For once since I had come to Forks, another week passed, but this time it went a whole lot quicker. I was starting to enjoy my time in Forks and I guessed it had something to do with Jacob and Emily. I was enjoying my time with them both, especially Jacob's.
Jacob ended up taking me home like he said, but he says he 'forgot' to tell me that Emily was also going to be helping him look after me. I couldn't believe how sneaky he could be. It was kind of cute actually. I loved it how he would do things like that for my own benefit when he knew that I wouldn't accept it because I didn't think it was right of my using someone else for my own benefit, like Emily looking after me. I didn't know why I didn't like accepting other peoples help, I just didn't. I liked been independent and a loner.
I couldn't get over how quickly my wrist, ankle and knee was healing. My wrist especially, was healing really fast. It still hurt a little, but I could now move it and use it a whole lot more than before.
I hopped outside into the yard and rain. I stopped at the step and looked up to the darking storm clouds that were gathering fast. I didn't even know that Forks got storms… I jumped down from the step and half fell over in my crutches, until warm arms saved me from falling. I flushed red and smiled, looking away from him, a little embarrassed.
"Thanks," I murmured, feeling hot in the cheeks.
"You need to be more careful Jade," he said with a low and calm tone, setting me back down. I turned around and looked at him, smiling and then hopping off again, through the grass quickly as I could.
It seemed to be that whenever I was close to falling or was falling, he was there to catch me, always. It was like he was my personal body guard, there to make sure that not one scratch would come upon me while I was in his eye sight. I didn't know what I would do without him.
"You're getting quicker," he said, following me quickly in a walk while I basically ran.
"Yeah," I panted and had to stop for a breath, feeling dizzy from running too fast, too soon. Again I fell backwards and he was there to catch me. I turned red in the face as I looked up into his eyes and then looked away again. I heard him almost silently laugh. I turned redder. Jacob had a way of making me embarrassed over the tiniest of things. I normally wasn't embarrassed at anything I did or accidently did, let alone be embarrassed twice in one day, within ten minutes…
He smiled and set me back on my legs, this time, keeping his arm around my shoulders as I tried to walk around again. I was about to thank him once more, when he placed his finger on my lips and looked down to me. "No problem," he whispered. "You don't need to thank me Jade. I'm here for you." I felt myself flush redder yet again from his words. He was too caring.
A crack of thunder hit over the clouds, followed by a flash of lightning. Jacob and I looked up to the clouds. It didn't worry me, but it seemed to concern him. I wondered what was wrong, what he was thinking about.
I heard the back door of the house go and then Emily shouting out to Jacob. "Jacob, Paul's on the phone, he needs to talk to you."
I looked to him as I heard her speaking. He looked to the ground with narrowed eyes and seemed to have tensed a lot. He ran over to Emily's side and took the phone from her, going inside to talk. I couldn't hear a thing he was saying, but I guessed that I shouldn't have been trying to hear what he was saying anyway.
Emily came out with a smile and came over to my side. "How are you feeling Jade?" she asked with a soft and kind tone.
"Better thank you," I smiled back and looked towards the house, wondering when Jacob would be back. "Who was that, that called Jacob?"
"His friend Paul, they work together you see."
"Oh." I didn't think that Jacob would get work in a tiny little place like Forks was, but I hadn't seen La Push yet, it may have been bigger and that might have been where he was working.
"Hey Em, I just gotta go for a few with Seth and Paul. I won't be long," Jacob called from the house. Both Emily and I looked at each other for a second and then towards the house.
"Sure Jacob," she called back out to him and he seemed to disappear quicker than a blink of an eye. I wondered what he was in such a rush for. It had to have been important for him to rush off so quickly.
"What does Jacob work as Emily?" She looked back to me swiftly, like I had surprised her with my question, but I couldn't see where the surprise was in it. It was an everyday question, was it not?
"Security in La Push he works as," she spoke softly and kept her eye on the house while she spoke. For some reason, I thought there was a little more to it than that.
"He's young for a job like that," I murmured, wondering if she would have heard me speak at all.
"He acts older than he is Jade." She smiled again, looking back to me.
Shortly after Jacob left, Emily helped me into my room, setting me down on my bed so that I could watch TV or read while we both waited for Jacob to come back. It felt like ages since he had left, but when I looked at the clock, it had only been an hour. I sat back watching one of my favourite cartoons 'Code Lyoko' a story about a virtual word and real world, and in the virtual world there were monsters and a virus with the name of Xana, who kept attacking the real world, to take over it. I loved its story line and wished that there were things in real life alike it. Sure it would be scary, a lot of the time, but it would be so cool! Especially if you were a part of that world, fighting the monsters with your friends! I got a jump of excitement just thinking about it, while I kept my eyes on the TV. A knock at my door made my nerves jump for no reason apart from surprise. "C-come in," I muttered with a loud tone, only looking up when I saw their figure at the door. Finally he was back!
"Jake!" I almost ran out of bed and over to his side, until I remembered that I couldn't walk at all without help. He chuckled and came in, sitting beside me where I patted the side of my bed for him to sit next to me. I looked to my clock and worked out that he had been gone for over four hours. What on earth could have taken him so long?
