Chapter 3

October…

Bella had become a zombie.

She would wake up, eat a piece of toast, go to school, come back from school, and stare out the window. She repeated this like a clock, scaring Charlie and Filene, she would sometimes talk to Filene, but it would consist of one word 'Yeah'. and the nights, good lord the night; Bella has nightmares, screaming at the top of her lungs, at first Filene was able to calm her down, but as it continued, it got worse.

Filene's ankle had healed fast and was back on her feet, trying to help Bella as much as she could.

Her nightmares were taking affected Filene the most, Charlie would find Filene sitting on a chair beside Bella's bed and looked as if she was waiting for the screams to rise. Charlie knew it wasn't healthy for a fifteen year old girl to be this, but he didn't know what to do, and that he decided what he must do, and that was to go fishing with Billy, and Harry while his daughters went to school.

"Is Bella still having nightmares?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, and her screams are getting worse, poor Filene has been trying to help her for the past week, but I don't think Filene can take it. I mean I am about to call Rene to take Bella this afternoon."

Billy nodded. "That is a very good idea, but what about Filene?"

"Oh, she is going to stay with me, she has made more friends here than she did when she lived with Rene, or so Rene says, but I think that's trash, Filene can make friend just by blinking her eyes and smiling her smile." Charlie said grinning.

Harry and Billy knew exactly what Charlie meant; that little girl, well now a young woman, had a smile that would brighten your day. Sort of like Jacob's smile, only nicer.

"Anyways, like I said, I just wish I could get Filene out of there so that she can concentrate on her homework and catching some shut eye." Charlie said as he took a sip of his beer. "Instead was staying up all night waiting for Bella to start screaming before I wake up."

Billy shrugged. "How about Filene come over and stay at my place? She's usually there anyways."

"Oh no, Bill, I don't want to trouble you with this." Charlie said shook his head.

"It's not really, anyways, I need her to teach me how to cook half of her recipes, this would be the perfect time." Billy said grinning.

Harry and Charlie laughed along with Billy.

"But still, Billy, she's a teenager, as is your son." Charlie pointed out. "No offence to Jake, I like him, but Filene is my baby girl."

Billy smiled. "I understand that Charlie, remember I had two girls before Jake was born, and I trust Jake, and besides, Jake is pinning after Bella so I don't think it is a problem."

Harry looked around in surprise. "Really? I thought he was with Filene, what with her being followed by the musketeers and all."

"No, no, Jake likes Filene as a friend, and wants to help out as much as he can; have her go places rather than be cooped up with the Cullens all the time." Billy explained, sounding a bit disappointed with his son to Charlie's confusion. "Anyways, Charlie, like you said, you need to get Filene away, even if she is helping Bella a little, it is not helping her own health."

It took Harry and Billy a while to convince Charlie to let his youngest daughter out of the house and stay with Billy and Jake. They succeeded, Filene would leave in the middle of November.

November 18th...

"Happy birthday Filene!" Mike, Eric, Jessica, and Angela shouted in unison as Filene walked into the lunchroom.

Filene's face went absolutely red as everyone in the lunchroom began to sing happy birthday to her. This morning, Charlie had finally given her the keys to her motorcycle, say now she was old enough to drive it now, that was how she got to school in the first place. Bella had left already when Filene woke up this morning, not even waking her up to say happy birthday.

Right now, Bella was sitting at where the Cullens usually sat at, staring out at the window as it rained outside. Filene sighed as she walked towards her friends, where Angela and Jessica hugged her, wishing her a happy birthday, Mike twirled her around, making Filene squeal and the others laugh and Eric and Tyler rubbed Filene's shoulder before talking about what she is gonna do on her birthday.

"Well." Filene said, not feeling so dizzy anymore. "Dad, Bella, and I are going over to a friend of my dad's place and we are have a cook out, and tomorrow I was wondering if you guys would go into Port Angeles, to like I don't know, go to that new café or go clubbing."

"The new café sound awesome Filene." Jessica told Filene.

Everyone else agreed. After school, it was Filene driving the truck, while Bella looked out the window in a daze. Filene's heart broke at the sight of her sister like this, but another side of her, the mean side; wanted to roll her eyes and shake her sister 'GET OVER IT!' she wanted to shout. Filene knew better though, to try and get Bella to do anything besides eat, or help Filene with her homework.

Bella didn't come with Charlie and Filene to the BBQ at Billy's place, saying she was too tired and still had to do things. Call her a bitch, but Filene knew for a fact that Bella had already finished her homework from school, and she wished she could call her out on it. Because what Bella is doing as Filene and Charlie leave, will be checking her email and sending emails to Alice's email that has been deleted, but she still sends them. What was wrong with tell her own sister what she was thinking or feeling? They did it all the time before the stupid as swipe Edward entered their life, but now, she barely says a word to Filene now.

