I wanna thank Kaikan for all the crazy, sugar high induced ideas. Most of them are going to go into effect next chapter.

Thank you to all my reviewers for sticking with me through that crappy couple of chapters that really were kinda boring but necessary. I promise from now on they are going to be really good.

Chapter 14 song title. Thinking of You by Katy Perry. It's a beautiful song and I think it fits well with the way Jacob feels about Edward and James… Especially the second verse of the song.

Comparisons are easily done
Once you've had a taste of perfection
Like an apple hanging from a tree
I picked the ripest one
I still got the seed

You said move on
Where do I go
I guess second best
Is all I will know

Cause when I'm with him
I am thinking of you
Thinking of you
What you would do if
You were the one
Who was spending the night
Oh I wish that I
Was looking into your eyes

You're like an Indian summer
In the middle of winter
Like a hard candy
With a surprise center
How do I get better
Once I've had the best
You said there's
Tons of fish in the water
So the waters I will test

He kissed my lips
I taste your mouth
He pulled me in
I was disgusted with myself

Cause when I'm with him
I am thinking of you
Thinking of you
What you would do if
You were the one
Who was spending the night
Oh I wish that I
Was looking into...

"Of all people!" Alice slammed her fist down on the table. James and I spent a while up there but I was home before dark. She and Bella were waiting at Bella's house by the time I got home. I came over to tell them where I had been and with whom. She would have been blowing up my phone if it weren't already DOA. "I can't believe that vile troll put the moves on you… AND YOU LET HIM!" She smashed the tabletop with her fist again.

"Look, I didn't mean for any of that to happen… he just said that he had ways to get over Edward and I took his word for it."

Alice was now pacing back and forth on the linoleum tile floor. I was sure she was going to wear a hole in the floor. Bella just sat in the chair across from me with a glass of pop in her hands. "And did any of it help?" Alice asked, the acid rising in her voice.

I thought about how I felt since I got home; without the locket weighing me down I felt like I could finally hold my head up. As for the kiss, granted it wasn't what I would have called the best kiss of my life- that title belonged to someone else- but it was still a very nice distraction. "I feel better… like it released some of the pressure that's been building in my chest for the past couple of weeks." Alice wasn't too thrilled to hear this. She huffed and I waited for smoke to spry out of her nostrils. "So is he going to be your Valentine this year? You know it's next Saturday." Bella said meekly. Alice's face changed again, this time she was internally scolding Bella for bringing it up.

"I don't know… I mean all we did was kiss. Didn't really talk about anything else. I guess if it comes to that, then yes." Alice's mouth fell open. If it weren't attached to her face it would have hit the floor. I knew at this point that I had overstayed my welcome. "Well I think I'm gonna head out. I'm really tired." I lied. I gave them both hugs and left to go back to my house.

Alice kept pacing back and forth. I could see the worry in her eyes. She kept muttering to herself, something that sounded like 'what are we going to do?' I pawed at her hand and pulled her down into the waiting chair. She put her face in her hands and took deep breaths. I pulled one of her hands away and ran my fingers over her palm. She told me she loved it when I did that, it calmed her down. That look in her eyes didn't fade. "What are we doing to do, Bella? James is one of the lowest, slimiest, most disgusting monsters to ever crawl its way out of the forest and into humanity."

I clutched her hand to my cheek. Oh how I missed that feeling so much. "But what can we do? We can't force him to stay away from James. He'll force us away and I can't deal with that again… Not when I just got him back." Alice slammed her other hand on the table.

"This is all just a bunch of bullshit."

The next day I felt different. I had been able to sleep through the night without crying myself to sleep. I felt like a toy that just had its batteries replaced. My body still ached but it was no longer weak. I dressed how I felt today: bright, upbeat… happy. My mind lingered on that word as I put on my white button down polo. Happy. I hadn't felt this way in very long time.

