Chapter 10

I stood there in a trance for a minute. Then, Jacob walking down the momentous staircase distracted me. He looked almost uncomfortable, and that wasn't like him at all. Rosalie was smirking, trying not to look at me. That made me uncomfortable. Honestly what had Alice said to him? What did she have to say to him, that she couldn't say to me?
I would find out, but later. We had plans for today. We were going to La Push.
Part of me knew that he would be dying to show me off to Quil and Show Embry that I'm taken.
But I would enjoy the chance to see Emily whilst hoping, that Leah wouldn't be around to bite my head off.
I shuddered.
I knew what Leah had been through. And I knew how she took her problems out on everyone else. I did kind of feel bad for her, but if it was me facing her wrath, it was a little hard to empathise.
The first houses of La Push came by as I noticed that Jake was unusually quiet.
"So what did Alice have to speak to you about?" He started to sweat.
"That bad huh Jake?" This was becoming somewhat of a fun game.
"It was nothing really...."
"If it was nothing, can't you look at me?"
He turned to me and smiled.
I couldn't help but smile back. Weirdly enough I was supremely happy. Despite the fact that there were the Volturi and Victoria, and that the Cullens were going to leave me.
As I looked into Jake's eyes, I suddenly heard a lot of noise coming nearer.
Two words; Quil and Embry
"Jake my Man" they said in unison, pulling open the door of the now stationary mini.
"Hows things goin" he said as he jumped out of the car. I jumped out, noticing for the first time that we were at Emily's.
Sam and Emily were not people that I wanted to face right now.
But, the logical part of me knew that it was inescapable.
As much as I loved Jake, I was scared that I would become another Leah.
I was scared that Jake would imprint on someone else.
The thought of that caused me so much pain, but I shelved it. I knew that he would never leave me.
As we strolled through the front door, the Pack was sitting around the kitchen table, to an enormous morning tea. Baskets of muffins, cakes, slices filled the oak table.
"Welcome Bella" Emily greeted me as she embraced me.
"Hey, Vampire girl is here!" It was Jared.
"Hey it's not so Vampire girl anymore, right Jake?" Embry said, earning him a slap over the back of the head from Sam.
"She's seen the light, Hallelujah" It was Leah, sitting in the back corner, away from the table.
I hadn't had a lot to do with Leah, but She used to be beautiful. Now her perfect features were filled with hate. Her long, shiny hair was gone, replaced with a severe bob. It quite suited her, but the spark was gone.
"Oh shut it Leah" Jake chucked a muffin at her, but she quickly defected it and it hit Emily.
The whole atmosphere of laughing and joking was gone within seconds. It was replaced by a hostile showdown between Sam and Leah, with Emily in the Middle.
"No harm done" Emily said quietly.
"Leah, outside now" Sam said in a restrained tone, and Leah stormed outside. I looked at Jake, who looked displeased.
"And it happens again" Quil said, shattering the ice. The Pack was quickly talking quietly in small groups.
"What was that?" I asked Jake
"She's making life difficult for him, but he doesn't need to react like that every time"
"I agree, it was an accident"
"Yeah I know, touchy subject though"
"I'll say"
He arched his eyebrows and I couldn't help but laugh. He sat down, on Sam's vacated chair and pulled me onto his lap. At first I felt a little uncomfortable, being so affectionate in from of so many people, but the pack didn't bat an eyelid. I spose that if they had to look at Emily and Sam everyday, who practically radiated love and happiness, they wouldn't care about me sitting on Jake's lap.
The phone started to ring.
Emily Answered it.
"Bella, it's for you" Who on god's earth would ring me here?
"Um, Hello?"
"Bella, it's me" Charlie, of course. Just brilliant.
"Hi Dad, what did you want?"
"Um, Bella, I was in town today and I ran into Mrs Stanley, you know, Jessica's Mom?" I felt all of the colour drain from my face. Jake looked at me, from across the room and sensed my panic.
"And she had some very interesting things to say about you...."
I groaned.
"Bella, she told me that Jessica and that Newton kid, what's his name again, Mark?"
"Mike, Dad"
"Oh yeah, well she said that they caught you on First Beach yesterday, in a um, compromising position, with someone other than Edward" I wanted to punch my fist through the wall, in frustration. I wanted to stomp my foot and whinge.
"She said, that it wasn't a very nice thing to cheat on your boyfriend"
"Oh I can only imagine what she said. Dad, Don't listen, you know that she's the town gossip" I tried to veer him off topic, hoping that he would forget to ask who I was with, though I'm sure that he probably had his suspicions, which would be correct.
