I definitely own nothing, thats cause I'm no Stephenie Meyer.
So, the thing about this chapter is that it introduces Bella and Jacobs relationship to a degree not seen in the previous chapters, but the reason I'm saying this is because I absolutely hate when I read a story and within the first few chapters they're like, 'hey, lets not wait and have sex right here no matter who sees or even if we just had a fight and its our first time and we just have some primal need.' It just drives me up the wall.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy.. Review if you feel you should. Theyre appreciated, but on with the story already.
I've been there for Jacob my whole life. And he has mine. I helped him through the greiving process when his mom died; his and mine, when he lost his first tooth before me, when my mom left us, first day at school. He's such a great person. We first discovered that we could be more than friends in grade five, when hormones were budding, among other things. Our child relationship grew when we discovered that we were in love with each other soon after, our version of love. Together our whole lives, forever to be. We are meant for each other. We are pretty much halves of each other.
Jacob drove with ease and confidence, one hand on the wheel, one draped over the seat. His fingers whispered across my shoulder, and I leaned into them, grateful for the familiar contact after such a long, uncomfortable day. He chattered on about his day, about our friends, asking me questions about details of my day.
"Did you meet anyone new? Any new friends, potential friends?" He asked, grinning over at me, his teeth shining.
"Yeah, I met a few people. Couldn't talk to them." I mumbled fast, hoping he wouldn't hear. No such luck.
"Bella," He said, getting his 'parent tone' on. "You can't hide from them, you're going to school with them now, and for the rest of the year."
"I know. I think I still should be able to go to the reservation school. I have a truck." I pouted, sliding down in my seat.
"Forks school is closer. You'd have to drive twenty minutes to get to the school on the rez." Jacob said, placing his hand on my thigh. I scowled out the window until we pulled up into his driveway, where I jumped out of the truck and raced into his house.
"Afternoon Bella." Billy said from the table, where he sat, drinking coffee with Harry Clearwater.
"Hey Billy, Harry." I said, running down the hall and taking a dive at Jacob's bed. I heard Jacob come in the door and greet his dad, and Harry and hang the keys up on the hook that they kept empty for my keys, which were constantly there. I crawled under the sheets and turned towards the wall. I wasn't in the mood for anything at the moment. I just felt grumpy.
Suddenly Jake's arm snaked around my middle and his warm body was pressed up against my back, causing my stomach to turn over in the best way.
"Cheer up my Bells." He rumbled, pulling me closer to him. In the short amount of time between greeting his dad and laying down, I hadn't heard him come in, close the door, or felt him slip under the covers. He had also taken his shirt off, my favorite way to see him. I flipped around, careful not to break his nose or make some kind of stupid mistake like that. I smiled at his sudden half-nakedness.
"Ah, one way to guarantee a smile on your face." He said, laughing. I couldn't help myself. I laughed with him, placing my hand on the contours of his chest, tracing the muscles of his stomach, watching as they contracted against my touch. I looked up and found his dark eyes on me, his mouth turned into a half smile.
His lips were suddenly on mine, urgent and warm. His tongue, forever the quicker one, swiped across my lip, meeting mine. We melted into each other, tongues dancing around each other. Things often got heated up like this, especially when he took his shirt off. There was no resisting that. My heart beat rapid-fire, it felt like it was pushing through my chest and against his. I had to keep my fingers locked in his long hair, and his hand came to rest on my hip. It felt right in so many ways, but at the same time, I knew we were going to stop soon, and go no farther, so I pressed myself as close up to him as I could, letting my hands drop and run over his chest, his abdomen, until they reached his pant line, where I stopped, and slipped my hands around to his back.
We both sighed at the same time, I'm not even sure who broke the kiss. It was past our physical boundaries, as I slid back and looked into his eyes. His pupils had overpowered the dark brown, his face was flushed. I'm sure I looked the same way.
"You know," Jacob said, grabbing my hand and kissing my fingertips, something he did whenever we stopped. "Let's go for a walk." With that, he threw back the covers and pulled me along with him out the door, where we took a well worn path behind his garage. He ran his hands through his hair, but it fell back in place in his eyes, he grabbed my hand.
