Chapter 4

Something horrible happened; Embry left.

At first his mother told Quil, Jake, and Filene that he was getting too sick to go to school, or to see them. Then Filene once spotted Embry just walking around the corner, dressed up almost like the M.O.S group. Quil spotted the same thing, until one day, as Jake, and the two were inside to buy some groceries, they saw Embry, in the M.O.S. Filene almost dropped the jug of milk from the shock.

They made him cut his hair! His gorgeous that he thought would definitely bring in some chicks, was cut. They even made him get a tattoo, and not once, did he ever look or even respond to the three of them when they called. The four musketeers were down to three, they have lost their Aramis.

As the weeks went by, Filene watched as Bella healed, she was slowly was becoming the old Bella from before, the reason? She hanged out with Jake. Filene, she felt like she was having a battle against something unbeatable, especially when she see how Jake looks at Bella, and Bella, she was looking at him in a different light.

It hurt Filene so painfully, that she had to tell Bella the truth. It was on their way to the truck, while Jake was finishing up a bit of the bikes before trying them out, that she did it.

"Bella, I want to tell you something." Filene told her sister as they leaned against the truck.

Bella turned her head to Filene, showing she was listening.

Filene sighed. "I have feelings for Jake, now I am not saying to stay away from him or anything, but I just wanted you to know."

Bella nodded in understanding. "It's okay, I don't like him like that, more like my best friend."

Filene's body practically turned into a puddle of relief. At least the fight wasn't a total loss, the unbeatable, was not so unbeatable, all she had to do now, was for Jake to realize he liked the wrong Swan. Until then, she will help with the bikes and keep the dads from discovering what they were doing in the shed.

Filene followed the truck with her own bike, humming to some Jesus Christ Superstar that has been stuck in her head since Billy was playing it while she was baking some goods for them. When all of the sudden the truck came to a sudden halt, making Filene grip the breaks hard to not hit the back of the truck as it swerved to the side of the road. Filene took off her helmet and saw Bella and Jake over to the cliff on the other side of the road.

She looked over as well, and saw the M.O.S. Filene looked over to Jake whom was laughing at the confused Bella.

"They're not really fighting, Bella." Jake told Bella. "They're cliff diving."

"Scary as hell, but a total rush." Filene added as she walked to Jake's side and watched Bella watching the M.O.S. as one of them jumped off the cliff, whooping his head off.

"A rush?" Bella said.

"Most of us jump from lower down." Jake said. "We leave the showing off to Sam and his disciples."

Filene could hear the annoyance in Jake's tone, as did Bella when she walked towards the two.

"You have some kind of beef with him or something?" Bella asked.

Jake shrugged. "I don't know, they just think they run this place."

"Embry used to call them hall monitors on steroids." Filene said grinning at the memory, as did Jake.

They looked back, and looked to Embry who was about to take a dive. Their grins disappeared.

"Now look at him." Filene nodded to him.

Bella looked back surprised. "That's Embry?"

Jake looked away. "Yeah."

"What happened to him?" Bella asked looking back to him.

Filene didn't want to hear this part and walked closer to look at Sam. He turned his head, as if feeling her stare at him, and looked right back. The two had a bit of a staring contest before he took what looked like a swan dive into the water. Bella and Jake went back into the truck while Filene got on her bike and followed them once again.

Filene leaned against the truck, watching Jake as he teaches Bella where the breaks are, how to start it and other things. Getting a bit bored, Filene took out her IPOD touch and began to listen to her glee album as she continued to watch. Jake was slowly walking away from Bella, telling her something, when all of the sudden the motorcycle lurched forward. Filene pulled out her earplugs and walked over to them.

"You alright?" Filene asked.

Filene did like the look on Bella's face when she said. "I'm gonna go again."

"Okay." was Jake's reply before Bella started it up again and drove away from them.

"Bella!" Filene shouted before turning to Jake. "Did you show her the brake? And how to use it?"

Jake bit his sexy bottom lip nervously. "Yes."

"Then why do you look nervous?" Filene asked, now freaking out.

"Because she is heading for a rock, HIT THE BRAKE!" Jake shouted.

Filene swerved around to see Bella fly off the motorcycle. "BELLA!"

