AN: I realize that this fanfic is rated M. I never really planned on writing Kim and Jared having sex but if enough people want me to then I will next chapter. LOL.

Now, I know I said that the last chapter could possibly be the end, but I got a few ideas while watching TV the other day and decided that I couldn't stop writing about Jared and Kim. Thank you very very much for the reviews, I mean it, they are the kindest and warmest I've ever received!. Keep them coming cause when I learn that people actually want me to continue, I bring this fic back from the dead. Enjoy!...

Chapter 4: The Party

"If I have to be that guy to keep you safe, then that's who I'm going to be. Look, if you want me to apologize for defending you, or for fighting back when somebody hurts you, then I can't do that - I won't do that, okay because the truth is: that's a guy I'll never be; a guy that just stands by and watches while the world hurts you. Can you understand that?"
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Nathan Scott, One Tree Hill

I broke through the trees and saw the perfect yellow house sitting right where it should be. I ran to the back door and opened it, letting myself into the home. I looked to my right and Kim was at the stove making dinner. I rushed toward her and wrapped my arms around her waist, crushing her back to my chest. She giggled and turned her head to look at me. I smiled and kissed her neck as she pushed herself further into my chest.

"My dad will be home soon," she said, as I turned her around and kissed her on the mouth. She put the spoon on the counter, and snaked her arms around my neck. I had to bend over quite a bit to reach her mouth, so I decided to pick her up instead, so she was level with my lips.

"I didn't get to see you today," I whispered against her skin.

"That's because you didn't show up for school," she laughed. I began to walk backwards, down the hall, to her bedroom. I held her firmly in my arms as we kissed. I eventually made it to her door and let go of her with one arm, turned the door knob and allowed us into her room.

"I needed sleep," I explained. We fell onto her bed. She straddled my body and pushed her hair back behind her ears and kissed me on the mouth. I traced her lips with my tongue and she opened her mouth for me to deepen our kiss. I was on a natural high when I kissed her. My head always felt like it was spinning and the only thing I could concentrate on was her. My hands were on her waist and I urged her pelvis closer to my body, desperately wanting her. She moaned, and that only made me more excited with our make-out session. I rolled her over so now I was on top of her. Her legs still wrapped around my waist. I pressed my groin into her open legs, she pulled away from my lips and she gasped. I kissed her neck and my hand began to unbutton her shirt, kissing every inch of her skin that was exposed along the way.

"Kim!? What's that smell?" her sister Meghan called out. Kim pushed me off and hurried to the kitchen where she left the food to burn. I sighed and fell back onto the spot beneath me where she had only just been. I was in no condition to make myself present in front of Meghan. I buried my face into her pillow smelling it.

It had been two months since Kim and I kissed in the rain. Things were better than I ever could have hoped for. Having your imprint respond to you finally made my whole body just relax. It was as if it knew that there was no need to be anxious ever again because you'd always have her there, waiting for you, when you got home. Even though we didn't exactly live with one another...

Kim poked her head into the bedroom. "I have to stay with the food. I burned it," she shrugged, a huge smile on her face. I lifted my head from the pillow and saw her eyes twinkling at me. I lifted my finger and motioned for her to come to me. She looked behind her to make sure the coast was clear. Kim's father and her sister had no idea about me. Kim told me how overprotective her father was and if he knew she had me as a boyfriend he would freak. He was fine with Theo because he knew how much of a wuss Theo was. But Kim said that if he saw what I looked like - huge and older - he would ban her from ever leaving the house. So we kept it a secret that only Sam, Emily and everyone at school knew about. People at school only knew because I couldn't keep my hands or eyes off of her. No one every mentioned it either, they must have known that I would kill anyone who made Kim feel uncomfortable with comments on the relationship. I hated it when I was too tired to go to school to be there with her. I wondered what people said to her or how they treated her.

"Okay, I'll go," I mumbled. That was the last thing I wanted to do. She shook her head vehemently.

"No, stay." She knew that she could get me to do whatever she wanted. I was absolutely powerless when it came to her. I had told her everything about the imprinting and the werewolf business. It freaked her out at first but she eventually came around and said she was okay with it as long as she had me. I nodded, and fell back onto the bed. "I'll be in as soon as I can."

