Riley Swan has no idea what was coming for her in this new town with her sister, she just knew that Bella has made a promise to protect her, and then they ended up surrounded by the supernatural...
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"Jake" Riley breathed out when he had answers the door, the rain had poured down on her, leaving her drenched from the typical Fork's and La Push weather.
Jake stood in front of Riley with a confused expression on his face, he hadn't exactly been expecting her to show up on his doorstep looking like a drenched puppy, but he didn't like the face that she had on either. Something was wrong. "Riles?"
She didn't say anything else, just held out the letter to him sadly, which he took cautiously before he took it over to where his dad was sat in the living room. Riley hug back by the door, waiting for his reaction to kick in so she could try and be there for him.
She watched his jaw clenched and unclench as he read it quickly, his brain wrapping around it and coming to concept with what had happened.
He stood up sharply, not even thinking straight as he headed straight towards the door, not bothering to answer his dads confused calling, dropping the invitation on his porch before he ripped his shirt off, ready to shift.
"Jake!" Riley cut into his line of bailable, and his steps faltered as he met her eyes, he held a finger up accusingly.
"You didn't stop her!" He countered angrily, and she shook her head at him as the rain caused her hair to stick to her face, she was upset as to how her friend was reacting, and she didn't know how to help this time. "You were supposed to stop her! You were supposed to make sure she would be happy!"
"She will be happy Jake!" Riley shouted back, surprising them both as she had raised her voice at him, but she shook her head at him as if saying her was wrong. "She will always be happy with Edward, neither can live without the other and if she truly wants to leave us all—leave us—leave you...or even me! Then so be it!"
"Being dead won't make her happy" Jake responded, his eyes glowering down on Riley. "You're being selfish"
He pushed her shoulder as he tried to walk away again, only for her to hold onto his shoulder with her newfound strength and turn him around again. "You're being selfish! You're happy, so why can't she be?!"
"Because she'll be leaving us all behind Riley! When we all die, she will regret her choice! She won't know the people in the graves, because she wouldn't have even been here" Jake shouted down at her, and his words hit Riley hard as she began to falter in her anger, her facade coming down as tears began to fall from her eyes.
"You just have to be selfless enough to let her go Jake" Riley's voice came down, "if you walk away, you'll be the one abandoning everyone—how is the pack and your dad going to feel about that?! How is Jess going to feel?!"
"Don't bring her into this" Jake growled at her animal-like, but Riley shook her head again, angrily wiping away any stray tears.
"You started it! You're the one running away and being a coward! She may be your best friend, but you are not the only person she will be leaving!" Riley's anger had peaked again, and Jake was shaking uncontrollably. "So, take that and shove it somewhere special!"
"Get out of my way Riley" Jake warned her, and Riley pushed his shoulders as he tried to walk forward again, accidentally pushing him away further than she had anticipated.
She pushed him too far and he had lost any sense of control that he had left in him, immediately regretting what he did afterwards as his wolf cried down at her body on the floor, where she was crying from the pain, clutching onto her stomach as the rain mixed with the wound.
Jake noticed the packs thoughts reaching toward them, and so he ran off with the only chance he got, leaving Riley alone and hurt in the rain—knowing the pack would be there to help soon.
