~Hey everyone! long time no see, huh? Well, I've been working on the Jacob-Renesmee story, and this is the first chapter! Okay, so there's a few things you should know. 1: This is all in Renesmee's point of view. If you guys REALLY want me to put in a Jacob POV chapter, you'll have to review and tell me. 2: If you haven't read my first story, there's a character in here, Jess, from that story. She's Seth's imprint. If you want to read about how they found each other, read my first story. Well, I hope you all enjoy it, and please review to tell me what you think! I love getting reviews from you guys!~

Chapter 1

"Come on, Edward, it's just a dress!"

Alice had been bugging my dad for a whole day now, trying uselessly to get him to allow me to wear the dress she had bought for me last weekend.

It was a very nice dress: green silk and black lace. But of course, Dad didn't like it, because it was a little more…immodest than what I usually wore.

It wasn't my fault I'd recently hit another growth spurt. Puberty had hit me pretty badly last year. I'd gotten my period when I was about five and a half, but my body hadn't changed physically until later on.

I could tell my dad and my uncles weren't happy about my sudden need for a bra, or that my butt now filled out my jeans a lot better. Grandpa Carlisle just saw it as more information for how hybrids grew and developed, and didn't worry, like my dad, about the attention I was now getting from men. My features had been changing as well for the past couple of years, they were more pronounced and angular now, and I looked like…well, I looked like a woman. More like my aunts and mother than a child.

I was eight years old, and I looked eighteen.

I sighed and said, "It's alright, Alice. I have plenty of dresses."

Alice glared at my dad.

"You can't hide her forever, Edward! Look at her! She's not a little girl anymore!"

I walked out of the room, not bothering to listen to the conversation any further. I knew what would happen, in the end. Dad would win, and Alice would take the dress back.

Rosalie usually hovered nearby during these fights, wanting me to wear the stylish things Alice bought me, but also too protective to want me to attract the attention of boys.

Esme, Carlisle, Emmett, and Jasper preferred to stay out of these fights, and stayed away from them altogether, except for when things got really heated and they needed to break it up.

What was with dad these days? I could tell that something else was bothering him, that it wasn't just the dress, or any of the other clothes Alice had bought that he deemed 'indecent'. He was just irritable, all the time! Especially when Jake was around. Sometimes, we would just be on the couch, watching a movie together, and dad would growl at Jake for no reason. I didn't understand!

I was glad Jake was out on patrol for most of the day today. Whenever dad and Alice started fighting about this stuff in front of him, he would get really uncomfortable and make up some excuse to leave.

Speak of the devil.

I sensed Jake before he spoke. I was so attuned to his scent, having been around it my whole life, that I could smell him from a mile away. Werewolves aren't exactly known for their stealth tactics, either.

"Hey, Ness!" he said, as he jogged out of the trees towards me.

I smiled widely. As annoyed as I was with my dad, I couldn't help but feel happy around Jake. That was just the way it was with imprinting.

"I thought you weren't supposed to be back for another couple of hours," I said curiously.

He smiled back at me. "I couldn't wait to get back!" he said. "What'd you do without me today? It was pretty boring, huh?"

I laughed, because it was true. "I pretty much listened to Edward and Alice fight over my dress all day."

"The green one?" he asked. When I nodded, he smiled and said, "Who won?"

I rolled my eyes at him. "Who do you think?"

"Of course," he said, looking at the ground. "That's too bad. It would have looked nice on you."

I frowned. Since when had Jake been interested in my clothing? Things around here were getting very strange-maybe I'd talk to my mother when we got back. She would know what was going on with my dad, at least. She might even have some insight as to why Jake was acting so strangely too, actually. She knew him better than anyone, except me, because they'd been best friends and he'd kind of had a thing for her before he imprinted on me. Yuck.

When Jake and I got back to the house, he headed upstairs to shower and change. When we moved out of Forks five years ago, Jake had come with us to live in a city just outside of Seattle. It was far enough away that nobody would recognize us, but close enough that Leah, Seth, and Jess could drive up to visit often.

Anyways, the enormous mansion that Grandma Esme had restored was big enough that Jake had his own room, and so he stayed in the house with us.

While he showered, I looked for my mom. It didn't take long to find her. She was typing on her computer in my parent's bedroom.

