Apparently I need to start posting Friday mornings because it all goes down hill in the afternoon, sorry that this one is getting out so late but I just woke up. I also want to add that while there is a bit of Jake and Bella in this chapter Embry is in here too. This story while mainly focused on Paul and Angela will have these characters in the chapters as well.
Chapter 3
The sun was just getting ready to set when she pulled up to the house. She knew that Charlie would be up soon and getting ready for work. He had been working the night shift for a couple of weeks now, one of his deputies had a vacation and then another one took off when his wife had a baby.
Putting the truck in park, Bella scanned the house. She could see the bathroom window lit more than likely Charlie was probably taking a shower, she knew that she would have just enough time to make him something to eat before he was off again.
As she was reaching for the handle her door flew open and her body was jerked into Jake's naked chest. His heat surrounded her completely, his scent wrapped around her too. She wanted to nuzzle him so badly so she did. After the talk she had with Angela today it was pretty apparent her feelings for Jake were stronger than ever, but she was scared and Angela was the one to tell her so.
As her nose rubbed across one of his pecks her lips unintentionally skimmed over his nipple causing him to freeze and goose bumps to erupt across his skin. He was smiling over her head as he pulled her in tighter. When her arms wrapped around his waist he couldn't help but drop a kiss to the top of her head.
"Hey Bells, good day?"
He felt her hands slacken around his waist. With another kiss to her head he let her pull back, "Yeah, I had a lot of fun with Angela. We mostly cleaned her room and talked but it was - it was really nice. I've missed her."
"So I'm done with patrol, wanna do anything tonight?"
Jake smiled when he saw the flush of red crawl up Bella's face. She scuffed her shoe in the dirt before she looked up at Jake, "Actually I was wondering if maybe if uh -"
"Spit it out, Bells."
"You want to go to the movies tonight in Port Angeles?"
Jake knew his mouth had dropped open, his heart was about to hammer out of his chest. Bella Swan had just asked him to go to the movies with her! She was looking at him waiting for his answer but he couldn't just choke out the words "hell yes," or "finally." Stilling himself Jake settled with, "That'd be great Bells."
When his arm wrapped around her and he began walking her toward the house. It dawned on him that he was wearing only a pair of cutoffs and more than likely he had dirt all over his body.
"Uh Bells, I need to head home and take a shower first."
"Oh that's ok Jake I should visit with Charlie before he goes to work and make him dinner. I called and the movie doesn't start 'til nine-thirty anyway."
Jake squeezed her hip before he started to back his way toward the forest. "Hey Jake?"
"Yeah, Bells?"
"Could you ask Embry to come too?"
That stopped him in his tracks. Making his way back toward her, he took in her appearance. She seemed nervous about something. Could she want to - no there was no way that Bella would want to spend time with Embry. I mean sure they were friends and he was over at the garage all the time when Bella was around but -
"I told Angela I'd ask you to see if he would come, she's coming too if that's ok."
"You're trying to hook Embry up," Jake said with a smile on his face.
"Well it's not- it's just that she's a really nice girl, he's a nice guy and maybe they could -"
"If I see him I'll ask him, he went with his mom to the Makah rez, some family thing."
"Oh ok just um - let me know, ok?"
Bella moved toward the door a little bit and then her heart rate sped up catching Jake's attention, "If he's - if he can't come we can still go, right?"
A smile split across Jake's face so wide it hurt, "Sure thing Bells, you and me."
It was then that she reached the bottom step, still looking at Jake she put her foot on the step, and began to step up when her foot slipped and began to fall, Jake rushed forward in an attempt to help her, but she jumped up so fast that he didn't reach her in time. Just then the front door swung open, "Bells what the heck are you doin' out - hey what are you up to, Jake?"
"Hey Charlie, nothing just headed home, with a quick wave and a smile in Bella's direction Jake stepped back, "see ya Chief." With that Jake sprinted down the road far enough so Charlie wouldn't be able to see him and shed his clothes as he phased at the edge of the woods.
~U~
Charlie was munching away on a piece of bacon when Bella pulled a chair out beside him. She watched him intently for a couple of minutes until she could see his eyes pinch together. Turning in his seat he eyed her.
"Anything you want to talk about Bella?"
"I asked Jake to go to the movies with me in Port Angeles tonight. Is that ok?"
Charlie choked. Bella jumped up and started slapping his back to dislodge the piece of bacon. "Dad you ok? Dad!"
"Fine Bells, I'm fine. You asked Jake on a date?"
