Chapter 6: Jake's Point Of View

I hopped on my motorcycle and headed over to the bloodsucker house. I wasn't sure if Nessie would approve of the bike, but my truck had needed oil changing, and I'd just do that tomorrow or something.

I pulled into the driveway and held my breath. Ick. Gross. It reeked of leeches.

As I got off the bike, I thought of tonight. Did Nessie really want to lay off sex for the night? I mean, I guess I was okay with it, but it was unusual occurrence. But in case she changed her mind, I brought some protection.

The second I rang the doorbell, the little bloodsucker answered. I didn't mind Alice that much. She was probably the nicest to me out of everyone.

Right behind her was my baby. My favorite person in the word, Nessie. The only reason I continue to live each day. She was all covered up in material, which sort of disappointed me.

I saw Blondie in the background, and I was about to crack a blonde joke at her, but Nessie took my hand and muttered a, "Come on."

When she saw my bike, her face fell, "How come you didn't take the truck?"

"The oil needs changing. Besides, the bike hasn't got to run in a long time, so I figured I'd get it back into gear."

I placed a helmet on her head and revved the engine, to annoy Blondie, of course.

I felt Nessie's hands on my shoulders. I felt a little hurt. Usually she was already snuggled up against me.

"You might want a tighter grip than that."

I smiled smugly as she wrapped her arms around me.

We got there, and we still had to walk a ways before we got to the fire. We didn't talk about anything too important.

When we reached the area, I saw Nessie's disappointment again.

"Jake," she whispered in my ear, "Where's the pack?"

"They all had different plans tonight. I think Leah said that Seth was coming," I said reassuringly, I think Nessie enjoyed Seth's company. I think.

I saw Seth, and he saw us. He came over to us quickly, with a beer in his hand.

"Seth," I hissed, pulling the beer out of his hand, "Are you crazy?"

"Oh, come on, Jake! I may still look fourteen, but I'm mentally…." He tried to count on his fingers, "Twenty six? Thirty? Well, it doesn't matter," he took the beer back from my hands, "Relax, Jake."

"Will do," I said through my teeth than took Nessie's hand. We went over to go sit by the fire.

Seth kept talking and talking. I wanted to shut him up. But I wasn't much for conversation tonight anyways. I just made sure to hold my Nessie close.

"I've got to use the bathroom," She said. Thank god, Seth finally shut up for a second.

"They don't have any outhouses here, Nessie…" I said to let her know.

"That's okay," She laughed, ever so cutely, "I think I know how to go in the woods."

"Okay. It's dark. Be careful." I looked back into the fire. I hated every second Nessie and I were apart. I punished myself by holding my breath.

Seth sighed, and then looked back at me. "Jake, do you have idea how lucky you are? You have an imprint who loves you. Not to mention she's smart, funny, beautiful. No, wait, she's more than that, Jake, your girlfriend's hot."

I glared at him, trying to forget that he just said that, "Yeah, well, keep your eyes off of her. I get enough of those comments from Embry and Quil."

I shook a little; remembering all the times those two had made an unnecessary comment on how Nessie looked. She was hot. Sexy, more like. But, I was the only one allowed to think that.

"Where are the guys, anyway?"

Damn. Was Seth going to shut up, or was I going to have to throw him into the bonfire.?

"They're pissed at me. They accuse me of spending too much time with Nessie and not enough with them.

"Quil should understand, he spends tons of time with Claire."

"It's a little different than that."

"Oh," was all Seth said. Then he became silent.

At least sometimes he knew when to shut his yap.

My mind turned back to Nessie. Where was she? It had been ten minutes. I was getting worried. But, then again, what could happen to her?

Oh, god, that question brought on a lot of thoughts on what could be happening to her now.

I stood up and jogged into the forest a steady pace. I could hear Seth behind me.

"Nessie!" I cupped my hands over my mouth. "Nessie!" I called again.

Seth started to do the same thing.

I stopped dead in my tracks, there was my Nessie, lying across the path.

I was down on my knees, next to her in a flash.

"Jake, I'm fine," she sat up. I almost died the second I saw her. Her face was covered in bruises and her clothes were tattered.

"What happened?" I asked, holding her to my chest.

"I fell." She said, as if this was some sort of joke.

"Was it those guys who came in here before you did? It was weird… they acted like they were going to duke it out in the woods," Seth said.

I started to shake. How dare any guy ever put his hands on her? Whether to hurt her or not, it was not acceptable.

I ran into the woods, after the scent of a large group of men. I phased into worm form, and ran after them. I realized I couldn't do anything to them. That would be risky. I was put on this Earth to help humans, not kill them because they offended my girlfriend.

I tried taking longer routes to avoid into running into them. No matter what, I couldn't hurt them.

I heard Seth in my mind, he must have phased.

Jake! Don't! You are going to upset her! Don't do anything you might regret!

Then I stopped, and headed the other direction, I made my way to my motorcycle. I had packed an extra pair of sweat pants for Nessie to wear if she was wearing shorts and got cold. I put them on once in human form, and called Emmett.

"Come pick up Nessie at the beach parking lot." Then I hung up.

I assumed he'd be able to pick up her scent, and find her here.

Seth and Nessie appeared from the forest, she was riding on his back. I growled at the closeness, and then lifted her off and into my arms.

"Nessie," I said, unsure of what to say next. The scars were painful for me to look at, "I called Emmett. He should be here to pick you up shortly."

I kissed her forehead, wishing I had enough courage to look her in the eye to kiss her on the lips. I got on my motorcycle and drove for a while. I didn't go home. I figured I deserved to sleep in the woods somewhere.