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Steph Owns

Chapter 25: Avoiding

RPOV

I woke up the next morning with a minor ache right between my eyeballs. It was a familiar feeling and I knew it was because I had been crying the night before. I needed some Tylenol stat. I jumped up from Edward's couch and almost expected mom to be sitting right next to me, waiting on me to wake up. I was surprised that she was nowhere to be found. She is probably trippin balls right now.

I groaned and pushed myself of the couch, stretched and yelled, "Edward?"

"Hey!" A girl's voice called from the kitchen and I slowly trailed in to see who was there.

"Oh hey, Lily." I smiled at her, not expecting her to be there.

"Morning." She grinned and nodded to the cereal box on the table. "Want some brethfust." She was definitely talking with a mouthful of lucky charms!

"Hell yes." I nodded and quickly filled the waiting bowl with my favorite cereal and poured in the milk before joining her at the small round table.

"No offenth." She swallowed her food and then spoke clearly. "But you kinda look like hell."

I snorted a laugh and said, "Thanks, that's always what I want to hear in the morning."

She laughed and shrugged. "It's why I am here."

"You are here at the early hour of…" I looked at the-hopefully wrong-time on the stove top. "12:30?"

With another laugh she shook her head causing her blonde pony tail to sway back and forth. "It's only 9. Uncle Ed never sets the time right on that. The man can work any computer system set in front of him but doesn't know how to set the damn clock on the stove."

I laughed and smiled at her as we both took a bit of our yummy and nutritious cereal. With a mouthful of cereal-because if you can't beat 'em, join 'em-I asked, "Fo why are you here?"

Lily hummed and swallowed her food again before replying. "Ed called this morning, said some guy cut his finger off at the yard and he didn't want you to wake up alone. So I hopped right over. Well…" She made a quirky face before shrugging. "He bribed me with Lucky Charms too."

I snickered and asked, "Someone really cut their finger off?"

Her eyes were wide as she shrugged. "Something like that. I really hope it wasn't my dad. My mom will shit butterflies."

I laughed at her and realized then that I really liked Lily. She is pretty awesome!

We ate in silence for a few more minutes before she asked, "So what happened last night? Ed never would tell me how you ended up here. He said you were upset and I should mind my own but I don't listen well."

Smiling at her I answered, "Well, it's kind of a long story."

She raised an eyebrow and asked, "Do I really have to say, 'I've got time' or are you just going to tell me?'

Yeah, she was a no bull shit kind of girl. We were going to get along very well. So over our second bowl of Lucky Charms I told her all about Bella meeting Edward in Seattle, me finding Edward, them falling for each other…yada yada yada, blah blah blah. Her mouth was hanging open at the end.

"So you're telling me you slapped him? In the face." She seemed shocked.

"Yeah, pretty much. I kinda feel bad about it now but I was so angry at the time I wasn't really thinking." I shrugged and realized that I would have to apologize profusely about slapping him.

"Hell yeah girl, you've got lady balls. I like it." She smiled widely at me before standing and putting our bowls in the sink. "So what happened then?"

"Well, then he explained to me that he thought we all three fit into each other's lives and he didn't want to use either of us but he wanted us both to be part of his life."

"Aw, Uncle Ed. Such a sweetheart that one." She grinned, cheesily and I realized how much she really looked like her mother, they were like carbon copies but I think she had a little more of Emmett's personality.

Laughing I nodded and said, "Yeah I guess. But he and my mom have it really bad for each other."

"I think they'd be good together." She added. "He dated this tramp, Tanya a few years ago. She was horrid. Stunk like a French whore, swore like one too. Ugh…no one liked her. Not really even sure why he did but as far as I remember, I don't think he has ever been with anyone else."

"Tanya, huh? I'll have to ask him about that sometime." I snickered and shook my head. I definitely would have to bring that up.

"Eh don't worry about it. He'd shit butterflies if he knew I told you 'bout her. Big shitters in this family." She snarled her nose up and I couldn't control the laugh that her statement had caused.

"Anyway, you got plans today?" She asked, almost excitedly.

I shook my head no and wondered what she had in mind. "Cool, let's go get into some trouble."

I smiled and nodded. Hell yeah!

