FORKS, WASHINGTON.

I could not find time to sleep. In the travel back home to forks, I had time to have a nap that would last for several hours, not even then were we close to landing. Adonis had learn, quite effortlessly, to drive. though having no drivers licence, including the speed he drove at, Bella agreed to never let him the drivers seat again.

Felix, surprisingly enough, offered to chauffeur Me and Bella along with Adonis. but he was sure of himself to drive.

I could still remember Bella face, Felix on guard holding her down in place. It was first genuine laugh since I could recall having. Edward had shown jealousy, of how Adonis was being physical and showing apprehensive attitude at how he couldn't give me a single touch of my arm.

Crickets, and owls cooing, create an ambience of calmness with in the forest. Bella was laying down on my bed, her soft snores an indication of her sleeping. She had seen things that would traumatise a human. The stubborn resiliency she shows, is admirably one of the greatest quality when it came to her. Felix was currently at the Cullen's, having a conversation on the vegetarian dietary guideline, he would need to be dutifully aware about. And follow.

new restrictions of what he could feed on will definitely challenge him. Centuries of feeding, draining the life of humans would course be a vastly improved to better suit living among those in forks.

Adonis had offered to give his much anointed introduction, also too at the Cullen residences.

From my spot I stood in, watching constellation of stars and naming each, I exhale a breath. chilled air escapes. " you know I can sense when you are in a room, Edward." I didn't wish to wake Bella, using a lower tone to talk. " aren't you suppose to be back at your place? To settle back in? Just because you are back here, does not mean you automatically can enter the house again."

I realise how harsh I sound. It's relevant for this moment in time. I rotate my neck, facing Edward. He stands two feet apart where I was, hand on the window frame. " Malachi. Leaving you.. was single handedly defectively the worst thing I could have ever imagined and done. It.. prove to be the hardest choice I made, in one hundred years. No amount of apologising will be enough to say or prove just how despondent I made you. I know I can't take back what was said. My actions."

'He should be regretful.' Is my first inherent thought. I point to the place of my heart.

" I felt my heart crack in pieces. When you.. when you left, me. Edward. I could feel rejection, it was the most excruciating pain I have never once in my life felt." My head trembles, which is a result of me battling to keep the tears, which I fought back from falling. " that is something I want to forsake, from ever feeling again." My face is surely roseate, flushed in trying to maintain and ground myself.

Edward, despair and dejection across his eyes, palms each side of my jaw. " I will spend the rest of eternity reassuring that I will never leave your side, again. The only reason, why I left is because I was convinced you should live your life. Easy, free of the burden that I carry. with being that I could never give you the life you needed. No normalcy. That I was holding what life you could have from ever happening." he presses down his forehead on mine. I savour our propinquity, fluttering my eyes shut. then push down his fingers.

" I can't do this. Edward. You.. you hurt me. And I just need time. I can't accept you back in my life just instantaneously. Distance will be a good choice, for healing." taking the first step back, feels like reliving the evening Edward left.

I avoid giving in to his stare of plead, before he slouches both shoulders leaving out of window. watery smiling, I turn to Bella who was awakening from her slumber.

" I heard you speaking to Edward. That wasn't easy, to listen in on. I could feel the tension." Her voice is rasp, lethargic. yawning at the end of sentence. " go back to sleep, Belle." she shakes her head 'No'.

" I couldn't even if I wanted to. Alice, and her vision, is keeping my thoughts preoccupied. I can't stop thinking.. what if-" I know where this was leading to. I place my self down on the edge of her mattress. " You don't have to listen to Alice. Or worry about her vision, Bee. There are ways to fool the Volturi, keep them from knowing you won't be changing in to a vampire. To my point, they don't have the right to know everything." If there was anything I wish more was to have Bella keep her mortality. not regret the decision, to subject her life of being forever frozen in time.

" It is my choice, Kai. Something I would never repent, regret. If it means I can be close to you and don't have the anxiety of losing you."

That is my reasoning of concern. Moreover I couldn't invalidate her needs, or choices.

