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Chapter 19

Today was the day I would finally see Jacob again. After about 5 months, I had waited long enough. I knew Bella was going, so I made her keep to her promise. Of course, I had no intention of helping with, or riding on the bikes, it was far too dangerous, and I was far too young. I was sat in Bella's truck, and I was more excited than I cared to let on. Mind, it was very hard not to let on. We pulled into the Black's and I was out of the car before Bella had even turned the engine off. Jake, of course, was already out there.

"Hi Jake!" I said.

"Wow! Is that you, Kaisha?"

"You remember me?" I asked hopefully and eagerly.

"I remember how you visited that day and messed my name up. Which means… Bella, it's great to see you!" He gave her a hug the second she was out of the truck.

"Hey, why didn't I get a hug?" I asked, arms open for a hug.

Oh, well okay, then…" He came over and gave me a hug. I didn't let go.

"Kaisha… you can let go now…" He said.

"I don't want to, Jake."

"Well, will you do it for me?" He asked, sweetly.

"Okay." I let go.

"Jake, I bought these for you, I saved them from the junkyard." Bella said, whipping off the sheet on the back of the truck, revealing the motorbikes. "They'll probably cost more to rebuild than they're worth, but I wanted to spend some time with you, Jake. Besides, I've got a perfectly good college fund I can dip into."

"Um, Bella are you sure Charlie's gonna approve of that?" He asked.

"Don't worry, she's not using all of it. Also, we're using some money that my cousins, aunt and uncle sent me, too. So Charlie won't really notice." I said.

"Won't your aunt and uncle mind?"

"Nope. 'Auntie' Esme and Uncle Carlisle, oh by the way, I only said Auntie because it sounds better with the name Esme, don't mind how I spend the money. I could be a druggie and they wouldn't mind… obviously I'm not a druggie, and, actually they would mind, but I'm on about money, and… I'm babbling, aren't I?"

"Just a little." Bella and Jake said in unison.

"That was… scary…" I said.

"New Bella, huh? This Bella lies to her dad, steals from her college fund, and wants to repair dangerous machines. Which, I assume, she'll be wanting to ride?" He… kind of asked… kinda hard to tell…

"You know this Bella too well." Bella said. "But… I'll understand if you think I'm being stupid and reckless…" She said.

"Oh, of course it is, Isabella. It is the most stupid and reckless thing I've ever heard. I only have one thing to say to you." He said.

"What?"

"When can we start?" He asked.

Bella smiled. And, to top that, it was a real smile.

Jake moved to the truck and began to lift the first bike off the truck.

"Be careful, those things are really… heavy…" By now, he had the first bike on the floor. "Or light…"

"Yeah. I've been working out a lot. Just filling out, I guess." He replied.

"You're like, really buff, Jake… and you're, what 16? How is that possible?" Bella asked.

"Age is just a number, baby." He said.

"Yeah… feels like that sometimes…" She said.

Soon enough, both of the bikes were off the truck and in Jake's garage-type thing. Did I mention my amazing adjective skills?

Anyway, he took a good look at them, and had Bella and I write down the names of parts he needed. Both of us had amazingly bad chicken scrawl though, so I later had to type up the parts he needed on a word document on my laptop, which I, oh so conveniently, had brought with me to Jake's house.

We had a bit of a chat about school and stuff. To be honest, we didn't find much to do that day. Except I was stuck on my maths homework, so I made Bella do it, whilst I reread New Moon, being careful not to let Jake or Bella see it.

"What book is that, Kaisha? It doesn't look very familiar, and I don't recognise the title…" Jake asked.

"Yeah, so far, I haven't found anyone who's heard of these books. They aren't very famous." I lied.

"Well, what are they about?" Jake asked.

"This girl called… um, Kristen, and her boyfriend, a vampire named Rob." I used the actor's names so Jake wouldn't get too suspicious. I didn't want to lie entirely about the books, because I'd probably forget or make a mistake. "This one in particular is the second one in the series. Robert abandons Kristen, and basically… shit happens. She becomes closer to some of her friends, including people called Christian and Taylor, who are, like her best friends, and some other girl called Anna who's a bit of a royal bitch with her other ice queen friend… whose name I've forgotten… then she gets into some trouble, but it ends up okay in the end." Mainly because there was no Lauren in the film.

