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Chapter 11: Meeting Jacob Black.

Bpov

Charlie ushered me into the kitchen, where I met two people. One was a young boy, about sixteen years old. He was really tall, almost as tall as Emmett. He had russet-colored skin and shoulder-length black hair. He smiled brightly at me as I came in the door, and I couldn't help but smile back. I assumed that this must be Jacob.

The other person was Billy Black. I remembered him from when I was younger. He had the same long black hair and russet skin as Jacob. He was wheelchair bound from an accident many years ago.

"Hi, Bella. I'm Jacob. I was hoping we'd meet soon and I thought since it's your birthday I'd drive dad up to see you. How do you like the truck?"

"Hi, Jacob. It's great. I love it. Dad said that you fixed it up. Quite the handy man, huh?"

"Yeah. It's more of a hobby. I'm currently building a 1986 Volkswagen Rabbit. You wouldn't happen to know where I could find a master cylinder for it?" he asked jokingly.

"Oh yeah. I carry one in my back pocket in case of emergencies, you know," I joked back. He seemed very easy to get along with. I could tell we were going to be good friends.

"Well, if you do happen to come across one let me know."

"No problem. I'll keep my eyes wide open whenever I go looking for car parts, because that's something I do all the time." I added a hint of sarcasm to my voice. "But in all seriousness, if I do happen to find a master ... whatever for your Volkswagen ... thing, I'll definitely let you know."

We carried on chatting easily with each other until I looked at the kitchen clock, 1 o clock in the morning. Crap! I have to get up for school in a few hours.

"Hey, I'm sorry I didn't realize the time, but I have to get up for school in a few hours. I just got so carried away with our conversation." His face seemed to fall a bit.

"Bella, it's okay. It was nice talking to you. I'll let you go to bed now."

"Okay. Hey, maybe I can come down to La Push sometime."

Jacob's face lit up again and he smiled that infectious smile of his.

"Yeah, that'll be great."

I said goodbye to Jacob and Billy and said goodnight to Charlie.

I somehow managed to get up in the morning for school. I crawled out of bed, showered quickly, and got dressed.

When I arrived at school, Edward, Alice, Rose, Jasper, and Emmett were waiting for me by their cars. I hadn't noticed Emmett wasn't there last night. He must've stayed at the Hales.

"Hey, guys. I'm a bit late today. Charlie had visitors last night. You might know them. The Blacks from La Push. They were the ones who owned my truck before me. Well, yeah, they were visiting, and I was so busy talking to Jacob, I forgot about the time."

I noticed that Jasper seemed to flinch when I mentioned Jacob and Edward's face held a blank expression.

"Are you guys okay?"

Edward nodded and walked on ahead with Alice and the others. Jasper stayed back and stopped walking.

"Bella, I think you should stay away from Jacob Black. He's bad news."

"I think he's actually very charming Jasper."

He sighed and shook his head.

"He may seem like that at first, Bella, but he's not. He's good for nothing. He goes out drinking all the time, even though he's underage, and he doesn't know the proper way to treat women. He'll charm them with his smile and good looks, he'll treat them nice and then discard them once he's gotten what he wants. He a good for nothing waste of space. I know we're not really that close, Bella, but please trust me on this. I don't want anything bad to happen to you."

"But how do you know all this? It's only you and Edward that seems to have a problem with him."

Jasper ran his hand through his hair and looked very stressed.

"That's because we saw him do something the others don't know about. One night about a year ago, Edward and I were out getting a few things for a party Alice was hosting. We went into the shop and got our things. As we were walking past an alleyway, we heard a noise that sounded like a cry so we decided to check things out. He was there with a girl named Hayley and when he saw us approaching, he ran. The girl was in floods of tears and she kept saying, 'I thought he loved me. He was just using me.' Edward went to run after him, but Jacob was too fast. We tried to get Hayley to press charges, but she wouldn't. We took her to the hospital to be checked out, and thankfully, everything was okay. We didn't tell the others because we didn't want to ruin the night, and afterwards there was never a right time to say anything. I'm telling you this, Bella, because you're my friend and I care about you, and I don't want you mixing with scum of the earth like him."

"Thanks, Jasper. I know you're only looking out for me, and I really appreciate it."

I couldn't believe what he was saying about Jacob. We couldn't be talking about the same person. Jacob was none of the things Jasper was calling him. But, why would he lie about something like that unless it was true. Maybe he made a mistake and mistook that person for Jacob. I mean all the guys down at La Push look similar. They all look like brothers; it'd be easy to mistake one for another. That's what must've happened. Jasper and Edward simply made a mistake.

I needed to find out the truth. After school, I'd go to La Push to sort things out.

Edward seemed to be in a better mood after my chat with Jasper.

"Hey! How are you? Sorry I was a bit off this morning. I'm sure Jasper explained that to you."