BPOV

From the time I woke up, I was pacing the floor. Still no text from Rose. No call from Edward. What the hell were they doing?! I was about to get into my car and just drive until I remembered how to get to Edward's house. But Mari and I went into Forks a different way and I suck with remembering directions.

Ugh!

Can I beat my head against the wall now?

I nearly jumped out of my skin when my phone started ringing around noon. I didn't even check the caller ID.

"Hello?"

"Hey!" It was Edward.

"Hey." I sighed and slumped down onto the sofa.

"What's wrong?" He asked, worriedly.

"Nothing, I'm just kind of stressing out at the moment." I didn't want to lie but I didn't want to sound like a completely pathetic worry wart!

"Why? What's going on?" He questioned instantly and I heard a saw break open rather loudly in the back ground.

"Are you at work? I can let you go." Didn't want to bother him.

He laughed and said, "Bella, I called you. Now tell me what's up."

"Oh yeah…that is right." I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose. "I was just worried about Rose. I still haven't talked to her."

"Oh, Lily is over there. She probably can't get a word in, let alone have time to pick up the phone and call." He was smiling. I could hear it in his voice. It caused me to relax just a little.

"Oh well, that's good at least she isn't there alone." I was starting to wonder why exactly Lily was there but Edward told me rather quickly without me even having to ask.

"Yeah, one of the boys cut his hand pretty bad this morning so I had to come to the lot to work out some of the paperwork for him. I called Lily to come over to just be there when Rose woke up. Besides I figured that Lily would talk her into doing something fun."

"Right. Is the boy ok?" God, I hope that poor guy didn't cut his hand off. Does Edward do that kind of stuff during the day? Has he ever cut himself?

"Yeah, he will be fine. He will just need a few stitches. There's just a lot of legal shit that comes along with that."

"I'm sure." I sighed and moved to the window when I heard a car pull up into the driveway. "Rose is here…it looks like Lily is with her."

"Huh?" Edward called to someone on his end of the phone and I heard some mumbling in the background before some rustling noise and Edward speaking to me again. "Hey babe can I call you back? The insurance company is on the phone."

"Absolutely. Have a good day."

"You too baby. Bye." And then he hung up.

"Hey mom!" Rose called as she and Lily came through the front door.

"Hey Bella." Lily smiled brightly at me.

"Hey girls. Everything ok?" I asked with wide eyes to Rose, really wanting to give her the third degree for slapping Edward last night, but also wanting to make sure that she is alright as well. That's probably why she brought Lily with her. She didn't want me bitching out over the slap or asking twenty questions. She thinks I don't know her well…I raised her.

"Yeah mom, everything is great." She grinned widely before continuing on. "If it's ok, I'm going to stay with Lily tonight. We are gonna do the whole sleepover thing, paint nails, pillow fights, eat chocolate and talk about boys."

Lily snorted and laughed at the same time before shaking her head. "I am so not pillow fighting."

Rose laughed at her before looking back at me with anxious eyes. Before I could answer she added, "Alice is coming too. I already talked to Mari about it."

"Oh, she is? Well yeah…I mean that's alright with me." I smiled and watched as she led Lily down the hall to her room.

Mari. I needed to talk to Mari. She would totally chill me out right now. Talk some sense into my head. It is a plan. I heard the girls laughing in Rose's room as I pulled my phone out and text Mari telling her to come over as soon as Alice left with Rose and Lily. She text back 'k' and I quickly started to pick up a little, just a nervous habit.

"Bye mom." I heard Rose call from behind me. I jerked up right and went over to hug her as she kissed my cheek.

"Be careful girls." I called as they headed towards the door but then remembered something. "Oh, Rose…we are supposed to be staying in Forks tomorrow night."

"Yeah," She nodded. "Edward mentioned it. I brought my clothes."

"Ok." I frowned and waved her off. "Love you."

"Love you too mom."

Exactly twelve minutes later, Mari was busting in the front door. I was in the kitchen staring at the wine bottle in my hand. Was 12:30 too early to drink? I shrugged and poured us both a glass. It's five o'clock somewhere right, Jimmy Buffet?

"Ok, what's going on?" She asked before pouring herself a glass as well.

I led Mari into the living room as I began to tell her everything that has happened in the past two days. She was going to love this.

