Embellishments
"Alright. Let's get started with the kitchen." I instructed. Grandpa was in the living room and had already started painting it the royal blue that I had chosen yesterday at Home Depot. Seth and Billy were helping grandpa and the others were painting the royal blue on the hallways that went to the bedrooms. Seth had even brought Alyssa to help out. She was with us in the kitchen.
"You have really bold taste, Nessie." She said with a bit of a nervous laugh. Jacob groaned. I laughed lightly.
"I like a little color. In my defense, I was raised in a house that was almost completely white. If it weren't for all the windows, white would be the only color I knew for the first few months of my life." Alyssa smiled.
"I'm not objecting to the idea of color. I just never thought to add so much color in one living space." I smiled back at her.
"Oh well. Less talk, more paint." Alyssa laughed lightly and started painting the corners with the small brush. I was glad to have finally met Alyssa. She definitely deserved Seth. They both had a whimsical sense of humor and were always smiling.
She was from Boston and was going to the University of Seattle as a transfer student and was majoring in Psychology and Math. So she was three years older than Seth. And she was a really pretty girl. She had dark brown hair that had tints of red in them from highlights she liked putting in her hair herself. It was a subtle color difference that looked very natural. I loved her hair. So did Kim. It was on the shorter side, but it still came to just above her shoulders. And she had a square jaw that was just the right size for her head with full lips and shining hazel eyes. It was cute to watch her stand next to Seth. She was a tiny thing that only stood at about five two. I guess petite would be the word to describe her.
"Nessie, how long will this take to dry?" Jacob had already finished lining his section of the kitchen and was now starting to fill in the color. I put down my brush and walked over to him to give him a hug.
"Don't worry, Jacob. It will all be done drying by the time we have to go to bed. Promise."
"But this stuff takes hours to dry." I hugged Jacob a little tighter.
"That's why I forced all of you to start at nine in the morning. That gives the paint plenty of time to dry." Jacob sighed.
"If you say so." I giggled and got back to painting my section of the kitchen. I was loving the burgundy.
"Do you want two coats or three." I looked at Alyssa when she asked her question.
"Two is fine." I was amazed how fast she was done with her section of the kitchen. Jacob and I finished the first coat shortly after she did. She was humming to herself while she was painting. "Do you like singing?" Alyssa wasn't sure I was talking to her at first. She heard the silence that followed, then turned around to face me.
"Me?" I nodded. "Oh. No, I don't really sing. I play the piano and violin." I smiled.
"Me too." Her face lit up.
"Really?" I nodded my head.
"Yeah. I get a lot more practice with the piano, but we have so many instruments at my house that I've played all of them at least once. I like the violin the most out of all the string instruments we have, but the piano is my best." She was looking at me and kept painting. She looked at the wall every now and then to make sure she wasn't painting something she shouldn't.
"Who taught you how to play?" I smiled.
"My daddy taught me. He's the best pianist I know." She giggled.
"Yeah. My grandma taught me how to play. She used to play the piano for her church and such. I got into the violin when I was in elementary school."
"Was it one of those beginner instrument programs or something?" Jacob asked. Alyssa nodded.
"Yeah. They get you started in fifth grade and you continue from there. I was actually able to get into the honor band by the time I was a sophomore in high school."
"That's awesome. They didn't have that at my school. Learning how to play an instrument was something you did privately in Port Angeles or Forks if you could afford it."
Jacob and Alyssa talked about that for most of the time we were in the kitchen painting. The kitchen looked great when we were done. I stood in the middle of the kitchen with Jacob and Alyssa and looked at our handy work. Alyssa was smiling filled with pride at the work we'd just finished and Jacob kept a blank face.
"I love it." Alyssa said.
"I do too." I looked at Jacob when he didn't say anything. His face stayed blank and I sighed. "You hate it don't you?" Jacob looked at me and started shaking his head.
"No. No I don't hate it. It'll just take me some getting used to is all." I sighed. "Nessie, I promise, I don't hate it." I nodded.
"If you promise." Alyssa spoke.
"It's a gorgeous color for a kitchen. It makes it feel rich and warm." I smiled at her.
