A/N: I love Jacob, and eventually this will be a Jacob/OC fic. The only thing you really need to know is that he isn't imprinting on Nessie. Things start off in Bella's senior year, the boys have changed already, and she and Jake are still friends.

Summary: Addy loves Jacob. Jacob loves Bella. Bella loves Edward. What do you do when you save a wolf and end up falling for his best friend, who hates you? If you figure it out let Addy know…

Sometimes It Hurts
Ch. 1 – Facebook, Ferns, and Feral Wolves?

-(-:(J:-&-:A):-)-

"Adeline Racine bonding with nature instead of an exam, i think yes!"

She updated her Facebook status before returning to the "Identifying Wild Plants" book in her lap. So far she was able to find a fern, because they're everywhere, which meant there were only nine to go.

"Why can't I be smart?" She mumbled to herself. Even though it was her second year at Grays Harbor, Addy still had no idea what she wanted to do with her life.

The women stood and brushed the leaves and dirt off of her legs and decided to try looking in a different spot. After wandering 15 feet away, her ears picked up on a soft, moaning sound.

'So not sitting on the ground again.' She thought, until getting a little closer.

After pushing back some branches, the noise was clearer. Scanning the forest floor for the source there was nothing to see. She crouched down low thinking she had spotted a berry plant, and she realized where the sound was coming from.

Only a few feet in front of her was a wounded wolf. Never in her life had she seen any animal that big. Her heart stopped beating, she was sure.

"Oh my god!" Screaming wasn't the best idea, but there weren't many others. The legs attached to her body seemed to suddenly lock up. Her mouth was instantly dry, palms thick with sweat. It didn't lunge at her, like she'd thought it would. Instead he growled, in a way that seemed to say 'get the hell away from me.'

Looking the animal over she realized he was actually very beautiful. He had grey fur, with black patches. Other than being huge, she also noticed the reason it wasn't moving. There was a metal trap caught on both its back legs, so she felt more at ease.

"Hey little guy, how'd you manage this?" The animal growled a little more. "Don't be mad at me because you jumped in a trap." Crawling closer she noticed it was a spring release trap. She'd learned about them in class. Trappers started using them so they could get their pray out faster if the game warden was around.

"I know how to get that thing off you, but I don't want you to eat me if I do." He tilted his head sideways, like he was listening to her. "So I'm going to get a closer to you, ok?" Without waiting for him to make her more nervous she walked around the wolf, the long way, making sure she was nowhere near his teeth.

"Listen. I'm going to move the trap, push the button and then what the fuck Addy! You're talking to a wolf." Without hesitation she inspected the trap for the release button.

Just as she was about to push it she heard something moving very fast towards them. At first she assumed it was the hunter, so she quickly pushed the button. It wasn't until after that second that she heard howling, and it wasn't coming from the wolf next to her.

In the next seconds they were surrounded, her and the injured wolf. Three more humongous animals were making a semi-circle, with her backed into a tree. On shaky legs, the one beside her stood as well, and that was when she dropped to the ground.

She swore she heard a male's voice says "fuck" as she was falling, but wasn't sure because she passed out.

-(-:(J:-&-:A):-)-

"…She was just trying to help…," she heard a man say as she began to wake up.

"Well what do we do with her now? How much did she see?"

"I'm not sure Sam. I was going after Victoria and then I got caught."

"Why didn't you just change back and undo it yourself Embry?"

"Do you know how much that would have fucking hurt man? I was preparing myself."

"You sound like such a pussy right now dude, you're a wolf."

"Shut the fuck up. You'd have done the same thing Paul."

"Like hell I would"

"Boys!" Addy saw all the men look across the room at a pretty Native American women. When she turned her face she noticed one side was almost completely scarred. "She's awake."

Suddenly there are 4 sets of eyes on her, and three of them were gargantuan looking La Push boys. She knew instantly because she'd heard stories about them from some of the girls at school.

"Umm…hi." She squeaked out.

"Hi dear. You must be exhausted. How are you feeling?" The women came over to her and placed a loving hand on her forehead. "I'm Emily."

"Addy, where am I?"

"La Push, in my home. The boys brought you here after they found you in the woods. You really shouldn't have been out there alone you know." The younger girl smiled, she liked Emily already. Her motherliness was comforting, especially now.

"The wolves! There were so many of them. Did you see them?" She looked around at the guys faces, trying to figure out if any of them had seen.

"No. There's plenty of wolves around here though." The oldest man, who seemed to be in charge, obviously wanted her to drop it.

"One of them was hurt though, did you see blood? He probably needs a cast or something?" She saw the younger boys turn their heads and snicker. "It's not funny! Just because their animals doesn't mean they don't need help."

"The wolves are pretty resilient around here, I wouldn't worry," Emily said.

"Umm, ok. I should go." Addy made a move to stand. One of the boys went over and helped her up. "Thanks."

"No problem, I'm Embry by the way."

"Are you sure there wasn't anything else going on in the woods besides all the wolves?" Sam was getting on her nerves.

"Nope. I drove there, started looking for my plants, heard the wolf, oh wait. I did a see a women running on trails when I first got there. I hope she's"

"What did she look like?"

"I don't know. She was going pretty fast actually, she had red hair," she heard one of them whisper 'Victoria', "anyway that's all I saw."

"Jacobs coming." The smallest boy said.

'God he has good hearing,' Addy thought, 'I didn't hear a thing'.

"What happened?" It was then that her world stopped.

The most beautiful man she had ever seen walked through the door. He was tall, over 6', with short, cropped black hair, and huge arms. Arms muscles were her weakness, and boy did she feel like she could melt.

"Nothing. A girl," Embry added her name, "saw some wolves in the woods and got scared."

