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Chapter 52
"Hey," I said.
"Hey. You need to explain that text," she said and rose an eyebrow.
"What text?" I looked at Jake. He smiled a guilty smile. I shook my head and turned back to Kacey. "I will as soon as I find out what I texted." She laughed.
"How are you? Logan still being protective?" I asked. She smiled.
"Yeah, actually," she said and came into the room with Logan behind her. "He's right here."
"Hey, Logan." I smiled. "Sorry about what happened to Kacey, My fault." I said. He shook his head.
"Not your fault Ness, it was his fault." He said not saying his name, I'm guessing because of me.
I smiled.
"Thanks." I snuggled closer to Jake letting the warmth take over. I looked back to Kacey, who noticed that and smirked at me.
"Why do you have to notice everything?" I groaned. She shrugged.
"Because I know it tortures you" She snickered. Kacey sat pretzel style on the floor and so did Logan. Suddenly something hit me. I had to go back to school when I healed. I quickly put my hand on Jake's cheek.
Please, please, please, don't make me go back to school! please! I begged Jake. He looked into my eyes.
"I don't want to…" So did that mean I didn't have to? Tears filled my eyes but my Dad walked into the room then.
"Hey Honey," he said. I turned to look at him.
Dad, don't make me go back to school! PLEASE! My Dad smiled a little.
"Wouldn't think of it," he said.
"Am I missing something?" Kacey asked. My Dad turned back to Kacey and smiled again.
"No actually. I'm just about to explain our school plan to Renesmee," he said. Wait… 'our'?
"Yes, Our." He said gesturing to Kacey, Logan, himself, and I. I looked at him waiting for him to continue.
"See, since you won't be well enough to go back to school, " He paused looking at me. "We'll be homeschooling you, like before." He said. "But this time Kacey and Logan offered to be here with you, so we'll be 'home' schooling them too." He said. I looked at Kacey and Logan.
"You guys will be here?" I asked. they nodded.
"I couldn't leave my best friend at home while I had to go to school! How boring would that be?" She shrieked. Logan smiled. "Oh and… Logan doesn't want me going back." She laughed.
"Wait so you're gonna teach us everything?" I asked my Dad. He looked over to me and smiled.
"Well I'm sure Emmett will want to do P.E. for Kacey and Logan," he said and laughed when Emmet yelled "Of course!" from downstairs. "Carlisle can do science. I'm sure jasper can teach History."
"History?" I asked.
"Well he was in the civil war," he said. Oh, I didn't know that.
"Cool!" Kacey said. I laughed then winced and Jake tightened his hold on me a bit, not too much to hurt me.
"What will the blonde teach, Home ec.? I'd love to see her try and cook a pie! But on the up side if the ingredients says something sour and moody, then we can finally get rid of her!" Jake said.
I heard Aunt Rose hiss from downstairs.
"Yeah, then I can tie you on a chain outside!" Rose screamed from downstairs.
"I'd like to see you try!" Jake said. I looked at him.
"Stop it," I mumbled. He sighed.
"Sorry," he said after a few seconds. My Dad chuckled.
"Well you should probably get some more sleep," he said to me and turned to Kacey and Logan. "You guys are welcome to stay, in the guest bedroom or in here. We have a blow-up mattress somewhere." Kacey looked at Logan and sighed.
"Come on," he said. "One more night and then I'll go home, I promise." Kacey looked at him for another moment and smiled a little before she turned back to my Dad.
"Sure that'd be great," she said. My Dad smiled.
"I'll go try to find the blow-up mattress then," he said. Kacey and Logan thanked him and he left the room to find the mattress. Kacey immediately turned to Logan.
"You have got to go home after tonight. Okay?" She said. He nodded. I looked at Kacey and she mouthed.
'I'll explain later' I nodded quickly hoping Logan didn't notice
"I'm uh gonna go get the blankets for Logan." I said sitting up. Jake's arms quickly wrapped around me.
