Chapter 7

Love

Seth directed me back home and ran off in the direction we came in. I collapsed sleepy on my bed and drifted off to sleep soon after.

I was running in the forest, trees streamed past me as I breathed in the heady scents of the forest. I could feel the damp earth underneath my hands and feet. That seemed odd, why would I be running on all fours? I could hear the trickling water from the stream not too far away; I altered my direction and headed for it, fast. I could smell the salty water before I could see it and had to come to an abrupt stop before the stream. I looked down at my reflection, but what I saw shocked me. It was my green eyes staring back at me but they were far too large, they were the only thing I recognised. I looked myself over, confusion rattling through my brain. I saw a gigantic, fluffy, white wolf staring back at me with my eyes.

My eyes slowly moved to my feet, massive paws in the place my hands should be. I looked back to the water not really looking at myself anymore, too many questions were rumbling through my head. What the hell was going on?

I heard a bush rustle behind me and saw movements in the extremely reflective water. Wolf Jacob crept to my side and looked down at my reflection with me. He smiled at me, or at least I think he did and I watched him turn and nuzzle my neck with his snout lovingly.

Then they were there, behind us, ready to leap. The Volturi, vampire royalty, the most dangerous coven in the world. Then they pounced, before we were ready. Some distracted Jacob whilst the others landed on top of me; I heard a bone snap and cried out in pain.

I woke screaming. As soon as I realised that I was in my room, safe and human I stopped. I sat up and turned on the lamp beside me, breathing heavily, trying to discard the nightmare. I held my head in my hands and waited for the dream to pass. After a while, I forced myself to lie back down and tried to focus on going back to sleep.

It was no use, I was awake and still shaking, I wasn't going to shift this dream tonight, and I knew it. Instead I turned the TV on and put a DVD in.

My window opened making me jump; I turned just in time to see Jacob climbing through it. "Mum and dad aren't here; you could have just knocked on the door". I told him rather bluntly which I immediately regretted.

"Oh, sorry, but I didn't think you'd still be awake" he mumbled, I thought he seemed disappointed that I was.

"I was until about half an hour ago, had a bad dream…" I trailed off.

"What about?" He asked me, worried.

"Nothing…"

"What we watching?" He asked wrapping his arms around me.

"Fast 5, you haven't seen it?" I asked him.

He shook his head at me and shifted to get more comfortable. I snuggled into him feeling much safer now that he was here. By the time the film was over I had turned over to look at Jake and ended up watching him, watch the film. As the credits ran, Jake leaned over me for the remote and turned off the TV and light.

My eyes adjusted slowly to the darkness, but once they had I found Jake still looking down at me. "I missed you". He whispered.

"Me too", I whispered back.

His hand found my face and brushed down it from my temple to my chin. It left a warm tingly trail and I loved him for it immediately. He smiled at me, a smile I had never seen before, full of love and lust and need.

"You changed colleges for me" he stated.

I nodded at him too breathless for words. I hadn't seen this look in his eyes before, a smouldering, warm, loving look that seemed to tear me from reality. As I looked up into his eyes it was like nothing else in the world existed except us right here.

"Thank you" he whispered. "I can't tell you how much that means to me or how much I love you for it".

I eyes widened suddenly, he'd never said he loved me before. I mean we both knew it because of the imprint but neither of us had put it into words. I didn't know whether I was just supposed to pretend like I hadn't noticed or not, but I think it was too late for that.

"Is it okay that I just said that?" He asked me.

I nodded; it was because I loved him too. He leaned into me and his lips were on mine before I even realised it, caressing them. The warm touch of his lips made my heart race and pound against my chest, and my head swim. I pulled my arms up and wrapped them around his bare back, pulling him closer to me. His hands slid down my side and back up underneath my top, gripping me around the ribs.

He pulled away to look at me. I was breathing heavily, still disconcerted by the sudden situation. He giggled at me and I gave him an angry face.

"I'm sorry," he laughed. "I just love the reaction your body had to mine." He grinned at me.

"It was unexpected," I breathed.

"I know, but good unexpected right?" He asked me.

I answered by pulling him back down to my lips and kissing him again a little more gently than before.

He lay back down next to me after a while and pulled me into him. I laid my head on his bare chest and listened to his abnormally fast heartbeat, suddenly aware that he could hear mine all the time, and then realising that may have been what he meant about my reaction to him.

He lightly traced his fingers up and down my arm as I followed his muscled chest and stomach with my own. "I love you Aria" he said kissing my forehead lightly.

"I love you too," I whispered.

We both just laid there in silence after that, enjoying each other's caresses and soon, I fell asleep in Jakes arms wishing I could stay there forever.

I woke startled the next morning, waking Jake up in the process. I sat up staring directly in front of me as I tried to place everything right in my head. I'd had a dream that felt far too real to really be a dream and I had enough reason to be suspicious of it.

It all made so much sense now, why the Volturi would be after a human, it was stupid that none of us had thought of it before, especially considering Edward and Bella's history.

"What's wrong?" Jake questioned me.

"I just had a dream, which I don't think it was really a dream Jake, I think it was real."

I turned to look at him, my face serious and worried. He looked at me in disbelief for a while but didn't say anything.

"Jake, you know that some vampires have certain abilities, do you reckon it's possible that one of the Volturi's ability is to control people's dreams?"

"Yeah, I would have thought so" he told me concerned.

"I …. I…" I sighed, "I had a dream about one of the vampires that were on the beach that night. It kept referencing my smell, and he seemed quite … I don't know like… besotted by it. And he said, I quote "We will be together soon, my love"".

By the time I was finished trying to explain the confusing dream, Jacob was shaking. He jumped off my bed, out the window and into the forest as Wolf Jacob before I had time to process what he was doing.

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