Chapter XV

Amelia's POV

I stepped up close to Jacob. He smiled down at me and extended his hand to take mine. His touch sent a wave of calm through me.

"So, what do you have planned for this evening?" I asked him as we walked.

"If I told you now then it would ruin the surprise."

"Ah ha. Well I know we're going down to the river considering I've been there and I can see that's where we're going. That and Harper made me where a bathing suit." I said then added under my breath, "A teensy tinesy barely there bathing suit."

Jacob chuckled. Damn he heard that. After a few more minutes of comfortable silence he stopped.

"What are we doing, the river's still up a little ways." I said.

"I know." He said stepping behind me and covering my eyes with his hands.

"Um Jacob? I can't see."

"Yeah that's kinda the point. Now walk. I told you I wanted it to be a surprise."

I didn't move. "I am so not walking blindly through the forest, I will trip on something or walk into a tree or something."

"I won't let you get hurt. Come on, it's fine, I'll guide you. Walk."

I took a step forward. After a few more steps I got used to trusting Jacob to guide me. This was an accomplishment for me. I remember when I was younger and I was taking acting classes and they made us do those ridiculous exercises. Like the mirror one and the trust one, where you fall back and trust your partner to catch you. I was fine at the catching, but I could never let myself fall. I didn't trust easily. But with Jacob it came naturally.

A couple of minutes later I felt Jacob halt, and I stopped too.

"Can I have my eyes back now?" I asked sarcastically. Though I really did find this whole thing rather adorable.

"I suppose." He said laughing slightly and took his hands from my face. I gasped as I opened my eyes.

"Wow." I breathed. It was amazing. There was the blanket that we had slept on last night, and it was surrounded my tons of pillows. Lot's of them, piled around the edges and it look amazingly comfortable. Also, my ihome was there, with Harper's ipod set up. Jacob strode over to it and pressed play. The sounds of the violin filled the air, as a beautiful melody played.

It was the music that Harper never listened to, she had just downloaded all of my stuff and since I had it, so did she. I loved orchestral pieces. It was so beautiful.

I beamed up at Jacob. He gestured to the blanket. "Would you care to dine?"

He held a straight face, but I could see the corners of his lips twitching, as he tried not to laugh.

"Why thank you kind sir." I said with a curtsey. Jacob and I held each others gaze for a second before laughing out loud.

We sat on the blanket and I leaned against the pillows.

"so what would you like to eat? I have fruit, and these little cake things, and bagels, and some deli meat."

"Hmmm…. How about a bagel? Did you pack cream cheese?" I asked.

"Well, I didn't. But Harper did."

I laughed and reached for the bagel he had taken out. But he pulled it out of my reach and then opened up a thing of cream cheese and spread some on. Then he handed it to me.

"Thank you." I said smiling at his chivalry.

"Anytime."

As we ate we talked some more. Unfinished conversations from last night and this morning. And we added in a few new topics. We played twenty questions, and did more of our 'getting to know each other' thing. It was relaxing and fun.

We finished eating relatively fast. I thought briefly of what I had packed for Harper's date and laughed internally. There really wasn't much to eat, but it was fun food. And I couldn't wait to hear what they thought of the heart shaped sandwiches.

"Hey, you wanna go for a swim?" Jacob asked.

"A swim? Yeah I-" I changed my mind half way through when I remembered what bathing suit I was wearing. "Isn't it a little cold to swim?"

"It might be, if you weren't with a werewolf. The water will be plenty warm if you stick close to me."

"Oh, well I don't know. I mean we just ate, aren't we supposed to wait half an hour?"

"Myth. It doesn't matter when you eat." I actually knew that but I was looking for an excuse.

"But it's dark."

"So?"

"Um well…" I was running out of ideas. Jacob stuck out his lower lips slightly in that ridiculous pout. It was really cute, but I could do it better. I decided to hold onto that secret weapon though.

"Mia, please." Jacob begged.

"But Harper made me wear this ridiculous bikini! I don't want to burn your eyes with my hideousness!" I explained.

