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Everything Goes: Chapter 13:

Charlie left a message for Bella when she returned home from a long and exhausting day at work. She was smiling tenderly as she listen to his message filled with concern and a few jabs at the local police. Apparently when he contacted them earlier today they had nothing solid, not even a fingerprint or any other evidence that might lead them to someone to question about the violation of her home.

Charlie also helped ease some of her fears by letting her know that the attacker most likely would not return to the scene of the crime. He would not risk it. They would be more prepared for him and he would consider that. So Bella wasn't too nervous about walking into the kitchen and pulling out some hamburger meat to thaw. She was in the mood for homemade enchiladas. She had a good recipe she liked to use and luckily everything she needed she had so she didn't have to make a quick trip to the store.

Feeling the urge to pee she found herself a bit scared to walk down the hallway that led to the bathroom. When the front door open she let out a loud breath of relief as Jake called out to her.

"Bella, I'm home." Jake called out as he walked in smelling the aroma of food coming on the stove.

"Thank God!" Bella exclaimed as she stood with her thighs pressed tightly together hoping from one foot to the other.

"What's wrong with you?" Jake chuckled staring at her with a comical expression on his face.

"I gotta pee." Bella squealed. "Can you take me?"

"Um…honey I thought you were potty trained by now." Jake replied with a low snickering sound.

"Shut up and take me to potty…bathroom." Bella growled as she yank his hand leading them down the hallway.

Jake was puzzled why she needed him to go to the bathroom with her? He was into some kinky stuff and all but watching her pee was not on his top ten list of things he wanted to see Bella do.

"Check the rooms while I go." Bella closed the door behind her leaving him still looking perplexed at the door.

Shaking his head he began to search around the rest of the apartment when he came back Bella walked out wiping her hands on the towel before she completely stepped out of the bathroom.

"Were you afraid to go to the bathroom?" Jake asked as it dawn on him that she was still nervous about being alone in the apartment. He didn't blame her. She had every reason to fear being alone in her own home. It sicken him and it pissed him off that this asshole had turned her once safe home into a place to fear.

"Not exactly. Just felt….you know…Okay…maybe a little." Bella wiped her forehead as she felt a potential headache approaching. Today had been an emotional one. Seeing Alice looking so frighten might have rubbed off on her. Alice was always stronger and courageous than Bella had ever been. If this guy could beat that out of Alice she was sure if he got a hold of her it would be far worse for her to handle.

"I'm sorry." Jacob pulled her into his arms as he held her against him. He inhaled smelling the coconut shampoo she used. It always reminded him of days on the beach when she would have him put lotion on her body. She always burnt so easily. Smiling as he remembered the last time he saw her in a cute black bikini and how even then he had been turned on but had push the thought out of his head as fast as it had pop in there.

Bella felt better with his strong warm arms holding her against his muscular chest. She knew he would never let anything happen to her at least not without one hell of a fight first. Leaning her head back she looked up into his eyes. She knew it was hurting him that she felt so scared. She didn't want him to think for a second she did not have faith in his ability to protect her. She knew how men were with their fragile egos. She wanted him to see that it was just because she was alone at the time.

"I'm glad your home. I missed you today. I missed you so much." Bella whispered tenderly.

"I know what you mean. I've missed you too." Jake agreed as he smiled at her. His eyes showed Bella just how deep his feelings truly were for her. She saw that his love had no end. There was nothing or no one that could change his feelings for her. It made her feel giddy with joy. He was all hers. She would always be his.

Unwrapping her arms around his waist she slipped them up around his neck as she pulled him lower so she could kiss his delicious soft lips.

The kiss was tender. She felt her heart pounding, her stomach fluttered, and her head was playing one of her favorite songs while she enjoyed this intimate moment with him. She felt so alive. She felt as if nothing bad had ever happened at all. Being held and kissed by Jake was the best cure.

"So what is that delicious smell? It smells Mexican?" Jake sniffed the air.

"It is. I'm making enchiladas." Bella announced proudly.

"Yes! Is it your homemade ones?" Jake looked hopeful.'

