Silent Love

Mandy had been awake for hours, just thinking about Jacob, but she had been blasting her ears with music from her pink iPod Nano and didn’t hear the pounding on the hotel room door before the person started yelling her name loudly.

It was only one person who yelled her name that way. Mandy got out of the bed and pulled the covers with her as she dragged herself across the room and wiped the goofy grin off her face before she unlocked the door.

Manny walked right past her. He carried a big pile of papers in his arms and ignored Mandy’s stunned face.
“’Morning to you as well,” she mumbled and walked over till the desk he’d dumped the newspapers on.

She recognized names of the papers as the local papers off Seattle, Port Angeles and Forks. The headlines were all the same: ‘Local hunk charms teenage pop sensation Mandy Myers.’ Mandy found the article in one of them and saw the pictures off them holding hands and laughing as well as pictures from after Jacob had moved his chair to her side and had his arms around her.

And lastly a picture taken when Jacob tried to kiss her goodbye, only from the angle it was taken it looked like a full on lip-lock.

Mandy glanced up at Manny with a tentative smile.
“Yeah, about that…” She was stopped by his stern stare.
“Let me read the article,” Manny said and grabbed the paper from her hands.

“The hunk, identified as Jacob Black from La Push, had a very intimate date with the star and they both seemed to enjoy each others company. An eyewitness from the restaurant Bella Italia reports that the two love-birds didn’t take their eyes of each other the whole evening. Mandy Myers just finished her tour and had a two day stay in the area. The star is from Forks, maybe she was catching up with an old flame?” Manny finished and threw the paper on the desk again.

“You don’t have time for boyfriends, Mandy,” He told her.
Mandy pulled the covers tighter over her shoulders and turned away from him as he spoke. “You have to keep your focus on the right things, which right now is to work on your new album. We don’t have time for distractions Amanda.”

She groaned and faced him with an angry look in her eye. “But how are you expecting me to write songs when I don’t have any inspiration?”
“Then we’ll buy songs,” Manny suggested.
“No! I write my own songs,” she almost yelled. It wasn’t like her to get angry. She took a few calming breaths before she spoke. “Do you even know who Jacob is?”

Manny was about to answer when Mandy let tears run down her cheeks.
“Jacob is ‘Breathe’, ‘The Way I Loved You’. He is ‘Forever & Always’. But now he’s just my friend. And you know what, Manny? He was right when he said I needed a break,” She said and let the tears flow, just the thought of flying back to New York and start recording made her homesick.

“I need to go home, stay with my family and friends for awhile. Can’t you see that, Manny?” she looked down at him and saw how taken aback he was.
“I- Please don’t say that you are quitting on me, Amanda,” he sounded almost heartbroken.
She shook her head violently. “Of course not, just a break. Give me some time to write new songs and get fresh energy. I’m homesick.”

He swallowed. “How long is some time?”
Mandy pondered. “Three months? I’ll get right back to work in January. Promise.”
“Well then, I guess I could sort it out. Maybe we both need a break. But I don’t want any big headlines about the local hunk!” Manny was very worried about his young star, and he was afraid she would get to happy with a life on the silent side and not come back.

Mandy squealed and threw her arms around the short man. “Thank you, Manny, I promise you won’t be disappointed!”
“You better hold that promise!” he warned her. “Now get dressed and pack your stuff while I get you a rental car. I’ll fly back to New York and get Anna to pack up your things and we’ll get them to you on express.”

Anna was Mandy’s personal assistant. Mandy didn’t feel the need for one, but Manny had insisted.
“Thank you,” she repeated with a smile and disappeared into the bathroom.

Manny wiped the sweat of his forehead with a sigh and found his phone and started making calls as he walked down the hallway to the elevator. He couldn’t help but feel like all off his work would be wasted in the end.

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Jacob had spent the night at the Cullen’s place, still worried about Bella and her monster of a daughter. He’d fallen asleep late at night on the couch after watching the blond vampire coo and fuss over the monster for hours. He dreamed about holding Mandy in his arms for the rest of their lives.

Jacob was woken by someone taking a hold of his leg with their hand as cold as ice and pulling him off the couch. His eyes shot open and he glared at a smirking Emmett.
“What?” he snapped at him.
“Why didn’t you tell us about your hot date last night?” he wondered and waved a paper in front of Jacob’s eyes.

Jacob groaned and grabbed the paper out off his hands. He looked the front page over but didn’t bother with reading the article, there probably only stood a bunch of bullshit anyway. But he couldn’t help but wonder if it caused any problems for Mandy.

“She’s an old friend of mine, we were catching up after I bumped into her in Seattle,” Jacob explained tiredly.
“I’m surprised anyone would touch you even with a stick, smelly as you are,” He heard Rosalie mumble from the armchair still with baby monster in her arms.

“Well, she’s probably across the country by now. ‘ Thinks she going back to New York,” he rose to his feet and stretched. “I’ll step out and see how things are with Leah and Seth. Call on me if anything changes.”
“I’ll find a dog whistle!” Emmett called after him.
Jacob rolled his eyes.

He could, on the other side, not hide his concerns from his small pack. Seth and Leah immediately heard his fright of her leaving.
’I’m sure she’ll stay,’ Seth thought, positive as always.
’Don’t worry Jake, you can always go after her now when you’re not bound by your obsessed love with Bella Swan,’ Leah teased.

Jacob ignored them both and kept on running.
’Hey, Jake! Where are you headed?’ Leah asked in concern when as he ran closer and closer to the treaty line. ’You can’t go on their land.’
’They are our brothers. I’m going to talk to Sam, sort things out, you know,’ Jacob answered sarcastically.
’Wait up, we’ll come with you, The two siblings thought in unison – to their dismay – and changed directions.

’No. Stay. I’m not going to fight him, talk. He’s probably come to his senses by now. Keep an eye on the area just to be sure, though,’ He instructed them and they went back to their original tracks.
’Be careful, Jacob,’ Leah thought silently.

The growing understanding and acceptance between him and Leah scared Jacob. The world wasn’t right anymore.

Jacob was ready to take responsibility for his actions, the imprinting had made him realize how stupid and irrelevant the feud really was.