Chapter Thirty Six - Super Dork and Jane Rosalie's POV
Winter break had come and gone, along with all the holidays and our family get togethers. The Cullen's had a big dinner for all of us Christmas Eve, while Alice and I did our own little thing for the guys and us at their place Christmas day. Jane and Alec even came over and we stayed up practically all night just enjoying the peace and each others company. Well, as much peace that could be enjoyed with a rather inebriated Jake attempting to serenade everyone with the present Jane had gotten Alec... A brand new acoustic guitar. Jacob may be alot of things, but musician he is not. I swear, by the third try of him butchering a Spice Girls song, all of our ears were ringing and the guitar was forcefully taken away from him by Jasper.
After all the Holiday's, New years came and went with Jake miraculously not getting arrested for pulling yet another one of his moronic stunts. All of us went to Seattle to ring in the New Year, and Jake proved that alcohol is an unnecessary factor with him coming up with his brilliant ideas.
While fully sober, he decided to play Spiderman and climb to roof of some building. Why? I have no idea. At first, Emmett was going to play super dork right along with him, but after I chewed him out and literally pulled him back down by his belt, he choose to stay grounded.
Being cheered on by several dozen drunk people on the street didn't help Alice and my efforts to try and stop Jake what so ever. I even had to promise a few old ladies that he wasn't attempting to commit suicide when they wanted to call 911. Jane just kept rolling her eyes the entire time and gasping when he'd slip or something. She know just like the rest of us that this was just another character flaw we all had to deal with if you had the privilege of knowing Jacob.
We all watched as he climbed the eight story office building and safely make it to the top. After a few minutes of cheering from the crowed that had gathered, Jake took a bow and walked out of our view. Another ten minutes later he reappeared at the front doors, evidently using the elevator inside to descend back down to ground level.
After that, the rest of the school year had flown by relatively drama free, especially with Victoria being out of the picture for good. Now we were just a few months shy of Alice's graduation, and me finishing up my junior year.
Her and I were mid way through our two year internship at the magazine, and had been given more and more tasks to do lately. We were busy working Friday afternoon, selecting racks of clothes for a fitting and photo shoot later on in the evening. Our boss had told us to choose which dresses suited each model best and to categorize them accordingly.
It took Ally and I a good two hours to go through the eight models for the shoot tonight, but we got it done and our boss Jessica was quite impressed.
"You two did great today." she told us once she looked over our work
"Thanks." Alice and I about said in unison
"So, girls. I was wondering if you two were free for the next, oh say, several hours?"
I looked over at Alice and we both didn't quite know what to make of the question.
"I am." Alice looked over at me and shrugged, I nodded in agreement
"Well, would you guys like to assist on the photo shoot?"
"Oh my gosh." Alice gasped
"Yes, of course we would." I smiled and tried to contain my overwhelming enthusiasm
"Great. I'll have my assistant get you the address so you can head on over there. I'll be there a little later to check on everything."
"Sounds great Jessica." Alice smiled and told her as she walked away
Alice and I gathered our stuff together after getting the directions to the location from one of Jessica's assistants. We drove about 20 minutes before we got to a large warehouse like building. We gave each other a quick glance, both thinking that this had to be the wrong place, that was until we saw Jessica's assistant pull up beside us and motion for us to get out and follow her.
"Walk with me." she told us once we had gotten out of Alice's car
"Okay, I'm gonna have you two help set up each shot, and since you know the clothes each model will wearing, you can help keep all that organized as well."
For being a simple assistant to Jessica, she always had a 'holier than thou' attitude that just rubbed Alice and I the wrong way.
The shoot was going to be some kind of New Year fashion guide for the magazine. For the few hours that Alice and I where there, we never stopped running around the set, doing what we had to so things ran smoothly.
Just before the shoot rapped up, Jessica came and went straight to check out the photos that had been taken. She gave an approving look to the photographer before walking away and over to Alice and I.
"Well, you did it girls. You survived." she chuckled lightly when she had gotten to us
"It was great. Everything went easy and we didn't have any major problems." Alice chimed in and got a nod from Jessica
"Well then, I may just have to have you both do this sort of thing more often. You two are a great team."
