Chapter 52:
Bella POV
We sat in silence as we were headed back to my house. I had to change into my own clothes so we could head back to La Push for Jacob's pack meeting. I was trying to hide my nervousness as much as I could but I knew I was giving it away, knowing my hands weren't staying still against my legs. I then felt Jacob's warm hand on one of them and he looked at me as we stopped at a stop light.
"There's nothing to be worried about Bells, honest." He spoke to me soothingly and I felt my hands begin to stay still. I felt a bit calm now, and let my hand intertwine with his. I knew Jacob would be there at the pack meeting and the pack were my friends. I honestly had nothing to really worry about.
When we pulled up to my house, I immediately ran to the door and went in with Jacob quickly in toe behind me. My dad was in his chair, reading the paper as the television had the sports news on.
"Hey kids." Charlie said as he noticed us come in.
"Hey dad." I answered. He looked me over for a moment and his lips turned into a small scowl before he turned his head back to the paper he had in his hand. His eyes were full of uneasiness and I knew immediately what he had been thinking, seeing me in Jacob's clothes for the second time this week.
"I fell in the mud." I said, raising up my somewhat dry but still muddy jeans in my hand for him to see. Dad turned around again and stifled a chuckle.
"Jake, I thought being with her would resolve some of her clumsiness." Charlie said. Jacob looked at me for a moment, caught off guard while he watched me intently.
"Well, I guess sometimes it's completely unavoidable with her." Jacob said smirking a smile and shrugging his shoulders. I heard Charlie give out a small chuckle as he set the paper down on the coffee table.
"Who are you telling?" Charlie asked as they both started chuckling at my own expense. I crossed my arms at them and walked towards the stairs.
"I'm going to go change." I said mumbling while I went upstairs. I heard them laugh more and then they were getting into some conversation downstairs about how the fishing trip had gone. I plopped my muddy jeans on my floor for a moment as I walked to my dresser and pulled out clean clothes to wear. I noticed the drawer on the floor still, with the contents spilled carelessly across a part of my floor. I barely payed much mind to it as I grabbed some clothes to put on so we could go for the pack meeting.
I grabbed a long sleeve shirt from one of the drawers and grabbed a pair of jeans from my closet. I put them on and put on some clean socks. I grabbed my other pair of sneakers that were also under my bed. I scooped up the muddy jeans from my floor and carried them downstairs and went straight to the washing machine. I threw the jeans into a plastic bag and then into the hamper. They would have to wait to be washed for now. I then realized something as it flashed through my mind. The shell that I had brought with me. The very one that Jacob had given me when he was little, it was still in the woods near the cabin at third beach. I gave myself a face palm thinking about it. It was dark outside now, meaning almost impossible to find it. Finding the shell would have to wait for tomorrow.
I then went into the living room to find Jacob and dad still talking about things. I cleared my throat to interrupt them, they both turned to look at me.
"Sorry to interrupt you two but, don't we have somewhere to be Jake?" I asked, lightly tapping my foot. Jacob looked at me sheepishly and got up from the couch.
"Yea, we better get going." Jacob said looking at the clock on the table near the television set. Charlie gave me a look with one of his eyebrows raised.
"Jacob and I had something planned. We shouldn't be out too long." I said sheepishly as we reached the front door. Dad just waved his hand at us.
"I know you'll be fine if you are out with Jake. Besides, more time you guys aren't here the less I have to worry about cooties getting into my food." He said. I snickered at him.
"I'll be back later." I said closing the door with Jacob in front of me.
"Does your dad know?" Jacob asked me suddenly as we climbed back into his car.
"Know what?" I asked curiously.
"That you have an apartment." He added. I nodded at him.
"Yea he knows, Alice and I told him last night." I held onto his hand for a moment as he nodded at me.
"How exactly did he take it?" He asked.
"Not bad actually. Although, I think a reason for that was Alice was there to keep him from worrying about it. She reassured him that I was responsible enough and that I could afford it." I grimaced saying that. I was still going to worry about how Charlie was going to eat without me being around to cook any of his meals. I didn't want him to live off of bread and lunch meat.
