"Jade," he murmured, almost silently. "I want to do this for you. You don't know how much you mean to me. . . I am in love with you…"
I stared him in the eye, not believing what he had just said. Was he serious or just playing around with me? He was in-love with me? I hadn't ever had anyone fall for me before, nor had I fallen for anyone in my life like I had fallen for Jacob.
He shook his head suddenly, getting up quickly. "I'm sorry. I should have known better," he whispered, walking quickly out of my room and downstairs before I could even think to stop him. What was wrong? Didn't he think that I felt the same? Or was it something else? Whatever it was, I wished he hadn't left. I felt cold and exposed now he was gone.
I wrapped my arms around myself, trying to keep warm as I pulled the sheets up and over me. I wondered where he had gone. I hoped that I hadn't upset him. And in that instant, I knew I had. That was why he had left and it was why he had left so quickly. I felt so stupid‼ How could I have upset him after all he had done for me? Jacob was putting his life on the line for me and I stupidly upset him! I curled up into a ball, knowing that there was no way I could even try and attempt to go downstairs to see him, and I couldn't yell out to him as I would wake Emily, - if she was still around that was.
I didn't know where Emily went after Jacob carried me to bed. I didn't know if she stayed or went back home. All I knew was Jacob was always around, he told me that he wouldn't leave me from the first night he brought me home. I was so grateful to have him helping me. I had to make things up to him tomorrow, I just had to!
I fell asleep quickly, feeling safe thanks to Jacob promising me that he would keep me safe, but still I couldn't help but worry about him now. I still didn't want him anywhere near Dan. It scared the hell out of me to think of him anywhere near that bloodsucker!
I gasped awake at the sound of my phone ringing at ten o'clock in the morning. My hand felt around the table at my bedside. I found it and flipped it open just on the last ring.
"Hello?" I said softly, sleep covering my voice.
"Hey Honey. It's mum."
Oh great! I looked to the calendar to see that already three weeks had passed and that I only had a week left with Jacob until my mother came home. I knew that my mother would freak if she knew that I was just friends Jacob, but she would die if she knew that he had stayed with me while she had been away. Either she would die or I would be killed . . . either way I was going to try and avoid it.
"Oh, hey mum. What's going on?" This time my voice was sheepish. I never had been sheepish before. The things Jacob did to me!
"I just thought that you would like to know that I'm coming home in three days. I've finished work now and just waiting for your father and Katherine to fly in."
She didn't just say that, did she?
Ugh! My father and sister coming home with mum, coming home early! My life sucked‼ I couldn't stand my sister or my father. Katherine was always trying to get me in trouble with both of my parents, but mostly with Aaron, and she was just like Aaron; bossy, arrogant, ignorant, and smug and a total . . . jerk, to put it lightly. Aaron just wanted me in boarding school. He saw me as a spoilt little brat, but I wasn't the one who owned a hundred-thousand-dollar luxury car, like little miss Katherine. Just because she was eighteen, she thought she owned me or something. I was sure that she lived just to tick me off. I guessed it was because Katherine was from a previous marriage that she was Aaron's little princess. Sometimes I wondered if I was even related to him. I wished I wasn't.
"Oh great," I said in a sarcastic voice, knowing that my mother of all people had no detection of sarcasm, even if she said something sarcastic herself.
"Is everything okay? How have things been going since I left?"
Ah huh yeah mum, everything is fine . . . I just got attacked by a vampire, broke my knee, wrist and foot, and fell in love with a werewolf! "Everything's going great mum, and so I'll see you in a few days huh?"
"Yes, three days, around three, four o'clock."
"Guess I'll see you then. See you mum." I hung up and hit my face into my pillow, now really annoyed. Three days wasn't enough! Even a week wasn't enough in my mind! I wanted more time with Jacob. He was my only friend in Forks and La Push, and now I couldn't be around him even, just because of my stupid parents! I didn't even know why mum didn't like my having guy friends, but whatever it was, it seemed stupid to me.
I sighed, getting up and going over to my window, seeing that it was still raining outside. Great way to start the day! I thought, with yet another heavy sigh. I was in the doorway of my room when I realized, I was walking without my crutches and without pain. I jumped up and now, not believing it! I was fully healed! I ran downstairs and met Emily in the kitchen. Emily was cooking something that smelt amazing. She looked to me as I ran into the room. She smiled widely as she seen me running around.
"You're all better Jade?" she gasped.
"Yes! Thanks to Jacob," I gleamed and then thought of something, looking around. "Speaking of which, where is he?"
