I realize it has been months since I have updated this story, but I've been so busy I barely have any spare time to work on it. I finally got around one long weekend to work a bit to continue where I left off and it was a productive writing session. Sorry to keep you guys waiting for so long. Here it is! Enjoy! R&R

Chapter 33

Two and half hours later, Alice decided that it was time to call Jake to invite him to the family meeting tonight. She dialed his house thinking through what she'd tell him as the dialing tone continued. After a minute of hearing the dialing tone, a woman answered pleasantly, "Hello?"

Alice gulped. Alright, you can do this. "Hello, I wanted to speak with Jacob."

"Who's speaking?" the woman politely inquired.

"Alice. I'm a friend of his."

"Alright, one moment please I will get him." The woman placed the phone on the table counter. "Jacob! Get the phone!" she billowed.

Jacob lay on his bed staring at the ceiling deep in contemplation, when his sister's voice snapped him out of musings. He ignored her and resumed pondering.

"Jacob!" his sister called out again.

He continued to ignore her.

His sister, Rachael, was annoyed because after yelling for him twice Jacob had not bothered to answer her. Her brother could really get on her nerves sometimes especially when he was blatantly ignoring you or tuning you out or both. Rachael walked upstairs and banged loudly against his door to get his attention. "Jacob!" she said shrilly.

"What do you want, Rachael?" he responded cheekily.

"There's someone on the phone asking for you," she replied.

He sighed. "Tell them to leave a message."

Rachael was getting very irate with her brother's nonchalance attitude. "I am not going to leave a message. You are going to get the phone," she stated irritated. "If you do not open this door now, I will be forced to break it down."

Jacob laughed mocking his sister.

Her blood boiled with anger as it was building up inside of her. "I will break this door down! Don't test me!"

He realized that no matter how much he tunes her out, Rachael would do so. Slowly, getting off the bed he sauntered to the door. He opened the door to find his sister standing with her hand on her hips as she her face was blazing with anger as she glared at him.

"Why the hell are you not answering me!" she demanded irately.

"Just leave me alone!" Jake exclaimed exasperated at his sister's obnoxious, loud voice that had interrupted his deep concentration as he mused in peace. He began to shut the door, but her hand blocked it from fully slamming shut.

"I do not need to deal with your attitude right now. There is a nice girl on the phone asking for you, so you are going to march your butt down and answer the damn phone. NOW!" she said enraged glaring at her brother.

He returned her glare with the same fury. Walking past his sister, he slammed the door shut and went down to answer the phone. "Hello?" he barked abruptly into the phone.

"Jake, it's me Alice."

He growled lowly. "What do you want, bloodsucker?" he responded as his voice was filled with disgust.

Alice ignored the disgust in his tone. "I need you to listen to me. Please do not hang up. It's important."

"Important?" he said sarcastically with a hardy laugh. "What could you possibly have to tell me that is so damn important?"

"Tonight our family is having a meeting and we are inviting you to come."

Fed up, Jacob had heard enough from the bloodsucker that he was going hang up. "No thanks. Goodbye."

The phone line went dead.

"No wait! Jake, you need to listen to me…" Alice tried to finish her sentence, but Jacob had hung up on her before she could finish it.

"Damnit," she cursed under her breath. "Damn you stubborn werewolf!"

Frustrated and furious, Alice threw her cell phone across the room. Thud. Thunk. The cell phone hit her closet door and landed on the wood floor shattering into pieces. She didn't bother to see if the cell phone was damaged or not. Alice pulled out her yoga mat deciding to do some yoga to help get rid of her pent up fury by doing relaxing exercises for an hour. Only when she regained her composure would Alice re-attempt to call Jake and get him to come to tonight's meeting.

So...I realized I've been working on this story for over two years and I NEED to finish this story soon. I have completely changed my plotline from when I originally started this story and I'm still working on how i want to end this. Thank you all for sticking with this story! I hope you guys enjoyed it like I have writing it! Feel free to give your feedback or any comments you have.