"Can you really afford that place Bells?" Jacob asked. "Because if you can't I can always work a bit more on cars during the week and save up some money for you." Jacob added with concern on his face. I gave him a reassuring smile and put a hand up.
"There's nothing to worry about. All I have to do is pay the utilities. Alice is paying for the apartment. The utilities will be really cheap compared to the rent so I should be fine. Alice and I even have most of the furniture ordered already. I just have to wait for it to be delivered." Jacob looked at me as I talked in awe.
"So what made you get this apartment all of a sudden?" He asked as he turned down the road towards La Push. I shrugged my shoulders.
"I don't know, I guess this past week hasn't helped. I was thinking it would give us alone time whenever we wanted it." I said, looking at Jacob. He looked at me and raised his eyebrows. I felt my cheeks turn red and turned away from his gaze for a moment which made him turn his eyes back onto the road. "Not just alone time like that." I added. "I wanted to look at the apartments anyway. The apartments are closer to my job and closer to the reservation, Emily told me about them a while ago." I looked out onto the road.
"Ah, so it was Emily that gave the initiate idea?" He asked curiously.
"I suppose that's true." I answered. I watched Jacob smirk a smile as he turned down onto another road. We were close to Sam's house now.
"Well, remind me to thank Emily for giving me more alone time with you in the future." He said. I giggled and tried to keep my face from turning crimson at the thought. We pulled up to Sam and Emily's house then. We got out of the car and within moments of me closing the car door, Jacob's warm hand was in mine. I smiled at him as we walked towards the back of the house.
"Oh, you forgot this back at the cabin." Jacob said suddenly and we both stopped walking for a moment. He put a clutched fist out and slowly opened it, revealing the seashell that I had left behind. I couldn't think of any words, just felt a few tears begin to prick at my eyes.
"I was worried about it. I realized I dropped it and never went back to get it." I said as Jacob wiped an escaping tear from my eye.
"I wouldn't let that be lost forever. You've kept that shell safe for such a long time. It wouldn't be fair if I had you lose it now." He said. I smiled at him and put the shell he held in his hand into my pocket. I stood up on my tippie toes and wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him towards me. Our lips crashed and my entire world disappeared around us for a moment. I didn't think about what had happened just a few hours before, or my nervousness about the pack meeting. I only thought about us for those few moments as our lips were against each others. He then let me go as I reluctantly began to put my feet flat on the ground. I put the shell into my pocket and then held his hand as we went around to the back of the house.
There was a small bonfire there in the middle, surrounded by figures that were sitting idly. They were talking amongst themselves sitting on the natural log seats that surrounded the bonfire in a circle. One of them turned around and noticed us and waved.
"Jacob, Bella! Over here!" We both knew it was Seth sitting on the log. We both walked up to him and sat next to him. I couldn't help but feel like I was closer to the bonfire, being sandwiched in between Seth and Jacob with their body heat emanating from their bodies. I rolled up my sleeves of my long sleeve shirt as far as they could go. I watched Jacob chuckle next to me watching my action. He leaned down towards me and whispered in my ear.
"Is it too warm for you over here Bells?" He asked curiously, a small snicker in his voice. I turned to him and smiled
"I can stand the heat." I said flirtatiously. He smiled at me and then looked at Sam and nodded towards him. Sam nodded towards me and I waved at him and Emily from across the bonfire. I turned to Seth and leaned in towards him.
"Where's Anna?" I asked curiously. Seth turned to me.
"She's at home." He grimaced. It was obvious he wanted to be with her this very moment. I put a hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry Seth, hopefully the pack meeting won't take too long and you can see her soon." Seth smiled at me as I said that.
"Where's Leah?" Jacob asked Seth. Seth was rolling his eyes.
