Ch. 5

Bonding

"You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend."
- Tom Petty

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Bella POV

"Why are you doing this to me," I groaned staring at my computer screen.

Its been about two days after my conversation with Edward at homecoming and I sat at my computer playing stalker like everyother day. Edwward's profile on facebook read... check out the abs. All football player's need to look like this. It followed with a picture of his perfectly sculpted six pack abs. I literally sat here for five minutes drooling over how amazing they looked.

I actually considered commenting on the picture till I saw what Rachel wrote, Look at my guys amazing abs. You girls should be jealous. She ended it with a heart. Nothing like that to start off the day, turn on the jealousy switch, and raise my blood pressure.

I had to get away from this computer before something else drastic happened. I walked downstairs to the kitchen and made myself a bowl of frosted flakes. Renee and Phil left early this morning to go to universal for their anniversary. So today the house was mine.

The sun was shining high in the sky and it was a perfect beach day. Maybe I would invite that girl Rosalie from my math class or maybe I would call up Jake to see what he was up to. My phone next to me buzzed as a text message showed on the screen. It was Jake. Call me.

I picked the phone up and pressed his speed dial number. The phone rang twice before he picked it up.

"Hey beautiful. What are you doing later today," his husky voice asked.

"Hey sexy. Actually I was going to call you later and see if you wante to come hang for awhile. Its a perfect beach day and I thought we shouldn't waste it," I replied cooly.

"Sounds awesome! Just give me ten minutes and I'll be right over."

"Ok see you then." The phone line went dead. I finished my bowl of cereal, cleaned it out and put it away. Jake will be here in ten minutes. Holy shit Jake was going to be here in ten fucking minutes!

I rushed to the mirror on the wall around the corner. I looked at myself up and down and almost had a panic attack. I took the stairs two at a time and made a bee line for the bathroom.

I slamed the door behind me, turned on the hot water and stripped in a matter of seconds. I dont think I have ever shampooed and comditioned myself so fast in my life. I turned the water off and wrapped a towel around me as I unfogged the mirror. I grabbed the brush off the counter and ripped it through my tangled mesh of hair. Once that chore was done I quickly brushedd my teeth.

By the time I got in my bedroom, I had about only four to five minutes left. As I searched and searched the scarcely full closet of mine I realized that I had nothing to wear.

Still in my towel I made my ay to my moms bedroom and searched her closet. Thankfully there was a really pretty stripped black and yellow bathsuit that was just my size. I threw it on and went back to my room.

I found a pair of my old faded blue jean shorts and a light blue tank top that I thankfully bought the other day. So I put them on. I went back to the de-fogged bathroom and stared at myself. I know I didnt want my hair down because I always did that and I wasnt sure if I should put any make up on.

After staring for awhile I chose to braid my hair off to the side of my face and put a litle brush of foundation on. I slipped on my black flip flops and put a pair of sun glasses on my head.

I walked back down stairs to wait for Jacob. He should be here any second. For what seemed like forever I started getting twitchy. I grabbed a banana from our fruit bowl and started nibbling on it to occupy myself.

Jake came in the back door to the kitchen that also faced the beach about a minute later. I jumped off my stool and ran and jumped on him giving hime the biggest hug ever. He returned the hug very graciously. He smelled like sea salt and pine.

"Hey Bells," Jake exclaimed setting me back on my feet.

"Hey Jake," I replied. We stared at each other for a couple of minutes. His brown eyes staring into mine. I have to admit that I felt some sort of attraction to him. He was tall, tan, incredibly hot, and not to mention really sweet.

"So what should we do today," I asked.

"Well... I was thinking that we could go down to the beach and maybe catch a movie later. Sound good," he asked.

"Yeah good for me."

"Well then on that note... race you to the beach." And then he was gone. Before I could even blink that boy was almost half way down to the beach.

I took off right behind him while saying a prayer to God that I didn't fall on my ass or get injured running after this kid. I stopped once I got down to the beach and scanned left and right for him. Huh, where could he have gone to?

All of a sudden huge arms wrapped around my torso. I screamed and giggled like the high school school that I am.

"Oh my God! Jake put me down," I giggle/screamed. He set me on my feet and I turned and punched him in his chest.

"That was not funny Jacob Black!"

"I thought it was pretty funny."

"I'm sure you did. Now can we please go." I grabbed his hand and pulled him down to where the sand and water met.

The water lickes at our toes sending slight tingles up mine. I turned and walked a few feet back up and took off my shorts and tank. Jacob followed and took off his shirt.

