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Rating: T (language and slight sexual references)

Pairing: JB/EC

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Chapter 5: A Serious Matter of Infidelity

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(Edward's POV)

(Flashback)

When Jake had started throwing the looks my way I just knew he was asking for one thing and one thing only. His thoughts were testimony to the fact that he was wary of me with Bella around. She was my girlfriend.

I stared right back however, noticing Bella become more and more annoyed with our behavior. She pulled away from him and after a failed attempt at diffusing the tension, Jasper and Alice came in. When Jasper's attempt at making peace failed, Bella just gave up and left. I didn't follow her because I knew she needed space.

The Mutt…the Freak…whatever, was starting to grate on my nerves with the less-than appropriate thoughts about Bella. She was his best friend for goodness sake. Of course I knew how he felt about her though….

"Listen Edward. Bella is just as much mine as she is yours. I've known her longer anyway so I think you should just let it go."

I quirked an eyebrow at him, "Oh really mutt, well I'm the one she loves so you can just let that go." Something inside of me didn't quite sit right with what I'd just said, and I could tell that Jacob felt the same way, the frown on his face held proof in my thoughts. Jasper sent a calming wave through the room, but we continued to glare at each other.

"I don't want you two fighting. He's stronger than you think Edward," Alice informed me. "Good, maybe I should test it out on him." Jacob would really have to learn how to speak more carefully…or in other words--think more carefully. I knew my smirk would catch him off guard, so I did it with the utmost intentions of startling him and of course handing him a challenge on a silver platter. Without looking back, I shot out of the back door, ignoring Alice's glare as I ran past her.

(End Flashback)

I was a few miles out before I became aware that Jacob was actually chasing me. I smirked once again. I had the upper hand in this. I was going to lead him on like never before. I had it all mapped out in my head within seconds. I could hear him running three miles behind me and closing in fast. I would let him get as close as a mile and then double back to start running behind him. I was recreating the night he'd been attacked, and though I was at a question of morality here, who could blame me? Bella was mine and he'd have to learn how to accept that one way or another.

Just after I hit the fourth mile I slowed down to a near speed walk. "Ten…nine…eight…seven…six…five…four…three…two…one," I mentally counted down. He was now two miles behind me. Doing this with all of the speed I possessed, I ran to my left and kept going until half a mile, turned around, ran past the point that I had stopped before turning, then proceeded to the right until half a mile. I was leaving my scent on everything I came across.

"I'm going to strangle that leech when I get my hands on him," I heard Jacob think. A chuckle broke through my lips. He was so hypocritical. I waited only for a minute before I decided to turn and cross paths with him, unseen, of course. Running about a mile and a half away from the main path I'd created, I felt as if I were on a drug. I'd never done something like this before, I'd never tracked.

We were getting closer to each other. I could smell him, the slight breeze was pulling his scent towards me and mine away from him. He would have to outdo the wind itself if he ever wanted to catch me….

He stopped. I stopped--came to a screeching halt. I heard his thoughts, "He's playing with me…silly Edward, when will you learn that I'm smarter, faster, stronger and more adept than you?" I didn't move. I didn't breath, (not that it was necessary, but for precautious reasons…).

"I got there and got back before you even noticed leech." What? I didn't even hear him move from that spot.… "I guessyou were distracted by the fact that you thought, you were going to get me before I got you," he whispered in my ear. I didn't move, irked by how mesmerizing his voice sounded…. "I know you're able to read minds Cullen--" I turned around, coming face-to-face with him. "Don't look so surprised. Alice told me." I rolled my eyes, of course Alice told him.

We were so close. Suddenly Alice's vision came flooding into the forefront of my mind and I saw every detail of the forest around us in the blink of an eye. It looked exactly how her mind's eye portrayed it. Looking down I could clearly see it…the blood. The human blood that that monster had spilled when he bit every crucial vein that Jacob possessed. The smell was old and faded like a pair of over washed jeans.

"You wanted me to come here," I heard him say. I looked up and saw the shadow lace its way across his face. I felt I had to explain, "I only wanted to--" "You only wanted to twist the knife a little more didn't you?" "No Jacob I didn't--" "Bella doesn't deserve someone like you! You're a liar and you fucking cheat," he spat at me, venom seeming to drip from those words. The look on his face, the pure rage and hatred splayed so openly for me to see. He was showing me raw emotion. He always showed me the raw emotions that I'm sure no one else saw at any point in time in his life.

