-Chapter 23
Can't believe someone had the balls and was brave enough to break into my home and vandalize it. I gave the police all of the information that I can. I have so many suspects who I can suspect for breaking into my house. I didn't even think to check if the front door was locked or not before I opened it. I don't know if the person took some of my mail or any of that.
I don't care who you are. You will be accused of trashing my beautiful home and causing me more stress than I already needed, be it you my boyfriend or teacher. Never had a break till that teacher decided he wanted to save me from a bad road. Or, It could've been mad jealous Jacob.
I look at Jacob who's mopping the kitchen floor. It needed to be mop. It was straight dirty from the mud. He stops to look at me. "I did not vandalize your house, Lacie." "I know you didn't, Jacob. This may one day be your future house or something." I say crossing my arms. "You'll live with me on the tribe." "Have you talked to Sam?" I ask changing the subject. "I talked to him. It was a person if that what you mean." He say going back to mopping.
"So, it's a no on Paul?" I ask looking at the mud all on my carpet. I'll go to the store to clean that up. "No, Lacie. Paul did not." He say with an attitude. "I'm just asking because of the Bella situation." "That's none of your business, Lacie." He say in a tone. "I know that, Jacob. He wouldn't had came and trashed my place. I can find out who did it but I don't want to waste my time and stress over it." I say turning back around to him.
He leans on the mop looking me in the face. "I did not do it, Lacie." "I don't know anymore, Jacob. You have this jealousy problem and I might not be the one for you. We're both drifting apart. If you did, just say that you did trash my house out of anger for some reason." I say sitting in one of the kitchen chairs. The table needs to be washed. It was written on.
"I did it." He admit. I'm fifty and fifty with it. He can be lying. "I know you wouldn't because you would not put stress on me. If you did do it and I know you did not-" "Than, why would you ask me?" "Because you been acting weird since Mr. Howard came into my life. You should be happy that I'm doing something other than being in your face and around Bella." I say looking at him dumping the mop into the bucket.
He shake his head wringing the water out of the mop with his hand. "Jacob, tell me what's wrong. I know I haven't been in the battle or dealing with the pack but tell me." "I don't think you're my imprint." He finally say. "I may not or may not be but it doesn't take what we share away. You're a teenage boy and if I am not then you move on with your life." I say nodding my head.
He just goes back to mopping. "I don't know if I am or not but nothing doesn't change between us and it's just regular relationship problems. You move on with your life and try to be here for your daughter and you don't want too then I understand. At the end of the day, it's too much on you. Are you going to date Bella?" I ask him. He doesn't answer.
I don't even know what to say. Do I beat him down today or another day? I have to think of my baby. "Did you already imprint on another girl? I don't have time for games. My house was broken into and trashed. I have a baby on the way and I don't have time for your childish games. I can't take this. It's either yes or no. Time to grow up, Jacob." I say tired of his games.
He just keep on mopping. "Don't play with my heart. You're the person and I am not the one then you have no business standing around trying to play games with me. You will not be my husband or any of that and you wanna sit around trying to tell me that I may not have a future with you. Jacob, that's cruel." I say to him. "Now, you know how it feels." He say not looking at me.
"I think you're-Okay, Jacob." I say rubbing on my thighs frustrated. "What do you want me to do? My home has been attacked by someone and I don't know who nor do I want to look into it when I have a couple of suspects. What do you want me to do to get you to stop feeling like this?" I ask him. He stop mopping. "Stop hanging around Mr. Howard." He say.
"I can't do that because he is my teacher and I tried my best to get him to stop hanging around me." I say feeling a headache forming. "You didn't try hard enough." He say. "He's a grown man and he's a teacher. You can't do much and now he'll be mostly on my back. I'm failing his class and he's helping me. I don't come to you about Bella." I say bringing her up.
"Nothing going on between me and Bella and you can't stop me. You are not my Alpha." He seriously say. I don't even respond. It's going nowhere arguing with a child who has a jealousy problem. "Okay, Jacob. Do you want to go to the store and shop for some cleaning supplies? I need to get that mud stain out. It's been bothering me for a couple of days now." I say.
"Sure, Lacie." He say still mopping. "Maybe we can actually calm down and talk about what's going on. We both skipped today." "I dropped out." He say. "Right, Let me go put some clothes on and we can go to the store or something." I say standing up and walking out of the kitchen not before looking at the mud stain one more time. I walk up to the stairs and into my bedroom where I did a little bit of cleaning. I don't have time for anybody's jealousy problems or whatever it is. I lay on the bed to take a quick nap.
