Chapter One
I Love You
Jacob looked at me with desire and longing. "I want you," he said to me. "Always." There it was, right as I looked into his eyes, my beautiful shooting star was there. When had my world become so perfect?
Then the moment had finally come. Jacob, my Jacob, leaned down and kissed me for the first time. Every single second I thought I couldn't want him more then I did right then and there. But with every second also came even more desire for him. How could that be?
It was two thirty A.M. Everything had been a dream. The touch, love, the feel of his warm, hot lips on mine. There was only one thing I was absolutely positive about; I needed to see Jacob.
My parents were hunting and would be back soon. That would give me enough time to change, brush my teeth and my hair, and try to block my thoughts and feelings from my one hundred sixteen year old mind reading vampire father.
I quickly changed out of my silk pajamas into a pair of skinny jeans and a dark purple t-shirt. I went into the bathroom and ran a brush through my hair and brush my teeth. I ran around looking for the keys to the midnight blue Ferrari. I finally found them on the kitchen countertop.
I heard the gravel in the driveway crunch as my parents' silver Volvo pulled in.
"Dad," I rushed outside, "I'm going to Jacob's."
"Are you sure he's awake?" I knew he really didn't want me to go. He hated when I went to see Jake this late. Too bad I didn't care anymore.
"Yeah, he's has night patrol tonight. By the time I get there he should just be finishing up." I didn't have to lie to him. It was true. And you make great time when you drive like a Cullen.
"Well, okay." I ran to the door to grab a jacket. I hopped right into the car and drove off. The drive took me about fifteen minutes. Finally I was there.
"Jacob," I shouted from across the yard. Jacob was trudging out of the woods wet from head to toe. We were absolutely drenched from the rain that was falling. I felt like I was getting heavier and heavier by the minute. I ran towards him so we were only two feet apart. "I need to tell you something. I paused, thinking about how to tell him. I just decided to go with the direct approach. "I love you."
"I love you too, Ness. You know that." He seemed sort of confused. We said this to each other every day since I had learned how to talk. So then why was today any different?
"I know." I took a step forward. "But I don't love you as my best friend, Jake. I love you so much more than that. You can't ever leave me. I'm in love with you Jacob Black and I need to know if you're in love with me to."
I took a deep breath as I waited for him to reject me. But instead he closed the distance between us in two steps. He was so close. I could feel the heat radiating off his body. He leaned down to whisper in my ear his hot breath on my neck. "Do you have any idea how long I've been waiting for you to say that, Renesmee? Ever since the day you were born. I'm in love with you too." He picked me up like he used to do when I was little and swung me around in circles. I laughed happily. He stopped spinning but he didn't put me down. I didn't want him to.
I was in his arms and he was holding me tight. This seemed so insane. It was crazy. But I did absolutely nothing to make it stop. Out of all the pretty girls that looked at him and flirted with him, he picked me. The girls had tiger eyes for Jake. But that didn't matter anymore because he never looked at them. Jacob was mine. All mine. Oh my Jacob.
Then I felt something on my lip. It was hot, soft, and wet. He was kissing me, his lips molding into mine. He kissed me with all the passion in the world. He still held me in his arms like I meant everything to him. And I was kissing him back the same way.
So many thoughts raced all through my mind at once. Then I thought of my father of all people. My thoughts stopped right there. Would he be happy? Nope, not at all. And then I thought, why the hell do I care? I'm living the dream. I'm making out with Jacob in the rain behind his house and there's nothing he can do about it!
We broke away for air. "Jake," I gasped.
"Yeah, babe?"
"Can I say here tonight? I don't think we should talk to my dad yet."
"Sure," he said and he carried me back into the house.