In contrast to my amazing mood, Alice was in the worse mood I had ever seen her in. As she drove, she kept both hands on the wheel, her fist tightly clenched around the black material so that her hands were almost bone white. She didn't talk the entire way, just stared blankly at the road. Bella wasn't any less awkward; she didn't say anything, just looked out her window, her hands neatly folded around her books. I didn't ask why everything was so strange but I did wonder if it had anything to do with last night. Alice was less then thrilled about what happened between James and I – and that was putting it mildly. Biology class wasn't any less cumbersome. She just sat there next to me, oblivious to our lesson. She was just scribbling things down in her notebook the entire time. Today she didn't walk me to Gym class. "Sorry, I have to talk to Bella about something. I'll catch you at lunch."

Now if Biology was uncomfortable then P.E. was like sitting on a bed of nails. After Coach Clap explained what we were doing (Basketball again) James was all over me, and I mean it. As I was practicing my shooting, he came up from behind me, wrapping one of his arms around my waist and the other running along my arm. I could see a couple of my classmates staring at us. "Did I ever tell how irresistible you are?" he whispered in my ear. It sent those chills down my spine but not the same kind. This kind was the kind you get from fear, the kind you get when you're stuck in a horror movie and you think someone is following you when you're walking home down a darkened street. That kind. His words make him sound like he just wanted to rip a chunk of flesh off of my neck. I slip his hands off of me. "Please, I don't think this is the most appropriate thing for gym class." I said trying to save face. I just didn't want him hanging all over me. He didn't seem too happy about this. Neither did Edward. He was more then just glaring at us today, he was shooting swords at us from his eyes.

"Aww come on babe, you know I can't help myself." Babe? Did he really just say that? Where the hell does he get off thinking I'm his babe?

"Well, first things first," I tossed the ball, another great shot by the amazing Jacob Black. "I'm sorry but I am not your babe. For that matter I'm not your baby, sweetie, sugar pie honey bunch." I grabbed the ball as it rolled back to me. "Tank you for helping me but it's a little early to call me anything." To say that his face was angry would be an understatement. He was furious, enraged, I'm pretty sure if he were a bomb this school would only be a smoldering crater in the ground by now. His eyes grew dark with fire inside of them. He snatched my wrist and held it tightly in his iron grip. "You listen to me you little shit," He spat at me through clenched teeth. "I helped you drop Edward to the bottom of the ocean and this is how you repay me." His grip tightened cutting off the circulation to my fingers.

"Let go, you're hurting me." But he didn't loosen up. He only held tighter so I couldn't squirm away. "I'm not letting go until you say that you're mine." I wanted to slug him in the jaw but I didn't want to cause waves in the somewhat calm ocean of my life. "Look at him." He snarled. I looked back at Edward who was watching intently. "You think he still wants you back? HA! As if. He's the one who left you with a hole in your chest in the first place." I looked at Edward. His face was hard and still as a statue; his amber eyes focused on us. "Now say it." He demanded again.

"How about this." Compromise was my only trump card left. "How about this on a trial basis. Nothing too serious, just something to test the waters." I was hoping that he would fall for this. He absorbed the words for a couple of seconds then released my very throbbing wrist. "Trial period. I like it." Whoo, that was a close one. Maybe Edward was right about James being a tad bit nuts. Why does every guy in this town suck! James didn't bug me much after that. Of course he couldn't resist pinching my ass before we all went to locker rooms. FUCKER! It was a little unsettling having his hands all over me.

Lunch wasn't any better. James decided to leave his usual table and sit with Alice, Bella, and I. Needless to say Alice was a little upset by this. I'm pretty sure she bit through her math book to reduce her rage. It seemed pretty easy going except for the fact that James kept putting his hands on my knees under the table and I had to keep making an excuse to move them so his hand would move. I'm pretty sure at one point his hand starting moving a little too close to my crotch. That was the point when I ran to dump out my tray of food. Luckily, after that I didn't have to see him for the rest of the day. A little break from him would be a good thing. The next classes drummed by without missing a beat, homework, pop quiz, the usual. Then came art class. The class I had dreaded for the past couple of weeks no longer held that same drudgery it once did. I took my usual seat and tended to some of my other homework while the others filled in. Then I heard the chair next to me pull out and a body sat down next to me.

