AN: So a few notes. This is exceptionaly ooc. and its all human. and weird. i was just trying it out. let me know if you liked it. I do not own twilight.
A yelp escaped my mouth. I shrank deeper and deeper into my fleece as the demons out of the woods crawled towards the hay ride. Unable to make any further sound I clung to Jacobs arm, tight; nearly ripping it out of its socket. He was un-phased by neither the actors nor their life like chainsaws. If anything he was amused. I was crapping myself. I knew they were just kids from my school playing dress up to scare some lame little kids. But that didn't change the fact that I didn't know where they were hiding or when they were going to pop out or what they were going to do to me, I just knew that they were there. And that terrified me; the unknown. That's what sent Jess (sitting on the other side of Jacob) and I cowering into Jake's steady arms. That's what was good about Jacob; he had no problem with anything really. He let me, basically, burrow into his side out of childish fear. He even made fun of Jess and I, which even though I yelled at him for doing, I appreciated. It did make me feel better.
As the ride came to an end I relaxed a little. I loosened my death grip and looked around. It was all the same from before our journey around the lake. Same faceless kids, on the same obnoxiously long line, waiting to get on the same hay ride. Good and safe. No more costumed monsters. That is, until I sensed something behind me. Immediately I froze, muscles tensed ready to run. A small tap on my back sent me 10 feet in the air and scrambling back for Jacobs arm.
I was wrong. There was one more monster. And he was dressed up as my friend; who sat there laughing at my expense after just scaring the living hell out of me. Leaning back, realizing how he had tried to fool me I hit him in the chest. I tried for angry but it turned out as more of relieved embarrassment. I smiled and let him help me up.
"You couldn't honestly have been scared?" he joked. I attempted a scowl, but before I could get a word in Jess answered for me.
"She was just scared of your face that's all!" with that she threw a handful of hay into the hood of his jacket. To anyone else we would look like the oddest group of friends. Jealous, hateful, oddly close, with a perverted, twisted sense of humor. But that's because they don't get us. We are all madly in love with each other. Separate or together we were made for each other. It's odd to think about, even myself. But Jess and I both like Jacob. Only we aren't like normal teenagers. We aren't jealous of each other. It isn't even a problem. We all know; but no one really cares. We just live for each other and that's it. We don't spend a whole lot of time together but when we do its magic, in the most cliché form of the word. The three best friends that anyone could have.
We made our way back to our beach, deserted but for the stray lame kid running to catch up with someone. And sat there on the sandy band of the uninhabitable lake. The temperature seemed to have dropped considerably. I was close to shivering when Jess got a call.
"Hello? Connor?" her little bro. She got up and started walking around just out of ear shot.
"She's such a cutie." I said evenly to Jacob, smiling after her.
"Shes got GREAT boobs." Was how he decided to respond. I turned to him incredulous. I mean I knew he liked them but he had never put it so bluntly to me before.
"Yeah, she does. I guess." I looked at her sideways. Jacob, still sitting next to me in the sand reached into his back pocket. He pulled out and relieved to me a little orange square I immediately recognized. The best way to describe it was a lollypop, still in the wrapper, only missing its stick. Like the kind you would get at the bank. I gaped at the not lollypop.
"Why do you have that with you? Now?" I stammered. I'm sure I looked like a complete idiot, but it was only Jacob.
"JIC." He put simply and nodded towards Jess.
"What?" I didn't get it. Did he think he was going to get some? Is that why he brought it?
Just then Jess came back with her hand over the mouth of the phone. "Everything okay? I'm just going to get Connors sweatshirt from him."
"Yeah everything's fine. Go away. Let the adults talk." Jacob said. And she left just as confused as I felt.
"JIC?" I prompted.
"Just in case. Ya know. Like if I'm at a party or something and I'm drunk I want to be protected." He said as if that answered everything.
