I was about to fall asleep at the cash register at Newton's store. I had a total of two customers in my four hours of working today. Luckily, the boy I was most wanting to see came through the doors at just the right time. "Veggie sub!" Jacob called out lifting up a white paper bag up when he walked through the glass entrance doors.
"No way! You're a life saver!" I exclaimed as he walked up to the cash register.
"Who said I got this for you? I was just telling you I got a veggie sub!" He grinned.
"Not in a million years would you order a veggie sub Jacob Black!" I snatched the bag away from him.
He rolled his eyes, "You know me too well."
There was only one sandwich in the bag. "Umm, is this really yours?" I asked.
"No, I ate mine on the way here. I couldn't wait, I was hungry."
"But the sub shop is just down the street! Not even a minute walk!" There was no way Jacob could have eaten a sub in that amount of time.
"It was a foot-long actually." He smiled.
"You're like a human garbage compactor!" My eyes widened. He let out a huge burp. "Eww salami really Jake?" I laughed and pinched my nose acting like I was disgusted with him.
He rolled his eyes again. "Yeah thanks Jake for buying me food and visiting me at work when I'm terribly bored!" He said bitterly.
I smiled and reached over the counter and messed with his hair. "Thank you Jacob for buying me lunch and visiting me while I'm deathly bored at work. C'mon let's go to the back of the store so no one will see me eating in the window."
We sat against the tackle box isle and chatted while I ate. "I'm going with the guys camping for a week." Jacob stated out of the blue.
"Really when?" That sucked, no Jacob for a week? Just when I thought I had him back...
"Ummm...In a few hours actually. We're just going to the Olympic National Park peninsula area. It should be fun." Jacob tried to smile but it seemed like he didn't want to go. Must be one of Sam's orders.
"Oh, yeah." My face fell a little, Jacob must have noticed.
"When I get back Sunday do you want to go on a picnic or something?" He asked nervously.
"Picnic? Where did that come from?" I scrunched my face.
Jacob ran his fingers through his hair and scratched his head. "Well...It's what I was going to do that one time I told you I was going to take you somewhere...but didn't." His face mimicked mine.
"Oh...Okay." My heart fluttered for a moment. Jacob was going to take me on a picnic! Was this going to be it?
"Do you? You don't seem too much into the idea." Jacob was second guessing himself on this one.
I immediately responded "Yes of course I do! I just wasn't expecting...a picnic. But I do want to go. Can I make something to eat?"
"Yes but I'm going to make the main dish, k?" He smiled.
"Okay I'll make the side." We had a deal.
"I'll call you this week, k? I gotta go back and pack." Jacob stood up, I followed.
"Alright, well...Have fun." I stuck my arms out, welcoming an awkward hug. There wasn't anything awkward in Jacob's hug. Of course he didn't hold anything back, he never does. Jacob had me in his signature arm lock and pushing me backwards towards the front of the store.
"Will you think of me while I'm gone?" He whispered in my ear still embracing me. What??? He really didn't hold back his feelings for me. Maybe I shouldn't either.
"Mmm, maybe, a little." I whispered back, you could hear the smile in my tone.
"Just a little eh?" He didn't let up.
"I'm going to think about you so much I won't be able to sleep at night!" I said sarcastically.
He whispered back "I won't be able to either." There was no tone of joking in his voice.
He let go of me and smiled when he noticed the necklace I still had on. He reached out and cupped the trinket in his hand and then let if fall back to my neck.
"See you're not really going to be gone, I have you here with me all the time." I said cheerfully motioning to the wooden wolf hanging on my neck.
His eyes grew wide and his smile was quickly replaced with a look of slight horror. He didn't respond. Did I say something wrong? Did I go too far? I didn't think so, he was being more flirty than I was. I suddenly became insecure of myself and turned around and walked away. Jacob sure knows how to make a girl feel bad.
"I'll see you Sunday." Jacob called out to me with a weird undertone.
I didn't respond as I opened up the "Employees Only" door and went to the restroom to see how beat red I was from our awkward goodbye.
The week went by terribly slow. It was only Thursday I pondered to myself in Chemistry class. "Hey Mike did you see that sweet black Mercedes driving out of town when you were following me back last night? Dude, that thing had to have been brand new I haven't seen one of those ever!" Tyler Crowly said as he followed Mike to the back of the class.
"Yeah dude I about started drooling when I spotted it! AND it was a girl driving it! That's like one of my dreams right there man! But the driver kind of looked like one of the Cullens haha!" Mike replied as he was taking his seat. My eyes lit up and I spun around in my seat. Mike was staring back at me like he just did something wrong. "I mean...I don't think it was. I didn't get a good look, ya know?" He stuttered.
I stood up and walked over to him, "Which one?" I demanded.
"Umm...Alice. Yeah it looked like Alice." Mike tried not to look me in the eyes.
I turned around and grabbed my books and practically ran out of the room. Were they back? Nothing was going to stand in my way of know, I was going to find out.
I skipped the rest of the day of school and my truck trudged up the long driveway of the Cullens house. I hadn't been here since...
My heart felt like it was going to explode as I got out of the truck but I wouldn't let it stop me. I marched up the steps of the house and found the car port empty. That didn't matter they could still be inside. I knocked and no one came. I tried the door. Of course it would be locked. I went around the house and tried other doors. All locked. Then I tried a window on the garage and it was loose and opened. I climbed through without hurting myself. No cars were there. No signs of them ever living there at all. The garage was connected to the house though. I ran up to the door and it was unlocked. It took me a second to actually enter but I did. I stood inside the kitchen looking around in the dark empty house.
"Hello?" I called out sheepishly. No reply. I took a few steps in and looked around. The furniture was gone and things were covered in white sheets. The huge grandfather clock was covered in dust. I felt like a crazy woman now breaking and entering an abandoned house looking for vampires. That didn't stop me from going upstairs. "Alice?" I called out. Again, nothing. All the doors were closed except for the one I spent the most time in. Edward's. I felt like I was going to pass out that my heart would beat out of my chest. I went in anyways. The room was bear. I shut the door behind me and went over to the glass wall and peered out to the vast forest beneath me. I went to the corner of his room and sat down curling my legs into me and hugging myself tight. I looked around the room imagining the couch, the journals, his basic set up of his room. I imagined us sitting ons his couch together going through music and being music critics together. I could see my old life with him. "Why?" I asked out loud and sunk my head into my hands.
It was 5 o'clock when I came home. I hope Charlie didn't get a call from the school. Could I be that lucky? I trudged in kicking off my shoes. "Jake called about thirty minutes ago. He said he would call you back Saturday." Charlie rounded the corner with a sandwich in hand.
"Oh no! I missed it!" I wanted to kick myself. While I was out pouting and searching for non-existent vampires I more or less missed out on real life.
"He said he'll call you on Saturday!" Charlie just didn't understand girls.
I huffed and went up to my room I layed back on my bed and sighed, Sunday couldn't come fast enough.