Her hand jerked back from his body like it had burnt her, "Not really, I mean maybe kind of – ugh. Angela and Embry are coming with us too." Her voice almost came out as a whine and she scrunched her nose at it.
Charlie chuckled and shook his head, "Yeah it's fine, but I'm leaving my cell phone with you so you can call if you get into trouble. Are all of you going to fit in your truck?"
"We are going to take Angela's car."
"Ok just make sure to drive safe, I gotta get ready for work. Try to be home by midnight and Bells,"
"Yeah Dad," she answered over her shoulder as she washed her father's dishes.
"No parties."
"You have nothing to worry about Dad. No parties for me."
~U~
Two hours later Bella and Angela were sitting on the couch, their legs bouncing in anticipation.
"Maybe they aren't coming; I should just go home so you and Jake can have a date."
Bella gripped Angela's arm so tight that she could clearly see her friend wince, "He's coming, both of them are coming, I know it." Deep down she was pretty worried though, Jake hadn't called her back like he said he would.
Both of the girls jumped when there was a loud rap at the door. They looked at each other before they scrambled to their feet. Angela was busy straightening her dress shirt and smoothing her sweaty palms across her thighs as Bella made a dash for the door.
When she jerked the door open Jake wore the biggest smile on his face, but she could see the exhaustion in his eyes. He must have seen something in her eyes because before she could speak he had pulled her into a hug, and it was then that she saw Embry standing at the bottom of her steps. His face was red face and abnormally stiff posture let Bella know he was a little uncomfortable.
Jake's lips brushed across her ear, his warm breath nearly intoxicating her when he spoke, "His first date."
Her eyes widened as Embry cursed shuffling his feet in the gravel. Jake moved around Bella and into the house as Embry made his way up the steps, peeking into the door he spoke to Bella before he moved any further, "This ok?" his hand gesturing to his clothes.
Embry was wearing a pair of dark washed jeans, that were tight but not too tight and a white t-shirt that was stretched across his frame. He looked good.
"You look great, Embry." He ducked his head out of shyness for a moment but when he looked at Bella again she could see the wide smile that she could tell he was struggling to contain.
Bella gave a nod toward the house, "Whenever you are ready." Shoving his hands in his pockets, Embry's long strides had him up her steps and walking through the front door just seconds later. Once inside the house she took note that Jake was nowhere to be seen so she cocked her eyebrow at Embry who was sitting close but not too close to a nervous-looking Angela on the couch. "Kitchen," he said before turning his attention back to the television that had been turned on without Bella knowing about it.
"Of course," she muttered as she walked down the hall and into the little kitchen. When she rounded the corner she snorted at the sight. Jake was leaning against the counter stuffing two cold hot dogs into his mouth while gripping the package like it was going to disappear.
Bella smiled when she saw a tint of red light up his cheeks, "Hungry?"
"You don't even know, Bells. I had to run patrol with Paul when I left here, then Embry's mom ended up staying on the Makah Rez so I ran up there and got him. Sorry I didn't call."
"You didn't have to run all the way up there and get him, Jake."
"Yeah I did, I haven't been to the movies in forever and since it's with you, nothing was stopping me from going, Bells."
Bella's face flushed and she quickly turned away from him. Why was her face always catching fire around him? It wasn't as if he was saying particularly racy things to her, but the fact that he was so open about wanting to be with her or near her made her giddy and shy at the same time. Maybe it was because she really wasn't sure that she was worthy of Jake. Either way he thought she was apparently, and right now that made Bella happy.
Looking at the clock on the stove, Bella made her way over to Jake. He had a blob of mustard on the corner of his lip. Bella didn't even bother with a towel she just reached up with her thumb and wiped the mustard away, she gasped when his long hot fingers encircled her tiny wrist. She could see it again, the fire he had for in her eyes, and this time Bella felt a small flame in her stomach. Her wrist was still by his mouth and slowly his head turned toward her palm. Her eyes widened when his mouth opened and she fought hard to suppress a very embarrassing moan when his hot, plump lips wrapped around her thumb and ever so gently sucked the mustard off.
Jake was sure to let his teeth graze Bella's thumb as she withdrew the digit from his mouth. What the hell was he thinking? Well really he wasn't. When he first stepped into the kitchen his eyes landed right on the spot where he had kissed Bella the first time. Where she had talked to Edward Cullen on the phone, had reassured him that she was alive, but that she didn't want him to come back, that he had broken her too much. But then as he leaned up against the same spot and Bella had touched him it was like he was right back in that moment. Her strawberry smell invaded his senses and he was right back in that moment longing to kiss her, so he did. This time though it wasn't her face that was so close to his it was her palm and God if he didn't want to kiss it too. Her hands were so small. Yet another thing he loved about Bella Swan.
