AN: I was on a roll one night,and was thinking about how Jacob was really alone.Bella has chosen Edward so I decide to play match maker!I don't personally care to use any characters from the Twilight series to pair Jacob,so it's Jacob/OC . This story is just going to be about 10 chapters.Hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of it's characters.Only my characters and my plot is mine.
Sitting Behind Jacob
Period 1: I wish for perfection
"Erm...Black?",the words tumbled off my tongue and although I practiced exactly what I was going to say to him for a year,it came out as a mess.I my face warmed in embarrassment and I wondered if he could tell under my dark skin.
Jacob Black,was sitting on top of his desk his long leg swinging off the sides,he was happily making small talk with his two closes friends,Embry and Quil.The boys looked up from and every muscle in my body tensed.My fingers,covered in band aids shook violently and the tin held tightly between my hands sounded like thunder.
"I-I...wanted to...to...thank you...",The boys stared at me blankly,Jacob tilted his head to the side perfecting an adorably confused expression.I shook even more,my large old framed glasses slipped off the bridge of my nose."I want...to thank you.",I said more clearly this time and tried to look him in the eye for once.
"Thank me for what?",he finally asked after a few seconds glancing at his friends as if they might be able to provide him with the answer.What a discouraging thing to tell someone like me trying so hard and failing so pathetically.
"...Last year,you Jacob Black,saved my life.",both of his friends raised an eyebrow and from the look of their faces it looked as if they might be completing how likely was it that their friend was a super hero in disguise?
"Saved your life?"
I nodded,"Last year...I was b-being...pi...cked on by a group of seniors.I...w...was their play toy...",I licked my lips and my hands started shaking again the tin making so much noise that everyone in the classroom glanced over.
"One...day...the teasing became worse...to t-the point...that they were physically abusing me...and then.."
"And then?",Jacob nodded,trying to encourage me to go on.It did hurt that he didn't seem to remember it all.I felt like giving up."Oh yeah!Weren't you that nerdy awkward girl that always getting things stolen from you and stuff?",Quil said,just like his obnoxious self,"I saw that day,you were tied from the roof of the building in just your panties!",I tremor passed through me and I looked down at my clean shoes.
"Y-y-yes,but that wasn't the worst thing they did to me.Their games...almost...killed me.",I blinked rapidly trying not to cry."They sent me into the woods insisting that if I find the thing they buried a bit near Forks,they'd leave me alone."
It was Jacob's turn to comment,"You got lost?"
I chuckled sadly,"Yes,and I knew that I would never find that thing they buried...I was just wandering the dense forest until I came to a steep rocky path.With my terrible luck and my lack of grace,I slipped.My head hit something hard and I blacked out.",I looked up at him now to see if he remembered.
He's face drawn with interest but I could see no indication that he did remember."Then I saved you?",I paused and tried to recall exactly what happen next.Embarrassment crept over my solemn face,"Well...th..that is,thats what I was told.."
He didn't look convinced,"So you actually don't know if I did save your life?",it was true in the end,but why would anybody lie to me about something so serious?"I was told that you saved my life,Black.You had to.",I said with such conviction that I not only startled them but I surprised myself.It was the only period of the conversation where I didn't feel like I was standing stark naked in front of them.
The bell rang and everyone around us got up and began to head to their first class.I looked away reluctantly and shoved the tin can into my savior's hands."P...Please take these..."I almost begged, I pulled away so quickly I bumped into the desk behind me.
"I...I gotta...go",I yanked my messenger bag off the floor and exited,pushing through the crowd quickly trying to get to my class.They didn't try to call after me or follow me or anything.
I am relieved.
Yet in a way disappointed.
Later on that day I watched from a far at lunch as Embry and Quil empty the tin can filled with cookies I spent all night trying to perfect.Jacob was eating a greasy sand which,which looks like road kill if you asked me.An invisible hand gripped my heart tightly,I admire the band-aids covering my hands and Jacob didn't eat one single cookie...
Maybe next time,Marion. I knew there wasn't going to be a next time to actually face Black again.Not when he refused to acknowledge me.Or even eat one of my cookies.But I still keep on wishing...
3 months and 5 days since that last episode.
It was the last period of the day and the only class,besides home room,that I shared with Jacob Black.He was sitting on the edge of his seat,already looking as if he was going to run out of the class room when the clock reads 2:15,and he only just enter the classroom.Lately he's been like that,anxious to get out of school as if something wonderful was waiting for him after school.I couldn't possibly figure out what this 'wonderful' thing is,but I knew he was slacking off.Last English test,which I had happily graded papers for Mrs. Fredrick,he totally bombed it.Hardly any questions were right!
It's as if he wasn't present when we reviewed our texts.
"Mr. Black,please pay attention.",Mrs. Fredrick sighed looking up from her hand book.
Jacob didn't even have his text open!I swiftly kicked his seat,he whirled around to look at me,"If you don't increase your self-discipline your going to fail.Page 321,Black.",my intentions were pure but he frowned at me and opened his book.
It was only three minutes after wards did he drift back to his day dream.What could be more important than school?Sometimes I wished I could get into his head and take a look around the deepest and,perhaps,darkest corners.Maybe I could find some room to take shelter in.
"Miss. Malden?What do you think the author is trying to tell us about himself?",I stared blankly at her for a moment.Crap,I was so busy thinking about Jacob,I wasn't even paying attention!
My face burned,"Uh...I'm sorry,I wasn't paying attention."
The class laughed with glee at my mistake,taking it upon them selves to whisper something to their neighbor.Jacob turned to me and smirked,"More discipline is needed I see."
Even though he was mocking me,that was the most beautiful expression I ever managed to draw out of him.Perhaps the only expression besides annoyance and bewilderment.
I couldn't help the but give him a strained smile,"Ah...we all can't be perfect...But..",I picked up my clean sheets of notes and offered it to him,"But at least I try."
He glanced at the notes and took them from me,"And your effort is worthless , because you're nowhere near perfect.",I had to nod my head,his words stung,the bitter truth.I tried to find the place where we had been reading.
I wish I was perfect,because maybe you'd like me just a little bit.