He laid out beside me, watching the TV with me, though he didn't really seem to be watching it, more in deep thought. "What is this show Jade?" he asked after a few minutes.
"Code Lyoko," I grinned. I was surprised that he hadn't heard of it before.
"I don't remember that character in it." He pointed to my favourite character William.
"He's knew, he's my favourite."
"He's a bad guy." Jacob looked at me with both shock and surprised in his eyes. I shook my head, thinking of how to explain William's story. "He doesn't mean to be bad. Xana controls him Jacob. He can't help what he is." I picked up a biscuit from the side table that Emily had left for me and started eating it as I spoke.
I looked to Jacob in a snapped when I heard him sigh deeply, like he something was bothering him. "And still even know he's bad, he's you're favourite, why?"
"Cause he is a good kid Jake. I saw what he was before he was taken control of."
"And if you hadn't seen the good part of him? Then what?"
"I don't know. I guess it would be still the same. What does it matter anyway?"
"Just asking." He looked back to the TV, looking like he was actually taking notice to what was going on now. I thought it was odd to how he was acting now and what his questions had been. It was like he was fishing for something, but I couldn't understand or think what that was. It was confusing me greatly.
I looked out my window in an ad break only to see a strike of lightning hit over the mountains and then another clash of thunder afterwards. It wasn't as loud like earlier and it didn't bother or take Jacob's attention, but this time it made me jump. Jacob looked over to me, wondering what had made me jump and then out the window, seeing the storm rolling in with thick dark clouds that actually looked like they were rolling across the sky. I didn't think such storms existed around Forks, I thought it was far too cold for such storms. Another crack of thunder and we both could hear the heavy rain coming.
Ping. Ping.
I looked up to the ceiling, wondering if it was going to hold with how the first few droplets of rain were sounding on the roof. The rain sounded more like hail than anything else. I really did think that it was hail hitting the roof.
Ping. Crack. Ping.
The rain started to come down quicker than I had ever seen or heard. I looked out to my window and only saw rain running down the window, making everything look burred into lime green without detail. I sighed, knowing that I wouldn't be able to go outside for the rest of the day, or if at all tomorrow with how the rain looked like it had set in.
Jacob got up and came over to my side, leaning against the wall next to the window. He stared outside and he seemed to be able to see more than I could. It was like he was actually watching something or someone out there; like he could see more than just the burred colours that the rain caused. I looked hard and focused outside, but still I only seen the burry colours.
"This place is boring," I muttered, kicking the side of the wall with my good leg. Jacob snickered at me quietly and then smiled widely.
"What did you do when it rained back in Australia?" he asked.
"Well for starters, it hardly ever rained where I come from, unlike here, and when it did, I used to do craft or something like that."
I watched as his lips pulled into a tight line, looking to the ground. "Well, I am guessing that you don't already have supplies for craft here, do you?"
I shook my head, wishing that I had. It felt like ages since I had done anything creative, and now that it was raining, I really wanted to do something creative.
"I can't say that there are any craft stores around here either," he sighed.
"Perfect," I muttered, crossing my arms tightly around my chest, not impressed. Something as common such as craft wasn't even an activity in this stupid place! I thought, jumping back to my bed and gazed at the TV, which now had nothing on it that I wanted to watch. I picked up the remote and turned the TV off, flopping against my bed, bored.
I started to play with the drooping cord what was connected to my lights turn-on-switch, battering it around the lamp over and over. Jacob looked to me when I caught his attention. "You're wrist seems better," he murmured, watching me use it while I played with the line. I stopped playing and glazed down to my wrist. He was right, it was better. I wasn't even feeling any pain anymore, no matter what I did with it or how much pressure I put on it. My eyes widened towards Jacob. I didn't think there was anyway of it healing so quickly. I thought that it would take weeks for it to heal, not days…
Jacob came over to my side and sat beside me, taking my wrist softly into his warm smooth and soft hands. His fingers felt like they were tracing around my wrist, until I looked down to what he was doing and he was actually checking out the bones around my wrist. He pressed his thumb on one of my wrist bones, seeing if it had healed. It didn't hurt and his face seemed to change. Like there was something wrong with how fast I had healed.
"So?" I asked, sitting up now.
"It looks fine, like…" he paused for a second. "…like nothing ever happen."
"Isn't that good?"
"Yeah, of course." His tone was light and almost silent. I didn't believe him. Did he want me hurt or something? Or was I just making something out of nothing? I watch again as he got up and stood near my window in silence. I could tell there was something wrong, I just wished that I knew what. I felt like I needed to make everything better for him, even know I didn't know what was wrong. That's the second time this week, I thought, gazing down to the carpet, thinking how many times I had wanted to make everything better for Jacob. Never had I wanted to make things better for anyone in my life as much as I did for him. I didn't understand it.
"You never told me that you worked as a security guard," I murmured, not sure what to say, but wanting to break the silence. He turned back to me with confused and narrow eyes and a brief confused smile too, and then suddenly his face turned natural again. "Oh, yeah that. It's not exactly like that." His voice seemed to be shaken, like he didn't fully understand what I said. I thought that was odd.
