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BPOV

Jacob and I haven't spoken since that night at the movies, it's been three weeks since then. I have been calling everyday after school but Billy keeps coming up with excuses as to why I can't speak with him. For the first week he told me that he was sick but I couldn't bring him soup because he was contagious. After that it was always he is busy doing something that requires his full attention. I decided that I would call tonight after school for the last time. If Billy told me that I could not speak with Jacob that was going to be my final straw. I didn't care what he said anymore, I had to see Jake for myself to find out what was going on.

School was boring, nothing different ever happen here. I couldn't wait for the day to end and once it did I was more nervous than I'd ever been. I knew what needed to be done today and that scared me. I was scared about the outcome of my decision. But there was no way I was backing down. I needed Jacob in my life and if Billy couldn't understand that than I was going down there and making both him and Jacob understand that.

After the final bell rang I jumped out of my desk and headed straight to my truck. I darted through the pouring rain. I didn't have to pretend to ignore anyone because no one bothered to talk to me anymore and I couldn't blame them. After he left I was a zombie for months, then Jacob started to heal me and I was talking to my friends again (apart from Jessica who thought I was nuts), now Jacob wasn't talking to me and I was starting to slowly fall back into my zombie state. So once in the truck I pulled out my cell phone and dialed the all too familiar number, listened to the all too familiar ringing, and heard the same tired voice answer the phone.

"Hello?" Billy said into the phone.

"Hello Billy, it's Bella. Can I speak to Jake please?" Knowing his answer was going to be no, instead what Billy said shocked me speechless.

"Sorry Bella, Jake is out with friends. But I'll tell him you called." Billy said and then the line went dead.

I just sat there in my truck running what he said over and over in my head. Jacob was out with friends, which meant that he was better. But..why hadn't he called me and let me know? Did I completely screw everything up that night at the movies so bad that Jacob no longer wanted me in his life? I couldn't believe that, he had promised never to hurt me, that he would never give up on me. Promises have been broken before I thought, so why did I find this so different? If I truly did ruin any chance at keeping Jacob in my life than I wanted to hear it from his mouth and his mouth alone. So, I started my truck, pulled out of the parking lot and headed to La Push.

The drive seemed to be over way too soon for my liking. I was beyond worried about the outcome of what I was about to do. But I couldn't back down now, I was not going to be the weak Bella I always was. I can do this, I can do this, I can do this I chanted over and over to myself. As I pulled into the Blacks driveway I thought I saw a shirtless figure walking towards Jakes garage. I looked closer and realized that figure was Jacob. But it was impossible, he had to have grown 4inches since I last saw him and his hair was cut short. Without stopping to think anymore I jumped out of my truck and started sprinting towards the backyard.

"Jacob" I yelled hoping he would hear me over the rain. He didn't turn around so I tried again, louder this time.

"JACOB. HEY JACOB" I knew he heard me that time because his footsteps wavered that time but he just kept on walking. It was then that I realized he was walking towards 4 large figures standing just outside the tree line. I didn't know for sure who they were but I had a feeling one of them was Sam Uley. They started towards Jacob.

I had finally caught up to him so he could no longer ignore me.

"Jake, what happen to you? Your hair?" I asked with pain evident in my voice. He turned around to face me and I gasped. His face which was always so bright and sunny had changed into something hard and distant. I had never seen Jacob look this way before. I didn't have much time to dwell on that because Jacob started talking.

"Bella..Bella go home. I can't be friends with you anymore" Jake said without emotion. I saw a flicker of pain and longing in his eyes but he shook himself and put his hard mask back on just as fast.

The four figures were now right behind Jacob and as I had figured one of them was none other than Sam Uley. I also knew one of them to be Embry but couldn't tell which one he was since other then Sam Uley they were all facing the ground not paying me any mind at all.

"Jacob, talk to me ALONE please?" I asked standing my ground. Jake turned his head the slightest bit as if he was asking Sam for permission. Sam didn't say anything but Jacob looked back at me and motioned with a head nod that it was okay. He started towards the woods making sure to keep himself at least 4 feet ahead of me. My mind kept wandering back to the night that he left me, I shook myself subconsciously to take my mind back to the here and now. I told myself that this was different, this was Jacob. I could handle what happens here no matter what the outcome be. Not the same, I can take it. Jacob stopped after we were about 6 feet in and I could still see his backyard. He turned to face me.

