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Chapter 21 (Bella's POV)
I was soon back to checking on things. The first thing I needed to do was see if Charlie was alright. Edward went with Emmett to help their sisters with the kids (though they didn't need any help). So after the kids taking to the men, Rose and Alice decided to join me until they found something else to do.
"I love little kids." Alice said excitedly.
"You are a little kid." Rosalie chuckled. Alice pouted, but soon was lively again.
"I like the little blonde girl, she was cute."
"Me too. I can't wait to get married!" Rosalie was smiling so big, I was surprised she didn't do the hoola.
"Did Emmett propose?" I asked her.
"Yes. I was so surprised how quickly he accepted me back. He said, if I really loved him, I would marry him right then and there. But of course, I didn't, though I did accept him." Her smile looked like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. So happy and carefree. "Last night. He took me to this expensive restaurant and had me order whatever I wanted. Then, while I was looking out the window to see the city below, he got on one knee! Oh, it was so romantic!" (My brother did this in the rotating restaurant(don't know what it's called) and his now fiancé first thought that he dropped something. Hehehe, poor Gus-Gus).
"Jasper said he wanted to talk to me about it." Alice said, happy for her sister.
"Talk about it? Jeez, that guy needs to grow a backbone. And get his head out of the library." Rosalie said disparagingly.
"Okay, cool it down, girls. Your supposed to be having fun." I said, coming back to the conversation.
"I didn't think there was going to be so many people." Alice agreed to her sister's comment by nodding her head.
"Well, this was probably more than we had every time we had it-" Somebody grabbed my arm.
"Bella. I need to talk to you." I looked up to see my captor's face.
"Why? I think Quil and Emily and everybody else said it all. So leave me alone." I tried to jerk my arm away, but his hold was like steel.
"Bella, come on." Jake said commandingly and I was soon dragged from the girls and across the field to the house. He pushed me through it until we reached my room. I struggled the whole trip, but it was like I wasn't even there.
"WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM???!!!" I screamed at him. Esme was in the kitchen, so hopefully she would help me out. Hopefully.
"Bella, I know your mad at us, but-"
"If you dare say its for my own good, you will no longer be able to have kids." I said, in a pissed-off, warning, you-better-hope-to-god-that-I-don't-kill-you, tone.
He bit back his smile, but I could still see it. And this just made me even more mad. "Bella, please. Listen."
"You better talk fast, because otherwise," I shook my head that was swarming with thoughts galore.
"Fine. I'm sorry but I can't control my temper enough to be around you. I-"
I interrupted him, "You never had a problem with your temper, Jake. So don't give me that."
He frowned, displeased. "Remember in the cafeteria? That's my temper. I don't know what'd I do if I hurt you. So it's just better this way."
"You already hurt me, Jake." I said sadly. I sighed as I watched his eyes drop. "So, what's Quil and Embry's excuse?"
"Same thing."
I laughed forcefully. "Nah-uh. Quil is funny and says he gets mad, but I don't think he has a temper problem. Embry is quiet, so your out on that one too."
He inhaled. Then exhaled. "Your not going to let this go, are you?"
"No." I said. He stared at me, just watching. "What else did you want to talk about?"
He didn't speak, but came closer.
"Jake…" I stepped back, not sure what he was doing.
"Bella." He was in front of me before I knew it, wrapping his arms around me. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean for this to happen. If those damn vam—"
He cut his sentence off and sighed again.
"Bella?" A voice asked by the doorway.
I tried to look, but couldn't get out of Jake's grip. So I looked to see Jake's expression, he was livid. As soon as he saw who it was, he started shaking. "Jake? You okay?"
He looked down at me, confused.
"You're shaking." I said to his unasked question.
He immediately let go off me and strode out of my room without a word.
"Bella." I looked at Edward who reappeared in the doorway. He must have moved to let Jake through. "What was that all about?"
He sounded angry and confused. Not a good thing. "I have no clue."
He wasn't taking that response. "Rose and Alice said that he dragged you to the house."
"Yes. He wanted to talk." I sat on my bed, drained.
"About?" Edward came to sit, but not by me. He sat on the far end. Away from me.
I looked outside, wishing I could just have fun like they did. But I knew it was hopeless. "His temper. How he shouldn't be around me, he might hurt me."
"What?" He looked strange. "He gave you that excuse?"
I laughed a small laugh, "Yeah. Then he hugged me."
"Mmpf." He snorted and looked away.
"What?" I asked, annoyed. Does he not believe me?
"Nothing." He said nonchantly.
"Edward, what?" I asked again.
"You looked pretty comfortable. You didn't even look up to see me." He sounded so harsh.
"Edward. He hugged me, saying he didn't mean for this to happen. I couldn't look up, Edward, his grasp was too tight for me too." I looked at him, still seeing him annoyed. "You don't believe me, do you?"
His eyes met mine, and then looked down.
I nodded, "Figures."
I left the room, not listening to his protests. I ran. Not watching where I was going and somehow, knocking Emmett over. Once again.
(Gonna leave it here, but decided to go on!)
"Bella," He sighed. "I know you love me and all, but…I'm getting married. We have to end this little affair."
If I could be, I would be laughing. But instead, I got up and kept running. I knew no one would come after me, so it wouldn't matter to run or not. But I did anyways. I ended up in the spot that mom fell from her horse. It was quite a ways from the crowd, so I could easily spot someone coming. Nobody was.
I sat down against the fence, just waiting for dark. After about an hour or two, I realized I had never checked on Charlie. Who knows what trouble he would be getting into? But I stayed there for awhile longer, watching the sun go down. When it was twilight, I decided to go back up and join the people. The band had started and people were dancing to the loud music. As I went to the side of the dance floor, seeing the Cullen's in the line dancing. All of them having a good time. I smiled a little, well, as long as their happy. When the song ended, Jasper went up to the stage and they handed him a microphone.
"Hello, everybody. I'm sorry for interrupting, but I would like to ask my girlfriend something." He got down on one knee and Emmett pushed Alice forward, so she would be standing in front of him. "Alice, would you marry me?"
An 'awe' went through the crowd and Alice shyly said, "Yes, of course." Jasper stood up and picked little Alice up and swung her around. I saw Charlie and Billy sitting together, with Sam and Emily beside them, along with the rest of them. All except Jake. I looked over to Edward and saw him smiling at his sister and brother. Happiness. It's what everybody had. Everybody but me.
Do you remember what Jake was going to say? Hmmm? Look back! Dun-dun-dduuuuNNNNN!!!
Like one of my reviewer's said, "there's no vampires, that we know of…"
If you read the first chapter of Eclipse, (I DID FINALLY!!) then you know that werewolves change bc vampires are around. But…who is it?
