
"Yeah I'll remember that," I say but then I begin to look down and awkward as Jake takes Bella's hand. "I feel bad, he's probably got that flu going around."
Jake glances at me. "What I can't hold her hand now?"
"Of course you can," I say and Bella sends me an apology look. "It's just still hard for me to watch that kind of stuff. You two remind me so much of me and E- and me and Damon."
Still cannot say his name.
I sit down on the stairs and Jake and Bella sit on either side of me.
"Look I know what both of them did to you," he says to me and I glance at him. "Elena, I would never do that to Bella and I will never ruin or run away from my friendship with you. I won't ever hurt either of you. I promise. I won't let either of you down. You can count on me."
I hug him as I had nodded all the way through his speech. Bella hugs me after.
"Well," Mike says coming out of the bathroom looking very clammy and sweaty. "I need to go home." I nod and so does Bella but Jake seems to glare at him as we stare at Jake. "I'm... I was feeling sick before the movie, okay? What is your problem?"
Jake for some reason looks angry. Like he wants to hit Jake.
What's wrong with him?
"Right now, you're my problem," Jacob says to Mike. "Feeling sick? Maybe you need to go to the hospital. Want me to put you in the hospital?"
By the end of his second question he had stood up and taken a step towards Mike, who had stepped back looking scared.
"Jake, Jake, Jake," Both Bella and I say at the same time and then Bella grabs his hand and she for some reason flinches. "The movie's over, what are you doing?... Jake you're burning up."
I touch his forehead and also flinch as I can feel how hot he is as well.
"Jake I think you have a fever," I tell him worried that he has the flu as well. "Are you okay?"
"I don't know what's happening," Jake tells us both. "I gotta go."
Mike scoffs as Jake walks off, probably heading home. "Dude is weird."
Over the next few days Bella and I are not allowed near Jake. I try to phone him. I remember what I said.
Jake, your dad says you have mono? He won't let Bella and I come and see you but can you call one of us.
It's not the last phone call and after a week I am stood at the sink, I was worried about Jake. He still had not called me. Or Bella. This seems way too familiar.
"Jacob, please, call me," I say into the phone, as Bella waits at my side.
"Okay we should be back around three," Charlie tells me and then he must have approached us as he sighs and calls out to us so we will turn around. "Hey. Look, you guys I don't have to go fishing today."
"Yes you do," Harry Clearwater says who was also in the kitchen.
"Yeah, you do," Bella agrees.
"Go what are you talking about?" I give three votes for them to go. "Just be careful."
"Always am," he says just like he always does.
As he walks away Harry Clearwater approaches us both and begins to speak. "The bears won't get the drop on me you two. My Kung Fu is strong."
We nod before he smiles and leaves.
When they are gone I turn to Bella. "You okay?"
She nods but then she grabs the keys for the truck.
"Let's go see Jake," she tells me.
We head there with Bella driving. I am beginning to have flashback to when Damon did this to me. It is so familiar. It is making me struggle to concentrate so I do not dare drive.
"Is that...?" I say slowly as we arrive at Jake's to see a young man with very short hair and wearing shorts in the pouring down rain, walking across the grass of the Black's garden. "Jake?"
She looks shocked but she nods. Her boyfriend looks completely different. She parks the truck and we both jump out.
"JAKE!" We both call out as he heads around the side of his house. "HEY!"
He finally stops and turns to the two of us. We are shocked at his new appearance but it's the tattoo on the side of his arm that shocks me the most.
"You cut your hair off?" Bella says and he cannot seem to take his eyes off of her.
"And got a tattoo," I say still staring at his arm. "The same one Damon did."
"Bella, Elena," he says almost in a whisper and he still does not glance my way properly. It's like Bella is the center of his universe.
"We thought you were too sick to come outside!" I snap at him wondering what the heck is going on.
"Or pick up the phone when your own girlfriend calls," Bella continues but she seems more upset then angry.
"Go away," he tells both of us but it seems like it is hurting him to say it.
"What?" Bella and I both ask shocked.
Please let this all be a dream and not what happened to me happening to my sister.
"Go away," he repeats this time his voice a little higher.
"What happened to you?" Bella asks him. "What's wrong?"
I see he is walking away so I stop him by yelling. "HEY! What happened? Did they get to you?! Is that's what happening?"
He gets upset.
"Sam and Damon are trying to help me," he says and then he pays full attention to me with his next few lines. "Don't blame them. But if you want somebody to blame, how about those filthy bloodsuckers you love Elena?"
I look down and Bella looks at me in confusion. Not good. How did he know that. I'm gonna have to lie.
"What?" Bella asks.
"The Cullens," he glares at her before recognition crosses his face. "You didn't know."
"Know what?" She asks turning to me. "Elena?"
I try to play dumb. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"You know exactly what I am talking about," he snaps at me and I can see Bella's scrutinizing look as she realizes this is about what she thinks I am keeping from her. "You've been lying to everyone Elena. Charlie," he then glances at Bella. "And it even seems you've lied to your own twin. But you can't lie to me. Not anymore Elena."
"JACOB!" A voice yells and I look behind Jake to see Sam, Damon and the rest of the gang that Jake had been avoiding up to now. "JACOB!"
The person who had yelled was Sam but I couldn't take my eyes off of Damon. If Jake knows I dated a vampire does Damon.
Jake looks around at them before turning to us with a pained look on his face. "Look Elena. We can't be friends... Bella I want to be with you but how can I hang out with you when I cannot be around Elena anymore."
"Jake I know I haven't been very nice when it comes to you and Bella going out," I say with my voice trembling as Bella continues to glare at me. "But It's killing me. It kills me that you guys cannot be together properly why I am around. But don't take it out on Bella. If you guys just give me a bit of time-"
"Don't," he cuts me off and then he glances from me, to Bella and back again. "It's not you two."
"It's not us," Bella says stepping forward with tears in her eyes. "It's not you two it's me right?"
"Really?" I ask worried about how this is gone end.
This reminds me of six years ago.
"It's true," he informs us. "It is me. I'm not good. I used to be. A good kid. Not anymore. This doesn't even matter all right? This is over."
"You can't break up with me," Bella says and he seems really hurt. "I mean Jake we've been together for ages now. You are what I love the most in Forks."
"And you're my best friend," I tell him but I can see he isn't budging. "You promised me you wouldn't hurt Bella like he did me and you would always be here for me as a friend."
"I know," he tells me. "I promised I wouldn't hurt Bella and ruin our friendship. This is me keeping that promise. Go home. And don't come back or you're gonna get hurt."
He then runs off and Bella turns to me.
"What the hell was he talking about?" She asks me. "Bloodsuckers? Cullen's?"
She stops and she seems to remember something.
"Bella..?" I begin slowly.
"The story on the beach!" She exclaims and as I go to step towards her she steps back. "About the Cullens and them being cold ones... it's true... and you knew."
"Bella," I whisper but she rips my arm out of her reach.
"NO!" She snaps and I cringe back. "I asked you to tell me. You said you were not hiding anything... you swore that their was nothing going on... and you lied."
"It wasn't my secret to tell," I tell her with tears in my eyes and she has fire in hers. "How could I reveal something to you that put my health in danger. Nearly cost me my life! I nearly died last June and no I didn't fall down two flights of stairs and through a window!"
She stops and goes wide eyed. "I didn't think about that."
"No you wouldn't!" I yell as I stroke the crescent moon scar on my wrist. "ALL YOU EVER THINK ABOUT IS ME LYING WELL IVE HAD IT!"
I run off with Bella calling my name but I ignore her.
QUEENC2020:
Uh oh twin issues.