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“It’s just different. He’s very intense about you… and very careful. I feel like I don’t really understand your relationship. Like there’s some secret I’m missing.…”
“Why should she be frightened when she was never in danger?” “Better frightened than lied to.”
Abruptly, Jacob’s expression shifted, and he was staring at Edward with an odd, speculative expression. His eyes narrowed like he was trying to do a difficult math problem in his head. I felt Edward cringe.
“That’s funny,” Jacob said, laughing as he watched Edward’s face.
“What are you doing to him?” I demanded. “It’s nothing, Bella,” Edward told me quietly. “Jacob just has a good memory, that’s all.” Jacob grinned, and Edward winced again.
“How did you get here?” “I snuck out!” “Awesome!”
“Welcome back, Bella,” he said, grinning. And the way he said the words made it sound like welcome home.
He loves you more than you know. It terrifies him to be away from you.”
“We made it,” he shouted. “Not bad for a prison break, eh?” “Good thinking, Jake.” “I remembered what you said about the psychic leech not being about to predict what I’m going to do. I’m glad you didn’t think of this—she wouldn’t have let you go to school.”
It felt great to be free.
“It’s so hard to describe. It’s not like love at first sight, really. It’s more like… gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it’s not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her.… You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that’s a protector, or a lover, or a friend, or a brother.
“But I’ll never see anyone else, Bella. I only see you. Even when I close my eyes and try to see something else. Ask Quil or Embry. It drives them all crazy.”
“What do you mean by ‘keep an eye on things’?” “I mean that if you see a wolf running around your house, don’t shoot at it.”
“Bella,” he finally said—still chuckling—as he shut the door behind me, “you can’t push what you don’t have.”
“If there were any way for me to become human for you—no matter what the price was, I would pay it.”
“You. That’s what I’m keeping. You’ll always be my Bella, you’ll just be a little more durable.”
“Emmett and I were away hunting. Jasper shows up, covered in battle scars, towing this little freak”—he nudged Alice playfully—“who greets them all by name, knows everything about them, and wants to know which room she can move into.”
“I’m in love with you, Bella,” Jacob said in a strong, sure voice. “Bella, I love you. And I want you to pick me instead of him. I know you don’t feel that way, but I need the truth out there so that you know your options. I wouldn’t want a miscommunication to stand in our way.”
“The clouds I can handle. But I can’t fight with an eclipse.”
