June 21st

I slam the truck door shut and clench the metal bat in my hand so tight, I'm sure I'm drawing blood.

Without even a glance at the girl that I had pretty much forced into the truck to come with me, I stalk into Sam's house unable to calm down.

I had seen all the bikes in the yard, including the one I helped him rebuild and knew without a doubt that he was there.

"Bella!" Emily says with a slightly forced smile when she comes out of the kitchen and sees me, that is until she notices the look on my face and the stranger behind me.

I walk right by her before she can ask what's going on.

She tolerates me and I hate her. Any woman that knowingly would go after a man that already had a girlfriend is untrustworthy to me.

By the sound of laughter, I have a good feeling that he is in the backyard with everyone else.

I stand on the porch, swallow the bile that has risen in my throat, looking at mostly his group of friends until my eyes stop on him.

"Bella? I didn't know that you were coming over today?" Sam says standing up and moving to meet me when I get to the bottom of the stairs.

"Get out of my way." I say roughly, hurt and hate clear in my tone.

He must have seen it in my eyes because he raised his hands in surrender and moved out of the way.

I make my way over to stand in front of him. In a few moments, it will be his pack and a handful of my friends.

"Hey, babe." Jacob says with his signature grin, standing. "What's up?"

Paul starts laughing uncontrollably.

I have a feeling that at least one person has noticed that I was holding a metal bat.

"Bella looks a little pissed, what you do, Baby Alpha?" Paul jokes using the term that he and Jared had come up with when Jake thought he should have been the one to take over the Pack when Billy had stepped down as Alpha, pointing at the bat and everyone starts laughing.

"Did you really think that I wouldn't find out?" I hiss out causing every single one of them to stop laughing and look at me in confusion.

Jacob looks around, confused and a little worried, "W..what are you talking about?" he stutters backing away.

"Your side bitch. You know that girl that you've been sleeping with while fucking me." I can feel the unshed tears in my eyes.

Jacob has the smarts to take another step back. "Bella, you know me. You know that I wouldn't cheat on you. I want you to be my woman, my wife, my imprint. I love only you."

"Really…? You want her to be your imprint?" the attractive girl in question says coming out of Sam's house, without even turning around, I knew that she was crying by the look of clear shame on his face.

I hated that word, imprint. Personally, I would have rather been called old lady.

When Sam had taken over the Pack, he had decided that calling their woman an imprint sounded better than old lady. He reasoned that it was what his grandfather had called his grandmother when he had been in the Pack. If it worked then it should be that way now.

"Everyone I would like you to meet Marissa. Jacob told her that she was going to be his imprint the instant I started a relationship with someone else." I hiss staring at him.

I could hear as Marissa fall to her knees, her sobs almost too much to bear.

She truly thought that what I told her was a lie.

"I had a feeling that you would try to deny everything, so I made her come with me so she could hear it for herself. Until this very moment, she thought I was being a lying, spiteful bitch since apparently you dumped me days before the two of you met, a couple of months ago." I hiss before swinging the bat at him, luckily hitting him upside the head hard enough to cause him to land on the ground holding his head.

"BELLA!" everyone screams and a few rush forward.

Quil grabs me when I raise the bat to hit him again. Embry pulls the bat out of my hand once I am trapped in Quil's arms.

"I told you!" Leah calls out with a sneer. "I knew that something was going on with him!"

Jacob sits up still holding his head, luckily there isn't any blood but it's clear that he is upset about being found out. "Bella, I love you..not her. She means nothing to me."

"That didn't stop you from sleeping with both of us! God.. did you even shower before you climbed into my bed after being in hers?!" I cry from Quil's hold.

I look around at everyone else.

Emily must have come out since she is sitting on the porch trying to comfort Marissa and looking at Jake in utter disdain.

Leah seems to be holding Seth back from going after Jacob.

Jared and Sam are just staring at Jacob in complete and utter shock.

Embry is looking at him with a look of pure disgust.

Even though Quil is holding me, I can feel him vibrating in anger.

Paul is the one that surprises me when he stalks away from where he was standing and punches Jacob, knocking him back down.

"I'm done..." I mutter pulling myself out of Quil's arms. Quil doesn't even bother to stop me, I had a feeling my cousin didn't care if I harmed Jacob again.