She was bitter on the car ride, evening with Charlie trying to reassure her that her big sister was going to be alright. However, her mood brightened when Charlie finally made it to the driveway of Billy and Jake's home, and she laughed as Quil, Embry, and Jake came running from behind the house and towards the police car.

Charlie watched in amusement as all three boys took Filene out of the car and lifted her over their heads; Jake holding her shoulders, Quil holding her hips, and Embry holding her ankles. They sang happy birthday as they carried her off, Filene laughing all the way. This gave Charlie all the more reason to let Filene stay here at the house. He decided right there as he followed the laughter and talk, that it would be best for his youngest daughter to be away from Bella's… zombie like behavior.

Filene laughed as the three boys finally put her feet to the ground. "That was awesome!"

Quil, Embry and Jake laughed along with her as they walked to bonfire, who was there, made Filene stop. The M.O.S group were at the fire, frying what looked like five to six wieners on metal sticks. Filene turned her head to the boys behind her and raised an eyebrow.

"Dad invited them, along with a few others." Jake explained before pointing out a few others.

Filene blinked before shrugging and walked towards the bonfire. The M.O.S looked up from their talking and watched as the four of them came to them, Filene felt odd, and did a slight turn towards the picnic table where all the food was and began to put ketchup and mustard inside a hotdog bun. She almost jumped when a cooked wiener plopped into the bun, Filene looked up and saw Paul there, grinning mischievously down at her.

Mind/Body/hormones/heart: HEELLLLLLOOOOO BAD BOY!

Her face flushed in embarrassment at her reaction and thanked god she didn't say it out loud. "Thank you."

"No problem, happy birthday." he said before putting the cooked wieners into a container for the others before putting more wieners on the stick and walking back.

"Hey look Jake." Quil whispered. "Looks like you got competition."

"Shut up!" Jake growled.

Filene looked over in confusion as she now watched Quil and Jake tumble over each other, she walked to Embry side and handed him a hotdog.

"Do I want to know what is going on?" she wondered.

Embry took the hotdog and nodded thanks before speaking. "Nope."

A couple of minutes later, another car drove up to the house. Filene was settled down, talking with her gang on a bench, talking about how the hell did Justin Bieber -more like Justin Beaver- get to be famous.

"I heard that he just sang on youtube and the crowd loved him." Embry said. "Now everyone is singing on youtube."

Jake, Quil, and Filene looked over to him.

"What?" he asked.

"Dude, how do you know these things?" Quil asked.

Embry turned red and looked down at his sixth hamburger -I do not kid you- before answering. "Cindy, she kept on talking about it through the whole date."

Filene choked. "What! You went on a date and you never told me!"

All three showed the expression of 'oops' on their faces as they realized they never told Filene about the date Embry went on.

"It wasn't even a good one!" Embry explained.

However, Filene looked away, giving him the cold shoulder. The guys groaned.

"I hate it when she does this!" Quil grumbled.

The other two agreed, she ignored for two straight weeks, driving the boys insane and full of guilt.

"Jake!" a high pitched voice shouted.

All four turned and watched as a boy around fifteen years come running towards them. Filene was god smacked.

What is in the La Push waters? What is with all the hot guys?

From behind him, followed a pretty pissed off teenage girl who looked to rather be somewhere else. Filene knew of all the scandals of La Push thanks to Quil, and knew that the girl walking towards everyone was non other than Leah Clearwater, so, if that is her, the boy running towards them must be Seth.

"Hey Seth." Jake greeted.

Ten points to Gryffindor!

Seth smiled before his eyes landed on Filene, his eyes widened, and looked at Filene in awe. Filene raised an eyebrow at this while the M.O.S laughed and snorted in amusement at Seth's reaction to her. Filene rolled her eyes before smiling at Seth.

"Hey, I'm Filene, Filene Swan." she greeted, stretching her hand out to him.

Seth's face turned red as he took her hand into his and shook it. "S-Seth Clearwater."

Now it was Jake's and the others turn to snort at Seth. Poor guy turned red and looked down at his shoes.

Filene glared at her friends before grabbing Seth's hand and walk over to the picnic table. "Come on Seth, I'm craving more of them candy salmon your awesome dad has brought."

Billy watched in amusement as Filene continued to ignore her friends, and was making new friends with Seth. Before greeting Harry and Sue.

