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Collie's POV
I watched as a big grin spread across Jake's face, his body physical relaxing. Before Jake had come into the bathroom, I had every intention of never speaking to him again, but after seeing his hurt expression and after hearing his apology I knew I couldn't stay mad at him.
"I'm glad, I really am." Jake smiled, as he traced a circle pattern on my leg while he was staring off into space, like he did when he was thinking hard about something.
"Jake," I started, chewing nervously on my bottom lip, wondering if he was going to say that the kiss was a mistake. When he looked at me I continued. "What are you thinking about? I'll understand if you just want to forget about the…um…the kiss." I said, rubbing the back of my neck awkwardly.
"What? No! That's now what I'm thinking at all, Collie. I do have something to tell you though but I don't want to do it here." He said, looking around at the bathroom. I looked around too and inwardly groaned. Oh yeah, Collie, your cool. Your first kiss with Jake was in the girls' bathroom. Wait till you tell Ally, she'll never let me live this down!
"How about we get out of here? The school nurse gave you an excused day off." Jake asked, lacing our fingers together. "Okay," I nodded, as I jumped off the counter, smiling to myself as Jake wrapped an arm around my shoulders. I tried to not over think things and just let it happen, but I couldn't help but notice the amount of body heat that was coming off of him.
As we walked down the hallway, I closed my eyes as I imagined Jake and me walking like this every day. Collie! Stop getting ahead of yourself, you only kissed him once. This could be a side effect to the head injury, and you're dreaming. As we came to the front office, Jake stopped and popped his head inside the door, assumingly telling Mrs. Baker that he was taking me home. She waved at the through the window and Jake came back out, grabbing my hand and leading me out to his car.
"Your chariot my lady," he said, opening the door for me. I laughed and got in, "Oh what a gentleman." I said, doing my best impression of a southern belle before bursting into a fit of giggles as he shut the door and went around to the driver's side. Jake started the car and flipped the radio on low before he pulled out of the school parking lot. We drove along in an awkward silence, Jake humming softly to himself and me looking out the window, my heart beating out of my chest.
I watched Jake watching me out of the corner of his eye. "What?" I asked him finally, Jake smiled and leaned over, tucking a strand of fallen hair behind my ear. "I was admiring the view." He said. I looked out the window and nodded, "Yeah, La Push is really pretty this time of year." Jake snorted, "I was talking about you." He said and I blushed.
It was weird that suddenly Jake was all flirty with me; after all we had been friends for years. Why was he all the sudden kissing me in bathrooms and flirting in his car? Why do I suddenly fill like I'm in a cheesy 80s movie? Where is John Cusack holding the boom box over his head? Am I suddenly going to be waiting outside the church for Jake Ryan?
"Whatcha thinking about?" Jake asked me as he pulled off the road, close to the cliff that most of the kids at school cliff dive off of. "Just thinking." I said simply, looking out the window as Jake came around to my side and opened my door. "Thinking about what?" he questioned me as we started up the trail that lead to the cliffs, hand in hand. "I was wondering why you suddenly want to kiss me in bathrooms." It came out of my mouth before I could stop it and I could have kicked myself.
I heard him chuckle lightly and then sigh, "That's what I need to talk to you about," he was quiet for a moment as we continued our way up the trail until we came to a clearing, Jake led us over to a log and took a seat, pulling me down next to him.
"Did your grandmother ever tell you the legends of our tribe? The ones about where our people come from and why." Jake asked, suddenly, looking out toward the water. I looked up at him with a confused look. Since when does Jake care about history and legends?
"What the hello kitty is going on, Jake?" I asked, making him look down at me. "Since when did you put on 20 pounds of muscle? Since when are you friends with Sam Uley or Jared or Paul for that matter? Since when do you want to kiss me in bathrooms? And yes I remember the legend about the cold ones, where the men of the tribe shifted into big dogs in order to protect the village." When I finished, looked at me and I realized I had hurt his feelings and I suddenly felt really guilty.
"Collie, the legends of our tribe are actually histories, they are true and the reason I know this is because I'm a shifter, so is Sam, Jared, Paul, Embry and Quil." He was watching me carefully, I guess making sure I wasn't going to run, faint or jump off the cliff. I just nodded for him to continue and he sighed.
"Part of being one of us, is that we have the potential to imprint on someone. Sam imprinted on Emily, Jared imprinted on Kim and now I imprinted on you." Jake said, looking down at his hands as if he was embarrassed.
To say I was shocked was an understatement; I grabbed Jake's hand and squeezed it, not knowing what else to do. I didn't understand what an imprint was but I knew I didn't have a problem with it if it meant I got to kiss Jake more.
"Just because we're imprinted doesn't mean we have to be in a romantic relationship. The way it works is that I'll be whatever you need me to be; rather it's a friend, a protector or a lover. I just want to, need to be in your life. You were important to me before I changed but now you're my whole world, Collie." He said, looking at me with those big chocolate brown eyes.
I leaned forward and kissed him, "I'm not going anywhere, Jake. And I defiantly don't want to be just friends." I whispered, smiling at the relief that spread across his face. Jake wrapped an arm around me and pulled me closer to him, I felt warm instantly and I knew I could get use to this.
We sat there quietly, enjoying each other's company and watching the water. Soon however, the silence began to slowly drive me insane.
"Wanna know something random?" I asked him, as I played with his fingers. He nodded for me to continue. "I've never been cliff diving before."
Jake gave me a grin, before he stood up and pulled me up with him. "There's a first time forever thing, babe." he said as picked me, bridal style and walked to the edge of the cliff. "Ready?" he asked as he sat me down and grabbed my hand, I nodded and as I watched him get ready to jump I only had one thought, Oh Buddy, I'm in trouble.
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