Chapter 37:

Grounded

The next few weeks were absolutely the most boring weeks in my whole life. It was summer and I was stuck in my room. I couldn't see Jake, play with Emmett . . . I wasn't allowed to do anything.

I didn't complain out loud because I knew I sort of deserved it and my parents would give me the look and the talk but hey, internally, I have a right to complain. They were depriving me of society, socialization . . . fun.

There were a couple good things though. First of all, I could write to Jake. We couldn't talk on the phone or text because my dad was watching our phone but we could talk through messaging on the computer. We couldn't do it too much though because dad would here the typing coming from our rooms.

The other advantage was that I was able to work on our album. I had asked Alice to order me a huge photo album and that was mostly what kept me from dying from boredom. I did a lot of editing on the computer and then printed them out.

I had a lot of scrapbook supplies so I was mostly working on that because we took a lot of pictures on our trips; 15 memory cards to be exact. I liked to take photos, if hadn't noticed. I had millions of albums in my closet. But eventually, of course, that got boring.

I sketched and painted and make bracelets and designed clothing but it all got so boring after the first 3 weeks. Currently I sitting on the floor against my bed, staring at the ring in the small box.

I had been dreaming and thinking about it a lot. I had this feeling that we should tell my dad . . . like soon . . . or something bad might happen. I had a dream where he found and exploded when he realized what it was . . . not nice.

Suddenly, my computer beeped. I put the ring back into my drawer and jumped onto my bed.

Hey, how are you - J

Okay I guess . . . thinking about the ring again - N

And . . . - J

Well, I have a feeling that I should tell him soon, heck, I probably should've told him before but I guess I chickened out - N

Well . . . like I said before, it's up to you . . . why don't you pick a day and then swear you'll tell him - J

Okay, how about today - N

. . . as I said, it's up to you. If you want to tell him today, then go ahead - J

Okay, I swear with you, Jacob Black here as a messaging witness, that I will tell my dad about the ring today, the first chance I get. Amen! - N

Hahaha, okay, I love you - J

Love you . . . oh! I think I hear him coming up! Bye! - N

I quickly closed down the chat and opened an old school essay.

"Ness?" my dad said as he knocked.

"Yeah?" I called.

"Can you . . . can come take a hunt with me?" he asked, opening the door slightly.

"Umm . . . sure dad, I'll be right down" I called and he nodded, closing the door.

"Jeez, I wasn't being that literal" I said softly as I walked over to my nightstand.

I opened it slowly, taking out the box.

'You swore to yourself, come on Nessie, don't chicken out. He said he would always be there for you, whatever you did, ready to listen' I said to myself mentally.

"Well, now let's see if he meant it" I murmured as I slipped the box into my back pocket and ran out. "Ready" I squeaked as I cleared my mind completely of the ring.

"Okay, let's go then" Dad said, running out suddenly.

I ran out after him, a smile forming on my lips. It felt nice to be outside again, feeling the wind on my face. I had only been outside 1time before, to hunt of course and I had to go straight back to my room when I was done.

I tried to stretch it out and got caught and reprimanded . . . being grounded officially dad kept running until we hit the creek. There he stopped suddenly.

"Look Nessie, I know I told you we were going to hunt but I also want to talk to you" he said and I could feel a slight panic rising.

He didn't . . . he couldn't possibly . . . no, not possible.

"Nessie . . . I . . . your mom and I . . . well, we've been talking. You been very well behaved and have not complained at all though we know you're bored out of your mind" he said and I chuckled slightly. "and . . . well, we think that you've learned your lesson" he said and I froze.

The ring suddenly weighed 100 pounds in my pocket.

"So . . . I'm not grounded anymore?" I said, my face going a little paler.

"No, your grounding it officially over" he said and I smiled hugely as I ran over to hug him.

"Thank you!" I said and he laughed, kissing my forehead.

"You deserve it, now you can hunt, we'll meet up in about an hour here okay?" he said and I nodded.