RPOV

"I'm just going to run by Jacob's ok?" I asked Lily and Alice. "I won't be long."

"So you are going to leave us in the car to go to his apartment and have a quicky?" Alice and Lily laughed together.

"Alice!" I scolded and shook my head. "No, I am not. He is coming down to the car, I don't have time to climb those steps."

"Even for a quicky?" Alice said, giggling.

"No." I blushed crimson and shook my head. "We haven't even had a slowy."

They both gasped in shock. "What? You haven't had sex with him yet?" Lily questioned. "If I were you I would have already been all over his shit."

"Not actual sex like…intercourse, no." I shook my head and wished my cheeks would calm the fuck down and stop blushing.

"What?" She was shocked by this. "Why not?"

"I don't know…I mean I know he's not a virgin and I know he wants it really bad but I just can't bring myself to do it. We have been close several times but I just spaz out before he…puts it in."

"I bet he just loves that." Alice mocked and shook her head at me.

"What do you mean?" I asked, glancing at her before looking quickly to Lily and back at the road. Lily was nodding sadly.

"He probably thinks you are a big cock tease." Alice stated boldly and I just gaped at her like a dead fish.

"I am not a cock tease…he knows I have never had sex and he doesn't want to push me." I said proudly and held my head up high.

"He's just saying that because he thinks it will get him into your panties quicker." Alice laughed at me, almost like she was mocking me.

"More than likely." Lily agreed.

"No." I stated firmly. "I don't believe that at all. It will happen when I am ready for it to happen."

"Alright." Alice raised her hands up in surrender. "Whatever you say."

I rolled my eyes and text Jake just as we pulled into the garage right next to his car. He said he would be right there and I just killed the engine and stared anxiously at the opening of the car garage door as Lily and Alice talked about her boyfriend, Mike.

I hadn't seen Jake all day. Yesterday after work we made out in his car for awhile and it got pretty steamy if you know what I mean…it was one of those times that he almost had it in and I freaked out. I just didn't want to lose it in the backseat of his car. Lame! If he was going to sex me up, he was going to do it the right way. And I wasn't a cock tease…I was just going to make him work for it.

Make him work for it? You are a cock tease!

I grinned when I saw him jogging across the street and into the parking garage. "I will only be a second." I told Alice and Lily, jumped out of the car, meeting him at the hood of my little bug as his arms folded around my waist and he held me tightly to his chest.

With a low sigh I wrapped my arms around his neck and squeezed tightly. "I missed you today."

"I know, I missed you too." He said and pulled back looking me into the eyes. He grinned and kissed me quickly before leaning over and knocking on the hood of my car.

Both of the girls looked up from their conversation and grinned at Jake as he waved. They waved back and then started giggling to each other.

"Lily road down here with you? I'm surprised that they both aren't out of the car talking nonstop." He joked and sat down on the hood of the car before pulling me back into his chest and between his legs. Well…he was right, they both do talk nonstop.

"They are afraid we are going to have sex on the hood of the car, right in front of them." I said with a teasing smile on my face as my fingers traced his collar bone.

Tease!

I mentally flipped myself off.

"What?" He asked and stared at my mouth for a second too long. He had picked up that bad habit of staring at my mouth longer than necessary. When I had asked why he gave me the definition of DSL's. Dick. Sucking. Lips. I smacked him really hard. He only laughed and kissed me.

"Alice thought I was driving over to have a 'quicky' as she put it." I air quoted the word, quicky.

"Are we?" He asked with a raised eyebrow and a teasing smile.

"No." I shook my head and grinned at him. "Like I told her…we haven't even had a slowy."

"I know." He sighed and pulled me against him. "I just really missed you today."

"I missed you more, I swear it." I said, wrapping my arms around his neck again.

"Kiss me." He said and leaned his head back just far enough so that I could reach his lips. I gripped the backside of his neck and kissed him, hard. Yep, I don't even care if the girls are staring.

Damn it…I hated when I felt like this, like I could just jump him right here in front of my friends and not care. I hated it because…how many times do I have to say it? We haven't even had a slowy.

I want a slowy. And a quicky. And a in the showery. I sighed and pulled my lips from his.

