Chapter 10: Good for the goose, good for the gander (revised)
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**Good for the Goose, Good for the Gander**
Renesmee mashed her key-less remote, unlocking to door of the car in a huff, practically throwing herself in the car, she slammed the door in exasperation; slumping in the luscious leather, she mashed the doors locked.
"Take it easy Nessie." Rochelle said timidly taking Nessie's hand in hers.
"You want me to drop you off? I'm not gonna be such good company now." Renesmee said dejectedly.
"No. Uh uh," Rochelle said, "You know what, this blows. This is your first night, and you're gonna be queen. I'm not letting your night be ruined like this. You're coming with me. Get out, I'm driving."
Nessie looked over at Shell wondering where this bossy bitch came from, "you wanna drive the GT? Yeah, right."
Shell leaned over into her ear and whispered "Get out of the damn car, and let me drive."
Renemee couldn't refuse. Shell was kinda cute like this.
Switching positions, Shell turned up the music and sped away, kicking up a whirl of fallen autumn leaves. Within minutes Renesmee found herself parked in front of some dumpy house.
"Get out, and come on hot mamma." She ordered.
Rochelle pulled her along up the walkway to the front door and opened it up walking in as like she owned the place and went directly to the kitchen to retrieve a full bottle o' Jack from the freezer. Pouring herself and Nessie a double, she proposed the toast "to hell with men, hoo-rah!"
Nessie threw the glass back and the contents down her throat, and slammed the glass down; Shell filled it again.
Shooting the second, Shell pulled Nessie by one hand, the bottle in the other hand and flopped down on a couch. Nessie sat down beside her.
Suddenly Renesmee felt a little better. Shell watched her and Nessie's eyes locked with hers until Ness leaned over Rochelle's shapely bosom reaching for the bottle.
"Hey Kev, turn up the jams." Rochelle ordered and the music suddenly got louder. "So! What's the deal Nessie?"
"With Jake? Nothin. We've been best friends since I was in diapers. Lately we've had strong flirtations. He's in love with me, according to his own words, but I don't believe in that shit." She said pulling the top off with her teeth, spitting it out and taking a hit off the bottle.
"So he's your boyfriend?"
Nessie looked blankly at the dirty lounge chair across from her, but didn't answer.
"So he's not your boyfriend then?"
Nessie still remained silent.
"You know what, screw him.
I'd like to, Renesmee thought to herself.
"Who needs him right now anyway? You have me." Rochelle soothed rubbing her hand on Renesmee's abdomen.
Ness turned her head to face Shell, smiled sweetly and kissed her gently on the lips. "You know I like guys right?"
"Yea, so do I, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna ravage you tonight." Rochelle laughed, pushing Nessie back and kissing her in return.
Nessie laughed, took another swig nearly draining half the contents of the bottle, "Damn girl, you sure can drink," Shell commented as the bottle drained before her eyes. Nessie chased the Jack with Shell's tongue, reasoning to herself that she just needed to chemically reset, that's all.
Rochelle pushed Renesmee away, taking the bottle from her and took a hit.
Renesmee, raising her eyebrow, leaned in to kiss her again encouraging her to continue "you know what I need?" She coaxed breathless against her ear, ducking her tongue in.
Pushing back, Shell straddled Renesmee's hips pressing her face into the divine crevice of Nessie's neck.
"I love your lips." Nessie moaned.
Shell took the liberty of biting her skin beneath the ear, causing Neisse to take in a sharp breath, "amazing" she moaned to Shell's advances.
This feeling is what made life bearable all those other times right? How was this any different from the way Jake made her feel? Renesmee couldn't answer the question, but she knew Jacob made her feel different... but she couldn't for the life of her explain to herself why.
Rochelle could feel the distraction Renesmee was experiencing and got up, took her by the hand to a room that was unoccupied at the moment.
"Take your clothes off." Shell commanded closing the door softly behind them.
…
The full moon's light through the window aroused Jacob from sleep. He stretched leisurely on his amazingly luxuriant bed. Alice had done him another favor, she had switched his typical full size bed for a larger futon. Knowing her disdain for the 'hideous trash' they would call a frame, as he had once heard her say, explained the reason that this particular futon rested on something much nicer than was typical for a regular futon. His good mood was short lived however, for remembering the previous night was like a swift kick in the gut.
