Hey peeps! So I started off the week really busy and then it got busier and then... well yeah, lol. To all of my present readers I have made changes! Kim and Jack did not meet in high school but in college and I completely took out the Bella POV in chapter two, it served no purpose but to take up space so that chapter will be shorter. Thank you to jememj who reviewed my story four times within an hour I loved it! All good and with constructive criticism. Thank you so much :)

So we're going back in time with Kimberly of why she is such a mess and then we go into Emmett's and Rose's crumbling relationship. Enjoy and thank your writer with a review :)


Chapter 7

Kimberly POV

Edward and Bella let me feel sorry for myself and weren't sure what to do with me after my melt down. All they could think of was to bring me back inside and watch TV while I laid my head down on Bella's lap. We were watching It's a Wonderful Life where George and Mary were dancing and the pool was opening but they had no idea. The crowd was amazed and cheered when they would almost fall into the pool until then they jitterbugged to far back and fell into the pool getting all wet and when they did fall everyone began to jump in even the people who opened it and the builder of the underground pool. It made me remember of how Jack and I met.

I was on my way to my dorm on the other side of the campus cutting through the square trying to avoid the rush of people going to their dorms as well because of the oncoming rain. I cursed my myself for wearing sandals because even in the spring Seattle is not ready for pretty shoes. The rain came pouring down without even a drizzle and my hair began to soak and I struggled to get my books under my rain jacket when I tripped and fell into a huge puddle. I cursed my clumsiness and looked around to see if any one was around to see it and saw no one. My jeans and book bag were soaked and my hands were stinging from when I tried to cushion my blow from falling.

I began to get up when I heard, "Hey! Look out!" I looked back and was then run over by a person on a bicycle. He flipped over the handlebars and landed in the huge puddle as well and lay next to me groaning. I was doing the same because now my back was soaked and I had a huge bump on my with the rain pouring down on my face.

I could hear the guy turning over and coughing from getting the wind knocked out of him when he landed on his back. "Hey, Miss, are you okay?" He asked while struggling to breathe.

"Yes," I began to say. "Worst. Day. Ever." I murmured as I got up. I looked over at the cyclist and the top of his head was bleeding. "Are you okay?" I asked.

He touched it and looked at the blood on his fingers. He sighed, "I guess so, ow."

"C'mon, my dorm is right here." I said helping him up leaving his bike in the street. We went into my dorm and my room mate was watching TV.

"Oh shit! What did you do to him, Kimmy?" Josie asked.

"He ran over me with a bike." I said leading him to sit down.

"So you split his head open?" She ran to the bathroom for the first aid kit.

"It's not her fault, I didn't see her and ran her over with my bike." The guy said.

Josie came back with the first aid and began to help me. I was lucky to have a room mate studying to be a nurse because she had all kinds of medical supplies. Syringes, gauze, surgical scissors, and plenty of band-aids. She began to do an exam on him to make sure that he didn't have a concussion while I cleaned his wound.

"Well don't I feel special?" He said laughing causing him to wince at his headache.

Josie finished her exam and said, "You don't seem like you have a concussion but once my friend here cleans you up I would see a doctor just to be sure." She handed him a glass of water and two Tylenol's leaving the two of us together.

He swallowed the pills and began to make casual conversation. "So, Kimmy, what's your diagnosis?"

"Kim, and I'm no nurse but I think you'll be fine. The cut wasn't deep and the bleeding stopped but if you know anyone who's planning to go into the medical field I would get their opinion. Whats your name?" I said.

"Kim, sorry I'm Jack, and that's good but I meant how do you feel?" He said looking up at me. His eyes were dark brown and mysterious and they were looking right into mine.

I cleared my throat and said, "Oh, I think I'll be okay, it's just a bump." At that point I got dizzy and a little nauseous. I swayed and he caught my balance.

"Are you sure?" Jack said looking concerned.

I focused and looked strait. "Yeah, I mean, I got hit by a bike. It's not that big of a deal."

"Still," He said. "Um, I'm afraid of doctors and if this cut is something I wouldn't be able to uh, go by myself so..." He began to trail off. "I mean, you should get checked out too to make sure that it really isn't a big deal so, why don't we go get checked out... together?" He stammered.

I smiled at his nervousness. "Sure," I said. "But neither of us is in condition to drive so, Josie?"

She stuck her head out from her room. "Yeah?"

"Can you drive us to the emergency room? Just to get checked out?"

It was a good thing that we did get checked out because I did have a minor concussion and Jack had to get three stitches. After that we joked about our misfortunes and then we began to date. It was an odd way to meet but looking back that might have been the best day of my life. The movie ended with George realizing that he had the best life a man could have and Auld Lang Syne and then began another movie. I still laid on Bella's lap as she stroked my hair and I closed my eyes blocking out the sound and pretended to believe I could sleep again letting images of Jack flow through my mind as my non-beating heart became numb.

Emmett POV

"I raise you ten bucks." I said calling Sam's bluff.

"Call." He responded with a perfect poker face but I've been playing this game with Sam for a long time and I know when he's bluffing. You can see his pulse race a little through his neck that would be almost unnoticeable to any human or werewolf in human form but for me it was a piece of cake.

"I fold." Embry said putting his cards on the table. I knew he would fold eventually, I could see the way his eyebrows would twitch in the slightest way when he was getting antsy with his cards and they began to look like he was raising them up and down.