" what of Charlie? Your father. I know you would miss him. If there is someone I can think of, being affected by the loss of a child he can never see again." I was not wanting to exert guilt, just attempting to see a point of view where she would not be able to be close to Charlie again. Not without its difficulties.

" I am only giving out factors here, Bella."

She purses her mouth. Creating a thin line on her lips, I want to know what was her thought process behind her eyes. Unwrapping the duvet, Bella takes a pair of blue wash jeans.

" you are not the only one, that can have a say in what I want. I am sorry Malachi."

'I suppose it is time to go back and face the music. The Cullens.'

-

This was the first time being back at the house since Bella's birthday incident. Not being at all pleased, with standing at Bella's side and facing each of the Cullens. They each avoid meeting my gaze. Adonis, guarding and his inexorably strong potentiality being known, had his eyes locked on to Carlisle. unblinking. Edward takes his stance on the stairwell.

Felix had travel to Seattle, to feed. despite agreeing to begin feeding on animals, he was allowing himself to overindulge on one last occasion.

" before I begin asking what I want. What I am here about. I wish to speak of how much disappointment I am feeling, at each of you. For leaving, Malachi." Bella starts. " it's, it's shameful. really. I had never once seen Kai so tormented, heart broken. And you, Carlisle, allow the favouritism you share for Edward to oversee how ridiculous it was. to leave." her passion in how she talks made for Emmett, the usual one to joke, duck his head down in shame. Rosalie had not one word to speak.

Esme put a hand on Carlisle's arm. I hear the door below open, it was Felix returning. Sooner than expecting. " there is no excuse, for me to allow Edward to decide and have the family move. That much I now realise, it's my best apology I can give, that I say much regret and feel. Malachi, Bella." There was genuine remorse in how Carlisle talks, like he indeed didn't wish to leave forks.

" following that statement, I just want to convey how apologetic I am too. Kai- Malachi." Esme, crestfallen, says coming up. grasping my arm. authentic guilt in her kind, eyes of warmth. I couldn't remain incensed with her. I permit Esme to embrace me, and I return the motion. 'She reminds me of mom.'

Felix's posture is unsure, not knowing what to do. Emmett was sizing him up, arms flexing his muscles.

Then he sees Bella, visibly changing his attitude. " As you can all see." I take over speaking. " Felix and Bella, he.. has found his mate in her." His height overthrows, each of us separately in comparison.

He joins Bella, on the right side of herself.

" Hello. I wish to have my introduction on a newer day. but with the circumcisions that follow today, it was the lesser of two evils." I glance down taking full notice to Felix having one hand encasing the entirety of her waist. ' it is a pleasant surprise at how fast he is taken with bee. That reminds me I need to remind him of her still being intertwined and new to vampires.' I am not being acceptable to him straight off.

" Now. alice, I know that look. you are eager to speak on the matter bella wanted to come to the house for."

She grins, gracefully striding with a pep in her skip. taking Bella in her arms, and I have to remind Alice of Bella still being a human. To not suffocate her. " I already see you as a sister. A friend. we will be closest, but nothing would ever change the bond you and Ka- Malachi share. I could not possibly compete with him." She is right there. Jasper, keeping a safe separating distance and taking precaution, nods stoical.

" I vote yes. It will refrain from the relief of me wanting to kill you all the time."

'No morbidity in that. Note the sarcasm'.

Felix gave a stare of confusion. " Kill her? You tried killing her?".

'Oh no.'

-

An agreement was made. Bella would be a vampire. each of the Cullens, excluding Edward then Rosalie, vote yes for her. It was decided after graduating it would happen, in just two months. Two months. Time moves fast, the sun peaks behind the peak of trees. start of a new hour and day, dawn. Edward chose to drive me back to Charlie's. Felix had ask permission, from me of all people, to have the intention of courting Bella.

'I was the wrong person to enquire that declaration.'

