My Inspiration For This Fic:
1."Does my being half-naked, bother you?" - Jacob Black
2.The 'That's What She Said' joke that was conveniently placed in New Moon. In case you were oblivious to its existence, its when Embry and Quil first meet Bella in Jacob's garage. I think Bella says something like "Don't forget about the riding lessons." and they laugh, causing Jake to hit them. Well, I think its funny :D
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Twilight, although, that WOULD be pretty cool.
I cleared my throat before knocking on the front door. Was I insane? Going to live in a neighborhood full of werewolves! I heard muttering in the background as I smoothed some wrinkles out of my skirt.Let's try to make this work.The door swung open, and I was greeted with a smile.
"Claire!" my aunt smiled, hugging me tightly.
"Aunt Emily." I laughed, returning her hug.
She pulled away and shifted her gaze from my face to my feet. "Oh no, Sam! She's cute!"
I laughed and followed her in, greeting Sam in the kitchen. Of course. That's one thing I do remember. Need to talk to a guy? Go look in the kitchen. "Hey Sam."
"The boys are so excited that you're coming," Emily jeered, taking my suitcase.
I smiled wryly. "Boys?"
"Don't tell them I told you, but I think they missed you." She winked.
"Oh, right. Boys… how many are there now?"
"Quil will be excited to have someone to hang out with." Sam cut in, smirking over a cup of coffee.
Emily gave him a stern look. "Let her relax!"
I giggled, and suddenly remembered my manners. "Thank you guys so much for letting me stay here. I definitely owe you one."
"We can work thatout." Sam whispered, unfolding the next page of the newspaper. Emily managed to smack him and drag my stuff upstairs.
"You're house is amazing."
"Well thank you, Claire." she entered a room to the left and set everything down. "This will be your room. I'll leave you here to get settled. Call me if you need anything!"
When I was finally alone, I sat down on my bed. "La Push," I said to myself, glancing around the room. Suddenly, I heard someone cry in pain.
"Is he going to be okay, Sam?" a female voice called.
I poked my head out the door as many tall figures passed by.
"Stop moving, Jake! You're making it worse!"
"I tried to take him to the hospital, but he wouldn't go! Oh please, do something!" the female cried hysterically.
"What happened?" Sam's voice asked sternly, picking up a phone.
She mumbled some thing incoherent, and all I caught was "-cliff diving," and "help him!"
"Dr. Cullen? We have a medical emergency on the Reservation - thanks so much." he said quickly, setting the phone back down and turning back to the girl. "Cliff diving?"
"Yeah- I guess it was too shallow, the rocks... I just-" she couldn't finish. Her tears were overwhelming her face.
"It's going to be okay, Renesmee. Right now, I need you to go sit in the hallway. I don't want it to be too crowded when Dr. Cullen gets here." Sam reassured her.
The girl made her way outside and sat on the porch. I followed her. "Are you okay?"
She looked at me blankly. "I'm fine."
"You weren't cliff diving, were you?" I asked, too low for anyone else to hear. I didn't think she wanted the whole neighborhood knowing about her sex life.
Her face morphed into one in pain. "I'm so stupid." she shook her head.
"I won't tell."
"You probably will, but thanks any way." she sniffed, wiping her face. "I'm Renesmee, by the way."
I didn't understand what she meant by that, but I shrugged it off. "Claire." I nodded, offering her a hand. She took it generously, revealing her burning forearm. She couldn't be wolf too; she's too pale to be any type descendant.
Then, three expensive-looking cars pulled up.
"Oh no." she breathed, standing up.
"Who's that?"
"My, er- family." she stuttered, turning red.
"Nessie! What happened?" a small pixie-like woman ran up to her, followed by another man.
"Jake and I were cliff diving. He must have hit a rocky patch... Alice, I'm worried about him."
Alice looked at her warily, as three other people arrived on the porch.
"Renesmee!" one of them yelled, hugging her tightly. "I'm so glad you're okay."
"Mom..."
"Oh Nessie." They were all hugging now. I felt left out.
"Who's your friend?" Alice asked, cocking her head to the side.
"Claire," the man smiled at me.
"Claire? You were so little the last time I saw you!" one of the women smiled, hugging me.
"Um... okay?"
