Chapter Three: Drain You

Everything went to shit since that day, my parents were never home they were always at either at Billy's or at Old Quil's. I tried hanging around my uncle Harry's place, but it was just as lonely no one was ever home. Seth had Collin and Brady, Leah was always off with Sam, uncle Harry was wherever the rest of the old men were, and aunt Sue was either working or with my uncle Harry.

This all wouldn't have bothered me if Kim wasn't leaving in two days. I knew she wasn't leaving forever but she helps me stay sane when the boys were being complete idiots.

"Kiiiiiiim…don't gooooo!" I whined.

"You do this every year, you know." She says while folding some shirts.

"Yea but maybe you'll change your mind this time."

"No dice."

This is what we did every time, days before she left, I would come over to 'help pack' but really, I'd just lay on her bed begging for her to stay while watching her pack.

"You know, for a girl who was dying by worm, you bounced back quick."

"Well, it helped knowing Quil ended up grounded for a week." Just thinking of it put a smile on my face.

"Only because Jacob told on him to your dad." She gives me a look. "You should be lucky that he has your back like that. If it was anyone else, they would've ratted you out for pushing Quil."

"I know but it's not like I asked for him to do that for me." I say as I clutch one of her pillows.

"Especially since you were throwing up on everyone." I see her put a shirt to her face to try and hide her laughing.

"I only threw up on Quil!" God once Quil was done being grounded I knew he was going to give me hell for that.

"Sorry I'm not gonna be around to help you hide from him."

"Please, you know he would hunt me down anyways."

Kim's mom walks into the room saying that my mom called asking for me to come home already. As much as I didn't want to leave Kim's side, it was nice hearing she was looking for me. Lately it felt as though I wasn't my parents main concern with Carlisle being the hot topic of La Push.

Apparently tonight we were eating dinner at my Uncle Harry's place, mom had waited for me at home while dad was already there. When I tried asking her what the occasion was, she just told me, "There doesn't need to be an occasion for all of us to gather for dinner.", which to me was a load of crap. Sure, we ate breakfast together in the weekends but that's because dad and Uncle Harry liked to start drinking early on Sunday if there was a football game. But dinner was reserved for birthdays or holidays unless they went hunting that day then that was a whole other story.

"I'm glad you two finally made it everyone is already inside." Aunt Sue greeted us at the door.

As we walked in, I noticed that Billy Black was also here which had me thinking they had spent the entire day discussing about the new doctor. It seemed that neither of them had noticed us walk in having this be the perfect opportunity to try and listen in on them. Mom and aunt Sue had went to the back to look for another table to bring in, leaving me alone in the kitchen acting as if I was looking for something in cabinets.

"What are you doing." I hear a deep smooth voice whisper in my ear.

"Holy shit!" I jumped having me slam the cabinet door on my left hand having me clutch it to my chest in pain.

"Woah! Sorry Adeline, I thought you heard me."

I turn around coming face to face with Jacob, he was standing really close to me and didn't seem like he was going to budge either.

"Is your hand okay…you slammed it pretty hard." He says as he lifted my hand to have closer look at it. I couldn't get myself to say anything to him as he examined my hand, him being this close to me had my heart racing.

"It doesn't seem too bad maybe we should just ice it." He says as he finally pulls away from me to get an ice pack from the freezer.

Once he finds it, he comes back to hold my hand again and begins to ice it for me. Little things like this would make me nervous with Jacob, before I would have just pushed him away saying how annoying he was. But now it was different now I wanted nothing more than for him to be near me in any way I could without it being obvious.

"What's got your head in the clouds that you didn't hear me coming." He says as he looks at me with a small smile.

"I was just getting plates to set up for dinner it's not that deep."

"Sure, Sure. Expect that was the spice cabinet." He says while giving me a pointed look.

God kill me, I was too busy trying to see if I could hear what the men in the living room were saying that I never thought to make a good enough cover plan in case I was busted. Then again, I didn't think Jacob would be the one busting me.

"Ummm…."

"That's not answer Addie." He chuckles at me.

"Why do you care what I was doing in the cabinets its not like this is your house."

"Because you usually go straight to the couch."

"Well if you paid attention, you'd see the living room is taken."

"Yea…Dad's been here all day." Suddenly Jacob's demeanor changed.

"They been hanging around each other more than usual. Do you know what's going on?"

He looks back at the living room quickly, "Not really just that this family called the Cullen's moved into Forks not too long ago. But it has something to do with this treaty they made with my great grandpa."

"What treaty?" I should have known Jacob knew more about what was going on.

"You know the one from the legends."

"Stop fucking around Jacob! You said it yourself that those legends aren't true," Just when I thought he was being serious.

"I never said they were. I'm just saying that's what has them all worked up. Since they aren't upholding their ancestors part of the treaty or something like that. Honestly, they probably don't even know what the hell these old men are jabbering about. They most likely just moved here since their great grandparents owned land close to Forks."

Jake has always thought the tribe's legends of the cold ones and spirit warriors to be just scary stories, I could only imagine how annoyed he must be hearing his dad plus the rest of the older men take them seriously.

"…Maybe they are real…"

"Not you too, I thought you didn't believe in those legends anymore."

"Well this wouldn't be such a big deal if they weren't some kind of truth to them." I suggested to him.

"I can't believe you are entertaining the idea of cold ones being real." He just looks at me while shaking his head.

Just then Seth walks into the kitchen with a grin on his face, "Hey what'cha guys doing in here?"

Jacob just shrugs. "Nothing Addie was just trying to get a slice of that cobbler your mom made."

"Addie you know we can't eat cobbler before dinner." He looks at me worried poor kid he's so gullible sometimes.

"He's right Songbird we wouldn't want you to ruin your appetite."

We all turn around to see my dad standing by the kitchen's threshold glaring at Jacob who was standing right by me.

"Why don't you and Seth see if your mother needs help setting up, I need to have a word with Jacob."

Before I could say anything, Seth had dragged me out of the kitchen not sensing the tension in the room.