I can't do this any longer, I needed to have my say but right now Edward fucking Cullen looks like a saint compared to him.

"Bells…" Jacob says staring up at me.

"Stop…. you...you don't get to call me that ever again. You chose to cheat on me….instead of manning up and telling me that you wanted someone else... You cheated and lied. You know how I feel about liars. You went from her bed to mine and vice versa. I am thanking everything that is holy that I demanded you use condoms." I say before turning and all but run back to my truck, tears running down my face.

I fall to my knees at the truck and wrap my arms around my waist trying to hold myself together.

"Come on, Swan. Let's get you home." Paul says helping me to my feet.

He all but places me into my truck. He doesn't say a word as I sob the entire ride home.

Paul pulls into the driveway. "You going to be okay?"

"Four months…" I whispered finally looking at him.

"What?" he asks confusion clear on his face.

"He's been sleeping with the two of us for nearly four months. By the way she was talking, I have a feeling that she was a virgin too...she thought that none of you wanted to meet her. That because of me... all of you hated her. He told her about me..said that we broke up before he met her, that we were better as friends..and all of you didn't feel up meeting her yet since it was too soon..that you were loyal to me. That he was giving all of us time to get use to the fact that he was in a new relationship before he brought her around." I whimper.

"How did you even find out?" he asks placing a hand on my shoulder.

"I was getting some stuff for the house and she followed me into the store. She came up to me, sweetly asking that I get over them being together because she wanted to get to know all of you, that I was just a friend while she was his 'imprint'."

"Swan…" Paul said unsure.

"How could he claim to love me and sleep with both us? Lie to each of us?" I cry.

Paul pulls me into a hug, rubbing my back.

"What's going on here?" Charlie asks finding us, still in my truck, a little while later.

"Dad…" I whimper softly, raising my head.

I know it's a little kid move but at this moment all I want is for him to make things better.

Charlie doesn't say a word, just helps me out of the truck and into the house.

"Would you tell me why Bella is heartbroken? Again." Charlie sneers at Paul as he leaves me sitting on the couch to look at him.

I look at Paul with tears in my eyes and nod.

Taking a deep breath, "She found out that Jacob has been seeing another girl...that he's…."

"He's been sleeping with someone else at the same time he's been sleeping with my kid." Charlie seethes, his face slowly changing color.

"You knew?" I ask softly looking up at him.

"I know that he has spent the night and that you don't always stay with Leah when you have claimed to be. I am a cop but you're going to be twenty-one soon and you're not in high school anymore. I might not have liked the fact that Jake had joined up with the Pack without talking to you about what it would mean for your relationship but you were happy and that was all that mattered."

I nod and start crying again.

I hear Charlie all but push Paul out of the house.

I feel him sit down next to me, still feeling like a little kid I lay my head down on his lap and let him comfort me.

I must have fallen asleep or passed out because when I open my eyes the sun has disappeared and I have a blanket over me.

Listening, I could hear Charlie arguing with someone in the kitchen. I slowly get up and make my way there.

"I don't care…. No, Billy. It's done…. You tell your son that if he comes within ten feet of this house. I will shoot him and I will not miss." I hear him yell into the phone before slamming the receiver down.

"Dad?" I say softly joining him in the kitchen.

"Hey, kiddo. Sorry if I woke you." he says trying to calm down.

"Wasn't you." I say softly. "Billy?" I asks motioning to the phone.

"Yeah, seems he had no idea about Jacob's little friend until Embry brought him home today and told him what had happened. He actually said that I shouldn't be mad at the boy, that he couldn't help it. That it's normal behavior. That I should be glad that he got it out of his system now instead of later. Which is funny since I know that Sarah would have cut off his balls if he dared step out on her." he scoffs out turning to look outside.

"Yeah, couldn't help sleeping with both of us for months. Telling both of us lies." I seethe still pissed and sad.

Not sure if I wanted to cry, yell or hit something.

"Renee called. Don't be mad but I told her about all this, she wants you to give her a call. I ordered pizza before Billy called. If you want to take a shower to wake up before calling your mom..you have time." he tells me without turning around.

I nod and head upstairs to my room to grab something to change into. My eye catches my bulletin board as I grab a pair of sleep shorts and a 'Star Wars' tank top.

