Part four: Plans and ankles broken: Leah

Ugh, stupid school.

I was sat in English waiting for the bell so I could meet Jake. He was going to take me up to La Push, the Quileute reservation where he lived.

Yesterday he was helping his dad out around the house and Bella had been hanging with Seth so I had nothing to do. Seth was acting weirder than usual, when he was with Bella every time he thought no one was watching his face twisted and he looked like he was in pain.

First time he did it I thought it was my imagination, a glimpse out of the corner of my eye. It took me a while but I soon managed to spot him, well it was the drama queen's own problem not mine anyway.

Annoyingly I wasn't in any of Bella's classes and was sat next to a different person in each one. This time it was a girl called Jessica and. She. Just. Would. Not. Shut. Up. I had no idea what she was saying but if that bell didn't go soon she was probably gonna end up through the blackboard.

The teacher was blathering on about the Shakespeare play we were going to study this year. I glanced at the board to see what it was. 'Romeo and Juliet' was written in the man's curly handwriting, why is that always the play studied? you'd think he never wrote any more.

Soon after that, the bell went and I had to restrain myself from jumping up and dancing on the table. As it was I got out of the room first even though I was sat at the back. I tucked my pad of paper under my arm, it was supposed to be full of notes but instead it fetured a large sketch of a t-rex eating that Jessica girl.

I made it out side in time to wave to Bella and Seth as they roared past in the truck. No ride for me today, Jacob was fixing up an old rabbit but he still needed some expensive parts before that was ready so we were walking. I hadn't missed the twin smiles on Bella and Charlie's faces when I'd told them that.

I glanced at my watch and sighed, he wasn't late I was early. I made to blow my fringe when someone caught it from behind and put it behind my ear. "You have no idea how long I've been waiting here to do that." Jacob barked his deep laugh and moved round in front of me.

"You mean I had to wait here in the cold just so you could pull a stupid stunt like that?" I growled.

He just barked again, "Naw I just got here, that was perfect timing though right?" Oh lord, he's doing that thing with his eyebrow again.

I flashed him a smile, a flash was all I could manage. I was new to the whole happiness thing but Jake made it so easy.

"Fine then. We better get going or Bella's gonna be there to pick me up before I'm there to be picked up." We walked in silence for a minute or two, but it wasn't at all uncomfortable.

"So what do you know about the Quileute legends Leah?"

"Nothing actually." He let out another one of his barking laughs.

"No, why would you?" If he keeps this up I'm gonna have to shave that eyebrow off, although he was probably thinking the same about my fringe, I blew at it to make a point. "Well would you like to know more?"

"Uh, yeah sure." We were leaving the town of Forks now and were walking along a track through the forest. Jake was looking at me with an intensity I didn't recognize and it worried me, was he looking at something he didn't like? Had I annoyed him? I couldn't let that happen. "I'd love to Jake." I even managed to flicker my amateur smile.

That seemed to help and he looked forwards, reciting the tale from memory, "Long ago when the world was young a god wandered the globe searching for something, no one knows what it was. At some point during his journeys the god was sealed in a cage of magic, for the god was a shape shifter and the cage stopped him changing himself.

"Finally a pack of wolves approached the bars, worried for the god. The god then reached out and stroked the alpha, who shuddered and changed into the form of man, the first Quileute.

"Now the other wolves queued up to be transformed and soon they could let the god out of the cage. The god was so grateful that he gave them a patch of land and told them to protect it, now we call it La Push." He barked out his laugh and glanced over at me with a toothy grin, "Silly huh? They also say my ancestors survived the flood, ya know the whole Noah and the ark thing, by tying canoes to treetops." He laughed again.

I scrambled to think of something to say, "Yeah stupid. Er, are we nearly there?"

"No way we aren't even half way. We still have miles to go." Those smiles suddenly clicked, mental note: Never trust Bella and Charlie when they both have grins that threaten to cut their heads in half. "Leah look-"

Before Jake could finish warning me my foot shot down a rabbit hole and twisted. I hit the ground and heard something crack, IDIOT! Now what?

Jake was looking at my ankle, he gently teased it out into the open and I groaned in pain. I could feel the tears on my face and I asked, "What are you gonna do?"

He moved round in front of me and wiped the tears away with his thumbs. "We." He stressed the word, "Are going to go to your house, it's closer than mine, and get you to the hospital. I'm gonna pick you up now, ready?"

I nodded and he gently pulled my up onto his shoulders before beginning the long trudge home.

No one answered the door when we rung the bell, I was leaning heavily on the door frame and Jake was trying to shield himself from the rain that had started as soon as we entered Forks. "Let's try your house, Bella might be hanging around there." He held out his hand to help me limp down the small steps. "Thanks, I think I can limp the three houses to my house."

"OK but if you need any help let me know." I can't believe it but he seems to be in more pain than me.

Minutes later I was sat on the chair in the kitchen and being fussed over. Jake was on the phone to the hospital wanting to know what to do, it sounded like I had to be still for now.

Seth was hovering behind him waiting to use the phone so he could ask Charlie where mum was.

Bella was holding ice to my ankle and talking quietly. "Looks like a break, my mum did something similar once." She scratched at the bandage on her right forearm and pressed her arm on it to slow the bleeding. She looked like she should be sat down she was so pale.

The swelling was going down so Bella balanced the dishtowel she had wrapped the ice in and then moved to sit near me, "So how did the date go?"

I flushed in embarrassment, "It wasn't a date." I whispered, Jake may have thought it was and I didn't want to disappoint him. Wait when did I start to care about people's feelings? And was it everyone or just Jake? No I think it's the three people that dropped everything because of me.

I smiled for a moment.

just the single update this week guys but next week will be a double as chapter 5 and 6 are so closely linked that you realy need to read them together.

not much to say here except that i finished college for now so i might start updateing twice a week. oh and i now have a beta starting with this chapter so their should be less mistakes ^.^

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