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Three Months Later...

Kate and Bella walked to the Jeep Kate got for her birthday in silence like they did going to school every morning for the past three months. Kate had her cup of coffee in her hand as she normally did trying to fight the fatigue that plagued her from Bella's nightmares. She had taken to getting up so that Charlie didn't have to and it was taking a toll on her body. Most of the time when she went to Jacob's she took a nap before going out to the garage to work on the Rabbit.

Charlie stopped them before they opened the door, "Hey, it's freezing out. You guys running a little late again aren't you."

Kate gave Charlie a small smile, "We'll be fine dad. We always are. Aren't' we, Bella?"

When Bella gave no response Charlie sighed, "Alright. That's it. You're going to Jacksonville to live with your mother."

Kate looked at Bella who looked as if she was just slapped. Bella gasped for air trying to find words to argue with Charlie.

"I'm not leaving Forks," she told him.

"Bells, he's not coming back," Charlie told Bella softly, "It's just not normal, this behavior. Quite frankly it's scaring the hell out of your mother and me and it's killing your sister. Baby, I don't want you to leave, I don't. But just go, go to Jacksonville and make some new friends."

"I like my old friends," Bella defended.

"Bella, you never see them anymore. Isn't that right, Kate?"

Kate looked between the two, "I'm not getting involved."

"I do," Bella tried to find an excuse, "I'm going to go shopping tomorrow, with Jessica."

"You hate shopping," Charlie told Bella.

"I need a girl's night out."

"Alright. Girl's night. Shopping. I like it. Go buy some stuff," Charlie said.

Kate rolled her eyes, "Can we go to school now?"

Charlie gave Kate a tired look before nodding. She and Bella got in Kate's Jeep before talking.

"Bella you haven't talked in months and now you want to go out with the girl who talks the most in the world?" Kate asked her sister.

Bella didn't respond.

"Unbelievable..." Kate muttered, "Well you'll have to tell me all about it."

On Monday, Jacob and Kate were working on the Rabbit like they always did talking about their days. Jacob was honestly surprised to hear that Bella went out on Saturday.

"Shopping?"

Kate shrugged, "Yup, she even bought a shirt to prove it. I don't know how she did it."

Jacob laughed, "You should've gone."

"Why?"

"So you could tell me all about it."

"My life does not revolve around me telling you gossip, Jacob," Kate sighed exasperated.

Jacob gave her his trademark grin, "Then why do you keep telling me."

Kate threw an old bolt at his head, which he easily dodged while laughing.

"I don't want to get my hopes up or anything but her nightmares stopped too," she told him.

"What? You can actually sleep now?" Jacob mocked.

"I know, crazy concept that you sleep at night...whatever will the world do now that Kate Swan has gotten some sleep?"

"Burn," he shrugged.

Kate playfully glared at him, "You're so funny, Black."

She paused when she heard the rumbling of a truck coming near the house. She gave Jacob a questioning look before throwing down her grease rag and walking outside with him. Bella was getting out of her truck with a green tarp thrown over the back of it. Kate stopped in her tracks at the sight of her sister while Jacob smiled and ran ahead to hug her. What was Bella doing here?

"Bella! Where the hell have you been, loca," he laughed hugging her and spinning her around in a circle.

The sight made Kate's stomach turn.

"Don't ever say that again," she told him with a grimace.

She turned to Bella, "What are you doing here?"

Bella gave her a small smile. It was the first time that Kate had seen her sister smile in months and Kate didn't know how to handle it.

"I brought you and Jake something. It's a little crazy," she said pointing to her truck. She moved around and pulled the tarp off to reveal two-piece of junk motorcycles.

"Wow...Scrap metal, you shouldn't have," he teased.

"I saved it from the junkyard," Bella told the two of them, "I think they'll probably cost more to fix than they're worth but then I thought that if I had some mechanic friends to help me out that..."

Jacob smiled, "Ahhh... us being the mechanic type friends."

"No you being the mechanic type friend. I'm not touching those," she told them.

Bella gave her a pleading look with her eyes but Kate just shook her head.

"No. If dad finds out..."

"You're not going to tell him?" Bella looked horrified.

Kate scoffed, "It's as if you don't know me, sister. Of course not, but I'm not getting in trouble if he finds out."

Jacob cut them off, "Since when are you into motorcycles?"

"Since now," she told him, "I get it if you think this is really stupid and reckless..."

