Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize! Song credit to All Time Low

If you have not read 'You Were Everything' I strongly advise that you do so, otherwise a lot of this isn't going to make much sense. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.

"Let it roll,

Our time is fleeting so we take control

From California to my home sweet home

Our days repeating like it's all we know,

It's all we know."

Let It Roll

The past few months had been a bit crazy. I had decided to come home and finish my degree online, something that really hadn't taken much consideration. A year ago I would have scoffed at the idea, but now I could think of nothing better than being surrounded by the two people I knew cared most about me.

Then Mar and Paul had gotten engaged and I was thrust into wedding plans and showers all the while working frantically on my independent study that was due at the end of August. Meanwhile, while all of us humans were running around poor Belle had been growing by the day until finally she laid down in a corner and began to have her puppies.

I smiled and looked over to where the mother and her pups were settled in the corner of the living room. Currently the five puppies were fighting over nipples, their little squeaks filling the quiet living room where I was working on my independent study.

"What are you doing?" Paul asked as he walked into the room. "You need to start getting ready or Mar is going to kill you!"

I scoffed, "I could say the same to you."

Paul rolled his eyes at me, "Your sister is freaking out, so go upstairs and help Kim calm her down."

I had to laugh a little at that. I had no idea why my sister was so worried about today; she was marrying the guy she was absolutely in love with. Not to mention the fact that she had already been through all this once before. I kept that to myself of course, tempers had been running high these last few weeks.

Sure enough after I changed into my dress and walked into the master bedroom I found my sister pacing across the floor with a very pregnant Kim sitting on the bed.

"I have arrived."

Mar spun around to face me and shot me an un-amused look. "Took you long enough."

"Sorry, I was working. Why are you so nervous anyway?"

"There's a pregnancy test in the bathroom." Kim replied. "We're waiting on the results."

Well it was obvious that the test wasn't for Kim, a blind man could see that she was pregnant at this point. In fact I had twenty bucks on her going into labor today at the wedding. Hopefully my sister wouldn't find out about that little bet today…she was already in a mood.

"Well let's take a look then shall we?" I grinned and headed towards the bathroom.

Neither of them stopped me so I took that as my cue to continue on. Once inside the bathroom I spotted the stick sitting on the sink, waiting for one of us to read its results. Of course I had no idea what the symbol meant on the damn thing, so I dug the box out of the trash and quickly read the instructions.

"Well, let's put it this way, Mar. You have the perfect present for Paul on your wedding night." I announced with a wide smile as I walked into the bedroom where the two of them were waiting expectantly.

My smile grew even wider as I watched my older sister's eyes fill with happy tears and her hands came to rest on her still flat stomach. I knew how much this meant to her, how much she had wanted a baby for a long time, and I was so happy that Paul had been able to give her this. Glad that together they would have a baby that would want for nothing in its life. There was no doubt in my mind that they would be good parents, nothing like our own who chose to ignore us now that we were older.

"You owe me ten bucks, Jamie." Kim grinned triumphantly.

"Dammit!"

"Jamie!"

Xxx

I probably looked like a total dork sitting at one of the tables alone with a wide smile on my face as I watched Mar and Paul slow dance with other couples surrounding them. The wedding had been small and nothing too grand, but it was perfect. In fact, in my opinion it was way better than her wedding to Finn. Plus there was the added fact that Finn's family wasn't in attendance at this wedding; they'd done nothing but become drunken assholes one hour into the reception.

"Mind if I sit next to you?"

I looked up in surprise to see Jacob Black looking down at me. Sine I had come home for the summer I'd noticed that he had never been around to anything I was at, which I found weird considering how much he had invited me to things before we had actually met again. So to see him standing here before me, actually asking to sit next to me came as a surprise.

I nodded in reply and thought back to the first time I met Jacob Black years ago as children. He'd been a little jerk back then, but I couldn't exactly say anything about that…I had been quite a brat myself. However, despite the fact that I absolutely loathed the sound of his voice on many an occasion my treacherous pre-teen body had found him attractive. And it seemed that my treacherous adult body was doing the same thing…of course it was a little bit more understandable this time. The guy was cut! I still had my doubts about the builds of these guys, but I knew now that it wasn't steroids. However, I knew it was something and I was going to find out eventually whether they liked it or not.

"Avoiding me lately?" I asked pointedly.

He looked startled.

"Oh please don't be shy, Jake. You're the one I avoided for years."

He scoffed, "Yeah right, you were seeking me out the last year before you guys moved away."

"Don't flatter yourself." I replied hastily, hating the fact that it was common knowledge that I had a crush on Jacob Black back then. "Besides I have more refined taste now anyway."

He was strangely quiet after that and the silence between the two of us quickly became uncomfortable. I was about to quietly excuse myself when a scream caught both of our attentions.

"Jared! My water broke!"