"Sounds cool. Maybe I can have a read sometime?" He asked.

"Maybe in a few weeks…" As in when New Moon was over, so we could safely introduce the werewolves, and Bella, to the first two books in the series. Well… Bella to the next bit of twilight and the entirety of new moon.

"Ok. Fair enough…" He said, shrugging his shoulders.

"Oh, shoot, Jake, Charlie wants us home… I'll be coming back tomorrow, though. Both of us will be here every day until the bikes are fixed."

"No problem, Bella. I'll get some of the parts tonight, then we can do some actual work tomorrow." He laughed. I smiled.

"Bye, Jake! See you!" I said, heading off to Bella's truck with her.

"What are you gonna do if Jake Googles twilight?" Bella asked.

"Oh, right… never thought of that…" I said.

Just then my phone rang.

"Hello." I said.

"Don't worry, Kaisha, it's all taken care of. Only your computer and our computers, and the ones in countries where it's published can see that Twilight and New Moon, and Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn actually exist. We have some… contacts who are good with that kind of stuff." Said Alice.

"Ok, thanks, but I gotta go, bye." I said, as I hung up.

"Who was that?" Bella asked.

"Prank Call or something…" I lied. I had become used to lying to Isabella Swan. I had to lie. What else could I do?

"Oh… right…" She sounded a little disappointed, but I didn't blame her. I'd probably be doing exactly the same thing in her shoes.

"There is still no news. I'd tell you if there was anything life threatening or important going on." I said.

"Yeah. Just like you told me that Edward didn't love me at all and he was going to leave me." She argued. She had a good point.

"Sorry, but believe me Bella, it would have just made things worse."

"How would things have been worse?" She asked.

"Look. You'll know later."

The rest of the drive home was silent. It was okay though. Bella would understand… but not yet… later…

A few days later, we were working on the bikes again, and Jake had all the parts laying out on sheets.

"So, I was thinking, if we're gonna do this every day, Jake, we'd better get some homework done. Otherwise Billy and Charlie will think I'm a bad influence on you." Bella said.

"You? A bad influence on me? Please!"

"Bella is older than the both of us, Jake. That makes her the influencer, and us the influences." I said, stealing (and tweaking) Bella's line.

"Exactly…" Bella said.

"Yeah, but my size and knowledge base actually makes me older than you, with your general paleness and lack of know-how."

"I was the one who convinced you to help rebuild two two-wheeled machines of death with Kaisha and me. Don't you think that makes you kinda young and naive?" Bella reminded him. He scowled, I laughed. With my very annoying laugh in the style of loud, high pitched hiccups mixed with regular laughter. Seriously, you do not want to listen to it.

"Yeah, you're right. Any more of a bad influence and you'd be Satan." Jake said, sarcastically. "So, then, where do you think we stand?" He asked/

"I'm, like, 35, and you're about 32. Kaisha is possibly 26."

"Oh, come on! I'm 36, you're 31, and Kaisha's 26." He said.

"No, Jake, you're wrong, Bella's 18, you're 16, I'm 14. Although, if Bella and I were any paler, we could both qualify as porcelain dolls, and therefore, ageless." I argued.

"Hey, Jake! You there?" Came a voice from outside. I knew it was Quil. Well, I was expecting him to drop in soon, anyhow.

Bella quickly went to cover the bikes, but Jake stopped her.

"They're just my guys, Bella. No need to hide our special project." He said.

"Oh, right…" She said, blushing.

Then, they walked in, Quil and Embry, I mean.

"Hi Quil, Embry. You don't know me." I said.

"Whoa, Kaisha, how did you know their names?" Jake asked.

"Um… well, let's just say… I'm good at names with people who live in or near Forks, I guess… I even know their surnames. It won't work for everyone though." I said.

