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Bella woke up when her alarm clock sounded and was about to turn it off when a tan arm shot from behind her and almost broke the clock. Bella smiled and rolled over to see Jacob smiling down at her. This had become his recent habit in the last two weeks, entering her room while she was in the shower and sleeping next to her during the night. He told her Sam wanted him to keep an eye on her and he figured he could kill two birds with one stone, keep an eye on Bella and get a good night sleep. It was Friday and all week at school Bella was helping Angela with the towns Spring Festival all the while researching about anything and everything related to werewolves and vampires to a point where the librarian most likely thought she was an occultist. Luckily, one new thing that sprung up was her and Jacob's relationship that she still hadn't labeled. Their was a 'click' that was always there, a bond but he had yet to officially ask her to go out and she will admit to being a bit old fashioned in ways of dating.
"How long have you been awake?" she asked
"A while" he answered sheepishly as he stroked her arm lightly.
"What have you been doing?" she asked
"Watching you breathe" Okay, that definitely kicked the butterflies in Bella's stomach into overdrive.
"I still haven't believed Charlie hasn't found you in here" she remarked rising from the bed and choosing her clothes for the day. Jacob pulled up to a sitting position as he watched her movements.
"He checks in on you sometimes at night" he told her and at her wide eyes he continued "I woke up when i heard his door open and ducked into your closet before he peeked inside"
"Oh" Bella grabbed a pair of jeans and a tank before she went to the bathroom to change. Each time he came over she still was overcome by the feeling he wasn't saying something to her, she still wanted to know was 'imprinting' was and even when he was asleep next to her on top of the covers (due to his body temperature) Bella felt the alertness in his body. On the other hand, she might just be feeling guilty for not telling him just how hard she was looking into him and others like him. After washing her face and brushing her teeth she walked back into her bedroom to see him putting his shoes on.
"How's Quil?" she asked while putting on the long sleeve, wrapped tunic.
"Great at shifting into a wolf but has difficultly shifting back" Jacob talked about the newest member of the pack with a look of slightly amusement. "Luckily the vampire hasn't shown up for a while"
Bella went to her desk draw and handed Jacob a energy bar at which he laughed "What?"
"Wouldn't it be nice if I didn't have to sneak out and we could have breakfast together?" he asked
Bella thought a moment "Well, I think cleaning your blood off of the kitchen tiles after Charlie shoots you would kill my appetite" Jacob laughed and moved to her window before he threw one of his legs out.
"Plus" Bella continued "Angela says you only give a guy breakfast after he gives you something that deserves it" Jacob eyes darkened immediately and Bella regretted her teasingly words.
"That sounded like a challenge Miss. Swan" his voice was that husky and low tone that made Bella shiver.
"No it was-" he cut her off by kissing her soundly. It was another one of those kisses, the toe curling, goosebump making, 'I want to do so much more than just kiss you right now' kiss.
"I better go while Charlies still in the bathroom" he said pulling away, Bella smiled and didn't speak when his kissed her again this time it was his 'I'll see you later' peck and he was gone.
"I hate your flowers" Angela said enviously as she and Bella made paper flower after paper flower in the art room.
"You just need a gentle hand" Bella told her
"I'm a photographer, the extent of strength I need is the exact amount of strength needed to click and button and occasionally zoom in" Angela reminded her "Everything before of beyond that has to do solely with my eyes" Bella laughed as her friend tapped her pink rimmed glasses proudly.
"Embry pulled a Jacob last night" Angela said a few minutes later, Bella paused and looked at her.
"Should I know what that means?" Angela giggled
"He climbed in through my window" she explained and Bella nodded "it was so cute and we slept together"
"You've been sleeping together for almost three weeks" Bella pointed out and ducked a flower Angela threw at her.
"I mean we actually slept, that was the first time that happened" Lauren looked over at them with a snide smirk.
"Slut" she murmured under her breath as she and Jessica tied the balloons together, Bella looked at them sharply and smiled when the tie holding the largest group of balloons broke and sent the balloon to the rafters of the large art room.