Jacob left to go do some work and doing what he does best while I'm sitting in the house by myself. I couldn't go out to get cleaning supplies especially for that mud spot that's on the carpet. I know it's laughing at me or something. It's very annoying. I don't have a TV no more because of an ignorant person wanted to trash my house. I still say it was probably one of those boys or Mr. Howard.
He never would've found my house and no telling if he went putting my home address in the computer system. I don't know. I'm sure it was either Paul or Jacob. Mind my own business about Bella relationship. I sigh looking down at my shattered TV. Don't throw it out. It might've been a fist towards it. Jacob or Paul. Only those two are the strongest and have something against me.
I hear a car door shut and get up off the couch to look out of the window to see who it is. It's Mr. Howard's car. School already over. "Jacob needs to check his attitude." I say opening up the curtain and making eye contact with Mr. Howard. I close the curtain and open the door before he has a chance to knock on the door. "How you doing, Ms. Thorne?" He asks looking inside my house.
"The same as usual. I'm still cleaning." I say turning around to look around the house too. "How's the pregnancy?" He asks me. "It's okay. Everything is okay. I didn't go to the hospital but I went to see a doctor who gave me the okay." I say turning back to him. "That's good to hear. Have you heard anything else?" He asks looking in my face.
"Nothing yet, Mr. Howard. I hope they catch the person before I do." "You shouldn't be trying to fight in your state. You don't want to hurt the baby." "Right, I keep forgetting. Sorry, I couldn't make it to your class today but I'll make it up again. I didn't see this coming." I say noticing he doesn't have his briefcase which is kind of nice. "How's your boyfriend?" He asks. That's new too.
"He's a little bit jealous but he said he didn't do it so I believe him but he has a problem with our relationship." "We don't have a relationship, Ms. Thorne. It's just typical student and teacher." "That's what I said to him but you know how boys are and when I hugged you it didn't give me brownie points." I say looking at the side of his face. "I guess the dye wasn't permanent." I say pointing to his face.
"It wasn't-" "Do you wanna come in?" I ask cutting him off and moving to the side for him to walk in. "I-" "Mr. Howard, come in. It's going to be raining all week and I don't want you to keep getting wet, please." I say. He nods walking in and I stick my head out just for jokes to look around making sure no one seen him coming in and I close the door locking it.
"Have a seat." I say pointing to the couch while he looks around the house. "Jacob cleaned the kitchen up and threw the table out." I say walking into the kitchen with him following behind me. "Yeah, it's only three chairs left." I say pointing to the chairs. "You sure you don't know anybody else?" He asks me. "You?" I ask him. "I wouldn't do this, Ms. Thorne." He say looking me directly in my eyes.
"Other than that, I'll just let the police handle it. He or she comes back, I'll be waiting." I say sitting in the kitchen chair and offering him a seat. "Where are your parents?" He asks sitting down. "They're traveling, Mr. Howard. It's that type of relationship." I say. He's not convinced. "I'll get the paperwork and everything in but I didn't expect this to happen. So, yeah." I say crossing my arms and waiting on him to say something.
He looks at me before looking around the kitchen. "I'm okay, Mr. Howard. I really appreciate you coming over to check on me and everything. I know you're trying to save my life but everything is okay." "School work." "Right, in school. I'll have everything done by this week. I think I will but I'm pretty sure not those essays just yet." I say getting up and walking to the fridge.
"Would you like something to drink? Coffee? Water? Beer? Or Juice?" I ask showing him the fridge contents. "No, thank you." He say. I nod my head grabbing a water bottle and sitting down in one of the chairs. It get silent between us. "I think the person stole my ultrasound picture. I haven't told Jacob unless he took it off without telling me." I say twisting the cap off the water bottle.
"Someone stole it?" He asks. "Yeah, I think so. I didn't find it unless Jacob has it. I didn't clean up the kitchen area. I woke up and the whole house was cleaned." I say making sense of everything. I close the water bottle back. "Are you okay?" He asks me. "Yeah, Jacob is the best and I'm treating him with so much disrespect. Is there something you want, Mr. Howard?" I ask him.