I looked around her room. I saw a big pile of papers on her desk. It looked as if she had emptied her backpacks contents. School would be over in a week and finals were beginning tomorrow. She was obviously cleaning out her school bag. I got up off the bed and stood over her desk, going through her notebooks. I saw a note that we had passed between one another during science last week. I smiled at it. I saw her English notebook and flipped through it, curious of what she wrote in her essays. I stopped at a page when I saw her doodles on one page. It took a while for it to process what was written.

The first thing I saw was my name inside a heart. I looked up at the date of the doodles. It said November of last year, before we began dating. Way before. Beneath that was her name with my last name on the end. I flipped through the rest of the notebook and found that she doodled this a lot. My name. Her name with my name at the end. A 'J' and a 'K' twined together often in the margins of her essays and notes.

I heard the door creak open and knew it was Kim. She grabbed the notebook out of my hand quickly and hugged it to her chest. She fell onto the bed and buried her face in the pillow.

"Oh, God," she cried and shook her head making the pillow muss up her hair. "I can't believe you saw that." I was looking at a particular page where she had written my name a thousand times in different fonts and colours.

I stood motionless as she made sure the notebook was firmly under her stomach.

"You must think I'm such a stalker," she said. She refused to look at me and continued to hide her face. I laughed at that comment. She looked up at me, her face flushed and her eyes narrowed at me.

"If anyone in this relationship is a stalker, it's me," I confessed and pushed her aside so she was squished against the wall and I lay down on my back beside her. She looked at me through her hair which was all over her face. I pushed it away and tucked it behind her ears.

She looked down. "I'm such a girl," she said motioning to her notebook.

"I'm glad you're a girl, to be honest." She hit me on the arm and I laughed. She tucked her head under my arm as she hid from me. I held her close to me, not feeling embarrassed by her writings at all; I actually felt warmed to the tip. I kissed the top of her head. She finally looked up again and we just lay there staring at each other for a while before she maneuvered herself to kiss me. We continued right where we left off before her sister interrupted us. I rolled on top of her and deepened the kiss further when I heard the front door open.

"Hey, Meghan. Where's Kim? Is dinner almost ready?" We froze right in the middle of our kiss. Her dad was home. "Kim?! Why did you leave the stove on?" I got up quickly and she scrambled to her bedroom door. "Kim? Where are you?" She threw the bedroom door open and ran into the hall.

"I'm right here!" she called.

I shook my head and opened her window and climbed skillfully out of it. It made it a whole lot easier that her bedroom was on the ground floor. Actually her whole house only had one floor anyway. I closed the window behind me and took one last glance at the house before wandering further into the woods.


I leaned against the back of the school building waiting for Kim. It was the last day of finals and everyone was finishing up their ties with school. I finished my exams yesterday so I was just here at school for the last time until it started up again in September. The bricks dug into my back but I didn't care. It was actually a nice day today, the sun was behind the clouds and making them a light grey. It was somewhat warm outside. Of course, I found that it was always warm now. The cold didn't seem to bother me.

I stiffened slightly when Max and his friends made their way over to them. I used to hang with them quite frequently, but since I imprinted on Kim I couldn't be bothered with getting drunk and high any more.

"Jared," Max said. He walked toward me and held out his hand, I clapped it and we moved toward one another and patted each other on the back. I did the same with the rest of the guys. "We haven't seen you in a while? What's been going on?" They only didn't know about me and Kim because they rarely made an appearance at school.

"I haven't been doing much."

"I hear you've been with Sam Uley lately. What's with that?" one of the guys, Jordan, asked.

I shrugged. Max pulled out a cigarette and lit it with his lighter. He offered me one, but I shook my head. I gave up all that. Kim most likely would not appreciate it.

"Hey, listen. There's this party at the beach tonight. Come along. Girls and booze are guaranteed. We haven't chilled in such a long time. You better be there. What is there better to do?" Max told me. Normally I would have agreed right away, but now I hesitated. "We're not taking no for an answer, Jared. If you don't show up we'll just find you." They would too.

Before I knew what I was really doing, I nodded.