I smiled and searched the crowd for Paul, when I found him I held out my hand pointedly. I'd just won twenty bucks from the guy on his wedding day! And on top of that there was the fact that Kim was going to have her baby.

"I don't remember you making bets like this when we were younger." Jacob stated as Paul made his way towards me with a twenty in hand. Mar was watching the two of us with a disapproving look, but I chose to ignore her.

I shrugged, "Just something I picked up at school."

He frowned a bit at that but said nothing more as Paul handed me my money. Once Kim and Jared left to go to the hospital the rest of us stayed and partied harder, knowing that there would be a birth to celebrate in a few hours.

At midnight Mar and Paul had already left and I was on the dance floor dancing with Seth Clearwater to some cheesy 90's song. To many it probably appeared that I was drunk, but after an incident my junior year of my undergrad I had sworn never to drink beer again, and since that was all that was being served at the wedding I had no problem being sober. Seth and I had just finished our little dance when Sam came and broke our little party up.

"Alright guys, time to call it a night."

"Party pooper!" I cried.

Sam shot me a look which immediately shut me up. There was just something about that guy that demanded respect.

"And just to let you know…Kim had a girl ten minutes ago."

My girl side immediately surfaced at that news, "Aww! What did they name her?"

"Ava."

"Aww."

Seth rolled his eyes at me, "Yup this party is over."

Xxx

With Mar and Paul gone on their small honeymoon I had the house all to myself…well except for the dogs. Thankfully Belle and Rex were doing a good job with their puppies by themselves and didn't need much assistance from me. The puppies were so adorable and I had already picked out the puppy I wanted to be mine. He was the only boy in the litter and obviously the smartest one if his actions at the teats were any indication.

The morning after the wedding I woke up pretty late. Mar and Paul had stopped by the house before they left for Seattle, so when I got downstairs I saw an open box labeled Mr. and Mrs. Noels in Grams' handwriting.

My eyes misted slightly as I traced my fingers over her familiar writing, hardly paying attention to the fact that my sister and new brother in law had left their stuff out for me to snoop around in.

There was a letter, but I decided not to read that. It was bad enough I was about to snoop around in the actual contents, but to read the letter seemed a bit too personal. There wasn't a lot in the box, but they were things I knew my sister would cherish. There was a framed picture of Buck and Grams on their wedding day as well as an empty frame for my sister to put her own wedding picture in. Under the frames were two knitted baby blankets. One was a mint green and the other was a beautiful sunny yellow. I knew Grams had made them and I was happy that my sister had them now. There were also some stuffed animals I remembered from our childhood and a photo album that contained pictures of Mar, Paul and I with plenty of space left for Mar to fill with pictures of her children.

By the time I was done looking I had tears streaming down my face. I hated that Grams had to miss Mar having a baby; she deserved to be a great grandmother. Mar deserved to have her there with her. How was I supposed to take care of her when I didn't have any experience with babies at all? It fell to me now, there was no way our Mother would step in and be with her when she had her baby. And for that I cried harder.

"Jamie?" A deep voice asked hesitantly from behind me.

I quickly wiped my eyes on my sleeve and took a deep breath before I turned around to see Jake standing in the doorway. He looked worried, but I wasn't about to admit that I had been crying. It was bad enough that I had sobbed on his shoulder when Grams died.

"I knocked…but you didn't hear me."

"It's fine." I replied quickly hating the fact that he could see my red puffy eyes. I didn't like it when people saw me crying…it was just too personal. "So what do you need?"

"I've got the wedding gifts in my car."

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Let me throw on my shoes and I'll help you bring them in."

With his strength it didn't take the two of us long to bring in the presents and take them up to their bedroom. Once the last package had been placed on their bedroom floor the two of us made our way downstairs and into the living room where the puppies' squeaks filled the air.

"So what are you guys going to do with all of the puppies?" Jake asked curiously.

"You see that one nudging the other out of the way?" I asked with a smile. "That's the only boy and he's going to be mine. I've already named him."

"He's a little pushy isn't he?" Jake commented with a slight smirk.

"Yeah that's why I named him JB."

"Are you serious? Because if that's true then you have proved your fondness of me."

I rolled my eyes at him, while I had been tempted to actually name him JB, I had already predicted what everyone would say about it…whether or not the puppy was exactly like him or not.

"No, I'm not serious. JB is not his name, no matter how much it would flatter you. I named him Fluffy."

"Fluffy?"

"Kidding again…actually I haven't thought of a good name for him yet. At this point I'm even willing to take your suggestions."

"I'm flattered."

"You should be, but I am not naming him after you."

Jake smirked, "We both know that you really want to."

"Whatever helps you sleep at night, Black."

"I could say the same to you, JayJay."

I didn't even hesitate to follow through with my threat from our first meeting after ten years. I pulled back my fist and threw a punch right at his nose that I had taken pleasure in breaking once before in our lives. However, I was not expecting to be the one in the most pain.