"I didn't say I was scared!" For the first time he noticed her. When he looked her in the eyes she felt magic, literal sparks. No boy, man, guy, or women for that matter had ever gazed into her soul that way. It was like time had stopped for just a few seconds, and they were the only people in the room, until…

"Barn doors open Jake."

And then it was over. She only existed for those seconds and he turned around like he'd felt nothing. She thought it might just be all the excitement or fear from the day, she wasn't sure, but her heart was suddenly deflated.

"Let me take you home."

"You don't even have a car." This Seth kid was clearly the wiseass of the group.

"Then Jake can take her."

"No," Jacob shook his head, "I've got stuff to do."

"I don't want to bother you guys anymore. I'll just walk back to my car, it's fine." Addy was completely embarrassed now.

"After what happened you want to walk back into the woods?" The perfect looking man the great arms asked her.

"I'm a big girl, I'll stay on the road."

"Isn't Bella leaving now, I'm sure she'd take her," Emily threw in.

"I don't think that's" Jacob started.

"It's a good idea. We all have to talk anyway," he threw looks at the boys, "it was nice to meet you Addy."

"Nice to meet you too, and thank you for getting me out of there. I appreciate it."

"Bella's calling her dad outside, her truck's red, you can't miss it." Jacob spoke through her, more then to her.

"Ok. Thanks again." She walked out the door and was barely down a few steps when she heard Embry following.

"You should take down my number in case you remember anything, or need to talk or something. If you want…" It wasn't that Embry was unattractive, all of the guys she'd seen today were. He just wasn't her Jacob.

'Your Jacob,' she thought, 'get ahold of yourself Racine, you don't even know him.'

"Yea, I was actually working on an assignment for my Environmental Science class. That's why I was up there. Do you think you could help me find some plants, it's really boring, I just don't really want to go back there, or fail my assignment."

"Sure. I don't mind." He told her his number and she put it into her phone. "Call me anytime."

"Embry!" It sound to her like Sam calling him inside.

"Bye."

"Bye, thanks again."

About a yard over to her left was a large rickety looking red pickup truck. It was the only red vehicle around so she was pretty sure that it was Bella's. On her walk over she hoped that his friend would be as much of an ass as he was.

She only had to wait a few minutes before a girl her height, but much thinner, was walking towards her. Instantly Addy felt jealous of her.

Even though she was not too obese to function, she wasn't skinny, and no one had ever called her thin. At 5'3 her 135 pound body was defiantly not bony. She was curvy with thick thighs, while her breasts were a large b-cup. Her stomach 'pooch' as she affectionately referred to it, was her most hated quality, while she loved her dark brown hair, and tolerated her brown eyes.

"Hi, I'm Addy. They said, I mean Jacob, urr…someone said you might be able to give me a ride. My car's parked right near the old bike path between the reservation and Forks. If you don't have time to take me you don't really…"

"That's cool," Bella cut it, "I don't really have anything to do since Jake kicked me out." Bella got in the truck and Addy followed. "So how do you know the guys?"

"Oh, I don't really know them. I just met them today." She wasn't sure how much she should let on that she saw to a complete stranger. For all she knew they could be the ones who set the trap, though she doubted it because Native Americans were supposed to be in tune with nature.

"Do you go to school around here?"

"I live in Aberdeen so I'm going to college there right now. Later I'm probably going to transfer though, I really want to live on the east coast. What about you?"

"I used to live in Phoenix, but then I moved in with my dad in Forks. I'm a senior this year. I'm thinking about Alaska for college."

"Wow, that's so far! What's out there?"

"Well…," Addy could tell she was hesitant to give the truth, "my boyfriend's going there." Bella seemed uncomfortable.

"That's cool though. It's beautiful out there, I've heard."

"Yea, I just hate people thinking I'm one of those girls. You know, the ones who just blindly follow their boyfriends everywhere." Addy frowned a little, she herself had been one of those girls before.

"How do you know those guys, not a lot of people get to know the guys in La Push unless it's in the bars."

"Jake and I grew up together for a while at least, our dads are really close."

"Is he always so rude?"

"Jake rude? Maybe you're thinking of Sam, or Paul. He's one of the sweetest guys I know."

"I guess it must have been one of the others." She nodded even though she knew it had been Jake that was ignoring her, not wanting to see overly upset over it.

She noticed they were almost near her car, Bella drove pretty fast. It was probably because nothing could harm her inside 'the tank'.

"My cars right next to the start of the path."

"I never come down this way; it's so dark all the time."

"I don't come here a lot either. I saw this women running around here earlier, she must do it a lot because she was going pretty fast. One of the guys said her name was Victoria I think, do you know her?" Bella visibly paled.

"You saw Victoria?"

"I guess, I don't know. I was just thinking if she knew the woods really well I could ask her some questions about this assignment I have…Are you ok?"

"Yea, I just don't know why the guys would have me take you here if they knew she was around." Addy's face fell now too.

"Sorry, I didn't know. Did she try to steal your man or something?" The other girl didn't seem amused. "You know what; you can just let me off here. I'll be fine."

"No! Sorry, I'll take you to your car. It's safer that way." The girls both turned as they heard a howl break through the forest, and Bella relaxed.

"Guess they're back." Addy mumbled. She was officially freaked out by these people, they were defiantly into something. "Here it is," she nearly yelled.

"Ok, hopefully I'll see you around sometime."

"Thanks for the ride." She got out and nearly ran to her car, started it, and pulled away with a quick wave to Bella. "This has been the weirdest FUCKING day EVER."

-(-:(J:-&-:A):-)-

A/N: Did you like it? Reviews make me want to update, otherwise I think it's not good enough to continue. The Jacob/Addy romance will take a little while, but not too long. He's still in love with Bella so he'll obviously try to fight the imprint but they're destined to be together. Anyway glad you read the first chap! Thank you.