"Still on her date. I called her, she said she'd be on her way as soon as she could. She seemed really annoyed that there was going to be a meeting. I guess her date went pretty good." I smiled as Seth said that. There may be hope for Leah yet to find someone that made her happy. After everything, she really did deserve it. I could only imagine how tired she was of dealing with drama with the pack and just wanted to just find someone to go out with someone that got along with her.
Everyone suddenly began to quiet their talk as Sam got up from his seat on the log.
"Good evening, I called a meeting tonight for a few things. There are a few things that I have to cover." He then looked over at Jacob and I. "And I believe that Jacob has a few things to cover as well." He then continued.
"I'm sure Jacob had heard earlier but the rest of you had gone with me to Vancouver to get two of our pack members out of jail." He looked towards Jared and Paul as they both seemed to shrink in their seats. Jacob nodded towards Sam as he looked at both Paul and Jared.
"Well, what exactly happened?" Jacob asked curiously. It was the first time I had heard about any of this and it threw me off guard. What Jared and Paul exactly did I wasn't sure, but I knew I was about to hear about it. I watched as Jared looked at Paul and then started to speak first.
"We decided to go to Vancouver the day before. I had found out that Silver sun pickups were doing a small show at a bar somewhere out there." He looked at Paul and he continued.
"We got there fine, got the tickets and everything. We went inside and we were doing fine. We stayed over near the bar and just enjoyed the concert. We were trying to avoid confrontations." Jacob scowled at them both.
"It didn't seem you guys tried hard enough to avoid them." Jacob said sternly, crossing his arms.
"I don't need the back talk from you Jake." Paul grunted. I watched as his hands began to shake violently. Jacob stood in front of me, leaning his body outward into a protective stance.
"Easy.. there's no need for things to get out of hand. You two just calm down." Sam ordered. I saw them both begin to calm slowly. Jacob took less time to stop shaking than Paul did and they both sat back down. Jared looked at Paul for a moment.
"Chill out dude." Jared said to Paul. Paul put his head in his hands for that moment and shook his head.
"I'm sorry Jacob. I was out of line." Paul then sighed and looked at me and Jacob for a moment, studying us. He then shook his head and continued his story.
"It wasn't my fault. I was rocking out when some drunk guy bumped into me and spilled his drink." Jared then interrupted to tell the rest of the story.
"Paul wasn't even bothered by it. He just told the guy it was okay. The other guy instead, tried to start a fight with him, telling Paul he had to buy him a replacement drink." Jared looked at Paul who had his arms crossed at the moment.
"Yea, he kept shoving me. I told him he wasn't getting a replacement drink when it was obvious he was so wasted already he didn't need another one. He started punching me. The first punch probably dislocated a few fingers in his hand." Jacob snickered at Paul's remark. I knew he was replaying the time I had punched him in the face in his head. I gently elbowed Jacob into his ribs, trying to keep myself from getting hurt and he got the hint and tried to control his snickering. His voice then went serious.
"So, you never actually fought him?" Jacob asked curiously.
"Hell no dude! He wouldn't even be worth the fight. Even if he was even sobered up." Paul answered with a grunt.
"The guy beat up himself practically beating on Paul. I tried to break it up but then a few of the drunken guy's friends decided to jump in and help him. We weren't trying to fight them at all and it got to be ridiculous when there were six of them pretty much on us. Instead they got hurt just like his friend did, trying to act all macho. By the time the bouncers got to us, it looked like we had beaten them up pretty good. That was what those ass holes told the bouncers anyway. The bouncers grabbed a hold of us and called the cops. The next thing we knew, we were in the Vancouver jail." Paul grimaced, but I saw a small smile on Jacob's face.
"Honestly Sam, I don't think they did anything wrong." Jacob said. Sam looked at Jacob with a wry smile also on his face.
"Why do you say that?" Sam asked curiously.
"Well for one, they didn't exactly fight. This jerk that wanted to fight them in the bar was really at fault, and so was his other buddies. Especially if there were more than Jared and Paul, it was obvious they weren't going to fight fair anyway. The other thing, is that Paul didn't phase. He kept his cool and nothing went wrong. That honestly makes me a bit more comfortable with him being around my sister." Jacob added looking at Paul.
