EDIT: 10/11/2016 01:04 AM
Changed Jakes height from 6"17' to 6"7'
Jake sat down with a large omph as he waved over the rest of the guys. He sat cross-legged but was so damn big that he might as well have just stretched out over me. He had a large grocery sized bag...in fact all of them seemed to have that. It sat in his lap, he was wearing Jeans and a hoodie that had been cut of at the shoulders. It seemed common for his little...culty group thing. They all had the same tat too.
"...In caramel, in the red sugar stuff, in gum, I mean anything really!" He was chatting excitedly about apples and how much he liked them in caramel and candy and by themselves. I nodded slowly as I took a bite out of the green apple I had in my hands.
"Good grief, Jacob. Are you trying to become like the biggest quarterback ever? Thats like 30,000 calories right there." I asked incredulously as I watched him take out a liter of water, lemonade, muffins, sandwiches...
"Alice!" Nina hissed my name as she glared at me. I knew I'd be scolded later for being rude to him again.
"Nah. I just burn a lot really fast." He let out a laugh and I was taken aback yet again. It wasn't as bad the second time...kinda. It was like a wave of sound crashed into my face, honestly.
"Ah, just call me Jake. Oh! By the way, this is Paul, Jared, Embry, and Quil! Guys this is Ali and her sister, Nina." Jake introduced the rest of the guys that just nodded back at us. Nina and I shared a look at Ali but I let it go. I'd never had a nickname before, most people thought Alice was fine by itself. I watched as Jared stood and waved at a mousy looking girl across the way, I think her name was Kimberly? She scuttled over to us looking awkward but in total awe of Jared...the look was mutual apparently.
"This is my girlfriend, Kim. All good if she sits here too?" Jared looked at Jake who then looked at me. I went bug eyed. This was a lot of people, I wasn't used to this number of people eating with us. I mean Leah and Seth did sometimes but...theres like four of them and they're multiplying.
"Of course!" Nina jumped in, Jared still paused until I nodded in unison with Nina. After that he sat back down, pulling her into his lap. I watched with some amount of fascination as he changed entirely, he wasn't stone-faced anymore...just really freaking affectionate with her. He'd laid his head down on her shoulder as she talked about a class she'd just come out of and fed him bites of some sandwich she had in her hand.
"They're always like this." Jake whispered to me softly, he laid his hand on my forearm to do so. So I guess this was normal then? It felt kinda awkward for me. Like I was interrupting their date. Nina cleared her throat awkwardly and looked down at her lunch then at mine.
"No!" I slapped her hand abruptly as she went for my baby carrots.
"But Al-" She pouted at me and rubbed her hand.
"My carrot. You should have made some before we left." I brandished a carrot as I spoke and took a bite out of it. She rolled her eyes and looked over at Jake's lunch, seeming to think about it but decided not to ask when she ate another one of her grapes.
"What was Chem like for you, Ali? Have any trouble with it?" Jake took a huge freaking bite out of one of his sandwiches.
"It was kinda boring. Always have trouble with sciences, you?" I responded as I looked at the tiny piece of bread in his mammoth sized hands.
"Ah, I'm great with that stuff. Sciences and mechanics are my thing. Ever need your car or computer fixed up? I'm your guy." He replied and took another bite. It looked like a little tea cake at some fancy British tea restaurant or something instead of a large piece of bread with lettuce and meat in his hands.
"Actually, our mother's had some issues with her heat." Nina added. I glanced at her, was she seriously going to scold me for asking if he used steroids but was going to ask him to work on our mom's car?
"Oh yeah?" Jake questioned as he took a hand full of chips.
"Yeah. Think you might be able to be our big fix it guy?" She pointedly ignored my glances as she went on. I looked at him to see him chewing but he was nodding, then back at her to see she had this sickly sweet smile with her hands crossed in her lap. Was she seriously trying to flirt her way into him fixing mom's car?
"Oh totally. No problem." Jake nodded. Oh that poor man. He fell for it.
"Great! Any ideas on when? There might even be food in it for you." She gave a girly laugh as she asked. The answer was yes. Yes, she was going to try anyways. I raised a brow at her, she was still totally ignoring me so I just rolled my eyes and looked forward at the other guys. They were all straight faced as they chatted quietly amongst each other.
"Is next weekend alright for you guys?" Jake asked. Great. Now I was stuck between my sister and a guy flirting and a super PDA couple.
"Thats great! I'll look forward to seeing you then, Jake." Nina was still doing the girly/innocent thing. No one else saw her inner evil side, except Leah anyways. Mine was on full display while hers just slipped out between a grin and a compliment. Maybe Leah wasn't busy? I looked around Jared to see her sitting on a cement bench with Seth. Perfect! I stood quickly and dusted my ass and front off.
"Oh hey, where you goin' Ali?" Jake asked sounding worried as he stood as well. I paused for only a second to process he was standing, then bent down to pack up my food.
"No where." I replied with a small smile as I patted his shoulder and walked past him. My sister flirting was just too awkward for me, plus I knew she'd rather I wasn't around for her guy stuff. She always claimed sisters before friends but would seriously rather I stayed out of her love life. After one too many awkward third wheeling moments, I totally agreed.