"Great!" he grinned. "I have my cousin from Michigan here. She's real easy, you'll like her," Max slapped me on the back. "It should start at about ten!" He called out walking away. The rest of the guys said goodbye and they shuffled off. I sighed, annoyed with myself for agreeing.

"Hey!" Kim jumped to my side. She startled me slightly. "What, did I scare you? Who were those guys?" I looked down at her and the part of me that felt completely frayed without her now felt sewn back together flawlessly. I leaned forward and kissed her, pulling her closer to my body. She laughed and pulled away.

I pushed myself from the wall and wrapped my arm around her waist. "Do you want to go to a party with me tonight?" I really hoped she'd decline. I didn't want to go. I just wanted to be with her, that's all I wanted and needed.

"Are you serious?" she asked, frowning up at me. I nodded solemnly. "You don't seem eager to go." She put her hand to my cheek and directed my face to hers and pressed her forehead to mine. I kissed her nose. "Alright."

"What?" I asked, stopping.

Kim smiled at me. "Let's go to the party."

"You want to go to a party?" I questioned, disbelieving. I never pegged her for a party girl. I eyed her suspiciously. "It won't be too fun."

She shrugged. "You'll be there, that's why I'll go and enjoy myself."

I thought about it for a second as we continued to walk back to her house. "What about your dad?" I asked slowly.

When her face became flushed slightly I turned suspicious. She never blushed for no reason. She seemed to think about how she was going to word her thoughts before finally saying, "I can tell him I'm sleeping over at Camille's." I stopped once again, thrown by her words. She didn't look up at me, but chose to hide behind her hair.

"The whole night," I said slowly. Was she implying what I think she was implying? We hadn't gotten that far yet and if she intended on sleeping over at my house..."Wait," I started. "You mean you'll secretly be at my house instead of Camille's?" I had to clarify that I hadn't misunderstood.

"Yes, silly," she said. She looked up at me and she leaned into my body. Her leg began brushing mine up and down in the most provocative way. She was driving me crazy.

"That will be new," I commented.

She nodded in agreement. "Yes, it will."

We stood there unsure of what to say for several minutes. We both seemed to be contemplating the decisions we had just made so rapidly. I hoped to God that she didn't regret saying she wanted to spend the night at my house. I realized that's all I wanted right now. I wanted her in my bed, somewhere she hasn't yet been. We always gravitated to her house, during the time after school; I would stay there up to just before her father would arrive.

Before I realized it, we were in front of her house. I couldn't even remember starting up walking again.

"Don't come in today," she said, turning to me and placing her hand on my chest. "I'll tell my dad I'm sleeping over. He won't have any problem with that I'm sure. Meet me at the corner at seven. Okay?" She stood on her tiptoes and kissed me quickly before running to her house. I was motionless, watching her retreating figure. Eventually, I slowly turned on my heel and numbly walked home. I was sure I would be counting down the seconds until I would meet up with her at seven.

And I did. I sat on my bed counting down the seconds. It was only damn four when the phone rang. I rushed out of my bedroom and into the living room. I grabbed the phone on the end table. My mom sat on the couch flicking through the channels on the television.

"Waiting for a girl to call?" she teased.

"Hello?" I said breathlessly answering the phone.

"Jared." I tried to refrain a groan when it was Sam's voice on the other end.

"Yeah?" I grumbled falling into the couch beside my mom. She was watching some afternoon talk show host telling a couple of parents off for raising their children wrongly. She was nodding along with whatever the host would say in agreement.

"We're gonna need to patrol tonight. Meet at the cliffs at around eleven."

"Sam," I groaned. "I can't. I made plans with Kim tonight."

My mom snapped her head in my direction. She had no idea about Kim, and honestly I'd like to keep it that way. She'd end up embarrassing herself and me in the progress of trying to impress Kim. I shuddered at the thought of their interaction.

There was silence. "Sam?" I said cautiously.

"Jared, you're going to have to cancel," he said finally.

"What?" I snapped. "No way. I can't. Not tonight." I tried to convey the importance of this night in just those words. It was difficult to tell him the real reason when my mom was eavesdropping. She was pretending to watch the television but I knew her better.

"Jared, you have responsibilities."