After that, we left the photo shoot and realised we were fairly close to the guys. Alice called up Jasper and told him that him and Emmett needed to meet up somewhere to get something to eat. We picked a restaurant that was sort of in the middle from where we both were coming from and met up there.
It had been almost another whole week since I had seen Emmett last, and I practically got ran over by him as I skiped towards his Jeep. He jumped out and scooped me up in his arms, making me feel yet again, like I wasn't the only lonely one without the other in this relationship. We got inside and got a table to sit at, which I scooted so close I was practically in his lap.
As all of us sat and ate, we started talking about school. Emmett told us that his team was having a great season and were ranked at the top. He also said if it weren't for the football itself, that he'd go nuts with how much work there was for him balance. My brother though, he just literally seemed exhausted and went on about how crazy things were at med school, and how indeed he was going nuts with the amount of work.
Alice and I gave our little pep talks and did what we could to support them through this obviously hectic time. We told them both how great they were both doing, and how proud everyone was of them, and to just push through the craziness because it was all truly worth it.
After that, Alice and I talked about how everything was going with us at school and the internship. We were getting so excited about high school coming to an end, and the probability of getting that job at the magazine in Seattle within the coming year, seemed just within our reach.
We both figured if we wound up working in Seattle, that we'd probably move there and live together. But until then, Alice decided to stay in Forks for another year with me, and until I graduated school as well. Moving out together and heading that direction had been our plan for a while now, regardless of our jobs location. Being closer to the guys was the biggest determining factor in that matter.
Emmett's POV
During spring break, Jacob's 21st birthday came and we all held our breath for what would happen. The thought of him being allowed to drink legally didn't inspire any confidence at all.
Everyone simply hoped for the best and waited for the day to come. After talking to Embry, I found out what Jake's dream for a 21st birthday present would be and told everyone about the idea. We all agreed that it was a good one and then tried to come up with a way to surprise him. With the help of Jane distracting him for a few hours andhaving him unnessesarily help her move all her furniture around, I was able to get a hold of Jacob's car keys and get his truck down to Embry's so he could do the work.
Once I got back with his truck, I called Rose, who was upstairs waitng with Alice and Jasper, and told her to get everyone downstairs to watch. Then I gave Jane a quick text to let her know to bring him down in about ten minutes.
All of us waited by his truck as him and Jane strolled out the front doors of the lobby and over to where we where all standing. It didn'ttake more than a second before things got crazy and he noticed his present.
"Holy shit. What did you guys do?" he bounded over to his truck and started circling it
"Just showing you how much me love your crazy ass." Rose smirked and told him, getting everyone to chuckle in the process
"You guys are the friggin' best. I mean God, these are the exact rims I have wanted forever. I've been drooling over them for years, but damn, they were like five G's."
"Yeah, I know." I laughed
"Yeah Jakey, so now your piece of shit car has rims that cost more than the entire thing is worth." Jane teased him
"I know, ain't it great?" he almost squeaked andpicked her up to spin her around a few times, then proceeded to give every single one of us hugs, whether we were willing or not
"Thanks Bro." Jake took an extra second to thank me
"You're welcome Jake."
Even though Alice had wanted to do her normal party planning for him, he wouldn't have any of it. He firmly told us that there was quote "No way in hell I'll be locked up blowing out candles on an over sized cupcake when I can be out partying till dawn." And because they all thought Jasper and I being only 19 would ruin their fun, they decided to ditch us and go party it up without us.
So after our big surprise the day before, him and Jane, along with Embry and Alec were all going out for the night to celebrate. At least there would be two other guys there to try and help Jane control him while they were out.
While Jake was getting ready and on the phone getting a lecture from his mom about behaving, there was knock at the door and I went to let Jane in. She looked like just like Alice had dressed her, only a little more... revealing.
"Where's the birthday boy?" she chuckled and came to sit down in the living room
"Talking to mommy." I gestured towards Jake's room
"Ah." she smiled an leaned back on the couch, trying to hold down her mini skirt from riding too far up
"Yeah, I think Renee is trying to undo all the damage his older brother Jared did when he called earlier to wish him a happy birthday."
"No worries, I'll keep him in line." Jane grinned
"Mom, that was only twice... Ok ok, you're right. Three times, but it ain't gonna happen again."
Jane and I both turned when we heard Jake raise his voice from his room, obviously talking about his visits to jail.
