Aw… I'm starting to read Nessie/Jacob ships now… But I still love Ezra. She's my own little creation. She's a mix of four of my friends and I.
She's got my blue streak and love of tall dark usually Spanish men (Mwahahahaha!)
My best friends culture (Romani Gypsy)
My other besties hobbies (cooking, reading, singing, dancing, controlling people… She's also got a twin who died.)
Another of my gf's facial features. (Brown hair and really vivid eyes, my best friend has bright, bright green eyes so I made Ezra have bright, bright golden eyes)
My half-sister/best friends skin (she has the most amazing pale smooth skin ever…stupid girl… she's half-Irish half-Greek and she's gorgeous… I hate her for that… LoL)
Oh and she's multilingual like me! I speak Greek, a little Spanish, Turkish (Don't ask why) Bulgarian (Yet again, don't) and French and Japanese (thanks to my school).
And her name is Esmeralda. Why does that have to do anything with my friends and I? We all have green/greenish eyes.
P.S. The interrogation that goes on in this chapter is greatly influenced by the interrogation my brothers gave to one of my friends who I wasn't dating… he just came by to pick me up to drive me to school.
But anyways… On with the story!
Jacob POV
I pulled up in front of the Cullen's house in my Rabbit. I felt kind of depressed about my car since I'd driven the Dodge but I still liked my little Rabbit. It had style.
I got out of the car and fixed up my shirt. I don't usually dress up but I felt like I should for some reason. It wasn't overly dressy.
A white shirt and some jeans.
I'll tell the truth now.
This is kind of my first alone date. Like, I've been out on group dates. Back before I was a werewolf, Quil, Embry and I used to always tag three girls and go out all together before separating later in the night. But this was going to be alone all night. Embry had no date and we weren't going to McDonalds play land for Quil to bring Claire.
This was pretty epic. Physically, I was a twenty-five-year old on my first date with a fifteen year old. That was slightly disturbing now that I thought about it. Well it was a ninety-something-year-old going out with a seventeen-year-old. Nope. That made it freakier.
I brought flowers. Don't ask me why. I felt like I should bring flowers. I didn't even know what kind she liked. These ones were a dark purple and smelt nice.
I sighed stepping over to the front door. Before I rose my hand to knock the door flung open and I was dragged inside by Jasper and Emmett. They dragged me over to the couch, threw me down onto it and looked at me, crossing their arms.
"Hello." I said frowning. I was trying to be nice. Don't want to get in trouble with her family before our first date.
"Where are you going tonight?" Jasper asked me.
"I don't know." I shrugged.
"So you're unprepared." Emmett narrowed his eyes.
"No." I defended. "Ezra said she wants to surprise me."
"What's in your pockets?" Jasper frowned.
I dug deep into them and pulled out all I had. "A wallet, some gum and my phone."
Emmett grabbed the gum and Jasper grabbed the wallet. They both looked through it. "You're not getting this back." Emmett growled waving the gum around.
"It's just gum Emmett." I sighed.
"Oh yeah." Emmett frowned. "So you can kiss my sister with minty fresh breath? I don't think so."
Jasper looked at Emmett confused before he kept talking. "You don't carry around…" he looked uncomfortable to say it.
I instantly knew he was talking about protection.
"Don't need any." I replied. "Don't plan on doing anything."
"Good answer." Jasper nodded, his eyes scrutinizing my actions. "Very good answer."
"Have you ever had sex?" Emmett asked.
I squirmed at that. Answer truthfully and get killed. Lie and get killed later for lying. "Yes." I went for the truth.
"With a girl?" Emmett continued.
"Yes." I now looked at him bewildered.
"Ever thought about men Jacob?" Emmett's eyes flickered dangerously.
"No!" I stood up but they both pushed me back down.
"Does Ezra know you've been with someone else?" Jasper probed.
"It's our first date!"
"So that's a no then?" Jasper said as the brothers exchanged glances.
"Yes!" I growled.
"Yes or no, answer the question." Emmett growled.
"No!"
"Answer the question!"
