I stared at the shut door as my fingers fluttered to my lips. The cold feeling remained even after he had left. 'what was that!?!' I shot up from the coach and rushed to the door, throwing it open ready to pound that guy. But the parking lot was empty, there was not a sign of him anywhere. I walked back to the coach and thought it might have been from the medicine. A weird hallucination. I frowned, realizing I was feeling completely better. I had healed thanks to whatever ability it was that I had. I took in a deep breath to try to clear my head and nearly gagged. I could still smell the too sweet smell of the vampire clear in the living room.
I went into my room and slammed the door shut and threw myself onto my pillow wishing sleep would over take me. Of course it didn't. Soon my mind was flooded with images of Edward. I knew that jerk was reading my thoughts...but I didn't even realize the thought had even reached my mind. My dad popped into the room for a while to check up on me. I assured him everything was fine and he left me to myself.
I passed most of the night watching mind numbing television and trying to pretend nothing had happened.
I woke up the next morning to the smell of burning eggs and undercooked bacon. I laughed and went into the living room to find my dad and Sam cooking breakfast while trying to discuss some sporting event. I made my plate and sat on the couch trying to think of a reason why I should be able to miss school. Every morning I would do the same thing. I would eat my breakfast and tell myself I was not going to spend my day sitting in class. Then at the last minute, I would walk out the door and head to my car to go to school and feel like a great person for deciding to go. Then I would enjoy my ride to school, suffer through the boring classes and enjoy the good ones, chat idly with some people and go home.
As always, I waved goodbye to my dad and Sam and started on my way to school. I pulled up into the lot and made my way into the building this time without getting hit by a car-
And just like that it hit me. I had made my way happily through the morning without a thought of the leech, and now everything played out like a hopped up movie in my mind. I pushed it back out and tried to make my way to my locker without another thought.
Bella was waiting by my locker looking hyped up and ready to talk my ear off. She threw her arms around me
"Oh Jake I heard what happened! Are you feeling alright? You poor thing." I pulled back gently and smiled
"I'm fine Bells, seriously. A car has nothing on me." I grinned and crossed my arms
"Well I am just glad Edward was there to help you, I would hate to lose you" She said with just a tinge of venom in her voice. Caused by....jealousy? 'don't go there Jake'
"Yea, ontop of nearly being crushed by a truck I was also tackled by your leech...lucky me" I said sarcastically. To my relief the bell rang a few seconds later
"Oh Jake, I wish you two would get along better. You would love him if you got to know him!" She waved to me and walked clumsily to her next class. I laughed a bit seeing her knock into a few people.
I got to class ontime and sat in my desk waiting for the teacher to come in. The students came in scattered and I heard a few whispers. Apparently someone was transfering into our class. Judging by the excitement it must be a pretty interesting person. The teacher walked in along with an all to familiar face
I cursed my luck as Edward Cullen walked into the class. He looked directly at me and gave me a look that confirmed he was only there to torture me. Fantastic.
I sat in my desk and listened to the teacher's boring lecture. I looked out the window and watched the clouds roll by lazily in the sky. It was one of those times when you realize you are pretty much sleeping with your eyes open. I felt a cool tingle across the back of my neck and winced slightly wondering what brought that about. I glanced over my shoulder to see Edward sitting behind me, writing notes and looking completely innocent. I mumbled to him
"Knock it off" He smiled up at me
"Do you really want me to?" he said in a teasing tone. I rolled my eyes and turned back in my seat fighting off any sort of weird emotions. I heard him laugh quitely to himself and winced realizing I needed to stop thinking. I tried to listen to the lecture and just repeat the words over and over in my head in order to block out any original thoughts. When the bell rang I felt myself jump about a foot in the air. I darted out the door and went straight to my locker. I was getting out of the school as fast as possible. The thoughts going through my mind freaked me feelings I felt did not make sense.
I seen a few of my friends come towards me to talk but I guess there was something about the way I looked that made them leave me alone. Good. I grabbed my flimsy little jacket and a few books and headed out the door and went straight to my car. I slamed the door shut and was out of the parking lot before I could finish a thought. I turned on the radio and flipped through a few stations frowning as a few annoying pop country songs blew over the speakers.
When I pulled up to the house I decided to leave my stuff in the car and go for a walk. The weather was pretty nice for this time of the year. I had walked for about a half hour before deciding to stop for a while. I leaned against one of the trees and closed my eyes. The way things were going now made me feel completely out of my mind. He was obviously doing this on purpose. He already had Bella. Maybe it was some sort of way to embaress me infront of her. Whatever. That stupid childhood crush had long since faded away.
After a few minutes I felt pretty detached. I took a deep breath and sighed deeply feeling a small cool wind against my face. The air was sweet, I figured their must be a wild flower patch or something near by. It was oddly relaxing and somehow it felt familar. Why would it feel familiar? I felt like something was tugging on the edge of my consciousness, trying to make me realize something- My eyes flew open and I took a quick step forward, my eyes darting around the forrest.
"Who is there?" It was a dumb question to ask. Cold, sweet smelling...how dense am I? After a few minutes of silence I took a tentative step forward. I heard rustling above my head and looked up. Before I could think I felt myself pushed hard against the tree. I felt the wind knocked out of my lungs. I put my hands up to try to push the force off of me but felt ice cold hands pin them to the sides of the tree. I looked up and my eyes met with two topaz eyes. I felt my breath catch in my throat.
"What do you want?" I asked, struggling, trying to break free from his iron grip. He leaned in towards me, closing the space between us. He only laughed and leaned in, his lips brushing up against my neck
"What's wrong?" I shuddered slightly and tried to pull away again
"Stop whatever you are doing" I said with short breath through clenched teeth. I felt his lips moving down my neck. My heart was racing in my chest. I tried again to push him off of me but couldn't move him even an inch. I had always imagined I would be able to tear Edward lib for limb...I was pretty far from right. "It's not funny" I heard him laugh again. He lifted his head and looked into my eyes. I felt myself freeze for a minute. He leaned his forhead against mine. His breath was cold against my face.
"I can feel your heart pounding" I pushed hard against him trying to knock him off of me. He smiled at me
"Why are you doing this?" I demanded breathlessesly
"You are pretty adorable when you are mad" I let out a quick breath and gave up on struggling.
"Thats more like it" I laughed slightly
"You are such a creep, do you realize that?" he laughed as well. I opened my mouth to say something else but felt his lips pressed up against mine. I froze again not knowing what to do. He dropped my arms and wrapped them around my waist, pulling me closer to him. After a too short time he took a step back and left me staggering over my own two feet.
"This will be fun pup" With that he dissapeared into the trees. I sunk down to my knees and sat leaning my head against the tree. After a few minutes I had gathered my thoughts enough to start walking home. It seemed like only a second before I was at my front door. I walked in and was suprised to find Seth sitting on the coach with his feet propped up on the coffee table. He had an empty plate out infront of him and was watching tv.
"Hey Jake, where have you been?" I shrugged and sat down next to him. I seen him wrinkle his nose up, making a weird face.
"I went out walking. School was way to boring today I had to get out" I looked over at him "What's with the face?" He put a hand over his nose
"You smell awful Jake" I stood up from the coach remembering my earlier run in. I hadn't thought about the smell getting on me.
"Go home Seth" I said jokingly. He paused like he was going to say something but dropped it
"Nah, you have more food" We spend the rest of the evening hanging out. He went home around nine and I went to my room.
"What am I going to do?" I said, flopping onto my bed.