Her face changed when I said thanks to Jacob. I looked at her in wonder. Then it struck me. She knew that he was a werewolf the whole time. Was I the only one in town that didn't know?
"U-um, why thanks to Jacob, Jade?" she smiled slightly as she questioned me.
"He told me everything Em," I smiled, glad to know the truth. I had always known there had been something special about him.
"I'm surprised that he told you so soon. Usually he doesn't tell anyone. But I'm still confused, what does Jacob have to do with you been better?"
She really didn't know that he had been healing me?
"He said that he had been healing my knee, ankle and wrist."
I watched as shock flushed over her face and then worry. "He shouldn't have done that. It's dangerous for him."
Now I was worried. Just how much was Jacob risking himself for me? How had he healing me made it dangerous for him? He had to stop trying to help me before he got himself killed!
"H-how-" I was cut off by Emily the second I went to question her.
"Jacob should explain it to you Jade. Not me."
I nodded, understanding. It would be better coming from him. "Where is he?"
"He left this morning for work."
Work; the one word made me wonder if that was just a cover up now. It didn't seem right for someone of his age to work as a security. He seemed more like the age that he should be rebelling against security.
I looked up to Emily, still wondering. "He really isn't working with security, is he Emily?"
"Yes and no. He keeps both Forks and La Push safe from vampires, so he does a little."
I nodded, understanding how she did think that he sort of did work for security. The whole time she had sort of told me the truth about him. He was protecting everyone in Forks and La Push, but he was just doing it a little different to how police did it. He did it supernaturally, and in a way that the police could never do it.
"Do you know when he'll be back?"
"Probably not until dark hun," she smiled, looking back down to the silver pot that was still cooking.
I walked slowly up to my room, flopping back on my bed, looking up to the ceiling, thinking deeply. Usually Jacob hung around all day unless he was called out. My memory then sparked back to last night when he got up a walked out of my room after he told me that he loved me. Maybe that was why he was already out until dark? But then I remembered Dan. I sat up quickly as a shiver ran through me. He was out looking for Dan, I knew it!
I jumped off of my bed and grabbed my phone, dialling his number quickly, but his phone rang downstairs.
Damn it Jacob! I thought running downstairs to see that he had left his phone on the side table of the sofa. What was the point of having a phone if he left it where he last had it whenever he goes out? I went back up to my room to think.
The hours passed slowly and with nothing to do because of the rain, the time really passed slowly. Jacob still wasn't home by dinner and I was starting to get really worried. But Emily wasn't. She said that Jacob did this all the time. I just hoped she was right and that he was okay. I even went to bed without one of his bear hugs while he carried me up the stairs. I couldn't believe how much I had missed it, nor how much I missed been around him. He was just like a drug to me. I couldn't be without him.
My whole day was dead without him.
I fell asleep to the sound of the rain and then awoke to the same sound as yesterday morning. I sat up, looking around my room, wishing once again that Jacob was around. I flung my legs over the side of my bed as I heard the scratching sound again at the window. Slowly, I forced myself over to the window and saw nothing outside. As I stood there, looking outside the window, I heard the sound again, but I couldn't see what was making it. I opened the window and then I saw Jacob below my window with a hand full of small pebbles in hand. That was when I saw one in mid-air. I was thankful that it flew straight past me and onto the floor, but shock still flushed over my face.
"Sorry," he murmured. "Can we talk?"
I nodded, taking a deep breath. "Of course we can." Now was the time to make things up to him. It was now or never. I only had two days left with him and I was going to make it good!
I looked around, wondering if he was coming in or if I was going out. I looked around for something to grab onto to go outside when I noticed he wasn't moving and was waiting for me. "Umm . . ." I paused, pulling a face.
"Wait, I'll help you."
He ran up to the tree beside the house quickly, grabbing a branch and easily pulled himself up onto the tree, letting out his hand for me to take. I couldn't believe how quickly and easily he had got to me. It would have taken any human ages to do what he had. I could see a hint of unsureness in his eyes then. "Do you trust me?" he asked, as my hand touched his.
I nodded twice, taking a deep breath, knowing that for him to ask me that, he was going to do something scary or dangerous. "Yes, I trust you Jacob."
A surprised look came into his eyes when he heard what I had said, before pulling me into his arms, wrapping both of his arms around me tightly and then doing a back flip – of all things – and landing just below the tree. I couldn't believe how quickly he had moved. I looked up to him, both startled and thrilled. I never knew that I was an adrenaline junkie. I probably only just became one thanks to Jacob. I wanted to that again!
