Jake's POV

Emma giggles as I gently tickle her stomach.

"J-jake stop" she manages to get out between giggles. I grin and kiss her cheek once before blowing raspberries on her neck. This causes her to laugh harder and she gently tries pushing me away. We're in her ship and I have her backed against the old table where she'd shown me my grandpa's old map. We'd asked miss Peregrine if we could skip the daily walk so we could talk in private. She'd allowed us and made us promise to be home by supper time, and we'd quickly agreed. We came straight here and Emma had teased me, saying that I look cute when I blush. And I had responded by chasing her to the table and wrapping my arms around her before kissing her senseless, that is what lead to us being in this situation.

"You look adorable when you blush" I say playfully before kissing her on the nose. She grins and I pick her up and hold her against me. She wraps her legs around my waist and I carefully make it so she's sitting on the table.

"I love you"quicklyys lovingly. I lean in and lightly kiss her on the lips, she kisses me back immediately and we stay like this for what feels like forever. We break our kiss and we're both panting hard and clinging to each other.

"I love you too Emma" I say breathlessly. Her eyes light up and she hugs me. I hold her close and just enjoy the feeling of having her in my arms.

"Jake will you really stay with me forever?" she asks hopefully. I take her hand and put it over my heart. My heart flutters underneath her touch and I smile at her.

"Do you feel that? That's my heart beating for you, it belongs to you now and it always will" I promise. She uses her free hand to pull my head towards hers and crushes our lips together. I kiss her back eagerly and she tangles her fingers in my hair at the back of my neck.

"We should go love, we don't want to be late for supper" I gasp out after we break the kiss. She nods reluctantly and unwraps her legs from my waist. I let her go and back up to give her room to stand up. I smile at her and we make our way out of the ship.

We walk up the steps of the house and go into the dining room. Miss Peregrine is just finishing setting up the table and looks up after hearing us enter the room. She smiles at us when she sees our joined hands.

"Right on time" she says happily. We quickly sit in our seats as miss Peregrine calls everyone else down for supper. Soon we're all filling our plates and chatting happily when Enoch speaks up.

"So Jake when are you planning on breaking Emma's heart?" he asks me curiously.

"Enoch that is n-" miss Peregrine begins to say.

"No miss Peregrine it's fine, I'll handle this" I say calmly before turning to look at Enoch.

"Look Enoch I understand that you don't like me, but I love Emma and no matter what you think I'm not going anywhere. You don't have to like it but you're just going to have get used to me" I say firmly. His eyes widen and I notice that everyone else's eyes were wide too. Emma is the first one to relax and she turns and smiles at me. I smile back at her slightly and one by one we all begin to eat again.

"Jake what is your favorite color?" Olive asks me curiously.

"Green and blue, why?" I ask her.

"I just think it would be nice if we got to know you better.

"I just think it would be nice if we got to know you better" Enoch mocks.

"Honestly Olive grow up, I get it you fancy him but Uncle Sam over their already has Emma" he scoffs.

"Enoch I don't-" Olive starts to explain before getting cut off.

"Oh come off it Olive, when are you finally going to grow out of those stupid fantasies? Love is stupid and I pity anyone who thinks otherwise" He says annoyed. I look at Olive and see that she's about ready to burst into tears.

"Enoch maybe you should sto-"I begin to say.

"Shut it Portman. Love is useless, it only holds you back and she should know that by now. But she continues to be a naive little girl believing that one day her prince charming will come and sweep her off her feet, it's not gonna happen" he says hotly. Olive sobs and gets up from her seat and runs from the room.

"That is enough!" I snap. I stand up and march over to his seat. I stand him up and pin him against the wall, and everyone goes silent.

"How could you treat your best friend, the only one in this house you've ever been close to might I add, that way? All I've seen you do since I got her is push her around or push her away from you. And why? Because she cares about you, maybe even loves you" I say angrily. He opens his mouth to say something but I stop him.

"Honestly, you don't even realize how lucky you are to have a girl like her. Where I'm from there are not many girls that would be so loyal as Olive is to you. I may be dating Emma now but I do care about Olive like I would a sister, which technically she is. And I swear to god that if you ever hurt her like that again, I will make you pay" I growl before shoving him and going out of the room. I see that the front door is open slightly and quickly go outside, hoping to catch up to Olive before she does something she'll regret. I walk to the backyard and hear sobs coming from behind the dino shaped bush. I walk around it and see olive curled up, crying into her knees.

I sit next to her and don't say anything, waiting for her to make the first move. After a few minutes she looks over at me and I see that she's in tears.

"I'm sorry I-" she starts to say.

"No. Don't apologize, there's nothing for you to be sorry for, Enoch's the one that screwed up not you" I say comfortingly.

"I can forgive how cold he is, I can forgive how mean he can be, it's just that-" she cuts herself off with a sob.

"You love him" I say understandingly. She nods slowly and buries her face into my shoulder. I rub her back and prepare for the upcoming heart to heart.