A/N the feedback from the prologue was amazing! Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as the last. :) Let's find out how the first day of school goes!


Chapter One: JPOV

The first day of school was never fun, especially when your first class is taught by the annoying Ms. Faber. I swear she had eyes on the back of her head, watching you and waiting for you to screw up. This is the part of the day when I'd rather be in bed, thinking about the most amazing best friend ever…well, best friend/hopefully future girlfriend. Her black, silky hair was hanging just past her shoulders, I resisted the urge to get up and run my hands through it.

Just then, her head snapped up, as if she could hear me thinking about her. She looked around the room and settled her eyes on mine. I realized I'd been caught staring; I gave her a smile and looked down. Smooth Jake, I told myself, Leah will so get on your ass for that later.

I felt a note slip by my foot and looked up to see my best friend, Embry, grinning at me. I bent down to retrieve the note; I unfolded it to see his words looking up at me.

Dude, next time try to be less obvious and not gawk at her, you don't wanna freak her out!

I looked up at him again and he smirked at me, loser, I thought to myself. I found my eyes drifting towards Leah again and forced them to focus on the incredibly boring lesson Ms. Faber was trying to teach us. I glanced at the clock, only 37 minutes to go.

As soon as the bell rang, signaling the end of our torture period, I felt a hand on my shoulder. A warm tingle passed through my veins and I knew who it was before looking up at her beautiful face.

"Hey Lee," I smiled, years of friendship shone in my eyes.

"Hey Jake," she brushed a piece of hair from her face; "I was just wondering if you were gonna come to the bonfire tonight. It's supposed to be a council meeting but I don't think it's mandatory," I nodded and she blushed, damn she was hot when she did that, I thought to myself.

"I'll be there, my dad would give me crap if I ditched," her eyes were so distracting, "Are you?" I asked. Her eyes were a deep chocolate and had a certain intensity to them.

"Wouldn't miss it," she took her hand from my shoulder and left without another word. My body ached for her touch. My mind told me not to get involved. My heart was just hoping that it wouldn't beat hard enough for her to hear it. Her history with Sam was brutal, I longed to hold her in my arms and comfort her, kissing away her tears while she told me I was hers. I was surprised she was going to the meeting actually, it was the first time she would see Sam and Emily together since the shocking news of his imprint.

It was only two weeks ago when Leah had her cousin Emily come down to the reservation to meet her boyfriend. Leah and Emily had been extremely close as kids and practically became sisters as they grew up, Leah knew that she couldn't let herself date Sam if Emily didn't approve. Unfortunately for her, the moment the two clamped eyes on each other they wanted to get into each other's pants. Bada bing, bada boom, Sam imprinted and left Leah for her cousin.

I would comfort her, and she would forget all about him, I would love her way better than he ever did.

I made my way through the rest of my classes halfheartedly. All I could think about was Leah; I was trying to form a strategy that would get her to notice me as more than just a friend. I walked to my car after school and found Embry and Quil leaning against the side of it. They were grinning at me like idiots. Great.

"What do you guys want now?" I asked, irritated. They were smiling as if they were the Joker or something.

"Jake, you realize Leah's gonna be there tonight, right? Are you gonna feel her up or what?

That's the thing about these guys, they know everything. They've been my best friends practically since birth, we have no secrets between the three of us, including secrets about girls, more specifically, Leah.

I sighed, "Quil, I'm not gonna feel her up! I just wanna be more than her best friend," I paused, "then I'll feel her up" I laughed, getting into the old Rabbit I had rebuilt a few summers ago. Embry took shotgun and Quil slid into the back.

"Dude, just ask her out and if she says no, you guys are still friends and whatever and you can go find some other chick!" Quil urged, "she's needy and vulnerable though, so you'll score in no time!" he tried to reason. I shook my head,

"Is that all you ever think about? Getting girls into bed?" I asked him, trying to get the topic off my feelings for Leah. No such luck.

"Jake, you've been obsessing over her since we were eight and she kissed you on the cheek for beating up that David kid for pulling her hair," Embry said softly. I smiled, that was a good memory, it amazed me that he still remembered that.

"Yah," I sighed, "I know," I pulled into my short drive way and killed the engine. We got out and stormed into the house. We had just gotten settled in my small living room watching Deadliest Catch when Sam came bursting through my front door.

"What the hell dude! Maybe you never learned this, but you're supposed to knock first," Quil joked. I chuckled, but then I got a good look at Sam's face, it was horrible. I stood and walked over to where he stood, he was shaking. I put a hand on his shoulder in an act to calm him down, it worked.

"Sam," I prodded, trying to move the conversation along, "why are you here?" I asked quietly.

"I hurt Leah so bad, she can't even look at me without crying," his voice shook, "I tried to tell her how sorry I was, that I couldn't control the imprint, and all she did was run away crying. You guys know Leah, she's strong, yet what I did broke through her tough exterior, that's how bad it is," he whispered. I led him to the couch and got him a soda. When he saw the confused looks on our faces he took a breath and launched into the story.

"I was sitting by the cliffs trying to figure out what to get Emily for her birthday, I was trying to remember what she told me she wanted but all I could think about was Leah. I just kept thinking about how I was gonna see her tonight and I'd be there with Emily and all that shit." He took a breath, "that's when Leah came and I grabbed her arm because she was leaving and I felt like I had to say sorry or something. I just got out that I couldn't control the imprinting and she yanked her arm away and started crying. That's when she ran away and I came here'" Sam finished his story and we were silent for a moment, then Embry broke the tension.

"Leah's strong, she's also 18. She's mad, yah, but she'll get over it and date someone else. Give her some time, she'll come around," Embry stated. I nodded, with any luck, she's be over him by the end of the night. I grinned to myself.

"Jake, what are you smiling about? This isn't a joke!" Sam raised his voice. I gulped, I didn't wanna piss him off, so I lied.

"Sorry, I was just smiling at the fact that Emily's waiting at home for you and you're here whining about Leah, don't you think that's a little ironic?" I laughed, I knew it wasn't ironic at all, but there was no way in hell I was going to tell him I was fantasizing about Leah.

Sam chuckled and stood up, "Yah, I guess it is, see you guys tonight," and with that he left, closing the door lightly behind him. I let out a breath I didn't realize I'd been holding in. As soon as he was out of earshot (werewolf earshot), Quil laughed so hard that soda flew out his nose.

"What?" I asked incredulously, I didn't think anything was funny about that little visit of Sam's.

"You were so thinking about doing Leah," Quil let out another round of guffaws and I smiled.

"I would deny it but there's no use," I laughed. We finished watching TV and they grabbed their stuff. They left to get food for tonight's bonfire, and I was left with my thoughts. The future of my relationship with Leah was all about tonight; if it didn't go well…I don't want to think about it. I looked at the clock, it read 6:53, and the bonfires always start at seven. I took a deep breath and headed out the door.


A/N So...How do you think the bonfires going to go? Do you think he'll confront Leah? Love those reviews :) so keep sending them my way. :) Thanks to my amazing Betas: Blackwater Crazziii and luv2teach! You guys are amazing :)