In an instant, Jake grabbed Filene's arm and dragged her onto his bike and drove towards Bella. Filene knew that if she wasn't in a moment of panic, she would have hugged him from behind, but since she is seeing Bella not moving, she put her hands on Jake's shoulders instead. The heat coming off of the guy surprised Filene, it was like Paul and Sam's skin, all hot.

Maybe it's a Quileute thing?

Once they reached Bella, Filene jumped off the bike before Jake and ran to her sister.

"I wanna go again." Bella said to Filene.

However, Filene was not having any of it. "Are you trying to get yourself killed?"

"No." Bella said. "I want to go again."

"No! Forget it." Jake said beside Filene. "No more bikes."

He was final on that point, then he caught sight of the blood the same time as Filene did.

"Man, your head." Jake said.

Bella lifted her hand to her head and touched the cut. "Ow."

"No shit Sherlock, stop touching it." Filene told her.

"Oh, my got, I'm sorry." Bella apologized.

Jake looked at Bella strangely. "What, you're apologizing for bleeding?"

Filene rolled her eyes. When you have a vampire for a boyfriend, yes.

"Yeah." Bella shook head a little. "I guess I am."

"Well, it's just blood Bella." Jake told Bella. "No big deal."

"I don't know." Filene said looking at the wound. "If you ask me, that is a lot of blood going on there."

Jake just shrugged, stood up and gave Filene a heart attack by taking his shirt off. And using said shirt to wipe the blood off of Bella's head.

Heart/head/body/hormones/Filene/Author: *faints*

Filene blinked a little before rubbing her eyes as if she had something in her eyes, it was better than doing the whole cartoon facial expression of (0o0). She backed away and went over to Bella's bike to see if there was any damage to the bike, seeing nothing she sighed in relief before dragging it upwards.

That is, until she heard Jake and Bella.

"What are you staring at?" Jake asked.

Filene stiffened half raising the bike.

There was a silence before she heard Bella say. "You're sort of beautiful."

*Crash*

The bike collapsed back onto the ground, not grabbing Jake and Bella's attention. Filene turned her head a little and waited for Jake's response in growing horror.

Jake looked at Bella for a moment before asking. "How hard did you hit your head?"

Bella blinked. "I don't know."

Jake chuckles softly at Bella's response. "Let's go."

Filene almost fell over in relief. She actually thought that Jake was going to ask Bella out right there and then, but thankfully that didn't happen. Of course Filene wanted Bella to be happy, just not with Jake.

Jake helped Bella up and walked her over to the truck while Filene picked up Bella's bike and pushed it along behind the two.

"I did see something in the woods." Angela told the gang

"Totally." Eric said. "Baby, I believe you."

Jessica shook her head. "No, he doesn't. He's just trying to get lucky."

"Jess." Filene nudged her friend, grinning before looking back to Angela. "What did you see? Elvis?"

"No, okay." Angela answered. "It was jet black and huge. On all fours, it was still taller than a person."

Filene stiffened. Doyle.

"A bear maybe?" Jessica said.

"Or an alien, you're luck you didn't get probed." Mike joked.

Mike, Eric, and Filene snickered, while Jessica nodded in agreement. That was when Filene and Jessica noticed Bella walking towards them.

Jessica's smile disappeared as Bella came nearer. Filene held her hand in comfort.

"Well, I saw it." Angela said.

Everyone went quiet when they to saw Bella.

"You know, you're not the only one." Bella said.

"Yeah." Filene agreed. "Our dad's been getting reports at the station. Like five hikers have been killed by some bear but they can't find the bear."

Angela gave everyone a look. "Hmm."

Eric laughs awkwardly. "Last time you clowns doubt my girlfriend."

"I wasn't doubting." Filene said with a frown. "I was just waiting for Mike to shut up."

"Hey!" Mike said throwing a napkin at her.

While Angela, Eric and Jessica talked. Filene watched as Mike leaned a bit to Bella.

Oh no. Filene groaned.

Mike clears his voice. "So? I mean, Bella's back?"

Bella laughed quietly. "Yeah, I guess so."

"Allright, that's… well, welcome." he congratulated, making Filene snort. "So, listen, now that you are talking and eating again, which, you know, you've got to get that protein in there."

