JPOV

I was happy for her. She knew who she was truly supposed to be…I think. I don't know, it's just that I felt like she wasn't being Bella anymore, she was turning into someone I had no idea about. Kalina of the Kanuwats…was that really Bella, my Bella? When her skin and hair color changed, I didn't know if I was shocked then stunned. I mean she still had her features, but it just felt different with her skin and hair color changing.

After Kan had confessed about the redhead leech, all of Bella's brothers and parents went into a huge meeting to plan the battalion. I just walked through the trees, just thinking about Bella, of course.

I heard a crunching sound come from behind me. I quickly turned to see who was behind me. I heard a low giggle behind me, but it didn't sound right. It sounded like the person who giggled had been crying for a long while.

"Hey, Jake." Bella sighed. I looked harder to see her face. It was still in that russet skin color and her hair was jet black like mine. I inhaled deeply.

"Hey there, Kalina." I muttered. Her footsteps got louder as she walked closer to me. I finally could see her face clear as day. She had been crying; I could tell by the way the left over tears that dried up on her face shown as the moon light hit her cheeks. She still wore her buffalo skin, leather…outfit. She reached out her hand to my face. I pulled it away and she looked at me with an upset expression before she sighed in relief as I intertwined my fingers through hers.

"Jake, please…don't call me Kalina." I pulled Bella's chin up with two of my fingers.

"Why? It's who you are." I whispered. Her eyes narrowed.

"I just feel that everything is moving too fast. I mean, how could I know all those people back there? The only person I truly would sort of know would be my mother; everyone else is strangers to me, but I guess I just have to live with it. I mean, I don't know anything about this...I mean my tribe at all, and already Father has asked me to be in the head council," she started to cry and I pulled her to my chest, "Jake, I just don't think that I want to be a part of this tribe. I've already lost Charlie, and I'm afraid that if I stay here that I…I…"

I leaned away to look into her eyes. Her eyes were wide with worry. "What is it, Bells?" I murmured.

"I'm afraid that if I stay here, I'll lose you and all of my friends and family down in La Push and Forks. Jacob, please help me find a way to get out of here…to stay in La Push and Forks." Is this really what Bella wanted? I gazed down into her eyes and saw the sincerity written all over her face.

"I'll try Bella, I promise I will. In fact, I'm sort of relieved you confessed this because, well, I didn't really like the idea of calling you Kalina, and your skin and hair color changing." Bella looked down at her arm and then grabbed a strand of her hair and looked at it.

"I know what you mean. I'm started to get a little creeped out about it." She confessed. I chuckled, then cupped her face in my hands and looked down seriously in her eyes.

"You will always be my Bella, and I will love you no matter what happens. Even if you're a whole different person," I pulled at a strand of her hair, "I'll still love you." She smiled. I smirked and leaned down to softly place my lips against hers.

"Sister?" I pulled away from Bella and looked past her and into the forest. Kan Lee stood just 10 feet from me and Bella. He stepped forward to us slowly. Bells turned to face him, but she didn't walk to him.

"Yes, Kan Lee?" she replied. Her back pressed against my chest.

Kan Lee stopped when he was about 2 feet away from Bella.

"You need to get back to the bonfire, mother has been worried," Kan glanced in my direction, "Jacob you are welcome to come if you'd like."

"Uh, I don't know…," Bella snapped her head at me and gave me a pleading look, "but I'm sure the pack wouldn't mind. She smiled thanking me. I grabbed her hand and we followed silently behind Kan Lee back to the bonfire. Bella leaned into my side and I returned the favor by wrapping my arm easily around her shoulders. When we returned to Bella's wolf family, they all greeted us with welcoming hugs and pats on the back. Kan Lee gestured with his hand to an open log for us to sit at.

"Thanks, Kan." She muttered before pulling me down beside her. I rest my hand on her thigh, and I moved my hand up and down her leg before resting it finally on her knee. I looked at her and she stared back at me with wide eyes. I laughed quietly so no one could here and ask us what was so funny. Bella playfully slapped me on shoulder.

Eu Von Le coughed once, trying to get everyone's attention. We all quieted down and looked up at him as he stood a tall figure, almost God like as he smiled warmly down at all of us. Somehow, under his warm presence I felt safe. Eu Von Le began to speak.

"We have all come here to celebrate the return of our daughter, Kalina," I felt Bella stiffen as Eu Von Le called her by her tribal name, "and to discuss the Bon Ho ritual." I stared confusingly up at Eu Von Le, and then looked down at Bella who looked just as confused as I was.

Bella POV

What the hell was a Bon Ho ritual, and whatever it was, I wasn't doing it. All I wanted was for everything to go back to normal. To me being Bella, but still have my wolf form. That would be fun to have. I just didn't ever wanted to be separated from the ones I knew more than myself, which was my family back in Forks and La Push.

My father's voice broke off my thoughts of rebelling. "The Bon Ho ritual has been a sacred ritual in our tribe for many generations. It is for when a tribe member is separated from the tribe and as Kalina has shown, becomes to look like an outsider, a person that does not resemble one of us." My father paused, and reached behind him, grabbing a large cup filled with some liquid.

"In order for this ritual to go on right, Kalina must swear that she will never leave the tribal perimeters and will agree to the decisions we make for her benefit," What really came across my mind was him saying, "Kalina has to promise to stay forever in this hell hole and do what we tell her to do for the rest of her miserable life."

My thoughts spoke and betrayed me. "I'm never going to drink to that." As soon as the words flew out of my mouth, I wish they hadn't. All of my brothers stared at me in anger and shock. My mother stood and stared at me sadly. Jacob tightened his hold on my knee and my father just continued with my life sentence.

"Kalina will forget the life she had outside of the tribal perimeters and it will be like she never left the day she was born. It will make her feelings for our tribe help her fight better against the leech that plans to kill her." That is it. I can't take it anymore. I stood up, shaking violently from head to toe.

"You are never going to take away my life as Bella, father." I spat the last word. How could a father do this to a child? I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned to see Jacob staring at me in concern, but it was quickly overshadowed by his anger when he heard the news of this ritual. Jake was angry, but not enough to make him start shaking as bad as I was.

"Bella,-

"Do not call my daughter by that name!" My father shouted at Jacob. Jacob's brows furrowed and his shaking picked up a notch.

"I'll call her Bella when I want to." Jacob's lips pulled into a thin line as he tried to control his anger. My father walked and pulled me out of Jacob's reach. I looked at my father's serious expression, and then looked back at Jacob with a pleading look.

"She doesn't want this, Eu Von Le. She wants to stay in Forks with the father she should have had. She wants the life she's been living for 18 years now back, and she feels like you're turning her into someone she doesn't even recognize." Jacob's voice was flat. Father's body stiffened, but he never released his hold and kept walking. My body shook more violently, and I was getting closer to the edge of the cliff that beckoned me to fall into my wolf.

"Father! Put Me DOWN!" I demanded. Instead of doing that he dragged me closer to the cup. I couldn't take it anymore, I jumped off the edge and into my wolf.

"Kalina, no!" I heard a sad voice cry out.