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Isabella Black Chapter 13

Bella's POV

Charlie's and Billy's simultaneous outburst was still ringing in my ears. I looked over to Jacob worried and saw the shock on his face. He shook his head as if to clear the fog from it. Charlie spoke up just then.

"Bella, you guys can't be serious. You still have another semester of high school and Jake still has a year and a half." I could feel the tears brimming in my eyes at my fathers outburst and rejection of the idea of Jacob and I getting married.

I was about to address my father when Jacob interrupted me thankfully. "Charlie, sir, we have thought about all of this." He looked over at me and smiled squeezing my hand reassuringly again. "We won't get married until after Bella graduates, probably a ceremony on a beach on the reservation." He looked over at me for my approval and I nodded and smiled. I loved that idea so much.

"What about your schooling, and college for Bella, and a place to stay?" I heard Billy voicing his own concerns and thought I should step in.

"Well Billy, I applied to Seattle University right after you told me that's where Jake wanted to go." I smiled at the use of my fiancées name. Fiancée…wow! "I got accepted."

"Oh, Bells, honey, that's great," I heard Charlie congratulate me on my acceptance letter.

"Thank you Ch- Dad. I also got a full scholarship from the school because of my grades in English." I saw a relief in his eyes when I told him this. Charlie always worried about the financial aspect of me going to college.

"That still doesn't explain the other issues," Billy broke into to our little moment and brought me back to what I was saying.

"Yes, of course. We were thinking we would get a place on the reservation. Jake and I have saved up quite a bit over the years, and that way while I'm commuting to the college Jake can still finish up high school where he is now. We could both get some sort of part time job."

Charlie spoke up again, "Bells, I just don't think this is such a good idea. I mean you two are still so young."

I went to rebut his argument but Jacob stepped in. "Charlie, I know this is a little sudden, but I am one hundred percent certain that I want to spend the rest of my life with Bella. She is the most magnificent woman there is on the face of this Earth, you should know that. I love Bella with everything that I am and I would do anything for her. She will never want or need for anything, I promise to take care of her. She is my soul mate and we will get married whether we have your blessings or not." I saw him turned to look at Billy too.

"But, this will be a much more pleasant experience for all of us if you could just understand our side of things. I want this to be special for Bella, she deserves everything. I don't want her to be hurt, please." I heard the hurt in Jacob's voice on that last sentence and saw both Billy and Charlie visibly flinch.

I spoke up, "Charlie I know you think this is going to end up like you and Renee, but we aren't you and Renee. You have to trust us and let us be happy."

"Well, I'm not saying this is a good idea, but surely we can do our best to accept this. For your sakes. If you guys are that sure that you can make this work I don't see why we can't be happy for you." Billy nodded in agreement to Charlie's words and I was up in an instant.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" I went over and threw my arms around Charlie and hugged him tight before moving to Billy to do the same. Jacob followed behind me shaking both of the men's hands.

When he came up to Charlie, he surprised us all, by pulling Jacob into a hug. He whispered something into Jacob's ear and Jacob looked at him and nodded. I stood there and watched the interaction between my father and my fiancée and made a mental not to ask Jacob about it later.

I started grabbing up the dirty dishes and discarded pizza boxes to clean up from lunch. Jacob came up behind me wrapping his arms around my waist and kissed me in the little hollow behind my ear. He knew that spot always got to me and I shivered in delight at the pleasure that ran down my spine.

Automatically he moved to my side and started taking the dishes and drying them as I finished washing them. I could vaguely make out a mumbled conversation from behind us, but I was too wrapped up in the domesticated little picture of me and Jacob doing something as mundane as the dishes.

I smiled at that thought and couldn't wait for us to be living together. I still couldn't believe that my best friend, who pulled me through my darkest hours, and I were engaged. I hadn't noticed I had started humming a tune until Jacob turned me in his arms to face him and raised a quizzical brow.

"Your Lullaby?" He asked me, and I realized that I had been humming the lullaby that Edward had wrote for me and had often sang to me in times of stress or to get me to sleep. Worry suddenly etched it's way onto my face because I didn't want to ruin what I had going with Jacob. However, his face relaxed and he gave me his lopsided smile that I found so irresistible.