Jacobs eyes went wide and he scooted closer to me. "You are not hideous. I never, ever, want to hear you say that again. You are beautiful. And I know for a fact that you love to swim, so if the fear that you don't look good in your bathing suit is all that is holding you back, then there's no problem. You would look beautiful in anything, and I'm sure this bikini is no exception. So are you ready to go into the water now?" Jacob lectured.

"I um, guess. You promise not to mock the bathing suit? It really is a little much."

"I promise. I'm sure you look wonderful." He said sweetly. There was a hint of shyness in his voice, and that made him sound all the more sincere. So I believed him.

Jacob stood up and held out his hand to help me up as well. He turned up the volume on the ipod slightly so we would be able to hear it from the water. Then he looked at me.

"Turn around. Don't look yet ok?" Jacob smiled but did as I asked.

I took my clothes off from over my bathing suit. I sighed as I looked down at my body. Oh well. I thought.

"Well let's go swim then." I said.

Jacob turned and looked at me, as he did his stopped. He stared open mouthed unmoving. Bad sign. That has got to be a bad sign!

I trying to cover myself with my arms while bending down to pick up my clothes and put them back on. I was just starting to put my arms into the shirt when I felt jacob's wamr hand grab mine.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"I'm putting my clothes back on. I blinded you, I told you it was atrocious." I said looking away embarrassed.

"Oh no you don't. First of all I was blinded by your beauty there is not atrociousness here. And second if you put you clothes back on, how're we supposed to go swimming?"

I looked back at him and he was smiling innocently. I sighed and dropped the shirt.

"Fine. Let's go swim."

Jacob took my hand and led me into the water. At first it was cold. But I stepped closer to Jacob and the water was warmer near him. It was an odd mix of hot and clod. Jacob's skin was radiating heat, and the water that was flowing past behind me was cold. But where the water touched Jacob the temperatures neutralized. It was odd and wonderful at the same time.

Just as I stopped in the middle of the slow moving water, I heard "Hero" by Enrique Inglesias, playing from the ipod. It had been playing some of my favorite songs all night, but I had hardly noticed because I was too preoccupied with Jacob. I started to sway to the music feeling the water rush around me, mixing with my movement.

I felt Jacob pull me closer to him as I swayed. He pulled my arms up around his neck, and wrapped his own around my waist. Then he took over for leading the dancing.

"You're a pretty good dancer." I whispered to him, resting my head on his chest.

"Thanks." He whispered back, pressing his cheek to the top of my head.

We stayed like that through about three songs. When a more up beat one came on, we changed our style to fit the music. We jumped and danced like lunatics laughing the entire time. It was the most fun I'd had in a long time.

Somehow one of our dance moves caused the water to splash up into Jacob's face.

He stopped and blinked at me.

"Did you just splash me?" He asked in what I assume was supposed to be an intimidating voice.

"I don't know. Maybe." I said, adding an elusive edge to mine.

"Oh, now it's on little missy."

"You wouldn't?"

"Wouldn't I?"

Jacob prepared to splash so I ducked under the water. When I ran out of breath I popped back up, and just as I resurfaced a big splash of water hit me square in the face.

And so the splash war began. Jacob and I began to duck doge, jump and splash in intricate steps. It might have looked like we were still dancing if we were even close to being on beat with the song that was playing.

Then, without warning, Jacob lunged at me. He picked me up and swung me around, then held on to me tight. I tried to wriggle free, but it was no use.

"Jacob! Put me down!" I giggled.

"No, I like you here." He said stubbornly.

"Come on, please Jake?" I begged.

"Nope." He said, popping the 'p'.

I wiggled a little bit more and I noticed how my bare skin felt against his. I wasn't sure whether to thank Harper for forcing me to wear a bathing suit with very little fabric or curse her.

"Jake." I whined, stretching out the word. He looked down at me. "Pwease pwease pwease put me down. I'll be a good giwl and not splash you." I said in a baby voice, using my perfected puppy dog pout.

He looked at me and I could tell he was about to crack. No one can say no to this face.

"Alright." Works like a charm. "I'll put you down." Jacob said a little sadly.