Bella grinned in amusement.

"I was just wondering if you wanted to go see a movie with me." he asked.

Filene waited for Bella's response, wondering what kind of no, or what excuse she was going to use.

"Yeah, Sure." was Bella's response. "Yeah I do."

Filene almost had a whiplash as she turned her head to Bella in shock.

"Cool, let me see." Mike thought for a second. "We could check out Love Spelled Backwards Is Love."

Filene looked over at Mike an raised eyebrow. "Really?"

"I know, it's a dumb title." Mike agreed before looking back to Bella." but it's a romantic comedy, I mean, it's supposed to be pretty…"

"No." Bella interrupted. "No romance."

Bella took a moment to think before saying. "How about Face Punch? Have you heard of it?"

Filene scrunched her eyebrows. I do not know which sounds worse? Why not go and see The Ugly Truth, or Avatar? At least they sound better then those.

Mike shrugged. "I mean, that an action movie."

Filene knew for a fact that Mike did not like that sort of genre, the only kind of action movie he likes are wherever Jet Lee or Jackie Chan was involved.

"Yeah, that's perfect." Bella said. "Guns, adrenaline. That's my thing."

Last time I checked dear sister, you hate movies like Face Punch. Filene thought to her sister. It was never your thing.

"Okay." Mike agreed, smiling.

"We should get a bunch of people to go." Bella said. "Do you guys want to go see Face Punch?"

Mike's smile disappeared as Filene rolled her eyes. There was Bella's escape from Mike's date.

"Face Punch, yeah!" Eric said excitedly. "Mike, her, we were supposed to watch that. Remember? The trailer's like…"

Eric made sound effects of punches and explosions, making the other laugh a little.

"Yeah, movie night with Bella." Jessica cheered sarcastically.

Filene patted Jessica's back in pity. "Don't worry, she knows better."

Bella looked down and away from her sister's pointed gaze, making Jessica feel a little better.

Jake drove Filene and him on his motorcycle to the movies. When Filene Jake and Mike stood waiting for Bella, it was really awkward for Filene to stand in between Mike and Jake, she could feel the tension with the two males. Mike felt it to, and looked awkward standing in front of Jake whom was leaning against the wall with ease, and there was little old Filene, stuck in between and couldn't stop fidgeting. Bella had actually asked Filene if she could invite Jake over to their movie night, Filene was surprised but agreed.

Was Bella trying to hook me up with Jake? Filene thought giddily.

"So Face Punch, huh?" Jake said. "You like action movies?"

Mike had to be honest. "Not really."

Jake scoffs. "I heard is sucks, bad."

Mike looks at Jake and Filene for a second before looking back to Jake. "You know are you even old enough to see this movie? I mean, you know, without, like, adult supervision."

"Right, yeah, well." Jake pointed over to Bella. "She's buying Filene and my ticket for us."

"She's buying it." Mike said. "Okay."

Bella walked up to the three of them and handed Filene and Jake their tickets. "Jessica bailed, and Angela got the stomach flu, so Eric is taking care of her."

"So, it's just four?" Filene asked.

"Great!" Jake said.

Mike grumbled. "Great."

"Yeah." Filene half heartily agreed.

It was going to get awkward.

Bella and the others walked inside to buy popcorn, pop and other snacks before going into the room that held Face Punch. The seating went like this; Filene, Mike, Bella, and Jake. Filene was not like the movie, the seating, and the way her sister was looking at the hands that Jake and Mike obviously placed of the hand rest hand up for her to grab. So much for the double dating.

Finally, poor Mike had it. "Okay, I think I'm gonna throw up."

And with that, he got up and like a shot, ran out the door and into the men's washroom. Filene followed right after until she stopped at the Men's washroom entrance. Jake and Bella slowly followed after the two.

Filene stood beside the Men's washroom entrance when Bella and Jake walked out.

"He's…" was all Bella said, not knowing what to say.

Jake scoffed. "What a marshmallow!"

Bella laughed, while Filene narrowed her eyes at Jake; she may like him, but she didn't his attitude towards one of her friends.