"Surprise me. Their surnames are…"

"Well, Ateara for Quil. His dad, granddad and great-granddad had the same name, and Call for Embry, who, like me, doesn't know his dad. Sorry. You must think I'm some crazy psychic."

"Hey, Jake, so, this must be Bella and…" Embry said.

"Kaisha." I said.

"Right… So, the bike building story is true, huh." Quil said.

"Yeah." Bella said.

"Including the part about you being his girlfriend?" Quil asked.

"We're friends, you know…" Bella asked.

"Ooh, burn." Embry laughed.

"Actually, I remember I said she was a girl AND a friend. I also forgot to mention Kaisha…"

"Do you remember him making that distinction?" Quil asked.

"Nope." Embry replied.

"So you girls have girlfriends?" Bella asked. "That's awesome."

Jacob laughed. "No, actually, they don't. Quil is taking his cousin to prom."

"It's still a riot." Quil defended. Jake still laughed. "You want funny, Black? I'll give you funny." And then Quil started a little puppy play fight with Jake. Perfect way to get more work to do.

Embry walked over to us then, and said, "I got 5 bucks on Quil."

"You're on. Bella and I are betting Jake." I said.

"Definitely." Bella said. I stole her line again.

"You know, Embry, I'm definitely a dog person. Dogs are cool. You'll be a real dog person soon enough. You're hair's nice, though… I'll kind of miss it when you cut it. I know this is kind of cryptic, but you'll understand in a few weeks. Or less. But,, when you do, call me." I said, writing my number on his hand, as neatly as possible.

Jake won. I gave Bella the 5 bucks, though.

Building bikes with Jake was fun. I still had o get up at night and help Charlie with Bella's nightmare's but it was ok.

After a few weeks, when the bikes were fixed, we were driving out through La Push. We managed to all fit in the truck.

We were talking, when Bella saw the cliff divers.

"Oh my god!" She said, stopping the truck and getting out. All three of us got out, obviously.

"Bella, it's okay. It's a sport. We all saw." I said.

"Yeah, Cliff diving. Scary as Hell, but a total rush.

"A rush?" Bella asked.

"Yeah, but most people jump from lower down. We leave the showing off to Sam and his disciples." Jake said.

"What? You have some kind of beef with him, or something?" Bella asked.

"He feels like Sam's been stealing his friends away." I said.

"They just think they run this place… Embry was his most recent victim… you remember him, right?" Bella nodded. "Well, he was nice and normal, calling them stuff like hall monitors on steroids… now look at him…" He said, just before Embry jumped off the cliff.

"He looks so… different… What happened? Bella asked.

"He missed some school. Then he comes back, looking like, well, that, and he starts following Sam around like a puppy." I laughed, and apologized when I finished "yeah… and the same thing happened to Paul and Jared. And now I'm getting worried… he keeps looking at me… as if I'm next…"

"Just avoid him, Jake." Bella said.

"I'm trying…" He said.

After that, we got back in the truck, and started driving again, until we found a good bit of road. Kind of straight. Jake set up the bikes, and I sat on the back of the truck. I had to wait for Bella to almost kill herself.

"You look scared." Jake said.

"I'm not scared." Bella replied.

"She's excited."

"Ok."

Jake then receded to go over all the things he'd shown her, brake, clutch and stuff… before stepping aside, and waiting for her to go.

She started the engine, and released the clutch. But then, she had another Edward moment and stopped again.

"Whoa! Are you alright?" Jake asked.

"I'm fine. I just… I want to go again… please?" She asked.

"That's fine by me…"

Bella started the bike up again, going faster, and faster, and faster. Until, of course, she crashed.

Jake jumped onto his bike and raced over to Bella. He arrived a little more gracefully than she had.

They stayed there for a minute or two, before heading back to me, and the truck. Jake, of course, was shirtless.

"You look great without your shirt on, Jake. Can I start a petition?"

"What kind of petition? Jake asked.

"One that states that you can never wear a shirt again?"

"Err… no…"

We got everything back on the truck, and headed to A&E. Well, the American equivalent, the Emergency room.

She was ok, though. I didn't get any details of what she had done, but Bella had Jake drive her home.