"It's OK Bella, my sweetheart, it's all in the past and doesn't bother me," He whispered in my ear and then pulled back to look in my eyes. I knew I was giving him a questioning look because he replied with, "I've got the girl." He gave me a smug little smile and then he leaned down again and kissed me lightly on the lips, but before it could go any further I heard Billy clear his throat. I had forgotten the father's were still in the room.

I turned suddenly and looked at Billy who had a curious expression on his face.

Jacob's POV

Bella and I had just turned to Billy and I knew by the expression on his face that there was something he wanted to ask us. "Jacob I received a rather large box wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper today and wondered if either of you knew anything about it."

I decided to play dumb and sent him a smirk saying, "Why father, whatever are you talking about?" I was trying so hard not to break out in a smile, but then I heard Bella clap her hands together excitedly and turned to see her bouncing up and down with a huge grin on her face. She kind of reminded me of that pixie-like Cullen, Alice. I couldn't help but laugh at her and pull her into my side wrapping an arm around her waist.

"Bella?" I heard Billy question and turned back to him. "It says on the package that I'm not allowed to open it until Christmas, which is two days away." Bella only smiled wider when he told her this.

"Merry Christmas Billy," Bella chimed. "But like it says you can't open it until Christmas and no we won't tell you what it is." Bella scolded my father like he was a little kid, but the only thing he did was break out into a grin of his own, and then wheeled over to be in between us pulling Bella down to kiss her lightly on the cheek.

"I'm sure I'll love it no matter what it is, but you really shouldn't have."

"Oh, it's nothing Billy. It's just something you deserve and it's my way of making your life easier and showing my appreciation for creating the most amazing man in the world." I smiled widely placing a kiss on her cheek when she said that, and tightened my hold on her.

"Well I hate to break up this whole sentimental moment, but Billy we need to be getting to your place before the game starts and the rest of the guys show up."

I heard Bella ask, "Are you going to come home tonight Dad?"

"Umm actually Bells, I think I'm going to stay at Billy's tonight because the game will end late, but Jake can stay here with you. I'll be sleeping in his bed probably anyways, because Billy let's face it, that couch of yours is not very comfortable." Bella's eyes lit up at the prospect of us spending the night together but then Charlie broke through both of our thoughts again, "Of course Jake will sleep on the couch here. Just because your engaged doesn't give you the go ahead to cut totally loose."

"Ch- Dad, you know me better than that." She went to give him a kiss and say goodbye and then when they left we finished cleaning up the kitchen.

I was thinking of what we could do tonight and then an idea hit me. I put my arm tightly around my Bella, my world, and inhaled her luscious signature strawberry scent. I never much liked to eat strawberries growing up, but I swear I felt like I could taste every inch of her over and over again just because she smelt so heavenly and inviting. I heard her soft giggle when my nose tickled the bare skin at the crook of her neck and it brought me back to what I wanted to ask her.

"Bella my love. How would you like to go to town and get a bunch of movies to watch tonight? We can make a cozy little pallet on the floor in front of the T.V. and have take out Chinese for dinner. We can even eat straight from the cartons so we don't have to clean up too much." I watched as her eyes lit up at the prospect of being curled up cozily with me watching movies.

"Sure Jake that sounds great! We can go now if you want, there's not much to do otherwise. How about we head into Port Angeles, I know the best Chinese place to get food from, but we can do that last. You know what?" I shook my head and she continued her eyes glistening with delight at whatever she just thought of. "I haven't had a chance to see Port Angeles since they decorated for Christmas, we could walk around and go into some shops while we are there, I kind of sort of need to pick up a few more Christmas gifts anyways now that my second family is back." I saw her blush and nodded in agreement.

Eventually we were parking in an empty space next to some shop in Port Angeles. It hadn't taken long for us to get ready to leave and now we were here. I got out of my little Rabbit and went around to open Bella's door and pull her out and into my arms. I brushed my lips across the bottom of her jaw lightly and even thought I knew it wasn't the cold she shivered from it was still quite a bit chilly. So, I reached back into the car bringing out a coat a wrapping her snuggly in it zipping it up.