"So, Jake doesn't talk much about his family, other than his mom and Jared. I mean, Jake's last name is Clearwater, and not Swan, so Charlie is just his step dad right? It's just so frustrating because I can never get any details out of him. I mean, wheres his real dad?" Jane asked seriously after we had sat for a few minutes longer
"Don't worry, he doesn't talk to me either. Everything I know Rose told me. I know his real dad, Harry, lives here in Forks. They both remarried after Renee and him divorced when Jake was young, and he had another two kids... I think. Jake use to visit them here every so often, but something happened between him and Harry when he was like 16 and he never really came back until last year."
"Oh geeze, that kinda sucks." Jane sighed
"Yeah. I would say Jake ended up okay after all that, but we both know he's crazy." I laughed and tried to lighten the mood
I didn't have to try too hard though, because only moments later Jake came flying out his bedroom door.
"Damn girl. I'm gonna be beatin' the guys off ya tonight." Jake noticed Jane immediately and went straight to her
"Be my guest baby, I don't need any ones attention but yours." she smiled up at Jake and he proceeded to assault her lips, and I proceeded to evacuate the area
"See Em. It took the perfect girl to find me before I could be 'boyfriend' material." Jake said as he came around the corner to where I had relocated in the kitchen
"Yep. Way to go Jane. You tamed the beast." I teased and got both of them to laugh
"I don't know about beast. You have seen Jake's room, right Em?" Jane laughed and continued the joking
"Hey, it's my birthday you two, there's no picking on me. I have immunity. So don't be hatin' chica, you know my room rocks. You're just jealous of my daisies." Jake started to tickle Jane until she squealed for mercy
The both of them had been pretty steady for a while now, especially considering Jake's relationship track record. Granted, they fought like hell the majority of the time, but they would be back to baby this and babe that almost instantly. Somehow it worked for them and all of us were kinda proud of Jake for growing up in that small way.
"Alright. We better get going to meet the guys." she announced after Jacob ceased his torture and she caught her breath
"Sure, sure. I'll catch ya later Em. You and Jasper be good little boys without me." Jake laughed as he walked out the front door with Jane on his arm
"Yeah. Keep it up smart ass." I called down the hall to him before closing the door
He had been on Jasper and I about our age the closer it got to his 21st birthday. Now I knew how Alice and Rose felt always being called the youngins of the group.
A few hours later Jasper got home from some extra work he was doing down at the hospital his dad worked at.
"How long has Jake been free?" he asked as he went through the cabinets looking for something to eat
"Maybe three and a half hours."
"Any word from Jane, or the police yet? I mean I just left the hospital so I know he didn't wind up there." Jasper shook his head and asked as he came to sit down across from me with a bag of chips
"Nope. Everything must be okay."
"Well it's only 11, alot can happen." Jasper's lack of trust in Jacob was amusing and got me to chuckle
Him andI had gone to bed around midnight, but a little after three in the morning I woke up and went to get something to drink. Just as I was pouring myself some water I heard keys start to jingle outside the front door and the knob begin to turn. I shook my head and turned to wait, exspecting Jane and Alec to be dragging a passed out Jacob through it.
I was kinda shocked when Jake came gracefully walking through the door with a sleeping Jane in his arms. I jumped up and ran over to him to help close the door as he walked her to his room. I turned the corner and watched as he set her down amidst his disheveled pink sheets and sliped off her heels before covering her with the blanket.
He kissed her and turned to walk back out of the room.
"Seems like someone had more fun than the birthday boy?" I whispered as he went into the bathroom across from his room and started to rumage through the medicine cabinet
"Oh ya bro. She went crazy. I got to her apartment and realised her keys must still be in her purse that was in my truck, so I just brought her here instead of carrying her all the way back down stairs to get them." he explained as he found a bottle of Tylenol and took a few pills out
"Well it looks like you survived." I chuckled
"Yeah. I was pretty tipsy earlier, but I didn't have anything to drink in the last few hours, so I'm cool."
"Alec and Embry do okay?"
"Yep. We all lived. No one got arrested or hurt. Ain't ya proud?" Jake smirked
"Actually, yeah. I'm impressed. And out of everyone, you're the one sober enough to take care of your girl."
