AN: So here is chapter 3, fair warning this was written mainly in the middle of the night but I hope you enjoy, and there is a warning for slight language early on so if it offends you, you have been warned.

On Pointe
A Jacob/OC Imprint Story
By she defies gravity

Chapter Three

'I really, really hate that Clearwater kid,' Olivia was in the other room but she could still here Jimmy as he sat outside on the hood of his car with Carlos. Figuring it wouldn't hurt to keep an ear on the two she moved a little closer to the window, 'I mean, he's just such an arsehole.'

'We all know you hate him Jimmy, you bitch about him all the time.'

'Yeah, well. I just really don't like him,' Jimmy replied defensively.

Carlos laughed, throwing a basketball he had been holding into Jimmy's chest, effectively ending the conversation as her cousin threw it back. Sighing at the short attention span of eighteen year old males Olivia retreated back to her room intending to put the last of her things away.

Most of her boxes were empty, clothes had been hung in the small wardrobe, books were stacked haphazardly on the shelves and the few photo frames she owned were placed neatly on the table beside her bed. There was a picture of Olivia herself on stage from one of her ballet recitals, Swan Lake, as she danced across the stage, another with a young woman who looked remarkably like her Aunt Carol and a much smaller one hidden behind the others of a blonde teenage girl with her arm around Olivia smiling widely.

All that was left was to actually move her Pointe shoes and leotard from the bottom of her bag and into a draw, where she wouldn't have to look at them. Picking them up she just looked at them, quite small and a satin pink they were no longer smooth rather scuffed at the toes, Olivia soon found herself running a hand over the familiar patterns. Sighing she tucked them away in the draws of her bedside table, soon followed by the stretchy black leotard. Standing up and looking around Olivia realised she had officially moved in. Every item she had brought with her to Washington now had a place, it was a good feeling she realised, having a home.

'Hey Olivia, stop being such a sad sack and come down to watch this movie!' Jimmy called up the stairs gleefully, 'It's Die Hard!'

That evening had been quiet; Jimmy had forced Olivia to watch the entire movie, horrible as it had been, before the family had sat down to dinner. The only bad thing had been her Aunt and cousin watching her with careful eyes as she picked at her salad until Jeffrey had told them to knock it off, she wasn't going to run off if they took her eyes off of her. Looking back to their own food abashedly the conversation picked up again when her uncle asked her how school had been.

'It was alright Dad, still no football team which sucks but they say we're too small,' Jimmy was enthusiastic, 'but me and the guys are gonna just do our own thing anyway, maybe juniors vs. seniors or something.'

'How about you Olivia?'

'It was okay, people are nice. I was mostly left alone to be honest, which was good,' at this Jimmy snorted and scowled catching the attention of his mother.

'Jimmy sweetie, what's the matter?'

'Just didn't like some of the people who were talking to Liv.'

'Oh come on Jimmy! They were perfectly nice to me!' Olivia cried in exasperation.

'Who was perfectly nice to you?' her uncle's voice was gruff, unsure of whether to worry or not.

'Seth freakin' Clearwater and his friends,' Jimmy spat on, still frowning.

'Seth is a nice boy Jimmy, I'm glad Livvy here was talking to him!' his mother exclaimed.

'He is not a 'nice boy' Mom, he's part of that stupid gang isn't he?'

'James Timothy Collins! I cannot believe you're saying this! You have known Seth Clearwater since you were a kid, and he is not in a gang!' Carol was shocked, her voice escalating in pitch with each sentence.

Jimmy didn't reply, just grumbled under his breath, eyes narrowing as he looked over and saw Olivia trying to stifle her laughs.

'I wouldn't worry son, Olivia can take care of herself and you can always step in if anything bad happens,' Jeffrey's voice spoke volumes, no arguments, the subject was dropped.

Rather than listening Jimmy ploughed on, 'but she can't take care of herself can she? I mean, we've all seen that!'

