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Bella's POV: The First Time She Saw Him.
"Cause when you look like that,
I've never ever wanted to be so bad,
and it drives me wild."
2 YEARS LATER
Jake and I were soulmates.
At least, that's what everyone around us declared when they saw us together. Outwardly, I eagerly agreed every time as it made sense; Jake and I were born to be together. Had it not been for Renee finding her own soulmate, and marrying him, I would have not moved to Forks, Washington, and therefore I would have never met Jake.
A year after Jake, and I met, I graduated high school with the idea that I would go to community college, and wait patiently for Jake to join me. But when Billy became gravely ill, to the point where Jake's future suddenly changed as he had to take care of him, till Billy's health improved, or... or something that Jake and I weren't ready to face.
I knew that I couldn't do any of it without Jake, which is why I sacrificed my very planned out future, and created a new plan. I would work at Newton's until things could improve, and hopefully save up for a house for Jake and I, and we would hopefully move in when we were married. Truthfully, the idea of staying to live in Forks my whole life was extremely unappealing, but Jake loved it here, and declared it the place where we fell in love, and where our family was. When he put it that way, I had no choice but to agree.
Either way, the ending was the same; someday, I would marry Jake and we would have children, and die happily in love. There wasn't anything that I wanted more.
When Renee was made aware of how serious Jake and I's relationship was, she immediately bombarded me with questions of my sex life. This didn't surprise me, as Renee had made it very clear to me growing up that safe sex was something that should be taken very seriously. I promptly told her, while blushing, that there was no reason to be safe. Jake and I in our 2 years of being in a relationship, had never wandered farther than anything besides kissing, and I was perfectly content with it.
Okay. No, I wasn't.
I wanted Jake desperately, and had courageously admitted it to him multiple times - but for some reason, he admitted that he wasn't ready for that. At first, I couldn't understand. At night, we would whisper about how we would be together forever. But when I finally took into account that Jake was 2 years younger than I was, and his reluctance in giving himself over after what his mother did to Billy - I decided to not bring it up again. It hurt, and it frustrated me to no end, but I tried to be understanding.
I was washing the dishes to our apartment in La Push, when I heard the front door open. Automatically, a smile appeared on my face. I rounded the kitchen (although it wasn't very big - I was at the door in 2 steps), when I found myself in the arms of my one true love.
"Hi," I whispered to his chest. He rubbed my back gently, but retreated to the kitchen. It stung me for a second, but then I realized he was heading to the fridge, and everything made sense. While Jake loved me endlessly, he loved food more.
I giggled. "Hungry?"
He grinned at me the wolfish grin that I loved, while stuffing a sandwich in his mouth.
"I thought Emily made you lunch," I said, while finishing putting away the dishes.
His grin widened. "She did."
I laughed, yet I found an unfamiliar feeling in my chest... annoyance?
The feeling shocked me so much that I couldn't formulate another response to Jake.
At that exact moment, I heard a car door shut across the street. My eyebrow furrowed as I tried to remember whether we had neighbors or not. Judging by the surprised and guarded look on Jake's face, we didn't.
I walked to the window, to see a man as pale as me carrying boxes into the house in front of us. I smiled at the prospect that I was no longer the "new girl" in town. Even after graduating, I was still the newest comer to the rainy town, and I could see that wasn't a title that I held anymore.
"Hmph." I heard Jake say behind me, looking out the window too. I threw him a confused glance. "What?" I asked.
"That's Cullen." He explained, looking annoyed.
"You know him?" I asked, surprised.
"Yeah. He moved here with his family a couple of years ago, but moved away a few months before you moved back." He said, but it was obvious he didn't want to talk about him.
I didn't ask, but the mystery of who he was drew me in more than I would have liked to admit. I looked back, and almost jumped when my eyes locked with his across the street. I glanced back at Jacob to see he was preoccupied stuffing sandwiches in his mouth. I looked back, and a jolt was sent through me when I saw he was still looking. His bronze hair was disheveled, and a crooked grin sat gently on his lips.
"Don't speak to him," I heard Jake say as he was heading our bathroom to no doubt, take a shower. "He's not someone people like us talk to."
His claim brought a million questions, but he shut the door before I could ask.
When I looked back towards the man, he was gone.
I wouldn't talk to him if Jake didn't want me to. Jake would do it for me.
I didn't know it then, that what Jake wanted would soon not matter when it came to "Cullen."
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Wild - Troye Sivan.
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