Edward pov
I had to see her again there was just something about her drew me to her, and I needed to know what. crouching on the branch outside her window I winced when the branch creaked faintly but fortunately the sound was too faint for a human to notice, leaning forwards I sucked in a lungful of her intoxicating scent and sighed in satisfaction I had missed that smell since she had left the hospital. freezing when I heard a faint rustle from inside her room I quickly retreated into the leaves. the window squeaked open and Bella stuck her head out and looked around, upon seeing no one she leaned forwards and slid out of the window balancing precariously on the window ledge. cringing I prepared to leap and save her should she fall but instead she stepped off the ledge landing lightly and softly, almost completely silently on the balls of her feet and took off into the woods.
gaping after her for a second I dropped from the tree and took off into the woods but I couldn't see her anywhere and about 10 metres into the tree line her scent vanished. I spun around searching and I swear I felt my un-beating heart jerk when I heard a faint rustle. turning to face the rustle I expected to see Bella and so prepared to explain why I was in the woods outside her house in the middle of the night when I caught just the barest glimpse of a huge animal with thick tawny fur, it was gone before I could see clearly what it was, although I immediately assumed it was one of the wolves. taking off after it I raced towards the creature needing to know what it was but the thing was damn fast, easily as fast as the other wolves and definitely about a similar size which just solidified my theory that it was one of the wolf shifters from the reservation. speeding up to my top speed I still couldn't catch up, and I never saw more than a flash of gold coloured fur before the animal would weave around a tree and I would lose sight of them. suddenly I stopped catching even glimpses of the fur and the woods were now completely silent except for my own breaths and footsteps. slowing to a walk and then finally a stop, I looked around assessing, searching for the creature.
A good hour later and still not a trace of the animal in either scent, sight or sound, I turned and started heading home. by the time I reached Bella's house I was worried that the creature had circled back and hurt Bella. when I reached her house I quickly scaled the tree and there she was sound asleep on her bed, with the window still wide open and the curtain flapping in the slight breeze. letting out a relieved sigh I turned to go home and nearly jumped out of my skin when I found Alice standing beside me grinning.
"uh hey Alice, what are you doing here?"
Grinning wider if that was possible she said "I saw you coming here and thought I would join you, so does she sleep?"
Rolling my eyes I gestured to the tree and said "see for yourself"
Bouncing up to the tree Alice scaled it with ease and was soon perched on the branch above my head she peered into Bella's bedroom window and after a few moments dropped down landing silently "yep she does sleep, cool so that must mean she can't be our kind but that still leaves the puzzle of finding out what she really is."
"yeah I have no idea how we are going to do that"
Looking startled Alice said "oooh what if you pretended to date her and gain her trust and then she might tell you, or you could find out from info gathered by being that close to her?"
"well that could work but what if she found out wouldn't that really hurt her?"
"well yeah but she won't find out so that doesn't matter"
"I guess" I wasn't really completely sure about this plan and felt it had a large potential to blow up in our faces but there was a very large part of me that was just jumping up and down for joy at the excuse to get close to her.
Bella pov
I was laying in my bed pretending to sleep as I listened to Edward greeting his sister outside my window. When Alice asked if I was sleeping and Edward told her to see for herself I slowed my breathing I little more and willed my heart beat to slow as well imitating all the symptoms of sleep. Once Alice was satisfied I was in fact asleep she jumped down from the tree outside my window and said something which both intrigued and disappointed me, "yep she does sleep, cool so that must mean she can't be our kind but that still leaves the puzzle of finding out what she really is." I was disappointed that they seemed to think we weren't the same kind which meant they probably wouldn't be able to answer my questions, I continued to listen as Edward and Alice spoke and with every sentence my blood ran colder.
"yeah I have no idea how we are going to do that"
"oooh what if you pretended to date her and gain her trust and then she might tell you, or you could find out from info gathered by being that close to her?" the fact Alice sounded so happy while plotting to deceive me nearly had me out of bed and down stair attacking her but I held it back and continued to listen.
"well that could work but what if she found out wouldn't that really hurt her?"
"well yeah but she won't find out so that doesn't matter"
"I guess"
Now knowing what they planned I swore to hate them and never tell them my secret as well as to never get close to Edward no matter how much the part of me which had already fallen for him protested. Rolling over I pretended to start waking up I listened as Edward and Alice departed and once they were gone I stood up and headed for my window, I had though a nice run would clear my mind but now it was more muddled than before, after Edward had chased me I had been full of conflicting emotions.
Deciding another run might help and hopefully it would tire me out enough to actually fall asleep, slipping out the window I dropped silently to the floor and took off into the trees, once out of sight I jumped high into the air and shifted mid jump landing on four paws I continued to run and turning I headed for the reservation determined to try and solve one mystery for now and that was of what billy meant when he said about phasing to Jacob.
