We arrived at the back road dirt-track. Quite and secluded, nice, for whatever the hell was going on! I sat in the bed of the truck while Jacob and Bella took the bikes a bit away. Keeping my hands in my coat pockets I watched Jacob help Bella.
'You look scared.' Jacob joked.
'I'm not.' I rolled my eyes. I felt a flash of jealousy at how Jacob smiled and watched her. Wait?! What?! He's my childhood friend who I only recently saw again and she was a girl I made mud pies with. Why would I be jealous?
Because he's ours... the wolf snarled. Get a proper whiff of the girl. And I did just that and nearly choked.She's a leech's blood bag; we must find them and turn them to ashes. You know you want to. You deny it every day of your existence but I can feel that tiny wish in the back of your head. You wish to be strong, to kill without a second thought, like your brother, like Callum, like Sonia and your own father, To make the leeches beg for mercy and then to end them...
That's you NOT me! I snapped back mentally, most of the time Shakara was silent. But when she smelt any threatening beast to her or Pack it was a fully fledged war in my mind. Most people thought I was lucky that one of our greatest warriors deemed me a worthy vessel. So now I share my head with a Lupa knows how old warrior. Sure most of the time she gave me hints and my life within and outside the pack had improved unbelievably well but by the moon! She could nearly drive me insane!
'WOW. You alright?' Jacob's voice broke me out of my internal battle to see Bella with a demented look in her eyes. Like she'd seen a ghost and was looking for it again.
'I want to go again' and then she went. I walked up next to Jacob.
'Woo. Go Bella!' I yelled while Jacob looked at me if I was insane. 'Don't look at me. You made her the bike!' Jake shook his head at me and watched Bella worried. As we looked I could see her turning around as if to watch something behind her. She did this a couple of more times before losing control.
The bike skidded and she rolled into a rock. Ouch! That gotta hurt. Jake revved his bike.
'You coming or what?' He asked eyebrows raised, waiting for my answer. Nodding my head, I hopped on the back and he rode up to Bella.
'Oh no I'm good.' I heard Bella muttered. Then the smell of her blood hit me. I looked down at my hands were my veins started to darken. A telltale sign that I'm about to change. Now I know what you're thinking: I thought you only kill vampires, not that you eat humans! Truth, my wolf's trying to come out to protect whoever is injured, not to make them lunch. I took deep breathes to calm my wolf. I looked down to see my hands back to normal.
'Seriously Bells? I'm not home even one day and you already try to get yourself killed!' '
Bella left out a chuckle. Jacob gave me a you're-so-not-helping look.
'I wanna go again' she said trying to get past Jacob.
'No way! No more bikes.' Jacob looked half frantic. 'Awh, your head.' Bella touched her head'
'Ow,' she saw the blood on her hands. 'OMG, I'm so sorry.' I frowned and Jacob looked worried.
'Are you apologising for bleeding?'
'Yeah I guess I am.' She looked down at her hands, ashamed.
'It's just a little blood Bella.' I said rubbing her back. She gave me a small weak smile and leaned against my shoulder. Jacob decided to take off his shirt and started to daub the blood off Bella's face.
Bella started to watch Jacob.
'What you staring at?'
'You're sorta beautiful.' She murmured.
'How hard you hit your head?' We asked at the same time and laughed.
'I don't know.'
We all stood up, Jacob helped up Bella.
'Come on.'
I started school at the rez. Go Wolves! Yep how ironic?Quil welcomed me back like I'd never left. That explains why Sam's group or the protectors as they called themselves, I don't get it either, where shooting daggers at my back as I sat with Jake and Quil for lunch.
'Ick, how du eat this stuff?' I asked as I watched disgusted while Jake and Quil scarfed down the food like animals.
'We're growing boys, we need to eat!' Quil bellowed as he flexed his biceps trying to show off to one of the girls I only knew threw class. She was really nice and pretty. Her name's Kim.
'Yeah your right you do need to eat.' I turned to Kim like what-the-hell?-don't-encourage-him! 'But you don't need to eat like there's no tomorrow!' I smiled satisfied with her answer.
'Alright if you're not eating this,' He said gesturing to the plate of what was supposed to be mince, peas and spuds (Irish slang for potatoes!) but looked more like soup swimming around on a plate. 'Then what are you eating?' I smiled and pulled out the ham, chicken and stuffing sandwich out of my bag.
'Just this, Emily made it this morning for one of the guys but whoever asked for it never came in for it so now it's my lunch.' I said happily taking a bite out of it. I smirked while the two boys' mouths hung open and I think they drooled a little.
Later I got a call from Bella asking if I wanted to go see Face Punch with her, Jacob and a couple of her friends from Forks. I said yeah and then I thought well this will be fun.
