Chapter 2: It's just one of those days.
I sat at my desk, looking at a stack of blank lined paper. It has been four months since I had last spoken to Seth. Since he has said that hurtful stuff to me. I didn't blame him, and Jacob supported his idea all the way. Of course Jacob would. If it didn't mean him leaving me then Jacob was all honky dory with it.
I leaned back in the chair and ran my finger through my new hair cut. It was bobbed with red streaks through it. Alice did it. She said I looked Fabulous with short hair. I didn't think I looked fabulous with any hair cut. Although I was a supernatural, I was still hideous to myself. I was tall, and scrawny, and intimidating. I was taller than my mother, and almost flat. I was an inch taller than my father, which wasn't supposed to happen. I was almost as tall as Emmett, and my head was just an inch shy of being to Jacob's shoulder.
I was thinking about a few days ago. I was in the kitchen with my mother, cooking dinner and talking. This is when I found out her little secret. Tj was signing with my mother, -she was talking of course- an Xio had been in the mood of scaring them. He had already gotten Jessie like…20 times. She didn't even want to come over anymore. He even managed to scare Alex a few times. He managed to scare Tj a couple days before that and he started crying. It took Jacob and Jared an hour to calm him down and to talk him into keep coming over. Apparently Tj had been afraid of the dark since he was a baby and Xio jumping out of a shadow was definitely not one of the best things to do. Xio was sneaking up on Tj in the kitchen and my mother looked back.
"Enough, we don't need him to be frightened again, Xio." She said, washing off once of the plates. Suddenly Xio was visible again, and Tj was aware of Xio's presence, so there was no scaring that day.
"What was that?" I asked, looking over at her. She just simply said.
"You know how we told you how no mental attacks can hurt me?" I nodded. "Well, I can create a barrier and block all of them. So this whole time it was just a giant barrier!" that's all she managed to tell me. That's all she would tell me, totally ignoring all of the juicy detail.
I sighed and pushed the thick framed glasses up on my face with my pen. I had been losing my eye sight for some odd reason. Carlisle says it could just be because of my werewolf and my vampire blood. He isn't sure if it will cause any long term damage or not though. I didn't like my glasses, but it made me feel more human, and that's what I liked most about them.
I looked out the window, Robert and his brothers were wrestling with Emmett, Alex and Paul. Esme was outside grilling food for a barbeque. Carlisle's typewriter could be heard as his delicate fingers flew across the keys, sounding like a machine gun. I looked back at the paper and sighed. Touching the tip of the pen against the soft sheets, I began to write, but stopped. My mom had made a deal with me. If I could get a chapter done each week, and hand it to her typed, then she'd get a publisher in store so it could become an official novel.
This was supposed to be the mid point where the truth was supposed to be realized about the main characters, but I couldn't think of how to start it off.
I leaned back again, running my finger through my hair. I had no focus right now. Absolutely none. I looked up at the ceiling, my mind running over what I had written so far in the past. Outside a chorus of cheers could be heard. I stood up and looked out the window and down into the yard. The huge in-ground pool that Alice and Japser had been building was finished and was in the middle of filling up. I smiled and dashed out of the room, meeting Carlisle in the hallway.
"What is with all the commotion?" he questioned, stopping me on the top step, looking around confused. I smiled at him and jumped up and down excitedly, feeling as if I were going to burst open.
"They finished the pool!" I practically squealed. He laughed and shook his head as I ran down the steps, through the living room, through the kitchen and out onto the back porch.
"May! The pool is done!" Alice squealed, jumping up the steps, throwing her arms around me, hugging me tightly.
"I heard." I giggled, inching out of her grasp. The pool was in the middle of filling up and wasn't even a quarter of the way done and the wolves wee already in it, playing around.
"Oh come on! You're getting the pool dirty and it isn't even fully filled yet!" She walked down the steps and over to the edge of the pool. They all stopped, then as if they were all completely connected a smile stretched across their faces. Bending down they all upped their hands and gathered a handful of the ankle deep water and all at once tossed it up at Alice, a huge wave f water drenching my short haired aunt. She screamed and turned as if facing away were going to keep her from getting drenched. Everyone laughed as Alice ran away from the side of the pool, the wolves continuing their horse play, their clothes drenched.
Smiling I shook my head and made my way down the stairs and across the now wet grass tone of the four picnic tables. I wondered why my family had broken out so many? Maybe just for a place to put food. But there was also tables where chips, drinks and plates were. We must have been expecting more people. I sat down next to Tj –who was reading a book- and just stared at the splashing waves of water inside of the deep pool. My father came over and sat next to me.
"Hi daddy," I giggled sliding over a bit to give him more room. He smiled.
"Hey baby girl, how are you?" He questioned. Tj slid away slightly, turning the book so I was no longer inside a shadow. "How's your book coming?" He rephrased.
"Not too well. I'm trying to figure out how to advance in the plot, but it's kicking my butt." I replied, sighing. He nodded, his lips drawn in a hard line. It was the time to change the subject. "So, I found out moms power." I smiled at him. "It there anything else you aren't telling me?" He grunted.
