A/N: Thanks for the reviews! Was worried people wouldn't like my fic. Means a lot to me
I snarled and dropped into a crouch in front of Paul. I had to protect my mate from another female. He just laid a hand of my shoulder and squeezed lightly.
"Swan. It's ok. It's just Leah" he spoke softly. I growled possessively at the sound of her name. I started shaking slightly when she started to come closer. Paul started rubbing little circles on my shoulder but this time it wasn't working.
She got close enough for my liking before I lunged at her in human form and tackled her down to the ground. I had my hands wrapped around her neck and pinned her to the ground showing my teeth as I snarled.
"What do you want? Why are you here? Didn't you get my message last time? He's mine bitch!" I was out for blood. She was gasping for breath and my wolf was satisfied that I was making her suffer.
"SWAN! Stop it. Let the girl breathe. Obviously she's here for something. Let her explain whatever it is she's here for" he soothed. I whipped my head towards him and glared before turning back towards her.
I huffed in annoyance as I let go of her neck and stood up with my arms crossed. She lay there and massaged her neck while gasping for breath.
"Well? Why did you come here?" I snapped impatiently while tapping my foot on the ground.
"Damn it Swan. I came here to apologise geez" she snapped back.
"Don't be sarcastic with me girl, I could rip you in two if I wanted to. So that was your apology to me? That's not much of an apology at all girl" I raised an eyebrow.
"If you give me the fucking chance I'll give you it" she growled.
"Well if you could hurry up pleaseeee! I've got places to go. People to see"
"Right. Look Swan I'm sorry. I shouldn't have acted the way I should have. I was blind for what I felt for Paul. I wanted him so badly but he didn't want me. He cared for me. I thought he cared for me more than the other guys do. That's why I thought he wanted me the same way I wanted him. I was wrong. Fuck was I wrong. I see the way he looks at you. He loves you. So so much. I was jealous. I wanted him to be mine forever. But he's with you. You are his other half. I know that now. I'm really sorry" she said looking at the ground shuffling her feet. I glared at her.
"Oh so now you realise this? Didn't you notice the way he looks at me to start with? He never looked at you that way. He doesn't love you. At least not in that same way that he loves me. He will only ever love me that way. Get it through your thick skull will you Clearwater?" I fumed. She just looked down at the ground.
"Look Swan, I said I was sorry. Can't you see it from my position? I thought he was the one for me, before all this wolfy business happened to me. I hate it. He just cared about me when the others thought I was a bitch. I was wrong. I envied you. You had someone so perfect, someone I could never have"
"I guess I see where you are coming from Clearwater. I wanted Fuckward so badly, but it turns out it was one of the worst mistakes I ever had. But then again if it didn't happen, I wouldn't have found out my true heritage. Plus I wouldn't have met Paul, my other half. I haven't known him for ages but I feel like I know him really well already. I love him. I don't think I could live without him. Sorry I was that harsh with you at the bonfire. I mean I had to protect what was mine and you struck a nerve. But apology accepted. Truce?" I said thrusting my hand out stiffly between us.
She looked down at my hand and then back to me. She hesitated but shook my hand. I guess she was scared in case I was going to fight her again. She surprised me when she pulled me into her and hugged me. I stiffened at the contact, before I relaxed and patted her back awkwardly.
"I hope that we can be good friends Swan. You seem like a nice kinda girl. Plus I don't know how you can put up with him sometimes" she smiled jabbing a finger in Paul's direction.
"Hey! Leah I'm not that bad" he pouted. Leah and I looked at Paul and back to each other before we burst into giggles.
"I don't know Clearwater. But he's not that bad. I can handle him no problem" I said cracking a smile. I glanced back at Paul and saw his face lit up when I said it.
He walked over to me and wrapped an arm around my waist and pressed a kiss on my temple. I wrapped my arms around his waist and rested my head on his shoulder. I forgot Leah was there and I glanced up at her. She was smiling.
"It's fine Swan. I want you guys to be happy. Anyways that's all I wanted to say. Didn't you say you had places to be? People to see? Now get out of here" she said shoving me lightly before she started walking away throwing a wave back at us with her back to us. I sighed.
"Do you think she really means it Paul?" I gazed up at him.
"You're silly you know that Swan? Of course she means it. When she says something, she means it. Now let's go, I'm starved" he chuckled pulling me towards the car.
I slid into the car and propped my knees up on the seat resting my arms on my knees. Leaning my head back on the headrest glancing out the window. We didn't have to talk, it was comfortable silence. I gave him directions every now and again, but other than that it was silence.
We got to the familiar path that I hadn't visited since he left me and took my family with him. I shuddered at the thought and I felt chills down my spine.
Paul didn't say anything but he just rested his hand on my knees as he drove. I smiled and entwined my fingers with his hand and held onto it with my other hand. It was a sign of comfort from him. He just knew when I needed comfort and when I didn't. Was it a marking thing? Or did he just know me inside and out?
I really didn't want to be here, the path and the house had so many memories of Fuckward. But I wanted to let Jasper and the McCarty's back into my life. I could do this. I would do this for them. More importantly, I would do this for myself.
We pulled up the Cullen's house and I rolled down the window and turned my head to the house. It was the same as it was when they left. I sighed and was deep in thought until Paul squeezed my hand. Oh right.
"We're here" I said in a sing-song voice. It was quiet but with their vampire hearing they would hear it without any difficulty. I heard some shuffling from the house before the door flew open and Emmett came bouncing out.
