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Chapter 6.

It scared me that they knew I was listening, it scared me that Jasper was right and it scared me that they were all looking at me now, all four of them staring right at me some with hate in their eyes, some with loathing curiosity. A lump in my throat appeared and I had to swallow a few times to get it to go away.

I turned away from them and tried to pretend they weren't there. I got into the conversation between Jake and Seth and Jake took me to his makeshift garage where he was building his very own car. He talked about car things and even though I didn't have a clue what it all meant it was nice to sit around someone who would include me in everything.

I realised very quickly that Jake was passionate about cars, he knew so much about them that to a stranger I would look uneducated around him. We spent most of the night in his garage and I started to forget about the staring men outside this little sanctuary but then Billy called to us that the food was ready.

As we were walking back towards the barbecue Jake turned to me and spoke. "Best to stick with them when we eat, don't want them getting the wrong idea." He pulled a strange face at the end of his sentence, to make me laugh I think and then we were back with everyone else and I was back getting stared at.

"What do you want Bells?" Charlie asked as I sat in one of the many garden chairs.

"Just a burger, please dad."

"You sure, its not exactly much." Spoke Billy, eyeing my slim frame. I just nodded and listened to Jake's conversation with Seth again.

As we all ate everyone talked and I found myself ignored again which didn't bother me, it was actually quite nice to be left alone and not be fussed over. I started thinking that maybe Jasper had thought to much about this Quileute threat to vampires (and apparantly now me) but as the last bits of food were being cooked one of the men that had been talking about me earlier walked over to where I was sat, which just so happened to be near where the food was being cooked and served. He saw me on my own not talking to anyone and smiled slightly.

"You know, people naturally avoid your kind." He spoke softly so then no one else would hear him and kept the smile on his face, to anyone else it would have seemed like we were having a nice, pleasant conversation, but to me his smile was sly.

"What do you mean one of my kind?" I knew what he was thinking, that I was a vampire, but he was wrong and I was going to make sure he knew it.

"Vampires." His voice was low still but now it was full of ice. I nodded and almost laughed, so predictable. He seemed so confident that it was my pleasure to spoil his smugness.

"I'm not a vampire." His reply was instant.

"Don't lie leech." Although he kept that little smile on his face, his voice showed that he was losing his composure. So I tried to keep my calm.

"I'm not lying and you know I'm not."

"I don't know shit and I'm not gonna trust anything that you say."

"Don't be an idiot," I stood up and walked closer to him. "You hear my heartbeating, feel the heat radiating off my body and smell the blood running through my veins. You know as well as I do that I'm not a vampire." He stood in silence for a minute watching me and thinking about what I had said. I could tell he was contemplating whether or not he thought it could be true. I let him think, I had a feeling it was one of the only times he did some proper thinking.

"What the hell are you then?" His voice lost some of the hostility but turned to accusing curiosity.

"I don't know, we're exploring the possibilities."

"Who's 'we'?" I wasn't sure if they knew about the Cullens, but I guessed they would.

"The Cullens." He started laughing.

"Fat chance you'll have with their help."

"Why?"

"They left."

"Most of them." He looked stunned, confused again. I didn't know why, I mean, everyone should know Jasper's still around, he is buying houses for Gods sake. He turned to his friends and gestured to them. They walked over to us slowly, watching me carefully. It was strange, one of them had their eyes on me at all times. When they stopped walking I noticed that they had formed a small semi-circle around me and considering my back was to a table and hedges I was pretty cornered.

"What's wrong, Paul?" This was the guy who'd looked at me first earlier when I'd been listening, it was clear now that he was their leader from the way that Paul changed when he spoke, there was no sly smile and there was no extra taunt in his voice, he was just normal now.

"There's still a Cullen in town." This one little statement made them all change. The only way I could describe it was paranoia. Paranoia had set in with all of them, they started looking over their shoulders, watching the trees and they kept doing it, between glancing at me of course.

Before the leader had chance to speak the one that was clearly the youngest began.

"How is that possible. They left. We know they left, there is no knew trails of their scent, their house is abandoned and no one has seen them around so they're gone, they must be gone, either that or your delude-"

"Thats enough, Embry." Spoke the leader dude, Embry shut up straight away. I was kinda glad they shut him up 'cause he was really anoying me. The leader started speaking again. "How is one of the Cullens still in town?" He asked me directly, looking right into my eyes and everything.

