"Now can we talk like civilized vampires?" Jake asked in a stern voice.

Well we can't. Cause I'm not a full vampire!!? I'm also part witch and Angel you douchebag!!!

"I heard that but I'm going to pretend I didn't. Tara, what's going on?" He asked.

I thought I told him to stop poking into my mind.

"Stop reading my mind, you creep!" I said. He looked annoyed and irritated at the sly smirk on my face.

"You look chubby. There's only so much tights can stretch." He said.

My smirk turned into a scowl as the meaning of his words sunk in. He was calling me fat.

"Are you calling me fat, you man whore?" I asked.

I was livid with anger. I was ready to beat the shit out of him.

"Depends on what your definition of chubby is." He said.

"You're impossible." I responded.

"You're improbable." He said.

"And you're a fu..." I said before I was interrupted by him.

"Language Ms. Morgenstern. Where are your manners?" He asked in a stern tone.

I felt like I was being scolded by a teacher. Damn him!!

I put on a smirk. "They died along with Mr. Ashe's fake chivalry." I responded.

"That's where you're wrong. Chivalry was never my thing." He responded.

That was it. I was out of witty comebacks. "You're an ass." I said.

"What a lame comeback. Even Elena could have come up with something better and that's saying something since she's an airhead." He said.

"Says the guy who's comeback is always a lame comeback." I said.

"And you're a spoilt brat, what's your point? We could do this all day and I would still have a better comeback each time. Just like my legendary pick up lines." He responded.

I huffed in anger. He was right. It seemed as though he was always right. Stupid son of a Queen.

I crossed my arms and huffed. We were both seated in his car. He had caught up with me since he was faster and had dragged me to his car.

And as usual we ended up bickering for half an hour. This was how we were before I was turned.

Old Jake and Tara with their incessant and meaningless bickering. We used to annoy the hell out of his parents. Especially his dad.

But his mom loved our bickering and laughed at us. I miss her. She taught me so much.

Moving on, I had expected Bella to cry or vomit due to the speed at which I was running but she didn't seem to care.

She looks like a kid who just went on her first rollercoaster without vomiting. God why can't my life be easier?

Instead I have to deal with this insensitive and narcissistic idiotic jerk who seems to have made it his life's mission to make my life a living hell.

"Stop insulting me. We have to talk. I'm serious. You need to explain why you have a baby" he said as he looked at Bella.

I sighed in defeat. He was right. We had to talk and settle our differences.

"We can talk later but I wanna introduce the newest member of my family. Meet Bella Morgenstern. She doesn't have a middle name...yet." He just gave me a flat look.

I guess it was time to stop being a coward and grow some balls... Not in a literal sense.

"Okay, so you know I'm not good with stuff like this but I think I've been a coward for far too long." I admitted.

"Of course you have. I have witnessed your cowardness first hand." Jake said as he stared at me.

He wouldn't be Jake if he hadn't said that now, would he??

"Not the point. Anyways it all started after I teleported out of school." I said and told him everything.

Sure he interrupted me and got annoyed every time I mentioned Damon's name and I was confused as to why.

I told him how I felt about the mates thing. I know Jake and I aren't the best of friends but he always gets me.

With him I don't have to lie. There are things he knows about me that my parents never knew about me.

I've never been able to lie to Jake before. It was like he saw beneath the facade I had put up. I felt safe telling him everything.

I told him how I wanted to start afresh. I told him how I wanted to give Bella a family. I told him everything and he understood me.

He didn't tell he was sorry like everyone else. He didn't try to fix me like I was a  broken record.

I told him everything except what I had began feeling for him. Because I believed it was just the mate.

And that with time it would disappear.

"Okay, I get you. You're right. I should've have allowed you to begin like this.

I'm not gonna tell you that you're gonna be okay because I can't see the future. But I'm gonna try to help you. I may be a douchebag, a jerk..."

I cut him off and began listing my own insults. I mean who wouldn't grab the opportunity?

"A wuss, an are, a pig, narcissistic, idiotic, insensitive..." I stopped as he glared at me.

I began cackling like a hyena on drugs. Bella giggled and laughed with me as Jake pouted. He looked so adorable yet stupid.

Eeew, Jake is not adorable!! What is happening to me?? Stupid mate bond!!

"The point is you know me. Most of my darkest secrets. But you also know that I don't do love. I never will but I do care about me.

And I'll help you. I'm going to make your time in school memorable. When we graduate you can decide to stay or leave. Okay, Tar?" He asked.

I could hear the honesty  in his voice. I felt my dead heart beat and swell. The hole had filled up and had left just a small slit.

