There You Go Again

by inspire-the-writer-x3

After Hayley's heart is broken, there's no better thing to do but to immerse herself in monster hunting; especially when there's a rare but vicious monster on the loose. But what happens when she finds herself falling for someone she'd never expect?

4. Temptations and Invitations

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SYNOPSIS: After Hayley's heart is broken, there's no better thing to do but to immerse herself in monster hunting; especially when there's a rare but vicious monster on the loose. But what happens when she finds herself falling for someone she'd never expect?

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Chapter 4: Temptations and Invitations

"You can't make Jake and I share the room! If I couldn't share the room with Akira, what makes you think I'll be allowed to share one with Jake, and not just the god damned room, but the bed too! The bed?" I shrieked, unable to control my shock.

Jake rolled his eyes, averting them from mine as he looked outside the car window. Yuki just giggled, as she looked back to me from her front seat. Even though Keiko wasn't looking at me because she was driving the vehicle, I could feel her smirk in the tense atmosphere. I frowned frustratedly, unsure if I was annoyed at the twins for making me share a room with Jake, or if I was annoyed at me for actually looking forward to sharing the room with Jake.

In all honesty, I couldn't remember the last proper time I had spent some real time with Jake. I guess what happened on the aeroplane was nice, and the thought of laying on Jake's chest again made me blush with such intensity, I had to turn my head away from everyone else so noone would notice. But because of our different social circles and the incredible busy schedule that myself, Hayley Steele, which included charity work, cheer-leading and my ex-boyfriend, had, I could never squeeze in time for Jake and Felix. The last time I had gone to the movies together with him had been a little over a month ago, and guilt immediately washed through me.

"Not going to list anymore reasons why you don't want to share a room, let alone a bed with me?"

I looked up as a familiar voice interrupting my thoughts. My eyes flickered to a handsome face with a drop-dead gorgeous smirk; pools of chocolate mesmerizing me and pulling me in that I had to blink a few times to make sure I wasn't imagining Jake being this hot.

Jake Collins...hot? Who would've thought...

"You guys never stop arguing do you?" Keiko laughed lightly, "You better not make too much noise by talking at night. Yuki and I like to sleep, thank you,"

"Oh, I assure you, that if we'll be making any noise, it won't be because we're talking," Jake winked, as my eyes widened at his suggestion.

No, no, no. Jake Collins- my friend, my monster hunting partner, did not just suggest that. When a bad mental image of Jake and I kissing appeared in my head, I turned away so they wouldn't see me blush...again. Yuki and Keiko giggled uncontrollably, taking longer than I had to respond to the particular comment because of the language barrier.

The rest of the car ride was in silence, though I could feel Jake's occassional glances at me. I had no idea why but his wandering eyes were starting to agitate and excite me at the same time. Was it normal to be so confused at your good friend after a horrible break up?

"We have arrived at our house," Yuki spoke softly, "We will help you get your luggage. Come on,"

Jake and I both got out of the car and stood in front of Yuki and Keiko's home. It was a small brown bricked house with an orange roof. It had a bit of a modern edge to it with a glass verandah on the second floor and tulips decorated outside. There was also a small angel fountain near the garage door and I noticed how beautiful the marble was cut to make such a thing. Yuki gave Jake the keys to open the door, and he went to do as he was told.

"You have a lovely home," I smiled, as Yuki and Keiko grabbed my luggage from the car.

"Thank you," Keiko bowed, "We hope you enjoy your stay,"

"But do not enjoy it too much with Jake in your room," Yuki winked, as the two twins laughed together teasingly as I scowled.

After a few minutes of tugging our luggages into the twins' homes, they led us upstairs and showed us where we would be staying. Jake and I would be sharing a small, pale yellow walled room. It was rather dull because the shutters were closed. There was quite a large bed in the middle of the room, and I swore I heard a sigh of relief from Jake.

