I followed Edward out of the house reluctantly. We passed Charlie, who was asleep on the couch. I wondered (for like a second) how he could sleep through all the noise I made, but then my thoughts wandered back to Crystal.

It was obvious what had just happened but I never thought it would happen to me. With my thoughts usually wrapped up in Bella I never imagined I could notice another girl. I wasn't sure if this was a good or bad thing. All I knew was that I wanted to be around her again. As soon I as I looked at her this fire started erupting inside me. I could see exactly all these golden strings intertwining around me, pinning me down to the core of universe and all because of Crystal.

I was so enraptured by my thoughts I wasn't aware we had made it outside till I felt raindrops on my head. I also hadn't noticed how close Edward was standing toward till his stench started burning my nose.

"Ugh!" I yelled, pushing myself away from him. "Haven't you ever heard of deodorant?"

"Haven't you ever heard of a bath, dog?" Edward shot back coolly.

Before I could retort with a comment about him taking a bath in holy water, Bella had come running out of the house.

"What just happened in there?" she demanded, standing next to the leech.

Honestly, I'll never be able to understand why she can bother to be around him. For once, I don't think I really care.

"Isn't it clearly evident," Edward replied, smirking at me, "Little Jake has finally imprinted."

For a moment Bella looked happy and she even smiled at me. It dropped as soon as realization hit.

"Wait, you imprinted on my cousin?" she asked in disbelief.

"No, on Charlie," I said, rolling my eyes. "You know how I like those manly men."

I was hoping she would laugh but her expression seemed outrageous and almost mad.

"Jake, you can't!" she all but screamed, walking over to stand in front of me.

"Uh, yea, I kind of can't do anything about that. Bella, what's wrong. I thought you'd be happy."

" I'm not. Well, I am but," she let out sigh. "Jake, you can't tell her."

Anger started flaring up inside me. How could Bella be acting this way? She doesn't have much of a say in this and she acting like it's something horrible just because it's her cousin.

"What do you want me to do? Not see her? That's not fair and I don't think you have much say in it." I started growling.

"I don't have much say in it?" Bella started, her voice rising, "She's my cousin, Jake, I think I have a lot of say in it."

By now Edward had come to stand in between us and it took all I had to not rip his throat out.

"Calm down, Jacob," Edward said sternly.

Don't you fucking tell me to calm down, you filthy bloodsucker.

"Just listen to me, okay?" He was annoyed now. So was I.

Stay out of my head!

"Oh, I wish I could," he muttered under his breath before turning to face Bella. "Love, it truly isn't fair to keep Jacob away from Crystal, no matter how irritating he is."

Oh I'll give you irritating. This is the song that never ends, it will go on and on my friend…

"Shut up, dog, I'm trying to help you," Edward hissed. "Why wouldn't you want Crystal to know?"

Bella looked down at her feet and started playing with the hem of her shirt. It was a good minute before she answered and I was really growing agitated.

"It's not that I don't want Crystal to know," she finally said looking back up at Edward and me. " I just don't want her to know right now. I don't know how she would deal with it. She might get freaked out. I mean it is kind of weird"

"And hanging out with a vampire is totally normal, right?" I retorted.

"Jake, you don't understand. Crystal is going through a lot of difficult things. She doesn't talk, she hardly sleeps and eats," her voice took on a softer tone just above a whisper. "Her mom sent her here because she thought Crystal was going to kill herself."

I think my heart almost stopped beating. I couldn't think for a moment. The only thing I wanted to do was run back inside and make sure Crystal was still breathing. I wanted to hold her in my arms and protect her. I had to make everything okay for her.

"Bella, you know I would never hurt her," I promised. "I'll do anything to make her happy and I'll always make sure she's safe"

"I know you would," she whispered again. "I just don't want her to know right. For now anyways. You can see her but only if she wants to see you too."

"Pfft, who wouldn't want to see this sexy thing," I joked, attempting to lighten the mood. "But seriously, I won't tell her…yet. Instead I'll just come by everyday. Starting tomorrow."

I meant every word too. I would start hanging around more and hopefully Crystal will want to be around me. It just might be a great not saying anything about my imprinting. Maybe it will make everything seem almost normal.

I started walking back toward my car figuring we had finished with this conversation but the leech just had to call me back.

"No so fast, Jake, come back for a sec," he ordered. "There's something I've been needing to tell Bella and you should probably know to."

I groaned and started trudging back toward him. I'm probably going to have to stick my nose in dung later to get rid of his awful stench.

If this is the fact that you're gay, I've already known.

"It's about Crystal." He stated.

My ears perked up and I almost bounded over to him.

"Tell me," I demanded.

Edward nodded his head and began talking.

"I can't quit read her thoughts-"

"Like you can't with me?" Bella asked.

"Not exactly. I can't hear Bella at all and with Crystal I can only hear certain things. Almost likes she's choosing what I can hear."

"Lucky her," I muttered. "But what does that mean?"

"I don't know. It could be nothing but I would like to see if the others have the same problem," he began but I jumped in.

"Whoa, I don't want your gang of bloodsuckers around Crystal treating her like some experimental rat! Besides one of them would probably start trying to drink her blood."

"My family would never do something like that to her, unlike your pack of wild animals that could attack her at any minute!" Edward started growling as if he was going to attack.

Bring it you dirty leach!

I started growling back and my body was shaking violently as if I was going to transform. That'd just make it all the easier to tear his throat out.

"Guys, stop!" Bella shouted, jumping in the middle of us. "Jake, Edward was only suggesting something that could help figure Crystal out."

I growled back a response. "See like I said. Treating her like some experiment."

"Jacob I think it's time for you to go home," Bella said gentler. "You can come back tomorrow and see Crystal."

"I don't know how comfortable I feel leaving her with a vampire around."

"For your information, dog," Edward growled, "I'm going hunting tomorrow but don't think I won't be able to tell when you're up to something.

What the fuck ever.

I turned my back and this time I ran into my car. The only reason I was doing this was so I could see Crystal tomorrow. I don't think they would appreciate it if I turned Edward to ashes. Well Crystal probably wouldn't care it had been Edward but she might get scared by me after that.

After starting the car up I floored it to La Push. The only thing I wanted to do right now was run in my wolf form. And maybe brag to the others Crystal.