"I'll get them. Where are they?" He asked. I smiled at him.
"Thanks Jake, and they're in the hallway closet."
"Welcome Ness." He said pecking me on this lips and getting up. I watched him walk out my door and turned my attention back to Kacey and Logan.
"You know… you kind of saved my life…" I said, quietly.
"Oh shut up, Ness," she said and turned the TV on. I wasn't sure what to say so I didn't say anything. She sighed. "I got you into more danger."
"No… you saved me. He would have done that anyway at some point… eventually he would have snapped," I said. Thinking about him was starting to affect my breathing but not that badly. I watched Logan pull Kacey onto his lap and hold her in his arms, protectively.
"Just forget, Ness. It's fine," she said and smiled at me.
"Well is there anything I can do to make it up to you?" I asked. She laughed.
"Yeah, let me bug you 'bout Jakey," she said and smirked. I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah, yeah" I said. When Jake returned with the blankets, he put them on the ground and lied down with me again. He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me closer to him. Kacey smirked.
"Awwww!" She said sarcastically. I groaned.
"Okay! You were right! Happy? You were right since day one! He did like me!" I mumbled at her. Jake smirked and rose an eyebrow. "Shut up," I mumbled and blushed. Kacey laughed. My Dad walked in with a box that had a picture of a blow-up mattress on it.
"You need help getting it up?" He asked. Kacey shook her head. "Okay, there's a pump in the box with it." He smiled at me. But in half a second, his smile turned serious and he growled quietly, glaring at Jake.
"Dad, please," I begged. I can't have them fighting again.
Remember what it did to me last time! I thought loudly, hoping he would hear it. Jake avoided his gaze. My Dad sighed loudly.
"Tell your boyfriend to control his thoughts," he growled and left the room.
"Yeah Jake, control your thoughts, god only knows what they're about, oh wait not god, Edward." Kacey said sarcastically, smirking. I giggled and turned around in his arms looking at him.
"Yes Mr. Black, what thoughts are you having trouble keeping under control?" I asked smirking. I'm surprised he never says that to me, but grateful, because that would be embarrassing. He rolled his eyes and kissed me on the lips gently. When he pulled away, my head was spinning. Kacey started to crack up laughing when she saw the dazed look on my face.
"Oh come on, like you don't do that when Logan kisses you," I said. She opened her mouth t reply but closed it and grinned a guilty grin. I laughed. She shook her head and got up, off of Logan's lap and walked over to the box. She set out the mattress and turned on the pump to blow-it up. While she was setting that up, I looked at Jake.
"I do actually want to know what you were thinking about…" He smiled a little bit. He got really close to my ear.
"Your Dad needs to stay out of peoples' minds," he whispered. I saw my Dad walk past my room.
"And you need to stay out of my daughter's pants," he mumbled as he walked past. Ohmygosh!
Dad! I screeched in my head. I blushed and looked down at the floor.
"Hey look I have a wooden floor…" I mumbled to myself. "Never knew that." I could feel Kacey, Logan, and Jake watching me but I couldn't say anything. Kacey laughed once.
"Wow, I love your Dad," she said.
"Yeah, you're the only one," I mumbled. Why did he have to say that?
"Oh come on, you have to admit that was freaking hilarious," she said.
"No, I don't," I said and hid my face in my pillow. Jake sighed and pushed his face into the back of my neck.
"Relax. You're working yourself up over nothing," he mumbled.
"Nothing? That was the most embarrassing thing he's ever done!" I said, in my pillow. I felt him smile.
"He's your Dad. Embarrassing you is what he does," he said. I smiled.
"Yeah, yeah." I said, again in my pillow. Kacey laughed.
"I absolutely love your dad right now," She said laughing. I groaned.
"Can't forget the only person who can embarrass me more than my dad, and that award goes to Kacey!" I said. She laughed.
"B-but my kind of embarrassment is best friend embarrassment!" She said, still laughing. I shook my head.
