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Chapter XVIII

Bella POV

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Jacob asked angrily as he pushed me off him softly, careful not to hurt me. "That's what I'd like to know." A familiar livid voice came and Jake and I immediately turned to see Elena standing there as she glared at me and the saying 'If looks could kill' came to mind.

"Elena its not what it looks like." Jacob immediately defended as Elena marched closer to us, not taking her furious dark brown eyes off me. "Elena…" I began before I could even register what was happening Elena's right fist came in contact with the left side of my face, hard.

"Ahh!" I screamed as the power of the blow let me fall over and I landed and I heard some thing crack in my right hand. "Ahh!" I screamed as the pain from the blow and the fall immediately began to spread through me at once.

"Bella are you okay?" Jacob asked with concern, but didn't move to help me in fear of upsetting Elena even more. "My hand…I think it's broken." I said as I cradled my right hand in my other. "Pity." Elena spat with no sense of remorse and with a death glare in my direction stormed off back to her car.

"C'mon I'm taking you home." She called angrily before she entered her car and started the ignition. "Let's go." Jacob said as he helped me up and led us to Elena's car. I sat in the backseat while Jacob sat up front in the passenger seat as Elena angrily drove us back to Forks.

Elena was severely pissed at me I could tell, I mean I would be too if the situation had been reversed. I shouldn't have done that, I know I shouldn't have but I did it anyway, now I can no longer hate Elena, I hate myself. "Elena I…" I began to apologize, before she cut me off. "Bella, it would be a good idea for you not to talk to me right now, unless you want me to do Victoria's job for her." She said angrily and I could tell by her tone she wasn't kidding, so I kept quite for the rest ride back.

The moment Elena pulled into my driveway and we got out of the car; Edward's Volvo came speeding up the road before he got without even turning off the ignition and grabbed Jacob. "Edward." I warned as I grabbed his arm as I tried in vain to get him to let Jacob go.

"If you ever touch her again." Edward threatened as Jacob began to shake and Elena came to his side. "Oh piss off!" Elena hissed. "You probably should be telling that to your boyfriend. He kissed Bella." Edward said, probably misreading Elena's or Jacob's thoughts and Elena and Jacob scoffed.

"You got it all wrong, leech." Jacob spat angrily. "Edward…Jacob, just go already!" I said as I tried to get them away from each other before my dad came out of the house, obviously hearing the yelling. "Easy guys, easy… let's take it down a notch." He said as Jacob and Edward allowed him to push them apart.

"What's going on?" Charlie asked as Elena looked at me expectantly and I looked down in shame. "I kissed Jacob…and I broke my hand, when Elena punched me and I fell." I explained and Edward and Charlie looked at me in shock, but I refused to meet their eyes.

"Oh!" Charlie said awkwardly as he looked at a pissed off Elena. "Well it's late and I'm tried. Good night Charlie." Elena said politely, but we could all tell she was still angrily before she headed to her car and Jacob followed after her; before they both got in and she both raced away.

"I'm going to take Bella to Carlisle, so he can have a look at her hand if that's okay with you Charlie." Edward said calmly, before Charlie agreed awkwardly before we got into his Volvo and we drove in silence to his house.

"It's just a sprain, should heal fairly quickly." Carlisle explained calmly as he finished wrapping my arm and Elena, Emmett and Jasper came into the room. Elena, who didn't even spare a glance in my direction sat down beside Rosalie who sat on the couch behind us reading a magazine.

"Try to walk and chew gum at the same time, Bella." Emmett teased as he came to stand behind Carlisle and leaned against the counter. "No, she just can't take a punch." Elena said angrily and everyone except Edward looked at her in confusion.

"Where's Jake?" I asked and instantly regretted it when she gave me a death glare. "Why...looking to kiss my boyfriend again, Bella…and if you must know, Sam called him back to La Push." Elena said angrily before getting up and stormed out of the room with Rosalie following after her with a glare in my direction, great now I just gave her more reason to hate me.

"Any news?" Edward asked calmly bring the attention away from me and Elena. "No sign of the intruder, but Victoria continues to make appearances." Jasper said as I looked in the direction that Elena and Rosalie, before getting up and following them.

