A/N: So because i'm home sick, and am in a major state of writer's block with my other story, The Reason, a Jared and Kim imprinting story was born. This was a total spur of the moment thing. Please review and let me know what you think, and if i should keep going.
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Eclipse Babe

Summary: This is a story about Jared and Kim's relationship from the beginning. Jared's the popular jock, Kim's the nerdy art student. One day he phases for the first time and when he returns to his period 3 biology class, he imprints on her and so starts their insane relationship. She's taken, and scared to let him in for fear of getting hurt, but will he be able to get through to her that he truly loves her? Read and find out :)

WARNING: this story is rated T for now, but it may go up to M later in the story, don't worry, I'll warn you before every chapter if there's something some readers won't like in it!

I hope you enjoy...Please review :)

Chapter 1

"The Beginning is always today."- Mary Wollstonecraft

I fuss over myself in front of my mirror, I hate how I look as always, but why does it matter?

It's not like anyone important even gives me a second look, especially Jared, he always has some easy girl attached to him.

I know I shouldn't care about a guy like that, but for some reason I do. Seeing him with a different girl every week always annoys the hell out of me and I don't even know why.

I slump down on the edge of my bed staring out of my slightly open window when my best friend, Rachel Black, bursts into the room.

"Good Morning, Kimberly! Are you ready for our last year in this hole in the wall town? I sure as hell am, I'm ready for bigger and better things," she says plopping herself down next to me on my bed.

I know the only reason she wants to get out is because this town holds too many painful memories of her mom, Sarah, who passed away right before freshman year.

I force a smile, get up, grab my sketch pad from the top of my desk and put it into my purse.

"I know what you mean. I'm sick of everyone in this town and I can't wait to get out," I say checking myself in the mirror one last time before we make our way down the stairs together.

"Hmm, does everyone include Jared and Damien?" She asks with a smirk.

I push her playfully and we giggle as we enter the kitchen were my family is already gathered for breakfast.

Even though he's totally out of my league, I've had a major crush Jared Lyakon, since 9th grade, and Damien's been my on again, off again guy since then.

"Good Morning," Rachel and I say at the same time as we joined my family in the kitchen.

I'm the last one down as always. The rest of my siblings are already eating, complaining about the first day of school. Lucas and Jenna are 8, Stacie's 12, and Tristan's 15.

"Good morning girls," my dad says, handing me lunch money.

"I can't believe you girls are already seniors," my mom says as she finishes the lunches she was making, and gets her stuff ready to take to work .

"I know and we really can't be late for our first day, so I love you all and I'll see you after work," I say kissing everyone's head before I leave with Rachel.

We hop into her car and begin to drive down the slippery road towards Quileute Tribal School.

As we pull into the parking lot we see a huge group of people already gravitating towards their cliques.

Right in the middle of the "popular" clique are Paul Birchwood, Sam Uley, Leah Clearwater, Rachel's twin Rebecca, and Jared, along with a few harlots who change from week to week.

We get out of Rachel's car and head over to our friends, or the "Nerds" as everyone else in school likes to refer to us as.

Everyone's already there waiting for us. Damien comes over to me and pulls me into a tight hug.

"Time to compare schedules, who has what?" he asks Rachel, her on again boyfriend Aiden and me.

I pull my schedule out of my sketch pad and hold it out for him to see.

Homeroom: Mr. Holbrook, room 116; Period 1 College English: Mr. Kensington, room 127;Period 2 AP Biology: Ms. Beachcrest, room 145; Period 3 (M,W,F) Biology Lab: Ms. Beachcrest, room 145; Period 3 (T,Th) Physical Education: Coach Talihan; Period 4 AP Psychology: Mrs. Daniels, room 120; Period 5 US history: Mr. Conchwin, room 125; Period 6 Quileute Culture studies: Ms. Otsana, room 115; Period 7 Lunch, Senior Cafeteria; Period 8 Statistics: Mrs. Finnley room 150; Period 9 AP Art: Mr. Stormhenge, art suite.

"We only have Biology and art together," he complains.

"Those are the only classes we don't have together," Rachel says with a smile as her and Aiden begin to whisper to each other and giggle every so often.

Damien pulls me closer to him and kisses the pulse point on the side of my neck, sliding his arms around my waist.

"So can we please be official again?" he whispers into my ear.

I look over towards Jared, laughing away with his arms wrapped around some random chick, and I look down at Damien's hands and nod.

"Good, baby, I've missed you," he says, pulling my hand into his, lacing our fingers together.

I plaster a smile onto my face and we walk into school just as the bell rings for homeroom.

The first few periods fly by quickly, and then I get to Biology.

Damien meets me at the door and we walk into class sitting next to each other while we wait for the bell to ring.

When it finally does I look around the room to see who else is in the class.

Being a small school, I had classes with pretty much the same people all day, but this time when I look in the back, I see Jared sitting there with the girl from this morning next to him.

I turn around and grab Damien's hand just as the teacher, Ms. Beachcrest, walks in.

