A/N: The name still isn't Steph… so everything you recognise is hers – the newbies and idea are MINE. Katy has still got dibs on her song "thinking of you". Darn!
On with the show…
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Thinking of you
Chapter 3: Oh, boy
Nessie's POV:
In science we were being taught about radioactivity. I already know all of that, Gamma Rays, X-rays, ultraviolet, visible spectrum – Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain -, infared, microwaves and radio waves. The ionising radioactives are Gamma Rays, X-rays and Ultraviolet – they apparently burn vampires. But I'm not so sure about that one…
Seen, as I probably knew more than this than the teacher did, I didn't really need to listen to his lecture… I wish I did though, because then there would be a chance that the lesson would go by a lot quicker. Were my blinks in fast forward, or is the lesson going by in slow motion?
Adam looked at me a few times – I think he thought I couldn't see him, but he didn't know about my amazing skills – and smiled to himself a few times too. You need to stop liking him; Mai likes him and has done for longer, much longer.
I didn't expect my little internal pep talk I had in science to work. But it did. Yeah, he's still really pretty, but I don't need a boyfriend right now, especially the boy that one of my new friends is crazy about.
I was practically tackled at the door.
"Hey Ness, it's my birthday next week, I'm organising a mall day and then a slumber party at my house. You in?" I've never been too crazy about malls, what with all the bargain hunters, sale addicts and Auntie Alice running around like a bat out of hell! But you never know; it could be different experience without Auntie Alice buzzing around.
"Yeah, I'm in. That sounds fun" I knew Auntie Alice would love me for that. I just hope the mall bit would be a different experience going with friends than with the Pixie.
"Great, I was thinking Saturday. Is that OK for you?"
"Yeah, Saturday's great," I was stood in the parking lot with Ellie, waiting for Jake to come and pick me up, where is he, he's 5 minutes late picking me up. That's so not like him. Then as I was thinking that, Jake appeared a few metres away. He was on his motorbike. I love that thing; it's so sleek and pretty, but Jake over-powered the large bike with his overly tall and muscular body.
"Woah! Who is that? – Ness, do you know him?"
"Yeah, he's my best friend." I could tell by her face that she would like to meet him. "Come on," I pulled her by the arm – not that it took much effort, she was almost walking faster than I was. I stopped at the side of the bike. "Hey Jake,"
"Hi Nessie, how was it?"
"Better than I thought it would be," it was, I'd expected to be isolated because I was the new girl, I guess my beauty took the reins today. "Jake I'd like you to meet my new friend; Ellie. Ellie, this is Jake."
Ellie looked like a crazed fan girl, with the baffled expression she had plastered to her face. I ushered her away about a minute later, because I had a feeling that if it were up to her, she'd concrete hers and Jacob's feet to the ground where they were and never move. I guided her over to Mai and Dan, knowing that they'd not let her follow Jake home and me.
I straddled the seat behind Jake on his bike, put on my assigned helmet, and we were off. I didn't even have enough time to register the gasps made by the student body; we were breaking the national speed limit just getting out of the parking lot.
Jake was the first to talk, "So who were the brunettes?"
"Oh. Um, the taller one with the baby fat is Dan, and the skinny one next to her is Mai. They're mine and Ellie's friends." Jake shut off the revving engine once we were in front of the mansion.
"Nessie! How was it?" at first I assumed that it was Auntie Alice, but to my surprise - it was my mom. Auntie Alice wasn't long after her though. I re-told my day, dad looked a bit wary at one point when I was telling them about lunch, as Adam popped into my head. Whoops! Sorry dad. I'm going to take it that he doesn't like the idea of boys in my head, well he's going to have to get over that one… sad day. After I had finished my story, Jake suggested we go for a walk; "I want to talk to you more." As always, I accepted his invitation, and needed a rouse to get out of the question firing zone.
"Be home before dark" there goes my dad, he's always worrying. I think it could be one of his hobbies, he does it so well.
We ran out the sliding door and into the forest, out of hearing distance. Once we were safely out of range, Jacob turned to face me.
"I had a feeling that you'd like an escape from the bombardment"
I couldn't help giggling, I was thinking the same thing before we left the house, "Yeah… Thanks Jake" I sat down on a tree trunk's roots.
Jake went behind a thick tree to phase and started to jump around the trees trying to capture a butterfly. I decided to do a bit of hunting - I had nothing else to do. I took down a small elk – not by best work, but I was only comfort eating. The feeling I got when I was looking into Adam's light blue twinklies, I had never experienced before. Ever!
Jake obviously noticed that my strong front had been pulled down, he nudged me with his cold, wet nose as if to say, "what's up?"
"I'm confused…" I was talking to myself now "I've never felt like that before. He was so pretty, and then after I told myself not to like him because Mai likes him, I do still think he's pretty, but I had a best friend kind of feeling towards him..."
Jake released his prisoner, and went back behind his tree and phased, he was in his human form, in his usual black sweat pants. He got me into a hug that if I were fully human, I would have been compressed into oblivion. I love Jake's hugs, it's almost as if he squeezes the problem out of me and then the problem gets lost. When I was 2 – and I looked about 8 – my bear factory bear 'Patch' got lost, I didn't want to sleep without her, I knew she'd be upset. Jake got me into one of his hugs – only a looser one - and he promised me that he'd find Patch for me. It turned out that she was under my bed the whole time. I fell asleep that night, content and happy. Patch was bak where she's supposed to be; in my arms. Jake always makes everything better, no matter the size of my problem. I love him so much!
Even though I wasn't directing my monologue at him, he replied, "You too good for him anyway Nessie, you know that right? Your friend Mai and Adam will be really good together. I know that, you know that. Don't worry, you know that you'll find someone you want to be with and who wants nothing but you." I just nodded, he's so compassionate and caring. I know that I wouldn't ever want to be with Adam, I wouldn't do that to Mai. I'm not going to look anymore – searching for anything in Adam. I believe that the person who I'm supposed to be with... no, who I'm destined to be with, yeah, he'll come around soon. I'd love to be really close; best friends for a long time before anything remotely like a relationship would happen.
We settled against a furry tree trunk. Jake had me wrapped tightly in his arms – feel as if nothing in the world can harm me when I'm near with Jacob. He's my fuzzy protector.
Twilight came strolling by; we headed back towards my parent's cottage, mindlessly chatting about the movie Knowing we'd seen last Saturday at the movie theatre, "You can't know that the alien dudes didn't kill anyone when they were on earth scaring the hell out of that family," What? They were there to gather people for a new planet - did you watch the same movie as I did?
"Why would they kill people when they knew that the sun was going to destroy the earth?"
My house appeared from behind the trees a few seconds later. I love its old English charm and the small yet elegant garden at the front. I've got really vivid memories of playing hide and seek with Jacob in that garden – the trees came in handy. That was a fun day, we played for about 5 hours – Jake never got bored with my games. He comes up with games of his own sometimes, like "The Adventurers; Nessie and Jacob" – we still play that one. Two weeks ago, Marion Ravenwood discovered the 'Aztec's gold chalice', and Indiana and I returned it to the Aztec chief – otherwise known as Jake's dad – he rewarded us with chicken nuggets and fries.
Jake kissed my forehead "Sweet dreams, Nessie darling"
Once I was snuggled into my crisp new sheets, I was asleep before I hit my pillow.
R&R – it's much appreciated.