I noticed she was about to protest, but I lifted a finger and pressed it gently to her lips stopping her. "Bella, I can't have you freezing or getting sick." She just huffed and crossed her arms over her chest in defiance but I just laughed at her and kissed her on the tip of her nose. Then I grabbed her hand asking her where she wanted to go first and then we were off.

Bella's POV

I have never been much for shopping, but when I didn't have Alice with me trying to play Bella Barbie and I actually had a goal in mind it was kind of enjoyable. We had been shopping for two and a half hours now and we were standing in line at the Chinese restaurant getting ready to grab some food to take back to the house. I manage to find a gift for every member of the Cullen family, but Edward proved to be the hardest to buy for. It was especially hard because I had to find a friend appropriate gift and everything I thought he would like was something a girlfriend might give. We had also picked out quite a few movies and loaded up on some snacks for after dinner. I told Jacob that we couldn't watch a movie without snacks. He just shook his head and let me get what I thought we needed.

We had just moved up in the line but apparently everyone wanted Chinese food tonight so we were still quite a ways back. Good thing I thought to take Jacob's phone and pre-order the food. It was sure to be done by the time we got to the register. Jacob had me in his arms kissing me and I was giggling as I leaned back into him with is arms around me.

I was thinking about the past few hours. It was dark now and Port Angeles was so beautiful during the Christmas season. There were lights strung from everywhere and all the stores were decorated. The whole place was bright and cheery and made my heart swell with the Christmas spirit. That was until something bumped me making me fall into Jacob, which I don't think he minded except that he also bumped into someone. This big burly man turned around and it was so funny to see Jacob, the werewolf, cowering. My laughing was interrupted though when I hear my name.

"Bella? Bella Swan!" It was a painful screech that sounded like nails on a chalkboard and I knew instantly who that awful nasal voice belonged to. I turned around to see Jessica smiling, but it didn't quite reach her eyes. It was a fake happy greeting with a tinge of malice behind it. I knew she had always been jealous of me being with Edward and I also knew that she got nothing but pleasure at the fact that I was miserable after he "left me".

I put on the cheeriest face I could muster and said, "Hi Jess, how are you? How is your Christmas vacation going?"

"Oh, it's going great, I'm not looking forward to going back to school though. Mike and I were just picking up some dinner, we're going to have a romantic candle light dinner at my house. He's so sweet like that." She was swooning and trying to rub it in, but I just tensed as I noticed Mike beside her. That kid got on my nerves!

"Hey Bells, how you been?"

"Fine," I mumbled. Then Jacob, my savior, decided to make his presence known.

"Bella, sweetheart aren't you going to introduce me to your friends?" I rolled my eyes at him and I knew he'd seen it, but he just gave me that famous lopsided grin of his and kissed the back of my hand that he was now holding.

To my horror Jessica let go of Mike's hand and started to swoon over Jacob. The nerve of her! I sighed before saying as cheerily as my voice would allow, "Jake this is Jessica Stanley and her boyfriend Mike Newton," I saw her frown at the word boyfriend when I referred to Mike and figured she was just trying to make me jealous with that whole romantic dinner bit.

So I decided to fight fire with fire and dole out a little jealousy of my own as I finished the introductions. "Jessica, Mike, this is Jacob Black my fiancée. You've actually met briefly when we went down to First Beach before. Jacob lives on the Reservation, his dad is a friend of the family." I knew I was rambling, but I didn't miss the flash of hatred and jealousy across Jessica's face. I smiled in triumph. Jake kissed my hand again and pulled me tighter and I noticed Mikes gaze roaming over my body as he attempted to pull Jessica closer to him as well.

I knew Jacob noticed Mikes roving eyes when I heard a low growl and thankfully just then it was our turn in line. We quickly grabbed our food, paid for it, and left without another word to the most annoying couple ever. When we walked out into the cold evening air Jacob turned to me and said, "Thanks, I almost had to pummel that Mike guy. I couldn't stand to watch his eyes on you like that, I can only imagine what he was thinking about." That reminded me about something.

