A/N: I'm not sure if I'm completely satisfied with this chapter... But I'll put it up anyway. Took a bit longer on this one... My computer broke down again...so, no MSP or OLS for a while. :[

Also, I don't know if anyone noticed my little joke in chapter two. With the Count from Sesame Street... Like, he's a vampire and...well...yeah... Enjoy. Review!


Jacob's grip on the steering wheel was firm as he drove down the road, rain pounding on the windsheild.

"I can take you straight home, Reena."

She looked from the window to him. That was the first time he had used her name, she felt her stomach go all warm and fuzzy. She made a face at the reaction, "Are you sure?"

He chuckled, "Of course. Just gotta tell me where to go."

She nodded, "Alright." She turned her head to the window again, watching as blurs of pinetrees passed by her eyes.

"You wonder when the sun is gonna shine, don't you?" Jacob laughed.

"Mm," she nodded. "That's Forks for you."

"I guess so," he grinned.

They drove in silence for a while, the radio turned down to a low murmur. Reena couldn't make out what was playing anyway, but she didn't really care.

"What kind of music do you like?" Jacob asked, breaking the small silence.

"Um," she turned back to him. "Metallica... Billy Talent, Tokio Hotel, Bon Jovi..." She trailed off, turning to look back out the window again.

Jacob nodded, continuing to drive. Silence took over again, Reena still watching the patches of the green trees fly by. She was racking her brain for things to say to him. How was one to start a good conversation with a person they, maybe, kinda, on some level, liked? She made a face. She was comfortable around Jacob. Why wouldn't she just blurt out the first thing that came to mind, for heaven's sake?

"I-..."

"You mentioned Edward Cullen, this morning," Jacob said suddenly, a new seriousness in his voice. Reena blinked a few times, nodding slowly.

"Yeah, I did... Why?"

He didn't reply for a while, just kept his eyes on the road. Without averting his eyes he parted his lips, "It's nothing."

She kept her eyes on him, skeptically and slowly looking away from him, "Okay."

More silence.

With an exhale of breath Reena looked to Jacob again, "Why? Do you know him?" She wasn't too confident on receiving an answer.

No answer.

"Do I turn here?" he asked, ignoring her question. Maybe he hadn't heard her. No, that wasn't it. She didn't speak too quietly.

"Yeah."

What did Jacob Black know about Edward Cullen that he wasn't telling her?

*

"I assume Jacob took you home," Jade laughed quietly that evening, holding the phone to her ear.

"Yep. When did Megan go home?"

"Ages ago."

"And are you feeling better?"

"A little. A good sleep will probably do me good..." Jade mumbled.

"That's good."

"Yeah..." a yawn.

"So how are we getting to school, tomorrow?" Reena asked on the other line.

"I'll either get Manuel to drive us again, or maybe my dad can. Or my mum..." she trailed off, her dark brown eyes glancing at the alarm clock perched on her nightstand. "I'm turning in, now. See you tomorrow morning."

"Kay. Bye."

Jade clicked the phone off, placing it back on the charger and switching the lights off. She crawled under the blankets and into the bed. She curled up, facing the window and watching as the rain pittered and pattered against it.

All she did was blink once. When her eyes opened within that matter of miliseconds she thought she saw Edward Cullen outside her window. Sitting up in bed with a sharp gasp she rubbed viciously at her eyes, before looking back out the window. No one and nothing was there. She breathed. Just breathed for a good minute or two before laying back down. She tried to get comfortable again, but just couldn't seem to. After a few minutes of just laying there, the rythym of the rain began to make her eyes drowsy. The last thing she saw before her tired eyes drifted entirely into sleep was the face of Edward Cullen, his eyes a wonderful golden honey color. Her vision blurred as her lids shut tight.

*

"The sun!" Megan exclaimed, throwing her arms in the air as Manuel drove the three of them to school. He rolled his eyes, "Like you've never seen sun before."

"Hey!" Megan objected. "It's not that sunny in Forks! Go outside for a change."

Reena laughed a little, "Instead of cooped up in his room?"

"Playing video games," Megan added, scrunching up her nose.

"Hey, video games are fun," Reena said with a humble tone.

Jade turned in her seat, "Hey, he does music, too. Right?" She turned to her elder brother. "On your guitar. Right?"

He nodded as he turned into the high school, "Yeah, tell Megan to turn that light on."

