Author's Note: Nothing to do...so I made this…by the way I changed some parts of Chapter 1. I'm sorry for any misunderstanding caused. Please just reread it in the meanwhile.
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, sadly, or else Jacob would have been the main character.
Chapter 2 – The Rebound
My day started out early, I woke up feeling refreshed which was kind of weird after yesterday's events. Renesmee needed to ride with me since Dad never brought us to school so I woke her up when I finished my shower. After digging in into a nice breakfast of milk, cereal and a banana, I was driving in the car while Nessie was explaining the first part of the plan.
"Ok sister, here's the plan. You go and bump into Jacob Black accidentally, and then start a riveting conversation with him." Nessie was clarifying, "And then, I would also accidentally bump into him and say something good about you and about how hot you think he was. Well, at least, that's the rough sketch, we need to make it more real so I should use my formidable acting skills and trip and fall over His Hotness." Nessie put her hands on top of her mouth making a shocked noise. "Oh, I'm sorry, I was so distracted by the heat that you're causing and by the way, please ask my sister, Bella, out on a date." She continued in a totally posh voice.
We stared at each other and then started laughing at the same time, this carried on until school. I parked the car and we went on to the main corridor where it was almost completely deserted except for a few students here and there. We waved at Alice, who was in on the plan after calling her last night. She was frantically pointing at something near the far left and then I realized that she was referring to Jacob Black. I seized the chance to talk to him without much of an audience.
OPERATION: PMFE Part One
I went to Jacob's side slowly and then turned sharply bumping into him directly. Call me crazy but I really liked the feeling of his warm, warm body.
"Whoah, there. You okay?" he held me by the shoulders and then released me when I was steady.
"Huh? Yes, I'm fine. I didn't see you there, sorry." My mind was going on overdrive trying to think of something to say. 'I should have thought of this clearly before doing anything.'
"That's fine, I'm a big guy after all," Jacob chuckled, "Right, hi, my name's Jacob Black, but you can just call me Jake."
"Hi, my name's Isabella but everybody calls me Bella. Nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you, too. You're a senior, aren't you? I've seen you around that Brandon girl a lot. She's very well-known to the guys around here, says that she's always bossy and quite intimidating at times. They filled me in really quickly on who's who after I just arrived."
I just smiled at him not knowing what to answer.
"So I heard that you are the nice, single one in your Hot! group with Brandon." Jake winked slowly with his right eye.
I laughed at his attempt to flirt, and my tension at meeting a new guy was gone. It was only friendliness that was left there.
"It's nice to hear you laugh, it sounds really good, like bells tinkling." Jake was smiling down at me.
I blushed furiously, okay the tension was back, "Thanks, well see you around!" I turned and left him without waiting for his farewell. Alice was so going to get mad at me for this missed opportunity. I figured I guessed correctly when Alice was nearing to me.
"What was that? That was the worst thing that could have happened. He was already warming up to you but you had to go ruin it by leaving abruptly." She practically had steam going out from her ears.
"I'm sorry! I freaked out from the way he complimented me. It was too much." I was explaining.
Hearing this immediately cheered Alice up, "He complimented you? Well that's a good start, Nessie and I can do the rest."
"Part 1 is completed so let's get ready to start part 2 of this operation." Nessie whispered. Then she laughed and laughed so we followed suit. Really we ought to be sent into the asylum for being so crazy. From the corner of my eyes I could see Jacob staring at us looking confused like a little puppy.
The day went by normally and for the second time in my life, the first being her having an empty seat beside her chair, I was greatly thankful to Lauren Mallory. Because of her prattle and clingy personality, she kept Edward away from me and I didn't need to even talk to him. I wonder if he'd be jealous if he knew what we were planning. All of this was really for him to realize that he's not the only man in my life and that I could move on easily. Jake is a fine example of that, maybe…
Edward stayed away for the whole day that even Alice was surprised. She said that it wasn't normal of him to do that at all, especially with him trying to get back with me. Renesmee just shrugged and told me to be happy about it after all, we had some work to do that definitely did not need Edward Cullen's help.
OPERATION: PMFE Part Two
"Please, Jake? I can call you Jake, right? Please, just ask her out. She seriously needs someone to be with and then you're big, strong and manly. Go to her and ask her out!" Alice was pleading to Jacob who only knew her by her reputation.