"Is there really a difference? Embracement number one," I pointed to Kacey, "And number two, I can't win." I said. Jake chuckled and kissed my neck.
"It's fine, they both love you." He murmured. I sighed.
"I know, I know." I said.
"I'm a little upset I didn't' get an award though," he said and chuckled again.
"Well you don't embarrass me that much," I said. He thought for a moment and leaned down to kiss my neck again, softly.
"You want to know what I was thinking about when your Dad walked in?" He asked and kissed my neck again.
"Yeah…" I said, cautiously.
"I was thinking about you in the towel after your shower," he said and pulled back looking at me.
"What? You were not, were you?" I asked. He laughed.
"Of course not. But that's going to make Kacey bug you for hours," he said, smirking. I glared at him.
"Fine. You win the award for most likely to be single in the next hour," I said. He frowned. I kissed him on the lips softly, and pulled back.
"Kidding." I murmured. Kacey fake gagged. I looked at her and rolled my eyes.
"I'm gonna remember that Kacey." I said. For a minute she actually looked scared then she smirked.
"Mhmm. Sure you are," She said. I looked at her.
"What makes you think I'll forget?" I asked. She smirked.
"Because you're going out with him" She pointed at Jake. I looked at her confused.
"What's that have to do with it?" I asked. She smirked.
"All I have to get him to do is kiss you, which we all know he will but that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying, when he does kiss you, you usually are to dazed," She smirked "To remember anything." She laughed. I rolled my eyes.
"That never happens!" I said, obviously lying.
"Mhmm," She said rolling her eyes. She looked at Jake and raised an eyebrow. I looked at him. He smiled at me.
"Don't kiss me," I said. He frowned and stuck his bottom lip out.
"Oh, you just got rejected. R-E-J-E." As Kacey sang, I looked into Jake's eyes. The way he was looking at me… how did he do that? One side of his lips lifted to make a cute little smile. His eyebrows twitched a little, kind of like he was deep in thought. And his eyes went straight into mine. I swallowed.
"C-T-E-." I cut Kacey off by throwing a pillow at her and closed the distance between Jake and I. Jake put his hand on my back to pull me closer but I slid down so I was lying down. He came with me of course. His lips were so soft and he kissed me really gently. He pulled away way too soon. I kept my eyes on his when he pulled back a few inches and smirked.
"Yeah that eye thing… not fair," I said. He raised an eyebrow.
"What eye thing?" He asked. I rolled my eyes. He moved out of the way as I sat up. Kacey was watching me with a smirk on her face.
"I think it's done," Logan said. What? I turned to look at him and realized that he was talking about the mattress. Kacey pulled the pump off and set the blankets on the mattress. Logan lied down on it and pulled Kacey on too. I looked at the clock which read 10:50Pm and sighed. I wonder what time they would make us wake up. I snuggled into Jake and inhaled his sent subconsciously. His arms tightened on me and I smiled. I realized they were watching a movie from OnDemand. I groaned.
"Is that movie Free?" I asked. They nodded. "Order one, the free ones suck!" I complained. We were watching some movie called 'The Devil Wears Product.' It seemed really stupid so they both agreed to rent a movie. We ended up renting 'The Bounty Hunter.' We were half way through the movie when I heard Logan sleeping. I turned in Jakes arms to see he was half asleep and half awake.
"Jake?" I whispered.
"Mmm?" He mumbled and his lips twitched. He blinked and opened his eyes. "Are you okay?" I nodded.
"I'm fine," I said. His eyebrows furrowed. "As fine as I can be."
"Yeah for being abused about 42 hours ago," Kacey said without thinking. I flinched. "Sorry…. Just another thing we have in common huh?" I turned back around to look at her.
"What speaking without thinking?" I asked.
"No. Having a crappy Ex," she said. Jake mumbled something into his pillow. I giggled.
