Heaven is waiting

Jacob Age: Sixteen Years, six-and-a-half months

July

Bella sat back on a rickety fold-up chair in Jake's garage, watching him work away on his car. This was the third time she had visited this week.

They hadn't done anything significant at all. Just sat around watching TV, eating whatever food they could find, or spent time in his garage. Jake was always happy to see Bella, but the conversation never seemed to last long. Most of their time together was spent in total silence.

"So, how's Charlie doing? Dad says he's been really busy..." Jacob said, attempting to start up the conversation again. He turned to face Bella as she lifted her chocolate eyes to meet his.

"Yeah. He's been working a lot on the missing persons cases... You know the girl that went missing, right?"

"Yeah." An image of Fay's face crossed his mind.

"Did you know her well?" Bella asked, a little hesitant on whether or not she should asks the question.

"As well as anyone could know a girl like that." He replied.

Bella's face wrinkled in confusion and she gave him a questioning look.

"She didn't talk much. Never really let anyone in." Jacob's eyes watered almost imperceptibly as he though about Fay and he quickly turned back to his car so Bella wouldn't see.

"Do you want to talk about it?" She asked even though it should have been clear he didn't.

"No." Jake said, a sharp bite to his words.

"Oh, okay." Bella slouched back into her chair as an uncomfortable silence once again bled into the room and enveloped them in a bone-crunching death grip. After several long moments passed, she spoke again. "I uhm... I think I should get going, leave you-" she started to stand but his words cut her off.

"No, please don't go." He begged. He spun back to face her, eyes wide with fear that she would leave him. "I just mean I don't want to talk about Fay. That seems to be all I ever do, these days." He muttered the last bit with a bitter tongue.

"Alright," Bella said, settling back down into the chair. "So... Uhm... How long until you'll have that car running again?" Bella questioned, changing the subject to something safer and less intrusive. A topic Jake would be happier to talk about.

"Well, it all depends on when I can get the parts she needs from Port Angeles. Until then I can't do much with her." Jacob tipped his chin toward the car and shrugged in disappointment.

"Maybe we could take my truck for a drive up to Port Angeles some time soon" Bella offered, grabbing at straws to cheer Jake up.

"I don't think it will make it that far," Jacob said, referring to the old red truck that Bella seemed to love in ways he couldn't understand.

"Don't be mean to my truck," Bella grinned. Jacob turned around, a teasing smile now playing on his lips as he attempted to make another comment about Bella's truck. But at the same time, Bella's phone began to ring. Bella pulled her phone from her back pocket, hitting answer button as she saw her father's name flash on the screen. "Hi, Charlie," she answered, pressing the phone to her ear.

Jacob couldn't hear anything said on the other end of the phone, but he knew it couldn't be good news. Bella's face dropped and she let out a shaky breath before muttering "Okay, bye," into the phone and hitting end on the call.

"What is it?" Jake asked, wiping his dirty hands on an old oil rag.

Bella swallowed nervously before lifting her scared gaze to meet his worried eyes. "A uhm... A body has been found by some hikers. Charlie asked for you to come back in for questioning."

Jacob Age: Sixteen Years, seven months

August

Jacob stared at the missing persons poster. An old, faded picture of Fay stared back at him. It was one of the first signs to be posted around town and after a few weeks the ink had smeared and was starting to fade away. But he could still see the girl he missed so dearly, staring straight back at him.

It was one month to the day since Sam had reported the other members of the Uley family missing and still there was no sign of Fay. It was as though she had just wandered off into the woods and simply disappeared. After hikers found Joshua Uley dead, little more had been done to find Fay. Police and volunteers had scoured the area but couldn't find any sign of Fay.

Sam had been the one to make the final call on whether to keep looking for her or not. He called off the search, and Jake couldn't understand how Sam could give up so easily. Nobody had been able to be confirm exactly how Joshua died, though it looked to have been some type on animal attack. But Jake still hoped Fay was out there somewhere, and he would keep hoping until someone showed him proof that confirmed otherwise.

Bella exited the small La Push gas station to see Jake staring longingly at an old missing persons flyer stuck to a nearby post. She truly felt sorry for him. She knew like everyone else in town that the girl was never coming back, but for some reason Jake just wouldn't give up. "Come on Jake. We need to get going if we're going to reach Port Angeles by lunch time."

Jacob looked back over his shoulder at the living, breathing girl before him. Bella was no Fay but that seemed like a good thing. "Yeah, let's go." Jacob said, moving towards Bella's truck. But he couldn't help looking back to the poster just one last time before climbing into the truck.

