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Jacob had led me down the halls and into one of our many student lounges where he stopped and finally turned to me, "I actually have no idea where I'm going." He chuckled.

I laughed as he furrowed his brow, he was upset about meeting Candy and I didn't blame him in the slightest I was upset nearly every day. "I'm sorry she came back, I hope this doesn't ruin your visit." I hugged him close to me and he hesitated before wrapping his arms around me.

"Of course it won't, I'm too estatic to see you and...that little thing you did in there..." He nodded to accent his point and grinned, "Very nice."

I slapped his chest and shook my head, "Stop it."

He laughed, "What do you want to do now? You know, we could always finish it."

I looked at him and he bent to kiss me in a sneaky way so nobody saw and I bit my lip.

He began to rub my back and I honestly wished we could just curl up and take a nap together, I'd missed getting really good sleep. "Uhm...I'm not sure I don't leave campus much. There's a cafe across the street and..."

"Lunch, yeah. Let's grab lunch." But he didn't move, I felt his chest rise and fall and I glanced up at him. His eyes were watery from his yawn.

"Are you as tired as I am?"

He laughed and nodded, looking into my eyes..."Yeah, the flight was long and it was impossible to sleep."

"Want to take a nap and find something to do tonight?"

"Yes, sounds great but what about satan?"

I frowned, "It's still my dorm too, if she's in there we will just ignore her she'll eventually get the hint."

He looked at me as though he didn't believe me and I laughed, "Come on."

Candy was no where to be found, her bottle of wine was empty and sat where she had been moments before and we sighed together in relief and I tugged his warm hand in mine towards our room.

"Why would they give college kids loft beds?" He asked, crawling up the ladder first. He laid on the bed and scooted towards the wall making room for me as I followed him up, I curled into his side and bit my lip. I felt like crying, I was so happy to have him here but I couldn't help the countdown clock in my head until he left again.

"More space, I don't know. I hate it."

He bent to kiss me and frowned, "Bella don't think about me leaving. It'll spoil the time we do have together." I nodded.

He pulled me tightly into his side and I kissed him lightly as we settled in for our nap.

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THUD! THUD! THUD! Ooooohhhh right there. Yes! Yes! THUD! THUD! THUD!

I clenched my eyes shut and pulled the blankets over my head and groaned in frustration, Candy brought home another guy and our nap was shattered. I felt Jacob's breath on my face and lifted the blanket slightly and opened my eyes, he was looking at me with a look of amusement on his face.

"Is this really happening?" He whispered. I nodded after biting my lip in a knowing smile, this was something I was unfortunately used to. "Want to go grab that dinner?" I nodded and he kissed me before I could sit up, a secretive, sweet kiss and I smiled.

"I love having you here." He nodded and pointed at the ladder, telling me to go first. Once I had gotten down I beelined for the hallway and Jacob's size hindered him from making it down as quickly. As he untangled himself from the sheets and avoided gazing in their direction he turned himself around to back down the ladder and stopped short, heaving like he couldn't catch his breath. He looked out in the hall at me and I shrugged, motioning for him to come out with me. His mega watt smile lit up his face and he backed down the ladder the rest of the way, closing the door behind him.

Though I was confused I accepted the kiss he gave me when he made it to the hallway, kissing him back with matched passion. When he pulled back he smiled again like the chesire cat.

"Penny for your thoughts?" I asked, rubbing his back.

He shrugged, "Let's go get dinner first."

I nodded but tugged his hand, "Hold on, I need to grab my purse."

"Your money. It's no good here!" he said with a goofy accent causing me to giggle, I wasn't sure what had gotten into him but I loved this playful side to him.

We ended up in the cafe and had some dinner and he bought a double fudge sundae which we shared, he fed me and I fed him, was cheesy but also really sweet.

"So...Jake..."

"Yes..." He drew out the s and licked my spoon free of any ice cream before getting another spoon full.

I giggled, "What happened to you in the dorm? You looked like you were in pain."