"So Seth, seen any good movies lately?" Filene asked the nervous boy beside her.

Seth looked thoughtful for a second. "I would have to say Iron Man II."

Filene shook her head. "I haven't seen tat yet, but the Iron Man I was awesome."

Seth grinned at her, making Filene want to glomp him and scream 'KAWAI!' but she restrained herself and smiled in return before they began to talk more about each other and many other things.

"Alright, it's time for presents!" Charlie shouted out as he, along with Harry, carried some presents towards Filene. Filene was surprised at the mounds of presents that were piling up before her.

"Holy schnitzels!" she exclaimed as the presents reached up.

Everyone around her laughed at her reaction.

"Okay, to do this safely, I'll start at the top." She joked before grabbing the one up top.

Filene read the card; To Filene, Have fun. Dad.

She opened it and found her bike keys, her eyes widened before turning to her dad. "Really, I can drive her now?"

Charlie nodded. "You're sixteen now, I think you can handle it now."

In a flash, Filene tackled her dad off the bench and to the ground. "Thank you!"

Everyone laughed, even Leah had a smirk on her face at the sight before her.

"Wow Charlie, a cop taken down by a sixteen year old girl, you're getting old." Harry joked.

"Speak for yourself." Charlie grunted while patting Filene on the back awkwardly.

A moments and they were back to sitting on the bench and Filene continued to open her presents. She got birthday cards from the Clearwater family, and the M.O.S gang -surprisingly-. From Quil she got a DS with CSI games included; something that the two of them had in common besides food. Embry got her a photograph of all four of them on Filene's first surfing lesson, utter failure, but they had fun. The other presents were from the family on Rene and Charlie's side of the family, money, a camera, and many other things. However there was one card or present she hadn't gotten from; the Black family.

Filene thanked everyone for the gifts, and forgiven Embry for not telling her about the date.

"But I will stick Lily up you butt if you leave me out again." she threatened.

Embry grinned. "Okay, okay, fine."

She smiled before hugging Embry. A throat was cleared and the two looked over to see Billy rolling his way over to them with a smile on his face, with Jake behind him, also smiling.

"Did you really think we wouldn't have bought something for your birthday did you?" Billy asked.

Filene laughed, and walked towards them while answering. "I had a feeling you were up to something."

"That we do." Jake said before grabbing her hand.

Filene felt her heart practically jump out of her chest, and her face flushing. Jake dragged her into the house, going through the kitchen, down the hallway, passed his bedroom, which he pointed out as they went by it, and stopped in front of a door.

"Filene." Jake said, smiling. "Happy birthday."

And with that he opened the door, Filene was shocked to say the least, the room looked almost like the room she had at her own home, and there was a present on the bed.

"This use to be Rachel's old room before she moved away, dad and I cleaned up a bit and your dad brough some of your things from your house while you were at school."

Filene's shock went into confusion, she looked over to Jake, tilting her head at him in confusion. Jake grinned before looking over his shoulder to where their fathers were standing a few feet away, Charlie sighed before walking a little closer to her.

"Filene, I though it would be best if you stayed somewhere else until Bella's… condition lessoned a little, you need better sleep." Charlie explained. "And don't lie, don't think I haven't got a call from your teacher about you passing out in the middle on class, more than usual."

Filene's protest that was about to leave her lips vanished. "So… I am going to be staying here?"

Charlie nodded.

HEAD/HEART/HORMONES/BODY/FILENE: HALLELUIAH!

Filene tried to not show her enthusiasm as she nodded. "Alright, I'll stay until Bella gets better."

Charlie grinned before pulling Filene into an awkward hug before letting go quickly. Filene turned to Billy with a huge smile on her face and hugged him.

"Thank you Billy, for letting me stay." she said.

"Now don't you pay any mind to it." Billy said. "but, I will be expect a lot of your home cook meals from now on."

Filene laughed. "So that's why you'll let me stay?"

"Only half of the reason." Billy replied, grinning.

"Come on Filene." Quil said coming from out of no where and dragging her into her new room. "I wanna see what Jake got you, he kept it hidden from the rest of us!"

"If I showed you what I got for her, you would have blabbed it out to her the instant you saw her." Jake told his friend.

"Probably." Both Embry and Filene replied.

Quil humped before grabbing the present and began tearing into it.

"Hey! That's mine to tear!" Filene shouted diving after Quil and tackle him on the bed. "Gimme!"

"Never!" Quil shouted as he tucked the present under him.

Jake and Embry jumped onto the bed as well and help Filene to give up the present. When Seth came to say goodbye, he found Filene on top of Quil's back, with her legs wrapped around his waist while tickling him, Jake was hold Quil down a bit and Embry was trying to get the present.