"Oh, I'm Bella and this is Edward. Nessie is our daughter."
"Y- your daughter? You guys look really young!"
"Thank you." She smiled, "I'll go check on him."
"I'll go with you." Edward followed her inside.
"Oh! Theycan go in, but not me." she growled, plopping down on the swing.
"Do you want me to spy?" I suggested, pointing inside.
"Would you?"
I nodded and made my way to the back room. They were playing twenty questions.
"Jake you have to tell us what happened." Sam urged the boy in pain.
"We were cliff diving-"
"What happened?" Carlisle asked.
"I must have hit the sandbar." he shook his head.
"Hm."
In the next moments, I heard a noise that I would never forget. Crack. Crack. Crack. It was the sound of the re-breaking of one bone after another, followed by many screams. My stomach fell, and I leaned against the wall. This was serious.
"Get some rest. We don't want anything healing the wrong way." The doctor pointed his finger at him.
"Yes sir." He winced back.
"Sam? You might want to call Billy."
"No! Don't tell my dad! Tell him- tell him I'm sleeping over at Quil's or something." Jake begged, trying to sit up.
"Lay down! Fine, we'll notify Quil and see what he can do." Sam reassured him.
"Thanks."
"Get some sleep, kid."
"I will." he nodded and they all left to converse in the kitchen, leaving me just outside. When I had the chance, I slipped in.
"I'm supposed to be sleeping." he rolled his eyes. "If they catch you in here-"
"I know- um, I'm, uh- Claire. You're Jacob, right?"
"Claire?" he asked, looking me up and down. "No way! Little Claire?"
"I suppose," I replied, smiling nervously.
"Have you seen Quil?" he managed to squeeze in between his barking laughter.
"Not yet. Actually, you're the first one I've seen."
His laughter stopped. "I'm honored."
I rolled my eyes. "What's changed since I left?"
"Oh... not much."
"JAKE!" a male voice shouted, storming into the room.
"Speak of the devil…" he smirked, rolling his eyes.
"Oh thank god you're okay! When Sam said you'd been hurt I came here as fast as I could!" he panted, leaning on the bed.
"Well thank you Quil. I'm glad you care." Jake replied sarcastically.
"Seriously! I've already lost people in my life; I didn't need my best bud gone too! I mean, when Claire-"
"Shut up!" Jake shouted, making him jump.
"What?" he asked, holding his heart.
"We have company." he motioned toward me.
"Oops." Quil whispered, glancing at me and then back at Jake. After a minute of silence, Jake busted out laughing.
"Am I missing something?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"C- Claire?" Quil asked, turning to look at me.
"Hi." I looked at the floor awkwardly.
"Jake?" Renesmee's hand met my arm as she pushed me out of the way to get to him. In that instance I was overcome with worry and fear.
"Hey Ness." Quil waved sarcastically, moving out of her way.
"Nessie." he breathed through her curly, bronze hair as they hugged. They were definitely in love. How sweet.
"I was so worried." she cried into his shoulder. "They just rushed you out so fast."
"I'll be fine, but they didn't believe your cliff-diving story."
She pulled away and glared at him. "Do you have a better idea?"
He thought for a minute, giving in. "Nah. I would have caved."
She smiled, kissing him on the lips once.
I cleared my throat, interrupting the lovebirds.
"Oh sorry, Claire." Nessie smiled, biting her lip.
"It's cool; I'm going to head to the beach though. I'll talk to you later Ness." I waved, turning to leave.
"Bye Claire!"
"See you, Claire!"
Quil followed me out. "Nice to see you again," I smiled, offering him a hand. He took it, slowly shaking it while staring into my eyes.
"You too," he smiled, shaking it.
Something about the way he looked at me, made me follow with an invitation. "Hey, I'm probably going to snag a volleyball from the store on my way out. You can come if you want. It doesn't seem like it would be much fun around here with them all over each other."
"I'm so in."
Grabbing two towels from the closet, I went into the living room with just my bikini top on, and shorts covering my bottoms.
"You going somewhere hon?" Emily smiled, wiping her hands with a dishtowel.
I grinned back at her. "Beach with Quil."
She laughed. "Have fun dears. Make it back by dinner okay? All of the boys are coming over."
I rolled my eyes. "Sure thing."
