Chapter 2: Renesmee's POV
When we got home, he helped me off the motorcycle and helped me with my stuff. He grabbed my hand and kissed me again before we walked towards the house with huge smiles plastered on our faces. As we got into the house we found a note from everyone saying that they were finishing decorating the house in Forks for the birthday party and then they were going hunting so they probably wouldn't be able to be back until late tonight which meant that Jacob and I had the house to ourselves for quite some time.
"So, what do you want to do 'til they get home Ness?" Jacob asked me with a twinkle in his eye.
"Hm….I don't know, Jacob. What do you feel like doing 'til they get home?" I asked him with a wide smile.
"I think I know what I want to do." He said with a gleam in his deep brown eyes and I cocked my eyebrow at him. Right when I did that, he scooped me up off the couch we were sitting on in the living room, and ran up to his room. I started laughing as he picked me and he was laughing too. I was glad Jacob was mine, I could tell he was happy too. When we got into his room he placed me on the bed and he lay down next to me on the bed that smelled like the outdoors, like my Jacob. Being able to say my Jacob was an added bonus to having him and all his Jacobness. I couldn't help but smile at my thought.
"What?" Jacob eyed me with curiosity. Instead of just telling him, I rubbed his cheek with the back of my hand and showed him. He couldn't stop the smile that was being etched into his clear perfect brown skin. When I was done showing him the thought, he leaned into kiss me again, and I collapsed onto the bed. He pulled away with alarm in his eyes.
"Ness? You okay? Ness? Answer me. Please?" I guess I scared him when I collapsed. Oops.
"I'm fine Jacob. I just fainted because of your kiss." I admitted and I could feel my cheeks turn bright red. Damn human traits. He laughed at my cheeks and bent over to kiss me again. When he pulled away, I frowned. When he got off the bed I frowned even more. I wasn't having that.
"Jacob Black, where do you think you are going?" I asked him sternly.
"I'm not going anywhere. I'm always going to be with you." He said as he turned on his stereo system to play my favorite love song, "Soulmate" by Natasha Bedingfield. I wonder if he meant to play this specific song…
"Ness, I don't know how to say this. I mean, it's not like I'm this huge romance junkie who sits around all day and watches movies on how to do this sort of thing. You know? And I don't know…I don't know…" he couldn't figure out how to say whatever he was going to say. So I spoke,
"Jake, you don't have to put on this whole production, you know? You can just come out and tell me what you're thinking. I mean, my dad could read your mind and tell me for you, but I don't think either of us would like that very much I'm guessing. Am I right?" I was right. No doubt in my mind about that one.
"Okay then Nessie. Here it goes. You know I've known you since the day you were born. And since then I've been the best friend I could ever possibly be. Well, there's a reason that I've been your best friend since your birth. I've wanted to tell you this for sometime now and I just wasn't sure how to say it. But now, I'm just going to flat out say it. Please don't get scared or run away from me. I don't know if I could take that, especially not right now."
"I promise Jacob." I wasn't quite prepared for what was coming next.
"Ness, have you ever heard anyone use the word 'imprint'?" he asked quietly.
"Uhm, no. Was I supposed too?" I lied, I'd heard Dad talk about it sometime ago, though he didn't know I heard.
"Well," Jacob continued with a look of uncertainty in his eyes. "for werewolves, or shape shifters in my case. An imprint is something we do when we see someone and know at that moment we will be with them forever. Kind of like true love at first sight, and it never goes away or lessens. Like Sam and Emily, well, Sam imprinted on Emily years ago and they fell in love with each other immediately. The bond between them is indestructible in a way. It hurts them both when one of them goes away for any length of time." He paused waiting for me to say something I assume but I couldn't think of anything. Then he continued, "Another couple that are imprinted are Quil and Claire." Then my mom dropped open.
"But, Quil is 17 and Claire is only 12 and she hangs out with other boys all the time without Quil saying anything about it. How does it not bother him? And why doesn't he act like Sam does with Emily if he's so in love with Claire?" So many questions so little breath. I sighed.
"Hold on Ness. Quil hasn't told Claire that she's his imprint because he wants her to have her options. He doesn't want her to feel like she has to love him. He wants her to feel like she can love anyone. Eventually, she will see him more than just a best friend, and they will go out, get engaged, get married and all that, but for right now. He is comfortable with her hanging out with other boys. When shape shifters imprint on young children, or babies for that matter, they will grow up with their imprint. They will be like their brother, like their best friend, and eventually, their lover." He was looking at me like he'd just told me something and I wasn't getting it, though I think I understood where he was going, maybe.
"Oh, okay. Hold on Jacob, let me think about something for a minute." I couldn't believe this, what Jacob just told me. About imprinting, and how Quil was Claire's brother, then her best friend and how as time progressed, they would get together. I thought about it and then it came to me. That's how Jacob has been to me my whole life. So, did this mean I was Jacob's imprint?
"Jacob?" I called him very quietly. "I want to know something. I heard how you said that stuff about Quil and Claire and I when I thought about it, that's how you were with me. You were like a brother when I was a baby and toddler. Then as I grew you became my best friend, and now.." I lowered my voice subconsciously, "And now, we're together and I love you and you love me. So, does that mean that when you first saw me, you…you… fell in love with me?" I asked him with my eyes wide open preparing myself for his answer.
