章節 51: Ch.51

(Matt Pov)

The next few days and then weeks go by without any sightings of Victoria or unknown vampires. The final week of School approaches now and with it the ability to be done with school forever, at least in this mortal life. Bella got her acceptance letter to the university in Alaska, while I didn't apply to any colleges for obvious reasons. Alice invited Bella and others to a graduation party at our house she was throwing. All the Cullens, Charlie, Eva, and even some of the wolves like Sam, Jacob, and Sam's fiance Emily. They all agreed to come, Sam and Emily being more excepting of the idea as Sam has come to like the Cullens, while Jacob is still on edge around them, especially Edward.

A few days before graduation, it would seem Victoria sent a lackey of hers to steal an item of Bella and mine from Charlie's house, as I didn't take everything of mine with me. Though the others didn't know what unknown vampire was in Charlie's house when no one was home, some had speculations. I knew it was for giving the scent to the vampires that Victoria was turning to hunt us down easier. The Cullens, wolves, and Eva became more on edge since then, but no one since has been spotted in the area. The day of graduation finally came, with everyone getting dressed up and heading to school in our graduation uniforms.

"Is that necessary?" I ask Emmett hearing him almost quote the entire graduation ceremony and Jasper snickering next to him.

"Yes, been through too many of these things and this helps keep my sanity," Emmett says with a tired sigh as the valedictorian gets on stage and starts their speech. Not surprisingly the valedictorian was Angela, Bella's one human friend.

Even though the whole ceremony was only about two hours, it still felt much longer than that especially since Emmett was sighing the whole time. When it was finally over many people did the stupid throw your hats into the air, I just left to find my family wanting to leave asap. Though of course Charlie, Eva, Esme, and Carlisle wanted to take pictures of everyone.

"Smile everyone!" Esme says as we all get together in one group photo, but Emmett is frowning as he is very annoyed.

"Just take the damn picture!" Emmett says annoyed, but Esme narrows her eyes at him.

"Emmett...you better smile and mean it," Esme says in a dangerously low tone and making Emmett shut up and smile for all the pictures. After all the pictures we headed home to our house to do the final touches and get out of the graduation uniform for the party. About an hour later everyone showed up, though when Jacob showed up with Sam and Emily Edward just stared at him with a blank face.

"Hello everyone, thanks for inviting us," Emily says entering the house with Sam and Jacob nodding behind her. With the two going around chatting with everyone, I walk over to Jacob who is standing by the door awkwardly and staring back at Edward with a glare.

"Jacob, you gonna stand there like a statue all day or gonna come in and enjoy the party as much as you possibly can?" I ask him smirking and he breaks his eye contact with Edward looking at me.

"Yeah, sure. Though can I talk with you outside first?" Jacob asks me after he stops glaring at Edward. I motion for him to follow me. I bring him outside the patio in the back near the library we sit out there and I offer him whiskey and a cigar, as I now like smoking these since Jasper introduced them to me. He takes the whiskey and cigar I offered him, and we sit in silence for the first few minutes enjoying the cigar and whiskey before I break the silence.

"So what's on your mind?" I ask him while relaxing in my chair and taking a puff on my cigar.

"I've been meditating like you suggested every morning and it has been helping me a lot," Jacob says to me pausing while looking at me,

"Ok, I'm glad it's helping you," I say to him giving him a curious glance as I can tell he still has more on his mind.

"Well, I don't know about you, but when I meditated it brought me to this inner mindscape, and inside it was a forest like the one surrounding my village, but no living being inside it other than me. It felt like home to me, so I naturally shifted and ran through the woods in my wolf form. Though just recently I met another wolf inside this forest and it spoke to me offering a way for me to get stronger. At first, I was confused by this wolf and its offering, but maybe I should take its offer. I was just wondering if you had a similar experience and what I should do," Jacob confides in me, and hearing what he said has my mind go into overdrive trying to figure out who or what this wolf could be.

'Without invading his mind and forcing myself inside Jacob's mind I will have to ask him to let me inside his mind next time he meditates,' I think to myself. As it could possibly be anything that is tempting him or actually offering a way to increase his strength.

"Tomorrow before you meditate, come over here and we can meditate together. I know a way to enter the place you found inside yourself and maybe I can meet the wolf too and see what it could mean. Though I did experience what you are experiencing, for me I had to subdue my two conflicting sides, and then afterward it made me whole. This could be a wolf you have to subdue to gain complete control of your emotions possibly," I say to Jacob thinking hard about what he just told me and all the possibilities it could be.

