When we walked through the store, I headed us straight for the meat section. I stocked up on a couple packs of hot dogs, a couple packs of burgers, and made sure there was enough steak for everyone to have two. I took her to the isle where they kept all the chips, and we just chatted as we made our way through the store. It was easy to talk to her an I liked it.

She picked up a bag of spicy doritos, and I raised an eyebrow at her. "So she likes hot stuff," I smirked. She laughed and threw it in the cart.

"Yep, guilty as charged." I loved seeing that smile on her face.

I leaned in closer, while pushing the cart beside her. "Then you must love me," my voice was right beside her ear, and I made sure to whisper. She shivered from the closeness and the whisper in her ear, smiling. Then she sped up a bit with a cute liittle blush on her face.

"I have some opinions about you," she said and kept walking. I stopped the cart, and stared after her until she realized I wasn't walking beside her anymore. All I got was a raised eyebrow. "Coming?"

"What opinions do you have of me?" Please don't be bad, please don't be bad, please don't be bad.

She blushed, and hope rose in my chest.

"I, I, uh, you know, you're a nice guy, and I think that you're extremely cocky but, uh, I, ehm, think it's funny and cute and I kind of like being around you and..." her blush was steadily growing more and more prominent. I had a wolfish smirk on my face, and inside my wolf was howling with delight. Damn right she likes being around me. So busy was I with celebrating with my wolf that I almost missed her last part.

I strolled the cart casually up to her, leaning against the handle of it. "Sorry what was that again, didn't get the last part," I whispered in her ear again, letting my breath tickle her throat. I felt her shiver and again almost missed those words as my wolf got scent of her arousal. We wouldn't do anything about that yet though, we had to wait. Respect her I was chanting to my wolf.

"I guess you're pretty attractive," she whispered back.

"I know," I said, and strolled the cart forward, getting a couple more bags of chips and the looked back at her. She seemed completely at a loss, which put that smirk back on my face. That snapped her out of it and she scowled at me, then walked forward and headed to the checkout counter. I quickly grabbed a bunch of pasta salad that I knew would get devoured, and we waited for the person in front of us to finish up.

Even though she was embarrassed earlier, she was fine now, chatting like nothing awkward had happened and it made me glad. I could flirt with her and she would be fine with it. Maybe she was used to it. Maybe that bloodsucker flirted with her like I did. A growl started vibrating through my chest, and my hands started shaking.

I felt like I was about to phase from the thoughts I was having. Bella's eyes were wide, and she knew what might be happening soon.

"Paul, go outside and walk around," her voice calmed me down, but I knew she was right. I was a risk to all the people in here with me like this. I was still shaking and thoughts of him kept passing through my head. Or maybe he didn't flirt with her like that. I walked quickly into the woods, thinking of Jacob and how close they were. No doubt he tried flirting with her.

The moment I phased was the moment I remembered Sam telling me how Bella had broken her hand trying to punch him after he kissed her.

She is MINE! My wolf roared out. I was running through the woods, making sure to stay with in a couple minutes of the market. I needed to be able to go back once I calmed down enough. I thought that I was alone when I phased, which why I was letting my emotions run wild with thoughts of Bella, thoughts of every moment with her, the feeling of imprinting, the anger towards Jacob for thinking that she was his. She was not his, she was mine.

Mine, mine, mine, mine, mi...

A loud snarl ripped through my mind. I realized someone else was in wolf form.

And that someone was Jacob Black.

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DUN DUN DUNNNN
Not that Paul is scared of him or anything, but ya know ... Gotta keep the suspense. :) Just can't figure out how I want them to play things out yet hmmmmm.