A/N: Sorry for not updating! We've been writing and stuff, and my brother broke his leg over the weekend (he's three) and so I was in and out of the hospital with him most of the weekend! Sadly he broke his leg in two places! All he did was go down a huge blow up slide! Gah! D:
Okay well xD enough of my drama! Let's get back to Jake's and Ness'
Chapter 7
A very soft knock made me turn towards the door. I knew it was Jake. I smelt him outside. I cracked the door open a little and stuck his head in. He first looked to me and then to Kacey in Logan's arms. He turned back to me with furrowed eyebrows. I patted the spot next to me on the bed. He slid through the opening and closed the door quietly after him. There really wasn't much point in being that quiet. I'm sure Kacey could hear him. He came over to me and sat down next to me. I took his hand.
It's Paul. He's reminding her of her ex, I thought, sending my thoughts to him. A look of understanding fell over his face and he looked into my eyes. I could see a hint of worry in his deep brown eyes.
"Are you okay?" he whispered. I instantly knew what he was asking. He was wondering if this conversation with Kacey brought back the memory of Jason. I smiled and nodded.
"Yeah for now.." I told him. It sort of did bring up memories, but I kept trying to push them to the back of my mind.. like usual. Kacey picked her head up and sniffled, although there were no tears, I was pretty sure, there would be tears rolling down her face if she could cry.
"You okay?" I asked her. She nodded a little and gave me a half smile. She looked to Logan who brought his hand up and wiped his eyes really quickly. Was he crying? I couldn't really tell. He was facing the other way.
"I'm sorry," she whispered. He shook his head and sniffled.
"Don't app-" Kacey cut him off.
"But I am sorry."
"No," he said, sounding a little angry. "You're not the one who needs to apologize." I saw Kacey look at him and a smirk play at her lips.
"It's kind of funny when you act all tough." He shook his head a little, then sighed, guessing that Kacey was Kacey, and she would be stubborn and not let him apologize.
"I don't like seeing you upset." He told her softly, pushing a piece of hair behind her ear. She sighed.
"So-" He cut her off.
"You don't need to be sorry." He told her. "I just want you to know that you're safe." He smiled softly.
I smiled at them, and for a minute I forgot that Kacey was a vampire.
I felt a warm hand touch my knee softly. I turned to Jake. He nodded his head towards the door. I smiled at him and nodded. We both stood up and Jake took my hand, intertwining our fingers. Kacey looked up.
"Oh you don't have to go. It is your room," she said. She had a point but I didn't really care.
"No it's okay. Keep talking to Logan," I said, smiling as I followed Jake out of my bedroom. I had just gotten out of the door and closed it when I turned around and bumped into Jake's chest.
"Sorry," he mumbled quietly. I chuckled and looked up at him. "Are you sure you're okay?" he asked me, looking into my eyes, searching for any distress. A took a deep breath and leaned my forehead against Jake's chest.
"I'm fine, Jake," I said. He stood there for a minute or two searching my eyes incase I was lying to him, but I guess he didn't find anything because he sighed.
"Okay, if you say so.." He said slowly. I smiled and took his hand again. We walked downstairs to see Embry and everyone still here on the couch watching TV. I rolled my eyes.
"Really, don't you guys have homes?" I asked. Paul pouted at me, and then Embry rolled his eyes.
"Yes, we do, but we prefer yours." He said, smirking. Paul whined.
"Hey, what did I ever do to you?" He said, fake frowning. I rolled my eyes.
"Well, I guess you aren't as bad as Embry.." I said, smiling at him.
"Yes! I knew I was her favorite!" Paul yelled. Embry looked up at me and smirked.
"Oh that's it Cullen." He said, standing up and coming towards me. I looked at him wide eyed and ran away. He looked dead serious! He looked like he wanted to shove pie in my face or something! I peaked my head around the corner to see him sitting on the couch again. He laughed.
"And that's how I get rid of her!" He said. I smirked and walked back into the room.
"Hey! Not nice! I thought you were going to kill me or something!" I said. He just rolled his eyes.
"Emmy!" I said. He groaned. I stuck my tongue out at him. "Ha. I win." I cheered and Jake wrapped his arms around my waist and kissed the top of my head. Embry turned his head to look over at me. He eyes dropped to my shirt and I can honestly say I wasn't completely comfortable with him looking at me like that. Neither was Jake. Since he was behind me, I could feel a little growl rumble in his chest.
"Plan on staying in that all day Ness?" Embry asked, looking back up at my face, where his eyes should be. I was about to comment but Jake spoke before I could.
"She can if she wants. I think it makes her look pretty damn sexy," he said. I bit my lip and blushed
"Watch your words, Black," I heard my Dad said as he and my Mom walked through the front door.
"Yeah watch your words, Black," Embry said, laughing. Jake just shook his head and walked over to the couch. I followed him as he sat down next to Embry and pulled me onto his lap. I snuggled into his chest.
