It had to come some time or another... not everything can be roses and peaches and cream :(

A/N: More steamy lemony goodness is coming your way… however, please, for the love all that is good, don't get angry with me in this chapter… I'm super cereal… also… SM owns everything, except my bowl of Captain Crunch

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BellaPOV

The weeks seemed to fly by as Jacob and I settled down into a routine. At the first sign of Billy snoring, I raced to Jake's arms and it felt like my world was perfect. He'd kiss me on the forehead and tell me how much he loved me and needed me. I felt like this could go on forever.

The days at school dragged on as always, but before I even realized it, spring break arrived. Jake and I were lucky enough that our spring breaks coincided and I was looking forward to spending an entire week with him. It also made me realize that we would be stuck at home with Billy all week - something I didn't know if I could handle or not.

After school each Monday, I would wait for Jacob to pick me up and we'd head out to the docks together and talk to my dad. I loved Jacob more each time for talking right along with me. He had even asked Charlie's permission to be my boyfriend. It was an odd thing, though. Right after he asked, a butterfly landed on Jacob's knee and we took that as a sign that Charlie would have loved our relationship.

After school let out on Friday, Angela drove me home and my vacation began. As soon as I pulled into the driveway, I saw that Jake was already home. I'm not sure why I was surprised, I guess I had forgotten that his school day let out earlier than mine. Sam and Quil were in the yard with him and they were wrestling and play fighting. A while back, this would have driven me crazy and turned me off in a major way. However, watching them wrestle showed how strong Jacob really was. His muscles tightened each time he lunged for Sam and I caught myself staring at him as the three of them played.

Billy sat on the porch laughing at each swing they took at each other. Jacob got up off the ground after Sam knocked him down. Jacob quickly realized that I was looking in his direction; he smiled at me and I laughed. He looked so embarrassed that I saw him fall and brushed himself off, quickly lunging back at Sam. Sam hit the ground pretty hard and I was sure Jacob had hurt him. Jacob got up, dusted himself off, and looked back at me and smiled again. I felt like he was trying to prove to me that he could handle his own.

I looked down at Sam and his facial expression showed utter confusion about the exchange between Jacob and me. I felt like we were being very discrete - but Sam seemed to notice Jacob and I smiling at each other. Quil diffused the situation by knocking Jacob down. I headed inside before Jake and I had a chance to slip up in front of Sam again.

I passed Billy on the way, and he smiled at me and said,

"Well, what are your plans for spring break? I know you guys must have something planned."

"Oh you mean Jacob and me? I haven't even talked to him about it, to be honest. I know that Sue said she wouldn't mind us coming over one day this week - but as far as plans, we don't have any. I may go to Angela's some time soon."

Billy assumed we would do something together and this worried me a bit. I then realized that we were spending a good bit of our time with each other. I worried that Billy had noticed the difference.

"Well, I'm glad you two are getting along better. I've noticed that you've held up your end of the bargain. Thanks for doing so," Billy said.

I quickly went into the house and dumped my books on my bed. I could hear Jacob and the boys talking outside. I put on my iPod and began to read. I wanted so badly to join them outside, but Sam had obviously picked up on the silent exchange between Jacob and I, so I couldn't risk it. I sat alone in my room until sundown when Billy called us in for dinner.

I sat at the table, not saying a single word, while Billy and Jacob discussed a spring festival that the reservation was planning to have the next Saturday. I picked at my food and Jacob noticed that I wasn't myself. When Billy left the table to put his dish in the sink, Jacob mouthed the words, "Are you ok?" to me and I nodded yes. He looked at me as though he didn't believe me and I knew a conversation would take place later on that night about what bugged me.

We patiently waited for Billy to go to bed and I tip-toed my way back into Jake's arms. He just let me lay on him for a while before he brought up the subject of what was bothering me.

"Don't you realize by now that I always know if something's bothering you?" he said.

"Of course I do, but I think I'm just still worried about things. Sam seemed to take notice of the exchange that you and I made today and I'm just worried that he'll put it all together. He would go tell Billy, you know he would."

Jacob let out a sigh. "Bella, if you spent half as much time kissing me as you did worrying, I think the both of us would be a lot happier."

I giggled and lifted my head. I reached over and kissed him softly on the lips and said, "We need some more alone time. It's been entirely too long since, well, you know."

Jacob smiled at me with a goofy grin and said, "Well, you know, one day this week Dad is going fishing with Harry early in the morning. I could always sneak in and start a big cuddle session with you again."

I giggled. He squeezed me harder and said, "I love to hear you laugh."

We lay on the couch together for hours just laughing and giggling. We kept a close ear out for Billy's snoring and we almost fell asleep with each other. I caught myself and sat up with Jacob. He rubbed his eyes and yawned. He kissed me goodnight and I wandered back into the bedroom and crashed on the bed, ready for my spring break to begin.

JacobPOV

I really hadn't noticed Sam paying attention to Bella and me. But, if it worried Bella that much, I'd be more careful with the exchanges we made around him. Quil had apparently been a life saver, and I would have to thank him later for breaking Sam's concentration on us.