"These boundaries that we've set, they're getting harder to keep away from." He spun me around so that we were facing each other. "And Bella, you're gorgeous. But you're hot, and I mean that in the most gentlemanly way possible. But if anything's going to be stopped, it's going to have to slow way down. I mean glacier slow. We can't just get up to that point and then back away." His eyes were fevered, and I knew that we had almost gone too far. Again. Instead of responding right away, I hugged him, wrapping my arms tightly around his waist.
"Jacob. You're the best." I murmered into his chest, his shirt had still yet to be put back on.
"Oh, I'm peachy." He mumbled back.
"Why don't we hang out with friends, just be with others for a while?" I asked as he sunk to the ground, me ending up on top of him.
"That sounds like a good idea. That's why you're my Bella." He ruffled my hair.
I turned around and sunk into Jacob's chest, and sighed. I was happy here, it was where I wanted to be. But our relationship was still so playful, so friendly. Like best friends who slid slightly off track. We promised not to do anything very physical until we were both completely ready, and it seemed like we weren't quite yet. I did love him. So much, but I agreed with him on so many levels. This was getting to be annoying, I wanted him, and Jacob was no average guy. He was so attractive, he got my heart racing, my palms sweaty, gave me butterflies in my stomach. And I had to resist the temptation every time we were together. I couldn't imagine what it must be like for him.
"There you two are. Off hiding somewhere doing God knows what." Bina's musical voice came floating over to us. We both looked up as she and Embry and Quil stepped through the cover of the trees.
"Hey" Jacob and I both called at once. I laughed, and Jacob wove his arms around my waist.
"Hey guys." Embry, Quil and Bina came to stand near us.
"There's a small party down at First Beach tonight. To celebrate the first day back at school." Embry said, shoving his hands in his pockets.
"Of course you're invited Bella." Bina smiled, flopping down beside me. "You have to tell me how your day went."
I sighed.
"You don't really want to know." I asked, incredulously. Embry and Quil sat down so that we were in a small circle.
"Of course I do!" She laid down, resting her head on mine and Jake's legs, looking up at me impatiently.
"It was an alright day." I said, shrugging. "Nothing special. I totally wanted to be here though."
"Are you kidding me? No cute white boys that caught your eye?" She squealed, turning over onto her belly.
"Actually, there was one who was hitting on Bella." Jacob put in, laughing. "Tried to walk her to her vehicle."
"Until he saw you, right?" Bina scoffed. "God Jacob. You send every guy who sees you running for cover. Not only are you big and muscley, you're also really hot!" Bina was sitting up by now, "Isn't he Quil?"
Quil looked at a loss for words.
"Yes, Jake's good looking. I'd pretty intimidated by you, bro." Embry laughed. Bina smiled.
"See Jake? Stop being so .. muscley. Anyone that I'd like?" Bina asked, jumping around. She was always so energetic.
"I don't think so. Unless you're into the nerdy, puppy boys." I replied, relaxing more into Jake's chest. He tightened his arms around me.
"Hmm. Any boy is worth a try." She laughed. "Any girls for Quil or Embry?"
"Not at all. I think they like them a little darker." I said, winking at Quil. He laughed.
"Yeah, I think I'm doing okay with the ladies down in this end." Quil said, puffing his chest out.
"What ladies? I haven't seen you with one yet." Embry punched Quil's arm.
"Oh, they'll come around." Embry rolled his eyes at Quil. Jacob laughed.
"Oh Quil. You keep hoping." Jacob said, earning a dirty look.
We sat around talking for the next few hours, catching up. I hadn't seen my friends since the day we moved, they helped us move everything in, and then our schedules got so busy that I couldn't find a good time for us all to hang out. We walked over to Leah's house, to help carry stuff down to the beach for this evening. We walked up the front drive and right in through the door. Everyone knew everyone else so well we didn't need to knock.
"Hey Leah!" Bina yelled, hopping over to her.