He was hesitant. "Yes Renesmee. When I first saw you, in Rosalie's arms after you'd been born, I knew right then that I loved you. I didn't care how long it took for you to grow I could wait, as long as I got you. Did you ever wonder why I was so overprotective of you when you hung out with other boys at school, or didn't like the way they looked at you, or even when I tagged along with you and your friends to the mall? It was because I didn't want you to like them. But I never told you about imprinting before because I didn't want to force you into loving me. Kind of contradicting but it's what I did, and now we're here." He came up to me and tried to hug me. I pushed away from him before he could hug me so I could sit back on his bed and think about this. He waited. I was mad at him for not telling, for keeping a secret from me for 7 years, but even through all the madness I still loved him. And I had the comfort of knowing that my love for him was not forced because he never told me about imprinting. I knew I couldn't be mad at him, whatever he did in the past, he did to protect me. And for that I loved him that much more.
After I was done thinking, I grabbed one of his huge rough hands with one of mine, and placed the other on his cheek. "Jacob, I don't care that you never told me about imprinting. I know that everything you've done in the past you did to protect me, and that makes me love you even more than I do. I'm so happy that you have always been there for and that you always will be there for me. I love you Jacob. I love you more than words can even promise or express. I'm yours and only yours forever Jacob." The words just came pouring out of my mouth and I couldn't stop them, but I felt so much better after I'd told him that I loved him and wanted to be with him forever. I showed him just how much I loved him with a picture of us happy and in love as years past by, never aging. A look of relief washed over his face, hearing these words made my Jacob smile my favorite smile. Wide, bright and ever-lasting.
"Ness, I'm so glad you aren't mad at me for keeping a secret from you. You have no idea how hard it was to keep it a secret from you. As my imprint I can't deny you anything, I will give you everything you want whenever you want it. I love you too. More than all the water on the earth. I will always be by your side and I will never leave you." My heart melted when he told me he loved me. "From this point on, I am your eternal slave." He added on as he came to grab me into his arms and took my place in his bed. We cuddled like that for a few minutes, just staring into each others eyes, when he started to lean back to lay down on his bed and I only moved so that I could be laying down facing him. After we'd laid down we held each other's hands and we kissed again. I was in heaven when we kissed. We stopped so we could breathe and then kissed again. Ahhh, heaven.
"Ness, I love you." He told me one more time.
"Always and forever." I told him.
"Always and forever." He agreed. I knew that saying those 3 words would be our little thing. Next thing I knew Jacob had fallen asleep, he must have been tired from throwing me all over the place today at the lake. He looked so darned cute when he was asleep.
"Nessie, my Nessie…" He whispered in his sleep. He was dreaming of me, I would dream of him too when I fell asleep. I turned over as quietly as I could so that he was holding me and we were both facing the door. I would never be cold again, I would never need a blanket again, not as long as I had my Jacob with me. I fell asleep soon enough, wrapped up in his arms, smiling, warm and thinking of him.
I was surprised when I woke up the next morning, I looked around and saw that no one had come to look for us when they got home last night, then I faintly heard them talking downstairs telling me they'd been home for sometime. I wondered why no one checked on us. Weird. I turned to Jacob and he was still asleep next to me, he hadn't moved all night. The thought made me smile when I thought of waking up like that with him the rest of forever. I was brought of out of my trance when Jacob moved and looked at me.
"Good morning baby, I love you still." As if he could ever stop loving me, I could never get enough of him either.
" I still love you too sweetie. Always and forever?" I asked him with my famous puppy dog eyes that I knew he couldn't deny.
"Always and forever Renesmee." I could get used to him calling my Renesmee every one in a while, of course he could call me by anything and I'd melt at his voice.
After he said that I gave him a sweet good morning kiss. I put my hand on his cheek and he saw what I was thinking. I was thinking that everyone was downstairs and I was hungry. So we reluctantly got off the bed and put on our slippers and headed downstairs hand in hand to the living room where everyone was seated, and quiet. Uh oh, we were in trouble.
"So, Ness, Jacob, anything you two would like to tell us?" asked Gram. Here we go….
"Well," I started off, I couldn't think of anything else to say so I just blurted everything out. "Jacob and I are in love. I love him more than words can express and I know he loves me the same way too." I smiled as I said this as did Jacob. But the expressions from the audience were all sorts of different shapes. Mom, Gram, Auntie Alice looked ecstatic, Grampa, Uncle Jasper and Uncle Emmett were shocked; Auntie Rose just like plain everything, I knew he didn't like Jacob much but she loved me so I knew she'd deal with it; and then there was Dad. Dad did not seem to please about this. He grew tense and even when Mom tried to soothe him, he got up, stormed off out of the front door without a single word. Nonetheless, Jacob and I were still bombarded with a whole bunch of questions and statements that Emmett thought were funny but really weren't. Dad came back and then everyone stopped talking and looked at him.
"Ness, Jacob, I need to talk to you. Both. Outside now please." Wonderful, just wonderful.
