"Auntie Alice!!! Guess what I found out in the field!" .
Alice squatted down to Renesmee's level and smiled, excitedly.
"What did you find"
Nessie slowly opened her hands to reveal a squeamish brown fuzzy caterpillar.
She looked up into Alice's eyes with thrill, awaiting her response.
"Isn't he pretty?", she asked excitedly.
Alice jumped back at first, hoping Nessie wouldn't notice. Then she fixed herself and leaned back in closely, looking at it. "Oh yeah, he's beautiful! What'd you name him?" she smiled "We should..make him a home"
Nessie stiffled a giggle as Alice jumped. She hadn't known her aunt was afraid of bugs.
"His name is... uhm...", she started as her tongue peaked between her pale pink lips. Her eyes squinted daintily in concentration, then finally refocusing as she made her mind.
"His name is Jasper!" she exclaimed, smiling, knowing what Alice would think.
Alice laughed loudly, throwing her head back. "Jasper? Why Jasper? Are you saying Uncle Jasper looks like a bug? Uh oh.. I'll have to go get him.." she said as she started to get up very slowly, waiting to see how Renesmee was going to act. Alice hoped Nessie knew she was kidding.
Nessie's eyes just about popped out of her head.
"No, no, no! No Auntie Alice! That's not what I meant! Please don't tell Uncle Jaspy!!" Her eyes were pleading as she looked back at Alice, the caterpillar still clutched between her two tiny, pale hands.
Alice laughed and squatted back down. "I know sweety, calm down." She hugged Nessie, still giggling quietly. "You named it Jasper because you love him, am I right?" she looked at her, nodding her head.
Nessie snuggled against Alice's chest, nodding her head slightly.
"Uh huh..." she whispered, still slightly shaken from Alice's threat.
She cupped the caterpillar in her left hand, reaching up with her right hand to cup Alice's cheek. Talking was too much work.
She let the pictures flow through her hand to Alice's mind, of Jasper's face on the caterpillar, coming out of the cacoon as a butterfly. 'Just as pretty as a butterfly' she said through her thoughts.
Alice watched Renesmee's show of pictures of butterflies and Jasper and was amazed. When it was over she stared in to space for a moment then whispered. "That's beautiful, Nessie! Did you tell Jasper this? Well..or show him? I think he'd really like it alot"
Nessie looked down at her hands, embarrassed a little. She shook her head, thinking Alice would have laughed at her silly analogies.
She looked back up into Alice's big golden eyes, and placed her hand on her cheek again. This time, it was pictures of Nessie in Jasper's lap, her hand on his cheek, and him laughing. 'You don't think he'd laugh at me?' she thought.
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