Wah, you guys must hate me for taking so long!! I swear, I really was trying to update its just that my computer wouldn't let me log into ! And then when it decided to be nice to me, I had three projects from IB and after that, I had to go to the hospital, then we had finals. But whatever. That was in the past. Now I have summer, which means I don't have any excuses other than that I died. (God forbid, seriously, I ain't ready to go down yet.)

Anywho, here's the next chapter. Original story is not mine, it is property of Stephenie Meyer. Amber Morisette is my only prop.

Enjoy, and PLEASE review!!

-L-

Bella

I can't believe it. I don't understand it. My head is spinning, I've hurt my family, I think Edward might hate me, my best friend definitely hates me, and my best friend is a…wolf. And a vampire. I don't even want to know what his girlfriend is.

"Here." I raise my head to see Edward giving me a cup of coffee. I blinked, unsure of my surroundings. We were inside a house sitting in a living room. Carlisle was standing next to an armchair where Esme sat and Jasper, Emmett and Alice sat on a navy blue couch across from where I sat. Our couch was the same color, but there was a little red stain right next to me. I guess we were in Amber's home now. Jake's home too.

I smiled at Edward, wanting to laugh at such a human gesture. I would have said no to the coffee, but I took it anyway. He sat down next to me but unlike other times, he didn't wrap his arms around me. I tried to ignore it, but when I took a sip of the coffee, it stung. Coffee stung, my thoughts stung, my actions stung. Everything stung. But nothing stung more than Edward's silence.

Edward

She isn't stupid. I know she noticed it that I wasn't comforting her. I couldn't even really look her in the eye. It's not that I'm angry. I'm hardly even jealous of what she's done to reach Jake. I'm…hurt. I don't even really understand why. Is it because she threw my brother right into a bush where a branch got rammed into his chest? Is it because even after, she continued harming my family to get to him? Or is it because she saw what she had done and still, she went on.

Sighing, I looked over at her. She's gazing at her drink like she can see the world in there. I want to apologize. But I want her to apologize. I want to tell her I love her and I want to hear her say she doesn't love him. I know she doesn't love him. Not in the same way. But still. It'd be nice to hear it from her. After today, I think I may be a bit unsure.

As I look at her hands cupped around her drink, I notice that she's shaking a bit. I lift my gaze to her eyes and I see her looking straight at me with a look on her face that makes me feel like I should be seeing tears. I wanted to reach for her, but I felt frozen.

She looked down, her face pained. What could I say if I didn't now what she was thinking?

"Edward…do you…do you hate me now?"

"What? No, no, no no, Bella, no. I could never... I would never hate you. Bella, I love you, it's just…I'm trying to understand why…" Damn. "I don't even know what I'm trying to understand. "

She was about to speak when Amber came back into the room.

"So…I'm guessing you guys have a few more questions." She said. She sunk into a chair next to the glass doors, gazing out into the forestry, waiting for Jake to come back. She sighed, wrapping a plaid blanket around herself for security.

"A few." Carlisle said smoothly. Amber scoffed at him.

"Right. So shoot."

Carlisle was about to ask her something, but without my willing it, I asked first.

"Why is he on our lands?"

"Well, obviously, being a vampire, his people wouldn't want him on their territory just the same as they wouldn't want you there."

"But he has their blood. He's one of them." Carlisle replied.

"Yes, but he's still a threat. Look, lemme just go from the beginning."

We all waited for her to continue.

She sighed and turned her gaze away from the outside view.

"That day when you went searching for the meadow, he was supposed to go visit you wasn't he?" Bella nodded.

"He didn't show up." It wasn't a question. It was just as if she were there.

" That was the day he began to change. You see…wait, did he tell you about the story with the cold ones and how his people used to change into wolves?"

The question was directed toward Bella and she nodded. I remember this. This story was how she figured out my nature.

"Good. Okay, well that story isn't a myth as you've seen. But the truth goes both ways. His people do turn into wolves-but seriously don't ever call him a werewolf, it annoys the hell out of him. Anyway, he…he went through the change and on the day when you got killed by that vampire in the meads, he had his first official hunt. However, I think we all know he didn't get to you in time. They didn't sense that there was a vampire around until the day that he left you. He'd gone for a hunt and took down a woman near the border, so it wasn't even all that difficult to track him down. Anyway, after him, he heard the news about your death. For two years, he drank to forget you but it never worked. That was when the red-head came around. She was looking for you and that other vampire. When she realized you were both dead, she was pissed enough to take it out on whoever came near her. She killed about three to five civilians before Jake got to her. The others were on their way, but Jake was closer than any of them. He put up a real good fight with her, but she managed to bite him before he killed her. "

"The Quileutes wanted to kick him out of their territory on spot, but the brothers and his father managed to convince them to let him stay. They gave it a few years more before faking Jake's death. However, as soon as the 15 years they promised were up, he was sent to vampire territory. Jake didn't want to stay there, so he moved around a lot for the years after that. After about forty years, he returned. His dad had died already but they wouldn't let him enter their territory. He left again and went to New York, where he met me. "

I could tell Bella wanted to know what happened with them, especially since you could easily tell that Jake trusted her. Loved her.

"He knows everything about me and I about him." She sighed and looked outside again. Seeing no figure coming toward the house, she continued.

"Anyway, we've been together since and we've been through a lot. We came down here a year ago, but we just started school and when he saw you that day at school, he panicked. I swear, it never crossed his mind that you may have been changed and when he saw it was you, he felt betrayed. I tried telling him that there was a chance it wasn't Edward who changed you, but he can be so damned stubborn sometimes. Now that he knows what's up, I hope he'll be okay."

"It killed me to see him smile with sad eyes every day for the past years. When I saw that you were here, I…I didn't mean to start any trouble for you guys, really, it's just that…I thought that maybe if he heard the story from you, everything would be okay again. You'd be alive and even though I didn't' know for a fact that Edward didn't change you, it was still a chance I wanted to take. I just want him to be happy. "

Just then, the door to the front of the home was opened and Jacob entered the living room with no shirt on and ripped jeans. He didn't have any shoes either. He gazed at Amber with a guilty smile.

"I know." Amber smiled at him and shook her head. She got up and went toward the kitchen again. She came back with another cup of coffee and a black T-shirt.

"Get dressed, we've got company." He grinned.

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-L-

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