Chapter Twenty Three - Attatched

People continued to act strangely towards me all week. They were all taken aback when their eyes stopped on me, always dazed if I spoke or smiled to them. It was annoying for the most part, except when I was not at school.

On Tuesday, I got to school right on time. Brittany chattered to me excitedly about the Winter Dance - she was going with some girlfriends that didn't have dates, even though a couple of guys had asked her. She said she was holding out for an older man, like me with Jacob. She didn't realize what a gap that actually was; she would have to date someone seventeen years older than her to equal mine and Jake's ages.

Anthony continued to follow me around like a hopeless puppy dog, much to my chagrin. People that had noticed his outburst on Monday snickered when they saw him around me. He didn't care at all, he didn't even notice. His only concern seemed to be me, and my only concern lately was trying to avoid his mouth landing on mine.

By Thursday, I was getting more attention at school than anyone would have been comfortable with. I was a topic of gossip somehow, even though people only seemed to want to say good things about me. It was extremely disconcerting.

Anthony was leaning against the gym wall waiting for me at the end of the day. I wished I could just escape him and everyone else, but it was too weird for me to say I was walking home and to just go through the woods.

"He's been late every day this week," Anthony said as we reached the parking lot. He sounded angry, as if Jacob being a few minutes late genuinely upset him. I couldn't tell him that he wasn't really late, he'd been here all day. I kept my mouth shut.

Anthony spun on the balls of his feet and smoldered his eyes into mine again. This was getting very old, very fast. He plastered his body up against me, and I could tell he was using all of his strength - not to hurt me, but he'd figured out that I was stronger than him by now.

"Renesmee," he said softly into my ear. "You are so beautiful...... you smell amazing," he said in wonder as he inhaled the scent coming off of my face and neck.

"Um, yeah..." was all I could say back to that. What was going on with everyone around me?? Now I had guys sniffing me.

"I love you, Renesmee. I need you," his face moved down towards mine for a kiss, and I pushed him backwards a little too hard. He fell to the pavement in a huge puddle of icky rainwater, shock evident on his face.

I reached my hand out to him and muttered a "Sorry". He stared at me in awe as he got back to his feet.

"You're so strong!" he exclaimed. Crap....

"You're stronger," I said, smiling shyly. I did not want my physical attributes to be brought into the open. I had to distract him, and fast. He blinked furiously but could not rid himself completely of the blank expression.

"Maybe......" he said. I turned my head slightly away for a moment, and when I turned back his lips caught mine instantaneously. He pushed his body as close to mine as he could manage as his arms flew around me. One hand grabbed at the back of my hair while the other forced it's way underneath the back of my shirt. His lips moved desperately as they begged for a response from my own.

I pushed him back from me, more gently this time, and quickly pulled his hands off of me. I wanted to scream at him, or maybe at least push him in the mud again, but I did neither. There was no use, anyways - this guy did not give up easily. I could probably rip his own arm off and throw it at him and he'd just come back for more.

"Stop doing that," I said eventually. He reached towards my face again and I waved his hand away quickly. "Go home Anthony."

He waited for a minute before turning away defeated. I watched him pull his little green Neon away before I started back for the woods.

Jacob looked completely furious as I approached, but his expression turned to bliss once his eyes paused on me. His eyes flickered back and forth from a look of anger to one of desire about five times in a matter of minutes. He swooped me up into his arms and kissed me passionately, the same way he'd been kissing me all week - like he had to, like he needed to.

He set me back on my feet and handed me his shorts while he phased. He offered me a seat on top of him again, so I secured myself silently.

He made it home in record time yet again, flying through his front door to let me climb off of him and onto the couch. He phased back to himself, and swept me up into his arms again. He hugged me tightly, inhaling heavily against my jaw before kissing all over my neck.

The front door opened gently after a few moments, and my parents walked in noiselessly. Jacob acted as if he didn't notice a thing.

"Ummm, Jacob?" I said as my parents waited patiently. I expected Jake to set me back to my feet, but he bent his knees and sat down on the couch, cradling me into his chest like I was a baby. He didn't look up at them once, only nuzzled his face deeply into my throat.

My father stood grimacing for a few very long minutes. "I think you'll have to go it alone, Bella," he said, finally turning his gaze away from Jacob's closeness. "Love you, Renesmee," he said, still facing my mother. He quickly flew out of the door.

Jacob finally seemed to acknowledge that we were not the only ones in the room, and reluctantly pulled his face away from me. "Oh, hey Bells," he said serenely before nuzzling against me again. I gave my mom a look of question.

"Jacob, do you mind if I borrow my daughter for a few minutes?" she said, clearly annoyed.

"Mmmm.... sure," he said dazedly. He inhaled deeply against my jawline before releasing me. I followed Mom out of the house and up into the cover of the forest.

"What's going on with him??" she asked with real concern.

"I don't know.....it's been a really weird week. It's not just him, it's everybody that I've been around. The people at school keep staring at me and talking about me, and the people close to me are getting very..... attatched."

Mom looked at me with a somewhat baffled expression, making me giggle at her. She blinked a few times, and her eyes seemed to be unfocused. Oh no, not her too......

"You look..... radiant today, Ness," she said in a happy tone. "Maybe that's what it is.... maybe the pull to you is stronger for some reason."

"Yeah, seems like it....." I said towards the ground. Mom laughed her lovely bell peals, making me look back at her. "What?"

"When I met your father..... he was always dazzling me. Maybe that's what's happening to you now. He had a way of always making humans befuddled, if he got close enough to do so. Maybe that's all it is..... maybe the human in you makes it even easier for you to dazzle everyone."

That made sense. I just wonder why it's so much greater now. "Yeah, maybe," I answered slowly.

"I have something for you!" she said excitedly.