"This looks so wrong." Seth said out loud.

Everyone stopped and looked to the door. All four faces turned red, for some of the others were behind him; Paul, Sam, Jared, Sue, Charlie, Billy, and Harry. They were watching them with either amusement, or an raised eyebrow. Filene recovered first and took the present from under Quil and tear the rest of the wrappings. She gasped in surprise and smiled largely.

"Doyle!" she cried out, hugging the black stuffed wolf.

This seemed to have caught everyone's attention, particularly Sam's attention. Jake looked at her with a strange look on his face.

"Doyle?" he asked.

Filene felt embarrassed and stuttered. "Uh, I, ah, it looks like a wolf/dog my next-door neighbour in Phoenix, he was pitch black, just like this one."

That seemed to satisfy everyone's curiosity, Filene sighed in relief before smiling down at the black wolf and hugged it close to her before looking over to Jake whom was lying on his stomach on her bed.

"Thank you Jake, I love it." she said before hugging him.

Jake used one arm to hug her back. "Anything to see you smile like that is worth it."

Filene felt her heart flutter, and her smile grew larger. What she didn't know was that Embry, Quil and the other spotted it, and the other who knew the truth, felt bad for Filene. Billy on the other hand, was not, he was not going to let Filene give up, besides, she has better instincts than her big sister… and he liked her better.

Thankfully, with her motorcycle, she didn't have to switch schools. She just had to wake up early, but she was alright with that, as long as she still got to see Angela and the rest, and keep an eye on Bella.

Later that night, she slept for the first time in months at the Black's house. Filene opened her eyes, and she didn't know why; she was having an awesome dream, the dream of when she fought with Victoria. When all of the sudden, she was awoken by something, she looked out into the night through her window, she smiled.

Doyle, Frost, and Gaelin were standing at the edge of the forest looking straight at her window. Filene jumped a little on the bed before going over and putting some pants on -what with her sleeping in only a t-shirt and her underwear-, grabbed Lily and quietly went through her window and ran jogged slowly towards them.

Gaelin ran towards her in excitement while the other two watched on. Filene wrapped her arms around Gaelin, smiling into his fur.

"I missed you." she whispered.

And through the night the four of them ran through the forest, helping Filene get acquainted with the new territory. This was the best gift she voted.

December…

Filene shared Christmas eve with Charlie and Bella, whom doesn't seem to have notice Filene's absence, which broke Filene's heart. She went as far as lying about going to the washroom, instead went into Bella's room and sneaked a peek at her sent emails to Alice.

Why won't she talk to me? Filene wondered sadly as she drove her motorcycle out of Forks and towards La Push.

She shared Christmas with the Black family, cooking the dinner and watching Jake cut the turkey for the first time was hilarious.

January…

Bella doesn't even look at Filene anymore, not even respond to her greetings. Jessica was starting to dislike Bella for what she was doing to Filene, along with Eric, Angela didn't like how Bella was dealing with the Cullens gone, but she still felt sorry for her, and Mike, well, he didn't like to see Filene look sad.

Jake and the gang were there to cheer her up though, and the wolves continued to visit her in the night. So Filene was making by slowly, she missed Bella, a lot, and she hopes Bella will be okay soon.

February 13th...

Filene was with Quil when she got the call from Jessica.

"Bella did what!" Filene screamed into her cell phone.

"She invited me to go see the movies, afterward she tried to join these guys with motorcycles, and almost went on a ride with one of them!" Jessica panicked.

After calming Jessica down with a promise of shopping, she hanged up and got up. Quil saw the look on her face, whatever Bella did, she was going to have a very pissed off Filene chewing her ass, he almost felt sorry for Bella.

A half an hour later; Bella found herself shoved into a chair by a furious Filene.

"What the fuck were you thinking Bella!" Filene practically shouted. "Have you seriously gone suicidal? And what is worse you wonder? I had to find out the news from Jessica!"

"I'm sorry-"

"Sorry is not going to let you get away with what you did Bella!" Filene interrupted.

Bella looked down at her hands on her lap, feeling her lip quiver.

"That is it Bella, this has gone too far!" Filene shouted. "I have given you space, to get over him, but you are getting out of hand, he was just a guy Bells, that's it-"

"He was not just a guy Filene!" Bella shouted back. "He was my life."

"So was Brad, Kurt, Finn, Ryan, Taylor, and Reid." Filene said. "All five guys, who I thought were my life, left me. For you."

Bella felt shocked, she looked up at her sister, Filene never told her about why they broke up with her.

