JPOV Chapter 3 – Wow, could her reaction be any weirder?

I turned my back on Sam and walked out to meet Bella, but she is not just Bella – well shi is the same but I just see her differently.

'Jacob' she shouted over to me, sounding angry.

'Yeah, Bella?'

'I want to talk to you. Alone!'

'Okay,' I said to Bella, 'meet me inside' I ordered the rest of the pack.

Bella stepped out of her '53 Chevy truck and started to walk down to the beach, the beach where I met Bella for the first time, well first time since I was like three, almost a year ago. Bella Looked around for something then went towards the log circle and sat down.

'You know what I want to know.' She started.

I looked at her, slightly confused. Yes, I knew what she wanted to know, she wanted to know why I have been avoiding her why I seem so different, but I don't know how to tell her, I don't know where to begin.

'It's not what you think; it's not what I thought… I was way off,' I started.

'What is it then?' she spat at me.

'You know our legends, the ones I told you when we first met?'

'Not really,' she replied. I was clear from her face that she did remember some of them, proberly the ones about those filthy bloodsuckers that left this beautiful girl in front of me broken almost beyond repair.

'What do you remember?' I questioned.

'I remember… something about tying boats to trees or something like that.' She stuttered out. 'But how does it matter, you said they are just stories.'

'Yeah well, you know as well as I do that they have more truth to them than I thought.'

'What do you mean?' she questioned.

'What do I mean?' I repeated 'Those filthy bloodsuckers that just up and left, leaving you broken.'

As soon as those words escaped my lips I wished I hadn't said them. Bella reached down and wrapped her arms around her chest as if holding it together.

'Walk with me Bella and I will tell you everything.'

'Well as you remember, there are stories dating back to the flood supposedly,
the ancient Quileutes tied their canoes to the tops of the tallest trees on the mountain to
survive like Noah and the ark.' I started

'Yeah I remember that now, there are other ones about wolfs?' Bella interrupted.

'Yeah, that's the ones I wanted you to remember!' I replied 'That legend claims that we descended from wolves and that the wolves are our brothers still. It's against tribal law to kill them.'

'Where are you going with this Jacob?' Bella questioned.

Just watch and don't freak out, I promise I wont hurt you.

'I know you won't…' Bella started.

I touched her lips in a 'shh' sort of way. She stopped. We walked into the forest a wee bit deeper and then I stopped and turned to her. Bella looked so confused but all her questions would be answered soon enough. I stared to take my t-shirt off.

'Jake? What are you doing?' she squealed

'Bella just wait, and please don't do anything stupid.'

So I continued to take my trousers and underwear off and thought of Bella the night he left, her cold body lying on the dirt in the forest muttering 'he's gone' and that familiar burning ran up my spine then I exploded into my wolf form and looked at Bella.

She took a step back and gazed at me with a shocked expression, as I would have assumed. 'J…J…Jacob?' she asked. I nodded at her. 'What happened?'

I thought about happy thoughts and about my beautiful Bella and the heat drained from my body and I shrank to my normal, human self. I smiled at Bella and put my clothes back on.

'Jacob, how could you?' She shouted. Now I was really confused.

'Do what?' I asked.

'How could you kill all of those innocent people, Charlie is out there!' Okay, confusion just increased.

'What I don't understand?'

'Can you just try to not … be a… what ever you were just there.'

'Like I have a choice about it! And how would that help anything, if you're worried about people disappearing?'

'I don't understand you.'

'You know what makes me so mad I could just spit?'

She flinched away from me. And shook her head.

'You're such a hypocrite, Bella there you sit, terrified of me! How is that fair?'

'Hypocrite? How does being afraid of a monster make me a hypocrite?'

'What I so sorry I'm not the right kind of monster for you Bella, I'm sorry I'm not one of your stinking bloodsuckers!'

'No your not' She shouted at me, 'it's not what you are it's what you do!' okay now I am really confused.

'What we do?'

'Killing people!' She shouted, 'Is it really necessary to kill people, Jacob? Isn't there some other way? I mean, if vampires can find a way to survive without murdering people, couldn't you give it a try, too?'

I couldn't contain my happiness anymore; I let out the biggest grin a grabbed Bella in my overly large arms and swung her around in circles laughing.

'Jacob Black! This is not a time for laughter, why are you killing people.'

'Bella don't you see, It's not us killing people. We protect them. It was that black haired blood sucker and his mate that have been killing everyone. We haven't killed anyone, unless you count that bloodsucker that was going to kill you.'

'What?' Bella smiled 'Laurent is… Dead?'

'Yeah.'

'Jake, I'm so happy. I haven't been able to sleep because I thought he was going to come back and get me.'

'No we got him.'

I hugged Bella again and picked her up and started to walk back up to my house holding her hand.

'Bella how would you like to come to a party to night?'

'Yeah, okay where?'

'I'll get Billy to phone Charlie I'll bring you home after it.'