I looked over to see those golden honey eyes staring back at. Being this close to him almost made me snap my pencil. His beautiful face, it was so close now, made me want to reach out and touch to make sure that my mind had finally succumb to the growing insanity that had been festering inside of me for the past month. I could even smell him now; that salivating sugary caramel scent from before. It flooded my lungs and intoxicated me. Then he had to open his mouth and ruin it all.

"So you and James huh? Guess I should have seen that one coming." GRRR. Why? After weeks without a single word, or even a nod – I would have even taken an insult – anything was better then the maddening silent treatment that I had received.

"What does that mean?" Figures, within ten seconds he could make my blood boil.

"I'm just saying, you two seemed really close today…"

"What the hell are you doing Edward?" My words took his by surprise. "You dump me in the snow, you don't speak to me and then, only after weeks of hell, that I finally feel like the scars you left on me are finally healing you come and talk to me again out of thin air. What gives?" This time he didn't seem so taken back by my stinging words. He calmly listened to my rant before he spoke again.

"Well… I guess it was because after your 'near death' experience. I realized that I couldn't treat you like that. It's been so hard staying away from you. I finally came to the conclusion that I'm not that strong. I can't keep fighting my feelings for you." Now this really pissed me off. NOW he decided that he couldn't stay away from me. Where the hell was this Edward when I needed him. My fist shook as I restrained myself from throwing him out the classroom window. But that other part of me spoke up. That part of me I tired so desperately to bury away deep inside the darkest part of my brain. Just the very thought of Edward being this close to me again set that beast free and now my chest burned with desire… but it also flooded me with hostility.

"And what brought this about? Jealousy? Regret? Can't stand to see me with another guy? Stop me if I guess it. Let me just say this, Edward Cullen, you hurt me… cut me down to my very core. It took a lot of work to build me back up and now here you are coming to knock it all down again. Well, I won't let that happen again…" Self-preservation was the one thing that ran through my head. As much as I wanted to feel his arms around me again, to feel his lips pressing on mine, his hands holding me, that smell consuming every breath, I wouldn't let myself go through that again. I wasn't going to be that person that kept running back to their ex at their every beckon call. "So hear this. Whatever little game you have going on inside your head you can squash that right now. What we had was great and I wouldn't take it back for the world… but I won't put myself through that again. I'm sorry." He didn't press me for the rest of class. He just sat there, this time him looking like the mindless zombie. A part of me felt that I had accomplished something… but that same deep dark part of me felt guilty; for treating him like that, for not hearing him out, for snapping like that. It wasn't something I was proud of but it was something I had to do.

XXXXXX

"So the guy you have been desperate to get back finally decided he wants you back and you practically rip his head off. You're a strange person." That was Bella's analysis of the situation that happened in Art. It was nice having her talk to me in study hall again. "I just don't like him. That conversation I heard him and Mike had was pretty low down and dirty. It's like they planned to break you and Edward up." I just laughed at her silly accusations.

"Come on Bella, I highly doubt either of them are that devious… or that smart for that matter. You were really mad at the time, you just heard what you wanted."

"Maybe you're right. I can't really remember anything once I heard that you and Mike kissed… oh don't forget that we're having dinner at my house tonight." That's right. Billy told me about that but I had totally forgotten. He was inviting Sue and Harry Clearwater over. The one night I just wanted to be alone I had to be in a house filled with people. Great.

The ride home was the same as the ride to school. Alice was quiet, her hands around the wheel. She seemed like she was making some kind of list in her head. She dropped me off at my door as usual but this time neither her nor Bella stayed. "We're going to go make something for tonight. We'll be back at seven." With that they drove off leaving me standing under the gray clouds.

XXXXXX

"Give me another shot, Emmett." My brother didn't question my authority and poured me another shot of vodka into the tiny glass and I drank it down as fast as he had poured it. The alcohol warmed me. That's what I wanted to feel right now; warm. This was the best way to do.

