Bella's POV
It had been about a week since my dream. I tried to play it off as just a crazy dream, but I was never really able to. It just seemed too vivid and real to be a dream. I couldn't get that man, Levi, out of my head. At least I was pretty sure his name was Levi. I couldn't even explain how I knew that. The name had just come to me when I woke up and it felt right.
The dream had me very much on edge. I wanted to talk to someone about. I thought about talking to Jake about it. He would probably tell me that it was just some crazy dream, but at least I would've been able to tell someone about it, and honestly, a huge part of me wanted to hear what I was sure he'd tell me. But I couldn't talk to him anyway because he was apparently still sick.
I'd decided to go to La Push anyway. I went down to the beach. I couldn't explain why, but I felt really drawn to the reservation. It was really strange. I had liked spending time there with Jake, but now I felt like I belonged there.
I felt peaceful and content as I sat by the water. I also felt a sense of Déjà vu. It felt like there was supposed to remember something about it, and it wasn't the times I'd been there with Jake or the time I was there with kids from school.
I tried hard to remember, even though I couldn't figure out what I needed to remember. All I really knew was that there was something there. After a minute or so, it happened. I had a flash, like the kind you see on TV when a character suddenly remembers something.
Flashback
I was running along the shore of First Beach. I had a huge grin on my face as I ran. Then suddenly I felt a pair of warm arms wrap around me and left me off the ground. I wasn't scared or upset though. In fact, I laughed and squealed.
"Got you," he said before putting her down.
I turned to him. "You certainly do, Levi."
He leaned forward and began kissing me.
Flashlight
I pulled out of the memory with a gasp. That was the same man from my dream, and it turned out I was right. His name was Levi, and according to my memory, or hallucination, whatever it was, I was with him. I was with him the way I was with Edward, only more intense. Of course, I'd seen that in my last dream, but I'd still been trying to convince myself that that wasn't real. This made it seem more real.
I didn't understand this. How could I be having memories of things that never happened? It hadn't happened. I had never been with that man before. I had never even seen him before. All of this was coming out of nowhere.
I thought back to the original dream, where Levi told me about a past life. Was that what this was? Was I remembering something from a different life? No, that couldn't be it. That was crazy. Of course this was coming from a girl who used to hang around with vampires. Maybe I shouldn't be so quick to call it crazy.
Soon I began to hear voices. I turned to the left to see a bunch of boys several feet away. I recognized a few of them. There was Jacob, his friend, Embry, and Sam. They were with two other guys I didn't recognize.
I had another flash, only this time it went as quickly as it came. In it, I saw three guys. One had been Levi, from my dream and the flash, one had looked a bit like Jake, and the third, well, I didn't know who he was.
I pulled myself together and realized that Jacob shouldn't be here. I'd spoken with Billy this morning and he'd very coldly told me that Jacob was still sick. But here he was up and about with Sam's gang. "Jake!"
Jacob looked at me and froze. He looked over at the other guys with him. Sam whispered something into his ear and then he began walking towards me.
I immediately stood up to greet my friend properly.
"What are doing here, Bella? You shouldn't be here," Jake said coldly.
"I wanted to come to the beach. I thought you were sick," I said.
"It's freezing out. Why would you wanna come here now?" Jacob asked. I got the impression that he didn't believe me about my reasons for coming to the reservation.
"It's calming here. I needed that. Why did your dad tell me you were sick when you're not?" I asked.
"You should go home, Bella. You don't belong here," Jake said.
"Why are you being such a jerk right now?" I asked. He was talking to me like I was the enemy. It was almost the same way Billy had spoken to me this morning. I didn't understand.
"I… We can't hang out anymore," Jake said.
"Why?" I asked in a hurt voice. I didn't understand why Jake was saying these things. What had I done to deserve this coldness from him? Why was it that the people I cared about kept abandoning me?
"We just can't. You need to go home and forget about me," he said.
"I can't just forget you. You're my best friend. Is this because of Sam," I asked as I looked back to the man standing a little ways away. I quickly looked back at Jake though because Sam's resemblance to Levi was freaking me out.
Jacob's eyes grew even colder than they were up until now. "Look, I can't be your friend anymore. Just leave. I don't wanna see you anymore. You don't belong here."
I couldn't even describe the pain I felt from Jacob's words. It felt like it had with Edward all over again. I couldn't stand it. I felt like I was going to die.
Suddenly something happened. I didn't exactly what it was that happened, but it would scare the hell out of me when it was over.
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Jacob's POV
I hated myself for hurting Bella like this. Telling her that I didn't want her around tore my heart inside out. I loved her. All I wanted was to be with her. I truly hated that I was doing what that leech had done. But I didn't have a choice. I wasn't allowed to be around anyone outside the Pack because I could hurt someone. So I had to rip both our hearts out.
When I saw the pain in Bella's eyes, I wanted to scream at her that everything I said was a lie and that I was sorry. I wanted to tell her the truth about what I really was. Again, I couldn't. Sam had forbidden me from telling Bella what we were and he ordered me to end things with her now. I had no choice.
Bella's face quickly changed and it unnerved me. She went from looking hurt to angry and stern. "Didn't your mama teach you the right way to speak to a lady, Boy?"
I was taken aback by Bella's words. Hell, for a second, I thought I heard her wrong. There was no way Bella jut called me 'Boy'. "W…what?"
"You hard of hearing, Boy? In my day, young men didn't talk to women like that," Bella was saying.
I was beyond confused right now. Bella had just called me 'Boy' again and she'd said 'in her day'. She was only two years older than me, yet she was talking the way my grandparents would talk when they were alive.
"So now you've lost your voice, huh? Has that little girl not been through enough without you acting like a little brat?" she asked as she advanced on me.
I unconsciously took a step back. "I… What?"
"Let me tell you something, Boy. A real man doesn't talk to a lady like that, no matter how resentful he is of his own fate. I suggest you get your head out of your backside and fast," Bella said.
I barely had time to absorb Bella's words before her face changed again. Now she looked freaked out. Whatever had just happened had been a shock to her to. "J…Jake?"
"Bella?" I asked.
Bella looked at me with absolute terror written all over her face before running away as fast as she could.
"Bella!" I yelled after her.
"What the hell's going on?"
I turned to see Sam standing right behind me. "I don't know, but something is. Something just happened to Bella, something really weird."