Sorry it took so long to get this one out, I have a shit load of school this semester and my writing is falling on the back burner, I will update though, I owe it to all my FUCK AWESOME reviewers tehe ;) so here it is

KIM

"I'd been in school with Jared since we both started."

Ace looked on, wide eyed, silent.

"It's a small rez and there's only so many schools, plus we lived close to each other. Probably only a few blocks away."

Still, no comment, wow, she must really wanna hear this story.

"We were never friends or anything, I mean, I knew who he was, but we never talked. You have to understand, I was never that pretty."

Ace started to protest

"That's not-"

I cut her off

"Hold on sweetie, I don't want your reassurance, I'm fine with how I look, I'm just stating a fact."

Despite my reassuring words, I couldn't help but compare us in my head. Her, with her big brown eyes and killer curves, and Me, with my tiny curve-less figure, and weird green/brown eyes. But that didn't matter, that wasn't the point.

"Somewhere around the 6th grade, things changed."

Her eyes softened, she knew where this was going.

"Jared had always been cute, but suddenlt, things were different, and I felt...differently."

Ace nodded slowly, compassion filling her eyes.

"I tried to get his attention, practically flipped when I got assigned as his partner in biology, but he just...never noticed."

I could tell she was starting to get angry...the idea that she was getting angry for me just made me like her that much more.

"Then, we graduated middle school, and there was no reason for us to be together. We both went into high school, albeit very differently. I was quiet, shy, I didn't have a lot of friends. Jared was a Jock, ya know, basketball star and all that. Then, out sophomore year, we were put on the same project in English. He didn't know me, didn't want to know me, but he had to work with me."

Yeah, she was pissed now

"We were supposed to write a poem. It was really obvious that he didn't want to, and that he expected me to write one while he just hung out. I didn't mind, I just liked being around him. So I wrote what I was feeling, I wrote him a poem."

I blinked a couple times to get rid of the annoying tears gathering in my eyes.

"It went like this,

"Longing

"Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.

Come, as you came a thousand times,
A messenger from radiant climbs,
And smile on your new world, and be
As kind to others as to me!"

My voice was cracking by the end, and I saw tears flowing down Ace's face.

"It's only fair to say that he sat through the whole thing, smiled at the end, took credit for half the work, and didn't talk to me for the rest of the semester."

I heard Ace's sharp intake of breath and watched as her fists clench.

"That asshole!"

She exclaimed. Hey eyes flashed up to mine, as if expecting reproach, and found none. I agreed with her, Jared had been an asshole. He had more than made up for it in the past years, but a light scar would always mar my heart.

I nodded

"Yeah, that's what I thought too. I decided that it wasn't worth it. That he didn't deserve my heart or my time."

I could almost hear Ace's mental 'you go girl!' and grinned.

"I don't think he noticed how I changed, but I had. I stopped looking up in anticipation when he came into the room. I stopped going out of my way to make eye contact in the hall, and in most respects, I moved on."

Hey eyebrows raised, oh, she caught the 'most respects' part.

"I was still in love with him."

Her eye brows furrowed and I could tell she wasn't pleased.

"I couldn't just make myself fall out of love, it doesn't work that way, but I was trying. I got my first boyfriend at 15."

She grinned, she liked that.

"His name was Tyler."

My voice got wistful.

"He was everything a first boyfriend should be: gently, caring, attentive, sweet, and he loved me."

I felt a wave of sadness sweep over me as I thought of that year.

"We were just going into our junior year together. I hadn't seen Jared Till all summer, and I thought I was almost completely over him. There was still a little twinge in my heart when I thought of him, but nothing as strong as before."

Ace nodded in approval, she probably wouldn't like where the story was about to go.

"We had algebra II together, and for once, I really didn't care. Sure, I still 'liked' him, but I was more mature, or so I thought. Predictably, he payed no attention to me. I noticed him of course, he was much bigger, much more attractive, but I wasn't that shallow. He managed to go 5 weeks without even looking at me, and why should he, it wasn't like we were friends."

Yeah, more of Ace's lovely glaring, I still didn't see how she managed to do that and still look cute.