"A lot." I nodded. I wanted to hear everything, no secrets at all. "First, your mother discovered her power when Renesmee was a baby, the Volturi had come on confrontation means and Alice rallied up other vampire coven members. What we found out was, Caius is really terrified of werewolves, our wolves are only shape-shifters –although we continue to call them wolves because it's easier- your mother can create barriers, one around her that she can push out and one around her mind. Also, right around that time your grandfather –Bella's human father Charlie- found out about the wolves. That's basically all you're missing. That and the fact all of the Volturi members had like…proclaimed wives or something like that. I wonder what happened to them?" He informed, slightly musing, leaving out all of the juicy details –as freaking usual. Shape-shifters? So I had been right the night I yelled at Jake for him agreeing with my werewolf theory?
"Now that's…messed up." I whispered, looking off towards the woods. The sound of a car door shutting reached my ears, and a few moments later Sam joined us, his hair messed up. I smiled and stood up, skipping to him. I threw my arms around him. "hey Sam!" I giggled. He returned my hug and sighed.
"They decided to let me off of work early." He turned around and looked at the other wolves. "What the hell?" I giggled and took my seat back at the picnic table.
"the pool is finished." I bounced, clapping my hands together. All he did was grunt and squeeze in between Tj and I. "So did you find out any leads?" I looked over at him, the unusually bright sun in my eyes. He sighed.
"I managed to follow a vampire scent to he cliffs and lost it at the pacific. I didn't smell a human, so I'm not even sure if it was even Jane I was following." I shook my head.
"Not when she has Aro to run to." I replied, knowing that she must have dashed off to Italy by now.
"I don't know, she made him awfully angry quite a few times. I'm surprised he'll even allow her back." Sam leaned back.
"He won't let her go; if he does Alec will want to leave as well. On top of that, her powers are too valuable. He's always trying to find stronger vampires to be in his goon squad." My father chimed in. I nodded my head. Jane knew where Rena's body was.
Off in the woods I could hear the sound of ruffling. We all looked off. A large group of Chinese people, bound in spandex came out, the shortest of the bunch skipping. The leader. Eng.
"hello Eng." My mother called from the back porch, holding a mountain of foods. He stopped and waved.
"Hello everyone! It's a beautiful day today and we're done with the first part of our search." He skipped up to me and threw his arms around me. I laughed and hugged him back.
"Did you find anything?" I questioned. He pulled away and shook his head.
"Of course not. We never find anything except some road kill and scat when we're looking for something important. And when we think the scat it a clue it's usually from our group. It's disgusting when you stick your nose in it and it's still warm." My face scrunched up and my entire family made a sickened noise.
"TMI Eng!" I squealed. Jake climbed out of the pool and dashed over to us, slipping in the wet grass a little. He stopped to catch his balance. My entire family and the other wolves started laughing.
"Wow, first clumsy act in what? Ninety to a hundred years?" He looked up. I could hear his heart pounding in his chest. It was so musical.
"It just bottles up and waits until you think it'll never happen again." I smiled and held my arms out. He smiled and walked over to me, hugging me. Suddenly the sound of something hard hitting the porch made itself audible to all of our ears. We all stopped and looked at the back porch. Alice had been dancing down them and stepped to far forward and landed on her butt. Her bottom lip trembled as she looked down. "See?" I looked back at Jake and smiled. "It waits until you think it'll never happen again." Alice got up and slowly tackled the stairs until she was on the ground. She was pouting. Jake laughed and leaned forward.
"You're so cute baby." He muttered. He pressed his lips against mine, the hot air from his breath gushing out over my bottom lip and down my neck. I wrapped my arms around his neck. I couldn't breathe, but yet again, I didn't want to. He dragged his tongue across the bottom of my lip. I inhaled, taking in his whole bottom lip and tongue, sucking on it greedily. He leaned forward and put his right knee on the picnic table between my father and I and wrapped his arm around my waist. The hotness of his tongue burned my cheeks, but I wanted more. He made me so-
"Um, May, public and people who don't want to see this. Plus, keep in mind…children." I looked at my father, my heart pounding. I looked over and saw that Eng was watching with wide eyes, but Tj was giving Jacob a dirty look.
"Aww, why did you stop!" Eng whimpered, his eyebrows furrowing.
"Because we have to keep it PG." Jake muttered and pressed his lips against mine again, completely stealing what little air I had managed to win back. I didn't understand it. When Jake was with Nessie, I didn't feel like this with Jake at all, but now that I knew I had him all to myself, and that Nessie was dead, I felt like I did when I first met Jake. Completely dominated. I looked away from him, trying to hide my breathless reaction.
"I have question," I looked at my mom, dropping my arms from around his shoulders. I heard Jake mutter something that only my father, Eng and I could hear –probably Tj too but he didn't seem like he was paying attention.
