Chapter Two

The next day after school I decided I wanted to go back to First Beach in La Push. The weather was beautiful outside, so why put it to waste? After what I had seen the night before, I definitely had a lot more on my mind than my parents' deaths. Losing them a couple months ago in a car accident blew me away. I had nobody left but Aunt Connie. She was my hero. I loved her.

I walked down the beach from where I had parked my van and sat in the same spot as I did the day before. It was a bit of a mild day out, so I took my shoes off and let my feet wade in the water while my bum was parked in the sand. I closed my eyes and took the surrounding sounds in – the ocean, the birds, the same boys from yesterday horsing around…? Were they stalking me? I turned around to look at them but the boy that I found to be different wasn't there today. To be honest with myself… I was a little disappointed.

I decided to head home since my stomach was yelling rudely at me. There was just one problem when I got to my trusty ve-hic-u-lar… The bugger wouldn't start. Damn… I thought to myself. Looks like my stupidity got the best of me… Leaving the lights on in the daytime was not necessary…

I got out of my trusty riding mobile and locked the doors. I started walking in the direction I called home. It would only take me a couple hours to get there and get a tow truck to come and get the van. I would live.

I turned around a corner and heard someone shout.

"Hey!" The voice called. "Do you need a boost?"

I turned around and there he was. The boy from yesterday that was nowhere in sight today before I left. He's going to have some serious explaining to do if I find out he's the one who killed my battery!

"Umm… No, that's okay…" I was a little nervous. I had no idea who this kid was! "I think I'm just going to walk to Forks and get a tow truck. Thanks for the offer, though."

He laughed and walked up to me. Boy, oh boy was he a handsome one. The big man upstairs knew what I was talking about when I referred to "the whole package deal".

"So you're going to come get your van in the wee hours of the morning, then?" He joked and my stomach growled at him, almost like it was protesting what he had said. "Or not at all… The way that thing is talking, you might not make it back to Forks if you don't get something to eat."

I blushed a deep scarlet red. That was damn embarrassing. "Well, I'll buy us a burger if you can boost my van."

He nodded and smiled the most beautiful smile I had ever seen. "You've got yourself a deal." He paused for a moment and I must say… It was a bit of an awkward one. He stuck his hand out at me. "I'm Jacob Black."

I returned his smile and took his hand in mine to shake it. "I'm Kaydin Hartford." His hand was so warm, kind of like his heart.

We started walking back to my van to get it running again. "So did you just move to Forks? I've never seen you around there before." He asked me. His voice was deep with a bit of husk in it. It sent chills up my spine.

I nodded. "Yep, I just started at Forks High yesterday. I live with my Aunt Connie."

He paused. "Wait a second. Is your aunt Connie Bell?"

"Yeah… Why?" I answered. I was a little confused. How did this beautiful Quileute boy know my Aunt Connie?

He threw his hands up in the air and started laughing. "I can't believe you don't remember me! My dad is Billy Black. He used to take me over to Charlie Swans house when I was little. You and Bella were inseparable as kids. I heard she moved in with Charlie."

I tried to remember back to when I was four and five years old. A light bulb popped over my head and lit up. "Oh yeah! I remember you! Wow… You've grown up. You don't eat mud pies anymore do you?"

"Every once in a while…" He joked.

Jacob ran home quickly and grabbed his dads truck to boost it. After 20 minutes of trying, we finally got my van boosted and able to start. We learned a lot about each other while we had my hood propped open and the jumper cables hooked up.

"So Jacob, where would you like to get this burger I said I would get for you?" I asked him.

"There's a little diner down the street," He pointed in the direction and I could see it. "Let's go there."

"Alright. Well, it's not that far and I guess I could use some exercise. Let's walk."

He nodded and we walked beside each other. The boys that were horsing around on the beach were still there. They all started whistling when we walked by the area where they were. I couldn't tell if Jacob was blushing or not. I'm guessing he was by the way he kept turning his head and waving to them, walking a little quicker. His strides were so big because of how tall he was that I was practically jogging to keep up with him.

