Chapter 49: Hope you like where I am going with this. Well, I have to leave for a month for work and I`m sorry but the updates won`t be coming as often. Thanks for all the lovely reviews from the last chapter. I`m sorry if I`m putting a bit more focus on other characters but it`s important for the story. (I love Kim and Jared.) Anyways, happy reading and I hope you enjoy reading.

Coming up next: Jacob and Jared give Sonia and Kim their silent support. Edward warns Sonia away from Bella. Utlapa`s force is drawing more negative energy to La Push. Sonia`s mom tells her a secret about her father.

"Hey Kim! Wait up! I`ll walk with you." I called after her, spotting her at the top of a steep road. I felt like Kate Bush running up that hill. Kim stopped and waited for me to catch up.

"Sure. It would be nice to have some company you know." She smiled sadly and stuffed her hands into her pockets.

We stomped our way through the mud and rain, knowing that it was an inevitability as to when Jared or Jacob, or both, would find us. What a sad and creepy thought right?

"I like your raincoat." I told her, trying to talk about something normal.

"Thanks...I bought it online." She looked down at the lilac coat, inspecting it.

"What shop?" I enquired farther, feeling silly at asking the question. But we needed to talk about something as mundane as clothes.

"Topshop. I think you would like it."

"Cool."

"Yeah."

We lapsed into silence. Kim kept on casting looks into the woods bordering the narrow road. If I was feeling the pull then she was too I supposed.

"I think they`re coming." I said.

"I know." She murmured, her chin tucked into her chest.

"Kim! Sonia!" I heard Jacob call from behind us. I stopped and turned around but Kim gave Jacob only one glance and kept on walking. I stood between the two, not knowing whether to follow Kim or go to Jacob.

"You okay?" Jacob asked, coming towards me, topless and wet.

"Yeah. Why wouldn`t I be?" I asked innocently. His eyes flickered towards Kim`s retreating figure.

"What are..." He stopped himself and thought for a second before continuing. I already knew what he was really going to say. "Where are you coming from?"

"Mr. McBride`s. I met Kim when she was taking a walk." I said loudly. Hoping that she could hear me.

"Kim!" Jared appeared out of the woods and strode towards her.

"Hey." She muttered, stopping hesitantly.

"Hey?" He repeated. I felt my stomach twist painfully at the thoughts of what Kim would be feeling at the moment. I started to walk slowly towards them with Jacob following me.

"They are okay Jared. They were just walking." Jacob told him.

"Yeah Jared. Just taking a walk. Is that okay?" Kim asked Jared with a fake sweetness. Jared`s face paled visibly.

"Kim..." I said. She looked ashamed of herself.

"Sorry Jared.." She whispered up at him. "I just...I don`t feel well."

"Getting some fresh air right?" He asked, giving me a penetrating glare. He knew that we were up to something.

"Yeah...Where`s Noah?" She asked.

"Emily looking after him. Do you want to keep on walking or do you want to go home?" He asked her.

"Get Noah and go home." She answered. Jared nodded and they walked ahead of me and Jacob.

"How was Mr. McBride today?" Jacob asked me after a couple of minutes.

"The usual. He seems get more and more meaner every weekend."

"Yeah? You know I can get you sent to someone nicer if you want." He offered.

"Nah. He`s nothing I can`t handle. I think he`s just lonely. Not used to people."

"If you say so. I can come over and scare him to be nicer maybe?" I laughed.

"No thanks. You`ll probably give him a heart attack..." I felt a terrible heartache as I thought of my nana. Jacob took my hand and walked in closer to me.

"What are you doing now?" He asked me.

"Going home. Having some lunch. Getting some homework done. And you?"

"I suppose I should do the same. You wanna do homework together?"

"Sure. My math grade has taken a hit since you stopped doing my homework for me." Jacob chuckled and squeezed my hand a bit.

"Sorry about that."

Jared stopped suddenly and turned towards us. Oh God what now?

"How the fuck can you act so fucking normal when you know that your imprint is hiding something important from you? What is it with this stupid fucking act you`ve got going on?" He snarled in Jacob`s face. Holy crap I so didn`t need this right now.

"Jared! Leave them alone!" Kim shouted at him. "It`s none of your business what they do."

"Like nothing is my business anymore right Kim?" She just gave him a blank stare that was a little unsettling and started walking again. Jacob and I gave each other a look.

"Kim! Don`t walk away from me like a little kid! TALK TO ME!"

"I`m going to get Noah."

