Part 8: I wish Bella was here: Seth

"So what are you doing?" I heard a growl from beneath the car and Jacob wheeled himself out to glare at me, "W-what, I'm kind of bored just watching you."

He glared at me again before getting up and pulling out his phone. "So get anywhere with Bella yet?" I squeaked and felt my face turn bright red. "What, I'm kind of bored just watching you?" His voice was dripping with sarcasm.

Looking at his mobile his face became a grimace, "And if you weren't bad enough Quil and Embry have decided to join us."

"aw, it's nice to know you care about us."

"Yeah he's right. Here we are, wanting to help with the car but you have to be mean." The new comers were both taller than me and had dark skin like Jacob.

Jacob raised his eyebrows at them, "Help? Last time you helped I ended up losing 4 weeks of work. It took me ages to save up and replace the parts you ruined!" He held up a charred twisted piece of metal, "This was the least damaged part."

"Chillax dude. We said we were sorry at the time." One of them looked over Jacob's shoulder and saw me, "Hey who is the new kid?"

"That's Seth. Seth this is Quil and Embry"

"Oh the Clearwater kid. So when do we get to meet this Leah girl you keep talking about?" So he had been talking about us up here on the res?

Jacob blushed profusely at that and yelled at the speaker, "Shut up Quil!"

"Well we know when we aren't wanted." I jumped, I had almost forgotten the quiet Embry was here, "Come on Quil lets head out. Hey Clearwater." I jumped again as he spoke to me.

I gulped, "Y-yes." What did he want from me?

"If Jake ever hassles you just give him a dig about his feelings for your sister." He winked at me and flashed a mischievous grin.

"F-feelings?" Did he mean what I thought he meant? If he did then I wasn't the only one who had found love in the rain of Forks.

"I told you to shut up!" Jacob was even redder now, confirming my suspicions.

"No you told me to shut up actually." Quil remarked. The two were obviously practiced at aggravating him.

"Leave! Now! Both of you!"

Once they were gone Jacob turned to me fire in his eyes. I got up and moved behind his tool bench. He sighed, "So now you know then, and I guessed about you and Bella a long time ago. D-do you know if..."

He stuttered to a stop, his unstoppable confidence wavering before deserting him completely. I knew what he wanted to say so I answered his unspoken question, "Jacob, Leah cares for you but she was hurt once and it makes it hard for her to feel the feelings that others find easy. We are both different since what happened."

"Really? Thanks Seth. Leah told me about Italy, is that what you were talking about?" I saw in his eyes he was glad, was he glad that Leah might love him back or that she was OK? I would be watching him carefully to work that out.

"Yeah, how much do you know?"

"That she was nearly," I saw him pause and bite his lip; he was wondering if he could say the word in front of me. I nodded at him, "raped, is there any more to the story?" It was good for it to be acknowledged. Most people danced around the word like it was a snake, maybe what Leah needed was some that wasn't afraid of the word so she could gain some closure.

"Unfortunately yeah. One of the guys was someone she cared for very much, he used that trust to, to..." my eyes were welling up at the memory of his face but I kept my gaze locked on to Jacob's

"No way!" He growled and I felt the atmosphere tense up we were both so full of rage, rage at someone we would never see again. Our anger was impotent and going nowhere.

I had to stop this conversation neither of us was in a fit state to carry on. "Afraid so."

"And you?" His question caught me off guard and I backed up. There was a tinkle as I kicked something and Jacob came to pick it up.

"W-what?"

When he got up his face was calmer and I felt the stress evaporate, "You said that you both are different."

"Oh yeah, guess I should tell you." It involved him after all. I had never found the other guy but Jacob was right here, "If you do end up with my sister, don't ever hurt her or I will kill you." I was as serious as I would ever be. My sister would never have to deal with crying again.

He reached out and shook my shoulder. "Calm down alright? Bella is like a sister to me too so the same to you." We laughed and I could tell the distance that had been between us was gone, we had a common goal to keep our girls happy.

Wait, happy? What about the moment a month ago?

"Er, about Bella. H-has something happened to her? S-she said s-something odd to me before. She said..." I trailed off and then it hit me, the roles were now reversed. Hoping against hope I prayed that this wasn't headed in the same direction.

"I think I know what you mean. It goes back a year, back to when Wesley "Jerkass" Jones moved out..."

ok shorter than usual but the next one well be longer I promise.

Leah's backstory is outright stated for the first time, chapter one did have some hints but wasn't exactly clear.

Wesley "Jerkass" Jones and what he did is a story for another time so don't think you are going to hear it any time soon

I wasn't sure about Quil and Embry's characterisation but they are close I think.

Coming next week is the movie Leah and Bella are going to see as told by Bella