I'm in Love with a Jerk

Chapter 9

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Previously...

All eyes were on them and Mrs. Frank noticing the extreme silence, "Isabella Swan, please sit down and calm yourself. This is not the time to yell at Mr. Black." Bella did not leave her vision from Jacob as she sat down and crossed her arms in a defiant way. She breathed deeply and turned away from Jacob as if she could not stand the sight of him any longer.

And all that Jacob Black could do for the first time in his life was sit there, speechless.

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Alice looked at the scene with Bella with her arms crossed, not looking at Jacob while he gaped at her, shocked by her outburst. "Well," she said turning back to Rosalie, "she was bound to crack sometime."

"I don't know what that girl is going to do," Rosalie muttered glancing one more time at the scene.

Troy sat there in the back of the room, still silent as he gazed at the brunette girl he recently had thought nothing of. He turned away, not being able to process that she was the one to yell at him. She's usually so quiet and kept to herself – what happened?

Bella, still quietly fuming grabbed the paper off of his desk once again and turned her desk away from his and began reading it. Jacob looked up after hearing the scraping of the desk, and saw what she was doing. He smirked and moved his desk closer to hers. Bella looked up from the assignment and saw Jacob Black looking right at her with those dark, puppy-dog eyes. Her heart went to to major freak out mode and thought it was going to burst through her chest. She looked back down at the paper, but couldn't concentrate on it because she could feel his eyes scanning her heavily.

She looked back up at him and said icily, "Get away … from me." She then picked up the paper and put it in front of her face so Jacob can't look at her.

Jacob's smirked deepened and he said smoothly, "I didn't know you had a feisty side, Beckah."

Bella replied stiffly with the paper still in front of her face, "My is is Bella, you cretin."

"Ooh. Ouch … that hurts," he said softly as he lowered the paper from her face, and looked into her eyes.

"Stop talking to me … j-just go away." She raised the paper to stop all connection with his eyes.

"Your face is red," he observed, "did you run another ten miles?" Bella's blush deepened and she thought, 'Crap, he knows I'm blushing...'

"N-No. I mean… uhm... just go away!" Bella stuttered and shuffled a little more to the left, away from him.

"I can't, I'm your partner. We have to work on the project, together," Jacob said leaning closer to her. She could smell his woodsy cologne, and almost gave in, but immediately shot back, "Oh really?! Well, a minute ago you didn't give a damn about this project!"

"That as before I saw your… wild side."

"I don't have a 'wild' side. You're just an egotistical half-wit."

"Does egotistical mean well proportioned? Because if so, you are so right." Then he spread his legs wide to release a rather long bump that had to be his penis.

"No," she said not even tempted to look because she was becoming so agrivated, "it means self-centered. Which in case you didn't know, is a bad thing."

Jacob smirked, brushing off her insult and asked, "How come I haven't seen you around school more?"

"Because you're too busy pushing other people around to notice anyone then yourself," Bella countered.

"That's not true."

"Pffft! You couldn't last a single day without putting someone down," Bella challenged. Jacob moved his desk closer to hers to the point where they were touching. He takes her chin and lifts it up so that they're looking eye-to-eye. Jacob then moved his face a little closer to hers and whispered, "You wanna bet, Bella. See, I can remember names." She looked at him nervously, she'd never had her face that close to anyone else's before that wasn't a relative. She then looked away and said semi-convincingly, "I don't want to be with you. So just get lost."

A loud moo came over the intercom and Jacob back away a little bit, a smirk plastered on his lips, "That's alright I like 'em feisty." And he collected his stuff and left the classroom after giving her a sly smile and winked lazily. Bella watched him leave the room, her face burning with embarrassment all the while.

"Whoa! Your face is like bright red," Alice pointed out as she and Rosalie walked over to her. Bella lifted a hand to her face, and felt it was on fire. This is what happens when Jacob Black gets too close. Damn boys and their powers to make us blush....

Rosalie giggled as Bella put the paper in front of her face, "Why is your face so red? Huh? HUH??"

"She likes a guy in this class. There's no doubt about it," Alice sing-songed while Bella buried her face deeper behind the paper.

"Guys, I don't like anyone, okay?" She said, muffled, from behind the paper.

"You are lying, Isabella Swan! I just know it!" Rosalie shouted pointing a manicured finger accusingly at her.

"Don't try to hide it. You LIKE someone! Come one tells us," Alice poked her trying to pry the information out of Bella.

Bella sighed and put the paper down, "I'm not telling you two anything."

"Ahh! Who is it?!" Rosalie shouted as some unsuspecting freshman entered the classroom and jumped a little before scurrying to their seats. Bella ignored Rosalie's outburst and walked out of the classroom with her supplies for next period.

"Then I guess we'll have to do it the hard way, Rosie," Alice said as Bella fled the scene.

Rosalie smiled, "That's okay. The hard way's more fun."