"Hey..." I felt someone take my hand from behind me and whirled around to find an awkward looking Jake. Well he was more unsure than awkward. I think his size just had me thinking of awkward all the time. Seriously though the man was 6"7' and I'm only like 5 feet and some change, he was hulking mass.
"Hi Jake." I raised a brow as he looked confused then looked at the ground. I looked behind him to see his entire friend group and Kim looking at us. Okay, now its definitely awkward. Nina looked only a bit annoyed which made me feel bad. I didn't really know what to do in this situation, no one she ever flirted with glanced at me. I was the sulky quiet one that wasn't interested in chit-chat.
"Why'd you go?" He looked up from the grass to ask me, looking more sure.
"I wanted to go hang with Leah, you guys had your thing going and all." I shrugged awkwardly as I started to try and slid my hand out of his.
"Oh! Well alrighty. I'll be over here if you need anything." He grinned and jerked back towards the tree with his other hand. He seemed to have totally forgotten he was just standing there holding my hand. I nodded slowly and roughly pulled my hand away this time not trying to be nice, continuing to walk away. He was more awkward than I remembered him from last year but I didn't really talk to him then either so who knows? Maybe this was just Jake. Touchy-feely, loud, big...Jake.
"BOO!" I snuck up behind Seth and yelled that into his ear. As soon as he let out a girly shriek I started to giggle uncontrollably.
"Al..ice." Leah tried to scold me but seemed to be laughing herself.
"SERIOUSLY?" Seth glared and smacked my shoulder, it just made me laugh harder as I fell to my knees and held onto the bench.
"I-I'm sorry. I just-just couldn't stop myself." I had tears rolling as I half-assed my apology, it was hard to get words out.
"I'm sorry, Seth. Y-you just had such a girly scream. You squealed." He sat back down and ignored both of us as Leah put her head on my shoulder, still shaking. I nodded at her words as the laughter stopped and we calmed ourselves. Leah scooted over, leaving me room to sit. They'd basically switched sides, we were now facing the tree I'd just left.
"Why are Sam's lackey's sitting with Nina?" We were pretty quiet for the first few minutes until Leah whispered it. I glanced up to see the guys were still there but Jake kept glancing away from Nina.
"Who knows? I picked Jake up some how and now Nina's hitting on the guy for his mechanic skills." I shrugged as I finished off the last of my carrots.
"Oh yeah. Your mom's car heater isn't working still." Seth remembered as Leah made a 'aah' sound of understanding. I nodded.
"Damn. She'll do anything to skip paying for stuff." Leah commented as I snorted at that.
"Her hearts in a good place. Mom's just had like 0 time to go to the mechanics since she got the 12 hour shift at the gas station. Hell, for all we know shes actually interested in the hulk." I added. Leah stared at the group for a second more before nodding.
"He has grown a lot, hasn't he?" She sounded a little impressed as I nodded back. He had. We said goodbye as the bell rang and headed inside. Seth had some after school thing so Leah was going to wait for him. This left just Nina and I to walk home, it was still cloudy but not nearly as damp as it had been.
"How'd the Jake thing go?" I asked as we started down the side of the road.
"I don't even know to be honest. I mean hes pretty cute and all but he was totally distracted." She sighed.
"Well if you really like him and hes into you, you'll get him." I patted her on the back.
"I know, just haven't really gone after anyone since Mike." She nodded.
"It'll be fine. I can't see Jake pulling that crap." I understood, she was worried.
Mike was some ass from Forks high school she'd met. He was a blonde, blue eyed, baby face. The baby face thing was totally her type but the guy was taken with a new girl that'd come in sometime a year or two ago. Nina was in love with the guy until he just stopped talking to her. He was friendly now, like a year later, but she'd pretty much said fuck it and kicked him to the curb after he didn't respond for two months.
"I hope not." She sounded a tad bit worried but in general alright again. We went inside the house and pretty much went our separate ways only to meet mom for dinner.
"Hey girls." She walked in pale and looking ragged. Nina had made a pasta dinner while I'd set the table. Dad had been full Quileute while our mom wasn't, it left Nina and I a little paler than most but also left mom a bit of an outsider at times. I watched as she just kinda melted into the chair and starting eating, her brown curly hair was even a little wilty looking.
"So how was the great Mona Ever's day?" Nina asked with some amount of excitement as she sat down on her other side. Her phone buzzed, she looked and started to smile. It led me to believe she was talking to Jake again. I was pretty sure they'd exchanged numbers.
"It was fine, baby. How was your guy's day?" Mom just sort of smiled at her and kissed her hand softly, looking between us.
"Meh." I shrugged.
"Why just meh, honey?" She focused on me for a second as I shrugged again. Just was.
"I met a boy!" Nina clapped her hands together as I nodded towards her. Lets talk about that.
"Oh yeah?" She grinned and looked between us. I nodded slowly and took a bite of food.
"Is he cute?" She looked at Nina who nodded vigorously.
"Is he actually?" Mom looked back at me where I shrugged again.