"He did. Three times." Jasper patted Emmett on the back. "His answer was no."
"Oh." Emmett gave me an evil eye. "You ever do drugs?"
"No, I don't agree with drugs." I replied. Well, I don't stop my friends from doing drugs… apart from things you snort, inject or swallow. I didn't care that much if they smoked.
"Good." Jasper looked me up and down. "Now some basic rules. No touching her from the chest down to the knees up. Arms are allowed. Hand to hand touching only is preferable. No touching is the best option. There always must be two layers of clothing between you two. Her layer and your layer. No ripping off your shirt. And no transforming unless there is danger. I know you have to strip to phase and I'd prefer it if you didn't, at least in front of her. You're paying no matter where you go. I'll give you money seeing as I'm sure your fifty won't be enough. No hotel rooms. Have her home by one. Be respectful, be honest, be on time, be polite and be courteous. If I find out you've been otherwise I will hunt you down. Do we have an understanding?"
"Yes sir." I saluted him.
"And…" Jasper's voice softened a bit. "Petsha is still on the loose. You've got to take care of her. Protecting her has to be your life. If there is a slight chance that she's in trouble or a vampire that doesn't smell like any of us is around, you bolt."
"Tell us what we smell like." Emmett growled.
I couldn't help but chuckle while Jasper looked at his brother like he was crazy. "You smell like…" I inhaled and scrunched my nose in disgust. "Lemon musk sticks…. Really, really strong lemon musk sticks. Jasper smells like… umm… I don't know but it smells like really sweet…butter? I don't know… just… musky. Alice always smells like silk and fabric, even with that vomit sweet smell looming behind it. Rosalie… I don't know… I actually don't mind her smell sometimes, like when she smells like a garage. But usually she's got too much perfume on. Carlisle smells like a doctor's office and Esme smells like bleach and industrial timber."
"I smell like lemon musk sticks?" Emmett frowned.
Jasper's smiled and his face softened a bit as he ignored his brothers comment. "Have fun tonight… but not too much fun!"
I grinned. "Are you on Emmett's side or my side?"
"No ones on your side." Emmett growled.
Jasper nodded as Emmett looked at him but shook his head as soon as Emmett looked away. He pointed to me and mouthed. 'We're all on your side'.
I gave him a surprised look before thinking back to what had happened earlier today. Everyone of the Cullen's, bar Emmett, had been nice to me despite the fact I'd imprinted on one of their own. But on my turf it had been a different story. According to Quil there was more arguing after I left to sleep but it wasn't as bad. Leah had surprisingly continued to stick up for me. Quil, Embry and Seth were all on my side. Even Emily. It was Sam, Jared and Paul who were really against it and the bad thing was they were the people that mattered in this. Collin and Brady's thoughts never bothered me.
"Emmett, Jasper, stop hassling the poor boy." Esme came downstairs with Doc. "Jacob, you look dashing. Emmett, give him his gum back."
Emmett growled and threw the gum at me. "Sorry. We're all protective of her." Carlisle sighed. "But that doesn't give Emmett any excuse for forgetting manners."
Emmett's shoulders slumped. "Sorry." he muttered but he didn't look happy about it.
I decided not to gloat about it but sat there waiting for Ezra to come down. "How is everyone?" Carlisle asked.
"Good… Paul got his nose fixed." I grinned.
Esme frowned. "What happened to his nose?"
"Got broken." I shrugged.
"How?"
"A fist accidentally collided with it."
Carlisle gave me a disapproving look as he guessed why I was so chirpy. "Jacob…"
"He was asking for it." I smirked. "But trust me… it's an improvement for him."
Esme rolled her eyes as Emmett narrowed his. "So you're a violent one…"
"No!" Jasper, Esme, Carlisle and I all said together.
"Just checking." he threw his hands up in surrender.
Just then we heard three sets of footsteps coming down. I looked up and saw Shortie come down first followed closely by Blondie. Then I saw Ezra. My face broke open into a grin and I realised just how much I'd missed her in the hours we were apart. Imprinting was tough.
