Hi, everyone, and merry merry christmas!!!!!!!

I'm here with a new chapter, kinda rush, because I'm not sure if I'll be updating any time soon, since i'm going out for the holidays two weeks starting in new year.

I have a little more interaction between Lynk and Alice, but I promise here and now to explain what going on inside Alice's and Jasper's mind in the next chapter top.

And we have new girl! The singer. I'm still not sure whose singer would she be, though. Emmett or Jasper? Emmett seems easier, but I don´t like to let Jasper alone, and I'm not really confortable with letting Edward alone without his Bella... (you, you know who you are, I promise to you to try and write something for that couple XD, as a new year resolution!). So... any opinions???

Love!!!!!

Eat and drink in New Year if I don´t post -.-, and wear white!!! And red if you want a sexy lover. And go to the beach at midnight to make three wishes!!

XOXO

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Chapter 2: It's a matter of skin.

Lyrik smiled, closing his eyes. Alice was at his side, laying somewhere in the back wood of the Cullen's house. He felt… contempt. It was nice just staring at the sky above them, with a pretty girl next to him and the woods. Lyrik would have never guessed he would like the woods. It was strange, but now he loved them. They made him remember Alice.

"There's something I would like…" He started slowly, playing with a short strand of her hair.

Alice opened her golden eyes, and stared at him. "What would that be?" She grinned.

"Well… I'm sure you know there's a ball…" Lyrik said smirking. "And, well, there's this wonderful girl I'll like to ask to come to the ball with me."

"Really?" Alice asked holding back a laugh.

"Really."

"Do I know her?" She wandered, following his play.

"I think you do, but you don´t really see her the way I do." Lyrik said softly. That was another amazing thing. He never thought he could be soft and caring and a perfect gentleman with a girl, much less falling in love. "She's really sexy."

Alice laughed. "She seems like a model." She mocked.

"Well, she could be. She has the looks. And want to know more?"

"Do tell."

"She's not only gorgeous, but smart, funny, and a little crazy too. Of course, she has her failures, like an incredibly obsession with clothes…" She smacked him softly. "But she's perfect to me. I will choose her over any Angelina Jolie or Drew Barrymore or Jessica Stam. It's just… there's something I feel every time I'm near her. And I swear it's not lust. It's… Well, my cousin has a name for this. A matter of skin. She has something that makes me like her even without hearing her speak or even haven met her. And want to know the best?"

"Always."

"I think she likes me too. So… what do you think she would say if I ask her?"

"I'm sorry for you, really, but I'm quite positive she's going to say no." She said softly, sadly. Lyrik's face fell, feeling suddenly depressed.

"Oh…"

"Because… I'm going to ask you to the dance before she was any chance." Alice laughed, standing up just a little so their lips would touch.

It was their first kiss, and even when he knew he would sound corny, it was the kind of kiss to write poetry about. Sweet, soft, loving, amazing, breathtaking, perfect.

But it ended too quickly.

"I would have suspected it. You're not a regular girl, you can't follow the lines." He grinned widely, kissing softly her lips again.

"That's a yes, right?"

"Of course."

They kissed again, but this time, the passion they had built up inside was resurfacing, as Lyrik's hands went to her waist, pressing her hard body against his. She was like granite, and there was something completely emasculating about it. But at the same time… something incredibly sexy.

But as soon as Lyrik slid his tongue inside of her mouth, she pushed him apart. He looked confused, and breathless, while she was perfect as always.

"We can´t, Lynk." Alice said avoiding his gaze.

"I understand. But… tell me why." He demanded. He wanted to know the truth. He wouldn´t care if they happened to be, in fact, vampires. Lyrik would still love her.

"Lynk…"

"Alice. I know you're not human. So just tell me what you are, so we can get past the awkwardness."

Well… She hadn´t seen that one coming.

"Lynk…" She tried again, this time interrupted by other voice.

"He deserves to know." Said Edward from behind them. Alice looked reluctant, but after some seconds of deeply staring with Edward, she nodded.

"Let's go to the house."

*-**-*

The girl stopped her car brusquely at the side of what looked like the main road in that stupid little place, and started swearing with all her might, hitting the steering wheel with hatred. Her words flood out of her mouth with easiness, each as worst as the next. And she wanted to go on, and she was willing to do so. Until someone knocked on her window, scaring the living hell out of her.

