Marked Love

Its Going To Get Hard Before It Gets Good

Chapter Twelve

That night, as Caleb and I settle down into bed, I talk all about how Jade and Bella didn't think that he wanted kids.

We got on that topic for about an hour. Which was weird.

Then I talked a little about Jake. How I want to start taking him out of the basement and teaching him how to hunt animals, since they are much smarter then humans. He didn't think it was such a good idea but he would join us whenever we decided to do this.

That's when we stopped the talk and shared kisses and slept.

When I woke up Caleb was up before me. His side of the bed empty. I quickly got in the shower and out, dressed and headed down stairs.

"Where is everyone?" I ask Matt wondering where he has been, I know that was the reason they went out and searched for him. "Sam made everyone leave the house for today. Something about Caleb taking the beast out and teaching him some things." Matt says but I do'nt hear the rest because I'm already outside.

I don't hear anything until I get deep in the woods. Jake is chained to a tree, a large tree, and Caleb is hitting him. Hard.

"Caleb! Caleb!" I scream at him but he isn't stopping. I finally come up to the two of them. I touch Caleb's shoulder and he flashes his fangs at me. I step away a few feet. "Hey. I'm sorry. Hey." Caleb says trying to grab my arm but each time he does I back away.

"Come here." Caleb says crushing me into his chest and I try to relax. "What are you doing?" I ask him looking up at his eyes, he almost changed. "I'm just weakening him up so you can have him for the day." Caleb says and kisses me head. "I'm sorry." He says once more.

I nod and know we will have to talk about this later. I look at Jake, all bloody and torn up. I walk away from Caleb a little upset with him surprised that he went this far. I touch Jake's face and he looks up at me, his eyes yellow today. "Hey." I say longing the word in a happy tone.

"I've got it from here." I tell Caleb and he nods. "I'll only be a few feet away." Caleb warns Jake and I wave him off. I untie Jake from the tree so now all he has on him are the chains. "Are you okay?" I ask him wondering how he is feeling right now. I wonder how long Caleb has been out punching the fight out of Jake.

"Fine." Jake hisses and I look at him. "Don't be that way with me. I'm the one here helping you." I growl at him wanting him to be nice for just a few short hours. "I don't see why the bother is. They are only going to kill me." Jake says slumping over and I can finally see his face.

The sun is hot but its okay, I'm going to need the sun to see Jake's emotions he has been hiding.

"Well I might end up doing it if you keep having an attitude like that." I tell him punching him a little trying to get him up and atom. "Come on." I tell him punching him in the jaw a little harder this time. "Cut it out." Jake says annoyingly.

"Well get up." I punch him a little harder in the ribs and then again in the stomach.

"Knock it off!" Jake screams getting up on his two feet. I step away a little frightened but then I'm okay. "That's what I'm looking for. Now since your on two feet how about we hunt?" I ask him wondering how he would like to actually get the thirst away from the excitement of hunting.

"I'm not going to play your stupid little hunting games." Jake spits at me and hunches his back down. "It will be fine. There are some pretty big bears out there." I tell him wondering what kind of game we will run into.

I unhook the chains from the tree and gather them into my hands using the belt to hold them. Its a metal belt so he can't go anywhere with out me along for the ride. And at this point I'm much stronger then him.

As we walk deeper into the woods we begin to chatter. "So outside on the first day feels good huh?" I ask Jake wondering how he's feeling. His back is facing me so I can't see his face. "First day?" He asks and I am surprised I even get an answer. "Yeah. I have until Thursday. I told you." I tell him again.

"Right." He says and then continues to walk in front of me. "How about we walk together?" I ask him coming up beside him and then look at his left side of his body. His face torn up, his hair a mess, his arms torn, along with his shirt. When I look back up at him he is looking at me with hurt full eyes.

"I do'nt get it Skylar. You use to be all for not believing in teh rules and now look at you..." Jake mutters and I raise my eye brow. "Excuse me? Following the rules is the last thing I'm doing right now." I tell him reminding him. He raises his head up in agreement and then lets it go.

We get way deep in the woods and then together we catch a large Elk. Nothing compared to what I wanted to catch, just to impress him, but it will do. We form and then change back in our human form our clothes drenched in Elk meet as well as blood. I find a river that goes through the forest that I know we will be safe at.

I dunk in when I'm tired of wearing my dinner. I wash my hair along with my clothes and Jake sits on the edge just looking at me. "Why don't you get in?" I ask him looking at his dirty face. Even though he is dirty he looks handsome all ragged up. "Won't make a difference to what they see me as." He spits at me and I turn away so my face can change its emotion for a little.

When I turn around Jake is shirt less, water drenched all over him, his body clean. "I'm done." I tell him gathering my shirt while I ring the water from my tanktop that I wear. "Stop." He growls and I do, he scares me. Maybe it was a bad idea to go this far. But I know Caleb is somewhere close by watching us.

"What?" I ask him turning around remembering how close we had gotten yesterday. Jake moves closer to me leaving my head filled with confusion and less oxygen. I begin to get dizzy from his breath, its sweet but also sour of evil.

"I just have to..." He breaths in deeply and rubs his face in my wet hair and brings his hands up to my head bring my head closer to his. His lips touch my ear lobe, I shiver at the touch and then he brings his lips to my cheek. "Hey." I tell him climbing away from his grasp and walking toward the house.

"We should get back." I tell him knowing we will be missed.

Jake follows behind me as the sun begins to set. The whole day in the woods, it was nice. I'm glad we could actually get out. This will be good for him, I know it.

Once we put Jake back in the basement Caleb snatches me away and we adventure into the shower washing the blood and also the creek water off of me.

"You do'nt look good dirty." Caleb growls at me and kisses my neck nibbling on me.

After we climb into bed and Caleb wraps his arms around me I can't stop to think about Jake.