As soon as he got into his car he took a deep breath. Trying to sort out his cluttered thoughts. Questions bombarded him like, who is it, has he met them, what do they want? He put the car in reverse and pulled out of the garage onto the gravel driveway. He turned the radio up loud to drain out his thoughts. Soon,too soon, he arrived on his familiar street and in front of his house. He saw the car of cars sitting right in his driveway. He couldn't believe it. It was a '65 Corvette beautifully restored, not perfect but beautiful. He got out of his rabbit to get a closer look at it. Whoever did this restoration job really knew what they were doing. He could here voices muffled by the house. The closer he got the louder they became. He walked through the door into his home. Standing there he saw his father sitting in his wheelchair in the living room and across from him on the couch was a girl. She was strikingly gorgeous and familiar. She seemed perfectly at ease in his home talking to his father. His dad turned and noticed that he had come in.
"Oh look there is Jacob!" Billy said as if surprised to see his son home.
"Hello." said the girl her voice was the perfect pitch not deep, but not high.
"Uhhh heyy." Jacob so brillantly replied still being tongue twisted by her beauty.
"Have I met you before?"He asked.
"I talked to you once before. I admired your Rabbit. You told me that you did all the work yourself." She replied in her flawless voice.
"Oh, yea, yea now I remember you."
"How could I forget?!" He mumbled.
"I was wondering if you could help me with something on my car, since you know so much about them."She asked.
"Thats your car outside?"Jacob said incredously.
"Yes I know a little about cars." She said shyly.
"I can take a look at it." He said walking out the door.
She followed him to her car. Immediately poping the hood for him to inspect under. He waited for her okay before touching anything just like any other gentleman. He did pick up a couple things from being around Edward so much. He was fiddling around poking and prodding the engine.
"So its a 327-365hp engine." Jacob stated.
"Yes, I have been having fuel pump problems." She added.
"Okay. Can you pull it around back to the shop, so I can look at it better with my tools?" He said taking his now greasy arms from under the hood.
She obediantly started the car and drove it to the back with a little guidence from Jacob. She got out and let Jacob take over. He walked in and got the creeper out. He laid down and slid smoothly under the car. He came out a few times for tools.
"Okay I looked at it and I think it has fatigue-faliure or cyclic failure."Jacob told her.
"Changing the amount of force being applied would probably work. All we need to do is change the pivot point on an arm or move the mount location." He said finally.
"Wow. Okay I don't know how to do that." She said impressed by his knowledge about the car.
"Well...what is your name?"He asked
"Maddyson. Maddyson Whiteridge. Could you help me with it?" She said embarassed.
"[Ugh routine scout tonight!]"He thought to himself.
"I am kind of busy today but maybe some other time." He said disappiontment coloring his tone.
"Oh...Thats okay I will just give you my number and call me when you have some free time." She said while scribbling down her phone number.
"'Kay I will call." He said opening the car door for her.
He watched her back out of the shop and down the narrow path to the road. He walked back slightly awed that he just got a pretty girl's number even if it was to help her with her car. He walked back to the house. Billy was waiting on the porch when he got there obviously excited.
"So...?" Billy prompted when Jacob walked right passed him into the house.
"So...what?"Jacob asked as Billy followed him from the refrigerator to the couch.
"What did she want? Did you get her number?" Billy asked being a little prying.
"She needs help with the fuel pump on her car. Yes I did get her number." Jacob said matter-of-factly.
"Oh uhh anyway Charlie called he was wondering if you could take something out to the Cullens for him?" Billy said trying to be nonchalant about it.
"Fine I will go bring whatever it is that he is too lazy to bring himself to the house, then I have a routine scout tonight. I probably won't be home until 5 maybe 6 in the am. Leave the door unlocked. Bye dad." Jacob concluded.
"Bye son."
Jacob walked out of the house with a Moutain Dew in hand. To his car that suddenly looked much better now that the corvette was not next to it anymore. He sat down, turned the key, and the stereo automatically came on. He drove to Charlie's as fast as he could. When he got there he could see that Charlie was sitting in the living room watching the game that Billy was getting ready to watch. He got out of his car leaving it idling in the driveway. He walked up to the door and knocked loud enought for Charlie to hear it over the game. He could hear the groan of the chair as Charlie got up and walked over to open the door.
"Hey, Jake uh you got the message from Billy?"Charlie asked uneedly.
"Yes, can you give it to me I am in a little bit of a hurry at the moment."Jacob said dryly.
"Oh okay hold yer britches." Charlie mumbled while he rummaged around the room looking for the letter. He handed it to Jacob.
"Uh tell Bella that this came in the mail for her to the house. I guess they don't know that she moved in with the Cullens. Tell everybody I said hi for me." He said with a sad note in his voice.
"Okay I will." Jacob said making his way back to his car. Reved the engine and headed out.