He smiled at me before shooting off.

Now I was allowed to have a full blown panic attack. I was more than overjoyed that I was finally free but . . . he just ungrounded me and I'm supposed to tell him about Jake . . . Paris . . . the ring. I flipped out my cell phone, dialing Jake.

"Hello, Ness? You know we're not allowed to—"

"Look Jake, yes we are because my dad just ungrounded us but—"

"We're not grounded anymore? That's—"

"Jake!" I called and he quieted down. "He just ungrounded me and I'm supposed to tell him about the freaking ring!" I nearly yelled.

"Oh" he said finally realizing. "Well . . . maybe you could . . . it's possible . . . but you swore . . . "

"I know! I'm about to die here Jake" I groaned, sliding down to the ground.

"Tell you what . . . why don't I go to you and we'll tell him together?" He asked.

"Really?" I said, perking up. "You would come even though he'll probably kill you?" I said and I heard his deep laughter on the other side.

"Of course I would, I'll do anything for you Ness" he said sweetly. "So, should I go now or . . . "

"No, umm we're meeting up in about an hour so come in half an hour so I can at least see you before we tell him" I said.

"Okay, I'll see you soon" he said. "Love you"

"Love you" I said as I hung up.

I groaned, letting my head rest on the tree. It was just my luck the day I was planning on telling dad he decided to ungrounded me, thinking I had learned my lesson about running away and lying.

"I'm so going to get grounded again" I grumbled as I got up. "At least Alice won't see this coming" I mumbled as I went off for a quick hunt, I would go out for a bigger one later.

Time seemed to be speeding up because it only felt like seconds had passed when someone suddenly wrapped their arms around me.

"Jake!" I squealed as I turned to him, breathing in his amazing scent.

For a second, all my worries were forgotten. I was in Jake's arms again.

"I missed you" I said as tears began to form in my eyes.

He leaned down so that our foreheads were touching.

"I missed you more than you can imagine" he said as he closed the gap between our lips.

This kiss was sweet but slowly building to passionate. He carefully pushed me back into the tree, coming as close to me as our bodies allowed. I began moaning as my hands tangled into his slight shaggy hair. His hand were around my waist, pushing me even closer to him. Eventually we had to pull away for air but our foreheads stayed touching.

"I love you" he said softly.

"I love you" I said.

We ended up sitting on the forest floor with me sitting on Jake's lap. We were exchanging stories of some of the ridiculous things we did to try to entertain ourselves. We were currently laughing at Jake's attempt to go wolf.

He was so bored, he tried to change but did it in the part of his room the has a sort of short ceiling and he hit his head. Then, trying to shake off the headache, he hit his closet making him walk back and crush his IPod. He kept either hitting something or crushing something else so he eventually just gave up and switched back.

I was laughing so hard I nearly had tears in my eyes. Then I heard the bushes move. We looked up just in time to see dad walk in to the small clearing . . . on the other side of the creek. I saw just a hint of annoyance in his eyes as he jumped over the river to join us. We got up quickly, disentangling ourselves.

"Hey dad" I said, trying to smile.

"Hi" he said suspiciously, looking at both of us.

I kept my left hand securely tucked in my jeans. We decided we would just . . . sort of casually let it out and then show dad the ring so I had put in while we were talking.

"Umm . . . dad, can we talk to you for a minute?" I asked him and he nodded slowly, his suspicion rising.

God please let him not kill us

A/N

Sucks for NEssie, room arrest for weeks on summer vacation! But . . .uhoh! It's time to tell Edward . . . dun, dun, dun, duuuuuun (Suspensful music) h, about the author alert, still be careful about your stories being stolen but I'm happy to announce that I got her account deleted. teirney121, thief, no longer exists. Movie Recomndation - Charlie St. Cloud. It's really good. i even teared up in some parts. I can't believe summer is almost over. Only 2 weeks left. *sigh* the good things never last. Well, enjoy the freedom while you can.

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