"Bina!" They embraced until Leah saw me over Bina's shoulder, eyes widening.
"Bella!" She cried, letting go of Bina and running over to me, enveloping me in a huge hug, it was a little painful. She always was a lot stronger than most people. "I was starting to think you forgot about us back home." She grinned.
"Bella?" Came a voice from the corner. I looked to where it came from, and saw Seth standing on the stairs. He walked towards me, grinning goofily. "I missed you." He said, blushing a little bit, hugging me.
"Okay, enough of welcoming Bella back. It's not like she's been gone forever." Quil said, cutting his arm between Seth and me.
"Yeah, don't you need things carried down to the beach?" Embry asked, looking around.
"Yeah, I do. Sam's carried quite a bit so far, but you guys can handle tables and stuff, right?" Leah asked absently, looking around. "Everyone's expected to bring something to eat."
"What about the alcohol?" Bina asked.
"You drunk. I'm not expecting alcohol to be at this party." Leah replied.
"You can't have a party and not expect alcohol." Bina said, crossing her arms over her chest, sticking her bottom lip out. Leah sighed.
"All I know is, most of us won't be drinking." Leah finished the conversation with Bina by motioning us outside and into the small shed out back, where a few tables sat, propped up against the wall. Jake, Quil, Seth and Embry gathered them up and left towards the beach, and Bina, Leah and I went to Leah's room to get ready for tonight.
"Oh, I'm glad you're coming. Everyone at school misses you so much." Leah said, turning on her flat iron.
"I'm so sad that I don't get to come to school with you guys this year." I replied, digging in Leah's closet, scoping out possible outfits.
"But you're going to be here every day after school, babydoll." Bina said from Leah's bed. She sat up, and looked at us. "So don't even complain."
"Well, how was your guy's first day, any new students? Hot boys that are interested?" I asked, smiling at them.
"I got it on with Seth today in the parking lot." Bina said.
"Ew. You did not. That's disgusting." Leah said, thowing a hairbrush at Bina. She laughed, me along with her.
"Hate to admit it, but your brother is something." Bina twirled a strand of hair around her finger.
"He is a teenager, and you know what teenage boys do." I put in. I pulled out a black halter.
"You could wear that as a dress." Leah completely ignored our jibes, pointing to the clothing I had in my hand. I slipped out of my clothes and into it, turning around in the mirror.
"It looks better on you than it does me." Leah said, looking through her mirror at me, running the flat iron through her hair.
"I wish I had something lik this." I said, taking it off and putting my clothes back on. I flopped on the bed beside Bina.
"And Sam?" I asked.
"Fine as usual." Bina said absently.
"Stop answering these questions for me." Leah gave Bina a dirty look. "He's getting ready to go on his scholarship in a couple of weeks, right now we're spending every moment we can together. So if I'm not responding in the next little while, it's because of him." She smiled.
"Oh hurry up so we can leave, Leah." Bina yelled. "I want to see your brother as soon as possible."
Leah stuck her tongue out at Bina, but got up. It was so great to be back with my best friends.
"Wear jeans tonight. I'd advise it." Bina then skipped out the door after Leah. I was last to leave, and swiping the flat iron through my hair before I went down. I then followed Bina down the stairs, Leah waiting for us at the bottom.
"Yay, finally ready. Can we leave now?" Bina asked from the door.
"Yes, we'll walk down to the beach." Leah replied.
It was already starting to get dark as we made our way down towards the beach. By the time we got there, most of the people expected had arrived, music was playing and a bonfire was roaring, along with tables of food. I was left alone by Bina and Leah as they scoped the crowd, and I greeted some friends I hadn't seen for a few weeks, and some I hadn't seen since school ended for the summer.
"Bella, you're alone." Seth's voice carried to my ears from behind me. I turned around and smiled at him.
"Everyone has someone to be with." I said, laughing.
"You're never alone though." He protested, walking along with me.
"I'm just saying hi to everyone in the crowd. Don't you have a special friend you're trying to impress?" I asked him, he blushed.