"Because one of them didn't leave." It was a stupid answer I know and in hindsight I will kick myself for it 'cause I'm not usually a rude person, but at the time I was starting to feel worn out and talking about vampires and supernatural crap all the time wasn't really helping. I got quite a few eye rolls.

"Don't be an idiot Bella, your in a bad situation right now and it would be in your own interests to answer our questions as honestly and politely as you can." I could hear a threat in his voice and as much as he probably wanted it to scare me it just pissed me off.

"Are you threatening me? Because I can tell you now that threatening me is not a good idea. Now I'm not saying that I would do anything on the contrary I would sit back and watch, but your forgetting that my father is sat right over there and that he'd do anything for his little girl." I stopped my sentence there. My dad isn't a naturally violent person and they probably already knew that but still it was worth a try in saying and I think it worked. The leader backed off a bit and the semi-

circle they had formed around me got wider.

"This is clearly not the place for a converstaion like this but this conversation does need to happen so tomorrow meet us at the border at 3 pm, and bring your Cullen." They didn't give me time to reply, they all just walked away. The only one of them that did stay a bit longer was Paul.

"Yeah, so, see ya tomorrow." He had the sly smile back on his face but it wasn't cruel anymore, I wasn't actually sure what it meant and I didn't have chance to ask him 'cause he left then as well.

I sat back down, thought about the whole short conversation. It made me want to go home and fall asleep in Jasper's arms again. Thinking about Jasper made me feel better. He was just so nice.

Jake came over to me, he kept glancing at Paul and them with a strange look on his face.

"You okay Bells?" He sat in the chair next to mine and put his arm around me. He was really warm.

"Yeah I'm alright. Met some new people."

"I noticed."

"I don't think they like me. At least, most of them."

He looked at me with a crease between his eyebrows. "How can they not like you? They don't even know you."

"I know and I don't really care, they can like and dislike who they want and be ignorant their whole lives, it doesn't affect me." I stuck my tongue out at him and made my eyes go crossed, it was the face my mum used to pull to me when I was a kid, it made me smile and Jake laughed.

"With that face I don't know how they don't love you already." We chatted for a bit and he kept me smiling. But then my dad came over saying we were leaving. I got up, I hugged people, I said how great it had been and then I waved goodbye from inside Charlie's cruiser until everyone went back inside.

"So Bells, how did ya like it?" Charlie was smiling, he'd clearly had a good night.

"It was fun, It was good hanging out with Jake again and meeting some new people."

"Well, you should come more often."

"Yeah I will." And the conversation ended there. When we got home I went to my bedroom and changed into some pajamas, deciding to get a shower in the morning instead of now. Then I picked up the phone Jasper had given me and called his number that was in the phone book.

He picked up on the first ring.

"Bella, are you okay?" He sounded worried and really stressed.

"I'm fine Jasper, had a little bit of hassle but other than th-"

"What do you mean hassle?"

"The people you warned me about were there and they noticed something weird about me, look I'll explain when you get here okay."

"You want me to come round?" I had initially thought that he would want to see me in person anyway so I hadn't expected for him to be shocked, it made me think he didn't want to come see me.

"If you don't want to then its okay, I'll just tell you tomorrow."

"No, I'll be round in a minute." And he hung up. Was it just me or did he sound happy that I wanted him to come here, I decided that it was just me, but it might not have been, shut up brain.

I had almost no time to even think and he was coming through my window. He sat next to me and put his arm around me, so I snuggled into his side.

"So, what happened?" I told him the entire night, every little detail. I have to say he didn't seem inpressed with Paul the most and I don't know why.

"We'll go tomorrow but after you've helped me with my house." He pulled the covers over us and lay down properly so I was lying on him in the perfect position to sleep.

"What about your house?" I asked but, with Jasper's help, I was already falling into a sound sleep.

"Thats for tomorrow." He started stroking my hair and with the feel of his fingers through my hair and the sweet essence of calm that only Jasper can bring, I fell into one if the best sleeps I've had in a long time.

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