Bella's gasp caught his attention. His eyes flicked to hers and then it happened. She was throwing her tiny body at his. His arms wrapped around her shoulders hers around his waist, but she was struggling against him and that's when he realized that she was trying to crawl up his body. Dropping his arms from her shoulders he latched onto her thighs and hoisted her up. Her squeak had him reeling and then her legs tightened around his stomach and he felt her heat pressed against him. He was about to lose it.
Turning around he sat her on the sink and attacked her neck with kisses He couldn't help groaning as his lips connected with her pale cool skin. With every groan his breath would fan across her neck and the goosebumps he felt on his arm would intensify. He worked his way up her neck to the back of her ear and then wrapping both hands into her hair he drew back. Her face was flushed and her eyes were hooded but she was smiling. With a smile of his own he slowly allowed his face to descend toward hers. Just as his lips brushed hers he heard a throat clearing. Bella's grip on his ribs startled him as he felt her nails bit into his skin.
He fought back a growl because the heartbeat that behind him was racing but he knew that it wasn't Embry's. He was smart in sending Angela in here. Jake dropped his forehead to Bella's and then kissed her nose as he drew away.
Shyly, Bella looked around Jake's huge form to see Angela standing in the door way wide-eyed and if all possible slack jawed but wearing a smile at the same time. Her eyes darted back to Jake who was staring out of the window behind her intently.
"I'm - sorry Bella but we might miss the movie?" Bella could hear the question in Angela's voice. There was no place Bella would rather be than right here in the sink actually enjoying that fact that Jacob Black was burning the skin of her neck and mouth with his kisses, but this was the first time since they had left that she was going to actually spend time with one of her Forks friends, and she didn't want to make the same mistake with Jake that she did with Edward. If something was going to actually happen between the two of them.
With Edward she had completely written her friends off for him. She wouldn't do it again; it obviously got her nowhere but friendless, gossiped about and alone. With a slight push to Jake's chest she could feel, rather than hear, the rumble and she shot him a stern yet playful look. Pitifully he backed away from her allowing enough room for her to jump back down from the sink and with his body hiding her she was able to straighten her shirt which she hadn't realized had either ridden up or was moved up by his hands.
Putting her hand on his left peck, Bella allowed her hand to drift across his chest as she stepped around him, delighting in the feel of Jake's body shuttering under her palm. Where had this come from, this confident Bella? She almost felt sexy, powerful and actually in control for once.
Without looking back Bella smiled when Angela nearly jumped in place while clapping at the air. Bella shook her head when she read Angela as she mouthed "oh my God" over and over. Looping her arm in Angela's, Bella led her out of the kitchen while hoping that Angela would gain some sense of control.
~U~
Thirty minutes later Jake was in state of panic. The girl that was sitting behind him on a double date with Embry was Paul's imprint. They were so completely fucked. Embry had been eyeballing him since they pulled out of Bella's driveway. He wanted to kick himself for not paying closer attention to the girl in the house, but his number one priority at the time, besides stuffing his face, was Bella. It wasn't until they walked out and realized what they would be riding in that Jake took a long look at Angela. As he looked at her realized two things: one, he'd met the girl before, she was at First Beach with the rest of her friends from Forks, and two she was Paul's imprint. Finally Jake locked eyes with Embry and spoke, "So what do you think?"
Embry smiled and shrugged his shoulder, "She's cute."
Gripping the steering wheel Jake looked back at the road, this night was going to be a total cluster fuck. Opening his mouth to tell Embry about the complication, Embry interrupted his thoughts.
"She really is man but, something doesn't, I don't know," Embry's head swung toward Jake, his eyes darting toward the back of the car, "doesn't feel right. When I met her at the party the attraction was there for sure, but now-" Embry shrugged his shoulders looking for the words.
"It's different now because Paul imprinted on her," Jake muttered gripping the wheel again.
"What!" Embry yelled as he jerked bashing his head into the ceiling.
~U~
Bella and Angela were sitting in the back of the her tiny Ford Probe, squished together so tight their shoulders were pressed against each other and they had to cross their legs on the seat. Angela was showing Bella pictures of the school in Chicago she was going to attend when Embry's voice boomed through the car and his head smacked into the ceiling.
Both of the girls jerked into as much of an upright position as they could, Bella shooting Jake a look through the rearview. She could see him wince and then his hand wedged between the door and grasped hers.
"Everything ok?" Bella asked shooting him another look in the mirror and then letting her eyes dart toward Embry.