"Well, typical Jared, he was late one day and forgot his back pack. We had some sort of pop quiz, and the cliche 'do you have a pencil' question was inevitable. I sat behind him, and after asking the two guys beside him, he turned to ask me."

Ace tensed, she knew where this was going, albeit, her circumstances had been a little more intense.

"I knew what he was going to ask before he did, and even though I only had one more pencil, I was already holding it out. He took it from my hand with a mumbled thanks and turned back around without even looking at me."

I heard Ace's small growl and felt her anger and impatience.

"After class Tyler came to pick me up and drive me home. There's not exactly rules on PDA at a school as small as the rez's, so we were kissing. I felt someone tap my shoulder and turned to see who it was."

Ahh, the big moment she was waiting for.

"Jared had the pencil in his hand and was obviously hurried to go. I took it, looked him in the eyes, and said thanks."

Ace was so focused I could have told her to pat her head and rub her tummy and she would have. I grinned at that mental picture and continued.

"I turned back to Tyler, to resume our previous activities, and then the shoving started. I didn't know what was going on at the time, but as I've learned from Jared, he was trying to get Tyler off of me. I just saw Jared shove Tyler into a desk and push me back, also into a desk. He grabbed Tyler and was saying something to him when I intervened and tried to separate them. Of course, I couldn't, but Jared relented when I started screaming. I remember telling him to 'fuck off', words I NEVER used, and telling Tyler to take me home."

Spell broken, Ace was mottled red and hovering on the edge of yelling something highly inappropriate, and yes, I could tell that just from her face.

"I don't remember the next couple days very well. I do remember that the ride home had been really uncomfortable, and that Tyler wouldn't tel me what Jared had said. He got more and more distant, and then, out of the blue, he broke up with me."

"What the fu-"

I cut her off, again

"Wait till I'm done."

My voice was firm, I could tell she was fuming, but she nodded.

"I probably looked like shit when I went back to school. I was depressed, I had lost my boyfriend for unknown reasons right before midterms, and I was pissed as hell. I walked into algebra in a bad mood and instantly felt...better. It was weird. For all intensive purposes, I should feel worse, I mean, Jared was in there. But I didn't. He walked right up to me and asked me what was wrong. I didn't answer, I just flipped him the bird and asked the teacher if I could move to the back of the class. Since I was a straight A student, he had no problem moving me."

I took a deep breath

"I remember Jared staring at me the whole time, not knowing what his problem was. He kept trying to approach me, and I just blew him off. I was more than pissed about the whole thing, and I knew he had something to do with how Tyler broke up with me."

"I think this lasted about a week before Jared actually forced me to listen to him. He pulled the whole 'this is real, I really like you' thing, and I, being a teenage girl who had WAY to much of a crush on him, believed him."

Ace glared a little more, and I couldn't help but think it was cute.

"After that, it all went pretty fast. I went to a bondfire, Jared explained things, we fell in love, end of story."

Ace blinked...once...twice...three times. Then she spoke.

"That was it, all he had to do?"

I knew where she was comming from, but I couldn't help but be protective of Jared.

"It wasn't like it was his fault that he didn't like me, like you said, I wasn't even his type. But now, we're both happy. And I don't care why or how, I just know that we are."

Her voice got quiet, small

"Do you regret anything at all...'

My face heated up and I nodded, mutely. Yes. There was one thing that I regretted.

"We umm..."

I felt my blush work it's way down my chest and heard myself squeak out

"We did it to soon."

Her eyebrows raised and she cocked her head to the side, she wanted an explination.

"On our first date we...we had sex. Jared always says that it was his wolf, that he just couldn't control it, but I have a hard time with the fact that I loved him for years, and he kinda sorta took advantage of that fact when he had sex with me."

there was her glare again

"But...'

I continued

"I've forgiven him, and we love each other."

Ace just nodded and settled back. Then she spoke

"So about the changes..."

What? how did she know about those? Oh wait! Paul didn't!

"How soon till they start showing?"

Sooo , whadja think lol. So as you can tell, I'm not a big Jared fan, I kinda think he's an asshole, but he's still a wolf, so I have to give him some credit. I hope you guys like it, and if you don't, then that's your perogative and not my problem. remember REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW! believe it or not, it actually makes me write faster :) ILY