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To Hurt To Heal

Chapter Five

(Jacob's POV)

The Truth

I stood, when Bella said what she did and glanced over at Liza, who was watching Bella nervously. I'm starting to think that even though she had never met Bella before the bonfire, at least I don't think she did, she was somehow responsible for Bella running away months ago, but I'll get to that part soon enough. "What did she have to say when she visited you today Bella?" I asked, still watching Liza, and then turned towards Bella when she began speaking.

"Why don't we allow her to explain? I'm sure she can do it so much better than I can." She said still looking right at her. "Right Liza? You did want to clear the air so we all can be friends." She stopped and sniffed dramatically. "Though with the smell of things around here, it'll take more than a few words to clear the bull fogging the air." She widened her eyes innocently. "But go right ahead, I'm sure Jacob is dying to hear all about it."

I have to admit, I was enjoying this sarcastic side of Bella and had to bite my lip to keep from laughing, especially when it's directed at someone who deserves it, though I knew this was not a laughing matter.

"I don't know why she's making a big deal of it." Liza replied. "I just thought that since we didn't get a chance to really meet at the bonfire, I'd go introduce myself, assuming she'll be spending a lot of time down here now that she's back." When she stopped talking, she looked defiantly at Bella.

Bella just watched her, allowing herself to seem confused. "Wow Liza, you're leaving out some very important words."

"I have no idea what you're talking about." Liza shot back definitely.

"Really? Let me see if I can refresh your memory." Bella tapped two fingers at the side of her head as if she was thinking really hard. "Let me see, oh yeah, I remember." Her soft beautiful brown eyes became hard as granite as she looked at Liza. "The words were, Jacob and you were together now and you both didn't want any animosity between us. Other words were, though Jacob and I were once an item you saw no reason why we couldn't all be friends, in fact that's the way Jacob wanted it because he still cared about me, you know, as a friend." She stopped and grinned. "The words may not be exact, but I'm sure you'll agree I got the gist of it."

While she spoke I was becoming angrier and angrier. I know I had to calm down before I did something to hurt Liza, not that she doesn't deserve. I stood and began pacing, trying to calm myself down, I felt on the verge of phasing when I felt two soft, cool hands grab hold of mine, stopping me in my tracks. I looked down into soft brown eyes, Bella, and just like that my temper cooled. I didn't realize she had even moved from the chair.

"She's not worth it Jake." Her voice was soothing. One of her hands was gentle rubbing my arm. "If I really believed her I wouldn't be here, I would of went to the station and waited on my dad."

I nodded then bent down and touched my forehead to hers. "You're right, she's not worth it." I stood and grinned down at her. "Still keeping me out of trouble?"

"It's what I'm here for." Her grin widened. "Especially after the mud pie incident when you were seven and I was six, making us both sick for a week."

For a minute there it felt like old times, if only. I knew what she is doing though and it worked, it always did, making me smile or laugh when I wanted to be angry. Even as kids, she always had the ability to make me feel better when no one else could. I kissed her hand then lead her back to the chair, when she was seated I turned towards Liza.

"There is so much I'd like to say to you so you'd get it into your delusional brain, you and I never were and never will be." I looked her up and down, allowing the disgust to show on my face. "if you were a man I would handle this a lot differently, but you know, Bella's right. You're not worth it. I wish I …." To hell with it, I won't waste my breath; she'll be out of here tonight anyway.

I looked around the room. You've got to be kidding me, this girl has real issues, especially with the word no. "I hope you have your things packed." Then brought my gaze back to her. "Because you will be leaving with Sam as soon as were done here," I chuckled as I looked around again. "I don't think my grandfather is into candle light dinners." I allowed my anger to be shown in face and heard in my voice. "Because this could not be for me, knowing how the sight of you disgusts me."

I glanced at Sam as if to say, can you believe this chick? Sam just shook his head and rolled his eyes. Which is something I've never seen Sam do.

"She is the cause of it isn't she?"

I turned and looked at her. "The cause of what Bella?" I asked, my suspicions growing.

She got up and started pacing. "I can't believe I allowed myself to think you would ever do anything to hurt me or anyone for that matter in that way." Tears rolled down her cheeks as she stopped and looked at me. "I'm so sorry Jake; I can't believe I was so stupid and so very wrong."

"Wrong about what Bella?" I asked though I had a feeling of where this was leading.

I could see in her eyes how tortured she felt and how much she really does love me, but there was pain also, my heart breaks to see it. I wanted to hold her but I knew this was something she felt she had to do, something she had to get off her chest.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath before opening them and looking in my eyes. "Before I left two months ago I came down her to surprise you..."

Before she could finish, Liza tried to leave the room again. "I don't have to stand her and listen to this." But Sam stopped her, and led her back to a chair. "It's best if you stay." He said to her, and then went and leaned against the wall, arms crossed at his chest. I turned back to Bella, looking at her encouragingly.

