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Jacob's Pov

On the last day of Seth being away from work, school and just the harshness of life all over, I thought that I'd make it special for him. I hadn't thought about it before, but after having dinner with everyone and getting to know Seth on a deeper level then how it was when we were together, I felt like I really bonded and got to see Seth in a hole other light.

I got to know the reason he was such a grouch before we started seeing each other, I got to know how it was that Seth, Colin and Brady got to know each other, and why it is that they've been hanging out, because they were really, silent, die-hard fans of football.

Go figure.

To say I was happy, wouldn't be able to even comprehend in my vocabulary, to say I was ecstatic was more of an understanding then saying I was happy, and to tie the knot, I got to know more about Seth's family as well. Even though I hung out with Leah, recently it feels like our friendship has become a little stretched, and that's not only with me, but everyone else in the group. But I was glad that I got the chance to talk and chat with Leah, it was almost like nothing had ever happened.

Without the odd wolf howl or phone call here and there, it was a very pleasant night, and when it was time for Colin and Brady to leave, I thought it'd be best if I at least took them home. Mainly to show Seth that I do appreciate and care for, not just him, but his friends as well, and I guess it went pretty well, for just before I headed down the front stairs, my wrist was caught in a familiar hold, and what seemed to shock others more than me, was when Seth pressed his lips against mine.

Even though I wanted to deepen the kiss, press him up against the wall, or even the door, and practically ravish his mouth, a clearing of a throat and a tapping of a foot, had Seth pulling away from me with a shy smile, I couldn't help but smile back at the cuteness of the younger boy and pressed a kiss against Seth's forehead, feeling the difference in our temperature, but that must be because of the concussion, or the fact that he might be coming down with something. All in all, it had me a little worried.

But there wasn't much I could do, so pulling away, and whispering a good-bye, which was returned with one of his own, I waved and thanked Sue for the beautiful meal and headed down the stairs and joined Colin and Brady before we headed in the direction of each home. It was a little awkward at first, but after we got talking, it was practically like word vomit before the three of us. Colin was caring and cautious with his actions, but he has a heart of gold and loyalty to a 'T', while Brady was fierce with his actions and thought rationally and quick, but like Colin, he has a heart of gold and loyalty down to a 'T'.

The three of them together really reminds me a lot of how Paul, Emmett and I are when we hang out, always a good time, always laughing, joking, and just enjoying each other's company. It was heart-warming and it always brought a smile, made the laughs heartier and the jokes taken less serious, and done more in humour. That's how I felt when I walked Colin and Brady back to their homes before heading to my own house, a pleasant smile on my face.

That's what had me come up with the great idea of how to spend the day with Seth, before he had to go back to work and school. To be honest I was quite jittery as I walked up to the Clearwater house hold, I could hear Sue calling for Leah to hurry up otherwise she's going to be late, but I didn't hear Seth's voice, which meant he was still asleep, which meant if I wanted the plan to go ahead, then my chance to ask was now.

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Seth's Pov

Hearing mother scream for Leah to hurry up, was the last I heard of the household morning activities before I had entered the bathroom. Stripping down to bear I stared at myself in the mirror, twisting my body this way and that way, seeing if there were any impurities on my body, but surprisingly there wasn't, actually there basically wasn't anything on my body. My body hair, or what was left of it, had fallen off ever since I had become a wolf or shifter if you will. As much as that was pretty cool, it was also very not cool.

With no extra body hair, I felt the cold more than often, especially now with Wolf not being able to help and prove the extra's that came with being a shifter. But I understood, Wolf needed to conserve as much strength as she can, and if that meant having to sacrifice the extras of being a shifter, I would gladly give them up, just so that Wolf could be happy and healthy.

Finally stepping out of the shower, the steam following me out of the encased shower and into the rest of the room, I towel dried myself off before wrapping it around my waist and headed for my room. I knew that Jacob would be around soon, he's usually here by the time mum and Leah leave for their job's, so I wasn't surprised at finding the house quiet, actually I was starting to get accustomed to it.

But I knew that once today ends, everything will go back to the way they used to be. Hopefully, though, somethings would be a little different.

I could feel my cheeks heating up at the thought of the last night peck I had shared with Jacob in front of not only my friends, but my mum and Leah. Although I was sure that Leah had run away as soon as she even caught the slightest of movements of my intentions last night. To say that I didn't get a lecture from my mother for having done that, would be an understatement, but I could see the corner of her lips tilting up as she continued to lecture me, so I knew she didn't really mean it, but I still took her words into consideration and 'not' do it again in front of family or out in the open like that at that extent.

