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Jared POV

"Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you? Why would you say that to her?" Surprisingly enough this was Paul yelling at me.

Jake was just glaring daggers at me trying to keep from phasing.

I know what I said was wrong and believe me I regretted it the second the words slipped out my mouth.

I was just so upset she brought up Kim. I had ended it with her earlier this week but it's not like Bella would have known that.

Flashback

It was the day after the fateful barbeque and I was walking up to my soon to be ex's house.

On the plus side we haven't hit our one year yet so I hope she doesn't take it too hard.

I'm still going to try to fight the imprint, don't get me wrong, its just I don't want to string Kim along for the ride.

If I want to be honest with myself it's been a long time coming.

Anyways, so here I am at her front door I had just knocked on.

I know for a fact she is the only one home at the moment so hopefully I don't have to worry about nosey interrupting parents.

Kim opens the door, she is wearing a short leather skirt, an orange tank that is barely covering her belly button and her hair braided down her shoulder.

God that color is disgusting on her.

She has her makeup caked on and I'm wondering what has her all dressed up.

I was never a fan of the makeup and always tried to convince her she didn't need so much, she was beautiful with her natural look but she never listened.

Kim looks overly surprised to see me but covers quickly. She bounces over to me and reaches up to kiss me but I turn my head and she gets my cheek.

She tries to do some sexy pout like thing that just makes her look constipated.

"Hey baby, what are you doing here?"

"Kim, we need to talk." I lead her over to her porch swing and have her sit down.

I took a deep breath trying to collect my thoughts.

"Jar baby, what's wrong? You're scarring me."

God I hate that nickname! Jay ok, Jared ok, but Jar? What the hell! I'm not some damn container! Ugh, ok do it quick that's the easiest way.

"Kim, I think we should break up." There that wasn't so hard. Pretty simple really.

"What!" God I think I just busted an ear drum. "Listen, Jar, baby, if this is about the other night I swear it was purely innocent. Me and Mike were just hanging out because we were both bored and you were working. I swear it was nothing especially nothing you should dump me for. We are soul mates Jar I just know it!"

Whoa, what the hell is she talking about? And who the hell is Mike? And why doesn't it bother me? Fucking imprint!

I growled but Kim took it the wrong way. I could tell by her innocent smile she thought I was jealous enough to change my mind.

God she's an idiot why did I date her?

"What are you talking about Kim?"

"What do you mean? I thought, oh never mind." She smiled a little too innocently.

Than the tears started.

Oh man, I am not prepared for this!

"Jar you love me what happened? What can I do to fix it? Don't leave me please."

She threw herself at me. I just kind of sat there for a couple minutes awkwardly patting her back.

A tiny car pulled into her driveway and some pale-face I have never seen before got out.

He came rushing over a knelt in front of Kim.

"Kim, baby, what's wrong?" Kim's head snapped up at the sound of this stranger's voice.

She looked slightly panicked.

Hmm, wonder what that's all about.

"Um Mike, uh I forgot our plans. Can you come back later? Give me like an hour or 2." Kim stuttered out.

Hmm so this is Mike.

I figured I'd introduce myself since this Mike guy is looking at me funny.

"Hi Mike, I'm Jared, Kim's uh friend?" It came out like a question because really I didn't know what I was anymore.

Mike grabbed my out stretched hand and tried to be intimidating while shaking it.

"I'm Mike, Kim's boyfriend."

Whoa nelly, hold the phone.

"Her what?" I pushed Kim off me like she was on fire.

I understand I broke up with her but what the hell?

I just ended it. The only way for her to have a boyfriend already is if she was cheating.

So that's what she was worried about, she thought I caught her. Well I did now.

I turned to Kim, "So Kim, do you want to tell him or should I?"

I was standing up with my arms folded across my chest looking intimidating.

For some reason, I'm not that upset. What the hell is wrong with me?

I was in love with this girl and I just found out she was cheating why am I not angry enough to phase? I'm not even shaking in the slightest.

She wasn't going to say anything and even though I don't know this guy nor care that she's a cheating whore, I'm not going to just let her pull this over his head.

I turned back to Mike.

"So Mike, how long have you and Kim been seeing each other?"

"Only about 4 months. We met at my friend Lauren's party." He leaned in to whisper to me. "One of those one night stands turned fuck buddies turned relationship, ya know?"

