AN: I am so sorry for the delay. I had my birthday then unfortuantly fell extremely sick and have not been able to update until now. I will try and get things back on to a more weekly basis, this chapter just proved to be a bit more difficult than I originally thought it would be. Anyways, i edited this myself in a rush, so apologies for any mistakes.

As I sat in the lounge room of my house reading my trusty old ripped up copy of Withering Heights, I heard the tell-tale signs of gravel crunching under the weight of car tyres. Charlie had left a note simply saying 'Gone Fishing – Back tomorrow', so I knew it was not him, Angela wanted to get some one on one time with Eric before they had to be separated as per the normal tradition, so the only other person I was expecting was Jake. With that thought I was out the door before I could stop myself and reclaim some sort of composure, and jumping down the porch steps two at a time in my hurry to get to Jake's rabbit. Standing just shy of the car, I didn't have to wait long before he stepped out, giving me a quick once over, I threw my arms around his neck, taking his scent in as he spun me around before gently placing me back on the ground, his hands resting gently on my hips. "Jake" I breathed out in greeting. There was no reply. Instead I watched as his smile, my smile, faded from his face as he simply said the seven words no woman ever wants to hear from a guy they had just spent the most amazing erotic night with. "Bella, we kind of need to talk".

I pulled back from him, his hands dropping from my waist to his side as mine took up precedence around my mid-section. "T-talk? Talk about what?" I stuttered out, having a feeling as to where this conversation was heading. I felt sick, like I was in the middle of some big horrible joke and it was about to all come tumbling down around me. Thoughts raced through my head, 'What could he possibly want to talk about?', 'was last night all a lie?', 'did he regret it?', 'is everything he said this morning a lie?', 'was this all some big kind of pay back to humiliate me, like I accidently did to him last year?', 'would he really do that to me? Does he not realise that it wasn't intentional?'

I nodded my head lightly leading, turning to lead us back up to my porch. If he was going to humiliate me, then he could do it up here. At least this way if he did, I had a place to retreat into and hopefully slam in his face. I walked up to the end of the porch, taking a seat on one of the old wicker chairs, Charlie and Renee had bought when they first moved in to the house all those years ago. Pulling the woollen blanket from it and shaking out a little, I took a seat, tucking my feet underneath me as I finally took notice of Jakes proximity to me.

He was standing on the top step of the porch, just under the arch looking confused and scared. With a quite sigh I drew his attention back to me and the conversation at hand. Gesturing to the love seat next to mine, hinting for him to take a seat, I stared out into the blossoming forest, mentally preparing myself for what was to come. Jake gathered himself and walked towards the loveseat, sighing as he sat, staring off at the same direction as me.

After a few minutes of nothing, I decided to break the silence. Taking a deep breath I turned to face him. "Sooo, you wanted to talk?" I all but whispered to him. He in return took a breath, nodded his head quickly before turning his full attention to me. "Before I do this, I need you to promise me something?.." after waiting a seconds to gauge my reaction and receiving no reply he continued on "Bells, I need you to promise me that you will hear me out, no matter how ridiculous you think I'm being and not interrupt me until I'm done" he asked as if we were signing some big legal document in agreement of his terms. Not trusting myself to speak, I simply nodded my head, acknowledging his request.

Taking another deep breath to prepare himself he began "I honestly don't know where to start, or even what to say. I know you're going to think I'm crazy and that this will most likely scare you off forever, but you need to know, I NEED you to know.. " stopping he looked back out towards the forest ".. so I'm just going to tell you, but please just… just hear me out okay" I could hear the desperation in his voice. And for a second I swear I could see the scared little boy, who used to run and hide with me when we knew we were in major trouble from our fathers. The type of trouble that would have us cowering in the woods until our fathers tempers had simmered enough that all we would most likely get is maybe a few stern words and a 'I am very disappointed in you'.

"do you remember when you would come down for the holidays and your Dad would always bring you to the camp out at the beach at the end of each summer?" he continued, this time not waiting for an answer. "Do you remember the stories my Dad always told. The ones about my ancestors descending from wolves, those members would transform to protect the tribe from any impending danger?" he tore his gaze from the lush scenery in front of my house and was now staring straight at me. I nodded my head in recognition of the previous summer's camp fire stories.

"they're true" he blurted out, holding his breath trying to anticipate my reaction

"Jake, come on…" I said a little too enthusiastically, gratefully that the conversation so far hadn't turned out as I expected. "… The stories were about men changing into wolves to protect your people from the cold ones… Vampires right?, you can't seriously expect me to believe that they are true" I finished, looking at him with complete amazement that he honestly was trying to get me to buy that people, human beings, could transform into some type of mythical creature to protect people from blood sucking vampires. I mean come on!

"Bella, I'm being serious"

"yeah sure sure.." I said using his favourite saying.

"I can prove it" I said standing up, reaching to grab my hand to pull me along with him. I was to flabbergasted to do anything other than follow him as he lead my down the porch steps around the side of my house, through my back yard and into the forest at the back of my house.

"Jake, what the hell are we doing" I asked with a little squeal as he abruptly stopped a couple of meters in and turned to face me.

