Chapter 4: Motorcycle

"Leah, why were you being so rude to Bella?" I asked as we ran side by side around the track after school, both of us warming up for practice.

Leah looked at me quickly and rolled her eyes.

"Are you talking about that new girl that's obsessed with you?"

My eyebrows knitted together.

"What are you talking about? She's an old family friend." I said lengthening my strides.

The tension in Leah's face suddenly dissolved and became smooth.

"Oh... she is?"

I nodded looking pointedly at her.

"Where you jealous of her Leah?"

Leah looked at me quickly glaring.

"Of her? Yea right!"

"Intimidated by her?"

"Jacob I am neither of those things when it comes to Bella Swan!"

She picked up her strides to match mine.

"Oh yeah?"

"Yes!!"

"I think you're being pretty defensive, and you don't even know her Leah..."

"And I don't want to." She mumbled.

"What was that?"

"Nothing."

"Be nice Leah."

"I can try."

I sighed and sprinted off, I didn't want to be around her anymore.

Football practice was easy enough; a half hour of conditioning and an hour of practice.

Coach Lenner was in good spirits, probably had to do with his jam packed spiral notebook full of new plays for the season.

After practice ended I went to the locker room to shower quickly then put back on my jeans and tshirt.

On my way out back to the student parking lot and to my bike Rosalie's shiny red convertible pulled up next to me.

"Hey Jake!"

I turned, pulling my leather jacket on and walked over to her.

"Hey you, how was your last first day?"

She smiled.

"I met Bella."

I nodded.

"Yep so did I."

"I really like her, I'm going to invite her to hang out with us and everyone else."

I imagined Leah in my head cuffing me to her side if Bella ever hung out with us.

"Oh yeah? That'll be... fun."

Rosalie looked pointedly at me.

"Tell me." She commanded.

I sighed.

"Leah's jealous of her," I said rolling my eyes.

Rosalie grinned.

I knew I shouldn't have told her.

It was no secret that Rose didn't like Leah very much.

"Why? She's very nice, unless you like Bella? Does Leah feel intimidated?"

I laughed thinking back to enviornmental science.

I had liked flirting with her definitely, she was cute.

"Not in the same way I like Leah."

Rose rolled her eyes.

"Well whatever I like Bella and Im inviting her to my party on friday."

"That's fine with me, it's your party."

Rose smiled slyly at me.

"What?"

"Nothing, I'll call you tonight and we'll talk more. I have to meet my parents for dinner."

"K see you later kid."

She glared.

"I told you to quit calling me that freshmen year."

"Ease up kid, you don't want to get wrinkles prematurely."

She grinned.

"Talk to you later Jake."

With that she sped out of the parking lot.

Leah it seemed had left the parking lot already without saying goodbye.

I hopped on my bike and revved it to life.

Throwing my helment on I sped out of the student parking lot in the opposite direction that Rosalie had gone.

When I got to my house Billy was just putting dinner out on the table.

"Hey Jake! How was your last first day?" He grinned.

I grinned back and rolled my eyes.

"Interesting."

"Did you see-"

"Bella Swan has one class with me, and she's a lot prettier than she used to be." I supplied grinning.

Billy chuckled.

"How is she?"

"She seemed great, her and Rosalie seemed to really like each other."

Billy nodded as he began to eat his pot pie.

"How was practice?"

"Great, we're definitely going to be stronger this year on defense."

After dinner I did my english and math homework.

I still had a few hours before I would be able to sleep so I decided to go for a ride.

"Be back by eleven thirty." Billy called watching a game on tv.

I drove my bike around bends and curves in the road enjoying the nearly gone sunset.

I didn't have a set place to go but I ended up by the fishing hole by a lake that I remembered swimming in as a child.

I looked around the lake and remembered Bella and I making crappy sand castles on the shore and swimming in our finnies together.

I smiled at the memory, she had been adorable as a child.

Curly brown ringlets and big brown eyes to match.

She had hated to wear pink or anything girly so usually she just put on an extra pair of my swim trunks and went without a top.

But this is back when we were just kids and nobody cared.

I grinned imagining me and Bella on the shore making a sand castle and her topless today.

She is definitely a lot less boyish now than she had been when she was five or six.

Thank sweet jesus.

I suddenly imagined us on the beach, her topless and her going down on me.

Whoaaa whoaaa, where did that come from?

I shook my head trying to rid the mental image.

You have a girlfriend I quickly reminded myself.

One who you're eager to have sex with... it's just not worked out so great... yet.

I started to get ready to start my motorcyle back up, but I stopped.

Instead I parked my bike against a tree and went down the dock and the lake at the end.

I pulled up my jeans and let my legs dangle over the edge into the cold water.

My thoughts drifted back to the past some twelve or thirteen years ago.

I thought about Bella swimming with me and us fishing on the boat with our fathers.

Why did she have to go live with her mom when they got divorced?

