Chapter Four: Introductions

Jacob had never seen anything like Sapphire before. Her eyes as blue and glistening as the sapphire necklace from the Titanic. Her hair was a deep brown that didn't look as healthy as it could have been but that didn't matter to Jacob he still thought it was beautiful. The rest of her body wasn't bad either, although she was a skinny she still seemed to have some muscles and wasn't all bone. Her chest wasn't big but about in the middle not to over whelming just right in Jacob's eyes. Her butt could be almost compared to J Lo's. Considering she was sitting Jacob wasn't able to see this detail yet.

In Sapphire's eyes Jacob was an over grown boy. She would consider him to be a man but the exception was he still held a childish face round and full. Although she loved tall men his height was ridiculous, she was overwhelmed by his height he seemed to be almost seven feet tall. She stared at him in wonder as she looked at his well developed abs and chest that he had left exposed. Most of the time she would find herself staying away from this type of person but she couldn't help but enjoy his company.

"Jacob Black," He held out his monstrous hand.

"Sapphire Cook," She happily shook the hand which engulfed hers.

"So Sapphire," he smiled, "what brings you to this part of town? Seeing as I've never seen you before."

"Um…" she thought about what to say not wanting him to know about her sickness, " I thought this would be a wonderful vacation spot." The boy stared at her in disbelief this was the worst vacation spot ever.

"Really," he nodded his head and looked over to her dog, "and who's this?"

"This is Dimples," she picked up her dog with one hand, "say hi." Jacob lightly petted the dog smiling.

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After talking for a lengthy period of time the two teenagers found themselves fascinated with one another. The sun was just above the horizon line before Jacob asked where Sapphire was staying and that maybe they should hang out again before she left.

"Well," Sapphire scratched her head and looked at her dog, "I'm not staying anywhere." The boy looked at her confused. "Yah see what happened was I left Dimples at our hotel and he kind of tore up the place. The owner got really mad and kicked us out. After he did that he called all of the other hotels to make sure I won't go someplace else." She confessed sadly.

"That sucks." The monstrous boy said. He thought about how he could prevent her from having to sleep in the car for the remainder of the time she would spend here. He would invite her to his house but that would seem a bit creepy and his dad might be awkward about Jacob bringing some random girl home that he had never met before. Maybe he could use Emily and Sam's house Sapphire would find it much less awkward to have another girl with her. "You could spend the night at my friend's house." The boy offered.

Sapphire considered it would beat sleeping in the car. Although she didn't know him she felt safe around him like she had already known him. "That would be great, if it's not too much to ask."

"No it's no problem at all!" he said cheerfully. They walked to her car which Jacob had a bit of a hard time getting into considering it was too small. On the way there they talked about different things; seeing as though they hadn't run out of things to talk about. They both had each other fooled, even if it seemed like they had revealed everything to each other they hadn't. Jacob kept the secret of the werewolves and vampires from her and Sapphire kept her illness from him.

When they arrived at the house it was already dark outside. Jacob was a little nervous that Sam and Emily would reject the idea of letting Sapphire stay, but of course Emily was delighted.

"I never have any girls over!" Emily exclaimed hugging Sapphire. Sapphire found the marks on Emily's face quiet odd and didn't find it in her place to ask about it. The couple had found it easy to accept a stranger giving Sapphire an uneasy feeling. Although the invite was sudden they found Sapphire a place to sleep quiet easily. The couch. Sapphire didn't complain it would be much more comfortable than sleeping in the car. Dimples found a home on the carpet in front of her.

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Sapphire woke up the next morning to the smell of pancakes. She followed her nose to the kitchen and found that Emily was up bright and early cooking. Sapphire sat down at the kitchen table quietly and as her eyes began to wonder around the room. Sapphire was lost at thought until Emily set down a plate of food in front of her. She jumped at the surprise.

"Go ahead eat up." Emily said smiling with her scars tugging at her lips. "There regular pancakes I hope you don't mind next time I'll add something you might like… if you would like."

