HIYA!

COMPUTER FINALLY HERE. ISH SO HAPPY I CAN BARELY BREATH AT THIS POINT. :DDDD

I'm sorry it's taken so long for my new computer to get here, but it's here now and I'm so freaking happy! I'm sorry, so sorry for the long wait!

Again, I just want to say thank you so much to everyone who has ever read any of my stories. Thank you guys so much I love you as much as my family at this point. Hell, you guys are my family. You are all wonderful, I really mean it, and with out you guys, I would probably never have gotten as far as I am. I'm serious. If I could, I would fold myself up inside a parcel box, mail myself to each and everyone one of you, and come and give you a giant hug! I love you guys, I really do.

Well, nothing new with me. I'm still sick and puking my guts up and I don't really feel all that good, but I'm going to keep on trucking!

Thanks to everyone who reviewed and read the last chapter! I love you guys!

OH! It's back in Meredith's point of view, just in case you forgot. XDD

Nothing else to say, I don't think.

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Playlist For Chapter:

Tifa's Theme - Nobuo Uematsu (I think this is from a Final Fantasy game, but I've never played it, so I dunno which one. Sorry. DX)
Dreams - Yiruma
If I Could See You Again - Yiruma

I watched in curiousity and mild hurt as I watched Jacob bolt out of the coffee shop, and I heard the slamming of the door as it slammed shut once more. Jacob's hurt face haunted me, the watery look in his beautiful dark eyes, the tense position of his jaw, the quivering of his massive hands. . . . I couldn't stand the fact that he looked so . . . broken. So helpless and heartbroken and purely in pain. It hurt me to see anyone like that, but seeing Jacob like that? It made me angry that my new friend had just completely disappeared. I had also known that the subject of home had been very tender with Jacob, but I didn't know that it had been that sensitive. I felt horrible that I had made him relive that pain, and I felt the tugging need to go apologize to him.

Michael watched with a dumbfounded look on his face as Jacob left, and I turned and shook my head in disappointment before I went to go and stand up, tossing my hair behind my shoulders and tugging at the hem of the sweater Jacob had given me at the gas station.

"Where are you going?" Maya asked, her eyebrows furrowing.

"To find Jacob." I raised one eyebrow at Michael before I smiled at Maya. "Hey, got a hair eleastic I can borrow?"

Maya looked a her wirst, took a pink one off of it, and put it into my hand. "Find him, and drag him back. He's not leaving againt until he finishes his hot chocolate."

I always knew I could count on Maya to not ask questions as to why I was going. "Thanks, sis," I said before I took another quick swig of my drink and bolted out, my mission quite clear in my mind.

The sun was starting to peak out of the inky clouds as I exited the coffee shop, the air still damp and smelling of rain and dampness. The concrete was still black with the wetness of the rain that had fallen, and the misty world had turned into one of brightness and happiness. I, of course, didn't know were Jacob could have gone, but I knew that there was a short cut through the trees to a serene park, though it was a few miles, I knew that Jacob probably would have gone that way.

I took a deep, deciding breath as I slowly made my way toward the shelter of the trees, my feet dragging along the lush grass, striking up dewy drops, making the edges of my jeans soaked. I slowly made my way through the edge of the trees, a branch or two scratching at my face. I dodged out of the way, and kept going, the sun cheering me on as it kept crawling out through the dense clouds. My heart yearned for me to go and find him, but after a few minutes of trudging, I knew that my legs were going to be sore too.

Twigs and leaves littered the praire gras ground as I kept making my way through the trees, the wind making them sway in a breeze-like fashion. I sighed, and stopped for a few moments, yanking Jacob's sweater off, it's heat making me hotter then I wanted to be. My tank top wasn't wet anymore from the previous rain, so I tied the arms of Jacob's sweater around my hips, and used the hair elelastic that Maya had given me to tie my curls up out of my eyes before I continued onward.

I peered around another tree, sure that there should have been a path around there somewhere. Instead of a concrete path, I was met with a stick in the face. It pierce at my cheek, and pain flared and I felt something running down my cheek. I pulled back, my hand clasping to my cheek, wiping away at the stinging pain. I drew my hand back to look at it, and I was met with red smears on my hand. Blood.

"Stupid stick in my face," I mumbled, but I kept going anyway.

It felt like the minutes turned into hours. I was wandering aimlessly in the trees, the sun shinning down on me, and I sighed, wanting to give up. There was no way I was going to find a six foot-something tall, black-haired, impressively muscled, glorious, handsome, beautiful-

"Meredith?" Jacob's voice asked.

Triumph lifted my heart to my throat, and his voice made my heart pound nervously. I felt like some sort of school girl with a useless crush on the most popular boy in school. But I knew I wasn't, and I knew Jacob wasn't either.

I turned around, and saw him. His hair was glimmering in the sunlight, and so was his skin, his chest bare and he looked just as warm and inviting and glorious as before.

"Hi," I said, waving slightly and sheepishly.

Jacob crossed the space between us in almost two strides, and his one hand went to my cheek, brushing at the dried blood there as his face went from confused to difinately concerned. His eyes sparkled with worry and wonder as he looked at me and said, "Are you okay?"

"Yes," I managed to whisper. My whole face felt numb when he touched it, and it felt as if sparks were flying between us, making my heart beat in a sweet pang.

He smiled, but then confusion crossed his face again. "Did you follow me?" he asked, his voice sort of soft.

Well, there we have it! Chappy is done!

Sorry if it was crappy, I really am.

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Thank you for reading! I love you all so much!

Bai!