"Steph are you ready?", yelled out Bella
"Yeah give me two minutes", I called back.
I grabbed out something nice to wear to La Push because Bella said she'll introduce me to her girl and guy friends. I pulled out a white cream button top/dress with a bubble look at the end, with a brown belt just below the chest area, along with black full length leggings with a nice pair of light brown Roman shoes. I quickly run over to the mirror and applied eye liner along with mascara. "Should I put on a bit of lippy"? I asked myself. Nah I wasn't a fan of lip gloss.
"Ok ready", I called out to Bella. "K's lets go, wow you look nice', she laughed. "I look ridicules right?", I moaned. "No no you look dressed up,..... oh", she suddenly stopped.
I knew what she was thinking. "It's not like that Bella", I said. "Right sure sure", she let out another laugh. "Please don't laugh", I said. "Right sorry Steph, lets go".
I walked out the door with Bella right behind me, locking up the house. I looked at the sky and glanced at the sun and quickly looked away, it was very warm today, I wonder if we'll see Edward and his family in La Push. Then I started to stare in the forest, I thought I just saw someone running threw there.
"Something interesting over there?", Bella asked. "I thought I just saw........um never mind".
"Do you want to drive Steph?". "Yeah sure". I quickly grabbed the keys and started the engine. Geez this thing of a truck was annoying so slow, terrible quality radio.
"I know what your thinking Steph, its slow and there's the crappy radio". "What are you talking about I wasn't thinking that", I lied. Bella knew me so well.
"Ok so turn left here", Bella directed. "Pull up into this house", Bella pointed. "We hanging with people", I asked. "Yeah just for a bit, and then we are shopping".
We both stepped out of the truck and closed the doors at the same time. "Follow me Steph". We walked passed the house and entered the garage. I heard a voice coming from the garage, "No son, your doing it the wrong way". "Dad let it go, I'm doing it my way", I heard another voice. "Go get ready Bella will be here with her cousin any minute", the first voice replied.
"And we're here", Bella jumped in and surprised the man in the wheelchair, there was also another guy under a car, looked like he was fixing it.
"Hi girls, how you doing?, who must this be", the man in the wheelchair asked Bella. "This is Stephie". I extended my hand so I can shake his hand. "Hey Stephie, I'm Billy Black". He reached out and shook my hand.
"Nice to meet you", I said. "Same here, son get your head out of the car, your visitors are here".
I looked down and the guy slide out from under the car taking his unbuttoned shirt off to wipe his head. He removed the shirt from his face and looked at me. I was frozen. He was the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen. His eyes were beautiful, dark brown eyes, along with his tanned skin. He also had short messy hair from the work he's been doing. Last but not least his body, muscles everywhere along with a six pack, no wait it was more like an eight pack. We started into each others eyes for a long moment until I looked at my feet for a couple a seconds, my heart was beating a million times in a row, it felt like my heart was going to come out of my chest and explode. I was falling in love.
"Hey Jacob", said Bella with an excited voice.
Jacob, his names Jacob, why didn't Bella mention his name, she just said "we're going to hang out with some friends of mine in La Push, I want you to meet them, they're really nice people".
"Oh Jake, this is my cousin Stephie". "Hey Stephie", he said. Oh my gosh he's voice was so breathtaking. Then I kept my cool and said "Just call me Steph, its nice to meet you Jacob". "Yeah diddo". He extended his hand and I shook it, he pulled me up to his face so we kissed on the cheek. His hand and face was very warm, it felt so nice.
"Hey girls, wait here I'll be five minutes, let me change".
He wouldn't take his eyes off me and I couldn't do the same, as he walked off he turned around one more time and smiled at me. I turned to Bella with a brushed away expression, and smiled at her and she smile back, she looked excited.
"Bella can I talk to you for a second", Billy asked very nicely. He wheeled out his chair and Bella followed. "I'll be back", she said."Ok yeah", I replied.
She walked out a winked at me. Then I heard them talking quietly between themselves, I started to listen, I didn't mean too, but I couldn't stop because I had a feeling they were talking about me.
"I think its happened", Billy said. "Imprinted", Bella replied.
Imprinted? What did that mean. I so badly wanted to know what that meant, I felt like going out there and saying "Ok guys what's imprinted mean". I made a little giggle to myself.
"Yeah it's about time, she seems like a nice girl". "She is Billy I've known her all my life".
My heart hasn't calm down, it still felt like it was going to explode. I was still picturing Jacob in my head, he is so beautiful. I decide to check out the car he's been working on, I walked around the nice silver sporty car. Wow the car is beautiful, but not as beautiful as him.
I bent down to see what was the problem with the car, I am a bit of a grease monkey myself, then all of a sudden I heard his voice say, "Trying to fix that car, don't know why it doesn't want to work, maybe it doesn't like me", Jacob laughed. I let out a little giggle. "Do you like cars", Jacob asked.
