Chapter One: Haunting Memories

Jacob, was your average, run-of-the-mill guy, he did well in school... Loved to playvideogames, yet he had a big secret… He was a shape shifting, wolf. Not to mention, he was a very good-looking kid. All the girls fought in lines to see him... But with his soft heart… he just wouldn't budge. He didn't want to feel broken again like his last adventure of love left him… "YO! JAKE! DUDE!" shouted Jacob's best friend, Embry as he came running over, to meet up with Jacob. "So I've heard you and that chick Natalie were holding hands! Anything thing you'd like to let me in on?" Embry said, cracking a joke as he snorted… (Pretending to be Natalie) batting his lashes. "Em…." Jacob said, giving him a glare, as Embry continued to laugh… "LIGHTEN UP!" Embry laughed, as Jake looked down at his sneakers, his fists curling into really tight balls. "Oh, fuck you… Jake..." Embry retorted, snickering. "Love you too, Ass hole." Jake laughed, smiling.

"I don't think going out with her is such a good idea!" a bell-like voice said as Jake and Embry looked over to Bella, waltzing to them… her husband, Edward in tow. "Hey Bells! How's it going?" Jacob smiled, as they took seats on either side of him. "Nothing much, hunting is a bit dangerous anymore… of course… Edward could care less... Couldn't you darling?" Bella smiled, as she eyed Edward who smirked, a smile spreading across his pale face.

"How's school going Jakers?" Bella chimed, as a bunch of people crowded around, the Cullen's, and some more of Jacob's friends... from the local Native American reservation. "So, Jacob... We were wond-" Alice, began to say in her tinker bell-like tone. His jaw dropped, and his eyes became large, as he watched a beautiful, goddess-like girl run to their table, hugging Bella and Edward, and giving Bella a small kiss on her cheek. "OH! MOMMA! DADDY! Who's that?" The pretty rosy-cheeked girl said smiling in Jake's direction. Those cheeks, and that smile... her hair color... it all looked somehow hauntingly familiar.

Bella grinned... as Edward painfully scowled at Jake. "WHAT DID I DO!?" Jacob retorted, throwing his muscled arms up in confusion. "You did nothing of the kind! Jacob!" Bella laughed, as Edward still had that painful expression on his marble-like face.

The pretty rosy-cheeked girl, smiled back... a look of excitement on her face… she eyed Jacob… smiling as he grinned blushing... as she did too.

Reneesme's POV

I watched him smile, those beautiful chocolate brown eyes, deep and dark... a hint of longing in them… He caught my gaze, as I blushed again... This time an even deeper shade of red… I laughed quietly to myself, as I saw Daddy tense his shoulders, his face an unmistakable expression of pure disgust, and anger. Why he looked at the boy I blushed at I didn't know, and why was I so drawn to his sweet smile, and beautiful face.

I nudged Momma, in the shoulder, and asked her who her charming, if not hot friend was. She smiled at Jake, and he laughed as he eyed me up and down. "Nessie, honey." She began. "Nessie, this is Jacob Black," She said as I was led over to his seat, I sat down next to him, and shook his hand. "Hello Jacob Black, my name is Reneesme, but you can call me Nessie for short."

I beamed, a stupid grin escaping my lips… He laughed, his eyes dazzling me, as he laughed. "Hi, Nessie nice to meet you, I'm Jacob but you can call me Jake." Some how I felt I knew this boy, from a different time. His eyes haunted me the most, besides his boyish smirk, or rippled body; he really made me wonder... had I ever met him before. My deep concentration was suddenly broken, as my Aunt Alice laughed, and giggled looking my way. No doubt… her vampire visions were still blurry, but she pulled me aside away from all of them. I heard Momma, laugh as I was scurried away, she nodded to Alice... and I felt her shield my thoughts, like she always would when Daddy wanted to pry into them. I smiled back, and waved… not at Momma, but at my new friend Jacob Black.

"So…" Chimed Aunt Alice, as we walked around the shopping center or the Galleria as I had known for a short while. Only visiting Momma and Daddy in Philadelphia when I really had the chance. "What?" I asked, confused… Jacob Black and his eyes and smile dancing across my visions.

"I see you were blushing, no doubt… You've fallen hard for Jacob." She retorted softly, as she smiled… barring her pearly-white teeth. I laughed, and blushed as she looked into my eyes, and laughed again. "I see everything you know." She snorted, as she felt indeed proud of herself. "But, Ness you honey… I cannot get one ounce of future of you… your too damn blurry." She laughed, her golden eyes crinkling into a warm smile.

I half laughed, half snorted as she flitted on her feet, humming to herself. I just rolled my chocolate brown opals and giggled. After our quick talk, Aunt Alice and I found our way back to where everyone was sitting. I took my seat again next to Jacob.

We instantly began to talk, about what the weather was like, cars, me (giggles) and his motorcycle. He laughed when I asked him if he had a girlfriend. Even Momma and Daddy stifled a laugh. Though Daddy's laugh was more of a cross between a snort and a smug chuckle.