"How dare she?" Rosalie hissed as Elena paced in front of her on the patio over looking the forest, before Rosalie spared a glance in my direction as she heard me enter. "Elena, I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have done that." I apologized as I moved towards them and Rosalie scoffed.

"Yeah, you shouldn't have…you know what I don't get. Jacob was in love with you…yeah I know about that, he was ready to do anything for you and you still made that idiotic decision and choose Edward, breaking his heart in the process by the way….but now when's he has found happiness, when we've found happiness after everything we have been through, you want to mess it up…I'm his imprint Bella, do have any idea the kind of pain I felt watching you kiss my soul mate." Elena spat angrily.

"I'm sorry. I guess I was jealous." I mumbled and I could see Rosalie rolling her eyes but remained quite. "You guess?" Elena hissed and I flinched by the sound of pure venom in her tone. "How would you feel if this was reversed, Bella?

It's not just the fact that some girl kissed my boyfriend, it was the fact that the girl who kissed him, was one I thought of a friend, a member of my new family, a friend, a sibling who has now betrayed my trust. How would you feel if I kissed Edward, Bella?" She asked and I looked down in shame.

"You right…it would not be a pleasant feeling and I'm sorry I did that to you…to Jacob…I'm so sorry Elena and I hope you can forgive me." I said meekly and Rosalie and I looked to Elena for her answer. "We'll see." She said calmly after a few moments of silence before leaving me and Rosalie alone and headed to what I presume was her room.

"Count yourself lucky…had it been me I would have killed you where you stood." Rosalie said once Elena left the room and she moved to the railing and leaned over as she looked out into the forest and I moved over to stand beside her.

"Okay…Rosalie, I don't understand what I did to make you hate me so much." "Hate…I don't hate you…I don't particularly like you but…Bella I envy you." She confessed and I felt my eyes widen in shock. "What? That's ridiculous." I said incredulously.

"No it's not…you have a choice. I didn't, none of us did and you're choosing wrong…I don't care how miserable your human life is." Rosalie said. "My life is not miserable…but it's not perfect. No one's life is perfect." I defended before she spoke once more.

"Mine was….absolutely perfect…there were things I still wanted. A house and a husband to kiss me when he came home, a family of my own." She said before she told how her human life ended and I finally understood her hatred towards me.

"Things got better after I found Emmett…but we'll always be this…frozen never moving forward…that's what I miss the most…the possibilities. Sitting on a front porch somewhere, Emmett grey-haired by my side surrounded by our grandkids…their laughter." She said sadly.

"I understand that's what you want…but there is nothing I'm never going to want anything more than Edward."I said defend, not doubting my words the slightest, which made me feel more guilty about kissing Jacob and Rosalie spoke once more before she left me. "You're wrong again…after you've been change there's one thing you'll want more…one thing you'll kill for…blood."

"When we were five, they asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up." Jessica said as she gave her valedictorian speech. It had been two days since my kiss with Jacob and thankfully Edward had forgiven me, but sadly I had not spoken to Jacob or Elena since and I was still feeling guilty.

"Our answers we like astronaut, president…or in my case a princess." Jessica continued earning laughter from the crowd. "When we were ten they asked again, we answered rock star, cowboy, or in my case a gold medalist." She said earning another round of laughter.

"But now that we've grown up they want a serious answer, but how bout this…who the hell knows." She continued and the crowd cheered and clapped. "This isn't the time to make hard and fast decisions. This is the time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere. Fall in love…a lot.

Major in philosophy, because there is no way to make a career out of that. Change you're mind and change it again, because nothing is permanent. So make as many mistakes as you can. That way when they ask what we want to be, we won't have to guess, we'll know." Jessica finished and everyone clapped and cheered before we all received diplomas.

After the ceremony was over I was being lead out of the auditorium by my dad I spotted Carlisle and Esme hugging Elena by her car, when I spotted two guys standing by a blue 1972 Chevy Nova. One, obviously the older of the two was dressed in complete black; his hair was even black and had blue eyes. The younger had dark brown hair and even darker eyes.

They both stood about the same height, had pale complexions and a ring on the middle finger of their right hand with a dark blue stone inside, but what really brought my attention to them is that they were staring directly at Elena.

CLIFFHANGER!

What will happen next? What will Elena do when she finds out who is here? How will Jacob react?

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