Chapter 10 What a girl wants.

"I didn't expect your room to be like this." I commented as I sat on Rayne's black bean bag chair.

Rayne shook his head, laughing. "I didn't expect your room to be like that either."

I looked up with a smile. "What did you expect?"

"You know the usual, dolls and pink everywhere." His smile grew wider. "Possibly Justin Bieber or Katy Perry."

"My mom is an interior designer. If I wanted to do my room that way she would probably have a heart attack."

It was silent after that. I stared around his black and silver decorated room. Of course his door was left open because apparently his father didn't trust Rayne enough to have a girl in his room. That made me wonder just how many girls has he had in this room? Or in that bed he is laying on. Cuddled up next to him, maybe even possibly naked. I mentally shuddered; I didn't want to think about that. He offered for me to sit next to him but I declined nicely and sat on this really beany bean bag chair.

When I had walked into his room he was sprawled out on his bed listening to his iPod. You could hear 30 Seconds to Mars blasting through his headphones. Mr. Hale didn't leave us alone until about five minutes ago when Rayne, purposely, started talking about girl stuff. The things he knew were things a guy should never know about a girl. I bet that if I ask Jacob, Jasper, Emmett and Edward about half the stuff Rayne had said, they would have no clue how to answer it.

Rayne had to put on a shirt when I walked in. If it was up to him he would have left it off, but his father scolded him about being a gentleman when girls are present. I mean, truthfully, I wouldn't have minded. But I also didn't mind the small white t-shirt he was wearing right now. Since his arms were above his head, his shirt was raised up a bit. You could see his scar and also his muscles. I tried not to stare all that much.

It was actually about time I got into this house. I sat in my car for about an hour trying to decide what I was going to say to him when I see his face. I also had a plan B if I chickened out on talking to Rayne. Plan B was to find out if Rosalie was here and just hang out with her. If I run into Rayne then I could quickly say sorry and move on with my life. He wouldn't have anything else to say because I know, for a fact, that Rosalie would kick him out of her room.

"What's the real reason you're here, Renesmee?" Rayne was now sitting up on his bed looking directly at me.

I shrugged my shoulders, casually. "I just wanted to stop by and say hi."

Rayne scoffed, gesturing towards the big digital clock on his wall. It read eight-thirty…at night. Shit. "Really? At this time? I don't think so."

"Alright," I sighed. "I just wanted to say I was sorry."

He waited for me to continue, but when I didn't he tilted his head to the left and stared at me. "For…"

Awe, he looked so adorable when he did that. Focus Renesmee. "The other night…"

"Ah," Rayne shook his head, now realizing what I was talking about. "Don't mention it."

It sounded like he meant it too. "Don't mention it?"

He blinked at me once. "Seriously, it didn't happen. If our lips would have touched, it would have happened. But our lips didn't meet, so it didn't happen."

"Is that how you count your kisses?" I asked him with annoyance.

He shrugged his shoulders. "Renesmee, the only reason you are over here is to say sorry is because you feel guilty. You feel guilty that you hurt me, but you didn't. So it's fine."

"I don't feel guilty." I mumbled, stubbornly.

"Alright," He leaned forward his gray eyes sparkling with amusement. "what do you feel then?"

Right now? Annoyance. "I feel like I am not being fair to you."

"Hardly, Renesmee." Rayne snorted. "If you weren't being fair to me, I would have told you."

"Rayne…"
He raised his hand to cut me off. "Renesmee, listen, there is nothing you should be sorry for. Seriously. You have been nothing but nice to me. You kept my secret and I should be the one apologizing to you."

"For what?" I looked up at him, confused.

"For ignoring you."

"See, I did hurt you." I told him with a nod of my head.

Rayne chuckled. "No, love, you didn't. You hurt my ego, yes. But you didn't actually hurt me."

"Wow…" I didn't have anything else to say.

He mistook my wow and started shaking his head really fast. "I didn't mean it like that. I was about to kiss you, you said no and that was that. No harm done."

"Right." This time I scoffed. No harm done, except to my thoughts. I thought this was going to be easy once I talked to Rayne?

"What else is bothering you?" I looked at him once again. The moon was shining in through his window, brightening the dark room.

"Do you miss being friends with Jacob?" I whispered.

He smiled but it didn't reach his eyes. "Is that what this is about?"

I just shrugged my shoulders. "I don't know."

"Did Jake tell you about what happened?" He asked me, silently. I nodded my head and he sighed. "I don't think he will ever let this go."

"Of course not. Seth was his best friend." I hated speaking in past tense about people. It makes me feel like they were never here in the first place.

"I know that." He said through his teeth. "Does that mean he wasn't my best friend, too?"

"Of course not." I answered him right away.

"I get over things quickly. I still grieve and go see his memorial place, but I got over it." Rayne shook his head. "Jacob needs to do the same thing. That's all he has to do."

