Chapter One

A New Season

Two weeks later

Spring. It means fresh flowers, rain, melting snow, and a peek at sunshine without too much heat. Seasons were changing, and people were changing. And people equals Nessie. We were in the middle of March. Flowers were beginning to bloom, birds singing new songs. It was Nessie's favorite season.

She was in her room, Bella, Alice and Rosalie were helping her get ready for a date with Keith. It was a normal teenage date: dinner and a movie. But what did I know about normal? Enough, I guess, but not as normal as I would like to be. Sometimes I wished that we were all normal, and that there were no myths that ended up being true at all. But you can't change the past.

I put down the book I had picked up, what it was about or was called, I had no idea, and wandered out of my room. My once cheery room, was now plain. There was, of course still the pictures on the wall. The pictures of me and the pack, me and my father, me and Bella back before life was a roller coaster, there were even pictures of us, the "family".

A picture of all ten of us: Bella and Edward, Blondie and Emmett, Alice and Jasper, Carlisle and Esme, and Nessie and me. She was looking up at me, a smile on her little face. It was in the center of the many frames. Esme made it a deal to take a picture before we left every house. My favorite would always be the one in Forks. The last day there. Nessie was only two years old! I was eighteen, meaning I could leave La Push, and my father, as much as it hurt me. I just couldn't let them leave with out me. I needed her like air.

But my most favorite picture of all would be the picture from last Spring. A picture of me and Nessie. We had been sitting together on one of those elegant swings, her curls and the ruffles of her dress dancing in the wind. Somehow, they had got a formal shirt on me, and a loose tie. It reminded me of when I crashed the prom. You know, that prom when…well. You know the story.

Straying from the pictures, I went out into the brightly lit hallway. Nessie's door was wide open, revealing Nessie in her glory. She was alone, the room empty. She was preoccupied with her reflection, pouting, making sure she looked fine. I smiled and leant on the frame of her door.

"No matter what the angle, you look beautiful." I said.

She jumped at my words, and smiled. "Thanks Jacob. I didn't see you there. Were you there long?"

I shook my head. "No. Just admiring."

"Jake." she moaned. "Please. I love you. You know that. But you're my big brother. I don't want anything more than that right now."

"Sure, sure." I replied. "I can take a hint Ness."

She smiled, and flattened out her hair, and walked out the door pass me. "I'm going now!" she said to know one in particular. She could have been talking to herself, but we would hear. "I'm meeting up with Keith, bye!"

I looked at her as she made her way to her cute little car, something we gave to her just before we moved to Portland. It was so Nessie. You could just tell. I ran my hand through my hair, it was getting longer now, and turned back into my room.

Flipping on the light switch, saw Bella leafing through the book I had left on the floor. She was sitting crossed leg at the foot board. He rich brown hair was up in a high ponytail. She looked up, and her golden eyes met mine.

"Bells." I said. "How've ya been?"

"Fine, Jake." She said chuckling. "But the real question is, how are you doing?"

"Um…good?" I replied.

"I'm not that gullible Jake." She replied, her voice musical. Nothing like before, but it was Bella all the same.

"You believed I hated you." I said quickly, "That I never wanted to see you again. And that he was never coming back."

"Regardless," Bella snapped, "That was way long ago."

I stayed quiet. It was rare that Bella talked to me alone. Probably because about three years ago when Nessie started to feel a different way about me, it became awkward.

"You miss her." She said.

It was useless to lie. Like she said, she wasn't gullible. "Yes." I said. "She lives across the hall, and I miss her. It's like she's not my Nessie anymore."

"Your Nessie?" She questioned.

"Well, yes." I replied. "I guess. I love her in a different way than you do Bella, know that."

"Oh I do." She said, standing up. "But you need to know that she loves you in a different way than you do, right now. "

"Thanks Bells." I said, rolling my eyes.

"Always, Jake." she said, just as she left the room.

Oh, yes. Things were definitely changing.

A/N: Sorry this chapter took so long. I was afraid to continue because of this one review, but I'm putting that aside. Plus, TWILIGHT showed this weekend, and had to spend a majority of my day bouncing off walls, and making sure I got a god place in line (I so did!). So any way, REVIEW for chapter 2! ~micah