The Unclear Future

Chapter 3: The Park

As soon as I was in, Jacob started “her” up with a purr, and then started talking to the car like a baby.

“You’re so pretty, just listen to you snarling under the hood, you wanna go for a drive? Let’s go” and with that he shifted in reverse and hit the gas pedal and we flew backwards out of the garage. He spun us around with little effort and rocketed out of the forest lined driveway onto the highway.

We raced through town at blazing speed, way beyond the legal limit, but it didn’t bother me anymore. I was growing accustom to the blazing fast cars that cost a fortune and the ridiculous way my family drove them. We raced through town after town towards Seattle and Tacoma and I really was curious where we were heading, but after a little more than two hours, Jacob began to slow down and we past malls and movie theatres, and suddenly Jacob pulled into a parking lot to a small open field park.

It was a really good thing that it was a typical cloudy rainy Washington day, or Edward and I wouldn’t have been able to get out of the car. As we got out of the car, we looked around because it was a really odd place to come, but Jacob wanted us here so we came. Then suddenly, Jacob started laughing uncontrollably and it was really weird because Jacob was a really happy kid and sure he laughed but he was practically having a fit. I looked at Edward, wondering what we should do and he just shrugged his shoulders and we just waited until Jacob stopped laughing so he could tell us why we were here, and what the hale was so funny.

 Finally, Jacob stopped laughing and he just had this look of bewilderment on his face. “All of places, seriously, what’s the chances?” he said, almost to himself, but to us as well, but I had no idea what he meant by that. “Ok, I asked you both to come for a ride, because I wanted to talk to you in private, away from all types of ears, so the only way I could be sure it would be a private conservation and that we were alone was to hop into the car, and just drive to a random location. I swear, I never meant to end up here, but it is really ironic considering everything.”

“Umm, Jake, that doesn’t make much sense, are you saying you have been here before? Do you recognize this place?” I was smelling the air and trying to identify everything, who has been here, what this place was, but I didn’t recognize any of my family members, any of the wolfpack, none of my vampire friends, or Volturi and I shuddered as I thought the name, nor my human friends and family. This place had no connection to me that I was sure, but Jake seems to recognize it.

“Bella, do you remember back when you were still pregnant with Renesmee, the day Edward first heard her thoughts? It was like six hours or so before she made her dramatic entrance into the world, Edward made me leave? I left for a couple of hours and then came back and then the excitement started?” Edward sort of winced at the memory because of course he would remember, and I remembered bits and pieces of that day, but mostly it was hard, because it was a very dramatic day and that was the day the burning started, and that memory over rid most of the other memories from the days beforehand.

“I think so Jake, but that last human day is mostly dark mud for me, I mean I remember a lot of my human days, but that one is not really there, I think because it was right before the transformation and that pretty much overrides my other memories. Sorry Jacob, is it important?”

 “Well, Rosalie was all for the baby and could care less about you, and Edward could care less about the baby and was all about you, and all I wanted was for you to get better. So as much as I hated Edward, we finally on the same side as something until it all changed and it was like the ultimate betrayal. Suddenly, the morning she was born, he heard her thoughts and it was like this big revelation, and suddenly he went from hating the thing that was killing you to almost realizing that it was a baby and he suddenly was as madly in love with this thing as you were, and he wanted it was much as you did, even though it was killing you. It was the ultimate betrayal and I was so angry that I couldn’t think straight and so he threw me the keys to the car and told me to get out of there and clear my head. I was planning on smashing the car, but that was before I realized he gave me the vanquish and I couldn’t do it. The Volvo I could wreck, but a masterpiece such as the vanquish deserves respect. Did you do that on purpose? I have always wondered that?” he asked Edward.