"It is," Kate told her.

Jacob nodded next to Kate, "It's completely stupid and reckless. When do we start?"

Kate shook her head at Jacob, "I knew you'd say yes."

Jacob smiled down at her before turning back to Bella.

"Now. Please?"

"Alright," Jacob said moving toward the bikes.

"Oh hey, watch out those things are like really heavy..." Bella trailed off seeing as how Jacob lifted a bike with relative ease off of the back of the truck. Bella eyed Jacob in a way that made Kate want to punch her in the face.

"Jake, you're like buff. When did that happen? You're like sixteen, I don't get..."

Jacob smirked at her, "Age is just a number. What are you like forty now?"

"Feels like that sometimes," she said to him.

Kate followed them as they took the bike into the garage. When they got inside Kate went to the Rabbit while Jacob took the bike. Jacob gave her a confused look when she walked away from him.

"I told you I wasn't touching those," Kate told him.

Jacob's face relaxed and he laughed before focusing his attention on taking the bike apart.

Over the next week it became a routine for them. Kate would work on the Rabbit while Jacob worked on the bikes. The two laughed with each other like they normally did as Bella became more and more comfortable with the two of them. Bella sat on a stool that was in the middle of the two of them seeming to smile at their banter.

After a while, Bella turned off the music causing Kate to come up from placing one of the windows on the side of the car.

"That song's good. You don't like it?" Jacob asked Bella.

Bella looked down embarrassed, "I don't really like music anymore. Kinda..."

"Okay no more music."

"So I was thinking...If we're going to be doing this everyday, which hopefully we will..." Bella began.

"Bells, what do you think I do when I come over here every day. It isn't for the company," Kate laughed.

Jacob threw her a grin and went back to work.

"Well we're going to have to do some homework in here somewhere. I don't want Charlie and Billy thinking I'm a bad influence on you two," Bella continued.

Kate scoffed while Jacob said, "You influence us? Please. It's your sister who is the bad influence.  "

"I'm older than you two that makes me the influencer and you guys the influencee..." Bella argued.

"No no no... my size and knowledge base actually makes me older than you because of your general paleness and lack of no how," Jacob told her.

"I convinced you to build two wheeled death machines with me..."

Kate muttered under her breath, "Well you're not actually helping."

"...don't you think that makes you kind of young and naïve?"

Jacob stopped working, "Okay so where do we stand?"

Bella smiled, "I'm thirty five, you might be like thirty two. Kate's twelve."

"Oh come on!" Jacob complained.

"Now wait a second," Kate exclaimed.

A knock in the garage door stopped her from whatever she was going to say next.

"Yo Jake, Kate you in there?" Embry's voice came from outside.

Kate's face lit up at the sight of her other two friends coming into the garage.

"Hey Jake, Kate," Embry greeted them as Kate walked over to stand next to Quil.

"Hey. Guys, this is Bella Swan, Kate's sister. Bella this is Quil and Embry," Jacob explained to her.

"Hey," she said softly.

Quil had that look in his eyes that immediately made Kate roll hers, "I'm Quil Attera," he told Bella seductively. "So the bike building story is true."

Bella smiled, "Yea I taught them everything they know. Cars, bikes, you name it."

"So, I gotta ask," Quil said with a smirk towards Kate, "You're not trying to steal Jake away from Kate are you?"

There was an awkward silence while Jacob and Kate looked anywhere but each other and Bella looked between them.

"Ahhhh...no," she said slowly.

Kate still avoided everyone's gaze, "Jacob and I are just friends guys."

"Yea right," Embry laughed.

Bella came to Kate's defense, "So you guys have girlfriends. That's awesome..."

Kate was never more proud of her sister than in that moment.

Jacob seemed to be relieved to because he laughed, "Yea right! Quil is actually taking his cousin to prom."

Embry and Kate laughed out loud.

"Yea that's still a riot," Quil told Jacob, "You want funny Black, I'll give you funny..."

Quil launched himself at Jacob and they engaged in one of their infamous wrestling matches. Embry and Kate moved out of their way and went to stand by Bella. Kate smacked Embry on the arm and he winced.

"What the hell was that for?" he asked her.

"That was for the Jacob comment."

Embry grinned his boyish grin at her, "It's not even a little bit true?"

"No."

Embry sighed before looking at Jacob and Quil.

"I've got five bucks on Quil," Embry told her.

"You're on," Kate smiled at him.