"It's obvious those guys needed to learn not to punch a werewolf." Added Embry.
"You should've brought Bella with you, she could've told them how it felt from experience. It would've made them think twice." Quil added. They both howled with laughter as I watched Jared and Paul snicker a bit.
"Alright, so I guess Paul and Jared are off the hook?" Sam looked around the circle. Everyone seemed to nod their head towards Sam and smile.
"Okay then, only thing I'm asking for you two is to pay back the bail money sometime soon." Jared and Paul nodded at Sam.
"No problem." Jared added while Paul shrugged.
Sam then turned his gaze to us for a moment and sat down next to Emily.
"Okay Jacob, I think you are up." Sam said, getting comfortable on his log. Jacob then stood up to address the pack.
"I really don't know how to address this." Stated Jacob, starting his nervous habit again. He was scratching the back of his neck.
"Don't tell me another leech is trying to get to Bella." Jared added. Jacob snickered and shook his head.
"No, that's not it."
"She's having your puppies!" Howled Quil chuckling. Embry smacked Quil on the back of the head.
"That can't be the case you ass! They've only been together for a little over a week...right?" Embry said. Emily gave them a glare that made them shrink in their seats. I couldn't help but stifle a giggle as Quil rubbed the back of his head for a moment.
"I was just kidding, jeez." Quil added, everyone then grew quiet and studied us both. Emily then looked at us with gentle eyes and smiled.
"You imprinted..." Emily said what sounded like in a way of relief. Jacob nodded towards Emily and smiled. He then turned and looked at me. The gentle eyes that were looking at me that were Jacob's nearly took my breath away. The look was stronger than any words could ever express for what me and Jacob felt for one another.
"With Bella?" Paul asked, with his voice coming out a bit higher than he had anticipated. He cleared his throat while I found myself and Emily giggling at Paul.
"But how?"Jared asked, looking at Sam. Everyone's eyes were now on Sam, waiting for his reply.
"I don't know. I didn't think it was possible." Said Sam dumbfounded.
"It's not possible." Said a feminine voice. Leah then stood next to Quil in the circle. "At least that's what I was always told. We never had a choice for who our imprint was." Leah added crossing her arms and looking at everyone. Seth then stood up.
"It has to be possible Leah, I was there. They did imprint. I could feel it." Everyone looked at Seth for a moment. Leah sat down next to Quil letting out a small grunt.
"I still don't understand how. Bella and Jacob had known each other forever." Noted Embry.
"Yea, shouldn't he have imprinted on her after he started to phase years ago?" Asked Quil.
Everyone was sitting in silence then, trying to ponder over the thought of it. Trying to find out any loop holes or whatever. I could only think up a few myself but even then it didn't make any sense. My head was hurting just trying to wrap my brain around it again.
"Maybe what Embry said has something to do with it." Paul added. Everyone then looked at Paul for a moment. He then looked at us and stood up to speak.
"Well, think about it. Most of our imprints we saw randomly and most of us for the first time when we imprinted. Jared had never met Kim before until he bumped into her one day. The same thing goes for Seth a week or so ago. Sam you didn't even meet Emily until she came down to see Leah from the other reservation." He then looked and noticed a seething look that Leah was giving him. He tried to ignore it and looked at me and Jacob and continued. "Bella and Jacob have a history together all the way back to when they were little kids. Maybe that has something to do with it. Since they have known each other well before Jacob had began to change." Everyone sat there quietly for a moment.
"But that still doesn't change the fact that after you begin to phase is when you imprint. Jacob and Bella had been around each other almost all that time. Last time I remembered, when he saw her soon after he had begun to phase, they argued. He told her to leave. If she was truly meant to be his imprint, he would've wanted nothing more but to have her stay around him." Jared said.
"Try thinking outside of the box." Emily suddenly said. All of us looked at her. She stood up and looked at me with apologetic eyes.