"Yes, of course! And you are the best choice that we have contributing to the fact that she also thinks that you look good." Renesmee continued her words silently laughing inside over Alice's use of words.
"Would you two stop telling all of that? I don't even know who you're referring to. And even if I did I wouldn't if I didn't want to." Jacob was annoyed. These two girls were stalking him to the point that they almost reached his house.
"C'mon Jake. We're friends, aren't we? Do it for me. Just ask her out." Alice's voice could be heard on the phone.
"Stop calling me in the middle of the night! You've been calling every hour and it's almost 3 in the morning!" Jake shouted into the phone and he heard a giggle before the click and then the dial tone. "What is with that Alice Brandon and her friend? Are they crazy or something?" he was thinking out loud for a while. "Ugh! Never mind, I need my rest."
"Hi Jake, I don't think I introduced myself though. My name's Renesmee Carlie Swan. I wonder how I could have been so rude as to forget my manners. I am Isabella Swan's sister and am asking you to ask her out." Renesmee made a point to end this with a bright smile.
Jacob was thinking that he might have confused her, for someone else a.k.a. Crazy Girl until the last line which just weirded him out and totally proved his theory that she was Crazy Girl. "Now is this a dare or something that you play on a new student? Because I don't want to be a part of that. You and Brandon are driving me crazy, just stop it!"
"I can't believe I'm actually listening to both of you," Jake was sighing and shaking his head. "Let me get this straight, I should go out with Bella because she needs a man in her life that is actually nice to her."
"Exactly! I'm so glad you see our point!" Crazy Girl was practically jumping up and down with her barely contained excitement.
"Does this mean you'll ask her out? Does it? Does it?" Brandon was asking with her eyes shining.
"No. I am just trying to have a civilized conversation with both of you. Why is it me of all the people who should be asking Isabella Swan out on a date this Saturday?" Jake was skeptical at their reasons. Their answers were confusing and very different from each other's. Jake just sighed again.
Edward Cullen was barely noticing me and was focusing all his attentions to Lauren and Jessica, the Bee! Pair, whom he totally hated when we were freshmen. It's already Friday and I have yet to say another word to him. But instead of relieving me, his complete indifference infuriated me for some unknown reason. I didn't say a word of this to Alice since she was having so much fun trying to persuade Jacob to date me. I'd give her a 10 for her efforts but a 0 for her lack of subtlety. I didn't get to spend time with both Renesmee and her ever since this started. Lunch time was the same and Alice was out looking for her prey. Before I knew it, I was chuckling and giggling from the comparison. Renesmee was staring at me, a bit freaked out by my sudden mood. I didn't mind as it was too funny. They were complete opposites, the big, buff guy as the prey and the tiny Alice as the big, bad wolf.
"Hey, what's up?" I looked up, "What's so funny that you're laughing aloud?" Jake was there pulling up a chair beside me and sitting down.
"Hello," I replied a bit dumbfounded to find him next to me. "The reason I was laughing is a secret, you might be offended by it."
"Well, I'm going to go find Alice. I think I see her over there in the corner at the other side of the room." Renesmee stood up quickly. Sheesh, Nessie, you can't have been more transparent.
Nessie was about to walk away when Jake suddenly grabbed the back of her shirt. "Crazy Girl, why don't you stay for a while longer? Since this is what you wanted, why don't you just look and gloat over your accomplishment." He smiled mockingly at her.
Nessie was shocked over his bluntness, even she doesn't say it that clearly, or maybe she does. That was the first time ever that I've seen Nessie not getting her way. She sat down at her seat and just stared at us.
"So Bella, will you go out with me this Saturday?" Jake grinned at me.
"I guess, but why are you asking so suddenly?" I asked trying to keep the smile off my face. Operation: PMFE was working!
"That midget over there, and your friend, Brandon, won't stop bugging me and I'm kind of freaked out by it. Sides, you're beautiful, hot and available, and I like you, too. So Crazy Girl, I did what you ask, so tell Brandon to stop calling me at 3 a.m. ok?" I guess he was a bit miffed at the tactics they used on him. Oh well, the end justifies the means, as what Niccolo Machiavelli would say.
