"Why is it every time you come into my life, you're spouting some jealous shit and ordering me around?" I shouted at him. I Didn't really mean it, I was just at my wits end at being so far up on the pedestal that Edward sets me on that I snapped at him.
He raised an eye brow at me and smirked at my out burst, which of course only made me even more angry. "Bella, I know that you like to do things yourself, but it's safer this way." He said, reaching up to me and pulling me off the bike that Jake had made for me. I was using it to got to and from school while Jake worked on my truck (max speed dropped to 35 and I was starting to make people pretty angry.) and while Charlie was on a weekend fishing trip with Harry Clearwater and Billy Black.
"Edward, Please put me down, I learned to walk at one years old you know." I snapped, crossing my arms in front of me, pouting dramatically. He set me down when we reached the passenger side door of his Volvo.
"Bella, you don't even have a helmet on." he scolded, wagging his finger in my face. I had the urge to bite at it, if it would have done anything other then brake my own teeth off. I stepped around him and headed back to the bike, even though I knew that by the time I got there, he's already done something to it.
"Edward, so help me God, if you tamper with my bike, I'll. . ." I couldn't think of anything that he couldn't stop or would result in ultimately hurting myself. "I don't know, but I will think of something that will actually be a good threat." As I predicted he was standing next to my bike when I reached where it sat in the driveway. I didn't even bother trying to start it, I heard him chuckling so I knew that he had already done what ever it was that he was going to do to disable it. Fuck this childish game. "GUH!" I yelled exasperated and headed back for the house, ignoring him as I passed him on the porch.
I walked right into the house, leaving my front door open, knowing that he'd come in anyways, so there was no reason to pretend that shutting the door could keep him out. I went to the phone and quickly dialed Jake's number. Glaring at Edward who was leaning against the wall, the picture of calm of and I just had to smile to myself because he had no idea what I was doing. When the other line picked up, my eyes didn't leave the honey one's that stared me down.
"Hey Jake!" I said brightly. "I'm having trouble with the bike, do you think that you can come pick me up today?" I watched Edwards grin fall and he glared at me .
"Of course, Bells!" Jake chirped, I could practically hear the grin spread across his face. "See you in a half hour." I hung up the phone and didn't have to look up again to know that Edward had left.
It was a low blow, I know, but Edward and I haven't dated since I was 17, well 18 if you count my disastrous birthday, so he had no right to start with his protecting me shit. The greatest thing about being a human being is that we are fallible. We're supposed to make mistakes, it's was what we do, yeah the big mistakes often hand someone pressing the big reset button in the sky. I'd rather have that as a consequence then be followed around by a vampire forever. Lord knows these last two years have been torture.
Im 21 and have been independent for a long time. Okay, so me and Angela shared an apartment in Forks last year, but I am going to community college and working at the station with charlie. Although just two months ago, Angela caught the attention of some fancy photographer and gave her oodles of cash to fly around Japan and take pictures of political stuff. I practically pushed her out the door. Her guilt for leaving me was not going to stop that awesome opportunity, so she went and I moved back in with charlie and entering stage left, Edward shows up again.
I locked the house up again and walked over to my bike and throw my leg over it, trying to quickly asses what he had done to it. I couldn't see anything right off the bat, so I decided to just start it and it roared to life for one second and then died. Fuck. I quickly hopped off and started tinkering, something I did with all the spare time that I had because I got tired of whining to Jake every time that I had a flat tire.
I was still tinkering when Jake pulled in behind the bike twenty minutes later and then just sat down next to me, fore going the greeting. When it comes to mechanics, greeting was optional for Jake. We figured out that the the push rod and valve lifter were completely missing. Fucking Edward. So I had to go back with Jake to another one from his garage. We decided to Houdini the bike into his hatch back so that we could bring it with us.
"So," Jake said, nonchalantly when we were finally underway. "Who should I thank for this spontaneous call for help?"
I grunted in annoyance and flipped my hand in dismissal. "Im always at your house, Jake." He gave me a look, which clearly told me that was not the right answer. "Fine, Edward showed up again." I grumped at him, crossing my arms and looking out the window. It was no secret that Edward and Jake never got along and it was more then just because Edward was a vampire and Jake was a werewolf. It was, at least from what little feelings these stubborn men shared, because Jake resented Edward for leaving me and Edward resented Jake for putting me back together and making me whole again, thus no longer needed Edward in my life. When he left I was broken, Jake fixed me, well mostly and then Edward just showed back up expecting me to fall all over my self for him again and I just couldn't bring myself to do that.
Jake's hands tightened on the steering wheel, threatening to snap it. "That's what happened to the bike."
I nodded, knowing that he saw it, even though at the moment he looked as it he were trying to start a fire on the road with his eyes. "Don't worry about it Jake, he doesn't come around too often when Charlie is home."
"And that's not for the rest of the weekend," He ground out. "Which means that nasty leech will be waiting for you when you get home."
I rolled my eyes and then stared out the window again. Okay, yeah I hadn't thought of that, but I'll just keep my window closed. I know Edward is persistent and kind of everywhere, but if he is anything, he's a gentlemen and would not come into my room without permission."Don't worry about it Jake, I can handle it."
"It's not just this time or this weekend, fuck I know im cocky about my skills, but seriously all your mechanical problems lately?" H said exasperated that I hadn't seen his point right away. "How is it that I work on cars for a living and all my customers have no complaints. You're truck, given it wasn't the greatest in the world but worked just fine, and your bike which has broken down three times now."
Okay so I had not thought of that either. Stupid Jake. "Well I am not going to think about it right now." I said trying to lighten the mood. I pried one hand from the death griped steering wheel and laced it with mine, smiling at him. "Reality stops at La Push border." I finally saw his lips start to twitch and knew I had him. "We could always have sex on the lawn tonight."
The deep base chuckle next to me spurred me on.
"Loud, raunchy, sex...DOGGY STYLE!" His laughter filled the car as we pulled into the driveway of the little red house.
A/N: I know that when I get excited about a story I tend to rush and I am super excited about this! Sorry for my little mistakes! Also I live on your reviews like crack, so please gimme my fix! Remember good, bad, ugly, lovely, i love all comments! love love, Juliet!