"He`s well looked after at Emily`s. You don`t see her screwing Sam over do you? You would know that she would care enough to tell him what`s going on and not leave her son to run off on some stupid misguided adventure." He said nastily. Oh My God! He didn`t just go there did he? Kim flinched at his words like they were slaps to the face. Her face was a picture of pure shock and hurt before it turned into a mask of blazing fury.

"You really believe that? Huh? YOU REALLY FUCKING THINK THAT?" She yelled right into his face as her height would allow. Jared said nothing. He just looked unusually lost for words and dumbfounded. "You can`t even bother to deny it can you? I thought that you loved me enough to understand. To show a little trust in me but you can`t can you? You`re so arrogant that you think that you know best all the time. You have so little fate in me that you think I can`t take care of myself."

"No...Kim...I`m sorry I said that okay...just let`s go home and talk about this." He tried to hold her but she backed away from him. She was having none of it.

"You want your perfect imprint? You want your perfect little wife?" She reefed her engagement ring off her finger and pushed it into Jared`s hand. "Then why don`t you go ask Emily to marry you then if you think she will make a better mother and imprint then me." She said spitefully. Jared looked at the ring in his open hand silently, not moving. It was like watching the calm before the storm. Kim turned away from him and strode purposely up the road.

"Kim..." Jared whispered. Starting to shake. Jacob pushed me behind him roughly before crouching and getting ready to spring on Jared before he could take off after her.

"Get the hell outta here Sonia." Jacob yelled before he morphed in a blinding flash of speed and fur at the same time as Jared did. I watched in fear as Jacob wrestled Jared`s wolf into the woods. The growling was terrifying. I knew that Jacob was having a hard time keeping Jared in control, in check. If he tried to go after Kim like this... I ran. I ran after Kim but she was running faster. Damn that girl could move like lightning.

"Kim wait!" I hollered. "Please..." I panted out. She just ignored me and kept on going. I could only follow. Damn...did she really mean to break off her engagement? But what he said...that was hitting below the belt. To call her a bad mother, that was a cheap shot. So, she ran on with me hot on her heels. All the way to Emily`s without a backwards glance. Once she got there she barged inside and emerged several seconds later with Noah in his car seat and his baby bag flung over her shoulder. A panicky faced Emily followed her out of the house.

"Kim! What`s going on?" Kim didn`t answer, just walked on.

"Emily...don`t..." I came to a halt in front of her and crouched on the ground. I had the biggest cramp in my side.

"What happened to her?" Emily asked as she watched Kim place Noah securely in the back of Jared`s Honda then get in herself.

"She and Jared just had a fight." I replied as we watched Kim drive off.

"One helluva fight." Sam said from behind us. When did he get here? "She gave Jared back his ring." He informed Emily before giving me an angry look. What the hell? This wasn`t my fault.

"She what?" Emily gasped.

"She didn`t mean it. She was just angry." I defended her.

"Yeah? So is Jared. He doesn`t deserve this!" Sam growled.

"And Kim deserves being pushed around? Like her feelings don`t matter?" I challenged.

"Jared doesn`t push Kim around! He would do anything for her!" Emily said.

"So whatever game you and Kim are playing it stops right now! GOT IT!" Sam barked right at me.

"That`s all we are huh? Little girls playing at grown up games?" I gave him my best bitch face before walking off myself.

"Tell us what`s going on Sonia! Do you know what it`s doing to Jacob and Jared?"

"I know but they are just going to have to suffer it."

"That`s a horrible thing to say and to do. If you love Jacob you would tell him."

"You fucking hypocrite. Like you loved Leah? Like you told her what you had become?" Sam`s face reddened with rage. "You had a big fucking secret to keep didn`t you Sam?"

"That`s different? Leah isn`t my imprint."

"So what?" I snarled. "Did it mean you didn`t love her nonetheless. Or maybe you didn`t. Maybe you were glad to be shot of her." I knew I was pushing it but I couldn`t help myself. Sam had royally pissed me off.

"You fucking know nothing about me and Leah!" He whispered lowly, getting right in my face. I stood firm though. I wasn`t backing down.

"I know enough Sam. How she could still love you?...does that feel good? Still having her around and then going home to Emily?" I drawled sweetly. Sam looked like he wanted to smack me.

"Get the fuck outta here!" He said, taking a step back from me. "Fucking leave!"

"I`m going." I turned to Emily who was watching me with a cold expression. "Sorry Emily." And I left. So...add Emily and Sam to my list of people I need to apologize to. So where do I go now? To Kim? See if she`s okay? I started in the direction of her house. She lived only fifteen minutes from here walking anyway...or was it longer?