"Sorry… I would've been down sooner but…" she looked to Blondie and Shortie. "Sisters."
"It's okay." I grinned. "You look gorgeous."
Well that was the understatement of the year. She looked more that gorgeous… She looked… ugh! I couldn't describe it….
She wore a nice pair of dark washed skinny jeans which suited her just fine. Her purple top was pretty and tight fitting and the neck was squarish, showing off her collarbone. Ezra's purple twinkling shoes had a pretty large heel and I guessed it had something to do with our height difference.
"Well. Say hello properly." Shortie said to me. I snapped out of my trance and stood up, walking over to her. Even though the heels helped, I had to lean down to kiss her cheek.
"Hello." I smiled.
"Hi." she said looking embarrassed.
"Disgusting." Barbie muttered. Ezra chuckled light and I grinned.
Jasper and Emmett came up behind me and placed a hand on each of my shoulders. "Just remember Jacob." Emmett warned.
Jasper winked at me passing my wallet back which was much heavier. "Remember all of it."
We said our goodbyes and walked out of the house.
Ezra looked at me her face, stressed. "What did they say? I wasn't listening. Please don't tell me they did something stupid."
"Don't worry." I assured her. "They didn't do anything bad."
"You're just saying that because you know they're listening." she grumbled. I headed towards my Rabbit but she shook her head.
"Nope. Edwards's lending me his car." She pulled out the cars keys from her back pocket. "I figured that seeing as I'm the reason you're not infatuated with his wife anymore he owes me one." Ezra smirked evilly.
"Wait…" I eyed her carefully. "He doesn't know we're taking his car, does he?"
Ezra didn't say anything but twirled the keys around her finger looking sexier than ever. "So would you like to drive the Vanquish?"
I grinned. "This is the best date ever."
"This isn't the half of it Mr Black." she tossed me the keys as we went to the Cullen garage.
I saw Edwards Vanquish and smiled evilly. "Oh I'm going to have fun in this…"
"Would you like me to leave you two alone for a moment?" she teased walking in front of me.
"No. See because the best feature of this car is…" I grabbed her waist and turned her towards me so we were eye to eye. "You in it."
"That was pretty cheesy." she said laughing.
"I'm catching on to your ways." I laughed too before leaning down and kissed her. Ezra reached up to me and wrapped her arms around my neck. I heard a sound of boulders crashing upstairs but ignored it.
"Come on. We've got places to go." she said breaking it off.
"Emmett's still listening right?" I asked.
"Yep."
"Then I'll tell you later just how gorgeous you look."
"Tell me or show me?" she smirked.
I couldn't resist leaning down and kissing her again. Another sound of boulders crashing.
I opened the passengers door for her like a true gentlemen and let her in. She thanked me as I closed the door and got into the drivers side. The car smelt strongly of Edward and a little of Bella. "We're so going to air this thing out." I muttered scrunching up my nose. While I could stand Ezra's smell, Edward and the rest was unbelievably annoying.
Ezra pulled out some perfume. "Covered." she sprayed it around the car as I pulled out of the driveway. It smelt like her.
"Is Edward going to kill us?" I asked driving slowly down the driveway.
"He'll attempt to." she shrugged.
I slipped my hand into hers. "Cool."
"Can I ask something?" she looked to me. "You're immortal… right?"
I frowned and looked at her. "Yeah… as long as I phase every few weeks I get to live forever." I think. I didn't know for sure, I mean, no ones done it before. At least no one I know of.
She smiled happily as if she was keeping a secret. "Oh."
I looked to her and then realised I had no idea where I was going. "Um… seeing as I'm driving… care to tell me where I'm going?"
Ezra was in a daze and shook her head. "Oh, sorry. Um… We're going to Neah Bay."
"Okay." I nodded. "Do we have a booking anywhere?"
She looked at me and smiled. "Yeah… Dinner at eight."
"But it's like quarter past seven now." I felt a smile pulling on my lips too. "And it'll take about an hour and half to get there."
"Well then you're going to have to drive quickly then." she grinned.