"Fuck!" she exclaimed angrily, rolling down the glass of her window with the button. "What?!" She snapped. The boy leaning toward her smirked, obviously amused by her outburst.

"You look lost." He said.

"Wow. Are you the genius of this town, or what?" She said with venom. The boy however didn't even move and he kept laughing. Maybe that came with being freakishly tall?

"I'm just a good citizen."

"Well, I don´t need a good citizen, cowboy. I eat them for diner." She snapped not really thinking too much on her words.

"It's that an offer?" He asked with a fake innocent smiled.

"Get lost!"

"But you did that for yourself pretty well, I wouldn´t like to take your place."

She was getting frustrated, and hit the steering wheel angrily. "Leave me alone." She ordered.

"My name's-…."

"I don´t care!"

"Come on, aren´t you the least interest in who I am?"

"Are you Toby Hemingway? Josh Hartnett? Harley Davidson Jr.?"

"…. No?"

"Then I don´t."

"But I do have a Harley. And I'm Jacob."

"Well, that's just another proof that anyone can have a Harley nowadays."

"It's than some kind of insult?"

"Damn sure it is!"

"So sure?"

"Yes! God, you're annoying!"

"But I bet you're enjoying this."

"No!"

"For sure?"

"Of course not!"

"Then what's your name?"

"Cass-… Hey!! You did that on purpose!" Cassie blushed out of anger but Jacob only smiled widener.

"Yeap. Now, would you mind if I help you to wherever you were meant to be? Clearly not La Push." Jacob smiled.

"Yes, I do mind. So just… Wait. You said La Push? As in the Quileute reservoir?"

"Yeah, the same."

"Hum. That means I'm close…" She muttered to herself. "Maybe I could go to the cliffs. Lynk won´t let me do it for sure."

"Is Lynk your boyfriend?" The boy asked, leaning over the door of her BMW Z4 2009 with a suave attitude Cassie found attracting.

"My cousin." She asked, still immersed in her thoughts.

"Well, if you want, I can take you to the cliffs." The boy offered.

Cassie stopped her ranting and turned to him, surprised. In London, no hot tall boy wearing only jeans offered himself to help. Nope, not at all. "What do you have in your mind, huh, Jacob?"

"Just trying to be helpful. I was going to the cliffs, anyway."

She thought about it for some minutes, and finally nodded. "Fine. Get in." She nodded, unlocking her car. Next second, the ginormous body of Jacob was at her side, and she suddenly felt tinier than ever. Cassie ignited the car and drove to where he told her.

"So… You're not from here and your accent is different, so I'm guessing… England?" Jacob asked.

"Almost. Ireland… You were born here?" she wandered, deciding she could make conversation. He was really sexy and hot. Literally hot. It seemed to radiate heat from his body.

"Yeah. Born and raised here. Not as thrilling as Ireland, I dare to say, but still quite interesting." He grinned.

She didn´t think that could be possible, but was polite enough not to voice it out loud. Cassie just smiled as she accelerated top speed. She was never one to ride at low speed.

If you had an engine that could give you the thrill of miles and miles per hour… why not using it?

"Wow, girl." Jacob said amazed with a smirk on his lips. "You sure like the speed."

"I have it, why not use it?" She laughed, turning around a curve of the road at incredible speed. "Have you ever drifted?"

"Not with my car. But I would love to ride yours." Jacob nodded.

"To ride my car you have to reach a level of trust no one has ever reach."

"I bet I could reach it, given the chance to."

She didn´t say a thing, because suddenly, after glancing at the boy for less than a second, she realized he was in fact not wearing a shirt or anything on his upper body at all. The car seemed littler than ever.

Cassie cleared her throat, but he spoke before she could say something. "We're here."

She stopped the car and he got down. Before she could even taker her keys out, he was at her door, opening for her. Cassie was more than surprised. Completely and utterly shocked.

Jacob stared at her, waiting for her to get down, but she just looked at him with her mouth slightly open.

He laughed. "So surprising, huh? The fact I'm doing it? I don´t look the type?"

"The fact anyone's doing it." She corrected, finally gaining conscience again.

"Come on, I'll introduce you to some friends." Jacob said, putting his hands on her shoulders, and moving her toward the cliffs.

