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Ch3
The first couple days of me living with Jake was an adjustment. The first morning I walked downstairs only to see my brother in a pair of boxers sporting a hard on. I screamed and ran back upstairs. He now makes sure to put either gym shorts on or a pair of sweat pants. One morning I was in the bathroom for too long, or so he says. He had to relieve his bladder outside in the woods. I had gotten used to my new bedroom fairly quickly, the only thing that bothered me still was the noises of the house, or the rain hitting the house, and it rained frequently here.
I woke up Friday morning to the smell of coffee and bacon. I quickly went to the bathroom down the hall and then made my way downstairs. Jake was in the kitchen standing in front of the stove, you could hear the bacon sizzling and popping.
"G'morning." I mumble.
Jake looks over his shoulder in my direction and smiles, "Morning sleepy head."
I make my way over to the table and sit. "Do I get to have some of that?" I asked pointing to the stove.
He sighed, "I suppose I could spare of few pieces."
"How generous of you."
"I know right?" He said while grabbing a plate and paper towel. He placed all the bacon on the plate and patted it with the paper towel to get some of the grease off.
"You want some coffee?" He asked.
"Yes please."
Jake opens a cupboard and takes out a mug, "Do you like cream and sugar in your coffee?"
"Yeah, not as much as you though."
"So only one heaper of sugar and 3 creamers?"
I giggled, "Yeah that should be good."
With our coffees made, he brought everything to the table. I grabbed my mug and took a sip, mmmm, delicious. I took a piece of bacon and nibbled on it. Jake sat down next to me letting out a loud grunt and took a big gulp of his coffee. I started to smell something funky after he sat down. I took a better look at him. He was wearing gym shorts and a long sleeve shirt that was soaked in places with sweat.
"Oh God Jake, you stink!" I said plugging my nose and wafting the air in front of me.
"Well I better be, after the workout I just had." He said and then proceeded to sniff his pits. He wrinkled his face, "Yeah, yeah I defiantly have a man stink about me."
I nearly spit out my coffee, I swallowed quickly, "Man stink?"
"Well, I'm a man aren't I?"
I snickered. "Sure, whatever you say."
"Damn straight."
We sat in silence for a bit, him eating away at the bacon and me nibbling on a few more pieces.
"You should join me sometime." Jake said quietly.
"Join you in what?" I asked looking at him.
"In a work out. It would be good for you. Get your scrawny ass looking fine as hell." He said and then laughed.
I sighed, "You and I both know that wouldn't end well. I'm no more coordinated then a new born giraffe."
That just made him laugh harder. He even smacked the table while laughing. I huffed and took my now empty mug to the sink. After rinsing it out, I put it in the dish washer.
I turned around and saw Jake wiping tears from his eyes, his laughing had subsided to a here and there chuckle. "You done now?"
Jake nodded, "Yeah, oh Bella…You're too funny sometimes."
"Whatever."
"I'm still serious though. Think of it this way, your coordination can't get much worse, and with exercise it would only improve. I have a big shed in the back yard with my workout equipment in it. I usually go for a run in the morning and then do resistance training in the shed."
I shook my head, "I don't know."
"Oh come on, it would be a fun brother/sister bonding experience." he pleaded with his big brown eyes.
"Ugh, fine." I said giving up.
He gave me a big grin, "Cool. We can start you out Monday morning. I'll let you enjoy your weekend."
I put a hand over my heart, "Oh Jakey! How nice of you to think of my enjoyment." I said sarcastically.
"I know, I'm the best aren't I." He said with a smug grin.
I rolled my eyes and snatched up the last piece of bacon and shoved it in my mouth.
"Hey!" He shouted.
I stuck my tongue out at him and went to the living room. Sitting down, I saw his Xbox controller on the coffee table.
"Jake!" I yelled.
"What?!" he yelled back from the kitchen.
"Can I play on your Xbox?!" I yelled looking towards the dining room.
I saw Jake take long strides to the living room, "I'm sorry, did my ears deceive me? I thought I just heard my sister ask if she could play video games."