"Just to check up on you, Ms. Thorne. You sure he didn't do this?" He asks me. "I am sure. He wouldn't have no reason too our close relationship when it's only teacher and student. I doubt it. I highly doubt it. We live here." "Both of you two live here?" "No, I mean he stays the night and been helping me with the pregnancy and everything." I say nodding my head. He nods too.
"Yeah, he lives here. His dad kicked him out because he got me knocked up. Our home till our daughter comes and I don't know. I'm so lost at the moment, Mr. Howard." I tiredly say. I been tired so lately and I don't know if it's the pregnancy or not. "It could be, Ms. Thorne." He say. Oh, I'm talking out loud again. "Yeah, I still can't believe my house." I say looking around the house.
Even though half is cleaned, I can't get back the security. "You do not feel safe in your own home then you need to move. You need to think of Sarah?" "I do every single day but I am not leaving my house, Mr. Howard. Jacob is all of the security that I need. The Chief of Police lives almost four or so houses down. I'll catch this person. I have a baby to think about." I say getting angry.
"Your baby's safety and health comes first more than anything else. You don't want to lose your baby." "No, I do not. I'm pretty sure I'll be moving out of my house and probably somewhere else. It's not good for my health and I'm sure Jacob agrees. If it's a robber but it's someone close then it's a problem. I'll have to go over my choices. Sure, you don't want no water or anything to drink?" I ask holding up my water bottle.
"I'm sure, Ms. Thorne." He say getting up. "Right, I'll walk you out." I say leading him to the front door and opening it for him. "I don't think I'll be coming to school no time this week, Mr. Howard. It really got me and scared me. I never thought I'll be taking down a notch by this situation." I say holding my hand out for him to shake but he gives me a hug. I hug him back.
"You'll be okay, Ms. Thorne." He say rubbing on my back. "I know I will, Mr. Howard. Stop calling me thorne and maybe start calling me Lacie. It's pretty weird and make me old." I say coming out of the hug. "I'll try." He say nodding and walking down the porch. "Watch your step. It's still a little bit slippery." I say waving. He nods waving too walking to his car. I closes the front door locking it and sitting down on the couch hearing the car door opening and closing. I sigh laying down on the couch.
Jacob had an attitude when he walked into the house. I guess he smelt Mr. Howard in the house. I just told him that he just came over to check up on me and that was it. It was no touching nor feelings of any sorts. He doesn't need to know about that second hug.
Since then it's been silence between us as I tried to clean up all of the mud stains that was on the carpet. I didn't even bother to talk to him about it nor did he question me about it. It's time to grow up and see that it's other big problems out in this world instead of the helping teacher. I don't even bother and I know it's been a while since visiting my other friends.
"Don't start, Lacie." Jacob say breaking me out of my thoughts. "Hm. What you talking about, Jacob?" I ask looking out of the car window. He turn the music down. "Don't bring up anything concerning Bella around Paul." "I was not going too. I just want to ask if he had a part in my house being destroyed." "He didn't." He say. I turn around in my seat.
"So, you know who probably did the job and is not going to tell me." "I don't recognize the scent." He say. "Are you taking up for him? You don't just go destroy someone's house and think everything is cooled. You don't have a house and it's very disrespectful and it cost money. I do not have money." I say waving my hand in his face.
"Your mom, Lacie?" He say turning down a rocky road. "You don't get it because you're a boy and you're still in that childish attitude. You don't want nobody to disrespect your home and I find out that it was Paul who tore my house up. He's never allowed in my house ever. You don't bring that relationship crap to my house. You take it to the Cullens." I say seeing that he's just listening.
"Paul didn't do it, Lacie." "Let me find out he did it, Jacob. That took money out of my the house and no telling what else for the baby. Let me find out you helped him then we'll have a big problem. I don't want to whip his butt." "He took it easy on you, Lacie." He say. Oh, yeah. "That fake fight that we had. I could've snapped his neck. I'm heated and mad now." I say looking at us pulling up to Sam's house.
He turn the car off and take off his seat belt. "Don't start. More important things to worry about." He say. I stay silent listening to the front door of Sam's house opening up and looking at Quil and Embry walking onto the porch. I look at them then turn back around to look at Jacob. "You're in a attitude and you're justifying if Paul did do it-" "And, if he did not?" He asks me.
"I'm not apologizing because I have not talked to him in a couple of weeks." I say shaking my head. What is he getting at? He looks at Quil and Embry. I turn around to look at them too. "Are you going to apologize?" I hear Sam asks walking up to the driver side. I laugh at his behavior. He been acting wild a long time. "Am I going to apologize? Yeah, I'll apologize to him." I say as he kneels down on the driver's window. Jacob shake his head.
