"How long have you been feuding already?"

"I don't know! 2 weeks? And we're not feuding, she's avoiding me, so I can't go talk to her even if I wanted to. Quil, pass me the wrench," I stuck my hand out, felt the wrench being dropped into my hand, and continued to whack the pieces of metal in front of me into place.

Embry snorted, "That sounds like feuding to me…"

"Just… corner her or something! Talk this out and get this over with!"

"And how do you suppose I do that?"

"She's at the beach now, y'know…" Embry took a noisy sip from the soda can.

"I seriously can't just walk up to her, 'Hey, I wanna sort things out,' can I?"

"Technically you can," Quil said coolly. "What happened to cough cough sputter sputter?"

I stopped the wrench in my hand. "I don't know… I think I… imprinted."

That was the line that completely caught their attention, wherever it might have been.

"Dude, are you serious?!"

"Well she had been wearing contacts. The other day one of them fell out and it was like 'whoosh' and my mind was blank. All I could think about after that was comforting her 'cos she was crying her eyes out."

"…that sounds like it. Have you told Billy?" Quil asked.

"No! I'm not even sure if she's the one. I mean, I'm a guy, and she's really, really hot. I might have just kissed her thanks to my raging hormones…"

"Well, it doesn't seem like that bad a thing, since you've finally stopped moping over you-know-who…" Embry kicked at the tire of my car.

"Shut up."

"Gosh, just go ask her out! She's hot, that is enough of a reason for any guy to ask a girl out. Maybe you did imprint on her, you haven't seen both her eyes, right?"

"How the hell am I supposed to do that when she is running away every time I walk into the same room? Quil you are stupid. And I so do not like her because she's hot."

I could just imagine Quil rolling his eyes, "Just go and ask; shout, yell, kidnap her."

Really, I don't know how I got talked into it.

I slouched down to the beach. I saw her clothes lying on a piece of driftwood. Her scent was almost unnoticeable, but there was a figure standing on the small cliff nearby, ready to jump. My muscles tightened. This was not a day to be cliff-diving. The sky was a steely gray, with dark clouds rumbling just slightly off the coast.

She jumped, her hair whipping around her in the wind, her body forming an elegant curve and then straightening out as she hit the water head first. I jogged to the water's edge, and breathed a sigh of relief as I saw her head bobbing slowly towards shore. Her eyes hardened as she saw me, but there was no way she could swim back into the sea just to avoid me.

Oh. So this was what Quil meant…

She rose out of the water, slowly, combing her hair back out of her face. She had on a scuba diving top, hugging her curves perfectly, and a bikini bottom which showed off her legs. I swallowed hard and tried to ignore the sudden pounding in my head.

Her eyes were cold now, her face blank as she walked past me to where her towel was.

"Um, wait!"

She either did not hear me, or she was ignoring me. I went with the latter. I turned and went after her, catching her by her elbow, tightening my grip as she tried to break free.

"Let. Me. Go."

"Come on, please, just listen for a moment, will ya?"

"Fine," She spun around, flicking seawater from her face onto mine. "What?"

"Will you… go out with me?"

That was the stupidest thing you just asked. Real smooth Jake, real smooth…

She looked at me incredulously, and barked, "Are you STUPID?!" Her green eyes were flaming with anger and irritation now, but somehow the wave that I had expected never came. Instead, a surge of words went tumbling out of my mouth before I knew it.

"Look, I really have no idea what I did to piss you off so much, but all I know now is that you've been completely dominating my mind since that day we kissed, and it's driving me nuts to see you so angry at me for reasons yet unknown. You must be like, the hottest girl in school now or something, and I can't believe it myself either, that I Bella just floated out of my mind replaced by your—"

There was a sudden stinging pain on my left cheek. Natasha had her right hand raised, the anger in her eyes suddenly replaced by hurt. Wait. This was not making sense.

"What the hell was that for?"

"See! This is exactly why I'm so mad at you! For these freaking long years I've met countless guys who have told me they're in love with me and I was their everything, and I thought you were different, Jake, I felt that you were different!"

"Eh?"

"Oh my god! How dense are you?!" She broke free of my grasp and stood in front of me, waving her hands in front of her body. "You're just same as the rest of the hormonally crazed males out there! You know what?! One day this body would be gone! What have you left to like about a girl then? At least in the past they looked for girls with ability, but now? I can't believe you're so shallow!"

"What?! You're getting mad at me because I think you're hot?"

"No! I'm getting mad at you for liking me because you think I'm hot! Can't you find anything else that you can truthfully tell me that you like about me? Name me anything, Jake, anything, and I'll reconsider you as a person. Argh!" She threw her hands up in the air in defeat and started walking around in circles. "I can't believe I thought that you were decent, Jake; I can't believe I thought you might be different from all the other guys who were around me; I can't believe I fell for some guy like you!"

"Wait. What?" I swear she just confessed.

She covered her mouth and then slapped herself across the face, "I'm waterlogged. Ignore the last line. Gosh, just… leave me alone, please. Until you can think of something else that you can say you like about me, leave me fucking alone!"

"Whoa, she really said all that?"

I returned to the house to find Quil and Embry settling themselves down comfortably on my couch. My entrance was of no surprise to them; they looked up, sighed, and let me rant it all out. Very clearly, a certain young lady had already made her way into the house.

"She must be… the first girl—possibly the only girl—I know, that has gotten mad at someone for telling her that she was hot," Embry said, propping one leg up on the coffee table.

"But then, if you think about it, she has met decades of dirty-minded old fools who drooled after her. Usually this kind of women would be showing off their bodies. Natasha's different…" Quil sighed. "You've got yourself a good girl, Jake, it's now all up to you and your ability to convince her."

At that moment, Billy wheeled himself into the room.

"Jake, I just got a call from Charlie. It's Bella…"

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AN: *Bows* Hontou ni, gomen minna! I know I have been MIA for a while, I was kind of busy watching J-Dramas since it's the holidays now. I'll try to update more now Thanks for the reviews everyone!