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a/n: Yeah, so I just randomly wrote this and think it will be a one-shot...I guess. Please review!!!
Jessica Stanley watched as Emmett Cullen silently walked away from the lunch table. He was angry; that much was visible. His girlfriend, Rosalie, sat there looking after him with a cold impatience. Apparently, she wasn't that into his style of relationship.
Inwardly, Jessica sighed. Emmett Cullen was wonderful and why someone wouldn't want to be with him was beyond her imagining. She'd had a huge crush on him since last year when he'd saved her from social and personal suicide. She was depressed after being dumped and was ready to lose herself in the next readily available male. Which meant her virginity would be lost on some no name loser that happened to have been in the right place at the right time.
Luckily, Emmett Cullen had been the next man to fit that description. He'd taken one look at her and with a sigh, had driven her home. She didn't know that such a physically strong person was capable of such compassion. It had shocked her and she still found herself marveling at him daily. Of course, this was done in private; so, she was careful never to let people know that the she could possibly be interested in a Cullen. The family that kept to themselves so tightly, it was practically a well known rule: the Cullens don't mingle. Adore them from afar and move on.
Today though, she found herself unable to ignore her body calling her to follow him. She made her excuses and followed him out of the lunch room. Her assumption had been that he would wander off into the forest that surrounded the school, but to her surprise, she found him sitting in his jeep looking at a comic book.
"Hey, Emmett." She called to him softly. It was quiet and she almost hated to disturb the peace. He looked up at her with a grin.
"What is a pretty girl like you doing out in the rain?" Emmett's smile practically took her breath away. She tried to smile in return and quickly had to remind herself to breath and not act like an idiot.
"Well, here in Forks, this is merely a drizzle, if even that." It was true. It rained so much here that she didn't consider the light sprinkles an inconvenience.
He shook his head a little. "I've noticed that. I've gotten to like the rain myself. But most girls worry about what it will do to their hair or makeup." He gave her another heartstopping grin. "You look perfect…maybe a little limp around the edges, but nicely put together."
Jessica cocked her head a little and crinkled her eyebrow. She was trying to decide if that was a compliment or if he was just messing with her. She always felt so young around him. He looked like he was at least in his 20's.
"Thanks, I guess?" She said it as a question.
"You're welcome, I guess." he replied, causing Jessica to laugh. It seemed loud in the stillness, and a bird stirred in a tree. "You're stirring up the wildlife, Jessica." She stopped laughing and stared at him with a small smile. She liked the way he said her name. She'd read about women feeling that way in romance novels and assumed it was a fictional invention, but it wasn't. She enjoyed hearing him say her name. Maybe it was his intonation or his voice, but there was something about it that sent a little jolt of electricity through her body.
"I have a bad habit of doing that, whipping the wildlife into a frenzy." She said stupidly for lack of anything else to say. She was still a little dazed by him.
"I know." He said and laughed a little to himself like he'd made a private joke. "So, why'd you follow me?" He patted the passenger seat as an indication for her to hop in next to him. She accepted and jumped in. She took a moment to arrange herself in the seat and to also get her thoughts together.
"I don't really know." She didn't look him in the eye because that was a lie. He seemed to know it because he caught a strand of her brown hair and tugged it gently to turn her head in his direction.
"I don't believe that. Why?" He pressed again and still held her hair in between his fingers. He was rubbing it between them gently almost as if he was fascinated by the texture.
She closed her eyes in an effort to concentrate. "You looked sad." She blurted it out quickly and his hand ceased its motion. A second later, he dropped her hair entirely and got out of the car. She took a deep breath and felt panic begin inside of her. She must have offended him. She turned her body to get out of the jeep to follow him, but before she could, he was opening her door. He stood there, blocking her way out of the jeep. She looked at him. With her sitting, and him standing, she could clearly look directly into his eyes. They were the color of aged whiskey, brown with a soft iridescence. He looked at her intently. When he didn't speak, she had to break the silence.
"I'm sorry, if what I said offended you. I was just trying to be thoughtful. Obviously, I'm not as good at reading you as I thought…" She trailed off as he took a very deep breath, then leaned in close to her. She thought he was going to kiss her, but before he reached her mouth, he turned his head to the side of her face and bent his nose to the crick of her neck. Again, he took a ridiculously deep breath. She could feel his lips resting ever so gently on her skin. Her heartbeat went into overdrive. Him being this close and with his lips on her skin, was making her feel more alive that she'd ever been before. Not even the most passionate kisses from other boys had aroused her this much. She desperately wanted him to kiss her, but after a long minute, he slowly moved his head so that his lips were touching her ear.
"Thank you." He said quietly, then took another one of his long deep breaths before he moved from her and stood away from the jeep. She gulped and blinked slightly to regain her focus, then she slowly got out of the jeep before walking back into the school, trying to remind herself to breathe.
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