Just My Luck One Shot Tease

I've got a one shot ready to go, but fanfiction hates me right now. A banner is in the making, but this will suffice for now. Enjoy the tease . . .

After jumping off the cliff, Bella decides she needs to try with Jacob. She pays him a visit to do just that.

After a quick breakfast of a Poptart and juice I head over to Jake’s. I’m a bit nervous because he’s probably still feeling sad about last night, but I hope that my lighter attitude and willing heart can make him feel better.

As I close my heavy truck door I can hear him laughing. He’s in the garage regaling someone, Quil and Embry no doubt, about his adventure yesterday. He’s really talking it up, making it sound fantastical. Though, I guess it is, given the fact that a vampire was torn apart by werewolves. The way he’s telling his story sounds false. It just doesn’t seem like Jake, but I shrug it off. I enter the garage to see his sparkling eyes and his brilliant smile directed at a girl - a girl I’ve never seen, a girl with beautiful long brown hair and blunt bangs, a girl wearing ridiculously cute cat-eye framed glasses, a girl with a petite figure with breasts that aren’t quite proportionate to her body, in the best way possible, a girl that is hearing about vampires and wolves, a girl that is gazing at Jake like she’s in love with him, a girl that should be me but isn’t. Damn that girl.

This is just my luck.

“Oh hey, Bella,” says Jake, and I’m wondering why he’s calling me Bella. He rarely does that. I get Bells and honey; rarely Bella. What gives?

I nod noncommittally.

“Uh, this is Jules,” says Jake, pointing at my enemy and the first girl I’ve ever wanted to shank. And boy do I want to shank her hard. What the hell? Where did he find this trollop?

“Hi.” Trollop.

“Hey. Julia,” she says, correcting Jake.

“Hi, Julia,” I say, trying to keep the disdain out of my voice. I look at Jake and ask, “Uh, what’s going on?” I point to Julia and frown.

“I ran home last night. Phased.”

And . . . I want to scream but don’t. I shift my weight uncomfortably instead.

“This young vamp was prowling around the edge of the woods. I think he may have been in cahoots with Victoria. I recognized his scent. Anyway, he was just about to take out Jules, and I stopped him. I had no choice. She woulda died. So, she saw me and everything and was really freaked out, so I had to phase and explain. Sam wasn’t phased, and I had no directives so I just told her everything and here she is.”

“Here she is,” I mutter, then inwardly cringe at the fact that she had seen him – my Jacob- naked because he had to phase on the fly. This is not good.

“I would’ve died if it weren’t for Jake,” Julia says looking stupid and swoony and using his nickname - my nickname. Okay so really every one of his friends calls him Jake but still. Not her, not some stupid swoony girl I want to shank. She can’t call him that.

“So, you know everything?” I ask Stupid Swoony Julie. Ha! Take that trollop!

“Yeah, sorry to hear about your vampire boyfriend that left you all alone. Jake told me how depressed you’ve been.”

I glare at Jake. I want to kill him. Why? Why would he tell her such things? I feel like my nemesis just learned about my kryptonite, and I don’t even know how to fly yet. How ever will I defeat her if I can’t fly? I came here to learn how to fly. Jake was going to teach me how to fly, but by the looks of it, he’s flying with her. He’s flirting with her. Oh my word, he’s with her. Is he with her?

“It’s all right,” I say, rounding my shoulders and trying not to look pathetic and pretend that I feel stronger than I actually do.

“Hey, so what’s up? I thought you’d be resting today,” says Jake.

I get brave then and summon all of the gumption within me and walk towards Jake. “I just wanted to thank you for last night. You really saved me, in more ways than one.” I eye him seriously, trying to show him what I’m feeling – trying to show him that I care and I could love him now. I wrap my arms around Jake’s massive form and squeeze him to me. “Thanks, Jake,” I whisper in his ear and give him a lingering peck on his cheek. I draw back enough to see his expression. He’s all smiles and seems to even look a bit shy by my uncharacteristic affection.

“Sure, sure. It was nothing, honey. I’d do it again in a heartbeat.”

I sigh at his use of ‘honey’, feeling relieved and somewhat smug that I’m still his honey – that is until Stupid Swoony Julie ruins our moment with her unnecessary words. Will she ruin everything?

“It’s in his nature. He’s a hero.”

“I’m no hero,” he says and loosens his grip on me. He’s never pulled away first before. Never. What the hell is happening here? Am I being replaced? Is he really with her?

“Yes, you are,” says Stupid Swoony Julie while she’s, well, swooning. I want to barf.

“I’m not,” he protests, walking towards her and she flirts back with a “Yes, you are”, and I’m pretty sure this time I do barf. A little. In my mouth. And I hope I choke on it so I can just die and be put out of my misery.

I watch the tennis match of I’m Not versus Yes, You Are until I’m blue in the face. Probably literally because I’m holding my breath. Ugh!

I end up staying at Jake’s much longer than I intended because there was no way in hell I was going to let her outlast me. This is survivor here. I will outwit, outplay and outlast. Game on!

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