A few nights later was Bella's trip to the cinema with Mike and Jake. I didn't want to go. Besides, I was staying over at Ashley's that night.

I brought over 3 big bags. Not that I needed them. I was only staying over for one night.

"Hello, Mrs. Stanley." I said, when she opened the door.

"Ah, Kaisha, lovely to see you again. Allison and Ashley have just popped out to the shops, but They will be back soon. I trust you know where Jess and Ash's room is by now." She said.

"Yeah."

"I see you've brought less stuff than usual. Come on, I'll help you upstairs." She said, picking up some of my bags, and walking with me to the top of the stairs. After that, I became my own pack mule, and took my stuff into Jess and Ashley's room. Their mum made them share. It was a 3-bedroom semi, but the third bedroom was used as an office/storage room type thing. It did get a little awkward when it was me, Allison, Ashley and Jessica sleeping in the room though. Like it was supposed to be that night.

"I see my sister's having another sleepover with you." Jessica said.

"Nice to see you too. You do know that by abandoning Bella, she'll be all alone with Mike and her friend Jake. You should go, keep Mike company when he vomits from all the action." I said.

"Not my thing." She said, and went back to reading one of her magazines on her bed.

"Still… I have a feeling he'll need a lift home…" I said. Well, he would, Bella and Jake would leave him at the theatre.

"So? He deserves to walk from Port Angeles. It will take him long enough to learn his lesson to never tell me he wants to be 'just friends' again. So he'll come grovelling back."

"But if you drive past him, you could slow down, then rub it in his face." I suggested.

"Good point. I'll go shopping." She said, and left.

I unpacked, and rolled my sleeping bag out. I wanted to be ready for Ashley and Allison to arrive. I was normally first there, anyway. It's not like I minded.

So, I waited.

And waited.

And waited.

Eventually, I was fed up with waiting. It was half past 7, for God's sake!

In that instant, my phone rang.

"Hey, Alice is that you?" I asked.

"No." It was Embry's voice. "How did you know about us?" He asked.

"Hi, Embry. Look, I'll tell you, okay. Just not here. Not now. I'm waiting for my friends to arrive back in here. I'll tell you later."

"No, you need to tell me now."

"Fine. I'll ask. But I'll need a lift. If you have no car, then phase and run over." I then told him Ash's Address, and ran downstairs with all my stuff.

"Sorry, Mrs. Stanley, but I've forgotten, my friends from La Push had something planned with me. Don't bother telling Charlie, he already knows." I lied. "In fact, my lift's on its way right now, I rearranged it a few seconds ago. Apologise to Allie and Ash for me." Oh, yeah. I finally convinced Allison to sometimes go by Allie too.

"Ok. As long as the chief knows where you are."

I nodded, and sat on the porch, and waited. For a whole 30 minutes. Then I saw Embry wolf running towards the house, so I waved to him, and he stopped running. Then, I picked up all of my bags, and tied them down to Embry Wolf with my belts before climbing on to him. Then, I waited.

"You can take me to Emily's or… wherever we're going now. I'm assuming Emily's place, though." I said.

Embry Wolf started running. I made sure I held on, tightly. I was almost asleep by the time we got to Emily's, I hadn't had much sleep the night before, and Embry let me get me and my stuff off of him, and then he ran behind a bush. I knew that was because, as a wolf, he had no clothes on, and had to get some clothes on. Otherwise he'd be very embarrassed and so would I.

A minute or so later, he re-emerged.

"Hi Embry." I said.

"So you seriously know about us then?"

"Yes. I'm guessing you've won a bet?"

"Jared owes me 10 bucks." He said.

"Can you take 2 of these bags in for me, Embry? Oh, and yes, I do know not to stare at Emily." I said.

"Ok…"

I made him take the biggest bag, while I took the smallest, my favourite (and only) pink handbag. Mind you, it did have plenty of important stuff in there, like my make-up, my iPod, my phone, and assorted chargers.

We walked straight into the kitchen, and found the Jared eating. Embry went and joined him. Typical.

"Um… Hi." I said.

