Chapter 15

I am so sorry for the long wait. I just never got the time to write. Please don't hate me. Ignore spelling and grammar mistakes. SM owns everything. I also need to clear that lilly does not know all about bella. She knows about wolves and imprinting but not bella's role in all this. The topic of bella, her friendship with jake, newborn battle etc., never came up.

LPOV

New day, more hours to spend with jake. With that thought, I woke up from my deep sleep. After my morning routine, I made my way to the kitchen. Mom and grandma were cooking. It was weird and amazing at the same time to see them cooking even when they didn't eat. It was all for me. Well most of the times it was all for me. Many times, jake ate breakfast with me, so he ate most of the food. But, today he had patrol with paul.

I was eating in peace, chuckling at my dad's antics to convince mom to go on hunting with him. They stood a few feet away from me. She refused to go on hunting with dad because she wanted at least one of them to be with me whenever jake visits. It was really funny to watch. Carlisle was at hospital, alice and jasper were sitting on the table with me talking among themselves. However, my peaceful and amusing breakfast was interrupted when all of my family members went rigid. I was confused. What is going on? Mom and dad took a step towards me and shielded me.

Suddenly, everyone relaxed. What the heck? Grandma is smiling. Alice is jumping up and down excitedly in jasper's arms who is smirking lightly. I finally asked 'What is going on?'

'Ready to meet our new family member?' mom said. New? Who? We do not have any new members in our family. Well since .. since bella. Wait bella and edward? They are here? I jumped off the chair I was sitting on in excitement. I was dying to meet edward and bella. Edward always understood me. He always knew what I wanted or what mischief I was planning due to his mind reading abilities. But he never stopped me. He enjoyed my antics, his words not mine. And, I was excited to see the girl who stole his heart.

Within few seconds, the front door opened and there stood the said couple, smiling at us. My family rushed to meet them, but mom and dad stayed behind, still hiding me behind them. 'Its okay' Edward assured. Only then, dad moved to greet them. I followed him with mom. I found myself in edward's arms soon. 'How are you munchkin?' he asked chuckling when he heard the protest in my mind.

'I am not that small' I groaned. 'Hi, I am lilly' I introduced myself to bella. 'Umm .. hi' she looked from me to edward then back to me. I never got the chance to see bella when she was human, so I had nothing to compare. But, she looked beautiful in all her vampire glory.

'She is my daughter, adopted of course' mom said to clear bella's confusion. Understanding filled her eyes, but she was still a bit confused. I knew what was her problem. Mom's almost hatred for humans along with my adoption was a bit confusing.

'We never got the chance to tell you about her. Rosalie adopted lilly when she was just a baby. Its a long story. We thought that we will tell you about lilly after your transformation. It was better for everyone that you met her once your thirst was in control.' Edward explained. Bella nodded in response and smiled at me.

But in the very next moment, she scrunched her nose in distaste. What? Do I stink? 'What is that?' she asked in disgust. My family looked a bit startled. Edward's face showed many emotions, shock, anger, confusion, protectiveness and then fear. His eyes flickered to me and then to the door.

A knock on the front door got my attention. I could see jake from the glass door so I smiled big. So, that's what that was about. Edward was reading our thoughts about jake and his imprinting on me. That explained his reaction. And, bella smelt him. Wolves smell bad according to my family. Bella probably never got the chance to see wolves before. Maybe this is the first time she is seeing a wolf. But she spent a lot of time with my family who already knew the wolf pack. Maybe she already knows about la push wolves.

Her cry of my boyfriend's name got my attention 'Jake'. Bella cried happily before flinging herself in his arms. I stood there in shock. What the fuck just happened? I stood there dumbfounded while bella started to talk up a storm. 'Jake, jacob. It is you. What are you doing here? I thought I was never going to see you again. I missed you so much. It was never the same without you. I need to talk to you about so many things' she rambled while jake's eyes were on me.

I narrowed my eyes at him. He knows bella and he never told me? And why bella is standing so close to him. She needs to back off. He is my boyfriend not hers. Why isn't he saying something? And if she doesn't take her hand off of jake's arm in the next second, I am going to punch her.

Suddenly, edward intervened and stopped bella's rambling. 'Love. Why don't you let jacob in? I mean properly.' he said. Bella nodded enthusiastically and dragged jacob, my jacob with arm with her in the living room. But jake stopped her in the mid way. 'um bella. You can let go of my arm.' he said.

I am sure if bella was a human still, she would have blushed. She smiled at him and dropped his arm. Jake turned to look at me and I raised an eyebrow in question. In just two strides, he was in front of me. 'I can explain' he told while looking at me with those devastating cute puppy dog eyes. I almost gave in but bella's voice rang in my ears.

'Explain what?' she asked. Jacob turned to answer her and got an arm around my shoulders. 'Bella. I am sure you already met lilly.' He took a deep breath before continuing 'She is my imprint.' He declared loudly.

Bella's eyes went wide with his words. Many emotions flickered across her face. I caught betrayal, hatred, pain and anger. I think jacob caught on that too because he stepped slightly in front of me. 'Its ... ummm good' bella ground out. I narrowed my eyes again at her answer. What is her problem?

Thankfully, esme and alice jumped in to break the awkward moment. They almost dragged edward and bella to the living room and started to ask many questions about their journey and how Alice didn't see them coming. I sat with mom, dad and jake on the couch. I half listened to their conversation while thinking about bella's relationship with my boyfriend. They obviously know each other very well. That is the only explanation for bella's greeting.

'So' bella suddenly asked me 'How did you two meet?'. Jake stiffened with her words.

'We met when jake came to discuss the treaty when we first came here.' I answered. A smile tugged on jake's lips but edward glared at him. 'We are going to have a long talk, jacob.' edward said. Oops, another family member for jacob to watch out for. This is going to be bad as edward can read minds. Bella looked at edward to know more but he just shook his head at her.

'I hope this is working out fine for you. It can be difficult at times to manage between wolves and vampires.' bella said after few moments. I frowned 'I think its pretty good' I said.

'That is great. But I know how difficult it can be. I have been there where you are now. I have known jake all my life. He is my sun.' Ok that stung. Even jacob flinched. What is she trying to say? Hers? Jake is not hers.

So I made my feelings clear on that fact. 'But he is MINE now'. Bella narrowed her eyes at me before smirking 'Is he?' Her smirk made me want to jump and rip her eyes out. I was still mulling over the ways to harm her when alice jumped in.

'Oh I almost forgot. We have a cabin for you guys. Its not far from here. Come on, let's go.' She dragged bella and edward with arms and out of the door. And, I turned towards jacob for some answers.