"Hey where's Rachel?" I asked Paul. He turned his head to look at me.
"She's at home," he smirked. "You know, as hard as it is to believe, we aren't together 24/7." He chuckled. I smiled and looked to Embry.
"You need a girlfriend Emmy," I said, smirking. His eyebrows furrowed for a moment. He turned to me with one eyebrow raised.
"You offering?" he said and winked.
"Ugh! Gross! No! I meant so you'd stop bothering me."
"Plus, I have it on good authority that she's taken," Jake added, chuckling. He kissed the top of my head lightly. I giggled. Embry just smiled and rolled his eyes at us. I sighed and leaned into Jake.
"Hey you think Kacey's going to be okay?" I asked quietly.
"What's wrong with Kacey?" Paul asked. I froze. Damn.. I thought I said it quietly. I shrugged trying to play it off cool.
"Uh, nothing... she's just stressed out about school..." I said, my voice sounding a little unsure. He looked at me, looking a little confused at first. I started to think about school and realized that I was actually stressed about school. I mean, the last day I was there, I punched that stupid jerk for bugging me about that stupid rumor going around school that I was pregnant. Which I was not!
"Kacey's been acting really weird around me," Paul said. His words snapped me out of my thoughts and I had forgotten that we were talking about Kacey. "Did I do something to upset her?" He asked. Paul's not exactly the most passionate and kind type. He has anger issues and is pretty annoying most of the time but Embry beats him in that area. Plus, Rachel's been calming him down. It was kind of weird to see him genuinely upset that he might have hurt Kacey's feelings.
"She's not um… completely cool with the whole wolf thing," Jake lied. Paul's eyebrows furrowed again.
"But you-"
"Yeah but I'm her best friend's boyfriend… umm fiancé," he corrected himself and smiled.
"Oh," He said kind of disappointed. "She seemed fine around Seth and them... are you sure I didn't do anything?" He asked. I smiled.
"Yes Paul, I'm positive you didn't do anything, she's just stressed and like Jake said.. she's not completely cool with everything.." I said, lying through my teeth about the 'not being cool' part.
He sighed. "Okay..." He said. I smiled at him.
"She'll come around, don't worry." I said. Believe it or not, I think they'd make great friends.. they're both stubborn and always get their way. I giggled when I thought of that.
"Where is she anyway?" He asked me.
"Upstairs with Logan," I said.
"Oooh," Embry said, leaning back into the couch.
"Shut up," I said, defending my friend. "It's nothing like that."
"Sure it's not," he said sarcastically.
"It's not!" I defended. Just then, I heard the bedroom door upstairs close shut, followed by footsteps, and hushed whispering as they walked down the stairs.
"Hey," I said, to Kacey, softly, as I saw her on the last step of the stairs. Her eyes looked at me, then quickly darted to Paul, not more than 5 feet from me. I'm sure I was the only one who saw it because it was quick.
"So you and Logan took pretty long up there," Embry suggested, wagging his eyebrows up and down.
"Bite me!" Kacey said, glaring at him. Embry got up and smirked.
"Gladly." Kacey rolled her eyes, and Logan stepped in front of her. I rolled my eyes at the three of them.
"Embry, bad dog! Bad!" I scolded and chucked a pillow at the back of his head. He grumbled and slumped back down onto the couch, refusing to comment on what I had said. Wow, I never thought I'd see the day when Embry didn't have a snappy comeback. I watched Kacey and Logan walk over to the couch and sit down on the other side of Jake and I. I leaned back against Jake's chest and felt him sigh quietly. I noticed, out of the corner of my eyes, how close Kacey was sitting next to Logan. She was practically sitting on his lap. She was holding his hand and was holding it tightly. I could see his hand paling but he didn't show any signs of discomfort.
"So what's got you so stressed about school, Kacey?" Paul asked, obviously trying to start some small talk. Kacey turned her head to look at him and I saw Logan flinch.
"Kacey," he said, through clenched teeth. She turned back to look at him, curiously. "You're breaking my hand." She looked down and instantly dropped his hand.
"I-" She started but stopped when he shook his head. He looked down at his hand and flexed his fingers a few times.
"I'm fine," he said and pulled his arm around her shoulders. She leaned into him.
"Uh.. N-nothing.. just some uh, tests." She said, obviously trying to sound normal. Paul raised his hand and Kacey flinched deeper into Logan's side, but when she saw he only scratched his head, she relaxed. I sighed. I went to get up but Jake tightened his arms around me.
"Nooo," He whined. I smiled and leaned into him.
"I'm just gonna get something to drink." I told him. He sighed and let me go.
"I'll come too!" Kacey said overly happy, and ran into the kitchen. I rolled my eyes, and looked at everyone who was watching TV. I looked at Paul to see if he saw what Kacey just did, but he looked like he was too engrossed in the TV to even notice if the house was burning down, but if he did see her, he didn't show it. I sighed before walking into the kitchen.