Slowly, like I did when Edward and I broke up, I took down all the photos that had just me and Jacob or Jacob by himself. I place them in the same box that the pictures of Edward and I are in. Leaving only group shots up on the board.

My eye caught the photo from the summer before Edward and I broke up. It was in the field and shockingly Jacob was there with us that day. While he had completely hated that I had been dating Edward, he actually liked the rest of them and their friends Laurent, Tori and James. I was all but in Rose's lap with her wrapped around me and Jasper had his arm through mine. I hated that I couldn't really show off these photos since Rose, Jasper, Alice and Emmett looked different than what everyone else was use to.

I sighed missing them once again.

I smiled softly looking at the shots I took of Jasper with Alice and Rose with Emmett.

I loved the smile on Jasper's face as he held onto Alice. Emmett had this look in his eye as if daring anyone to try to take Rose away from him. I hope that one of these days I am able to find a love like that.

Maybe I should just date older guys instead of younger ones or my own age. Maybe I will have a lesser chance of repeating my mistakes.

After an extremely long shower with another crying jag and eating, I finally pick up the phone to call Renee.

"Baby…." Renee says after the first ring.

She must have been waiting for me to call.

"Hi mom..ummm I hear that you know what happened today." I say softly as Charlie comes into the kitchen to grab a beer out of the fridge before leaving the room.

"Yeah...how did you find out?" she asks.

I can hear the 'tell me everything' in her voice.

"Marissa..the girl..she bumped into me in the store. Jacob had given her a song and dance that he had broken up with me a day or so before he even met her and all our friends didn't want to meet her until I gave the okay. She asked if getting to know her would make it easier... when she figured out the same time as me that he had gone from her bed to mine or from mine to hers afterwards…." I say breaking down slowly.

"Bella...honey..I can honestly say that I'm surprised Charlie isn't down in La Push hanging Jacob up by his toe nails. He has a lot more restraint than I give him credit for." Renee stated.

"I know what you mean. I did hit him with a baseball bat." I say, smiling at the memory of him falling to the ground.

"Phil says that a good use of a bat." Renee says with a laugh.

I can hear Phil in the background hoping I didn't damage the bat.

I smile slightly before wrapping an arm around my waist and leaning against the wall.

"Are you doing okay about the other thing?" she asks.

It takes me a moment to figure out that she is talking about finding out that Charlie wasn't my biological dad.

"Yeah...I'm not really mad anymore. At the time, you truly thought dad was my dad. I get why neither of you told me." I tell her ignoring the fact that my eyes are starting to water again.

It seems that Renee hadn't suspected that she had been pregnant when she met Charlie. Both of them had thought that I was born early.

During one of my hospital visits when I was younger, it was found out that Charlie wasn't my father. He hadn't cared. I was his daughter, DNA didn't matter to him. They had decided to wait until I was eighteen to tell me but had put it off after everything with Edward and the Cullens having to leave town when certain things were found out about Carlisle. I hadn't reacted well when they had told me but was slowly getting use to it.

"Good...You're still just taking those online classes, right?" she asks.

"Yeah, figured it would be easier since I'm not sure what my plan is." I say softly thankful for the change of subject.

"How would you feel about getting out of Forks and away from La Push for a couple months or perhaps longer? Before you ask I already talked with Charlie about it and he says whatever you decide, he will support."

"What are you talking about?" I ask turning to stare at Charlie who is now watching me with an unreadable expression on his face.

"Your great grandmother passed away, baby and left…. the two of us her house. I'm a little surprised that she left us anything since it's been years since I've seen the woman. Unfortunately, I can't get away right now to look at the house, pack up her belongings and clean it out. Phil and I were wondering if you would like to go there, clean the house out, make sure things are up to code and if you want, you can stay there while you try to figure things out."

"Dad's okay with this?" I ask as Charlie starts to nod.

"Sweetie, it was his idea. I told him about the house and he suggested this arrangement."

"When would you want me to be there?" I ask as Charlie stands and comes to stand with me, understanding clear on his face.

"As soon as you can. Make a road trip out of it. Use that time to think and heal." she says.

"I'll do it. Where is the house?" I respond, actually feeling better than I did a few hours ago.

"Charming. It's in California." Renee tells me.