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Jacob walked me to the doorstep. I turned toward him and kissed him, stretching up on my tiptoes. He lifted me up by the waist so he wouldn't have to bend down, and deepened the kiss, sending my blood pounding through my veins. I felt the color rise in my cheeks and my heart audibly skipped several beats, which probably wasn't good for my health. I didn't care.
I hugged him closer to my body and then I heard a weird tapping noise to my left. I broke the kiss and looked up to see Emmett, standing inside the house, his forehead pressed to the glass tapping on the window nearest to us. I could feel my blush rush to my cheeks and I looked away.
"Get a room!" he called teasingly as Jake set me down. I saw Rose swat at him with her hand half-heartedly as she shooed him away and motioned for me to come in the house.
"Goodnight" I said turning my attention back to Jake, who laughed freely at my irritation towards my family. "Ha ha. Hilarious. I'll see you in the morning." I pulled away from him and turned towards the door.
"Goodnight dear," he murmured, his tone suddenly serious. I opened the door and stepped into the house, turning to watch him get into his car and leave. I shut the door behind me and tried to mentally fortify myself before Rose started in trying to satisfy her curiosity.
"So, what happened?" she called from her place on the couch. "Come sit and tell me all about it." She was trying and failing miserably to sound indifferent. I rolled my eyes.
"I have to go to sleep. I'm very tired." And I was tired; I had had an overwhelming afternoon. I moved towards the kitchen door and stopped when she let out a shocked gasp.
"He bought you jewelry?" I self-consciously placed my hand over the delicate silver cross that hung about my neck.
"Yes, he bought me dinner and gave me a pendent." She smiled hungrily for details. She would have be disappointed.
"And?"
"And, that's all. I'm going to sleep now. 'Night Auntie Rose," her eyes narrowed into two topaz-colored slits as I hurried out toward the cottage.
When I got there, Mom and Dad were sitting in the living room discussing some sort of trip they were hoping to take. I tried to mask my giddy joy with exhaustion as I bid them goodnight and scurried off to my bedroom. As soon as the door was closed behind me, I sat down at my vanity and admired the pretty silver that hugged my neck.
The soft metal glimmered in the faint light and I leaned forward to the mirror to get a better look. It had been so romantic when we had danced on the beach. Perhaps he had been planning it all night. He might have given it to me at the restaurant had I not been acting so obnoxious. I rolled my eyes at the thought. Maybe I had just imagined it as worse than it truly had been; but it had seemed pretty bad at the time….
It didn't matter though. It seemed Jacob didn't mind my crazy stupidity. I heard the front door close quietly, so I assumed my parents were going out for a "walk". Perhaps they would be discussing world politics. A few minutes later a crash resounded from about a mile off, as though someone had knocked a tree over. I shook my head, trying not think about my parents knocking over trees in the middle of the night.
Slipping my clothes off, I grabbed the silk nightgown that was atop my dresser and changed for bed. Leaving my clothes in a pile on the floor, I threw back the curtains of my window and crawled into bed. As I lay trying to fall asleep, I thought about the stars that stared at me brightly from beyond the pulled curtains. They were points of light and reason in a vast universe of darkness. They were something to be gazed upon in wonder. Astronomy was a beautiful study of a world beyond ours.
As my eyelids fluttered I thought about Jake. Out of all the points of light and reason in my life he was the brightest. He stood out as my priority and I wanted to know about him, more so than any of the other stars. I wanted to see what a naked eye couldn't see in the darkness. My Jake had grown so bright that if his glow was suddenly extinguished, I would be left blinded by the light. I would see nothing if I couldn't see him. Not by choice, but because my whole world was being shaken up by one creature.
I had never been given the chance to love someone as wholly as I loved him. Yes I loved my family, but it was a different kind of love. It pained me the way other girls looked at him. He was so beautiful he could have any girl he wished, yet he wanted me. I was happy to oblige.
