I sat close to the tree trunk, high off the ground. My legs dangled over the edge of the branch, swinging back and forth in the cool breeze. Where in the world was Jacob, he promise to meet me, even if it was only for a few minutes.

All I could see and hear were the trees, the tall, moss covered trees, and the wind blowing through the leafs. The next burst of air I inhaled gave him away, I could smell him close by. Jacob did keep his promise, he had came.

“Why do you always sit up there, they’re going to know I met you either way.” There he was, he’s beautiful face glowing up at me. His short, black, messy hair shifting in the wind. Most people couldn’t understand why it was he was so tall, and muscular, but I understood and it just made me love him more.

“Yes but they can still tear me to shreds if they come around before you.” I smiled down at him and landed swiftly, and quietly. “ I wasn’t sure you were still planning on coming, you never know with you.” My playful teasing grin was stretched across my face.

Jacob just looked at me serious. “You know how hard it is for me to get away to see you.” I had hurt his feeling with my comment, my big mouth was always getting me into trouble. I glanced down at the ground then back up to Jacob. He was just watching me, I was wondering what he was thinking.

Jacob just starred at her for a moment, her beauty never got away from him. Her dark brown hair, with its light highlights, just past her shoulders, blowing in the breeze. As much as he shouldn’t, he loved her smell. She was taller then most of the girls around here, and he loved that about her since he was so unusually tall. She had inhumanly pale skin, and everything about her was as if enhanced. There was only one thing he didn’t like, couldn’t stand. It reminded him of what she was and why he shouldn’t be here. Her eyes, her bright crimson eyes. They wouldn’t be like that much longer. They always turned crimson the first year of a new vampires life, it was all the human blood still remaining in them after the changed. He turned away for a moment to shake all the thoughts from his head.

I decided to change the subject. “Patrol slow tonight?” The circles under his eyes weren’t as dark as usual, he must be getting more sleep lately.

“Yes, slow, but they are still on guard as long as they know you’re here. I wish you wouldn’t come on the reserve all the time, it angers them.” Jacob’s face was serious and concerned.

“Well then next time, drive into town and visit me on the outskirts. It wont bother anyone if you come to me.”

He was shaking his head again, annoyed because I never understood, or cared. “ I told you, if we are going to be friends it was going to be near impossible.”

I grabbed his hand in mine. “We’re more then just friends, Jacob come on. And its not so impossible if you would try a little harder.” That did it, he was mad now. I offended him, again. He pulled his hand away and braced him self against the tree as he shook with anger. I stood back and gave him space, he would calm down in a moment.

His voice startled me when he first words boomed through the trees. “ YOU KNOW I TRY!” He looked down ashamed then back to me, stopping to look at me in the eyes. “ I’m sorry, I hate acting like that.” He was calming down already, he was already so good at keeping control. “It takes everything to get away from the others long enough to see you, and after I get back I get a full lecture. I don’t mind, I love being with you, I’m not making excuses. You just have to grasp reality for a little bit and admit how absurd this relationship is. Even if we’re okay with being together and don’t want to hurt each other. Everyone else believes we are enemies, and that’s the way it should be. We should be at each others throats, not holding hands.”

He had glanced down, I was holding both his hands and standing unnaturally close for a vampire and a werewolf. “I know, I get it, I just don’t care. You shouldn’t have to hate me, its not like I start problems around here. I follow the rules your people have set, I don’t anger ‘protectors’ .” I rolled my eyes as I rhymed off the name of little group of werewolf’s from the reserve. He was starring at me with a look, like I said something wrong. “ Oh yeah, well this is just a little rule to break. I’m only here for a few minutes to see you. If they let you be with me I wouldn’t have to come here.” I smirked like I had just figured it all out, no more problems.

I wrapped my arms around his waist and stayed close to him. I hated being away from him for so long, I wasn’t wasting any moments we had together. Jacob just sighed, he never got through to me, and it always annoyed him. He tilted my head back so he could see my face. No matter how angry or annoyed he was with me, he didn’t stay that way for long. I could tell by his face, when he was around me it was soft, and kind.

