Part 1 - Surprise and Reactions

Bella pulled up outside the church, where Mary Ann Spears was to be memoralised and also where her Patrick was inside of, so she gave a small sigh, then took of her seatbelt and then with another breathe and straighten her back, she went out of her car, and walked into the church, pulling her mask on, as it was mandatorial to have masks on these days of what was going on in the world of 2021.

She was given a note of what would happen today at the service, and she looked around for her Patrick. Patrick Jr, named after his deseased father, Patrick Sr, and her true love. She had gone to be with her father for few days, and when she had been there for 3 days, Patrick had called her of the news of his mother's unexpected passing, and without a reason to tell her father or anyone else in Forks, she had packed her bags, and taken off to be with him and his family. His wonderful, big family of warmth and so much love, now losing another one of their family members, the mother of the whole family was gone.

After walking into the church, she looked around up front, and saw Michael, his older brother standing up, greeting the guests that came for Mary's funeral today, and he didnt nor any of Patrick's family knew that he had a girlfriend yet, so when Patrick lookd up from his phone, as she had texted him to look to the back of the church, for she was there now, and when he looked up and towards the back of the church, he lit up, and said excuse me to his brothers and only sister, and walked off towards the back of the church, while they looked wondering what was going on with him, since the crowd around them were blocking the view of where he went after disappearing behind the crowd, they had to wait to see where he went.

He reached her side, and despite her mask and tears down her cheeks, he went forward and pulled the mask down, and the two shared a quick, but warm kiss through their joined tears, and he pulled back, and said

"You came, baby." And she nodded and smiled gently, as she said

"Of course, I did, for when you texted me of M-Mary's passing, I just dropped everything and took off without a word to my dad or anyone really, for I just knew I had to be here with you, Pat. And always will be too."

At that he just lit up alittle and pulled her back into his arms, and held her there while she just held onto him, as Mary was the only one who had known about her and Patrick being together all this time, and now his brothers and only sister would find out today about her aswell. So he said

"Are you ready?" At she nodded, while biting her lip, and said herself

"Are you, babe?"

At that he nodded while with a soft smile on his lips, and the two took hands, and he lead her forward to his siblings were sitting, and they all were talking amongst themselves, as they came forward, Patrick sat down on his seat, and pulled Bella onto his lap, and his siblings stopped what they were doing and looked at the two with some shock and confusion.

Matthew, being eldest of the boys said

"Patrick, who is this with you, and is that where you went to aswell before?"

Patrick took a deep breath, as Bella rubbed the back of his neck and into his long, black hair, and he said

"This is Bella, my girlfriend. Bella, meet my brothers; Matthew, Michael, Clay, Eddie aswell Ryan, and this here is my only sister, Lesley."

Bella gave a polite wave and soft smile on her lips, while his siblings were shocked but really happy despite the sadness of today over themselves, and greeted her with warmth and some happiness, as Lesley said

"Oh Pat, you found the girl for yourself then?" Bella blushed, and laid her head onto his shoulder, hiding her redden face, as he chuckled, and said

"Yes, Les, this is my girl, my true love. Mama knew, as she got to meet Bella, well abit of a surprise visit of herself coming to my dorm-room, and Bella had slept over at my place. Lets say, Mama was first abit angry and surprised, but when she learned about me imprinting on Bella, she was so happy that she forgot it all,and hugged the two of us, well we weren't that decent under our duvet on the bed."

All of them were shocked of this revelation, and how it all happened, as Bella begged to him to stop the story, for it was too embarrassing to her at least, as they could see the redness grow from her face to her exposed chest area.

They all were just happy to hear that Patrick had found his true love, and imprint, as they were part of the tribe they were born into and they had the shapeshifting gene aswell, and their forms were of a huge bear and Patrick had shown Bella his after the fact.

She had fallen in love with him even more so that day or evening he shown her, and the two had sex for the first time that night aswell, and it was the next morning, the embarrassing moment with Mary, his mother had happened aswell. And that was a year or so ago. He just hadn't gotten the guts to tell his siblings of her yet, and today it had been time to tell them.

Mary had been so warm and welcoming after the initial shock of it all, and had welcomed her into the family with her own kind of warmth and made her feel like one of them at once, for she could also see that Bella could cook like a pro, and after Mary learned her own story of life, she could understand so much more of her painful story of life had been like to her.

