Confiding

Sorry I haven't updated in two days. Blame shopping and my boyfriend, they're the culprits!

I hadn't written the second half of this chapter until i started writing the first half up but it reckon it's turned out pretty well. So I hope you enjoy :)

Bella arrived at La Push to find Jacob working on a car in front of his house. She could see his legs poking out from underneath the heap of metal and she could hear him humming tunelessly as the sun shone from the sky. Strangely his tune sounded like sunbeams shining through the clouds.

As she got out the car Jacob greeted her without even removing himself from where he was working. He could tell by the sound of the engine who had pulled up in front of the house.

"Hey Bella. What brings you here?" he asked innocently.

Jacob already knew that Bella would visit him, she'd promised on the phone last night. It'd only taken a little guilt trip to persuade her. He knew it was wrong to use those tactics, but he hardly saw Bella anymore since the bloodsucker had come back.

"Edward had to go home early. So I thought I'd spend some time with you." She explained even though he wasn't really surprised by the visit.

"The bloodsucker didn't try to stop you from coming then?"

"Edward said it was my choice if I wanted to see you or not."

"I bet you wouldn't have thought of coming to see me if I hadn't called and begged you to come." He told her pointedly.

"I'm here now Jacob, that's all that matters isn't it?"

"Yeah I s'pose."

Jacob removed himself from the car and rubbed his huge hands on his t-shirt. As soon as he saw Bella standing at the side of her car, his face broke into a wide smile. She couldn't help but return the smile even though she wasn't in the mood.

"So what's going on in the world of Bella then?" he asked as he took her hand and walked toward the beach.

"Well, where do I start?" she sighed "There's a new vampire in Forks." She told him with a frown.

"Another bloodsucker?" Jacob hissed "It's not after you is it?"

"No. It's not like that. She's a friend of Edwards. She's come to stay for a while."

"Remind her that the treaty still applies. She can't bite anyone otherwise we'll have to take action." He told her seriously, the face he was pulling was one that looked like Sam's. Bella frowned even more when she looked at him.

"Don't worry, she's another vegetarian." She informed him.

"Another what?"

"She drinks from animals." She explained.

"Oh. So is there anything else going on?"

"Well she, her name's Evie. I don't know, I just get this funny feeling about her."

"Like she wants to suck your blood? Because I'd gladly take her out if that's the problem." He smiled, Bella thought he was joking by the tone of his voice, but the gleeful smile that he was pulling told her he was serious.

"No, it's more like she doesn't think that I should be with Edward." She cast her face down to the ground to avoid Jacob's eye contact.

"I hate to say it Bells, but I agree with the bloodsucker." He told her solemnly.

"I don't care what you both think." She replied heatedly. "Edward and I will be together for eternity and you and Evie cannot do anything to stop that from happening."

"But Bella, she's right. He's a vampire and you're his dinner, technically speaking. He could kill you if he lost control, he could hurt you if he wasn't careful. You wouldn't need to worry about that with me, I'd take care of you better than he could. You wouldn't need to worry about any of that."

"He could've killed me the first day he met me, but he didn't. He could've killed me on plenty of occasions, but he didn't. Do you know why Jacob?"

He shrugged expecting her to give him the answer anyway.

"Because he loves me and would never hurt me ever!"

"He hurt you once." He reminded her.

Jacob never liked watching Bella in pain but he needed to remind her of the past to prove his point.

"He came back." She whispered as she relived the painful memories of trying to survive without him.

However, those days of being a zombie were over. Edward was here to stay, she knew that the separation had hurt him as much as it did her, but it didn't erase the fact that he'd still left her less than a year ago.

"But what if something happens with his family again? You sure he'd still stick around?" Jacob questioned "I reckon he's as sick of you getting hurt as I am."

"Well it's a good thing that I'm changing into a vampire soon isn't it?" Bella shouted at him.

"That's not your only option!" he shouted back "Your bloodsucker knows it isn't either! He's just too afraid to suggest it!" Jacob spat, his hands were shaking as he tried to maintain control. If he got any angrier he'd change into his werewolf form.

