Part 10: I love the rain: Leah

I walked slowly across the small field that separated Jacob's house from his workshop. He was proud of it, built it by hand from three of those flat pack sheds. Bolted them together and removed the connecting walls, they were on slabs of concrete to stop them sinking in the rain.

As I got to the doorway he lifted his head from his baby, I hated people that treated cars like people, it was dumb. "Hey girl. What's in the bag?"

"That's for me to know and you to find out." I chuckled. Then I looked at him pointedly as if to tell him something. He seemed to struggle internally before I laughed again. "You should have seen your face."

He snarled slightly and then grabbed a screwdriver from the work bench. "Hey that wasn't funny."

I changed the subject quickly. "Ah you missed it yesterday, I saw this Shelby GT 500 in town." It was his favourite car and he would be jealous I knew. I loved messing with the guy.

"Damn, would have loved to see that."

"So still working on that rabbit?" I ran my fingers over the side before sliding myself onto the bonnet.

"Yeah can't go any further till I get that master cylinder though." He looked dejected; he had been after that part since way before I moved here. Any he found were way out of his price range. A giggle escaped my lips at how easy I had found one. I immediately blushed a deep red, had I just giggled? God how girly could I get?

Jacob just looked at me and eyebrow raised, idiot, and that made me blush further. To cover my embarrassment I turned to look out at the sky, it was just starting to drizzle.

"Well I may be able to help you there." The dog's face lit up at that and both his eyebrows disappeared into his hairline. "For a price." His face froze for a moment before becoming a mask a cynicism.

"And what's that?"

I knew he could easily convince me to give it to him for free but this was my only chance. "That's for me to know and you to find out."

He sighed "Ok ok now what did you mean help?"

"Well I have this." I said sliding the master cylinder out of my bag. "You owe me big." The dog would be howling when I was finished with him.

He put the screwdriver back in place. "What do you want?"

"Oh you will see my friend." The word friend struck me, why couldn't we be more? Guess it was the dog's fault for not loving me. "Now let's get this thing in." I was dejected but being under the car might distract me.

He hit the CD player and it started plying the music he always listened to when working. "That's what I'm talking about." In his excitement Jacob had missed my facial expression, if it had even changed. He grabbed the two sleds from their place at the wall and handed one to me. "You helping?"

"Sure."

As we rolled under, Jacob began explaining what we would be doing. I had been helping enough to get the gist of it. As we started working he looked over at me. "Hey when did you get your hair cut?"

I continued working for a few seconds. He had noticed! Joy flowed trough me, why? "The other day, wanted to get my fringe out of my eyes." He was so close that I felt something odd, something that I had not felt in a while. So long I didn't realise what it was.

Before long we were sliding out from the car and getting to our feet. There was a loud grumble and Jacob rubbed his stomach embarrassedly. "Now that that's done we should get something to eat." He let out his barking laugh.

As he turned off the music we could hear a strong pounding. "Ah man! It's raining." The heavens had really opened and it was pouring. The two of us exchanged knowing looks; Bella and Seth were at the beach and would be getting soaked. It was a few seconds before we both cracked up. Leaning on each other we stumbled around.

"They were going to have a picnic."

"And they didn't take any coats!" We both starting laughing again. Words now impossible.

"Come on lets run it." I felt his hands on my back and before I could react I was in the rain and he soon followed me.

As he ran past I tripped him and then jumped on top of him. "Like you could get away with that you dog!" And with that we were rolling around fighting to get on top.

"Hey kids get in here now!" Billy yelled. We halted our scuffle and Jacob was crouched over me, so close we were almost nose to nose. For what could be hours but was more likely seconds we lay there panting heavily, staring at each other's eyes.

"Come on girl. You can borrow some clothes." He pulled me up and hurried me inside.

I picked up the towel that had been left for me and shut off the shower. "Oh god, I'm sorry." I spun round and saw a tall boy in the doorway, glancing down I quickly pulled the towel up to cover me. The boy shut the door and called through, "Sorry again, talk to you when you're decent."

The Jerkass! Talk? Yeah right! Argue more like!

I pounded down the stairs in an old t-shirt and jeans of Jake's. The three of them were sat round the small table, Billy in his wheel chair. "What the fuck were you thinking?"

Jacob was up, hands on my shoulders. "Hey calm down girl, what happened?"

I was trying to get passed him and attack the other boy. "This Jerkass walked in on me!"

He spun around but still blocked me. "What? Sam is that true?"

The Sam guy was way too nonchalant for me, I just got madder. "Sorry dude but I didn't hear the shower running."

By this point I was shouting at the top of my voice. "You still took your sweet time leaving!"

"Fine, fine I'll go. Wait till you cool down and then we can talk about it." He got up and headed for the door, "Oh and Leah. Nice rack."

I let out a rage filled yell at him.

One chapter again this week, sorry but I think it's going to be single updates from now on.

Sam is very different from his canon self but I have a reason that will be revealed later on.