"Talk," he said.

"Jake I don't understand whats going on. I'm sorry about the movies, if this is about that I can..I can try to be something more Jacob I knew I was lying to myself by saying that but I couldn't lose him I just can't lose you. I need you Jacob. Your my best friend." I said as the tears started.

"No Bella, it's not.. you did nothing wrong. Believe me it's nothing you did. I'm..not good anymore. I used to be good before..but now..not anymore. You need to leave Bella." Jake finished.

"Who told you that your not good? Was it Sam? Jake don't listen to him you are good." I didn't know what to say. How could Jacob believe that he wasn't good.

"Sam didn't do anything" he said with anger. "I was wrong about him, he's just..trying to help" he said a little calmer.

"Then who Jake, I don't understand." I said as tears spilled from my eyes getting mixed in with the rain that soaked my face. I was angry, I was selfish and I would fight for Jacob because I needed him.

"I promised you that I wouldn't hurt you. This is me keeping my promise Bella, you need to go home now." he said.

"Tell me who to blame Jacob?" I said more forcefully than I thought possible.

"You're not going to like it" Jacob said. But I could tell he was angry. He turned away from me and clenched his teeth loud enough that I heard it. He turned back around to face me.

"If you want someone to blame then blame those leeches you love so much" he said. A shiver ran up his spine and he clenched and unclenched his fists. There was so much hatred laced in his voice that it didn't feel like Jacob to me.

"I...I don't know what you're talking about" I stumbled out. How did he know about them? I couldn't say anything else because that was the end for him. Jacob walked away from me and headed back to him cult. I was angry and hurt and crying more then I thought possible. I told myself I could take it but I was more confused now than ever. I didn't believe him. I knew that this had to be Sam Uleys doing and I was going to give him a piece of my mind. I ran out towards the 5 men and went straight up to Sam.

"What did you do to him?" I yelled in his face. Well as close to his face as possible considering he was about 6'5 and I was only 5'4. But he didn't flinch or show any sign of disturbance by my outburst.

"I have done nothing to him" he replied calmly. The man to his left seemed to be a little less cool and collected than the others. He started to shake a little. I tried to blow it off as him just being wet and cold. Well, I was wrong because within seconds he was inches from my face seething with anger.

"What did he tell you" the man said through clenched teeth not looking up from the ground.

"He's told me nothing. He isn't himself anymore, you all did this to him." I shouted putting all my anger into the reply. Then he did something I wasn't expecting at all. He laughed, a full hearty laugh. It sounded beautiful I thought to myself absently. What? Where did that come from? It was the last straw, my anger spiked and I stepped forward and slapped him. I put every ounce of pain, of hurt, and of anger behind it.

He looked up into my eyes then. His shaking increased and I didn't understand what was going on. He stood in front of me seething with anger, body shaking violently. He never took his eyes off mine though. He seemed to have conflicting emotions in his eyes. I saw the fury behind his shaking but I also saw something softer behind the anger that I just couldn't put my finger on.

"Paul calm down. Bella step back" Sam said. Did he really think that I was going to listen to him? After what he had done to Jacob. He must have realized I wasn't going to listen to him either because he stepped in front of me so as to be in between Paul and myself. Paul glanced sideways at Sam and growled? Then he turned his eyes right back to mine. His shaking increased even more and I saw ripples going up and down his arms. Sam seemed to tense a little and he shoved me back a couple feet. I stumbled a bit but kept myself upright still completely lost to what was going in front of me.

Paul didn't seem to like that very much. The rippling seemed to intensify. He was blurring around the edges? The shaking was so bad I thought he was going to explode. And he did. I was staring at Paul one second and then the next there was a Giant Silver wolf in his place. I couldn't think, couldn't speak, couldn't hear anything. I just stared at the Giant wolf while it growled loudly at me, then everything went black.