"Thanks." She smiled back. I looked out the little arch of the kitchen to see how everyone was doing with the living room. I walked passed Alyssa and out of the kitchen into the living room. "How's the living room coming along?" Seth and the others looked at me and smiled. Seth answered.
"Great. We're already getting started on our second coat." Seth looked at Alyssa. "How's the kitchen?" Alyssa smiled back.
"Great. I like burgundy for a kitchen." They smiled a little more at each other before she walked over to him and hugged him. He wrapped his free arm around her and kissed the top of her head. Jacob walked out of the kitchen and came up behind me. I looked behind at him.
"Let's get started on my bathroom. That won't take long." I took Jacob's hand and pulled him with me to my bathroom. The paint can was open and ready to be poured into the rolling stand.
"What made you pick lavender?" Jacob asked as we entered my bathroom. It was a little cramped with both of us in there, but it wasn't too bad. Nothing that would make it hard to paint.
"I like lavender for a bathroom. It's relaxing." Jacob shrugged.
"I guess." I giggled.
"Is there any chance that you'll let me paint your room?" Jacob chuckled and ran his fingers through my hair. It took a lot to keep myself from shuttering. I blushed instead.
"Don't get your hopes up, Nessie." I smacked his hand playfully and he laughed a little more. He poured the paint in the pan and started outlining the walls. I did the same. It didn't take long to get the bathroom outlined with the color. When it was finished, we started the first layer of paint. "Alice is taking you shopping later today, right?" I nodded.
"Yeah. She wants to get me up to speed with the latest fashion." Jacob chuckled.
"What about school supplies?" I giggled.
"Yeah, I guess we could shop for that too." Jacob and I started laughing as we painted. Grandpa walked into the bathroom with us.
"Hey, Nessie, we're done with the living room now." I smiled.
"Awesome. Jacob and I are almost done with the bathroom, so we can start on my room soon." Grandpa smiled at me.
"What color were you making your room again?" Jacob smirked and I gently smacked his arm. He laughed lightly when I did that. Grandpa was laughing lightly too when I looked at him.
"Red." Grandpa's face became shocked.
"Red?" I put my hands on my hips in mock offense.
"Yeah. What's wrong with red?" Jacob started laughing a little harder and so did grandpa.
"Nothing's wrong with red, Ness. It just seems like an extreme color." Jacob laughed harder yet again.
"Yeah. It suits her perfectly." I smacked Jacob's arm again and he continued to laugh. Grandpa started laughing with him.
"I suppose it does." I looked at grandpa and started pouting.
"Grandpa, don't be mean." Grandpa held up his hands defensively.
"Jacob said it, not me." Jacob laughed.
"Thanks for throwing me under the bus Charlie." Grandpa took his hands out of their defensive position and went to his sides. He walked a little closer so that he was right next to Jacob and patted hit back.
"No problem, Jacob." Jacob rolled his eyes and continued painting. We were already on our second coat. When we were done, we went to my room to start there. All my stuff was stuffed in the middle of the room and everyone was standing as close to the middle as possible. Billy was already starting to roll on the paint. Everyone else was outlining.
"We already started, Nessie." Alyssa said cheerfully. I smiled back.
"Great." I grabbed one of the brushes and started outlining with everyone else. Billy finished part of the wall and Jacob took over from where Billy couldn't reach. I heard the buzzer go off. Jacob was about to put down his brush. "Don't worry, I'll go get it."
Jacob nodded his head and continued painting the wall. I walked out of my room and made my way towards the door. When I got to the door I pressed the talk button on the monitor.
"Hello?"
"It's us, Nessie. Could you let us up?" It was daddy. I smiled.
"Sure." I pressed the open button and heard the buzz from the door downstairs as they came up. Daddy knocked on the door when he reached it. I could smell him. I could also smell Alice and momma. I opened the door. "Hey daddy." He smiled and closed the distance between us to hug me.
"Hey, honey." He looked around a moment. "I see you've already finished most of the house." I smiled.
"For the most part." Momma and Alice walked in. Alice was practically bouncing.