Giggling to myself and lost in my thoughts, the world around me finally came back at full force as I ran into a wall.

'Funny, I don't remember a wall being in the middle of the hall…'

Shaking my head to clear it from the sudden dizziness of my fall, I looked up, and the 'wall' actually turned out to be Jacob. I stared at him in confusion for a spilt second, before realising that I was practically naked, and due to the fall my towel had risen and was close to revealing my private areas. Jacob looked just as shocked as I, as he stared at me dumfounded before he suddenly realised that we had collided and I was on the floor.

"Oh shit. Are you okay?" Jacob asked, reaching a hand out, and surprisingly, very gentlemanly, turned his head away to give me and my private parts, privacy as I reached and grabbed his hand. Within seconds I was back on my feet, and within breaths distance of Jacob's looming body. Even from this distance I could feel warmth emitting from him. To say I didn't want to lean forward in all my partially naked form, and press up against him, would be an understatement.

"Umm, thanks… but what were you doing up here, and so early?" I asked, hesitantly pulling my hand away from his hold and wrapping my arms around my body, practically to hide as much of my bare chest.

It took Jacob a while to reply, since his eyes were locked on my bare chest and scanning every inch of my bare chest. It wasn't till I cleared my throat did he finally look at my eyes, which was greeted with a humoured questioning look from me.

"Uhh… I… I…. uhh…. What was the question?" Jacob asked, seeming to have lost all comprehension of thought and speech. To say that it was funny to watch the big man on campus turn into a blubbering mess of no words or thought, was a total understatement.

"I asked, why it was that you're were here so early and why you were here, in this hallway" I repeated, patiently waiting for Jacob to reply as he, once again, lost himself in staring at every inch of my bare chest. "JACOB!"

"I was going to surprise you with a gift before taking you out for the day and have a kind of date/hanging out or what not!" He replied loudly, having been startled out of his mussing and replied as though he was talking to a corporal at the army or what not. He was even standing at attention.

I couldn't help but giggle at the way Jacob was acting when I called his name out, but I was mainly covering the blush that was coming to my cheeks at the thought of Jacob taking me out on a date and had gotten me a gift. Biting my bottom lip to stop my giggling, since Jacob's cheeks were starting to get red from embarrassment, I walked pass Jacob and towards my room. It wasn't till I finally reached the threshold to my room did I finally answer Jacob. Only to have caught him staring at my backside as I was walking away.

"I'll be ready in a bit, just wait down stairs, okay" I said, receiving a nod from Jacob before I closed the door. As soon as my door was closed, I leaned against it, giggling as I heard Jacob do a little jump with a cheer, before he headed back down the stairs and hopefully the next time I see him, he'll be on the couch waiting and not in the hallway.

Shaking my head at Jacob's antic, my eyes scanned my room. I didn't have to look for long, it was only a millisecond really, before my eyes landed on my bed, which was made, and sitting in the middle of it was a gift box, and a rose sitting before it with a small note standing between the rose and rested against the box, but what really tied it all over for me, was the sun having been sitting in the right position and was shining over the package on my bed.

I felt my breath catch in my throat at the beautiful sight. My hands trembled as I brought them to my mouth. My legs felt stiff and heavy as I dragged them towards my bed, but before I could even think of taking a seat on my bed, my knees buckled and I fell to the floor before my bed, the package now sitting within arm's length of my body. I could feel tears pricking at my eyes as my arm outstretched, it felt alien, as it grabbed the note, bringing it closer to me I slowly and shakily opened it up, and written on that note, that small bit of paper had a tear or two spilling from my eyes.

'Happy belated birthday, hope you like your present,

Much love,
Jacob'

My breath caught in my throat once more. I was stunned, happy, sad, angry, but most of all, felt love and joy as I read those words. It was small, but they held so much meaning and regret in them as I read them over and over till it was burned, singed into my mind; before finally I placed the note down, grabbing the rose I brought it to my nose and inhaled the sweet aroma of the rose before resting it against my lips, feeling the soft silk touch of the flower. Smiling in awaited anticipation I finally grabbed the gift box, pushing the top half of the box up, sitting in the middle of it was a wood craving of a wolf howling, his eyes were green, kind of like my wolf's eyes when I phase. It had me worried for a little bit, but I let it slide, the love that I had bursting within me had me on cloud nine as I rested the rose on my night stand before grabbing the box and pulling the wolf out before placing the box back down and rummaging around for a bracelet, unfortunately I didn't end up finding a bracelet, but surprisingly and lucky, I ended up finding a necklace, attaching the charm to the necklace I looked at myself in the mirror, admiring the charm for what seemed like hours before I remembered that Jacob was still down stairs waiting for me.