Olivia stiffened in her seat as Carol and Jeffrey both cut him off,

'James!'

Without a word, Olivia stood up and took her still quite full plate into the kitchen, ignoring her cousins shouting after her as his parents yelled at him as she all but ran up the stairs shutting the door firmly behind her.

When she woke up in the morning Olivia was still upset, ignoring Jimmy as she passed him on her way downstairs.

'Come on Liv, you have to talk to me,' he pleaded with her as she walked into the kitchen to get breakfast, 'I didn't mean to say it, I really didn't. I know it was insensitive and out of line but I'm just worried about you!'

'I know, just... let me do my thing. I can handle myself. No matter what anyone else thinks.'

'Look, I get it. I was out of line. Do you want a ride to school or are you at the point of madness where you'll just walk?'

'I guess I'll take the ride, looks like it's going to rain.'

Olivia was right, by the time Jimmy had driven into the school parking lot the rain had begun to fall, not heavy just a slight mist. Groaning slightly Olivia pulled the hood of her purple sweatshirt over her head to cover her hair and ducked her head as she ran to cover, Jimmy laughing as he ran after her.

'I'm gonna go meet up with Carlos and the guys, you coming?'

Thinking about their meeting yesterday had her quickly declining the offer leaving her alone outside the school as Jimmy ran off to find his friends.

'All by your lonesome I see,' it was Seth, calling from across the parking lot as he sat in the back of a truck with Brady and Collin, 'I would tell you to come over here but you look too concerned about your hair.'

'You would be right, I'm not going out into the rain,' she called back laughing.

With a shake of his shaggy hair he hopped off the truck and loped easily across the concrete until he reached Olivia, slinging a warm arm around her shoulder.

'Geez you're hot!'

Smirking slightly Seth replied, 'I know, most girls wait a little longer until they hit on me but-'

He was cut off before he could get any further by Olivia swinging her arm out and hitting him in the stomach, 'I meant your arm loser, it's warm.'

'I know what you meant, I was just messing. I know, some of us just run a little hotter than others,' his playful grin was back as he steered Olivia inside, turning back and waving to the man who had dropped him off.

'That's Sam by the way, he drops me, Brady and Collin off some days,' his voice is quiet, gentle, 'we're not in a gang you know, and Sam isn't our leader. He's just our friend, our group is pretty tight knit and people seem to get the wrong idea.'

'Why would you think I think you're in a gang?'

He gave her a wry smile, 'Jimmy hates me. He hates my friends. I doubt he didn't tell you what he thought about us after he dragged you off yesterday.'

'Yes well, I don't really listen to what he says anyway,' she gave him a small smile which he returned, laughing again as he led her towards her first class.

'This is where I leave you Ollie, must get back to my own senior, superior classes you know,' he said as he dropped her outside of her Trig class.

'Whatever, you're not that superior,' she said to his retreating back, 'wait... did you just call me Ollie?'

The only response she got was a laugh, again.

She was alone at lunch again after a particularly painful Trigonometry class followed by some other less awful classes. At least, she was alone until Brady's booming voice called across to her a smiling Collin and Seth following behind.

'Honestly, don't you guys have anyone else to bother?'

'Never, you're our favourite. We don't just talk to anyone you know' Collin said with a wink as he dropped into the seat next to her.

'Yeah Ollie, we've taken a liking to you. Despite your undesirable familial connections,' Seth was grinning as he sat across from her, Brady sitting next to him.

'Jimmy isn't all bad, he's just looking out for me,' Olivia defended her cousin, ignoring the rolling eyes of all three boys that had sat down at her table, 'and by the way, what is this 'Ollie' thing? I'm not a boy you know.'

'Well I've heard Liv, Livvy and then just plain old Olivia. But I wanted to give you your own nickname ala Seth. So you get Ollie.'

'And we know you're not a man, much too pretty for that,' Collin cut in with another wink before Seth reached over and hit him.