"I love it, Nessie. It's so colorful. I can't wait until Esme sees it. She'll be so proud of you." I smiled at Alice.
"That's the idea." I looked at daddy with pleading eyes. I asked him, mentally, to tell me if Jacob liked it or not. Daddy sighed.
"It's a lot more than he's used to is all." I sighed.
"I knew it. He hates it." Daddy hugged me tighter.
"I never said he hated it, Nessie. He'll learn to like it." He kissed the top of my head. "Promise." I sighed. Momma walked over to me.
"What color are you painting Jacob's room?" Momma asked me with a small smile and a tint of humor.
"I'm not. Jacob wanted at least one white room, so he picked his." Momma laughed.
"Sounds like something he'd do. Are you guys done painting?" I shook my head.
"We're almost done with my room." Momma smiled. She and Alice started walking to my room to see the progress. I heard Alice shrike with excitement when she saw it. Daddy had his arm around me while we walked to my room.
"I finally get to meet Alyssa." I smiled.
"Yeah. You'll like her. She's really nice. And she plays the piano." Daddy chuckled.
"Her thoughts are cute. She likes to daydream about kittens and puppies." I giggled.
"You can never go wrong with kittens and puppies." Daddy continued to laugh lightly.
"Exactly." When we got into my room, Alice was already helping finish the walls. Daddy walked over to Seth and Alyssa. Seth turned around to face daddy and they started talking. Alyssa turned around to face daddy when she noticed Seth doing it too. She smiled and shook daddy's hand. She looked a little taken back by his cold hand but got over it quickly. I walked over to them. "So you're Alyssa." Seth smiled and wrapped his arm around her. She snuggled into him.
"Yeah. And you're Edward?" Daddy nodded.
"My daughter tells me that you play the piano." She smiled and nodded.
"Yeah." Daddy smiled kindly at her.
"So what are you majoring in?" Seth just kept smiling.
"Psychology and Calculus." Daddy smiled.
"Good subjects to get into." She nodded and Seth kept smiling proudly at her. Daddy talked to Alyssa for a little bit longer before Alice, almost singlehandedly, finished painting my room and interrupted daddy.
"We better get going. I don't want to be beaten to the good stuff." Daddy rolled his eyes.
"We won't be, Alice."
"Yeah, if we leave now." Alice took my hand in hers and walked with me to the door. Daddy and momma followed after. I looked at Alice, and I heard daddy sigh and chuckle lightly at my thoughts.
"Do you mind if Jacob comes with us?" Alice looked at me and sighed.
"Jacob." She called to him.
"Yeah?" Jacob walked out of my room to look at us.
"Nessie wants you to come with us to Port Angeles." Jacob smiled and laughed a little. He shrugged after a moment.
"Sure. We're done painting anyway." I smiled. Jacob told everyone he was leaving and that they should do the same. When everyone had left, Jacob locked up and we went to the Volvo. Alice and daddy sat up front. Momma sat in the back with me and Jacob. I sat in the middle.
It took about fifteen minutes for us to get to Port Angeles, and only two minutes for her to pick a store that she liked. She decided to start with a Carson's. When we got in, the store wasn't overly crowded, so that was a relief. There was a shoe section at the left of the store that immediately caught my eye. Jacob noticed me eyeing the shoes and laughed lightly.
"Can we look at shoes first Alice?" Alice looked at me and smiled.
"Of course." She took my hand and dragged me with her to the shoes. I looked behind me at Jacob. He was talking to momma and daddy. They were mumbling so I couldn't hear them. Jacob's eyes were nervous and daddy was answering Jacob's silent questions with the same look of concern. I looked at Alice.
"Is something wrong?" Alice looked at me questioningly.
"No. What makes you think there's something wrong?" I looked back at daddy and Jacob, who were no longer nervous. They smiled and started making their way to the shoe section with us. I sighed and looked back at Alice.
"Never mind." Alice shrugged and brought me to a section of shoes that she liked. She knew what was going on, that was for sure. But I didn't want to ruin the shopping trip. Jacob, daddy and momma followed after us and looked at the shoes with us. Alice grabbed a nice pair of shoes.