"That's right Bells, all five." Filene repeated. "But, do you see me becoming suicidal? Sure I cried, I ate ice cream, and I got over it, but you. You have taken this to the extreme!"

"But Filene, when I. When I was about to got close to those guys, I saw him." Bella said.

There was a silence, and it was not a good silence; more like the calm before the storm silence.

"You. Risked. Yours and Jessica's life. Over a psychotic image of the FUCKTARD!" Filene screamed, making Bella shrink in the chair.

Filene snarled before walking towards the door, and Bella had a horrible feeling she'll not see Filene ever again. With that thought, she jumped from the chair, and practically pounced onto Filene's back from stopping her.

"Filene please!" Bella cried out as Filene tried to get her off of her.

"Get the fuck off!" Filene shouted.

"Filly please." Bella pleaded, this time using her nickname she had used since they were kids. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry! I won't do it again, I won't do it ever again, just don't leave me!"

Filene felt her sister cry on her back, and felt her own tears fall her wall of defiance crumbling under the wait of it all. The two collapsed onto the ground and held each other for what felt like hours. After finally wiping their tears away, they called a truce, and Bella promised to never do something as stupid as getting herself killed. Filene however had the feeling that Bella was now going to plan something to get a glimpse of Edward once again, and she prayed, prayed to god, it wasn't going to be a really bad one.

After that crazy day, Filene was in her bedroom, finishing up some of her English class when she heard the sound of a familiar engine as it became louder. She got up from her chair and walked over to the window she always kept opened to see Jake running towards Bella.

"Where the hell have you been, loca?" he said, picking her up and twirling Bella in a hug.

Filene looked away quickly, she knew better than to watch something that she didn't like. It didn't stop the pain, and the jealousy come crashing into her. She closed the window, and went back to her homework, trying to keep her mind off of what was happening between Jake and Bella.

Three weeks later, Filene decided to hang out with Quil and Embry, what with promising them to see a movie. They were heading to Jake's place afterwards, wanting to see what Jake and Bella have been doing, and for Embry to reassure Filene that there wasn't something going on. Yes, Embry knew about Filene's crush on Jake, what with her staring at Jake longingly and after being dared to tell him.

Sadly Quil was as oblivious to it like Jake.

"Yo, Jake!" Quil called out. "You in there?"

All three walked through the door and saw Jake and Bella sitting beside each other and Jake beside a skeleton of a bike. Filene looked at it suspiciously before sighing in relief when she spotted her back at the back of the shed.

"Hey, Jake." Embry greeted.

Filene just waved at the two, Bella smiled nervously in response. Jake stood up.

"Hey." he greeted back. "Guys, this is Bella."

Quil and Embry looked in between their best friend, and their best friend's sister. Yep there was a resemblance.

Jake turned to Bella. "Bella, that's Quil and Embry."

"Hi." Bella greeted softly.

"I'm Quil Ateara." Quil said, trying to sound cool.

Jake, Filene, and Embry looked at Quil weirdly while Bella was trying not to laugh.

"So the bike building story is true." Quil said, looking at the skeleton.

"Oh, yeah, yeah, I taught him everything he knows." Bella said smiling.

Jake grinned while giving her a look that said 'bullshit!'.

"What about the part of where you're his girlfriend?" Quil asked.

Embry quickly looked to Filene before holding her hand when he saw her wince. Jake looked as though he was just discovered with his hand in the cookie jar, while Bella looked at Quil strangely.

"Uh, we're friends, you know." Bella said.

Embry and Quil laughed.

"Burn." Embry commented with a smile.

"Actually." Jake said. "Remember I said she's a girl and a friend."

Filene raised an eyebrow before looking over to the two boys. "Hey, do you remember him making any distinctions?"

"Nope." Embry replied.

"Uh uh." was Quil's reply.

"So you guys have girlfriends? That's awesome." Bella said.

Jake laughs. "Yeah right! Quil's actually taking his cousin to prom."

Embry and Filene laughed, Quil on the other hand scoffed.

"Yeah, that's still a riot." he said, before walking towards Jake. "You want funny, Black? I'll give you funny."

Quil charged Jake trying to tackle him down before the two tumbled away from Bella. Embry being smart, went and stood beside Bella, Filene was unfortunate enough to trip into the tumbling boys and joined them, trying to get out, but Quil or Jake would just drag her back in.

"Hey, that hold's illegal!" Jake shouted.

"Involving me is illegal!" Filene shouted back. "Quil! Those are not yours to squeeze!"

"Sorry." Quil said, not sounding sorry at all.