Book 3 – Chapter 2: Jake's Return
Jacob didn't come back until it was graduation. Well my graduation anyway. He showed up on the doorstep the day before with a loud…well loud to my ears, knock on the door. Edward wasn't around, he went hunting with Emmett and Jasper to solve overpopulation on mountain lions in the east, and in Emmett's case, a few bears or two.
"Hey" he says when I open the door. I smile and flinch at his smell and the look of him. He wasn't wearing a shirt, as per usual, he had a pair of dirty shorts on, no shoes and his hair has twigs and leaves in it. "Wanna come for a walk with me?" he asks while looking over my shoulder.
"Yeah Sure…what happened to you?" I ask him as we step out the front door. We walk into the bush, holding hands so I don't go to fast. It was a friendly gesture, nothing more. Well I hope it wasn't anything more in his head. His flame hot skin burned against my ice cold one. A big difference.
"I was gone for a few weeks. The pack would talk to me…I think I was in western Canada…maybe Alaska. I didn't know if I would make it in time for your graduation" he says and I smile at him. He sighs. "Could you stop dazzling me?" he asks me and I laugh a musical laugher.
"Sorry" I say and he smiles. "I'm glad you came back. Have you gone to see Billy?" I ask him and he shakes his head. We walk over the logs and towards a river before sitting down. "So…you coming to the wedding?" I ask awkwardly and he grins.
"Of course, you wouldn't want your best man showing up without a tuxedo hey?" he teases and I grin as I lean against his flame hot shoulder. I sigh and he stands up, I follow after him. "I didn't want to do this like this…well this way" Jacob says awkwardly and I frown. What was he talking about? "But I need you to know that I'm in love with you Bells" Jacob grabs my face and holds it still. Meanwhile I'm trying to resist the intriguing temptation to break him. "And I want you to choose me over him" he says before he lowers his face down to mine and kisses me. I frown and push him off me. Before kicking him in the gut. He looks at me, a mixture of pain in his eyes.
I run, not wanting to see the pain in his eyes, not only because I kicked him, because I rejected him. I didn't love him like I love Edward. I loved him as a brother, and I only wished he could see that. I was wrong for him. I could kill him if I wanted to. I wasn't aware where I was going until I bumped into Edward who caught me and stopped me in my tracks. "Bella" Edward says and I could see pain in his eyes, like what I saw in Jake's. I choke out a dry and tearless sob into his chest. "Hey…what happened?" he asks me as I wrap my arms around him. I sob again.
"I can't hurt anyone anymore." I sob and he tries to quiet me down. "Jake and you…Charlie. Esme…Carlisle…Emmett...Rosalie…Alice…Jasper…Everyone" I sob and he hugs me tightly. "And I miss Renee and Phil…" I sob just letting it all out as he picks me up and runs towards our meadow. I sob for an hour until I calm down, then I notice Edward just sitting there in silence, staring at me. "Sorry you had to see that" I mumble and he smiles a sad smile.
"It's ok…It comes with the job." He says, a hint of amusement in his voice. "So what happened?" he asks me and I frown as I sigh. I really didn't want to get into another round of 'tears' again. I frown.
"Jacob Black kissed me" I say and he frowns and growls under his breath. "I pushed him off me and kicked in him the gut" I say and Edward smirks as he kisses my forehead. "He said he wanted to go for a walk, and then he said he loved me and then that's when he kissed me." I say and he smirks as he turns me over so he's on the ground and I'm on top of his chest. "You know I only think of him as a brother Edward" I say and he nods.
"You really are a tough little newborn" Edward comments as he runs his lips down my neck and onto my shoulder.
"Hey! I'm not little" I say offended and he laughs.
"I know" he murmurs and I smile as I stand up, him following me instantly. "Where are we going?" he asks me and I grin.
"We've still got to graduate" I remind him and he grins as we run towards the Cullen household and for once, Alice isn't trying to drown me in Wedding details. She makes us all wear identical black heals, I wear a blue thigh high dress and my hair in curls. Rosalie wore a spaghetti strap, floral pink, thigh length dress which was girly and her hair was normal but out over her shoulders. Alice wore a pale purple, V-neck spaghetti strap which flowed down to her knees. Esme wore a regular every day dress with heels. Her dress was a nice pale green, thigh high, spaghetti strap, ditzy wrap dress with a little bow on the side, making her look younger than she is. I was the last to walk down the stairs. I took the steps gracefully down the stairs, and slowly to stop and see Edward with a grin plastered on his face. He watched me walk down the stairs, his eyes a bright gold meanwhile mine were a golden brown.
If I didn't see him before I ever met him, I could have sworn he was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. He was in a grey shirt, a pair of black pants and a black tie. It was casual but it still made him look gorgeous. His hair was the usual bronze and messy, his face was definitely perfect and his smile blinded me from everything. "Hello" he says huskily into my ear and my breathing accelerates. "You look beautiful" he whispers and I shiver. Then I kiss him. From the moment, electricity sparks between our bodies, intensified from the moment and higher than ever before. The desire is there and it might come up from the surface. Then the kissing takes a turn from the normal kind, acceptable in public to the bedroom kind. Of course his lips never leave mine, but then I stop.
I pull my face away from his. "Your family are still here" I murmur and he laughs. Jasper laughs and shakes his head as he holds Alice tightly against him, he was already graduated, along with Rosalie and Emmett, but they're here to support Edward, Myself and Alice.
"Esme, we might need to move away from the coming up to newlyweds soon" Jasper hints and Esme laughs.
"Let's just hope that they aren't worse than Rose and Emmet" Alice laughs and I frown. Edward read the confusion on my face and he grins.
"Emmett and Rose were worse than us. They smashes too many houses while they were…uhh…" Edward whispers awkwardly with a hint of humour. I grin and turn to him.
"So they are talking about our sex lives?" I ask him and he laughs and nods. "We don't even have one" I whisper and he grins as he wraps his arms around my waist. "Come on, let's go" I say as we make out way to school for our Graduation.