As he set me down I turned to smile at him. I bounced up onto my toes and kissed him on the cheek.

"Thanks Jake!" He just stared at me, looking slightly dumb struck. "Jake? Jacob? Are you alright?"

"Yeah. Perfect." He said a little dazedly.

"My fingers are getting all pruney, you wanna get out?" I asked him.

"Yeah, sure."

We got out of the river and dried up with the towels Jacob had set out here. I went to put my clothes back on, but Jacob stopped me again.

"You're going to get your clothes wet and then you'll be uncomfortable. Wait a little bit. Besides, you shouldn't cover up all that gorgeousness."

I raised my eyebrows at him. "yeah I should defiantly go out in public like this. I'd stop traffic!"

Jacob looked thoughtful for a second. "Right, I changed my mind. You shouldn't cover up the gorgeousness around me. Where other lusty guys can look at you, you will wear baggy sweats."

I stared at him and burst out laughing. He looked completely serious though so I stopped. I decided to let it go and I sat down and he sat down close to me.

"Want some dessert?" He asked.

"There's dessert?"

"Chocolate and Strawberries!"

"Really? Oh my God, I love chocolate strawberries."

"Yeah, Harper told me."

I smiled and he pulled out a bag with strawberries (Awe I taught Harper well.) and a jar of chocolate sauce.

We each ate our strawberries and continued to talk. I looked up at Jacob and noticed that he had chocolate sauce on the corner of his mouth. I giggled.

"What?"

"Oh nothing. You just have a little something right," I leaned forward unto my knees and wiped the chocolate from his mouth with my thumb, "there."

I leaned back and he took the hand that I had wiped his face with and held it up to his mouth again. He looked at the chocolate and winked at me, before his took my thumb into his mouth and sucked off the sauce. I gaped at him.

He Chuckled lightly and put his hand under my chip and pushed it back up, closing my mouth.

"Did you just do what I think you did?"

"That depends. If you think that I just licked chocolate off your finger then yes. If it was something else then, sorry no."

I gaped again. He laughed again and I smacked his arm.

"Hey! That wasn't very nice." He pouted.

"Ah ah, no you don't that pull that face. First of all I do it much better. Second, I did nothing wrong. You discombobulated me then laughed at me. So really it's all your fault."

"Oh really now?"

"Yup."

"I see."

"Good." I said smiling at him. He returned the smile and we shared another one of those movie moments. We'd been doing that a lot. Just staring into each other's eyes like they do on film. It made me feel a little giddy.

"Mia?" Jacob asked quietly.

"Yes, Jake."

"There's something I want to tell you."

"What is it?"

"Well, this is probably going to sound weird. And I know that I said I'd wait until we got to know each other better, but I really feel like I should tell you now, and that I do know you pretty well. And well Mia, remember when I asked what you would think if I told you you were my imprint? Well, you are. I imprinted on you. And it's ok if you're totally weirded out by that but it's true, and I wanted you to know."

"Jake! Calm down. I'm not weirded out. And before you ask, I can't tell you what I think, but I can tell you what I feel. I feel happy, more then happy, ecstatic. I feel like I already knew, well because Harper kinda guessed it. And well I feel like I'm the luckiest girl in the world.

"And now I feel like a complete psycho for saying that."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Mia?" he asked again.

"yeah Jake?"

He leaned forward a little bit. "Can I kiss you?"

I giggled. "You're asking? Isn't that gentlemanly of you."

"Yeah just a precaution, I wouldn't want you to punch me or something."

"Why would I punch you?" I asked. He shrugged. "Well, then yes. Jacob you can kiss me. Actually if you don't I just might have to-" I was cut off by his lips on mine.

I melted into his kiss. His hand went to cup my neck, and the other went around my waist to pull me closer. I threw my arms around his neck and deepened the kiss. I let my tongue wander out and lick his lip. He opened his mouth and our tongues met and caressed.

After a few minutes, or seconds, or eons, I pulled away to breath. "Wow." I whispered. I felt like I could fly in that moment. Jacob was grinning at me.

"Mia I…" Jacob started.

"Yeah?"

"Never mind."

