A/N Here's a Jakey Chap. Hmm, you guys seem to be restless with wondering who Bella will end up with. Well, I'm not purposely dragging things out, I'm setting things in motion. I promise that the person who will have Bella's heart will become clear in five chapters or less.

JPOV

I dropped Bella home and made my way back to La Push to meet with Sam and the boys. It was decided that we would celebrate our new "peace" with the Cullens. I knew that no one from my pack really believed in the peace, but I thought it would be better to begin our new agreement on a happy note.

The leeches weren't invited to the party we were planning tonight. I just needed to have food and any other distractions available so that the guys wouldn't have time to think about how bad an idea it was to allow the Cullens to get so close.

Bells was invited of course, but I needed time alone with the others so that they could vent all their concerns at me and hopefully quell any uneasiness they had before the party. I would pick her up later tonight join us.

I arrived at my house and the guys were there waiting for me in the driveway. They were all huddled together as usual and I was afraid they would attack me with threats and complaints, but the worst I received were dirty looks. They weren't allowed to dissent from the decisions I made as Alpha, but I had expected everything to go much worse than it did.

I waited a few moments in silence, waiting for any type of discord, when none came I let out a relieved sigh and spoke to them.

"We did a good thing out there. It was nice playing with the Cullens, wasn't it?," I said in a cheery tone.

"Yeah, If playing with bloodsuckers is your sort of thing," Paul mumbled. The rest of the guys snickered and I shot him a dirty look.

"Maybe you'd enjoy yourself if you managed to actually hit the ball every once in a while," I quipped back at him. The rest of the guys "Ooooh'd" and I knew Paul was fighting with himself to not push me back harder. He merely went along and laughed at himself.

Feeling satisfied that the tensions had dropped, I continued with the plans. I smelled the scent of Emily's cooking from not too far away and my mouth began to water.

"Is everything set?," I asked Sam.

"Everything is just about ready. I just need pick up some flour from the store for Emily."

"I think I'll go with you," I said.

I wanted to go with Sam because I needed to know what he thought about the decision I made for us. I hadn't made the transition with him yet so I didn't know what he was thinking. I thought the best way was to just come out and ask him during our ride to the store. I could have just waited until we both shifted, but I wanted to be absolutely sure of my actions the next time the guys saw into my head.

We spent a few moments in silence in his truck as I tried to gather up the courage to ask Sam his opinion. He knew my reason for wanting to go with him and waited patiently for me to speak.

"Sam," I hesitated. "Would you have done it?" I tried to keep my voice from sounding like a child. I did not want to show any uncertainty in my voice.

Sam's eyes narrowed as he thought about my question. "No, I wouldn't have," he said.

I hid my worry at his response. If Sam wasn't with me, neither of the guys would be either. I straightened my posture in my seat and spoke in a stiff voice.

"Sam... I need you to back me on this."

"I do," Sam said, contradicting his previous statement. I gave him a questioning look. "Honestly Jacob, no one from the pack in their right mind would do what you did. There's just too much hate between us.

"I say I wouldn't have agreed to a peace because I'm prejudiced. None of the guys would admit it, mostly because they're scared, but I know I would never have rhyme nor reason to even think about agreeing on anything with the Cullens."

"So you don't think this is a mistake?"

"It's not my place to say," he said. He was rubbing in the fact that I was the leader now, which he did a lot these days. "By just going on what we've seen on the past, those leeches have been pretty safe," he said as he parked the car. "Feel better now?"

"I'm not sure..."

Sam answered some of my questions, but I was foolishly relying on him to help me convince myself that I did the right thing.

We got out of the car and walked into a convenience store which was just a short distance past the now inactive border between Forks and La Push.

The store was simple with shelves aligned in neat rows. Sam walked towards the back and I followed checking the products around me for anything we might want.

I could hear the loud "POP" of bubblegum being blown coming from what must have been the cashier and it reminded me that I wanted to get something for Bells as well.

I was debating on whether or not to buy Bella a pouch of candy I knew she liked when Sam walked towards me holding a medium sized bag of flour.

"You ready?," he asked.

"Yeah," I grabbed two pouches, one in each flavor and followed Sam to the cash register.

"POP!" the obnoxious sound of a bubble being popped disturbed me as I reached into my pockets for my wallet.

"You're total will be $7.95," said the cashier. Her voice was squeaky and sounded like she was just about to die of boredom.

I looked up to pay the girl, but everything went fuzzy and all I could hear was the sound of my change falling to the floor.

The girl was sloppy looking but beautiful at the same time. Her strawberry blond hair was strewn across her face the and the sounds she made while she gracefully chewed her gum were heavenly and each "POP!" sent shivers down my spine. She was wearing a green t-shirt which read "It's not me, it's you."

I had lost track of time when everything around me began to work their way back to my senses. I noticed that the girl was looking at me funny. My breathing came heavily in rapid bursts. I was staring at her. Suddenly, I felt like the whole room was closing in on me. Gravity was pushing me down harder and harder.

I ran out of the store as fast as I could. I reached for my second form not caring to check if there were any witnesses. It came to me naturally and I ran as fast as I could back home. I needed to lose myself in running. I was going to fight everything that was my nature.

I felt Sam running behind me, he had changed too. All I wanted was to be alone, but I would never be in my wolf form. I still kept running, wanting to feel the inert numbness that came with being an animal.

When I finally stopped running, I had reached my house. I shifted back to my human form unable to handle being connected to him any longer. I stopped and waited for him, knowing that this was something he wouldn't let me run away from.

"Jacob. We have to talk about this," said Sam, shifting right before my eyes.

"Drop it Sam," I looked straight into his eyes. It was a direct order.

He looked frustrated for a moment and let out a sigh. "Jacob...You imprinted."

I hated hearing those words from his mouth. I hated hearing them out loud. It was like a curse.

I thought deeply for a moment, thinking of Bella. My heart jumped as I saw her in my mind.

"That doesn't mean anything. I...I still love Bella more."

I wasn't scared of hurting Bella. I knew that I just now fell in love with a stranger, but what I felt for Bella was deeper than that. She was my everything. What worried me was what the guys felt for their imprints. Could this girl ever take the place of Bella in my heart? Impossible.

Sam tightened his expression and placed his hand on my shoulder.

"I know."

A/N I was going to stop at the part where Sam said "You imprinted", but I'm not that mean. :-. So yeah, a lot of you thought that Jacob would imprint, and you were right. Don't worry, I won't have Jacob run off to be with the girl who I've dubbed extra #3. That would be too easy. And Jacob really does love Bella more...

Oh yeah and I said that I will reveal who will have Bella's heart (look up top), but don't worry. Bella will give her heart to one guy, but the other won't be leaving without getting something of Bella's too.