Chapter 22: Coming Apart

Nessie's POV

I didn't stop running until I was a few blocks away. My lungs burned as I tried to get air in them. My legs felt like jelly after running so fast. I collapsed onto the ground feeling that my legs could no longer support my weight. I held my knees up to my chest. I felt like I was going to fall apart at the seams.

This was all too much for me. My own friend trying to rape me was just the cherry on the top of the shit cake life had given me these last few days. I was not sure how much more that I could take. I started crying. Now that the waterworks had been turned on there was no way that I could turn them off.

Something pushed against my body gently. The wolf pup whimpered as she nudged me again. She licked my face and I smiled. A weak smile. I ran my hands through her fur. She put her head against my chest and sighed. I could still see some blood in her mouth from where she had bitten Royce.

"I guess we have come full circle, haven't we?"

She looked up at me and tilted her head slightly. "I saved your life and now you've saved me,"

Her tail wagged and she licked my face again. I took a deep breath. I didn't know what to do or even what to think anymore. This was all way too much for me to handle. There was only so much I could go through and still come out in one piece. I was fracturing piece by little piece until I came apart completely.

"What do you think I should do?" I asked the wolf as if she could understand what I was saying.

I felt her body tense in my arms. She stood up and shook herself off. She threw her head back and let out a loud howl. Silence. Then she did it a second time. This time two distinctive howls answered back. They sounded like they were pretty far away. She went and climbed right back into my lap once again.

Her presence made me feel a little bit better. Then another thought occurred to me. She nd her sister were supposed to be euthanized. How did she escape? Did her sister get away also? I hope she did. I'd grieved for these two. Finding out that at least one of them was still alive made me smile.

She stood up so quickly that it made my head spin. My heart stopped beating when I saw the reason. Two horse sized wolves were approaching us. If I didn't know any better I would have thought they were horses. The bigger wolf had the same reddish brown fur that this wolf pup had. The other one had the same light gray fur that the other pup had.

She ran straight toward the pair of them. From the way they all nuzzled, licked each other, and wagged their tails I'd say that they all knew each other. Perhaps these were her parents. They were a beautiful wolf family.

The adult reddish brown wolf approached me carefully. I reached out carefully and touched him. He looked between his daughter then me probably wondering how we ended up together. The wolf pup cried a little. An unspoken communication seemed to have occurred between the two of them.

Anger flashed in the wolf's eyes. He growled. Then he returned his attention to me. He grabbed my arm and pulled on me gently. When I didn't move he pulled me again. I wasn't sure what he wanted me to do. He pulled me again. I got up and the three wolves began to walk away.

I remained frozen in time. The wolf looked back at me again expectantly. Did he want me to follow them? I didn't understand what was happening but strange things have been happening to me lately. So I decided to follow them. I noticed something strange when I looked into the wolf's eyes. They reminded me of Jacob's eyes.

Someone the witch said came back to me. About it not mattering if those who loved me were human, vampires, or shape shifter. Shape shifter. Could it be possible that Jacob could shape shift into a huge wolf? No. I shook my head. This was crazy. There was no such thing as shape shifters. Much like there was no such thing as vampires.

"Jacob?"

The wolf stopped so quickly that I crashed into my head. He looked at me curiously.

"It is you isn't it? Either that or I have completely lost my marbles,"

He shook his head 'not which meant that I wasn't crazy. I was right. But I didn't want to think about it to much because if I did would really lose my mind anyway. Vampires. Witches. Shape shifters. Wasn't there anything sane or normal anymore?

Or maybe I was crazy. Maybe after the attempted rape I'd just gone into shock and now my brain was dangerously close to snapping after everything I have gone through. Just as I had originally thought. I was surprised when I found myself outside of the Cullen house. Why had the wolves led me here?

"Nessie!" Bella shouted from the doorway. She looked extremely worried. She ran out and hugged me. "Nessie what happened? You're a mess! What happened?!"

"It's nothing," I tried to shrug her off.

"Come inside Ness," she urged.

I obeyed.

"Nessie what happened?" she looked worried.

"I-" I couldn't keep it inside anymore. I was going to have a nervous breakdown. "I was almost raped right now," I cried. This was embarrassing. The only people there were Bella, Rosalie, and now Jacob who had just walked through the door.

"What?! Who?!" she yelled.

"I thought he was my friend,"

"Who did this to you Nessie?" Rosalie asked me.

I couldn't answer. I didn't want to say his name out loud. He was my friend. We had been friends for so many years. I'd never imagined that he would be capable of doing something like this.

"What happened?" Bella asked me again.

"I was walking when he came running up behind me. I hadn't been paying attention when he was trying to get my attention. He asked me why I hadn't come to baseball practice and I told him that it was because I wasn't feeling up to it,"

"Okay," Bella said. "Go on,"

"After that he invited me over to his house and I declined. I said that I didn't think it was a good idea. He said that he wanted to show me a good time. He started getting angry when I told him no again. I reminded him that we were just friends. He didn't like that. When I told him that I was pregnant he got really angry. He threw me so hard that my head smacked against the brick wall behind me. I didn't realize what he was planning on doing until he held me against the wall and started undoing my pants. I tried to escape and I screamed for help but nothing worked. He just kept hitting me. He'd already managed to yank my pants and underwear down and was about to rape when something saved me,"

"What saved you?"

"It was my daughter Emma," Jacob said sounding like a proud father. "She was in her wolf form when she heard Nessie screaming and came to help. She attacked the boy and Nessie got away,"

"Who did it Nessie? I want names," Bella asked.

"My friend. Well my ex-friend Royce King VI,"

"What does he look like? Do you have a picture of him?" Rosalie asked me before Bella had the chance to speak.

I scrolled through pictures on my phone until I found one of him.

Rosalie looked at Bella in a way that sent chills down my spine. "Bella would you like to help me take care of something really quickly?"

"I'd be more than happy to,"

"I'm coming with you two," Jacob added.

"Where are you three going?" I was afraid to ask.

"Oh don't worry Nessie. We'll be right back," Rosalie had a smile on her face that kind of scared me a little. "We just need to take care of something quickly,"

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