New Eclispe

4. Piecing It Together

I hadn’t seen Jake in over a week since that night at the movies. I left dozens of messages, only to never get any in return.

“It’s me again, if this is about the movie theatre I’m- I’m sorry, I just wanted to here your voice?” I say before hanging up.

“Was that Jake?” Charlie said as he walked in the kitchen.

“No. That was Jake’s voicemail” I reply agitated.

“Yeah Billy said he came down with the flu” he explained.

“I’ll be back” I say to Charlie as I kissed him on the cheek and reached for my coat, he was going to see me whether he was sick or not.

As I drove up to his house there he was walking, in the rain, shirtless. For someone with the flu he looked pretty good to me. I mentally slapped myself, this is not the time to think about him like that.

“Jake! Hey!” I yelled over the rain as he stopped to face me.

“You cut your hair!? And got a tattoo?” I observed as he turned to walk off again.

“I thought you were too sick to come outside! Or answer the phone when I called” I yell again, getting his attention.

“Fly” he said huskily.

“What happened to you?” I ask genuinely concerned.

“Fly go away”

“What?” I almost broke down in tears then and there, he said that he wouldn’t give up. “But you said-“

“I said I wouldn’t hurt you and this is me keeping my promise” he explained, his voice dripping in pain and sadness.

“Did Sam do this to you?” I ask remembering the day we saw them cliff diving, as I heard him and a group of boys call out for Jake.

“No Sam’s trying to help me! If you want someone to blame why don’t you go find those filthy blood suckers your sister loves” he spat. So he put two and two together about the pale faces, what did that have to do with him? I was going to ask him what he knew but he just took off in the fog with the rest of the boys as I remained in the rain shivering with my broken heart.

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Another two weeks passed, still no word from Jake or Bella or anyone besides Charlie.

I wished I could speak with Bella, the hole in my chest is only growing with each day I don’t speak to Jake, I needed my sister I thought to myself. The sound of pebbles scratching my window disturbed my thoughts.

“Fly” whispered a familiar voice. Jake.

“What are you doing here?” I ask coldly.

“Back up, I’m coming in” he replied happily as he climbed his way up the wall and into my room. “Hey” he replied as I took in the fact that a very handsome very shirtless Jacob Black was standing in my room.

“I thought you couldn’t talk to me?”

“Look I’m sorry” he began as he takes a few steps towards me as I take a few steps back, not allowing him to hurt me again. “I wish I could explain but I literally can’t.”

I’ve heard that excuse before, I wasn’t about to sit here and listen to it again.

“Fly wait” he says as he grabs a hold of my arm and pulls me into him as he leaned against the foot of my bed. “Remember that time when Bella was on the phone to you and I was helping her with her history assignment. The sto-“ he stammered.

“The story, about the cold ones” I inquire.

“Of course that’s the part you remember. Look just please try to remember. Please?” he whispers into me as he held me in his arms. He seemed vulnerable, something was going on and I had to get to the bottom of it.

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“Bella I’m scared” I cry out to her but she had her back facing me that is until Edward appeared next to her, his face covered in blood as he throws Bella’s cold dead body on the floor in front of me.

I screamed and ran off further into the woods but stopped in my track as soon as I saw the red beady eyes of one of the darker beasts from when Laurent tried to kill me, slowly I stepped backwards only to bump into none other than that light brown wolf with that twinkle in its eye that reminded me a lot of…

“Jacob”I breathed as I woke from my dream and charged straight over to his house.