Okay I know it has been a while since I updated, but I always seem to get severe writers block when thinking in Jake's POV. So this one is a little bit dicey.

Anyway as usual: I Do Not Own Twilight.

Enjoy

JPOV

I watched as Bella exited the hotel room with a quiet thud of the door. Falling backwards onto the hotel bed, I couldn't supress the beaming smile from evolving across my face, advertising the sheer contentment as last night's events played through my head.

I had dreamed for so long to see Bella again, waiting for the chance, any chance to speak with her, to explain my actions from that night on the beach, so many months ago. So it was no shock that words could not explain my surprise at seeing her in the karaoke bar, and astonishment did not cover it when her friends convinced her to get up and sing in front of the packed bar or the irritation the flew through my body watching as Quil and Embry took to her on stage. I could only be described as jumping like a little girl, on the inside of course, when they dragged her back to the table, although you would never have been able to tell, what with me trying everything and anything to not jump her right then and there in front of my friends and the rest of the bar, even if the urge was overwhelming. I was at a loss for words when she followed me outside, let alone the events that unfolded in the dark cold alleyway and when I finally had the chance to explain that very fateful day, I poured all my love and devotion into out zealous make out session that led to our very passionate and intimate night. Now that I could find a word for that… astonishing. I was brought back to reality by the hotel door being slammed shut.

"I know I'm irresistible and all.. but babe.. you just left me five minutes ago" I said with a slight smirk, loving the fact that she couldn't be away from me.

"weellll snookems, I just couldn't stay away.. you know how much I loooove those big pouty lips.. but I see you have been otherwise preoccupied, by the way.. are you aware that this entire room smells of sweat, sex and a hint of bacon and eggs?" Embry teased, making his way into the hotel room.

"a lot of sex!" Quil added with a grin that spread across the entire expanse of his face joining in on the conversation as he made his way over to me on the bed, giving me a slight slap on the back before taking a seat next to me., taking a quick look at the dishevelled sheets lying half on half off the bed, towards the inadvertent wreckage left behind in our wake to get to the bed last night. I hadn't realised how much chaos we had made in or trek last night, knocking vases and tables over, clothes thrown all across the room.

"Did you seriously just say his lips were big and pouty?" Quil asked, making fun of his two best friends, breaking the silence "and dude, put some god damn pants on, I don't want to be looking at your junk all day" he finished getting off the bed and walking over to where Embry now stood, leaning against one of the couches.

"How the hell did you guys find me?" I asked, pulling my discarded shorts on a little annoyed that my morning of reminiscing had been interrupted.

"Easy. We followed your scent…" Embry started "…and low and behold that we caught another scent mixed in with yours" Quil stated.

"Being the awesome best friends that we are.." Embry started again gesturing his hand back and forth between Quil and himself "WE had to make sure that, that someone wasn't corrupting our little Jakey" Quil finished swatting Embry on his peck.

"and could you imagine our surprise when the long lost Bel-la, exited the hotel that your scent just happened to lead us to. She had what many would call a slight glow… " Embry continued slightly tapping his chin as if he was thinking "… and looking sexy as hell.." Quil butted in, starting a chorus of laughs between to the two grown men, only stopping when they heard the increased growl coming from their counterpart near the bed.

"ooohhhh, someone's a bit touchy this morning. Did we not get the right bits rubbed last night" Quil egged on.

"what are you doing here?" I asked again, my tone a little clipped.

"we were sent to come get you" Embry supplied, "and now that we have found you, lets get going, I've got things I need to be doing?" Quil again finished. I swear sometimes these two were as identical to tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum as you could get.

"yeah, like what?" I threw back as I looked around the room trying to find my discarded top and shoes. Locating them on opposite sides of the room, I signalled for the two to follow me as we started to head out.

"dude, there wouldn't be any chance that you two left some bacon and eggs in there, would there?" Quil asked as he walked past me into the hallway, earning a slap on the back of the head.

The run back to La Push was monotonous to say the least. The entire pack, well everyone but Leah, were trying their hardest to get me to slip up and let something from last night's encounter with Bella through by throwing random thoughts my way. I'm guessing they were hoping on of them would trigger something in my memory, but a few quick nips to the ankles and they all quickly got the hint - I DON'T SHARE BELLA. Making it to the border quicker than I thought, Sam stopped us to have a small impromptu pack meeting.