"Yep." Jake lifted her up off the floor twirling around before capturing her lips again for a more heated kiss. He was filled with an over abundance of joy having her in his arms. He loved her more than life itself. She was his girl. He would kill for her. He would definitely kill the bastard for putting his fear in her heart. Not to mention what he did to Alice. Everyday that Alice became more withdrawn he knew it was hurting Bella. She was watching her best friend slowly fade away to nothing. It was like a diseased eating away at Alice which made Bella watch and mourn the loss of her friend. She couldn't' stop it. She couldn't cure her friend. All she could do was hold her hand and be there with her until the end.

Jake got his guys today and told them what happened and they all agreed with him this guy that broke into the apartment had to be connected with the attack on Alice. They also agreed to start doing some of their own investigating. None of them wanted to see this asshole get near Bella again. They agreed he had to be stopped. One way or another.

"Do we have any beer?" Jake asked as he sat her down ending the kiss.

"Nope. I'm afraid we are out." Bella frowned.

"I need a beer with my enchiladas. I will go to the store." Jake offered as he walked back to the table where he had dropped off his keys.

"I will go. You watch the food." Bella asked eagerly as she grabbed his keys.

"Are you kidding me? Hello, I will burn them." Jake shook his head in agreement.

"Jake they have to be in for another forty-five minutes. Surely I will be back before that." Bella rolled her eyes at him as she picked up her purse.

"I'm going to take your truck." Bella warned him as she blew him a kiss then closed the door behind her.

Jake got a uneasy feeling. He didn't like her going out alone. He knew she was trying to prove to him that she felt safe again. He was not fooled. He knew it was just an act. He was not however going to argue with her over this time. Going to the store around the corner was safe enough. Anything further than that he would definitely put his foot down. He wasn't going to let her get herself hurt just to prove she was not scared of the attacker or anything else that might lurk outside the apartment.

Bella walked into the store feeling normal. She wanted to laugh at how nervous she had felt just driving around the corner to grab a six pack of beer for Jake. She was being ridiculous.

Walking down the aisle to make her way to the cold section she felt as if everyone in the store was watching her. Closing her eyes momentarily then opening them back she exhaled deeply as she stood in front of the doors that had his favorite beer inside of it. Opening the door she pulled out the beer and turned to go to the register when she ran into another customer. The beers nearly fell out of her hand. Luckily the customer caught it just in time.

"Oh no." Bella started to cry out until he stood up holding the beers in his hands with a smirk on his face.

"Thank you." Bella sighed with relief.

Then she noticed that she recognized the customer with good catching skills. It was Riley. She felt her heart race as she began to recall the things she experience with this stranger. His eyes still shined brightly like they had that night. He still had that boy next door charm about him. She couldn't help but smile at him although little alarm bells went off in her head.

What were the odds that she would run into him just around the corner from where she lived? Pretty slim.

"Bella. Wow. I didn't think I would see you so soon." Riley replied with a soft chuckle.

"Me either. I mean seeing you." Bella blushed.

"How are you? You look great." His eyes glanced over her from head to toe. She saw in his eyes that he was still attracted to her although she was not wearing the slutty outfit she wore that night at the club. She was wearing her clothes from work which was rather pretty sad today. She was not exactly wearing her finest outfit. J

"Thanks. You too." She gulped hard as she licked her dry lips. He did indeed looked good in his tight jeans and a casual button up shirt. She noticed he had a bit of muscles underneath the arms of the blue plaid shirt.

"I try my best." He smiled with a teasing tone.

"So do you live far from here?" Bella could not resist asking. After all it would make more sense to learn that he lived closed by and they just happen to bump into one another. If he lived far away then she would have be forced to suspect that he could be a potential suspect. After all he did meet Alice that night at the club. They were both dressed up that night looking a bit sluttier than normal for the both of them.

Alice did after all mention that the attacker thought they were both whores. She just never explained why the guy thought of them that way. Neither of them were remotely closed to that label. They had not slept around with guys. In fact she could think of at least ten other girls they went to school with that would have wore that label and no doubt proudly. Not them. They were good girls for the most part.

"Actually I live about five miles from here but I am on my way to a friends house who does live just a block from here. We are going to watch the Mariners play. I was in charge of snacks and nearly forgot until I saw the store here." Riley replied as he lifted up his basket that he had dropped on the ground in order to rescue her beer from crashing to the ground.

Bella looked down and noted he had put a couple of bags of pretzels, chips, and some candy bars in it.

"Oh." Bella felt slightly guilty for considering for even a second that a guy as nice as Riley could have ever hurt Alice that way and that he would have broken into her apartment.

