Chapter 2 – Fights and agreements

BPOV

When the morning came, I still hadn't understood it all. I hadn't slept at all, and it was six o'clock. I took a shower and put on some clothes. I barely noticed what I was wearing. I think it was a pair of jeans with a green top with spaghetti straps.

When I went down to make my breakfast, I noticed it was a bit chilly so I put on one of my khaki-coloured button-down shirts, although I didn't button it.

The cereals didn't taste anything, but I was able to get at least some things down. I shook my head and grabbed a book out of a shelf and a blanket and walked out into the garden.

I sat down and tried to concentrate. After a while, I succeeded and got into it. It was about a lawyer who'd fallen in love with a waitress. Must be one of the books that Renée had left behind.

Suddenly I heard a voice calling my name. A voice I hadn't heard in a long time...

"Bella."

I slowly put down the book and turned my head towards the voice. There he was. Edward.

EPOV

She was even more beautiful than I'd remembered. I'd watch her for hours, waiting for the right opportunity. And to gain confidence.

She slowly turned her head when she heard my voice. I swallowed nervously.

"What are you doing hear?!" She shouted in a loud voice. She looked mad. But before I had the chance to answer, to explain and to beg for forgiveness, another voice was heard.

"What are you doing hear?!"

I turned around, faster than any human, and saw that mutt Jake I'd met as late as yesterday.

"What are you doing hear?!" I shouted, right before Bella screamed:

"What are you doing hear?!"

JPOV

"You son of a bastard! Wasn't it enough to break her up once? She doesn't want to see you" I screamed. How dared he sneak up on her again.

"And that comes from you? What about yesterday, huh? Who was sneaky then? And what do you think you're doing at her place?"

"I happen to be her boyfriend!" I responden in a half-shout-half growl.

"Shut up!" Bella screamed and both of us got quiet. "I don't want to see any of you. 'Cause you," she looked at me, "said i couldn't take care of myself." She'd gotten up now and held the blanket in one hand and the book in the other. "And you," she looked at Edward, "left me and told me you didn't love me!"

She turned around, like if she wanted to crush my heart even more.

"I'm sorry, Bella!" I shouted at the same time as that leech. She ignored us both and went inside before she slammed the door.

"Look what you did!" I exclaimed to the leech.

"Me!" he seemed offended, "It was you who started it all! I was just going to talk to her, before you bursted in and..."

"What the hell are you talking about," I interrupted. "You..."

BPOV

I could hear my angry heart beat fast and hard while I dropped the blanket and the book on the sofa. I hated them both!

"Hate you!" I shouted, and for a second I heard the quarrel between them stop before they took it up again. I just shook my head and walked up to my room.

When I walked down into my kitchen the following morning to get ready for school, I was almost scared to death. There, in my kitchen, sat both guys. I knew Charlie had already left, so I couldn't use that as an excuse.

"Great." I mumbled to myself and then decided to act as if they weren't here.

"Bella," I heard a tortured voice say to me.

It was Edward.

I winced, but continued to ignore him. I was not to take him back, nor to talk to him.

While I started to prepare my cereals, I took a quick look at him.

He looked awful.

Well, not in the typical meaning of the word. He still looked like a model. But this model looked like his whole world had cracked down. He had larged dark circles under his eyes – his wonderful, now amber-colored, eyes. I almost lost my soal in them again, and I quickly looked away again. But I had also noticed his untidy hair and the desperate look on his face.

Then the other person in the room started to talk. Jake.

"Listen, Bella. I'm sorry for saying that, but I love you."

Edward snorted, and Jake stared angrily at him, like he was challenging him.

"Did you want something, leech?" Jake asked in a growl.

"You don't know what love is, mutt." Edward answered, he too in a growl.

"I wasn't the one that left Bella!" Jake exclaimed.

"I left because I loved her!"

"Obviously not as much as I, since you were able to leave her heartbroken in the first case!"

"Shut up both of you!" I screamed, "Listen, what do I have to do to make the two of you leave me alone? To not break into my kitchen and my bedroom then and then?"

It was, at least I meant it as such a, meant as a retorical question. But the boys had clearly already thought about the matter, and they answered quickly.

"Choose one of us." They stated quickly.

"I'm not going to choose either of you. Just leave me alone."

"Well, give us both the chance to win you back then." It was Jake. "We're both sure that we'll win over the other, how the leech can think so I don't know, but..."

"Please Bells..." Edward took over.

"What do you mean, win me back?" I asked in a sarcastic voice.

"We'll take turns to have a date with you. In between we won't see you, nor will we come by unless you invite us. Then it won't count as a date, if you're the won to invite us over. And then you'll choose. The other one has to keep his distance." Jake ended his monologe with.

I thought about it for a while. I wasn't really that mad at Jake. But still angry, and I did want to teach him a lesson. Plus, I was slightly exaltered to have the chance to a revenge towards Edward. I wanted him to feel how much he'd hurt me.

"Alright," I said.

"Alright as in yes?" Edward asked, tensed, but with a light in his eyes.

"Alright as in yes. But if I see either of you here without me having invite you, neither of you is going to see me. Ever."

"How 'bout phonecalls?" Jake asked.

"Sure, as long as you don't block the phoneline all the time. Now, get out, both of you. See one of you on Saturday, then. But, for now. Out."

They both said good bye to me, but I just pointed at the door. Then Edward questioned me whether I wanted a drive to school or not, I just pointed at the door for him. Jake laughed.

JPOV

I left in a wolf's shape as soon as I'd gotten into the woods. This was going to be easy. Although I was a little bit worried that she'd choose Edward, I was convinced that she'd choose me in the end. I knew she wasn't that angry with me. And after a date with her, she'd forgive me, and everything would be OK.

It had prooved to be a good idea to talk with Edward. It has been his idea, and I had to admit that it had been a good one. Just before we were going to rip each other apart the other day, he'd suggested the idea that we was to take turns dating Bella. Now, I was glad I'd listened to him. I was going to get Bella back. And that leech was soon never going to see her again.

I wagged my tail in my wolf's shape.