"Paul and Jared I want you to take a quick patrol of the boarder, I want you to pay extra attention to any new scents, I want to make sure that nothing managed to get through while we were away last night. Quil and Seth, I want you to do another check around lunch and the Jake and I will go around four. The rest of you are to go home and rest and we will meet down at First Beach around five to set up for the bonfire tonight." Sam ordered through the pack mind.

With Paul and Jared heading off in separate directions for their patrol, and the rest disbursing on towards their homes, I gave Sam one last look. "You need to tell her, remember what I said last night" he returned a knowing gaze, before rushing off presumably to get home to Emily.

With a sigh – or the wolf's equivalent – I trudged my way back in the direction of my house. The trees began to thin as I came to the edge of the forest just outside the back of my little red shack of a house. I stopped just shy of the edge and phased back into human form, pulling my pair of shorts on quickly before making my way through the back yard and up the old rickety wooden steps. Opening the back door I gave a quick shout out to see if my father was home, as expected no answer came back. Veering my exhausted body off to the direction of the kitchen in search of some left overs I almost missed the note on the fridge door. Pulling the refrigerator door open, I quickly grabbed a plate of left over lasagne Sue Clearwater had sent home with my Dad two nights ago, and sat down at the kitchen table. In my father's typical nature the note simply said 'Gone Fishing – Be home Sunday'. With a slight chuckle at my father's inexplicable nature to never say more than what was needed, I gulped my food down, before retreating back to my room in search of some much needed rest before I needed to head into Forks. God only knows I would need all I could get for the talk I needed to have with Bella. Sleep evaded me for about an hour, before I finally gave in.

Waking up around two, I stretched my sore limbs before sitting up and rubbing the sleep from my eyes. Looking to my bedside table I noticed that my phone was flashing at me notifying me to the fact that I had received a message, picking it up and flipping it open, I noted that it was from Bella – and had been sent around two hours ago. It simply read that she and Angela had finished doing their girly thing for the day and she was headed back to Forks. She just wanted to make sure that we were still going to catch up when she got back. If she sent the message two hours ago, she would be arriving home within the hour. With a quick reply apologising for the delay in return and the assurance that we were still on, I jumped up out of bed and headed for the bathroom, having a quick shower, before grabbing the keys to my rabbit and heading of in the direction of Forks and Bella's house.

It took all of me not to break the speed limit to get there, but I just had to keep reminding myself that she was still on her way back and there was no point in me rushing there. But I couldn't keep the joy down as I pulled into the driveway of the Swan's residence half an hour later. Excited and nervous all at the same time, that Bella was in fact home. Cutting the ignition of the rabbit, I took a few seconds to gather myself. This next conversation was going to determine how the rest of my future would pan out. If I would spend the rest of my life living how I had spent the last year, or I would be the complete polar opposite and be spending it with my arms wrapped securely around the woman in that house. I was nervous to say the least. Thoughts running through my mind like crazy.

What if she thinks I'm crazy.. try and have me admitted to an asylum.. that would surely piss a lot of people off.. what if she hated me.. change her mind and regret last night.. change her mind about me.. about us.. no no no I can't do this, it's way too soon, she will never believe me, and seriously who the hell drops a bomb like.. hey by the way I change into a big mutant werewolf and guess what - you're bound to me for life.. oh god. She IS going to hate me. I can't do this. How am I going to do this? My mind quickly flashing back to the conversation I had last night with Sam, when he had followed me out into the alley.

Flashback - Last night

I pushed my way through the throng of people that had gathered at the karaoke bar as I stormed my way outside. I needed to calm myself down – and fast. I couldn't risk phasing here and blowing our tribes secret, but I was already being pushed to my limits tonight, what with sitting so close to her after spending close to a year apart, and then to hear that there were other guys out there trying to get her attention – well that didn't really surprise me, but still annoyed me none the less, AND finally Quil. My good old buddy… one of the boys I had grown up with and spent majority of anytime I had free with… had to go that one step further... and tonight of all nights.

I had almost blew my lid when I heard Bella speak about the other guys, but when Quil continued to flirt with her, I wanted to, no NEEDED to punch something – anything and right now at the top of that list was my life long buddy, followed close by any guy that looked in her direction. I get that all those other guys had no idea what that women meant to me, but Quil he was there, he saw, he heard, damn it he knows what happened between us, and regardless of whether or not they knew she was my imprint, he was aware that I have been harbouring feelings for her ever since we were kids. No imprint was needed for that to be obvious.