"Yeah. I'm such a gentleman." he rolled his eyes and walked past me to the kitchen, "I gonna get her a glass of water and give her these so she dont hurt like a mofo in the morning. Then I am off to bed."
"Well, I'm glad you had fun Jake, and happy birthday dude."
"Thanks man."
Jake got the glass of water for Jane and we both headed to our rooms to go to sleep. The next day I got up around 10 and went straight to the kitchen to get something to eat. Jasper was already up and had his face buried in about three different medical books. He had been studying non stop the entire year, and had explained to us several times that this whole becoming a doctor thing was alot tougher than he thought it would be.
Even with that, he still was doing great like everyone knew he would and his grades were near perfect.
"I heard Jake come in early this morning." he looked up from his book and asked
"Yep. He made it through his 21st, and he'll make it to his 22nd." I chuckled as I got out everything I would need to make a massive omelet
"22nd huh? You're awfully optimistic there Emmett. Let us pray."
As I sat down to eat my creation, I heard Jacobs door squeak open and shut softly. I immediately knew it wasn't Jake and watched as Jane carefully rounded the corner holding onto her head like it would fall off if she didn't.
"Corona... ow, shit... is the anti-Christ." she quietly announced as she laid down on the love seat across from Jasper and pulled a pillow to cover her face
"Fun night, huh Jane?" Jasper chuckled and asked her
"Night yes, the next day... not so much. I don't even remember getting here."
"Ahh, well you were asleep in Jake's arms when he brought you here, so it's not memory loss your experiencing." I assured her
"Good to know." she gave a small smile from underneath the pillow
I got up from the table to bring my plate to the sink, "Need anything girl?"
"No. I'm good. Don't even mention food, please, I beg of you."
"No food? What the hell are you talking about babe? I want the biggest sandwich possible right about now. Extra cheese, and mayo..." Jacob came around the corner from his room and chimed in, a bit too loud by the way Jane cringed
"Shut up ya douche." she threw the pillow at him, which he caught it mid air
"Luv ya too honey." Jake smiled back and went to give her a quick kiss before passing me on the way to the kitchen
"I swear to God Jake, don't you dare bring anything edible withing a twenty feet of me or I'll chop your balls off."
"Still lovely as ever I see. I guess the Tylenol didn't help ya, huh princess?"
"No they didn't.. wait.. what Tylenol?"
"Never mind. You were passed out and drooling all over when I brought them to you last night." Jake teased and ate a few pieces of lunchmeat as Jane looked on, just to annoy her more
"Ass."
"Look who's talkin', brat."
"Dick."
"Hey, be nice." Jake turned the corner with a plate in hand and warned her
"You two have such a healthy relationship." Jasper shook his head and joked
"Relationship, please. It's an agreement." Jane smirked
"An agreement huh? Do explain babe." Jake threw her legs off the side of the love seat and fell back into the cushions, making Jane bounce slightly and just piss her off all the more
"Yeah babe. You agree to keep your paws off any other chicks, and I agree to tolerate you." she picked her legs back up and slammed them down in Jake's lap, making him gasp, obviously because she got him right where it counts. That song seriously lied about 'What hurts the most'... And you'd think the group of guys that wrote it would know that.
"Well, baby... " he grabbed her feet and re-positioned across his legs before continuing, "You ain't no picnic either." Jake took a giant bite of his sandwhich a started to chew with his mouth wide open and facing her direction
"See what I have to deal with?" Jane cringed and turned to Jasper and I to ask. Him and I both nodded, knowing exactly what she had to deal with
"Oh come on Janie, you know we're perfect for each other. You're the only one that would ever deal with my craziness and I'm the only one that would put up with your bi-polar disorder."
"I am not bi-polar." she gasped
"Well, it was better than calling you schizophrenic, right beautiful?"
"Ughh, I give up." she smirked and sat up, "I want a bite."
"I thought you said not to bring food anywhere near you?"
"I change my mind, now gimme a bite dammit."
"Okay, okay. Just don't bit off my fingers girl." Jake held up the sandwich as she took a bite
After watching the two of them go from practically homicidal, to acting like they were in 'the Notebook', I convinced Jasper to take a break from his books and come play some football like the good ol' days with a friend of mine off the team. Jake walked Jane to her apartment on our way down, and came along with as well.
