Bella steadied herself on the ladder, pushing the pillows back as far as she could to be able to put another pillow in the wall. She'd only been there for two weeks but most of the ladies made her feel welcome. Her manager knew about the baby, it wasnt a gossipy place so no one else knew who Bella didn't want to know. She was lucky to have her job and she was hoping to be able to keep it as long as possible, decent pay, enough for the room, food and to be able to start picking things up for the baby. She was 12 weeks pregnant and was missing Jacob horribly. She wanted to call him, text him, email him...but she could never find the strength to hit send.

Walking over to the register bella was stopped by heather, someone she actually felt comfortable to be around

"Hey did you do the pillow wall?" heather asked.

"Yep, had nothing else to do, its quiet today." Bella nodded in response. It was the bane of their working existence to work on the pillow wall.

"Why? I dont think I could do more pillows if their in the back...Its already driving me nuts that I did this out of boredom" she sighed and leaned against the desk. "I bet" heather laughed. "

Nah, I just wanted to avoid that task like the plaque. Hey are you up to anything tonight? A few of us were thinking of getting some dinner and drinks, wanna come?" she asked quietly. Bella smiled.

"Sure! Its been a while since I've gone out. What time?" The girls chatted the rest of their shifts away, talking about work and who was going and where dinner would be.

Embry snuck up behind Jacob, grabbing him by the mouth and pulling him backwards.

"SHHHHHHH! Its just me and sam, be quiet, we need to talk." Jacob thrashed about then turned and glared at his best friend then proceeded to lick embry's hand. "DUDE! Gross!" Embry grabbed his hand back and rubbed it on his pants. "Thats nasty...I know where that tongue has been..."he smirked and was thumped on the back of his head. Sam shook his head, crossed his arms across his chest.

"Have you talked to her yet?" Sam grunted out.

"No...She has to come to me. I can-" jacob was cut off by sam's hand giving him the stop sign.

"You have to talk to her. Your needed at the rez and the garage. My pack is being torn up and I'm not dealing with this any longer." Sam continued on his rant. Jacob listened but watched as Bella left her store with a friend, same height but with short black hair. They were laughing and he relaxed a little knowing it had been a good day for her. He always worried about her, especially since she was working at a furniture store now. "she should be home,...relaxing...reading...anything"" he thought to himself.

"A week jacob."

"What?" Jacob snapped back to reality.

"You have a week or I'll make it my business to bring her back. You cannot do this to yourself to her or the baby." Sam hated being the bad guy, but sometimes, most of the time with the pack, it was needed. Jacob's jaw dropped slightly, but he snapped it shut quickly.

"I'll figure something out...I just cant push her...I cant let her get away again" Sam nodded, agreeing with him.

Sitting at the table Bella and heather just talked. And it felt good. Bella explained her life up to and before jacob and the baby came along. Well, since they had begun dating over a year or so ago. Heather had done some what the same. They got along great and Bella knew she could trust her.

"Why did you come here?" Heather asked. She wasnt being nosey but she could tell Bella had a lot on her plate so to speak.

"I left jacob..."she sighed. Heather's eyebrows shot up.

"Excuse me?! I thought..." heather stopped mid-sentence, looking toward the door where two amazing looking guys had just entered. They werent from this side of town, she would have know them, being the social butterfly she was. Shaking her head she looked back at Bella. "Sorry I dont mean to pry." She looked sheepishly away, back at the bronze gods that had walked in.

"Your fine...I just...something happened and I thought itd be better if I just...left before he could." Bella could feel the hot tears growing in her eyes. "It was an accident but he's young and I shouldnt mess up his life, he'll figure out it was for the best...Maybe I'll go back..." she went on to explain about the notebook, the letters, and lastly, the baby. Heather stared at her, not sure whether to smack her or soothe her.

"Well then..." heather coughed. It had been like they were old friends. "I figured you had something on your mind...but wow...how are you going to stay at work with all the heavy lifting? He does know doesn't he?" Questions continued to tumble out of her mouth like rocks down a hill side.

Bella nodded slowly. "I'm pretty sure he knows...I told his best friend over the phone..."

"The phone? Really Bella" heather shook her ink black hair. "Thats a sucky way to do it. Shouldve just sent the pee stick" heather went onto grin, trying to cheer up her friend. Bella slowly smiled

"Thats just nasty..."

"But you do realize he has the right to choose for himself, right? He sounds like someone that'll be around no matter the outcome." Heather squeezed Bella's cold hand. Bella sniffled. Heather shot a look at the two men that had sat a few tables away. Some how she knew they weren't here for the food.

A/N: Sorry this chapter looks so ratty, I couldn't find the right page to fix it so it looks...yeah...yucky. Forgive me! LOL