Almost Impossible Chapter 31

Chapter 31

When I awoke the next morning, I felt more rested than I had in a long time. I even had a smile on my face, which was a shock even to me. A few moments before I opened my eyes, I suddenly knew I wasn't alone. I wasn't expecting anyone so I was a little afraid to open my eyes. I sniffed the air a little to see if I could catch a scent and my smile returned, wider than before, once I realized who it was.

"Good morning beautiful," Jake said as he moved to sit on the bed next to me, bent down, and kissed my lips softly.


"Hmm, good morning," I said, still smiling as I wrapped my arms around him, pulling him back in for another kiss. When I finally released him, he laughed quietly.

"I take it your feeling better today."

"Most definitely," I said, opening my eyes to see his.

"What's changed?"

"Everything. Everything is exactly the way it is supposed to be."

"How's that? If you don't mind me asking."

"Not at all. Everyone survived the fight, the Volturi aren't going to be coming after me, you and I can finally enjoy our relationship they way we should have been able to from the beginning, Charlie knows what I am and has excepted it. Life is… good." I smiled again.

"Everyone? What about…," he started hesitantly.

"Apparently it was a misunderstanding."

"Wow. Well, I never thought I would say this but I'm glad to hear that. How'd you find out?"

"He showed up last night, scaring the shit out of me."

"Oh really?" His tone held a bit of anger and possessiveness to it.

"Oh Jake," I laughed. "He was here for a minute or two, filled me in on the obvious details I missed and let me know he was going to be okay."

"Well, I guess that's uh, that's good."

I laughed again as I reached for his hand and pulled his face down to mine for another kiss. It was almost crazy how different it felt once I was relaxed and able to enjoy the way his lips on mine made me feel. I never wanted to let him go. He started to pull back way too soon and I held my grip on him. He laughed again against my lips and gently pried my fingers out of his hair.

"You know, if you do that again, I may not be able to control myself."

"That's sort of what I'm going for." I smiled. Jake looked a little shocked and he cleared his throat before speaking.

"Yeah well, I don't think Charlie will appreciate that very much." He smiled.

My eyes widened, somehow I managed to forget I was even in my room let alone my house. That brought me to a question I should have asked first.

"Exactly why are you here? Not that I mind of course."

His smile faded a little. "I've been worried about you the last couple of days. I wanted to check up on you, maybe take you out and get your mind off things. Apparently that is no longer an issue," he laughed.

"Oh, well thank you. We could still go out." I propped myself up on my elbows. "What all did you have in mind?"

The afternoon Jake had planned was wonderful. It was almost as though I was awake for the first time in months. Everything seemed brighter, smelled so much better, and even felt better. The weight of the stress I had been holding was more than I had even imagined. With it gone, I felt like I was actually able to live again. It was amazing.

To start the afternoon, Jake took me to a restaurant for lunch. It was nice to spend time alone, even though the place was crowded with people, it was only him and me in the room. After lunch, he took me to some book fair thing that was going on in Port Angeles. They had a great selection of books and I even bought a couple. I thought it was pretty perfect considering I had already planned on getting some new ones. Even Jake was enjoying himself. I couldn't keep my eyes off of his amazing smile. It was something that I hadn't see much of.

After the book fair, we headed back towards Forks, except he turned and went towards La Push instead.

"Where are we going?" I asked, a little confused.

"The rez."

"Not that I have a problem with that, but why?"

"You'll see."

"Jake."

"It's nothing bad," he laughed. "I promise."

"Ookay."

It was around five o'clock in the evening and I was a tad bit nervous at what he could have had planned. The rest of the day was normal and very enjoyable, so I had no idea what to expect. When we pulled up to his house and it was quiet, I was curious, but I soon learned I had nothing to worry about when he brought up watching a movie, or so I thought.

We sat on the couch, my head on his chest, and watched some romantic comedy. It was kind of a lame movie, but I didn't care. I was just glad to finally have some time with Jake alone, with no distractions, but as the movie grew closer to the end, I noticed him looking at the clock several times. It was starting to make me feel nervous again. Once the movie was over, I excused myself to the bathroom just as he looked at the clock again.