We ran into the water and dived under a wave coming our way. We came up gasping for air smiling at each other like a bunch of idiots. We splahed each other giggling and laughing causing a bunch of the old people on the beach to give us ditry looks. I felt like I was five again just having the time of my life. It felt good to just play around.

Several times Jacob picked me up and slammed me in the water and several times I tried to get back at him. I sadly and miserably failed. After three hours of water play, we sat our happy asses in the sand. Jake grabbed on of the spare towels and wrapped it around me since my body was shaking really bad.

"Damn Bella, are you really that cold," Jake asked me.

"I'm not that cold. But thanks," I replied. Jake kept his arm around me. Probably to make sure that I wasn't freezing. He was always looking out for me.

The sun had begun to set in the west. It was so gorgeous I could help but sigh at its beauty. There were stripes of pink and orange and I looked just like a big orange ball sinking in the water. I leaned into Jacob's side, cuddling for warmth and because it felt really nice to be with someone. You hardly ever got moments like these living all the way up in Forks.

"Bella, can.. can I ask you something. Something important," Jake hesitantly spoke.

I turned and look him straight in the eye. He looked like he was thinking about something troubling and it made me curious to know what it was. "Jacob Black. You know you can tell me anything."

He waited a few seconds. Like what he was thinking waas very troubling. Oh my god this was just insane. I had to know what was going in on his head! "Bella.. from the first time I saw you I thought you were extremly pretty. No dont interupt me" I had opened my mouth to almost protest but he put his fingers to my lips. "As I was saying.. I think you're an amazing person Bella. I love how you blush when your put on the spot or the way you look at me when wwe haven't seen each other in so long. I like you alot Bella and if you could say something right now I would gladly appreciate it."

I stared dumbfounded at him. Jake is practically my best friend. He was the first person I met when I got here and we have been like glued to each other since then. How did I feel about Jacob? Did I actually like my best friend? "I like you alot too Jake." I surprised myself when I said this.

He started grinning from ear to ear when I said this. That made me feel good when he smiled like that. "Well... can I kiss you then," he asked me. I nodded 'yes' like a dumb idiot.

Jake slowly tilted his head twords mine and I did the same. His eyes started to close and I found that mine were starting to flutter shut too. I seemed like forever before our lips meet. When they did I really didnt expect what happened next.

JacobPOV

Mine and Bella's lips finally met. At first it was just a light soft kiss. But it turned into a more forcefull mesh. Our lips molded into each other like they were born to. I cant believe I was finally kissing her!

The kiss intensified even further. I brought my hand to the back or her neck so I could get even closer to her. Her hands wrapped and wove themselves into my hair.

Further and further we continued to kiss and closer and closer we tried to get. Our lips light parted only slightly though. We broke off very quickly just to catch our breather and then our lips were back on each other. This time way harder than before. Again our lips started to part in anticipation of what might happen and I knew what we both wanted.

Slowly and carefully I slid my tongue into Bella's mouth to see what she would do. Instead of pulling away like I thought she might, she slid her tongue into my mouth just as cautiously as I was. Our tongues collided and all the careful bullshit stopped there.

Everything from there erupted. Our tongues had a mind of their own. Our heads move at exactly the same time. We always stayed in sync. Slowly my back hit the sand and Bella stayed on top of me. Still I wanted to be even more close to her. This just wasn't enough for me.

I basically explored every contour of Bella while soaking up how she tasted. Just like cinnimon and peppermint. It's an odd combo but it worked for her. She even surprised me with the way she kissed me. Her lips stayed soft even when our lips were so crushed they hurt.

Every now and then we would break apart for air but other than that we were glue on each others lips. I dont think I could ever stop kissing this woman. But sadly the kiss started to slow. Our tounges slowed down and Bella's weighted eased off my chest as we graduaally began to sit up.

I placed a soft kiss on her lips once... twice... and a third time just because I felt like it.

"Wow...," I breathed. Bella just looked at me with those giant brown eyes. She looked like a dear in head lights. Kind of like she was shocked that this happened. Right here. Just now.

Did I do something wrong? Did she not feel the same way? Was I a bad kisser? What the hell just happened?

We just sat and looked at each other, grinnig from ear to ear. Mine resembled the kind when a little kid sees a lolly pop he wants for the sizee of his head and Bells well... she... uhh... what did he smile seem like. She had traces of confusion in her eyes and her smile seemed sort of plastered on her face like she was being forced too.

I grabbed her hand at a loss for words. We stayed in this silence for sometime. Me holder her hand while she watches me and me at a loss of what to say to her. Good God what am I supposed to say! Finally I think of something.

"Thank you Bells. That was amazing." Wish I had never said it. I gave her a small smile to make her see that I had actually ment those words though.

