Chapter 7

I was beyond pissed. Those assholes think they can walk into our reservation with their fancy cars and destroy our gym. The guys and I were walking towards the gym to practice before our Friday game during our free period when we heard noise coming from the gym. No one should be in there. We slowly opened the door and the sight that my eyes met had my blood boiling. I took everything in me to not phase in that gym in that very moment. I growled. There was a guy in only his underwear wrapped with our school flag and other basketball players from Forks with spray paint. It was all guy and a girl who I could not see her face because she had her hoodie on and had her back to me. I recognize one of the guys but don't remember where from. As soon as they saw they ran, the looked back but made sure to not show us her face and the guy who I thought looked familiar grabbed her arm and ran off with her. I growled and look back at the guy.

"Come on! Let's run after them!" I growled. They both nodded and all three of us ran after them we saw them run towards the forest and after chasing them down we decided that as part of our revenge we would give them a little scare. So we phased, we slowly crept up behind them and I could feel them all tense. When we came out into the opening they all gasped. I growled at them enjoying the way they tensed up even more and slowly walked back. The girl was pushed behind the guys, she shouldn't have taken part in destroying our gym, I mused.

"Fuck!" I heard a red head breath out.

"How fast can a wolf run?" I heard the dork with our school flag ask.

"Shut up!" I heard the guy I recognized growl at him.

"I'm just asking because I don't think you're little bitch can outrun them." He growled back I saw the girl lunge at him but be held back by the red head.

"Stop! He has a point you're shorter and probably can't run as fast. Dylan thinks of something quick before we all become lunch." The red head said. Quil wanted to play with them so he began to creep closer to them and they backed up. Embry growled at them and bared their teeth.

"Quick get on my back!" I heard the red head tell the girl. She looked at him and all though I could not see her face I'm sure she was confused. "I run faster than all the guys here plus I play football so I can carry you if not you would just weigh the other guy's way down." I see her head nod still not showing her face to us and hops on his back. The red head keeps walking back with her on his back and we just stand there watching them slowly retreat and then sprint out. I chuckle and we decided we wouldn't let them off that easily so we ran after them. The guy with the flag got stuck in a tree and the guy I recognized tried getting him out. I was growling and getting close to them when I heard the girl shout.

"Nick Stop! We need to help Dylan!" The girl shouts.

"You're crazy you'll die!" He yelled only slowing down slightly.

"Put me down!" The girl struggled and eventually landing face down. Quil chuckled and we halted for a second. I laughed myself that is until she got up and I got a look at her face, it was Dani. The guy who I'm guessing was Dylan eventually got the other guy unstuck and ran to her she crawled up to him. He embraced her and I couldn't contain the growl that escaped my mouth from jealousy. They quickly got up and she limped back. I whimpered at the sight of seeing her hurt. She looked scared, frightened as she saw me and just her eyes made my heart cringe. She was out of breath and looked like she would burst out crying any second. I turned my back on them headed back to La Push High. The guys stayed for a while eyeing them and once I was out of sight I howled signaling them to follow me. I heard them talking among each other and I watched them from afar as they walked back to the school. The guys followed me, we were still in wolf form. My wolf hearing allowed me to hear their conversations.

"Babe, let me give you a piggy back ride you can't walk on that leg." I heard her boyfriend ask her.

"Thanks." She mumbled getting on his back.

"I wonder why the wolves backed away." The red head voiced out.

"Who cares? I honestly hope I never run into them again." I heard her respond. We all whimper at her comment. If she only knew it was us. I see them finally reach the school and we all phase back. As I walk out of the woods I see her getting in the car waving goodbye to Kim.

Kim sees us and runs towards Embry. He leaps into his arms and kisses him on the cheek. Embry laughs and I roll my eyes at their antics. "Hey, Emmy!" Kim calls Embry and both Quil and me snicker at the nickname.

"Did you see Dani?" I asked curiously at to if Dani talked to her before leaving.

"Oh yeah, I saw a little too much of Dani. She has some explaining to do." Kim comments with a little smirk.

"What do you mean?" Quil asked curiously.

"Well I'm not sure but Ashley and I went to the bathroom during English and we see a couple in one of the stalls making out and I saw that she had really cute shoes and now that I just saw Dani I saw she has the same shoes," Kim states matter a factly. The guys look back at me sadly. I shrug.

"What's wrong?" Kim asks. The guys look back at me.

"I imprinted." I managed to voice out.

"That amazing Jake!" She exclaims genuinely happy.

"On Dani," I added as I look towards the now empty parking spot. I look back and she has a shocked look.

