Chapter 3:

After a couple of hours of just wandering around, Jacob and I decided to go to the woods and look at the river. Jacob decided that it would take us the whole day if I walked.

"Wait here for a minute okay? And try not to trip while I'm gone." He joked and quickly ran over to the trees and disappeared from my vision. He quietly came back in his wolf form, a russet brown wolf that is. He grunted at me and lay down with his paws crossed and waited patiently for me to get on his back.

I always had a hard time getting on his back since I couldn't climb very well since I was three. I grabbed two handfuls of his fur and tried to hoist myself up. It ended badly, I ended up slipping on the rock I was standing on for leverage and falling on my butt. I blushed and looked up at the laughing wolf in front of me. I glared at him and stood up from where I had landed. He looked at me and rolled onto his side and stayed like that waiting for me to grab onto him.

I put my arms around his neck and put my legs on his sides. Jacob then decided to get up after he was sure I had a good hold on him. He looked to make sure I was on and then started running. I closed my eyes and buried my face in his fur between his shoulder blades. I always got dizzy when I looked when he was running this fast in the forest.

Soon enough though, he stopped running and sat down again. I tumbled off him when he shook himself to try and get rid of my death hold on him. I accidentally rolled all the way into the shallow part of the river, so I got all my clothes wet. I sat up in the river and looked over myself. Well, it wasn't that bad. My black shirt was soaked and my jeans were almost all wet. The only thing that wasn't wet from the river, were my shoes.

I looked up to see if Jacob was laughing at me again, but he wasn't there. I carefully got out of the river without getting my shoes wet. A few minutes later, Jacob came back into view with a bag in his hand. He handed me the bag and sat down by the river with his back turned to me. I looked into the bag and saw a new pair of jeans and a dark purple shirt. I ran into the forest far enough so he wouldn't see me.

When I had put the wet clothes into the bag and put on my new shirt and pants, I went back to the river. He was still sitting by the river, just skipping rocks. I came up to him put the bag down and hugged him. "Thanks Jake." I said. He chuckled. "You're welcome Bells, I thought for a moment you were going to roll all the way into the river." He laughed. I slapped the back of his head and stepped away from him.

He turned and gave me the infamous puppy pout. "Awe, come on Bells you know I was just kidding, don't you?" He said in his most sad voice ever. I turned and started walking away; I was having a hard time not laughing. "Wait!!! Please, I didn't mean it!!!" He shouted. But I wasn't really listening, because I was watching where I was walking. I heard him running to me and the next thing I knew, I was swooped up into his arms.

He then proceeded to start running and he cradled me to his body. I closed my eyes and buried my face in his chest as best as I could. "You can open your eyes now Bella. Were almost home and I'm slowing down." I opened my eyes and saw our neighborhood coming close. But something wasn't right; there was a bunch of cars in front of every house on the street.

Jacob put me down and we both walked, hand in hand, down the street towards my house. Someone was talking to Dan and he seemed a little upset. I let go of Jacobs hand and ran over to them. When I got close I could hear what they were talking about. "I'll ask you once more, where is the slave?" a familiar crackly voice said angrily. "Like I said, I don't know who……..Bella!!!" The stranger turned and looked at me for the first time.

He was a tall guy, with a gray beard and light brown hair. Something clicked within me and I remembered who he was. This was the guy who sold me when I was four years old!!!!! I backed up a couple of steps before I turned and started running. "Stop her!!!" He yelled. I heard a couple of footsteps before two strong sets of arms grabbed me from behind and started to tow me backwards. "No!!! LET ME GO!!!!!HELP!!!!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. But they didn't seem to stop and they threw me into the back of a car.

"Help!!! Help, Help me Jacob!!!!!!" I screamed just before my mouth and nose were covered by a cloth. I breathed in this wierd scent and was slowly losing consciousness. Before the blackness took me, I swore I heard Jacob's voice say, "Bella!!!!!"