"Yeah I get that, but why would you bring one here? This is neither a party nor a place where we will be drinking." I was a little annoyed now. If he wanted to hook up with Jess he could have.
"I want to be prepared. Safe. I'm not saying I'm expecting anything to happen here. Just if it does," he gave me a wink. "I want to be ready." And smirked at me. Placated by this I didn't push it any further.
"I mean, hey, if you wanna try it out I'm always game!" he laughed and gave me a huge smile. I gave him a hard shove, pretending I was repulsed by the idea.
"HA HA. Very funny you are." I stuck my tongue out at him but inside I was elated he suggested such a thing. Sometimes I wished our relationship was actually like that. But then I remember Jess and how naturally she fit in to our own little island of misfits. Just in time she swaggered back holding a small black jacket which I assumed was Connors.
"Cold bitches?" she threw it at us. I think she just wanted to see us fight over it. "So what were you guys talking about before?" she sat back down with us.
"Nothing. Just how cute you are." I said, which wasn't entirely false.
"Oh look!" Jacob said pointing. "The life guard stand is open. Lets go!" Jess knowing I would tell her later didnt push the matter and stood up with him.
"Wanna do me a solid?" I asked and extending my hand out for someone to help me up.
"I got you." Jake said. With one hand still brushing sand off his butt and the star wars style holding my wrist he pulled me up. And we set off to the life guard stand. It wasn't that far down the beach but on our way Jacob ran up to Jess and started wiping her butt "just to get the sand off" for her. She had no part of it.
Once up on the stand we got down to our best friend thing. We cozied up and snuggled under Connors jacket like it was a blanket. I held Jake's are and rested my head on his shoulder. He was in the middle again for he was the warmest of the three of us. I was so cold and he was so warm I would do anything to get closer to him. Slowly, that's exactly what I did. I brought my chest closer to his arm first then my hip against his, then my legs pressing into his. I finally had to stop when I was nearly sitting in his lap and he started to look at me funny.
It was great, sitting like that, quiet, just watching for shooting stars. We sat there forever Jacob holding both our hands and me and Jess across his stomach holding hands. It was adorable. And I loved it. And I was hot and cold all the same. And the sky was perfect and my friends were perfect…That is until Jacob had to be a jackass.
"You know how easily I could ruin this?" he smirked and when neither of us answered he jerked forward; nearly throwing all three of us off the stand. I screamed and Jess clutched at the throat of Jakes jacket. He had us though.
"You're not going to die calm yourself." He chuckled. I slapped him on the chest again.
As much as we were scared we stayed standing there on the edge looking over. Until Jess got another phone call where she climbed down and walked away again. We both let her knowing it was her mother on the other end.
I turned on him, "Don't you ever do that again!" I glowered.
"You know how easily I could throw you right now?" he smirked. And when I raised my eye brows at him he lunged and grabbed me by the waist; holding me just over the edge. I would have screamed but no sound escaped my lips. I wrestled with the air in my lungs until I finally came up with,
"Put me down!" and so he did. Only he didn't relinquish his hold on my waist. "Please. I'd like to be back on solid ground!" I whimpered. All nerve sucked out of me.
"Sure, sure." He resigned to helping me down the ladder. Once on the ground though I wasn't as safe as I thought I would be. He grabbed me up in a huge bear hug from behind and spun us around till we fell on the ground. It wasn't hard. It was a nice soft fall him on top of me. I wriggled trying to get away only to have him pin me down. We were both laughing uncontrollably by the I got a knee free and got him in the stomach.
"What the F?!" Stopped dead in her tracks by the sight of us, Jess yelled. To fully understand her shock I must paint you a picture.
Jake almost laying on top of me. My hands pinned over my head. His face just inches from mine. My knee propped up on his hip. And to put the icing on the cake: that little orange plastic pouch from earlier was lying in the sand not half a foot from our position. (It must have fallen out of his pocket while we were spinning.) You can imagine what that looked like to Jess.