Chapter Two

Our relationship only kept developing to the point where we kissed all of the time. He drove me to school and the Cullen's decided to stay until I graduated that year, a year earlier than I was supposed to since when I went in I looked too old to be a ninth grader. Over a year with this relationship and we were developing fast. Eventually my parents sat Jake down for a very awkward relationship talk. He told me that they asked him to agree to wait until marriage to have sex with me. But that he wouldn't say anything until he talked to me first.

"It's up to you," he tells me.

"That's not true. It's up to us," I remind him.

"Well yeah but I want what you want I'm a teenage boy," he says.

"If I told you I wanted to have sex with you before marriage what would you say?" I ask.

"I would say okay."

"And after?"

"I would say okay."

"But you must care one way or another."

"But I don't. Our relationship has nothing to do with sex. I am in love with you and I want what you want." He reminds me holding both of his hands on my face. I lean into kiss him once on the mouth. I know that he is right.

"Let's tell them it's up to us what we do but we promise we will be safe either way and we won't do it in their house." I tell him. And I added that last part on there simply because that would gross me out. I do not need my dad to hear Jake's thoughts any more than he already does. Sometimes I catch Jacob looking at me and my dad mutters something under his breath or hits Jake on the shoulder. I don't ever ask why because I know why and we don't need to relive the awkwardness of my father knowing everything my boyfriend is thinking and feeling.

So we told them and they were proud of us for making our own decisions. However that led us to do some more things that we didn't before. We went out every weekend and I saw him almost every day. It was painful to not be with him. One night when he went on patrol and I didn't see him for 36 hours I thought I might go crazy. When I saw him I knew that I would.

He freaked out and grabbed me into a hug burying his face in my neck and holding me like we hadn't seen each other for a long time.

Are you okay?

"Now I am," he says.

I missed you. I love you.

"I love you too. There aren't words to describe how much I missed you."

Eventually that got better. We learned how not to be with each other because that was going to happen at some point. It wasn't easy but Jake said it was difficult for the others when they became romantic too. Love is a strong enough bond without adding imprinting to the complications.

Graduation. Wow. I was valedictorian. My family was all so proud. They all went to the graduation ceremony despite what they should have done. They tried to make themselves look older than they were. And since it was only for a few hours it was all right but I knew that people would talk. I mean my dad looks like he is my age for Pete's sake.

"Congratulations!" Jake says as he grabs me and swings me around. I land on my feet kissing him a few times and remembering we are in public and pulling away.

Later. I tell him and only him. He squints his eyes and I wink back. I was feeling bold and I wanted to do something different. Tonight, I would go back to Jake's apartment he got with Leah a few years ago. I never cared, Leah doesn't like Jake and Jacob already imprinted. Most girls would care but I am not most girls. And when Leah imprinted a year ago it mattered even less to me and her guy, who was human and moved here from Europe. Good for Leah he was a sexy son of a gun.

"Leave room for Jesus!" Emmett screams as he rushes between us picking me up in his arms.

"Congratulations to my favorite niece!"

"Emmett, I am your only niece."

"So, you are very lucky you are my favorite."

"Come on Ness we have a surprise for you." Alice tells me all giddy. Oh great.

"Do you know something about this Jacob?" I ask him.

"Maybe," he says with a smile holding my hand. He laughs at my reaction and just grabs my hand and pulls me along.

"Let's go Mini Bella," he jokes because she didn't like surprises either. I am my mother's daughter. I just shake my head and follow along because why the hell not? What else was I supposed to do? I get in the car with Jake and my parents and just sit there quietly while they talk the entire time. There was this happy overlapping feeling that we completed something spectacular. A lot of people were crying but not me, I was smiling. I will probably end up taking high school like my parents more than once anyway.

When we arrive at Billy's house covered in lights, food out on the table under a tent, and everyone I love all around it couldn't have been more perfect. Alice. When I get out of the car I go right to her and hug her for a long time.

"Thank you so much, Alice." I tell her.

"You're welcome. Now go have fun. Don't waste my party." She says. I nod turning around to grab Jacob's hand before rushing to the people. Seth and Leah are the ones I see first and hug them right away. Eventually I realize that Alice invited everyone. All of the wolves were there, my family, my friends from school, Charlie and Billy. Everyone. It was so perfect. It was a great ending to a new beginning.

