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Chapter 3

Bella POV

As I sat down in my seat, I smiled happily that Lydia and I were still friends despite the fact that her and Jackson were over. I sighed at the thought of his name. I can still remember when Jackson and I had met years ago.

Around 3 years ago when Bella was 14…

I was jogging on a track when all of a sudden I bumped into someone. "Oops sorry," I said sheepishly. I looked up to see a really tall guy.

"Watch where you're going pipsqueak!" A guy behind him said.

I mumbled a sorry before turning around to walk away. Suddenly I felt a tight grip on my wrist. "Hey, hey now. Look you dirtied my shoes. Surely there's something you can do about it," the man I bumped into said.

They started to move in closer, and just when I was about to scream another voice appeared. "Hey!" I turned around to see a young teen around my age walk up to us. He was lanky, but still had some muscles. From what I could see he could still tower over me, though that wasn't really hard to do as I was only 5 foot. The closer he came, the more I realized it was Jackson Whittmore. (He's 15 right now.) He walked in between the guy and me and I couldn't help but curl myself into his backside. I grabbed the back of his shirt without thinking as the fear of what would come next. "Back off now. Or you'll regret it," Jackson growled at them.

I assumed that something about his expression made them hesitate as they glared at him and walked away. He then turned around and glowered at me. "What were you thinking? A girl like you should never be alone. You could get hurt." I flinched back at his tone, but didn't respond.

"I'm sorry," I said chokingly as I felt tears blocking my gaze. I quickly wiped them away before he could see. He sighed before grabbing my hand, and tugging me into the opposite direction of my cousin's house.

When he didn't start talking, I began to as questions. "Where are we going?"

He looked at me through the corner of his eye before looking ahead. "My house. You need to ice your wrist. That dick grabbed you pretty roughly." As he said this, I felt his thumb gently stroke my wrist. I looked down to see it was already turning a light shade of purple.

We didn't say anything else as we made our way toward his house. I tried not to look like an idiot as I looked around amazed at the sight of his house. He released my hand and pointed toward the stairs. "My room is the first door to the left. Go up there why I go get you some ice." I didn't bother to disobey as I feared he'd get upset.

I was surprised to find his room quite neat, since Scott's usually always had some kind of mess. Maybe it was just Scott. I sat down on his bed and waited for him to come up. He soon opened the door and carefully wrapped an ice pack around my wrist. I frowned when I noticed that his hand was all scratched up and slightly bruised. Before I knew what I was doing, I grabbed his hand in both of mine. "What happened?" I said as I gently ran my hands through the cut.

He shrugged. "I punched my sports locker." I frowned before getting up. I looked around the room and found a small first aid kit on one of his shelves. I took his hand and placed it on my lap, and began to clean the cuts. "You're not going to ask why I punched my locker?"

I looked up at him and smiled. "You don't have to answer to me Jackson."

"You know my name." he said as a statement more than as a question. "Who are you?" he demanded curiously.

"I'm Bella Swan. I'm Scott McCall's cousin. I visit here practically every summer. And everyone knows who Jackson Whittmore is," I said jokingly. I heard about him from Scott and Stiles. He was the only freshman to have made varsity team. He got attention from all the girls, and apparently was a big rich egoistic jerk. "You're not as bad as I thought you were."

He raised his eyebrows at me, amused. "Oh and what have you heard about me."

"I heard you're a big shot even though you're a freshman because you made varsity lacrosse, and that you're a rich jerk whose smart. But I think you're not as a big as a jerk as you let people let on."

He furrowed his eyebrows. "Why would you say that?"

"Because you saved me," I said softly. "You could be a jerk, but I think that you're just lonely. It must be a lot of pressure to have to always be the best."

He glared at me and took his hand away once I finished nursing it. "You know you make a lot of assumptions, especially when you only just met me."

I smiled back ignoring his glare. "Yet you haven't denied any of my 'assumptions.'" I took back his hand and gave it a squeeze. "Don't worry. You're not alone anymore." He didn't smile back, but after a while he gave my hand a squeeze back.

Since then, Jackson and I got even closer. Every summer, we'd hang out and he'd climb through my window and stay the night with me most of the time. But if my Auntie didn't have work, I would stay at his house. We talked about anything and everything. It took me while, but I got him to let down some of those walls he'd put up around other people. Scott really didn't understand our relationship, but I was glad he accepted it no matter how reluctant he was.

To be honest our relationship, to other people, could be quite confusing. We were very touchy around each other. Not like kissing, but we held hands and embraced a lot. He never said it, but I knew he enjoyed the warmth and security I brought him.

I sighed. I wished he still lived here. Right when I decide to move here, he had already left for London weeks ago. I rolled my eyes at that. I might have to take up his offer to come visit since I missed him so much. I haven't seen him in so long.

The bell rang and I jumped up in surprise. At least the teacher didn't call on me, while I was daydreaming I thought to myself as I exited the class. I felt relieved that my first day was officially over, and that I hadn't made a fool of myself.

As I walked over to my locker a thought went through my head, and I froze for a moment. Crap?! What was I going to tell Scott and Stiles?!

Sorry for the shortness. Just edited to follow the next chapter. I hoped it was okay. Please review! (: