I peek out Renee's bedroom door to see Jake resting his head in his big hands, staring blankly at the TV. Ugh. What I am I going to do about him? Suddenly he's looking at me. His eyes are asking the obvious question: What?A small confused smile lights up his handsome face. I pretend to be interested in the TV. Pawn Stars is on.
"What's the matter Bells?" Jake's deep husky voice asks.
"Nothing." I said a bit too hurriedly.
Jacob raises an eyebrow at me and gives me a suspicious look. I shrug at him and purposefully go crossed eyed.
Jake sighs heavily. "Don't make me worry about you anymore than I already do, okay?"
"Okay, "I say.
"Who wants to see a movie I just recently bought?" my mom sneaks up on me.
I jump at the closeness and suddenness of her voice.
"Sure," Jake said before I could say that it was a good day to go outside and not be glued to the TV.
Renee inserted the disc in the DVD player and fast forwarded it through the previews.
I gasped when a foreshadowing scene played across the screen. It was about werewolves! No, this wasn't a movie about them; it was a documentary about three people trying to find evidence that they were real. Subsequently they had found abnormally huge paw prints. It didn't say where though. But that was just the introduction. Where had my mom gotten this?
I walked woodenly to the sofa to sit by Jake. Completely transfixed in the movie, I leaned forward too much. I almost tumbled out of the couch. Jacob caught me though. I smiled smally at him. He rolled his eyes. Then he bent and his breath filled my ear.
"Don't worry. We stayed well out of their reach. I did, however, leave a few little traces of myself there. I want to see how well they can try to ham this piece of crap video up." He snickered and his hot breath blasted my cheek. His breath smelled like bad dog saliva. Not exactly pleasant.
The show went on about how they found fur and up high claw markings on some of the super high trees. I recognized Jake's red brown fur in one of the detective's evidence bags. Jake wasn't lying when he said he left some of himself.
Jacob chuckled beside me. I looked up at him but he just signaled me to keep staring at the TV.
I did as he suggested. A picture of Jake (in human form) and his pack (both human and wolf phases) filled the screen after a minute.
Jake's humorous chortling immediately disappeared. I didn't dare look at his face.
I could feel shocked and enraged fury rolling off of him. His hands shook. He shoved them between his thighs.
I kept my mouth tightly shut.
Renee gasped. I squeezed my eyes shut. NO NO NO!
Jake growled incoherently.
Oh my God!
*sighs dramatically* I know I'm a horrible beta and you should tell the author that. Please don't yell at her for my incompetence of not being able to remember to update. Sorry. Well at any rate I'm glad for any of you that actually stuck to it and I hope you enjoyed it. Welcome to any new readers! Please don't give up because I promise that I will try to update more often and if I can, I'll update a couple chapters over this coming weekend, but don't freak if I'm not able. Well that's all from me! ~merlingirl