Edward, all of a sudden, presses down on the break pedal. " Cullen what the- oh. Jacob." Jake was stood in the centre of the road, glare heated, goes down a path of grass that leads inside the forest. " he wishes to talk, with me." I exit the Volvo, so does edward. 'I need to have a word with his wolf ass.'

I was not impressed by the fact Jake had tried physically detaining Bella to enter the car. to Italy, basically 'prohibiting' her free will.

Jacob is on a fallen branch, moss and ferns encrusting the bark. " I can see Bella is not present or standing with your and Cullen. What? Did your bloodsucker have her killed? for knowing about him?" I had to scoff at his ridiculous claim.

" That is incorrect, Jacob. Bella is alive, and safe. Now I know that is not the conversation you want to have, you have something to say to me." Edward approaches Jacob. I kept my stare on Jake, then switching every second back to Edward. Being diplomatic." I want to speak first, if that is all right." Different birds begun their early morning song, the chirps filtering the brisk antipathy of right now.

" Thank you. thanks to you, Malachi was able to have a friend. To be there for him when I couldn't. what hate you are harbouring towards me is valid, as I was the cause of his hurt. however, I am grateful."

Jake casts a glance to where i stand. Leaning my arm on the tree. " but I am here, now. as for Ka- Malachi." I crane my head down, wanting to elude Edward's stare of devotion. in his melting honey eyes. " I want to keep his wish of giving time to heal. Come what may, I just cannot leave his side. and I need him to know that. I truely do."

'What am I hearing.' Edward, finish talking, comes to where I stand. " my turn to talk." Jacob gets off the stump, a silence falling over each of us as Edwards words sink in to understanding. " I am here about one key point in the treaty. That I want you to be remind to." I was no mind reader, nor did I need to have the capability Edward does. it was of a human being bitten, not killed. The truce is over. if it comes to vampire biting and transitioning any one.

" I have not forgotten." Edward states.

" Truth in saying, Jacob. It's entirely the choice of the person, girl or man. Not yours. If they want to be changed. on their own free will and terms, we cannot control what they choose."

there was no lenient authority or obligation that can stop free will. We are all the ones to make choices in life, even if are those that are against the greater good. Not Jake, not Edward. Nor I.

he, Edward, begins taking my arm. " Malachi and I are leaving now. Jacob." That doesn't sit well, for Jake. He lunges forward, in a swift motion I don't have the time to register.

" You don't get to talk for him."

before he is forcibly shoved off and goes ten feet in the air, morphing and phasing in to his wolf. His roar is ear piercing, landing on each of his four legs. Edward is ready for a fight and Jake-wolf too.

" HEY. STOP!"

I get in median point, and centre, of each apex predator. Now do I realise I was in the middle of a fight that could happen at each given second. Forceful, I put out a hand to Jacob.

" Stop. Jake. Edward. This is insanity. You have to see. I am NOT moving. If, and you tread real good here in this minute answering, you wish to continue this. You will go through me. either way." Jacob's furry chest heaves, still in anticipation for a kill. a fight. but in compliance, backs off. Edward too. I was too tired to be in an altercation, specifically one of supernatural conciliatory.

Defeated, Jacob turns and disappears in the depths of the forest. Away from Edward, and I. 'I just wish there was no difficulties when it came to my life.' There were problems ahead. That I know, it was indisputably translucent. Seemingly insurmountable. I just didn't know what would lay ahead for me. When it came to Jake and Edward.

I spin to face him. He is lost in thought.

" Malachi. I have a question. This one does not need a candid straight answer, because I know on where you are on your feelings for me." This is not portentous, or forbidding. Edward, benevolent and tender, stitches each of his eyebrows. " I remain resolutely committed to sure you I won't leave, again. in the future. Or ever. So this is my question." This was beginning to create nerves inside of my stomach. Until he ask the indisputable question I was never anticipating being ask.

" Will you marry me?".

-

JASMINE SPEAKS;
— new moon is completed. Wow I am on the third movie, already. I cannot even to begin to believe I am half along the way finish in completing Angel with a shotgun. My gosh.
Edward ask Malachi to marry him. Oh my goodness.