When I was done in the bathroom, I went out to realize I was alone in the living room. Whatever Jake was doing, I figured he would be back in soon, so I decided to sit on the couch and wait for him. As I walked over to the couch, I noticed there was a single rose petal lying on the cushion I was sitting on. I was sure it wasn't there before. I turned to look behind me to see if I could get an idea of where it came from, when I noticed there was another one on the floor next to the front door. Curiously, I opened the front door to see if Jake was outside and ended up finding another petal on the porch. I walked out looking farther to find more. I followed a trail of petals, which I quickly noticed was leading me down the path that Jake uses to get to the beach. I kept following them, growing more and more curious. Once I got to the end of the line of trees, I could see the opening to the beach. When I looked a little farther, I could see Jake standing on the shore with his back to me. I shook my head as I smiled at his sneakiness. I hated surprises, but it was something very unexpected and I found myself anxious to see what he had planned.

Once I started walking again, I realized the petals did in fact lead all the way to where Jake was standing, which just happened to be next to the tree we somehow always ended up at. I started laughing, until I seen the portable CD player that was sitting on one of the branches. He turned to face me, I looked at him suspiciously, and he smiled which oddly caused my stomach to flutter. He moved closer to me, grabbing my face gently and kissed me. My brain activity started to fuzz in and out like a bad reception and took a minute to regain my focus. I pulled away a little, looking him in the eyes.

"You know I hate surprises," I told him.

"Yeah, but you love me."

I laughed. "Yes, I definitely do."

I kissed him again, but that time he pulled away. He leaning over and unrolled a blanket to lie out over the sand. He pulled me down to sit next to him.

"This was very unexpected," I told him.

"Is it really that surprising that I could do something like this?" he laughed.

"No, that's not what I meant."

"Well, even though you hate surprises, I had to do something for you, for the exact reason you said this morning. Everything is as it should be."

I smiled as I rested my head on his shoulder, watching the sun start to set. I let out a comfortable sigh. "It definitely is."

As soon as I was starting to relax, Jake stood up, pulling me with him.

"What is it?" I asked

"Oh, nothing." He smiled, clearly up to something.

As we were standing there, I his body shifted a little and with a click, music started to fill the air. I looked at him suspiciously again. He reached for my hand as he wrapped his free arm around my waist, the other still holding my hand. I suddenly realized what he was doing.

"Jake, you know I can't dance."

"Well, I can't really either," he laughed. "So we're equal."

I gave in and rested my head on his shoulder again. I looked out towards the waves of the ocean as we slowly swayed to the music and I watched as the sky turned a beautiful pink and orange with the sunset. I couldn't have thought of anything more perfect. It was exactly what we needed.

A while after the sun had set and we were done with dancing, we decided to lay on the blanket and enjoy the beautiful, oddly clear night sky. It was amazing how many stars you could see from that spot. The music still played softly and we relaxed in the comfortable silence we so rarely got since all the chaos had started. I had my head on his chest, alternating between looking at the stars and watching the waves in the dark as the moon shown on them.

I was in a sort of trance listening to the sound of his heartbeat as my head would rise and fall with each breath he took. For once, I had just stopped thinking all together. I didn't want anything to ruin it. The sound of Jake's voice, which had vibrated through his chest, startled me and I my body jerked a little.

"It's getting late, maybe we should get you back home."

As much as I didn't want to, he was right. Charlie still wasn't used to everything that had been going on and he always feared what I was doing when I wasn't home. I didn't have to be a mind reader to know that that was what the look that spread across his face meant every time I left the house. After everything, I wanted to spare him whatever stress I could. I sighed in agreement.

It was a silent ride home and a thought occurred to me, but I kept silent about it until the last minute. Jake kept up the whole romantic thing and held my hand as he walked me to the door. He seemed a bit awkward and while I found it a little cute, I had a hard time fighting the laughter, but managed it.

When we came to a stop outside my front door, we stood their looking into each other's eyes for a moment before he leaned in to kiss me. I had no idea why it sill surprised me, but every kiss was still more amazing than the last. My whole world shook and my knees even shook a little with it. He smiled as he wrapped his arms around me, pulling me into a hug when I decided to put my thought into action.

"Come back later tonight," I whispered softly into his ear.

He pulled back slightly and looked at me with confusion and curiosity.

I leaned in, wrapping my arms around his neck. "I know you can sneak in without Charlie knowing."

"Yeah, so." He looked so cute when he was confused.