"As you command madam." I pushed down on the engine a little more and sped through to the Bay.
Esmeralda POV
So far so good. We had just left the restaurant. Jacob had consumed the food on his and my plates and we were now walking hand and hand towards the water. "You know, I'm not allowed to hunt on these lands?" I said matter-of-factly. "Not even animals. The Makah tribe banned all vampires from hunting on these lands or instantaneous death. I can't even kill a bug. If someone attacks me I can't defend myself and if I even attempt to speak to someone of the Makah tribe I could get punished." I narrowed my eyes thinking. "It's kind of unfair. I mean, I know that it's the tribes duty to protect the life of every living thing in their territory but… To be murdered for talking to the wrong person is unethical."
Jacob squeezed my hand. "Yeah but they're just protecting their own."
"Their own needs to be locked up for the ways they've killed vampires. They've pulled some of us limb from limb and placed our body parts just out of reach of each other so it was take years for us to regenerate. They've striped some of us of our dignity and forced some vampires into slavery." he flinched as I said this. "The Makah tribe are well known in the vampire community for torturing our kind. I'm safe here as long as I don't talk to anyone or look at anyone oddly.
"Then why are we here." He wrapped a protective arm around me. "Why don't we go to Port Angeles or something?"
"I'm banned from Port Angeles too but that ban means I can't even go."
"How?" he asked me. "I mean other vampires go there all the time."
"Well…" I grimaced. "I'm banned in human form from there. I attacked a policeman. It was in a different name but I think they still have my photo up at the station."
Jacob looked at me seriously. "Why'd you attack a policeman?"
"He was bleeding." I shrugged. "I hadn't hunted in weeks. I slipped up. However I was lucky one of my vampire friends pulled me off him before I could kill him. I didn't even get to taste his blood. I calmed down, and was taken to the police station. That was back in the late sixties…"
Jacob laughed. "So? Go back now. Who's going to recognise you?"
I gave him a side glance. "The police office was only twenty… he's now fifty-nine and the guy in charge. I'm pretty sure he recognises me because before I was pulled off I broke three of his bones trying to get to the source of the blood. If I went back there, it would jeopardise my cover. Here, I can walk freely…to an extent."
"Interesting." Jake commented. "So how old are you exactly?"
"Ninety-one this December."
"Oh." he frowned and looked me up and down. "Can I just think of you as fifteen? It would make this a whole lot easier because technically, you're older that my great-grandma and she's dead."
I chuckled. "Okay. Do you know any of the Makah tribe?"
"Met them once or twice. Never anything interesting. Embry's park Makah." he trailed off.
I frowned thinking about the nice light hearted boy who had spent the last week or so walking around the Cullen's and chatting to me happily. He didn't seem anything like the Makah people I've met over the years. I then noticed Jacob became hesitant for a second. "What?" I asked curiously.
"Just Embry." he shrugged, his shoulders slouching. "He's part Makah part Quileute. But no one knows how he's Quileute because…" he sighed. "His mother is Makah meaning his father must be Quileute. The only Quileute men are my Dad, Sam's Dad, Quil's dad and Seth and Leah's Dad…"
"All of whom are around Embry's age…" I concluded. "Meaning one of your Dads had an affair."
"Only Embry's mum knows and none of us want to ask her." he sighed. "Plus, she doesn't know Embry's a werewolf. We can't tell her because it's against our code."
"Why doesn't Embry ask?" I frowned.
Jacob chuckled. "He has asked her heaps of times who his Dad is. She always answers the same. Your father was a nice man Embry who was very good to me." he mocked her tone of voice.
"What about your dads? Ask them?"
"My Dad and Old Quil are the only ones who are still alive. They both answered the same. No."
"Oh."
"We all want to know but don't want to know at the same time." he looked to me. "But we all really want to know if we're his half-brother."
I frowned and pictured Embry in my head. I looked at his features carefully in my mind and frowned. "It isn't Sam… Or Seth."
He looked to me. "How do you know?"
