Chapter 4
My eyes were wide, my mouth open.
"Charlie-Charlie wha?" I couldn't even finish my sentence. Now Jake just looked sheepish and embarrassed,
"Charlie… thought that… you were tired of Edward… and got me a ticket to go with you. It was going to be a surprise, but then when I saw those Cullens." He glowered.
"Charlie… you… me… thought…" I was so speechless.
"You can imagine how I felt." He sounded so innocent and I felt bad I had ever made fun of him.
"Jake… I'm sorry." I managed to whisper out.
"Charlie is such an idiot." I think this made him feel worse,
"Well listen," I tried to make up for it,
"Why don't… you meet me… in that Kiddy Arcade… upstairs later? say…. 4:00-ish?" I still felt dumbfounded. He lightened up and I saw his bubble face shift (I think into a smile.)
As I walked back to Edward I felt dizzy, like an outer body experience, maybe it was just the ship moving. Obviously Edward could sense it, he was by my side immediately. I woke up in my bed, what was I doing here? What time was it? I needed to meet Jake. I rolled over to view the other side of the room and saw Edward watching me on the bed from the other side of the room.
"wha.. happened?" I asked.
"You know, I'm not really sure." He answered,
"That's a first." I smiled.
"You just looked really dizzy, good thing I got there in time to catch you." I rolled my eyes and fanned my face on the bed,
"Oh my old school military hero." I smiled. I sat up to look at the time, 4:00. I jumped from the bed and grabbed some money to go upstairs,
"Where are you going?" He asked curiously,
"You know." I said to him.
"I don't want you to go play games with the poisonous puss face."
"Hey, be nice to him. He's all alone on this trip, and the only reason he's a "poisonous puss face" is because of me. I just want him to have some sort of fun on this trip." He ran his hand through his hair,
"Why the hell would Charlie do something like that?" I gave him a look meaning, do you really not know? I opened the door,
"I'll be back in an hour or so." I shut the door before he could argue. By the time I finally found the kiddy arcade it was 4:15. Poor Jacob, probably thinking I was standing him up. I caught him right as he was about to go down the elevator.
"Jake!" I waved. He saw me, ignored me, and got onto the elevator. Right as it was about to close I caught it,
"Jake, I'm sorry I'm late, I fainted and woke up just 15 minutes ago. You know how hard it is to find your way around here!" He considered this for a moment and nodded,
"Instead of an arcade let's just walk." I said. And so we did. We walked almost the perimeter of the ship, until we were stopped, by the edge, but we continued conversation,
"Wow, this ocean is so beautiful." I looked out beyond the ship,
"Just like you." He said, he tried to go for my hand, but I wouldn't let him.
"How many times do I have to tell you I'm to Edward?" I fumed as calmly as I could.
"Not enough." He replied,
"Isabella Swan, he is not for you. He is not human. He is like-"
"Like what?" I cut him off,
"A mythical creature? Well guess what, so are you!" Ouch. that must've hurt.
"You two can't last long. You won't last forever like that blood sucker will." He was getting mad now too.
"Yeah? Then why and I being turned into one?"
"When?" he yelled,
"Soon enough!"
"Just for a relationship? What happens in a fight? When you break up?" he bellowed
"Married couples get through that." I shouted back. I had never been so angry with Jacob,
"Married couples?" his voice cracked. I was cooler now,
"Yes, we're getting married soon,"
"Well don't count on me to be your damn maid of honor!" he stomped off.
"He's out!" Alice came running up the deck,
"He's out! No more feelings for him. We can go back to hating him! Woo!" She wrapped her arms around in a tight hug, too tight.
I am going to kill Charlie when I get home.
"Guess who's out?" Alice said cheerfully at formal dinner,
"Black," "The Dog," "Jacob." Edward, Emmet, and Jasper said simultaneously. I was still bummed at our fight, but when I heard Edward say Jacob, instead of the dog or something of the sort, I looked up questioning eyes,
"We should be sad for Bella," Edward began,
"Jacob was the one who kept Bella on her feet (well sort of) while we abandoned her." they all considered this and felt bad about their enthusiasm and apologized,
"No, don't apologize." I said a tear glistening in my eye.
"Please forgive us," Alice was sincere,
"There's nothing to forgive you for." I forced a smile.
"I think Bella and I are just going to go back to our room now. Goodnight." they all mumbled their goodnights and we were off. As we were walking away I heard Emmet mumble,
"I guess we shouldn't have dropped off all that hygiene crap huh?"
The next day we stopped in Juneau. We could either explore as we please or sign up for excursions. We decided just to explore. Besides, I could see Edwards eyes were growing less and less pleasant. When we got off the ship I whispered to them,
"You guys need to hunt don't you?" They nodded energetically.
"You guys go eat and I'll just stay on the ship."
"Thank you." Edward kissed me on the cheek, I pulled him closer and kissed him on the lips.