"So, Jake..." Momma began to start, as he was done glaring at Daddy, for a reason I still was perplexed about. "Yeah Bells?" He said, his husky tone of voice, sending shivers down my spine. I day dreamed of him talking to me that way… "Why in the world did I feel I knew this boy, Jacob?" I muttered to myself. Apparently everyone had gone elsewhere, and it was only me, Momma, and Daddy, along with you guessed it. Jacob Black.

"RENEESME CARLIE CULLEN!" I heard a distant, but loud voice shout! I snapped out of my day dream, and jumped in my seat when I heard Daddy yell my name again.

"RENEE—"

I looked at Momma, then Daddy, then Jake. They were all watching me, as if I looked sick. "Nessie…" Jake started.

I smiled, and said "Yes?"

He laughed, smiling... "You're drooling…" He said snickering. Blood-red flush flooded my cheeks, as I hid my smile from everyone's eyes. I was smiling at Jacob, not because of what he said, but because I seemed to drool over him… wow… what was I doing?

I wiped the trickle of saliva escaping my lower lip, and looked down at my shoes, still blushing.

"Well, Edward… Love why don't we leave the two of them alone, and go and get a bite to eat." Momma said, with a very big emphasis on the word "bite." I knew why, they were hungry, and as vampires they needed to hunt. I was only half-vampire of course… But still, I needed the warm, red liquid I so willing craved for, when I needed to quench my undying thirst.

Jacob mouthed something, but smiled instead at Momma and Edward. "See you two lovebirds later, he said laughing, as they waltzed elegantly across the food court floor, and left the place entirely…

Now... it was just me and Jacob.

"So, Nessie… how would you like to go for a run?" He said, smiling as I eyed him with a curious, at the same time confused look on my face. "Run?" I said quietly. How in the world did he know about the word run? I smiled, and said "sure, sure." He smiled back, saying "Okay, let's go then." I followed Jake out of the city, as we ran (he could run very fast I might add) we must have been several miles outside of the city, when we stopped dead in a clearing of the forest.

"Jacob?" I questioned, as he disappeared behind a large tree. I heard what sounded like panting and soft moaning. I thought he was doing something that I really didn't want to think about now, but I was so curious I popped my head around the tree.

"Jake?" I asked, as he was kneeling down, his shirt ripped to shreds, and then he erupted into a full-blown russet-brown furry wolf! I gasped, backing into a nearby tree trunk, as I watched Jake slowly approach me.

"Jacob, is that... is that really you?" I asked, looking into his eyes, I softly put my one hand to his fur-covered face, and I closed my eyes… and there I saw Jacob Black in this wolf's body. Jacob and the wolf were one-in-the-same.

Jacob's POV

I was dazzled by Edward and Bella's young daughter. I felt like I knew her from another time. I felt very protective of her, and she probably could see that as I glared at Embry and Paul for hooting and shouting as they saw her come running to our group.

Her enormous chocolate brown eyes, like her mother before she was turned by Edward… WAIT? WHAT? Why was I saying Bella had chocolate brown eyes before she became a vampire? She has red eyes. Red, not brown.

I shrugged the weird thought out of my head, and instead focused my eyes on Reneesme's beautiful features, her plump curves were heaven compared to the way-to-thin, or sluttish looking girls that always tried to get me to go out with them. I barely knew Nessie, and yet I felt I knew her my whole life.

I eyed her up and down; she seemed the most perfect piece of delicate art ever… at least that I had ever seen. I blushed, as the thought of me and Nessie kissing near a Christmas tree came into my mind… I shrugged it off. But Nessie, smiled when I seemed to have that thought. I didn't know why, but why was she so beautiful, and just like she had fallen from heaven… Had God sent me a miracle, or did Paul slip me a White Russian… either way I wanted only her, besides Bella, and Edward to know of my secret.

Everyone basically knew I was a werewolf, not the man-eater, bash, and smash kind but the shape-shifting, protecting kind. But, I felt I needed to show Nessie, privately and that I felt she was very special in my eyes. I asked her if she wanted to take a run.

She looked perplexed, and said "sure, sure," and grinned, as we got up and ran out of the city limits, coming to a stop in a forest clearing…

I decided to phase right then and there, to let her find out. I didn't want her to see me completely naked after, but hey I was a guy who hadn't dated in a very long time… I a bit of skin never hurt anybody. I could imagine Bells, and Eddy-boy scowling at my thoughts. I never knew Bella and Edward had a daughter, especially one so angelic, and innocent. She was special, at least to me.

She found me, I could tell she was curious, and then she touched my cheek… The minute she did a wave of electricity hit me, hit us both I should say, and then a similar wave came. This wave wasn't electricity though. It was memories, my memories… of being a guy similar to who I was now, cradling a little girl with bronze curls, and chocolate brown eyes, Bella was near death on the table, Edward was healing her… this child... I now knew was Nessie."