Mary had become like a mother for her, someone she could phone and talk with whenever she needed a mother's advise, for her own would not be one at all to her, all her own so called mother cared about was about herself and her own needs, over her daugther's. Same with Bella's wayward, absent and non-emotional father, who all cared about was to fish, gossip with his best friends, and work, aswell try to fix her up with way too young Jacob Black, a son of his best friend, William "Billy" Black, but after tries of the 2 years she had been with her father to have a chance of going normally to a school, and graduated from it with good grades and shocking them all with the news of her being accepted to Northern University in South Dakota of all places, well lets say it made her leaving so much easier than before.

For the fight she had that evening with her father, was horrid and just made the whole ordeal easier on her part to actually leave state and town of Forks the very next day so much easier. For all her father gave her next morning of her leaving for the college, was cold shoulder and not even a hug or a goodbye from himself, and Jacob with his father had also been there, and Jacob had tried fruitlessly to convince her to stay for him, but she told him to literally fuck off and grow the hell up, for she had no time for children like himself to be with romantically nor ever.

He had looked so heartbroken of her harsh words thrown at him, while their fathers stood in shock of her treatment of Jacob, but all they could do was to watch her to take off in her new car, and leave them behind standing like fools by her father's house.

Now a week ago, she had gone back to get her last things, for Patrick and herself had just weeks earlier graduated from college in their Major choices, and she had gone to her fathers' for the week to gather the last of her things, for she was going to move in officially into Patrick's, now their house here in Aberdeen.

And she had been so exicted at first when she got there, for she felt maybe just maybe he has changed tune and moved on from more or less forcing her together with Jacob Black, 4 years younger than herself, whom she didnt even think of or even liked in that way. All she had seen was this very young boy following her around like lost puppydog even as kids he had done so, and it made her feel rather creeped out alot as child, but as she grew, she had grown angrier with him and his behaviour, and tried to tell her fathe of this, but all he did was to dismiss of her feelings about it.

Well it had not gone as planned, for as soon she had arrived back in Forks, she found herself surrounding instantly by Jacob, his stupid young friends, and her father was laughing with Billy like nothing had happened in these 4 years she had been gone from Forks, and that same evening when all of them had left to go back home, she had let him know that her feelings were the same as before, and she would not ever date Jacob or any other boys in town, for she did not love any of them, and she already was in a loving, caring relationship that was not from this town or state, and never would be either.

As her father could not know that Patrick was of supernatural realm, she only told him that Patrick was her true love and boyfriend, and also someone she was going to move in with when she came back from being here for the week, back in South Dakota, and that had pissed her father off something fierce, and he had done something he had never done before, and never did again after it either, for her threats thrown at him, had made him see the reality of things at least when it came to her and her well being, and that was he was not allowed to ever lay another hand on her. And she was also an adult that Jacob was not yet, and she did not love him like her father or his own father wanted them to do, for it was too late, for she was totally in love with her Patrick, and he won thousand times over little Jacob.

Either way, since that day, things had been cool and downright strange around the two, and Jacob got the cold shoulder or just being ignored while being in present of herself in same room, and it had made him rather confused and bit taken back, but others of his friends, realised that he had not imprinted on her, therefore she was not meant for him. And last night, before Patrick had called her about Mary's unexpected passing, she had told them all about Patrick and that she was his true mate, as in imprint and she had been for these 4 years being gone from Forks and La Push, therefore Jacob never even had a chance to be with her even before then.

It had shocked them all to their core to hear there were other tribes with shapeshifters, and that she was another tribal member's imprint, and she had accepted him straight after he imprinted on her aswell. She told them, that after this week, she might come back in town, but Patrick would be with her by then.

And the next morning, he had called her of the news, and without another word to her still angry, cold father, she had taken off and now here she was back in Patrick's arms, and mourning of the loss of his beautiful, kindhearted and warm mother, that had become like a true mother to herself aswell. Mary had known it all too, Patrick knew some of it, but not alot of it, but she felt it was time to come clean to him about everything really.

Afterall, later when she took off her mask, he would see the still red handprint on her cheek, for her father had laid his hand on her again that night before of his calling on her about Mary. And she knew it would piss him off something fierce, hopefully his siblings would keep him from running all the way and beat the hell up of her stupid arsehole of a father she was unlucky to have in her life. Even if he deserves it, she didnt want her father to find out too much of what he was or the secret he had in him either.

So here she sat on his lap, her head onto his shoulder, while the ceremony was going on around her, while thinking back on her life and the week away to be in Forks, to gather her last things of things at her father's place.