Bella Swan

There was nothing to do but pace. So that is what I did, I paced from the back of my house to the front and started the process all over again. I stopped a few times to eat and go to the bathroom, and then I resumed pacing. I was sick with worry, worry for my sister and Jacob. I felt useless, here I was safe in Texas while my family was fighting off a whole bunch of vampires. I even had some neighbours come over to welcome me to the town. I figured they were just curious about an eighteen year old pregnant woman being able to afford a house. About 5 hours after I started my pacing my phone Taylor gave me started to ring. I surged forward as fast I could.

I answered it and Taylor said anything before I could. "Hey Bella."

I breathed a sigh of relief. "I am so glad to hear your voice. I was so worried."

"Everyone is fine. It was a long one, but I don't think there was any casualties... on our side."

"You don't think?" I screamed into the phone. "How is that reassuring?"

"Calm down, I just called to let you know I was fine. I will call you later."

"Fine. Bye." I shut the phone.

"Knock knock, anybody home?" a voice boomed through the house.

"Caden?" I asked myself, walking towards the front of the house. Sure enough, there stood Caden in all his hot glory. "Hey, what are you doing here?"

He shrugged. "Told you I had family here."

I shook my head, "No, I meant here in my house."

He smiled sheepishly at me, "Thought I would stop by, see how you are doing."

"How thoughtful." I muttered. "Would you like something to drink?"

"Sure, or we could go for dinner?"

"Dinner?" I asked confused, had I really been pacing that long? "As friends, right?"

He smiled at me, "As friends, and as friends you can tell me what happened between you and your boyfriend, the last I seen you, you were happy."

"I was helping you rob a bank."

He shrugged and gave me a smirk. "You still looked happy."

"Sure, why not? Need to tell somebody."

"Awesome." He grabbed my coat and helped me down the stairs. "I know this great place you are going to love, but it is a little out of town. Do you mind?"

"No. I am starving though, so it better be good."

"It will be, trust me." He grinned at me as we pulled out of the driveway.

Turns out, the restaurant he took us too is the one his parents own. Not even dating the guy and he takes me to meet his parents. He denied it was like that, just that his mother was the best cook in the state. He wasn't wrong, the food was great and I ordered two helpings of the steak. After we ate, and I had desert, we decided to stay at the diner, he drank coffee while I drank some orange juice.

"Ready to spill?"

"It is kinda complicated." I started. "His tribe has this way of finding their soul mates, and sadly, I wasn't Jacob's. I love him, but one of these days, he was going to find his soul mate and then I would be heartbroken and a single mother. So I got scared and I left."

"How can they find their soul mates? Can they help me?"

I chuckled. "I am not sure how they do it. I never asked. I think it is only for the people on the reservation though."

Caden frowned, "How do you know your not is soul mate?"

"Because he is not mine." I uttered, pain laced through my voice.

"I'm sorry Bella." Caden grasped my hand in his and shivers went up my back. Why couldn't Caden be my soul mate? How would I even know who my soul mate is?

I gave him a watery smile. "Thanks. I know it was probably childish of me to run away, but I needed time to think, to figure out what I am going to do."

"What about the baby?"

"Well if the baby is a boy, I am suppose to give him to his father, and if it is a girl, I will be allowed to keep her."

"What are you hoping for?"

"A girl. I wouldn't be able to give up my baby Caden. It just isn't right. No mother should be able to do it."

"Some mothers don't do it for selfish reasons Bella."

"I know." I looked outside and found it dark. "I think I am tired, can you take me home please?"

"Of course." We left the restaurant after saying good night to his parents.

He dropped me off at him, promising to come see me tomorrow. I thanked him for dinner and went inside, collapsing onto my couch. My head going over our conversation. I knew how Jake and the other wolves imprinted, but how was I suppose to imprint? I wasn't apart of their pack, I wasn't apart of any pack and it's not like I could just go and ask another wolf. I sighed and decided to call Taylor, maybe she had an idea.

I dialled the number and waited. And waited. After the tenth ring, the phone was picked up. "Hello?"

"Sita?" I asked, surprised.

"Aunt Bella?" She squealed. "I miss you so much. Whose number did you call?"

"It's your mothers." I muttered. "Where is she?"

"She lied to the wolves? She knows where you are?"

"Sita, please, I really need to talk to Taylor."

"Fine. MOM!" Sita yelled loudly. I heard scuffling and some yelling and then Taylor. "Bella?"

"Hey sis, sorry about that. Hope I didn't get you into trouble."

"Sita should know better to think that I would stop talking to my own sister."

"Of course." I sighed. "I am not sure how to really ask you this, so I am just going to come out and say it. Do you know how I imprint?"

There was a long silence that followed, I almost thought she hung up. "What? Shouldn't you know the answer to that? I mean, you are the wolf."

I rolled my eyes. "Thanks anyway."

"Maybe you should try the internet? Look up how wolves find their mate or whatever," She suggested.