"I'll start from the beginning." She took a deep breath and did just that. ""The week before I left I was so busy with finals and work, we didn't get to see each other, remember?" She began.

I nodded and squeezed her hand; I remembered I had missed her so much.

"I had missed you so much." I smiled, it's like she read my thoughts. "The day before I left." She continued. "I basically had a free day so as soon as I got off work I came directly here to surprise you, I even parked further away so you wouldn't hear my truck but when I got here no one was here, I was about to leave and was half way to my truck, when the thought hit me that you could be in the garage working on your car." She stopped and slowly licked her lips took a deep breath and continued.

"I got in my truck anyway and parked closer down street and walked the rest of the way, when I got within sight of your garage, I saw what I thought were you and her having sex. Seeing you two together last night I came to the wrong conclusion that you got her pregnant and if you had it meant you were seeing her long before I found out about it."

To say I was shocked, was putting it mildly. "What!?" I replied in disbelief. "I never slept with her and she is definitely not having my baby. The only woman in this room that would be the mother of my children is you, but that would be years down the road." I stopped and shook my head. I turned angrily towards Liza "What did you do?"

Liza eyes were wide in fright, looking at Bella as if she was a snake ready to bite. When I looked back at Bella she wasn't looking at her, she was looking at me, then she put her face in her hands, before looking up at me again. My blood ran cold, I had a feeling what she was going to say, I felt things were about to spiral out of control, not for me but Jared, but I will not allow this to get out and spoil things for him and his imprint Kim, after all, she wasn't with him at the time, so I encouraged Bella to continue.

"What did you see Bella?" I asked

She pointed at Liza. "I saw her in the back seat, obviously having sex with someone, she was on top and naked, obviously I didn't see who she was with, but it was your car, I didn't think anyone else would do that in your car. I left quickly, but decided later to give you the benefit of the doubt and a chance to explain, because the Jake I knew wouldn't do that, especially after we confessed our love for each other, but when I came back I saw you and your dad with two other men and her. You were at the truck talking to her, then one of the guys came over and joined you two, you said a few words, then she jumped in your arms and kissed you, you didn't prevent her, you even held her closer. It seems to prove what I saw was true, it was you in that car with her earlier that day." She was crying openly now. "I was so stupid."

"So that's why you didn't want to see me that night when we came over. You weren't sick, were you?" I asked, finally understanding.

She shook her head. "No, I was looking out the window when you arrived that night and saw her get out the truck, I couldn't believe you brought her to my house about to introduce her to me." She stopped talking not being able to go on.

"First I'd like to explain that when you saw us talking at the truck, I was telling them about us finally telling each other how we felt and how happy I was that you were finally mine."

I gave her a lopsided grin. "I've told my cousin all about you and how I felt about you and he'd say, 'do something about it already,' so when I told him we confessed our feelings, and how I couldn't wait for him to meet you. He was very happy for me and she said she was too."

I glanced at Liza and rolled my eyes, in a manly way of course, oh give me a break, Sam did it.*mental grin here.*

"When she said how happy she was for me she jumped in my arms without warning, I held on so we wouldn't fall backwards, she tried to kiss me on my mouth but I moved my head so the kiss landed on my cheek instead. You know I wondered how my cousin would react to that but he didn't seem to notice, so I figured it must have been an innocent slip, I should have gotten a clue then of what kind of girl she was." I glanced over at Liza again, disgusted at the sight of her, she wasn't watching us, her eyes were planted to the floor, I wanted her out of my sight, and now, I turned back to Bella.

"Anyway, the two men you saw were my uncle and cousin Monty, she was dating him until he found out she wasn't exactly exclusive. The only reason she is here is because my cousin couldn't deal with her right now and she said she had nowhere to go, you know how Billy is, he allowed her to stay here until her baby is born. To be honest, Monty isn't sure the baby is his and he needs to find out before she disappears with it."

"You don't have to talk about me as if I'm not standing right here." Liza stated with a touch of anger. "As if I don't really exist."

"As far as I'm concerned you don't." I replied without looking at her. I stopped and took another deep breath. "We promised Jared we wouldn't talk about this again, but in this case I have no choice, Bella, it wasn't me who was with Liza that day, it was him, Jared."

Her eyes widened. "What?"

"Yeah, we still don't understand how he would hook up with her, it wasn't like him to act in that way. He didn't know she was with my cousin, she definitely didn't tell him, she made him believe it would be more than a one time thing, still, him and all of us are confused that he would sleep with someone he just met, no matter how he felt about her, it just wasn't like him, in fact we suspect she drugged his beer."

She pulled her hands out of mine and gently laid them on my cheek, they were shaking, looked intently in my eyes. "I'm so, so sorry Jake, I should have known better. I wouldn't blame you if you never forgave me, but I hope you do and I will spend the rest of my life making it up to you."

