Disclaimer: I, under all the circumstances known to man, own nothing of the legend that was created by Stephenie Meyer… And am never likely to do so…

A/N: I'm not sure if I was happy with the last chapter. I know I finished with a slight cliffy, they were just about to play 20 questions! But I had no idea what questions they would ask… Plus I really wanted to get onto this chapter, and I have to admit I wanted to know what everyone thought on the previous chapter *smile* hopefully there won't be too many flames *pulls on fireproof suit from the firemen* I took me a while to decide who's POV I should do this chapter in… I hope I managed to choose correctly.

So without further ado…

Soulmate.

Chapter 4: She looks happy.

Jacob POV

When I heard that Bella would be coming over with Charlie I wanted to tell the pack to clear off, the only one that did was Leah and I have to admit I was really happy that she did. She'd just changed and she was bringing the whole pack down, no one was happy especially when we all knew that there was something that Sam was hiding from us all.

We all knew how close he and Emily was and then the day those leeches left they were suddenly apart… No one knew what had happened except my father, Billy, and Sam himself. When Bella came through the door with me I was a little shocked to see Sam stop what he was doing with the rest of the guys and just stare at her, it was a little weird but when I heard what Bella had to say I couldn't help but laugh… There were a lot of guys for a pack that was only supposed to be about three people.

After the introductions Embry called her over and I was glad to see her look so at ease around us all, I knew that we could look pretty intimidating. I was glad to see that Sam had looked away from her, finally, he was probably worried about her. She hadn't exactly been her usual self for the past few months, it was as if she'd been on auto-pilot. I could remember when I went to see her in school, she looked and acted like a zombie… Just without the whole 'I like eating people's brains'.

I suggested playing 20 questions so that the guys could get to know her better, and why she'd been in my thoughts throughout the last few months, plus I couldn't wait to see their first impressions of her when we all phased again.

"It's gonna take more than 20 questions… Probably that amount from each of us, so that's about 20 times 9 is..?" Paul said with a wide grin as he leaned back in his chair slightly, enjoying the torture he was about to bestow on Bella a little too much, I held back my growl and just looked towards Bella watching her cheeks turn a light pink colour.

"I don't mind… But I get to ask each of you 20 questions each in return." I grinned at her reply as I heard Paul mutter darkly under his breath about getting her back, he obviously hadn't thought about the fact that she'd be able to ask the same amount in return.

"So who wants to start?" I asked as I looked around at the group, Collin cleared her throat behind me and I twisted my neck to look at him and nodded.

"This is going to sound so elementary, but, what is your favourite colour?" Me and most of the pack snorted, Collin had just wasted a perfect opportunity at asking a really good question on something extremely elementary.

"Um, it's blue, and don't worry… Your question was relevant, I bet most of the guys in this room didn't know the answer to it." Bella replied with a soft smile and I grinned like an idiot because it was true what she had said, even I didn't know that her favourite colour was blue, I'd always thought that it was red or black.

"Now, a question for you Collin." Bella smiled to put him and ease and I could feel the guys wonder what she was going to ask him, "What type of music do you like?" I could feel the disappointment and turned my laugh into a cough, Bella looked at me concerned but I just shook my head at her. She was trying to ease everyone into the 20 questions, it was kind of sweet, I looked over to Sam and I could see him looking at Bella once again.

Was there something going on between them that the pack don't know about?

I shook it off as I turned once again to Collin, waiting for his answer to Bella's question.

"I like drum 'n' bass, techno… Electronic stuff." He shrugged and Bella smiled and nodded, looking back at her I was about to ask a question when Jared stepped in. The rest of the day continued in the same way and the 20 questions turned into a bit of a compatition, how many questions could they get out in once sentence… The highest was 37 questions and that was held by Bella, she was pretty good at asking small questions that led to other's and that was the main bulk of her 'question sentence'.

By the time Charlie and my dad got back we were all closer together laughing over something that Bella had said, one of her clumsy days that was really painful at the time, yet was a laugh later on. The guys were supposed to be staying for dinner, well all except Sam, Paul, Jared, Collin and Brady. Embry only lived a few doors down along with Quil and Seth lived across the street, We all said bye to the guys and then Charlie and Bella followed.

"It was nice hanging around with you guys… You really took my mind off of things." Bella said as she moved around the group that was left each giving us a hug and a kiss on the cheek once we'd bent down to her level. It was funny seeing her try and hug us, it was like trying to get your arms around an extremely large tree trunk, and she did trip between hugging Quil and Seth, Seth only just managed to grab a hold of her before she went face first into the carpet. She blushed and I had to laugh, it was so Bella.

"Glad you can find the humour in my most annoying trait." She grinned as she smacked me playfully on the arm, I grinned before pulling her into a bear hug.

"I try to… And you have to admit it best to laugh at it than scowl and say 'that's not funny', because we both know that it was and you'll be laughing about it later. And it make for a great pick up line." I replied with a cheeky grin as I placed her back on her feet and walked with her to the cruiser.

"I guess I'll see you soon." She said before getting into the vehicle, waving as Charlie began to move away from the curb and drive down the street to the main road. I continued to wave with a big shit-eating grin on my face, I'd get to see her again because she'd said so, plus she'd be so stubborn she'd probably get Charlie to bring her with him every time he went fishing with my dad.

"She looked a lot happier than she has since those bloodsucker's skipped town." Quil said as he joined me on the porch along with Embry and Seth, I nodded she's actually laughed and smiled properly.

"Maybe being with us is gonna get her out of her depression, and we can keep her safe from the leech that's been playing game with us. We all know what happened to her when she went to Arizona was not her falling down the stairs and through a window… We all saw the mark on her arm today, it has to be related to this monster toying around at the border." Embry said with a definite nod, he was right we had all seen the mark and we all knew straight away that there had to be a connection. There was a meeting tonight at Sam's anyway so we'd be able to discuss theories later, it would also help if I could tell her what we were.

"We should see if we can talk Sam into allowing Jake to tell her what we are." Seth said quietly as we all made our way inside, I began to shake my head and then nodded.

Hadn't I just been thinking the same thing? I questioned myself as I looked at the newest member of the pack, although he was the newest he seemed to be wiser about issues like this… Even wiser than Sam if that was at all possible.

"We also have to find out why Sam was looking at Bella the whole day. He never did ask her any questions in the end, and she never did talk to him. There's something going on between the two of them" I spoke with a slight scowl on my face as we walked into the kitchen where my dad was wheeling around the room in his wheelchair.

"The food will be ready soon boys, why don't you go watch the TV for a while?" I nodded towards him and we all traipsed back into the living room, collapsing onto the old furniture we all lost ourselves in our thoughts of Bella, and how she'd acted through out the day.

"She did look a lot happier." I muttered to myself with a smile, for she had been and it was nice to see her smile once more.