All things Twilight belong to Stephenie Meyer. I am just borrowing her characters for a while.

Chapter 2

Who's to say where the wind will take you?
Who's to say what it is will break you?
I don't know, which way the wind will blow
U2--Kite

Welcome week flew by. It was much easier to settle into a routine that I had imagined. The days had formed a pattern—class, class, class, lunch, class and one more class, dinner with Alice, and usually Jasper, homework then bed. The first two months of school had come and gone in the blink of an eye.

I had even started to make some friends. I had several classes with an equally shy girl named Angela. It took us several classes of making eye contact before we finally spoke to one another, but it didn't take long for us to become good friends. She was also from a small town and was amazed at the pace of college life.

"We have so much freedom, you know?" I could tell Angela was thinking out loud.

"It is nice in a way not to worry about breaking curfew and Charlie wondering where I am. Forks is so small; there were only a handful of places to go and he knew where they all were." I was trying to help her get out what she was thinking about.

"I know the feeling. My parents were pretty strict, especially when it came to Ben. It was an adjustment knowing he wasn't getting kicked out at a certain time every night. I make him leave anyway!" She gushed and followed up with a giggle. "It's nice for him to have some new guy friends. I don't mind being a dutiful girlfriend, but once you've seen one kung fu movie, you've seen them all!" We were laughing as we entered the three hundred person bio lecture hall.

I stopped in my tracks when I heard a booming laugh coming from the back of the room. I knew who it belonged to instantly—it was Jacob. Angela claimed our seats and I found myself fighting through the throngs of students to make my way to where Jacob was sitting with several other people. He saw me coming and met me with his big huge grin.

"Hey, stranger! Where you been hiding?"

I blushed, just as I knew I would. I think an "um, around" was all I could mutter before the professor called for our attention. I flashed Jacob an "I'll see you later look" and went back to Angela. There was no way he'd been in this class the whole time without me knowing.

I started to get settled in for the lecture. I heard a rustling of papers and lots of groaning behind me. The professor stopped and stared at the commotion coming from the back of the room. When I looked up, the commotion was coming my way. It was Jacob, who had noisily packed up his stuff and was squeezing down the row of seats where Angela and I were sitting.

"Are you done, yet?" The professor shot Jacob a look that made me wish I could blend in with the seats.

He plopped down into the empty chair beside me. "Yeah, yeah." He grinned.

I was mortified. I don't think I could have gotten any redder. Angela didn't know what to think, either. But, unlike Alice, she wouldn't push for me to tell her. She would just accept it.

The professor started up his lecture and I started taking notes when a piece of paper slid onto my writing board.

I've been hoping I'd run into you. Have you been in this class the whole time?

Yes, I wrote back. He wasn't getting off this easy after embarrassing me that bad in front of the whole class.

I didn't know. If I would have, I'd of come to sit with you before now. Why were you hiding from me?

What? Hiding? I wasn't hiding from you.

Black, Jacob.

I was instantly confused. Um?

Well, I tried to look you in the directory but I couldn't find you. Plus, I didn't know your last name. And I thought you might be looking for me too, but realized you didn't know my last name.

He was looking for me? Swan, Isabella. I scribbled on the page and passed it back to him.

Oh, well that would have made a difference. I was just looking for random Bellas. There wasn't just one or I would have found you. What are you doing tonight?

I squirmed. I never got attention from boys at home. Not even in Arizona. Trying to buy time, I pretended to focus on the lecture. Jacob elbowed by arm and made me draw a black line down my page. I turned to glare at him, but he was flashing that grin.

I have a math study session. So lame, but so true.

Yeah, don't buy that. Midterms are still weeks away…He drew a little frowny face with eyebrows at the end. I had to try to hold in my laugh.

You don't know me and math. I rolled my eyes as he read it.

Fine. This weekend then? He was persistent!

I hesitated, then wrote, I'm going to the football game with Alice, Jasper, Angela and Ben.

He flashed the grin again, as if he had just had the best idea of his life. Easy solution… I'll be your date and then it will all be even.

I didn't know how to respond to that. I sat there, blushing, with Jacob laughing at my obvious discomfort. Surprisingly, the more I thought about it, the more I realized I wanted to spend time with Jacob. His easy going presence and up front attitude made it hard for me to ignore him. I gave up trying. I sighed and gave a little nod in his direction. His face was jubilant. And just like that I had a date with Jacob Black.