"Good morning, class. Before we begin anything, I want to put you into the seats that I have assigned for you. Since who you sit next to will become your lab partner for the remainder of this school year, there will be no changing. And if you don't like who you're partnered with, tough, you're not going to like everyone you're forced to work with in life," She says with a smile, pulling out her bright pink seating chart out of her lesson book.

She begins sitting people in pairs completely randomly. Damien and I get separated, and he's seated next to Jared's girl of the week, Missy. I get the pleasure of sitting next to Jared himself.

I'm secretly praising the god who sat us next to each other when I smile politely at him. He gives me a once over, rolls his eyes, then looks at the whiteboard for the rest of the period.

I sigh and lean over my sketch book, doodling two hands grasped together.

When the bell rings for gym to start, Damien comes over to me and kisses my cheek.

"I'm sorry you have to work with that on all of your labs," he says wrapping his arm around my waist. I look in front of us where Jared and Missy are sitting and I see him snap his head around at Damien's words.

I look down feeling my eyelashes tickle my cheeks as I pull my sketch pad out quickly flipping to the picture I started in Bio.

"What are you working on?" He asks as I sketch the girl's hand.

"It's nothing, just something to pass the time," I whisper.

He nods and I feel him look over my shoulder every few seconds to see the progress.

"So, what are you doing after school today?" He whispers into my ear while squeezing me closer to his body.

I stop drawing and pull away from him a bit. "I'm going to watch football practice," I say closing my sketchbook and putting it back into my purse.

"What do you say you come over to my place after and help me blow off some steam? I have it all to myself today," he says with a wink.

I remove his hand from my hip and shake my head no.

"Nothing's changed since the last time you asked. I don't want to have sex before I'm married," I whisper shyly.

He puts his hand back and kisses my pulse point, causing me to blush.

"We don't have to go all the way, but can you please give me something? You know I'm the only virgin out of all the guys, it's been years and we're barely on second," he says as his hand starts to slide up my hip.

I push it down and hold his hand in mine.

"Maybe we'll get there soon, but let me get there on my own time. Don't force it or it's never going to happen," I say simply.

He nods and kisses my cheek. "Ok, you're right. I'm sorry, Kimmy," he says pulling me in for a hug.

I go along with it, but the truth is, that's why we broke up last time, and I know it's bound to happen again. Honestly, I'm not opposed to sex before marriage, I just don't really want to do anything with him. It's like every time we get close, something inside of me won't let me go through with it. But he's such a good guy that I can't let him go completely.

The bell rings and we go our separate ways. Jared's in all of the rest of my classes for the day, except for art. And to my extreme disappointment, he never gives me a second look.

During lunch, I half heartedly listen to Rachel talk about all the plans she has for after graduation, but I'm too distracted thinking about why Jared rolled his eyes at me. I mean I don't think I did anything to offend him.

During art Storm as we all call him, praises my hands and lets me work on them all period.

After all of our classes are over, Rachel and I head out to the track together where the football team was practicing.

I'm not paying much attention to the team, when a few minutes into practice, I see an older guy sit down next to Leah Clearwater and start asking her questions about Sam.

She seems kind of creped out and keeps sliding away from him, when suddenly Sam notices and walks away from the huddle.

The coach yells after him but he blatantly ignores him, heading straight for his girlfriend. His hands are shaking madly, then he begins to yell.

"Get the hell away from her! What the fuck are you doing here anyway?" Sam asks the man, taking off his helmet and pushing Leah behind his body.

"Why can't I come see my son? Is it illegal now? You've got yourself quite a looker, Samuel. Don't let her go," his dad says.

Sam starts to shake more violently, "Don't worry, I won't. I know when I have a good thing unlike you," Sam says.

"No, you're just like me. Give it time, honey, you'll see, it's in his blood. You won't be his for long, I'm sure he'll do something to screw it all up. But hey, if you need a shoulder to cry on, I'll be here for you babe."

With that Sam completely loses it, repeatedly punching his father square in the face, and the whole team comes rushing over to pull them apart. Leah steps back behind Jared, and Aiden and Damien came up to us shielding us with their bodies.

We can hear them yelling more and more until Sam storms away, towards his car, speeding out of the parking lot just before an ambulance turns in.

Later that night, Sam's car is found abandoned with the door open, and his shredded QTS shirt, shorts and sneakers are found a few feet away.

Everyone assumes he got attacked by an animal and he's long gone. Leah's distraught for those weeks, until one day, after two weeks, he finally showed up in school again, looking much older, with close cropped hair.

He seems so much more distant and put off, that no one crosses paths with him unless absolutely necessary.

I hope you liked the first chapter of The Reason (Title inspired by Hoobastank's song). Please click the little green button below and let me know what you think.

For those of you who are reading my other story nock You Down, don't worry, i haven't given up on it. I'm just stuck with the chapter i'm working on now and figured i'd try to get my mind going with another story in the meantime.

PS If you've read all of this you get a gold star, and the link to who i picture the characters as and Kim's first day of school outfit is on my profile.
Until my next update
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Eclipse Babe