He was actually grinning like he caught a real winner.

"Really? Hmm that's interesting."

I snuck a peak at Kim real quick to see she looked horrified. Before she could interrupt I turned back to Mike.

"Well, Mike, a little inside info on our dear sweet Kim here, I was her boyfriend of 11 and a half months, we were actually just breaking up when you came over. Hence the waterworks which I am starting to think are fake. Now I'm assuming you had no idea otherwise I doubt you would have introduced yourself as 'boyfriend' lets just hope you are smart enough to realize that's probably not a title you want to keep. Your better off going back to casual fuck since she doesn't comprehend the term boyfriend means just one."

I smiled real wide and slapped him on the shoulder. "Good luck buddy."

I turned to Kim. "Don't bother calling or contacting me at all, ever. I don't think being friends is such a great idea. Have a good time today with your boyfriend."

I turned away from them both and went back home.

End flashback

The rest of the week I was fighting with myself to go see Bella.

I really, like really wanted to but I also wanted to prove everyone wrong and show them I was strong enough and could fight the imprint.

The guys all knew what happened and they actually seemed more upset than me but I guess I just didn't have enough room in my mind to really think about it.

Damn the spirits, why can't they just let us choose our own mates. Because you chose a slut maybe?

Through out the whole bonfire I tried to suppress the urge to grab Bella and just run off with her.

Than she started telling us everything about those king bloodsuckers, it was really testing my self control.

I didn't want her fighting anyone or hanging around psychotic leeches.

I guess I wasn't doing a good job at controlling myself because she noticed my growls and flipped a lid.

Her yelling at me just really drove me crazy but it was also kind of a turn on.

Her getting all riled up and standing up to me, a wolf, I just couldn't explain it.

The way her eyes went wild with life and her hair just whipping around in the wind. I liked it.

But than she goes and says that shit about Kim.

I just couldn't stop the next words out of my mouth. I actually used Paul's old nickname for her.

I watched the life die in he eyes like throwing sand on a fire. Her eyes actually scarred me. They were more lifeless than Jake's memories of them after her leech boyfriend left her.

I could feel the pain in my heart after I told her that, I tried to cover it but the second she was out of sight I fell to my knees in pain and the yelling began.

Everyone was yelling profanities at me; even Emily called me an asshole.

Billy, Sue and old Quil just shook their heads with faces showing nothing but disappointment in me.

What really surprised me was Cat. Sweet innocent loving Cat, even shyer than Emily.

She walked over towards me with what looked like a bat shaped stick.

I thought she was going to throw it in the fire but instead she whacked me in the head with it so hard the stick broke and I was bleeding.

It wasn't bad and would heal in a few minutes but damn that girl has a swing.

"You may not like the imprint Jared but that is my sister you just spoke disrespectfully to. Next time you wont get a stick to the head I'll make sure its something you wont heal from." She growled out and than stomped back to Jake grabbed his hand and they left.

It had gotten really quiet when that happened and everyone was still just staring at me lying on the floor.

I think they thought I would phase when she did that but the pain in my heart was too much for me to do anything.

Everyone started to gradually leaving when all of a sudden I screamed out in pain.

Oh my god I never thought anything could hurt so much.

My heart felt like it was being ripped from my chest and than I felt like I took a hit to the back of the head with a steel block.

Something is wrong.

Before anyone could check on me I raced out to the road towards Bella's house. Before I could see anything I could smell the sickly sweet bleach smell of leech.

There were at least 7 or 8 different scents; how the hell did we miss this?

I phased so I could be more prepared and took cover in the woods along side the road.

Just as I howled I stopped short at the site before me.

'Jared man what's going on?' ~Colin

'You howled?' ~Quil

'Where's the leech, I need to rip someone's head off' ~Paul

'What's the report?' ~Sam

I couldn't respond to anyone because I was too busy staring at the horror in front of me.

At that point everyone started to get to where I was and Jake let out a thunderous growl.

Right in front of us was Bella's bike smashed into a tree and the scent of her blood on the opposite side of the road where another tree was knocked down and from the looks of it; her body is what did the damage.

The scent of bloodsucker was thick in the air and we all knew what that meant.

I let my wolf take over completely; I would not rest till my imprint was found and safe.

When I'm through with whoever did this, they will be begging for the flames.