I knew that if I went home, he would follow me, so I went to the only other place I could think of. The Cullen's empty house.
I wasn't surprised when I saw a flashy red car sitting in the front. Of course Alice would be here. She would have saw me buying that pregnancy test. I was afraid that she saw the results. I took a deep breath before parking. I prayed that I had the courage to get through this next conversation.
In the end, Alice ran out the house meeting me while I was still in my car.
"What's going on Bella?" She asked, her face reflected confusion.
"What did you see?" I said, a little confusion on my own face. If she saw the results, she wouldn't be coming with confusion, but with anger or something.
Her nose wrinkled a little. "Bella, what's that smell?"
"Oh, I just came back from seeing Jacob." I said, hoping she took it. I couldn't very well say that I had a baby half wolf was growing within me.
She seemed to accept it, but she still looked at me suspiciously. "Okay. But I want to know why you needed a pregnancy test."
I sighed. So she didn't know about the results, just that I bought one.
"Bella, are you pregnant?"
The sentence made my stomach jump, and while apologizing to her silently, I said, "No." With furled eyebrows. "Why would you think that?"
She let out a sigh of relief. "Okay." She said. " I just saw you buy that pregnancy test and I panicked. "
"Oh. No. I bought that for a friend."
She hugged me so hard that I couldn't breathe. "I'm so relieved!" She said. She looked at me with such a bright smile, I had to force myself to smile back. "Okay, so I rushed out on Jasper, so I have to go. Just wanted to check on you." She said, and just like that, she was gone, speeding down the Cullen's big driveway in her red car.
I sighed, sitting in front of their house a while more before tuning my junky truck to follow Alice's.
And like I had suspected, Jacob sat there in the front, leaning against his bike.
He didn't speak, but took my had roughly, leading me to the woods. "Jacob. Where are you taking me?" He didn't answer. "Jacob?" He clenched my hand harder, pulling me faster. "Jacob! You're hurting me! Jacob!"
He suddenly stopped, but he didn't turn around. I watched his back, watched his torso heave while he tried control his heavy breathing.
Finally, he turned to me, his eyes intense. "What are you going to do?"
I sighed. "I don't know." I was afraid, didn't know what to do, didn't know who to talk to.
"Let's leave. Wait until the baby's born to come back."
"I don't know." I whispered.
"We can leave so that no one knows about it." He took my hands lightly this time. "So that those people don't know about it." I knew exactly who he was talking about. Alice. Especially since she couldn't predict the future when Jacob was around.
"I-I don't know." I said, trying to pull my hands out of his grasp. He didn't let me.
"We have to. How are you going to explain this to Charlie and Billy?" He asked, staring intensely at me.
"I don't think we should…"
"Should what, Bella? Tell them? Then we have to leave!" He strained.
"No. I don't want to leave." I said shakily, my eyes glued to his massive chest. "I don't think I can."
"Then do you want to marry me?"
The surprise had me looking back up at his brown eyes.
"That's the only solution if you're not thinking right." He let go of me, stepped back a few feet, then turned around, so that his large back was to me. "But I know you don't want that. Bella. We have to leave Forks. Just until the baby's born. It's the only solution."
I knew it was, but I was still in shock. I didn't know what to do. I was past crying since Edward left. I was past sitting around doing nothing after a few months of doing that. I just didn't know what else to do. And I knew deep down that the only answer was what Jacob gave me.
"Okay." I whispered, my eyes on the dark ground of the woods. I heard rather than saw Jacob turn. "It's the only way. Let's go." I turned towards home, where Charlie sat inside, probably watching something on T.V. I would have to lie…again but for a different purpose.
"Wait. Bella…" Jacob sad. I just kept walking. "Bella! What did you decide?"
"We have to go talk to Charlie, then Billy." I said, not slowing down my pace.
"Wait! What are you going to say?" He asked. "Please don't tell me you want to arrange a false marriage!"
"No. Pack your bags. We're going to my aunt's." I would have to talk to her first, but I was one hundred percent sure that she wouldn't say no.
Please Critique.