Bella's POV
After Jacob and I rang in the New Year with a long and passionate kiss we decided to head back to his house even though most of his friends were going to the bonfire. It was just too cold for me. I wanted to spend some time cuddled up on the couch with Jacob. I was spending the whole night. Charlie had insisted I do so because it would be late, and I might drink. I didn't argue, I wasn't going to win. And it's not like I didn't want to spend the night at Jacob's, I was just kind of surprised that Charlie wanted me t stay. So as Jacob and I started to say our goodbyes to his friends, Embry came up and pulled Jacob aside for a few moments. I saw Embry give Jake something, laughing the whole time. Jacob scowled at him, punched Embry playfully in the shoulder, and put whatever it was in his pocket. We finished up our goodbyes and headed off. It wasn't a far walk and soon we were back in Jake's warm house. He took my jacket and his and hung them up. I sat down on the couch and he joined me and we curled up together. We talked a little, but we both were tired and a little drunk so we were starting to doze off. But then I remembered his incident with Embry.
"Hey Jake? What did Embry give you that made you scowl at him?"
"Oh, uh, you saw that." Jake sounded kind of nervous, like he didn't want to tell me. I turned so I could see his face.
"Yeah I saw that. What was it?"
He sighed "Okay you have to remember that Embry has a one track mind and he thinks that everybody has the same one track mind." I nodded and waited for him to continue. He gulped "He gave me a box of condoms. Because he thinks that you spending the night means that we are going to have sex."
My jaw dropped. I mean I shouldn't really be surprised, But still I had no intention to sleep with Jacob just yet. "Oh." Was all I could manage to whisper out.
"Yeah Bella I'm sorry, Embry can be an ass. I tried explaining to him that sex wasn't going to happen any time soon, but well he won't listen." I nodded. Jake didn't say anything else and I decided to let the subject drop for right now. I honestly hadn't thought about having sex. Okay that wasn't entirely true, I mean I hadn't had sex since the day I told Edward I was pregnant, and that was over three years ago. So yes, I thought about sex, but what I ready to have sex? I thought about this for a minute. Yes, Jake and I had just started dating, but what did that matter. I was falling in love with this man. And I was ready to be with this man. Now to tell him.
Jake snapped me out of my thoughts by jumping up suddenly "Oh I forgot to show you what I've been doing in my spare room. Come on." He grabbed my hand and led me down the hall way to the room that he used as an office/guest room. I was amazed when I walked inside. The last time I was in this room there was an old computer desk a chair and an old beat up futon. Now this room really looked like a guest room. There was full size bed in the far corner with a little white bedside dresser. There was a bookshelf off to one side and all of Elizabeth's toys were in bins in and around the bookshelf. And there was a little kiddy table in the middle of the room with two matching chairs.
"I have a laptop now so I didn't really need a desk anymore, and I moved my printer into my bedroom, since I do most of my work in there anyway. And I thought I would set up a nice safe place for Elizabeth to play, and if need be nap, when you guys came to visit. The bed and table were mine, dad didn't need the anymore so I brought them over here and fixed them up. What do you think"
I was speechless. I had to keep myself from crying. It was the nicest thing anyone had ever done for Elizabeth. Jacob was just so caring. I was so lucky. I composed myself and then started to speak "It's really lovely Jake, thank you." And I leaned up to plant a kiss on his lips. The kiss deepened and he scooped me up into his arms and carried me into his bed room and laid me down on his king size bed. I froze and looked up at him. He smiled down at me. "Relax hunny, we're not gonna do anything if you don't want to, I'm just tired and the couch was kind of cramped. This way we can lie down and hold each other and not have to worry about rolling off the couch if we fall asleep. I'm going to go change, your bags are already in here, and I'll knock before I come back in." He winked at me and was gone. I sat there for a moment, blinking. I got up and got changed quickly. He knocked on the door a second later. "Come in" It was barely above a whisper. He had on a sleeveless under shirt and Navy blue sweat pants with the word NAVY running up each leg. It was then that I noticed the tribal tattoo that looked like a wolf at the top of his right arm. Oh God I thought to myself, he gets hotter by the second. I gave him a kiss as he climbed into bed and I headed to the bathroom. Before I left the bathroom I splashed some cold water on my face and looked at myself in the mirror. I was trying to calm myself down. After a few minutes I was ready to go. The lights were off when I got back in the room, I stumbled my way to the bed and crawled in. Warm arms wrapped around me and pulled me further into the bed. Jake held me close to his body, and began to kiss me. First he kissed my forehead and worked down to my mouth. He pressed his lips against mine, his tongue begging for entry into my mouth. I opened my mouth slightly. Our tongues rubbed together. I wrapped my arms around his neck and slipped on hand into his hair. His hands, which had been on my waist began to wander. One moved up to hold my neck, the other was at the small of my back. Our bodies pushed against each other. Before I knew what had happened, I was on my back, Jake hovering above me propped up on his elbows, still kissing me. I wrapped my arms around his neck, and then I surprised myself when I wrapped my legs around his waist pulling him against my center. This caused Jacob to moan against my mouth and pull away. Even in the dark I could see that he was giving me a questioning look. I smiled up at him and stroked his cheek, and then pulling his head down so I could whisper in his ear I said "I think you should go get the box that Embry gave you." And I winked at him.
OH MY GOD I KNOW! Or do I? What's gonna happen? Will Jake stop her? Will they make love? Stay tuned to find out! And now I'm off to bed so the muses can tell me what to write for the next chapter that I will start on in the morning. I know I hate cliff hangers too.