"Damn, I feel left out." Emmet said. Rosalie signaled them and they kissed as well. Jasper and Alice, who liked to keep their own relationship a little private were just holding hands. Edward pulled me away,
"I'm hungry," He half joked. I wasn't really just going to lounge in my king and queen suite while they were out hunting (I hope Alice didn't see this) I had felt bad about Jacob all night. I was just about to knock on his door when it opened,
"Oh." He was pulling his coat on,
"And what do you want?" I eyes widened my mouth in a huge grin,
"Jake! Your back!" His face was totally normal, non-bubble like.
"Yeah, well I'm never picking flowers for girls again, they're so confusing." I smiled,
"Pick them for single girls."
"Yeahh well..." I couldn't stop smiling. I looked like a little kid after church ready for Easter to begin.
"I'm going… out, did you want to join me?" I told Edward I would stay on the boat, he would rip the town apart until he found me,
"Sure." I said. I'll be back in time.
"Were are your legit bodyguards?"
"Hunting." I said as casually as possible. He snorted.
"Want to grab some lunch?" I asked. (Trap #1 half lure him in, see if he's still interested.)
"Sure!" He said enthused.
"I still don't understand why you're marrying that blood sucker." He said forking at his mashed potatoes,
"Why do you hate them?" I asked back,
"Because I can and I want to." He answered,
"Nice one. Because I can and I want to." I mocked him. He seemed a bit irritated with me but I think he understood.
"Oh, I forgot to ask you, how did your face clear up? Thought it took 6 weeks, and you couldn't touch it." He smiled like;
Ahh those were the days but of course they weren't.
"Last night after dinner I went back to my hotel room and found a basketful of hygiene items, I worked on my face for nearly 4 hours, scrubbing it with everything in the basket, I knew what the doctor said, but screw that. I'm not going to wait for 6 weeks to touch and wash my face. Ew. I woke up and for the most part it's gone! You can at least see my face!" He beamed his perfectly straight smile. I missed it, but I think I would miss Edwards more.
"That's great." I smiled at the fact Emmet's plan backfired. I'd have to tell him.
"I missed you face." I joked, but I meant it at the same time,
"Thanks, I missed actually seeing yours." He said seriously. He didn't take his eyes off of me,
"You know, that blood sucker doesn't deserve you." I raised my eyebrows,
"Really? I think he does." My hand was rested on the table. (trap #2 is he still in flirt mode?) He picked up his hand and rested it on top of mine. I pulled it away as politely as possible and halfheartedly smiled. He just sort of frowned to himself.
"Jake we'd better get back to the ship before the Cullens get back and suspect something of it." I said hastily collecting my things,
"What's wrong with that?" He muttered for me not to hear. We walked out and I pulled out my cell to call Edward to tell him that I just had lunch and I'm on my way to board. Except there was one thing. Halfway to the boat I figured out I left my phone in the restaurant,
"Jacob, I hope you can run damn fast!" I nearly squeaked,
"I left my phone in the Diner."
"You can just use mine." His dug in his pocket,
"No that's not the thing. It's not only Edward who will try to reach me it will be Charlie, and he'll be wondering how I'm doing." He smiled like he had this planned out,
"I'm spose to be on this trip with you just the two of us, so we'll just say you lost your hone overboard or something. Just use mine." I shook my head,
"No, I need mine. I need mine." It was like some sort of sick disease that I needed my phone so badly, I ran as fast as I could to get back to the Diner,
Damn, these legs. Why am I not a Vampire yet?
I got to the Diner and the lady was holding it at the door,
"Excuse me," I said breathlessly,
"I left a black slider phone here.." She held it up,
"That's it!" She smiled,
"It happens all the time" I almost snatched the phone from her and ran,
"Come on Bella!" I heard Jacob from afar,
"The ship's about to leave!" After just eating my stomach was about to be stabbed open by cramps, but I couldn't stop, this is my vacation damn it, Edward doesn't want to save me. I looked up at the huge boat and saw Alice standing on the top deck,
"Alice!" I called up. Normally that would be insanely hard to hear, but with her hearing, she heard it flawlessly. Her mouth dropped open when she saw me with Jacob we waved her arms frantically like,
Your going to be late!
I was not five feet from the boat when they pulled the ramp away,
"No!" I shrieked. I didn't care if I was causing a scene. I was losing my fiancé in a city neither he nor I knew. I looked up frantically at Alice who was way past hyperventilating. I saw Edward, then a flash and he was gone. Alice was screaming something but I couldn't hear it too well it sounded like,
"Jump!!" I dropped my jaw even wider,
"No way!!" she was shaking my head and mouthing,
"We'll get you I promise" It's not that I didn't believe her promise; I was just not risking jumping in Alaskan waters. Then I saw Edward again, and I could hear his booming voice,
"Bella! Stay put! We'll come back for you!" I heard as the ship sailed away faster and faster. But how long would that be?