He grinned again and laid his spoon down, crossing his arms across his chest and leaning back in his chair smiling at me. "You caught that, huh?" I nodded, confused. "Well...you know how I feel about imprinting, right?"

I nodded, "Yes, why?"

"Well...I was climbing down and I was thinking about you and how lucky I was to have you...and...I couldn't breathe." I scrunched my eyes in confusion and nodded for him to continue. "Bella, I was suffocating and the minute I locked eyes with you it went away. I...I am pretty sure I imprinted."

"Oh my god." I breathed out, my smile matching his. "Really?"

"Yeah, the elders describe it as an umistakable feeling that you cannot breathe and once your imprint is near you it ceases, I felt exactly that."

"Wait...so you imprinted on me..." I knew what he said, but I couldn't force myself to fully grasp the situation.

"My wolf has good taste too." He smirked, returning his attention to the ice cream.

"I mean, so does that change your opinion on imprinting?"

He shook his head, "No, not at all. I still think it's stupid and unecessary, but I'm glad that it was you my wolf chose. I was already in love with you so nothing changes except for that whole seperation anxiety."

I nodded, sort of numb with the new information but I wasn't going to let it slip that I was now Jacob's life partner indefinitly. Choosing to be with him the rest of my life luckily came before this imprint bond happened so I was bound to be more accepting of it. I was relieved that it happened and I didn't have to worry about him imprinting and leaving me years down the road.

"Well...I'm..." I shook my head, unsure of what word would best describe how I felt.

"Speechless?" He chuckled, sliding the icecream towards me. "I know, we can talk about it more later I just wanted you to know." He grinned at me and all the anxiety slipped away, I was happy to be his official imprint.

Jacob paid for the dinner and we headed towards the bustling college town to window shop and check out the area. As we were walking through town, our hands swinging between us entertwined, he groaned. "So now I know where Candy picks up her toys." He pointed across the alley to a club and Candy was outside in the same clothing she was in earlier, leaning against the telephone pole smoking a joint.

"We can cross the street and go home that way?" I offered, he nodded and we went to cross the street. Luckily we made it without her noticing us and stopped into the college book store.

"Do you have any school clothes?" Jacob asked, going through a rack of sweat shirts. "I mean, with your school on them, not actual clothes."

I shrugged, "No, I don't see the point in them."

"You support your school?" He laughed, "You should get something to remind you of school and your time here."

I got the feeling he was insinuating I'd be leaving soon which kind of excited me but I let it pass, "Sure, I can get something." We chose a fitted grey henley with 'Brown U' on the front in collegiate lettering and he picked up the tab. "Where'd you get all this money Mr. Money bags."

He laughed and flicked the shiny black card at me, "It's great to be King." He joked, sliding his wallet back into his back pocket,

We wandered through town a while longer but finally gave in to our exhaustion and settled in on the couch for some cuddling, "Want some popcorn? We could watch a movie?" He nodded and I went about making some popcorn while he chose a movie. He'd chosen the Notebook and I started it up, happy we'd only had a few girly movies to choose from. It was a nice break from all his manly movies with half naked girls in them. Half way through the movie Jacob knocked over the popcorn butter and it went all over me.

"Jesus, I'm sorry Bella. Your clothes are ruined!" He tried wiping at it with a napkin but it was no use, the oil had indeed ruined the clothes.

"Jake, it's okay. Really." I had no attachment to the clothes and wiped up what I could and frowned, "I need a shower though, I stink." He nodded and ran his hand through his hair. "Jake, it's okay really." I cleaned up our mess and grabbed some fresh clothes and headed for the bathroom. "You can come in in 5 minutes and sit on the toilet if you want to talk." He just nodded and I closed the door. It made me nervous to be naked with Jacob just on the other side of the door but knew he would not do anything to break that trust. Half way through the shampoo Jake came in and I poked my head out at him, he'd changed his t-shirt and sat down on the closed toilet. "Hey. You okay?"

He looked up at me and smiled, "Yes and no. I feel bad."

"Well don't, accidents happen." I went back in the shower and knew I was blushing like a mad woman. Jacob could reach out and touch me, naked as a jay bird and I was so embarrassed.