"He did and I'm great, thanks, now that you're in a better mood. I probably won't be able to hang out after school today. I'm going to La Push to sort out things with Jacob."

Edward's eyes widened and I saw anger flash across them. His lips thinned into a line, and his entire body tensed.

"Bella! You're still going after all that Jasper told you."

"Yes, I am. I need to find out the truth. What Jasper says just doesn't seem like Jacob. I know I've only met him but already I consider him a good friend."

"But Bella ..." I cut across him.

"Just let me do this, Edward. How do you know that it was he, for sure? It was dark and all the La Push guys look similar anyway. You could've easily been mistaken. Did Hayley actually say it was Jacob?"

He thought about it before answering. I knew that I had won.

"Yes, it was dark and no, Hayley never actually said it was Jacob, but that's because we never asked. We were both so sure it was Jacob."

"See, Edward, you have no evidence. I'm going, whether you like it or not."

His eyes looked sad and I couldn't bare seeing Edward sad, so hoping to cheer him up I said, "How about I come over to your house afterwards and we'll have a sleepover."

As I hoped, it worked. His face broke out into a cheeky grin.

"A sleepover, huh? Does that mean you'll be staying in my room? We could do each other's hair, although I can think of other things we could do for fun!"

The cheeky bugger.

"Oh really? Like what?" I loved flirting with him.

"I don't know. We could play Monopoly."

"Monopoly? It's fun but not quite what I was thinking."

"And what, pray tell, were you thinking of?"

I blushed and lowered my head. I wasn't going to say. Edward saw my embarrassment and pretended to be outraged.

"Well, I never imagined, Miss Swan."

He wrapped his arms around me and kissed me softly on the head before whispering in my ear,

"I think I prefer your idea of fun." I blushed an even deeper shade of crimson, if that were possible, and he chuckled softly.

When the bell rang for the end of school I rushed to my truck, where I saw Edward waiting for me. I ran up to him and jumped in his arms.

"I'll see you later, hon." I kissed him on the lips and hugged him.

He held me closer to him, not wanting to let me go.

"Edward, chill. I'll be back before seven. You can send out a search party if I'm late."

He hugged me again and kissed me deeply as if to remind me what I'd be missing while I was away. I was almost tempted to not go then and spend the day with Edward. Almost.

I drove to La Push and eventually found the Black house. I had a vague memory of this area from when I was younger, but it probably would've been wise to bring Charlie with me. I pulled up into the drive and saw Jacob come bounding out of the house.

"Hey, Bella. I could hear that old thing a mile away. I didn't expect to see you so soon." He grinned at me and I grinned back. Jacob's happiness was infectious. Being in his presence you couldn't help but feel happy.

"Well, Jacob. It's your animal magnetism. You can't keep me away."

We laughed and chatted for another while. I was at ease in his company.

"Actually, Jake, I do have a reason to visit. You see, some of my friends aren't exactly . . . jumping for joy about our friendship."

His eyes narrowed.

"Why? Has someone said something? I bet it was that Edward Cullen. He doesn't like him but the feeling's mutual." He spat out Edward's name.

I felt my anger flare up at the way he said Edward's name.

"No, it wasn't, and I'd appreciate it if you didn't talk about my boyfriend like that."

"Your boyfriend!"

"Yes, my boyfriend, but that's not the point. Edward didn't say anything. It was someone else. They didn't say very nice things about you."

"What did they say?" he snapped.

"Calm down, Jake. They said that you only use girls for one thing, and then dump them. They also said that you're practically an alcoholic."

He seemed to calm down. "Bella, what do you believe?"

I looked deep into his dark eyes and told him the truth.

"I honestly think that they're mistaken about you. I've only known you a day, but I've gotten to know you pretty well in that short space of time, and I really don't think you're like that."

He smiled warmly at me and I was positive the things that Jasper had said couldn't be true. Nobody who was this warm and kind could ever do such a thing.

"Jake do you know a girl called Hayley?"

He froze at the name and for some reason he avoided my gaze.

"Hayley? She ... uh ... she used to be my girlfriend but sometime last year we broke up. I haven't heard much about her since then. I know that a short time after we broke up something happened to her, and then shortly after that, she moved. We never found out exactly what happened."

I felt like I should believe him, but I had this strangest feeling that he may not be telling the truth. I ignored that feeling and decided that he was telling the truth.

I was so confused. I wanted to be friends with Jacob, but I didn't want to upset Edward or Jasper. I didn't want to have to sneak around to see Jacob, either, because if Edward finds out, then he might not trust me again. I was going to have to try to convince him to deal with the fact that Jacob was my friend.

Edward didn't own me, and he couldn't tell me who I could and could not see, but at the same time, I wanted him to get along with my friends.

I guess I'd just have to talk to him about it.

Great!

A/N So in the next chapter she'll be talking to Edward. It's still mid-September in the story so I'll probably skip forward to mid-December in the chapter after the next one so I can get started on my kick-ass awesome idea.

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