Hey ya'll. So this is actualy the very first fic I've ever written and will always be the closest to my heart. This is a revised version from my old account, so before anyone accuses me of copying it...there ya go. I decided to revise this story beause I love Ria and Jake, and their both very special to me, and the original fic sucked to be honest. I didn'tt ake much time to correct errors or fix things. I also tweaked the story line to fit my original plan for this story. I really hope ya'll like it.
AND I won't be abandoning She makes me beg either so don't worry. An update on that story will out sometime today.
Ria Daniels and Jake Harris have been bestfriends since as long as they could remember. Through everything they've been the constant in eachothers lives. But Ria loves Jake as more than just a friend, and as King Crab season starts Jake's feelings for her start to change. Will Ria and Jake make things work, and finally be together? Or will the very love that they have for eachother tear them apart?
Ria Daniels sighed and downed the shot of Whiskey in front of her, relishing the burn as it traveled down her throat.
"Oi. Easy on the Whiskey darling."
She turned miserably to face the man who had spoken to her.
Joshua Harris was eyeing her knowingly over his beer bottle.
"Josh. It's my first shot."
"Yeah...but with you one shot turns into two, and two turns into ten."
She quirked an eyebrow at him, and scowled " You sayin I got a drinking problem?"
"More like drinking disease..."
She waved him off " Drinking shminking." Then she gazed darkly acrss the smokey, dimly lit Elbow Room, her gaze saddening. Josh rolled his eyes and grimaced.
Ria was one of those girls who stopped traffic. They type who entered the room and made every girl take a hit of her self conciousness. Her long pale hair fell in thick silky waves down her back, falling in a casual elegance around her face. She was tiny, her curvy toned body complete with several pieces of artwork including elaborate half sleeve and several piercings. What took peoples breath away was the eyes. Large, and blue grey, framed in thick black lashes they bored into yours often sending shivers down Josh's spine. They could be laughing and dancing one moment, and blazing with anger the next.
Right now however...
They were just plain sad.
Josh shook his head. Here she was, one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen and she was moping over his stupid ass little brother.
Typical.
Jake was across the room chatting up a leggy brunette who's chest was practically falling out of her two sizes too small top.
" That boy is never gonna learn is he?" Josh glanced over to Freddie and shook his head.
" It's been 21 years...Why would he start now?"
Since Ria was old enough to know the difference between like and love she had been head over heels for Jake. And now at 21 years old, nothing had changed for Ria, and nothing had changed for Jake. She was still pining and he was still clueless.
Freddie nodded morosely and patted Ria's hand. She stood with a sigh and shruged into a jacket.
"I'll be on the boat if anyone needs me." She stole one last glance at Jake, pursed her lips and dissapeared through the crowd. Josh ran a hand tiredly over his face.
The fact that Ria was in love with Jake was common knowledge.
And Josh just didn't get it.
Jake was rude, cocky, loud and a definate 10 on the douchebag scale.
But somewhere in all that Ria found something to fall in love with.
Josh had clung to the hope that she would grow out of it and realized how foolish it was to think she and Jake would live happily ever after, but much to his dismay her adoration for the younger harris had only deepened over the years.
In simplistic terms.
Ria was fucked.
The cold seeped through Ria's clothes as she exited the bar, and night became silent around her. She walked quickly wanting to be anywhere but Alaska at that moment.
"Yo Ri!"
She half turned, not expecting the voice that had called out to her.
Jake was jogging up to her, beer bottle in one hand lit cigarette in the other. She frowned.
"Are you leaving?" He shook his head, and threw an arm roughly around her.
"No and neither are you. It's only 9:30!"
She wrinkled her nose as the alcohol radiated off him, and the smell entered her nostils. "You smell like a brewery."
He ignored her, and steered her back up the steps, his arm sliding off her shoulders and intertwining his fingers with hers, sending heat waves through her body.
And as if he hadn't made her night a living hell already he puled her down on to his lap before she could object.
She spotted Josh, who's eyebrows were raised so high on his head they were in danger of dissapearing into his hairline. She excused herself from Jake, and hurried forward ducking around people.
"What the hell?" Josh hissed when she appeared at his elbow.
She averted her eyes "He's drunk Josh...It..it doens't mean anything."
But to Ria it meant a whole lot.
Before Josh could respond to her, a guy slid easily in between them. He was scruffy, somewhere in his late thirties or early forties, and definately a fisherman josh noticed as he clocked the deck boots. He grinned at Ria.
