Chapter Song: All of Me by John Legend
Bella was getting ready to go out that following Saturday night with Angela and Alice at the Weber's house when she brought up the Jacob thing.
They both said, "Edward's right." at the exact same time.
She blinked at them, pausing with her shirt still over her head. She pulled it all the way down with a shake of her head. "I'm having a hard time wrapping it around my head."
"It's true," Alice provided as she lined her eyelids with a thin black pen, leaning closer to Angie's mirror.
Angela nodded. "I see him watch you all the time."
"Well, of course he's watching me do the problems."
Angie was just a shaking her head. "No, Bella. He was looking at you."
Bella frowned.
Alice patted her back. "Don't have an aneurysm over it, boo. Worse things could happen besides having a hot admirer."
"Alice," Angela and Bella shouted together, galvanized.
Alice shrugged. "What? I'm just saying. Jesus, relax. As long as you don't lead the guy on, you'll be fine."
"Oh, trust me, I don't plan to," Bella said very seriously.
"Don't hurt his feelings either," Angela spoke up, looking slightly embarrassed after.
"I won't. Honestly, though, I think I'll end up making a fool out of myself, since he most likely doesn't even remotely have any feelings for me."
She soon found out how wrong she was two hours later at the gig on the last song, sitting with all her friends at the privately owned coffee shop, including Rose and Emmett.
She, Angela and Alice had all rode together in Alice's car while Ben and Edward drove alone. Both her and Angie planned to hitch a ride with their boyfriends after the show.
Now though, Bella was sitting, slack jawed and red faced, nice and cozily next to the boy she loved as Jacob crooned Cheap Trick's, I Want You to Want Me to a melody heavy with aggressive drums and guitars, "I want you to want me/I need you to need me/I'd love you to love me."
All the girls in the front were swooning their asses off as if they were imagining him singing about them as his eyes were straight on Bella the whole time. "I'm begging you to beg me/I want you to want me/I need you to need me/ I'd love you to love me..."
The whole band as a package was good. (Some of the other players, two guys and one girl she remembered from school while the other guy was unfamiliar and obviously older than them by a couple of years.) She couldn't help but admit that they were good and knew how to entertain a crowd, as embarrassed and stupid as she felt.
Alice had a smug expression. Angie looked nervous. Ben seemed solely concerned for his girlfriend, while Edward simply looked tense, nearly vibrating like a tuning fork. She touched his hand, trying to relax him. He gripped her hand, but wouldn't calm down. He just stared at Jacob, looking as if he was about to lunge at the singer.
She didn't hear the rest of the song when all she wanted to do was run far, far away.
How could Jacob have the gall to sing something like that in front of them? And for him to stare at her so meaningfully was like spitting right in Edward's face.
Jacob wasn't different from Leah. Suddenly, she became very angry. She was so sick of stuff like this happening. Just when things were settling down, things like this had to happen.
