The Consequences {Jacob Black}

Chapter LX

"What about her?" Jake growled.

"Jake, I can't hear anything here and I want to know what's going on," I whispered, low enough that he would hear me, but hopefully Alice and Jasper wouldn't.

"You don't want anyone to know what's going on," I added.

"Maybe somewhere we could talk?" Jake asked louder. Alice and Jasper nodded, turning their back to Jake and headed towards the dining room, where the rest of the Cullens were staring at Edward and Bella. Jake didn't follow them. Instead, he turns around and grips my shoulders, lowering his eyes to mine and glaring at me.

"You stay behind me, Quil and Embry. You do not leave us, you got it?" I rolled my eyes. "I'm not kidding, Ryanne."

Quil and Embry appeared, flanking Jake and locking me between them. Jake was still right in front of me.

"Please just listen to me this time?" he begged. I nodded, seeing the desperation in his eyes. I fisted my hands in the back of his shirt, following right behind him. I was afraid of what I was about to hear. Holding him gave me something solid to hold on to. And however stupid it sounded, I could at least pretend that I could hold him back.

"Hey Em," I said, turning my head to look at Embry. He was looking at me with dead serious eyes.

"Don't get hurt?" He nodded. "And don't let either of my guys get hurt?" He nodded again. Embry was always the person to go to when you were worried about someone getting hurt.

He was kind of the father of the Pack. Sam may be the leader, but Embry was the one I could count on to make sure everyone came home alive. I didn't expect them to be unharmed, just alive and able to recover. Embry gave me a small smile just before he snarled, baring his teeth.

"What's going on?" Jake snapped. I winced behind him. I hated that voice.

"There is an army coming," Rosalie said. I had never heard her speak before.

"What does that have to do with Ryanne?" Quil asked. Now that he was imprint, he had more of understanding for why Jake acted the way he did. I know that Jake appreciated it.

"I saw her, Jacob," Alice spoke now. Alice could see me? Shit, my life was going to hell.

"It's not all that bad, Rye-Anne," Edward said.

"It's Ryanne. Ryanne, like R-Y-A-N. I know that it's spelled differently, and I'm a girl. And after all the shit I've done for you and your family, the least you can do is pronounce my name correctly!" I shouted at him. Jake growled at me in warning. I silenced immediately, clutching his shirt a little tighter.

"My apologies, Ryanne. It is the spelling that throws me off," Edward said.

"She was right; you are stupid," Quil chuckled. Jake growled louder. Quil and Embry both took a step closer to me. Because that was a good sign.

Just off of the two lane where the school bus used to stop, there was a little wooden schoolhouse with a yellow tin roof top. And one day it was raining on this world. She said have you ever really, really ever kissed a girl? I sang in my head, deciding that I wanted to focus on the happier moments of the night.

"The killings in Seattle have been the building of this newborn army," Alice continued as if we hadn't said anything. "They're after Bella."

Baby I'll be your huckleberry. You won't have to double dare me. If the storm get wild and scary, count on me to be right there. You're so extra ordinary, sweet like maraschino cherries. We'll grow up and we'll get married. I'm going to be your huckleberry.

"What does that have to do with Ryanne?"

"I saw the army coming after her." I rested my forehead against his back, trying to hide my shivering.