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2 Days Later

The music blaring through Leah's speakers was almost pure static, the words barley making it through them. I turn down the music as she speeds the car along the road that leads to Emily's house. After the party, we had just left and Leah had dropped me off at my house. Jacob hadn't called me or even stopped by since. It was like someone was picking apart my heart, but I didn't know why. It wasn't like I had known Jake before a week ago, I don't know why I was letting him affect me like this.

The car in front of us stopped short and Leah slammed on the breaks so hard that the car squealed, "Damn it! Holy God!" She screamed at the car as she righted the car and sped up again, pressing the gas down hard. Alright, maybe she did have major anger issues and I would help her with them... As soon as I was sure she wouldn't kill me fore trying to help.

"What homework do you have tonight?" I asked raising my voice over the rock static. She turned and winked at me, her hair blowing in the salty breeze.

"Ah," she pulled into Emily's driveway and slammed down the brake, "your still on that train? Why don't we go do something fun? Tepee Ashley Stan's house? Sneak into school and spray paint the lockers?" Leah suggests grabbing her navy backpack that was filled with crumbled papers from the backseat.

I laughed, "All those are illegal and plus I just started school here, I want a clean slate." It was true, I had convinced my dad to let me start school on the reservation because, truthfully, Leah was the only girl I'd met in Forks I could stand. Apparently my mom's side was full-blooded native American so I was legally allowed to live on the reservation, if I wanted to.

"Touche," she grins and yanks the door open, her combat books squishing on the muddy gravel. I grab my messenger bag and we both slump through the pouring rain to the wavering smell of cake. Emily's face appears in the door way, she hods a mixing bowl in one hand and shes balancing the door on her hip.

"Girls," she called, "get inside this instant, its freezing outside! You'll catch a cold." Leah kicks off her boots on the mat outside the door and Emily gestures for me to do the same. I had never really gotten a good look at the inside of her house, I was a bit... distracted. A worn red couch sits in front of a huge blazing fireplace. Its small, but cozy with a kitchen off to the side, a set of stairs leading up, and a wooden table next to a window.

I hang my jacket on the hook by the door and settle down at the table with my books, "Thanks for having us Emily," I said for both me and Leah, because Leah is up to her neck in sweets. Laughing I ring my hair out and decide to just pile it up on my head in a lopsided pony-tail.

"Yeah Em," Leah manages scarfing down a piece of rich chocolate cake, "thanks." The afternoon passes quickly as if someone had hit the fast forward button. My homework seemed to be done faster and the shows I watched with Leah on the couch, the small television set up on the mantle, faster. I tucked my feet under me as Emily sat down next to a passed out Leah who was drooling on my shoulder.

I pause, "Is Sam coming home tonight?" I asked just for her sake because for the first time since I met her she looked scared at the thought of being alone.

"Not tonight," Emily stopped and looked out the window at the forest surrounding her home, "he is away on business." I had to go home, but I couldn't leave Emily here alone and there was no way I would be able to manage moving Leah into her car. Let alone get her to drive me home.

I grab my cell phone and dial my dad's number, "We'll stay here with you Emily, its safer that way. I can call my dad and Leah's mom really quickly and let them know we are staying the night."

Several emotions pass over Emily's face before she nods yes, "You would do that for me? Really Tessa?" She throws her arms around me and holds me close like I was her daughter or family. Family, the word seemed so nice and safe, like a refuge that I didn't have at the moment.

"Yeah, my dad is probably working late and we would need a bulldozer to move that chick," I point at Leah and Emily laughs, taking a napkin from the table and wiping the drool off her couch. I dial my dad's number and leave a message then call Leah's mom and explain the entire thing. Well, it was her brother Seth, but I assumed it counted anyway.

Emily grabbed blankets from a cupboard and draped one over Leah and handed the other to me, "Is there enough space for both of you to crash on the couch?" She asked twining her fingers looking very guilty like she had asked us to sleep on glass.

"Of course there is," I lean against the couch and place my head on the head rest, "night Em."

I hear her laugh and it sounds like when I was little collecting sea-shells, the sound of them clinking together, "Night Tessa, sleep well." I was half asleep before I heard her foot steps on the stairs and her soft humming.

Sadly, my dreams consisted of Jacob Black which would have been a good thing if he actually acknowledged me or liked me back, but I can't control my dreams. I turn in the couch and pull the blanket tighter around me, I had never liked the sound of thunder and it seemed that here in Forks it was louder and more fearsome. The front door bangs open and I hear someone say, "Shh, they are asleep Jake. Be considerate."

Jake! My half-consios brain is excited, but sluggish. I strain to hear his answer, "What do I do Sam? Bella is suddenly in danger and we just learned that vampires are coming for a war! A full on war, Sam! And I imprint on her, I imprint on Tessa when it was supposed to be Bella. It was supposed to be Bella, but when I wake up I see her face and hear her voice. Do you have any idea how hard it is to stay away? To pretend I don't care?" My breath catches and I realize I have no idea what imprinting is, but damn it - Jacob Black likes me. Vampires, vampires, my brain reminds me and I blame it to how tired I am. I heard him wrong.

"Jake, you can't refuse the imprint, its stupid. Just look at her, your missing a part of your soul and you need it back," Sam sighs and I hear him climb the stairs in the direction Emily went. Jake huffs and it seems like he has moved closer towards me, where I am on the couch. Let me say, I've never been that great at pretending to sleep, but he seemed to be buying it.

I feel his hand brushing a strand on hair behind my ear, "Tessa," he whispers and I feel like he is throwing knives at me. Whatever imprinting is, he had wanted it to be the Bella girl and not me, but I loved him already. I loved him and it was killing me. "Tess," he said my name again, "stay here and wait. Wait for me." I can't answer him, but I guess he didn't expect me to because I hear the front door slam again. My heart is dropping to my knees and when I open my eyes, I see a haze of red.

Anger, it pulses through my brains like some sort of drug. I am so angry at him for doing this to me. Heat waves over my body and my stomach turns. Sweat starts to plaster my hair to my forehead as the pains in my stomach increases, how did I become so sick suddenly? I feel like I'm going to die. I moan and I feel Leah waking up, she leans over me.

"Tessa?" She places a and against my forehead and swears loudly, "Calm Tessa, calm. It will get better." My breath is wheezy now and my vision is blurring, I'm vaguely aware that my hands are shaking. "Sam?" Leah screams and her voice is so loud. "Sam! Help!"

The last thing I hear is commotion before another wave of heat passes over me.