I woke up the next morning to the sun coming through the window. I was in shock at the sight of the sunlight, but felt it was a great way to begin our vacation. My Dad was up already and cooking breakfast in the kitchen. Bella was still sound asleep and I was not in the mood to wake her. I wanted her to sleep, especially since she deserved the rest.

Dad and I ate breakfast together and talked about plans for the week. He expressed how happy he was that Bella and I were getting along, and said that he appreciated the quieter atmosphere around here lately. I just smiled and nodded at him the entire time.

Bella finally emerged from her bedroom around ten that morning. She was dressed in flannel PJs and her hair was a mess. She looked like she had been hibernating all winter and had just come out to eat something. She yawned and stretched as she walked into the kitchen. She had never looked more beautiful.

Billy left for town with Harry to pick up fishing supplies a little later. Bella and I knew we would only have a couple of hours of alone time. I would have thought it the perfect opportunity to spend some "quality" alone time with her, but the fear of getting caught stopped the advancement.

She walked straight up to me and put her head on my chest and held me close to her. I responded and put my arms around her too and held her there. Her hair was all in tangles down her back. She was so damn cute.

She lifted her head up and said, "Good morning, I missed you."

I kissed her on the head. "I missed you too. Sleep well?"

"Can't you tell?"

I laughed. She knew how she looked, but it was great that she was so comfortable around me and not have to worry about how she looked all the time. Before Bella, I briefly had a girlfriend that was always concerned about her looks around me. She spent the majority of our time together staring in a mirror adjusting her hair or makeup. With Bella, she was so naturally beautiful - I'd never seen her have a moment of vanity.

"I'm hungry," she said.

She pulled away from me to make a bowl of cereal. She reached for the box, but it was too high for her to reach. I walked over and grabbed it off the top shelf easily, bringing it down toward the counter. She was pinned between me and the counter tops. I put the cereal down, and she had nowhere to go.

I looked down at her innocent face and kissed her forehead. She wrapped her arms around my neck, pulled my face down to hers, and kissed me passionately. She reached her hands to my side and slid my shirt off my chest.

I hoped and prayed that Billy would stay out longer. Thank God he was with Harry, who drove a truck I could hear coming down the road.

I picked her up and sat her down on the counter top and I stood between her legs. She wrapped them around me and pulled me closer to her. She fumbled with the button on my jean for a second until she had them completely undone. She pushed my pants down around my ankles and I pulled her PJ bottoms off her, lifting her up on to the countertop.

She wrapped her legs around me, kissing each and every single square inch of my chest. Her hands rubbed my back and then she reached around to the front and grabbed my hardness and started to stroke it while kissing me with so much force I just knew she was going to draw blood from my lips.

I moaned into her mouth each time she moved her hand. She then pulled it straight to her wetness. She stopped kissing me long enough to stare me straight in the eye.

I knew what she wanted -and I was more than willing to give it to her.

I entered her slowly and her back arched away from me and she threw her head back moaning as I did.

Each time I entered her, she would shake with such delight that I couldn't stand it. My baby loved making love to me and the fact that she initiated it made me feel so much better about us. I was worried I would come off as the horn-dog who wanted it all the time.

I wanted so bad to finish inside of her, but I didn't want to take the chance. Before I could say anything, Bella pushed me back a bit, jumped off the countertop, and dropped to her knees. She took me into her mouth and I couldn't believe what I was witnessing. She handled me like the most delicate object ever, and her soft lips felt so good against me. It didn't take any time before I was ready to explode.

She looked up at me with her gorgeous brown eyes and that ended it for me. I let loose and she moaned as I did. She stood up and kissed me on the cheek and held me close to her.

She was giggling again and then she whispered, "Finally, some alone time."

I reached down for my pants and got them pulled back up and Bella put her PJ bottoms back up. I glanced at the box of cereal and said, "So are you going to eat or what?"

She pulled a bowl from the cabinet and sat it down on the counter top. I noticed she was eating a box of Captain Crunch and I always thought she didn't like that cereal. She said it was for little kids.

I picked up the box and looked her and said, "Captain Crunch? I thought you hated this."

She laughed before she stuck a spoonful of cereal in her mouth, "Well I wasn't going to eat this kind, but it kind of sparked my interest."

"And why is that?"

"Well, as the saying goes, you and the captain make it happen."

BellaPOV

I finished my breakfast and took a long hot shower. Jacob sat in the living room waiting on me. We decided to trek down to the beach today and spend some time together. I was worried what Billy would think but this wasn't a uncommon occurrence for Jacob and I.

We left Billy a note letting him know that we would be down at the beach and would be back before nightfall. Jacob and I were going to look for sand crabs. We figured we'd take anything else we could get our hands on - especially each other.

I put on my boots, Jake put on his sneakers and we were off on our little trip. As we walked on the beach Jacob asked me the strangest question.

"What was your first reaction to Edward Cullen?"

I looked at him, confused as to why he would bring this up.

"Well, I'll be honest with you Jake, and don't get angry - but he is attractive. But in comparison to you...well, you have him beat by a long shot."

Jake smiled. He wasn't expecting me to be honest, but the fact that I told him he was better looking straightened his ego out.