"I don't get why you're drinking yourself to death, it's not going to help." Rosalie said flipping the page in her fashion magazine. I wanted to come back with some witty and smug remark but all that I could think about was Jacob. After I heard he almost bit the big one he wouldn't leave my mind. To say I was upset when I heard he died was an understatement; I was devastated. I was pissed at him but over the weeks that had faded into just missing him but I let my pride get in the way. I didn't want to admit that I missed him. Then Alice said that he jumped and it was like the world was coming to an end. I knew that I couldn't say mad at him but I didn't think I would ever get another chance to tell him I was sorry. Then he walked into gym class. Everyone had failed to tell me he lived. That's when I knew I needed him. I wouldn't say goodbye to him while we were on bad terms. Another shot down the hatch and his face began to become blurry to me. I don't think I had ever felt that feeling of rejection until today when he ripped my heart out of my chest, threw it on the ground, did a Mexican hat dance on it and then gave it back.

"Dude, there is no reason to do this to yourself." A voice called from behind me. I didn't even want to turn around to bitch them out.

"Shut the hell up, Jasper. I don't want to hear it right now." That was the end of that. He didn't push it anymore. Another shot. The picture of Jacob in my head began looking more and more like it was underwater. I was trying to drown him out and it is working very nicely. At least it was until Alice and Bella came downstairs.

"What the hell, Edward." Alice snatched the glass form my hand and chucked it across the room. The glass shattered behind the bar. Emmett had to duck to avoid getting hit.

"Leave me alone, Alice, you don't know what I'm going through." I growled and grabbed the bottle from Emmett. Alice snatched it out of my hands and gave it back to him. "Oh, come on. Bella told me everything. Jacob told her in study hall that you finally decided to talk to him again and he totally flipped his lid." I didn't confirm her I just sat in silence. My silence was my confession.

"What the hell did you expect? Did you really think that after everything you put him through he would come waltzing back into your arms?" Truthfully, yes I did. I thought that all it would take would be a couple of words and he would come back to me. If I did that to half the girls in this school they would flutter back to me. I guess Jacob wasn't a mindless lemming. "What difference does it make? He's got James now." Ehh, just saying his name churned my stomach. "I guess this is what I deserve. James has finally succeeded in winning. He finally did it, he's totally beat me this time." I tried to grab another glass but Alice smacked my hand away.

"He's not a toy, Edward. You can't play with him, get tired of him, and then expect to play with him again when someone else shows interest in him. I know that none of us want to see him with that fucker…"

"Personally, I really don't care." Rosalie interrupted.

"That may be but I know you can't stand seeing Edward like this." Bella snapped. If her teeth were razor sharp, Rosalie's face would be gone now. After that Rosalie didn't say anything snooty.

"But what can we do? If we try and tell him otherwise he'll just get mad." Emmett had a point. You can't just go around telling people you don't like whom they're dating – well you can but that usually ends messy.

"Well I've been thinking. There is a way to get him back. You have to win him back, totally romance him, and just knock him off his feet. Valentine's Day is next week. I've been doing some thinking since last night… but it's going to take everyone's help. This is going to be the biggest Cullen project ever." Rosalie and Jasper moved from the seats to gather around the bar.

"I'm in. I'd rather see Edward with that runt then a total mess." Rosalie, if she weren't a girl, I would knock her out.

"Me too. Alice always has the best plans." Emmett was pumped.

"You can count me in. You can't keep me from this one." Jasper too.

I guess since I was totally outnumbered I had to at least hear her plan. If I didn't like it I could totally say no. "Ok let's hear it."