“You have to promise me you wont aggravate them anymore, we’re together and I’m not going anywhere, so theres no reason to make anyone angry, on either side.” He was always so worried. Since I became a vampire I never really worried about too many things. Well except when Jacob’s friends got a little too close to me, they could tear me apart if they wanted to, but only if they could catch me.

I smiled and promised I would try not to aggravate them, I said try, I just did say how hard I would.

Jacob seemed satisfied that I would behave for the time being and smiled at me as he pulled be down with his to sit against the tree I had hid in earlier. This was nice, it didn’t happen all that often due to the fact I wasn’t suppose to be here. I knew it wouldn’t last too much longer, I’d be forced to leave much too soon.

I wrapped my cold arms around his neck and leaned my head against his chest to listen to his heart. Jacob was always so warm, and his heart sounded so comforting to listen to as we just sat in the woods. He keep me close as we sat there and kissed my forehead before resting his cheek against the top of my head. It was so nice to be so close to some one real, human. Even though Jacob could turn into an oversized wolf and tear just about anything to shreds, he was still real and half human. I’m not human, not even close, my heart didn’t beat like his, it was silent. I was cold and had to fight my natural instinct to kill Jacob, and the other people I met day after day. Being close to Jacob made me feel human again, I could remember what it was like to be just like him.

I was lost in thought when I finally winkled my nose at the awful smell. I opened my eyes and looked around, I couldn’t see them yet. The others like Jacob, the other werewolves. For some reason Jacob’s werewolf smell never bothered me, but the others were just awful. Jacob jumped up and pulled me along with him, trying not to seem so obvious before the others came into view.

Just as we stood up and brushed ourselves off four tall young me were standing in front of us, none of them with a particularly happy expression on their face either. Sam was in front, he was the ring leader, the alpha male. The there was Embry, Jacob’s best friend, and Jared. Taking up the rear was Paul, his face was twisted in pain trying to control himself, he especially didn’t like me. He was always angry and losing his temper, resulting in him transforming and having to run off in the woods some where till he would calm down.

Sam was the first to speak. He was the oldest and the one with the most experience as a wolf. He always had a way to keep situations under control and be reasonable about things. Not that I deserved reasonable, this wasn’t the first time I broke the treaty and crossed onto their reserve. The vampires I lived with made an agreement a long time ago to stay away from their land, feed off animals and never hurt anyone. Even though Sam was keeping calm, you could tell even he was getting tired and annoyed by my antics. He looked from me to Jacob who had put his head down in shame.

“Alright so its not as bad as we thought, we weren’t sure who to expect when we could smell a vampire.” He paused for a moment and shook his head and rolled his eyes before continuing. “Mind you we should be use to your scent, you don’t seem to stay away for too long. You’re almost out in these woods as much as we are.” Sam was being kind to me, but was still angry at both me and Jacob.

Just as Sam got the last words out there was a low growl from the back of the group. All of ours eyes immediately came to land on Paul. It never took much to anger Paul and although I wouldn’t say it out loud and hurt Jacob, I did enjoy it. But it was as much my nature to enjoy his pain, as it were for him to want to rip me apart this very moment. Another growl came form deep in Paul’s throat and his two friends stood in front of him, as if to keep me out of sight. It was obvious that wasn’t working because he could still smell me, and we could all still hear him growling and trying his best to keep calm.

As much as I should have just left while things hadn’t gone too far, I couldn’t help myself. I had to have a little fun, it came so naturally. My famous smirk crept across my face, it was somewhere between sarcastic and evil. “I don’t see a real reason for all this commotion. The Cullen’s and I aren’t the vampires you should be worrying about. We would never think of hurting your precious humans. We live off animals just so we ad bide by your treaty.”

A low growl followed by Paul angry voice came from the back of the group, I could tell I was getting to him. “We can do our job just fine, and if you weren’t here taking up our time we could it do it much better. We also have to worry about all of yous, there are no good vampires no matter how hard you try.” I’m sure this was meant to hurt me, but things didn’t like that didn’t sink it anymore. He growl once more and shook with anger. He wasn’t having an easy time to remain calm.