We talked about the movie, he'd said he liked it and wanted to see the end before we went to bed. I wasn't sure how we would get much sleep considering Candy would be bringing home another guy and banging him till dawn. The couch didn't pull out into a bed and we didn't have an air mattress but we would figure something out. As I was finishing my shower I was rinsing out my body pouf as Jacob groaned, "She's baaaackk."

"Hey little bitch." I heard her yell from the foyer and I rolled my eyes and shut off the water, hating to send Jacob out there alone with her.

I reached out for my towel and he stood, "I'll go wait in your room or something." I said okay and got dressed faster than I ever had before, not even really drying myself properly.

When I emerged Jacob was on the couch listening to Candy drone on about how awful the club had been that night, that they were all sloppy seconds and she needed a new lay tonight. I leaned over his shoulder, "Done." He leaned up and smiled, "You smell amazing." I kissed him quickly, embarrassed that Candy was watching like we were a side show.

I told him to come to my room and Candy insisted on tagging along, not really wanting to be alone. "How about that party! I could get Brady to bring some booze, play some sexy truth or dare!"

"Ah, no...We're not the party type, thank you though." I tried to be polite, I knew it was impossible because she was just a bitch.

"Not the party type. Not the drinking type. Sex? Don't swear like that! What the fuck DO you do lil bitch?" She ripped her top off without warning and Jacob dropped his gaze to the wall behind me and I was so mad at her for being so rude.

"I don't appreciate you doing that in front of him." Jacob clicked his tongue in his cheek and she glared at me, slowly unhooking her bra and letting her perky size B's hang free.

"Oops." She laughed, "Live a little. I'm sure he's seen tits before, yours no...but a body like that has been touched before. So."

That hit a nerve in me, I knew he'd been with someone and seen her before even if he didn't remember it. I instantly felt upset, though it was directed at Jacob and it shouldn't have been so I just sat down.

She snapped a new bra on and walked into his line of vision to choose a shirt and he adverted it once again. "Thought so, maybe if you weren't such a prude..." she threw on a revealing top and ripped her pants down to reveal a pink thong and something inside of me snapped.

"You know what Candy, shut the hell up!" My voice sounded forein to me at that moment, it was laced with anger towards her.

She looked shocked but I couldn't be sure, "WOW." She said loudly, uncrossing her arms. "It's about time you got a fucking back bone."

Jacob was staring at me, dumbfounded that I'd yelled but I wasn't done. "I don't care what people think, least of all you.!" She opened her mouth to say something,

"Will you shut up!" Jacob's voice startled me and I momentarily thought he was yelling at me.

Candy glared at him but he cut her off, "I said shut up! I don't care to hear what you have to say, I've never met anyone as rude as you and trust me I deal with some real assholes every day. Everything you do and say screams insecurity, it's not our problem so stop projecting it onto us!"

She rolled her eyes, "Last time I checked this was my apartment too, I can walk around naked if I want to and bring whomever I want home. And this?" She pointed to her mouth, "Can do what it wants to. FUCK. YOU."

"And we're sure it does." He mumbled and stood up, I followed him out the door and pulled him down the hall to my RA's apartment. I knocked, determined to show Candy I wasn't going to let her walk all over me.

I told Rebecca all about Candy's habits and what it was like to live with her, she was just as apalled as we were by it and she was upset I hadn't said anything sooner. Despite it being an apartment it was still a dorm situation and she can and would be reprimanded for such behavior. She told us to stay out for a few hours so she could have time to evict Candy and I felt bad. Sure her way of life wasn't suitable to live with, but it was her life not my own. I felt bad that I'd gotten her kicked out of student housing, but Jake assured me it needed to be brought to someone's attention.

"Hey, want to go sing karoake and eat greasy bar food out of baskets used by other people?" I asked, grinning up at him like a little kid.

"Wait...you sing?" He raised his eyebrows and I started to throw my hands up in protest but he laughed, "no no...we're going. But no t-Swift"