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CH. 3 Good-bye:
I pulled up to the Black's house and cut the engine. I got out and looked up at the house. From inside the house the curtain moved and I gave a wave to Billy. I suppose he wasn't going to be happy either. I just hope he would keep his mouth shut and not say anything to Charlie that he shouldn't.
I could hear music coming from the garage so I headed straight there assuming that it was Jacob. I hoped he was alone, we didn't need an audience. I walked into the garage and I could see Jacob's legs sticking out from underneath the Rabbit.
"Jake?" I announce my presence. He rolled out looking surprised.
"Bells, I heard a car, but it was too quiet to be the truck." He wiped his hands on his jeans and stood up.
"I'm borrowing Edward's car, today." I told him with a shrug. He narrowed his eyes darkly.
"Jeesh, it's only his car. Don't tell me you're afraid that it's going to suck all the oil out of all the other cars in La Push." I joked. He smirked slightly as he placed his wrench down.
"So what did you do? Steal his car so he couldn't chase you down." Jacob grinned.
"Nope, he doesn't know I have it. He is away at the moment," I answered. Jacob scowled, before placing a smile back on his face.
"So are you staying? How long are you here? We can call Charlie and have him meet us here for dinner." Jacob started talking animatedly.
"I got about an hour. I promised Alice I would be back. I had to promise to go shopping with her and let her buy me what she wants to come." I leaned against the wall holding the cell phone in my hands.
"Sounds horrible," he rolled his eyes. He looked towards the bikes.
"Want to take them out?" he asked and I shook my head.
"No, you really should sell mine or give it to Quil or Embry or anyone else that may like it. I'm not going to be riding it again." I answered. Jacob's face fell looking disappointed again.
"Jake, we need to talk." I couldn't look at him directly, so I looked at the ground and dragged some lines in the dirt with my foot.
"I'm not going to like this, am I?" Jake grumbled. "So start talking." He crossed his arms already on the defensive.
"Jake, after today I'm not coming back to La Push." I started and Jacob's face turned into a snarl.
"Is this the leech's idea? Is he ordering you from seeing me and from having friends? What is he afraid of, that you might realize the truth that I am the better man?" He snarled.
I fought not to yell back at him like I wanted to. I knew he was going to be upset, so I should just let him get it out if it made him feel better.
"His name is Edward. I made this decision for myself. I'm sorry this hurts you, but in the long run it's for the best." I sighed. "I belong with Edward. He is my other half, together we make a whole. Without him I feel lost."
"He is manipulating you. He will leave soon, again. Then what is going to happen to you? You'll be that fragment of a person, like you were last fall. This time I may just let you suffer and not pick up the pieces. You are a fool if you think he'll change for you. You would be better off dead than that." His words came out cruel and struck like whips. His anger and his harsh words for Edward solidified my decision.
"That right there is why I am not coming back. I love Edward, get that straight, and when you say things like that it only hurts me. I'm done listening to you bash him and then having to defend him to you. It's for the best that we part ways. I appreciate, what you have done for me in the past, but that doesn't give you the excuse to behave like you have. So good-bye, Jacob, I hope you find someone to love who loves you and get your happiness." I turned to leave. I just wanted to be back in the bed, in Edward's room and hide out until he got back. I just hoped he won't be too mad at me for this.
"Bella, wait." Jacob chased after me. I glanced at his face and he looked almost desperate. "I'm sorry, don't go. Choose me. I can give you the life you deserve, the life he can't." He grabbed my arm and spun me around.
"I don't feel that way for you, Jake, I'm sorry." I frowned as I tried to pull away. I had missed the signs apparently. I needed to walk away from him before it became worst. Nothing was going to change my mind, I couldn't let him guilt me into staying. It's the best for everyone, even if it hurts at first.
"You do. I know you do. You just don't know it. You love me." he begged holding my arm tighter.
"Let go." I pulled against him but it was pointless against his strong iron grip, his hand felt like it was burning my arm. "Jake, the only love I have for you is like a brother. But even that is starting to wear thin."
"No, you really love, me. Maybe not as much as him, but you do. I can prove it." He pulled me towards him before I could react. His lips crashed onto mine and I felt doused with ice water.
I tried to push against him but it was like trying to push against a burning stone wall. I felt one of his hands grasp my ass as he shoved his tongue intrusively into my mouth. Alarm bells were ringing as panic started to swell. I never thought Jacob was capable of this.
I did the first thing that came to my mind, something Renée once told me and I had just rolled my eyes at the time. I bit down as hard I could on his tongue at the same time brought up my knee, when he reared back I punched him in the jaw. Which was the wrong thing to do, it hurt like hell.
I hissed in pain and stumbled backwards, since he finally let me go.
"What the hell, Bella?" he sounded mad and he was shaking slightly.
"You're asking me, what the hell? I should be asking you that. What do you think you were doing?" I held my injured hand, I was now furious with him.
"Trying to prove to you that you love me, too," Jacob's voice was harsh.
