Chapter 1.

"Renesmee." He whispered softly, barely audible over the roaring sound of Ithaca Falls. It was so serene here, even if it was so close to the high school. The high school. She was probably there right now, at practice. Stupid, stupid, color guard practice! Jacob sighed. He didn't even see what was so great about it. All they did was perform with the band at the football games.

Dancing across the field, tossing flags into the air, spinning metal poles, marching, and performing with wide bright smiles. It didn't even look that fun, and the show was only eight minutes! Months upon months of practice, for an eight-minute show at half time, every varsity football game. The rest of the time the band and guard sat in the bleachers playing music, cheering on the team, freezing in the cold weather. How could his Nessie enjoy that?

That was the problem though. She wasn't his Nessie. She wasn't even Nessie anymore. Jacob sighed. He never realized how much a person's name defined their personality, though thinking back through the years, he realized it was quite obvious the entire time. When she turned seven, and stopped growing Nessie stopped acting like a child as well. In turn, she no longer needed her playmate Jakey, who was always looking for mischief.

It was around that time, when the Cullen's plus Jacob moved to Portland. In Oregon, she grew into Renesmee, who needed a babysitter. He of course was only happy to oblige, and Renesmee grew to love her older, more mature babysitter Jake. Though as they say, time flies and before he knew it she was eleven years old, and in her words was "too cool for a babysitter." Jake of course was heartbroken, feeling like once again he had failed his Nessie.

Neighbors, as usual, were starting to notice that the mysterious Cullen family wasn't aging. So they figured it was about time they moved one again. This time they went to stay with the Denali Coven. It was there that Tanya had taken a liking to calling his Nessie 'May'. The sweet, curious, eleven year old absolutely adored that name. Jacob however, loathed it. He now understood what Bella must have felt like all those years ago, when he nicknamed her Nessie. It felt like an intrusion, for someone to call your loved one such an ugly name. And with each name change she grew farther away from his Nessie.

Of course, he kept adapting to whatever she needed. That was part of imprinting. Jacob would be anything Renesmee needed. He was born to be perfect for her. However, this time something had gone slightly wrong. Jacob was the perfect, never aging, slightly dorky, 'boy next door' kind of best friend. The who she shared all her secrets with, and knew all about his life… Well mostly everything. Nobody ever explained imprinting to her, and Jacob didn't have the heart to.

He didn't want to trap her into feeling like she needed to be with him, just because she was the only person he would ever want. In that respect, Renesmee was exactly like her mother- they both put others need's before theirs. Jacob could feel in the very bottom of his heart, that somehow, his sweet Nessie would feel guilty about Jacob's imprinting, and make it her fault. Oh, but it wasn't her fault at all. To him, she could do no wrong.

Therefore, when the Cullens moved to Ithaca, New York a few months ago, at the end of June; Jacob couldn't get mad at her for wanting to make friends, and join color guard. He couldn't be upset when she came home from band camp, bouncing with excitement; because a senior boy in band named Ian had asked her out. And all because his Nessie could do no wrong, Jacob didn't even feel hurt when Ian nicknamed her Renes and all of her new friends started calling her that, because she loved it.

He could, however almost kill Carlisle. Jacob was dead set on staying home all day, doing nothing- as usual. Though Carlisle had taken the liberty of enrolling Jacob and Renesmee as juniors at Ithaca High. Resulting in Jacob having to hear all about the wonderful Ian, and seeing him with Renes too. All day, every day, 24/7 torture.

Sometimes it really sucked being best friends with the girl your in love with, and it sucks even worse when you knew she was the only girl you'd ever love. Renesmee made him life worth living; she was like the air, the sun, like the blood running through his veins. She made everything make sense, even the things he didn't quite understand by himself. One thing was for sure; she was worth living for.

"Renesmee." Jacob sighed wistfully to himself. Ithaca Falls was very serene; in fact they were almost romantic in a way. So seeing as Jacob wouldn't experience romance with anyone, it was vastly appropriate that he was sitting there alone. He had hoped to take his Nessie here, but that was becoming more unlikely each day.

Finding utter boredom, in sitting at a lover's cove by himself, Jacob decided to walk back over to the school. It was almost five o'clock and stupid color guard practice would be over soon. And even though no harm could ever come to Renesmee, he didn't want her walking home alone. He could say that Edward and Bella put him up to it. Yeah, Jacob thought to himself… She'd believe that.


So this is my first attempt at writing fanfiction, and I can already tell you that this story shouldn't be that long. Regardless of the size of it, I hope you enjoy, and see as I'm new at this- I would really appreciate some feedback. Expect another update soon. :] - Ink.