Chapter 2
Joy Ride
Jake lead me to his car and opened the door for me, he was trying way too hard. "So, Renesmee any you know…uh…any special birthday plans for this evening. I mean your Dad only gave us an hour and it's only noon." He asked. "Um I think I'm just going to turn in early tonight. I'm not in much of a party mood." I replied. "Well you look absolutely gorgeous; I thought I should make sure you know that." I turned my head away as I felt the blood rushing to my cheeks.
I hadn't even noticed how my mother had done my hair and makeup for today. My golden eyes were accented with some copper eye shimmer and my long bronze hair had tight spiral curls. I was also wearing a new pair of designer jeans that Alice had picked out for me, my mother had said that they were too tight but made me look long and lean. I have always been somewhat of a skinny shrimp. I was also wearing a white tank top that had lace along the top of the chest. I also had a pair of strappy stilettos on. I absolutely loved those; they were my favorite part of the outfit.
"Thank you." I finally answered. "Well, Nessie, I was thinking, I don't think you should be staying in on your birthday. Especially your sixteenth birthday. You know what? I think we should go out. Go out to Port Angeles or something. What cha think?" he asked, his face looking hopeful. "Well Jake I…I just don't know I mean, well you know, yeah, yeah lets go out I wanna have fun! I don't ever go out and I'm sixteen, aren't most 16 year olds going out and having a good time by now?" I replied.
The more I thought about it I thought it would be kind of fun, what could it hurt? Before I knew it we were at his place. I unbuckled my seatbelt and went to open my door but before I could he was already there opening it for me. He took my hand and helped me out.
"I haven't been to your house in a long time; I forgot how much I liked it here."I commented. "Yeah, but hey wanna go inside for a minute? I'm going to grab you some clothes, you're not going to ride in that." He asked. "oh yeah I hadn't even thought of that." I chuckled. We walked over to his house and he held open the door for me as I walked in. Billy was sitting in the living room watching TV. "hey there Billy!" I said "Nessie! How are you?! Happy birthday by the way!" he said happily as he wheeled himself over to me. "Thank you so much, and I'm doing pretty good, and yourself?" I replied as a bent down to hug him. "Oh same old same old, you know" he said looking up at me.
He was so nice, the sound of his voice was mesmerizing, it just made you want to listen to what he had to say. Jacob was already back with an old pair of jeans, sneakers, and a plaid flannel shirt for me to wear. "thanks" I said as he handed me the clothes. "yeah, no problem, you can go change in my room if you'd like." He answered. "okay, I'll be back in a sec." I headed toward his room.
It was unusually small compared to Jacob's hugeness. I began to undress, feeling somewhat awkward being in his room and wondering if he's ever imagined me undressing in his room. That would be something I would ask my father later.
I returned to him and billy wearing his clothes and shoes. "hey ready go?" jake asked eagerly. He was almost too eager. " yeah, absolutely." I answered back. We started toward the door, when we got outside the bikes were parked outside waiting. He chuckled a little bit. "what's so funny?" I asked. He looked up with a smug smile on his face. "its just that, well the last time I rode these bikes I was taking your mom on a ride. She was sort of becoming an adrenaline junky, can't say as though I blame her with everything your dad was putting her through. She was pretty messed up for a long time." He said. "What do you mean messed up?" I asked. " oh uum…its nothing it doesn't matter anymore." He stammered quickly. I felt like he wasn't telling me the whole story. I decided I would push for it another time. "okay ready?" he asked. "Yeah I guess, you're going to have to teach me how to use these though…I have no clue how to drive it." I replied.
He quickly went through the motions and what to do. He got on his bike and I got on mine. I started the engine up and slowly let up on the throddle. I began to move, hhm not as hard as I thought it would be, I thought. He was riding next to me smiling. We rode for about a half hour and then he stopped me to tell me that we needed to get back. When we got back to his house I changed back into my clothes and we got into the car and started back to my house.
"Jake, when you said my mom was messed up for a while from what my father put her through, what did you mean? What did he do?" I asked. "It's nothing nessie, it doesn't matter anymore." he said quickly "Jake I want to know, I have a right to know." I persisted. He sighed and gave in, as I knew he would. " okay well a few years before you were born, edward and bella were pretty serious, it was right around bella's birthday and she refused to have a party. Alice, well you know Alice, she wouldn't take no for an answer. So at bella's party she got some gifts and she was opening one, and she got a paper cut, jasper wasn't as controlled as he is now and he tried to attack her. Edward felt it was too large of a risk for him and his family to stay here." He stoped talking. "and?" I kept pushing. "and that's it." He said."No that's not it, I can tell, what happened?" I pushed harder. "After the party Edward took bella home and the next day she drove home from school to find him standing in her yard waiting for her. She got out of her truck and he took her into the woods and told her that they were moving away. He used carlisle's not aging as an excuse. And just like that he was gone." He stopped talking again. "okay so, how did that make her an adrenaline junky?" I asked. "well she wasn't at first, for months she was a zombie that wouldn't leave her house ever. She kept her grades up but she just didn't come back. And then one day she showed up at my house with two motorcycles for me to fix up. That's when it all started. We spent weeks fixing up the bikes, and I was starting to fall in love with bella. We took the bikes out for a ride and she got addicted to it." He stopped talking, and I still thought I wasn't getting the whole story. I gave up on it, for now. Besides we were at my hosue anyway.
He helped me out of the car and took my hand. Before I could say goodbye he pushed his lips onto mine. Then he pulled away immediately. "im sorry, I shouldn't have done that." He apologized seemingly embarrassed. "uhm. It's, it's uh okay." I stammered. What was going on in my head why was I feeling lightheaded.
We walked back to my grandparent's house. The party had deffinately died down even though it was only around 1:30. Everyone was sitting around laughing, and telling old stories. I made my way around saying hi to everyone, then I sat down and quietly went over everything jake said in my head. I was so engrossed in my thoughts that I hadn't realized that my father was telling me to thank everyone because they were leaving. I got up and made my rounds and then went home with my parents. I went into my room and changed into my pajamas and went to bed. Jake's words were still in my head but I couldn't take my mind off of the kiss. I was still thinking about it as I drifted into a deep sleep.