A/N: I own nothing.

Ch. 1- I'm Fine, It's Nothing

Jacob's POV

I was driving down the road in the rain when my check engine light went on. I didn't know what it was for but I figured an oil change. My brakes were already grinding so I would stop somewhere and see if they would do both. I looked at the clock and it was 9 o'clock at night. I drove into the town with the new apartment that I was going to live in. As soon as I entered the town there was a garage with its lights still on. I pulled in and stopped out into the rain. I watched into the garage.

"Hey I need set of brakes and an oil change on my truck."

A feminine face came from under the hood of a yellow Dodge Neon. "Hey buddy we're closed!" No body appeared and probably thought I left. I walked in deeper and got closer to the car that the voice was coming from.

Finally she appeared and was so gorgeous. "I said we are…" she stopped mid-sentence. She was stunning with her dark hair lying against her cooper colored skin. She had beautiful hazel eyes. Her jeans were dirty but hugging her in all the right places, the t-shirt she was wearing was the perfect color red against her skin. I had never seen a beautiful girl in work boots but I never thought it would be that sexy.

"Hey I just need an oil change to hold me over till you can get me in."

"Ok let me just move this out of the way." She got into the car and moved it up a spot.

"Ok pull it in here"

"Got it" I pulled it in and when I started to get out she was already at the front of my truck.

"Pop the hood"

"Ok" She lifted up the hood, which is an extremely heavy hood, and set it up so it wouldn't fall.

"You can have a seat over on that couch if you want"

"OK" I went over and sat down on the couch and picked up one of the magazines that were on the coffee table. About five minutes later,

"Well I don't think you need an oil change I think you need a whole new oil tank because this one has a nail in it."

"A nail?" How the hell did a nail get up there, I would have noticed.

"Yeah it must have bounced up there when you hit something." She was still leaning over the truck when I placed my hands on the truck next to hers. I looked over her shoulder and saw inside the truck and where the nail landed.

"Wow I wonder how that happened because I didn't hear anything."

"I don't know but that's why you need oil"

"Ok well do you have any tanks here?"

"No but I can get it in the morning."

"Shit"

"Well if it's a ride you need I can give you a ride."

"Well I just moved here and my truck has all my stuff in it for my apartment."

"I have a Ford Escape if you want to load some stuff into it and I can drive you to where you are going."

"Really?" Wow that was awesome of her, I mean she just met me and was already volunteering to give me a ride.

"Yeah I was just getting ready to go home; I have been here all day."

"Well that would be awesome, thanks" I went to my truck and grabbed a few boxes out. She showed me where her car was and I ran to it through the rain and put my stuff in the back. I came back in and she was just locking everything up.

"You ready?"

"Yeah" We got in her car and she started the car and pulled out. "So where too?"

"Well I'm at Up Town Apartments"

"Oh wow those are nice; I'm just a couple blocks away from there."

"Awesome"

She started to drive us there when her phone started to ring.

"Hello?"

"Hey baby, no I can't come over tonight I worked late at the garage and I'm tired." Damn she has a boyfriend, but the hot ones always do.

"Sam I don't want to, please I'm tired. I will come over tomorrow ok?"

"Fine I will be over in a little bit just let me go check on my dad" But a controlling boyfriend, it will never last.

"Bye Love you"

She closed my phone, opened the glove box, and threw her phone in it and slammed it shut.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah, just my boyfriend, he's drunk and of course wants me to go over." Wow what a little bitch, because he's drunk he wants his beautiful girlfriend that he doesn't deserve, to come over and bang him.

"Oh"

"Yeah and he doesn't understand that I have been working late at the garage every night and I'm tired."

"Well what if you call him back and just go home."

"No, its fine, he will come over to my house if I don't go there and Sam and my dad don't really get along, especially when they are both drunk." Wow both her boyfriend and her dad were drunk a lot, I felt really bad, and that isn't a life.

"I'm sorry"

"Not your fault"

"Yeah but I still feel bad, you do need your sleep"

"I will be fine" We pulled up to the apartments and she parked.

"Well thanks for the ride"

"I will help you carry your stuff up"

"Thanks" She shut the car off and went and helped me with some of the boxes. She helped me upstairs and I opened the door. I loved this apartment so much. I set the boxes on the floor, "Well I can pick you up in the morning on my way to the garage?"

"Yeah that will work"

"Ok well I will get you at like 8am"

"That works, hey thanks again"

"No problem" She went down stairs and got in my chair. She pulled out of the parking lot and left. After I watched out the window to make sure she got to her car ok, I started to unpack. I only unpacked the few boxes that I had and then I went into the bedroom that was all already set up and took a shower. When I got out I went to bed because it had been a long day. I woke up at 7 and had some breakfast. I started to get dressed and get ready. I went down stairs at about 5 to 8 and waited for her. She pulled up right at eight and I got in.

"Good morning."

"Good morn…Oh my God what happened to your lip?!" I looked over at her when I got in and her lip had a big cut and it was swollen and bruised.

"Nothing, its fine" It was not nothing.

"Dude that is not ok"

"I just hit something last night; let it go I'm fine." I would let it go; it really wasn't any of my business.

"Well since you're fine I didn't get your name last night."

"Leah Clearwater" She shook my hand and hers was so tiny compared to mine.

"Jacob Black, you can call me Jake if you want."

"Ok well Mr. Black let's go and get your truck up and running. I might add that it is a sharp truck."

"Yep it's a Rumble Bee"

"I like it, the yellow is really nice"

"Thanks"

"So how old are you?"

"I'm 20, how about you?"

"18, fresh out of high school"

"That's awesome, how did you learn so much about cars?"

"Well before my mom died, my dad really showed me a lot and I grew up around cars so…"

"I'm sorry"

"No its ok she died when I was 14"

"Oh"

"Yeah she wasn't around much anyway"

"Oh I see" We pulled into the garage and she was the first one there I guessed. We got out of the car and she went and opened the door. We went in and she turned on the lights. We walked in and I got good a look at the side of her face. It was all bruised up and swollen.

"Leah, seriously now, what happened?!"

"Jake I said it's nothing."

"Leah a fat lip and a bruised face is not nothing. I thought you were going home and going to bed last night?"

"Well I stopped at Sam's and then went home, I'm fine, it's nothing now let me get the truck running" So she did go to Sam's, he was drunk, what if he hit her?

"Did Sam hit you?"

"It's really none of your business, but no he didn't"

"Ok I will stop" I went and sat on the couch and she called one of the guys before they got here so they could stop and get an oil tank. Once they got there she started to replace it.

"You need help?"

"Nope I'm good thanks"

I was so bored but I would wait. Finally she called me over.

"Ok take it for a ride and tell me if there is anything wrong"

"You want to go with me?"

"Sure" We got in the car and I started it.

"Sounds better" I pulled out and got us onto the road. We went for a five minute drive and then came back to the shop.

"Pull in so I can check the oil."

"Ok" I pulled it into the spot and she jumped out. She went over and lifted the hood and started to check it. I walked back over to the couch and sat down when I heard a gut wrenching scream.