"What sleepy?" I asked. He smiled and dug his head out of his pillow.
"I was asking Kacey, what she meant." Jake said. Oh yeah Jake never heard this before. Kacey sighed.
"I um, I had and Ex who did the same exact things to me, but no one to save me..." She started. I knew this was kind of a hard subject for her.
"We went out for awhile, I mean at first he was nice, but then after his dad died, I guess it made him snap. He would abuse me and he said to me if I ever told anyone he'd kill me, and I believed him. He was a lot stronger than me, but one night I noticed something.. off.. about him. He came home and had his sunglasses on to cover his eyes, and it was around 10:30 and the sun had already went down, so I thought it odd." She sighed.
"Anyway, turns out whether I told or not he'd end up killing me… well I guess technically he did…"
"What?" Jake asked. Kacey looked up.
"Hm? Oh he changed me… he was a vampire… hence the sunglasses thing…" Jake sighed.
"Sorry, I'm not telling this story very well. Okay, so… I started going out with him blah blah blah his Dad died blah blah blah…" She took a deep breath. "He started hitting me. And then he'd apologize…" She laughed once. "If I had a dime every time that guy said sorry. Anyway he'd just keep doing it. Eventually it got worse and worse so I'd stop going out in public… he kind of kept me as his little secret. I knew I meant nothing to him too because I would catch him cheating on me. But he'd always blame it on me. It kept getting worse and worse and eventually he would…" She trailed off.
"Kacey?" I asked, quietly.
"Bite me…" She said.
"He bit you?" Jake asked. Kacey was quiet for a moment but then spoke.
"Um… yeah… You probably haven't noticed cuz of my hair but you can see the scars on my neck…"
"Why did you stick around?" Jake asked.
"Well one I was scared to death and two… deep down… I really thought that he loved me… and I loved him… turns out that was all a bunch of bull crap."
"So what happened?" Jake asked.
"He changed me… weren't you listening?" She asked and sighed. "Sorry… he kept hitting me and biting me… cheating on me… and… you know… more stuff… until… one day I asked him why he kept doing this and… he changed me. When I was changed, I realized I was stronger than him, so I stood up and left. I left my family and whatever friends I had left…" She trailed off. I saw Logan move and wrap his hands around her waist and bury his head into her back.
"Jack Ass," he mumbled. Kacey smiled. I smiled that was cute.
"What was his name?" Jake asked curiously.
"Paul." Kacey said simply. Jake's eyes widened, and I giggled.
"Yes, Jake, we know there's Paul in the pack, see why she doesn't talk to him much, she actually avoided sitting next to him once." I said to him He chuckled.
"I thought that was just because he was Paul. I mean it's a normal reaction for anyone to be that way around Paul he's a big Smart Ass... but he wouldn't hurt anyone." Jake said. I smirked.
"I'm gonna tell him you said that!" I said. Jake looked at me.
"Okay, I'll tell Embry I took the bat away from you, and now you're defenseless," Jake smirked.
I looked at him, horrified.
"But it's mine, and you wouldn't want Embry to make me upset would you? Maybe a good swing would straighten him out. He can be a piñata filled with idiot." I smiled. Jake chuckled.
"He's a good guy. Just a little smart mouthed." Jake nuzzled his nose into my neck. "You need to go to sleep," he mumbled.
"He's right. We can talk in the morning," Kacey said.
"Okay," I said. Now that I thought about it, I was pretty tired. "I'll talk to you in the morning. Goodnight."
"Night," Kacey said. Logan mumbled something that sounded like goodnight. A couple of seconds later, I heard the sound of kissing.
"Oh come on, really?" I asked. Kacey giggled.
"Just go to sleep," she said. I pushed back so my back was against Jake and his arms were around my stomach. He kissed my neck lightly.
"Goodnight Beautiful," he said. I smiled.
"I love you," I said.
"You too." He kissed my neck again and rested his head there. I fell asleep pretty quickly.
