A/N: I think I have fixed the formatting problem like the absence of double spaces, and indentations. So here's chapter two! Enjoy!
I'm pretty sure Alice was more excited about my second meeting with Jake, than I was. "Don't flinch! You'll mess it up!" She proclaimed while torturing me with eye shadow. "Why do I need make-up just to get my truck fixed?" I asked putting emphasis on "make-up" to make it sound like a dirty word.
"Bella" she snorted "We both know you are not going just to get your truck fixed, now quit flinching!" I obeyed as I mentally cursed her for being right.
Soon, but not soon enough for me, I was done, and looking much better than I had at the movies when I was my own personal make-up artist. I reluctantly thanked my over zealous best friend. She really did make me look good.
I made my promised warning phone call to announce my departure. Alice walked me out, I gave her a quick hug "good luck." She whispered in my ear as I hopped into my rattling vehicle, and sighed as I turned the ignition. I took off at a slow pace, since it was the only pace my truck knew. It had very obviously seen better days.
About fifteen minutes later I arrived in La Push outside of the small house where Jake and Billy resided. He greeted me with an unexpected hug as soon as I was out of my Truck.
"I would have opened the door for you, ya know." He said with a smile. I smiled too, I couldn't help it. He took my keys from me, helped me into the passenger seat. He drove the rusted red Chevy into his garage to get started on his work.
"Thank you so much for helping me with this, I'm not going to let you do this for free though" I said adamantly. "HAH" he chuckled " I don't accept cash." He said grinning from ear to ear. "So what do you accept?" I challenged. "You have to let me take you on another date." I actually didn't see that coming. "Fine then, but I'm paying for the date." Being stubborn was just one of the many things I picked up from my mother.
"No chance. If I'm going to get you to be my girlfriend I'm not going to ask you to pay for me." He said the last part a little quieter with obvious nervousness shining in his eyes as he awaited a response.
"Well the girl can pay sometimes in a relationship, don't you think?" I asked with a sly smile, I don't know what's come over me, I'm getting good at flirting. "No thanks, I prefer to wear the pants in the relationship." He said as he tinkered under the hood, and I knew he had lost. "Okay fine fine, you win." I retreated and the conversation carried on.
It was starting to get dark, and I wanted to get home in time to finish the synopsis of "Romeo and Juliet" that was assigned by Mr. Mason. Jacob handed me the keys back with a look of slight sadness in his eyes. Was he actually sad I had to leave?
"How about Friday?" He asked me mid-thought. "For what?" I asked back, like only an idiot would. "Your payment" He said bluntly, with a little more Bravery. "Oh yeah!" I said nervously "That would be great, Thanks again Jake." His smile returned
"Sure thing, thanks for hanging out with me today, I really like you, you know." My face turning a bright crimson "I like you too, Jake." I said honestly, even more blood rushing to my cheeks. And with that, I was off and on my way back home.
Alice was waiting for me when I got home, I had to let out a laugh when I saw her eagerly waiting on my front porch, practically bouncing up and down with anticipation.
She had an overnight bag, even though it was a school night she and I both knew Charlie would let her stay the night. Alice was my first friend here in Forks and really helped me when I was getting over the whole being nervous about a new town. We would do anything for each other.
I hesitated slightly before getting out of my truck to prepare myself before I was bombarded with questions. Eventually I did have to get out and make my way to my smiling best friend. She was so cute when she was being impatient.
I walked toward her with caution. "So. I'm sleeping over, and we're going to stay up and talk all night about your little rendezvous with Jacob, okay?" She asked pretending to be calm for a nanosecond. "I wouldn't have it any other way." I said with a slight giggle.
Once we shrugged off our coats and hung them in the front closet. We went upstairs with the Pizza that Charlie had ordered since I was out so late. She shut the door behind her like she was playing bad cop, and I was in an interrogation.
She was a five foot demon in a pixie costume, and I loved all 60 inches of her. We sat down on the bed, pizza in hand, and just when I was beginning to think she would give me a moment of silence she began.
"So how did it go, did you kiss yet?" Her honey brown eyes glistening with curiosity. "No!" I practically yelled. Why would she even think that? "Did you want to?" she smirked. "A little bit." Oh yeah, that's why she asked, because she knows more about me than I do. "And do you think he feels the same way about you?" The curiosity still burning.
"Yes, I mean...I think so. Well...He asked me to go out with him again. It was so adorable, Alice! I tried to pay him for his mechanic work and he said that he wanted me to pay him by going out with him again! I'm so excited! I never thought that I would like him this much. My Dad picked him for my for Christ's sake, How often does that work out? He also mentioned something about making me his girlfriend!" I gushed to Alice's surprise.
"We are going shopping tomorrow to get you an outfit. You're going to look perfect Bella. This is a REAL date. Not like those pity dates you used to go on with Eric." She reminded me, and I cringed.
When we noticed the face I was making we both started laughing hysterically. "Just make sure you don't stop hanging out with me to be with Jake all the time." She stated sarcastically, still in a fit of giggles.
The thought of me wanting to spend more time with a boy than Alice was more hilarious than the disgusted face I made at the mention of Eric's name. After a few more hours of laughing and gushing, we finally drifted off to sleep.
I was having a really strange dream about Jake talking to my truck when I was woken up by the ever so familiar beep beep beep of my alarm clock. Alice jumped out of bed almost as jubilant as she would be at two in the afternoon. Does she ever get tired?
I dragged myself out of bed, and to the bathroom where Alice turned on the Zune stereo. We were soon brushing our teeth and dancing together at the same time laughing as much as we had been about 9 hours ago. After we could pass as the poster children for dental health I turned to Alice. "Leave Alice I gotta pee." I said with a giggle. She didn't argue. I finished getting dressed in my room, Alice was getting dressed in the bathroom.
