Hope everyone likes this new addition. It's kind of off to a slow start but I promise as the chapters progress things will move a bit faster and will keep people interested. Any feedback is greatly appreciated and I'll do my best to comment on it.
I woke up late the following morning. I was usually up and out of the house by 6am, which was when my sleep wasn't interrupted by a skull shattering headache and two strange guys in my backyard. I rolled over to look at my alarm clock which read 8:30am. I groaned as I got up and sat on the edge of the bed. I watched dust particles dance in the rays of sunlight shortly above the floor. My mind flashed back to last night.
"Man that was a messed up dream. I mean seriously two guys in my backyard at 3 in the morning?" I ran my fingers through my hair as I yawned and got up. I walked down to the kitchen, already hearing my younger brothers fighting in the kitchen about who was going to get the cereal box toy.
"No Jonah you got the toy last time, it's my turn." I heard my younger brother Kyle yell.
"No way, you got the toy last time." Jonah retorted.
"Give it to me Jonah." I groaned not wanting to enter the kitchen as I knew the next step was.
"DAD!" both of them yelled in unison. I waited to hear if my dad was going to respond or was going to do his usual technique of ignoring them. To my great relief he answered them.
"Jonah. Kyle. I'm sick and tired of you two fighting over the toys in the cereal box. You keep this up and I will have your mother buy cereal without toys." I walked into the kitchen.
"Yeah that'll solve the problem." I laughed as I grabbed the cereal box and took out the toy. "Here I'll solve this problem. It's my toy now." I sat on the couch counter and grabbed a bowl pouring some cereal into it. "Mmmm Lucky Charms."
Both of them watched me as I picked out the marshmallows and popped them into my mouth. My dad looked over at me with a frown on his face.
"Jasmine don't tease them like that. Give them the toy and let them figure it out. And get off the counter. Your mom cooks meals there." I shook my head laughing.
"Yeah dad, because you know mom never cleans off the counter before she cooks." I slid off the counter and sat at the table. My brothers were crawling over one another to get to me so they could get the toy back. Sick and tired of their games I slipped the toy into my tank top.
"Hey no fair. Dad! Jasmine stuck our new toy down her shirt so we can't get to it." Jonah whined. My dad cleared his throat ready to comment when all of a sudden Kyle stuck his hand in my shirt and pulled the toy out. I screamed and jumped up the cereal bowl crashing to the floor.
"Kyle you little freak. What is wrong with you? Dad did you see what he did?" I waited for my dad to say something.
"Guess Kyle wanted the toy more than you Jonah. And Jasmine you were asking for it when you stuck the toy down there. It's your own fault." I shook my head and cleaned up the cereal.
"Yeah dad, all I ever wanted was for my little brother to stick his hand down my shirt and cop a feel." Kyle and Jonah ran out of the kitchen and I threw my cereal away. "I'm going to go for a run. If you need me, try not to. I really just want to be alone today." My dad just nodded his head not responding. I walked up the stairs to my room wondering what just happened.
I ran along the river trying to clear my head. The music was blaring in my headphones so I didn't hear him approach. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a shadow which startled me and I stumbled over my own feet getting out of the groove of things. I started to crash towards the floor when suddenly I felt an arm around my waist that caught me. After he straightened me up I pulled out my headphones.
"You know they usually say you gotta walk before you can run. Maybe you should work on that first." Emmett laughed. I glared at him.
"Thanks but I've never really had a problem with running unless someone startles me. Where did you even come from?" I looked around and saw that we were surrounded by the woods. "I mean really, where did you come from? The only trail that is runnable is the one I was on and I didn't see you anywhere near me when I started."
"Well maybe you're just not that observant." He laughed. I could have smacked that smug look right off his face. It was then that I noticed his arm was still around my waist holding me to face him.
"Where's your boyfriend?" I laughed and he glared at me a bit. "I mean as protective as you were of him yesterday I figured there was something going on between you two." He released me and shook his head.
"He's not my boyfriend. I was trying to protect you. Jacob can be kind of dangerous when he gets out of control. But hey next time I'll just let you see his bad side." He turned and started to walk away.
"Wait a minute. Where are you going?" I followed him and he turned on his heel in such a swift motion making him look extremely graceful. "Well aren't you the graceful ballerina?" I laughed and he shook his head.
"Need a punching bag for some reason or are you just always insulting to people you just met?" He looked down at me.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. Sometimes I just forget to think before I speak." I looked down.
"You're a lot like Renesmee in that aspect." He laughed and I noticed a strange look in his eyes.
"Is that your girlfriend?" I looked at him waiting to see his facial expressions.
"No she's…" He looked uncomfortable. "She's my niece." He had a slightly pained expression on his face.
"Oh that's cool." I started feeling my muscles tighten since I did not cool off properly. I began stretching a bit and when that didn't help I began massaging my calf.
"Sit down." Emmett commanded. I looked at him confused. "I said sit down." I had no idea why I listened to him but I felt that if I didn't obey something bad would happen. I sat on the ground and he got on the ground next to me and placed his hand on my calf. His hand felt as cold as ice against my skin making me flinch and retract my leg. He grabbed it and straightened out my leg again. "Relax, your muscles will feel better in just a minute." He gently massaged my calf and then moved to the other. I watched him confused as to how his hands could be so cold and not warm up as he touched my skin.
"That feels really good actually." I watched him as he seemed distracted simply starring at my legs. "Do you have a leg fetish or something?" I laughed. His grip tightened a bit and I heard him growl a bit.
"NO I DON'T HAVE A LEG FETISH!"
"Sorry." I looked down and sat still. He didn't say anything and just kept rubbing my calf. I closed my eyes enjoying the feeling when suddenly he stopped. I opened my eyes to see him standing again.
"There that should help. I should let you get back to your run. Take it easy and make sure you cool off properly. I scrambled to get up and as I turned around to ask him if he wanted to run with me he was gone. I looked around unable to find him.
"Emmett?" I called. There was no response. I looked around again and realized he was gone. I didn't know where he was or how he had disappeared so quickly. I began my run again along the river. While I was running I got a feeling that I was being watched. What I didn't know is that within the woods there were two pairs of eyes watching me.
"You know Emmett you should just get over Rosalie and go after her. I mean come on, she looks great, she could be your running buddy, and I think she may have the hots for you." Jacob said before dodging Emmett's fist.
"Shut up Jacob. I can't get close to her. I just wanted to make sure she was okay after last night. I'm not going to go after her. Rosalie and I have only been apart for 10 years. That's not that long. She'll come around and come back." Emmett began walking away.
"You're in denial man. She's not coming back and you need to move on." Jacob began following Emmett. Suddenly he found himself pressed against a tree by his neck and air getting harder to get.
"I said shut up Jacob. If you want to live to see your next birthday you won't mention Rosalie or try to set me up with some girl that you think has the hots for me. Do you understand?" Jacob starred at him not being able to answer. "Nod your head if understand." Jacob struggled to nod his head. Emmett released him and Jacob fought for his breath.
"Wow, talk about hell hath no fury like a vampire scorned." He took a few deep breaths.
"Just let it go Jacob. Let's get out of here before she sees s." Emmett turned and walked away. Jacob looked over his shoulder at Jasmine and thought to himself, "She's exactly what he needs." He followed Emmett not letting on that he had no intention of letting this go. He was going to get his friend out of this rut whether he wanted him to or not.