"Is the room ok?" Keiko asked in worry, probably due to our silence, "I know you guys hate the idea of sharing the bed but-"

"It's perfect," I reassured, "Seriously, we're so grateful that you're even letting us into your house in the first place. You could've just left us on the street," I continued, as Jake chuckled, nodding along, "I apologise on behalf of Jake and I for getting you so worried, and thankyou so much again for allowing us stay with you,"

"The pleasure is all ours," Yuki chirped, "Although I do miss Felix. I do wish he was here..."

"We'll call him right away," Jake offered as everyone gave him a shocked look because it sounded like Jake cared for someone other than himself, "Besides, we needed to check on how he's settling in with him,"

I didn't miss the snarl he had made when he said the word 'him'- him referring to Akira. He never liked Akira; right from the very beginning. It had always had to be a competition between the two, which was weird because I thought they would get along, despite their giant egos. Men.

"Sure, but please inform us later of how he is doing," Keiko asked sweetly with Yuki nodding enthusiastically.

"Of course," I smiled, obliging their request, "Oh and before you go, where's the bathroom? I really need a shower,"

"It is behind that door over there. Maybe you two should save our water bill and shower together," Yuki winked as Keiko had a huge smile plastered on her face.

I made a disgusted face and rolled my eyes as Jake whispered something into the two girls' ears. Automatically, I reached over and pulled his shirt back so he could stand next to me, but he stumbled into me a little, turning to face me, so I fell back and he was now on top of me. My breath hitched and got caught in my throat as Jake's nose was nearly touching mine. I hadn't been this close to him since last Valentine's day where we had to pretend to be a couple.

"Well, we will be off now. You two love birds have some fun, but not too much fun," Keiko giggled.

"And since we are friends, we will not tell Akira about Jake and you," Yuki winked again, as she shut the door.

"There is no Jake and I!" I screamed, but realised I had probably burst Jake's poor ear drums because of how close he was.

"Geez Hayley, are you always this loud?" he winced as his eyes shut.

"Shut up Jake," I retaliated, even though I knew it was a poor comeback, "Get off me, for god's sakes! You weigh a tonne,"

"That's all muscle, Steele," Jake grinned proudly, "And no thanks, I sort of like this position,"

"Ja-"

Unfortunately, that was all I got out before I couldn't breathe. Jake's lips attacked my neck and were sucking on my skin menancingly. It seemed the world had stopped. I could barely contain a moan when Jake's tongue ran across the most-likely-turned-into-a-hickey spot on my neck. When he removed those beautiful lips of his from my neck, it took everything I had to not grab that head of his and pull it down to meet my eager lips. I never knew Jake would have such an effect on me. It felt like I was powerful and invincible- like I didn't need anyone but him and I just knew everything would be fine. I looked at Jake's slightly heaving chest, then up to his eyes that were a darker brown now. Suddenly, something flashed in them and his small smile had turned into a frown. Was it...regret?

Who knew the feeling of Jake actually feeling dirty and disgusted that he had just given me the best and most exhilirating neck kiss of my life would actually hurt me? A piece of me just died on the inside and I felt the tears start to swell up. Jake tore his eyes aware from me and was just about to get off me when, without thinking, I pushed him away so he fell to the ground. I only saw a flash of surprise on his face before I ran into the bathroom for my shower. As I turned the taps for the water to just take me away, the tears started to fall. And the worst part was, I couldn't stop them.

It had been nearly half an hour, I presumed, that I had run away from that little...incident with Jake Collins. I reluctantly got out of the shower, with the strawberry scented shampoo and condition and body wash I had used that Keiko and Yuki owned; overpowering my nose, and soon, I realised that I had forgotten to grab EVERYTHING when I had ran into the bathroom. No clean undies or bra, or clothes; not even a towel. How the hell was I going to go out into the bedroom when I knew Jake was probably there? I looked around frantically for any sort of clothing or even cloth to help me through this naked state. Luckily, I found a pink towel hanging casually over a hook behind the door. I wrapped it tightly around my body and was unsatisfied that it only reached to half way down my thighs. I sighed in defeat, knowing that it hid all the important bits so I should've been alright with it. I considered wearing the clothes I had worn on the aeroplane, but they smelt and were dirty. Sighing, I grabbed the clothes I was wearing before. I looked into the mirror to make sure Jake couldn't tell I had been crying. My eyes were not very puffy but quite red and I frowned as I discovered a purple-red bruise thing on the side of my neck.