"So it's not true then?" to lie or not to lie?
"It's a little sensationalised maybe?" I cringed.
"So it's true?" he laughed in disbelief.
"Dad, I told you that Edward and I broke up!" I do believe that I had told him many times. It took that many for it to sink in.
"I know Bella, We talked about you breaking off the engagement?" Wait.
"Who talked about breaking off the engagement?" My tone was getting very harsh now and Charlie was sheepishly guilty.
"I'm sorry Bells, I though she knew" he trailed off, guiltily.
"Charlie" I made the word sound like two syllables.
"I'm sorry Bells, but who was it" Damn it, Damn it. Why me?
He sounded very smug. He knew very well who it was. And he only called for me to admit it. I wouldn't be surprised if he had Billy on three-way so he could hear me admit it too.
"Charlie..." I repeated, trying to hold it off.
"Oh come on Bells...."
"Fine" I huffed "But I don't know why you need me to admit it. You already know it was Jake" I cringed, waiting for the onslaught.
"So you finally decided to give him a chance huh? Guess he prove more of a threat to That Cullen kid than first thought" He was so smug, I couldn't stand it.
"No, I chose Jake. End of story" I wasn't giving him and Billy any credit in all of this.
"Alright then, I'll let you go. I'll see you both when I get home"
"Bye Charlie" I said in a huff. And I hung up before he could object to me calling him Charlie.
I leant against the wall and sighed. Before I knew it, Jake was tugging me off the wall, to come sit down again. I rested my heat on his chest, closing my eyes, trying desperately not to think about the conversation that I had just had with Charlie.
"So what did Charlie want?" Jake grinned.
"To gloat" I said simply. "He ran into Jess' Mom and she told him about yesterday. He wanted to know who the mystery man was, well he wanted me to confirm. Him and Billy Gossip like old women"
Jake's laugher disturbed my head resting comfortably on his chest. But me pulled me back into a hug.
"Alright Lovebirds, enough"
"Sure Paul" Jake said as he trailed kisses down my neck. I quickly swatted him away.
"No wonder they caught you! What did your dad say?" Quil asked me.
"Well try to imagine telling your father that you have broken up with your Vampire Fiancé to be with your Werewolf Best friend. And you forget to take the ring off"
They all broke out into a chorus of laughter, and with that I blushed profusely.
"Alright, lets head down to the Beach? Anyone game?"
"Are you mad Quil? It's been freezing" Emily scolded him.
"I'm in" Jake said and soon, the rest of the pack, even Leah agreed after she and Sam came back from their 'talk'. He rose from our seats at the table. Jake stood me up on the Veranda.
"Hop on" he gestured, as I jumped on to his back. I curled my legs around Jacob's waist.
At that moment, something fell from the pocket of Jake's cut off jeans.
He tried to grasp it, but with me on his back, he was unable to.
Leah was nearest and picked up the box.
When I saw the box, I almost had a heart attack. I started hyperventilating.
I would bet money that I knew what that was, but boy was I shocked.
The pack has frozen in their places, stunned.
I struggled to get off Jake's back, and to my utter surprise, he let me down.
I stood for a second, and looked at him. He looked back awkwardly, like he had been sprung. I started to rush toward the house, but he wrapped a warm hand around mine, but desperate to escape, I shrugged it off.
I got into the house and grabbed the keys to the mini. Within seconds I stormed back to the front yard, where they all were still frozen, completely silent.
"Bella, wait" Jake ran over to me, but I knew exactly who was behind this.
Part of me wasn't surprised, but I was most certainly shocked.
I got in, completely ignoring him. I would deal with him later. I was going to deal with Her.
As I sped through the woods, I soon found myself where I was going.
Hell hath no fury, Mary Alice Brandon, you are in so much trouble. I don't have words to describe how much trouble you are in...
Not to my surprise, or hers, she met me at the door, with an excited look, but when she saw my expression, the look of glee vanished.
Panic ensued.
"You" I huffed, rushing forward.

Yes, I'm cruel I know.
But, I doubt that you will see this one coming. It's not something I had planned on including, but that makes it more of a surprise methinks.
In the next Chapter we find out why Bella is angry with Alice about and soon enough, we hear more talk of Victoria and the Volturi.
Also, Edward will come back with some house guests. Nothing like a bit of Tanya to stir up trouble.
And maybe another turn in the road that you will most definitely not see coming.
There have been hints.
But I don't think you will guess.
I'd like to think that it's an original plot. (Evil laughs)
Pretty Please review and if you have any suggestions as to what you would like to see more/ less of or questions that I could possibly answer, I would love to know.