Quickly throwing on something reasonable and respectable, I headed down stairs, before remembering that I haven't sprayed any deodorant or grabbed my phone and wallet. After having done so and grabbed what I needed. As soon as I was down stairs I could hear rustling coming from the lounge room and upon entering, I found Jacob, now standing before the couch, a worried and concerned look on his face as he stared at me. His face seemed to have calmed and turned into one of happy as his eyes looked pass my eyes, my lips and down to my neck and resting over the shirt sat the wooden wolf charm.

"You like it…" he asked, the worry that was once gone, slowly started to creep up on his face as he slowly approached me. "I mean, it's okay if you don't, I just thought that I never did end up giving you your birthday present and so I thought today would be the best day, otherwise I'll never be able to give it to you, but if you don't li-"

I silenced Jacob with a kiss on the cheek, before he could start to ramble, 'cause that's my job. But it was cute to watch Jacob try to retrace his steps, even if it was at his own embarrassment.

"I love it. Thank you" I said sincerely, cause I really did love the charm, it held more meaning that I think Jacob even realised before he gave it to me.

"I'm glad to hear that" he smiled back before he seemed to realise something. "Oh, you haven't eaten now have you?" he asked, grabbing a hold of my wrist and dragged me into the kitchen and sitting there on the kitchen table sat, still steaming, pancakes, eggs, bacon and toast.

"W-What's with all this" I asked as I was lead towards the table, my chair being pulled out and my butt being placed on it. I was stunned and impressed by the lay out of this delicious looking breakfast. "What's the occasion?" I asked, looking up at Jacob as he sat a glass of orange juice and a cup of tea before me.

"Well there really is no occasion, I just thought that'd it be good for me to get a little practice in when something like this happens again and I need to look after you. So I asked your mum if it was okay that I could use her kitchen and asked for some advice on how to cook and prepare everything" Jacob replied, the blush on his cheeks seeming to come back with revenge as he sat their close to squirming on his seat as he every now and then glanced in my direction.

I honestly thought I was going to die from the cuteness that Jacob had hidden under that big man on campus act. My heart was melting more and more by the second as I stared at Jacob's waiting face. My look of surprised turned to one of gratitude and love.

"It's prefect… I can't wait to try it" I said, my face brightening as soon as Jacob seemed to agree with me and soon we were both digging into the perfect breakfast. Surprisingly it all tasted amazing.

'I should get sick more often and get Jacob to cook for me' I mused as Jacob and I enjoyed the meal, our small conversation ranging from this to that.

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Jacob's Pov

Once we were done eating, we packed the leftovers away, cleaned the dishes and headed out, I could see that Seth was started to get a little dreary, so I thought it'd be best to head for our first stop at once. Making sure that everything was in the ute, and that Seth had a warm enough jacket, we headed for our first destination. Seth was insistent on knowing where it was we were going, but I didn't fall under his childish enthusiasm and mixed with the dreary look in his eyes, I could tell he wasn't close to falling asleep.

Once we had finally rocked up to our destination, Seth had finally clonked out. I had made sure that Seth was still with us, but after that I let the boy sleep. Being as quiet as I could, I unpacked the ute tray with the blankets and pillows I laid them out, making sure that everything would stay down and everything was set, I headed back to the vehicle and opened the passenger side door. I held still for a second, watching as Seth silently sleep in the passenger side, it was cute seeing him resting his head on the seatbelt, but funny to see his face being pulled up because of gravity.

Silently chuckling to myself I unbuckled Seth and gently cradled him in my arms, he instantly buried himself deeper into my chest, his head rubbing against my chest before he settled. Smiling at the act I kicked the door close with my foot and headed down to where the blankets and pillows were. I was surprised by how out of it Seth was a I settled us down on the blankets and pillows.

We ended up with me resting on my arms while Seth sat between my legs, a blanket tossed over his body which also covered my legs. With that the day finally began. It was peaceful everyone was either at school or at work, so Seth and I had the whole beach to ourselves practically. There was the odd elderly pair walking along the beach every now and then, but other than that, I was content to have Seth resting between my legs, and even if he was awake I'd never want this moment to end.

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After two hours had finally passed, in which at some point, I myself had dozed off, it wasn't till I felt Seth squirming to get comfy did I snap awake and checked my phone, seeing that two hours had pass.

"Seth… Seth, wake up" I cooed softly, and slowly Seth's eyes opened up, and greeted me with that beautiful chocolate brown colour he had, and with the dreary look, he looked just as cute as he did the first day I watched over him and woke him up.

