Six years.

It's been about six years since the battle. Six years since my family was returned to me, without the fear and worry. Six years since he was like an uncle to me.

"Hey, Nessie!" a voice boomed from outside of the cottage.

Jacob, I thought. I would know that voice anywhere. I turned off the stove as he walked into the small living room. Everything was small when Jacob was around. He sat down on the couch, patting the seat next to him. I took a plate of the eggs and toast I made and handed it to him, more than happy to oblige with his seating arrangements.

My small cottage was empty, my parents having left the place to me a couple of months ago. They moved back to Carlisle's glass mansion as soon as I was mentally 16, believing it was best if they let me grow into my own woman, which didn't need any moving arangements seeing as I spent most of my waking time with them at my grandparent's place. Still, they insisted, believing that I would soon enough understand why I needed a place of my own, a thought that still brought scowls onto my father's face.

"Enjoy," I said now, sinking down next to Jake and snuggling into his side. "I spent all morning slaving away in front of that hot oven to make this gourmet meal."

"Ha!" he laughed, a piece of his food falling onto the clean floor. "Ness, you probably don't even feel the heat!"

"Still," I said giggling at the sight of him eating. "It's nice to be appreciated."

"Oh, huns," he said wrapping one arm around my shoulder while the other continued to dig away at the food. "You can be sure that you are always appreciated when it comes to me."

I smiled and wrapped my hands around his waist. He was so warm next to my cold almost-vampire skin. It was one of the things that I liked so much about Jake. I felt him tense beneath me and I looked up to see what was wrong. His face was contorted, clearly thinking about something, but he quickly looked down at me and smiled. He eased his way to the kitchen, leaving me sitting on the couch alone, still staring at him.

What the hell was that about?

"So, Nessie," he began akwardly, "you ready for tonight?"

I groaned. "No." It had comepletely skipped my mind that today was my seventh birthday. I knew I should be excited, what with me becoming physically and mentally 17, but the fact that my aunt Alice was throwing a huge ball in my honor was making me a little uneasy. Apperantly this was one of the things that I had inherited from my mom. I loved Alice, she was my favorite aunt in fact, but she did tend to go a little overboard when it came to parties.

"Well you better get ready," Jacob said, making his way to the sofa again, this time sitting a bit farther away than usual. "And if I were you, I'd do it now. Alice wants you there to greet all the guests when they arrive."

"Ugh. How many people could she have possibly invited?" I asked, sure that not many people were going to be there.

"Not many, but you never know. Alice does get along with pretty much anyone she meeets, and everyone that you have ever met loves you like their child, so..." he trailed off, looking at me with that strange look that he had been giving me for the last couple of weeks.

"Yeah," I said akwardly, getting up from my seat. "I'm just going to be a minute."

"Take your time, Ness."

"No peeking!" I called back over my shoulder with a little smile.

Where the hell did that come from? I asked myself. Did I just flirt with Jacob?

I saw Jake look over at me with a confused look on his face. Maybe he was thinking what I was thinking, but before I entered my room I caught a glimpse of him smiling my way and biting his bottom lip. Something about that look was utterly sexy and I didn't know why.

Get yourself together Renesme! that little voice in the back of my head said. You just called Jacob sexy!!

I tried to get that thought out of my head while I dressed into the teal blue dress Alice and Rosalie picked out for me the day before. No luck though. The thought of Jacob biting his lip enticingly was giving me shivers of a kind that I had yet to experience. It was a strange thought, seeing as before this Jacob had been nothing more than my best friend. And thinking that I was the one who caused that sexy little smirk was making me giddy with happiness.

Maybe your human side is finally kicking in, I argued with myself. Maybe those hormones everyone's always talking about are finally getting you excited about boys, no matter who they were.

But I knew better. This had yet to happen with anyone else, and Jacob was the only male outside of the family that I can stand to be around for long periods of time.

I finished quickly and made my way to living room again, hoping that the hormone rush was just temporary. I saw Jacob getting something from the fridge, his back towards me.

"Ah-hem," I caughed, being very obvious about my attempt to get his attention.

"Oh, good your ready, we better start hea-"

He stopped mid sentence when he saw me. He looked me up and down, his eyes exploring every inch of my body. His mouth hung open, making me giggle a bit. When he heard my small laugh he finally looked up at my face.

"You- ah- you-" He couldn't finish his sentence.

"I'm guessing you like my look?" I asked, twirling around so that he could see the back. I heard his heartbeat speed up, making a warm sensation travel through my body and stopping at a not-so-innocent part of my anatomy.

Well, this is new.

"Uh... yeah," Jacob said as I finally turned to face him. "You look beautiful."

His choice of word sent blood rushing to my cheecks and I looked down. On their way to the floor, my eyes caught something they didn't before. I noticed that Jacob was wearing clothes. There's a first time for everything. While I went to my room, he must have gone to his Rabbit and changed. He was wearing a long sleeved black shirt that hugged his muscles and made his bronzed skin stand out. His jeans and shoes looked new, the shoes matching very well with his shirt. To say that he was attractive was an understatement.

"You don't look to bad yourself," I noted.

He looked down at what he was wearing. "Yeah, well I thought I should try and be normal for your special day."

"Aw, Jake," I said, walking up to him and taking his large hand in mine. "Everyday with you is special, you know that."

He looked down at me and his face was unreadable. I wanted to know what he was thinking, so I reached up and placed my hand on his cheecks, letting his see my confusion and my thoughts.

"I would get in a lot of trouble with Edward and Bella if you knew what I am thinking," he said, taking my hand again and leading me out of the door. "Now, let's get going."

"Do we have to?"

"Yeah," he said with a little laugh. "Alice may be small, but she's the one leech I don't want to upset."

"Hey!" I punched his arm hard, an act that would have broken a human's arm. "That leech is my aunt! And you're one to talk you dog!"

"Aw hush," he said, grabbing me around the waist. "You know you love it."

I could feel his breath on my ear as he talked and was surprised that the hormones hadn't left. Instead they were working on overdrive, that warm sensation from before coursing through my body.

Well I'll be damned, maybe I do love it.

A/N: I have been a big fan of the Nessie/Jake relationship, so I finally decided to write this. Please review! If people like it, I will continue. If not, it's a one-shot. Let me know if there's any characters that you want to see in my fanfics.