I closed my eyes tightly and with my hand felt for the necklace that he had given me. The smooth silver was cool in the darkness of my room and I drifted off to sleep, thinking about the beach and Elvis Presley.
When I woke there was light streaming through the window and I could hear birds chirping tunelessly outside. Mingled with the sounds of the morning was a steady snore. I threw off the covers and walked toward my window, leaning over the sill. I saw my Jacob lying there in the grass, asleep. With one fluid movement, I leapt over the sill and landed with a muted thud beside him. He stirred ever so slightly. I laid down and scooted over so we were laying parallel to one another. The soft breeze ruffled his hair and the sunlight played across his huge body.
I saw his key chain hanging out of his pocket idly and I saw this as an opportunity. I snatched at the keys gently, so as not to wake him. I had the key to his car in my hand as he opened his eyes. I stuck it behind my back and smiled sweetly.
"'Morning," his husky voice was colored with sleep.
"Good morning. What are you doing outside my window?"
"What are you doing with my keys?"
"Um," He was good. I threw him a playful glance as I stood. "Well, I was going to go for a ride today."
"In my car?"
"Yes, in the Rabbit."
"And I'm coming too I suppose?"
"Naturally," I called as I took off in a slow sprint towards the main house. After a shower and a bowl of Cheerios I was all set. Rosalie along with Alice, who had returned the previous night, helped me pick out a casual outfit to wear.
The boot cut jeans hugged my thighs and flared out lovingly at the knees. They made my hips look sexy, which was good, I think. I wore a t-shirt and my converse. A blue ribbon kept my hair out of my eyes.
When I was ready, I found Jacob in the living room watching television with Emmett. It looked like they were watching rugby, but I wasn't really sure. When he saw me, he stood and we walked out of the house and across the lawn. There was a smirk on his dark face.
"You know," he commented after a moment. "I could take the keys any minute if I really wanted to. I'm really only humoring you with this."
I rolled my eyes, "I doubt it." I shut the car door and clicked my seatbelt, the key still in my hand.
"Why is that?"
"Because you know that you don't stand a chance against me on any given day." Now it was his turn to roll his eyes. "You are rendered helpless under my charm and you know it," I said, throwing the car into drive. I wasn't quite sure where we were going, but it didn't matter. I only had to appear as if I knew where we were going.
"Do you even know where you're going?" he asked cynically as I pulled out of the green and onto the pavement.
"Of course I do," Not only did I drive fast like my father, but I could lie smoothly…most of the time.
"No you don't. You had no plans to hijack my car until you saw your chance and stole my keys."
"Nope, I have a plan. I always have a plan." He snorted, but I just ignored him. As long as it appeared as though I had planned this impromptu trip, it didn't matter.
We drove in silence for a few minutes. It was around ten o'clock, so a few people were out in their yards. I figured that if I drove around town long enough I would find somewhere for us to go. I figured an ice-cream shop would be cute, but rather cliché. And we had just gone out for pizza last night. We passed a barber's shop and I was reminded of Sweeny Todd. We drove by a shoe store, a karaoke bar, a cluster of houses and a home décor supply shop. I shook my head absentmindedly. Jake coughed loudly.
"What?"
"Um, we've been driving in a circle. We've passes that house three times." I looked at the house worriedly. He was right.
"I know that."
"Yeah?"
"Yes, I'm building suspense." I muttered. Instead of turning left again, I turned right and saw a small grouping of whitewashed buildings clustered together. I smiled happily and sped up minutely. I had found it. We pulled up in front of the structures and I parked the car. Jacob looked at me incredulously.
"The elementary school?"
"Yes, the elementary school."
"Nessie, why are we here?" when he said my name it sent little shivers up my spine, but I ignored his question and climbed out of the car, careful to keep the keys in my hand. The tall metal fence would be easy enough to jump and it was the middle of summer, so the school was empty. Eight year olds didn't need summer school.