He smiled back before his face turned unreadable. The only emotion I saw was pain, and then it too disappeared. I hadn't realized that it was still raining until he let me go of his arms and took a step back from me. I looked to him a little disappointed and cold without the heat of his body keeping the rain warm as it wet my clothing. I wrapped my arms around myself, just trying to keep warm. I wondered what Jacob was thinking. He was staring to the ground and half looking over his shoulder away from me. I could see how focused he was just by the way his eyes looked. I hadn't ever seen someone so focused and deep in thought before.
I took a step towards him. My hand touched his wrist and his gaze shifted down to me with hardened eyes before they turned soft, breaking him of the focus. His skin felt almost boiling under my hand.
"Your ice cold Jade," he murmured, wrapping his arms around me and keeping me close. "I'm sorry. I easily forget that not everyone and everything runs at a hundred-and-eight-point-nine-degrees," he chuckled, walking us over to the veranda of the house and out of the rain. We sat on the swing chair by the door, looking out to the light show of lightning in front of us. We both stayed silent and it was starting to feel awkward. I stared at the white floral material of the chair between us, trying to think what to say. I had no idea what to tell him and how to say it right without making it sound stupid. It was all just so hard to put together. It was so confusing to me.
I started tracing around the patterns of the flowers on the material, deep in thought again. It was only when a flash of lightning hit over the mountains, lighting everything around us, did I realize that he was shirtless once again. I was curious to why he just about always he never had a shirt on. It was a wonder that he didn't get people telling him to get a shirt on. Anyone would think he was a hot shot just out to show off his beautifully shaped body with how many times you caught him without a shirt. Not that I minded. . .
His hand swept across my leg and stopped at my knee. I stared at his hand, thinking of what Emily said this morning about him healing me. It's dangerous for him, her words echoed through my head.I looked up to him in wonder. "Emily said that you healing me . . . was dangerous for you? Why did you do it Jacob?" I looked deep into his eyes, searching for the truth.
"You know why," he murmured almost silently, closing his eyes and looking away from me, and taking his hand along with his gaze. Once again, I felt exposed without the contact of him. How he made me feel this way, I would never know. But I knew I couldn't do without him or his touch. It was like nothing I had ever felt before, and now it was basically a drug to me. I needed him to live.
"How is it dangerous for you?"
He looked back to me then, but he was careful not to look me in the eye now. I wondered what he was trying to hide. It was obvious just by the way he was acting that he was trying to hide something. "If I'm not careful, it can take all my energy. That's it. It's no big deal," he mumbled, looking to his hands in his lap. I was glad that it wasn't a big deal in his eyes! It was in mine.
"You mean your life's energy?" I didn't want to think about it anymore. I already knew the answer. He nodded, still not looking at me. I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to stop the images that were coming into my head now, but it didn't help. I felt warm droplets running down my face as a scolding finger wiped the tears away. My eyes opened with tears still in them, I looked to Jacob, seeing his face was both concerned and puzzled. He had no idea how I felt about him. I knew if he did, he wouldn't be confused. I lunged myself into his arms, holding him tightly. I just couldn't live in a world without him. I just couldn't. He was my world, already.
He held me tightly against him, not saying a word. Finally the tears dried up after a long while. I tucked my face into his chest, still feeling upset. "Don't do it again, please."
"It wasn't dangerous Jade. I knew what I was doing."
"How could you unless you done it before?"
He was the one who stayed quiet now. I waited a moment for him to collect his thoughts and answer me, but he didn't. I leant away from him, looking into his eyes. They were upset. I realized that he had done it before. "You've healed someone before?" I questioned softly.
"Tried to, and failed."
"What happened?"
"Her name was Bella. I loved her, but she was in love with someone else. Edward, he's a vampire, but he tries to be good and stay to animal blood rather than human. She wanted to be like him, and I was against it. I fought everything to show her how much I loved her, but she still chose him. I ran off for months, trying to forget her, but it didn't work. Within those few months, I developed the gift of healing others. Since I had turned into a werewolf, I've been able to heal myself quickly, but never others . . . " he paused, squeezing his eyes tightly as his hands clenched into tight fists. It was a wonder that he wasn't hurting himself with how tight his hands were. "I finally accepted her wanting to become a vampire and I came back the night she was married. We were dancing, when she told me that she was having a real honeymoon, while she was still human. I hated the idea so much I near exposed myself. A short time passed and she came back pregnant. I couldn't understand it. She looked like she was five months pregnant and she hadn't even been gone two months. But then . . . I learnt that the baby was a vampire hybrid, of course. I stupidly stayed around, protecting her. My pack was worried that both she and the hybrid baby would be a great danger to us and our land and planned on killing both of them, but I wasn't going to stand for it. I left them and become my own Alpha, with two of the others joining me. I was born to be an Alpha, but I hated what I was and I didn't want to be in the pack, let alone its leader."