"Ok Ness, here's the plan. You go and open the door while I stay in my room and hide. Just say that I'm currently not available and if he would please come back another day. Oh and it would be better if you would replace me instead." I was nervous to begin with for the whole plan. "Why not get a wig and get some heels and "
"Sheesh," Nessie rolled her eyes, "stop being such a wimp and try to at least meet the person outside who is enamored with you." She winked, "He's HOT! With a capital H-O-T!"
"Bella! Do you know how much work we had to do to convince him to even come here?" Alice injected, "He was practically slavering over you but he didn't have the nerve to do anything before at all. Do you know why he's on the front door step right now, do you?" Alice was exaggerating too much, he only met me last Tuesday.
"Because Madam Alice and Mademoiselle Renesmee told him to shut up and be a man. And that it didn't hurt that I thought he was cute," I repeated wearily. "And also you pestered him into submission about it by calling him at odd hours and stalking him and "
"That's enough, and do you know how long that took us to accomplish into hammering him to ask you out into his thick numbskull of a head?"
"74 hours, plus the 22 hours he was still ignoring both of you and calling you two crazy."
"Exactly, now take our advice and be brave. Besides, he already asked you out and you can't leave the guy stood up. This is to get rid of Cullen, remember?" Nessie fired me up with that.
"Fine, but I barely know the guy. Just that he transferred here this summer and lives alone at a house out there in Quilette area." I wondered, "Why did he transfer here to out-of-place Forks?"
"That's for asking when you are on that date. I dressed you up in what is proper for a first date and your outfit was designed to seduce, so go out and impress that man!" Alice finally pushed me to the door.
I opened the door and lo and behold there was Jacob Black, the most well-developed man I had ever seen. I mean seriously, how many hours does he work out every day? Does he take steroids? Look at that bicep! I shook my head out of the clouds to properly greet, "Hi! So where are we going?" I started walking so that Alice and Renesmee couldn't eavesdrop on us.
"Hello Bells, you look beautiful." he grinned and took me to his motorbike, "Oh and we're going to Port Angeles, I figure you're clothes would work fine there."
My two best friends in the whole world made me into a Barbie doll taking at least an hour to fitting me into different outfits and then half an hour for my makeup. I was wearing an outfit specially matched together by Alice. It was just a sequined top, skinny jeans and black flats though, but then she and Renesmee really overdid it with my hair and face. My usual plain mousy brown hair was brushed until it was shiny and then tied up into a high ponytail leaving a few strands around my face. My nondescript eyes became "luminous" at least according to them, through the work of some experimentation with eye shadow and mascara. Then, there was a hint of blush on my cheeks and some lip gloss. I could have dressed myself up they always had an opinion and then a second opinion and even a third sometimes over what I chose so I just gave up and let them do what they wanted.
"You know I was really nervous about this until your sister and friend swayed me into asking you out. Man, can they push a guy around." Jake was joking around again.
"Well, considering how Renesmee knows self-defense and that Alice has a black belt in karate, I think you can say that they're dangerous," I laughed at him.
"Really? Well I didn't really think of that, but it's not that surprising of them." He helped up onto his bike while talking.
I sat astride the back of the bike and Jacob fired up the engine and we were off. The ride was really fast and fun especially with Jacob expertly swerving left and right. The cars were too slow compared to the bike and the surroundings were a blur around me. I don't think that my car can ever catch up to this speed, I mean the exhilaration of it. This was my first time riding a bike so I guess I'd really love it.
"I love this feeling!" I shouted over the sound of the rushing wind, my hands tight around his waist and my head against his back. Oh my gosh, these are abs I'm currently touching!
"Glad you're enjoying it! Adrenaline is great!" he bellowed back.
The ride was over too soon and we arrived at this club beating with the sound of music. My hair was a mess and I tried to fix it while Jake put the bike at the nearby parking lot and left it there.
"Are you even old enough to drink, Jake?" I asked kind of down with all the adrenaline gone.
"We're not coming here to drink, we're here to dance. Lighten up, we're gonna have a lot of fun!" Jacob laughed trying to take me inside. The bouncer didn't even look at us properly since he saw Jake and his formed self. I am eighteen and I am legally allowed but what about Jacob? He's just seventeen and the bouncer didn't even ask for identification. Well, I just want to have fun in this place, I'm a girl after all, so I just accepted it and went into the club.
Author's Note: Well, thanks for reading. My updates are only when I feel like it so I apologize in advance for my laziness. I would like to hear your comments. Thank you!