"Friends? This better not be a gang bang because even when you're a giant, I have ten inch-… Oh, fuck." Cassie looked down at her foot, stopping. Jacob did just as her, surprised. "Ok, I don´t have heels. But I could get them!"

"It's not gang bang, girl! Most of them are magically in love for life, anyway."

Cassie tilted her head to look at him, but Jacob started pushing her again. She sighed defeated. "You don´t believe in love, right?"

"Not really."

"That's great, because never do I."

"How old are you?"

"17. And why does it matter?"

Jacob grinned and winked to her. "Just seeing how much trust you have in me. I bet it's a little more than what you had for me just fifteen minutes ago."

"But only because you're freakily tall and super hot." She said bluntly. He laughed, stopping near the edge of the cliff, where two other boys were standing. All as tall as Jacob, and really alike. Except Jacob had long hair.

"Hey, boys!" He exclaimed, getting the attention of them. But their eyes quickly moved over to Cassie, checking her up.

"Don´t tell me you finally decided to act like a man and forget Bella!" One of them said with a mocking grin.

"So that's why you don´t believe in love!" Cassie stated.

"Remember me again why I hang out with them…" Jacob muttered looking to the sky and making the boys laughed.

"I'm Cassie." She introduced herself with a smile.

"Quil." Said one of them. "Nice to meet you."

"Embry." Said the boy that had spoken. "And if you're not with Jake here, then I-…"

"Oh, man! She's going to think every boy in La Push I sexually driven!" Complained a brunette girl, completely soaked, and wearing only a swimsuit and some shorts. "I'm Leah."

"Cassie. And I know every specimen of the male specie is sexually driven so it's not really a big different." The red-haired mocked.

Leah laughed. "Exactly my opinion."

"Hey! Cassie was lost and she asked for the cliffs." Jacob defended himself.

"After you pestered me for hours!"

"It was only a couple of minutes." He winked.

"Don´t take this the wrong way, but you don´t seem at all like a person to come here…" Quil said slowly, smiling politely.

"I'm Irish."

"And how do you know of the cliffs?" Embry asked.

"Seems quite popular to… jump off." Cassie's face brightened up at the thought, walking closer to the edge. "You just did that, right?" She asked to Leah.

The girl nodded, but looked a little suspicious. The tiny redhead didn´t look like she could take a fall that high. "Yeah, it's amazing. There's some….. Hey!!! Wait!!" She suddenly yelled when the girl started running to the edge. Next second, she was on the air. Another one, and she wasn´t in sight. The four of them shared a worried glance, they hadn´t expected that.

"Fuck." Exclaimed Jacob, the first one to react, and he jumped down the cliff without a second thought. What if she landed on the rocks?!

Embry, Quil and Leah started running at their incredibly speed toward the beach. They could see better from there.

Jacob got inside the water just seconds after Cassie, but didn´t see her anywhere. He resurfaced more than worried, to find her laughing out loud with her hair completely messed up around her pretty face.

"Stupid!" He complained, swimming to her and taking her out of the water gently. Jacob wanted to shake her badly for doing that stupid thing. "You could have got yourself kill and then you were going to get all of us in jail!"

"Leah did it." Cassie shrugged.

"She's used to this." He snapped. Cassie sighed, and stopped walking. She stood on her tip-toes and planted a kiss on his cheek. "Relax."

Jacob was about to reply something –wasn´t sure what since he was still surprised by the kiss-, when he noticed her shirt. Not the fact that it was almost see-trough and she had a bright yellow too… But the fact near the hem of her shirt there was a blood stain getting bigger by the second. It was her arm.

"Oh…" She said softly, looking at her right arm opened from side to side with a deep wound.

Jacob caught her right before her face hit the floor, and carried her bridal-style to her car. The other three werewolves looked at them worried because of Cassie's still form, but he shrugged. "The stupid girl fainted." He said.

Embry was sent to Forks hospital, Quil to prepared Billy for the arrival, and Leah just stood there. Jacob sighed.

"I have to take her car… Want to catch a ride?" He offered, the closer to the car, the more thrills he felt.

Leah shook her head. "No, thanks, Hero. I'll stay here."

Jacob didn´t press. It wasn´t like he would want her presence on that fucking amazing car while he had a fainted girl, a very hot fainted girl, actually, next to him.

He put Cassie softly on the passenger seat, and he went to the driver's. Seconds later, he had ignited the car and was speeding off toward the town at full speed. He always had the excuse it was because of the girl.

