A/N: Long wait, sorry about that. Exams and all, stressful time. But, here you go. Enjoy :)

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

Chapter Four

The Delaware School of Dance was small, much smaller than Olivia had become accustomed to. She liked the change, there was no pressure and no backhanded compliments coming from girls you had been competing with your entire life. It was just nice.

There was just one room, leading off the small reception area. A smooth sprung wooden floor surrounded by glassless mirrors, barres lining them at different heights. It felt like home, as she laced up her pointe shoes for the first time in months and slipped into her leotard. Graceful and elegant she glided across the floor with eyes closed, revelling in the peace and tranquillity that descended upon her. A tranquillity soon interrupted as the sound of squealing laughter burst through the doors.

Olivia had been given a class to teach, ages 5 through to 7. In total, about ten girls from Forks and five from La Push all eager to emulate the passion evident in their teacher's steps. Turning around with a smile she watched as the girls put their things into the small cubbies in the corner and lined up at the barre, still giggling with each other, mouths hidden behind hands.

'Right guys, let's get started.'

The week passed with no incident, three days a week at the studio; teaching or reception work and every day at the school. Each day passed like the other, she would wake up, get a ride to school with Jimmy, and spend all day in classes, have Seth, Collin and Brady sit with her, fight with Jimmy about who she hung out with and head to the studio. Olivia found she really appreciated the routine; it was like a safety net, made her feel comfortable.

'Oi Olivia! Get up or you're going to make me late!' Jimmy's voice reverberated through her door.

'Mmmhhmmm...'

'Seriously, wake up. Or I'm coming in with a bucket of water,' he was still outside the door, now banging loudly and repeatedly.

'I said I was coming!' she replied with remnants of sleep still evident in her voice.

'You better be, you're not out of there in ten minutes I'm coming in. Consider yourself warned.'

The sound of his feet hitting the wooden stairs echoed through the hallway, Olivia forcing herself out of bed with a groan. As she wandered around her room bleary eyed she caught her eyes lingering on the photographs lining her desk. With a small frown she picked up the smallest and let her mind drift to the girl smiling ever so brightly before shaking her head and putting it back down.

She missed her. It was simple enough to admit. That was why her mind kept lingering on her. The bright and bubbly blonde who had once been such an important part of Olivia's life. But there was nothing she could do, contact with anyone and anything from her past would not be good. For anyone.

'Olivia! Would you hurry up! I need to be at school!'

'I'm coming Jimmy! God, would you chill out!'

The ride over to the school was loud, Jimmy playing his music and singing along with Olivia occasionally interjecting comments on her inevitable deafness.

'Honestly Jimmy, how is someone that tone deaf?'

'I am not that bad! You exaggerate way too much,' Jimmy protested as he shut the car door behind him.

'I can imagine you are Collins, can't imagine anything coming out of your mouth sounding any good,' Seth's drawled as he came up behind Olivia, a smirk in place.

'Shove it Clearwater, what do you want?'

'Nothing to do with you so never fear James. I'm here to talk to Ollie,'

'Ollie? Since when has anyone called my cousin Ollie?' Jimmy said as he adopted a scowl on his face.

'Alright boys, calm it down and reduce the testosterone levels,' Olivia cut them off, hands on hips, 'come on Seth, we'll talk while we walk. I'll see you later Jimmy.

With a triumphant smirk thrown over his shoulder at Jimmy, Seth turned to walk away, Olivia following in his footsteps.

'Wait Liv, meet me here after school and we'll head down to the beach,' Jimmy said as she turned.

'Oh, uh, I guess I forgot to tell you.'

'Tell me what?' he asked in confusion, not noticing Seth trying to hide a gleeful smile.

'I'm, uh, heading down with Seth. He's going to introduce me to his friends,' she replied nervously, wringing her hands in anticipation to his response.

'No.'

'No?'

'No.'

'What do you mean no?'

'I mean no as in, no you are not going down to the beach with Clearwater and no he is not introducing you to his friends,' Jimmy said with an air of finality.

Seth's barely contained smile fell as Jimmy spoke, eyes darkening at the tone of his voice ready to cut in harshly, noticing this Olivia placed a placating hand on his arm, 'Well, funnily enough Jimmy, that's not really your decision is it? 'Cause, you know, there is this thing called free will.'

'Yeah, but not right now. There is no way I am going to let you hang around him and his friends at that bonfire.'

'Just try and stop me asshole.'

Seth followed Olivia as she stormed down the hall, he could hear the insults formed under her breath and boy did he not want to be James Collins right now. It was ridiculous really, this over protectiveness. Sure, Olivia had made friends with a bunch of guys and sure Collins hated him but Seth just didn't understand this level of hostility. Unless there was a reason for it.

'Ollie, can you just give me some reason as to why he's so hostile?' Seth asked quietly, pulling the girl with him into an empty classroom so they wouldn't be overheard.

'He hates you.'

'Yeah, I get that. That's been apparent for the past couple of years,' he said, rolling his eyes.

'Then I don't know, just another mystery of the world,' her eyes were downcast as she spoke, and she was wringing her hands. Seth didn't believe a word that came out of her mouth.