I laughed softly. "Well, it would just complete the night if I could fall asleep in your arms."

He smiled and kissed me lightly. "You don't have to tell me twice."

About two hours had passed before he came back. It gave me enough time to talk to Charlie about my day, which he actually wanted to hear about, and to take a shower. I was sitting down on my bed, looking through one of my new books when he tapped on the window. I set the book down and walked quickly to open the window for him. His first step in, he wrapped his arms around me and the warmth instantly comforted me.

At first he was unsure about staying, worrying a little too much about Charlie randomly coming into my room. I laughed a little, explaining that he never did that, unless I gave him reasons too. I pulled the blankets back and laid down, pulling him with me and snuggled up close to him once he was comfortable.

We talked for hours, about anything and everything. The past, the present and the future, things we never really got to discuss before. He had some questions for me, as I did for him. It was nice to have a relationship with complete openness and honesty, not one with constant questions and concerns. Jake kind of surprised me when he said that, since the imprinting, he keeps expecting to wake up and realize it was all a dream.

"Is this the kind of things you dreamt about? Dreams of me falling in love with you and then having to fight to the death, because some vampire rulers wanted me dead? "

He laughed. "No, not exactly. It just doesn't seem real. For a while there I was sure I was going to lose you to him, you were more and more determined to be changed and then I heard you and him talking about marriage. I was positive then that it was over, that I had lost everything. Kissing you was my one last hope and sometimes it doesn't seem real that that was all it took." He was staring at the wall straight ahead of him, seeming to be far away in thought.

"Yeah, who would have known it was one kiss that would change everything. One kiss that would allow me to open my eyes and my heart to you, that lead to the wall being dropped and the flood to poor in. Something like that, I don't know exactly how to explain it. I just know that, since Edward came back, I thought it felt so right, like everything was finally the way it was supposed to be, but in truth, it wasn't. What I thought was just my own doubt in his love for me, was my mind trying to come to terms with what I really felt was right. I think I was starting to realize my confusion that I told myself that loving Edward was right, so I wanted the change to come quicker. Once I was changed, there would be no more confusion, it would be too late to go back. I was happy with him, I really was, but I think I knew somewhere deep down, that I knew I could happier." I sighed heavily. "I'm still not sure how it all happened, or what exactly I was feeling and when. I just know that I was running out of time and I needed to just make a decision, I went with what I knew, what I thought my heart ached for. Not even realizing that that ache disappeared a long before Edward had even come back. I'm sorry for that."

"No need to apologize," he laughed. "It's done, it's over with. I love you and I know you love me, that is all that is important. It just sucks that I don't get enjoyment in the thought of wanting to rub it in that damn vamp's face and blast it in his thoughts. I was really looking forward to it too, but he kind of sucked the fun out of it."

I laughed at his choice of words and hugged myself closer to him. "Yes, I couldn't be happier with the way things have worked out."

Jake wrapped his arms around me and some point after that I had fallen asleep. It was a wonderful feeling having him lay there with me and I knew that I was going to make it happen as much as I possibly could. I was pretty sure I wouldn't get any arguments from his side.

Morning came quicker than I wanted it too. I tried to get him to stay longer, but he had some things to get done that day and wanted to get an early start on it so he could get done earlier. I laughed and forced my hands to release him. I had no idea why he kept insisting on using my window, even during the day when Charlie wasn't home, but all he could say was it was easier and he liked it better.

It took more energy than it should have pulling myself out of bed to say goodbye to him and I hated the fact that I had to wake up and watch him go at all. I hugged him tightly, kissed him goodbye and watched him jump out of my window. I was just turning to walk back over to my bed, when I heard the sound of a car pulling into the driveway. It took all of two seconds to realize it was Charlie's cruiser and that for some reason he came back home.

I turned back around quickly to see Jake frozen in the spot he had landed in, just barely standing up all the way, with his eyes glued to the car. I held my breath as Charlie got out and… rolled his eyes?

"Use the door next time, Jake," he said, as he walked up to the house.

"O-okay, Charlie," Jake replied, just as shocked as I was. I let out a gush of air as Jake looked up at me. I smiled nervously and shrugged, then watched him run off, shaking his head.

In that moment, I realized that there was no wondering anymore, I was positive nothing had ever gotten past Charlie.