I changed into some nice clothes. Billy told me to, he wanted this to become a regular thing; he and Charlie wanted more then just each other as friends. So I dressed myself up, nothing too special, just some really nice jeans and a nice dress shirt. "Come on Jake, we're gonna be late." It's next door, I highly doubt we could be late. I wanted to shout it but I decided to let the old man have his fun. We went next door to Charlie's. Bella answered the door in an electric blue dress. I couldn't believe what I was seeing- Bella Swan in a dress and heels- and not falling on the floor. I tried my best to contain my laugher. "Shut up, you jerk." She punched my arm. When we walked into the dinning room, everyone was dressed up and already sitting in their spots; Alice in a beautiful cream colored cocktail dress, a matching bandana in her hair and long dangly jewelry from her ears and neck. Leave it to Alice to dress like she's going to a celebrity fundraiser. She seemed less hostile now, like she was the old Alice again. Sue and Harry looked nice. I hadn't seen them in a long time but I recognized them in an instant. Sitting to their right was Leah and Seth. Leah, of course, was on her cell phone complaining about something to the person on the other end. Seth waved to me excitedly. I just waved back. Also on the other side of the table were Sam and Emily. I guess they thought it would be nice to invite them considering Sam saved me.

"Well, it's about time you got here, I swear only Billy could pull off being late when he lives next door to someone." Billy wheeled himself up to the table. Everyone let out a small laugh. I took my seat next to Bella and Seth while Billy was next to Sue. It was quite cramped in the little room with so many people but it went off nicely. There was so much food I would have thought Esme cooked for us. After dinner we all began to relax. Billy, Charlie, and Harry talking plans for they're next fishing trip. Sue started talking to Emily and Sam. Leah was back on her cell phone right where she had left off.

"Why don't we go to my room?" Bella asked getting up from the table. Bella, Alice and I all got up from the table and started walking up the stairs. Seth just sat there unsure of what to do. I felt bad for him; he was still so young, so out of place. "Come on Seth, you're invited, too." He sprang up from his seat with a huge smile on his face. It had been a while since I'd been in Bella's room but still nothing changed. Still those strange yellow curtains she's had since forever. I decided to take up the bed while Bella sat in her computer chair and Alice in her lap. Seth sat on the edge of the bed, not that I left much room.

"So you're the one who saved our Jacob?" Bella asked. Seth's cheeks blazed a bright red. "Umm… yeah I guess so."

"So Seth, how old are you?" Alice asked

"Fifteen. I'll be sixteen in a couple of months."

"Ohh, I remember that age like it was yesterday." Bella and Alice cooed over how young he was.

"That's because it pretty much was yesterday." This is pretty much how the rest of the night went. Alice and Bella bombarding Seth with a million different questions. In the end, Seth left and after that Alice and Bella squealed over how 'adorable he is' and he's 'so innocent'. I had a bad feeling that these two were going to corrupt this poor boy.

The next couple of days were less than uneventful. Just sitting through classes trying not to fall asleep, keeping James at a distance seemed to be the hardest task. Whenever he didn't get whatever he wanted he got very upset and very physical. I knew I could take him down with one hit but it was better to find a different way to calm him down. But everything seemed different now. James and I shared another couple of kisses after our encounter on the cliff but every time I kissed him, all I could think of was those golden eyes, hoping it would be him I was kissing. But every time I pulled away it was James with his crooked evil smile.

Edward still sat in his seat next to me in Art. He kept trying to strike up a conversation with me. I would say a few simple words but nothing much. I was still very upset with him, just expecting me to jump back in a relationship with him and act like nothing happened, like he didn't damage me beyond repair. As much as I wanted to scream at him for it, as much as I wanted to cause him as much pain as he caused me, I couldn't bring myself to do it. Being so close to him, having to stare at that gorgeously dazzling face was all it took to still make me weak in the knees.

Friday was something I was looking forward to. Alice had decided that we were going to go shopping and then see a movie. Just a little thing between her, Bella, Seth and I. Since the dinner they hadn't stopped talking to him, like he was the new toy. Alice was very unusual today, not only on the drive to school but also in Biology and Lunch. There was just a smile perpetually plastered on her face and her smile beamed all day. She just kept saying 'I just have a feeling something great is going to happen today' or 'it's so beautiful, like there's a whole new start to life.' I didn't question her strange mood swings the past couple of days; she was always changing, never consistent. Sometimes I just couldn't quite pin her down sometimes. I had left my algebra class and headed towards Art when I realized that I left my sketchbook in my locker so I had to travel in the opposite direction. I got my book and ran as fast as I could to my art room, nearly missing the late bell. Edward just laughed at me as I was still huffing to catch my breath. "Close, very close."

