Hello hello everyone it has been a long time. I want to formally apologize for the lack of updates on this story as some of you may know I have been on a hiatus. I started a new job at a daycare over a year ago and since left and joined another place but the same issues I was having at my old job followed my new one so I'm in the process of once again leaving to join a better place which will lead to better opportunities for me. This in the meantime has all taken a big physical, emotional and mental toll on me and I remember how when I was in one of my moods writing has helped me and it was something I genuinely enjoyed doing and its something I'm fighting to hold on to, a part of me feels like I lost my spark but I'm trying to get that back so bear with me as we journey on into the remainder of this story because as of right now this book will be a standalone. A sequel is possible but doubtful seeing as I have other works here on my account including a few in my drafts so I'm going to try working on one book at a time because I hate the thought of having unfinished books but we will just have to see where this goes so without further ado enjoy the chapter and give me feedback on what you think.
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Motorcycles. More like death machines, at least that's what Katherine thought as she sat besides her sister in her truck on their way to the reservation. She was rudely waken up on her day off by Bella coming in asking if she knew anything about motorcycles. Katherine called her crazy but became intrigued when she mentioned their were two, so Bella texted Jake out of the blue asking to hangout so there they were.
Katherine hopped out of the passengers side slamming the door shut. She followed Bella behind the truck where she saw Jacob coming around. He saw them and came running over to greet them.
"Bella!" He reached out to hug the Swan girl. "Where the hell have you been loca?" He spun her once and set her down. "Hey Kat." He looked at the other Swan girl who resisted the urge to roll her eyes.
"Hey Jake." Katherine nodded at him.
"I, uh. Brought you something." Bella aimed her thumb behind her. "It's a little crazy." Katherine observed her sisters awkward behavior and semi sluggish movements, dark bags hung under her eyes raising the concern Katherine did have for her.
Bella threw off the green tarp revealing two old, used motorcycles, what kind Katherine didn't know, she wasn't a cars and bikes gal. Music was more her thing, listening to it at least, she does not have a musical bone in her body.
"Scrap metal, you shouldn't have." Katherine chuckled slightly at his response.
"I saved it from the junkyard. I think they'll probably cost more to fix than they're worth. But then I thought that if I had a mechanic friend to help me out, then..."
"Ah, me. Being the mechanic type friend?" Jacob gestured to himself. He gawked at the bikes for a second before looking at both of the girls. "I never took you guys to be into motorcycles." He stated. Katherine chuckled.
"I'm more intrigued in the idea of watching Bella bust her ass on one of these puppies before anything." The two laughed as Bella just scoffed.
"Look I get it if you think that this is really stupid and reckless." Agitation was in her voice.
"Yeah, it's completely stupid and reckless." Jacob agreed before breaking out into a grin. "When do we start?" Bella broke out into a small surprised smile.
"U-um now." She stammered.
"Alright." Jacob walked over to the truck pulling the tarp back more. He wrapped his hands around both ends of the bike.
"Oh, wait, be careful. Those things are actually really heavy, so...." He lifted the bike out with ease impressing both of the Swan girls. "Jake, you're like buff. How did that happen? You're like 16. I don't get it."
'Drugs.' Was Katherine's thought. There was no way a kid like Jacob Black who not even a year ago was some lanky 15 year old and now is 16 and has the body of like a gym trainer.
"Age is just a number, baby. What are you like 40 now?" Katherine chuckled.
"Feels like that sometimes." She commented as they walked with him to the shed. The shed was barn like to Katherine in a way. An old car Katherine couldn't identify sat with card board covering the windshield from the inside. Jake popped out the old rusted kickstand and set the bike in the center. A tool bench on the side wall, there were random tools lying around.
"Sorry about the mess." Jake scratched the back of his head. "I'll clean out this shed before we start working on these bikes, let me run back and grab the other bike first." He left them alone in the shed for a moment.
"Are you sure about this?" Bella looked at her sister.
"You're the one who said distracting myself would help so I took up a new hobby." Bella shrugged.
"I know that I just don't want to see you get hurt."
"I'll be fine."
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Three weeks passed since Bella's motorcycle interest which both girls kept from Charlie. Katherine on occasion would join Bella to 'help' with fixing the bikes and she learned Jacob wasn't so bad to be around though often enough Bella would go alone as Katherine worked or studied. She was distracted for a time since the sudden phone call from Rosalie in Port Angeles.
She had mixed feelings. Her heart hammered at the thought of hearing Rosalie's angelic voice again. Heat crept up her cheeks as her thoughts drifted else where before snapping out of it. She left her there in Forks alone. Disappeared at the drop of a dime. Her insecurities rose up in her chest.
Rosalie saw the worst inside of Katherine saw all of her quirks and vulnerabilities and in turn Rosalie showed Katherine her ugliness too and they bonded in their likeness and connection. Rosalie knew Katherine as much as Katherine knew Rosalie at least as much as she thought. Thinking back to all of the 'I love you's' and the 'you're beautiful's' Katherine couldn't help but think that maybe Rosalie was lying about some of it. Who was she an 18 year old human to a nearly 100 year old vampire after all?
Katherine clamped her eyes shut trying to suppress her tears. She hated the feeling of being stuck in your own head and that's exactly where she was at in that moment.
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A week has passed filled with many sleepless nights as the nightmares seemed to pile on to each other only this time they were all silent terrors, she didn't cry out but they were there lingering. Dreams of being attacked by Dylan and then again by James who of Rosalie leaving and Katherine out alone in the woods searching for her calling out her name until her voice was drained out by the feeling of dread before dying.