"Try these on." She handed me the sample shoes and started looking for more shoes. They were a pair of green flats that had a flowery design and a sweet belt along the front. These were my size, so I took off my right shoe and tried on the flat.
"They're cute." Alice smiled and looked at daddy.
"Edward, be a dear and find someone that works here and get those in a seven." Daddy sighed and nodded.
"Alright, Alice." Momma giggled lightly at daddy's tone. I handed daddy the sample shoe and he walked right up to a woman that was arranging a few shoes on a display table. By the time daddy came back, Alice already handed me another pair of shoes.
"Try these." I looked at the shoes she handed me. They had three inch heels and was a bold yellow with some green accents around the top lining and the peep toe. I tried the right on and liked it. I smiled at Alice and she jumped and looked at daddy. Daddy sighed.
"Give me the shoe, Nessie." I smiled sweetly and handed daddy the shoe. Daddy found the same woman from earlier and asked her for that pair in a seven and taking the box she was already bringing over to us. Alice handed me another shoe that was a dark purple strappy sandal with a three inch heel. I tried them on and loved them. I turned to face Jacob, who was sitting next to me on the square chair.
"What do you think?" Jacob looked at me with a shocked expression that I would ask his opinion of all there. He sighed and looked at the shoe.
"It's nice."
"How nice?" I was teasing him now. Jacob wasn't a shoe person, I knew, but it was fun to tease him. He shrugged.
"They're purple? I don't know." I giggled at him.
"They're better than just nice." I brought my foot a little closer to him so he could see the shoe. "Look at it. Isn't that a beautiful shoe, Jacob?" He laughed and shook his head. His tone was sarcastic.
"It's lovely, Nessie." I laughed with him and momma, daddy and Alice joined.
"Of course it is." At the end of shoe shopping at Carson's, which took Alice and I at least an hour, we had eight new pairs of shoes. Momma and Jacob were talking for most of that hour. We were all holding at least one box while we made our way upstairs where the clothes were.
"Alice, do you know where a Charlotte Russe is in Port Angeles?" I heard Jacob groan to himself, but I ignored it. Alice beamed.
"Of course I do. We'll definitely go there and look for more shoes." Jacob brought his head closer to me from behind me on the escalator.
"Dear god, Ness, how many pairs of shoes do you need?" I looked at him and smiled.
"You can never have enough shoes, Jacob. I'd buy out Charlotte Russe if daddy would let me." Daddy and momma laughed lightly and Jacob just sighed.
"Whatever you say, Nessie." I smiled at him and got off of the escalator when we got to the second floor. When I got up there, Alice was already looking through the racks trying to find some new clothes. I walked over to her and looked at the clothes she already picked out for me to try on. I heard Jacob sigh. "You don't waste any time, do you?" Alice smiled at Jacob.
"Not a second." Jacob couldn't help but smile and laugh lightly. Momma looked at all the clothes that Alice had picked out for me and approved or disapproved of her choices and which ones I would try on. Jacob stayed close to me through the whole trip and was sitting in the dressing room with Alice when I tried things on. He, once again, always responded with no more than a 'you look nice' or 'it's beautiful'. I guess I couldn't expect much from him in this area.
When we finished shopping in Carson's, Alice found the Charlotte Russe I had wanted to go to and brought us to shoe heaven. When we got in, Alice took me straight to the boots. She said I needed to get something that was winter appropriate. We weren't in Charlotte Russe five minutes and Alice had already helped me pick an umpteen dozen shoes to try on. I was able to try on all the sample shoes and the lady could get them in my size while we tried on the next one. Jacob chuckled lightly while sitting next to me.
"What's so funny?" I smiled at Jacob and he just smiled back.
"Why do you bother trying them on? You're going to buy them anyway." Alice walked over and answered Jacob with a teasing smug smile.
"Because we want to see how beautiful they are, just for fun." I giggled and Jacob laughed and shrugged. Alice also picked out several shirts, jeans and sweaters for me to try on after we were done looking at the shoes.
