Bella was confused. She was obviously in love with Edward but what she had seen just 2 hours earlier was still embedded in her mind.
She had to tell Jacob an urgent message that couldn't wait. She had rushed to his house and barged into his home. Flinging the door open. It had smashed into the shelf behind it. Various items came crashing to the floor. Bella had taken a glance at the fallen items. "No, no time." She whispered under her breath and she continued her search for Jacob
Startled by the sudden sound Jacob bound out of the shower turned on for a fight. Instead, he stands chest to chest with an unexpectedly flustered Bella.
Bella had seen a naked man before, but she had never seen one in such prime condition. Water collecting in the defined dimples of his body she instinctively bites her lip.
Jacob sees her expression and asks "what's wrong?"
She blushingly points down.
He suddenly remembers that he is completely exposed. He chuckles "excuse me" as he unsuccessfully covers himself with his hands and backs away.
Retreating to the bathroom Jacob returns with a towel wrapped around his waist. He asks her "to what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?" Entranced, she cannot verbally respond to his question.
"Bella?" Jacob chimes and she returns to a verbal state.
She reaches out to touch his shoulder to emphasize the severity of her words "We have heard rumors that the Volturi will be here within the month and we will have to be ready."
Jacob confidently replies: "we are ready!"
Her hand lingers on his shoulder as she eyes up his incredible abdomen. He chuckles "Ya, I have gained a bit of weight eh?"
She allows her hand to slip off his shoulder but gets caught gazing at his chiseled chest. His words click and she laughs out "If you can call it that."
"I'll be seeing you Jacob" she says as she composes herself and sways her hips out of his front door.
It wasn't a far walk but Bella's distracted prowling state made the walk seem to be both the longest and shortest walk of her life. Her mind was racing with every desired scenario involving Jacob her body was begging her to pursue.
She replayed the scene over and over in her head.
"I forgot how in shape Jacob is, how charming he could be; how did the water on his skin seem to emphasize each contour of his strength?" Bella thought out loud to herself.
"I never stopped to think that he could be that responsive to the unexpected or THAT gifted!"
"I had to get out of there as fast as I could or he wouldn't have been the only one dripping on that floor", she admitted to herself.
Before Bella knew it she was back home, mind still racing as she recalled how warm Jacob felt under each fingertip. She didn't realize that until that moment she had desperately missed that touch.
The more and more Bella dwelled on it the more she became afraid she may act on her desires. She wanted nothing more than to wrap her legs around his defined body and take every last inch he had to offer.
That's when a voice pulled her out of her forbidden fantasy. She looked up to see Edward standing over her.
He looked puzzled and with the same intonation as Jacob earlier that evening Edward asked "what's wrong?"
To Bella's desires it may well have been Jacob asking these words again as she felt as if butterflies were ripping out of her stomach.
In that moment she grabbed Edward's shirt and pulled him down to her mouth kissing him as hard as she wanted to with Jacob.
Bella felt a pang of guilt using Edward to satiate her lustful Jacob fantasy but she acted on instinct. If it didn't happen this way she knew she could not resist pursuing the real thing, so for right now she would have to pretend as much as possible that Edward was Jacob. As she kissed him her uncanny imagination allowed her to sink into this Jacob avatar. She pulled off Edwards' shirt and he followed suit. Before he could expose her perky nipples Bella had already unhooked her bra and started to slide it off.
She wanted it now. No... she NEEDED it. She wasn't going to wait for him to take the lead. Bella's primal self had taken charge and she was loving every moment of it. She furiously pulled him close to demand her lips on his and her nipples made contact with his cool skin.
Comparisons flew through her mind without a care. He was nowhere near as warm as Jacob had been but in this instant Edward's cool body scratched her itch. Her nipples stiffening in agreeance.
She ran the tips of her fingers slowly down Edward's body, exploring his musculature as she went down. He wasn't as defined as Jacob, but he was in no way lacking strength and it helped further her lustfulness.