Chapter 7: The Past
Nessie's POV
A day after he saved me Jacob called to make sure that I was okay. I had stayed home the following day to recuperate. Turns out that nearly drowning does take a lot of energy out of a person. He came over that evening because, apparently, Edward and Bella had thought it would be a good idea to send me my homework so that I wouldn't fall behind. I resisted the urge to roll my eyes dramatically.
Everything seemed more or less normal when I went back to school the next day. At least with Jacob school seemed to be less hell holeish than it usually was. As baffled I was by his choice to be with me I was determined to enjoy his company while it lasted.
At lunch time I saw Jacob talking with some of the school football players. When they left I asked him what they wanted.
"They were asking me if I would like to try out for the team," he simply answered. "Even though I don't play they think I'd make a decent player. Does that even make a sense?"
"We don't get a lot of football players around here so every time they see a buff guy they want him whether they have a football history or not," I answered.
"Did you just call me buff?" he asked with a devilish grin.
I blushed a bright cherry red. "Out of everything I said that's all you heard?"
"Just messing with you Nessie. Besides I love seeing you blush,"
I couldn't help blush again. "Well I'm glad that I amuse you,"
"Anyway, on a completely different topic, well I guess not that different I would like to ask you something. Do you play any sports?"
"Sports? Me?" I laughed. "I'm way too uncoordinated to play any sports whatsoever. The only thing I could do was swim which is really odd honestly,"
"Aren't swimmers supposed to be coordinated?" he asked.
"Supposed to be are the key words there Jacob," I remarked. "I, however, seem to be the rare exception to that rule. Whenever I'm not in the water I have a tendency to trip over my own two feet. Hell, I defy logic and trip over air if I'm being completely honest,"
"Well then I will just have to catch you I guess," Jacob said catching me completely off guard.
"What?"
"Whenever you trip I will be there to catch you,"
I didn't even know what to say at that point. We went and paid for our lunches and sat down at a table all by ourselves. The Cullens all sat down at a table nearby and watched us.
"Jacob why does your family like to watch us?"
"What?" he asked.
"Your family. I mean its so obvious that they're watching us. I don't get it,"
"Oh its nothing Nessie. Its just how they are," he said. "Anyway tell me more about yourself,"
"What more do you want to know? I've already told you a lot,"
"Actually Nessie there is much that you haven't told me. Your past? Your family? Your parents?"
I was about to say something when Jasmine, this time flanked by her friends Sarah and Alison, walked up to our table.
"Oh Jakey wouldn't you rather sit with us then a little nobody like her?" Jasmine said in her annoying high pitched voice.
"No," I could tell Jacob was getting upset again. "I would rather sit with a smart, beautiful, nice girl I could have an intellectual conversation with and I'm afraid that you don't fit that bill so I'm going to have to decline,"
"Oh please," Sarah said. "This girl is anything but what you described. She is a sorry excuse of a slut that just drives people to kill themselves,"
Oh no. I could see exactly where they were going with this conversation and I did not like it one bit.
"Yeah if you hang out with her you might just end up dead. That the kind of luck she seems to bring. Just ask her parents," Alison said.
"Yeah I think they were just so embarrassed by her having a baby that it drove them to kill themselves out of shame," Jasmine added with a laugh. I had to try really hard not to smash her face in right then and there.
"Shut up Jasmine you know that's not true so I don't know why you keep spreading lies about me,"
"Shut up? Did you just tell me to shut up you little bitch?!" she screeched.
"Nessie come on lets go," I heard Jacob say. I could tell he was having just as hard of a time of keeping it together as I was. He was getting more and more upset by the minute.
Thank God the bell rang at that exact moment because I was about two seconds away from snapping and punching the living daylights out of Jasmine.
"Nessie just ignore them. They're not worth it," Jacob told me.
I sighed. "It's not that easy Jacob you don't even know half the shit they've done to me,"
I didn't even realize that Jacob had stopped walking until he grabbed my shoulder.
"What else have they done to you?" he asked me in a very serious tone of voice.
"Nothing,"
"That's not what you just said," he pointed out.
"Look it doesn't even matter. Let's just go," I said.
"How did your parents die Nessie? They didn't really kill themselves, did they?"
"No," I said. "They died in a car accident. I'd rather not go into the details though if you don't mind,"
"How long were you with them? I mean how old were you when you were adopted?" he asked as soon as we sat down in the next classroom.
"Five. At least that's what I think anyway. The truth is that my sister and I really don't know for sure what our ages are. We don't even know our when our real birthdays are so we just go by the day we were adopted. February 23rd,"
"Do you remember anything at all about your past?"
"Nope," my lips made a popping sound on the 'p'. "All I remember is waking up in some hospital in Switzerland with no memory of who I was. The only thing I could remember was my first name. The same thing happened with Annie,"
"I can't believe that you don't remember anything at all," he remarked.
"Unfortunately nothing at all. I just woke up in that hospital scared to death. All the drugs they kept injecting into my body certainly didn't help,"
"Drugs?" Jacob questioned.
"Experimental drugs to help me regain my memory. They specifically chose me over my sister for some reason. It didn't work though obviously. After that we moved to Hawaii and lived there up until about two years ago," I explained.
"So why'd you move to Alaska?" he asked.
"My dad got a job transfer. That's when life turned into hell,"
"Oh come on Nessie surely it can't have been that bad,"
"I lost all my friends, gained bullies, and now my parents are dead. I'm pretty sure that's the very definition of that bad. I still keep in touch with my friends back home but it's not the same. The Denalis are great friends though at least,"
From the very beginning the Denalis had always been my friends. My parents tried to discourage my friendship with them for some strange reason. Another memory suddenly floated back into my mind. It was about three months after we moved here and I met the Denalis. I came home early from School and overheard my dad talking to them on the phone. He told them he would pay them good money to 'keep the secret' or something like that anyway. I never found out what that secret was because at that moment my father discovered me there and basically lost his mind and started screaming at me for no reason. I cried for an hour straight when he was done.
Jacob and I couldn't talk anymore once class started. I spent the rest of the day actively avoiding Jasmine and he friends since I knew they would want to get revenge on me for standing up to them. Well trying to stand up to them anyway. Whether or not I succeeded was debatable.
"Hey Nessie?" I heard Jacob say. "I will see you later, right?"
"Yes I'm coming over later because I'm pretty sure Edward will kill me if I don't start working on the project," I laughed.
"Cool. I can't wait to see you again,"
As soon as I got home I threw myself on my bed because I was exhausted. Then my sister came running into the room excitedly.
"Hey Nessie you got mail,"
"That's cause for excitement why exactly?"
She rolled her eyes dramatically. "Remember that contest you entered over the Summer?"
"The one where we'd go on an all inclusive vacation to Europe over the holidays? Yes I remember it. Why does it even matter now anyway?"
"Because you won that's why!" she said excitedly. "You won the Volterra, Italy package!"
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