Bella Swan and Jacob Black

Alishba Jowdat and Raja Hussain Iqbal. Alishba actually falls in love with Hussain. It's understandable why this fact didn't occur to her: Alishba had fallen in love only one other time, and it was a very sudden, dramatic, sweep-you-off-your-feet, change-your-world, magical, passionate, all-consuming thing. She didn't recognize the much more subtle falling-in-love she experienced with Hussain. She was only aware that she preferred being with him over everyone else, that he was constantly on her mind, and that his happiness was essential to her own. She also enjoyed being physically close to him in a way that she didn't with her other friends. But it took her a while to add up all the pieces.

Alishba Jowdatand Raja Hussain Iqbal's relationship is complicated because Hussain, a shape-shifter, is in love with Alishba although she is romantically involved with Ahad Ali, a vampire.

Bella Swan
Isabella Marie Swan's parents divorced when she was three months old, and Renée took Bella with her to Riverside, California before moving to Phoenix, Arizona when she was five.

She did not fit in very well at school, never having many friends, and spent a lot of time with her mother. She briefly took ballet classes when she was younger. Bella visited Forks to spend time with Charlie every summer. During these occasions, she also spent time with Rachel, Rebecca, and Jacob Black, the children of Charlie's friend Billy Black. She stopped visiting Forks at the age of fourteen. This was when she put her foot down, and Charlie went to California for two weeks every summer instead. Bella took care of her mom.

By the time Bella was seventeen, her mom remarried to a minor league baseball player named Phil Dwyer. Because of his career, Phil traveled often, and Bella noticed how much her mother wanted to follow him in his travels. To make it easier for them, Bella moved back to her birth town of Forks to live with her father.

Jacob Black
Jacob Black was born to Billy and Sarah Black. Unfortunately, his mother Sarah died in a tragic car crash when he was nine years old. He has two older sisters, twins Rachel and Rebecca Black. Rebecca married a surfer named Solomon Finau, and moved to Hawaii, while Rachel had been off to college. Jacob grew up with his two best friends, Embry Call and Quil Ateara V, and spent the majority of his life living with his father on La Push.

Like many teenagers of his generation, the Quileutes have been passed their knowledge and traditions by their elders, but none of them took it seriously believing them to be nothing more than superstitions; Jacob was therefore completely unaware of his true power until it awakened in New Moon.

Twilight
"… I really liked Jacob. He was someone I could easily be friends with."

- Bella's thoughts on Jacob.

In Twilight, Bella only encounters Jacob four times after she moved back to Forks.

She first meets him on First Beach on La Push where she successfully flirts with him to gather information about the Quileute tribe's legends regarding vampires. He tells her what he knows about the "Cold Ones" and how the story relates to the Cullen family. Though her flirt was a trick to gather information, she expresses a liking in Jacob and feels guilty for tricking him.

The second time, Jacob and Billy visit Bella's house again. While Billy and Charlie prepare to enjoy a baseball match, Bella and Jacob hang out.

The third time, Jacob visits Bella with his father. Billy warns Bella about Edward Cullen and his family.

The fourth time, Billy sends Jacob to Forks High School on prom night to try and persuade her to break up with Edward, quoting, "We'll be watching you." Jacob crashes the prom and dances with Bella before Edward takes over again, much to his dismay.

Jacob first appears in the movie adaptation of Twilight with his father to deliver Bella's Chevy pick-up truck and teaches her how to handle it.

New Moon
"It's just that, I know how you're unhappy a lot. And, maybe it doesn't help anything, but I wanted you to know that I'm always here. I won't ever let you down―I promise that you can always count on me. Wow, that does sound corny. But you know that, right? That I would never, ever hurt you?"

- Jacob promising Bella.

Bella and Jacob cease to meet since prom night. Months after Edward leaves Forks, Bella comes to find Jacob and persuades him to help her rebuild two dead motorcycles to experience adrenaline rushes in order to hear Edward's voice in her mind, but as they spend more time together he starts to open up about his feelings for her, and Bella is torn by her own feelings to both Edward and Jacob. After Jacob phases, he is prohibited by Sam Uley from seeing Bella, saying that he could hurt or kill her. When Laurent attempts to kill Bella at the meadow, Jacob appears in wolf form with his pack and runs off to kill him.

Bella visits Jacob after one week of solitude. He furiously orders her away after learning from the tribe that she has known about the Cullens being vampires. One night, Jacob visits her at her house and gives her clues to help her figure out what he has become. She eventually discovers that he is now a shape-shifter. The next morning, she visits him and they finally tell each other everything. It turns out that Victoria has come to kill Bella, given Edward killed her mate, James. Jacob tells this to Sam and they prepare a hunting troop for Victoria. Also, Jacob was ordered not to be close to Bella because it wasn't safe for her.

