So this is just a one-shot. There is noo continuation!
Steph M owns them; I just own how they act... ;)
"Kiss me."
Two words. That's all it took for him to stop. That's all it took for him to reconsider leaving me. That's all it took to set my future in stone.
Midstride he stopped, and without turning around, he spoke only one word.
"What?"
It was not spoken harshly, rather as if we were having a normal conversation. He asked the question softly and almost kindly.
I remained silent, knowing he knew exactly what I had said. He knew that I knew, so he finally turned around.
He stood there, some 20 feet away from me. He was standing stiffly. Shirtless, even though it had to be below 30 degrees and white snow covered the ground all around us. He stood out like a sore thumb, a tan, 6' 6", heavily muscled thumb.
It felt like he stood there for hours, but in reality it was probably only minutes. Finally he reached a conclusion.
He covered the distance between us in 3 long strides and stopped right in front of me. He reached out to me, grabbing my hand and gently tugging, asking me to move closer to him. I complied and soon, we were chest to chest. He kept his eyes locked with mine the entire time, studying. It took him a few minutes to form the words.
"What did you say?"
This time the words came out a little angrier, a little louder, and a little less confusion.
I raised my chin, and spoke. "I said, kiss me, Jacob."
His answering grin nearly knocked me back a few feet. It was so white against his dark russet skin, it was blinding. It split his face in half.
He didn't waste any more time after that. He moved his hands from my hands to my face and leaned down to capture my lips with his. He massaged my lips with his own and it felt like nothing I had ever had with Edward. For once, he felt hot, and he molded to me. The feeling was also completely different. The way he held back from shoving his tongue down my throat held a much different feel from when Edward held back from kissing me too hard. With Edward, he was refraining from breaking me. With Jacob, he didn't want to rush me.
The kiss felt so warm. It felt like safety, like home. It managed to convey all of the feelings that Jake has had for me all these years. I never realized just how safe and at ease I feel about him until this morning.
The tenseness and stress in my body just melted away, leaving me with a core that was open and ready to love him. Reality escaped me, and I welcomed it all, even if it was just for a minute.
As if on cue, we both pull away and look into each other's eyes. We could always read each other like an open book, and today was no exception. You know how they say that the eyes are windows to the soul? Well for me, Jake's eyes were like clear, streak less windows. With subtitles. I could see the boundless joy, love, and lust in his eyes. Realization was there too, and a little bit of shock.
It was really no secret that Jacob is and has been in love with me for years. Everyone around us knew. But it wasn't until just recently that I realized that I was in love with him too. That I wasn't in love with Edward, and that I didn't need Edward to survive, I needed Jacob.
After I spoke those two words, our relationship grew till he said those three words.
Next came those magical four words.
Then we went back down to three a few years later: "Jacob, I'm pregnant."