"How are we going to get all this out to the car?" Jacob asked while looking at the piles of boxes that we had. I shrugged.
"They'll be in bags, so that makes it easier."
"Not by much." I smacked Jacob's arm teasingly while handing daddy another pair of shoes I liked. Once I had chosen all the shoes I liked and tried on all the clothes that Alice had chosen for me to try one, we had enough boxes and bags to open our own store.
One outfit that Alice made me try on made me blush. It was a short skirt with lacy leggings and a flowy purple, magenta shirt and hung and had a low neck line and hung off of my shoulders. The bottom hugged around my hips to make a shape and I was wearing one of my new shoes with it. When I walked out, I kept blushing. Alice clapped her hands.
"It's beautiful, Nessie." Daddy rolled his eyes.
"Are you trying to make my daughter look like a hooker?" Alice looked at daddy with shear offense.
"How dare you say that? She does not look like a hooker." Daddy and Alice argued about this for a few minutes with no sign of a conclusion. Momma just rolled her eyes and said that she would rather I not wear something so revealing. I looked at Jacob.
"What do you think, Jacob?" I was asking honestly. If he liked it, then that was good enough for me. Jacob looked like he was about to answer, already looking a little nervous, but then daddy, momma and Alice looked at him, waiting for his answer. Eventually, he backed away and kept looking defensive.
"I plead the 5th." Daddy and momma started laughing. I smiled and thanked him soundlessly. Jacob smiled at me. Alice just looked annoyed.
"Fine. No on this outfit." I sighed with relief and went back in to try something else on. When I had finished trying on everything that Alice wanted me to try on, we paid for the stuff and went to a different store. By the end of clothes shopping, the car was stuffed to full capacity. Alice was about to make her way to the highway when Jacob spoke.
"Aren't we forgetting something?" Alice looked nervous and looked at Jacob from the mirror.
"We forgot something? What?" Jacob laughed lightly.
"School supplies." Alice's face calmed down.
"Oh, that. Don't worry. We have everything she needs back at the house. She'll have notebooks, pencils, paper and everything else she'll need. And, Nessie, Edward will show you how to use that graphing calculator when we get back, okay." I smiled and nodded.
"Alright." Jacob rolled his eyes and shook his head playfully. Alice insisted that we still go to Olympia and see if there was anything else at any of the others stores that we might find and like. Jacob didn't complain, but I knew he just wanted to go home. Daddy asked Alice to keep this shopping trip brief.
By the end of the shopping trip, Alice was sure to get me plenty of sweaters and long sleeved shirts that, in her words, would make me the number one focus of everyone at Forks High School. I tried not to think about that too much. I was used to attention, whether I wanted it or not, but this was different. These were kids 'my own age'. I'd never handled them. Claire was the closest I came to interactions with other kids. Everyone else were adults.
We had to force ourselves to, but we managed to all fit in the car even with all the bags and boxes that filled the trunk and back seat of the Volvo. We talked amongst ourselves on the way back to the house. Daddy and momma were talking with Alice most of the trip back and I pretty much talked just to Jacob. Jacob kept teasing me the whole way about how one day, I would have so much clothes and so many shoes that my closet would explode. When we got back, everyone helped get all the stuff back to the cottage and put it away. Emmett was sure to have his own fill of teasing me about my love of shoes.
When everything was put away, daddy took me back to the house with everyone and showed me how to use the graphing calculator he was letting me have. He gave me the list of classes I would be taking that he had gotten the other day.
English 1- JWP-bld. 4
Algebra 1-KTY-bld.2
World History-AJG-bld. 4
Earth Science-JCP-bld. 1
Lunch-CAF
Spanish 1-KFF-bld. 5
Study Hall-RTF-bld. 1
Block 1-FFR- GYM
"You put me in Spanish 1?" It seemed silly to put me in Spanish 1. I pretty much knew Spanish fluently thanks to daddy. Same thing with French and German, the other two languages the school provided. Daddy nodded his head.
"We can't just put you in a higher class. You need teacher recommendations. Same for everything else. I don't doubt you'll be able to get into higher classes next semester." I smiled at daddy and looked at my schedule again. I pointed at the initials.