I just stuck my tongue out at him. He did the same back to me. At least we were back in a playful stage in friendship. This was bearable; I could handle Edward being one of my casual friends but I don't think I could be any closer then this without getting myself hurt again. The hour passed very quickly. "Well, I'll see you later." Edward gathered his stuff and left. I headed back towards my locker to put away the books I didn't need to take home. When I opened it there was a new addition that hadn't been there before. Sitting on the top shelf was a sleek little phone wrapped up in a large red bow and ribbon tied around it and a card attached as well. I picked it up, it was very little and very light, it must have been only a little thicker then a centimeter with a large black screen taking up the whole phone, no buttons. I had never seen anything so shiny and lightweight.

Here is a gift I thought you would like.
There will be one each for the next seven days.
Happy Valentine's Day.
From,
Your Secret Admirer

My cheeks burned brightly. This phone looked pretty expensive and I knew the one person that would buy something so crazy. I put the phone in my pocket, my books in my locker and headed out into the parking lot. The Cullens, Bella, and Victoria were all gathered around their cars. Alice was waiting for me but now she and the others were giggling about a joke Emmett had just made.

"Edward." I called as I approached them. He turned around with a large smile on his face. I was less than thrilled, I hated getting ridiculous gifts from people and now he was trying to pull this crap even when I'm not with him. "What's up?" He said, his face almost shocked that I was talking to him.

"Thank you but really no thank you." I held the phone out to him. He looked down at it with a questioning face. He just shrugged his shoulders. "Nice phone, but what do I want with it?"

This was going to frustrate me. "I know you put this in my locker. Just take it back." He looked at me with one eyebrow cocked now.

"Jacob, I didn't put this in your locker." He pushed my hand back towards me.

"Come on, I know you did." I forced my hand back towards him.

"When? I came straight here after class." I opened my mouth to say before art class but then I remember that I hit my locker before I went to class and this wasn't in there. He didn't have time to put it in there after class. Now I was really confused. Who the hell put this in my locker? Alice came strolling over to see what we were talking about when she saw what was in my hand.

"Oh my god!" She swiped it out of the palm of my hand and held it to look at it from every angle. Bella and Rosalie come over to see what she was gawking at. When they saw it their faces hit the floor. "Do you know what this is?" Rosalie asked as she took it from Alice's hands.

"A phone?" I answered. She was not too happy about this.

"Yeah but the kind of phone. This is a LG Prada! This thing cost about eight hundred dollars." Hearing that price tag nearly made my heart stop. Now there was no doubt in my mind that this was Edward. No one else in this town could afford something so crazy… at least I didn't think so. "Emmett, I want this kind of phone!"

"Give that back to him." Alice grabbed it from the blonde's hands and handed it back to me. "Wow, you got lucky, so who got it for you?"

"All I know that it's from a secret admirer, like it's that hard to guess who it is." I stared at Edward.

"Oh please, if this was Edward he wouldn't have kept this from me." Alice touched the phone one more time before turning away from it like it was a snake that would bite her if she messed with it anymore. If Alice didn't think it was Edward then I don't know who it was.

"Come on, let's get going." Bella pulled me into the car. As we drove, I watched as Edward watched from the rear window. His eyes followed our car, his eyes burning, could that be the look of jealousy? At least it was the weekend and I didn't have to see those engulfing eyes. When they looked at me, I was simply at a loss for words.

On the way to Port Angeles I moved my SIM card from my old burnt out phone to my new one. When I turned it on it was amazing, completely touch screen, that's why there weren't any buttons. Seth had reacted the same way to it that everyone else did; swooned over it, looking like he was about to cream his pants.

"Come on Alice, I know you know it was Edward, why don't you tell me?" I begged as Seth played with the phone. She just shook her head. "Jacob, believe me, I would tell you if it was him."