With a heavy sigh and an eye roll I responded, "Jake, don't be an ass. Can I play or not?"
"Sure, do you know how to?"
"Jesus Christ Jake, yes." I was getting irritated with his presence.
"Okay, okay. Hey, I'm going to shower and then I have to leave for a bit. I gotta go get my pup today."
I perked up, "Yay! I finally get to meet him."
"Her." He corrected.
"Whatever. Hurry up! I want to see her!" I said shooing him towards the bathroom.
"Alright already." He said and disappeared upstairs.
After a few minutes he came back down with a new outfit and his black hair still dripping wet. He grabbed his key off the hook and paused in the door way, "I will be gone for a few hours. I'll try to be back around dinner time. Oh, and since you ate my bacon you have to make dinner. Bye!"
"What?!" I exclaimed as the door slammed.
What a jerk. I snatched up the remote and turned on the TV. I pressed the home button to turn the controller and system on. While waiting for everything to load up, I went upstairs and changed into a pair of sweat pants and a t-shirt. On my way out I grabbed a sweatshirt. When I got back to the couch everything had loaded. I quickly found my way to his games to see what he had. Minecraft, Skyrim, Destiny, Halo, and a few more. The only one I was familiar with was Minecraft so I clicked on it. Looking around I found Jakes headset. I got up, grabbed it and plugged it in the controller. Once the game loaded up I made a new survival world. Cause what's the point in doing creative?
I started out clearing trees, I was forming an idea to make a replica of Jakes house in the forest. I didn't notice right away but I finally caught a glimpse of Jakes gamer tag, WolfxMan91. Could be worse I suppose.
I was making good progress on the foundation of the cabin when I got a notification that someone invited me to a party. Shit…Shit, shit, shit. I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to be rude, so I accepted the party invite.
WolfxMan91 has joined the party
"Dude, the fuck you playing Minecraft for?" – Sexy00Beast
"Uh…" – WolfxMan91
PixyDust92 has joined the party "Hey guys, what's going on?."
"Not much, just trying to get Jake here to explain why he's playing Minecraft." –Sexy00Beast
JasperxWhitlock has joined the party "Alice, I asked you to wait for me!"
"You were being to slow honey." –PixyDust92
XRosebushX has joined the party "I swear to God, you guys can't go a DAY without video games."
"Says the women who just logged on." Sexy00Beast
"Better watch it dude, remember the last time you pissed Rose off? You complained for week how you weren't getting any." – JasperxWhitlock
"Oh shit, sorry babe." Sexy00Beast
xxPianoManxx has joined the party "Morning guys. Hold the fuck up, Jake's playing Minecraft?"
What was with these people?! What's so wrong with playing Minecraft?
"He's being quiet today man, maybe he's too embarrassed at being caught playing a sissy game." –Sexy00Beast
I was starting to get upset. I could feel the heat rising in my face.
"Just because you lack the imagination to play, don't go dogging a game that is challenging." WolfxMan91
There were a few snickers heard.
"Whatever man, anyway, it's Iron Bananas in Destiny this week, you in our fire team or what?" Sexy00Beast
Crap, I didn't know how to play that game.
"Ooh, yay! I totally forgot about iron bananas. I still need to get the last few ornaments." PixyDust92
"Guys, we have 6 people, we should do a raid." XRosebushX
There was a collective groan throughout the group.
"Oh come on, it's been a while." XRosebushX
"I don't have enough time to do a raid today, sorry" xxPianoManxx
"I think I'm just going to stick with what I'm doing right now" WolfxMan91
"Yo Jake, are you sick or something?" JasperxWhitlock
"Uhh, no?" WolfxMan91
"You sound like a squeaker today man." JasperxWhitlock
Asqueaker? What was that supposed to mean?
