Chapter 2

JPOV

My whole body was on fire, staring into her hazel eyes. I felt the gravitational pull Sam had told me about that I'd thought was a myth. She was the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen. How had I not noticed before? Everything else seemed blurry and unimportant except her. I wanted to be closer, to take her in my arms right now and never let her go. How else could I make sure she was safe? I would never let any harm come to her as long as I was around. She was perfect in every way and I would be anything she needed me to be.

She shyly looked away from me, then glanced back. I smiled. She was absolutely adorable.

"Uh…are you ok?" she asked in a quiet, gentle voice. She was blushing. Did she like me too? If I was a wolf now, my tail would've been wagging. I couldn't hold back my grin.

"Yes…You're..Kim right?"

Now her face had a shocked expression. Uh oh did I insult her? I knew I'd end up apologizing a hundred times if I had. Oh god what if I'd said the wrong name?

But she smiled slightly, "Yes. Are you feeling alright?"

I nodded a few times too many, "Never better actually."

"Oh, ok well that's good," she looked down. No! I didn't want our conversation to end.

"Uh..I've been gone a couple weeks. Could you tell me what I missed? Or maybe help me catch up?" I asked dumbly. Really? School? That's all I could find to say? I guess it was better than nothing.

She looked at me with confusion plain on her face. I knew why. I'd never talked to her before so why would I be now all of a sudden. I felt like such a jerk. I'd make it up to her somehow in the future.

"You missed a few tests, and an essay about the Civil War, and yeah..I can help you if you want," she blushed again. She was so cute!

"Ok, thank you," I said politely with a smile.

"Why were you gone?" she asked quickly followed by, "You don't have to tell me I was just curious. I don't mean to be nosy," she looked away.

I chuckled, "You're not nosy. I was gone for some personal reasons. Nothing bad though," normally I would've told anyone else I was sick, but Sam had said we could be honest with our imprints. I was afraid to tell her what I was. What if she was scared of me? I knew I'd have to tell her I was a wolf sometime, but definitely not now.

She nodded, "You look…different. But not bad different," she looked down.

"Yeah…it wasn't steroids," I stopped. What a stupid thing to say! But she smiled.

Unfortunately class was starting and we had to stop talking. Not that I could even concentrate anyway. I wanted to stare at her the whole time just taking in her beauty, but then I would look like a creep. Instead I limited myself to glances here and there. Her face was still engraved in my mind anyway.

When the bell rang I guess she figured I'd forget about her then, but boy was she wrong. She left pretty quickly and I scrambled to keep up with her so I wouldn't lose her in the halls. Even though we had the next class together I wanted to spend every second I could with her.

"Kim, wait up!" I trotted up next to her, the shocked look on her face plus the blush melted my heart, "What's the rush? You must love P.E."

"I don't actually, I'm completely uncoordinated, but it's not like I have anything better to do than to get there early," she said softly.

"Well you could talk to me," I smiled and she stared at me, not really watching what she doing and tripped over her own feet. I steadied her with my arm and I chuckled, "Maybe you are uncoordinated, but that's ok." I smiled down at her. She wasn't short, but just the right height for me.

"Thanks, but if you don't mind me asking, what's with you? Why are you all of sudden following me around and talking to me? You never have before, or are you trying to pull some cruel high school prank on me? Because if you are it's not funny. I've never done anything to you." She avoided looking at me when she said all this. It definitely caught me off guard, but I admired her brave side.

"Of course not! I'd never hurt you in any way. But you're right, I never have before, and believe me I am truly very sorry I haven't. I wasted all this time, but I'll make it up to you. What are you doing later? If you're not busy I thought we could hang out or something, get to know each other," I wasn't intending to ask her out right then, but I wanted to prove myself to her.

She blinked her whole face going red, "You're…you're serious?"

"As a heart attack," I said sincerely. We were heading for the gym door, before she had a chance to open it, I opened it for her. In the past I'd never done that for any of my girlfriends. I enjoyed her expression as I waited for her answer. Please say yes, please say yes, please say yes.

"Ok," she smiled shyly, "I guess there's no harm in hanging out."

Yes! I grinned, "Ok. How about today? After school? Is that ok?"

She nodded blushing again. I wanted to kiss her right there, I could've, there was no one there, but I knew that was going way too fast.

"I uh…should go get dressed now," she turned away from me heading for the locker rooms. I could tell she was smiling. I felt like doing a victory dance.

Other kids were starting to come in now, Paul included. He walked into the locker room with me. "So Kim huh?" he grinned at me.

"Yup," I smiled.

"Leave it to you to imprint on a shy bookworm," he chuckled. Now I was pissed. I growled shoving him against a locker by his shirt. I could feel the heat, the wolf inside me wanting to take over. How dare he make fun of my imprint!

"Take it easy Jared, I wasn't making fun of her, she's just nothing like you," he said calmly.

"Don't ever call her that again. You're one to talk, if Rachel was anything like you no one would have any respect for her," I glared at him but let him go. There were too many humans around to lose our tempers.

He at least shut up after that. P.E was ok, I enjoyed watching her run around. Everything she did was beautiful. Until someone kicked a soccer ball and I could see it was going to hit her in the face. I found myself running and knocking it in another direction. She was blushing again and some people whispered and stared at me, but I didn't care. It was my job to protect her. Paul just laughed and shook his head.

Ok I know I said I wouldn't update until I had 3 reviews but I had to write more. I like this story don't you? Although I'd still appreciate 2 more reviews :)