We took my Jeep and drove to some park in town to meet my friend Qill there, who brought another kid from our team, Seth. When we got there, Jake called up Embry and convinced him to come so we could have to equal teams and really be able to have some fun.
After everyone met Quill and Seth, we broke off into a couple teams and decided to play some light tackle football. Quill, Jasper and I were one team, while Jake, Embry and Seth were the other.
After being completely leveled by Jacob on the very first play, I realised he just didn't quite get the meaning of 'light tackle football'.
Needless to say, what started out as a fun game of ball, quickly turned into a brutal and dirty competition. It was pretty even the entire game, and towards the end, all of us were hurting pretty bad from going all out. In the end though, Jasper was able to trow me a wicked pass just like we use to, and I ran it all the way back for a touchdown. That put us a few points ahead and gave us the win.
Like everyone expected, Jacob was just about the sorest loser possible and threw a giant sized fit afterwards. He explained how this wasn't fair and that wasn't right, F everyone and F the game. He blamed everything including the football, the weather and the sun for his team losing and I couldn't help but laugh at his immaturity.
After a while though he got over it, and it was like he totally forgot about it ever happening. The kids got mood swings like a chick.
The three of us, Jake, Jasper and myself, all drove back to the apartment, grabbing a couple pizzas on our way. Not five minutes after we got there, Jane knocked on the door and Jake let her in. It had become almost a constant thing to either have Jacob gone over at her apartment, or Jane over here at ours.
It didn't bother Jasper and I in the least because... For one, Jane was a cool girl and practically one of the guys now, and for two, she really did keep Jake in check... some what. She went over and sat on Jacob's lap to share some pizza with him and I swear, between the two of them, they downed an entire pizza together.
Everything may not have been perfect between the both of them, but in a crazy kind of way, they were basically perfect for each other. It was sort of weird to have all of us in serious relationships at the same time and for so long now, especially with Jasper and Alice coming up on five years together, and Rose and I at just about two and a half years.
It was crazy to think about it, but I had basically been in love, if not, at least I really friggin' liked her, for the majority of my life now and I still felt the same way. Jasper and Alice were just a given. Those two could have been matched by Dr. Phil the way they were so attached to one another. Even Eddie and Bells where still going strong, to the amazement of everyone. We all kinda thought he was sort of obsessed with her more than anything, but who are we to judge I guess.
All I knew is that seeing everyone happy, and being happy myself was just about the best thing ever. But something in our lives that always tends to pop up, is drama, andwe should have known there would always be more right around the corner waiting.
A/N: Three things I must tell ya peeps!!!
One... Don't worry about the drama, it's nothing bad:) But I'm still anxious to see what you all think about what I have planned. I'm actually, quite honestly, kinda scuuured for the first time about it. Eeekk. lol
Two... I was talking to my sis Casey and we were trying to come up with a name I hadn't used yet, and that's when we realised just how much I've jacked up the bloodlines and relationships beyond belief in this story. I mean seriously, I made Renee and Charlie, Jake's mom and step dad? Billy some football coach? and Rachel is Rose's mom... (there's plenty more screwed up-ness I'm sure.) Seriously, like WTF was I thinking? LMAO. But for reals, I didn't go into this thinking Ten Years would ever be this long, and that I would ever need as many character names as I have. Hence why I had to do a little fixing during this chappy and make Jake a Clearwater, and not a Swan. You'll see why soon. (That drama I was talking about being the reason why:)
Three... My older brother (who inspired this Jacob character) is actually a rather good musician like myself, and is borderline genius unlike Jakey boy in this story. I just didn't want people getting the idea that he was completely mental... But unfortunately, genius and all, my brother was still moronic enough that he in fact climbed a building once, completely sober. I SHIT YOU NOT. His Super dork friend also spider-maned it up the the side right along with him. It was when they were a tad younger, but evidently even more idiotic than now. I mean seriously, to have two individuals scale a freakin' building together only makes me wonder what went wrong with the youth of the world? lol
Anyways, I know this chapter took a while to put up, but I've been in the middle of moving and all sorts of other drama has been happening as well. (technical, family, ect...) I'm a trooper though and Ima keep writing as often as I can and get this story finished, I promise. I may not be able to update every other day like I use to, but I'm trying my best peeps. Hope ya understand:)
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