'You are a terrible liar Olivia Lee, I suggest you never become a criminal,' he laughed, 'I'll let you off the hook this time but you're going to have to give me a straight answer one day.'

She smiled gratefully at him, which he returned with ease before loping out the door as the bell signalling class rang. The two separated, Olivia heading towards English for juniors and he walking slowly to Algebra.

There was no one from the pack in his year and he had no desire to make friends with anyone Jimmy hung around with. The aggravation just wasn't worth it. Well, except for Olivia's case. As a result, most classes saw Seth sitting down the back, head back and eyes closed catching up on some much needed sleep.

Algebra had passed as it always had, no major dramas there. He would pass, he was smart. And Leah had heaps of old notes and assignments he had taken to copying when he ran out of time. She didn't really mind, neither did his mom. It was either that or fail.

As he walked through the halls he saw Olivia with Collin and Brady, the latter with an arm slung around her shoulders laughing as she tried to push him off. Not likely, considering his werewolf strength. The hair on the back of his neck bristled, looking away from his friends he turned and saw Collins with his friends glaring at him, Jimmy looking like he was trying to burn holes in the back of Seth's head through sheer power of the mind. As Seth stared at him Jimmy cocked his head, motioning outside before walking off, friends in tow. With a roll of his eyes and a feeling this wasn't going to be pleasant he followed.

Jimmy was waiting across from the buildings, next to the trees by the car park, his arms were crossed over his chest with a glowering expression on his face. Seth didn't take much notice of his friends in the background, they weren't exactly as threatening as they obviously hoped to be.

'What do you want Collins? I have people to see and places to be.'

'You know why I want to talk to you Clearwater,' Jimmy growled as he pushed himself up to his full height, still falling short of a much larger Seth.

'Olivia, I get it. You have a problem with us being friends. But you can forget it if you're trying to warn me off, I'll talk to who I like and Olivia has the same right,' Seth said, exasperated.

'Yeah, well as her cousin I happen to know what goes on in her life and because I know you I know what sort of people you and your friends are. That gives me the right to look out for her.'

'What kind of people me and my friends are, what kind of people are me and my friends exactly?' Seth could feel the anger building, but he had control. He always had control he thought definitively.

'You and your friends are not people I want hanging around my baby cousin, you're a gang Clearwater. Just admit it and stop feeding everyone lies about how you're just a really close knit group of guys.' Behind Jimmy Seth could see his friends nodding in agreement, Carlos with a stupid smirk on his face.

Before he had a chance to respond someone came up behind him and clamped a hand on his shoulder before moving to stand behind him.

It was Jacob, Quil sitting in the back bed of his truck. 'You alright Seth? Me and Quil came to get you, Sam called a meeting.'

'A meeting? Yeah, you guys are totally just a group of guys that hang out,' Jimmy said before Seth could answer his friend.

Seth could feel Jake's grip tighten on his shoulder and knew that his eyes had narrowed dangerously. To defuse a potentially explosive confrontation Seth turned to the group before him, 'Just give it a rest already Collins. And while you're at it let Olivia figure out who she wants to be friends with, let her know I'll be back later to take her down to the beach.'

Without giving the smaller guy a chance to respond Seth turned to walk to the car, subtly pulling Jake along with him. A part of him felt a little sorry for Collins, Jake was still glaring at him, and those things scared the hell out of the toughest bloodsuckers.

Jacob was still scowling as the group got into the car, Quil giving him sidelong glances. An angry Jake was not a pleasant Jake.

Turning to Quil, Seth asked, 'What does Sam want?'

'No idea. Just told me to come pick you up and Jake decided to come along. Seems like we came at a good time.'

'Maybe. I could have handled Collins and his friends. They wouldn't have started anything with me, they know they wouldn't have any chance.'

'What's his problem with you?' Jacob asked, eyes glancing over to Seth from their position on the road.

'I'm friends with his cousin, he doesn't like it.'

'That was over his cousin?' Quil asked incredulously, 'he looked like he wanted to kill you!'

'I think he's protective over her. The fact he just doesn't like me is an added bonus.'

'Her?' Jacob and Quil asked incredulously as they looked at each other.

Seth looked at them, 'What? So I can't have any friends outside you guys?'

'Sounds to me like you like her?' Quil said impishly.

Seth did a double take, before rolling his eyes in denial.

'Sethy got a crush?' Jacob laughed.

'No. She's my friend. That's it,' Seth replied tiredly, 'She's new and Brady ran into her looking lost, then he went to bug her during break and she made me laugh. So I decided that she was going to be my new friend because you guys just make fun of me constantly.'

'Don't take it to heart Sethy, you were the youngest for so long. Hard to break long learned habits you know?' Jacob laughed.

Seth didn't answer, just rolled his eyes before leaping out of the door as Jacob pulled into Sam's driveway and running to the door where he could see Emily with a plate of muffins. Excellent, he was starving.

There you have it, leave a review of what you thought. As always, constructive criticism is very welcome as I am always looking for ways to improve. Hope you've enjoyed it and I'll try to keep a more constant update schedule but I'm in the middle of exam season so no promises.

Hannah :)