"I'm not holding back tonight May." I swallowed kind of hard. My mother nodded and placed all of the food on one of the tables.
"If you can create barriers, why didn't you use it when Jane used her power on me and hurt my babies?" I recalled the pain in all of that and shivered.
"I tried, but for some odd reason my barrier wouldn't cover you."
"Because they weren't linked to an alpha maybe?" Jake opted. She blinked then nodded.
"They weren't linked to anyone which means I couldn't put a barrier around them."
"Also, your barrier doesn't work on May because no physical or mental attack can effect her, maybe it can't protect her babies for that reason?" Jake continued. "And maybe Jane's attack is able to penetrate their minds even though their mother acted as a giant shield. Also maybe your barrier can't go into a persons body, therefore it couldn't protect her womb, and-"
"Wow Bella! I think Jacob ate his Cheerios this morning!" My father boomed. Jake stopped speaking and glared at him.
"Captain Crunch dick head and that has nothing to do with it." Eng laughed.
"It's just, wow, Jake, you're like…Einstein right now!" My father teased. Jake's eyes narrowed.
"Sit on it Edward, I'm just throwing out options." He squeezed in next to me and Tj. Finally it pushed the poor kid off of the end. We all looked as he hit the ground. His lips moved but nothing came out. "Sorry dude." Jake stood and grabbed him, pulling him to his feet.
"Here, let me sit on your lap." I stood up as Jake took his seat. He nodded and scooted over so he was next to my father and Tj had a spot to sit. I sat on his lap, being careful. Jakes arms snapped around my waist and pulled me into his chest.
"So, Sam, have you heard from Seth yet?" I looked at him, feeling awful, feeling guilty. He shook his head.
"No, I haven't heard anything from him, so either he hasn't phased or-"
"He left the group." Jake finished. Sam nodded. It was so odd hearing it put like that. He left the group, like someone leaving a chat room. He left the conference…You've been blocked. I sighed.
"I wonder if he ever will come back." I whispered, resting my head against Jacob's shoulder. He shrugged.
"Probably. He can't stay away until you die, and he isn't going to stay out there by himself without anyone to talk to." Jacob replied, hugging me tightly. "The only way to probably get this settled is to do the only thing I can think of to do." He continued. I looked up at him confused, my eyebrows furrowing in the middle.
"What's that?" I lifted my head to look at him better. He shifted forward. I climbed off of him and helped him stand up. He turned and looked at the new additions to the pre-pool-party.
"Hey everyone, can I like…get your attentions?" My family moved in. My father was looking at him confused, then I saw that my mother was staring at him contently. What was going on? Was she…was she using her barrier on him! He was an alpha! "You guys!" he hollered. They ignored him. "Hey! Jerk offs!" A few of them stopped. "Sprinklers!" They all stopped and looked at him. The Chinese were looking slightly upset and the Quileute's glared at him. "Thank you, come and sit in a freaking circle. God." They all climbed out and came to stand around him.
"What's going on Jake?" I questioned, my heart pounding with worry. He looked around for his shirt then grabbed it off of the table. It was a button up with a breast pocket and a little square box thing in the breast pocket. He pulled out a little jewelry box. For what, I don't know. He cleared his throat and itched his head.
"Ok, I'd been working on this for four months and I'll probably beef it up here, especially with the sparkly Hitler here." He looked at my father. My father glared at him. "Yeah I know, concentration camp for my tanned ass, what ever. Anyway," He cleared his throat and turned to face me. "Mayella," he got down on one knee. My eyes opened wide, my glasses falling down the bridge of my nose. Stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up! I squealed in my head. "Will you marry me?" He opened the box and inside was a beautiful shiny ring, the gem stones were the most beautiful blue I'd ever seen. My breath caught in my throat as everyone broke out in Aw.
"Oh Jake, yes."
No!
They all stared at me; Jakes eyes grew wide and confused.
"Uh…translation?" He looked around.
"Yes!" I squealed.
No! My werewolf squealed.
"Which one is disagreeing with it?" Jake croaked.
"My inner wolf." I pouted.
"Why! I thought that's the part that would actually like me!" He whimpered.
You're an idiot and Seth is better! My wolf form snarled.
"Shut up! I'm over ruling you! I say yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!" I cupped my hands over my ears and kept squealing yes. Everyone was staring at me like I was insane, but they knew what it was. They knew about my frequent battles with the side I thought was dormant!
"May! I get it! Yes! You're not having sex with the question!" Jake barked.
"Put it in me! Put it in!"
"You mean on?" Jake squealed, his eyes opening wide.
"Yes! Put it on! Put it on before I start punching myself in the face!" he gasped and grabbed my hand, slipping the ring on my finger. I threw myself at him and kissed him. It was just one of those days, where you don't want to wake up. Everyone cheered as Jake kissed me back. He pulled away and laughed.
"Is she calmer?" He chuckled.
Bite my ass mutt face! She snarled. He laughed again.
"Nope, I guess not." He pressed his lips against mine again. Yep, it was definitely just one of those days.