He grinned at me before he ran for his Jeep Wrangler and leaped into the back. He had a thing for leaping I guess. He was like a little child. I missed him childishness, there was no doubt about it.
The others blurred to the Jeep and took off to our destination. Paul just sped off after them. I didn't like the speed he was going.
I leaned over slightly and looked at the speedometer. I gasped out loud and clung to the car door. He was going well over 100mph! Was he insane? He was going to kill us both! Though we do heal fast. But that wasn't the point. Not at all.
Paul glanced at me when I gasped. He looked at me confused and concerned at the same time. My eyes darted to his face and back to the speedometer and then back to him. He scrunched his eyebrows together, trying to figure out what I gasped at. I rolled my eyes at him.
"Paul you're going to kill us both with that speed you're driving at! Slow it down a notch or something will ya? I hate fast car speeds. It reminds me of Alice too" I whispered sadly.
He reached over and grabbed one of my hands and pulled it to his lips and kissed it before he rested them between us and started rubbing circles with his thumb.
"It's okay Swan. I won't hurt you. I won't let anything hurt you. It's just they drive so fast and I'm used to driving fast. But I have to keep up with them. Sorry babe, I can only slow down until it's under 100mph but that's it luv. You'll have to bear with me; it shouldn't be too long luv. We're out of Forks now" he comforted.
We stopped after driving for another ten minutes. For me it felt like hours. We were halfway between Port Angeles and Forks. There was a beautiful café.
The café was built with stone bricks; the entrance had a stone arch with plants on each side. It looked quite old but modern at the same time. There were shelter areas that allowed you to sit outside and enjoy the sun, when there was sun that is. The sun had gone in, it was cloudy but it wasn't going to rain.
There were big dark green trees around the back of the café, the café looked homey. Jasper and the McCarty's were already standing by the entrance waiting for us. Emmett was rocking back and forth on his heels, I grinned at the sight.
I climbed out of the car eagerly and Paul was already at the front of the car waiting for me reaching out a hand for me to take. I smiled and walked with him hand in hand towards the guys.
Emmett reached me first and grabbed me by the waist ripping me away from Paul. He swung me round in circles and he boomed laughter. I giggled along with him. He put me down and then Rosalie gave me a brief hug while Jasper dropped a kiss on my hand that made me blush deeply. I heard a growl and I pulled away before wrapping my arms around Paul and nested my head into his chest.
We stood there for a while before I pulled away and dragged him towards the café. I was starving and he just laughed and let me drag him inside. The café had sofa seated cubicles and there were square tables with black metal chairs. Green flooring and cream walls with some pretty paintings on the walls so it didn't look very plain.
We squeezed into the sofa cubicle and I snuggled up into Paul as we waited to be served. We ordered our food; I think the waiter may have thought we were pigs for ordering so much food. Everything looked good on the menu so we ordered a bit of everything! Enormous appetite remember?
We chatted to each other about random things while we waited for our food. I was surprised when Jasper had ordered food. I wondered if he was going to eat it. I smelt the food from the kitchen and my mouth watered, I was so hungry.
The food finally came and it filled up the whole table and we had to have another table on the end to put the rest of the food on, we ordered so much food. Jasper was picking at some of the food and shoving it into his mouth.
I stared at him with wide eyes and he just grinned at me.
"What?" he said with his mouth full. I blinked furiously and shook my head clear.
"Erm… Jasper. You're eating food!"
"Yeah. So? I love human food; even though I'm a vampire I still enjoy human food. It's weird for a vampire but yeah" he spoke with a strong southern accent.
"Oh right. That's weird but cool" I grinned before turning back to my food. The food was really good.
We chatted every now and again while Paul and I munched on the food. It was fun; we had funny jokes from Emmett. Sometimes we laughed because it was lame. But that was just Emmett.
"Bella we want to stay in your life. I don't think we can handle it again, or yourself" Rosalie spoke softly twiddling with her fingers on the table.
"I know Rosalie. I hate to think of what things will turn out if you were taken out of my life again. Especially Emmy bear" I said looking down at my food pushing it around with a fork.
"Can we like not talk about this right now? Can we finish the food before we go into the depression talk? My Swan needs food in her system, I worn her out last night" Paul winked at me before slipping an arm around my waist and turned back to his food.
I blushed as they all looked at me before I ducked my head down embarrassed and ate my food.
"Yeah sure that's fine Lahote. Oh and Bella? The name is Rose. Family call me Rose. You are our sister" she smiled at me fondly. I just looked up at her and grinned before I turned back to my food again.
I was stuffing my face with food and I was still hungry. We had finished half of the food so we had it cleared away before we had to order more. I'm sure the kitchen and the staff were horrified with our order and would probably be panicking to make all the food because we ordered so much.
Wouldn't be surprised if they were horrified, but hey they get more money from us. Must be their lucky day. We also ordered a few desserts too, man am I glad I'm a wolf! If I wasn't a wolf with high metabolism, I wouldn't be able to eat so much food and not get fat! Man that's a plus with being a wolf, with the whole high metabolism thing as well as the bottomless stomach too.
We wolfed it down. Pun intended. After we finished we sat there drinking coffee and having a laugh. That was until Emmett had to go and say something.
"So Hell Bells we know that you two have done the deed. So have you reduced a house to rubble yet? We could hear you from the house" Emmett grinned cheekily.
A/N: Uh oh! Hope you guys like it. Review please! Thanks! :')