A/N: I am soooo sorry that I have not updated in a long time, but I have a good excuse, my computer crashed, and then what do you know, my laptop also. And I had already written half of chapter 5. Bummer, so I had to start from scratch again. Read and Review!
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CHAPTER 5
Jpov
Crap. Where was I? I woke up dazed and disoriented some time in the early morning, before anyone else was awake. I jumped to my feet hastily and the memories of last night flooded my mind. The girl, the music and her voice; Whoa. I must have been completely out of my mind! None of these recollections seemed plausible.
I had to leave, fast. But wait. Where was I? I tried to remember. That girl had said something about The Seattle Times? Washington! I was back home, my luck could not have been better.
The pack would be waiting for me; which reminded me, Sam would be pissed if he knew I let people see me like this! What would I tell him? No time for that now, I had to get out; I heard quiet footsteps coming down the stairs. I quickly phased, opened a window, and jumped out. I phased again, realizing I had no clothes, and hit the forest running. It struck me that I was a lot closer to home than I thought I was. This was the same forest on the beach. I decided to go to Sam's; no doubt the pack would be there waiting for an explanation, even if they had given up talking to me in their mind while I was away, they were still probably connected to my mind and aware that I was close.
I ran up the door, looking around incase anyone happened to be out. I was safe, the sun was not up yet. I pawed the door; it swung open to reveal the smiling face of Emily. Behind her were my friends, all of which were whooping and hollering at my entrance, which was very hard to manage considering I was still in wolf form. One of them threw pants at me. I hurried to change and then followed them into the living room where Sam waited. Everyone was throwing questions at me.
"Where were you?"
"Do you even know how long you were gone?"
"We thought you'd never come back!"
But all I could think was that I was too late to see her.
"Am I…too late?" My voice trailed off at the end.
Everyone became instantly still. Sam just nodded slowly, not needing to know that I was referring to…Bella. As a sudden surge of pain burned through my body, I remembered that face all too clearly. I fought to push the memory of her mahogany hair, pale skin, and chocolate brown eyes set in a heart-shaped face out of my mind. My heart throbbed, and I wanted to forget it all, forget that she would no longer flush bright red, stumble every time she ran, or even that her heart would no longer beat.
I forced my brain to focus and my eyes snapped open. Sam was waiting to ask me the questions that the whole pack wanted answers to.
"If you need time, we don't have to know now", Even though their eager and curious eyes said otherwise.
"No, I will explain now." I just wanted to get this over with.
"I don't know where to start, all I know is that I ended up unconscious on a forest floor, the next thing I knew, I was in someone's house." I was reluctant to tell them that I had encountered someone.
"Wait, someone saw you? In wolf form?"
"Yes."
"Jacob! You have to be more careful! I know what you're going through but always be alert."
I was almost mad when he assumed that he knew what I was going through, but fought the anger.
"I know, I'm sorry. I needed food and shelter, and they got me on my feet."
"They?!" Oops.
"How many?"
"Three."
Sam sighed loud.
"They aren't near, are they?"
"Well, I….." I didn't want to lie to Sam, but I'm sure they were a lot closer than he thought.
"I ran for about ten minutes to get here."
He sighed again. The whole time, the pack had remained silent as Sam interrogated me.
"Never mind, they won't see the wolf again, right?"
"Right."
"Okay, let's go eat!"
At that, everyone was up and launched themselves to the kitchen where Emily had breakfast, all the while, Quil, Embry, Jared, Paul, and the others talking animatedly with me and slapping me on the back. It was good to be home.