"There is no other option! I'm not breaking up with him; I'll never break up with him!"

"Fine." Jacob sulked. "So why doesn't the new bloodsucker think you should be with him?"

"I think she wants him for herself. Or she's just really protective of him, I'm not sure. But she just kept irritating me this morning with the way she kept fawning all over him, with her stupid accent and her showing off because she has a convenient power."

"Sounds to me you're jealous of her." Jacob smiled. "You don't think her likes her back do you?" he added with relish.

"I came to you for support Jacob!" Bella wailed as she swung her fist round to punch his arm.

"You sure you want to do that Bella?" he warned her. "I wouldn't want to take you to the emergency room again."

She sighed heavily and let her clenched fist drop to her side.

"I should've just talked to Angela about this. You're enjoying it far too much." She said flopping onto a large stone on the sand. Jacob joined her and put his arm around her shoulders. She shrugged him off but he put it back so she gave up, there was no point resisting him.

"You must be really worried about her." He said as he looked onto the ocean. He was trying to be supportive now.

"Don't try to be my agony aunt now. You've already shown me that you're on Evie's side. What's the point in telling you the rest of my worries?"

"I'm not trying to be your agony aunt. I'm trying to be your best friend Jacob; I've stopped being the mean Jacob who's in love with you. I can see that you feel upset, and now I just want to make you feel a little better by venting." He told her truthfully.

"Have you finished trying to get me to leave Edward?"

"Yes I'm finished. Tell me what's on your mind."

"What if he does like her better than me? I mean he changed her when he barely knew her and they spent some time together before she was sent away, it sound like they were pretty close." She told him whilst wringing her hands with worry.

"He changed her when he barely knew her eh?" Jacob asked in surprise, "Why would she want to be a bloodsucker? It's disgusting."

"She was dying and he couldn't leave her there." She told him, happier that he was listening properly.

"He could've left her. No one would've known he'd been there."

"Could you leave someone there to die?" she asked evenly.

"I'm different." Jacob stated. "I have a beating heart."

"Stop going off the point, I'm already too aware of your hatred towards Edward."

"Sorry. Ok, so you were worried about their closeness wasn't it?"

"Yes."

"Well he left her wherever didn't he? He didn't try to bring her back either? She came back on her own. I doubt that they're as close as you think they are."

"He said that she's his closest friend." Bella pointed out as she tossed a stone into the water.

"How comes he didn't tell you about her when you got all close then?" Jacob asked suspiciously.

"Because he said it hurt to talk about her."

"Kinda like when you couldn't mention him when he left?"

"I suppose."

"If he says they're friends, then why don't you trust him?"

"I trust him. It's her I don't trust." Bella told him.

"Because she plays dirty?"

"It seems so, but I don't know how low she'd stoop to get him."

"Play dirty back then! You're his girlfriend; surely you have the upper hand in this."

"She's a vampire already; surely she has the upper hand."

"He picked you over other vampires didn't he?" Jacob asked.

"Yeah." Bella replied unable to see where he was going with his point.

"So you must have something they don't then."

"Maybe I do. But she's still got a lot more time with Edward than I have. She can spend evenings and sunny days with him. I only get rainy weather and the daytime. During that time she could easily change his mind, persuade him that he's better off with a vampire."

"But didn't you say that you're changing into a vampire soon?" Jacob reminded Bella "So really it's a moot point."

"Oh God!" Bella choked as she realised something "What if she convinces him not to change me? She must know that it's what I want most, and he's probably told her how opposed to the idea he is." She had started to panic, her eyes were wider and her hands were shaking. Tears were expelling from her ducts as Jacob pulled her into his chest. She breathed in his scent in-between sobs and felt slightly comforted.

At least Jacob was here to support her and give her a shoulder to cry on.

"Bella, I doubt the bloodsucker would stoop that low." Jacob told her whilst pressing his cheek against her hair. "If she did that then screw the treaty, I'd kill her anyway. As much as I don't want you to become one of them, your happiness comes first."