"Sorry?" WolfxMan91
"Well, I'm going to play a few games of iron banner before I have to leave for work. I'm sending a party invite to those who want play." xxPianoManxx
*xxPianoManxx Invited you to play Destiny*
I ignored it and continued to build my cabin. It was coming along rather nicely. I had the foundation done and started working on the walls. All the while I was just listening to these new people bicker and fight about their game. From what I've gathered so far, iron banner was some sort of player vs. player game. There was a lot of yelling about how capturing points was more important than kills. There was a lot of cursing and raging coming from the guys. It was funny when one of the girls' characters died, they would yell "Awe, crap." Every once in a while I would hear, "Yeah okay, cause you can snipe through a wall." Or "What the fuck?! I killed him first! I hate lag." I was very entertained by all of this.
I'm not sure how much time had passed cause I was in the zone and listening to their conversations.
"Alright guys, that's all I got for today. I need to get ready for work." xxPianoManxx
"I gotta be done too. I'm starting to get a headache." XRosebushX has left the party
"Alice and I need to go as well. We're going out for dinner with her parents tonight." JasperxWhitlock
"What!? Of course you guys go out on my night to work." xxPianoManxx
"Sorry Ed, it was mom and dad's idea." PixyDust92
"Sure it was, and I told you, don't call me Ed. Talk to you later Jake." xxPianoManxx has left the party
"See ya Jake." PixyDust92 has left the party
JasperxWhitlock has left the party
"I gotta go to, talk to you later man." Sexy00Beast has left the party
And just like that I was by myself again. Jake had some funny friends. I found myself missing their chatter as I finished up the roof on my cabin. A bit later my phone started ringing.
"Hello?"
"Hey sis, I'm on my way home."
"Already?"
"What do you mean already, it's almost 5:30"
What? It was? I took my phone away and sure enough, it was 5:26pm.
"Oh, okay. I'll see you in a bit then."
"What the hell have you been doing to lose track of time."
"Playing games." I say sheepishly
There was a moment of silence before he burst out laughing.
"Shut up Jake."
"Sorry, sorry. I just never thought I would see the day my sister gets that into video games. What did you play?"
"I'm playing Minecraft." I said while saving my game.
"Oh god…" he groaned. "Did uh, did anyone notice?"
"Hmm, well if by anyone you mean some of your friends, then yes, they noticed. What's their beef against it? Oh and what's a squeaker?"
"Fuck, well whatever. I can't remember why the guys don't like it. What's a squeaker you ask? It's what we call little kids that join our party. Why?"
"Oh, well…I joined a party and one of the people mentioned that I sounded like a squeaker. They thought you might be sick or something."
"Wait, wait, wait." He paused, "You joined a party as me? Lord help me. I'm never going to hear the end of it when I talk to them next." I could hear the dismay in his voice.
"Sorry." Not really.
"It's whatever I guess. Hey have you started making dinner yet? I'm starving."
"Not yet, we just established that I was playing games all day."
"Crap, I forgot. Well, I will be home in a half hour or so."
"Kk, I will get something started."
"Thanks Bells, see you soon."
"See you soon." I hung up and put my phone in my pocket. After shutting off the Xbox and TV I walked into the kitchen and looked in the fridge for something I could make for dinner. Only to be met with a near empty fridge. Looking in the cupboards only made me sadder. He needed to go grocery shopping and soon.
There was a pound of burger in the fridge and a box of spaghetti in the pantry so I grabbed a skillet out of the bottom cupboard and started cooking the meat then grabbed a pot and filled it with water. After putting the water on medium/high heat to get it to boil faster I grabbed some seasoning to put on the burger. This wouldn't be the fanciest of meals but he would have to deal.
When the water started boiling I grabbed a handful of the noodles and snapped them in half before adding them to the water. The burger was done so I turned it on low and put a lid over it to keep it warm. While waiting for the noodles to get done I searched for some pasta sauce. I searched high and low until I finally found a jar of marinara sauce. Its expiration date was still a few months away so it should be fine.
Just as I was draining the noodles, I heard Jake's truck, and then a bark. I dumped the rest of the noodles into the strainer then dashed to the door. Jake was holding his door open and the cutest black lab jumped out.
"Awww!" I said in a high pitched voice. The dog hearing me, turned and ran towards me. She started jumping up trying to lick my face.