"Well, who else could it be, not many people around here could afford a phone like this," I pointed to it. Seth was now playing games on it. "Plus it has to be someone who goes to our school, how else could they sneak it into my locker?"

"That's not necessarily true. Remember how we said that a lot of kids from La Push and Port Angeles come to our New Year's Party?" I nodded; I remember that conversation, which was before everything crumbled beneath my feet. "We weren't kidding about that. We even get people from Seattle. A lot of people are friends with kids in Forks. Someone might have seen you and found out who you were from one of the local kids and figured now would be the best time to start trying to sweep you off your feet." I should have known Alice would be able to reanalyze something like that. She wasn't lying when she said their parties were crazy. I decided I didn't want to try and argue with her anymore for the night.

Shopping was a no-brainer –it always was with Alice- she would just find stuff she really liked, see if it looked good on you, which it always did, and purchase it for you even if you begged her not too. That's usually how it went but this time I wasn't paying enough attention to the others to complain about what Alice was buying me this time. I was totally absorbed in this phone. As much as I disliked people buying things I have to admit, this was pretty pimp. Except every time I looked into that shiny sleek onyx surface it would never be my eyes reflecting back at me, it was his. I couldn't look for long. It was like he was always watching me, following me. I knew it was just my imagination or usually a trick of the lighting but everywhere I looked I could see his face. Someone in the food court, a quick glance in a mirror, someone whispering that sounded like his velvet voice. I couldn't concentrate at all. Before I knew it, we had already seen the movie and were on the way home. Bella and Alice scrutinized every aspect of it, saying which parts they loved and which they would have changed. Seth was drained, he passed out even before we could get out of the theater parking lot.

Sleep, once again, didn't come easily for me. Now I was to busy thinking about who could have sent it to me. I thought back to that night; the crowded room filled wall-to-wall, music blasting, everyone having a good time. I tried to remember the blurry unknown faces, which were unimportant at the time. Anytime I tried to think back like that only one face stood out to me. I tried to block him out of my thoughts but he was just too strong, it's like trying to hold back the ocean with a broom, he just swept me out in his tide.

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Ding-dong. The sound of the doorbell startled me awake. I looked at the clock; it was already nine A.M. I was the type of person who liked to sleep in to twelve on the weekends. The bell rang again. Billy must have left already. A third time and I was headed down towards the door. On the other side stood a man in a brown uniform. "Morning sir. I have a package delivery for a Mr. Jacob Black."

"That's me." I said. The man handed me his electronic clipboard. I signed in the small black box and handed it back to him. He nodded, walked back to his truck, disappeared behind it for a second and then came back holding a large crate of some sort covered in a thin red sheet. "Happy Early Valentine's Day." The man said handing it to me before vanishing altogether.

I brought it inside. The weight inside seemed to be moving around and sort of… whimpering. That's when I noticed the crate had a metal net covering. Pulling off the sheet I noticed it wasn't a crate, it was an animal cage. I opened the metal front and inside was a small, shy, and scared Yorkshire terrier puppy. My heart melted at first sight of the little creature before me; it was no larger then my hands put together and its fur was an array of various shades of brown and black. It slowly traveled out of the safety zone of its pen and onto the wooden floor. It had a large red ribbon around its stomach, the same color as the phone. Inside the pen was a letter. I reached in and began to read.

Day two's gift, this puppy that is almost as cute as you are.
Don't worry about anything, all its shots and vet visits have been paid for in advance.
You don't have to do anything but name it and love it.
Day Three's will be on your doorstep when you wake up
From,
Your Secret Admirer

P.S. – If you want to know my true identity I'll give you one letter of my first name everyday till February fourteenth.
The first letter – A.

"A?"

So who could this mysterious new gentleman caller be? Guess you have to wait and find out. The next chapter is going to cover Valentines Day and it's going to be so romantic it will melt even the coldest of icy hearts… probably not but it's going to be very very very cute. So until then my friends keep reading, waiting, and reviewing. Love Ya.