"Instead of thinking why it couldn't happen because of Jacob's actions, think the other way around. Just think if they were originally destined to be, something must've stopped it." Jared put his hand out.
"So, you're saying that somehow the imprint was blocked somehow by Jacob and Bella?" Jared asked looking at us. I watched Emily as she shook her head.
"No, Jared. I'm not saying that Jacob blocked the imprint." Emily then gave me a look that meant to be apologetic. It was obvious she didn't want to put me on the spot but she wanted me to understand. We all sat there and then I tried to speak. I was nervous in this situation so I barely gave it out any heavier than a whisper.
"You think I blocked the imprint?" I asked. I looked at Emily and she nodded slowly, trying to keep me calm.
"That's the only thing that I can think of Bella. The pack doesn't have a choice on their imprint. But their other halves, their mates,we normally do. It has to be a mutual thing. Most of them that imprinted on the other's, including myself, didn't know of the imprinting process and none of us were with anyone at the time. It left ourselves open for the imprinting to occur."
I then thought of the words that Edward had spoken to me one day while we had been together. It was weird thinking of his voice now, seeing as it didn't cause me any distractions now from Jacob.
The way Sam is tied to his Emily is impossible to describe, or should I say her Sam. Sam really had no choice.
I looked at Emily for a moment, then I felt myself begin to vibrate and hum. I looked next to me and noticed Jacob's hands and shoulders begin to tremble. I put my hand on his shoulder and looked at him.
"It's okay Jake." I said. He nodded at me and slowly his body began to stop trembling.
"I don't see how I could've blocked the imprint. I wanted it to happen for us." I looked at him and smiled. His smile didn't meet mine at that moment as he looked into the fire.
"You told me one time that your mind was the only one that Edward couldn't read.." Jacob suddenly spoke up and trailed. I looked at him, wondering what he was getting at.
"What, you think my brain frequency was one of the reasons why it didn't happen?" I almost had to hide a giggle thinking of such a ludicrous thought.
"Not exactly.." He then looked down at the ground. Everyone was watching him. I then heard Leah give out a sigh and stand up.
"I know what you're getting at Jacob. If you don't say it, then I will." I looked at Leah curiously and stood up myself. I looked at Jacob as he looked up at me from him sitting on the seat. This was the only time I probably ever had to look down at him. His eyes gave away that he was pained no matter how much he wanted to hide it. He couldn't hide from me any more with any of his emotions. I wasn't sure if he knew that so I tried to play it off.
"Jacob, what is she talking about?" I asked him, putting a hand on his shoulder. He then gave out a huff and looked at me again.
"Edward couldn't read your mind. But if he could've, he would've known that while you were around him, you're entire world had to do with him." I shook my head at him and sat back down. I felt like someone had punched me in the stomach.
"N-no..." I breathed. Jacob nodded and looked at me.
"Bella, even when he left the first time you couldn't stop thinking about him. I knew being around me helped. But you still couldn't stop yourself from wanting to be with him." He tried to be comforting towards me, tugging lightly on my arm for me to sit down next to him. I didn't know how to feel. I felt uneasy, almost nauseated at the fact that I had stopped this from happening sooner. It was because of me being what I thought at the time was in love with Edward. I felt almost faint and sat back down on the log seat. I could barely look at Jacob but I could tell that was only causing more problems. I gulped and looked towards him, only seeing the pain from me understanding what had happened. He put one of his warm arms around my shoulder and crushed me closely against his chest. I didn't want to hurt Jacob, but there had to be other reasons. I had given up on Edward a while ago, the only fear I had after was Jacob imprinting and me losing him.
"I don't understand it. I was over Edward a while ago." I looked at Leah and Emily solemnly.
"You two remember over a week ago, you saw how scared I was of Jacob imprinting.." I felt Jacob's body tighten around my body even more as the girls slowly nodded towards me. Leah then spoke up.
