Author's note:
Mkay, I wasn't sure how I do author's notes thingies, so I just put it in my chapter. Let me know if I'm doing it wrong. And I wasn't sure why I put Edward in it. I just felt like I wanted to. On the other chapter, where Bella was in the hospital, she was supposedly seeing the movie star-like Carlisle Cullen with his astonishingly beautiful wife Esme, but I deleted it because I wasn't sure whether I should put that there. Do you think I should continue putting visions of Edward's family, what could have been if magical creatures existed? Or just carry on without Edward? Please let me know, thanks.
3 PAULA
That night I had the weirdest dream. It was the cars one, except I was with Jacob, in a bright red car, driving around a man, with a hurt expression, like he was trying to cry but couldn't. He looked pained.
He was beautiful, sparkling, literally, as if there were diamonds on him, but that didn't matter. I was paying attention to Jacob, kissing my neck as he drove.
Suddenly I was kissing a dog, a cute cuddly golden retriever, his saliva slobbering in my throat.
And I abruptly awoke to the sound of my alarm clock. Be-be-be beep! I groaned, and put my face in my pillow.
I reluctantly got out of bed when I couldn't fall asleep, and headed to the bathroom. What a weird dream, I kept thinking as the hot water rushed down my body, waking me up, slowly.
And at the end of the day, Jacob picked me up. I was so happy I almost cried.
"Jake! Thank god you're here!" I almost screamed at him in the car, hugging his neck.
"Hey, Bells!" he laughed. "Charlie said you didn't have any plans today when he came to fish with Billy, so I figured I might as well take advantage of the opportunity."
Wow. He'd grown.
I smiled so big my cheeks hurt. "Great!" Suddenly I was extremely embarrassed about what I was about to tell him, and my voice dropped. "Um, I have something to tell you."
"Yeah?" he smiled.
"Yep. Uh…" I wondered what he would say.
"I love you."
"I knew you'd come around!"
"Really? You still like me?"
"Yeah I do! I've been dreaming about you, every night, especially last night. I never realized what a danger magnet you are." He frowned.
I laughed. "Yeah, I am, I was so glad when you and Embry showed up at Port Angeles."
"And when I heard that you were in the hospital, my heart dropped. I really need to stick around you, I need to start to prevent the accidents before they actually happen." He grinned.
"Thanks. I mean it. I'll really enjoy your company, Jake." I smiled at how that sounded. Jake. He'll be my Jake. My jakey.
I'll love him, and he'll love me. I didn't care that he was two years younger than me. He was a beast!
He was mine, and we would be together forever.
We got to his house, then Mike Newton called me.
"Who's that? Your boyfriend?" he teased.
"Nope. My boyfriend's right here." I smiled, then flipped open my cell phone.
"Hello?"
Hiya, Bella! Do you want to come to the beach with me this Saturday?
"Um… I really don't know." I looked at Jacob.
Really? That's too bad. A bunch of us from school were gonna get together, hang out, down at La Push…
La Push?
"Hold on, Mike, just one minute," I covered the receiver and looked back at Jacob. "Where is this, again?" I mouthed.
"La Push, why?"
Good. I smiled.
"Yes, Mike, I'd love to be at the beach on Saturday. What time should I be there?"
You don't have to meet us there, we're all meeting at the front of my parents' store. You can have shotgun.
Oh, I certainly will have shotgun.
"S' okay, Mike, I'll get my own ride."
Are you sure, Bella? It won't be any trouble to drive you.
I could hear the hopefulness in his voice. It almost broke my heart to say no.
"No, no, it'll be crowded, you know. Besides, my… friend lives in La Push, I'll probably be at his house that day…" I hesitated.
"He can come right, well I mean it's a public beach, and I y'know I kinda wanted to introduce him to everybody."
Um, I don't know about that, Bella, I mean we just wanted to hang out by ourselves.
"Oh come on you don't even have to hang out with him, I'll just be alone with him…" I waited.
No! I mean, sure, I guess he can come, we'll have so much-
"Thanks, Mike! See you at school tomorrow! Bye!"
Um, okay, bye Bell-
And I hung up.
Jacob and I went down to the La Push beach ourselves that day, so that I'll know the area and not trip or anything on Saturday.
We sat on a log, and talked.
"So how's school?"
"Um, I guess it's all right, but I just wish you went there with me. It's so boring without you, Jacob."
"No, it wasn't, only today and that's because you didn't know you loved me yesterday, or the day before that."
"I guess, but now we're together and that's all that matters."
"Yeah." He pulled me closer to him, and faced me.
"You know, the Quileute school isn't as fun without you, either."
"It wouldn't be as fun with me, either. I'm a very boring person. Look at Eric, snoring whenever I talk to him." I laughed.
"Nonsense. And doesn't Eric have asthma?" he chuckled.
I laughed. He got the joke. "Yeah, he does."
"So what kind of grades do you get?"
"Hm?" I'd been daydreaming about school with Jake.
"I said, what kind of grades do you get?"
"Oh. They're not too bad, I get B's, a couple of A's. Charlie's pretty happy, so whatever."
"Nerd." He teased.
"Oh yeah, what kind of grades do you get?"
"Haha, we're both nerds, I guess. Straight A's. It's not that hard to concentrate when you're surrounded by your cousins, that you are trying to ignore." He snorted.
I smiled. I loved it when he laughed.
"You have such a pretty smile." I blushed, and that made him laugh even harder. "Such cute cheeks, too." He stroked the side of my face.
I wrapped my arms around his neck and brought my lips together with his, and that was no nerd kissing me on that beach.
Author's note: (again!)
Okay, the ending was a little familiar, to you Jerry Spinelli fans out there. It's kind of from Star Girl. The end of chapter 22. It's a great book, you guys should read it. (of course, Twilight was soo much better, sorry Jerry.) But I just kind of wanted to do a little "disclaimer" kind of thing. Thanks.