"So how about you?" Riley asked casually.

"Yeah." That was all she was willing to give him.

"Cool. So beer uh?" He handed her the beer she had nearly dropped.

"My room mate wanted beer with our meal." She explained.

"Oh. Well, I guess I better get going." Riley smiled warmly at her.

"I really hope things don't work out for you and that guy." Riley suddenly said with a serious tone.

"Uh?" Bella nearly gasped at his rude comment.

"I would benefit from it, if it didn't work out." Riley pointed out she had given him her word that if it did not work out he would be the first guy she called.

"Oh." Bella smiled weakly at him. She didn't have the heart to tell him that she seriously doubted that anything would ever break up what she had with Jake. She was pretty confident he was the one that she would spend the rest of her life with .

"See ya around." Riley flashed her a sparkling smile before walking away.

It was too bad a nice guy like Riley was still single. He would have been perfect for her before she realized she was deeply and madly in love with her best friend. Shaking the crazy thoughts from her head, she continued her shopping and rush back home.

After dinner Bella and Jake snuggled on the couch talking about their day. When Bella told Jake how Leah persuaded her to go see Alice and try to get information for the article he grew pretty irritated.

"HOW dare her! Alice is your friend not just some random victim." Jake was outraged.

"She isn't going to use her real name Jake. I made her promise me." Bella had felt the same way when Leah first approached her about it.

"Oh. Still, it wasn't fair of her to use you to investigate a close friend for some stupid article." Jake growled as he sat his beer down on the table.

"I wouldn't have done it if I thought it might endanger Alice's safety and besides it's a story that needs to be told. If the cops ever catch the bastard it will help make the article a big success and help the magazine." Bella shrugged her shoulders feeling less guilty about her part in the investigation as she had when she first started on it.

"I know. I just worry about you. I know that Alice is safe as hell where she is now from the attacker and herself. However you my love seem to like to draw danger to you. What if that asshole had been somewhere near the facility that Alice is at? What if he retaliates against Alice by harming you if he thinks she might have given his name to you?" Jake knew he was overreacting about this but it scared him to think that she was out snooping around trying to locate the attacker. She should be trying to stay far away from the creep not chasing him down.

"Wouldn't he have already grabbed me by now if he thought I knew who he was? Which makes me wonder about something. If both Alice and I know him isn't possible that you know him too? I mean we all grew up together and hung out with pretty much the same people." Bella exhaled loudly as she ask the question that had nagged her while she drove home from the store.

"I never thought of that." Jake felt his heart racing as he allowed his mind to picture every male guy that had ever come in contact with them. Not one of them set off alarms except one. Mike Newton. Mike had crushed badly on Bella all throughout high school. She even went out with him once hoping it would convince him she was not the right girl for him. It only pissed him off more when she informed him that she tried it and pretty much still wasn't into him. Then he went after Alice for awhile until she made it abundantly clear that she just wasn't into him either. He cried for an entire week in Algebra. Alice, Mike and Jake had all unfortunately shared that period together.

He just couldn't imagine why Mike would suddenly now years later down the road attack Alice and go after Bella for some sort of sick revenge. Still, he would give Charlie a call later to throw the theory at him.

Bella's phone rang interrupting their conversation. Bella frowned as she saw Angela's name and picture appear on her phone.

"Hello." Bella smiled warmly as she answered the phone.

"Hey. Bella do you have a second." Angela's voice shook.

"Sure." Bella sat up straight on the couch taking her feet off of Jake's lap as she sat them down in front of her.

"What's wrong?" Bella asked.

"It's Ben. He called me last night and he sounded so weird Bella. I asked him if he was drunk and he began to cuss me out." Angela sobbed.

Bella's eyes widen at this news. Ben was usually one of the calmest and sweetest guys she had ever known. However when Angela mentioned how he was staying in Seattle on the weekends she had a gut feeling he might be cheating on Angela.

"What did he say exactly?" Bella asked curiously as she grabbed Jake's beer and took a long swig of it.

Jake frowned at her.

"He said that he was tired of all the pressure I was putting on him. I told him I didn't want marriage if he didn't want it too. He said that I was only trying to keep up with you and Alice. I thought that since I didn't have a real career or living outside of Forks that I needed to do something better than you guys to keep up with you. Getting married first would make me better than you guys somehow." Angela explained as she sobbed louder.

