A/N: Yo yo yo guys! Jake and Leah are silly. And Emmett just makes me giggle. Hope you enjoy and thanks for reading!
Jacob found me at the Cullen's house. It was funny how the one place I never wanted to be had become my safe haven. It wasn't just Rosalie and Alice feeling sorry for me this time. Emmett was being especially funny, Jasper was tinkling with my emotions, and of course there was the junk food.
I hated how I kept finding myself in this same place. With a broken heart over stupid Quileute Alpha Wolf boys. They weren't really worth the trouble.
Hiding at the Cullen's wasn't exactly the best idea. Obviously Jacob would show up there, but when he did I thought Rosalie was going to rip his face off. But that would upset Bella and everyone was doing their best not to upset the black and blue Princess. I wish for just one day someone coddled me the way everyone did Bella. That everyone sheltered me from the cold hard truth of the world instead of just shoving me out into it's harsh force.
If Edward was paying attention to my thoughts he didn't comment so I expected he was feeling sorry for me to.
"Leah, we need to talk," Jacob said seriously.
I hated how he'd become so serious over the last few months. I could remember when he was the happy go lucky kid who used to hang out with his goofball friends. Back then he had a smile that could chase away the clouds.
"Jake, unless you're telling me that you're going to commit suicide, I don't want to hear it."
"Ouch, that was unnecessarily harsh, Leah," he said lifting my legs up off the couch and sitting down. He moved his hand and let my legs fall onto his lap. I wanted to kick him in the face, but I didn't.
"What do you want? Can't I be left alone?" I whined sitting up so my back was pressed against the arm rest of the couch.
"Stop squirming around Leah. This is serious business," Jake said holding my legs so I couldn't move around. "We need to talk about yesterday."
"Do we have to?" I sounded much more like a five year old than Leah the bitch.
"Yes, we do," Jake informed me.
"Gahh…" I said scrunching my face up into an expression that depicted pain. He started talking anyway.
"I'm stupid," he said and I nodded.
"I'm rude." I nodded again.
"Leah, stop doing that," so of course I had to nod again.
Rolling his eyes he went on, "I keep screwing up. Majorly and I don't mean too, honestly."
I didn't believe him. It was lies. All of it was lies. He wasn't sorry for screwing up. Oh, no. He enjoyed screwing up when it hurt me.
So, I was being a bit childish.
"And Jasper and Rosalie yelled at me," he looked like a hurt puppy. "They really do like you."
I looked shocked. I knew they were making an effort to help me out but I didn't know they preferred me over Jacob.
"I didn't tell them to," I told him, sighing. What a softie I was turning into.
"Oh I know," he said patting my leg. "It's okay. I deserved it. I was an ass."
"Too true," I agreed.
He pouted. "I want.I want you too Leah." Jacob was never one for being subtle.
"Stupid Alpha say what?" I asked. I heard him loud and clear. But that's what I did when I was presented with uncomfortable situations. I get mean or I get funny. This time I just got stupid though.
"Smart, wonderful Alpha says he wants you too," I wished he'd stop grinning like that.
"No, you want Bella," I argued.
"Can I asked you a question?" He didn't wait for me to answer. "Have you seen Bella lately? She's happily married to a leech and carrying said leeches child. Besides, it wasn't meant to be."
"Oh and we are?" I asked skeptically.
"I don't know. I'd like to find out," his eyes were shimmering and so full of hope. I hadn't seen him that happy in a long time. It touched my heart. "It. You. We seem right. I mean, we are a lot alike. And you Leah Hope Clearwater are a trip."
"Jacob, haven't I told you not to do drug or sniff wet paint?" I asked.
"No, you told Seth that," he reminded me.
"Well, the same for you too, kid."
"You can't keep calling me kid," he says.
"Why the hell not?" I demand.
"Because if you keep calling me and your brother both kid this is going to be really awkward."
I didn't get it at first, but then he pulled me onto his lap and attacked my lips with his. I was frozen but it didn't take long for my lips to begin moving with his.
He'd convinced me that he was being serious. Jacob's kiss was so warm and even better than Sam's. I didn't realize that I needed this just as much as he did. Because before I knew it my legs were on either side of his lap and my fingers were running through his hair. While his tongue was begging for entrance into my mouth, which I gladly obliged-
That was until someone dog whistled from the door. Pulling back from the door I looked to see Rosalie, Alice, Emmett, obviously the whistler, and Jasper standing there.
"Man, Rose, we are good," Alice was saying raising a hand.
"I know," Rosalie grinned bring her hand up to smack Alice's in a high five.
While Emmett was all excited and telling Jake "Damn you move fast kid." And Jasper looked uncomfortable. But then again Creepy Colonel always looked uncomfy.
"This is embarrassing," I muttered burying my face in the crook of Jacob's neck.
"It's okay," Jake whispered kissing the top of my head. "They're just annoying and act like elementary school kids."
"Listen here infant," Rosalie started while Emmett shoved her playfully and called her a 'mood killer'.
"You're all mood killers," I mumbled into Jacob's skin.
"We just had to see how our good work was paying off," Alice said. While Rose and Emmett just nodded wildly.
"Emmett, what part did you play in this?" I remembered getting all kinds of talks from Rose and Alice but nothing from Emmett.
"I blocked the door while Jasper and Rosie yelled at Jacob," he said, proud of himself.
It was sad. These leeches were becoming more like family to me than anyone on the Rez. They could make me laugh, they could drive me crazy, and they could make me want to throw up. Just like a family should.
"Nicely done," I praised him. I readjusted myself so I was no longer straddling Jacob's lap but so that I was still sitting on his lap. My back was against the arm rest and my long legs were across the part of the couch he wasn't taking up.
They just grinned.
"Did you need something other than to ruin this moment for us?" Jacob asked.
"Yeah, I mean I've been waiting a while for this and you have to come spoil it," I added in.
"Stop whining," Rosalie snapped at me. "We just came to tell you that everyone was leaving but Edward and I."
"You're going hunting?" I asked.
"Yup, we've waited as long as we can," Jasper explained. I had noticed that their eyes were getting darker by the day.
"Why aren't you going Rose?" I questioned her tilting my head.
"I'll hunt when Edward hunts," she explained.
Jake and I shared a look. At that rate Rosalie would never go hunting again.
"Mkay, this has been fun," Jake said standing up, successfully sending me falling on the floor.
"Oh shit!" Jacob exclaimed reaching to help me stand up. "I'm sorry."
"Don't worry about it," I said. It didn't hurt.
"Are you two leaving?" Alice asked.
I shrugged and looked at Jacob. "Yes we are."
So I followed him as he left the guest room I was staying in. Walking down the stairs next to him I couldn't help but notice the way he smiled. I'm sure it matched my own.
I knew that despite everything he still needed to see Bella before he left and I could be okay with that. So I went out to the porch to wait while he headed the opposite direction towards the little living room.
When he came out of the house he grabbed my hand and kissed my lips lightly before dragging me down the stairs.
"Edward told Bella," he said looking over at me.
I, on the other hand, couldn't stop staring at how nice my fingers looked locked with his.
"Is she okay?'
"She'll have to be," he said firmly.
My heart soared again. We weren't perfect and the circumstances that brought us together were far from perfect, but we were trying. And that's all that mattered.