"Between fathers and their sons there are certain things which are, in 98 of cases, always passed down. Chin definition, earlobes and hair shape just to name a few. Sam's chin is to round to be related to Embry and Seth's earlobes are flappy while Embry's aren't. It's either you or Quil. I think it's…" I broke off. I think it's Jacob actually. Their eyes were too similar, their hair shape all too much the same. Their chins, their ears. Even from the glimpse I had of Billy, Jakes father, I could tell that Embry and him had to be related.
"You think it's me right?" he guessed.
I bit my lip. "Yeah." I looked down and dejected. "Sorry."
"It's okay. We still don't know for sure but even Embry thinks it's me too." He squeezed my hand tighter. "Just a mystery of life I guess."
I leaned against him. "I think we should drive back home. I want to do something."
"Okay." He stopped and looked at me. "Can I kiss you?"
"Why are you asking?" I teased leaning up to him. His lips reached mine and he licked my lips requesting to enter. I parted my mouth and let his tongue roam my mouth. It felt pretty good.
His mouth was hot and my mouth was cold but after a few minutes they became just the right temperature. We broke apart and he pulled his hand in and out of my hair. "You're the most beautiful girl in the world."
I smiled and was lost in his almost black eyes. "What are we doing again?"
"Did I erase your memory?" Jacob teased curling his fingers in my hair.
I nodded slowly. "Uhuh…"
"You were saying you wanted to do something."
"Oh yeah…" I took his hand and moved slowly with him. "I've never felt this way before." I admitted truthfully looking down at the ground as we walked. "I mean… Not even with Demetri and I saw him for a good twenty years or so. No, this is different. This is… it feels dangerous and safe. Comfortable but unfamiliar. It's all too… crazy." We kept walking in silence for a few minutes. "What did the pack say when you went back?"
Jacob shrugged. "Nothing. They have to except it."
I frowned. "What did they say Jake?"
He shook his head. "Nothing." he repeated but I could tell he was lying.
We were silent again. "Are they angry at you?" I said quietly. More silence. "They aren't happy are they?"
"It doesn't matter." Jake squeezed my hand. "It really doesn't. They can't do anything about it even if they wanted to."
"But they want to do something." I leaned on him and looked up to his face which hardened.
"I don't know." Jacob looked down at me and I wasn't hiding my sadness. "Hey, don't worry about them. They're just small factors. They can't change this. They have no control."
I frowned. "Jacob, they're like your family."
He leaned down and kissed my forehead. "Let's not talk about it, ok?"
I shook my head. "Jake…"
"Ezra it's fine okay? Just believe me… It'll all be fine."
"Is it fine or will it be fine?"
"Ezra!"
"Jacob tell me!" I'd pulled away from him and was looking at him fiercely.
Jake and I walked silently for a few minutes. I could see his face twisted into a weird emotion, somewhere between pain and anger. "It will be fine."
I leaned against him again. "I'm sorry."
"It's not your fault."
Jacob POV
She brought me back to the outskirts of Forks. We parked the Vanquish on the edge of the highway and ran a few meters into the forest for privacy. "Why here?" I asked as she stopped and sat down.
She shrugged. "I don't know. I just wanted to lie under the stars again like last night."
I smiled as she pulled three black blankets out of the bag she was carrying. Ezra laid one of them out on the ground and passed one of the two left to me. "It's apparently going to get really cold tonight."
"Three words. Snow. Shirtless. Camping." I grinned but took the blanket anyway.
"Well I do actually feel the weather." she smirked. "Although it doesn't really matter, I do get uncomfortable when it's too cold or too hot for me. That's why I hate Alaska." she sat on the blanket and patted the spot next to her. I didn't need telling twice as I darted to Ezra's side. I pulled her into a large hug.
"Warmer?"
"Much." she leaned against me as I laid us both down on the first blanket. I pulled the other two over both of us.
We didn't have to say anything. There was nothing to say. We just lay there, enjoying each others company. It was comfortable. Nice. Her skin was ice cold to my touch but I could feel it warming as I held her. Ezra's head was on my chest and I inhaled her sugary scent as we stared up at the sky.