"You should hold out for someone with a stronger stomach." Jake commented. "Someone who laughs at the gore that makes weaker men vomit."

"Yeah." Bella joked. "I'll keep my eye opened for that."

"Or maybe she should hold out for someone who has a better instinct to know when there is fun, and dangerous." Filene couldn't help but respond.

Bella and Jake turned their head to her before walking away. Filene sighed, and turned her head when she heard Mike continuing to throw up.

"Are you okay in there?" she asked.

There was a silence, before the sounds rose up again. Not wanting to hear more of this, she walked over to Jake and Bella whom were sitting at the staircase. She walked a little closer before she came to a stop when she heard their voices clearly.

"Look, I know what he did to you." Jake was saying. "But, Bella, I would never ever do that, I won't ever hurt you, I promise. I won't let you down."

Bella turned to Jake, their faces close to each other.

"You can count on me." Jake whispered.

Bella and Jake stared at each other before Bella leaned her head against Jake's shoulder. Filene looked away, and saw Mike standing behind her, still looking a little green around the gills, but he had a look of 'I know how you feel' on his face before walking ahead of her.

"Well." Mike interrupted the moment, as he sniffled a bit before sighing. "I need to go home."

Filene took a breath, trying to lock the tears away from her eyes as Mike gave her time to look a bit normal.

"I was feeling sick before the movie okay?" Mike explained.

Jake scoffed, again. Mike looked exasperated.

"What is your problem?" he asked Jake.

"Right now?" Jake asked. "You're my problem."

Filene came around the corner, standing beside Mike.

"Feeling sick?" Jake asked. "Maybe you need to go to the hospital."

"Jake." Filene warned.

Jake stood up and walked towards Filene and Mike. "You want me to put you in the hospital?"

"Jake!" Filene shouted, putting Mike behind her as she faced Jake off."

"Jake, the movie is over, what are you doing?" Bella asked as she held Jake back a little, while hold his hand. "You're really hot."

Mike and Filene looked at Bella in disbelief.

"Like, you feel like you have a fever." Bella described before looking up at Jake. "Are you okay?"

"I don't know what's happening." Jake said as he breathed heavily. "I gotta go, come on Filene."

Without another word Jake and Filene left the theaters. And headed home.

When the two got home, Jake practically threw his helmet harshly to the ground before running off into the woods. Filene almost had a flash back of when Bella got abandoned by Edward in the woods. Filene took her own helmet off and ran after Jake.

"Jake!" she called out as she ran inside the forest.

And like before, when Filene tried to find Bella, she lost Jake, but she didn't give up, wouldn't, Jake was her best friend, and her love. Sure Jake had his moments when all she wanted to do was smack a shovel to his head, but, she loved him, she really did. And she would not stop until she found him again.

The sound of howls filled the cold night air, stopping Filene in her run. She didn't recognize that howl, not even the other one that sounded after the first one. However, when a much deeper and louder howl came, she recognized it like the beat of her heart.

"Doyle." Filene whispered before running towards his howling.

She ran through some bushes and found herself in a very small clearing, not like the clearing she found when she fought Victoria, but it was a clearing, Doyle and the other along with a new face was there. They all turned to look at her, Frost and Gaelin were the first to walk towards Filene to greet her.

Filene ran her fingers through both of the wolves fur, smiling up at them. "Hey guys."

She looked over the newest of the pack, he had gray fur and dark spots of his back. He looked at her as if in shock, or surprise. Filene walked over slowly to him, reaching a hand out slowly in front of her, the new wolf looked over to Doyle who nodded, and then walked closer to Filene until her hand touched his muzzle. Filene smiled a the silky feeling under her hand and she lead her hand from his muzzle to the back of his ear.

"Your fur feels like silk." She whispered to him as she moved closer and now used both of her hand s to pet him.

She giggled when she thought she heard was a groan coming from the wolf. "I shall call you, Roane."

Roane wagged his tail side to side, Filene took that as a sign of liking his name and smiled at him before looking over to Doyle. She walked over to him, and almost laughed as he gave her what looked like was disapproval. As soon as she reached him, she wrapped her arms around him, feeling him lay his head on her shoulder as she nuzzled her face into his fur.