"Are you okay?" I asked, opening up the refrigerator, while Kacey sat down at the table. She opened her mouth to respond but was cut off by Embry barging into the room.
"Anyone up for the beach?" he asked.
"Okay!" Kacey said, deliberately trying to get out of talking to me. I rolled my eyes and nodded my head to Embry.
"Sure," I said. I got out a bottle of water and walked back into the living room with Kacey and Embry. I looked around, Paul wasn't here, so I figured he went to get Rachel, and Jake wasn't here. I furrowed my eyebrows.
"Looking for someone?" A husky voice asked and warm arms snaked around my waist and pulled me close to their body. It was Jake, of course. I smiled and leaned back against him.
"Ugh, you guys are gross," Embry said. "I'm outta here." He laughed, walking out the door to go get changed. "Meet you at the beach!" He called from outside. Jake's arms tightened around me a little.
"Yeah we should probably go get out stuff back at your house," Logan suggested. Kacey looked over to him and nodded. "We'll meet you at the beach in like, 45 minutes?" I nodded and waved to them as they walked out of the door.
So Jake and I were alone. Well, not really, I'm pretty sure the rest of my family was in the house somewhere but they weren't in plain sight. I closed my eyes and rested my head back against Jake's chest. I took a deep breath and relaxed into his arms.
"45 minutes, that's a long time." Jake whispered in my ear. I giggled. I was about to say something, but I suddenly wasn't in Jake's arms anymore. I was in my room, with Aunt Alice going through my dresser, looking for something.
"Uhh.." I stuttered. I blinked a few times before really comprehending where I was. "Okay, mind telling me what's going on?" I asked her. She turned towards me and smiled. It was the kind of smile that said 'I know something you don't' I groaned and dove onto my bed covering my ears. "I don't want to know!"
"Good, because if I show you I'm pretty sure you won't do it anyway!" She chirped. I rolled my eyes and sat up to see her holding black, two piece string bikini. I looked at her like she was crazy.
"This is a joke, right?" I asked her. She sighed and frowned.
"You're no fun, Ness," she groaned. I shook my head and pointed to the bathing suit.
"You can't, honestly, expect me to wear that."
"Come on! Jake'll love it," she said, wagging her eyebrows.
"You're my Aunt, aren't you supposed to be giving me like turtle-neck sweaters to wear around him or something?" I asked her. She laughed and threw the bikini at me. Up close, it looked even smaller.
"Just put it on," she said. I looked to the bathing suit and back to my crazy Aunt.
"What- I- no," I said. She looked at me, crossed her arms over my chest, and tapped her foot on the floor. I stood my ground though, refusing to put this bathing suit on. A small smirk spread on her lips and I became worried about what she was going to do next.
"You know…" she started. "I worn one very similar to that once when I went out with Jasper." Oh no. "He loved it so much he just couldn't wait to-" I cut her off.
"Okay! Fine! You win! For god's sake stop talking please!" I yelled, covering my ears with my hands. Her high pitched laugh flooded into the air as I ran to the bathroom. I rolled my eyes. Damn it! I sighed, looking at the bathing suit.
"My dad's going to kill you!" I yelled, from inside the bathroom. I could almost hear my Aunt roll her eyes.
"You're engaged! You can wear whatever you want!" She yelled back.
"I hate this!" I yelled to her.
"You know," her voice was suddenly closer to the door as if she was leaning on the other side of it. "Jasper loved it, as I was saying. I mean, he was looking at me like I was-"
"Okay! I'm changing. I'm changing!" I groaned and flung my hands back up to my ears. I clenched my teeth as I stared at myself wearing the bathing suit in the mirror. I was not wearing this. No way in hell!
"Come on out!" Aunt Alice said. I opened the door angrily and started to walk over to where Aunt Alice was across the room, and stopped dead in my tracks, because when I looked, Jake was sitting in my room next to my Aunt. I quickly crossed my arms over my stomach, trying to cover myself as much as possible, which didn't help at all.
His eyes stayed on me and a funny looking expression spread over his face. I felt my face get really hot and I bit my lip, wishing I could disappear. My Aunt cleared her throat and Jake's head snapped to look at her.
"You look great!" She said, looking at me. I wasn't really focused on her though, I couldn't stop watching Jake. He swallowed and turned back to me. "Doesn't she Jake?" My Aunt said, nudging him.
"Y-yeah," he stuttered in a higher pitch voice. I couldn't help from smiling.
"Oh teenage boys," my Aunt said, as she stood up, she ruffled Jake's hair. He furrowed his eyebrows, pouted, and ducked his head away from her hand. "Right. Well I'll leave you two alone." She turned back to me. "Oh and I'll finish telling you about me and Jazz later," she smirked.
"Oh please don't!" I said, throwing my hands up, forgetting that I was trying to shield myself. Jake whimpered.