I stared at him, no believing what he had gone through. He couldn't have been very old to take on all that responsibility alone. It must have hurt him so much. I wouldn't have been able to take it. He must have loved Bella so much. My hands wrapped around his arm, holding it tightly against me, trying to comfort him. "What happened to her and the baby?"
"I stayed around, until it was born. It died at birth and it tried to kill her too. I tried to heal her so she wouldn't have to be changed into a vampire. Her heart stopped twice and I kept it beating as I tried to heal her, but I wasn't strong enough. I fainted just as she was changed. I tried to heal her too quickly. I hated myself for not been there for her."
I wrapped my arms around him, understanding how hard it must have been for him. I just couldn't believe it. This was the type of thing you saw in a movie, not in real life, but then again, he was a mythical creature from the movies, living and breathing in reality. "You did the best you could Jacob. You were there for her and I'm sure she knew that. How old were you? Where is she now?"
"When they left, they were going to Alaska. I haven't heard from her or seen her since. I was sixteen at the time."
It only happened two years ago, I thought. I was angered by the fact that he hadn't seen Bella since. It wasn't fair. He almost gave his life to save her and she hadn't even talked to him since then? That hurt me, because I knew it was hurting him. I held him tighter, thinking what I was about to say. I wanted to get it right so it wouldn't come out wrong or so I wouldn't hurt him even more. I had a bad way with words at times, and it got me into loads of trouble.
"You don't have to worry about that happening again Jacob, because, I'm in love with you too. I just didn't know how to tell you last night. I've been in love with you since you saved me . . . the first time." I looked up to see his eyes full of shock. He looked to the wooden boards of the veranda, before holding my gaze for a moment.
"The first time?" he questioned.
"In the forest, when we first met. I know you saved me. You were warning me of the forest at sunset and night. I didn't think it at the time, but I didn't feel safe. I only realized that a few days ago."
"Love at first sight huh?" he smiled slightly, while speaking with a deep tone.
I giggled, turning a little red in the cheeks. "You could say that." I nodded while smiling. "Jake, can you promise me something?"
He turned around and looked at me after I had spoken. I guess I had caught him off guard by the tone of my voice suddenly turning serious. But I was glad I had caught his full attention, because I was serious, and I wanted him to take notice. "Please don't go after Dan again. Promise me that you won't."
He held my gaze with his as I spoke. At first his eyes turned narrowed and then lightened with hearing the desperation in my voice. I didn't know what I was going to do if something happened to him. It sounded ridiculous even in my mind that I was so in love with him and I hadn't even known him for a full month. What was this boy doing to me?
"It's nothing to worry about Jade. I'm strong enough to handle him."
"Jacob, please," I begged. "If you're going to protect me, protect me by been around. I don't know what I'll do if something happens to you Jacob."
He took a deep breath before answering. "Okay, I won't go near him. I promise . . . but what about your family?"
"Thank you," I smiled, wrapping my arms around him and leaning into his embrace around me. It took a while for his last words regarding my family to sink into my brain. I looked up to him warily, wondering what he meant. "What do you mean about my family?"
"I heard you on the phone to your mum this morning, and I remember you saying she would freak if she knew about me."
"We'll be sneaky," I winked, quoting him from when we were in the hospital. He laughed at my answer. I couldn't help but grin, proud of myself.
"I guess we can, as long as your good at been sneaky that is. I don't want you getting into any kind of trouble."
I smiled darkly at him. "Oh, I am the best."
"I guess I'll have to wait two days until I see just how sneaky you are?" he grinned, placing his hand on my cheek softly. I couldn't help but lean into his touch. He was just so warm and inviting. He felt like a sun. He smiled, you smiled. He warmed you just by been around. My Jacob, my sun . . . that he was.
I smiled softly, feeling tranquillity come over me with his touch. My eyes fluttered to a close as I kept smiling. At that point, I felt like I had everything that I was ever going to need in my life. I hadn't ever felt so alive, so hypo, so calm, so high, so happy before, and I knew the one person that was causing all those feelings.