It took me a half hour but when I eventually did get there I found Kim packing some bags in her bedroom.

"Are you really leaving him?" I asked, sitting down in her bed.

"What else can I do? I gave him back the ring didn`t I?" She knelt on the floor and placed her head in her hands for a couple of seconds.

"Maybe you should wait until he comes back home? Talk to him first right?"

"That`s the smart thing to do but...I already called my dad to come and pick me up." And Kim`s dad sure as hell didn`t like Jared. Mr. Carrillo thought that Jared had fucked up Kim`s future.

"You love him Kim." I told her.

"I love him more than anything."

"Then don`t leave like this. When I broke up with Jacob...it was hell. And we didn`t have what you and Jared have. Just think it over."

"He won`t stop hounding me though. And I don`t think I`m strong enough to keep this from him any longer. If I have to look into his eyes and lie again I will die."

"Kim...this is just a mess. I`m sorry."

"You didn`t do anything Sonia so stop feeling sorry for yourself."

She stopped what she was doing as we heard male voices outside the house. I left the bedroom and went into the living room. Jared came through the door followed by Jacob and Leah. Kim appeared at the bedroom door and didn`t look at anyone.

"Can you all leave so I can talk to Kim alone." Jared growled. He cupped Kim`s face tenderly and looked at her. Begging her to give him that. "Please Kim..."

"Yes..." She whispered, still not looking at him. He breathed a sigh of relief as he led her into their bedroom and shut the door behind them.

"Come on...I don`t think they want us here." I said, walking outside.

"We need to stay in case Jared loses it again." Jacob told me in a carefully level voice. Was he angry at me too? I looked at Leah. She was watching me strangely but with no hostility. They must have heard what I said to Sam.

"He won`t will he?" I asked.

"No he won`t. He`s terrified of losing Kim over this." Leah began. "He has figured that it is better to have Kim in his life hiding something than pushing her away over it."

"He said some pretty mean things to her." I grumbled. Poor Kim has been on an emotional rollercoaster.

"He`s a douche." Leah said.

"He`s scared." Jacob corrected her. Leah just rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.

"She`s called her dad to come and collect her."

"We know. Jared is trying to convince her to stay before he gets here. Sounds like it`s not really working." Jacob said.

"Hey...stop listening."

"Can`t help it. Listen, I`ll take you home after this." Jacob put his arm around my shoulders.

"Kim`s dad is here." Leah said, turning her head in the direction of the road coming from the beach. Sure enough, Mr. Carrillo`s black work truck came into view and stopped about twenty feet away from us. He got out of the car with a face like thunder and bypassed us without a glance or a hello and went straight inside the house.

"Kim? Come on. Get your things." We could hear him order.

"She`s not going with you." Jared yelled. Then Noah started crying.

"She is my daughter! She called me to collect her." There was some more yelling that I tired really hard not to listen to.

Mr. Carrillo came out of the house a couple of seconds later carrying two of Kim`s bags and threw them into his truck. He lit a cigarette and waited. Kim came out a couple of minutes later with Noah. Jared didn`t follow her out. She came up to us. Her face was pale and tear stained.

"I`m going to stay with my parents for a couple of days." She said.

"I`ll come over and see you soon." I hastened to tell her. She needed support.

"Thanks...so..." She looked over at the house to where Jared was standing in the doorway. Her dad honked the horn angrily which made Kim jump. She took a couple of steps towards the car before looking back at Jared. Would she go or would she stay? Jared nodded at her and she left.

Jacob`s POV

'This is fucking bullshit.' Jared told me, as we were padding around the leaf litter on the forest floor. 'How the fuck are we supposed to find some cave that may or may not exist.'

'They are not going to tell us Jared! We just have to see if there is some truth to this because they are freaking out.'

'Why can`t they just tell us?' Jared wondered aloud for the millionth time.

'Sue and Grace has sworn them to secrecy. It must be something important.'

'I feel like I don`t know Kim anymore.' Jared said, so depressed. It was really awkward hearing those type of thoughts coming from him.

'Do you think it`s more than what`s going on right now?' I asked carefully. I could immediately feel Jared going defensive but he recognized the truth in my words.

'My mom thinks that Kim has post natal depression.'

'Really? What do you think?'

'I think she`s overwhelmed. I feel so guilty man! I knew I went too fast with her.'

'She didn`t do anything she didn`t want to dude.'