"Hmm… where are we?" he muttered, curling himself back up against my chest. I chuckled softly at Seth's resistance to at least be awake for more than a minute.

"We're at the beach. It's a little chilly, so the water would be cold at the moment, but I'd thought it'd be a good place to be, you know, the fresh sea air, the minimal rays of the sun can offer us and just enjoy each other's company, outside of the house" I said, smiling as I watched Seth peek an eye open before he finally registered where we were. And soon, he was awake once more, but he made no intention of moving from his spot between my legs.

And I wasn't complaining.

"So, us going to the beach had to be a secret that you just had to keep from me?" Seth said, looking at me with a mock look of being unimpressed. But I could see the happy gleam in his eyes as he stared at me waiting for my answer.

"Well…. Yeah. If you don't like it, too bad" I joked, trying to keep a serious look before cracking up, Seth joined me a few seconds after. After that first laugh, many joined after it. It was great being able to talk and joke with Seth, especially when it was just him and I. I was content with every joking jab he made at me, and he didn't seem to mind every joking jab made at him.

It wasn't till the sun was high in the sky did Seth start to become drowsy once more, chuckling at Seth's childlike look of wanting to stay awake, I pushed the blankets off us and scooped Seth into my arms before heading for the car, getting Seth to open the passenger side door, I sat Seth in the ute letting him buckle himself up while I ran back for the pillows and blankets.

After having chucked everything into the tray of the ute, I hopped into the driver's side and started the engine, pulled out of our parking spot and headed towards our next destination.

Looking over to Seth, I found him asleep once more, checking to see if he was still with us, and once hearing a response, I calmed down and drove to our next destination.

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Seth's Pov

I was startled awake by the bumpiness of the car. At first I thought it was just going to end soon, but when it persisted, I slowly opened my eyes, seeing the afternoon sun I could assume that it was between three or four in the afternoon.

"Ah, I'm sorry. We're almost there, so just hold on for a bit" Jacob told me when I straightened myself into a more proper sitting position. Humming in response, I blinked my eyes a few times to get rid of the blurriness and saw that we were now going through the woods, but from the looks of things, Jacob doesn't look like he plans on slowing down any time soon.

"Where are we?" I asked, just getting the question out there. I looked over to Jacob and saw his lips kick up at one side for a mini-second before it just went back to a casual smile.

"I used to come here with Emmett and Paul when we were young. We'd spend hours here just goofing around. Sometimes it was a place for us to talk when we couldn't at the reservation, other times it was just a place we hung out, had a few beers, played some music and what not" Jacob stated, his eyes seeming to go to a different time frame. It had a smile coming to my lips as I watched Jacob reminisce about his past with his friends.

"Do you still come here?" I asked, curious to know about Jacob's past. Plus, I liked seeing him with that distant look in his eyes, makes him seem more mature and humble.

"Not in recent times…." He stated, before he glanced over to me, "But maybe soon…"

He didn't say it like a question, but I could see that he wanted to, and as much as I wanted to agree and say that I'd love to…. I have yet to see the place, so I wouldn't know how the place would look. But I could assume, that it'd be a pretty good place.

"We're here…." Jacob stated. My eyes glanced out into the window; I hadn't even noticed that the road had gotten smoother to drive over.

'I guess I'd have to agree with Jacob on his question not question….' I thought, looking at myself like an idiot. But it really wasn't that easy to agree with Jacob about his question, if I wanted to come back here every now and then.

The place was beautiful. The rolling hills in the distance had my breath catching, the still lake had me smiling and the rays of the sun shining on the river….

That had me speechless.

"It's… beautiful…" I uttered. It was all I could say. As the ute finally came to a halt, I couldn't hold myself back as I unbuckled myself and hopped out of the car, rushing to just the front of the ute, I came to a stumbling halt at the breath taking view. "It's so… peaceful…" I mumbled, not expecting an answer. But when something warm wrapped around my shoulders, I could tell that Jacob had come up beside me.

"It's one of the reasons that Paul, Emmett and I liked this place" he started, before pulling away and walked forward, I joined him soon, wanted to hear the story. "We stumbled upon this place when we were running through the forest. We knew we'd be safe, there really wasn't anything dangerous in the woods, at the time anyway…" he said, before coming to sit on a placed log, I sat next to him and relaxed as I listened to his story.

