Nightjar
Chapter 1
The sun rose too early, the night was too short.
"I love you." Edwards silky voice sounded. He's sweet breath embracing my face. "'love you too." He kissed my cheek and afterwards my mouth. I kissed him back, wanting more, knowing I couldn't get it.
"My love, even though I want to, we can't stay here forever." He said as he pulled away from me. I sighed.
"There's still tonight, you know." He said as he rose from the bed, pulling me with him. "I know." I said, and kissed his hand. Fully dressed we went out of our room, hand-in-hand. We walked into Reneesmes room to find it empty.
"I guess Rosalie picked her up." I said.
"I guess she did." Edward said.
His strong arms were suddenly around my waist.
"Does that mean..?" I said snuggling to his stone chest. "Whatever you decide it means." He said, and kissed my hair. "Well, I decide this." I kissed his throat and made my way up to his mouth. "I can't say I'm sorry with your decision." He said and kissed me back.
Suddenly someone was knocking on the door. I broke the kiss.
"Who is it?" I asked. "Alice. You better come out here! Nessie wants you both. And it's almost twelve o'clock!" She said.
I sighed, and placed a light kissed on my husband's lips.
"We have to go." I said. He took my hand and we opened the door, to find a small angry vampire with spiky black hair.
"Finally!" She said. Edward chuckled. "So little and yet so big a temper."
We arrived to the house in less than ten seconds.
Carlisle and Emmet were sitting on the couch, Emmet watching a baseball game, Carlisle reading.
Rosalie and Esme were sitting on the floor playing with Reneesme.
"Hi! Already back? That sure was fast. You only used… Hm… ten hours, that's a new record!" Emmet said with a big grin on his face.
"Shut up!" I said and punched him lightly.
"Whoa! Don't swear in front of the kids!" He said.
"And you tell me how to behave in front of kids…" I said, and giggled.
He grinned at me once again and brought his attention back to the game.
"Momma," Reneesmes sweet voice sounded. I walked over to her, and lifted her up. She placed one little hot hand on my chin. "She's hungry," I said.
"Well let's go then…" Edward said.
Reneesme placed a hand on my cheek again, showing me Jake and her hunting together.
"Ask him." I said and placed a kiss on her cheek. Jake had just arrived.
"She wants to go hu-"Rosalie started, but was interrupted by Jake.
"I heard it." He said. "Of course I'll go with you Nessie." Turning his attention to her.
I cringed at the nickname.
"Anyone else?" I asked.
"I'll come, what about you Jazz?" Alice asked.
"No… I think I'll have to pass this time." He said.
"Okay, let's go then." Edward said, and took my hand.
When we came to the outskirt of the forest, Jake phased to the big wolf. The smell wasn't nice, but I was getting used to it.
Edward let Reneesme down and she ran after Jake. I squeezed Edwards hand before letting go of it. I let my senses tell me where to go…
After our hunting, we arrived to the house, finding Leah and Seth chatting with Carlisle. Ever since Jake had imprinted on Reneesme, his pack had been hanging out a lot at our place. Leah felt quite uncomfortable, though she had grown to care about Carlisle.
"Hi guys!" Seth said, and his face lightened up when he saw Jake and Edward.
"Hi." Edward said. "Hanging out with the arch enemies again are we?"
Seth laughed. "Sadly enough."
"What's up?" Jake asked.
"Well… Uh Claire and Quil are getting married." He said.
"How lovely." Esme said, smiling at Seth. "Please tell them congratulations."
"Sure."
I smiled at Seth. Remembering the day Jake told me about imprinting and about how Quil had imprinted on Claire, at that time I thought imprinting was a bit scary. But now I thought of it as… - quite romantic actually… A soul mate.
I looked at Edward. He was my soul mate – no he was more, he was my soul. There was no bigger love than the love between me and my husband. When I looked at him I… I, there wasn't any words for it, and I believed that he felt the same way. I felt a sudden desire to touch him, to hold him, to feel his arms wrapped around me. I looked away, because if I didn't, I might have done what I desired for – and that wasn't such a good idea, because I knew that that would lead to new desires.
Jake walked over to sit next to Leah, with Reneesme in his lap.
It wasn't often you saw them apart.
I saw a glint of sorrow in Seth's eyes as he watched Jake and Reneesme.
Maybe he wanted to imprint to. Maybe he was ready to find someone to spend his life with, someone to live for.
It must've been hard to live with people who all had what he desired.
My gaze met all the people sitting in the room; Alice, Jasper, Emmet, Carlisle, Rosalie, Esme, Jacob, Reneesme, Edward and me…All with such love for each other that it was hard to describe. I thought of how lucky I was. I had all I could ever wish for and more…
"Bella! Earth calling Bella?!" Emmet called.
"What?" I said. "Oh I'm sorry."
"Don't apologize, love." Edward said, and took my hand.
"We want you and Edward to play chess! He needs to play a fair game." Emmet said, grinning at me.
"Okay, but I'm sure he'll win anyway. You know my abilities at chess."