"Did you have any of these teachers?" Daddy shook his head.
"No. I had different classes my freshman year at Forks High."
"I thought you couldn't get into higher classes." Daddy nodded.
"Not if you don't have anything to show that you can be in higher classes. Me and the others did. We'd been to enough high schools that we were able to get higher classes. But that still took a lot of persuasion on our part. But for you, we didn't have the documentation to back up our assurance that you could handle higher classes. And, unfortunately, Jenks doesn't handle that sort of documentation. The closest he gets to that sort of stuff is GEDs and high school and college degrees."
"Oh." I shrugged off the idea. When daddy and I were done with that, I asked about my license. "Is my license going to be ready by the time school starts?" Daddy laughed lightly and so did Jacob.
"Yes, but that doesn't really matter. You're supposed to be fourteen. You can't drive." I gaped at daddy.
"Then how am I getting to school?" Jacob shrugged.
"We're all driving you to school on your first day. After that, we'll all trade off taking you to school."
"When will I be able to drive myself?" Daddy smiled.
"Next year during your sophomore year. You'll be the first of your class to start driving to school." I sighed.
"That's okay, I guess." Daddy and Jacob laughed again at my pout. When it was dinner time, I made Jacob some dinner and watched him eat. Jacob didn't have patrol tonight, so I was planning on spending the night at his house. I needed to help him rearrange the furniture anyway. The paint was dry by now, that I knew.
When Jacob was done with dinner, daddy drove us back to Jacob's place. When we got there, daddy offered to help us move back the furniture, which Jacob said would be a big help. With daddy's help, it took no time to put everything back into place. I was very pleased with how everything turned out. The royal blue made the living room warm and cozy and an easy place to relax and lounge around in. Even Jacob liked it after everything was put back. Even the kitchen became appealing to him once we had everything put in its proper place.
Jacob still thought the red in my room was weird, but he didn't dare say that aloud. Once we were done, daddy stayed for an hour and just talked to Jacob and I about a few things, mostly things concerning school that he hadn't mentioned earlier. When he was done for the night, he said goodbye to us and went back home. When he was gone, Jacob smiled at me.
"What?" Jacob smirked.
"You've convinced me." I gave Jacob a questioning look.
"Convinced you of what?" Jacob shrugged.
"It's nice to have a little color around the house." I beamed and hugged Jacob around his neck and he hugged me back.
"Does that mean you like it?" I felt Jacob nod into my neck.
"Yeah, Nessie. I like it. It's very homey." I smiled into his neck.
"Does this mean you'll let me paint your room?" Jacob chuckled and shook his head.
"Don't push your luck, Nessie." With that, Jacob kissed my cheek and placed me down on my feet. When I looked at the time, it was eleven at night and Jacob told me to get ready for bed, cause he was tired. I giggled and did as he said. I went about my nightly routine and took a shower.
When I was done, I came out of the shower and started drying my hair. I heard the shower still going in Jacob's room and smiled. When I had towel dried my hair enough, I put on my pajamas and walked to Jacob's room. It was so white compared to the rest of the house. It didn't think about that, though. I walked over to Jacob's bed and lifted myself onto it and waited for him to get out of the shower. I didn't wait very long. But I was shocked when Jacob came out of his bathroom.
He was running the towel over his hair like he normally did after a shower, but he obviously wasn't expecting me, because he wasn't wearing anything. I saw everything. Every, dear I say it, glorious inch of him. He was muscular and handsome and not a thing out of place. But the lower I looked, the more my eyes widened. Like every other part of him, his legs we thick and muscular. I started blushing and holding my breath when my eyes looked at the center. The term well endowed was the first thing that came to my mind and I blushed even more. Jacob's eyes weren't open at first as he towel dried his hair, but when they were, they looked right at me, and he went pale.
His eyes widened when he saw that I was in the room with him. We just stared at each other for what seemed like forever with wide eyes and both our faces beet red. I couldn't stop looking. I was extremely embarrassed, but I wanted to look, despite myself. Jacob's eye even started twitching. I wasn't sure how long he was standing there in front of me. But eventually, he ran into his walk in closet that was across from his bathroom and shut the door.
