Chapter 18:

Racing, Lockers and a Bit of Tick-tack Toe

We stayed mostly around each other, not wanting to separate too much. When I caught sight of the river though, I suddenly jumped to the side and kicked the tree, sending me flying forward. I landed right on the edge of the river, one foot in it.

"I win!" I said as I turned to see Jake running full speed toward me.

"Jake? Jake! JAKE!!" I yelled as he collided into me sending us flying into the freezing river.

"You're mean" I said as I got on his back, all my clothes soaking wet.

I was shivering but his warmth was warming me up quickly. He doggie paddled to the edge where I got off. Once I was down, he shook all his fur, sending water flying towards me.

"Jake!" I yelled as I threw water at him and ran off.

He was behind me, I could hear his paws thundering. I stopped suddenly and jumped up, landing right behind him.

"Too slow!" I laughed as I headed toward the house.

Right when I was about to reach the house, Jake caught up to me. His nose touched my back and I jumped so high I actually caught onto my balcony railing.

"Not funny Jake!" I yelled as I pulled myself up.

"Hilarious" he said as he climbed up beside me, human form though only in shorts.

I took a quick shower, letting the hot water relax my tense muscles. I got out, smelling of grapes and put on my PJ's quickly. I went to my room and nearly had a heart attack when I saw Jake lounged on my bed.

"Jeez, you nearly killed me"

"Technically your half-dead" he joked.

"Nice" I said as I laid down next to him.

We watched TV together and I fell asleep in bliss, snuggled at his side, his arms around me.

* * *

I awoke to bird chirping loudly at my window. I groaned as I sat up. I saw where Jake's form had left in indent and it was still warm but he was gone. Probably in his own room. I got ready quickly, throwing on a quick outfit.

"Nessie! You better change!" Alice yelled through the house.

I laughed and changed into something more Alice appropriate. I then headed to my pile of books. How in the world was I going to get these downstairs? Suddenly, an idea hit me. I ran to the hallway and grabbed a towel from the cabinet. I placed all my books on it and pulled. I got halfway down the hall before I had to stop.

"Nessie . . . what in the world are you doing" Jake asked as he saw my little invention.

"Transporting my books" I said as I tied up the towel and kicked it down the stairs. It bumped down to the bottom and landed with a BOOM!. The towel opened revealing all my books with not a scratch on them.

"What happened?!" Esme, Jasper, Alice, Dad, and mom asked as they rushed out.

"Nothing" I said as I grabbed the towel and pulled. "Just transporting my books" I said as I slowly walked backwards toward the garage.

I couldn't see where I was going so I nearly jumped out of my skin when I bumped into Jake.

"Hey, easy, it's just me" he said as he easily grabbed my towel of books and carried it to the car.

"Thank you" I said as I kissed him.

Out moment was interrupted when our stomachs growled. We laughed and headed to the kitchen. Everyone was still watching the spot where the books landed with disbelief.

"What?" I asked. "I have my ways" I said as I put some pop tarts into the toaster and poured 2 glasses of milk.

When they were done I placed them on a plate and headed to the table.

"Here is my wonderful creation" I said as I sat down. "Bon Appetite" I said and laughed.

"Mmm, amazing chef Nessie" Jake complimented as we ate.

When we finished, we washed the plates and finished getting ready.

"Bye everyone!" I said as I headed to the garage. "Bye mom, bye dad!" I added just to stay on their good side.

"Nessie? Isn't it a bit ear—" but we were already off.

"We need to get lockers" I said as I glanced back at the pile of books.

"I agree. Those are way too many books to carry all day" he agreed.

"Is there a detention room or something?" I said as we arrived.

"Maybe, who knows. Let's just get our lockers" he said as he grabbed half of my books and his.

I gracefully grabbed my half and headed after him.

"Excuse me" he said at the office. "Umm . . . we need 4 lockers" Jake asked.

"Okay, you guys can have lockers numbers 356,357, 493, 494" she said as she handed me a slip "Locks are $5 if you want to buy them from the school" she said.

"Thank you" I said as we headed out.

"How are we supposed to find these?" I asked as I walked.

"Well, here is 332 so if we keep walking . . . 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355 . . . 356! Found it!" he said as he lowered his books and opened both the lockers. "Fill it up with half your books . . . except Literature of course" he said as he started loading his.

"I totally have to decorate this locker" I said as I loaded it up.

"As long as it's your, it's perfect" he said as he kissed me, pushing me against the lockers.

After a minute, he pulled away but grabbed me since I swayed slightly.