As he is hunting Victoria, Jacob cannot spend much time with Bella because he's either on patrol or sleeping. This causes Bella's depression to creep back in and to keep it at bay she jumps off a cliff to hear Edward's voice again but ends up almost drowning, if not being killed by Victoria first, but Jacob pulls her out before she could seal her fate, keeping Victoria at bay with his "repulsive, wet dog smell" and herself from drowning. When Alice Cullen unexpectedly returns to Forks because she'd "seen" Bella jump, Jacob tries to take Bella to safety, but she refuses and walks away. Two days later, a sullen Jacob appears at her house and shares a brief conversation with them separately that leads them to almost kiss until they receive a call from Edward. Jacob takes the call and tells him that Charlie is at a funeral, which leads him to believe it is Bella's. Alice has a vision of his suicidal desire and she and Bella rush off to stop him. Jacob promises to protect Charlie while she is gone, but, knowing that she will be heading to the Volturi's headquarters to find Edward, pleads her to stay. She refuses, and he is deeply hurt by her decision.

At the end of the story, a lovesick Jacob is forced to stay away when Edward returns to Forks with his family and reconciles with Bella. Jacob turns in her motorcycle to Charlie to make him ground her, not knowing that she is already grounded for leaving without his permission.

Eclipse
"I'm exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us―comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken… If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic..."

- Jacob telling Bella how it would have been.

Their relationship wavers again in Eclipse. For weeks, Jacob continuously stays from a distance while Bella tries to contact him. After Emmett and Paul almost have a fight hunting Victoria, Jacob visits Bella and Edward at school to warn them. Jacob struggles to keep away from Edward but be with Bella, and even tries to convince Bella to choose him instead of Edward. This leads to a big argument between them, and Jacob decides to tolerate the Cullens to see Bella more often.

He forces a kiss on her, which Bella is outraged by and punches him for it, but breaks her hand instead. They soon make up however, though Jacob continues to fight for her, a bit more carefully this time. He makes her a bracelet for a graduation present, much to her pleasure. It's a wooden, carved wolf charm. When the Cullens discover an army of newborn vampires coming for Bella, Jacob volunteers to help, willingly putting aside his still-roaming issues for the time being. When he learns that Bella and Edward are engaged, he is enraged and pretends to sacrifice himself to make Bella willingly offer a kiss, which is the only thing keeping him from killing himself. As Bella is kissing Jacob, she visualizes a future with him and realizes that she is in love with him after all. Edward learns about this kiss while it goes on because "Jacob's thoughts are very loud".

Despite Bella realizing her feelings for Jacob, she stays by her decision, leaving him heartbroken. Once back at home again, Bella she cries over having to reject Jacob, with Edward comforting her all night. Edward sends Jacob a wedding invitation sometime after, prompting him to run into the woods and live as a wolf to escape the pain.

Breaking Dawn
"Bella, things are different with us now, but you'll always be my best friend, and I'll always love you, Bella. But I'll love you the right way now, there's finally a balance. We both have people we can't live without."

- Jacob talking to Bella as they leave behind their previous relationship issues.

For two months, Jacob has gone missing since Eclipse. He attends the wedding reception, and asks Bella to dance with him. When she tells him about her honeymoon plans, he nearly gets into a fight with her and Edward, and Seth and Sam are forced to restrain him and take him away before he phases into his wolf form.

Edward impregnates Bella on their honeymoon, and they are forced to return to Forks immediately. Jacob believes that she has already turned into a vampire at this point and engages a solo attack against everyone's advice until he learns of Bella's pregnancy. Edward suggested that Bella have an abortion and have a baby with Jacob instead, but Bella refused. Jacob promises to kill Edward if Bella dies, which Edward gladly agrees to. When Sam plans an unprovoked attack against the Cullens to prevent Bella's child from being born, Jacob takes his place as rightful Alpha wolf by leaving Sam's pack to protect her, with Leah and Seth joining him. During the pregnancy, he and Bella feel strongly drawn to each other in ways they didn't understand. When Bella goes into labor, Jacob gives Edward his permission to turn Bella into a vampire to save hers and the baby's lives.

After her daughter, Renesmee is born, Jacob believes Bella is dead, and tries to kill the baby, but instead imprints on her. Jacob tells Sam about this, forcing the packs to make permanent peace with the Cullens, because harming or killing anyone a wolf imprints on is against tribal law, with no exceptions.

Bella is unconscious for two days while undergoing her vampire transformation. After awakening, Edward takes her on her first hunt to quench her thirst before she can see Renesmee. She is furious when she learns about the imprinting, and even more so when she hears that he nicknamed her daughter "Nessie" after the Loch Ness Monster. Jacob tells Bella they were drawn to each other while she was pregnant because of Renesmee, and insists that he only wants her to be safe and happy.

When the Cullens talk about leaving Forks again, Jacob believes it's because of Charlie, Bella's father. He visits Charlie, and tells him that Bella had to "change." He also tells Charlie he doesn't live in the world he thinks he does, and even phases into his wolf form. Charlie is horrified. Bella and Edward were not happy about it, but were glad they were able to stay in Forks.

When they find out that the Volturi are coming to destroy their family, Bella has legal documents forged for both Jacob and Renesmee to help them escape, trusting her daughter in his care and accepting wholeheartedly his imprinting on her.

As the confrontation is about to break into a fight, Bella hands Renesmee over to Jacob, and they share a tearful hug. Bella also reassures Jacob that he will always be her best friend. The situation is resolved peacefully when Alice and Jasper bring back Nahuel, another half-human, half-vampire hybrid, and his aunt from South America to give the Volturi reason to leave peacefully.

By the end of Breaking Dawn, Jacob and Bella finally put their issues behind them and become best friends once again, with Bella accepting him as her future son-in-law.