"So who's this other girl?" she asked me.
I frowned not knowing what she was saying. "What are you talking about?"
"I see… I see this other girl following you around. A girl about sixteen, seventeen…"
"Mahli?" I looked to her. "Blonde? Blue eyes?"
"Yeah." she said whilst she stared at the stars. "Who's she?"
"Mahli is the packs fan girl. She's madly in love with me but it'll pass. She used to be in love with Sam. When she started stalking us it became bad because she would follow us to secret meetings. In the end we said it was a secret men's only club and that if she followed us it would be too dangerous for her and we all cared too much about her for her to get hurt. That held up until she saw Leah was hanging out with us."
"She didn't like that?" Ezra assumed.
"She despises Leah. More than she loves me I think. Anyways… why do you ask about Mahli?"
"No reason." she shrugged. "I just see her wherever you go. She followed you to the Cullen's tonight but you drove too fast for her. She assumed you'd be at the Cullen's though and went to check it out. Right now Emmett's wondering whether he should ask her to go home or not because she's sitting at the bottom of the driveway, waiting for you. She thinks you're still there because she saw your car."
"Oh." I frowned. "Mahli's… scary like that."
"I see that." Ezra smirked. "You attracted to her?"
"Hell yeah!" I joked. She looked up to me frowning, a weird look on her face. "I'm mucking around Ezra!" I said hugging her tighter. "I'm not into the stalking type."
Her frown didn't leave her face until I leaned down and kissed her forehead. "Trust me… she's not my type. I really, really don't find her attractive in any way, shape or form."
Ezra nodded. "I believe you. I see nothing happening between you two."
"Are you the jealous type?"
"Only when it comes to really gorgeous blonde stalkers." she answered. "I mean… She looks like Rosalie…"
"I'd prefer Rose." I scoffed. "She isn't as overbearing. Mahli would be nice if she didn't…come down on you so harshly."
She smiled looking up at me. "I fully believe you Jake. I'm just mucking around."
I could tell she wasn't but laughed at it anyway, playing along with her charade. We sat quietly for a while.
I don't know when but eventually, sleep over came me. I couldn't help it. One minute I was staring up at the stars and the next Ezra was tapping me awake. "Come on Sleepy. Let's get you home to a nice warm bed."
"Ugh…" I groaned. "Crap… Jasper's going to kill me."
"Already messaged him saying we're going to be late. Emmett's not happy. I told him we're in Port Angeles. He should be there searching for you. Come on. I'll drive you home."
We stood up and I helped her collect the blankets tiredly. Ezra took my hand and led me back to the Vanquish. She drove me to my place where there was a light on and three shadows. Ezra leaned over to me and kissed me lightly.
I smiled. "Sorry I passed out."
"It's all good." Ezra smiled. "I got my wish. Spending a night under the stars with you."
"Your wish is my command."
She chuckled. "Go inside. I can see… well I can just see your Dad and sister waiting for you to come home as well as someone from the pack. They're worried."
"Yeah… I told them I'd be at home tonight." I mumbled. "Why don't you stay here? It's too late for you to drive home."
"Vampire."
"Point?"
"No need for sleep."
"Still… point?"
"Brothers."
"Oh."
Ezra shrugged. "I could stay but Jazz is waiting for me."
I yawned and nodded. "Okay then. Tonight was nice. Thanks."
"Hey, you paid for dinner and you fulfilled my wish. Thank you."
I chuckled leaning over and kissing her. "I'll dream of you."
"I'll think of you." she replied.
I opened my door and got out, closing it behind me. She had opened the window. "Goodnight Wolfie."
"Goodnight Pokémon." I replied.
"Hey." she chided.
I leaned into the car and kissed her. "Goodnight beautiful."
Ezra giggled. "That's better."
Thank you to my gorgeous reviewers from last chapter, winchesterxgirl & Livin-in-my-fable for reviewing. You two are amazing beautiful people. And Livin-in-my-fable, you might be onto something there… hmmm… But in truth I never thought of that. You're just fuelling my evilness.