My eyes slowly reopened with the feeling of his thumb running the length of my jaw without moving his hand. His gaze held mine, looking deeply within my eyes. There was a bright light enlightening his eyes that I hadn't ever noticed before. I wondered what he was thinking, if his thoughts were what was causing his eyes to shine like they were. They were beautiful.
I felt so lost within his eyes, that when he spoke, it was like he was awaking me from a deep stage of dazedness. It was like I had been in some amazing dream with my eyes just on him. I felt incredible.
"I'm sorry Jade. I just can't resist doing this with you anymore," he said almost breathlessly.
I tilted my head to the side, looking to him, wondering what he meant. "From doing what Jacob? I'm confused."
"This," he breathed, taking my hand in his, twining our fingers together as he lent closer to me. I sighed at the feeling of his smooth, scolding lips brush over mine softly before pressing down gently. I placed my hand softly on his chest, leaning into his loving and secure embrace around my waist. I could feel my heart beating like I hadn't ever felt it before. He was so intoxicating. I would probably need to go to rehab now thanks to him, but I just knew this was an addiction no rehab or specialist would ever be able to cure, and it they could, I didn't want them to.
He pulled away after a moment and I wished he hadn't. I looked up to him with both a disappointed look in my eyes and a slight smile. I wanted that moment to last forever.
He smiled back with a crooked and smug smile, before it turned soft. I could see the difference between when it was him looking at me, to when it was his inner wolf. He was always more smug when it was his inner wolf looking at me. I liked both of his sides, but I loved him.
His admiring gaze stared up into my eyes as I leant over him. His hands cupped the side of my face, leaning in and kissing me softly again. I wished he hadn't stopped. His hand softly ran down the side of my face, from my temple to my chin. He smiled softly, looking over my face with a look of proudness in his eyes. I wished I could hear his thoughts.
I shivered at the difference temperature between us when he took my hand again. He held me close, knowing that I was cold. I wrapped my arms around him as tightly as his were around me. I felt warm and secure against him. I felt like I was home. I smiled with my eyes closed while thinking of what I had thanks to Jacob. I had my world.
"My Salvatore," I murmured, with a smile.
"What does Salvatore mean?" he asked, tilting his head to the side and looking at me with curious eyes.
"It's Italian for saviour. You're my saviour Jacob." I kept my eyes to the ground while I spoke. I had no idea why, but I felt embarrassed to be saying something like that to him. From the corner of my eye, I could see him smiling. I closed my eyes, feeling even more embarrassment come over me. I just knew he was trying to not laugh at what I had told him. I knew that I shouldn't have said anything!
I felt the soft touch of his thumb sweep over my cheek, catching my full attention as he held my face at my chin. His eyes were so full and intense. I couldn't read them as he murmured "Koo Cloak Lay," and kissed me again softly.
"What does it mean?"
He smiled widely. "It means, I Love You, in Quileute. It's my tribe's language."
I looked to him wide eyed, knowing that usually a tribal language was usually only spoken a must themselves and not to others outside of the tribe. I couldn't believe that he just shared that with me.
"I love you too Jacob . . . but isn't your language like sacred or secret or something?"
"Yes, but your very someone important to me. It doesn't matter if a few people outside the tribe know. Come on, time for bed. I've kept you up too long," he murmured, taking me into his arms as he stood. I clutched him tightly, not wanting to leave, not wanting to sleep. I was about to protest when he placed one finger over my lips, stopping me from speaking at all. I rolled my eyes playfully at him and slapped the side of his arm lightly. He laughed lightly and looked down to me as I leant into chest, savouring the moment while I had it. I couldn't believe he had just shared something so sacred with me.
He carried me to the door and turned the nob, but the door didn't open. I looked up to him confused. "Um . . . where's the key Jade?" he asked with a nervous tone.
"Inside," I answered. "The door shouldn't be locked Jacob. I never lock it. So this kind of thing never happens."
He looked down to me in shock. "It is locked. I lock it every night. Jade you got to lock the door or . . ." he trailed off with a grimace. "I don't even want to think who can come in while you're asleep."
I grimaced also then with the thought of Dan coming inside, but obviously Jacob wasn't just thinking of Dan. Suddenly a flash back came to me. The feeling of someone else in the room with me when I got up that morning before Dan attacked me. Feeling like I wasn't alone in the room. It was him . . .