"Who's this?" Emily asked.

"I'm Kaisha. Surname wise, it's more complicated. You know about the Cullens right?" She nodded " Well, I came over here to see if they actually existed. I'll explain more about that later, and I wanted to stay over here for a while, so I adopted the surname Cullen, and pretended I was Carlisle's niece. Actually, my surname is Young, like yours, Emily." Things I have in common with Emily: Surname, love of wolves. Ok I can't think of anything else. I think the way she's just accepted them is good though.

"Oh. Well, boys, hands off the food, I'm sure Kaisha's hungry." She said.

"Yeah, I am. By the way, what food is it?" I asked.

"I decided to make a beef stew."

"Oh. I can't eat it then. Sorry, I'm a veggie. No meat, no fish… sorry."

"Oh, that's okay. I know a really good recipe for vegetarian lasagne. I'll whip you some up right now." She said.

"She's a really good cook." Embry said.

"I know. I read about it in a book. Well… some books…" conveniently enough, I remembered I had the entire twilight saga, and my t-shirts, in a secret compartment in one of my bags. "Wait a minute, I just need to get the books." I went into the hallway where my bags were, and dug out the four books and my favourite new moon shirt. I quickly changed into it in the bathroom, and went back into the kitchen.

"This is my favourite shirt from a film I like called New Moon. It's about vampires and werewolves. And here are the books." I said, spreading the books on the table. "And, yes, this is Jacob's face on my shirt, again I'm coming to that. Anyway -" Sam Uley walked into the room then. "Hello, Sam. You'll probably want to talk to me, won't you."

He nodded, and gestured for me to move to the hallway. So, I did.

"I won't tell anyone – I'd never tell anyone." I said.

"How much do you know?" He asked.

"A fair bit, I guess. I know about your treaty, which I very much respect. I know about imprinting… I know about how and why you phase, I know about the future of some of you, and I know about what you are, obviously, I know who will become like you, and I know about what the Cullens are, I know what they feed on and… stuff…"

He nodded.

"How do you… how did you find out?"

"I was getting to that with the others. Can we just talk about that together?"

He nodded, and we went back into the Kitchen. I sat at the head dining table with the wolves, and told them everything that wouldn't jeopardise their futures. I told them about Alice and the books, and I told them everything I could think of.

"Oh, and one more thing, Charlie and Bella think I'm at my friend's and my friends think I had a prior commitment and had to go see someone else… so if it's not too much trouble… could I stay here tonight?" I asked, directing my question at Emily.

"Of course. It'll make a nice change to there being 4 boys and just one girl, me, here. Besides, I'm making your dinner now, and it probably won't be ready till it'd be too late for you to get home anyway. I'm afraid there aren't enough rooms for you, but the sofa doubles as a bed, so you can sleep there tonight. Do you need any sheets?"

"No, I have my own sleeping bag, but I do need a pillow… if you've got one…" I said.

"I'll get her one then. I was getting up anyway…" Jared said.

"Thanks Jared. I'm sorry for any trouble I'm causing you, Emily…"

"Don't think about it…" She said.

Just over an hour later, my lasagne was ready. It was the most amazing lasagne I had ever had in my life.

"Emily, this is amazing lasagne, you really are an amazing cook!"

"I've been told."

While I was eating, Embry had to go home. His mum didn't know, and obviously that caused problems. If he stayed out any longer, she'd probably kill him.

After I finished, Jared went home too. Apparently Paul wasn't there that night. In a way, I'm glad about that. I didn't want him snapping at me. Sam and Emily bid me goodnight an hour or so later and I went to sofa. I would say to bed, but it wasn't an actual bed. Yes, it pulled out to be a bed, but it was still a sofa. I got to sleep at my normal time that night, half past midnight, except this time, I was not woken by Bella's screaming.

I'm sorry this update is so late, but I've been busy being excited about my trip to France tomorrow till thursday :)

Also, to make up for it it is longer than usual. Oh, and i~ promise it won't be the same as New moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, because I have a ew plot twists coming up :)

Wish me luck :)

Kaisha :)