"Hey sugar. Buy you a drink?"
She flicked her gaze to Josh, then back to the man and smiled politely.
" No I don't think so-"
"Awe come on." He said, smile turning nasty "Don't be like that." He advanced on her, forcing her to take a step back.
"Hey man she said she wasn't interested."
The fisherman turned to Josh as if noticing for the first time that he was there.
"Was I talking to you?"
Anger bubbled in the pit of Josh's stomach, as the scruffy man turned back to Ria nasty smile spreading across his face. "So how bout it?"
"What're you fuckin deaf? The lady said beat it."
Ria glanced nervously over to the Captains table and saw that Edgar was the only one who had noticed to heated exchange, and was watching closely.
The nasty smile on the guys had long since faded, and was replaced by a glare as the man turned back to Josh.
"Heyy asshole, why don't you take your beer and go back to your boys."
"There a problem over here?"
They turned to see Sig, who had appeared quite literally out of nowhere, face smooth but eyes hard as he looked between the three of them suspiciously.
"No sir." the scruffy man replied, giving him a mock salute "Me and the lady was just leavin" He grabbed Ria by the arm pulling her flush to his side.
"Get your hands off of her right now."
Jake was pushing people out of the way as he stormed through the bar, chest puffed out like a balloon, anger etched all over his face. He looked crazed for a moment, his hazel eyes huge in his head, and glittering with malice as he got less than three feet away and promptly pitched his beer bottle at the guys feet shards of glass and fizz spraying everywhere.
"What the fuck bro?" The guy said jumping backwards. His friends had slowly begun to creep forward realizing their scruffy counterpart was in need of some assistance "She's just some bar slut-
But whatever else the guy said was lost as Jake fist flew in the general direction of his face, and an all out brawl started in the bar.
"Jake!" Ria screeched, jumping forward to wrench one of the guys off his back, but was stopped prematurely by Freddie. He shook his head.
"No sweetheart. You stay here."
Jake Anderson and Ryan came flying out of nowhere and started pushing and shoving in order to get two of the guys off Jake as he struggled to get a grip on the scruffy guy his fist connecting several times with the guys face.. Ria was watching the fight anxiously, when she felt a rough tap on her shoulder. She turned to find a girl, several inches taller than she sneering down at her.
"Keep your fucking boyfriend on a leash bitch."
" Tell your animal to keep his hands to himself and get out of my face." She spat turning away from her. The girl grabbed Ria by the left arm, and on instinct Ria turned swinging her fist and caught the girl right on the eye socket as she grabbed at Ria's hair. They fell in a screaming tangled heap, Ria on top punching wildly until she felt the sickening crunch of the girls nose beneath her fist.
" All right I think you made your point. You made your point!" Freddie yelled prying Ria off the girl and puling her backwards as she fought to get free. Several fake fingernails, strands of blonde hair, and blood from the girls broken nose and a small cut above Ria's eyebrow were on the floor.
"Easy Pitbull." Jake said, grinning at her who even after being in a bar fight looked effortlessly perfet and was smiling at her as he examined the cut above her eye. She absently dashed at the blood which had trickled down her face.
"Bitch got what she deserved." Ria said, leaning around to watch the girl clutch at her face, blood ozing between her fingers.
"Alright kiddies." Phil said, eyes twinkling "Let's head home before we all end up in the clink...Again."
By the time they got back to the boat Ria's head was pounding from the fight, the alcohol, and the stress over Jake. She opted out of hanging out in the galley and went to shower instead. As she exited the bathroom, the guys had started a rowdy game if cards, and she could hear several accusations of cheating being yelled.
She was more than suprised to find Jake lying back on his bunk, when she entered the state room. He grinned at her, and patted the bed next to him. She walked slowly over and crawled very awkwardly, careful not to touch him as she manuvered herself over him. She tensed as she laid down, and she was sure he could hear her pounding heart through her chest. He reached an arm out blindly in the dark and slid it over her waist, fingers leaving a trail of goosebumps the small of her back as he grazed her skin. He sat suddenly and pulled his shirt over his head, and then settled back down next to her facing only inches away. She stared at him for a long moment. It would be so easy to end things right here and now. All she had to do was lean slightly forward and...
But she pushed herself away from him, and closed her eyes listening to the sound of his deep breathing, with only one thought on her mind.
I hate you Jacob Harris.
