Again I know it's been a while, but I had a lot of stuff happen (a.k.a. auditions in LA and Boston and I found out that I get to audition for Juilliard and Curtis!!! Ye gads) but here is chapter 8 and I hate to be this kinda person but…

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WARNING CONTAINS LEMON

Chapter 8

Jake looked at me briefly before taking off after that red-headed vamp with Sam and Quil in tow. Embry was with them but ducked behind a tree to change; he was still pulling up his pants when he emerged as the teenage boy I was more accustomed to seeing. He ran up to me and started checking me for injuries or bites.

"Embry, I'm fine. Exhausted but fine. Apparently my bubble works against vampires too. I just wanna rest a bit now though..." I sighed tiredly to him as he was taking off my shoe to examine the underside of my foot.

"Wow! Really? So what happened?" He asked, eyes wide. I told him about how I unintentionally snapped off the tips of her teeth and she took off running like a scaredy cat – a great simile if you ask me because she was running from a dog. After his examination to find out I was alright, he finally noticed my fatigue and insisted on giving me a ride back to Sam's place.

I couldn't complain, I'd always wanted to ride horses as a young girl, but my mother decided that since I was unnaturally clumsy, even at an early age, it was a bad idea. But now I got to ride overgrown wolves all the time. If Renee could see me now…

Unfortunately I had learned that wolves don't smell quite as good as horses. The wet dog perfume got old quickly so I was glad when we reached Sam and Emily's place and I could slide off Embry and drag myself inside.

"Is she okay?!" Emily yelled, running into the front room. Then she saw me and sighed "Oh my God, you're alright! I was so worried, you don't know how upset I would be if my one non-wolf friend died on me…" She continued ranting while she rushed up and hugged me.

"I'm fine Em, I really am. I didn't get a scratch on me; I couldn't have, remember?" I soothed, even thought I probably should have been the one being comforted. An incredibly scary vampire just attempted to attack me. Sure, she failed spectacularly but it was quite the ordeal nonetheless.

The other guys returned after a bit. They had no luck catching Victoria so she was still out there, but I wasn't too worried about her anymore. What could she really do to me except hiss anyway? I was eager to get home and get dinner started for Charlie but they made me tell them what had happened. When I casually mentioned that her tooth had chipped on me, they were floored.

"Isn't that funny?" I chuckled. "You should have seen her face it was like 'wtf?' haha…" but when I looked up at them, they weren't laughing with me. In fact, they looked a bit resentful.

"I couldn't chip a leech's tooth…" Jake mumbled.

I rolled my eyes at the sulking pups and walked out of the house.

I decided I was too tired to make anything elaborate so I settled for some simple mac&cheese then went to bed early.

But there is a difference between getting to bed early and sleeping early.

Especially if you are still love-sick over a blood-sucking bastard.

I tossed and turned in my bed with thoughts of him in my head. Eventually I must have fallen asleep because I had a very strange dream. I've never been the type to have… these kinds of dreams, but there is a first time for everyone.

In my dream, I found myself in a room I had never seen and I was with a man I did not know. This would have been weird enough but this man and I were… well… acting quite well acquainted. I led him deeper into this room and onto the red and off-white bed against the far wall and proceeded to kiss him. I had never in any "waking" moment kissed anyone like I kissed this guy, but I suppose that isn't saying much: it's not as if… Edward… and I had ever been able to abandon ourselves in each other. Not without me getting eaten anyway.

But with this stranger, I was practically eating his mouth. I reveled in the feel of abandon I felt in the way our tongues clashed with each other. As our mouths were together, I unbuttoned his shirt and stripped him of it. I felt the contours of his chest and abs and knew that he had worked himself hard to please me.

We then proceeded from there and quite quickly, his tongue was not the only thing filling me. Not that, in my dream of course, I minded. I couldn't see his face, but I knew he was beautiful and worshiped me. We shared some incredibly steamy sex on that bed until, at the moment of his release, his energy suddenly surged into me in a blinding flash of red light and my head flung back in ecstasy.

I woke up sweating and gasping, but was surprised to find myself completely energized. After the exhaustion I had felt yesterday after my run in with Victoria, I had expected to need several days to fully recover. I checked the clock and saw that it was 4:00 AM. I was very confused, I have never been the type to ever feel awake before the sun rises, but I felt like I could run a marathon.

Come to think of it, I was also confused at the meaning of this dream.

I have never considered myself a sexual person and I had never entertained such vivid fantasies before this oddity. In fact, I had no idea what this meant. It's like a whole new side to me opened up in my mind – and body – and I had to explore this new Bella. Now, compared to developing a physical shield to accompany my mental one, this may seem like nothing, but I have never had an insignificant dream, and this must mean something was coming.

And I have to say, I enjoyed that prospect.

Hopefully this wasn't the start of a bad trend.