I sit on Jake's lap as I watch Sam and Emily's kids play. Jared chases behind his little daughter as she teeters around and a very pregnant Rachel waddles to sit down. Everybody has a family now. Were all big kids and I can't wait to be a part of that. As I watch them I think of what it will be like in a few years when I have my own children. It was when I was thirteen when they started wondering if I was going to be able to. My first period told me I could. Carlisle said that there is enough room to have all of my organs in front of the stone that runs under my body. My skin can be penetrated but it's tougher and my temperature runs at the same that Jake's does. We have the same amount of chromosomes, which also means that our bodies think we are the same species and we can have kids that aren't defective.

"How many?" I hear someone ask me. I turn around to look at Jacob.

"What are you talking about?" I ask.

"How many kids do you want? I know you were thinking about it." he says. I was not expecting that. I think about it at first. I don't know. I don't really care. I mean I love kids so as long as I have them it doesn't matter to me.

"However many we have will be perfect." I decide.

"I think more than one. Having siblings was nice."

"Yeah I think so too." After all I did have a sibling growing up. He was older than me and smarter and he was my protector as well as someone who loved me. But he was my brother for a very long time. He was my brother. That may seem strange to some but it was perfect for us.

"It was perfect. We are perfect, Ness." He says.

"I have got to stop letting you read my thoughts. This could become dangerous real fast." I say.

"Yeah it could." He says back and I lean in for a kiss. When I feel that head flood through me when I touch him I pull on his hair and feel his hesitation, as he wants to moan against my mouth. I just keep him there for a while before I get hit with something in my leg and I pull away quickly.

"No baby making on my lawn!" Billy yells. We both just laugh and I look over at Kim and Jared who are kissing against the side of the tent.

"Why don't you tell Jared?" I ask him and Billy directs his attention to the other couple. I pick up the soccer ball and stand up.

"Wanna play?" I ask Jake.

"Soccer?" he asks.

"No Cops and Robbers. Yes soccer." I tell him.

He gets up with a smile and follows me out onto the field. I put the ball in the middle and call over a couple of the other people. Soon enough we have almost everyone playing. Rachel sits back and watches with Rosalie, Esme, my parents and the kids. They watched as the rest of us played.

Jake and I ended up on opposite teams. I was the team captain for Emmett, Alice, Leah, Embry, Kim, Emily and Colin while the others were on the other team.

We started out with the ball, kicking around. I might not be very good but I have muscles on my team as well as being fast so we ended up doing pretty well. With Embry as our goalie the other team only scored three points. At one point Jasper grabbed Alice and held onto her as they both laughed and he kissed her a few times.

"Hey no fraternizing with the other team Alice!" Emmett yells across the field.

When Jake came to the goal to score I ran up behind him and tackled him on his back. He ran around with me on his back while Embry kicked the ball across the field. I cheered for our team while Jacob put me down.

"Hey that's not fair! She attacked our team!" Paul joked. We went pack to playing and in the end our team won by one point. I met Jake in the middle kissing him hard on the mouth and pushing my body against his. It was getting increasingly difficult to control myself around him even with my parents around.

"You win." He says against my lips.

"Don't I always?" I laugh.

"You guys really need a ref." Esme says when we walk back to the table. When we are back we see that Sue, Emily and Rachel prepared an amazing turkey meal with corn and beans and mashed potatoes not to mention cookies and cake and beer. It was so incredible. I sat next to Jake at the table.

"Maybe you can be one for us next time, honey." Carlisle says with his arm around her.

"There was too much cheating going on." She says, "From our children." She looks at Jasper and he just smiles holding Alice's hand and leaning against the tent post.

"We taught them well." Carlisle jokes.

Esme just pushes him and I watch as the exchanges go on. Everyone laughs, holds little conversations, jokes passed around and beer drank until it's dry and another bottle is opened.

"Hey Leah are you coming home tonight?" I hear Jake ask. He thinks that I am paying attention to another conversation clearly and since I am not touching him or releasing my thoughts to him he doesn't know.

"No. I was planning on going to Nick's." she answers. Nick is her boyfriend of a year. He's cute, sitting next to her on the other side, completely human.

"Could you maybe wait to come home until like the afternoon?" he asks.

"Yeah sure," she says, "But Jacob?"

"Yeah?"

"Don't make a mess."