"Well Sam it's just you and I and it's your call." I said teasing him a little.

Sam looked at his cards and then at the pot and then back at his cards. He rubbed his chin a little and went all in. The pack looked at him in amazement as if he really had the cards to win. But unless he had a four of a kind Sam wasn't winning anything. I had and Ace and Jack and there was a ten, a king, and and queen on the table for my winning royal flush.

"Call." I said shoving all of my chips in the center of the table. Quill and Paul dropped their jaws although they knew I was going to win but they had never gone against their alpha male before in a game of poker.

Sam revealed his bluff of two of a kind while I showed my royal flush. Everybody gasped at my winnings while others groan. Paul laughed at Sam's face and clapped his hands.

"How do you it, man?" Paul asked.

"A really good skill at reading your opponent." I responded coolly. "Alright, men, I'm afraid that this is where I leave you, with empty pockets and smirk across my face."

Sam scoffed, "Whatever leach, I'll get you next time." He shook my hand and began to walk me to the door. "Oh, hey what are you going to do about your lady problem? Do you even have a place to stay tonight?"

I thought about what I was going to do. I sighed, "I think I'm just gonna buy her something shiny with diamonds in it and see how far it gets me until next time. As for a place to stay tonight... I think I'm going to check up on Kim and see if Edward and Bella will let me watch TV with them tonight."

"Do you really think that's the best thing to do in this situation?" Sam asked.

"Trust me, when Rose is pissed like she is, it's best to let her unwind and think for a moment. It wasn't as pretty as I made it seem."

"Well I would still consider dropping by and apologizing."

"Yeah, sometimes its best to back with your tail between your legs." Paul said which everyone burst into laughter about except Sam and I.

I nodded my head at Sam and he shook my hand again and led me out to my bike. "You know Emmett if you need a place tonight, Emily and I would love to have you."

"Yeah, sure, you would love to have the sleepless vampire take care of your kid when it cries in the night so you two won't have to get up." I said.

Sam laughed. "You would be quick and quiet that's for sure."

"Well, I'll make you a deal, I'll give you back your poker money if you never ask me to babysit your kid again. He reeks more than you do with his dirty diapers."

He chuckled, "Go on, get out of here."

I revved the bike and took off for the house. Once I got there Rose was waiting for me in the garage. I wasn't in the mood to fight but by the way she was standing, she looked like she didn't either.

"You reek of dog." She said.

Maybe not.

"Well, that's what happens when you hang out on the res." I responded.

I looked at her and she stood like stone. There was no emotion in her eyes and she stood with her arms crossed, obviously not wanting anything from me at the time being but I still walked up to her and gave her a kiss on her forehead. She responded by hugging me and squeezing me tight.

"I'm sorry." I said, hugging her back and speaking into the top of her head.

We stood like that for a while before she spoke again. "You're not the one who has to be sorry." She said, still holding onto me. "I said and did some nasty things to you that I never should have done."

"It's okay Rose, I'm sorry for bringing up moving out."

She paused. "We weren't even done talking about it." She said pulling away from me slowly going back into her old pose.. "You just brought it up without warning. What were you thinking?"

"Don't start Rose." I said warning her. This was exactly why I left, so that we wouldn't fight.

"Fine, then whats with you and that vampire?" She asked.

"Nothing! She was upset and I lent her a shoulder to cry on that's all!" This was also the last thing I wanted to talk about. I don't know what her problem is with Kimberly but it has got to stop.

"Then why was your arm around her?" She accused.

"For comfort! You don't really think I would..." I trailed off because we both could finish that sentence.

She paused and looked at me, "For a moment I did. At least that's what it looked like, we just had a big fight and then comes in this girl who's pretty and your there to comfort her and I assumed-"

"Just stop Rosalie." I said interrupting her, I couldn't take it any more. "Maybe I should stay at Sam's and Emily's or Bella's and Edward's."

She was taken aback. "You're really not going to work this out? You're not going to even talk to me about it?"

"Not right now Rose, no." I said.

"Then fine, Emmett, go away again. Just keep running away from your problems like you did when your brother died."

I whipped around and yelled at her, "Then maybe you should have just let me die that day! Maybe then you could be a lot happier living with the Cullen's and dealing Edward leaving you for Bella and getting everything that you wanted in life! Face it Rose, that day, who really got saved? And don't you DARE mention Curtis again. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?"

She stood stunned and speechless.

I took a big breath and looked away from her calming myself down. "Maybe we should take a break, it would be for the best for both of us to determine what we really want from each other." I said even though it broke my heart to do it, but Rose has been chipping away at it for a long time now.

I could feel her tense up but there was nothing she could say to make me change my mind. We had been fight for a while now and it wasn't fair for us or our families to go through this torture.

"Maybe we should." She finally said.

And with that I began for my long walk toward Edward and Bella's shack. I needed to talk to Kim.


I can only imagine your faces at this point. My intentions going into this story was to not break them up but as the story developed I saw that Rose and Emmett needed some time apart and for some one on one time with Kim without any problems. Sorry this took me so long to get this up I originally wanted it up yesterday morning but I was having a hard time with one of the many memories of Kim and Jack. I thought the way they met was cute and a definite story to tell in the future.

Well, thats it. Hopefully I'll have another chapter up by the end of next week or maybe sooner but right now I'm going to work on some hw. Please review, you know I love 'em. :)