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"Touch my fucking girl again and I'll kill you," Jared said. The guys face began to turn all different colors from red, to blue, and finally purple. Jared's whole body was vibrating and I knew I had to stop him before he phased or worse killed the guy.

"Jared!" I screamed and scrambled to my feet. I placed a calming hand on his arm. "Put him down Jared. It's okay, I'm fine," I said soothingly. Slowly the anger from his face faded and he didn't look like a potential killer anymore.

"Apologize," he said through his teeth giving the guy a shake. His hands were wrapped around Jared's arm trying to get him to let go.

"S..s..sorry," he managed to get out. A blood vessel had busted and now one of his eyes was blood red. It creeped me out. I nodded at his apology and Jared threw him down on the ground and looked at him in disgust as he coughed and wheezed for air. I looked over to Rachel and Paul and saw that Paul was standing over the body of the other guy who looked like he was out cold and moving in on the friend.

"Paul no, it's okay," Rachel said placing a restraining hand on his arm. Paul snarled through his teeth and looked at the guy.

"You're lucky you didn't touch her you little shit. Otherwise you'd be lying next to your friend. You come near them again and I'll hunt you down," he said in a guttural voice. It didn't even sound human. The guy nodded and we got in the car and drove off. Paul and Jared were still fuming and twice we had to convince Paul that he didn't need to turn the car back around and go find them again.

"Babe its fine," Rachel said rubbing his thigh. "I've dealt with shitheads like them before back at school." Paul got angry all over again and we had to convince him that we didn't need to drive to Washington State to find them.

"What did you do?" I asked curious. I know absolutely nothing about self-defense and lately I've been getting hit on by more and more jerks.

"Well me and my best friend Dionne took a self defense class twice a week and we learned some techniques. I can teach you," she said looking back at me. I nodded and felt Jared tense up. I knew he was mad at the fact that I would have to defend myself at all. I prepared myself for another couple of months of over-protectiveness and sighed.

Jared's POV

When Paul dropped us off Kim went inside her house and I hopped in through her window. I'm sure her mom suspected that I stayed in her room and slept over at night after a year of us dating but she never said anything. I was so mad that those idiots messed up my whole night. When I saw that bastard holding Kim I saw red. I wanted to rip him to pieces starting with his hands that he dared to put on her. I would have felt no remorse in killing him either. If Paul and I weren't there…I shivered not even wanting to go down that road. I was still fuming when Kim walked in scrubbing the makeup off her face. She smiled at me brightly and shook her hair out the curls now completely gone.

"Hey honey," she said and I tried to smile back but I was still preoccupied with my thoughts. She sighed. "Jared, it's over and done with. Just let it go. I'm fine and he didn't hurt me."

"He could of!" I almost shouted but managed to keep my voice down. "You should have just let me kill the little fucker." I clenched my hands into fists and felt a shiver go down my spine.

"Maybe you need to phase to let some of your aggression out," she suggested looking at me warily. I shook my head. I still had the scent of that guy in my nose and I knew if I left her I would go looking for him.

"I don't trust myself alone," I said glaring at the floor. I watched her feet come into view and she placed her hand on my chest and looked up at me.

"Jared it's okay. Calm down. Do I need to call Sam?" she asked. I shook my head.

"You're the only person I want to be with," I said. She got up on her tiptoes and poked out her lips. I kissed her softly and just holding her made me relax. The red haze that clouded my sight for the last hour faded and I could see and think clearly now. The power of imprinting is amazing.

"Okay now?" she asked wrapping her arms around me. I nodded into her hair and inhaled her scent. "Good." She said. "Now I need to go shower. Promise to be here when I get back?" I nodded again and let her go. I decided that I probably needed a quick shower too so I ran home and showered and raced back and I still made it before she was even done. She came back into the room with a pair of black silk shorts and a tank top. I shuddered but knew there wasn't much we could do with her mom home. Well it's not like that stopped me before but in the mood I was in I could wait until tomorrow when nobody was around because I wanted something a bit more vocal than we could do at the moment. I got under the covers and she followed after me snuggling against me. Her presence did more for me than anyone else could and I found myself drifting off to sleep. I dreamt that I went back and killed that guy slowly. I woke up with a smile on my face.

I went with my mom to go ring shopping. At first she was worried that Kim might be pregnant and that's why I wanted to get engaged but I told her it was a promise ring and we weren't planning on getting married anytime soon. She was relieved.

"Well I feel like Kim is more of a simple girl so we don't need to get her anything to gaudy," she said as we went into the second store of the day. I knew what I had in mind but I just hadn't found the right one yet.

"Mom it has to be perfect. Something that represents Kim, simple yet elegant," I said. She smiled and started tearing up again. She had been crying off and on since I approached her about this a week ago. Now graduation was next week and I planned on proposing to Kim that night after the cookout. "Mom not again," I sighed and held her as she boo hooed on my shoulder.

"I just can't believe my little boy is going to get engaged," she said. I rolled my eyes and smiled indulgently. When she finally composed herself we looked around some more. Everything was wrong, either something was too big or too small or was doing too much. I didn't realize ring shopping took this long. At the fifth store I was feeling discouraged when I saw it. It was perfect. It was simple with a stone in the middle and little designs on the side. I knew Kim would love it. It was right in my price range so I got it and on the way back home I felt like it was burning a hole in my pocket. I asked my mom to hold onto it for me just in case. I didn't want anything to happen to it.

Then the doubts began. What if she said no? What if she didn't like it? What if she didn't want to spend the rest of her life with me? I mean I knew these past few weeks after the incident at the club I had been getting on her nerves and being extremely overprotective. We even argued about it with her storming out of her own house to get away from me. I've never seen Kim storm out of anyplace ever. I put my hands on my forehead and sighed. I was going to go crazy, I just knew it. I went over to Sam's because I felt like he was the only one who could relate. He and Emily were engaged and their wedding was fast approaching. I was sitting on his couch with my head in my hands again. Emily was out with Rachel going shopping somewhere so we didn't have to worry about being overheard.

"Sam," I started, "how did you feel after you bought Emily's ring for her?" he laughed.

"I felt like I was going crazy," he said looking at me sympathetically. I sighed.

"Yeah that's how I feel right now," I said. "I mean I know she loves me but what if that's not enough?"

"The way I see it this. Because of the connection we have with our imprintees we know what they're feeling right?" I nodded. "Well if they weren't ready to take the next step in our relationship then we wouldn't feel the urge to make them happy and do something about it." I thought about this for a second.

"Hey maybe you're right! If Kim didn't want to be engaged to me then I wouldn't feel like I had to propose to her," I said.

"Well you don't have to do it Jared. Only if it's what you want to," he said.

"Trust me. I've wanted to since I first realized we were imprinted. I just wanted to wait until she was ready and now I think she is," I said. I smiled and felt relieved for the first time in days.

"So when are you going to do it?" he asked.

"After the cookout, I want it to be special."

"Well good luck Jared. Kim is lucky to have you. I've watched you grow up into a good guy and I'm proud of you," he said. I felt an uncomfortable lump in my throat.

"Thanks Sam," I said. "But I'm the lucky one."

Oh my Jared is rather intimidating isn't he? I guess nobody else better touch his girl!

And he's going to propose to Kim! Ahhh I can't wait! Don't forget to weiver!