Jake eyed the clock jumping out of bed and decided it was prudent to go shower before it got crowded.
The water was most refreshing to Jake when cold. It helped him to think clearly. Steam rose from the temperature difference of the water and his flesh particularly on his arms. Jake contemplated looking at the skin on his arm, if it would make Renesmee skip this whole phase, of whatever the hell she was going through, he would gladly rake a knife over his skin tearing it from his body; but that wouldn't help.
Jake cleared his mind. I knew this would be difficult. I agreed to this.
If there was one who tried to reconcile an action that he did not want to take, it was Jacob on this morning. He hated games and didn't like to be part of them. Was there a way to show her what he was going through without going along with this insanity?
It was here in the clarity of the cold water that the next steps were plain. Jake got out of the shower with a focused head and a plan of action. The ball was in his court; he bargained to teach Nessie lessons in love, and teach he would.
Lesson one: What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Jake dressed in what Alice deemed casual wear for classes. He had a stack of designer jeans to choose from and a selection of belts that all looked the same to him. However, Alice had paired the belts that went with specific jeans when she unpacked for him; along with this came an array of different types of shirts to wear, depending on the degree of hotness he wanted to emit. Her instructions were clear: 'for classes, and classes only, pick from this group,' a note read. She tagged the hangers that the shirts went on so he could figure it out; when they came back from laundry they could go back on those same hangers because the tag on the inside was matched with the tag on the hanger.
'Shoes are really basic,' he recalled her saying as he looked at the rack of shoes in the closet, 'just go from lowest to highest. They are as well, for lack of a better term, degree of hotness. The lower the shoe is on the rack, the lower on the scale. If you are going to class, and class only, stay between the lower two tiers. If you think you are going out after class without a chance to come home and change clothes, hop up a tier.'
Simple my ass, at least I have a really good memory now, Jacob snickered to himself.
'If you have any problems,' the note concluded, 'I've put a GQ magazine in your top drawer with sticky notes on pages that you can look to for examples, those pages correspond with outfits in your closet. If you have any questions, just call me. Love Alice.'
Jacob saw a great deal more clothes than he had purchased on their shopping trip. Guess Alice had taken the liberty to fill it out. Guess she'd known it would be necessary; after all Nessie was a monster she had created when it came to fashion and the demands that came with it.
Once dressed in a pair of Parasuco Jeans and a tight white cotton shirt with long sleeves he had pulled up his sculpted forearm, he strapped on the Hublot timepiece (a gift from Emmett) and a pair of pristine white sneakers by D&G, he was ready. Touching cologne to his wrists before heading out the door, he greeted his roommate, Aaron, on the way down to breakfast.
"Nice watch." Aaron commented and then paused to notice the rest of his fine clothing.
He didn't look too much out the ordinary, but somehow he looked expensive.
Jacob ate enough for five guys, and didn't look a pound heavier than when he had sat down; his shirt still clung to each and every perfectly sculpted bump of his abdomen. Jake grabbed his book bag and headed out.
To his surprise, his first class, Psych 101, he looked up over the theater style classroom and noticed not only Alice who gave him a wink of approval, but Bella and Renesmee.
Jake smiled, bounded up the stairs and sat next to Alice which was a row behind Renesmee and Bella.
"What'cha doin here shorty?" he asked with a happy smile, nudging Alice.
"I wanted to take a couple easy classes this semester." She said with a low laugh.
"You wanted to witness my humiliation didn't you? Well you're in for a treat, I suck when it comes to psychology," he laughed and winked at her.
"Well if you do half as well with your tests as you do with your wardrobe, you should pass with flying colors. Good job Jake, I must say, I'm impressed."
"I had a great professor," he teased putting his arm next to hers and pushing lightly. "Morning, Bella, Renesmee. How are you ladies doing this fine morning?"
"Wonderful Jacob, thanks. Nice to see you in such high spirits." Bella commented.
"Life's grand, what could possibly be wrong? I'm young, I'm hot and I've got the world on a string, thanks to my wonderful family here. By the way, thanks Alice for setting me up at Fiji's. I can't believe you unpacked for me. I love you." Jake said and kissed Alice gently on the cheek.
"Jake," Alice laughed, "don't be silly, you're practically my brother. Of course, it was nothing."
"Did you have fun last night Nessie after you left?" Jake asked casually.