"You do have a point. You were scared to death of Jacob leaving you." She looked at Jacob now with her lips turned almost in a scowl.
"If you would have imprinted on someone else and left her, I promised Bella I would take a good chunk out of you." Leah crossed her arms at him as Jacob gave out a small huff next to me. I looked over at Emily and she gave a wry smile at Leah.
"Yeah, and I told Bella it wouldn't be just Leah Jacob would have to worry about either." Emily added.
"So why did it happen now then?" Embry asked.
"There's gotta be something more to this!" Quil said, obviously frustrated as the rest of us were.
"What if Jacob could block it?" Seth asked curiously. We all looked at Seth that began to be lost in thought.
"I don't think that's possible." Stated Sam.
"It could be with Jake..." Seth said as Jacob and Seth both looked at each other.
"Jacob had fears too, that ran very deep after everything that had happened before. Just as Bella was scared of Jacob imprinting and leaving, Jacob was scared of Bella changing her mind and leaving." Seth said. Sam then tried to make sense of it as he spoke.
"If the balance of the imprint was already stopped for some time, maybe it's possible to stall the imprint after the balance was restored." Stated Sam, almost trying to think of all the options in his head himself.
"Like if the imprinter had grown strong fears of losing them, possibly to someone else." Stated Seth.
"Exactly." Confirmed Sam. I had just enough and my brain was hurting trying to put everything together. I stood up for a moment and put my hands up for a moment.
"Wait, so you guys are saying in a nutshell here that I stalled the imprint. Reason being, when Jacob began to phase, I was still in love with Edward. After all that changed, it didn't happen because we were both scared of losing each other to someone else." I saw Leah nod her head.
"Basically.. yeah." Leah said. I tried to think of it in my head. Out of every other option that had played in my mind, it was the one that did make the most sense.
"But what caused it to happen all of a sudden in the woods then?" I looked at Jacob uneasily. He smiled and looked at me.
"Because Leah was right all along." Jacob then looked at Leah and her arms relaxed to her sides. She stood there almost in shock that Jake had mentioned her, especially admitting she was right about anything.
"Right about what?" Leah asked.
"You told me that if I couldn't put my fears aside and just be with her, things would block my path."
Jacob said. Leah smiled at him in a smug way.
"Well, I did tell you that. I just didn't know honestly how true that was going to be in your case." Leah looked towards me then and smiled at me.
"I'm glad you at least listened to me for once." Leah said rolling her eyes at Jacob. I couldn't help but giggle as I saw a smile etch across Leah's face. Sam then got up.
"Well, I believe this pack meeting is over." He said looking at all of us.
"So it's official? Bella and Jacob imprinted?" Asked Seth anxiously. Emily snickered and patted him on the back.
"Yes it's official Seth. I'm going inside and getting some sleep." Emily said. She walked over to me and Jacob and gave us both a hug.
"I'm so glad that even though the imprint was complicated, that it happened with you two." She said to us, smiling. I smiled back at her as did Jacob. She then turned and walked to the house and went inside.
I watched as everyone began to disburse and leave on their own accord. Seth left first, running towards the woods to head over to Anna's no doubt. Sam walked over to us and shook Jake's hand.
"Well Jake, this was a very interesting pack meeting." He said, Jacob returned his hand shake. "If you two don't mind, I'm going to turn in early. I've been driving all day." Sam said. Jacob nodded.
"Get some rest Sam. I'll talk to you tomorrow." Sam nodded and looked at me.
"It was nice having you at a pack meeting Bella." He said. I nodded at him and smiled.
"It was nice to be here Sam." He then turned and headed into the house.
Jacob put his hand in mine and walked with me back to his car. When we climbed in, he started the engine and he headed onto the main road.
"Well that was interesting." I said, laying my head back on the headrest of the seat. I heard him snicker a bit in his seat.
"Interesting would be one word to use for it." He added. I was still a bit tired from earlier. We neared my house and as he parked. He turned to me as he cut off the engine.