I smiled up at him before reaching up on my tip toes to kiss him on the nose and then said, "At least you don't have Edward's gift and have the pleasure of going to school with us. I can't tell you how many times I caught him growling at Mike's thoughts and had to stop him from doing something stupid." Jacob just shook his head and kissed me on the cheek before walking me back to the car to go home.

When we pulled up to the house Jacob brought everything inside trying to be Mr. Macho and earned himself and eye roll from me. I put everything away and grabbed the bag with our dinner walking into the living room and setting it on the couch. "Jake, can you grab a couple of sodas I'm going to get some stuff upstairs?"

"Yeah sure Bells."

I came down carrying an arm full of pillows and blankets but of course clumsy Bella had to show up. I couldn't see and lost my footing on the bottom step which sent everything flying and me falling to the floor. I squeezed my eyes shut and braced myself for the impact. I heard a loud scream and realized it had come from me, but before my face could connect with the hard wood of the floor two toned and strong arms wrapped themselves around me and I managed to find myself in Jacob's arms.

He just chuckled and said, "My silly, clumsy, Bella. I love you." He righted me on my feet and I kissed him on his cheek.

"I love you too, Jake. I guess that's what happens when I fall for you." I heard him chuckle at my joke as he had started to gather pillows and blanket and stack the in a comfy pallet on the floor between the couch and the T.V.

I grabbed the bag of DVD's and walked over the T.V. "So what do you want to watch first?" I asked as I opened the bag.

"Whatever you want my darling. As long as I can sit here with you." I thought about it for a moment and then put in one of my all time favorite movies, The Notebook, and hit the play button.

I gathered up the food and sat down on the pallet Indian style and started removing cartons and breaking out chop sticks. Jacob walked over and handed me two cold sodas while he plopped down next to me.

We sat there in silence passing food back and forth and eating while we watched the movie.

Jacob's POV

After we had eaten I cleaned up storing the left over's in the fridge and putting the trash in the can in the kitchen. I washed my hands and then went back to watch the movie with Bella and she automatically curled into me. I could so get use to this. I am use to this. I kissed the top of her head and heard her contented sigh as we sat there watching the movie.

We sat like that for what felt like forever, but soon it was over and it didn't feel nearly as long as I wanted it to be. I was paying more attention to the beautiful princess sitting next to me, my princess. I wasn't really paying attention to the movie, but I noticed when the credits started to roll because I heard a soft sniffle come from my beloved Bella.

"Bella, honey, what's wrong?" I leaned away from her so I could search her face. All I could see is a small smile playing on her lips and a few unshed tears glistening in her eyes.

"It's nothing Jake. That movie, it just…get's to me I guess. So, what would you like to watch next?"

"Bella, I already told you…it doesn't matter as long as I'm with you." She smiled and all of the distress over the previous film had vanished. God I loved that smile!

"OK, well since I made you sit through a sappy romance let's watch something with a little more action for you."

I sighed. "It's up to you Bella, what did you have in mind?"

She got this glint in her eyes, "Die Hard, it's a classic!" I rolled my eyes at her and agreed to set up the next movie so she could go get some snacks.

The movie started and Bella came through with a rather large tray. She put it down in front of us and I was amazed by what was on it. There was a big bowl of butter popcorn, and small bowl of peanut M&Ms, a big bowl of Nacho Cheese Doritos, red licorice, and a box of snow caps which I told her were my favorite so she bought it.

I noticed there was another small bowl with some kind of white goop in it and turned to ask Bella what it was. "Umm, Bella?"

"Hmmm?"

"What is that?" I pointed to the bowl and she just gave me this mischievous grin.

Then she surprised me by the mock disbelief in her voice as she said, "Why it's vanilla icing what else?" I heard her giggle and knew my eyebrows had drawn together in a questioning gaze.

She turned toward me as her smile got wider, "OK, this is what you do. You take a Dorito, then you dip it in the vanilla icing. Then you pop it into your mouth and eat it." She did it as she was walking me through it.