"No Izzy, get down!" Jake yelled and stomped over to us.
Kneeling down I let her give me kisses. "What a good girl, yes you are!"
"Please don't teach her it's okay to lick people's faces. That's gross and not everyone appreciates it."
I gave her a scratch behind her ears and she started moaning. I laughed. "How old is she?"
"She's still a puppy, turned 10 months last week."
I gave Izzy one more pat before standing back up. "Where did she stay while you were at mom and dad's?"
He scratched the back of his head, "Over at Rebekka's."
"The same 'Just a friend' Rebekka you were telling me about on the way here?"
"Uh, yeah. That would be her."
"Where does she live? You were gone for a while." I asked while walking back into the house. Izzy following me the whole way.
"Port Angeles." He said then plopped down on the couch. Izzy looked from me to him, sneezed, then back to me. I leaned down and gave her head a pat. She gave me a few kisses before I took my hand away and walked back to the kitchen, her following me the whole way.
"Traitor!" I heard Jake yell.
I smiled and told Izzy she was a good girl, she wagged her tail a couple times before sitting at my feet.
I finished putting everything together and told Jake it was time to eat.
"Smells good." He said taking a seat at the table.
"Thanks, I didn't have much to work with." I said pointedly.
"Hey, I've been gone for a month, cut me some slack. If you want we can go to the local grocery store tomorrow and you can help me shop."
"Sure, it's not like I have anything better to do." I agreed.
We ate in silence for a while. Then he started asking about who I talked to in the party today.
"Um, I don't know if I can remember their names exactly but there was sexy beast, rosebush, pixydust, Jasper, and pianoman." I said counting on my fingers.
Jake groaned then smiled, "Sexy beast is one of my best friends, his real name is Emmett. He's been offline for a while but he texts me now and again. He must be visiting his parents if he got online. I'll have to hang out with him while he's here. Rosebush is his girlfriend, her name is Rosalie but we just call her Rose. Pixydust is Alice, Jasper is her husband and Pianoman is Alice's younger brother Ed."
Emmett and Rose sounded very familiar but I couldn't remember why.
"He said he didn't like to be called Ed." I pointed out.
Jake laughed, "I know, that's why we do it. He's the youngest in our little group. Actually I think he's 23, same age as you." Jake rubbed the back of his neck and stretched, "Well," He said getting up from the table. "We might as well set you up with your own account. I have a feeling you might be spending some quality time right there on that couch staring at a screen."
I perked up, "Really?"
"Sure, sure. But while I'm getting everything set up, try to come up with a gamer tag for yourself. "
"Can't it just be Bella?" I asked following him back to the living room.
Jake snorted, "Funny, something that original is more than likely already taken. You're going to have to be more creative than that."
I huffed and plopped down on the couch beside him. Izzy came over to lie down at my feet. I didn't know the first thing about creative user names. I quickly took out my phone and googled girl gamer tags. I sighed in frustration. These names were not helpful,
XxGlitterGirlXx
0
LadyKiller
MidnightM00nSparkels
I rubbed my face, no…just no.
"Having trouble?" Jake asked.
I groaned, "Yeah."
He chuckled, "Want to see what automatic names come up?"
I looked at him in frustration, "That was an option this whole time?"
He ruffled my hair, "Yeah, I just wanted to see if you had any ideas before mentioning it."
I swatted his hand away, "Yes please. I can't think of anything and Google is of no help."
We sat there for a good ten minutes arguing about what a good gamer tag was. None of the tags that were premade held any interest for me. However I was starting to come up with one on my own. I reached over and took the controller from Jake.
"I'm good, I know what I want to use."
Jake looked at me, confused. "Well? What did you come up with."
I didn't say anything, instead I typed in the box, ScarredSwan. Unfortunately that was already taken so I had to improvise a little bit. xxScarredSwanxx was available so that's what a chose.
Jake bumped my shoulder, "Going for dark and mysterious huh?"
I just shrugged. With my gamer tag chosen, he next showed me how to personalize my home screen. I decided to go with a purple background. He then helped me make an avatar. I spent a good fifteen minutes on her, trying to make it look as close to me as possible. Then we finished with me looking for a profile picture. I went with the cute panda.