"He can't. Not without your help."

Rayne stared at me with disbelief clearly written all over his face. "You're kidding me right?"

"Does it look like I'm kidding?" I pointed to my straight, passive, face.

"I have tried…many times to make amends." He ran his fingers through his hair and sighed.

"Could you try a little bit harder?"

"Ha ha," Rayne shook his head once more.

"Seriously." I stared at him.

"I am being serious, Renesmee." He stared straight back at me and I felt weak under his gaze.

"Okay…" I stood up and smiled. "That's all I came by for."

"To say sorry and try to get me to talk to Jacob." He stated.

"Just the sorry part. The Jacob part just came up all by itself." I laughed, nervously.

"You're forgiven Renesmee."

Rayne got up off the bed to come and stand in front of me. He stretched out his hand and smiled.

"Friends?"

I gripped his hand and laughed. "Friends."

"Best, best, best, best—"

"I got it!" I laughed a little bit louder and he just smiled wider at me. "Best friends."

Monday morning I was bombarded by Alice. She might be small, but she sure is strong. I am sure I said that once but I just want to get a warning out to people. I wonder if she ever gets caught by the cops how they will take her down…

"Rose told me you were at her house this weekend. No worries I already told Bella and Angela. I just need the details." She spoke so fast that I had to separate each word in my mind.

"Whoa, there. Slow down." I told her as we made our way to my locker.

This time she spoke calmly and more slowly. "Tell me what happened."

"Nothing happened. I talked to Jacob too. I was just trying to make amends."

"With the two of them?" Alice shook her head in disbelief. "Honey, we have already tried that. It doesn't get us anywhere."

That distracted me. "You guys have tried?"

"Uh, duh." Alice giggled. "Felix tried it and Rayne nearly tore his head off. Jacob was just in denial."

"I don't know Felix…"

"Of course you don't. He graduated last year. He goes to West Virginia College."

"All the way across the country?" I gawked at her.

"Well, I guess. He said something about getting away from the high school drama." She shrugged her shoulders as she started handing me my books out the locker.

"So far away…" I couldn't even imagine going that far away from my friends and family.

"Don't look so sad, ducky." Alice patted my shoulder as we made our way to gym. "You wouldn't want to meet him anyways. Him and his friends are, like, total jerks."

"Who in this school isn't a jerk? Every guy here is cocky and full of himself." I said to her as she stared at me with wide eyes.

"I'm telling Jasper, Emmett and Edward!" Alice squealed as she took off down the hallway. Strong and fast. But damn!

"Alice! No!" I couldn't help but laugh as I ran after her. "I didn't mean them!"

"I don't care! I'm snitching!"

I laughed and kept running after her.

Gym class was brutal. Coach made us run around the entire gym about ten times. I believe I sighed up for gym class, not military boot camp. I asked Alice why we didn't have Health class and she said that they had Health class first semester and I almost broke out into tears. I missed the entire first semester, which meant I missed my only break in this school. I could probably fall asleep in that class. But Alice had told me I better be glad I missed Health class. They had to carry around a baby for two weeks. It cried, peed and did everything a real baby would do.

Jasper and Alice failed the baby test because the baby jumped out of a window by itself. Jasper told Alice he had the baby in its makeshift crib and he came back and the baby was in his mom's flower bed. But Alice believes that Jasper murdered the baby. I bet they won't be having kids for a very long time. Emmett and Rosalie, surprisingly, passed the baby test. Their baby had everything, according to Alice. Spoiled fake baby, Alice had mumbled to me. Rayne had a child with Lauren and he said that he gave the child to its real father. The trash can. That made me laugh out loud. I could actually picture him saying that.

Bella didn't get to have the baby because her father didn't sign the sex education permission slip. Well, according to Bella she never gave it to him. I sure did miss a lot of funny stuff the first semester. Now I wish I was here the entire time instead of getting here second semester.

Lunch rolled around quickly and everyone was laughing and eating their food. Jacob had surprised me by coming over to sit with us. No one threw a tantrum today and Rayne didn't even go out of his way to be an asshole to him. They were actually talking and that made everyone stare between the two boys with wide eyes. Edward didn't seem to notice a thing though. So oblivious to the things around him.

"Hey Renesmee." I turned around to see Mike Newton leaning, cockily, against our table.

"Yes?" I stared at him up and down, almost gagging at his attempt on trying to be sexy.

"The Heart's dance is coming up and I was wondering if you wanted to go with me."

The whole entire table was silent. Edward was glaring daggers at Newton and Bella was shaking her head. Rosalie was patting Emmett's arm because it looked like he wanted to jump across the table and punch Mike in the face. Rayne was looking down at his….meatloaf? Jacob was staring at me, anticipating my answer.

"Thanks, but, no thanks. Jessica doesn't have a date. Why don't you go ask her?"