"You have to learn to breathe" he teased as we headed towards our other lockers.

We walked for a while before we found our other lockers. I quickly emptied out the rest of my books, leaving only my sweater, my pencil case and my Literature stuff in my backpack.

"Ugh, come on, to an hour of torture" I said and then remembered something. "Crap! I left my detention on my nightstand . . . and I didn't get it signed . . . you've got to be kidding me" I said as I stamped my foot. "I went through all that yesterday for nothing? Come on!"

"Calm down honey, I got them" he said as he pulled them out of his pack, signed. "Bella did the honors" he answered my unasked question.

"Oh my gosh Jake! You're amazing!" I said as I grabbed them from his hand and kissed him sweetly.

"So I've heard" he said with a chuckle and I playfully slapped his arm.

We wandered around the building until we found a detention room. We went in and sat down smiling. It was a really bland room, completely grey and white but the lady was asleep on her desk. We didn't want to wake her by talking but we didn't want to leave incase she woke up so we ended up playing ticktack toe and Dot-to-Dot for about 45 minutes until the bell rang, effectively waking her up.

"Okay" she said sleepily. "Sign in on the log and leave" she said as she pointed to the clipboard and then laid her head back on the desk.

I signed my name in for Mr. Pay and Mr. Campbell and Jake followed after me.

"Come on, let's explore the wonderful world of Shakespeare" Jake said as he led me to Mrs. Poem's class.

I groaned but let him lead me. We took our seat quickly, keeping our hands intertwined under the table.

"Okay class, hand in your essays" she announced when the late bell rang and we all passed them up.

I took mine out and quickly passed it up. Class after that was pretty boring. We read another section and filled in a couple of worksheets. The bell rang and I saddened.

"Hey, Free Period, I'll be waiting" he said as he kissed me quickly and ducked out of the door.

I sighed but headed to Calc. I passed by my locker and exchanged my books quickly, locking it and heading into class. I headed straight into the back of the class where Emma, Matt, Lily and Mike sat.

"Hey guys" I said as I sat down.

"Hey Ness, so, how did your parents take it?" Emma asked.

"Oh boy. Well, my mom didn't care too much . . . my dad . . . well that's a whole 'nother story. He sort of yelled at me for about an hour, and grounded me so yeah, not so great" I explained.

"Oh, your parents are strict. Mine usually just tell me to do better and sometimes the ground me but for a week max. How was detention? Did you go to Mrs. Dunlop's room or . . . ?" Matt asked.

"Detention was really not bad. The lady was asleep the whole time so I just played tic-tac-toe and Dot-to-Dot with Jake . . . it's the only thing we could think of that was quiet and we didn't want to risk leaving" I explained to their incredulous faces.

"You're lucky! You got into Mrs. Dewdrop's class. She always falls asleep" Lily explained.

We laughed but quieted down as Mrs. Subside walked in. I took notes carefully since there was a test tomorrow. Though I knew I would ace it, I still didn't want to maybe get a 98% and have my dad tell me that I shouldn't be getting anything wrong.

When class ended, Lily and I headed to art. Thank god we had a sub today and not Mrs. Reeves. I didn't want to be embarrassed again.

"Okay guys, Mrs. Reeves isn't here today but she told me to tell you that your assignment was to try to remember a landscape your saw in your life . . . from a beach to the mountains and paint it" the sub explained.

The paint was handed out and we quickly started on our project. I painted the mountains that were outside our window. It was a very calming class. Turns out, Lily decided to paint the same thing and when we showed ours to each other, it was like looking into a mirror.

"Wow, that was creepy" Lily said as we put them to dry and left.

"Bye!" I said as I walked toward Mr. Pay's class. Mr. Pay . . . I was going to make him pay for what I went through yesterday.

A/N

Hey Guys! SORRY!! I'm sorry for the late update ut the test were huge and I wasn't able to write at all this week. I'm sorry, thank god they're over though. I might not update next week (not certain yet) because I might be gone the whole weekend at Disney so yeah. I'm not sure though. I might update before I leave but we'll probably leave Friday so I don't know. Anyway, what did you think? This was sort of a filler. We're getting to the somewhat bigger part of the story *hint hint check the title hint hint* Uhoh Mr. Pay, you've got Nessie mad . . . not good. OMG!! Did you guys see the preview for Eclipse?? They already released the first one and I was screaming the whole time!! I can't wait till June 30th!! It's gonna be awesome. Well, review and check out the preview, here's a link - .com/ click it or copy and paste in into your address bar. Luv ya!

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