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Chapter 2

Anna's POV

"What the-" A rough voice sounded from behind me.

"Jake! Look what you did." Uncle Billy shouted as he pointed in my direction. "Apologize now!"

"Ah shit! I'm so sorry! I didn't know you were standing there." The man panicked.

I turned and was met with deep brown eyes and at that moment it felt like my world had turned upside down, I felt a pull to him and it was like love at first sight. I had to hold back a gasp from the many emotions that were swarming through me. And love was definitely one of them and even though it's supposedly illogical to fall in love at first sight, somehow this felt right like my soul was completed. The look on his face probably resembled mine; shock, surprise, hurt, and love.

"Anna? Sis? You okay?" Carrine said and broke me out of my trance.

I used my good hand to caress the bruising one. "Y-Yeah. I'm fine. Just a little bruise is all."

I looked back to the man named Jake and noticed that there was a group of men behind him. They looked similar to him, their all big, tall, dark, topless and incredibly handsome. But the man in front of me stood out more than them, his hair was in a spiky mess, his shoulder bore a tattoo, his chest was muscular and lean. All in all he was tall, dark, and handsome.

"Are you really alright? I opened the door quite hard." He said worriedly. He looked more hurt then I was and I'm the one that got hurt! "Let me go get you some ice."

I put my hand on his shoulder to stop him and felt a slight jolt from the contact. "Ah. No need. I need to go home." I said and turned to leave.

"W-Wait." He said holding my arm back. "Won't you stay and have a cup of water?"

"Jake. Let them go home. They will come back tomorrow. Isn't that right Anna?" Billy asked.

"Yes, I will like I promised Uncle Billy." I smiled.

I ducked through the mass of half naked men and out to my car but when I looked to my side I found that Carrine wasn't by my side. I looked back to see her in a conversation with Seth, I didn't even know he was here. They were locked in a gaze and Seth was immersed in Carrine. They looked so perfect together, it would be sad if they had to part in three weeks.

"Carrine. We have to go home and prepare dinner honey." I interrupted. I was in desperate need of a pain reliever and dinner. They can talk when Seth asks her on a date.

"Oh, sorry. Bye Seth, it was nice to meet you again." She smiled at him and jogged over to me.

We got into the car and pulled out of the driveway. "Did he finally ask you out?" I asked Carrine.

"Yeah. He wants to take a walk with me on the beach and go see a movie up in forks. Is that alright with you Sis?" She asked me.

"Of course! But remember to use protection." I chuckled.

She blushed and stammered. "It's our first date!"

"I'm just joking." I laughed.

I pulled into our garage a minute later and went inside the house with Carrine following behind me. We made dinner together, some simple pasta along with an aspirin for me then ate dinner before heading off to bed. Tomorrow will be another day and hopefully I'll be able to meet Jake again, something just pulls me to him. And tonight I know that I will be dreaming of him.

The next morning I awoke feeling fatigued, it felt like I had done a whole day's worth of chores, my limbs throbbed, pressure built up in my head, and my body ached with tiredness. It has happened before though, sometimes I find myself very tired and sleepy. But it must be jetlag or the painkillers.

I laid there in bed for a good five minutes before I clambered off it and went to my bathroom to wash up. I took a quick look in the mirror and noticed my bruise from yesterday has formed and it looked worst then I thought. The bruise ran up my arm, all purple and blue with a slightly green hue to it. It puzzled me though, my skin doesn't bruise easily and I've never gotten a bruise this large before. I stared at it a bit more before pulling a long sleeve shirt on and a pair of pants, and when I deemed myself appropriate I headed down the stairs to find Carrine putting on her shoes to leave.

"Where are you going?" I asked her.

"I have a date with Seth remember?" She stated as she slipped on her flats.

"Oh, I forgot. Sorry." I apologized as I ran a hand through my hair.

"Are you alright Sis? You don't look so good?" She asked with a worried expression.

"Yeah, I'm great!" I lied. "Just woke up on the wrong side of the bed today."