"When we finally broke from the forest, we stumbled upon this place. We searched the place first, seeing if there were any tracks or whatever, but didn't find anything. We were quite surprised; so we dubbed it our spot. Every day after school, we'd go home, get changed and rush on over here, whoever was last, had to carry everything back…" Jacob chuckled at that before continuing, "No one ever really did have to carry anything, we just told each other that and made it sound serious. So after that we just continued to come here, in our teens too. We mainly came here to hang and chat about random stuff, speak our minds basically; talk as though no one was around, and it was just us, us three. Until the end…" he said, his eyes glossing over once more like they were reliving the pass.

"So, what makes this so special then?" I asked, getting up after I realised that Jacob wasn't going to say anymore, and walked a few steps till I was close to the water. I didn't realise it before but there was a wharf some ways out from the shore.

"Well I was hoping that… if I brought you hear, you wouldn't have any distractions or influences, and let me ask you… if you and I could…" Jacob paused, I could hear him swallow, his breath was on the back of my neck, his nose was tickling my hair and I could feel his body softly pressing up against my jacket. "If we could… get back together"

I was shocked, not by much, but just a little. I didn't really expect this, I was just hoping for a nice day out with Jacob, getting to know one another on a deeper note, and at the same time, I was actually falling back in love with Jacob.

'To be honest though, I never really did fall out of love with Jacob…'

That thought brought a smile to my face and a blush accompanied with it. But I knew that I had to stay strong, the wound he had left on my heart was still tender, and the memory of that night flashes in my eyes at random times, causing me to shutter and case the memory away.

"Jacob… I don't-"

"Please. Please don't say no…" Jacob said, his arms wrapping around me, his body fully pressed against mine, his breath now ghosting over my ear and down my neck. "I know, I fucked up royally, and I know I don't deserve a second chance. But after these couple of days, I realised that, I always want you, close to me or next to me. I don't care; I just want you like this, like how we are right now. Just you and me. What Renesmee did… and how I reacted, was not acceptable, and I've never liked Renesmee like that, never" Jacob justified, tightening his hold on me. His heart was in his voice; his words were hitting me hard. "It's always you, it's always been you. No one else; you can ask everyone I know, my mind is constantly on you. My eyes never stray from your direction. You are my only focus, and you will always be my only focus. I… I lo-"

I couldn't hear him say those words, I was still too tender to hear them, and as much as this was the perfect spot, I couldn't hear him say them.

So I kissed him.

I spun on my heel and clasped his head between my hands and pressed my lips against his as hard as I could, silencing him and everything he had to say.

When we finally pulled away I rested my head upon his and looked him in the eye.

"I'm not ready for those words yet; and as much as I'd love to hear them coming from your mouth, I don't want to hear them yet. Not yet. But, you too have been on my mind, and not in the bad way, but the good way. But I don't want to rush into it like we did before, I want us to ease into it, I want us to take it slow, and talk to each other more" I said, pulling away till we were at arm's length.

"These last few days have been some of the best times you and I have had together, even while we were going out; all it seemed to be about, was sex and kissing and clinging to each other" I stated, seeing Jacob taking in what I'm saying and realising that, it was mainly all about that. "I want us to be able to hang with our own friends. I mean, it's not like we have to be together every second of the day, as much as we both want to, but too much of us being together can be the cause of us falling apart, you know."

"I do. And I completely understand. Really I do. And it's great that you think like that too, and it makes me… You know… with you even more" Jacob said, smiling at his substitute of words. Though I must admit, it was pretty funny.

"Cool. So" I stated with as much emphasise as I could as I pulled away from Jacob. "To answer your question before; yes, I would like to join you in on coming here every now and then when we want to get away" I said, not being able to hold my smile for much longer before Jacob started laughing with me.

Jacob wrapped his arms around my waist before lifting me up and twirled me around, we both laughed hard before he stopped and I slide down in his arms till my feet touched the ground, our eyes connected, our heads moved closer and our breaths mingled before our lips finally touched. It was only meant to be peck, a soft touch of our lips, but we both kept coming back for more.

We will always come back to each other for more.

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An: …. Oh my god…. OH MY GOD! I've done it, I have pulled myself out of my stump, and I have finished the chapter. Nothing can express just how sorry I am for taking so long. Life really has thrown a curve ball at me, and it had gotten me into a deep, deep, deeeeep slump. And even thought I said that I had pulled myself out, that's not completely true. But I do have the creative juices flowing, I am thinking of what I can do, what new stories I can make, stuff like that. And it's been pretty okay. So let's all keep riding this flow and hopefully I can get the next chapter out. Also, I'm going to be posting a new story out, I've already got about 8 chapters, so I'll post them each week, hopefully you guys will enjoy it while you wait for this story to be finished, then once both stories are done, I can start on my next project.

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