"I know, I know. I promise I will go every night for the rest of my life if you just let me off tonight." I waited with bated breath, hoping that he would allow me to skip tonight.

He sighed. "Fine. I'll call you tomorrow."

"Thank you!" I rejoiced and hung up the phone. I sunk further into the couch cushions and stared aimlessly at the screen.

"What did Sam want you to do tonight?" my mother asked. I looked up at her tired eyes. She seemed to be very stressed lately and I really wondered why. But at the same time I didn't want to ask because then she would talk for hours about her life and quite honestly I didn't want to be bored out of my mind when listening to her problems.

"He just wanted me to help him move some things around his new house with Emily," I said. She really had no idea what was going on with Sam and I. She wasn't a very inquisitive mother. She would ask a question, I would respond and then she would have no further inquiries. She'd accept my first answer, happily.

"Ah," she said. "Who's Kim?"

I groaned and looked away from her. "Mom," I complained. "Please, don't."

"Is she your girlfriend?" she asked.

I gave her a pointed stare.

"A mother has a right to know if her son is dating a girl and is being safe," she said.

I covered my ears. "Ah! Stop it, please! It's all good!"

She eyed me before nodding and turning her attention back to the television, thank God.

I got up off the couch and made my way to the kitchen. I glanced at the time and was very disappointed when I learned that only ten minutes had passed.

Eventually it was quarter to seven and I rushed out the door saying good bye to my mother very quickly and ran for it. I even morphed into the wolf just so I could get to that corner faster. I probably made a normal ten minute walk in about two minutes. I waited at the corner anxiously pacing.

When I saw Kim walking toward me I took a few gigantic steps and swooped her up into my arms, kissing every inch of exposed flesh. She laughed and I reluctantly placed her back on the ground and holding her tightly to my body. I was so excited to see Kim that I nearly completely forgot about the party. But, as I glanced down at Kim I realized it couldn't be as bad as I imagined it would be. I smiled slightly and we made our way to the beach when it was just after ten. We had gone to get something to eat and hung out for a while, but upon her desire, we went to the party.

There were two large bonfires happening and a whole crowd of people from not only our high school but the one from Forks too. There had to have been at least seventy people at this thing.

"Wow, there's a lot of people," Kim said. I tightened my hold on her waist as we made our way through a crowd of fellow students. I figured it'd be best if we sat down. All the seats on the logs were occupied. That wouldn't be too much of a problem. I saw Kenny from my math class who I knew to be easily influenced I tapped him on the shoulder and he turned around.

"Oh, hi Jared," he looked up at me nervously.

"Would you mind moving? Kim would like to sit down," I explained, giving him a pointed look. I was very aware of Kim glaring at me but I ignored it. He nodded frivolously.

"Sure, sure, no problem!" he scurried away.

"Thank you, Kenny!" Kim called out after him. I sat down and pulled her close beside me.

"That wasn't nice at all Jared," she scolded staring into the fire. I was blown away by the way the light of the flames emenating, brightened her face up and made her look absolutely stunning. I touched her face and leaned in to kiss her. She was a bit surprised by my eagerness but responded to it nonetheless.

"Jared."

I pulled away slowly and looked up to see Max and his friends, once again, standing before me trying to be intimidating.

"Hey," I said. Kim pushed her self closer to me and I held her tighter.

They rose their eyebrows at me. "You're dating her? Is this a joke?" Jordan choked out.

The anger that hit me was to be expected when someone made fun of Kim. I began to shake and Kim put a hand on my arm and I tried to remain calm for her. "What do you want?" I snapped.

Their eyebrows rose even higher. Max looked completely caught off guard by my hostility. "Easy now Jared," he said in a warning tone. He was making sure him and his friends were scaring me from trying anything they didn't want me doing to them. "Tommy," he called. The guy farthest back stepped forward. "Take Kim over to the girls, introduce her. We'll hang out with just Jared for a while, won't we?" Tommy walked forward in front of Kim. I stood up quickly blocking him.

"Like hell you will," I growled. My temper was getting the better of me at the thought of taking Kim away from me to those self-absorbed, petty girls. I knew exactly which ones they were. Michelle Sanders was in that crowd and quite honestly I had slept with most of them. That was the last thing I wanted was for Kim to be caught up in a crowd of gossiping sluts.