"The only thing you proved, was that you're an asshole." I snapped turning to leave again.
"Bells, you had to have felt something." He was following me. I tried to move faster, but my knee hurt from hitting him. Stupid adolescent werewolf.
"I only felt disgust. I doubt that is good thing." I kept going until I almost reached the Volvo and he jumped in my path.
"Wait, don't leave. Let's talk about this." he begged blocking the driver's door.
"There's nothing to talk about that we haven't, you just haven't been listening. Now please move." I ordered trying to get around him, but stopped when he started to tremble.
"No, I'm not going to let you go. If the leech wants you, he can cross the line to get you." Jacob's eyes were dark and he was shaking harder. I took a couple steps back. He wanted a fight with Edward. All traces of my former friend were gone and now was just the wolf looking for a fight. I wished desperately I had let him go awhile go.
"Jacob, you can't hold me here." I fought back my tears mostly from anger.
"What? Afraid to find out he wouldn't come for you?" Jacob sneered.
"No, I know he would. But it will be Alice who will look for me first, if she thinks something is wrong. She has done nothing to you." I shook my head hoping an hour hasn't past yet. My phone hadn't rung so I figured I was still good.
"One leech is the same as another." He shrugged. "Good thing she can't see us, she'll be easy to take down."
"You leave her alone," I shook my head furiously and tried to get by him again. Jacob reached out and grabbed my sore hand. I let out a screech from the pain, but he wouldn't let go.
"Jacob!" a voice boomed from the forest edge and Sam stepped out with two wolves behind him. "Let her go."
"Sam, stay out of this." Jacob turned towards him but didn't let go of me. In fact he seemed to grasp harder.
"That is an order, Jacob Black. Let her go, you are hurting her." Sam ordered and Jacob dropped my hand. "Now let her leave."
"Let the leech come for her if he really wants her." Jacob glared at him.
"She wants to leave, we won't hold her here against her will. If Edward Cullen comes for his mate then the pack will stand down, as long as he does no harm to innocents." Sam shook his head.
"She is not his mate and he would be breaking the treaty." Jacob argued back.
"By your provocation, we won't stand behind you." Sam crossed his arms.
"You would let me fight alone?" Jacob was angry.
"You would lead your brothers to a pointless fight, when she has already chosen. Step aside." Sam ordered. I watched Jacob step aside mechanically. I glanced quickly at Sam and gave him a grateful smile. He gave me a stiff nod.
"Bella, if you have chosen the Cullens I must ask you, like them, not to come here again." Sam asked with no emotion in his voice.
"I don't have any plans to." I glared at Jacob and got in the Volvo and started it. I tossed the phone in the seat beside me.
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As I drove away tears ran down my face. My injured hand that gripped the steering wheel burned and throbbed. I didn't slow until I saw Alice on the edge of the road and I pulled over.
I shakily opened the door and tried to step out. I only took a couple of steps before Alice was at my side.
"Bella, you look awful." Alice supported me by my elbow, her eyes were filled with worry.
"I guess it's a good thing you're good at makeovers." I gave a shaky laugh, but she wasn't buying it, not that I expected her too.
"What happened?" she led me to the passenger door and opened it for me. She waited until I was in before going to the other side.
"I was just going to tell Jacob good-bye. I thought he at least deserved that in person. I knew he was going to be upset, but I didn't expect that reaction." The tears fell faster and I reached for the glove box knowing Edward kept napkins inside. I winced as I touched the latch as my hand started to hurt more when I tried to pull it.
"Did he hurt you?" Alice hissed her eyes were flashing. She reached over taking my hand to examine carefully.
"Actually, I did that punching him." I sniffed. Her eyebrows rose to her hair.
"You punched a werewolf. Why? Didn't you realize that it would hurt you and not him?" Alice asked incredulously.
"At the time all I could think of was stopping him. He forced me to kiss him and I couldn't push him off so I bit his tongue, kneed him and then punched him."
Alice blinked several times and shook her head.
"Well, I guess it's safe to say that there will be no hiding this from Edward." She sighed in resign.
"We can't tell him. He will want to kill Jacob. We can't let them fight. That is what Jacob wants. He wanted to force me to stay in La Push and make Edward cross the line to start a fight. He didn't even care if it was you. All this time you were right. I should have let him go when Edward came back. I don't know why I couldn't. I saw him just as a friend, but that friend is no longer there. He is like Mr. Hyde all the time now. I should've just listened to Edward, but I was just so stubborn." I had my head in my hands. I felt Alice rub my back.
"Calm down, it's going to be okay. You didn't know. It was reasonable to keep a friend if that what he was, but he wasn't. I'm sorry it had to come to this for you to find out." Alice spoke softly.
"Edward is going to be so mad." I wiped my eyes looking up.
"Yes, but not at you." She squeezed my good hand. "I don't see him going after Jacob either." I nodded calming down slightly. But then she wouldn't really see it anyways.