"I guess so, but she's not interested." He replied. "You know what, I'm going to go get some food. I'll talk to you in a bit." And with that Seth left me alone, standing there. I sat down on a log around the fire.
"Yo Bella." Quil said, sitting down beside me, scarfing down a hotdog. "Marshmellow?" He held out his hand, covered in the sticky melted fluff.
"Er, no thanks." I replied.
"Suit yourself." He said, and stuck his hand into his mouth and chewed off the marshmellow.
"How attractive." I said sardonically.
"Mmph." He said, his mouth still full of hand.
"Hmm?"
"Thank you. It's how I get all the ladies." He said, chuckling.
"Speaking of ladies, may I take your place next to this one?" A deep voice I immediately recognized as Jake's said. I looked up into his dark, smiling face and grinned back.
"Of course." Quil said, jumping up and heading off somewhere. Jake flopped down beside me.
"Good evening, Bella." Jake said softly.
"Hello Jake. How was your afternoon?" I asked.
"It was fun, I missed you like mad though." He pressed his lips to the hollow of my cheek. My breath hitched.
"Well, good." I teased, attempting to poke his stomach. He let out a small chuckle as he caught my hand and wove his fingers through mine.
"I guess we won't be seeing each other as much." He said, frowning slightly.
"Guess that's why we'll have to make the time we do have together count." I said, puckering my lips and closing my eyes.
"You're so cheesy." Jacob laughed, putting two fingers to my lips. I opened my eyes.
"That's not what I was expecting." I said, play-pouting. He looked down at me through his lashes and leaned in.
"ALCOHOL!" Bina squealed, pushing her way between us and laying across our laps. Her drink sloshed around in the bottle.
"Really Bina? Where'd you even get that?"
"Sam's friends accept favours for ALCOHOL!"
"Favours?" I asked slowly. Her answer couldn't be too good.
"YEAHYEAHYEAGGGHHH!" She put her finger to her lips. "Shh. You can't tell anyone though." Jacob met my eyes and gave me an exasperated look. "You're not going to tell anyone, are you?" Bina asked, sounding child-like
"No, of course not."
"JACOB? Sexy Jacob. You're going to tell people." Bina accused.
"No, I won't tell anyone what you've done for alcohol." Jake shook his head.
"ALCOHOL!" She sang, then Embry walked by, which got her attention. She rolled around. "Embry!"
Embry stopped and looked towards us, shooting Jake and me a warning glance. I shrugged, and he came over.
"Oh Bina, not again." He said.
"I love you Embry!" She said, and got up, taking his arm and leading him off into the crowd.
"Oh, screw this." Jake said, getting up. He held out his hand for me to take, his dark eyes smoldering in the firelight.
"Screw what?" I asked, taking his hand. He led me off down the beach, walking in a silence, determined with his goal. He marched on, me trying to keep up, but almost failing. I stumbled a few times, and he stopped and waited for me to gain balance. Finally he seemed to reach what he was looking for, and I didn't recognize it right away, but upon closer inspection I saw our tree. Stuck in the rocks ever since we had discovered it eight years ago, we frequently came back to it. It was set up like a bench, and was great for spending days lounging at the beach, and being alone. We sat down, and he looked over the water for a few moments. I couldn't stop looking at him while he was staring, he looked at peace, and beautiful. Finally his eyes slid down and met mine. He cupped my face with both hands.
"Bella. Forget what I complained about earlier. I can't stay away from you any more than my dad can get places without his wheelchair." He stopped to chuckle at his joke. "You've been my life ever since we were young, and I'm not about to grow apart from you. I'm okay with the way things are." He rumbled, his voice low and passionate.
"Of course Jake..." I started, but his lips brushed against mine.
"We can do whatever we want. We're invincible" He whispered against my lips. "I love you Bella."
I loved how he saved telling me that he loved me for times like this. It made me feel all that much more loved, and cared about. Jake truly was an amazing person.
"I love you Jacob Black. You astound me." I said back, meaning every word of it, and slid even closer, pressing my lips to his with force.