One Year, Six Months Later
The rain lightly sprinkled down upon my shoulders as the motor of my dirty growled while running over thick mud, turning sharp corners on the dirt road and going over rocks. I glanced up at the sky, hearing a crack of thunder going over my head before a snake of lightning opened the sky as far as my eyes could see.
I stopped my bike and cut its engine, looking around myself, I thought, where has she gone now? "Luca? Where are you?" I shouted and then started to hear her motorbike's engine coming up behind me fast.
I looked over my shoulder to see her little blue dirt bike racing through the forest, past trees and rocks as it ran over a mossy log, jumping mid-air over top of me and did a flip on the bike before landing safety ten feet in front of my bike. I looked at her with both shocked and impressed eyes through my helmet. She had been watching too much motor-cross on TV again.
Taking off her aqua helmet, she shook her now neck length, short black hair free, grinning at me from ear to ear. I could sense she was proud of herself, but I couldn't help but also worry. That had been a dangerous trick she had just pulled, even for someone like me.
I took off my helmet, letting the cool, fresh air meet my skin again. "You shouldn't have done that Luca. It's dangerous in dry conditions, let alone in weather like this," I said, walking over to her slowly.
She rolled her eyes with a pout. "I do it all the time Jake. Dad says its fine."
I smirked crookedly at her. Sam had said going over logs was fine, not doing a mid-air bike flip in the rain. I just shook my head, leaning down to her level, staring off in the distance and then looked back to her. "You know your dad will have my head, if anything happens to you, right?"
She giggled lightly. "I would like to see him get past me," she laughed. "Don't worry Jake, your safe with me," she grinned, taking a step over to her bike. I couldn't believe that had just come from an eight-year-old.
Luca caught my gaze again. "Aren't you proud of me though? That was a hard trick."
I smirked crookedly, taking off my glove to run my hand through her hair. "Yeah I am. Just don't do it in the rain, okay? And not so fast next time. I don't want to see you hurt Luca." She grinned back at me again and sighed, nodding her head.
She pulled her helmet back on and started her motorbike's engine. "Last one back at Dad's is a rotten egg!" she shouted, laughing and taking off before I could even tempt at pulling my helmet back on my head. I laughed at her free spirit. For a now eight-year-old, Luca was fun to be around. Spending time looking after her had really helped since Ness had moved away.
It had been hard at first – and still was. I missed her so much and she felt the same way. We called each other every night for the first three months before realising it was doing neither of us any good. We were only missing each other more with each phone call made, so we then made it once a month. But I hadn't heard from her in the past three months. I called multiple times trying to catch her and make sure she was okay, but all I got was voicemail. I just wanted her home with me, where I knew she was safe. I hoped she was okay. Neither Bella nor Emmett was answering their phones either.
And as for the two vampires, Don and Ann, they seemed to have disappeared after Ness left too. The pack hadn't been able to destroy them, or find them after they had gotten away from us. It was like they had never even been on our land or Forks, ever. Ness had said there were no signs of them around her new home in South America either. I wondered where they had gone, and why they had given up on catching Renesmee so quickly. I knew vampires well enough to know they didn't give up that easily.
I missed her so much. I had even tempted to go and find her three times, but it was impossible. I just kept getting lost. I almost had gotten lost coming back home even.
It was getting dark when I turned on my bike's light and followed Luca back to Sam's home along the trail beside the quiet road leading up to the house. Just as their house came into view, I sped up my pace and beat her to the porch. I had my helmet off and standing in front of the porch before she could even stop me.
"You cheated," Luca shouted.
Chucking I said, "You snooze you lose, Luca. You taught me that," I smirked crookedly.
She let out a huff as Sam and Emily came out from inside their home. "What's going on you two?" Sam asked, smiling with his arm around Emily's waist. Just seeing how the two of them so happy together and how they acted made me want to be with Ness all the more. I wanted to hold her against me, whisper in her ear how much I loved her and then show her just how much I meant it.
"Jake cheated dad," Luca mumbled, digging me in the ribs as she walked past and up the stairs of the veranda.
"You wouldn't want me to let you win, would you Luca?" I asked smirking still.
She went to say something and then stopped. I knew she didn't know what to say to that. She just poked her tongue out at me. Sam and Emily laughed and told her to go inside as dinner was on the table for her.
"Hope she wasn't too much trouble Jacob," Emily smiled kind, speaking softly.
"No, she wasn't Em. I like hanging out with her."
My phone suddenly rang in my back pocket. Pulling it out, I flipped it open and realised it was a text from Ness.