'Yeah but...Kim is sensitive...she doesn`t tell me everything.'

'Neither does Sonia.' I countered. Sonia...God knows what things I didn`t know about her.

'With Sonia what you see is what you get. The same with you Jake.' I let my mind wander back to Sonia and what we almost did last night...Ahhh shit! Why did I have to scare her before? I could still smell her sweet scent when she was turned on...

'Yeah...so...you get on my case when I think about Kim like that?'

'Do you really think there`s some sort of...thing...after them?'

'Now...I`m thinking that there is... It has gotten Kim scared enough.'

'Sonia too. For some reason they can`t tell us though. Do you think it effects us?'

'Maybe. We just don`t know do we?' Jared`s frustration was infectious. As much as I wanted to believe that Sonia knew what she was doing I couldn`t shake the feeling that my beautiful, precious girl was getting involved with something that was too big for her. My Sonia...my sweet little bluebird...if something happened to her and I failed to protect her then...

'I asked my dad if he remembered where Sonia was found. He said somewhere around here by Old man McBride.' No point in asking Sonia`s mom, she wouldn`t tell me. Kim couldn`t remember anything and if she could...

'She won`t say. When she had that first dream months ago...she said she got lost looking for her dog. So how far can a little girl walk into the woods?'

'It`s...' A noise caught both me and Jared off guard.

'Jingle...Jingle come back...' A little girls voice. What the hell? Jared`s heartbeat got unusually faster.

'That`s...Kim...' What? Kim was nineteen not... but Jared had already taken off. Crap...I felt his fear.

'Jingle come back...please...' The little girls voice called. Then we saw her...but...it can`t be...It was mini Kim. Those eyes...her face...it was her...Jared phased back behind a tree and but on his cutoffs at light speed before approaching the mini Kim.

"Kimi...hey..." He called out to her, crouching on the ground in front of her. But there was something wrong...she didn`t hear him or acknowledge him. She just kept on running as fast as her little legs could carry her. I phased back myself. This has gotten to a whole new level of strange.

"What was that?" I asked, freaked out. Jared followed little Kim as she ran away.

"Is it some sort of...memory? Some sort of imprint of what..."

"Listen!" I stopped him. I heard another voice this time...one that was scarily familiar. More little footsteps treading in the woods.

"Who are you?" I heard little Sonia`s voice ask. I ran... My imprint...my girl...what the hell is going on?

"Sonia!" I yelled. Jared had followed memory Kim to where ever she was going. Maybe she could lead me to little Sonia?

"Listen...See..." A bodiless voice whispered. A female voice. It took me a while to figure out that she was speaking Quileute. "Don`t be afraid." Jared and I locked eyes. He heard it too...it was talking to us.

"I don`t want to go in there." I heard little Sonia again. Then...then I found her...little Sonia...two long braids and denim dungaree`s...standing at the mouth of a tiny little opening in a jumble of moss covered boulders.

"Whose doggie is inside?" She asked, sitting down on her knees and peering inside.

"My doggie!" Memory Kim called, running over. But memory Sonia had already crawled inside the mouth of the little cave. "Hey wait!" Kim called, running to the cave as well and following Sonia inside.

Then the screaming started...Horrible gut wrenching screaming...that sound would haunt me for the rest of my life...my Sonia...then it stopped...

Jared and I were rooted to the spot. Staring at the mouth of the cave, covered with overgrowth. What was weird was that while the flora surrounding the cave was the usual lush green the area around the cave was dead, like anything that happened to grow there just died.

"What just happened Jake?" Jared asked, shaken, staring into the cave.

"I don`t know man..." I trained my ears, trying to pick up Sonia`s voice over at her house. I sighed in relief when I heard her talking to her mom about dinner.

"Something hurt my Kimi in there! Something dared put it`s had on my imprint!" Jared growled. I knew what he was feeling...and it was rage inducing.

"Do we tell them what we saw?" I asked unsure. I knew Sonia didn`t want me to know everything but...I can`t forget what had just happened.

"You don`t say anything." A voice said. Jared and I spun around. Old man McBride? How the fuck did he sneak up on us without us hearing?

"What are you doing here?" Jared demanded.

"Showing you why you need to leave this alone. Why you need to leave your women be." He said, pulling an old jumper over his bare chest.

"Who are you?" I asked, a little scared.

"Who I am is none of your concern. But I`m going to tell you some things and you better listen carefully."

I`m a bit eh with this chapter but I hope you will review and tell me what you think. Besos.