This is a love story about Jacob Black and Renessme Cullen (Nessie). It will be told from both POVs.

Chapter 1

Nessie POV:

Technically I'm 6. Technically. I look, act, and feel like I'm around 15. I'm not a leap year kid if that's what you're thinking. I'm a vampire human hybrid kid, don't ask. My life is very messed up. My dad is a vampire, so is my mom, though she wasn't when I was born. My best friend in the world is a werewolf and most of my family is vampires. So, yeah, just your regular small town girl. The first thing I tell people about myself is that I'm not as special as people think I am. My whole life it seems people in the vampire and werewolf community have treated me like a rare artifact, and I hate it. I like to believe I'm normal. I dress normal, have an overprotective father, a great best friend, and I just don't feel like a rare artifact, I just feel like Renessme. The only person who treats me like a normal girl is my best friend Jacob Black. He doesn't act like I'm weird or special. Well he does treat me like I'm special but not in a weird way like almost everybody else. I can tell him anything, even things I don't tell my aunt Rose, and trust me that is a big deal. We both go to Forks High School and we act very normal, like there is nothing remotely different about us. We must be good actors because if anyone else knew what my life was like they'd probably scream and run away as fast as possible.

With my fast growing rate, and "beauty" as Jacob puts it, I don't hang around with many forks high kids. Jacob always complains that the boys there really can't keep their eyes off me, which I strongly disagree about. Because of this, most of my best friend's are werewolves. My by far best girl friend is Leah Clearwater. I had heard she had betrayed my family in the past, but she's a different person now. We do everything together, shop, laugh, and talk. She's the only one who 100% understands my feeling for Jacob Black.

Being a vampire/human has its own little surprises for me every day. But I can blush, oh I can blush. I have less reason too, because I have the grace of a vampire, and don't trip as often as my mother. The only one thing that has ever made me blush is Jake. It's silly; I shouldn't have feelings for him. He's my best friend. My brother, my protector. But I can't really help it when he comes around. I can't help staring. His black eyes see right through me. His smile melts my heart no matter how many times I see it.

The first time I realized this was on a Friday night last summer. Quil, Leah, Jake, you know the werewolf pack, and I were playing a game of makeshift football in an open field behind jakes house. I had the ball and was running towards our goal but Jake, being the werewolf he is, caught up to me in a split second. Instead of getting the ball and running he wrapped his arms around my waist and tackled me (being careful not to hurt me). That's when it clicked. Playfully fighting in the mud with Jake like every other Friday night for the last year, and this was the first time id felt something real. This was when I realized I was in love with my best friend.

The next morning there was Jake waiting outside my house in his Rabbit like always. I quickly finished my makeup (which I don't normally do but considering what had happened I wanted to look my best) and ran outside. Normally after he picked me up we would go to Seth and Leah's to get them but they were out of town, so it was just Jake and me. A few times he tucked a stray lock of hair behind my ear. Every time I would blush like crazy and he would chuckle at my unusual response. Later that day he caught me by surprise. I had been used to it but not anymore. I was walking in the hall and all of a sudden Jake grabbed my hand. Normally my awesome vampire skills and grace would save me in a situation like this but not this time. I jumped and dropped all my books. Jake chortled and helped me pick them up. That day was a very long day.

Jake POV.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I had not bothered to look at baby Renessme the day she was born. What if I had stormed out in anger and not taken a second look, or worse, killed her without seeing her face. Just the thought makes me crazy with sadness. Nessie not existing would be my world not existing. I would die a million times before I let something hurt her. Even when thoughts of her are in my mind every second, the sound of her laugh, the funny things she says play again and again in my mind like a broken record. The worst part is she knows none of this. My "deal" with her mother and father was that she could not know anything about my imprinting and my love for her until she was 18. That was in 14 months.

Even though people said it all the time, Renessme Carlie Cullen barred no resemblance to her mother. Her eyes, her face, her hair, her skin, her smile. Maybe she looked like Bella, but I sure didn't see it. I saw her as Nessie, and when I saw her I saw no Bella in her. She was her own person. Beautiful, Intelligent, Unique, Incredible. She laughed at me when I told her this. Silly girl, she couldn't even see how amazing she really was.

Bella and Edward had built a home on the reservation (with the permission of Sam and the Elders of course) after our little stand off with the Volturi. They knew as well as we did no one else could protect her better. Every day I picked her up in the old rabbit and she bounced out of the house looking like a ray of sunshine. More beautiful then any bloodsucker I had ever seen. She would hop into the passenger side and grin her pretty grin at me.

"Renessme" I greeted her.

"Jacob"

I chuckled at our greeting and drove off, knowing all too well her father could hear my thoughts all the while, now that was a scary thought.

"How was your day?" she would ask.

"Better now." I grinned. And this was true. She always made my day better.

Sometimes we would just talk for hours, she never got old. Except one day our friend zone existence changed. I don't know what happened, but when I picked her up one Saturday morning she wasn't the same. She blushed when i played with her hair, jumped when I held her hand, and chuckled at even my dumbest jokes. This wasn't Ness, I had never seen her nervous in my whole life. It was on a day when we were laying in the sand on LaPush beach that I asked her about this.

"Ness, what's happened to you? You've been different lately"

"No I haven't" was her immediate response as she went into defense mode.

To prove it to her I took my hand and tucked a stray ringlet behind her ear, and she blushed like crazy.

"See?" I chuckled.

"I kind of love you" she blurted out, and I knew immediately she didn't mean to say it because her reaction was to get away from me as fast as possible.

"Ness, wait!" I called as she ran down the shore, and while I felt bad that she was embarrassed, I was more happy then I've ever been my whole entire life.

"Jake, I just don't want to talk about it. I didn't mean for that to come out" she said as I finally caught up behind her.

"Renessme" I said and took one hand to grab her waist and spin her around to face me. Then I kissed her. I knew her parents would rip me to shreds (literally) if they ever found out, but I didn't care. I kissed her, and suddenly everything else didn't matter so much anymore.

Nessie's POV:

I was running back to my house after I had it slip to Jake that I loved him. Tears threatened to boil over as I heard him behind me. There was no way he could feel the same.

"Jake, I just don't want to talk about it. I didn't mean for that to come out" I whispered trying to get away.

"Renessme" he said and he pulled me to face him. I looked up into his black eyes and saw something in his expression change. He bent his face to mine and kissed me. I froze. Jake had actually kissed me. I had never pictured it like this though. I never thought I would be crying or anything. Oh well. Everything that had been bothering me was gone. Nothing could spoil my good mood. Boy was I wrong. Right when Jake pulled away to smile at me I heard a voice.

"Jacob Black could I speak with you for a moment" my father said, calmly which surprised me.

"oh shit" Jake murmured under his breath. I put my hand to his face, and through my thoughts asked him what was happening.

"Jacob. Now, If you may" I could hear a slight growl breaking into my fathers calm tone, which scared me even more.