"What is it then?"
"It's complicated," he chuckled and smiled. "I just look out for trouble basically."
"Oh." I didn't see what was so complicated about that… Maybe there was more to it and he had only given me the gist of it. "So is that how you found me? You were looking out for trouble and you found Dan, the wolves and me?" I looked up him, just in time to see his face go into shock and his eyes turn dark. He swiftly moved away so I couldn't see his face. Again I wondered what was wrong.
"Yeah basically."
"So do you know Dan, Jacob?"
"No, not really. I just know he's a trouble maker."
"He seemed like he was out of his mind. Like something drives him to act like that." I couldn't really remember what had happen. I could only remember some parts. I wondered how much Jacob knew about the things that had gone on. At times it felt like he was hiding something. One of those times was now, because he didn't say anything more, but it felt like he wanted to say more, but couldn't. I wondered what he was thinking.
Suddenly my phone rang loudly across the room. I went to get up and get it, but Jacob went over and answered it for me. It was actually the last thing I wanted him to do. I hoped to God that it wasn't my father or sister.
If it was my sister, – Katherine – it would be better than my father, because she would only try and bribe me to do things for her so that she wouldn't tell Aaron about having a boy for a friend, which would get me a one way ticket to boarding school. But if it was my father, then that would be a ticket to boarding school soon as he spoke to mum.
"Jade's phone, Jacob speaking." I hit my forehead with my palm as he spoke. We could have used the 'wrong number' excuse if it was either Aaron or Katherine, it would be the safest thing possible for me really… but that excuse had gone down the drain…
"Sure sure, she's right here," Jacob said, handing me the phone.
My heart pounded at a million miles an hour as I took the white mobile phone in my hands. "H-hello?" So much for an innocent tone…
"You haven't even been gone a month and you've already got a social life and a boyfriend?" A voice screeched over the line. I didn't recognize the voice at first and then thought how dumb I was for forgetting my only best friend's voice, Debby. She and I had been best friends since we were three, though we were basically yin and yang when it came to the things we liked. She hated it in Alice Springs and I loved it.
"No, not really," I smiled, relieved. "You wouldn't believe what it is like here Deb. It's worse than Alice Springs, trust me."
"It can't be! I mean you've already got a hot guy at you're place, well at least he sounds hot." I blushed in the cheeks when she spoke about Jacob like that and I had no-clue how he had heard her, but he suddenly burst out laughing. I turned redder and turned away to hide my face. I didn't know how to speak now. I wanted to ask her how she knew he was hot, but I would only pass out with embarrassment if Jacob heard that. I was in a no in situation.
I looked over my shoulder when I felt eyes on me. Jacob was leaning against the wall with his arms crossed and a face that could only mean he was trying to hold back more laughter.
"Don't you know it's rude to eaves drop Jacob?" I asked, covering the speaker of the phone, so Deb wouldn't hear.
"Yeah, but it's more funny than rude," he burst out laughing and went out of my room. I tried not to, but a giggle escaped my lips. I flopped back on my bed and looked up to the ceiling, forgetting that I was on the phone.
"Hello? Is this thing still working?" I heard Deb say and then tapped the phone against something, making a loud sound echo through the phone.
"Yeah, sorry Deb. Got side tracked."
"Don't think that I didn't notice that you went all quiet when I mentioned about Jacob either, miss Jade," she teased. I giggled again.
"So what if I did?"
"You like him, don't you?" her toned suddenly changed soft from loud and excited. I nodded on the other side of the phone, unable to speak for a few minutes.
"Maybe," I chocked.
"Well I guess I better go before I get a hundred dollar bill. See ya Jade and say hello to Jacob for me," she laughed and hung up.
I turned red in the face and snapped my phone shut with my hand, just looking up to the ceiling, thinking. I could hear Jacob downstairs talking to Emily, but I couldn't hear what he was saying to her, or what she was saying to him. I smiled again thinking about him and then slapped my wrist. It didn't seem right that I liked Jacob when I hardly knew him. I was just been stupid and still there was the fact that it was more than likely that he had a girlfriend, not that he ever mentioned having one, but someone like him had to have a girlfriend, right? I pursed my lips with thinking of him with someone else apart from me, but then I thought of how selfish I was been. I was been childish.
I heard footsteps coming up the stairs and I sat up, seeing Jacob leaning in my doorway, seeing if I had finished talking to Deb or not. I smiled greeting him in and then my eyes shot to my window when a howl outside broke the silence. Now that was odd. I didn't know wolves came so close to houses. I hopped over to my window just as Jacob reached it too. I looked down to the ground, but still only saw the burred greens and browns from the rain heavily pouring down the window. But once again, Jacob seemed to see more than me.
"I gotta go," he said breathlessly, walking out of my room before I could say another word. I flopped back onto the side of my bed, disappointed that he was again leaving. I didn't want him to leave again, plus where was he going when it was raining so hard out? And that a wolf of all things would make him leave? He was one confusing boy!