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  he family — you would remember my older
  sisters.”
  ”rad rebecca,” i suddenly recalled. d billy had thrown
  us together a l my visits, to keep us busy while they fished. we
  were all too shy to make much progress as friends. of course, i'd kicked
  up enough tantrums to end the fishing trips by the time i was eleven.
  ”are they here?” i exami the o's edge, w if i
  whem now.
  ”no.” jacob shook his head. ”rachel got a scholarship to washington
  state, and rebecca married a samoan surfer — she lives in hawaii now.”
  ”married. as stuwins were only a little over a year
  older than i was.
  ”so how do you like the truck?” he asked.
  ”i love it. it ru.”
  ”yeah, but it's really slow,” he laughed. ”i was so relived when charlie
  bought it. my dad would me work on building another we
  had a perfectly good vehicle right there.”
  ”it's not that slow,” i objected.
  ”have yo over sixty?”
  ”no,” i admitted.
  ”good. don't.” he grinned.
  i 't help grinning back. ”it does great in a ,” i offered
  in my truck's defense.
  ”i don't think a tank could take out that old mreed with
  anh.
  ”so you build cars?” i asked, impressed.
  ”wheime, and parts. you wouldn't happen to know where i
  y hands on a master der for a 1986 volkswagen rabbit?” he
  added jokingly. he had a pleasant, husky voice.
  ”sorry,” i laughed, ”i haven't see i'll keep my eyes
  open for you.” as if i khat was. he was very easy to talk with.
  he flashed a brilliant smile, looking at me appreciatively in a way i was
  learning tnize. i wasn't the oiced.
  ”you know bella, jacob?” lauren asked — in what i imagined was an
  ione — from across the fire.
  ”we've sort of kher since i was born,” he laughed, smiling at
  me again.
  ”how nice.” she didn't souhought it was all, and her
  pale, fishy eyes narrowed.
  ”bella,” she called again, watg my face carefully, ”i was just saying
  to tyler that it was too bad he e out today.
  didn't ao ihem?” her expression of was
  ung.
  ”you mean dr. carlisle 's family?” the tall, older boy asked before
  i could respond, much to lauren's irritation. he was really closer to a
  man than a boy, and his voice was very deep.
  ”yes, do you know them?” she asked dingly, turning halfway
  toward him.
  ”the s don't e here,” he said i closed the subject,
  igion.
  tyler, trying to wiion, asked lauren's opinion on a cd
  he held. she was distracted.
  i stared at the deep-voiced boy, taken aback, but he was looking away
  toward the dark forest behind us. he'd said that the s didn't e
  here, but his tone had implied somethihey weren't
  allowed; they were prohibited. his marange impression on
  me, ao ighout success.
  jaterrupted my meditation. ”so is f you i?”
  ”oh, i'd say that's aement.” i grimaced. he grinned
  uandingly.
  i was still turhe brief ent on the s, and i had a
  sudden inspiration. it lan, but i didn't have aer
  ideas. i hoped that young jacob was as yet inexperiend girls, so
  that he wouldhrough my sure-to-be-pitiful attempts at flirting.
  ”do you h me?” i asked, trying to imitate
  that way edward had of looking up from uh his eyelashes. it
  't have he same effect, i was sure, but japed up
  willingly enough.
  as we walked north aultihued stooward the driftwood
  seawall, the ally ks across the sky, g the sea
  to darken and