"Karma" Angela sang and Bella instantly felt guilty. She hated hearing Angela talk about Embry with that goofy look of elation on her face and not be able to tell her about him. She hated talking about Jacob and not scream out 'He's a werewolf!'. Bella really hated not telling Angela about the little talent she acquired.
"Anyway" Angela said "he left before I woke up but before he left he wrapped this around my wrist."
It was a braided suede bracelet held together by a metal clip, little gems and shells were splayed around it making it look handmade.
"Cute" Bella commented, not willing to get a little jealous about it.
"Oh know!" Angela squealed happily, then calmed a bit "have you and Jacob officially 'slept over'?"
"What did I say about air quotes?" Bella reminded, Angela rolled her eyes.
"Well did you?" she asked, Bella shook her head "Why now?"
'Oh because the last three times we got hot and heavy I burst a water pipe, knocked over everything on my dresser, and turned on every light in the house without flicking any switch'
Bella shrugged "I think I'm not quite ready yet" she responded, Angela nodded.
"I can understand that, giving what your last boyfriend did to you" Ah, the only thing Bella could tell her and she did a week ago. Angela was in tears by the time she finished and hugged Bella for over an hour, calling her the 'strongest woman she knew'.
"Yea that's it" Bella said and focused on her flowers. Before she left, Bella took the thee paintings she did for Emily. Painting was something she hadn't done in a while but recently she had been doing it to keep her mind off of 'other' things. The time she spent as Emily's was pretty relaxing, the air always seemed fresh on the Quiluete reservation which was a bit odd seeing as it was literally next to Forks. She parked outside and say Emily watering her flowers and the pack was nowhere in sight, luckily. It wasn't that Bella didn't like the pack, but all Paul and Sam did was stare at her like she was an insect while Jarred all but ignored her unless he made some stupid joke about her and Jacon's lack of consummated relationship and Embry and Quil still treated her like a friend.
"Bella!" Emily said happily and hugged her tightly "are those my paintings?"
"Yep all dried and ready to hang" Bella said proudly
"Great, come in I made pie and coffee" Bella followed Emily into her kitchen and sat at the bar while Emily poured her a cup of coffee and sliced her a piece of pie.
"These are so gorgeous I want to pay you" Emily complimented looking at the water colors of columbines, larkspurs, and sweet williams.
"You're paying me with coffee and pie" Bella told her and Emily smiled at her sweetly before looking for a place to hang the paintings. Bella felt a warm feeling in her stomach before Jacob and the guys walked in.
"Ah sweet pie!" Jarred said happily and at the mention of 'pie' the rest of the pack's ears perked.
"Hello to you too" Bella deadpanned, Jacob hit Jarred on the shoulder before he leaned down to kiss Bella. He moved his hand to the small of her back and pulled her closer, deepening the kiss until Bella pulled away.
"I don't want to burn Emily's house down" she told him sternly, Jacob groaned but back away to get a piece of pie. "Is that going to fill that insatiable pallet of yours?"
"For a while, I ate a deer while I was patrolling" he told her, Bella raised a brow.
"A deer? Like a live deer?" she shook out, Jacob shrugged.
"We can't always eat Emily or our parents out of house and home" he told her and Bella nodded in somewhat understand. As the guys relaxed in front of Emily's television, Jacob looked at the paintings Sam was hanging for her.
"Aquilegia flavescens, Delphinium exaltatim, and Dianthus barbatus" he recited the flowers real names and Bella smiled as she looked up from her sketch pad.
"Oh I love it when you speak Latin" she kissed him playfully, Jacob sent her a heated look.
"Let's go for a walk" Bella smiled and took his hand before they walked from the house. Bella grabbed her camera from her truck and Jacob led them down a path that was always a good place to take pictures. She also remembered that he liked to take walks so that they could make out without any disasters happening, well, once a tree branch broke and nearly hit them but Bella didn't think that was her fault...she hoped.
