A/N: I know its short but I just wanted to get something up :) I'll work on doing more.
I was tired, exhausted to the point where I barely had energy to keep moving towards my destination. Being with Jake took everything out of me, and I just wanted to sleep.
I spotted the two-story, white structure in the distance and smiled, reveling the idea that I would be in my bed in just a few short minutes. Unfortunately, I was tugged back by my hand obliterating my hopes of snuggling into my thick comforter and warm queen size bed. When I looked up to see Jacob's pleading face, all my fatigue seemed to disappear.
I still sighed, exasperated, wondering why he'd come after me. "What do you want?" I voiced bluntly. "I need to talk to you and you need to listen." he shared sternly. "Do I now?" I questioned crossing my arms. "Yes Crystal you do." He stated pulling me away from my house and I looked back at it longingly, wishing I'd walked slightly faster.
Once we'd stopped, after walking a substantial distance from my home, I snatched my arm from his grasp asking, "And we couldn't do this by my house because...?" "You'll have farther to run away from me." Is he gonna kill me or just talk to me? I gave him a suspicious look before speaking, "Jacob I really don't want to talk to you right now. So just leave me alone, okay." He pulled me back by my waist brushing a piece of hair out of my eye. "No not okay." I melted in his arms before coming to my senses and pushing him away.
"Jacob what do you want? We haven't talked for weeks now." "That's because I couldn't-" "You sure it wasn't, you wouldn't?" I asked raising an eyebrow. "I couldn't-" "And what is it you couldn't do Jake? You couldn't be my friend? You couldn't talk to me? You couldn't explain?" I refused to let him get a word in when he clearly felt the need to abstain from divulging any of the truth.
"Yes Crystal! I couldn't do any of that. I wasn't supposed to be close to you. It was for your own safety." He finally got out. "I don't remember asking for your protection," I growled, "You could've told me something Jake...anything." I looked up at his chocolate colored eyes, filled with so much sadness, forgetting the anger that was building up inside of me.
"But...I'm ready to tell you. I can explain now." He implored. I let out an unamused laugh, "Were you ever gonna tell me? Would you have told me if I hadn't found out today?" "Yes! I wanted to tell you. I wanted to tell you everything. I just couldn't. Sam didn't think it would be safe." He reached for my hand but I pulled it away. I couldn't stay strong when he continued pulling me towards him, both by my limbs and by my heart. "Who is Sam?"
"Sam Uley, he's the alpha. I can't disobey him even if I wanted to...and I really did. I couldn't deal with the hurt I saw on your face everytime you looked at me. I wanted to tell you so you could be back in my life, so you could forgive me." I scoffed, "And what go back to being your friend?" Please don't say yes. He answered, "No that wasn't what I had in my mind."
My eyes snapped to his, surprised and also skeptical. He moved closer running his thumb up and down my cheek. "Jake what are you doing?" I whispered when his breath fanned across my mouth. He didn't answer opting to press his lips to mine instead. I should have pushed him off and told him to finish answering my damn questions but I had been away from him for so long. I never wanted to let him go again and I hoped he felt the same for me.
The kiss moved slowly in the beginning but gradually became more heated, more passionate. His hands were rubbing patterns against the skin under my shirt and I could feel the rough bark of the tree he had backed me into, but I only focused on his tongue running along my bottom lip. My mouth parted and his tongue slipped in, moving with my own. My arms came around his neck, pulling at his short, black hair inducing a content moan to slip from Jacob's mouth as he pulled me closer.
I was so caught up in Jacob, my love. I missed him: his smell, his smile, his eyes, his touch, his lips. The trees surrounding us, the animals scuttering wordlessly, the wind blowing unnoticeably, as our skin felt like fire, I concentrated on none of it. Only that I had Jacob standing in front of me once again. A bonus...he was kissing me and I was loving it. I wasn't thinking. I wasn't anxious, or angry, or scared, or tired, or sad. I was irrefutably happy. This was absolute perfection.
Our breathing was heavy as we pulled apart, our foreheads touching. "Jake?" I breathed. "Hmm?" "You still have a lot of explaining to do? You realize that." A laugh came from him and I smiled, loving the sound. "Yeah, I figured." He placed one last fleeting kiss on my lips before stepping back, dropping his hands from my sides and sending me another smile.