He looks me right in the face. "Yeah, I'm sorry I accused you of trashing my house because of personal problems that may be occurring between you and Bella. Is that better?" I ask him while looking at Jacob. "It's better, Lacie." He say. I nod my head. "Was it a vampire?" I ask Sam. He doesn't answer. "I'm just asking in seven more months. Baby Sarah is on the way and I don't want nobody finding out about me. It's already hard because of the Cullens." I say and wait on Jacob and Sam to speak.
They don't. "Just don't start, Lacie." Jacob finally say. "And, I will not. Let's just have some fun and chill out. It's been hard for all of us." I say taking off my seat belt and opening up the car door. He looks at Sam. He finally gets up allowing Jacob to exit out of the car. I shake my head exiting out of the car too. I close the door and breathe in the clean air. A change from Forks air.
Sam walks over to my side of the car and lean on the passenger side. Suddenly it feels like everything has gotten quiet. I guess everybody is waiting on him to speak. I don't care I need who destroyed my house and hope he or she can pay for the damage. Jacob looks at me. "Is there something you wanna ask, Sam?" I ask him. They all look at Sam.
"Is there a problem?" I ask him. I don't have time for his games. I'm still mad about my house. "Let's just's go in. I can't get sick." I say turning around towards the house and walking up towards it. I notice the guys still looking at Sam. I walk up on the porch shaking my head. Embry and Quil looks at me. I stop walking and turn back around to face Sam and Jacob.
"I did not know anything about you or anyone else. I am new at this and everything caught me off guard. Like Jacob said it's none of my business what goes on in nobody's relationship, Sam." I say glancing at Embry every now and then. He just shake his head. "Whatever." I say shrugging my shoulders and waiting on Jacob to walk with me in the house.
"You're not welcomed in my house." Sam seriously say. They all look at me. "I can accept that." I say walking off the porch and towards the car while Sam stares in my face. I can't get in the car because he's blocking the car door. "Sam, you wanna move to the side? I am not in the mood to go left and right with you." I say waiting on him to move.
"Was you lying about everything?" He asks me. "No, I was not. I cannot help what goes on in the world and I have nothing to lie about. What are you talking about?" I ask confused. "Victoria?" "I don't deal with her. My goal was to watch Bella. I don't go around vampires. That's your job and you're all doing an excellent choice. It's over now." I say shaking my head.
"What is?" He asks while Jacob stare in my face. "Protecting Bella from vampires. I can't do nothing seeing how I'm so called with child and I am not risking my life." "If you are." Sam say. "Then, that is none of your business. I am seriously done. Jacob, will you take me home?" I ask him. He looks at Sam while Sam stares in my face.
Lord, that Alpha bullshit. "Sam." I say looking at his chest. He looks down at me. "Can I tell you the truth of what I been thinking about over the past couple of weeks and months?" I ask him. He cross his arms. I make contact with Jacob. He looks me in the eye. I see Quil shaking his head from the porch. "I don't know exactly what's been going on but we as friends has to try to move forward. No?" I ask him.
"No." He say. "We're your friends, Lacie." Quil say. Alright, I'll admit the big secret. "Jacob, you might not be the father of my baby." I admit and they all look at Jacob. It get silent as they all stare at him. I see Quil shaking his head one more time. I swear to God, Quil. "Who is Mr. Howard?" Jacob asks me. "Yeah, I think he might be the father." I say.
"Okay, Lacie. That's my daughter." "If it's a girl, Jacob. It's too early to tell and I just want you to be on the look out because it's things you do not know." I seriously say. "My daughter, Lacie." He say again. "Jacob, I know but I want you to try to prepare incase things go south and I don't down south. I know we talked about this but if it comes down to it and I need to leave then I am taking my daughter with me." I say to him.
"Okay, Lacie." He say in a tone. "Alright. Anything else, Sam?" I ask clapping my hands together. That part over with. "You're still not welcomed into my house." He say. "The same said for me and my house. Am I free to go?" I ask him. He moves out of the way and I open the car door looking at Jacob. He gets in the car. I close the door seeing Quil shake his head again. Quil, one more. "Take me home. So, I can finish cleaning up." I say putting on my seat belt. He sigh putting on his.