Megan glared at him as she opened the door, "I should've taken the bus."

"Hey, Jade made me drive you."

"Pignose," she muttered, as Jade and Reena also got out of the car.

"Thanks," Jade called as Manuel turned to drive away.

"Yeah, whatever."

She made a face, then turned to her friends, "Well, let's go.."

"WAIT!" Megan screeched, and Jade and Reena thought she may of forgotten something in the car.

"What?" Reena asked, her eyes a tad wide as Megan's face went a shade of deep crimson.

"That's him!" she jabbed her index finger at a boy hanging around the front doors. "That's Sam!"

"Sam?" Reena raised an eyebrow.

"Oh yeah, you weren't there..." Jade grinned. "He's Megan's potential boyfriend."

"Crush," Megan interveined. "Crush, crush, crush."

Reena giggled at her, as she continued to ramble on about him. Jade pushed their chatter and giggles to the back of her mind as she looked across the parking lot---trying to seek out Edward Cullen.

She had put his previous actions behind her. She was far too infatuated with him.

With a final round around the lot she sighed and heaved her bag onto her shoulder, starting towards the front doors.

*

"And so she joins us once more!" Preston exclaimed as Jade made her way over to the lunch table. There was nothing more than a small portion of fruit salad and a bottle of water on her tray as she set it down. Megan and Reena looked up at her, a slice of pizza in Megan's hand and a sandwich is Reena's.

"...I'm not hungry," she smiled weakly, taking a seat between Luke and Kelly. Luke swiped a grape from her salad cup, popping it in his mouth and threatening to pop it out at Sharon by his motions.

With a somewhat evil cackle Ben leaned across the table, poking the grape into his mouth. Luke's eyes widened in surprise as he swallowed the small fruit, "Hey!" There was laughter amongst them.

"So where were you yesterday?" Sharon asked, garlic fingers on her tray and a plain, white milk.

"Yeah, Reena and Megan didn't know, either," Luke said, sitting back down from his attempt to whack Ben upside the head.

"We had to deal with this all lunch period," Reena laughed, referring to Luke and Ben.

A meek smile appeared on Jade's lips, "I was...well, no where important really."

Everyone decided to leave it at that. But actually, Jade had been sitting in an empty classroom yesterday during lunch, just watching the rain drizzle down the windows...thinking of Edward Cullen.

She turned in her seat, her eyes instantly landing on the table that the Cullens sat at. It was empty. She turned back around, stabbing a piece of watermelon with her plastic fork.

"Looking for the Cullens?" Kelly asked her, finishing off her water bottle.

Yet another meek smile, "Um..."

"The Cullens are weird like that," Preston said, his eyes veering around Jade and Kelly's heads as he spotted the empty table. No one even bothered to sit there. It was as if it belonged to the Cullens.

"Whenever it's actually nice out Carlisle and Esme, their mum, pull them out of school," Sharon explained, ripping a garlic finger slice apart, losing interest in the food. "For like, hiking or something. I don't know."

"If you ask me it's kind of whack," Preston said, adding his two cents to the table.

"The Cullens are whack," Luke mumbled, another piece of fruit from Jade's salad in his mouth. She sighed, pushing the cup in front of him, "Here. Have it."

"Really?" Luke asked, taking another piece.

"...Yeah," she turned around one last time too look at the empty lunch table. "...Really."

*

The Cullens had been absent for the remainder of the school week, which on a level bothered Jade. But the good thing was that she would have her car for Monday.

"When's Jacob bringing your car?" Reena asked on a lazy Sunday afternoon, glancing out the window. That whole week she had been thinking of Jacob. Him and what he knew about the Cullens. If only he would tell her; they were as mysterious to her as Jade or any other person.

"He should be dropping it off anytime," Jade replied, joining her friend by the window and looking out the rain stained window pane.

"I think I see him!" Megan piped up, squeezing between her two friends. A smile lit up her face, "Yep! There he is!"

The three girls watched as the green Mustang pulled into the driveway. Jade grabbed a sweater off the back of a chair, pulling it on and heading to the door. Megan pulled the hood of her sweater over her head, and Reena grabbed her jacket on the way out.

Jacob was just getting out of the car when the three approached him.

There was joy evident on Jade's face, her eyes bright and shining as she took in the familiar presence of her car.

"Good as new," Jacob confirmed, shutting the door behind him and sticking his big hands in the pocket of his thin jacket.