"Yeah thanks. I will talk later then. Bye" I shut the phone before she could answer. How was I suppose to look it up when all I had was this stupid burner phone? I had no internet and no computer. Looks like I have to go shopping tomorrow. I made my way up to bed, changed into my night gown, and crawled into bed.

The next morning, I awoke to a hunger I haven't felt in a long time. It was like being starved for a two weeks and then food was put in front of you. You eat so much, so fast and then you end up being sick because your stomach isn't used to being fed. I shook the wierd thoughts from my head and made my way downstairs. Poking through the cupboards and then the fridge and noticing I had nothing, I went back upstairs, changed into a sun dress, grabbed my wallet and decided to walk to the nearest diner.

"Bella!" I turned toward the voice and noticed Caden sitting in the back of the diner, eating breakfast.

"Hey." I greeted back.

"Mornin' darlin'. Sleep well?"

I nodded, and swiped a piece of toast of his plate. "It was great, I woke up ravenous." I chuckled nervously. "Noticed I didn't have any food and thought I would come here and eat before I went shopping."

"Sounds like fun, would you like come company?"

I was about to answer until Nancy, the cute teen waitress came up to the table and took my usual order. After she left, I turned back to Caden and smiled. "Sure, you can help me pick out a laptop."

His eyes widened a little. "A house, car and a laptop all in the same month. Are you loaded?"

I laughed. "Of course I am you idiot. You should be too, if I recall correctly."

He blushed. "Well, I paid off my school debt and then my ex found out I was loaded, convinced me to get married with her." My mouth fell open in shock. "We even did a prenup, advised by my lawyer, if ever cheated she would get nothing."

"That was smart. So your still married then?"

"No. I prenup also stated if I cheated, I would lose half of it."

"You didn't."

"No, of course not. She got one of her hot friends to seduce me. I told her no and kicked her out. After I fell asleep, she came back and tied me down.. and well you know the rest. What I didn't know is that she took pictures. I tried to deny it, but the judge said its hard to prove a girl raped a guy."

"That's horrible. So you lost half of what exactly?"

"Well after the wedding, the lawyers before and after the wedding, I only had about 200 thousand left."

"So you only have 100 grand left?"

"Less then that, actually. I am living with my parents, and working part time at the restaurant and casual time at the pharmacy."

"I'm sorry Caden, I didn't realize your girlfriend was such a gold digger."

"You done?" He asked, pointing to my empty plate and his.

I blushed and nodded. "Sure. Let's get out of here before I decided to eat them out of everything."

"So all of this is from our job we did?" He asked.

"No, my sister's husband is loaded. Like crazy rich, worth billions."

"Billions." He whistled. "So you are living off of them?"

"My sister helped me run away, so she gave me some money, she doesn't know I robbed a bank. If I need more, I have her atm card."

"Makes me wish I had a rich brother in law." He laughed. "I am twenty four and still living with my parents."

"You could always move in with me." I blurted without thinking. I felt my face flush.

"What?"

"You could be my roommate. God knows I have the room. Besides, I need someone around, especially so close to my due date."

Caden looked me up and down. "When is your due date?"

"In a couple of months."

"Your barely showing."

"Lucky me." I muttered.

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So we spent the day shopping, hanging out, getting to know each other better. He agreed to move in with me, I moved my stuff from upstairs and put them in the bedroom on the main floor, and he moved up stairs. Bringing all of his college days with him. He cooked us supper after he was all moved in and we stayed up watching tv and talking. My heart broke knowing I could never be with him. He was a great guy with a gorgeous body. I shook my head, and reminded myself I didn't know how real wolves imprinted yet. I turned my laptop on and decided to look it up now.

A couple hours later had me almost pulling my hair out in frustration, wolves finding their life long mate was a ridiculous fairy tale notion that doesn't exist in reality. According to these sites, in order for me to feel the pull I will have to be in wolf form. That would explain why I haven't felt anything since I stopped shifting. What would Caden do if I wolfed out in front of him, would he scream? Run? Or maybe I should tell him and then when he doesn't believe me, I will show him. This was one of those times I wished I could meet someone else like me. I sighed, shut my computer off and went to bed. Tomorrow I get to go for an ultrasound. Tomorrow is the moment of truth, would I have to give up my baby, or will I get to keep it? I fell into a fitful sleep. Dreams of Jake and my baby. I had a feeling I wasn't going to like the results.

A/N: I did some research into the whole wolves and mating thing, and it didn't really produce all that much, mostly that it was mainly the alpha's who mated or whatever. So I am just going to wing it because I can. I already know who I am getting Bella to imprint on, but I am still having trouble with Jake, I don't know if I should make him imprint on an outsider (Someone not from Forks or La Push) or if he should imprint on someone from another reservation. What do you guys think? I really appreciate your reviews, so please review, and if you have stories up I will do the same. Until next time...

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