"That's stupid. That is extremely stupid. Angela he is probably doing something bad and he is trying to cover up his own guilt by trying to make you feel bad. It's common for guys who cheat on their girlfriends to point out flaws in them to justify why they were weak and stupid." Bella's voice slightly as her anger began to grow with each second that went by.

"YOU think he is cheating on me?" Angela gasped and then began to cough.

Bella chewed on her lower lip nervously as she realized that while she was angry as hell with Ben she had slipped up and told Angela her theory. Bella knew that Angela would go down hill if she discovered that Ben was cheating on her. Angela was a very intelligent girl but when it came to guys she was seriously mentally challenged.

"Shit." Bella muttered as she pick up Jake's beer and took another long swig.

Jake gasped. He couldn't believe she was drinking his beer right in front of him. He suspected that Angela was pretty upset from the loud sobbing sound he could hear on his side of the couch. Getting up he went to the fridge to grab another beer since Bella looked like she might finish the beer off. Seeing that she would no doubt be on the phone for awhile he went to his room to call Charlie real quick.

Luckily Charlie was home already from his shift and had time to listen to him rationalize what Bella had gone off and done today as well as the theory they had drawn from her crazy adventure.

Twenty minutes later he had hung up with Charlie and was returning to the living room when he found that Bella had started on a second beer. He had a gut feeling that whatever happen was enormous. Normally Bella only had a few drinks and that was on the weekends. He saw the way her brows were pinched sharply together. Yeah, he knew he would have to definitely unwind her once she got off the phone. Feeling a bit frisky he decided to go take a quick shower so when she was done he could have some play time with her and hopefully she would relax and let whatever Angela was telling her drift out of her mind and allow them both to enjoy at least a few hours of Jake and Bella time before they went to bed for the night.

Bella hung up the phone and stared at the two empty beer bottles in front of her. The conversation she shared with Angela had been a rough one. It was odd how Ben suddenly look at her and Alice like they were bad guys somehow. They had never influenced Angela to make any decision on her and Ben's relationship in the past. In fact they had been big supporters of the couple. Neither of them wanted to see them break up.

Hell, when he asked Bella out back in her sophomore year she had declined because she knew that Angela was crazy as hell about him. Alice even pushed him toward her when he asked her to meet him for coffee after a football game one night. Alice and Ben both had shared a passion for old black and white movies. When she learned that Ben wanted to meet up with her she had Angela go in her place giving the excuse she wasn't feeling so well. As luck would have it they had hit it off that night. So she could not recall one moment where either or Alice had done anything to upset Ben before now.

Bella threw the empty bottles in the trash as she stepped into the bathroom. She was going to brush her teeth before she went to bed. She would take a shower in the morning to help rejuvenate her. She had a feeling she was going to need it. She was already feeling exhausted and it was only eight o'clock.

Stepping into the bathroom she spotted the foggy covered bathroom mirror. She realized that Jake had just stepped out of the shower and was in his room changing. An evil smile crossed her face as she imagined him naked laying across his bed waiting for her to slip inside and make love to him. Trembling with desire she picked up the toothbrush and toothpaste and began her nightly routine.

When she got to the bedroom door she hesitated for a moment wondering what she would actually do if her fantasy was real? Would she be able to refrain from having sex with Jake if he was truly naked laying on his bed? Was it possible for her to stop them from going too far when tonight she needed more than anything to be held and made love too?

Opening the door she closed her eyes as she took one steady foot inside. Slowly she peek open one eye to see candles were lit up in the room. Her stomach hit the floor. Oh yeah, there was no doubt in her mind that Jake was breaking the rules tonight. It was a weeknight and they both agreed that they would wait awhile before they went that far. So why tonight? Why did he suddenly want to throw out all caution to the wind? What made him suddenly realized that it was silly for them to both wait a little longer?

"Bells." Jake's voice was deep and sensual as he called out to her.

Bella heard the slow sensual music playing in the background of his candle lit romantic scene. Her heart was pounding unmercifully against her chest. Opening her other eye she saw what she feared and yet desired the most. Jake was indeed on top of his bed but he wore a towel around his waist as he smiled seductively at her with his hands above his head. He had such a smug look on his face that Bella could feel her body reacting from it.

"I really hate that that towel Jake." Bella whimpered softly as she closed the door behind her.

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