"Bells..." He whispered to me I opened my eyes and looked at him. He was leaned over the shifter nob and was close to my face.
"Hmm?" I asked almost dreamily.
"I love you." He said, grazing his nose against my cheek. His hot breath beginning to brush my neck.
"I love you too." I said, raising a hand and running it through a bit of his short hair. I looked over to the house and noticed all the lights were off. It meant that Charlie had already gone to bed for the night.
"Well, I better go upstairs." I said trying to stifle a yawn. Jacob chuckled and kissed me as my lips closed from my yawn.
"You should get some more rest Bells." He snickered.
"I might not be able to sleep without you." I whimpered, looking at him and batting my eyelashes at him. Jacob snickered and kissed me again, moving his face where his lips brushed the bottom of my earlobe.
"If you can't sleep, I'll come over and stay with you until you do." I smiled at him and kissed him again. I then got out of the car and went upstairs to the front door. When I unlocked the door I looked behind me and saw Jacob looking at me in his car smiling at me. I then went inside and closed the door.
There was a small light over the stove still on, illuminating a bit of the kitchen. I walked to the stairs and went up to my bedroom. I shut the small light off that was on at the top of the stairs. I could hear the snoring from my dad's room already. He must have had an early morning planned for tomorrow. I crept silently into the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash up. I then went into my room and turned my bed lamp on.
I walked over to my set of drawers and grabbed the drawer that was still on the floor. I eased it back into place and picked up all the clothes and put them back inside the drawer. I then picked up the small box along with the contents that had spilled out and put everything back inside. I reached inside my pocket and pulled out the seashell that Jacob had given back to me. I looked at it for a moment, studying the blue shell with the pretty orange stripes on it. I put it in the small wooden box and closed it and placed it inside the bottom drawer and then slide the drawer closed.
I then pulled out a sleep shirt and a pair of sleep shorts and changed into them. I got into bed but I still felt restless. I looked at my window and saw that it was closed. I smirked a smile as I got up and opened it. I then crawled back into bed and turned my bed lamp off. I shifted and pulled the covers over top of me, lightly shuddering. My body craved warmth but my heart craved the warmth of Jacob next to me. My brain was counting the minutes that slowly ticked by that he wasn't next to me.
As my brain counted about twenty five minutes had passed, I heard a small thump on the floor near my window. I had my eyes closed, trying to look like I was asleep but I couldn't help but smirk a small smile as I heard the window lightly shut. I felt Jacob's warmth around me the next moment.
"Couldn't sleep?" He whispered in my ear. I turned around to lay my head against his chest.
"Nah, I just like the sound of my teeth chattering before I fall asleep." I said, feeling Jacob's chest vibrate, trying to hold back laughter. He then wrapped his arms around my body as I placed my head against his chest. I heard his heart beating like a steady drum in my ears, my perfect lullaby.
I heard him hum a light tune then. I wasn't sure what song it was at first until some of the lyrics came to me while I was losing consciousness. His version was a very light version of this song but it made me happy as I drifted off into sleep.
She got the call today
One out of the gray
And when the smoke cleared
It took her breath away
She said she didn't believe
It could happen to me
I guess we're all one phone call
from our knees
We're gonna get there soon
If every building falls
And all the stars fade
We'll still be singing this song
The one they can't take away
I'm gonna get there soon
She's gonna be there too
Cryin' in her room
Prayin' Lord come through
We're gonna get there soon
Oh it's your light
Oh it's your way
Pull me out of the dark
Just to show me the way
Cryin out now
From so far away
You pull me closer to love
Closer to love
Meet me once again
Down off Lake Michigan
Where we could feel the storm blowin
Down with the wind
And don't apologize
For all the tears you've cried
You've been way too strong now for all your life
Cause you are all that I've waited for
All of my life
You are all that I've waited for
All of my life
You pull me closer to love hu huuh
Closer to love hu huuuh
Pull me closer to love
You pull me closer to love
Closer to love oh no
Closer to love
Closer to love
Pull me closer to love