She nodded her head and placed a kiss on my cheek before bidding me good bye and leaving for her date. I hoped she would get the best experiences of her life so that she'll at least have some good memories in her life that she can hold on to. Love is something beautiful and she should be able to learn what it means to be in love and even though she'll have her heart broken in three weeks...well two weeks actually, I know that she won't have any regrets. Life was just so unfair for Carrine.

I sighed at the injustice of it all and grabbed my keys; I drove to Uncle Billy's house like I promised him I would. My time here is short so I don't want to waste a minute of it or I just really want to see Jake again or it could be both. Goodness, I feel like a teenage high school girl, I haven't seen the guy in 16 years and already I feel like I've known him all my life. I don't think my life couldn't get any weirder.

I pulled up into Billy's driveway and made my way to the doors of his house, I knocked on the door twice. A moment later a husky voice spoke behind it. "Coming!"

A second later the door flew open to reveal Jake standing there in all his glory and a pair of cut off jeans. "Hey Anna!" He said cheerily and moved to let me in.

"Hi. Is Uncle Billy home?" I asked as I followed him down the hallway to his living room.

Billy was sitting in front of his tv watching a football game. "Hey, Anna. You're here early?" He said as he turned his wheel chair to face me.

"Yeah, Carrine went on a date with Seth and I was bored so I thought I'd come over to keep you company." I smiled and sat down on his couch.

Jake sat down next to me, a little too close. "It was nice of you to come here to see Dad. It's been pretty lonely around here since Mom died."

"Son, give Anna some room, she's not going anywhere soon." Billy chuckled. "Jake's been like that since last night, he was so eager for you to come back."

Jake blushed and hissed at his Uncle Billy. "Dad! Stop embarrassing me!" I envied them, the bond between parent and child is something I've always wanted. I never got to experience it growing up like other kids did.

I sat there and watched them bicker for a moment before Jake turned his attention to me, we quickly fell into a comfortable conversation. We talked about anything and everything, but I steered away from my family life and the event that's about to take place in two weeks. It was a while later before I noticed that Billy wasn't in the living room with us and it was already dark outside.

"Oh Jake we lost track of time!" I gasped as I stood up.

Jake blushed under his dark tan. "Guess we did. It was just so easy talking with you."

"Yeah, it was easy talking with you too. Isn't it weird that we feel this way even though we haven't met in 16 years?" I giggled.

He cleared his throat a bit and mumbled. "Not really. But uh...would you like to hang out sometime?"

I blushed. "L-Like a date?"

"Yeah." He stammered adorably.

"I would love to go on a date with you." I whispered shyly. Age be darned. I don't give a care if he's younger than me.

"You kids finally done talking? It took you long enough." Billy interrupted as he wheeled himself into the living room.

I blushed. "Sorry Uncle Billy."

"I was just teasing you." He chuckled. "Will you stay for dinner Anna?"

"I don't want to impose." I replied. "And Carrine's probably at home, waiting for me to come back to make dinner."

"You can always invite her over for dinner with us and I can ask Seth to join us too." Jake said with a hint of hope in his voice.

I smiled. "Under one condition. You have to let me do the cooking, deal?"

Jake chuckled. "Deal. I'll go call Seth while you make dinner."

I walked into the kitchen and open the fridge, there was much in there so I searched the cupboards and noticed the same thing. It wasn't completely unexpected to see that seeing as only Jake and Uncle Billy lives here and I've never known Uncle to be the type of person that cooks. So I stood there for a moment to contemplate on what to make and a second later I chose to bake the whole chicken that was laying in the fridge and mash potatoes from the baby potatoes sitting in a basket under the sink, the serve some sweet corn from the can in the pantry. After that for desert I'll make my special chocolate chip cookies with almond slices sprinkled on top. It took me a total of 45 minutes to prepare everything and now all I have to do is wait for the chicken to be baked to perfection.

"Hey, how's the cooking coming?" Jake asked as he entered the kitchen.