Now I really wish that she had stayed here so we could have continued to be best friends.

I remembered her face back in enviornmental science and smiled.

She was really more than just cute... or pretty.

She was sort of angelic... and beautiful.

Not a super model, but not an ordinary face either.

She looked grown up and womanly... weird I had never thought about her as anything but a five or six year old.

I laughed aloud and sighed laying back on the dock to stare up at the sky at the stars.

This too was something else that Bella and I had enjoyed doing as kids.

Suddenly I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket.

I quickly grabbed it, actually thinking it might be Bella, but realized she didn't have my number.

Instead my phone read 'Rosalie' and had a small picture I'd taken of her.

"Hey Rose."

"Sorry I just got back from dinner, so how was your last first day?"

I rolled my eyes.

The next morning I pulled up into my Senior parking spot and took off my helmet.

After a moment I turned my head to the side and saw Bella watching me from her truck with a shocked expression.

I chuckled tucking the helmet under my arm and walked over to her.

"Hey Bella," I greeted waving.

Her eyebrows lifted.

"You ride a motocyle?"

She sounded just as flabberghasted as she looked.

I nodded smiling.

"Yup."

"Jacob Black that is not safe, ecspecially in Forks where the roads are always wet."

I shrugged.

"I've never had a wreck."

She raised a single eyebrow.

"Yet."

I glared at her playfully.

"You should let me take you for a-"

"JAKE!"

We both turned in the direction of the school to see Leah standing on the sidewalk looking pissed.

I sighed.

Bella took that as her cue.

"I'll see you later Jacob." She said quickly shutting her truck door then walking away.

"Ahh... ok... see ya."

"Jake!" Leah screamed again.

"Ugh," I groaned walking over to her.

Classes were a huge bore that morning.

Leah had put me in a foul mood by yelling at me for not calling her last night and saying good morning to Bella before her.

Sometimes I think Leah's mentally retarded.

I was relieved at lunchtime when Leah chose to sit with Lauren, another cheerleader who nobody was really fond of insteand of me and the boys.

Emmett, as usual, spent all lunch oogling Roaslie and making perverted sex noises.

"Why don't you just ask her out?" Edward suggested.

Emmett glared at his brother.

I was eager to go to enviornmental science and get to catch up with Bella some more.

When the bell rang I quickly ran up to Robb's class so I wouldn't be late again and took my seat.

Bella walked through the door just in time before the bell.

She took her seat next to me, but didn't look at me.

I stared at her smiling, but she continued to stare straight ahead and ignore me.

"Bella?"

"Hmm?"

I blinked, she still didn't face me.

"What's wrong?"

She glared, but continued to face forward.

"I'm mad at you."

I was taken aback by this.

"Why? What I do?"

She turned finally to look at me with a furious glare.

"You ride a motorcycle."

"What?"

"It's not safe Jacob, you really shouldn't."

I had to laugh at this.

Her eyebrows raised and she blinked.

"It's not funny Jacob, not funny at all! What if you got hurt?"

"People die in car wrecks everyday." I pointed out.

"But statistically motorcycles are more at risk." She pressed.

"Bella I'm one of like five people in the county with a motorcycle."

"The odds against you are huge!"

"Well guys are better drivers then girls."

Her eyes narrowed.

"What's that got to do with anything?"

"That I'm less likely to get hurt."

"Versus a girl on a motorcycle, the point is the motorcycle Jacob not the gender."

I rolled my eyes.

"Bella are you really that upset about it?"

"I will be the day you slide off and break your back."

I chuckled.

"Would you come visit me everyday in the hospital?"

"No."

"No?"

"I would be to pissed at you and besides that's Leah's job."

Whoa

Where'd that come from?

I could tell from her tone from that moment that she didn't like Leah.

But I couldn't blame her for it because Leah didn't like her either.

"What if I died?"

I asked trying to lighten her up.

This seemed to make it worse.

Her eyes turned nearly black.

Brownish black, just like mine.

"Don't kid about that Jacob, that would be awful."

"I'm sorry."

"I don't forgive you."

"Yet."

"Yet?" She asked.

"If I make you smile then I'll be forgiven. How's that?"

"Good luck."

"I'm gay Bella."

"What!?"

"I'm one of those leather badass gays who rides motorcylces to try to cover it."

She looked angry but cracked a grin.

Not a smile, but a grin.

I smiled back.

"I made you smile."

She looked away still grinning trying to hide it.

"I hate you." She growled.

"Don't say that Bells."

It was the first time I used her new nickname.

She huffed.

"Fine, I don't hate you. I hate your bike."

She rolled her eyes as she said this.

I chuckled.

"I'll be fine Bella I promise."

She looked at me sadly.

"You better be, if you ever get hurt then so help me."

I smiled feeling happy that she cared about my safety.

"Bella do you think maybe... I dunno sometime we could-"

Just then Robb's began class.