"I know I am not supposed be here at this time of night, especially with Victoria running around." She whispered. "But, Jake, he ran off into the forest, I lost him, and I don't know where he is."

Filene felt Doyle growl softly, and she heard one of the wolves run off, she looked to see it was Gaelin and Roane whom were running into the forest. Frost walked over to Doyle and Filene, she let go of Doyle steadily climbed up onto his back, grabbing gently onto his fur as he slowly ran into a trot, with Frost along side them. Filene didn't fear for Jake now, her friends were going to find him, she just hoped Jake didn't get scared when he comes face to face with them.

Two days later, in the morning as Filene was making pancakes, bacon and eggs for Billy and her, she almost dropped her bowl of batter when she saw the M.O.S with a new member come walking out of the forest.

"Billy." Filene called.

Billy wheeled his way to the window, and smiled as if proudly. Filene raised her eyebrow in confusion at Billy before looking back to the group, and as they got closer, Filene got her answer.

Her face turned into the look of shock.

Jacob Black was walking along side Embry, smiling and talking… Without a shirt, his hair cut short, and… was that a tattoo? Filene didn't know whether to shout at him for not telling them where he was, or that he joined the M.O.S, or just run and hug him.

She chose the latter, putting the bowl down on to the counter and ran out the door. "Jake!"

Filene didn't give Jake the time to look up and see who was calling him as she leaped onto him with a hug. Jake instantly wrapped his arms around her to keep the two of them from falling over. The M.O.S chuckled at the surprised look Jake had.

"You idiot, couldn't you have picked up a phone!" Filene cried as she held him.

Jake scoffed but smiled before holding her closer. "I am gone for two days, and all you care about is that I didn't pick up the phone?"

"Well I knew you were going to be okay." Filene said as she let him go and looked up at him. "I just hate it when I do not know where. You've been?"

Was it just Filene or was she becoming more light headed than usual? She felt so warm and full of wonderment and love for the boy- well man now- that stood before her. Jake looked down at Filene, his eyes widened in disbelief, Filene wondered why. Before she could ask, Jake began to shake, making the other M.O.S tense up and looked in surprise, like they didn't expect this.

Filene walked backwards, closer to Embry. "Jake?"

He didn't say anything but he walked away from her and the others towards his house. The feelings she felt, were gone and were replaced with sadness and defeat.

"Don't worry." Embry said. "He'll be okay."

"Then why do I still feel scared?" she asked softly.

"Maybe cause now you are surrounded by half naked strangers, and Jacob's not here to protect you?" Paul said.

Filene looked over at him and grinned playfully. "Aren't you the protector of La Push? It's kind of against the code to have your wicked way with me."

This made Paul, Jared, and Embry laugh, while Sam just smiled.

"Oh I don't know." Embry said, grinning like a wolf. "You look mighty tasty right now."

Filene looked down at herself and flushed. She was wearing short shorts, and a pyjama tank top with a sheep sleeping beside a wolf with the words "What a strange world". And she wasn't wearing anything underneath, and it was getting cold, Filene crossed her chest as her face went even redder at Paul's grin.

"Yeah well." Filene cleared her voice as she looked away from the half naked hot guys. "I have a tastier treat in the kitchen, I was making breakfast for Billy and I, but since you guys are here, you might as well come in."

And with that Filene walked back to the house and grinned as she heard the other follow her.

Once she made breakfast she was shocked at how much all the boys were eating. She watched in astonishment as they cleaned their plates in a matter of seconds before asking for more.

"Was my cooking that good?" She asked. "Or were you guys on some kind of diet?"

The guys laughed while Embry pulled his head up. "We're teenage boys, and yes your cooking is awesome, not as good as Emily's but, it's close."

"Emily?" Filene asked.

"Sam's girlfriend." Jared answered, she saw Sam smile. "She can make anything out of everything."

Filene was impressed. "Maybe I should swipe some recipes from her."

Holy crap, I did my best fans and friends, and to answer everyone's question. M.O.S means.

Men

On

Steroids

Okay, Hilarious moment, I was listening to Defying Gravity from the musical Wicked, and as the words 'it's time to try defying gravity, Sam had just leapt from the cliff and dived, I laughed so hard.