"Yeah. We're definitely going to have to buy you something for your date." She said with fake shame on her face. I glanced in the mirror jeans, a T-shirt, and sneakers. Nothing wrong with that. I thought to myself, but I was actually excited about looking nice for Jacob. "Not everyone has to look like they just stepped out of a magazine Alice." I said dragging out her name. I smirked and we were laughing again.
We decided to take Alice's Audi to school instead of my truck. It got better gas mileage, and we were going straight to Port Angeles after school for our shopping adventure.
School was uneventful. Everyday was almost like a repeat of your least favorite episode of your least favorite sitcom. Mike pestered me, Tyler hit on me, Jessica said something stupid, Emmett made me laugh, Rosalie didn't address me at all. I got to sit out P.E. because two minutes into the basketball game I fell right on my face. The swelling was minimal, and it was finally time to go shopping.
"What happened to your face?" said my beloved best friend in her spiky black haired perfection. "Basketball." I replied bluntly, and she let out a giggle. "Bella Swan, try not to do that again before Friday."
We hopped in the A4 (the Audi for you fine people who don't speak car and driver) And we zoomed a little too quickly down the interstate to get to our destination.
We made it to the mall in one piece and the modeling began. We were barely in the first store twenty minutes before I was pushed into the dressing room with an armful of too-expensive garments. I tried on the first one and stepped out "no" was all I heard and it was enough I stepped back into the torture chamber.
"Where is he taking you, anyway?" Oh my goodness I have no idea. "Oh no! Alice I don't know! How am I supposed to know what to wear when I don't know where we're even going!" I panicked. "It will be fine Bella, I promise. We will just get something that's nice, but not flashy. It's always better to over-dress than under-dress." I agreed silently with a nod that I knew she couldn't see as I put on a dark pink hoodie that was form-fitting, and cute, but would still keep me warm, since it's September.
I stepped out and immediately knew I had gained approval by the look on Alice's face. "It's perfect!" She said with a smile that was almost proud. We then picked up some jeans, tops, and a pair of shoes for me to wear on the date. We paid and went to the food court to get some food that was greasy and delicious. We had more chit chat about boys, school, and Jessica and Mike's new affair. Which made us both laugh.
I spent the rest of the week in a haze. I was growing more nervous about Friday as it drew closer. Everyone in the town had caught wind of my date. I was notorious for pretty much keeping to myself and not having many guys look at me with the exception of my three-date phase with Eric that ended in the most terrible kiss you would ever imagine, which is why I decided to put an end to it.
"I thought when you were ready to date you were going to kind of get back with me." Said a saddened Eric in Math class. I sat there dumbfounded and in shock for a moment "Eric, you're really nice, I mean it. I just don't like you the same way you like me and it would be unfair for me to drag you along, you know. I wasn't necessarily looking for a date, but that was just something I said to make you feel better." Wasn't it obvious?
I hadn't meant to say it in a mean way, but the look on his face had screamed that my voice inflection had betrayed me. "Well, I still think it's pretty low of you, Isabella." He hissed my full name and walked away. Anger and sadness washed over me all at once. I hated hurting people's feelings, but we weren't ever really together, and it makes me angry that he thinks I need to ask his permission to date.
I got over it after venting to Alice who just assured me that he was an idiot and soon Friday rolled around. Alice was yet again applying my make up. After She was done putting my hair in a headband and curling the ends, I slipped on my skinny jeans, put on my plain white tank top, and my dark pink hoodie. Once I was acceptable I went downstairs.
"You look lovely, honey." Said my father. I was suddenly thinking about how far we've come since I first moved here. I always loved my dad, but the first few months were pretty much just awkward silences. We never knew what to say to each other. I'm glad that we're so close now.
There was a knock at the door I jumped up to get it when I was stopped by my Dad. "I'll get it." He stated simply but with an almost devious look on his face. "I need to have a small chat with Jake before he takes you out anyway, you won't mind waiting in the family room with Alice for a moment, do you?" I felt my stomach drop. "Be nice dad!" I hissed.
I walked over to the small mirror hanging next to my kindergarten school portrait . "I will not trip I will not fall I will not trip I will not fall" I was repeating over and over. "What are you doing?" asked an ever-so amused Alice. "It's called positive reinforcement." I told her with a slight blush, glad that she had walked in instead of Jake. "Bella, it's called balance." She said walking on her tippy toes mocking a ballerina, making me laugh.
Dad walked back into the room " you can go now...here" He said handing me a cell phone. "I know your birthday was last week, but I just got paid and I want you to use it to call me now that you're going to be going out more." He said with a smile. "Thanks Dad!" I said as I gave him a hug.
I went over to Jake and we walked out of the door. As soon as we were outside he took my hand, making me blush. "You really look beautiful tonight." He wooed, slightly embarrassed himself. "Thank you." I said meekly. "Where are we going anyway?" I asked him, as he helped me into the car, still holding hands.
"We're going to go play pool, I hope that's okay. We can do something else if you'd like" He said a little too quickly making me giggle. "No pool is perfect, thanks." And we were off.
A/N: Okay I promise the story is going to get to the plot in a few chapters. Edward will be here at Chapter 5. I have the story mapped out and will probably get to there tomorrow since I have all day to write. I know it's a lot of Fluff. And by the way I feel totally weird making Eric kinda mean because Eric is my boyfriends name haha. But reviews are always appreciated, but like I said...I won't withhold chapters. You'll get them as soon as they're written. But your opinion really does matter. Nice or not.
Oh and. Bella's Sweater: store./item.do?categoryID944&itemID48247&sizeFilter&colorFilter&brandFilter#
And Her shoes: store./item.do?categoryID42&itemID48261&sizeFilter&colorFilter&brandFilter