"You know, I think Dani might have a thing for you. And I'm not saying this because I want to make you feel better. She talks a lot about you." She comments back.

" I honestly don't think she cares for me." I sigh. Kim places her hand on my shoulder and I look up at her.

"Hey, don't give up on her. I'm sure she cared for you, she just hadn't realized it. The imprint hasn't been wrong yet." She says and I smile at her. "Start off as her friend, show her you care for her," she advises me. She then gasps, " I know, make her jealous! She wasn't too happy to see you with Jenna the other day." I laugh but smirk at the idea, maybe I could make her jealous. "I don't think she'll last with Dylan. For now, I think you should just be there for her be her friend. Let her get to know you. You'll see Jake." Kim finishes as she molds herself into Embry. I just smile. We all made our way to La Push."

Once we get there we see Sam is talking to Edward and Emmett, My heart stopped for a minute and my mind rushed to Dani. I stay grounded where I stood. That is until Edward looked back and said, "Dani's fine. She just twisted her ankle running away from you guys." He glared.

"We didn't know she was among them. We would never scare her that way had we known it was her." Embry voiced out. Edward nodded. If there not here because of Dani why are there here? I thought.

"We sensed a newborn, the other day near our hunting ground. We believe it may still be roaming the area." I growled, worried for Danielle's safety. "We want came here to have Sam, call Carlisle so we can have an excuse to ground Dani, and watch her until we take care of the newborn." Emmett continues and I raise my eyebrow all though I hate to be made the bad guy, her safety comes her besides, that's less time she'll be with her boyfriend. Edward must have heard my thoughts because he chuckled.

" Aww, hell no, you guys are trying to make us look like snitches!" Quil whined.

"We won't say it was you we'll say that a student recognized her and told the principal but Sam was able to convince him that it wasn't her but of course Carlisle will ground her. " Edward clarified.

"About the newborn, when do we get it?" I asked getting ready to kick its ass.

"Sam, and I will keep in touch on how to go about it." Edward started, "we will also need your help watching over Dani while we take turns looking for the newborn."

"Don't worry Jake has you covered, right Jake?" Quil says and I nod. Edward nods back with a forced smile. "So since we're going to be turned into snitches anyways can we watch when you ground her?" Quil asks and I just want an excuse to see her again so I wouldn't mind.

"You can watch in wolf form from the forest line, I'll tell Carlisle to do it outside, so you guys can get front row." Edward chuckles. I hope he's being serious. "I am" Edward responds to my unvoiced thoughts. The guys high five each other and run off to tell Paul and Seth.

Later that night, we find ourselves in wolf form hidden among the trees staring at the house. Thanks, to our supernatural hearing we could hear the conversations going on inside.

"Dani, honey are you changing?" we hear Esme ask.

"I was, but I'm done. Is something going on?" I hear my sweet imprint ask.

"Carlisle was looking for you. I think he's outside." Esme responds.

"Oh okay," Dani said most likely going down to meet Carlisle who was already outside on their porch. Next thing we know she walks out, in short, very short sports shorts and an oversized Harvard long sleeve shirt and fluffy long pink socks that reached half way to her calf. "Hi, Esmee told me you were looking for me," she said innocently.

"Yeah, take a seat." Carlisle motions towards the stairs next to him on the steps. Dani sits hugging her legs. She's so cute, the guys roll their eyes at my thoughts.

"Is something wrong?" Dani asks looking up at Carlisle with puppy eyes.

"Yeah, I got a call from Sam today." Carlisle started.

"Oh, no are they ok? Did something happen to one of them?" We all whine feeling guilt that she immediately worries for us and were about to ground her.

"There fine, but a couple of students trashed their high school." She immediately freezes. "mostly basketball players from forks" She nods.

"Did Sam say anything more?" She asks with worry and guilt in her eyes. Charles nods before continuing.

"Yeah they checked the security footage and Sam recognized you among them. He was able to convince the principal to let you guys off but he asked me to talk to you." Dani immediately began to tear up.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what I was thinking. I was stupid. I know that I've only caused problems for you guys but I really don't mean to. I don't want to go back to California. Please don't send me back. I'll be good I promise. You guys have been so nice to me and all I do is fuck it up. Please, Carlisle, don't send me back! I don't want to go back. I swear I won't cause any more problems. I promise." Dani begs as she sobs and it breaks my heart to see her this way. I would have never agreed to them doing this to her if I knew how she would react.

"Dani, calm down sweetheart." Carlisle starts as he embraces her and rubs her back. I wish I was in his place. I'm the one who should be consoling her. "Hey look at me, we would never kick you out you got that?" He states very seriously and caring. "You're family. I see you as my daughter. We love you, Dani."