Sapphire starred up at her surprised with a smile on her face, "Thank you for everything that you've done I really appreciate it." She looked at her plate and then around once more around the room before asking, "Hey is Jacob coming back or…"

"Jake yea he should be here a little later. Why?" Emily said with a grin on her face.

"Um no reason," Sapphire quickly replied hanging her blushing face toward the plate of food. Emily took a seat next to her with her own plate of food. The two sat at the table even when they were done with food and had a conversation about many random topics. "So where's … Sam I think?"

"Oh Sam my husband, he's with Jake and the other boys they'll be here soon like I said," Emily figured that Sapphire would much rather be with Jacob than anyone else at the moment. "I don't think you know the woods to well but you can look for them if you would like Jacob's house isn't too far from here there's a path that would take you straight there. As long as you follow it you'll be just fine."

Sapphire jumped from the table quickly banging her knees on it but ignoring the fact that they hurt. "Okay!!!" Emily smiled as she directed Sapphire towards Jacob's house. "Thank You, Come on Dimples." She smiled at dog who was already panting with joy that he would get to go somewhere. She started off toward the path that would lead her to the boy she couldn't get off her mind.

While walking she thought of many things taxes, the government, the weather, school but the one thing she couldn't stray from was Jacob. She didn't understand how this boy could attack her mind. They had only spent such a small amount of time together and yet she felt she had known him longer. She kept telling herself that it was only a crush and that she was just grateful for what he had done when she had no place to stay. She went over every feature she could remember from the touch of his hand to his voice to way his abs moved when he laughed. She blushed at that thought. And just when her ADDness got the best of her she was at a dead end. She quickly looked around to see if she could find her way out but… she had no luck.

"UGH," she looked at the sky covered by thick tree branches, "I should have waited and now I'm lost." Frustrated she picked up her dog and began to just wonder, until she heard something else in the woods.

"Hello?" She asked shakily. "Wh-who's there?" If she ran it could be a hunter and they would think she would be an animal to hunt. If it was an animal it would attack her whether she moved or not, well it might. Dimples started barking and growling at the creature ready to protect its owner but was quickly shut up by Sapphire. "Be quiet or it'll hear us." She said with fearful voice. In the pit of her stomach she could feel that the position she was in was not safe.

She began to walk in the opposite direction she had heard the noise at first she went as slow as possible so it wouldn't hear her. As far as she went she felt she was still being watched. She began to run not caring if it heard her or not because she believed it knew she was there. She didn't hear any sign of something following her. She looked back as she was avoiding all the wet plants that would try to grip her feet. Before turning her head back she caught a glance of something from the corner of her eye. She let out a bloody curdling screech that was quickly cut off when she slammed into the creature.

From the ground she groaned the object was unmovable as if she ran into a brick wall. She didn't move her body until her eyes found that the object was a human. It was then when she realized that she had held her arm out to prevent from crashing into the person. And it was then when she realized the immense pain that stung in her arm. Her dog began licking her arm trying to ease the pain she was also bleeding. The person tensed and quickly bent down to examine her arm. Sapphire began to tear trying to toughen up in front of the stranger. When it bent down she looked at the beautiful features it had. Bronze hair, lean body, icy cold touch and pale skin but despite the stunning details this boy held she didn't care about at the moment her mind was occupied on her pain.

"I'm very sorry I didn't mean to frighten you." He smiled forcefully. He quickly bent down and swept her into his arms.

"I-I think you br-broke my arm." Sapphire said as she forced tears back. Somehow out of all the chaos she was finding humor in all that negative events that had happened to her since she arrived in Washington. The man began to walk with Sapphire in his arms and Dimples in Sapphire's unbroken arm with the other laid on top.

"Are you sure you know where you're g-going." Every moment she felt intense spasms of pain coming from the center of her arm.

"Yes don't worry about a thing my father happens to be a doctor. He'll have you fixed in a very short amount of time."

"Okay I appreciate it I have such bad luck. I'm Sapphire. What's your name?"

"Edward Cullen."