I smiled at him. "All finish except for the chicken that will take a bit longer to cook."

"Uh do you mind if there are some extra dinner guests? My friends decided to invite themselves." He asked sheepishly.

"Not at all, the more the merrier but I think I'll have to make extras of everything." I stated and went to get the ingredients.

"Let me help you." He said.

I ordered him to mash the potatoes while I opened more cans of corn, I didn't know how many people were coming so I opened all the cans and had all the potatoes mashed. Then when everything was done, including the chicken that was baked to perfection, a bustle of people entered the kitchen, Carrine was one of them.

"Hey Sis. I heard you were making dinner so we came by." She smiled.

"Man I could smell the chicken from a mile away." One of the large men said, he seemed about 25 years of age with black hair and brown eyes.

One of the guys stepped forward, he looked older than the others. "Hi, I'm Sam and these guys here are Quil, Embry, Paul, Jared, and Seth who you already know."

"It's nice to meet you all. My name is Annalise but just call me Anna." I greeted them.

Seth chirped in. "Your food smells even better then Emily's cooking!"

I giggled. "Why thank you! It's not every day that I get to cook for so many people so I hope it will be up to everyone's standards."

"These guys will eat anything so don't worry." Jake said as we all sat down at the island, including Billy. He tore off a chicken leg and bit into it, a second later his eyes bulged out. "Oh my god this is good!"

The man Quil took a bite and moaned. "Oh gods Anna, please marry me."

Jake from beside me growled suddenly. I turned and looked him confusedly. "Is something wrong Jake?"

"It's nothing Anna. I was just joking Jake." Quil defended, he seemed to cower a bit.

They went back to eating and within seconds the chicken turned into carcass of bones and all the food was gone. These guys were like animals! They ate everything and they ate a lot of it, no wonder their so big and buff. After my initial shock I went to the oven and pulled out my tray of cookies and placed them on the table after the guys helped clear it. When they saw it their noses twitched and looked like they could be drooling, then all at once hands from all direction shot forward at the cookies and the next thing I knew the tray was empty.

"Oh my!" I gaped. I looked around and saw no cookie in sight, just a few crumbs. "Wow!"

Jake laughed from beside me and handed me a cookie. "Here I saved you one."

"Thanks." I said and took it. "You weren't kidding when you said they'd eat everything."

"Well, your cooking is really good and I don't think any of the guys are going to let you go far now." Seth joked.

"Damn Jake, where did you find a perfect girl like this." Embry smiled. "I gotta find one like her."

I blushed at his comment and looked over to see Jake blushing lightly under his tanned skin. After talking and getting to know everyone I found it to be very late already so I excused myself and Carrine so that we could go home. Jake looked a bit sad but didn't say anything then I looked back to the guys to see them with knowing looks in their eyes. It kind of scared me. I pushed it away and stood up to leave but a wave of dizziness hit like a ton of bricks and I fell backwards. Jake moved and caught me in his arms.

"Are you alright?" Jake and Carrine said in unison with the same worried looks plastered to their faces.

I flushed from the feeling of Jake's arms around me and stood up. "I'm alright; just a little dizzy is all. I must have stood up too fast."

"Are you sure Sis? You don't look so good." Carrine said worriedly.

"I'm fine, really. It must have been the heat from cooking." I assured them. "Let's go home Carrine, I think I'm in need of a nap."

She nodded and we bid our goodbyes then left. I backed the car onto the road and sped home, I didn't know why but I felt fatigued and dizzy, it happened before but not of this magnitude. I felt so tired that I went over the speed limit and made it home in 7 minutes. Then I kissed Carrine on the forehead and told her good night before going to bed. I just felt so tired that I needed to sleep, but my sleep was peaceful like I thought it would be. I rolled around and flailed around, then my nauseated feeling from before came back and I ran straight for the toilet and vomited my dinner out. When I was done I stood up to leave but a sweep of tiredness washed over me and I just laid my head on the tiled floor and doze off.

AN: Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Please no flames!