Chapter 2

Sad Truths

When I got home I raced straight to the phone to call Jacob, me and Jake had been best friends as long as I could remember. Jacob had moved near us because he was practically family, he had set up his own garage and now was raking in the cash.

Did I ever mention Jacob was a werewolf? Well technecely not a werewolf but a shapeshifter in the form of a wolf.

"Hello?" said a familiar husky voice

"Hey Jake its me"

"Oh hey Ness, how was your first day of school"

"Well, I think my french teacher hates me now because I speak better French than her, my English teacher thinks I'm a genius because I read books and I made an over friendly friend called Carl. How was your day?"

"Worked at the garage most of the day, so how did Edward cope with his little Nessie in with the big boys?"

After the scene with Carl at lunch, Dad thought it was his duty to walk me to all my classes, shooting murderous stares at any boy who even glanced at me.

"He's going over the top as always" he chuckled "You coming round?"

"Sure, be there in a tick"

The phone went dead, I smiled, Jake was always there. A few minutes later Jacobs Mustang pulled up outsite our house, my Mom and Dad had bought him a new car for his 19th climbed out of the car and walked into the house (there was no need to knock when we all knew it was him).

"Hey Nessie wotcha wanna do?"

I spent the rest of the day at Jakes garage watching him fix his cars, I once had a drag race in my dads Vanquish against Jake's Mustang, I won of course but dad yelled at me full out for a good 10 minutes so he kinda got his revenge.

The best part of our friendship, was that it was easy, easy as breathing but today somthing was wrong, he payed more attention to what I was doing and often found himself lost for words.

My natural instinct was to confront him and make him tell me what was wrong but he denied anything being out of the ordanairy. Somthing was up, and I would find out what.

School again.

I took more time over what I was going to wear today so my mind did not wander over to other subjects like worring over Jacob, worring did no good I kept telling myself but my mind wasn't entirely convinced.

"Morning Ness" greeted Emmett.

"Morning uncle Em" I said, uncle Emmett always cheered me up.

"NESSIE!" Alice shouted.

"What?" I yelled back in alarm.

"That outfit is amazing! Were did you get it?" I looked down at my skinny jeans, blouse, belt and stilettos then laughed.

"I guess I payed more attention when I was getting dressed this morning" everyone laughed this time, the loudest coming from uncle Emmett in the garage.

When we got to school I was in a more positive mood than yesterday, the day didn't look as bleak.

Dad walked me to my first class (Biology if you must know) today to "make sure you dont get lost" but I was pretty sure that he wanted me to stay away from Carl, when dad had left and I had introduced myself to the Biology teacher (Mr Lark) I sat down next to a short girl with mousy brown hair and big watery blue eye who was watching me curiously.

"Do you mind if I sit here, I''m Renesmee Cullen. But everyone calls me Nessie, like the Loch Ness Monster"

"Sure, I'm Caroline Murphy but everyone calls me Caz", she seemed nice, friendly and didn't seem to stare at me like the other students, I could tell we were going to get along.

"So I see that Carls took a liking to you" said Caz smiling

"Unfortunately" I murmured " Is he always like this?"

"Yeah, you get used to it, he moves from girl to girl but it never works none of them have said yes yet" she laughed half-heartedly

"Says yes to what?"

Where have you been?" Said Caz her eyebrows raised " He keeps asking all the girls to go out with him, you have been out with a boy before right?" she added

I couldn't think of a valid excuse.

"Oh my God, you have never been out with a boy before, why? Your really pretty and I mean really pretty look at you! Your like a supermodel" she gushed

I was overwhelmed by the compliments, me beuatiful? No, I had too much human in me to be beautiful like my Mom and Dad, I was only half vampire for crying out loud!

"They er... didn't meet my er..standards, yeah standards"

"Woah..." she said in awe "your standards must be really high"

"Pretty high, yes"

The rest of our convesation was interuppted by Mr Nirmal walking in with a lanky teenage boy behind him, the room fell silent almost instantly.

"Good morning class, I'd like to introduce a new student." he took a step back and lookedf at the boy "This is Noah Aitkin"

On a closer look, I could see that Noah had crisp golden skin like he had spent a long time in the sun, which clashed with his sandy coulored hair. His face heald nothing very intresting until you came to his green-grey eyes that were shooting round the classroom. His eyes heald the look of sharpness, but at the same time they were soft. I was so intreged that when he met my eyes, I jumped embarresingly. He looked away quickly and I flushed beetroot red.

I spent the rest of the lesson pretending to listen intently to Caroline matching names to faces in our biology class, by the end of the lesson I could name half the students in my class. Feeling proud of my self I bounced off to my next lesson with Caz walking faithfully by my side.

My second day at school was not nearly as bad as my first, most people had stopped staring now and gotten over the fact that was new, more people were intrested in Noah now; including myself. Some people even introduced themselves to me which was unexpected, but despite all the distractions I couldn't get rid of the nagging feeling in the back of my brain wondering what was wrong with Jake, it was like when you get a song in your head and it won't shut up.

By lunch I had decided to confront Jacob after school to find out what was wrong with him, and if he wouldn't tell me...well lets just say I may only be a half vampire but I was as strong as a normal one.

Once I had got home I flipped open my cell and diallled Jakes number, he answerd on the first ring.

"Hello?" said Jake, his voice was flat

"Its me, can we talk?"

"Sure thing Nessie!" Thankfully his voce seemed even more excited than before.

Was he on drugs or somthing? I breifly wondered what would happen is a shapeshifter took drugs but Esme interuptted my musings by quizing me on my preffrences for the colour scheme of my new room. Just after all that buissness was out of the way Jake's car pulled up in front of the house. He bounded up the porch and into the living room where I was sat on my own waiting for him.

"Hey Nessie" he said, cheerfully. Thank god his mood had lightened I thought to myself thankfully.

"Hey Jake, we need to talk" he plopped down next to me on the sofa.

"About what?" he said

"Not here" I stood up and he followed with a puzzled expression on his face as we ran into the woods.

"So.. what you wanna talk about?" the puzzled expression still etched on his face.

"Whats up Jake? And don't say it's nothing because i can see it, your acting so weirdly these past few days and as your best friend you have to tell me why."

"You saw that huh" he said with an embarresd expression on his face. I still had no idea what was wrong with him but it was clear I would find out soon.

"Yeah" I sighed "whats going on Jake?"

"Well I guess I might as well tell you now, Nessie...I'm going back to La Push" he paused "for good."

I stood, rooted to the ground as the realization hit me. Jacob, leaving...forever.

"No, please don't" I said quietly, close to tears.

He took a deep breath.

"Nessie, I have too. It's Billy, last week well...he had a stroke. I didn't want to tell you because I thought it would upset you"

"Billy...is he ok?" I whispered

"He's alive" said Jake "but he needs help, Rachel or Rebecca would do it but they're both married and have kids. So that leaves me to help him"

Jacob had to go, and their was nothing I could do about it. I remembered times when Jake would go to check on the pack in La Push and leave me behind. It felt like a piece of my heart had been ripped out of my body, like I was only half a person.

"Jake..." My voice broke and leaky tears flooded out. He took hold of me and I rested my head against his chest, soaking his T-shirt with my tears.

I wasn't entirely sure about what would happen in the future, but I knew that things would be a lot different.