A Little Thing Called Destiny - Chapter Eight
Title: A Little Thing Called Destiny - Chapter Eight
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: "So, now that we've bumped into each other a total of two times in less than half an hour, what do you say we introduce ourselves? I'm Jacob." The tale of two people brought together by fate. Pure fluff. AH. AU (Click to start from beginning.)
A/N: I'm writing the next chapter as you read this. Thanks for being so patient.
"I knew it would work out," Angela says after Bella has finished relaying her conversation with Jacob.
Bella smiles back at her best friend through her web cam. "You're a great friend, Ang. I don't know what my life would be like without you."
"Well you'd be single and lonely and wouldn't know the joy of having someone like me in your life. It's that simple." Angela laughs loudly and Bella joins her. She lowers her voice when Jacobs stirs in his bed behind her.
"I know you don't like when I get too sappy, but I really am thankful for you, Angela."
Angela smirks and waves off Bella's comment. "Oh, stop. So did you guys spend time with his daddy after everything was settled?"
"No actually. We didn't get back until around ten and his father was already in his room."
"I called you at like six. What did you guys do for all that time?"
"We went to the beach and-"
"You had beach sex!"
Jacob stirs again.
"Shh! We, uh-we went skinny dipping."
"You did not!" Angela says disbelievingly.
"We really did. He makes me do crazy things." She smiles, remembering this afternoon.
They don't go back to Billy's house right away. After Bella reveals her feelings to Jacob, he says he's not ready to share her presence with his father just yet. They lay on the sand, Bella on her back and Jacob's head on her chest as she strokes his hair. Bella doesn't think she has ever felt so content and she can't help but feel a little angry at herself for postponing this wonderful feeling. Jacob is hers and he's falling in love with her and she knows that she's only this happy because of Edward's cold hearted decisions.
The thought of sending a gift basket to Africa briefly crosses her mind and she laughs to herself.
Jacob lifts his head to look up at her. "What's so funny, Beautiful?"
"Just feeling happy."
Jacob smiles and shifts, leaning onto his elbows to kiss her. "I'm happy, too." He gets up abruptly and pulls Bella up with him. "Let's go for a swim."
Bella is learning to just accept the crazy things Jacob suggests and shrugs. He laughs approvingly, probably happy that she's finally stopped protesting, and takes her hand and begins running down to the water.
Jacob stops at the shoreline and gives Bella a coy smile.
"What?" she asks warily. That smile has never led to good things.
Jacob's only answer is to take off his shirt. "You didn't think we were going swimming in our clothes, did you?" He slips off his shoes and socks, then his jeans. When he's left in just his underwear Jacob glances around the beach, gives Bella a wink, and removes those too before running into the water. Bella watches as he dives under the waves and he comes back up a few yards away. His hair has fallen into his eyes and he shakes it out, squinting back at the beach through the sun in his eyes. "Come on, Beautiful; the water is great."
Bella removes her shoes and socks and slowly dips one of her toes into the water. She quickly retracts it; the water is freezing. "You're such a liar! It's frigid!"
"And you're a coward!" Jacob yells back. She flips him off. "Real nice, honey! Get in the damn water!"
Bella laughs, remembering she's already agreed to this and knows that however crazy Jacob's ideas are, she always ends up smiling at the end. She shakes her head, muttering, "I can't believe I'm doing this" as she removes her clothes. She too looks around the beach when she's down to her underwear and when she sees no one around, her panties and bra join the rest of her and Jacob's clothes on the sand. Jacob whistles as she starts into the water.
Bella is shivering by the time she's swam to Jacob and he just laughs and wraps his arms around her, placing a kiss on her forehead. "I'm impressed, Beautiful. I honestly didn't think you'd do it."
"You're worth doing crazy things for." She smiles and kisses him. When she pulls away, he's smiling with his eyes still closed and Bella thinks this is the perfect time to splash him. Jacob sputters and laughs loudly, dunking Bella under the water.
When she comes back up they have their second water fight, soaking each other to the bone and warming each other up with kisses when it got too cold.
Angela looks thoughtful while she studies Bella through the screen. "I really like him. He's good for you."
Bella looks back at Jacob, thinking the same.
"I just can't believe you went skinny dipping," Angela says.
"Well, believe it. And Ang?"
"Yeah?"
"We did have beach sex." Bella chuckles and closes her laptop before Angela can respond. She places the laptop on Jacob's desk, turns off the lamp and crawls up from the foot of the bed and into Jacob's arms.
(ALTCD)
Bella wakes up in bed alone to the sound of laughter coming from the front of the house. She walks to the kitchen and is met with the smell of breakfast and sees Jacob, Billy, Charlie, and a women she assumes is Sue sitting around the kitchen. Jacob is smiling at a conversation their fathers are having.
"They were hunting around for about an hour and when they'd finally found a shell that was satisfactory, Izzy wouldn't let him touch it at all," Charlie says.
"That boy moped around all day. Wouldn't talk to anyone for anything," Billy adds. Jacob and Sue are giving their full attention to Billy and Charlie. Billy continues. "And then Izzy lost the shell out in the water and we had two moping kids."
"But Jake was right on it. He found her another one real quick. Wouldn't stop smiling when she kissed his cheek," Charlie says. "He trailed behind her the rest of the day."
"And wouldn't shut up about how pretty, and fun, and awesome Izzy was once we got home." Billy is doubled over by now, remembering his son as a love-struck child.
"Alright, Dad, you're embarrassing me. I'm just glad Bella isn't here to hear about this."
"Ahem." Bella clears her throat, finally making her presence known.
"Oh great," Jacob says as he looks up at her, smiling brightly. "Good morning, Beautiful." He walks over to her and kisses her forehead. "How much of that did you hear?"
"Enough to know how pretty and fun and awesome I am." She laughs.
"Morning, kiddo," Charlie greets. He gives her an affectionate one-armed hug as she passes by him to fix herself a plate. Once she's seated, he introduces Sue to her.
They all talk while they eat. Bella learns that Sue owns an organic food store in La Push which is where she and Charlie met after Charlie's doctor had warned him about his high cholesterol. She'd advised Charlie to start eating less red meats and adding organic foods to his diet. Charlie tells the story, not taking his eyes off Sue for a minute. He'd walked into the store just as she'd come from out back with fresh berries and even under the shade of her hat, Charlie said he could see the sparkle in Sue's eyes and he'd been a goner from then on.
Jacob tells their story then, starting with how Bella crashed into his cart. Charlie interjects saying how it sounds just like her.
Jacob continues, saying how he couldn't help but want to get to know Bella better after he'd seen her. He'd just felt like they had some type of unspeakable connection. "It was unexplainable," he says. "But she was so stubborn about giving me her number."
"That's right, Bella. Make him work for it," Sue says.
"That's some advice, coming from you."
Sue's smile falters a bit and she slaps Charlie's leg. "Shut up, dear."
"Bella is worth the work though. But however stubborn she was, I knew I'd get her number."
"Oh yeah?" Bella asks. "Because of your lovely charm?"
"Because we're meant to be."