Jessica and Mike belonged together. They both act the same and it would be funny to see them break up, get back together and do the same thing over again. But they did belong together. Both of them were selfish and they needed some love in their life. Call me Dr. Matchmaker.

Mike stared at me for a long minute before looking around at our table. His eyes seemed to settle on the guys expressions. His eyes narrowed as he took in Rayne's expression. He wasn't even looking at Mike and he seemed quite annoyed at that.

"Oh, hello, Rayne." Mike sat down, uninvited, next to Rayne. I scooted over just a little bit because I was sitting beside Rayne and Mike was a little too close to me.

"Mike." Rayne looked up at Mike with a leveled expression.

Jacob decided now was the time to say something. "What do you want Mike?"

Mike ignored Jacob. His focus was on Rayne. "Do you know what this weekend is?"

"Your time of the month?" Rayne didn't take his penetrating gaze off of Mike. Newton shrank back a bit, but held his ground.

"No. But I heard your mom is off this weekend. You should tell her to give me a call." He winked at him.

Rosalie growled from her spot. "That's my mother too you asshole!"

"Oh calm down, Blondie." Mike waved his hand dismissively towards Rose. "I'm talking about Rayne's real mom. I heard she does that, you know, considering she has a pimp and all."

How do people find out these things? Rayne didn't say anything. You could see his hands twitching like he was fighting the urge to slam Mike's head against the lunch table.

"Oh and…tell Seth hi for me." Mike stood up, turning to walk away but paused for a second. "Oh right, he's dead."

That hit the sore spot. I was already standing up before Rayne could even jump across the table. Emmett had, literally, jumped across the table to try and hold Jacob back. Jasper was helping me with Rayne. Alice, Bella and Rosalie were shouting after Mike as he walked back over his table, laughing. Before he left he told me to think about it. Think about what? Going to the Heart's Dance with him? Never in a million years.

Everything had almost calmed down, except for the fact that Rayne and Jacob were glaring over at Mike's table. It was taking my hand on Rayne's hand to keep him seated and Bella's hand on Jacob's hand to keep him in his seat. Emmett was yelling profanities across the table and Edward was confused so Alice and Jasper were catching him up on things.

"I have to go to the bathroom." Rayne stood up and walked away.

I sighed, slowly standing up. "I'll go—"

"No." Jacob scooted back, his chair scraping against the lunch room floor. "I'll go."

I stared at Jacob's back for the longest time. Was he really going to go talk to him? Well, I am happy and surprised at the same time. I can't believe they would actually listen to me. But it started to get me worried when they didn't come back. Lunch time was over and in AP Literature class Rayne wasn't in there. He usually rushes into the classroom late, but this time the door didn't open and a black haired kid didn't come rushing through the door.

"Do you think they are okay?" I whispered to Bella while Mrs. Harris was in the middle of her lecture.

"They are big boys. I am sure they are fine." She whispered back.

I took a deep breath. Yes, everything will be fine.

After school I went over to Jasper's house with everyone else. In front of his three story house there was a gravestone. I chuckled remembering the story that Alice had told me. Everyone was laying out in his den watching whatever was on TV. I still haven't see Rayne or Jacob and I was starting to grow worried. Rosalie said that she got a text from Rayne that said he was going for a drive. She told me that it meant he was thinking about stuff. What exactly did Jacob say to him?

Everything okay? –R

I sent that text while everyone was cuddled up together. I don't know which movie we were watching but I doubt anyone was paying attention.

Everything's fine. Why?

I sighed with relief when Jacob finally texted back.

You had me worried there. How'd it go? –R

I only had to wait about a second before he texted back.

I just went to calm him down, Ness. That's it Promise.

I stared at the smiley face for a long time. He was teasing me.

Hey! I was worried about you. The least you can say is 'I'm fine.' –R.

I couldn't help but smile as I sat there waiting for his text message.

Orrr, you could be a good little wife and wait for your husband to come home, give me a kiss and then we can cuddle on the couch watching chick flicks all night long ;)

Butterflies filled my stomach and I giggled. Alice shot me a curious glance and I just smiled slyly at her before texting back.

Where has my husband been, might I ask. -R

Teasing Jacob was fun and I was growing to like it…a lot.

Here and there. But, I have a question.

I bit my lip. That line I hate too. It just gives me the creeps because I am scared something bad might happen.

Shoot for it.

I hate it when you anticipate the question that is about to be asked. It would probably be easier if we were in person so that I could see his face. I smiled.

Go to the Heart's Dance with me?

I dropped my phone and covered my mouth. My hands were shaking and I couldn't breathe. Was he staring at me earlier because he was scared I might turn him down? Would I turn him down?

I typed yes and press sent.

I finally know what I want. I shouldn't have taken me this long to figure it out.

Jacob Black.