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I took a deep breath as his eyes bore into mine. I looked away before trying to stand.

"Jake let me go." I said stiffly. He frowned before tightening his grip a little and pressing me closer to his chest. I had to be honest; I loved being close to him. I could spend the rest of forever in his warm arms. I closed my eyes before struggling in the attempt to get away again.

"Bells stop. I want to know because I love you." I froze immediately. That one line brought back a memory I had promised myself not to think about.

"Maria, stop! I want to know because I love you." he said that the night he proposed to me. He wrapped his bare arms around my waist and pressed his face into the side of my neck before I had agreed to spend the rest of my life with him.

A sob escaped my chest and I felt Jacob quickly wrap his arms around me and put my head under his chin.

"Sh. Bella it's okay. I'm here sweaty. Bells what's wrong? I don't like seeing you like this. I want to know but if you don't want to tell me enough to cry then I won't argue. I trust your judgment." He said while running his hands up and down my back. I took a fist full of his tight shirt and pressed myself as close to him and I could. I felt his chest rumble as he chuckled.

"Bells if you wanted to cuddle you could have just said so." He joked. I punched his chest lightly.

"Shut up dummy." I said with a small smile. He sighed.

"Bells?" he asked quietly.

"Hm?" I answered while thinking back to our first life time.

"I love you." he whispered.

"Jake.." I said, trying to pull away from him.

He looked down at me curiously.

"bells, you know you can tell me anything right?"

I shut my eyes closed and took a ragged breath. Was it worth it? Should I just tell him the whole thing? Maybe I won't have to deal with this alone anymore….

"I know everything that happened to Maria Jake." I said before I can regret it. I squeezed my eyes tighter, getting ready to tell him about our first life time without him knowing it.

I felt him stiffen beside me. His whole body went rigid. "wh..aa..ttt" he choked.

I stared into the sea, unwilling to look into his eyes.. "I'll tell you, only if you don't ask me how or what or why. Anything."

He gulped. "okay"

I took a deep breath and started from the part that the reading stopped.

Maria (pov)

Once we were done laughing our butts off, we started walking around without purpose. Gabriel said a real lame joke and me and randel hit him from both sides when a flash of dark woodsy brown ran through my vision.

She hurled herself at randel with such speed he that we barely had time to blink.

Randel snapped out of the shock and hugged her close to his chest, spinning her in circles and whispering in her ear.

Well I guess I should I tell you who she is.

Her name was Sophia. She was from the Makah tribe. Randel was patrolling the borders when he found her sitting by the river bank with a broken leg.

He brought her to me in the middle of the night.

Woke me up (from a VARY good dream by the way..) and pulled me out side. He was so anxious that he asked me if she was going to be All right every five seconds or so.

After that they met in secret every night by the river. Gabriel and I stood aside and watched him adore her more and more until he was head over heels for her. He spent every giving second with her. Well that was until her chief, her father found out. He was furious. He demanded to meet Randel and randel told him that nothing is more important to him then Sophia. That really softened the old geezer's heart. He let Randel and Sophia keep seeing each other and hadn't said a word about it to my father.

Sophia and I had instantly befriended each other. Both of us being daughters of the chief made us really close.

So now Randel or Sophia would sneak into the others village and just hang out.

She turned her forest green orbs in my direction and squealed.

I smiled blissfully and hugged her tight.

She hugged Gabriel as well and wrapped her arms around Randal's waist. "Wow guys. It has been TOO long."

Gabriel smiled back and said. "You're telling me? I'm the one who had to listen to Randel moaning about it for the past two weeks."

Sophia and I burst out laughing.

"Hay!" said Randel, faking self hurt. "I did not moan for two weeks!"

I cracked a grin. "Oh yes you did."

"That's it Maria, your dead meat!" he chased me around the forest with Sophia and Gabriel laughing in tow.

Eventually we ended up by the ocean.

Gabriel slung his arm around my shoulders and grinned down at me. "Happy birthday by the way."

I smiled. "So you did remember!"

Randel chuckled. "Of course we remembered! What kind of friends would we be if we didn't?"

I raised my eyebrow. "Lousy ones?" I suggested.

"You know that was rhetorical question right?" Soph said between laughs.

I grinned. "I know."

We spent the rest of mid day messing around until soph had to leave.

I went back to the tent a little before sunset to find Aleiah sitting crossed legged on her bed, trying (not successfully) to carve something out of some poor piece of wood.

The second I stepped in, she jumped up and hurled herself at me, hugging me until I had black spots dancing across my vision.

When she finally released me I staggered back and took a huge breath in.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARA!"

I laughed. "Thank you! But why are you so exited?" I grinned at her.

Her blissful smile turned into an wicked smirk.

"You don't know what this means do you?" she asked me. She was still smirking at me in that same evil grin.

I raised a curious eyebrow at her.