"Where's dad?" I asked casually, leaning against the doorframe.

"Your father went hunting with Emmett…he was pretty upset with Alice."

I sighed in relief. Good. Now I could talk to her without him overhearing.

"Mom, why has dad been acting so strangely lately? I know it's not just because of me looking more mature now. He's always angry and annoyed…especially when Jake is around." I looked down at the ground, studying the floor panels at my feet.

My mom sighed, and turned towards me, pulling her fingers away from the laptop keyboard.

"Renesmee…It's not something your father and I feel we should share with you just yet. I'm sure Jacob will tell you soon enough what exactly is going on."

Wow. Thanks, mom. So much for that. I huffed and walked out of the bedroom, and dug my cellphone out of my pocket. There was on other person who might be able to help me…

Once I was safely out of earshot from the house, the opposite way from which Dad and Uncle Emmett had gone, I punched in the right number and held the phone to my ear.

Jess picked up on the first ring. "Hey, Ness!" she said cheerfully.

I settled down on a fallen tree trunk to talk to Jess, draping my sweater over the log so as not to get my designer jeans wet.

"Hey, Jess. How's the baby?" Jess and Seth had gotten married when she was nineteen, and had a baby shortly after. Raine was two now, and three months ago they'd just had another baby, Marina, named after Jess's mother.

"Oh, just great!" she gushed. "She's absolutely amazing."

"I can't wait to see her again," I said honestly. Jess was one of my best friends-I'd known her since I was about two years old, and I missed not seeing her all the time.

"I can't wait to see you again," she said. "Maybe we'll come down to see everyone next weekend. Anyways, what's up, Ness?"

"I wanted to know if maybe you could help me figure out what's wrong with Jacob."

"Is he okay?" she asked. She sounded just as confused as I felt.

"Yeah, but he's been acting really strangely around me lately…and my dad seems to be really pissed off whenever he's around. I have no idea what's going on."

I would have sworn I could hear Jess smile over the phone.

"Are you sure you don't?" she asked me. "Or do you just not want to admit to yourself what's going on?"

Ummm….what? "Jess, what are you talking about?"

She sighed. "Nessie, since your body has changed, you know, when you turned totally hot, have you started feeling any differently around Jacob?"

I was still blushing about the remark she'd made-that my new curves made me look 'hot'-that I didn't really comprehend what she was asking for a few seconds.

"Jess, of course not! Why in the world would you think that?"

"Renesmee, trust me, that is exactly what is going on. Think about it, okay? Think about Jake. Think about how Edward-the mind reader-is acting around him when he's with his daughter. He's upset."

So I thought about it.

It did make sense. If every cell in my body wasn't one hundred percent sure that Jake saw me as a best friend and nothing else, I would have jumped to that conclusion myself days ago. Jake and I have never felt anything… anything romantic for each other. I knew that that was how imprinting was supposed to work, but I couldn't see anything but being his best friend the rest of my life.

"But, Jess-"

"When you next see Jake," she said, interrupting me. "You're going to think about what I said, and you're going to realize you do feel differently about him. Trust me, I know. It's just how this imprinting this works."

I heard a baby crying in the background, and Jess said hurriedly, "I've got to go. Trust me on this one, though, okay? I'll talk to you later. Bye!"

"See you," I said, defeated, and hung up the phone.

I sank down onto the forest floor and thought about what Jess had said. Me and Jake? That would be…

Amazing.

Wait, why did I think that? I did not think about Jacob like that and he certainly did not think that way about me!

I huffed indignantly (I sure was doing that a lot today) and strode back towards the house, walking human-speed to give me more time to think.

It all made sense, and yet it all was crazy. I didn't want things between me and Jacob to change, when so much of my life changed all the time.

My body, my family, where I lived, my friends, my school. All I wanted was one aspect of my life to remain uncomplicated. One. Is that too much to ask for?

I worked on disguising my thoughts as I got closer to the house. I knew it was too early for my dad to be back yet, but I had to practice hiding these thoughts when he was around.

If he really was angry at Jake for thinking about me…inappropriately, then hearing my thoughts about what Jess had said would really send him over the edge.

I shook my head. All of this didn't matter, because nothing was going to change between Jake and I. Nothing.