"I do wish you had confronted me Bells, but I understand and I do forgive you, I love you, but if there is a next time, no running, okay, we talk about it. Deal?"

"Deal." She replied, giving me a watery smile. "I love you too Jake and I missed you."

"Missed you too babe, more than you know." Then I kissed her lips softly.

I stood up slowly and turned towards Liza. "As for you, you heartless bitch, you…"

Before I could continue, Bella stood up quickly, walked around me and before we could do anything, we heard a smack! Bella had slapped Liza across the cheek. My mouth hung open in shock; I've never known her to act so violently, well, except for that time long ago when an eight year old boy tried to take a toy truck that Bella had brought for a birthday present for me, she went a little berserk on that kid too. I did end up having to save her from him.

"You are so lucky you are pregnant." Bella told her angrily. "Do you realize the pain you've caused? How can you even call yourself a woman, you heartless ….." She stopped and tried to pull herself together. "I do have to thank you, when you came to my house spouting that load of bull, it wiped away the last doubts I had about Jake." She looked Liza up and down. "You look a lot like a girl that use to hang around here, Chloe, she came to all the bonfires always trying to get Jacob to take a walk with her, when she finally realized that he would go nowhere without me and wasn't falling for her game, she went after Sam, Leah put an end to that real quick."

She raised her hand to slap her again, but I rushed over and caught her to me. "She is not worth it babe, believe me she will pay for what she did." Turning her I picked her up, she wrapped her legs and arms around me as I held her to me, she broke down then, crying, making heart wrenching sounds, and babbling of how sorry she was.

"Could you please help her to get her things out of here? If they're not already packed, that's her problem, throw them in the truck anyway." I said to Sam, then walked to my room with Bella in my arms, I sat on my bed and rocked her, rubbing her back, combing my fingers through her hair until she finally quieted down, from her breathing I knew she fell asleep, I gently laid her in the bed, took off her shoes and covered her, then kissed her softly, I walked out and closed the door behind me.

I knew we still had to tell her about me imprinting on her and how it works but that will have to wait. I walked back into the kitchen and sat down. Everything was cleaned up and put away, Sam's been busy.

"How is she doing?" Sam asked

I looked up at him. "She's fine, everything will be fine now." Then I turned to Liza. "You are out of here, do you understand me, gone. I don't care what kind of promise my dad made, I will not have you in the same house, breathing the same air as my Bella, and as soon as you're gone, I will disinfect this house of your fowl scent." I walked over and stood in front of her. "No one gets away with hurting what's mine."

"Did you get all her things in the truck?" I asked Sam.

"Yeah I did." He replied. "Just waiting to see if you wanted me to drive or do you want to."

"Thanks Sam but I will, I want to explain to Leah what's going on. Hopefully she won't be at your place for long." I placed my hand on Sam's shoulder. "Thanks for doing this my brother."

He nodded. "We're always here for you, we are family."

"You two don't have to talk about me as if I'm not here." She looked at me defiantly. "It wasn't my fault she thought that was you. I didn't tell her it was."

"No? I'm sure you implied it." I replied, wanting to get her out my sight. "I am sure I know why you saw her today. I can just imagine the things you must have said to make her believe what she saw or thought she saw was true, but it didn't, in fact, it seems to have backfired on you." Her cheek was still red from when Bella slapped her. I have to admit I was proud of Bella for that. "and stop reminding us you're here, believe me, we know."

She didn't reply, but she didn't have to, guilt was written all over her face. I stepped back and looked around. "What was this setup for? Did you hope to seduce me, like you did Jared, that all you had to do was set a romantic dinner for us, I would suddenly change my mind and sleep with you." I picked up the wine bottle she had in an ice bucket chilling, the only thing left out from her setup, all the ice had already melted. "Or did you hope to get me drunk, don't you know that this don't work on us or did you forget."

I was about to put the bottle down, when my sensitive nose smelt something off about the wine, it smelt like medicine, it couldn't be. "Sam, does this smell strange to you?" I asked him. He should know, Leah loved this brand and kept a couple bottles in her house. He walked over and took the bottle from me. I kept my eyes on Liza as he smelt it. "It's been drugged." He said confirming my suspicions.

I growled in anger at her. "So that's how you planned on getting me to sleep with you and I think this is how you got Jared to do the same." I was angry, I began reaching for her, without realizing it, but Sam stopped me just in time. I wanted her out of here now.

She sat there, her mouth moving but nothing came out, she was shaking, her eyes and mouth opened in fright, before we knew what she was doing she began running towards the front door, but in two steps I was in front of her, stopping her in her tracks, she turned to go in the opposite direction, then two things happened at once.

The front door opened and Jared with Paul following walked in. "What's going on?" Paul asked.

No one answered, I was staring from Liza's stomach to the floor, it seems her lying and conniving went beyond what we all thought. I heard a gasp and looked up, Bella was standing there in shock, looking at the same thing I was.