Her grin widened, if that was even possible. "Your seventeen now! Maria! That means you get to go the full moon ceremony tomorrow!"

I froze, my eyes widened. The full moon ceremony! The single ceremony that only the adults of the tribe where aloud to attend. absolutely no children. I forgot that now I'm aloud to go!

She giggled at my astonished face. Well, the fact that she has been going to that for two years doesn't mean she can laugh at me.

She smiled tenderly at me and plopped down, patting the floor next to her for me to sit. I sat down and looked at her pleadingly. She had to tell me what's going on there. This tension was killing me.

She saw my face and immediately understood.

"Mara there's nothing to be worried about. I promise you're going to have fun!"

I nodded slightly and gulped a little. She shook her head and slung her arm around my shoulders. "Mara, I'm going to be there with you for the whole time! You'll see! You will have fun!"

I looked at her, seeing the truth reflect in her eyes. She meant everything she said. That made me feel a bit better.

I nodded. "ok.. "

She beamed at me and jumped up, pulling me with her.

She went for the exit, totally forgetting her caving project.

"Where are we going?" I asked, annoyed with all this secrecy.

She didn't answer.

We walked across the village until we arrived to one of the tents at the outskirts, the ones right next to the forest. Suddenly Aleiah stopped by one of them.

A little girl, about six years old, with two long braids and a little deerskin dress, sat by the entrance and made mud piles.

Her head snapped up, and she looked at us with a sun-drenched grin. She jumped up and smiled up at us.

"heyyyyy I'm Merisel" she said giggling.

I couldn't help but warm up to this little girl. Just by talking to her I felt as if all my problems where going to get solved and everything will be ok. That and the fact that she was so darn adorable!

Aleiah knelt next to her and grinned back.

"I'm Aleiah. And this is Maria" she pointed behind her, at me and I smiled at Merisel, held up my hand and wiggled my fingers at her. "We are here to see your mother."

"I'll call her!" and with that Merisel dashed into the tent.

A few noises came out from there and Merisel emerged from inside tugging at her mother's skirt.

Her mother was a tall woman. Her hair was midnight black and spilled down her strong shoulders. Her face was beautiful, with plump lips, a strait nose and big black eyes.

She was wiping her hands with some cloth and was trying to calm Merisel down. And then she spotted Aleiah. She embraced her and said "well look who came for a visit! How are you sweetheart?"

Aleiah laughed. "I'm good Sarah, thank you. And you?"

"The same. You know.."

Aleiah nodded smiling and sobered up. "Did you finish the dresses I asked you about?" she said, glancing at me mischievously.

Sarah smiled and gestured for us to wait. She disappeared into the tent and came out holding a bundle wrapped in rough cloth.

She handed it to Aleiah, who thanked her and went back inside, saying that she had a lot of stuff to finish before tomorrow. When she said that she winked at me and went back inside, leaving me even more nervous than before.

"What are the dresses for?" I asked, eyeing the bundle.

She rolled her eyes. "I thought we just went over that!" she said.

I looked at her, confused.

We entered our tent and lay on our beds.

Just as I was falling asleep she yawned and said "for the ceremony silly. You'll need something to wear…"and then she fell asleep.

Jacob (pov)

My limbs where frozen, my body numb. It was hard to think, let alone move. Images ran across my eyes. Like someone cut like ten million movies and stuck them all together with duct tape. Pictures, just pictures, at first they where only scenery, a lake, a moon bathed forest, a dark beach, a white log… and then a group huddled over a fire laughing. And then they changed to faces.

A man with reddish brown skin and eyes glinting with wisdom, a tall women crouching over an open fire, a toddler with a mud on her face and pearl white teeth spread into a blissful grin, a boy holding up a rattle snake and half smirking half grimacing, a girl with cruel eyes and a snobby expression…

But her skin and eye color kept changing, from pale white and butterscotch to reddish brown and midnight black until she just became a shadow. And lastly a girl, so beautiful it hurt, with glossy black hair the color of a raven's wing, pearly white teeth, tan reddish skin and brown eyes. Two pools of endless brown, sweeter than melted chocolate. And she seemed familiar. So familiar. I felt my heart beat pick up

Thump-thump thump-thump… then with a final beat I felt the wind leave my lungs for a few seconds and found myself back in the old time tribe.

Bella (pov)

I didn't move my eyes from Jacobs face for even a second, Noting every twitch of a muscle. As I got deeper and deeper into the story his eyes went distant. His eyes got all big and- how can I explain it- clouded! That's it! They got clouded as if he was looking at something inside his head. I stopped talking when I saw the light in his eyes completely vanish. It was if his body was here…but his soul was somewhere else. Waves of shock trickled down my spine. No way! I chastised myself. There was no way! But the look on his face…. Could he be… no of course not! But maybe, possibly, was he…..remembering?