Ch 3: Make New Friends

Stable boy

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Chapter 3: Make New Friends

The first two hours of the train ride were okay, I had my book, and I had my mp3 player. Then, as time grew on I grew so bored. At one point in time I had a passenger sitting by me, but then they got off at the next stop. Since I wasn't tired, I decided to stretch my legs and go to the observation car. On the way there, I was trying my hardest not to trip over some of the items in the walk way. Just my luck though I tripped.

When I braced myself for impact, I felt a strong hand catch me.

"Hey, you okay?" I looked up to see the owner of the voice. He was a very cute, dark skin, brown shaggy hair, and a good amount of muscles. From what I could tell, he didn't look much older than me.

"Yeah, I'm okay. Gravity just isn't my friend." I blushed, glad for the semi-dark interior.

"My names Jacob Black, What's yours?" he laughed.

"Bella Swan," I replied.

"Well Bella, Where were you headed before you tripped?

"I was just on my way to the observation car." I noticed he was still holding on to me.

"I'm in luck, I was getting ready to go there myself." With that we started making our way to the observation car.

"So, tell me about yourself, Bella," he asked once we sat down.

"Well there's not much to say." he didn't look like be believed me. "Fine" so I told him the whole story. About my mom and Charlie, and why I'm on my way to Texas.

"So basically your mom is making you live with someone you really don't know very well?" he said.

"Yeah, pretty much so, tell me about yourself Jacob, It's your turn." I told him.

"Okay I'm 16, and I'm a born and raised Texan. I live in Longview, and I like to do outdoors stuff, hiking, four wheeling, and dirt biking. I also like to work on cars, I'm pretty good at it." Well, if he's not just the typical boy. I laughed inwardly.

"Got to say, that's ways more interesting than mine." I said and smiled.

"Yeah, but you've seen more than just Texas and Arkansas, I haven't."

"Okay, Okay, Truce?" I laughed.

"Truce, You want to know something?"

"It seems like I've known you way longer than just an hour." he's so sweet. I started tearing up. "Bella?"

"It's okay, It's just, I've never really had any friends before. No one has ever tried. So I never tried. Well, moving all the time hurts too."

"Aw." He leaned over and gave me a big squeeze." You are seriously the nicest person I've every known."

"Thanks you too." I sniffled, geez could I be anymore of a girl! I giggled a bit, then let out a big yawn. "Well, I think I should get back to my seat to try and get some sleep."

"I agree with ya there. I'm glad you tripped by my seat." he grinned. "I really hope we keep in touch." So I took out my cell and he took out his and we exchanged numbers. "You wanna meet up for breakfast in the morning?" "Yeah, sounds good to me." I replied. I gave Jake a quick hug, and walked carefully back to my seat, I didn't want to wake anybody up. I was proud when I got lack to my seat, for I hadn't tripped on the way back. Once I finally got in a comfy position I wrapped myself in my blanket, placed my earbuds in my ears, and played some classical music. I think within five minutes, I was asleep. I didn't think I even dreamed.

When I woke up, I was momentarily blinded by the sun pouring into my window, then as I went to move, my neck, I felt really stiff. Once I worked it out by popping it, I got my cell out of my pocket, and checked the time, eight-thirty. I think it was around two when I got back to my seat. I wanted to hurry this day up, so I got up and made my way to the café car to meet up Jake.

As I was walking, I came up to Jake's seat, I noticed he was still there, and the closer I got I could hear him snoring. He was still asleep. After a quick inward debate with myself I on whether to wake him up or not, I decided I'd be mean and wake him. I'm awake, so why shouldn't he be?

"Jake..." I whispered softly in his ear. He replied with a snort and a groan. "Jake, rise and shine." I said louder. He mumbled something I couldn't fully understand, but it sounded a lot like "Five more minutes." I guess he was a heavy sleeper. "Jake, they're serving free food in the café!"

"What?" he said loudly. Then he took in his surroundings, and blinked a few times at me.

"What?" He groggily asked.

"It's morning, and I'm hungry, now get up eat with me please." I said sweetly. I think that I finally got through to him.

"Oh, right sorry. I just couldn't sleep last night, these train seats aren't comfortable at all. I think I finally found a good spot, and fell asleep when you woke me up." He explained, then yawned really big.

"I'm sorry, would you like to sleep a little longer? I can go eat by myself, you don't have to join me." I replied then blushed like crazy.

"No, no. I'm awake now. Plus, I don't want to miss my stop." He smiled at me.

"Yeah, that wouldn't be fun." I said. Once, he stretched and got up out of his seat, we headed over to the café car. The closer we got, my stomach seemed to growl louder.

"You hungry or something?" Jake asked.

