Chapter Seven
Agreement
I sat in Jake's room. The TV was on, it was dark, and I could not fall asleep. Too much had gone on today. I had been hoping for something better than sleeping. Yes, that had been Jake's "business to attend to." Sleeping. After all that he just wanted to sleep.
I causally flipped through one of Jake's many car magazines. Cars, cars, and more cars. What was the big deal? If you're going to look at cars, look at shiny fast sports cars and buy them. Don't just fantasize when you can drive the car yourself.
I know that makes me seem like a snobby little rich girl but hey, I'm rich. And as a child of Edward Cullen I only get the best.
I kept flipping through the magazine. Then I saw something. It wasn't a car. It was a can. But it wasn't filled with any type of motor oil. It was a drink. Not any kind of caffeinated soda but something much stronger.
Beside me I could tell he was still awake. "Jake," I said with curiosity, "have you ever been drunk?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"I thought you would be proud of me for staying somewhat sober for all these years. And well I'm a werewolf and we burn alcohol off very quick so it's pretty much impossible for me to get drunk."
"How would you know if you've stayed sober?"
Jacob paused for a minute to think. "I've seen the others do it. It has no affect on them." I ignored his awkward pause and continued.
"But it's a human experience right?" I questioned him.
"Well, yes. But only idiots do that. Ness, where are you going with this?" I ignored him again.
"And I'm almost an adult, right?"
"Well, yes. Kinda. Sorta. No, not really. I mean you're only seven."
"And I mean in hybrid years."
"Well, then yes. You would nbe about sixteen or seventeen. But that's still not old enough."
"My dad wants me to have every human experience possible and so do you."
"And?"
"Will you take me out tomorrow so we can go clubbing? Maybe I could try a few drinks. It couldn't hurt to try with my big, stronge, protective boyfriend there with me." I looked at him with giant puppy dog eyes. "Please?"
He looked stunned. His eyes were wide with surprise. Finally he managed to speek and it was not what I wanted to hear."No! Do you know what your dad would do to me? He would rip me pieces and burn me like I'm a freaking bloodsucking leach!"
"But you're not. And if you were you would be my bloodsucking leach."
Jacob gave a little grimace at the thought of being a vampire."It's still a no." He said flatly and I could tell he was holding back something. I needed to know.
"What happened last time," I asked after a long pause. He looked at me with slight confusion.
"The last time?"
"The last time you went out and had a drink."
"Oh." He didn't look as though he wanted to remember. "Emmett. Emmett happened."
"What did he do? I mean Emmett's Emmett but it couldn't have been that bad. Right?" I looked at him and he was staring at his hands. "Right?" I stressed the word this time, praying for any sign of hope.
"Ness, you're not old enough to really understand this yet."
"I understand how I was created and that you don't want me to understand anything you do or have done."
"Ness this is different."
"Then help me understand!"
He took this into consideration and gave in. "Do you want to know what happened?" he asked. I nodded. "Emmett and I went out drinking and Emmett wasn't supposed to get drunk because we had to drive home. So Emmett was going to stay sober and I was going to drink like usual."
"Usual?" I asked.
"Not now Ness I'll get to that. Well I had two or three drinks. Nothing strong. And we were going to go but Emmett being Emmett… you know what I really don't want to talk about this right now."
"Jakey please you said you would tell me." I didn't want to have to beg this late and I was tired.
"How about it didn't end well, we got pulled over, I got a ticket, and well Emmett isn't a nice 'drunk'. Okay?" he said.
Well I guess that's all I'm going to get out of him but I wanted to know more than just 'it didn't end well.' I didn't need to know that, I mean when you go places with Emmett it doesn't end well very often. I wish Jake would take me more seriously and trust me enough to tell me the not so great things that have happened to him but I guess not.
I still had to try. Nothing he would say would stop me from wanting to try drinking. "Jake C'mon. Just let me try. Please? I'll do anything."
Jake was skeptical but I refused to let my guard down. Finally he gave in. "Fine but there will be rules. Number one no strong drinks. Only one or two with alcohol at the most. Number two no short dresses. Number three only for two or three hours. Number four you are driving. And number five we have to ask Alice and Bella before we do any of this."
That sure is a lot of rules for someone who doesn't like my dad. I smiled but then reality hit. "Why are we asking? We don't really ask about anything. Why start now?"
"Nessie there is a difference between asking to let you have your first sip of alcohol and asking if I can kiss you."
"Fine." I said. "But I'm not making any promises about the dress rule. It's just to hard."
"Nothing shorter than that last dress. You're mine. An I'm gonna let the world know that."
I couldn't help but laugh as I went to finally fall asleep.