"Ah, Jake thank you so much!" Jade cried, skipping over to her car and running a hand over the hood. "What was wrong with it?"

"Just the starter motor. It should be fine, now."

"Great, thanks!" from behind Jacob's back she winked to her two friends, who grinned back at her.

"Hey, I don't like the look of those grins," Jacob said somewhat nervously, before being squished from three different directions.

Reena felt comfortable, yet uncomfortable at the same time as she wrapped her arms around Jacob. Alright, did Jade know she liked him? She could see her grinning mischeviously at her.

Megan and Jade were first to step back, Reena slowly letting go and putting on a meek smile.

At that time Jade's father came out the front door, keys in hand, "Jacob!"

"Aw, hey Manny," Jacob grinned at the older man as he approached him.

"I was just on my way to see your father. Do you need a drive home?" he asked.

Jacob scratched the back of his head, "If it's not much trouble."

"Nope, get in," he motioned towards the Jeep sitting in the driveway.

"Yes sir."

"Bye Jacob!" Jade and Megan chirped, as he raised a hand to wave goodbye. He turned his attention to Reena, offering another wave and smile and getting inside the Jeep.

Reena felt the heat in her face raise.

*

"Drives better than ever," Jade declared, pulling into the highschool, once again driving her Mustang.

There was frost on the ground, and a little freezing rain falling from the sky above.

Jade made a face; she really hated this weather. She dreaded the day actual snow would come. Frost and ice was bad enough.

Reena and Megan didn't seem to mind as much as they got out of the car as usual, acting like it was one of those rare sunny days.

Jade released a puff of breath as she took her bag and opened the door to get out. Unfortunately, as soon as her feet hit the ground she slipped, falling back and hitting her head on the driver's seat in the process.

She moaned in pain, helping herself up and gripping her bag tightly. Reena and Megan couldn't help but giggle as they each grabbed one of her arms, guiding her towards the school. With a kick of her foot, Megan closed the car door behind her.

"I hate the cold," Jade grumbled, avoiding a patch of black ice and letting drops of cold rain plop onto her hair.

"Let's get you inside," Megan laughed, pushing her slightly out of the way of another patch of ice.

*

"Good morning."

Did she just hear that correctly?

Jade quickly caught herself from saying something, or even falling over. She just kept her eyes on Edward Cullen as she slowly set her books onto the desk.

There was the faintest smile on his perfect rosy lips as he watched her sit down. She glanced to him, taking note of his eyes.

A warm golden color.

"Hello," was all she could summon up.

"How are you?"

Shaking frost out of her hair she tried to think. Edward was....talking to her. How come that didn't make one ounce of sense in her mind?

"I'm...I've been better, I guess."

When he didn't answer right away she looked to him. He seemed deep in thought, before blinking his now golden eyes, "You don't like the cold. Do you."

It was more like a statement then a question. She nodded slowly, "That's right."

"What is it that you dislike about it?" he asked, blinking again.

She just looked at him, before averting her eyes in thought. She looked back to him, "Well, I mean...for one it's cold. I don't like to be too hot, but I like to be warm. And snow and rain is wet. And not that it's pretty, but it's all slushy and gross. And, well, wet.. And well, I'm not much of an ice person. I mean, I slipped getting out of my car..." She made a face as she rubbed her head.

Edward just looked at her. She played with the hem of her long sleeves, wondering why she wasn't getting a reply. "Um, sorry..." was the first thing to roll off her tongue.

"No..." he sat up straight, looking out the window. "Though, I don't mind the cold myself."

"Well it doesn't help that it's so dark and dreary out when it rains. Snow is a bit brighter... But the cold is just dark," she paused. "It's sort of depressing."

He didn't answer, just continued to look out the window.

"But...that's just me," she added.

He turned back around to look at her, "Do you wish that Forks was...fairer?"

"Sunnier?" she repeated. She shrugged, "Well, yeah sure. But I grew up in Forks, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else."

"I see..."

"Hey," she paused again. "Um, did you get...contacts?"

He looked somewhat caught off guard as he blinked those golden eyes, "...N-no."

"But your eyes..." she furrowed her eyebrows. "The last time I saw you they were this...this dark color. Black. Like burning embers... I..." She stopped once she realized he was no longer listening. His eyes were now gazing back out the frosted window, rain drops trying to dissolve the cold.