Bella buried her head deeper into his chest, Jacob wrapped his arms around her and the worries started ebbing away.

"Thanks Jacob." she sniffed. "But I don't want you to cause a war because of me."

"You're worth fighting for Bella, even if your bloodsucker doesn't think so." He said lifting her chin with his forefinger. She looked into his eyes and he looked back, they held their faces like that for a while before Bella looked away back at the ocean.

"He does think I'm worth fighting for." She stated.

"So why is he letting some other little vampire cause you worry?" he asked as he drew her face back to look at his again.

"Maybe I'm over reacting to it all." She replied as she tried to turn away again, but he held her face near his.

"If that's what you think. But if it gets worse then I will sort it out if he won't." He said seriously.

The sun was lower in the sky and Bella wrapped her arms around herself to keep warm. Jacob slid an arm around her waist and held her to him, his body was like a radiator and the cold left Bella's skin immediately. It was soothing just to sit there in Jacob's arms and watch the sun set against the ocean, she wished she could stay there forever.

Jacob sighed contentedly and placed a kiss on her forehead; Bella turned her head sharply and gave him a disproving look.

"What did you just do?" she asked him.

"I kissed your forehead. There's no rule against that." Jacob shrugged.

"Don't do it again." She warned him.

"Sure sure." He smiled, as he leant closer to her face and kissed her cheek.

"Jacob!" she screeched rubbing the wet patch from her cheek.

"You said I couldn't kiss your forehead again, you didn't mention any other parts of your face."

"I meant you couldn't kiss me at all! You knew that's what I meant."

"Did I?" Jacob asked as he feigned stupidity.

"What part of 'I'm in love with Edward' do you not understand Jake?"

"The 'in love' bit really. But let's not go into explanations, I'm afraid you bore me to death. Although I'm intrigued, is he a good kisser?"

"That's none of your business."

"Is he the only person you've kissed?"

"I said it's none of your business." She said as she threw another stone in annoyance.

"But how would you know if he's good if you've never kissed anyone else?"

"I don't like where you're going with this." Bella said as she moved away from him and started walking down the beach back to Jacob's house. As she felt the bite of the evening air she wished she'd brought her coat from the car, she'd rather not let Jacob shield her from the cold when he was in this kind of mood. It'd only get his hormones even more excited.

"I mean if you kissed someone, say me for example, then you'd have someone to compare him to." Jacob hinted as he ran after her, it didn't take him long to catch up, his long legs helped him with that.

"I don't want to compare him with you or with anybody else." Bella stated as she clenched her teeth together. Couldn't Jacob take a hint already?

"Maybe you should. See what you're missing out on." Jacob grinned.

"Will you just drop it? I'm never going to kiss you Jacob."

"Aw you're no fun Bella. If it's the bloodsucker you're worrying about, I won't tell if you don't."

"I would tell Edward if you kissed me and he would break your jaw." She told him as she saw her car in sight.

"Well you can't say I didn't try."

"It's a shame, isn't it?" Bella replied acidly as she took her car keys out of her jean pocket. "I think I'll go home now it's getting late."

"Stay a bit longer please! Charlie won't mind, you can invite him down too. Billy would love that." Jacob begged.

"I've got homework I'm neglecting so I better go home and do it. Thanks for listening to me though." Bella replied as she started the car.

"Come and visit me soon then. I miss you." Jacob shouted over the roar of the engine.

She waved silently and made her way home. She hoped Edward wasn't too angry with her for going to see Jacob, but she needed to talk to someone about everything otherwise she would've over spilled with worry. Jacob had been comforting to a point, then he'd just let his stupid hormones kick in and started coming onto her when he already knew that she wasn't interested in him that way.

"Stupid werewolf." She muttered as she fiddled with the volume on her radio. The song that was playing was 'Ring of Fire' by Johnny Cash and she decided that she was feeling too lazy to change the station.

"Love is a burning thing
and it makes a fiery ring
bound by wild desire
I fell in to a ring of fire..."

She felt another stab of worry as she quickly changed the station. This was playing 'Butterfiles and Hurricanes' by Muse.