"You do?" Dani asks through teary eyes.

"Yes, of course!" Carlisle chuckles as he wipes her tears away. "If it's ok with you, we would love to adopt you and call you our daughter." She smiles.

"I would really like that, Carlisle." She says as she hugs him with the goofiest smile every and I swear Carlisle looked like he wanted to cry if only he was human.

"Now that we got that out of the way. You know what you did was wrong, so why did you do it."

"I just wanted to feel normal, and hang out with my boyfrie- I mean friends. I just wanted to hang out with my friends I never thought they were planning on doing that and I don't want to be a negative Nancy." She says stumbling a little on her words not wanting Carlisle to know her boyfriend was with her. Carlisle sighs.

"Well despite my love for you, there will be consequences. You are grounded for a month. You go to school and right back home. On top of that, you will help clean up the school and la push as punishment and amends to the tribe. We have worked really hard to keep a friendly relationship and they were kind enough to allow us to build our house in this area, so the least we can do is respect them."

"Are you serious? What about the other guys?" She asked with wide eyes.

"There not my children. Their parents can deal with them."

"Oh and no boyfriend around here for the month, he's the one who got you in trouble in the first time."

"Carlisle! That's not fair." She whined. Yeah, I change my mind, I'm definitely glad that we did this.

"Should have thought about that before you ditched class with Dylan and got yourself in trouble." She looked down as Carlisle said this. She sighed and nodded. "Oh, by the way, I invited Jake for breakfast since there's no school and he'll take you to La Push where you'll help paint the school."

"Wait, they know?" She scrunched her eyebrows, "It makes sense now he probably saw me and snitched me out! I rather spend the day with Emmett!" Carlisle looked frozen probably confused on how this turned on me. "I'm going to bed. Goodnight Carlisle." She says as she hugs him and stomps her way upstairs. I howled at her retrieving back! How dare she get mad at me I didn't go trash her school with some looser!

The next day I woke up pretty early and made to the Cullens' house pretty early. I was dressed in khaki cargo shorts and a muscle tank top. I knocked on the door and Edward opened the door with Nessie.

"Jakob." Edward acknowledged.

"Edward." I retorted.

"Jakie!" Nessie shouted as she hugged me.

"Hi, squirt!" I said as I ruffled her head.

"So are you guys actually going to eat?" I asked Edward with a chuckle.

"We fake it," Edward responds with a smirk. I groan. I follow them into the backyard where they had a large table set up with silver wear and pancakes, egg and bacon these little fuckers better pass me the food since they don't eat. Edward chuckles most likely hearing my thoughts.

"Jake!" Bella says as she hugs me, "So nice to see you." She then turns to Nessie and asks her to get Danielle. The family all starts to show up and lastly Dani. She was dressed in ripped boyfriend jeans and a Metalica T-shirt and white converse. her hair was up in a messy bun and her eyes were glaring at me. I cringed. Emmett put his hand on my shoulder and mutters, "Women." Esme comes out with a big lemonade pitcher.

"Come on everyone let's eat!" She says as she sits next to Carlisle everyone sat around the table. Dani sat between Nessie and Emmett and I sat across from her. Everyone was chatting among each other, Bella and I talked about Charlie and Bill and Dani was playing with Nessie.

"Hey, Jake?" Nessie called my attention.

"Yeah?" I asked.

"Don't you think Dani is pretty?" Nessie asks and I blush not expecting to be asked that Edward chuckled and low fived Nessie under the table I kick him.

"Yeah." I managed to voice out. Dani looks away but she couldn't hide the pink tint on her cheeks so I smirked and said, "I think she's beautiful." I genuinely said.

"Oh hell yeah, I ship it! I was the first to see it!" Emmett interjects. Dani grabs an orange and tosses it at his head.

"Shut up, Emmett." She groans.

"Ow?" Emmett teases as the orange hit him. Everyone laughs. We finished breakfast after a few awkward moments and glares. Esme and Alice picked up the table as we all walked into the living room.

"So, I think you guys should start heading out if you want to be back before dinner," Carlisle said as he looked in between Dani and me.

"Shall we head out?" I ask Dani as she follows me out without a word. She's actually really mad at me. I need to think of a way to change this. I hold the door open for her and she just glares at me. Great, I mutter under my breath. The drive down to La Push started really quiet. "So are you planning to stay quiet all day?" I finally decided to voice out but I got no response. I chuckled, "Ok, look here none of us snitched you out. If anything I should be mad not you."