'Ow Seth, what the hell was that for?'

Olivia was quiet most of the lunch period just listening to the three boys bantering back and forth, mostly about their older friends but occasionally bringing her into the conversation. She didn't mind, it was nice just to sit there and have some company.

As the bell went and the group had to head off Seth pulled her aside, 'Hey listen, there's a bonfire thing down on the beach this weekend and I know your cousin and his friends are going but I figure you can come hang out with me, Carlos and the lot are total pervs.'

'Thanks Seth, I might, probably. I think Jimmy mentioned something about it but like you said his friends are total pervs so I was planning to avoid at all costs.'

'See, you would be lost without me,' Seth grinned as he gave her a quick but unsuspected hug as he sauntered off to class, leaving Olivia standing there before she realised she had to get going.

The rest of the day passed slowly, Olivia was relieved when she was able to run out of the front doors, heading straight to her cousins truck tapping her foot impatiently until her arrived, unfortunately with friends in tow.

'Hey there Olivia, haven't seen you around school. Been hiding from my rugged good looks?' Mike asked as he approached, puffing his chest out a little.

'Dude, seriously. Stop trying to hit on my cousin or you can walk home,' Jimmy growled as he walked up behind him.

'I'm just kidding Jimothy, wouldn't want to get on brother bears bad side.'

Ignoring the hooting and shouting of her cousin and his friends Olivia slipped in her headphones to drown them out, automatically listening to her old dance tracks. She kept up her distant attitude until Donny, the last stop, had gotten out giving Jimmy a loud goodbye while waving politely to Olivia, which she returned. He was after all an alright guy.

'You could make the effort you know,' Jimmy said to Olivia when the car was empty but for the two of them, 'they're not bad guys really. And they're my best friends so they'll be around a lot.'

She pulled one of the buds out of her ears, 'Look Jimmy, I get that they're your friends but I'm just not too comfortable around them.'

'But you're comfortable around Clearwater?' he replied, defensive again at the mention of Seth.

'As a matter of fact, I am,' Olivia said sharply, 'he is nice to me and he makes me laugh, they all do. They hit on me every time they see me, so excuse me for making friends.'

'How many times do I have to tell you that they are not good guys!'

'Just stop it Jimmy! I have fought more with you in the time I've been here than ever before and it's all because you can't trust me to look after myself! So just leave it be.'

'I'm not going to fight you on this anymore, I'm just trying to look out for you, so just take it into consideration. You know why I'm so worried so just cut me some slack.'

Olivia gave a non-committal shrug as an answer, not agreeing with him but not wanting to fight anymore. As they pulled up to the house Carol came running out with a big smile on her face, she headed straight for Olivia pulling her into her arms and jumping up and down a little.

'Livvy sweetie, I have some good news. I know you're missing ballet so I headed into Forks today to check out the new studio that opened to see if they were willing to take any extra help and it turns out that one of the teachers quit a few weeks ago so they need someone to fill in! They said you can head down this afternoon and give them a show and you could be hired!,' her voice was giddy and high pitched, the excitement apparent in her eyes, 'It's a win-win situation, you get to dance and you get paid for it!'

After a moment of silence as the information sunk in a smile crept over her face, Olivia erupted; squealing and grabbing her aunt and cousin in a giant hug before running upstairs to change. She was ready quicker than she had ever been before and she was quickly running back outside snatching the keys to Jimmy's car right out of his hand, not paying any attention to the heated discussion he was having with his mother. As she drove away she could faintly make out some of what he was saying,

'-can't put her back in this position Mom. It's just stupid!'

She didn't care, she was going to dance again.

There you go, a little longer than the other chapters. Leave me a review about whether you liked it, some constructive critisism, especially if you have favourited. I would like some feedback on how I've done American culture, because I am Australian and it's quite different, especially school. So, I hope you've enjoyed, I should update in a week maybe? :)