"No. Tell me."

"Um, not now. Later."

"Jacob..." I whined.

"I promise I will tell you another time. But not now. Let's just relax."

"Jake, you can tell me."

"I will. Soon. Just not now."

"Ok then." I said a little disheartened.

"Don't be like that. I promise I'll tell you. It's nothing bad. I mean it shouldn't be bad. It's just hard to say. I don't really have the best experience to pull from on this."

"Alright then." I sighed. I leaned my head against his arm and yawned.

"Do you want to start heading back?" Jacob asked me.

"Mmm, maybe." I sighed.

"Come on." He pulled me to my feet.

We stepped into the camper quietly. It seemed Harper and Embry were back because their blanket and basket were sitting on the couch. I put the extra food I was hold on the counter and the ipod and ihome on the table. Jacob dumped the pillows and blanket on the couch.

"I'll move it in a minute." He said.

"I don't know why they'd dump it on the couch, where did they expect you to sleep?"

"Outside again?" He laughed. I laughed quietly with him and went into my 'room.' Harper wasn't in the bed. That was weird.

"Harper's not in there." I said.

"She's not?"

"No." I said, and I went to see if Embry was in the other one. He was, but I also found Harper there with him.

"Well I found her. Jake come look at this."

"What?" he asked as he stepped over to me. He smiled as he looked at Harper and Embry curled up together fast asleep.

"Awe, see and we're the nice ones. We don't disturb them when they're like this."

"Actually Jake that's not quite true. But I am too comfy to yell at you for waking me up." Embry said groggily. "Well, as you can see Mia, Harper isn't sleeping in your bed tonight, so feel free to actually sleep in the camper tonight, I'm sure Jake will still join you inside as well. Now scram both of you before you wake Harper up."

"Oh we won't. She sleeps like the dead. I could change her pajamas and she wouldn't wake up." I told him

"Either way, I'd like to get back to sleeping; I was having a wonderful dream. Good night you two." Embry said.

I closed the door, and Jacob and I laughed. I went to my 'room' again and changed into my PJs. "Jake come here. I'm going to see if there's anything in here that you can wear."

"I don't think you'll find anything." He said looking at me, clearly comparing the size of our bodies.

"You'd be surprised." I dug through and found a pair of scrub pants. "Ah ha! Perfect." I said. I untied the string and the pants extened to about three times the size they had been. I loved scrubs, they were so comfy and could fit anyone. "Wear these. Just pull the string till they stay up and tie them. They might be a little short." I said looking up and down the length of his body. "But they'll work."

Jacob took the pants and went into the bathroom to change.

He came out and I was right. They were a little short but other then that wthey were fine, and much cleaner then the shorts he had been wearing.

"We'll wash those tomorrow." I told him.

"Well thanks." He said turning and walking toward the couch. "Goodnight."

"Jake. Where're you going?"

"Um. To sleep." He said confusedly.

"You didn't think I'd make you sleep on the couch again did you?" I laughed. "There's plenty of room here." I said patting the bed.

Jacob's face lit up into a smile and he was back by my side in less then a second. I crawled into bed and he fallowed me. We snuggled close to one another and within seconds I was asleep.

Jacob's POV.

I watched Mia sleep. She was amazing and wonderful and perfect. I told her sleeping form what I hadn't been able to say to her while she was awake. "I love you." I said.

Now I just had to find the courage to tell her when she could actually hear me. But Harper had been right I realized. I did have a fear of rejection. I just couldn't handle it if she didn't feel the same way about me, I couldn't deal with that again.

I sighed and pulled her closer to me, feeling the softness of her body and the silk of her night gown. She made a noise in her sleeps and cuddled closer to me. I kissed the top of her head and as I had last night I fell asleep with an angel in my arms.

AN: Ah there it was! Jacob and Amelia's date!! Was it ok? I hope so.

Well tell me what you think and what you want to happen now. cause it's all kinda up in the air at this point. Though I might not be able to update until next weekend.

This chapter is dedicated to my Friend Sarah who helped me pick the song that got Mia and Jake dancing.

Much love, Bridget