"Yeah love them, the sports ones". "So do I, as you can see", he said.
Just then Bella and Billy walked back in "Come on Steph we're going to the beach", Bella interrupted. "Son can I have a moment with you", Billy asked. "Should we wait for you outside Jacob", I asked. "No you two start walking I'll meet up with you there, the others should be there".
Bella and I started walking as we left the house and walked on the side walk I said "Oh my,......... Bella, why didn't you tell me that Jacob was drop dead gorgeous?", I demanded. "I don't know sorry about that". "So do you like Jacob", she asked. "Keep a secret Bells", I asked. "Yeah sure, you know you can trust me". "Well I have a massive crush on him!". "That's great", Bella jumped with excitement in her voice. "Say Bells why you so excited", I asked. "Oh I'm just happy for you because.....", she trailed off. "Because", I continued. "Because it's a good thing", she continued.
I had the look of confusion on my face, and she ask "what's up?". "Well keep another secret", I said. "Yeah go on, this sounds bad". "Yeah it kinda is, I kinda eavesdropped on you and Billy talking, I didn't mean too I swear but what's imprinting, or imprinted mean?". She suddenly froze . Then I quickly said "Please don't be mad". "No I'm not mad, I would of done the same thing", she laughed. "Well imprinting, nope don't know what your talking about, we didn't say that word". "Bells I also know when your lying". "Ok ok we did say that word, but its not my place to say, its complicated, you'll just have to wait a bit to find out what it means ok?". "Now keeps me a secret". "Sure of course". "Don't talk about it, don't say that word in front of people". "Yeah ok", I said.
We made it to the beach and saw these other guys there, "Are all your friends in La Push guys", I asked. "No, well most of them".
"Hey Bella", a voice called out from the beach and then starting waving. "Hey Quil', she replied. She started running across the beach and pulled me alongside with her. "Hey slow down", I laughed. Bella's reply was a giggle.
All the other guys and a couple of girls made their way to us. "Hey everyone", Bella said trying to catch her breathe. "I'd like you all to meet my cousin Steph". "Hey there, I'm Quil, I'll introduce you to the others", he pointed to his left and said "That's Leah". She looked at me and gave me a grizzle. I thought to myself want did I do, maybe she's in a bad mood. "Next to Leah is Seth", Quil continued. Seth was a little cutie, he looked like a younger Jacob. "That's Sam and Emily". I glanced at Emily and look at her, she had a massive scar on her face that went down to her left arm, I only looked for a second, then smiled at her, just then, the couple kissed each other and Quil said "Ok guys not now, and the other two are "Embry and Paul".
"Hey nice to meet you all", I replied. They all looked at me very nicely and they all said "Yeah nice to me you two".
Their welcoming felt so warming, made me wish that I lived here. Then I felt a tap on my should, I turned around to see it was Jacob. "Did you miss me", he asked, staring deep into my eyes. "I did Jacob", I replied. He let out a little laugh.
"Bella come and see this", Seth yelled out to her. "Coming", she replied. When she walk off, she turned to wink at me. She was in a winking mood today and then I let out a little giggle.
Jacob grabbed my hand and sat me down on the sand. "So, Steph tell me about yourself", he asked. "Well not much to tell really, I used to live in Forks until I left with my family to L.A, then I moved back to study at Forks High, plus I'm living with Bella". "Cool, come walk with me on the across the beach". He stood up and held out his hand so he could help me up. We started walking across the water, just then Paul let out a wolf-whistle , that everyone heard. I blushed.
We walked for a long time, I ask him to tell me more about himself, then he wanted to hear more from me. I felt like I was in a dream and didn't want to wake from, but it wasn't a dream, this was the real thing.
When we made it back to the others Bella called out "Steph we gotta go, shops close in two hours". For the first time in my life I didn't want to shop I wanted to be with Jacob.
Just then we stopped and Jacob took my hands and said "I'd love to see you again, very soon". I stated to blush and my face felt hot. "Yeah me too, I'm free on Friday, is that soon enough for you", I asked. Then giggled. "Yes that sounds perfect, I'm taking you to see a movie". His face came down to mine and kissed me on the cheek. "Bye", I said. When I started to walk, I realized he still had my hand and turned to him and started for a long moment then he let go and said, "I'll pick you up at seven". I made my way back up to Bella and asked her "Is he still looking at me". She glance and said"Yep". I giggled. "You've been in a giggling mood all day Steph". "I know". She took my hand and pulled my up the hill, when we go up to the road I turned back to see that Jake was still looking, I waved to him and turned around.
"Ready for a huge shopping spree", Bella asked. "Yes totally, help me pick out an outfit for my date ". "Oh my, you already got a date". "Yes". "Lets go then", Bella said.