"I'll talk with you later Kim," Emma rushed out of chemistry like a bat out of hell, while I was left, slowly piling my books into my hands until I was the very last one in the room.

I was thinking yet again about Jared. IF it really did happen, and the murmurings that disrupted the rest of chemistry class sorta reaffirmed that it did, why now?

What made him look at me today?

I brushed my teeth this morning…nah I do that every day.

…I washed my hair…you do that pretty often too…

Okay well maybe it's the new earrings? You got these last year.

Gasp! It's the braces….You don't have braces loser.

Oh. Right.

It wasn't until I bumped into a hard wall that had the distinctly male smell of the outdoors was that I realised I wasn't alone.

Just outside the classroom, books immediately dropping to the marked linoleum of the hallway, to my utter surprise and horror I had smacked straight into Jared, rocking back precariously on my heels while his large, warm hands grabbed my wrists to steady me. His hands wrapped right around my fragile looking wrists, though his touch was careful enough to handle a duckling.

"Kim. Hi," Jared gazed straight into my eyes, with that same uncomfortable soul bearing gaze as with our previous encounter.

"I didn't think you were serious about seeing me again!" I blurted, my hand going to my forehead immediately after my word vomit had destroyed my chances with him.

"What?"

"I mean, Um, so I guess they didn't suspend you huh?" Jared looked blankly at me, never taking his eyes from mine. I sighed as comprehension finally dawned upon him.

"Oh, haha, nah just a stern talking to about appropriate behaviour and setting a good example…you know the lot," Kim didn't, but she nodded anyway.

"So, I was wondering," Jared finally tore his gaze and hands from mine and knelt down to gather my forgotten books, laying strewn at our feet, "Did you maybe, uh, well I was wondering if…"

I liked stuttering Jared. He made me feel more secure about my own lack of verbal capabilities when around him. "Yes?" I prompted.

"Iwaswonderingifyoumaybewannacomehavelunchwithmeandmyfriends?"

His words were garbled, everything was said in one breath but Kim understood immediately.

"Um. Well. Yeah, sure," I said shyly. I looked at his tall figure through my lashes, a fully-blown grin beginning to form on his beautiful face.

With that confirmation, my books in his left hand and my hand in his other, we set off towards the cafeteria.

…..

"Hey sorry, I should've asked if you wanted to go to your locker first…we can still go and then make it back to the cafeteria before everything good gets eaten by Paul," Jared half mumbled, eyes on me the whole time, waiting to gauge my reaction.

I smiled softly and chanced a look at him, muttering, "No, its fine really. We can't have Paul eating everything now, can we?" I was more confident with my words as we walked down the halls together, in pursuit of hunger fulfilment.

"Yeah, well, he would if he got half a chance…bloody pig…"

I could believe that.

Jared was second in height at La Push High by only Paul.

He had muscles on top of his muscles and a temper to match. He was a scary kid who most avoided like the plague. Is that who Jared meant when he said we were sitting with his friends?"

"Paul! You haven't eaten everything yet have you mate? If you did, you're sooo gonna get it on pat-the weekend."

Well. That answers that question.

……

"So, Kimmy," Paul started.

"It's Kim," I returned bravely.

"I like Kimmy," Paul grinned and kept going, "any friends you can hook me up with?"

That earned a slap upside the head from Jared, which then caused Paul to slam down his fork and shove Jared sideways, Paul beginning to go red in the face.

"Uh, you know what," I tried to mediate, "I reckon we could find you someone. Trust me. By the end of this year, you'll have someone."

I so hoped I could deliver on that, otherwise this may very well be the end of my rather short and boring life.

Paul sat back down, returned to his normal colour and resumed shovelling garbage cans full of food into his mouth at once.

I looked at him in utter disbelief, before Jared quizzed me on basically every aspect of my life, and then some.

"So Kim, what are your parents like?"

"uh, normal? Mum loves to live through me, Dad loves to sit back and watch from the sidelines. I like it that way though, even if mum meddles a little too much sometimes."

"What's your favourite food?"

"My grandmother's home-baked fresh out of the oven apple pie." That one earned a nod of approval from Paul.

"What's the last thing you think about when you go to bed?"

"uh, I don't know…maybe what's happened that day?"

"Do you like me?"

"What?! Uh, um. Well you're…," Paul was in fits of laughter, while Jared remained completely serious, "what I mean to say is, well, we've only really been talking since, uh this morning..and I don't really uh, know you well enough, personally, to make a decsio-"

BRING

Saved by the bell. How cliché.

"Okay, well Kim, what about an easier question: You, er, wanna go out with me, um on, uh.. Saturday night?"

……

Okay. Almost home free.

Only twenty more metres.

Fifteen.

Ten.

Eight.

Six.

Fiv- "KIM!!"

SHIT!

I totally though I'd escape them. So much for outrunning a black belt.

Two pairs of harsh hands seized my arms and spun me around, backing my feet up until I was pushed up against the side of my car.

"Kim, you can't seriously leave us hanging. Emma told me all about your little lover's moment during chemistry today. You have to spill. You have no choice in the matter."

Emma joined in, "Yeah come on Kim, I totally left you after chemistry so you could be alone with him. You owe me! And I choose to take my reward in the form of gossip about Jared and you.

Having lunch.

Together."

"GASP! Emma! You didn't tell me about that bit…so that's where you were, oh Kimmy you minx, you!"

"Guys, nothing happened. We had lunch. We talked." Kim lowered her voice an octave as she caught sight of Jared striding purposefully towards the group, "…but I think it's safe to say.."

"Kim, hi," Jared loomed over us.

"He now notices me."

The other two whipped around and tilting their heads back to see the intruder, their mouths gaping.

Jared's hand stretched out to mine, Emma's grasp sliding straight off my arm in the process.

"Sass. Emma." A nod to each astounded figure, "I think I'm going to drive Kim home today, would one of you mind driving her car back to her place?"

Two heads silently nodded in tandem compliance and Jared smiled while pulling me away from the two.

Aren't you guys lucky! TWO chapters in one day! I go back to school tomorrow so I'll try to be pretty frequent in updating, but don't stone me if it's a little late! I promise no less than one update a week!

Thanks for all your support and reviews- they make me think I'm doing something right!!

Oh and I forgot a disclaimer!

I OWN ALL TWILIGHT

Ahem, have I ever mentioned I'm a compulsive liar?