Chapter One-

Five Four Three Two One.

The bell rang...finally.

I stood up gathering my books in my hand just happy that class was over.

"Ness after spring break you and I need to have a study session." I smiled.

"Aire I understand calculus very well I don't need to study." Her hazel eyes burned a hole into my face.

"Well yippee for you Ness; I'm seriously struggling here!" I agreed to help Aire as we walked out the class together. Then as if on cue my heart started to beat faster as a familiar earthy scent washed over me.

"Hey Jake," Aire said as she reached over my head to high five with Jacob.

"Sup, how was class Ness?" Aire groaned at my side as we approached her locker. Jake laughed as he leaned against the locker doors looking down at me; his smile was so bright it sent my heart flying. Jake made a face and I was sure he could hear it.

"Well it was fine for me; I wish I could say the same for her." We all laughed as Aire closed her locker.

We began making our way to the lunch line; Jake stayed close to my side like always.

"What about you Jake, how was biology?" I asked looking up at his gorgeous face. He instantly rolled his eyes, "Ugh I have no clue what that man was talking about today, something about Mitosis. I mean come on teach me something I actually care about!" I shrugged "maybe you can get mom and dad to help with it, I know they love their biology classes; it's where they fell in love." I said quietly.

He nodded his head slightly as if he had heard the story a thousand times. Aire turned towards me, "You not eating anything Ness?" I took a deep breath and the smell of human food made my stomach turn. "No, I had a big breakfast." She shrugged and walked behind Jake into the line; really you think she would have clicked, I never eat anything in front of her.

Walking towards are usual lunch table I waved at a few of my friends, "Hey Renesmee, skipping lunch again today?" Jim asked as he took a seat across from me; it is safe to say he is much more observant than Aire.

"Yeah you know the lunch ladies hate us; I don't want to take my chances with their food." He nodded his head and we laughed at the look Mary was giving her food beside him. I started talking with everyone at the lunch table about what they were doing for spring break. Jim and Mary were planning a trip down to Florida, and so far most of the kids that sit with us were planning on going.

"Come on Ness you should come with us." Laura pleaded as she took a bite of her apple. "Come where?" Jacob asked as he sat down beside me with two trays of food. I looked up at Aire as she sat across from him. "Please tell me one of those trays is yours?" She laughed and shook her head holding up her pizza wrapped in foil paper. "That's all Jake's" Jacob picked up one of his pizzas and took a bite. Sometimes I wonder where he puts it all I mean he is just so built and- "You never told me where you're going Ness?" He said around his mouthful. "I'm not going anywhere; Laura was just inviting me to go to Florida with everyone."

"Oh, aren't we doing to whole family trip thing." Jake said picking up a piece of chicken. I nodded my head at him and Laura sighed. "Why don't you bring the family too, we can turn this into a party. 'High School Kids Gone Wild'" Everyone laughed. I turned to look at my family sitting in the back of the cafeteria at their own little table everyone engulfed in their own thoughts.

When we first moved to New Hampshire and started at this school the story was that Carlisle and Esme were foster parents. Rosalie and Jasper were brother and sister that have been with them for years along with Alice and Emmett, and Esme officially adopted them just last year. While Edward and I were brother and sister and Carlisle just adopted us, it was funny pretending that my dad was actually my brother. As for Bella and Jacob well they were lifelong friends that grew up together in the same foster home and just moved in with Esme and Carlisle who are working on adopting them now.

It gets odd sometimes pretending my parents are my siblings, but it would be even stranger to explain the true story. At that moment mom looked up and waved at me; I smiled back at her.

I turned my attention back to the lunch conversation; they had moved on to talking about prom. I reached over and took a pear from one of Jakes lunch trays; fruit was the only human food I could stand. I tuned out the talk about dresses and limos and thought about how in less than a day I would be in South America with my family…. and my Jake. I sighed happily at that thought; for my entire life Jake has always been there for me and up until very recently I only thought of him as best friend and big brother. But well now when I see him it's like the best part of my day, just seeing his smile wipes away any problems or stress that I am feeling and well the way we click; we are just so in tune with each other it's staggering.

I felt there was more to us then just this friendship but I didn't know if Jake felt the same way and to be honest I am too much of a coward to ask him and ruin what we have.

I started to finger the small leather bracelet Jake gave to me when I was a young child. When he gave it to me he explained that he had imprinted on me and that meant he promised he would be whatever I needed him to be; a friend, a brother, a protector. I never thought I would need him to be anything else but now I'm wondering if he could also be a lover.

At that moment Jake put his hand on my leg; the warmth of his hand sent a thrill down my spine, "Hey Ness are you ok? You're kind of spacing out on me here." He whispered, instinctively I looked over at Edward and he was looking right at me. The look in his eye told me he heard everything I was thinking.

Sorry dad.

I looked down at Jakes russet skin against my denim pants, his hand felt so warm and nice on my leg- I stopped myself there remembering I had a father that could read minds. "Yes I'm fine just ready for the day to be over." Then bell rang then, and everyone said goodbye as they gathered their stuff together for the last class of the day. "Ness I'll meet you after class ok? See you later Aire." We waved goodbye to Jake as he made his way to gym. I stared after him for a moment before turning to Aire to see her staring at me. "What are you looking at?" She smiled and looped her arm through mine. "You are so in love Renesmee Cullen."

"What?! No, Jake and I are just friends." I heard the sadness in my voice when I said that, hopefully she didn't. "Sure you may be able to lie to each other but no to me Ness. Not to me. But don't worry I won't say a thing. But I see the way you two look at each other and it's only a matter of time." She smiled as she made her way into the classroom first and took a seat beside Laura. I sat in front of her and took out my French book, praying that she was right and that maybe, just maybe Jake and I could be together.

HUGE thanks to everyone that offered their help and also my awesome beta, Love of Escapism (make sure to check out her stories too!) Also thanks to LionLambForever I was very close to using your title.

And last but not least merdarkandtwisty who came up with the lovely title for the story.

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