"Fights and battles have begun
Revenge will surely come
Your hard times are ahead"

In a last attempt to try and settle her worry she changed the station once again. It was playing 'The Scientist' By Coldplay.

"Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Aww take me back to the start"

In frustration she shut the radio off. It seemed that everyone was playing songs about love or fighting or breaking up. It started to make Bella worry, as if it were trying to give her a sign that something bad was going to happen.

She reached her house and found the lights on and the police cruiser in the driveway. Charlie was home.

She got out the car and took her school bag; she opened the door and heard Charlie call from the front room.

"Bella?" he asked uncertainly.

"Yeah dad." She replied as she dumped her stuff on the floor before walking out into the kitchen. She found a pizza box on the table.

"You weren't home so I ordered pizza." He called. "Where were you anyway?"

"I went to see Jacob." She called back as she took a couple of slices of pizza and shoved them in the microwave. "He invited me over last night and it was such a lovely day that I couldn't pass up a trip to La Push."

"Glad to hear it."

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It was ten o'clock before Charlie made his way to bed; he hadn't asked why Edward hadn't come over. He assumed that Bella and Edward had had an argument or something so he didn't like to pry. Charlie was just happy that Bella had gone to see Jacob instead of spending time with her boyfriend.

Bella followed Charlie up and said goodnight to him. As she shut the door she found a figure sitting in the rocking chair.

At least he hadn't brought Evie with him again.

"Have a nice day?" Edward asked as they heard the low rumble of Charlie's snoring. He must've been tired to fall asleep that fast.

"Yeah, school was boring. My trip to Jacob's was nice though. We just spent some time on the beach soaking up some sun." She lied; Bella didn't want Edward to know that she'd been worrying about him and Evie. "How was your day?"

"It was interesting to say the least." He replied reservedly.

"What happened?"

"Nothing of importance" he lied also. He didn't want to tell Bella about Evie's outburst, he was sure she'd over react and start fretting that he was going to leave her. That was far from the case.

Just because Evie loved him it didn't change his feelings towards Bella at all.

But it had changed his feelings towards Evie somewhat, and he was unsure what they were now. He needed some time to figure it out, and whilst Bella was sleeping was the best time to do it. He was alone and the only person to disturb him was Bella if she had another nightmare.

"Well you said it was interesting, so what happened?" Bella asked interested.

"I had a race with Evie to the meadow and she cheated so she could win."

"Our meadow?"

"Yes."

"Just you and her?"

"Yes. But don't worry Bella; we just raced there and back. She didn't cheat on the way back, she behaved herself."

"If that's all you did there then that's ok." Bella breathed, she'd felt her heart begin to race as soon as he'd mentioned the fact that they'd visited the meadow.

"Did Jacob behave himself?" he asked intuitively.

"Oh yeah, we just talked about cars and stuff. Well, he talked about cars and I listened." Bella said airily.

"So you didn't mention Evie arriving?" Edward asked.

"She came up quickly in conversation. I told Jacob just in case his pack came across her and they thought she was after me or something."

"Thank you." Edward said gratefully "It saves me or Carlisle taking a trip to Sam's to explain the situation."

"No problem. So what's Evie up to then this evening?" Bella asked casually.

"She's letting Alice dress her up like Barbie. No doubt she'll distract her into doing something else soon enough."

Bella felt a pang of jealousy. Even though she didn't exactly like Alice dressing her up, she felt hurt that she'd been replaced by Evie as Alice's new project. Sadly she turned onto her side and decided to sleep; hopefully Evie wouldn't be in her dreams otherwise she'd go crazy.

"I'm going to sleep now. I'm pretty tired." She announced over her shoulder as Edward pressed himself against her body again.

"Sleep well love."

"Goodnight Edward. I love you."

"I love you too Bella, forever and always."

To each other nothing seemed wrong with the other, but internally they both worried about the events that had been presented before them today. Worry was the only emotion that lingered in the air whilst Bella fell into sleep and Edward fell into deep thought.

What an angsty ending eh?

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