A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! I ONLY OWN THIS PLOT! I'm co-writing this with Elena Rain, so DON'T freak out if you see this on her page. Enjoy the story:

Jacob and Bella climb off the bike, and start wheeling it toward the garage as they begin talking. They had just had some wolfy fun with Jacob friends from his pack. She met everyone officially and things were good. Jacob and her were friends and they were finally beginning to be at a good point in their relationship.

"When did Leah...you know…" Bella asks Jacob seriously.

"Around when her dad died… Her brother, Seth, also phased. He's only fifteen. One of the youngest we've had. Sam keeps him home studying. But the kid's chomping at the bit. Wish it was Leah who'd stay Home."

"Don't be such a guy." Bella teased him playfully.

"It's not a chick thing. It's a love triangle thing. We all have to live the Leah- Sam- Emily pain-fest. Wolf telepathy, remember?" he tells her matter of factly.

"Sam ... dumped Leah for Emily?" she questioned him curiously.

"It wasn't like that. Sam hates himself for hurting Leah, but... Emily was The One." He replied dryly.

"Yeah, I guess sometimes it chooses you." She told him softly.

Jacob knows she's talking about Edward, but he won't go there. He doesn't want to talk about the bloodsucker now. It has been too much fun just being with her, he didn't want to ruin it now.

"It's more than some crush. Sam imprinted on Emily." Jacob told her seriously.

Bella looked at him curiously and grossed out as she asked "…Do I want to know what that is?"

Jacob laughed at her and replied dryly. "Just one more thing we have no control over. Even our damn soul mates are chosen for us. All thanks to your bloodsucking buddies."

"Come on, you can't blame this on them." Bella tried to convince him of the vampires being good.

Jacob argued back with her angrily. "I sure as hell can. If we weren't wolves, we wouldn't imprint. And we wouldn't be wolves if the damn vampires would stay away. But they keep coming back."

She paused and finally said"...And when they do, you change."

"We lose everything. Our lives, our futures n our free will- You know Quil imprinted on someone. Claire. She's two years old." Jacob told her once again.

"Um ... that's just creepy." Bella told him with a weird expression.

"You don't get it. There's nothing romantic about it. It's ...A spiritual thing. All the same, Quil won't even date anyone for two decades. At least until Claire catches up to him." He told her matter of factly.

"Still a little creepy?" Bella offered with a small smile.

Jacob laughs and moves into the garage grabbing a few things. She follows him still talking. He rolls the bike to its spot, in the corner, collecting dust. Jacob continues talking to her "It's like, when you see her..." As he finds his words, he slowly moves toward her. "…Everything changes. Suddenly, it's not gravity holding you to the planet anymore. It's her. He is standing very close to Bella now. "Nothing else matters? You would do anything - be anything just for her." He's looking into Bella's eyes.

She's afraid to ask, but she does anyway. "It sounds like you know the feeling."

"I do." He told her as his gaze never left hers.

"Have you ... imprinted on someone?" She asked him curiously.

He weights the loaded question - the truth versus what he wishes was the truth. She waits emotions conflicting. Finally, he turns away; regret in his voice "You'd know it if I had. I just have a direct line to same and Quil's thoughts." He sighed and turned away from her.

She's relieved and also very confused at her relief. She watches as he picks up a wrench, tightening something on his bike. "So for, you're still you."

"And you're still you."

"Yeah… Until after graduation…"

"Graduation?" Jacob wonders what she means with some anger in his voice.

"Jake, I told you it was going to happen…" Bella tried to reason with him but she knew it wouldn't happen.

"Not in a month. Not before you've - you've even lived! Before I could…" He abruptly throws his wrench across the garage. He watches as Bella flinches but it doesn't even faze him. "For a second - just a second I thought - but he's got his hooks in you so deep…" He growled out angrily as he stalked over to her.

"He didn't decide this; I did…" Bella tried desperately trying to calm him down, regretting ever saying anything about graduation.

"And now you're gonna be - that. They're not even alive - it makes me sick. Better you were really dead than one of them." Jacob spat out to her as he ran his hands through his hair trying to calm down.

Bella was shocked that her best friend would say something like that to her. "You did not just say that." She told him in disbelief.

He's too angry to take it back. She is giving up her entire life just to be killed and to live with someone dead because she claims to love him. It wasn't right and it wasn't fair. He was better for her then the bloodsucker was. He deserved her love and he would take good care of her. He would never have to leave because it wasn't safe. She wouldn't have to change for him. Everything would be normal, she wouldn't have to say goodbye to anyone she ever cared about. She wouldn't have to leave and he would make her happy. She was wrong, it all was and he wasn't going to have it.

She headed for the door but he grabs her arm roughly and pulls her as he sends her flying into the shelves against the wall. Everything comes crashing down around her and she is hurt badly. "Rather you be dead then one of them" he mocks as he looks down to her fallen body. There were a few pieces of glass thrown across her body and she was bleeding in various places. "Let's see if your bloodsucker still won't hurt you now" he taunted as he picked up her battered body and walked from the garage once more.

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