" Yes, as a matter of fact I am. I seemed to have ate all my snacks, early this morning, before we met." I didn't think, when I ate my snacks, that I would've eaten them all before I got to the station. Jake's stomach started rumbling as soon as we stepped into the car. I turned my head around and smiled at him.

"What, can't I be hungry too? he asked.

"Nope!" I said. He playfully glared at me. As we waited in line, I was trying to figure out what I wanted. "Have you figured out what you want yet?" Jake asked. "Nope, everything sounds so good. I'm leaning towards the huge cinnamon roll though. What about you?"

"That sounds good, but I'm really thinking about the biscuits and gravy." The longer I think about it, the Giant Cinnamon Roll really does sound good right now." With that thought my stomach growled again, I'm taking that as an agreement.

Once we got what we both wanted, Jake got the biscuits and gravy, we went to find a booth. Jake and I both inhaled out breakfast. When we finished, we looked at each other and started laughing.

"Were you hungry Jake, or was your food just that good?" I asked.

"Both. I can't believe we just inhaled our food like that." he chuckled again. He had a point, I didn't think I was ever that hungry. It must've been the food. I chuckled along with him.

"So you still nervous about living with your dad?" he gently asked.

"Yeah, I don't really know what to say when I see him. I'm still a bit mad at him and Rene for going behind my back." I sighed.

"Know that you are always welcome to call me and just talk. You can even come visit me." Jake smiled and I just couldn't help but smile back.

Another hour, or so it felt to me, a talking announcement came on saying we would be arriving in Grand Saline, TX. in about 15 minutes for a smoke break, the train is non-smoking and to pick up passengers.

When we arrived in Grand Saline, Jake and I both got off to get some fresh air and to stretch. Once I was outside, I got out my Cell phone and called my Charlie and told him where I was. He sounded so excited that I was half the way there, it's been awhile since I've seen Charlie, I'm actually looking forward to getting know him better.

After I got done talking to Charlie, Jacob and I went back inside.

"Okay only two more hours until Longview and three more hours for Texarkana." Jake said, "Geez, it's taking forever it seems to get there. "I sighed, Jake laughed.

"Don't laugh!" I frowned at him he laughed even harder.

"You don't have much patience do you?" he asked.

"No never have really." I smiled "I can tell." he grinned.

"Well I'm going back to my seat for a bit to make sure I have everything packet up, in my carry on." I told him.

"All right, I'll move over to the seat next to you. When you're done, okay?" he asked.

"Okay sounds good to me." With that I started making my way to my seat at the back of the car. Just my luck, the train rocked to the side and I about fell on some random persons lap. When I righted myself, said person gave me a dirty look.

Well, Sorry for having balance issues, asshole. If I didn't mention this before I am now. Trains are really rocky, it's nice when you're trying to sleep, when trying to walk, it's difficult. If you have balance issues like me, it's near impossible.

I finally made it back to my seat, without anymore trips. That made me really happy. I took my Cell phone out of my purse to check the time, it was almost 11 am. that means I have an hour and a half left on this train. Once we get to Jake's stop it's only an hour until my stop. Once I was settled and had everything packed away or thrown away. I texted Jake. He would be in the seat next to me in about a minute.

"Were you that excited to see me?" I asked

"Yes. I was I worry about your safety." he replied. I just rolled my eyes.

"Well I was." He huffed.

"Thanks, your concern is sweet." I smiled and gave him a quick hug. For the next 20 minutes we just sat there listening to my mp3 player. Ten minutes later one of the workers can around announcing that we'd be in Longview in 10 minutes.

"Well, this is good-bye for now. I'll see you soon, right Bella?"

"Yeah, next week. I got to unpack and get settled, then I'll come visit." I said.

"Good, I look forward to it." When we got to his station, we said good-bye again. Then it was just me on the train, alone again. Boredom set in fast, in the next hour went by slow. By the time the guy came around again, I just wanted to get off the train. I texted my dad saying I was almost there. He said, That he just got there himself and he can't wait to see me.

Finally, the train reached its destination, and I all but ran down those stairs to get my luggage, and get out the door. When I went to step off the train, I almost fell flat on my face, but I was lucky to have caught myself. As I walked into the station, I looked around trying to spot where Charlie was. When I had spotted him, he was holding up a sign that read, in bold letters, "BELLA". It was slightly embarrassing, and I blushed 10 shades of red, but I had to laugh.

When he saw me coming towards him, he sat the sign down and held his arms open to me. I walked straight into those outstreched arms, and hugged him just a fiercely as he was hugging me. When I stepped back, I look at his face and saw that he had tears streaming down. He noticed my questioning look.

"My little baby is home." he said happily. This made me start to cry too. Maybe living here won't be so bad after all.