"Hes like an ex baby face, you know...her type?" I waved the fork around at Nina's side of the table who rolled her eyes at me. Mom let out a giggle and nodded. Honestly I tried to not look at him as cute or anything else since Nina was interested. I didn't really want to deal with it all.
"Alright. Look out for your sister, Alice." She nodded and stood, plate now empty. She was going to pass out for the rest of tomorrow since it was one of her only days off.
"Night mom." We chorused as she waved and went down the hall to her bedroom. She turned the office into her room, it was next to the front door while ours were upstairs.
"Oh hey, Jake." I didn't see Jake til he came over after school the next Friday. He seemed excited if not a little tired, he'd kinda been missing a bunch of school...like the entire week.
"Hey Als." He went for a hug that I awkwardly returned with a pat or two. Hes...hes not wearing a shirt. Why? Why isn't he wearing a shirt?
"Another nickname." I mumbled it and felt him nod. I didn't think he'd really hear me over Nina but apparently he did.
"Oh! Hi Jacob!" Nina greeted sounding excited from behind me. He squeezed a little while I continued to awkwardly pat when Nina came up. This guy was warm for no shirt, I'm almost impressed.
"Hey." He pulled back. She'd gone around me while I stepped back, she looked like she was waiting for a hug but it never really came. He gave her a half wave and turned towards the car with his hands in his pockets.
"So this is the car?" He looked back at me as I nodded.
"It is." I spoke quietly thinking Nina would jump in but she just kinda stood there next to me, playing with her hands. I frowned at that and decided I was cock blocking her.
"I'm going to head inside, have fun with your free labor." I grinned at Nina as she turned to face me. She mouthed a thank you, I nodded in return and went inside to watch TV.
The living room window faced the car which gave me, the just a little over-protective sister, a view at the two. Mom wasn't home at the moment, she was spending some time with Leah's mom or something. She was grown woman, she knew where she was and how to call the house phone...sadly she didn't attribute these ideas towards Nina or I. We had to text her every time we left or arrived somewhere at night.
It didn't take long before the door opened and someone walked in. I turned around to see who it was and saw Jake come around the corner. He had a rag in his hand covered in grease and he still looked kinda tired. He leaned on the frame with his arms crossed, watching me watch him. He seemed to just be...watching. Like I was a TV show or something, he'd look at my hair then my eyes then nose and down the face he went then back up.
"Need something?" I cleared my throat and looked back towards the window to see if Nina was just standing outside.
"You've been keeping an eye on us through the window?" He asked as I looked back.
"...Maybe." I tried to keep the grin off my face but it wasn't happening. He laughed softly and shook his head.
"Can't blame you. If it were my sister out there with a guy I'd be out there schooling him." He shrugged as I laughed at that.
"Well we both know she likes you." I added neutrally, trying to gauge his expression.
"Really?" He paused for a second and frowned. That didn't look good.
"Well yeah." I stood up and walked a little closer trying to be discreet. She'd get mad if she saw me about to interrogate him.
"Thats...wow." He scoffed and sighed, looking down at the floor. I watched him for a while as he seemed to shake it off.
"Hey Jacob...Can I ask you a question?" I posed it again this time looking at his ridiculously sculpted chest.
"You can just call me, Jake or whatever you want, Ali." He looked up. I raised a brow, he was bound and determined I'd call him Jake I guess.
"Well I guess its two things...One, are you okay? You looked really tired." I frowned as I took in his expression.
"I'm just tired. Had an argument with an old friend/ex. Shes...leaving to be with her new husband. Forever. It didn't really sit well with my values but it was her choice so I've just, let her go." He ran a hand through his hair and frowned at me.
"Well you're a cutie, so I think you'll be okay." I grinned as I nodded, it was understandable. He grinned at that.
"Thanks, beautiful. Your other question?" He nudged me gently, still grinning.
"Well...where the hell is your shirt? And are you absolutely sure you're not using steroids?" I asked incredulously motioning to his exposed chest. He paused for a second before he let out a bout of deep, booming laughter. It was loud as hell. Like Santa Claus's...or Yeti's. Nina's head popped in through the door, she looked curious.
"Whats all the laughter about?" She closed the door behind her and stood next to Jake as he finished laughing. She looked at me and I shrugged, he was just weird that way I guess.
"Ah nothin'. Your sisters hilarious." She looked at him and he shook his head as he wiped tears away.
"I guess she can be. Did you find the bathroom alright?" She shrugged and turned to him fully now.
"Yeah, all good. I'll head back out and get crackin'." Smiling she put a hand on his lower arm as he nodded. He turned almost immediately and started to walk away, going back out the door and left it open behind himself. She looked back at me and crossed her arms, frowning.
"Hey! I didn't do anything. He just started talking to me." I put my hand up in surrender and backed away.
"Fine. I'm going to see if he'll stay for dinner." She narrowed her eyes but slowly nodded.
"Kay. I'll talk to mom when she gets back." I gave her a thumbs up and sank back into the couch's cushions. I heard the door close behind her and the quiet ensued. He didn't stay. Said he had to go and he'd be back around some time soon. She was a little upset he'd left in a rush but mom's heating worked so all in all, it was a job well done.