I was pacing back and forth in the empty dark alleyway just outside the club kicking at any debris that happened to come into my eyesight and the poor dumpster had taken a few hits, just to release some of the anger. But it was still raging inside me, I tried talking to myself, hell I probably looked like some crazy person mumbling to myself.

"he doesn't know.. she doesn't know.. you can't blow this.. waited too long.. scare her away.. no.. not gonna happen.. not again" I mumble as I picked up my pace, only to be interrupted by a deep voice that unmistakably belonged to my Alpha, Sam.

"How long?" he simply asked walking further into the ally.

I still wasn't quite calm enough to answer that question, so he quietly walked up closer to me, leaning against the cold wall, watching me as I continued to quietly pace back and forth. After a few minutes he asked again.

"Jake. HOW long?" he asked a little more sternly.

I stopped my pacing so that I was directly next to him, turning and leaning against the wall, I let out a sigh.

"Almost a year" I answered quietly. Why? I have no idea. It wasn't like I was ashamed of the imprint. I just needed to figure things out with Bella, before I announced it to anyone.

"A YEAR?" he basically yells moving to get off the wall. With a quick pointed look in his direction, he relaxes back into it the wall. "How the hell have you gone a year without seeing your imprint?"

I shrugged my shoulders answering simply "kept myself busy"

"Well I guess that now explains the extra patrols you always offered to run and the absences from pack gatherings."

I had no answer, there was no point in denying anything to Sam, he always had a knack of just knowing things. Like I said, without much information from me he figured out that I had an imprint, Bella was said imprint and that I had spent the better part of a year fighting it.

We just rested against the wall, letting the noise of the hustle and bustle of city night life roll over us as he soaked in what I had finally announced. After a few minutes, he pushed himself from the wall and stood directly in front of me.

"You need to tell her" it wasn't a suggestion, nor was it an order.

"I can't" I answered

"Why not?" he queried confused.

"Seriously. You're asking me 'why not'" I threw back as if it wasn't obvious enough. He just stared at me confused with my reaction.

"I can't drag her into this, she has a life in Phoenix, school, her mum and besides. Our last encounter wasn't all the impressive. She hates me now, hell she flew half way across the country just to get away and the she stayed M.I.A until now, I just.. just can't okay"

"NO" he threw back "the two of you need to talk. Talk about whatever the hell happened between you and you WILL tell her. I cannot have a half ass beta backing me up, and right now that's all you are. She is your perfect match, whether you think so or not. You tell her or I will. Let it be her decision. " he finished. I began to feel my rage growing again at the fact that he was now trying to force my hand in this matter. I started shaking up against the wall, about to throw a retort but I didn't have time to answer as we heard the side door to the bar open, and the sweet scent of her perfume drifted down to where we were standing. I stiffened at the recognition of it, Sam assessed me before turning and warning her to stay there.

"BELLA, wait stop!" he yelled down the alley, turning to look back at me silently commanding me to get myself back under control. I could see that she was a little scared at the command he threw, and that was more than enough to calm me down

Taking a slight step back he whispered "do it before the bonfire tomorrow, or we WILL do for you. I'm giving you this one chance Jacob" and with that he started off back towards the club, a smirk slightly displayed on his face as he passed by Bella and then finally exited into the club.

Back to the present

I was brought back to the present by the sound of a door slamming shut. Looking up I watched as Bella came prancing down her front stairs and made her way over to the car, a bright smile on her face. Well at least she was happy – for now. I thought as I reached for the car door handle and stepping out.

"Jake" she said as she reached me, throwing her arms around my neck, jumping into me. With a quick spin I placed her back on the ground, returning her smile. But it quickly faded.

"Bells, we kind of need to talk" I said still holding her close. Taking in her scent and the feel of her. Pulling back I saw the confusion in her face. And with that I saw the light in her eyes die. Dear god, I'm about to scare the one person who truly meant anything to me – off.

Could my life possibly get any worse?

AN: So that's it for another chapter. What do you think? Any thoughts on the conversation between Sam and Jake? Do you think Jake will man up and tell Bella before the bonfire or leave it to Sam and the legends. How do you think Bella will react to the news? Is it the end (okay that one was a little dramatic)

Also I want to thank everyone that added an alert or reviewed the last chapter. I was really worried that I wouldn't be able to get across what was playing in my mind and was very delighted when not only one but THREE of you got it perfectly. I may have even jumped up and down like a little girl! Hopeing to have another chapter by Friday if not Monday.

Until next time XX