Chapter 12 – A True Friendship

(Jacob's P.O.V)

"Bella, are you there?" I asked Bells again.

"Yeah. What's up?" She answered after a moment.

"I need to talk to you, about this whole friendship thing. Can we meet somewhere?" I asked with nervousness.

"How about you meet me at the end of the Cullens driveway, Esme needs me to stay here and I'm not living at home anymore. Yes we do need to talk" She responded with a sigh.

"Of course, I'll be over there in a few minutes. Bye Bells" I said as I hung up the phone.

I took a deep breath as I walked outside the house and into the woods.

I just got back yesterday from the borderline of California and Washington. I had finally decided that I was madly in love with Bella no matter what, but I would never tell her that. I was going to make this work, so we could still be best friends. I've been missing her like crazy

I changed into my werewolf form and ran to the Cullens. Bells and I were going to work this out.

(Bella's P.O.V)

Esme helped me calm down once I got off the phone with Jacob. She called Edward and let him know everything that was going on. He insisted that he had to come home to be with me but Esme and I told him that I was fine and it was all going to be okay. That seemed to work and he decided to stay with his brother as they were seeing who was stronger.

If you asked me why, I wouldn't be able to tell you. They were both very strong and it was very stupid, but I guess to them it is important.

I walked outside and walked all the way down to the end of the driveway, Jacob still wasn't there so I sat on the ground and waited.

Who knows how long I sat there, but all of a sudden I smelt werewolf about three or four blocks down.

I stood up instantly and waited for Jacob to come, this was going to be very interesting, so all I could do is sit and wait, or more like stand and wait.

I finally saw him walking up ten minutes later; he had just some sweats on and no shirt.

"Jacob" I greeted, with a mellow but cautious voice.

(Edward's P.O.V)

When Esme called me twenty minutes ago about Jacob all of a sudden wanting to meet with Bella, I was freaking out. I had to get to her, but they convinced me to stay with Emmett and enjoy it.

All I can do is hope that she's okay, and he will not harm her. Even though Bella, would never tell you she still was afraid of ever saying goodbye to Jacob.

I couldn't blame her, which was my fault that they were like that. If I hadn't left in the first place, this never would of happen.

Emmett snapped me out of my thoughts, by him starting to shake me.

"Earth to Edward. Bella will be fine, she is very strong and stubborn," he said with a huge grin.

"I know I just worry about her. I get to; since she's my fiancée and her other lover is meeting her. Do you know what that does to a guy?" I said with panic in my voice.

"Edward Anthony Cullens, if you don't know Bella by now then you don't deserve her. She loves you and she can't live without you. You need to stop blaming yourself from when you were stupid and left her. That is in the past, she forgave you and now you need to remember that" Emmett said sternly.

It was never any fun when he acted like this; in fact it kind of scared me. I shook my head yes and agreed with him. I knew he was right, and it was time that I actually listen to him.

(Jacob's P.O.V)

When I walked up the driveway I saw Bella, she still looked like her beautiful self, but a little different.

"Jacob" she greeted with sort of a smile, but she had a tone in her voice at the same time.

I stopped two feet away from her. I smelt around and found out that Bella didn't smell like her self she smelt like one of those nasty vampires. Of course that was what Bells was, but I was going to get over that. I had to.

"Hey Bells. How are you?" I nervously asked. I all of a sudden had butterflies in my stomach.

"I'm okay. I just have been trying to figure out what was with you saying shit three weeks ago, and now you want to talk to be friends. I am confused and we need to talk this out otherwise we'll never know" she said with a tone of anger but sadness at the same time.

"See I was really angry because I never wanted you to change, you were always my Bella and now your Bella but different. I'm sorry for everything I said. I want to see if there is anyway possible that we can be friends. I miss you Bella, I miss our friendship," I said lovingly, as I spilled out my guts to her.

She stood there smiling, as I was rapping up my little speech. She waited for me to be done before she started to talk. "I thought you were saying all that because you hated me, not that I wasn't your Bella anymore. I'm still your Bella; it's just underneath all this. If we are going to become friends we won't really be able to hang out unless we met at a restaurant or store or something"

Now it was my turn to smile, she was so cute when she rambled.

"What are you smiling at?" She said giggling.

"You rambling. The pack all ready knows we are hanging out, does your family?" I asked with some effort.

She smiled lightly before she responded with "Yes, I called the rest of them and told them so they would know. They want to make sure I'm safe and okay when most of them are gone hunting"

I shivered with disgust as she said that like it was so natural. "Great way off putting what they do"

"You asked that's what you get. Now can this friendship even really work?" She asked with hope in her eyes.

"We'll I'm going to try. I miss you so much and I need my Bella as a friend back. I understand I can't be more than that. So what do you say?" I asked hopefully.

"I think that would be a great idea. You have my cell, so give me a call sometime and we can get together again" She said with a smile.

(Esme's P.O.V)

I looked at the clock to see what time it was, it was close to four and the rest of the family would be home soon.

I had to call Bella and let her know to say goodbye to Jacob, plus I needed her to help me cooking dinner for Charlie and the rest us.

I dialed her number and waited for her to pick up, a couple minutes later she did.

"What's up Esme?" she asked, as she answered.

"I need your help with dinner, plus the rest of the family will be here soon, so say goodbye to Jacob and you can get together with him later" I said sweetly.

She agreed and let me go.

I was worried for her, but she was determined to stay friends with Jacob so we had to be happy for her.

Well I was waiting for Bella; I cut up the meat for the spaghetti we were going to have to night. Charlie would be here by six and I still had a lot to make for dinner.

Bella walked in a few minutes later. "Hey dear, how did it go?" I asked with hope that she was in a good mood.

"Good, we're going to try to be friends again. Do you need help? What time are Edward and everyone getting home?" Bella asked with happiness.

"Yes, can you help me with noodles, as I finish the sauce and 4:30" I said with a laugh. "You miss him don't you?"

"I've been going crazy, but I didn't want him to feel like he couldn't have fun with Emmett either. Was it like this for Carlisle and you?" I asked, as I automatically started helping with the noodles.

"I remember when Carlisle found me. I was 20 and I was on the edge of dieing from jumping off the cliff. The moment I saw him I thought he was some angel coming from the heavens to rescue me. When he picked me up my world went black, it was three days later when I awoke and met Edward and him for the first time. " I said, as I saw the memory in my head all over again. "He explained everything and agreed to obey all the rules they had. My first thought of him was that he was beautiful and I couldn't understand why he liked a girl like me, who so many problems. As time moved on, we both fell in love. There was a couple times I had to stay at home when he did something that he didn't want me to get hurt, that's when my world felt like it was nothing without him and missed him dearly"

"Wow, we have a lot more in common, then I thought. Without them our world is nothing and they don't realize that" Bella said, with a smile as she finished cooking the spaghetti noodles.

"That's for sure, but at least we have a true friendship with them. Besides them loving us to death, that is the best thing we can ask for" I grinned ear to ear, as the meal was done.

Bella and I talked back and forth about our favorite memories with our lovers for a half hour, the next thing we knew everyone was home. Tonight was going to be a great night I could just feel it.