Like I had predicted, Jake had given me a damn hickey.

I couldn't help but feel a little giggly that Jake had given me such a passionate kiss. Though I would have wished it to be on my lips and not my neck. Now people would be asking me where I had got it from and the only way to avoid that would be to wear a turtle neck for the next week or so. I groaned in realisation.

I slowly opened the door as my eyes glanced around the room for Jake. It was empty. I was deeply relieved, as I crept outside discreetly. I unlocked my suitcase that was located next to the bed that Jake and I would be sharing. I shuddered involuntarily, thinking about how that would feel like if being with Jake that close in a few seconds was enough to make me go crazy. I looked through my suitcase and found a pair of navy blue undies. I slid them on as I found my matching bra. I had just finished hooking it when I placed my towel down on the bed to find my pyjamas. I was far too tired to do any monster hunting for the Vortex today.

I jolted in surprise when I heard a cough behind me.

"Jake!" I squealed, grabbing the nearest thing to cover my pretty much naked body.

"Uhh, Felix...I'll have to call you back," Jake croaked, as he shut off his watchcom and glanced at me with hungry eyes.

I struggled to put Jake's hoodie on but when it was properly covering me, I faced him again; no doubt with a tomato red face. He had snapped out of his trance and gave me a lazy smirk as his eyes travelled to my neck.

"Did I do that?"

I purposely avoided his gaze and walked back into the bathroom, slamming the door on my way in. Jake had been quite...weird about the hickey thing. I thought he would've been pissed off that he had cheated on his girlfriend...

Oh my god. I had forgotten about Leanne. What would Leanne say if she found about this? She would never be my friend again; not that I was ever that close to her, but still she was on the cheer-leading squad with me and if Leanne didn't like me, there was a big chance of me getting kicked off since she was close to Roxanne.

There was a knock on the door and the tears started to fall again. What was up with me and crying so much in the past 2 days? I cursed inwardly, and more tears started to fall down my cheeks. I wiped them away with the warm sleeves of Jake's hoodie.

"Hey Hayley, is everything ok?" Jake whispered; concern lacing his perfectly husky voice.

"Yeah," I had managed to cough out, "I'm all good,"

"Well then come out. You're going to get sick in my hoodie, though I enjoy the view," Jake chuckled, as I imagined him winking right now, "And besides, we need to talk,"

His tone changed from joking and smug to serious and that alone, scared the hell out of me. If Jake was going to talk about his neck kiss and how he hated me for doing this to him and Leanne, I didn't want to hear it. I wasn't sure I could take it in this fragile emotional state I was in at the moment.

Before I could decline his offer, or more of a command to talk, I heard him undoing the bolts on the inside of the door. I smiled as I thought of last Halloween where he had used this trick to save his little sister from 2 viscious monsters. Jake could be such a sweetheart sometimes. With a small kick, the door came tumbling down and I saw Jake with his hands on his hips, looking accomplished at his actions, as usual. His eyes though, suddenly turned confused as his brows furrowed.

"What are you doing on the floor, Hayley?" Jake asked, "And are you crying?"

I did everything in my power to not look at Jake until I felt his warm hand find my chin and push it gently to meet his eyes.

"Is everything alright?"

"No, it isn't," I mumbled.

"Is this about the hickey I've given you?" Jake smirked but his face soon fell when he saw the state I was in, "Hayley..."

"You cheated on your girlfriend," I scoffed, unable to keep it any longer, "After Brett cheated on me, I knew that whoever cheats is literally scum. And I just did it with you and I can't forgive myself and-"

"Whoa, calm down," he smiled affectionately, "First of all, I cheated on Leanne and for that, I'm at fault. You didn't do anything, Hayley. I kissed your neck and all you did was fight back a reaction. Sorry I provoked you, obviously, I shouldn't have done that,"

"Oh..." was all I could mustered before he leaned in close.