"Jared," Kim said. "It's okay, I'll go." She stood up and touched my forearm, begging me with just her touch to stop the conflict I was involved in. She walked away from me, to my horror, right to Tommy. I reached out and grabbed her arm. She looked at me and tried to convey to me to let her go with her widened eyes. I shook my head. Only bad could come from her leaving me.

"Jared, let her! She wants to!" one of the boys chastised me. They all chuckled to one another nudging and motioning to me.

"Jared, it's okay," Kim said. She pried my fingers from my hold and walked to Tommy who grinned at me and led her away. I watched her walk with him to where he took her out of the area of the bonfire and to the water where I saw a small group of girls sitting and no doubt talking. I didn't hear that Max was speaking with me.

"Jared what's with you? You haven't hung out with us for months and now we find you making out with a total freak," Max said. Before I really knew what I was doing, I dropped my shoulder and swung my fist colliding with Max's face. Blood poured out of his nose.

"Fuck!" he yelled. The rest of the guys all glared at me and began moving towards me. Everyone around the fire stopped and watched as Max fell to the floor and gripped his nose in pain, cussing at me. "You're dead!" he shouted. I noticed Paul glancing over at me, giving me a questioning look. Even further away I saw Jacob Black, Embry Call and Quil Ateara staring at the confrontation that was occurring.

I suddenly felt a shove directed to my shoulder, I glance down to see Jordan trying his hardest to make me budge. A fist was thrown my way but I quickly dodged it and elbowed Jordan in the face, he fell down. Three guys threw themselves at me and I dodged, and punched and kicked until they were all on the ground wincing in pain. I saw Kim run over to me looking horrified.

"Jared!" she said, looking down at the five guys on the ground and me standing, victorious. "What -" she couldn't finish her sentences as she looked at the scene in front of her. Her mouth was hanging open and was eyeing me in disbelief.

"Let's go," I muttered. I took a step over a body and reached over to grab her waist and lifted her over two bodies that were crumpled over. I held her in front of me and steered her far away from the short-lived party. She was silent until we got back to the road and then she pulled away from me and walked several steps ahead.

"What were you thinking?" she asked me. I felt guilty that she had witnessed that, but I felt much better after knocking them all down.

"They were being assholes," I shrugged. "They deserved it."

"They don't deserve to be hit by a super-human!" she balked.

Oh yeah, I forgot about my extra strength. It's not my fault they decided to pick a fight with a werewolf.

"Sam's going to be pissed," she said.

I winced. Yes, he would.

"Why did you fight with them?" her voice was quiet and the light breeze whipped the hair into her face and she shivered slightly. I wrapped my arms around her body and held her tightly to my chest. I kissed her hair and rocked us back and forth gently.

"They were being rude," I answered. We were silent and I felt her press her lips to my chest and I closed my eyes at the feeling. My whole body was buzzing and begging me to take her home, but I got the feeling she didn't really feel like doing anything like that right now. So, I held her closer.

She let out a shaky breath. "Was it about me?" I obviously hesitated. "Oh," she said. "Look, Jared. You can't always defend me. There will be people out there who will hurt me in the future and you just have to accept that. You can't punch every person in the face who may speak of me wrongly or be mean to me. You can't live your life defending me constantly. It's not right. Plus, I have to learn to defend myself once and a while as well. I can't do that with you be overprotective, like you are."

She had a point, I knew it. But I wasn't sure that if it came down to it that I'd just be able to stand aside and let her fight by herself. I was sure that I couldn't. "I can promise that I'll try, Kim. But - I can't guarantee that I will. You have to understand my point of view as well. It's not easy for me to sit by and just let their idiotic words hit you and accept them. Plus, I have this whole werewolf-temper-thing that I am constantly trying to beat..."

She laughed slightly. "I know...but try."

"I will," I nodded.

"Let's go back to your place," she murmured. I froze, thinking about the events that could follow. Was I being a complete guy and misreading all the signals? Did she really intend for us to have sex tonight? We began to walk back to my house. My mind couldn't help but drift to unfavorable thoughts of Kim...

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