"On the bright side, I can already see that I don't need to bring you to the hospital." She smirked and I rolled my eyes laughing slightly.
She pulled into the garage moments later and Rose looked up from Alice's new car where she was working under the hood. Somehow she still didn't have a speck of dirt or oil on her.
I limped slightly getting out of the car. Rose's eyes narrowed and nose crinkled but she didn't say anything.
"Rose, can you look at her hand. I saw I didn't have to take her to the hospital, but I want a second opinion to make sure it's not broken." Alice asked slinging both our bags on to her shoulder.
"I'm not a doctor, Alice." She sounded irritated.
"I know, but you still know more than me. Edward would want us to get it checked out. They would ask too many questions at the hospital." Alice implored.
Rose rolled her eyes and came over. She gestured for my hand and I stretched it out.
"What did you do that they would ask too many questions?" She asked examining my hand. Her nose wrinkled as she got closer to me.
"I kind of punched Jacob," I explained hesitatingly.
"And your leg," she looked at me skeptically.
"I kind of kneed him." I admitted. Rose's eyes narrowed darkly.
"He deserved it." Alice spoke up. I could tell she was speaking fast to Rose. I only made out a word here in there. The more Alice spoke the angrier Rose seemed to get.
I took a step back from her cautiously and her eyes flashed to mine when I moved. I froze as she eyed me for a moment.
"Ice both the knee and hand. You can find wraps in Carlisle's office. I will be back, I need to hunt." Rose left the garage passing Esme who was standing in the doorway.
I blushed in embarrassment as she was looking at me worriedly.
"Are you alright, dear," she asked coming over to hug me.
"I'm fine." I told her as she stepped back and brushed my hair from my face.
"Let's get ice on those injuries and then I will make you some dinner and maybe some cookies. After the ice we can get you a nice bath. I have bath salts that are supposed to be calming, maybe that will help.
"Oh and we should add bubbles," Alice added smiling.
Esme scooped me up and brought me into the house.
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Just as I was finishing dinner Rose came back into the house. She still appeared to be upset as she came to sit at the table with us. Esme gave her a sympathetic smile and patted her hand. Rose exchanged a look with her then Alice. Alice nodded her head and Rose sighed heavily.
"Did Edward tell you why I became like this." she asked gesturing to her model body.
"Not exactly, just something similar to what almost happened to me in Port Angeles last year." I answered. Rose looked surprised, before she continued.
"I know what it's like to trust the wrong people. Not that I think anyone should trust the dogs, but you did. For me it was my fiancé. His name was Royce King." Rose started.
She told her story as I sat there silently listening.
"I'm so sorry, Rose." I whispered when she stopped.
"I am too. I hope you're done with this dog for good. You're lucky he only kissed you, he could've…"
"Rose," Esme interrupted.
"It's okay. She is right. For a minute there I thought it was going to happen. I'm not sure if I would've been able to leave, if Sam didn't order him to let me go." I started to get upset again.
"It's okay, dear. It's over now. Let's get that bath ready for you." Esme changed the subject.
She insisted on carrying me up the steps and brought me directly to Edward's bathroom. I sat on the toilet seat as she started to fill the enormous tub with water. She sprinkled in some salts and soon it started to smell like lavender and camellia. She added liquid from a bottle and soon there were bubbles too. She hit a button on the tub and a whirling started.
"Do you need help getting in," she asked. I shook my head in embarrassment.
"Okay, soak until your heart's content," she smiled and left the room.
I undressed and step carefully into the tub. I frowned when I saw the bruise on my knee. I wondered if it was going to be possible to hide it from Edward. But he would probably notice my slight limp immediately.
I sat there until I was afraid I was going to prune before I stepped out. I went into the glass standing shower to rinse the oils of my body. I quickly washed my hair before getting back out. I grabbed a hair dryer and set to work drying my hair. I usually didn't bother since it was a long process. But the house was chiller than I was used to plus I was trying to kill some time.
After placing the dryer down I looked around and realized I didn't have a change of clothes with me in the bathroom.
I wrapped my towel tightly around me and decided just to change in the bedroom.
I stepped out and headed to my bag. As I pulled out Edward's shirt to wear again I heard the door knob turn, I froze clutching the towel as the door flew open.
A/N: As much as I hated Jacob kissing her by force in the book it did play an important part. Plus it will just further convince her to leave him behind.
So who is at the door?
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Preview:
"He forced himself onto her," I growled but spoke low not to upset Bella.
"Who forced themselves onto to who?" Emmett's friendly smile was gone.
"Jacob forced himself onto Bella." I snapped, turning sharply and almost running into Rosalie. Wait.
"Move, please." I went to go around her and she grabbed my arm. I growled and she hissed back. Listen to me!
"Hey, now," Emmett got between us. "Rose, I think you should let him be. I know if it was you…"she cut him off.
"Edward, you have to calm down. You can't go to Bella this angry, you will scare her. She is upset enough. She needs your comfort and support, not your anger." Rose told me in calm, but firm voice.