"Welcome Jake." That was all she could say! What the FUCK!

"Sooo what should we do now? You still wanna go see that movie we mentioned earlier?"

"Sure. I would actually really like that."

Still holding her fragile hand, I helped her to her feet and we grabbed our things we brought with us. The walk to her house to longer than I thought it would have. But eventually we made it. She excused hersself to the shower and left me in the kitchen all alone. Wow did I feel like an idiot right now.

I grabbed me bag off her kitchen floor and made my way to the guest bathroom. I turned the wateer almost all the way up, undressed, and stepped under the hot water. The water hit my back muscle and it felt like heaven.

For some reason just standing there under the shower head, things came into a new perspective. Maybe Bella did feel for me but was to shy to let me see. That may be the reason for her acting the way she is. And then it hit me like a bag of potatoes.

She must be holding back because she's afraid I'll hurt her the way her douche bag of an ex did to her! Oh my God this makes much more sense!

My mood after that instantaneously changed after that. I got out and wrapped a towel around my waist. I pulled my bag on the counter and took out my hair gel, Axe, deoderant, clean boxeers and the spare clothes I thankfully brought.

First I styled my hair. Just the usualy spiked dew that made me look good if I say so myself. Then the boxers and clothes came on. Axe was sprayed and deoderant was put on and in no time at all I was looking frsh to death.

At a quarter till seven I knocked on Bellas door. "Hey Bells, you almost ready?"

"Yeah just give me two more minutes. I'm almost done," she called back. On the plus side, she sounded like she was in a much better mood.

So five minutes later she came dowwn into thhe kitchen dressed in dark jeans, a light blue scoop neck sweater and black boots. I could feel my body getting happy in an area and was very thankfull I chose jeans for tonight.

"Ready to go," I asked. She nodded and led the way outside to my car. Being the gentleman I was I opened thee door for her than hurried my ass over to the drivers seat and started the car. It rumbled to life and we were on our way.

After ten minutes of driving we arrived at the theatre. We climed out and made our way up to the ticket booth. I paid for two tickets to see Footloose. I also got us a popcorn to split and two cokes. She held my hand the entire time. We found our seats and the lights dimmed signaling for the movies to start.

BellaPOV

All through the beggining of the movie I kept thinking of me and Jakes kiss. It wasn't anything special. At all. I had expected this wow factor but it never came.

Maybe it was just me or maybe I'm just confused. But still the kiss felt like I kissed an unexisting brother or on of my other guy friends from back in Forks. I also thought of Mike when we kissed. It brought up some terrible memories. Jake kissed almost exactly like him and I could not take that. Plus I think Jacob had a drooling problem.

The movie played on and on. I wasn't really even paying attention to it. No the thing I was mostly paying attention to way Jake's arm. At first we started holding hands because one I was cold and two I didn't want him to feel bad. But about a third of the way into the movie Jacob pulled that corny fake-stretching-yawning-putting-my-arm-on-your-shoulder- stunt.

Since then, it has slowly started to make its way down. I felt his hand slowly reach down to wear my right breast was. I kept watching him from the corner of my eye wanting to see if he really thought I was that dumb. Apparently he did because he grabbed the thing full force. I gasped slighly. He must have taken that as a sexual gasp because he grabbed harder.

He slowly started kneading around my nipple but also moving it in slight circle. I picked his hand up and moved it off my shoulder turning to face him in the face. He looked at me and grinned leaning in to kiss me.

I leaned in too. And then SLAP! I smacked him with all my power. Right in his damn face. That damn PERVE!

"What the hell do you think your doing Jacob," I almost screamed but kept my voice down for people actually watching the movie.

"I... Bella.. I...," he looked like he was lost and didn't know what to do. Cat got his tongue.

"Don't you dare ever do that to me again do you understand me? I feel very violated now Jacob fucking Black! Don't call or text me till I feel like talking to your big ugly face again! Do you hear me! You better because I am not kidding."

With that note I grabbed my things and stormed out of thee theatre. I didn't hear Jacob behind me so that was a plus. Then I staarted thinking... how am I getting home?

As I thought this I smacked into someone with the body of a brick wall. It was Edward Cullen. Didn't my night just get fucking better.

Ok guys! What did you guys think? Jacob is a big ass perve right? I think so. I'm proud of Bella for sticking up for herself though. Yes I know it may be pretty slow for some people but hey I'm working on it. If I say so myself I think its coming along though. I'm really sorry for the long updates by the way. I just can't help it!

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Until next time Good-bye, Adios, Caio and HEATS!

Sparkles out!