"Excuse me! Do you honestly expect me to believe you! You probably did since you don't have a life! I never knew it was your guys' school. I would have ever done what I did!" She finally snapped.

"Yes, I expect you to believe me. When have I ever lied to you? I would never lie to you. You should know that! I'm not mad that you did what you did. I mad that you think I would purposefully get you trouble." I parked the car and looked at her. She had her arms crossed and lips pouting. I wish I could just kiss her but I knew I couldn't. I sighed. "You know let's just get this over with," I said as I slam the door with a little too much force than I'd like and from the corner of my eye I saw her flinch. I immediately regretted my actions, I brushed my hand through my hair and sighed. I look back and she was already walking past me towards the school. I followed.

Once I got inside the gym I see her with a bunch of cleaning supplies. "Where did you find those?" I asked with raised eyebrow.

"Closet." She responded without even looking at me. I sat on the floor, just watching her for a minute. She grabbed a towel and cleaning spray she was wiping the edges of the gym. She then grabbed a broom slash mopping thingy and began to clean the wall they spray painted.

She began jumping up and down trying to reach the top of the scribbles. I got up and stood behind her grabbing the broom like object from her hands and finished wiping it. She looks back and muttered, "Thanks." I nod and when I look back our faces were centimeters apart if I moved just a little our lips would touch. I gazed into her eyes and got lost. Suddenly, as quick as it happened it ended and she moved aside. "I'm going to grab paint." She said walking away.

A few seconds later, she came back with two gallons of paint and paint brushes and rolls. I walked towards and grab the stuff from her. "You don't have to help." She muttered.

"I know I want to." I smiled.

"Thanks," she muttered again. We finished fairly quick in between the two just as we were putting the paint away, Dani shook her brush and accidentally flicked paint on my face. I groan, and she gasps. "I'm so sorry." She started as she walks towards me. "Oh my gosh!" she screamed. As she frantically grabbed a towel and began to wipe my face. I let out a loud chuckle that I couldn't hold in any longer. "Why are you laughing, I just flicked paint at your face?" She asked as she looked at me as if I grew an extra head. I grabbed my own brush and flicked it at her, she screamed.

"That's why I laughed I said." As I keep on chuckling.

"Oh yeah?" she asks as she grabs another paint brush and began chasing me and attacking me with it.

"Hey!" I yell as I try to block her attacks with my hands I ran and grab a brush myself and began throwing paint back. We both laugh and eventually we ran out of pain and ended up covered and dripping in paint. "We should head out, I'm starving." I laugh and she nods laughing as she extends her arms. We put everything away and cleaned any paint we spilled. "Let's go by the lockers I have some spear cloths." I motioned her towards the guy's lockers.

I pulled out my bag and pulled out some toiletries so I could pick out clothing to use. I always kept extra at school for when I shifted and ripped my clothing. She grabbed my shampoo and soap. "Do you mind if I shower? She asked shyly as if afraid of what I might say.

"Umm yeah, I might do the same actually. Here you can use this T-shirt and gym shorts. I'll shower after you, while you change." I said as I place the white T-shirt and blue gym shorts on the bench. I showed her where the towels were and she walked into the showers. I sat on the bench texting Quil.

To: Quil

Hey, are you guys at Em's?

To: Jacob

Yeah. You know were always here. How's the date?

To: Quil

It's not a date. I wish. She's really pissed. She thinks we snitched her out. I thought that maybe if I brought her over she'll forget about it.

To: Jacob

I'll tell Em to heat up the stove, Jake is bringing his imprint.

I was about to respond when Dani comes out wrapped in a towel and a pink tint to her cheeks. "Your turn." She finally voiced out. I feel my cheeks heating up at the sight.

"Umm, thanks." I finally managed to mutter like an idiot. I grabbed my towel and a pair of cargo shorts. I walked past her and I had to force my eyes to concentrate on anything else but her. I needed a very cold shower.

When I walk out I see her in my t-shirt that fit her like a dress completely hiding the gym short underneath, I assumed. She also put on these red basketball socks I had. "I hope you don't mind I was cold. I can get you new ones if you'd like?" she asked.

"No, its fine I don't mind." I finally said as I walk towards her. "Your hair, it's so curly," I said.

"Yeah, I hate it." she mumbled looking away.

"Why?"

"I don't know." She shrugged " it doesn't make me feel pretty." I scoffed.

"Please? You? You're the prettiest, most high maintenance girl I know." Oh shit. I should have left out that last part.

"Hey! I am not high maintenance!" She yelled as she hit me with her wet towel and we both laughed.