I woke up to an unusually sunny day. No vampire would dare come out today. If we wanted, we could walk through the crowded areas of town and get home without seeing Edward.
Jake was sitting on the couch eating toast and watching the news on the small box of a TV.
He noticed I was awake, and grinned at me.
"Hey sleepy head." He greeted me warmly, and I smiled back.
"What's the time?" I asked, getting up and walking over to sit beside him.
"About noon, or eleven thirty. Sometime between then." He said, grinning at me.
"Sorry I slept in," I apologized, my face going red.
Jake kissed my cheek.
"Do you want to talk about...it?" He asked.
"No, I don't. I know Edward wants me...and I think I might want him too." I confessed, and saw Jacob's face go pale white.
"But I love you more." I assured him, and he kissed me long and hard.
Jake held my hand as we walked to the beach. No sign of any vampires.
For one it was too sunny.
And secondly, this was La Push, so they couldn't cross the border anyway.
We walked onto the stones at the beach, Jacob laughing loudly whenever I made a joke or was sarcastic.
The Jake cussed, and I looked up to see Embry talking to Sam in the bushes beside the beach, just ahead.
No doubt all the other wolf boys would be lingering in the woods close by.
Sam looked at Jake smiling.
Jake pulled me over to them scowling. I sat down on the rocks and watched them.
The other wolf boys came out of the bushes as soon as Jake arrived, and they all looked at Sam.
"We need to talk vampire." Sam said, and the pack laughed nervously.
"Bella needs to stay here 24/7 until we can find the vampire and chase him off." Sam continued. Jake smiled, as did the others. I felt slightly sick, but refrained from throwing up.
"You will be running day and night. Embry, Jacob, Quil, Paul and Seth will take tomorrow. The rest of you will take tonight, and the next night. Jacob's group will swap to nights in one week – if we have not chased him off by then." Sam sounded confident and in-charge.
"He won't cross the border." Embry said, and the others nodded in agreement.
Sam looked unimpressed at Embry's assumption.
"And what if he does? He can, and I suspect will, come across the line to get Bella." Sam said, looking around with speculative eyes.
"What about La Push? My mum's house is beside the border, what if he comes into the dairy? My mum will get hurt." Quil said worriedly, and began shaking with fury.
"Quil, no one will hurt your mum. That vampire will go down before he crosses the line – that's why I need you running constant patrol." Sam said, putting a firm hand on Quil's shoulder.
It was getting late, and the boys were all lazing about at Billy's place.
Billy had taken Charlie on a fishing trip to Alaska, so he would be out of the way until this was over.
Together, the boys had devoured fifty-three bags of chips and almost forty cans of soda.
Now they were regretting it.
There was a knock on the door, and Jake jumped up to get it.
I lay back in my armchair, munching on what was left of a packet of Nacho chips.
It was Sam, and the boys sat up at attention.
"Night runners, go. I could smell vampire down by the border." Sam instructed, and half of the pack jumped up and ran outside taking off their shirts as they went.
Sam walked over and sat down on the couch next to Seth. Seth slid down and sat on the floor.
You couldn't have fun and be stupid with Sam around.
"Has the bloodsucker crossed the line?" Jake asked, turning the TV off.
Paul and Embry got up and went into the kitchen, looking for more food.
"Not yet, but he will." Sam replied, standing up. He took a mobile phone from his pocket.
"I will call you if there is danger." He told Jacob, who nodded and took his phone from his pocket also.
Sam left the house, and Seth started singing loudly.
"Ding dong, the witch is dead!" He sang completely off tune, and we all erupted in laughter. Paul came back from the kitchen dancing, and Embry followed him with some biscuits on a tray.
At nine p.m. Embry and Paul left, saying they were tired. They went off home singing and laughing like two drunken idiots.
Seth followed after them, waving bye to us and saying he didn't want to walk home by himself, and Paul lived practically next door to him.
Quil stayed with us for a bit, but then Jacob started kissing me and Quil cleared off pretty quickly.
Suddenly, Jake's mobile phone rang. He stopped kissing me and answered it. I blushed bright red and slunk down into my armchair.
Jake's face turned from anxious to angry to horrified to terrified to serious.
He grabbed me and ran outside, dragging me by the wrist. Then he ran behind the hedges and phased, coming back to me with his clothes tied on the black band on his left ankle.
He growled at me, and I got on his back. Sometimes I knew exactly what Jake was thinking, other times I had no idea.
We ran for hours, and I knew I would fall asleep.
Another restless night of misery though.
We ran and ran until I was sure we had passed through Canada.
Then Jake turned and started running back, howling in the moonlight. I was worried. Someone had thought something and now Jake was going back.