"Actually I had a great time." Renesmee said with a little uncertainty. There was something about Jacob's mood that she didn't understand, beyond that, she couldn't explain the feeling that fluttered to her heart when she saw him...It's chemical, easy as that. Chemical, she kept chanting to herself.
"Oh yea, show me." He offered leaning his face down easily within her reach.
Puzzled she reached up and touched him 'showing' him her evening.
Jake raised an eyebrow and a smile tugged at the side of his lips. "Girls do like to have fun… I hope you didn't show your mother that." Immediately embarrassed, Renesmee turned away from him.
Jake laughed easily and sat back since the professor was about to begin.
The schedule he had flowed easily, and not surprisingly, Jake and Renesmee had four similar classes out of five.
When classes ended that first day, they had more reading to do then they would have imagined, but being the geniuses that they all were, it didn't take an hour to finish all their homework.
Bella was excited because like Alice, Edward had decided to take all 'easy' classes; that is to say classes that matched Bella's classes and was with her all day.
"Edward," Bella asked getting in the car ready to leave campus for the day and get on to more interesting things, "what's going on between Ness and Jake, I mean really going on?"
Edward shrugged, "Renesmee is being this new version of herself and Jake is adjusting."
Bella looked at him with an eyebrow raised.
Edward sped off in their upgraded Volvo and headed back out to the U-District house. He sighed, knowing that Bella wouldn't understand that cryptic message, he explained further. "Jake walked in on a scene: Renesmee was grinding on a guy and making out. This guy turned out to be one of Jake's new frat brothers. They had a quiet blow up, thanks to Jasper it didn't get out of hand, and Nessie went off and hooked up with her new roommate, a girl named Rochelle. Jake acted like nothing happened and Renesmee doesn't know what to make of it. They hadn't talked about it as of yet…"
"Oh good lord! She did what?" Bella said exasperated. "Well what do we do?"
"Nothing. This is between those two. We have to stay out of it, unless one of them asks us. If there is one thing I learned in my one hundred plus years, its mind your own business." Edward looked over at Bella and placed his hand on her cheek, "besides, I haven't had enough of you lately. They'll work it out."
Jake was walking from campus back to his house for some fresh air, when Renesmee walked up beside him.
"Hey Jake," she said quietly. Ambling along down the walk, a student cycled by them.
"Hey yourself. What's up?" He asked casually.
"Nothing… Shouldn't we talk?"
"About what?" he asked in a somewhat muted voice.
"About what happened?"
"There's nothing to talk about. You were right, I don't own you and it's not a big deal. You were just having fun. You are free to have fun. Don't worry about it. It's just chemical remember? You aren't even technically my girlfriend. I told you I love you, but we never came to any…understanding."
"Really? You're okay?" she asked pulling a pink flower from a nearby bush.
"I'm great, hey, what are you doing tonight. I hear that the place to be is Mike's on forty-fifth across from the bookstore. It's supposedly the usual hangout. Maybe you'll find someone fun there tonight." He suggested crossing the street. "I think I might go hang out," he added and glanced out the corner of his eye to see her reaction.
Her head peaked slightly, "really? You're going out?"
"Don't sound so surprised." He chuckled.
They reached the front walk of his house. "Well this is me." He said referring to his house, "I'll see you tonight, I gotta shower and change."
"You're changing your clothes?" Renesmee said, more of a statement than a question, but the disbelief was clear in her voice.
"Well yea, I can't very well wear this. I've had it on all day." He said like that was a stupid question she should have known the answer to. Didn't she pay attention when Alice spoke?
"Well alright then, I guess I'll see you there?" she asked tentatively.
"Or you could meet me here in two hours and we can walk over together, it should be a nice night." Jake offered looking up at the sky, the clouds that were present during the day seemed to have dissipated, and it looked as though the sapphire blue sky was able to peek through the canopy of the trees of the lane.
"Okay." Renesmee said lighting up.
Renesmee walked the couple of miles to Rosalie's place, since she had gotten a ride to school with her mother and her car was still at her Aunt's house.
Jacob smiled confidently and went into the house, first to grab something to eat, then take a light nap and finally to shower and change clothes…
When the appointed time arrived, Renesmee entered the Fiji house to wait for Jake and got all kinds of looks and whispers.
She heard every single word.
Damn she's hot, I wonder if she'd hook up with me.
Naw man, she's Jake's girl.