About 10 minutes later I reached the boarder and crossed onto the reservation I had been running for less than a few minutes when I sensed others approaching, turning I found a suitable sized tree and quickly scaled it using my claws. Moments later two huge wolves entered the small clearing bellow me they turned slowly circling the clearing scenting the ground they seemed to have trouble tracking my scent which I was grateful for, I watched them and as I did I noticed tied around the wolves back legs were pairs of shorts. Now I was really confused why on earth did wolves have shorts tied to them, a thought truck me and I froze they could be shifters too, but when I shift my cloths shift with me so they couldn't be exactly like me but maybe they could answer some of my questions. My excitement getting the better of my I dropped from my tree top perch and bounded over to them the wolf I approached turned and obviously thought I was going to attack him as he growled at me frowning I stop a few feet from him and batted my paw very lightly across his face for being rude.
biting back a yelp i darted out of the way when he lunged at me, i glanced at the other wolf and saw him standing still staring into space with a distant expression on his face. mentally shrugging i missed the other wolfs tackle while absorbed in my thoughts which resulted in me ending up on my back with a huge grey wolf on top of me. getting right up in my face the grey wolf growled and i had to suppress the urge to roll my eyes when he got no reaction the wolf seemed annoyed and was about to go for my neck when a loud shout caught both his and my attention "Paul don't!" the grey wolf looked up at the approaching man and frowned slightly he seemed like a leader, perhaps if they were shifters this one was their leader. the grey wolf whose name appeared to be Paul straightened up slightly and then growled at me when i moved slightly trying to get the pressure of my back, laying on my back with wolf paws squashing my shoulders into the ground is not comfortable. "Paul get off she doesn't seem hostile just give her a chance"
Paul growled but slowly started to get off me so reaching up i very deliberately placed the pad of my paw on the end of his nose and gave it a gentle nudge growling again Paul finally got off and paced over to the man. rolling to my feet i shook the dirt out of my fur and scowled when i checked my back to see a very large amount of dirt still stuck to my fur, i shook again and the dirt was still there i tried to get at it with my paw but i couldn't really reach i heard someone chuckle and mutter "what is it doing?"
followed by "that is what 'attacked' Paul? its adorable"
blinking i realised i recognized that voice, turning i spotted him standing right there next to the man i had assumed was the leader as well as several other men who i had failed to hear approach. i vaguely heard someone mutter "jeez shes nearly as big as us, is that normal?" ignoring the comment i strolled right towards Jacob. he kept backing up but i just kept going getting closer and closer i could distantly hear the others shouting but i was focused intently on Jacob, i failed miserably to stifle my grin when Jacob backed straight into a tree, closing the gap a pressed my face into his bare chest and inhaled deeply. he smelt of the woods and musk yep same as before my gaze flickered over the sandy coloured wolf as well as the grey wolf still standing guard there was no way i was going anywhere near Paul so i turned and started towards the sandy coloured wolf who didn't seem to mind he just stood there tail drifting slowly side to side, when i reached him i pressed my nose into the fur on his shoulder and inhaled, yep same smell woods and musk, stepping back my gaze flicked from Jacob to the sandy wolf and back few times before i just sat down and watched the men to see what they would do.
the leader approached me slowly hand outstretched i wanted to roll my eyes but that is hard in this form. when he reached me he said "hello my name is Sam and i am the alpha of this pack, if you are a shifter could you shift or give us some kind of sign maybe?" standing up i heard Paul growl from his place slightly behind Sam, who turned and shot Paul a look when he was once again facing me i bent one of my front legs and stretched, giving the impression that im bowing, it took me forever to work out how to do that. Sam gaped at me as i straightened up and with that i turned to go, I figured I had made a good impression for now and that I would come back and reveal myself so I could ask my questions at a later date. "hey wait will you be back?"
turning to face Sam I concentrated and bobbed my head once in a brief nod before loping of into the woods. when I reached home I shifted and scrambled back into my room, flopping down onto my bed I closed my eyes and willed myself to sleep.
The sun landing on my face woke me and i glanced at the window realising I left the curtains and window wide open. Standing I shuffled over and closed the window and then made my way over to my wardrobe grabbing a pair of skinny jeans and a plain teal coloured vest before moving on to my vanity, I grabbed underwear and then made my way over to the bathroom. Dropping the clothes I had collected onto the counter I locked the bathroom door and striped before turning on the water, while the water was heating up I brushed my teeth. Putting my tooth brush down I tested the water, satisfied I hoped in and started washing my hair, scrubbing at my hair I breathed in the sweet scent of strawberries from my shampoo with a sigh I opened my eyes and finally woke up slightly finishing quickly I hopped out the shower and dried of before pulling on the clothes I had grabbed from my wardrobe. Scooping up my pj's and unlocking the door I exited the bathroom. Snorting at the cloud of steam that followed my exit I scrambled for my room stepping inside the room I quickly dumped my pj's on the bed and grabbed a cream scarf and my leather jacket before I bounded down the stairs to start on breakfast. Charlie wasn't up yet so I started making waffles and bacon and just generally cooking most of the breakfast related foods in the house, 20 minutes later Charlie stumbled down the stairs and was met by an astounding sight in the kitchen.
The table was covered in so much food it was a wonder the table hadn't broken, "uh morn'in Bella, are we expecting gests?"
Grinning slightly I shook my head and said "I was just really hungry this morning and cereal wasn't going to cut it, I hope you don't mind?"
Charlie shook his head looking slightly speechless "I don't mind at all this is amazing, so I guess we should eat it before it gets cold"
Grinning I nodded and the next few minutes passed in silence as we ate as soon as Charlie had to leave for work I sighed and started clearing plates finishing any dish that had food left in it. Once everything was clean and away I stretched and glanced at the clock, time to leave.
Strolling out the door I was nursing a serious case of over eating, my relaxed smile vanished when I saw the silver Volvo at the end of my drive.
sorry this chapter is a little short I just really wanted to leave it there and torcher you people with a nice cliff hanger, hopefully ill update soon no promises I've got exams soon. read and review xx