The Reborn Cullen (Jacob Black)

Loyalty

I look back and I see Bella looking at my eyes. I return to look forward, forcing myself to continue to walk.

Going home I helped them move their personal things back in. Edward took Bella home. They had stayed in Italy, getting their things together for the next two days, leaving on the second one. I had gone home early, to prepare the house. I had gone hunting, but my eyes were still red.

I wipe the blood off my face with a towel, throwing it in the garbage.

Emmett and Rosalie came in first. Emmett grinned striding towards me with his arms wide open. I run and hug him. "Hey kid. Missed me?" he laughed and I chuckled.

"Yeah. I did." I tease him and he let's go. He picks up his bags and begins to walk upstairs. Rosalie was still standing there. "Hi Rosalie." I give her a small wave.

She stares at me for a second. She comes and gives me a small hug before coldly saying "Don't be stupid and leave again." before going after Emmett.

Jasper came in, holding several bags but he smiled, greeting me "Glad to have you back Katherine." before walking past me and upstairs. I smile back and then Carlisle and Esme come in. Esme comes and hugs me and I hug back.

"I missed you." She told me and I saw Carlisle waiting for a hug too. She let's go and then Carlisle hugs me.

"We missed you." he corrected and Esme just smiled wider as she picked her bags up. "We are gonna unpack but we want to talk to you later." he says as he picks up his bags. I nod and Alice comes bouncing in with a handful of shopping bags.

"I got these in Italy, I never got to put them away. We have to have a celebratory shopping trip to Seattle too!" She squeals excitedly and I laugh as she runs upstairs.

Later on, a few hours later they had finished unpacking. I was playing Call of Duty against Emmett. He was winning. But we had tied so far, he won two games and I won two games.

The only sucky thing was we had to go at a human pace. Otherwise we broke controllers. We have a basket of new controllers just in case.

Mostly because I would get really angry and either crush the remote on accident or I moved to fast and it got jammed or fell apart. I'm much better but we have them just in case.

Emmett was ahead by one point and we had three minutes left. It was 38-39 and then we found each other, he had a shotgun and he missed so while he was reloading, I switched guns to a assault rifle and shot him repeatedly.

"Stop running away!" I say as we were down to 45 seconds of the game. He laughs and finally I grab switch back to a shotgun and shot him. "I win!" I hop up and dance. Emmett pushes me and I fall onto the bed, still laughing as he rolls his eyes.

Rosalie comes in and announces "Bella's here. She wants to talk to all of us." and I stop laughing. Bella was getting kind of annoying.

"You guys saw her like less than 12 hours ago. I saw her two days ago. What couldn't wait until tomorrow." I ask and Rosalie just shrugs. I toss the remote on the bed and follow her downstairs, Emmett following us both.

We get down there Edward standing on the stairs, Bella on the pad at the end of the stairs. We all stand before her, waiting for her to say what she wants to say. "You all know what I want and I know how much i'm asking for. The only thing I can just think of for it to be fair is to just vote." she explains and I freeze, Edward just shakes his head.

He murmurs "You don't know what you're talking about." and she turns around and looks at him.

"Shut up." she sighs quietly, exasperated with him. She turns back around and looks a bit happy but also sheepish, "Alice?" with a happy questioning voice.

Alice walks quickly towards her, pulling her into a hug as she says "I already think of you as my sister. Yes." Bella hugs her back and thanks her.

Then Jasper speaks up "I vote yes." he says quickly and Alice turns to look at him, as we all did. Then he gives a small smile and in his own way, teases her "It would be nice to not want to kill you all the time.". Alice smiles and Bella makes an agreeing noise.

"I'm sorry. I'm really sorry to both of you for how i've acted. And i'm really grateful that you're brave enough to go and save my brother." Rosalie speaks up and thanks her before whispering to Bella "But this isn't a life I would've chosen for myself. I wish there would've been someone there to vote no for me." she pauses, before adding "So no.".

Emmett breaks the silence, pushing his sleeves up and joining in "I vote hell yeah." he hugged Bella, picking her up and spinning her. "We can pick a fight with the Volturi's some other way." he encourages as he puts her down and backs away.

"I already consider you as part of the family." Esme tells her before nodding her approval, "Yes." and Carlisle lets go of his wife, walking to the end of the stairs to Edward.

"Why are you doing this to me? You know what this means." Edward whispers and I sigh, he was overly dramatic. Why does he want to live forever miserably without her when this is what she wants.

Carlisle sighs, crossing his arms slowly, "You've chosen not to live without her. Which leaves me no choice. I won't lose my son." he says and Edward looks away from him, Bella seemed to be upset.

But she turned to me, I was standing near the window, "Katherine?" she asked hopeful, wanting me to say yes as well. She stared at my eyes hesitantly.

"You don't need my vote. You have over half the family rooting for you. The best part is, I would say no. Edward is your mate and you don't care for what he wants. You go to his family for a vote in which they should get no say unless he actually says yes. He's the one who should choose. So I say no. Not that it changes anything." I tell her and she looks down. I walk past her, going upstairs to my room.