"What is it?" I smiled, glad for the subject change. She removed a box from behind her back and handed it to me. I read the words and looked at the picture on the outside.

"It's a portable mp3 stereo!" she exclaimed. "Since your's is so big, you can have this little one for over here instead of using your headphones all the time."

Cool. "Thanks Mom!" I threw my arms around her and we hugged eachother tightly for a long time. I gave her a sloppy kiss on her cheek.

"I have to go soon, darling. I'm meeting Alice to update her on everything going on around here," she said as we released. "It's so hard to have them all so far away....." she drifted off.

"Where's Dad at? I want to ask him something...." Maybe since he could read all of Jake's thoughts, he could tell me why he'd been acting so strange. I heard a light shuffle, and then my father was leaning against a tree a few feet in front of me. Mom hugged me again and told me goodbye as Dad watched in silence. When she was gone I just looked at him and waited for an answer.

"I don't know, Renesmee...... He seems even more wrapped around you than usual. He keeps thinking that he needs you, like every second he's away from you he's literally dying. He's practically intoxicated by your presence."

What does that mean, though? I'm so confused....

"I can't be sure what it means, but he's starting to make me angry....... some of his thoughts aren't quite so bad, though." He stopped to go deep into his thoughts, or Jacob's thoughts probably. "Very strange.... he truly does beleive he needs to be with you every second, more so than ever before. It's like a compulsion....."

Everyone has been acting really weird around me lately.....

"Like a moth to a flame?" he smiled. "When have they not acted that way?" He paused to listen to my thought process. My memories ran across people at school, every strange look I'd been given all week. I thought about Anthony's constant attempts and proclamations of love.

Dad's face turned down to a grimace. "That is strange....." he said slowly as he thought it all over. I watched him intently, wishing that sometime I could read his mind instead. It was sure to be absolutely fascinating, to have all of your own intelligent thoughts plus every thought of everyone around you. Dad knew more about most people than they knew about themselves, just by standing close to them.

"It's alot more annoying than you'd think," he said frowning slightly. "Especially when your daughter is dating a hormone driven werewolf that can not control his thoughts one bit."

"Are you going to be around here?"

"I'll be a few miles down for a while. Wouldn't want to see anything..... that I don't want to see," he finished with the edges of his stone mouth turned completely down. He ran with me to the house and hugged me goodbye before setting off alone. I knew he'd be far enough away in just minutes to not hear Jacob and I.

I walked through the door and Jake was sitting in the same spot he'd been when I left. His eyes were closed, but he obviously wasn't asleep because a huge smile lifted his features.

"Renesmee," he said with almost relief in his voice. He opened his eyes as if to make sure that it definitely was me, and his smile got much bigger. I could not help but smile widely in return; I loved that just my presence seemed to be making him feel so good.

He began to rise slowly, but I crossed the room to the couch before he was up. I curled into his lap, and his onyx stones penetrated my gaze. His expression shifted from dazed to one of desire as he held my eyes with his. My breathing hitched as his lips molded to mine.

He kissed me gently, yet roughly, his lips moving with mine in a way that made his intentions clear. It was only seconds before I was gasping for each breath, pulling him closer to me because I needed more. My hands wound around his neck as my fingers gripped at his hair and dug into his skin. He moaned softly into my mouth, sending a cold - hot chill down my entire body.

He stood up while we kissed, carrying me off to his room. I expected him to place me on the bed, but he turned away from it and set me up on the dresser, knocking random things to the floor without care. He pressed his body tightly to me as his lips met mine with so much intensity that it was tangible in the air.

He peeled my clothes off, slowly and carefully, kissing the length of my body as his hands moved. He grabbed around my waist and pulled me into him, inhaling luxuriously at my throat.

"You're perfect, Ness," he whispered sweetly. I gasped and closed my eyes as he entered me easily. He bent his knees so that he was level with me as he thrust forward again and again. The dresser knocked against the wall behind it as we clung to each other madly. My legs wound around his waist, making him gasp wildly.

He lifted me up by my bottom and placed my back against a wall. His arms moved my body up and down slowly, then faster as my nails ripped open the skin of his back. I moaned his name softly and his lips met mine with eagerness.

Jacob had never not known what to do with my body and his, had always been smooth and flawless. He was passionate and tender, rough yet gentle, taking me to places I'd never dreamed existed. My insides were screaming for more of him, for nothing in the world but Jacob. I placed my hand to his face and he moaned at my thoughts and feelings as they flooded his own mind. He threw me to the bed impulsively and was on top of me in less than seconds.

There was something animalistic in his movements, in the way that he needed me. The need was even stronger than it had been yesterday, and it was growing every second that we were together. His hands moved across my body leaving no piece untouched while wave after wave of ecstasy pounded through me.

He shuddered lightly as a climax rolled through him, but he was nowhere near finished. We had one another again and again, never being able to break our hold for even an instant. We moved from the bed to the floor, the floor to the walls, the walls to the dresser..... it was indescribably incredible.

I was completely sure we would have kept it up all night without stopping once if Billy hadn't come home. Jacob groaned with displeasure when he came in and called out for Jake to help him with something. He did not want to leave my side for even a second..... it was like he had been orbiting around me, like I was the sun and he was a planet trapped in my gravity. His eyes were pained as he left me lying alone on his bed.

The second he was away from me, my lack of food and sleep finally caught up. My eyelids were drooping and my stomach was rumbling when he came back in.

"Do you want some more pancakes? Something else?" he offered when he noticed my hunger.

"Pancakes sounds good," I smiled. His expression blanked for a moment, and then the corners of his mouth turned up quickly.

"I'm so lucky..... luckiest man that ever lived....." he said to himself as he went towards the kitchen. I heard him whistling as he walked.