She was smoking a cigarette flicking her ash outside the passenger window of Bella's truck. Jacob sat in between the two. Katherine and Jacob argued who would sit in the middle on their way to test drive the motorcycles. In the end Katherine won the argument when she pointed out that he was a child and she was technically an adult so to respect his elders and get in the god damn car. It worked and now to alleviate the stress that piled on during the week from lack of sleep she was smoking.
"You know those are bad for you?" Jake commented. Katherine rolled her eyes as she ashed once again before throwing the bud out the window. She left the window down to let the cigarette smell out.
"Wow thanks for the concern but its unnecessary." She said sarcastically.
"Are you okay?" Bella asked her sister looking at her confused. She rolled her eyes.
"I'm fine I just haven't been getting enough sleep lately. I'm cranky."
"Me and you both." Bella replied. It got quiet after and Katherine soon dozed off briefly before she felt herself being jerked awake as Bella pulled over to the side of the road.
"Did you see that?" Katherine's heart was pounding and her eye sight was blurry from the abrupt awakening. She watched Bella usher across the road looking out across the water to the people messing around on the cliff. Jacob was laughing.
"They're not really fighting, Bella. They're cliff diving. Scary as hell but a total rush." He stated.
"A rush?" Katherine could hear Bella faintly say through the crack of the window. Her eyes widened. and she opened the door and stood up to peer over the top.
"Hey!" She pointed at her sister with an accusing and concerned look. "Don't get any ideas!" Jake chuckled at Katherine. Bella gave her sister a weird look.
"Most of us jump lower down but leave the showing off to Sam and his disciples."
"You have some kind of beef with him or something?" Bella came back to the truck as Katherine got out and around in front of the hood.
"I don't know. They just think they run this place." Katherine observed the group on top of the cliff. "Embry used to call them hall monitors on steroids'. Now look at him." Another leapt off the cliff presumably Embry. Katherine remembered seeing him just a few weeks ago at Jacob's he seemed nice.
"That's Embry? What happened to him?"
"He missed some school. And now all of a sudden he started following Sam around like a little puppy. Same thing happened with Paul and Jared. Sam keeps giving me this look. Like he's waiting on me or something. It's kinda starting to freak me out."
'This took a turn.' Katherine thought. She started to feel bad for Jake he lost his friend to a gang of misfits.
"You should just avoid him then." Katherine suggested.
"I try. But sometimes he just pops up expectantly and I don't know..."
"Hey, why don't we just get back in the truck and go ride the motor bikes." Bella gave Jacob a reassuring rub on the arm semi-awkwardly making Katherine eye the two suspiciously. She knew the two have gotten close but how close? She was glad she wasn't obsessing about Edwardo but didn't want to see Jacob as the rebound for it, he was a good kid and friend. She kept her thoughts to herself as she made her way back into the truck this time she sat in the middle to her dismay.
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Jake started unloading the bikes when Katherine's anxiety set in on actually riding a motorcycle and it didn't help that they didn't have helmets. She hasn't rode a bike since she was 13 let alone a motorized two wheeler.
Bella stared at the motorcycle Jake stood in front of.
"You ready?"
"Yeah." Bella got on.
"You look scared." Jake commented.
"I'm not." Bella retorted. Katherine got onto the second bike.
"All right." His hands slightly hovered over Bella's. "Brake. Clutch. Gas." Katherine took note to what he said. Bella flipped the gas switch and revved up the bike. Katherine hesitantly did the same. "Now slowly release the clutch." She watched Bella seemingly space out for a second before she moved a few steps before stopping.
"Are you okay?" I asked her.
"I wanna go again." She revved up the bike and took off. Katherine followed suit. Her heart was hammering in her chest as she flew down the dirt path. The wind whipped through her hair and a small made its way on her face this was kind of fun. Katherine easily sped up to Bella who kept looking behind her. She saw the way her sister was driving.
"Look straight!" She yelled over the wind and engine. The girl was going to lose control if she didn't watch where she was driving. But before she knew it she watched Bella lose control over her bike and as if on cue flew off and hitting her head on a rock. Katherine gasped as she sped by only to turn around and break hard. Jacob was running up towards them. Katherine ran to her sister whose head was bleeding.
"Bella are you alright?" Jake ran over to them. Bella's eyes were fluttering, recovering from the hit she just took.
"I wanna go again." She said.
"Are you crazy? You just bashed your head open! You are not getting back on one at least not operating one." Katherine exclaimed.
"I agree no more bikes. Let me see your head."
"Oh, my god I'm sorry." Bella said suddenly feeling embarrassed.
"What are you apologizing for bleeding?"
"Yeah, I guess I am."
"Well, it's just blood Bella. It's no big deal." But for them it was at some point when they dated vampires. They had to be careful. Jacob suddenly took his shirt off and pressed it against Bella's wound. Katherine watched Bella gawk at Jake's shirtless form making her want to make fun of her sister. "What are you staring at?"
"You're sort of beautiful." Katherine wanted to gag.
"How hard did you hit your head?"
'Exactly.' Katherine thought.
Jake helped Bella stand and said that we should probably go. Katherine was bummed, she was enjoying the bikes more than she anticipated even if she was of no help in the whole fixing process. So Katherine got on her bike as Jake and Bella got on the other and rode back to the truck. Jake took charge of putting the bikes away and driving back to his place and from there Katherine drove Bella and herself home as it started to become dusk.
"How was your day?" They were greeted by Charlie. Bella moved her hair to cover the gash on her forehead.
"It was good." Bella replied.
"What she said." Was Katherine's reply as she headed for the stairs.
"I ordered pizza should be here soon." He said.
"Okay."
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