"Buttercups" she announced and snapped a few pictures of the colorful flowers.
"Ranunculus acris" Jacob followed up, Bella turned and smiled up at him again.
"You are so smart" she praised, Jacob smiled down at her.
"I sure did earn that early diploma from La Push" She thought he was going to kiss her again but instead he pulled her up a path they hadn't gone up before. It was a little bit of a hike until they came to an old, obviously run down house. It was large, the paint really faded and the porch was very worse for wear. The barn that was apparently an accompaniment to the house was in the same condition but Bella actually, sorta, liked it.
"What is this place?" she asked as they walked up to the house.
"This was my grandparents house before they passed away" he explained "sometimes the pack waits out the really bad rain here and now I'm bringing you"
"Oh great" Bella said sarcastically "I love the smell of wet dog and asbestos"
Jacob gave her a look and shoved her inside the house, the inner was a bit better than the outer. Given the types of magazines found and the snack bags and soda cans lying about it was cleat the place was frequented by teenaged boys. Bella scoffed when Jacob wrapped his arms around her waist and started kissing her neck.
"You're really planning on seducing me here?" she asked him "amid the porn and Funions bags?"
"No, upstairs" Bella pulled herself out of his grip and crossed her arms.
"I would be even less inclined to do anything here of all places, it looks like a huge gust of wind will turn this place into a tumbleweed and there is no way I'm going up those stairs" She said firmly, Jacob nodded.
"Fine" Without warning, Jacob tossed Bella over his shoulder and with one leap they were on the second story landing.
"Look" Jacob said after he put her down "this place was built by Ephraim Black, my great-grandfather and his father, it's lasted over a century, a century of storms and blizzards, the historical society even took a sample of wood from the house and it hadn't warped or anything which is pretty odd for a house around here, so let's risk breaking an unbreakable house." Jacob then showed her a room that had a mattress in the middle of it.
"Romantic" Bella dead panned but was secretly excited about the idea. Jacob turned her around and kissed her soundly, so soundly that Bella forgot about any doubts she had. The kiss turned more passionate when Bella removed her tunic and pulled his tee-shirt over his head. Soon they kicked their shoes off and were on the mattress with Jacob was kissing his way down her neck and chest. Bella rubbed his shoulders eagerly but hesitated when he moved to remove her top completely.
"What?" he groaned out heatedly then realized "you don't want me to see your scars" Bella nodded and Jacob leaned back a bit to look into her eyes.
"Bella, there is no way your body could inspire anything from me but this" he grounded his hips against her thigh and Bella felt the erection through his jeans. Instantly back in the mood, Bella pulled her top over her head. Jacob dipped his head and continued his trail down her body. She felt her toes curl as he kissed each and every scar on her abdomen before he moved back up to kiss her. Bella moved her hands between them and moved to the zipper on his jeans which made him work on her belt bucket. Jacob unhooked her bra and was about to bring her pert, pink nipple into his mouth when her phone rang.
"If you don't ignore it I'm tossing it out of the window" he growled, Bella flipped them over so that she was straddling him and grasp her phone.
"It's Alice I have to take it" she explained and brought the phone to her ear "What's up?"
"What are you doing right now?" the an odd thing for Alice to open with but Bella was honest with her.
"Taking photo's of my sexually frustrated boy-toy" she answered with a smile while snapping a few pictures. "Why?"
"Daxton Samuel's is a vampire and I think he's the vampire that's been terrorizing Forks" Bella nearly dropped her camera and looked around, expecting him to burst in at any moment. Jacob (having heard the conversation) took the phone from Bella's shaking hands and said goodbye to Alice.
"A vampire?" Bella stuttered in a panic as she threw on her tank and shoes, ignoring her tunic and bra which Jacob collected for her.
"Relax, we''re handling it" he attempted to assure her, something clicked in Bella's mind.
"You knew!" she accused and at his slightly guilty look and lack of speaking. "You knew! You lying son of a bitch!" She screamed and punched him as hard as she could.