"What?" He questioned with furrowed eyebrows. "What's wrong?"

His hands slid down from my waist, resting on my hips.

I frowned and said with a pout, "I want you."

"You have me." He grinned widely.

"I know but…damn it I really really want you!" I said and shook my head.

"Then take me." He thought it was that simple.

"Jake…" I shook my head and rested it against his shoulder.

"What?" He kissed the top of my head. "I will tell Alice and Lily to close their eyes."

I snickered and looked back into those puppy dog eyes. "I'm scared."

"Of what?" He asked curiously. I had never told him this before.

"That you will hurt me." I stated under my breath as I stared at the oh so interesting piece of lint on his t-shirt.

"Baby it doesn't hurt long." He said earnestly.

God, kill me now!

"Not like that you ass!" I rolled my eyes at him.

"Oh…" He was catching on now. "Rose, I don't want to hurt you."

"I know you don't want to but it's not that easy." I said and pulled my arms away from him, starting to step back.

"No," He grabbed my wrists to stop me. "Don't pull away from me again. You always do this…pull away when we start talking about how you really feel."

I looked at him, my teeth worrying my lip and for his own sake, he didn't look at my mouth. I may have junk punched him if he would have dared at this moment.

"I don't want to hurt you, Rose. I am here for you as long as you want me. I'm not pressuring you about sex, you are the one who always brings it up, I am doing this the way you want to do it because for once in my life I have someone that I love and loves me too. I'm not going to just throw that all away."

I felt tears in my eyes and I swallowed hard to get the emotion out of my throat. "You love me?"

"Yes." He stated firmly, staring into my eyes. "And you love me, I know you do because no one has ever cared about me the way you do. No one has ever cried for me because they thought I was in trouble, or was afraid I would get hurt. No one has ever spoken to me every day, said they missed me because they went five hours without seeing me. No one has ever loved me, Rose. No one but you and I swear to god…I will walk from here to the ends of the earth to keep you. I'm not going to throw that all away, and especially not for sex. We wait until you are ready and not a moment before that because I swear, if I think you have the slightest reservation about it, I won't do it. No matter how badly I want to make love to you…I won't do it until you're ready."

My. Heart. Just. Fuckng. Stopped.

I took one deep breath and threw my arms around his neck, kissing him harder than before. He sighed into my mouth, wrapped his arms around me tightly and kissed me back. He was right…I loved him.

I'm not really sure how long we stood there making out but Alice and Lily, god love their souls, didn't say a peep about it. When we finally pulled away from each other we were both a panting mess. I could hardly stand up straight.

"Go to Forks, have a goodnight and I will see you tomorrow." He said and kissed me again.

"Staying in Forks tomorrow night, with the pops." I said against his head. "I will call you tonight though?" I offered.

Jake smiled and nodded. "Be careful. And I will see you Sunday. Come stay with me."

"Ok." I nodded without any hesitation. I would find a way to make it work. And then the idea of Seattle popped back into my head. I really needed to talk to him about that. And after his little speech that was just made, I wasn't that nervous about telling him anymore.

I kissed him once more and pushed against his shoulders trying to stand myself upright. "Bye baby."

"Bye." He smiled, kissing me again.

We both stood up straight and he walked me around to my door, opening it for me to slide in.

"Bye." I told him again, kissing him one last time before sliding into the car.

"Drive safe. No speeding. Call me later." He said before shutting the door.

I rolled down the window as I started the car and waved to him. "Bye Jake."

"Bye girls, be careful." He waved at Alice and Lily

We all waved bye and I shot him a wink before backing out of the spot and starting towards the road.

"Well," Alice said when we turned onto highway 101. "That was the sweetest little speech I have ever heard. I teared up there at the end."

"Right?" Lily said with a nod. "Pass me the fucking tissues."

"You were listening?" I asked in complete shock. My ruthless friends…they would stop at nothing.

"Maybe." Lily smiled at me bashfully and I just shook my head. I should have known…they were being too quiet.

Alice sighed and rested her head against the seat. "I hope that I am lucky enough to find a guy like that."

I snickered and shook my head. "I am sure you will Alice…I am sure you will."

A/N: I loved this part. Really getting a soft spot for this Jake in case you can't tell. Love him a little.

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