I wanted him to keep going, "Jake--" "Don't fucking call me that! Who the hell do you think you are," he seethed at me, getting closer, but never lifting a finger. I smirked, "I'm Edward Cullen, Isabella Swan's boyfriend, the one who loves her and knows that she feels the same." He took it. I felt the punch before his fist actually collided with my jaw and I soundlessly let the force of it throw me backwards into a tree. He was standing over me immediately, nostrils flared, eyes blazing, teeth bared… "Take that back." He was on the ground in a flash, "No," I simply stated.

I was underneath him faster than I'd anticipated. "I will kill you," he seethed. I kicked him off of me and watched as he collided with a boulder behind us. "It would kill Bella and you know it," I taunted, remaining cool and collected. Without any kind of warning, mental or otherwise, I was swiftly but gently, backed into a tree, his lips firmly against mine.

My mind went blank. I couldn't hear his thoughts. His eyes were closed; I couldn't pick up any of his emotions if I tried.

It seemed as if we were standing there forever; we'd only been there for three hundred and sixty-two seconds. When we broke apart, Jacob slowly opened his eyes. They had darkened considerably, the red was nearly black and the brown was black…but I could tell he was hiding his thoughts from me, thinking of the blood I'd seen on the ground a couple hundred feet away from us. I stayed still.

"It would hurt Bella more if she knew what just happened between us," he whispered, his words neither harsh nor malicious. They made me feel more threatened in any case. He hadn't just been talking about the kiss, because even he could see what I was so unsure about. Now he had one up on me. He wasn't expecting me to lunge at him, nor was he expecting me to kiss him, switching our positions so that he was the one against the tree and I was the one with my leg in between his…

Jacob didn't respond at first but when I bit down on his lip to thrust my tongue into his mouth, he couldn't resist any longer. "I am not kissing you," he thought at the exact moment that his arms wound themselves around my neck. I smirked but continued to ravage his mouth, oddly moist with the sweetest flavor I'd ever tasted…like sugar and honey, two of the most addictive saccharine drugs out there. We could have been there for days, but as the sun started to go down, we broke apart simultaneously; I realized it had only been an hour since our flight from the house.

Jake was leaning heavily against the tree, my arms were still around his waist. His eyes were half closed, staring at me with an odd expression. "Alice probably knows what we're up to," I tried breaking the ice after several minutes had gone by. He continued to stare. There was no need to read his mind to know what, or rather, whom, he was thinking of. Bella's face immediately flooded my mind and for the first time in that whole entire day, I felt lower than the dirt I was standing on. Jacob's words from earlier came flooding back to me,

"Bella doesn't deserve someone like you! You're a liar and you fucking cheat."

He didn't look at me, not once did we make eye contact as he said, "Let's go back." I didn't argue, I didn't say a word. I let him go ahead of me and by the time I got back home, Alice was right where I'd expected her to be. She gave me a look as I walked through the back door, "What did you do to Jake?" She couldn't be more wrong if she'd wanted to be. Silently I made my way up to my room, followed tensely by my sister.

"Why did you do that Edward?" "You knew we were going to," I growled, running my hands through my hair, going to stand by my large window. "No I didn't Edward. It wasn't supposed to end like that and Jacob seemed really upset when he came back," she sang impatiently. I turned on her, feeling for the first time since I'd met her, like I really wanted to rip her head off. Her expression changed immediately. She shut her mind off to me and left silently. I heard her knock gently on Jacob's door, then go in without another word.

Letting out a frustrated growl I ran out of the house, ignoring Esme and Carlisle as I went. I needed to be alone, to think. The small cabin that I'd built out in the woods on our property, was the perfect place to do just that. When I opened the door, I was met with a very unexpected surprise….

(A/N: OOOh SNAPS! It's another CLIFFY! *sorry about that* but at least we know they didn't kill each other! Let me know how you liked it! If it was too random please tell me because I thought maybe a few things I threw in there would seem pointless so...yeah, just throw the rock at me if need be! Thank you!)