That doesn't seem to make a difference. She hooks up all over the place. I heard she…
Nessie tried to block out what she was hearing. Suddenly she found it very distasteful. What gave them the right to talk about her? Whatever, they were stupid. It wasn't a big deal.
I heard it was a whole group.
I heard it was a group of guys first and then a group of girls. Another guy chimed in.
Man I wish I could just watch…
How could she cheat on Jake like that though, he seems to be a really decent guy.
He's probably too good for her any way.
You know pretty girls are a dime dozen… It takes a while to find someone truly amazing these days.
But in the mean time, whispered another guy cutting into the conversation, I'd tap that!
The guys laughed and high fived each other behind her back, she turned around and looked directly at them sending them glares of death.
They dispersed suddenly, self conscious that she had heard them.
Jake came down the stairs in another pair of fabulous faded jeans with prints on the pockets, shiny shoes, and an open collar white shirt, his fabulous, toned skin playing peek-a-boo.
Nessie found herself biting her lip in anticipation to which Jake gave her a breathtaking smile.
"Damn, don't you look delicious," Jake said, taking in her beauty in a strapless black mini dress and red stilettos. She wore no necklace and little earrings, with her hair hefted up, making her neck dangerously accessible. He kissed her lightly on the cheek and grabbed her hand, appreciating her beautiful fingers down to the blood red polish that matched her shiny shoes. "I like your polish, it matches your shoes," he said sweetly in her ear and led her to walk out the door.
Renesmee couldn't deny the fluttery feeling that filled her.
Arriving at the bar he detangled her hand from his and held the door open as she entered. He waited about five seconds and followed.
The music was blaring, people laughing, girls flirting, guys looking and lots of drinking.
The way parted for Renesmee to walk, and Jake seemed to be immediately surrounded by girls introducing themselves and putting their hands all over him.
Renesmee noted the attention and headed over to the bar to be a spectator.
Jake noticed a few of his new fraternity brothers and headed over to the bar, weaving his way through the girls without taking too much note of any of them.
"Hey Jake, you ready for hell week," a Fiji guy that was unknown to Jacob asked.
"Hell week?" Jake looked down the bar toward Ness, "Hey bar-keep," Jake said turning his torso toward the bar, "can get a double shot of grey goose straight up?"
"Sure thing dude," was the response he received.
Taking his shot, his sight returned to Renesmee and his eyes drifted toward the door where he noticed Edward and Bella walking in, I've been through hell years, he thought to himself. Throwing his head back taking the burning swallow, "I've been through worse," he muttered.
A guy introduced himself, "I'm Matt."
"Jake." Jake responded.
"Yea, I know. Welcome to the Fiji's bro."
At that moment a pretty girl that Jacob recognized from his Physics class approached him with a cute little red silk dress on, "Dance with me Jake?"
Matt elbowed him lightly in the shoulder, and laughed for him to get on with it.
Taking her hand they moved closer to where people were actually dancing.
Jacob could feel Renesmee's eyes on his back.
Putting on his best game face he muttered the words to himself: What's good for the goose is good for the gander, and wrapped his hands around the waist of the pretty girl that was leaning into him swaying to the music.
Anyone would have loved to have been Jake. This girl was amazing. "I'm Stephanie." She murmured against his chest grazing her hands against his bulging biceps.
"We have physics together." Jake responded, showing the girl that he had in fact recognized her.
"I'm flattered you even noticed me." She replied moving her hands up his arms and her hands around his neck.
"How could I not?" Jake asked lowering his head closer to her, "It's not many women who can come near to looking me in the eye. You are refreshingly tall."
"It's nice to be appreciated." She said with a smile. "Most guys have a fit that I'm six feet tall and wear heels," she said softly laughing. Her dazzling white teeth would have been enough to enchant any man. As for Jake, he had to pretend that her raven black hair, green eyes, and wicked smile bewitched him.
"Unattached?" he asked.
"Yes, you?"
"Surprisingly, yes."
"Hungry?"
"Famished."
"May I take you to dinner?"
"Only if we can have desert first," she whispered against his cheek. He pulled her closer to his body and leaned his face into her neck breathing in her lovely aroma.
"I like desert," he murmured softly under her ear.
Fire of jealousy raged through Nessie's body, but she remained glued to the spot where she stood.
Leading the way to the door, Jake used all the power within him not to look at Renesmee as he brushed right past her, hand in hand with this vixen.