DISCLAIMER- i don't own twilight or it's characters. They belong to SM. yiey chapter 4..haha

If you're not the one

Favors and promises

JPOV

I decided to follow Bella when she didn't return right away. I walked around and I saw the book she was carrying a while ago on the floor. I picked it up and I saw her looking for it, and beside her stood, Mr. I'm all that, Edward Cullen.

"Hey Bells, looking for this?" she looked at me and I saw her blush.

"Uhmmm…yeah, thanks. " she mumbled. She snatched the book from me and ran back to our room. But she slowed down, looked back and called back over her shoulder. "Thanks again!" she said to Cullen. I watched her run away.

We stood there a while, not talking, not even acknowledging each other's presence when

I decided to break the silence.

"So? Interested?" I asked him, referring to Bella's retreating figure.

"Hmmn?" The dork was somehow preoccupied.

"Are you interested or not?" I snapped at him.

He turned to me and studied me carefully. I raised an eyebrow at him.

"What?"

"Why'd you ask me to be her best friend anyway, mutt. Aren't you filling that role already?"

"I would if I could, but Billy's condition is turning for the worst, we've gotta bring him nearer a good hospital. You're dad's great though, but he said it would be better if we bring Billy to St. Benildes. And I'm the only family he's got left, so it's only right that I go with him. So we were forced to move, and I have to transfer schools."

I explained. The thought of leaving and being gone for an indefinite span of time made my chest hurt.

"Is it okay with you to leave Bella though?"

So the Cullen kid, has a heart too…

"Of course not! I mean…just look at her. She can barely last an hour without hurting herself. I want to stay and take care of her and be there for her when she needs me, but my duty as a son and my love for my father calls for me to move away."

"Can't you be her best friend even if you're not conveniently or I might add---irritatingly around?"

"I'll always be her best friend, but she needs someone to look after her, someone strong she could lean on, I hate to admit it, but she needs someone like you."

Ughhh…I feel like gagging.

"Don't go cheesy on me Jacob Black. It doesn't fit you."

That made me laugh.

"Shut up, dork."

"You're the dork. Wait. Why'd you choose me anyway? I thought you hated me?"

"I do. I'll always hate you Edward Cullen. But I have to do what's best for my Bells."

"There are a lot to choose from, guys who are way more nice than me. Why me? Honestly."

He sure is nosy. He's making this sound more like a business deal. You know what they say: Honesty is the best policy. So I decided to answer his question with the truth.

"Ok. Ok. You're intimidating. Just like me. No one would dare come on to her while I'm gone, cause you'll be there to take my place. Temporarily. Of course. Cause when I come back, I'll take her back." I stated.

"And it's a plus that your family would be moving on the house next to them, next week." I finished with a grin.

"And you owe me. I helped you with Tanya once, before she moved away and this would be the only thing I would ask from you…for now. So? You up for it?" I asked him.

I didn't like pulling our past out to get him to do me the favor. But I had to. For Bella. For Bella. For Bella. I need to swallow my pride.

He looked lost in memories before he answered.

"Sure. I've got nothing better to do anyway. So…why not?"

He sure is arrogant. He should consider this an honor that I trusted him to look after Bella.

"There's one thing you've got to promise me though Edward Anthony Cullen."

"And what's that Jacob Black?"

He mimicked my tone. A grin lifting one side of his lips. Girls love that smile, but it looks stupid to me. What's up with that anyway? I'll never really understand girls.

"Just try not to fall in love with her, ok?" I warned him.

"Me? Fall in love with her? Yeah. Sure. I think she'll make a good best friend, but I think she would never be more than that. For me, at least. Besides, I'll be too busy keeping her away from the emergency room."

"Just be sure about that Edward." You better be, or I'll make sure you wished you were never born.

"You bet I am."

"Thanks man."

The whole conversation took place without either of us looking at each other. We were both facing the same direction. And people who passed by wouldn't think we were actually talking to each other.

After the talk I nodded my head at him and we both walked away in opposite directions like nothing happened.

Now with that problem over, I've got to think of a way to tell Bella that I was leaving tomorrow without making her cry.

EPOV

As I walked to my first class, I couldn't steer my thoughts away from the conversation I just had with Jacob Black.

We didn't hate each other so much back when we were kids. Couldn't blame him though. I made a stupid mistake and humiliated him in front of the whole school, and the ego of an 8 year old sure is brittle.

For months, he walked around campus being laughed at and ridiculed, and I couldn't do anything about it, because I wanted to impress Tanya and make her believe I was cool.

Jacob didn't talk to anybody except for Quil and Embry, his loyal friends. He sure wouldn't talk to me even after our schoolmates forgot about the whole issue entirely. Portraying the short attention span of intermediate schoolers perfectly.

He became a loner and sank into a kind of depression. Billy said that he might find it hard to trust other people again. I was mad at myself. I might have probably ruined his life.

Tanya moved away, not even saying goodbye to me. All my efforts to impress her, wasted. I ruined another person's life and gained nothing. How could I be so stupid?

I watched Jacob become more and more withdrawn; every time I try to talk to him he would just ignore me. I decided that things wouldn't be the same anymore.

And then…Isabella Marie Swan moved to Forks from Phoenix. She was a quiet girl of our age, very shy. She tried her best to blend in and not get noticed. Maybe that was why she became Jacob's best friend, and since then Jake returned to his sunny self again. Of course what I did to him back then, backfired at me, he started openly thrashing me and I started to dislike him more and more. And now we're in our final year of high school, Jake came up to me and asked me for a favor.

I was thankful for Bella, because he saved Jacob. She made him happy. With that thought I entered my first class and waited for fate to start its course.