No one could heal that wound. Why, you ask? Because no one can bring my parents back. But I felt less dead around him.

"So I'm gonna have to get your address and when was the last time you fed?" He asked me.

At the thought of blood, my fangs retracted on their own. I had began feeling the cravings for blood but I couldn't bring myself to feed on human blood.

I felt disgusted by the thought. I hadn't fed since that time in the music room. It was then that I realised how much I needed Jake.

Sure it was a new beginning but I didn't have to cut him out, now did I? But leaving their house meant no Jeremy.

I had barely spoken to him since i got here. I miss him a lot. Especially his mind blowing and heart bursting smile.

I could die looking at that smile and I'd be happy.

"My address is... And I haven't fed since I found we were mates." I said.

His jaw tightened as his eyebrows furrowed. "Tar, you can't keep being that irresponsible thirteen year old that I knew.

If you don't feed you'll turn week and once you taste blood it'll take a while till you stop. Here, drink now." He said.

He gave me his wrist. I could smell his chocolate filled blood. I used to love eating and taking long showers.

I loved writing stories, listening to music and obsessing over Disney Cartoons. Even Jake fell in love with Frozen because he thought Elsa was hot.

How ironic that she's an ice queen. But after I was dragged here I kinda stopped being me.

It might take a while but right now my main goal was to settle in and get used to this.

"I can't. Not in front of my baby." I said as I looked down at Bella. I stared at Jake and decided to ask him after he rolled his eyes at my response.

",Are you going to the Valentine's Day Ball tomorrow." I asked.

I wanted to see if he would mention something about it being my birthday but he didn't.

Guess he forgot. I said feeling disappointed.

"Of course I'm going. It's happening at my house." He said and gave me a dumb look.

I felt so stupid.

Damon had told me that the King and Queen were throwing a ball for Valentine's Day. I wasn't gonna go.

I just don't like balls with pink and red, "plastics" everywhere and meeting royalty.

Jake started the car and began driving towards my house. I loved the wild air coming from the opened car window and apparently so did Bella.

She looked so beautiful and happy. "Will you come with me to the ball?" Jake asked in a casual tone. It was like he was talking about the weather.

I was so shocked. I wanted to say yes. Then I cringed at the thought of me in a pink dress. I shook my head vigorously.

"Aww, come on! It's a new beginning as you said. Stop being a pussy. Elena and Braeden aren't gods so stop fearing them." He said.

I hadn't even thought about the..I had been here for three months and hadn't run into them. But I would meet them if I went to the ball so no.

I still shook my head. He glanced at me before focusing his attention back into the road. I couldn't answer.

I noticed that with every passing  minute he seemed to increase the speed of the car.

My heart was racing. In a few minutes he was driving like demons from hell were chasing Tara.

It was like a torture method meant to get me to talk to him and as much as I hate to admit this it was working.  I couldn't see anything as he zoomed past them faster than light.

"Okay!! I'll go. Now please slow down. You'll give me a heart attack." I screamed at him.

He laughed before slowing down. "So you'll come? Because it's gonna be boring and I need you to make sure I have fun. Also my parents miss you." he said.

I didn't want to go. And was that why he asked me to come? Because his parents miss me? Or he actually wanted my company? Why did I care?

"I don't have a dress. Who's going to watch Bella? You know how much I hate parties. I could use the day to learn about vampires rather than going to a ball." I complained.

"If you come, I'll even throw in a few jars of Nutella and bars of Kit Kat. I'll even get you a dress. Trust me. Please?" He said and put on an adorable face.

Hr didn't even have to say please. I had stopped listening at Kit Kat. Of course I was going if I would get free chocolate.

Also he was buying the dress for me. I only trusted him because if he gave me a horrible dress and his mom found out!!!

Let's just say Jake might not live to see the next day. Plus instead of having to spend hours reading a textbook, he could tell me everything as I ate chocolate.

I would also see Jeremy in a tuxedo. He would look so hot. And all I had to do was get dressed and wait for him.

After all, how bad could going to a ball on my seventeenth birthday be?? I would fish all the information out of Jake, grab the chocolate and teleport home.

I smiled at the thought and nodded at Jake who grinned. My life seems to be getting back in order.

No need to panic Tara. I'm gonna be okay!

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So what do you guys think about this chapter. What's gonna happen at the ball?

Will Tara meet Elena and Braeden? Will she really get the Kit Kat?

So I'm going somewhere next week and I might not be able to update next week so I'm gonna try to update three to four chapters this week to make up for next week.

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Until the next chapter...

-Daisy