"Yeah Bells, I was just giving Embry a hard time about the party the other night, right Emb?"
Nodding his head Bella could tell that Jake wasn't telling the whole truth, the tic of both of their jaws a sure sign.
~U~
Bella and Angela erupted into a fit of laughter as both Jake and Embry threw the doors of the car open. The only way that they were able to get out was to place their palms on the concrete and sort of unfold themselves and roll out at the same time. When then front seats were slammed as far forward as they could go the girls got right out with ease, laughing again when the boys grumbled at them.
As they made their way to the movie theater, Angela's eyes kept darting between Bella and Jake, they were holding hands, their strides matched although Angela wasn't really sure how it was possible, Jake's legs were long and Bella's obviously were not.
Looking to her side she saw that Embry was looking at them too, until he felt her eyes on him. He smiled and nodded his head toward her before his eyes darted back to Bella and Jake. When he looked at her again she simply mouthed I know to him with a smile on her face.
~U~
So far for Angela the best part of this movie had been when Embry had placed his hand in the small of her back and led her to their seat. Well it was a tie between that and the fact that he had bought large popcorn and promptly poured the entire box of his Nestle Bunch a Crunch right into the bucket, not even worried whether she would like it or not. After the deed was done though he looked at her almost guilty, until she dug in and with a mouthful told him that she often did the same. Angela was watching the movie screen taking in the movie in front of her. It was awful and really she didn't know what it was about, her main focus the entire time was the fact that Embry was so close to her in a dark room and he hadn't once tried to touch her.
Angela had never felt insecure about herself but his fingers had brushed up against hers when they first started eating and he jerked back like he had caught fire. Sure his arm was sitting on the rest right next to hers, and the heat was about to lull Angela to sleep, but he didn't try to make any kind of move to hold her hand or anything. She could feel the frown setting in.
Looking to her left Angela saw that the arm rest between Bella and Jake was lifted and she was pressed into his side. His arm was draped over her shoulder and her hand was raised so that her fingers intertwined with his fingers that hung there limply. She was happy for them, she really was. Bella was a great person and she deserved it, and honestly no matter what Bella had said while she was with Edward, Angela could still remember the look that Jake wore on his face the day they met at First Beach. He was in love with Bella Swan and had been for quite some time. Jake seemed like a great guy, and from what Bella had said earlier that day he was the one that helped her recover after Edward had left, so she was happy for him too, but she was growing embarrassingly jealous.
As slowly as she could, Angela let her eyes drift from Jake and Bella to the screen then to Embry. She froze when she saw that his head was turned completely in her direction and she realized that he had been watching her. She smiled at him while moving her fingers toward his but stilled when his hand left the arm rest and went to his lap. Her heart sank and tears pricked at the corners of her eyes. Excusing herself, she shuffled out of the row and fought the urge to run. Hopefully the movie would be over soon.
~U~
Jake and Embry were crammed in the front of the little car again; the quite snores of both Angela and Bella were filling the car. It was almost one a.m. Jake called Charlie and asked if it was ok that they were going to be out that late, letting him know that both he and Embry were about to starve to death and that they wanted to go to a diner on the outskirts of Port Angeles. With Charlie's blessing they had went to the diner and ate and then stayed awhile to just chill out and mostly complain about the movie.
As the car streaked down the road Jake could see Embry's eyes darting over to him and then back on the road only to repeat the same pattern just seconds later. "Spit it out, dude."
"You and Bella, huh?"
Jake smiled as he turned in Embry's direction, "I think- yeah, I think so."
"It's good, you're good for her and she's obviously good for you. I haven't seen you so happy and I don't know, at ease since you phased."
"I know man, I can feel it when she's around it's like I don't feel like I'm going crazy on the inside anymore."
Embry nodded his head silently in response, "So her and Paul?"
"Man, I swear I didn't know."
"I know Jake, but I really feel like a dick."
"She'll be ok."
"You really think so, I mean her and Paul."
Jake sucked in a breath because honestly he didn't know what to think. After chatting at the diner with Angela they both knew she was nothing like any of the girls Paul had ever been with and she was planning on leaving for college shortly after she graduated. Both of them frowned at the thought. Nothing had ever been easy for Paul and knowing that she was going to leave made them realize his imprint would be no different.
"I don't know man, theirs is going to be different, that's for sure."
Embry nodded his head solemnly and waited for the ride to be over.
Just a warning, I only have two more beta'd chapters left. After those two are posted updates will more than likely be either spread further apart or the chapters that are posted won't be fully beta'd.