Even though I was sure I would hurt Jacob, I couldn’t contain my self, I had to push Paul to the limit. I smiled and leaned closer to Sam as if to tell him a secret, but my whisper wasn’t all that low, I made sure everyone could still hear me. “You know there are collars you can get, and when they misbehave like that, it shocks them.” I tired to stifle a laugh but it broke through in my mocking tone. I glanced back at Jacob and his eyes were wide with disbelief that I just said that to Sam. I tired to keep my face more serious this time, “Ok, I’m sorry, Ill try my best to behave.” I put my arms up in surrender.

No body had time to react. Paul came running from the back of the group, red in the face and growling worse then he had before. Some how he managed not to changed into a wolf. But you couldn’t tell much difference from him now and him as wolf other then his human appearance. Paul hurled him self at me with incredible force sending us both flying back into the tree that was once my hiding place. That would be the last time I sat high in the branches of the that tree. When we both hit, the tree collapsed with an earth shattering snap.

There was suddenly yelling and a lot of commotion. I hissed and growled back at Paul, pulling my lips back to show my razor sharp teeth, minus the fangs, that was just another silly myth, like stalks and the sun. Sam, Embry and Jared pulled Paul off of me, just in time too. It took both Jared and Embry to haul Paul far enough into the woods before he turned into a giant version of a wolf, you could hear him howling as he ran off deeper into the woods.

Jacob grabbed me by the arm and pulled me to my feet. It must have been taking him and Sam all their might not to transform because they were both shaking with fury at my actions and what they caused. He grabbed me by my shoulders so he could look me straight in the eyes. Some where deep down my old humans feelings brought back the emotion of guilt, that I had betrayed Jacob. It wasn’t as easy as I would have liked to push it away and ignore it with Jacob starring at me with such anger and disgust, where just a few moments ago there was concern.

“ Why do you have to say things like that to set him off. That wasn’t called for. They were all doing their best not to make this a bad situation. Sam could have given you such a hard time and that’s how you repay him?” He shook me with anger, hoping to get a caring response, but for once I didn’t have anything to say, I was still wrestling with this awful feeling in my chest, this human feeling. I’m sure if I wasn’t as hard as granite, his grip would have crushed my shoulders.

Jacob let my shoulders go, his arms dropped to his side. He couldn’t stand to look at me in the eyes right now anymore then I could look in his. But for different reasons. I felt guilty, terribly guilty, for betraying him and his family. He felt guilty for hurting me in ways I couldn’t usually be hurt. The silence and my train of though was broken when Sam’s quiet, calm, very serious voice swept through the trees.

“Do you understand now why we don’t want you here, on the reserve? You cause problems and chaos, you even hurt Jacob who you seem to care about. In the long run you could break the treaty with more then just trespassing here. You hurt the Cullen’s too and cause them to leave their home and never come back. I know you couldn’t stand to hurt them, and from the look on your face right now, I can tell some where in there you feel guilty for causing so much pain to Jacob tonight.” He turned to Jacob, who slowly looking more like him self now. “ Please take your girlfriend home. And next time you two desperately need to meet we wont stand in the way if you go to her. Just don’t make it a regular thing, this is still against the treaty, our ancestors, and everyone’s safety.” Sam disappeared into the trees the same way the other three had went, leaving me and Jacob alone again.

Jacob took my hand even though he was still angry with me and we walked back towards his house in silence. It seemed like an extremely long walk, and I kept imagine what was going with the pack, and going through Jacob’s mind. I could have probably ran to Cullen’s much faster then Jacob’s car could drive, but the fact that Jacob would want to be stuck in a car with me for the drive back to town meant he still cared and was going to put up with my crazy, hurtful antics a bit longer.

I was thinking about my self now, on the drive home. I would have to do much better at keeping my vampire instincts locked away then keeping my humans ones locked away. Jacob was willing to try and fight against his own family for the tinniest hope of us staying together. Then I would have to be willing to fight against my self for a good strong chance of us staying together. Now I wasn’t sure if it was a quote I once heard, or if I was even saying it right, since my human memories were fading, but I was sure I had once heard something along the lines, ‘ We are our worst enemy,’ and either way it seemed the case at this time.