The week was almost up. The first few days were alright, due to Jacob’s consistent arguments about our baseball game (he couldn’t see most of it, thus couldn’t tell if it was really baseball, or just a crude form of it). But now all I could focus on was the upcoming fight.

Charlie wasn’t suspicious about Bella’s sudden desire to spend the day with him and Billy. Billy knew all about it, of course. He and Emily came up with some story that the pack is camping with us, which is they they aren’t there.

Jacob joined me on my hunt, afraid to leave me alone.

“I won’t be alone, Jacob. We’re all hunting together. And we’ll be close,” I had assured him. He came anyway. Thankfully, the Cullens didn’t mind. Edward said he would have done the same thing in his shoes. They just insisted he keeps his distance, for both of our sakes. We didn’t want him to get hurt on accident.

We had a successful hunt, so we were physically ready for what was in store the next day. Alice was able to confirm their arrival because she had another vision seeing them not too far south. She just couldn’t see them arrive.

Or the outcome, for that matter.

That night I stayed with Jacob. I haven’t stayed since Alice’s first vision. Since then, the wolves were prowling at night. Same let Jacob out of prowling tonight to be with me, so I was back in his room.

“Promise me something,” Jacob said while he was holding me that night. “If things start to look bad, get out of there.”

“Jacob, I can’t,” I whispered. “This is my problem. I have to stay. I feel bad having you all involved.”

“I understand… but it was worth a try, right?” He smiled at me and I kissed him. We stayed like that for what felt like forever, never wanting to separate. We didn’t know if this was our last night together or not. Regardless, I wanted to make the best of it.

“You know, I couldn’t make you promise me the same thing,” I said to him when we broke the kiss.

“And you know that I won’t leave you behind,” he said with a smile.

“I know,” I sighed. “Best, please, don’t be reckless. I don’t want to lose you. I refuse to finish eternity without you.”

He held me close, “Now I can promise that. I’ll be careful and only come when called.”

“Thank you,” I smiled. He chuckled. “What?” I asked him.

“I’m just glad you didn’t try to ease your nerves and say something like, ‘good dog’ or something,” he said through his laugh.

“Man… I could have. Just not too fast right now, I guess.”

We kissed then I looked into his eyes. “Wow, you’re exhausted. You have to sleep for tomorrow. Get your strength up. Otherwise you’ll break your promise without trying.”

He sighed. “When you’re right, you’re right. Goodnight, my love. Everything will be fine.”

I curled up next to his fire-hot body and kissed his cheek. He kissed my head and fell asleep. I couldn’t help but smile when I saw how peaceful he looked.

Hopefully, this won’t be my last time seeing him like this.

I spent the night in his arms, watching him sleep.