"Besides Jake, Edward didn't have mind blowing morning sex again with me. I'm in love with you, and always will be. No one can change that for me."

He grabbed my hand and we walked further down the beach. I felt like Jake was beginning to become scared I would leave him for someone else. He had no reason to every think that. Jacob was my life and I couldn't lose him ever.

I watched as the birds flew down out of the sky and hit the water looking for fish and other creatures to eat. The afternoon seemed to pass by so quickly as Jacob and I walked and discussed our plans for the future. We both are in the agreement that I'll hang out around Forks until he graduated and I would attend a community college until he was ready to go to a university.

We stopped just under this beautiful tree where the trail led back up to the house and he took my face into his hands and said, "From this point on, wherever you go, I'll go. And if anything should happen that I have to leave, I want you there with me."

He reached down to kiss me and I felt so grateful to have him.

BillyPOV

Life for Bella Swan was so hard for me to comprehend. I knew that I'd lost my wife and had to raise my three kids on my own - but Bella had no one left on this earth except Jacob and me. I have always considered Bella to be like my adopted daughter, and the day that Charlie died, I wanted nothing but to help her. When the state came to take her away from us, I fought tooth and nail to keep her; and that had been almost as hard as losing Charlie all over again. I was glad that they allowed her to stay.

When Bella started to withdraw from everyone and began arguing with Jacob, I began to question my ability to keep her in the house. I had considered sending her to live with Rebecca -I thought that maybe another female influence would help her. I'd even thought of sending Jacob to live there, but I would miss him too much. Jacob was my right hand man -the things that I couldn't do because of my limitations, I knew I could count on my son to do for me.

After the accident, I hated having to rely on others to help me; but even as a young boy, Jacob would volunteer to help me with whatever needed to be done. He'd never once complained to me about our situation and never really complained about Bella either. He'd always taken it in stride and shrug his shoulders when she would go off on him.

If the situation were different, I would have loved for Bella and Jacob to have worked out. Right before Charlie died, we noticed the two of them becoming closer and we were elated. It is such a shame that they can't seem to get along all the time now.

Another issue plaguing the ability for them to even consider dating is that I won't allow it under my roof. After what happened between Rebecca and me, when her boyfriend moved in with us, I've decided to not allow relationships to develop under my roof. I hated that I couldn't allow this - but I didn't want to create another problem like that.

When I got home that afternoon, I noticed that Jacob and Bella were nowhere to be found. I began to wonder where they went until I saw a note on the counter saying they were on the beach. I smiled and realized that they were having a good day and was again appreciative of Bella holding up her end of the deal. She promised to get along, and I was glad that she was truly putting forth the effort.

I went out to the porch to wait on them to return when Sam pulled up into the yard. He walked up to the porch where I sat.

"Afternoon Billy, have you seen Jacob around? I wanted to see if he could ride with me to Port Angeles tomorrow to get some things I need for my truck."

"Actually, Sam, him and Bella are out on the beach. You could walk out there if you'd like and see if you can catch up with them."

"Thanks, hey, by the way, have you noticed something odd between the two of them?"

"No actually I haven't. The only thing that seems to have changed is Bella seems nicer."

Sam shook his head and said, "That's what I mean. Did you hear what Jacob did to me about a month or so ago at school?"

"Yeah, I heard the two of you got into it at school, but I still don't know why. Jacob wouldn't tell me."

"He hit me, square in the nose. He got angry when I started talking bad about Bella to him. He laid me out flat in the parking lot of the school and then left."

I was in shock. I knew Jacob hated it when they picked on him about Bella, but he would normally only talk crap right back to them.

"Goodness, Sam, I wonder what came over him that day."

As Sam walked to the trail, he yelled back, "If you ask me Billy, I think Jake has a crush on Bella."

JacobPOV

I stood under the tree kissing my Bella and all was right with the world. The sun stayed out all day today, and I felt so much happier than I'd ever felt. She kept smiling at me after each kiss and then said,

"So why me, Jake? What makes me the lucky girl that gets your attention and love?"

I pulled a leaf off the tree that hung over us and said,

"Because, have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately? You are not only the most gorgeous girl in Forks, United States, hell, the universe, but you are so kind and caring... when you aren't yelling at me."

She blushed. "Well, I still feel bad for all the times I yelled. I can't believe I was such a bitch to you all this time. If it takes me forever, I'll make it up to you I swear."

"No worries. I feel as though you've already made it up to me."

I leaned down and kissed her softly on the lips. I opened my eyes briefly to see Sam standing on the trail looking down at us with disgust on his face.

He turned and ran back up the trail. Before I could get to him, he was already on the porch with my Dad.

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A/N: I know what you are thinking, HOW DARE YOU! Keep in mind that in fantasy world, not everything goes according to plan… Big huge thanks to CandyP for the excellent proof job she always does… Now… keep reading to see what Billy does…. I also had a question as to how old Jacob and Bella are… they are still almost two years apart, Jacob just turned 16 before Charlie died, and Bella is 17.. and as we all know, Bella's birthday is in September... they are behind by a school year between the two of them...