Jacob knew he was being looked at as soon as the car appeared at sight. They weren´t used to this type of cars. The Leech's Volvo was the best they had seen. Or the doctor's Mercedes. But Jacob noticed with almost pride that, next to his car –actually Cassie's-, the Volvo would have nothing on.

And that he knew for a fact.

Because as soon as he stopped in front of his house, he noticed the car.

Just fantastic.

He walked inside the house with Cassie on his arms to found Embry, Quil, Sam and his father talking –or trying not to do so- with Doctor Carlisle Cullen. His friends went to him, and Embry explained. He was the only doctor available, and Sam had said it was ok in this kind of emergency.

The Doctor was fast to take her to Jacob's bed and preparing his tools, starting to clean the wound. "What's her name?" He asked when she didn't wake up before being stitched and all.

"Cassie." Jacob muttered.

"Does she have any family? Would you like me to take her to her house?" The vampire offered. If it had being any other, he would snap something malicious. Instead, he blushed a little.

"I just met her. She was lost and was looking for the cliffs. If I had known she was going to attempt suicide…"

"It was a suicide?" The Doctor asked alarmed.

"Not really, but could as well might been one." Jacob leaved the vampire to work as he went to her car, looking for something, like… her mobile. He flicked over the whole contact list, trying to find a Lynk or an aunt. The most similar heart it was Lyric. He decided to call anyway.

"Cass?! How're things, babe? You forget your cousin?" A male's voice said with delight, and Jacob flinched. He had never liked being the messenger.

"Hum… Hi. I'm Jacob." He introduced himself.

"Oh. What happened with Cassie?! What did you do to her?! And why the hell do you have an American accent?!" The supposedly Lynk exclaimed furious.

"Because I'm actually in America." Jacob said, suppressing the DUMBASS! Of his phrase. He was going to say something else, but was cut out by the other boy.

"In America? And how do you have her phone?" He seemed calmer now.

"She's here, in my house. Cassie jumped off the cliff without waiting for anyone to stop her, wounded her arm and fainted." Jacob exclaimed quickly, so Lynk would not have time to complain.

It took Lynk three whole minutes to comprehend what he had just heard.

"Cassie is in America?"

"Exactly. She said you were close, so if you want I can tell you where we are so you would come to pick her up?"

"Yeah. Thanks, mate. For taking care of my baby. I'm going to kill her when she wakes up."

Jacob laughed, and gave him indications to La Push. And then hang up the phone. When he went back to his house, Doctor Cullen was already gone and Cassie was waking up. He looked at her opening her eyes a little, she was beautiful.

"It hurts." She complained, watching her arm with worried eyes. "I had never ever had a stitched on my arm."

"That's what you deserve for jumping like that." Jacob interrupted, causing the girl to look up in surprise.

"Probably." She laughed, moving on his bed to let him space to sit down. "Now you have my trust. Well… a little at least."

"That means a lot, right?" He smirked, sitting next to her. Cassie let her head rested on his shoulders.

"Exactly. And since it means a lot… You're going to let me sleep." She sighed, closing her eyes and silently drifting off to sleep.

Jacob shook her softly. "No, no. Doctor Cullen said to keep you awake! And your cousin is on the way."

"And how would he know?" Cassie muttered against his chest, where she had buried her face to force him to let her sleep. It didn´t work, and Jacob kept shaking her as soon as she was close to falling asleep.

"I called him. Come on, Cassie. Don´t make this difficult." He laughed, staring at the completely stranger girl that was acting like a child in his bed. That situation was wrong and surprising in so many different ways he couldn´t even start counting.

Cassie nodded, sitting again. "Fine. I won´t fall asleep. But in exchange for that, you're going to take me out the day after tomorrow." She ordered.

Jacob opened his eyes surprised of the bluntness of the girl. It actually seemed like a good idea. In some twisted and deranged way. He liked her. It was not an imprint, or love at first sight or some crap like that. It was… more like something of skin. Something in her that drew him close. So he accepted. "Ok. We can go to the cliff and…"

She interrupted him. "I want to see your bike. You told me you have one, right? You didn´t lie me."

He laughed. "I didn´t. Ok, we're going to ride the bike. Now, do you feel ok as to walk to the living? Your cousin should be arriving any time soon."