Meet me on the beach xx
I must have read it over ten times before I realised she meant First Beach. My heart started to race in excitement. She was home? She had to be if she meant First Beach. I couldn't believe it. She was home!
"I gotta go," I said quickly, heading back to my bike and then turned my body towards Sam and Emily once more. "Is it okay if I leave my bike here tonight, Sam?" I knew I could get to First Beach a lot quicker in my wolf form than if I took my bike.
"Sure Jake. What's the hurry though?"
"I – I think Ness is home. And thanks for that," I waved, running for the cover of the forest. I quickly took my shirt and jeans off, tying them around my ankle I phased and started to run through the forest as quickly as I could.
The rain was still very lightly coming down upon my back as I went. My coat was drenched from passing wet bushes and ferns while running flat out. I didn't care about the icy wetness clinging to my body though. I just wanted to get to the beach quickly as possible.
I started to think this was something impossible happening. How could she be home so soon? Had she ran away from her family, or was this just a visit? My heart dropped a little with that thought. Maybe it was just a visit. Sure I wanted to see Ness again, but, I also didn't want to say goodbye again either. I wouldn't be able to bare saying goodbye to her again.
The moon started to break through the clouds. I got to the edge of the forest, just by First Beach and phased back, pulling on my jeans and V necked tee shirt. Peering through the tree brake, looking for Ness, my heart skipped a beat – I thought that only happened in the movies – with seeing her walking slowly along the shoreline.
I couldn't hold back from running up to her. "Ness!"
She turned quickly and smiled brightly, running into my arms as I tightly wrapped them around her. I never wanted to let go. Her in my arms felt like the place she was always meant to be.
"Oh my god Jacob I've missed you so much," she murmured into my shoulder, holding me just as tightly to her.
"You have idea how much I've missed you," I whispered huskily, pulling away and kissing her while her arms were still wrapped tightly around my neck.
I couldn't believe how much tension there was between us and how much I had missed Nessie's smooth and warm lips on my own. I could feel and sense how much she had missed me just by the way she kissed me so passionately and eagerly.
Her hand went up my neck and into my hair, pulling me closer to her so our bodies were almost melted together. I could feel her heart beating wildly against my chest we were so close. My arms stayed wrapped tightly around her back, not being able to get close enough to her no matter what I did. We being apart for so long had only brought us closer than ever before. I was going to fight anyone who wanted to separate us again. I wasn't going to let Ness leave my side, unless she herself didn't want me anymore, but that was one thing I thought would never happen with how eagerly she wanted me right now. I would never let her go again. I couldn't.
"Jacob," she murmured breathlessly as I broke the kiss, brushing my lips against her neck. I could tell my body and inner wolf was taking over my mind until I took back control.
"What are you doing back here so soon? Why didn't you answer my calls?" I huskily whispered, panting lightly with my hands cupping the sides of Ness's face.
Her eyes were looking into my mine until I had questioned on her. She pulled and looked away, walking over to the shoreline to sit. Her arms wrapped around her knees while staring out at the ocean horizon.
I went over and sat beside her, watching her. After a while, my hand touched the top of hers, making her look at me. "I missed you," she murmured, the wind blowing the few loose strains of her tied back hair around her face. "I couldn't be without you any longer Jacob." Ness leaned into my side as my arms wrapped around her. I knew she missed me, and I had missed her also, but I didn't think the Cullens' would just pack up again and move back here so soon after leaving.
I just stayed silent. Maybe I didn't want to know the answer to why she was back so soon and that was the reason behind her not telling me. Whatever it was, it could wait, as for now, I just wanted to enjoy my time with Ness, because I didn't know how much longer I would have left with her.
My hand stroked the side of her cool cheek as she lay in my lap quietly still on the beach. The full moon shone down on us with a few clouds left in the sky. I stared up at them deep in thought until I felt Ness's eyes on staring up at me.
I looked down to her, holding her gaze as I saw a smirk appear on her face. "Is you dad home?" she whispered.
"No, he's watching the game with Charlie. Why?"
"What about Rachel?"
"Out with Paul."
She sat up and took my hand, leading me up to the house. I didn't know what Ness was thinking and I thought she sensed my confusion after a vision of our first night together flashed before my eyes out of nowhere. She looked over her shoulder at me with a crooked smirk and her eyes dark. I shook my head at her, chuckling and walking quickly beside her. After all the trouble we got into last time, she still wasn't worried, and neither was I. Edward would just have to learn to suck it up. Ness was nineteen now, almost twenty, and I was going to fight for her right towards making own decisions if she needed me to. She was old enough to have her own life and make the decisions that made her life, hers.
You guys think Ness is keeping something from Jake, and she's just trying to distract him? ;)
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