Now I was staring at the comforter. I couldn't get the image of his naked body out of my head. I had never seen a naked man before. Even when he'd saved me from Dorian and fazed back in front of me, I hadn't seen him. I had only been looking at his face and I was far too happy to finally be safe that I hadn't taken any time to really look at him. But just now, I'd had every opportunity to look. I kept blushing as I thought about it. He really was handsome. Beautiful even.
I remembered one time a few years ago when I was in Jacksonville visiting grandma. Somehow, we had gotten on the subject of boys. She had deemed it appropriate to let me know that a man's body wasn't always the prettiest thing to look at. I didn't know where that little tidbit of information came from, but I just took her word for it. She would know better than me I suppose. And I also assumed that there was only so attractive that a man's body could be considering the many physical imperfections that humans had.
But looking at Jacob, grandma couldn't have been more wrong. It didn't even matter that I had no one to compare him to. He was beautiful and glorious and every physical attribute he had was full, muscular and proud. I was still blushing, but now I was smiling like the teenage girl I was supposed to be. I even started giggling to myself.
Jacob finally came out of his closet after a minute, this time wearing his sweats. He was standing in the door, still blushing every red in existence. He was looking at the floor, really embarrassed. Then he sighed and started walking over to the bed. When he got to me, he sat down in front of me, still too embarrassed to look me in the eye. He was looking at my feet instead.
"I'm sorry about that. I should've realized you were in my room." I was trying not to start giggling. I was still blushing. My heart was racing and so was his. I could hear it. I shook my head.
"No. It's okay. I shouldn't have let myself in knowing you were in the shower." Jacob took in a deep breath and then cleared his throat.
"How much……..did you..you know………….see?" I blushed impossibly more. In truth, it was kind of a dumb question to ask. When someone's standing in front of you buck naked, you're going to see everything, even if you don't want to. Thankfully, in this case, I wasn't an unwilling onlooker. I didn't see the point in lying to him.
"Um…………well……………..everything…honestly." Jacob's blush darkened yet again and so did mine. He was taking deep breaths and his heart was racing on just like mine.
"Please try not to think about this around Edward. I don't want to be lectured." I couldn't stop myself from laughing. Jacob even managed a nervous laugh.
"Alright. I promise not to think about it in front of daddy." As far as never thinking about it, that I wouldn't agree to. Jacob sighed and nodded.
"Good. One less thing for me to worry about I guess." Jacob scratched the back of his neck nervously now. "You should get to bed, Nessie. It's late." I blushed. I had wanted to spend the night with him, but I had the feeling that now wasn't a good time for that. I sighed and nodded my head.
"Alright, Jacob. Goodnight." He nodded his head, still not looking at me.
"Night." I rolled my eyes. I wanted him to look at me. I got off of the bed, but didn't leave right away. Instead I stood in front of him and took his chin in my hand and forced him to look at me. When I looked into his eyes, I melted and I felt a fire burn in my very core. He was embarrassed, yes. But there was curiosity too. I smiled at him, feeling a hint of pride. I brought my face closer to his and kissed his cheek and rubbed my nose against his before releasing his chin and walking out of the room.
I didn't hear anything as I walked into my room. All I heard was the usual movement of turning off the lights and getting into bed. I did the same. I was smiling the whole time I was awake and I was sure I was smiling in my sleep too. I'll admit that I wasn't crazy about how it happened per se, but it had happened, and I was glad it had. I'd seen all of him. Everything there was to him. In an odd sense, this made me feel superior. Now, not even momma knew him better than me. I had just seen a part of him that no one, no woman anyway, had ever seen before, and I was grateful for it.
I kept thinking about it throughout the night. Shamelessly, yes, but I didn't care. My heart fluttered with pride and what I realized was desire. I giggled to myself when I realized something. I wanted him. I knew I loved him, more than anything. But now, I wanted him. Really wanted him. The thoughts stayed in my head all throughout the night. It was without a doubt, the best night's sleep I'd ever had.