"He's already been inside," I murmured, my eyes wide as a bugs, stricken with shock and fear. I held Jacob tightly, closing my eyes with fear. I had been so stupid! How could I have thought it was safe to leave the door unlocked? It was by far worse than losing the key and been locked out! Ugh‼ I was so stupid.
"Who's been inside?"
"Dan . . . that morning . . . before he attacked me. I felt like there was a ghost or something around me. That was why I went to the diner and then to La Push. I saw him in the diner. "
"Why didn't you tell me before now?"
I shook my head, trying to think why I hadn't told him. "Because, I just remembered it Jacob," I sobbed, feeling stupid.
"It's okay." He set me down slowly onto my feet, but keeping me close to him while keeping me warm.
I wiped the tears away with the back of my hand, trying to be strong. "Can't you climb back up the tree and get the key from inside?"
"And leave you freezing to death while I'm in there and leave you in possible danger. No. Not happening Jade. Just wait until morning. Emily has a spear."
"She does?" I questioned, raising an eye brow. I couldn't remember ever giving her one, but I would have if I had thought of it sooner.
"Um . . . yeah, she does . . . well I do, I mean. I took the spare just in case. I hope that's okay?"
I looked at him sternly with one of his crooked smug smiles. He turned away thinking he was in trouble. "Stalker boyfriend, hey? Lucky I like it," I giggled. He looked back to me with wide, shocked eyes. He really did think that he was in trouble. Silly Jacob, he should have known that I wouldn't mind, but I did wish I had known about him having the spare. I would have flipped if I saw the spare gone and thought someone like Dan had it. I shook my head, not wanting to think about it.
I changed my train of thought towards how we were going to get inside without the key. "We're going to freeze out here before morning Jake."
He smiled down at me, taking my hand. Oh, yeah that would be right. I was the one that was going to freeze. He was the one with the one-hundred-and-eight-point something degree body. Lucky for him!
"We're not going to freeze Jade, and neither are you." He took my hand softly in his, leading us both over to the swing chair. Letting my hand go, he took me into his arms, picking me up and placing me on the side of the swing chair so that my back was against the thick material of the chair. I looked up to him confused to how he thought this was going to stop me from freezing. He smiled again, sitting down on the side of the chair before lying down beside me and wrapping his arm around me, keeping me close to him. So that was his idea? I like the way this boy thinks. Smart and sensible, for a teenage boy that is . . . Yeah, he's defiantly different to most teenagers.
I leant into his side, my eyes closing as I felt the warmth of this presence come over me. How on earth Bella chose an ice cold lifeless bloodsucker over Jacob I would never know. Jacob was warm on so many levels it wasn't funny. He made you happy by just been around. He's loving, caring, and protective. What did she see in that vamp?
"Better?" he asked softly after a moment.
I nodded and smiled, wrapping my arm around his waist. "Defiantly," I whispered. "Do you mind if I ask you something Jacob?" My eyes opened as I looked him in the eyes, wondering if he would be comfortable with answering my question or not.
"Sure, of course."
"What is it with you not wearing a shirt?"
He laughed. "Why? Does my been half naked bother you?"
I turned red in the cheeks at that point. I looked away, feeling a little embarrassed. I didn't know how to answer his question. It didn't bother me, not at all, but he may have gotten the wrong idea if I said that it didn't.
"It's hard to carrying all your clothes around when you're a wolf Jade," he said after a moment. I looked back to him, trying to work out what he meant by his answer. At first I couldn't work out why he would need to carry his clothes, but then I finally worked it out.
I rolled my eyes at him, slapping the side of his arm. "Jake."
"What?" he chuckled, "You asked remember?"
I stayed silent in embarrassment. How could a simple question to why he didn't wear a shirt land on this subject? Ugh! Me and my curiosity! I just had to learn to control it more and be left in the world of wonder.
His hand ran softly down the side of my face as he kissed my forehead. "Get some rest. It will be morning soon."
I looked up to him, a little worried about Dan finding us out here alone. I could feel the fear in my eyes and he could see it too. "I'm not going anywhere. You don't have to worry. Nothing is going to happen. I love you."
"I love you too Jake," I murmured into the skin of his chest. Just by him been close to me and his arms around me, I felt safe like I had a shield around me, protecting me from anything that could ever happen. I knew just how lucky I was to have him as I fell asleep in his loving and warm embrace around me, shielding me from the cold, rain air.
Author Note: I just had to add the 'Does my been half naked bother you?' Quote from Jacob in the book Eclipse. I know it crakes up most of Team Jacob and I know Taylor loves it too. Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and please keep those reviews coming! I love reading feedback! =)