"Just stand here, and don't move" he said, his hands resting on the top of my shoulders as they held me in the exact spot he wanted me. I looked up from where he had stopped me, noticing that he had yet to move. Looking up at his face I saw the apprehension there, and for the first time since he had blurted it out to me, I truly began to believe that HE honestly believed the stories were true.

He was looking at me with mere intensity, his face moved so that it was mere inches from mine. He leaned down and placed a soft sweet kiss on my lips, only pulling back when breathing became a necessity, resting his forehead against mine I barely heard him whisper "Please don't run". Before I could ask what from, he placed a searing kiss on my lips before stepping back and ridding himself of his shirt and shorts.

"JAKKEE.." I began to scold him, as he lowered his shorts, stopping when I noticed that in the spot where I had previously been scolding Jake was a ridiculously large russet wolf.

"Jake?" I asked cautiously as I slowly raised my hand to reach the wolf's nose, walking slowly in his direction, looking for any sign that he may take my advancement as some form of threat and attack me. After no tell-tale signs that he thought I was a threat, he moved forward so that he met me in the middle as my hand grazed lightly over his nose. Not stopping there, I began trailing my hand across his back inspecting the large animal in front of me, walking all around him until I was back at his face. Placing my hands either side of his head, I pulled him closer and simply said "I can't believe it"

The wolf let out a small whimpering sound before nudging me with his nose to step back, I cautiously stood and watched as the wolf formed back into a very naked Jake. "fuck me dead" I intended for a whisper but somehow doubt that's how it came out.

"you didn't run" he simply said

"no" was my amazing reply

"why not?" he enquired

"don't think I could have even if I wanted too… " I replied honestly "soo, the whole men turn into wolf thing.. is true.. right of course it is.. I just seen you.. what? Fursplode.. oh my god you fursploded.. and you were big.. soo soo big.. not what I thought.. soo not what I thought" I continued beginning the onset of a panic attack.

Jake quickly rushed forward to me, wrapping his arms around me in an effort to try and calm me down. "it's okay, breath it out Bella, just breath it out". After a few minutes of standing there I was able to pull away from him, but not willing to let him go just yet

"are you okay?" he asked, always concerned. I nodded my head into the crook of his neck, ending up resting on his shoulder.

"I thought it was over between us.. some sick cruel joke" I continued on my rambling, stopping when Jake abruptly pulled away from me holding onto my shoulders. "what?" he asked as if I had just stolen his puppy and told him I would never give it back.

Shocked at his reaction the quickly coming to the realisation that he had no idea of my fears from the get go. Taking a step back, knowing I couldn't share what I thought he had wanted to talk to me about, if he was in such close proximity, my arms taking up where his had fallen, wrapping around myself.

"i.. I kind of thought, that you were here to break up with me?" I answered shyly

He looked dumbstruck. Astounded. Bewildered. Before he finally said 'what?, why would you think that?"

"seriously, why would I think that? You come here looking all happy and everything and then blurt out 'we need to talk', that is never good. God I have been on edge ever since you said that. I honestly thought you were going to break up with me, that you were going to tell me last night was a huge mistake" I said starting to get more animated as I drew on.

His lips on mine silenced me though. He kissed me like there was no tomorrow for us, like he was pouring every single feeling, every single touch we had shared into that one kiss. Pulling apart he stared into my eyes. "your so cute' he said before kissing me again. His tongue tracing the outline of my lips, begging for entrance. Granting it to him in full commission, I pulled him closer to me , if that was possible, wrapping my arms around his head encasing him so that he couldn't leave me. We kissed like this for what seemed like ages. The chirping of the night life bugs brining us back to reality.

"Come on" I said grabbing his hand, leading him back towards the house.

"okay, so you thought I was going to break up with you, but your not concerned about the whole me turning into a giant mythical creature thing?" He asked pulling me closer as we kept walking towards the house.

Shaking my head in answer of his question "not concerned, but I think there is definitely some more explaining to do… but that can wait, as long as your not breaking up with me" I said turning around in his arms when we reached the back porch.

He leaned in and laid a soft kiss on my lips. "definitely not breaking up you" he said pulling away with a mile long smile.

"Good!" I answered. "Let me get my jacket and we can go to the bon fire" I said racing inside to grabbed the nearest jacket I could, before returning outside to see that Jake had moved from the back of my house to the front and was now waiting for me at his car.

"ready to go?" he asked somewhat more easy than out previous conversation had been. Nodding my head, he opened the car door for me before jogging round to his side and jumping in.

"bells, I''m really glad that your okay with the whole wolf thing, and I promise that I will answer all your questions. Tonight at the bonfire, just listen to the legends" he said as he started the car up. Nodding my head, I just laid back in my seat enjoying the passing scenery. Taking in everything that had transpired between us in the last half hour, deciding that I didn't want to lose him for the second time in my life, I would listen to what he had to say tonight and try to come to terms with the fact that my boyfriend, turns into a big giant wolf. But hey at least he didn't break up with me.

Okay. there you have it. Bit of a short chapter and not my best ever, but as i said before this one was more difficult than the rest to write. Let me know what you think. xx