"So you should be able to get over this fence, right?" I asked, looking the foreboding metal up and down. He laughed.
"Of course. Why shouldn't I?"
"You just seemed reluctant to get out of the car. I was wondering if it had something to do with your inability to keep up with me." He laughed harder and shook his head.
"Naturally you would be concerned with me."
"Naturally."
"Race you over," he muttered quietly. With out answering I threw myself at the metal fence, strategically clamoring up the side. I nimbly hopped over the top and waited. He was a few seconds behind me.
"No fair, you got a head start," he griped as he leaned against the fence for support, breathing a little harder than usual.
"Aw, you poor baby. You're just mad 'cause I beat you. You know, you're really not as intimidating as you'd like to think. I knew I'd win." I said off-handishly.
He grinned. "Oh yeah?"
"Yeah."
"So what you're saying is-"
"You're slow." I finished. His grin got wider and he chuckled.
"You really shouldn't have said that." I took off as he lunged at me. He missed, only clipping my forearm as I ran towards the swing-set on the south side of campus. He caught up with me and grabbed me around the waist. I swatted at his arms half-heartedly as I giggled. He lifted me up and held me close to his chest. He was a lot taller than I, so my feet were no where near the ground. I shrieked for him to put me down, but he ignored me, twirling us around and around in tight circles.
"Jacob! Let go!" I cried playfully as he set me down and kissed me. He took my breath away, he was so wonderful. My heart was hammering in my ears as he broke the kiss, both of us breathing hard. He held my hands in his.
"Give me my keys," he whispered softly. I shook my head to indicate no. "Please?"
"You have to say 'Please Your Awesomeness' and give me a piggy-back ride." I demanded childishly. A smile lit his face.
"As you wish, Your Awesomeness," Jake slung me onto his back in one quick movement and began to trot around the playground. I giggled and dangled the keys in front of his eyes.
"You're not going fast enough." I muttered in his ear, happy to spend some time with him. He laughed whole-heartedly.
"I'd rather be slow of foot than slow of mind," was his quiet reply.
"Thankfully I'm neither." I said as he put me down and held out his hand as though he thought I would just give him the keys like a nice little girl. I had never really been a nice little girl, manipulative and silly maybe, but not necessarily nice.
"You're neither what?"
"Slow of foot or slow of mind."
"Oh really?" he teased.
"Really! I'm not slow of foot or mind!" I sang, jumping onto the merry-go-round. It spun around in slow circles. He shook his head and smiled. Then he twirled the heavy metal bars of the merry-go-round and leaped onto the colorful spinning safety hazard.
I looked at him a moment then looked up at the overcast sky. "The sky is a wheel."
"Yeah it is. That's poetic." He glanced at me adoringly. I looked down, slightly abash.
"Not really." I said blushing. It was so strange for him to think of me as poetic.
He looked as though he were going to say something when I snapped my head up in surprise. What ever was on the tip of his tongue would have to wait. There was an officer stepping out of his police cruiser that was now parked beside Rabbit was.
"Dammit!" Jake said gruffly.
"Oh hell, what if it's Charlie?" I cried in distress, struggling to keep my voice down. "C'mon, let's go," I took off in a fast sprint to the fence on the opposite side of campus from the cop and hurried to climb away. I felt Jacob right behind me. The cop must have spotted us, because he began yelling. It didn't stop us from running. We hit the trees behind the school and didn't look back for several minutes. When we stopped, we were in a small clearing, little white flowers swayed in the breeze and I could see a house about one-hundred paces away.
"So what are we gonna do?" Jake asked. "He's gonna get the license plate number off my Rabbit and then I'll be in trouble with my dad." I shook my head.
"I have a plan,"
"Where have I heard that before?"
"Oh come on. This one is a good plan." Then I took off in a slow run back towards the school.
"Where the hell are you going? Do you feel like getting arrested for trespassing?"
"No, I told you. I have a plan." He would just have to trust me.
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