Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight nor do I pretend to. I do own Collie however and Coach :]
Author's Note: Hey Guys! I know it's another JacobXOC story but like I say on my profile, I just recently got the nerve to post stuff on this website and there was a time period when I really liked Jacob with an OC so don't judge me :]. The italicized words are Collie's thoughts. Hope you enjoy.
UPDATED AUTHOR'S NOTE: So, I recently went back through this story to make corrections and add some new details. I've also made Biggest Fear the sequel to Oh Buddy. Thanks to everyone who has viewed, alerts and reviewed this story.
I sighed as I glanced back at my dad as he waved from the driver's seat and pulled away. Looking up at the small brick building that was the only high school the reservation, I inwardly groaned. Don't get me wrong, I love the rez, but I hated high school more. It's not the work, I'm rather a good student actually and, to the annoyance of my classmates, I was a teacher's pet.
I sighed again as I climbed the wide stairs and entered the building. I had been home sick with the flu for the past week and had finally got the okay to come back to school.
I entered the office and smiled at Mrs. Baker, she was the office secretary and loved me, so much that she would let me get away with murder.
"Colleen! I'm so glad you're back! How are you feeling?" she asked as I handed her my school excuse for the past three weeks that I had been absent. She was the only person who called me Colleen, besides my Mom who left when I was three.
"I'm fine, thanks for your concern Mrs. Baker." I said with my sweetest suck up voice. I know it's weird, but my friends say my voice changes when I talk to someone of authority, like it goes higher and becomes sweeter. My best friend Ally calls it my "Girl Scout" voice.
Mrs. Baker handed me a note to my second period class, which was gym and smiled. "If you start to feel unwell come let me know and I will send you home." She said smiling before motioning me to leave the office. I smiled and nodded as I headed for the gym.
I pushed my dark brown hair off my shoulder and walked into the gym class. I rolled my eyes as the chorus of Katy Perry's California Gurls blasted through the gym as warm up music. Coach Adams always tried to pretend he was one of the kids and most of us thought he was pretty cool, only because he let his pets get away with anything. He also liked to be called "Coach" which I found weird but whatever it's not my name.
I walked up to coach and handed him my note, he smiled and said "Welcome back Anderson" and continued telling people to keep warming up. As I headed toward the bleachers, I felt a pair of strong, warm arms wrap around me and swing me around, yelling "Collie!" I laughed as I was spun around and placed back on my feet. "Jake!" I laughed as he put me down and I turned to face him. When I looked into his brown eyes I was hit with some sort of awe struck feeling.
It felt like I was drawn to him and I resisted the urge to jump into his arms. He was, for lack of a better term, beautiful. His muscles were visible through his tight gym shirt and his eyes were a beautiful chocolate brown. Jake was also very attractive in the face and well let's just say I thought he looked very nice. He was staring at me with some sort of expression between awe and shock that reminded me of a blind man seeing light for the first time and then I realized I had been staring so I turned away and looked at the bleachers.
Searching for some reason not to look up at him again, I sat my stuff down on the bleachers and when I finally got the nerve to turn back around to face him; Quil and Embry where standing there.
"Collie-Cat! Your back! Gosh it has been awful with you gone, I've had to do my own English work!" Quil said, sounding dramatically exasperated but I knew he was kidding, kinda. He wrapped his arms around me, picked me up and squeezed. Dang! Did these three take steroids while I was gone? What the heck! I laughed as he sat me down, grateful I could breathe again.
"And I had to read a whole chapter in history without you! Do you know how hard that was? Never leave us again!" Embry added as he pulled me to his chest, dramatically.
I laughed as I pushed myself away from him. I had known Embry, Jake and Quil since we were all in preschool. After my Mom had left, my dad felt he needed to get back to his Quileute roots and move pack to La Push and closer to my grandma.
I had all the traits of most the Quileute women, dark brown hair and tan skin except my eyes were an ocean blue instead a chocolate brown. My grandmother says that my eyes are the only good thing my mother ever gave me.
I suddenly looked up at Quil with a thoughtful look, "Wait, Quil, I was out with the flu for three weeks."
He looked at me like I was crazy, "So?"
"So," I rolled my eyes at his utter lack of attention to detail, "You said it was a hard week without me. So either you three are too daft to have realized I was gone or you three were out too."
I heard a chuckle and looked over to Jake who was giving me an amused smile, and I suddenly felt my face turn pink knowing I had just let my inner nerd out again. Did I mention I hated high school?
"There she goes again, sometimes I feel like I'm hanging out with Hermione Granger or something. Okay, would you like some house points now?" Embry said, while he and Quil started laughing their heads off at my expression. Embry was in love with Harry Potter and often made references to it, including comparing me to Hermione.
Before I could respond with a sarcastic comment, Coach called us all to the middle of the floor and began to explain the game we were going to play. I realized I hadn't had time to warm up or dress into my gym clothes so I was the only one in jeans. I saw Jake whispering to Quil who was grinning like crazy. I shrugged it off, even though I really wanted to know what they were talking about, and turned to listen to coach.
"Okay kids, today we are going to play some flag football. This means no physical contact fellas, since the ladies are playing too." Coach said a lot more, but I didn't hear him, I was having a panic attack inside my head.
Are you kidding me? Yes, let's make the clumsiest kid in the class play football! I swear I don't even know why I'm in gym! As the mini rant continued in my head I felt a hand on my shoulder and looked over to see Jake giving me a worried look. Awe he was worried about me, Yay!
"Are you okay?" He asked in a husky whisper that I found very sexy. Sexy! What the hell Collie, stop that!
"Yeah, just a little nervous, you know I'm not very coordinated." I replied with a fake smile and turned my attention back to Coach just in time to see him split us into teams.
I was placed in front of a huge guy I knew as Gary Arnold, I also knew Gary hated me which made me even more nervous. I had turned him down last year to go to the annual back to school beach party and since then he had harassed me and even filled my locker with strawberry jam, knowing I was allergic to strawberries!
I looked over to the bleachers and noticed that the guys had their heads together talking about something. I noticed that Embry was wearing an angry expression that made me worried. My worry for Embry didn't last long however, when Jake suddenly looked up and gave me an encouraging smile. He has such a great smile, and his dimples are SO cute. Sigh, it should be illegal to be that hot. I mentally shook myself out of my thoughts and smiled back at him and turned back at Gary.
He was looking at me and got an, what I'd like to call, evil grin on his face and mouthed "You're going down, Anderson." I was so shocked at his statement I hadn't realized that: A) Jake had stood up and was looking at me with his worried expression and B) we had started playing.
Suddenly the football was thrown into my hands and I looked up in time to see Gary running at me, getting ready for a tackle. I gave my best "girl" scream and threw the football into the air before everything went black.
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