Imprinted

Chapter 8

Jacob

I walked up to the house and knocked on the door. I heard water running. I rang the doorbell. The water stopped.

"In a minute!" Destiny yelled from upstairs.

The door opened. There she stood, sopping wet and covered with a towel.

"Oh, Jake, shoot, come on in. Make yourself at home. Let me get some clothes on."

I blushed. Oops. I walked in as Destiny ran upstairs. In her haste the bedroom door slammed. I sat down on the couch.

The decorations were different. Sure, the furniture was the same, but they were in different places. There were some Quileute trinkets, like carved wolves on the mantle, and some Cherokee things, like a beaded necklace with symbols I didn't understand. I'll have to ask Destiny about them.

Destiny came downstairs wearing faded blue jeans and a tanktop.

"Hey, I'm decent," she teased. I grinned.

"I wanted to tell you you're running with me tonight. It's Paul's birthday, but I'm not one for parties. Unless... you want to go?"

"Nah, I don't like parties either. But bonfires..."

"Hey, I'll take you to one sometime."

Destiny smiled. I felt like I was melting into a puddle.

"Oh, Jake, this is for you," Destiny said, going into the fridge and pulling out a plate of brown stuff. Upon closer inspection, it was a pile of double chocolate cookies.

"Oh, thanks, I didn't get you anything," I said, taking the plate.

"Naw, it's fine. I didn't excpect you to bring me anything either."

Destiny gave me another irresistable grin, and I couldn't help it.

"Oh!" Destiny gasped as I suddenly kissed her. She pushed me away.

"Get... OFF ME!!!" she growled.

"Oh, jeez, I'm sorry," I said, backing off.

"Go away, Jacob. You're running alone tonight."

I felt my face crumple. Destiny covered her eyes with her hand and leaned against the counter.

"Destiny..."

"I said go away!"

I ran out of the house, listening to the sound of her sobs. Why was she crying? Did she already have a boyfriend? Did she go through a breakup recently? I phased and ended up running into Leah. She saw what happened in my head.

... Nice.

I didn't mean to! I don't know what came over me, I-

Don't worry, it happens to everybody.

...

Okay, only you. But still, some girls act like that. I'll go talk to her. Maybe some girl time will lighten her dark day.

You have no idea how grateful I am, Lee.

Happy to help.

Leah disappeared from my head. And I was left alone to ponder what went wrong.

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Destiny

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Jacob kissed me! I felt sad. And then I felt mad.

He just broke up with Bella! Now he's all happy, and he's perfectly okay with just kissing me!

I felt sad again. Oh, man, I'm now growing a split personality. Another thing I'll tack onto the list of why I'm pissed at vampires.

I decided I'll run on patrol anyways. I just won't connect minds with him. It seems easy to do.

Ding dong!

I ran to the door. I checked the peephole to make sure it wasn't Jacob. It was Leah.

"Hi, who are you?" I asked innocently. Destiny didn't know Leah yet.

"I'm Leah. I understand Jacob force-kissed you."

"I don't want to talk about it."

"Okay, so don't talk about it."

Now, as Bella, I really don't care for Leah as much as her brother. But Leah was responding warmly to Destiny. I was wondering why that was when she spoke again.

"I wanted to do a little shopping and Jacob told me where you lived. I figured you might want to come with me, wolf girl on wolf girl."

"Oh, okay."

So that's why she liked Destiny so much. She wasn't the only literal wolf girl in the pack anymore.

"C'mon, lets go!"

I followed Leah to my garage. She pulled the door open.

"Whoa, you have a Malibu? I've always wanted one of my own!"

"Get in," I smiled.

"Really?"

"Unless you want to walk..."

"Oh, right."

Leah grinned, blushing from embarrassment. She sat in the passenger's seat. Then I had an idea.

"Leah?"

"Hm?"

"Can you block your thoughts from Jacob? And everybody else, for that matter?"

"Yeah, we all learn how to make our thoughts blurry, but not completely obscured. Why?"

"I can block my thoughts completely."

"Whoa, really? Teach me!"

"Do you feel like the pack's mind is a group of miniature suns?"

"No. I just hear their thoughts."

"Never mind."

Leah looked at me like I was mentally ill. Was I?

And then I decided that maybe telling Leah my secret probably wouldn't have worked anyways.

AN: Heeeeeeere we go! Bella now officially has a split personality!