SAVE MY HEART FOR YOU
Summary: You don't give up on people you truly love. Whether they are in your life or stand on the edge of your heart, you want them to be happy. This is the truest kind of love because it gives more than it ever receives."
― Shannon L. Alder
Chapter one: Be My friend, hold me, wrap me up
"The truth is; everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."
― Bob Marley
She spots him sitting on his bike outside of her house.
Why is he here? she thinks, I gave him the space like he asked. What more does he want? And in a minute she's fuming because all she can think of is how he's probably here to argue with her again and try to convince her not to marry Edward and become a vampire.
She's so tired of arguing with everyone.
Charlie was against it.
Her mother was against it.
All her friends were against it.
She turns her eyes away from him and goes back to washing the dishes but her eyes keep flicking to Jacob sitting in her drive way. She can't help it.
Jacob's always been like the sun, you can't help but want to look at it…but stare too long and it blinds you.
She drops the coffee mug she was washing and goes to go see what he wants. He smiles when he sees her and her stride falters as her heart skips a beat.
Jacob's smile widens and she curses werewolf hearing.
He's so smug she thinks but then she notices the loneliness that in his eyes and she can't be mad at him anymore.
She knows she hurt him by choosing Edward and hurting him hurts her.
"Jake, what are you doing here?" she asked, nervously.
"I…" he stutters for a second, looking lost, "I just wanted to say congratulations."
"Congratulations?"
"Yes," he replies with the gentlest yet saddest smile she's ever seen him give. "Look, I'm sorry for some of the stuff that I've said and I'm sorry for pushing you away. I miss you, I miss us, our friendship, and I get it now…you love Edward and that's how it is, it always will be. I was just fooling myself by thinking I could compete with that."
"Jacob, you're not…"she trails off not knowing what she was about to say.
You weren't fooling yourself, Jake. I did love you. I do love you.
Her heart always did have a mind of its own.
Instead she shakes her head and says, "I'm sorry too…for everything."
They stare into each other's eyes for a long moment, looking for something, some sign that they could make this work.
"Does this mean I can come back to La Push again?" she asks, hesitantly.
"Sure, Sure," he says.
For the first time in a month, she smiles.