"Eww that's got to be the grossest thing I have every heard of." I wrinkled my nose at what she did. Then she gave a shocked look as if she couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"Oh, come on, just try it. Come over to the dark side Jake," She said before kissing my nose. I looked at her for a long moment then reached out into the Dorito bowl. I hesitated over the icing bowl and then decided that I was determined to do this even if it killed me. It's just icing. This was ridiculous, but before I could snap out of my thoughts and eat the damn chip Bella took it from me and popped it into her mouth eating it.

"Hey! I was going to eat that," I said. I got closer to her and started tickling her sides. She squirmed in my arms and I just enjoyed to feeling of this moment. I laughed with her and then somehow I was leaning with my back against the couch with Bella straddling my lap.

We both stopped laughing at once and her eyes smoldered into mine. God, she was beautiful! My hands found my way to her hair which was in a not on top of her head. I let it loose and rand my fingers through it massaging her scalp with my fingertips. Her head slowly went back and she moaned, her lips parting slightly.

My hands automatically tangled into her soft velvet brown hair and I brought her lips crashing down on mine. Her arms were around my neck instantly and her fingers threaded through my long hair. I could feel her pushing my head closer, tighter to her and I eagerly complied. Our lips hungrily tasted each other and the next thing I knew she was unbuttoning my shirt.

I was so dazed I wasn't sure what was happening, but I knew I didn't want her to stop. She finished with the buttons on my shirt without fumbling and moved the cloth to expose my bare chest. Our lips finally left each others to catch our breath.

When her eyes finally left mine I heard her inhale a sharp breath and noticed she was eyeing my exposed chest. I felt her cool breath wash across my naked flesh and little goose bumps of pleasure coated every inch of my skin. Just then she had completely removed my shirt from my shoulder and I felt her hands on my hot skin.

I jumped when I felt her velvety soft hair brush across me. She blushed and it reminded me of how innocent she really was. "Bella," I breathed. "Do you really want to do this?" I asked looking deep into her eyes for a sign of whether or not I should proceed, after all she started this.

She hesitated for too long and that was all I need to bring myself back to reality. What was I thinking, I couldn't take her virtue right here. We had both said we wanted to wait until we were married. I gently pulled her off of me and set her beside me.

"I'm sorry Bella, my love, I just got a little carried away. You don't know what you do to me." I saw her blush.

Then to my surprise she mumbled, "I could say the same about you." Wow, I couldn't imagine me having any where close to the same affect on her as she did on me. I nearly died just then pulling her off of me. I decided to lighten the mood so I grabbed a Dorito and dipped it into the icing.

"Mmmm. Hey that isn't too bad, that's actually kind of yummy." I poked her playfully in the side and then we both busted out laughing.

After we were done watching Die Hard and eating the most unhealthy stuff we got up to stretch and clean up. Then even though it was late we put on another sappy movie, not sure what it was, and curled up under the blankets. "Goodnight Jake."

"Night Bells." I kissed her on the cheek and held her tighter.

Bella was asleep in my arms before the previews were even over. All I could do was curl her closer into me and gently stroke her arms so I didn't wake her. She mumbled some incoherent things, and I kissed her hair breathing in her wonderfully delectable fragrance.

Then, I fell asleep with the most beautiful angel in my arms.

Bella's POV

I woke up the next morning expecting to be in Jacob's arms, but unfortunately for me he wasn't there. In fact he was nowhere to be found. I was more than a little disappointed. Then I saw a note with my name written on the front of it.

Dearest Bella,

I'm sorry I wasn't there to watch you wake up.

Charlie will be home soon,

And I didn't think you wanted him to see us sleeping together.

I miss you already,

But I won't see you until tomorrow, Christmas.

Happy Christmas Eve

See you soon.

Love Always,

Jake

I smiled at his note and then decided to get up to clean up before Charlie got home. We were going to spend Christmas Eve together and have our Christmas early because he knew I was going over to the Black's house for a second Christmas.

Little did he know, I was going to have a third Christmas as well.

At The Cullen's!

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