By the time we were done, Izzy was starting to prance around the room and whine.
"Shit, she probably needs to go outside." Jake mumbled.
"I'll take her, come on Izzy. Let's go outside." I got up and walked past the kitchen and opened up the back door. Izzy bolted passed me, almost knocking me over.
I sat on the porch step and watched her run around the back yard, eventually squatting to pee. Today had been a good one. I smiled, feeling glad that I decided to stay with Jake.
"Now there's something I haven't seen in a while." Jake said looking down at me.
"What?" I looked around the yard thinking maybe an animal had wandered to close to the house.
"It's just good to see you have a genuine smile."
I rolled my eyes, "Thanks, I think."
We stayed there in silence, watching Izzy frolic in the yard. The breeze was making the leaves rustle in the woods, it was a soothing sound. When Izzy came back and started licking my face, we took her back inside and Jake fed her. I cleared the table from dinner and put the dirty dishes in the dish washer while Jake put the leftover spaghetti in a Tupperware dish and placed it in the fridge for later.
"So… I was wondering if we could go to Port Angeles tomorrow?" I said leaning against the counter.
"What for?" Jake asked.
"Well, I need to go shopping for clothes, and get a few other feminine type things."
Jake looked confused, "Feminine things?"
I sighed, "Unless you have tampons hiding in a cupboard somewhere yes, feminine things."
Jake blushed, "Oh, gotcha. Gross."
"Get over it, so can we?"
"Yeah, sure. We can stop at the grocery market on the way back. What time do you want to go?"
I thought about it for a minute, "Um, could we go after breakfast? I don't want to be out all day."
"Yeah, sounds fine. Izzy is house trained so as long as we are only gone for a few hours she will be fine."
"Cool, want to watch a movie tonight?"
"Sure, want some popcorn?" He asked reaching into the pantry and grabbing a bag.
"Yeah, I'll eat some. I'm going to go put my pajamas on." I said and walked away to go upstairs. I had unpacked most of my clothes when I got here but my sweat pants and t-shirts were still in my bag. I grabbed my favorite pair of holey sweats and put on an oversized plain gray t-shirt. I made my way back downstairs and Jake was already sitting on the couch eating away at the popcorn.
"Jeez, ya pig. Save some for me." I said and grabbed a handful of popcorn while sitting down next to him.
"Shut it pint size. What did you want to watch?" He asked opening up Netflix.
I yawned, "Doesn't really matter."
"You say that now." He mumbled.
We finally decided to watch How to Train your Dragon. Jake got up and grabbed a blanket and unceremoniously threw it in my direction. I dropped what little popcorn I had to try and catch it. The blanket opened up a bit and covered my head.
I grabbed it and pulled it down over my face, puffing to get my hair out of my face. Izzy was enjoying the popcorn that landed on the floor.
"Thanks so much." I deadpanned.
"Yup, now be quiet so we can watch this movie."
"Jerk." I grabbed the bowl from his hand. He started to protest but I gave him a glare and he shut up.
About halfway through the movie, Izzy had jumped up between us and rested her head in my lap. Her tail kept wagging in Jakes face making me giggle. After a while her warmth on top of the blanket was making me drowsy, and eventually I feel asleep.
"Bella, wake up. The movie's over." Jake said while gently shaking my shoulder.
"Hmm? M'kay." I yawned and gently moved the dog and blanket off my lap. I shuffled upstairs and crawled into bed. Jake was standing in the doorway when Izzy jumped up and lied down at the foot of my bed.
Jake sighed, "I normally don't let her sleep on the bed."
"Oh." I looked from him to the sleeping puppy and back to him. "Please?"
"Ugh, fine. Only your bed though. I don't want mine to smell like dog." He waved it off, "Goodnight Bells."
"G'night, see you in the morning."
With that, he shut my door most of the way and I snuggled deeper into my sheets. With a final glance at Izzy, I closed my eyes and fell asleep.
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