"...Ok, I would appreciate that," Jacob says to me after thinking about what I said. Then after a few more minutes of silence as we both are sipping on our drinks and smoking our cigars we hear someone approaching the library. From the sounds of them, it would appear to be Alice.

"I thought you guys ran away from the party, glad you are still here," Alice says smiling at us and skipping over to me taking a seat in my lap.

"Jacob just was asking about meditation and my experiences with it. Though is Emmett starting any shit with Sam yet?" I ask Alice to deflect the conversation for Jacob's sake and will inform Alice later when we are alone.

"Surprisingly no Emmett is being…..being well leashed by Rosalie under her threats of staying outside at night," Alice says with a chuckle and even getting a laugh from Jacob who stiffened up when Alice came outside.

"How've you been Jacob? Matt told me you guys have patched things up," Alice asks him, making him stiffen up again at the question.

"I….I've been good. Though I would like to apologize for what I called you the other day in front of everyone. I was dealing with my anger at Edward and messed up emotions ever since shifting," Jacob says trying his best to be friendly with Alice, even though I can see he is still uncomfortable around vampires.

"Oh it's fine, I've been called worse over the years by many people. Though I appreciate the apology and hope we can be friends moving forward," Alice says trying to help make amends between them and offering her hand for a handshake. Jacob hesitates at first for the handshake but ultimately shakes her hand.

"Your hands are almost as cold as Matt's, is that because you have Ice powers now?" Jacob says surprised at the coldness of vampires which I no longer even feel since coldness is a part of me now.

"Yeah, Matt is my fluffy ice bear!" Alice says strangling me in a hug, but I'm fine with it as she engulfed my face with her breasts and even better she was wearing thin lingerie. Jacob found it funny what she called me, though to mess with Alice I gave a small quick bite on her one nipple, making her jump and release me while giving me a small glare.

"You two make a good couple," Jacob says surprising us both, but we smile at him.

"I'm glad you finally can see vampires are no different than us in most regards," I say to him and Alice nods in agreement with me, forgetting what I just did to her. Jacob just shrugs and gives a small nod to me.

"Not that I don't enjoy being away from what I will assume divulge into chaos, but as one of the hosts of this party it is time for me to return to it," I say downing my whiskey and putting out my cigar. Then stand up with placing Alice on the ground, as they both follow me back to the party. After Jacob downs his whiskey and puts out his cigar too.

Getting back to the party, we all had fun as there was food that we all helped in preparing for those who could eat, while also being a wine with blood for the Cullens. The only issue was the stagnant attitude between Edward and Jacob, but they both just ignored one another for now. Then as the day got later after we all were playing different games of all types, both Sam and Eva wanted to make separate announcements. Sam went first.

"I was told by the elders to give you Carlisle this pendant showing our official alliance with the Cullens and one for you Matt, though when your grandfather comes the elders would still like to meet with you both officially," Sam says giving us both these silver engraved pendants with wolves on them.

"Thank you Sam and tell your elders I appreciate the gesture," Carlisle says to him after taking the pendant.

"Yeah thanks Sam, I will make sure I visit officially with my grandfather once he arrives in a few weeks," I say to him while also taking my pendant.

"I'll make sure they both show up on their best behavior too," Eva says smiling at Sam seeing our official alliance with them.

"Well, what's your annoyance?" I ask Eva and can see a nervous Charlie, then with my new sense of a god, plus my suspicion I can see she is pregnant.

'Fuck me!' I think to myself.

"Well, your Uncle Charlie and I are now engaged. Plus we found out that I'm pregnant!" Eva says making everyone smile at them or stare in shock, especially Bella who is staring at the two trying to process what she heard. As Charlie seems to be happy with the situation as he is standing next to Eva with his arms around her waist.

"Congratulations you two!" Esme says being the first to congratulate them and now Eva is putting on the ring she had hidden earlier. Then everyone else congratulates them after her.

"Yeah congrats you two, gonna have a younger sibling again," I say genuinely happy for the both of them and ruffling Bella's hair much to her annoyance, but snapping her back to the situation.

"Umm…..yeah, congrats dad and...uh Eva," Bella says still processing the information and giving Eva an awkward smile.

"Someone take a family photo to commemorate this moment!" I say grabbing Bella and forcing her to stand next to Charlie, while I stand next to Eva, with Charlie and Eva standing next to each other between Bella and me. This only annoys her further but she doesn't refute it.

'God I miss messing with Bella, I should do it more. I still have to get my revenge on her for cock blocking me, maybe on their wedding night I'll pop up and interrupt them or send someone to keep ruining the mood the first night,' I think to myself formulating plans to get my long awaited revenge. Esme, Alice, and Emily are taking several pictures of us as I suggested.