 “No, I didn’t do that on purpose, at least in a conscious mind, I just want you and your hateful thoughts to leave so I could spend time with Bella and the baby. I just grabbed the first of my car keys that my hand came to. Maybe it was a subconscious movement knowing you would wreck my Volvo but not the Vanquish, but to be honest it didn’t matter in the moment if you wreck all of them. The cars are replaceable but those moments with Bella weren’t.” Edward answered honestly

 “That makes sense in a way, but anyways since you gave me the vanquish and it was the one car I couldn’t destroy, I at least tried to get into trouble, it seemed like a good idea at the time. I was doing like two hundred in thirty zones, blowing through red lights, and parking illegally across parking spots just asking for a ticket, or even better some police chase action. It would have been your problems not mine as it was your license plate. It seemed the best solution at the time, it got me away from where I couldn’t be, I drove an amazing car way too fast which was a thrill, and if I caused you trouble at the same time, then that was just a bonus. Anyway, I drove in a haze with no idea where I was as I was not in very good headspace at the time, and I ended up here at this park."

" I was actually looking for something, I don’t know if I wanted to imprint, or replace Bella, or just forget, but whatever I was looking for I thought that I might find it here. I met this girl, she was amazing and she was into cars, and we talked for a bit. She really helped, I wish I knew her name, but she was what convinced me that what I was looking for was back at the house. So I left and went back to your house, which is where you met me in the garage and asked as Ephraim’s grandson could you violate the treaty and turn Bella in order to save her life. I agreed, and almost as soon as I came, the disaster with the cup happened, and both Bella and the baby were in trouble. You and Rose had to rush Bella up to the office, and began to deliver the baby, and Rose went psycho with all the blood, so I had to kick her in the gut to get her to leave, which was a plus by the way, and went to help as best as I could.”

 “I hit major depression when I heard your heart stop and Edward had to do CPR, even with vampire venom I truly didn’t think you would make it bells so I just left. As I left the office and walked down stairs, I saw Rose holding the baby, that thing that killed Bella and I was filled with such hate, but then she opened her eyes and looked up at me. I felt like I got hit by a truck, all my hatred turned to protective glowing, and I wasn’t me anymore. Everything that I was no longer mattered as it belonged to her in that instant, and I felt like I could float but at the same time I was being held down to earth by something, and it wasn’t gravity, it was her. It was Renesmee, my universe, my life. Everything changed in that moment, when I had imprinted on her, and I just had to be near her and hold her, which of course didn’t go very well with Rose.”

“Then everything happened so fast, Bella finished the transformation and then nearly killed Seth when she found out about Renesmee and I. Renesmee was growing so fast, we had no idea what was happening and we were all afraid for her, and then the Volturi came, and we were all afraid for all of us. Afterwards, the Volturi left us in peace and we discovered Renesmee’s fate thanks to Nahuel, and life finally started to slow down and the Cullens were a peaceful happy family again.”

That was the longest speech I had ever heard Jacob make. He wasn’t exactly quiet but he wasn’t long winded either. There had to be a point, because he wouldn’t drive us all the way out here to the middle of nowhere just to reminisce old memories, which of course I perfectly recalled, even though they were twenty years ago. “Do you remember Bella?” Jacob asked me, and it was so sweet that it touched my still heart. Even after twenty years, I was still Bella to him so he had a hard time remembering that I was a vampire now and so I never forgot anything.

“Yes, Jacob, I do remember.” I said as I laughed.

“Sorry, Bells, I know I keep forgetting, but I wanted to catch you up so you would know what I was talking about, I promise there is a reason why I brought you out here, but you weren’t around for the next part of the conversation. That was just between Edward and myself” Jacob said sheepishly

Edward and Jacob talked and I didn’t know it? And Edward never told me, not after all these years; it’s been twenty years for god’s sake. Edward? What’s he talking about? Did you and Jacob talk and you didn’t tell me? I thought we didn’t keep secrets from each other? I gave Edward a dirty look, and then I looked back at Jacob. “Ok, Jake, Continue ...what did you and Edward talk about?”