We sat in a booth near the window and for some reason, this diner just felt like home to me. So I did what I felt, I made myself at home. I was all smiles and Jacob could tell.

"What are you so happy about?" He asked.

"The fact that if you didn't get my van boosted I'd still be walking to Forks right now." I looked at the setting sun out the window over First Beach. It was breath taking. "I wish I lived here in La Push. I would come and watch the sunset at the beach every night."

"Well, don't drive out here every night in hopes of seeing a sun set like this." He said.

I raised an eyebrow at him.

"It's rare for us to see the sun set here. It rains constantly. I swear Mother Nature has some sort of vengeance against this place." He laughed.

Our food arrived and I was surprised that Jacob had his burger and fries gone and done with before I even ate a quarter of what was on my plate.

"Billy doesn't feed you, does he?" I asked him.

He gave me a confused look and I pointed down to his plate, then to mine.

"Oh!" He burst out laughing. "I'm just a growing boy as my dad calls it. This is normal for me."

I shook my head and ate what I could of my burger and fries. The burger itself was as big as the creatures paws that I had seen last night in the woods. I felt a chill down my back and my face must have went pale because Jacob looked a little worried.

"You okay over there, Kaydin?" He asked. "You look like you just saw a ghost."

"Not exactly…" I whispered.

"What's going on then?"

"Nothing Jacob, really… I'm fine." I looked out the window again and the sun had fully set on the horizon, but there was still a little bit of light out. "Do you want to go for a walk down the beach. Your buddies are gone, so I imagine we could have a decent conversation without you getting embarrassed."

"I wasn't embarrassed!" He retorted.

I smiled. "Mhm." I went up to the counter and paid for the food and we started heading back towards the beach. The wind felt warm on my face.

"Do you believe in dreams coming true?" I started. I'll admit, I was being a little forward, but I wanted to know someone else's opinion on the whole nightmare coming true last night ordeal.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"I had a dream a couple nights ago, and last night it happened. It was like déjà vu. I've never been so scared…"

I told him my dream, then told him what happened the night before. He seemed to be taking it alright. I was a little surprised. If this situation was reversed, I know the minute I dialed any number on my cell phone for help, the voice on the other line would say "Hello, Crazy House. How may I help you?"

Out of nowhere, Jacob started laughing. "Maybe you saw one of the Quileute descendants."

"What do you mean?"

He explained everything in a nice, short story. Some people believed that Quileute's were descended from wolves.

"I don't know, Jacob… I don't even know if it was a wolf. It was the size of a friggen' horse, for cryin' out loud!"

"Stop calling me that." He said.

"Calling you what?"

"Jacob. It's very fifth grader. Call me Jake."

"Okay then, Jake. It was the size of a horse!"

He laughed again. "I was only joking. It's just a story. Are you sure you weren't hallucinating? You said you fell. Maybe you inhaled some kind of magic leaf powder when you landed in the wet pile of them."

I pushed him and he hardly even moved. "You're an ass."

He gave me the tiniest push back and I nearly fell to the ground. "And you've just run out of beach, Kaydin."

We talked and joked around the whole way back to our methods of transportation.

"I had a lot of fun, tonight. Thanks for boosting the van. Lord knows I'd probably still be walking if you never showed up."

"I had a lot of fun, too."

I opened the door to my van and jumped in. I rolled the window down and closed the door. "See you later?" I asked.

He smiled. "Yeah. Absolutely." He started to walk towards his father's truck and he turned back to me. "Kaydin?"

"Yyeesss?" I replied.

"Do you want to go see a movie on Friday night in Port Angeles? My treat."

A big smile took over my entire face. I wonder if he noticed. I nodded. "That would be awesome."

We exchanged numbers and I told Jake I would call him when I got home to let him know that I actually made it and that my van didn't break down again.

Friday night, I thought to myself, I can't wait…