Bella Age: Seventeen Years

September 13th

Bella hated her birthday. The thought of being another year older scared her. Life went by to fast for her liking. And honestly, who would want to get older? To be pushed out into the real world to fend for yourself. Not Bella Swan, that's for sure. She liked her life at the moment. She liked the friends she had made at her new school. She liked the freedom and space she got from living with Charlie. She liked her faded red truck and she was even starting to like waking up to rain pattering against her window every morning. But most of all she liked spending time with Jacob Black.

In the short time she had been back in Forks, Jacob had become one of her closest friends. Whether it was just because he was the only other person her age that she knew, or if she just needed someone other than Charlie to talk to, she wasn't sure. But she remembered the fun times they shared as children and she found herself really enjoying Jacob's company. She didn't mind spending her free time with him.

But back to the topic of birthdays. Bella had been woken up by Charlie this morning and he handed her his gifts: A camera and a photo album. Bella liked the two simple gifts. She was a simple girl. Even though she would have preferred Charlie to not mention her birthday at all and not bother getting her any gifts, it was still better than birthdays with her mother. A birthday spent with Reneé usually started with her waking Bella up with hugs and kisses, crying as Bella opened her gifts. (Most of which Bella would never use and didn't want.) By the end of such a birthday spent with Reneé, Bella would be exhausted and was left feeling nauseated at the sound of another "Happy birthday" offered to her with a bright smile and an overzealous hug.

No one at school knew today was her birthday, so she felt happy going to school. The only problem was that one of the few people who knew that today was her birthday, was waiting in the school parking lot for her.

"Bella!" Jacob grinned. She hardly managed to get out of the truck before Jake had her in a tight in brace. "Happy birthday, Bells," he said, and after another moment let go of her.

"Hi, Jake. You didn't have to come all the way here just to wish me happy birthday."

"What, are you ashamed to be seen with me?" Jacob asked as a joke but Bella didn't seem to catch on. Her face fell as she quickly tried to rephrase what she had said.

"No, no. That's not what I meant. What I tried to say was that I planned on coming down to La Push this afternoon. You didn't have to come all the way here. Don't you need to get to school? I wouldn't want you to be late because of me."

"Chill Bella, I got plenty of time before I need to get to school and I know we had plans this afternoon, but I just wanted to give you your gift now."

"You didn't have to get me anything Jake," she said but Jacob wasn't phased by her words. He pulled a small dream catcher out from behind his back and held it out to the dark haired girl.

"I know it's not big or expensive but I saw it the other day and thought of you. It catches bad dreams." Bella smiled as she took the dream catcher from him.

"It's great. Thank you Jake."

"No problem. I have to get going but I'll see you this afternoon?"

"Yeah, see you then." Bella smiled and hugged Jake quickly before she turned to find her friends. The Cullen family watched her as she moved into the crowd of students. They couldn't work out why that human girl had such an effect on their brother. But only time would tell what would happen next.

Jacob Age: Seventeen Years

January 14th

Jacob smiled around his living room at all the people who had gathered to celebrate his birthday. He couldn't believe he was seventeen. It still felt like only yesterday that he was playing in mud puddles with Embry and collecting seaweed with Quil to later throw at his sisters. It felt like only yesterday that he had met Bella for the first time. And it felt like only yesterday that he had given up on finding Fay. Wait... that was yesterday.

Jake told himself if she wasn't going to come back for his birthday, then she was never coming back for him. And since she wasn't here, that meant she would never be here again. Every year Fay would craft him a bracelet for his birthday. Quil, Embry, and the guys would always laugh about Jake wearing a bracelet. They would say it was girly, but Jake didn't see it that way. He saw it as a labor of love. Something Fay had spent hours making using old Quileute weaving methods. None of the other gifts he'd received ever held as much meaning as Fay's bracelets. He didn't even think that much of them until he'd realised that he would never get another one.

There was a knock on the front door that drew Jake's attention. He was out of his seat in a second. He knew who that would be. Bella. Jacob flung the door open, a smile on his face... Only to see Chef Swan standing in front of the door, alone. A somewhat concerned expression on his face.

"Hey, Charlie," Jacob said, trying to hide the disappointment in his voice. "Where's Bella?" She hadn't been down to La Push much in the last few weeks, she had been spending most of her time with Edward Cullen. Jake know that guy was no good. Since Edward and Bella had started dating Bella had left Forks without giving Charlie a reason, broken her leg, fallen through a glass window, and stoped spending her free time in La Push. All things that made Jake hate Edward even more then he already had.

"She's not here? When she didn't come home from school this afternoon, I thought she probably came straight to you."

Jacobs birthday was soon forgotten and the search for Bella began. This search, unlike the others, was successful. Sam Uley found Bella in the woods and brought her back to her worried father. She looked unharmed, as though she had simply gone for a walk and gotten herself lost. She was cold, but otherwise looked normal. It was the sadness growing inside of her - the thing no one could see - that would leave the most damage.

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