"And let's keep this a secret between us two yeah? I really like Leanne and I honestly didn't mean to kiss you. You were just there and acting all beautiful again,"

I stared at him for a moment, searching for some truth in the statement he had just blurted out and luckily, all I could see was sincerity.

"You really do mean it..." I murmured happily to myself.

"Of course, Hayley," Jake chuckled, "Now promise me this hickey stays a secret between you and me,"

I nodded as he took my hands and lifted me up back to my feet. I gave him a big hug and felt him grin against my hair.

"And for the record," I teased, playing with the hem of his shirt, making his eyes go wide, "You act beautiful too,"

I ran away before he had the chance to reply. I grabbed the pyjamas from my suitcase and ran out the door before I collided with someone.

"Ow..." I cringed, realising my nose was still sore from the door slamming on it.

"Sorry, oh no, sorry Hayley!" Yuki paniced, "I am so sorry; I did not mean to hurt you; I was just coming to see you; oh no, I am so sorry!"

"It's fine," I laughed, happy to see it was Yuki and not Jake, "What did you want to see me for?"

"I know you are probably tired from your aeroplane trip and everything, but how would you like to come shopping with Keiko and I? There is a school dance tomorrow night and although Akira has not asked you to it yet, I think he would like to," Yuki giggled, "Keiko and I have not got a dress to wear for the event and we would like to invite you shopping with us as an opportunity to explore the city, culture and fashion of Japan, but also purchase something to wear when you go with us! Jake and Felix are also invited, of course, if that is what you're worried about,"

"Oh...but I don't have any Japanese money yet..." I noticed; my excited grin faltering as I realised I would be unable to go to a shopping trip with Keiko and Yuki, meaning that there was a slim chance we would be bonding any time soon.

"That is fine," Yuki replied happily, "Keiko and I insist on buying you a dress for the dance! The principal of our school have even requested you guys to come, as part of our exchange program. They do not know about the Troop we all work in,"

"Although it sounds fun and everything, I do feel like I'm being a burden. You guys are already supplying food and shelter, and you spending extra money on me seems-"

"It is the very least we can do, after tricking you last time we went to America," Keiko admitted quietly, walking over to see Yuki and I, "And we would like to, so please come,"

"Ok, ok," I sighed as I gave into Keiko and Yuki's incessant begging, "Let me grab something decent to wear and I'll meet you downstairs in a few minutes?"

The twins nodded as I walked into the bedroom to get a change of clothes. I noticed Jake was in the bathroom taking a shower as I heard the water pound down, and the steam escape through the gaps of the door. It looked like Jake had fixed the door he had broke down before to come find me. I chuckled softly at the thought of Jake being a prince charming- being my prince charming. I shook my head as I grabbed my black shorts and my red tank top. I slid off my- I meant Jake's hoodie and put them on. I wanted to choose comfortable shoes to shop in, as we would be walking around a lot, so I decided to go with a pair of violet flats. I smiled at myself in the mirror, noting I looked appropriate for the occasion. I suddenly felt like I was missing something and realised I missed the warmth and comfort Jake's hoodie gave me. Immediately, I put it back on, pulled my hair up into a bun and ran down the stairs when I heard Keiko and Yuki starting the car engine. I jumped into the car, as Yuki pressed a button on a remote control device that closed the garage door.

"Hey guys, thanks again for inviting me and doing all these nice things for Jake and I," I smiled again as the two just giggled and rolled their eyes.

"We already said, the pleasure was ours," Yuki chirped, as she instructed Keiko to go to her favourite clothing store.

"Exactly what Yuki said," Keiko laughed, "And Hayley?"

"Yeah?"

"What's that thing on your neck?"

I slapped my palm onto my forehead and the two just laughed. I swore I could've died right then and there. I had never been so embarassed in my whole entire life.

Jake Collins, you're going to pay.

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Hope you liked this chapter! Sorry there's not a lot of action, but a little bit of fluff. I purposely made Jake kiss Hayley on the neck because a kiss on the lips has a lot more emotion and feelings involved; obviously!
I have a few ideas for the next chapter, heheh~
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