Needless to say I do not own Twilight, any of the related books, or the characters:

Nessie's POV:

I slipped my hand from Jake's and stopped walking. I wanted to get to the bottom of Jake's problems and this was the only way I knew how to get his attention.

"What is it Ness?" Jacob said sighing giving me a sly, toothy grin.

"Wow, that was kinda cute." I mumbled under my breath as I felt my heart quicken.

His face dropped. "What did you say?" he said quietly.

Oh, shit. I was caught. "I just said that you should not try to be cute. I doesn't fit you. You're too big." Hopefully that worked I thought.

"Oh, yeah, right." Jake sighed. "Come on Nessie. I need to get you home before your dad kills me."

I looked up at the sky. It was still light when we left the beach but now it was almost black.

"Jake, what time is it?" I asked. I was getting a little worried.

"Ness, you know I don't wear a watch." He said matter-a- facilely.

"Jake look at the sky. It's really dark." He looked up and his face got serious.

"Ness, it looks almost 10. You should be home now. Give me a sec." I watched Jake run into the woods to transform. I would be quicker for us to get home if Jake was in wolf form and I ran like the half vampire I am.

While Jake ran off, I suddenly thought of the fact that Jake had to take off his shirt and shorts to transform. I felt my cheeks get red and attempted to fan off my face as I saw Jake's wolf head poke through the bushes.

In his mouth were his clothes and I took them from him as we got ready to run. Folding them in my arms, we started to run to my parent's cottage. It took us 2 minutes to get there rather then the 30 it would have taken walking at human speed.

The run was exhilarating and both my hair and Jacob's fur was full of twigs and leaves. He took his clothing in his teeth and ran into the woods to change. 5 seconds later he came through the bushes as my Jacob.

When he got close to me I brushed his hair pulling out the twigs and leaves. I reached closer trying to unwind some thistle branches biting my lips as I did it.

"Ha, I got it!" I triumphantly raised the thistle in the air. I smiled up at him showing the thistle.

I watched his eyes sparkle and I started do flush. I looked up at him again and realized his eyes weren't looking into mine. He looked at my lips and then back into my eyes. That's when I realized that I was only about 3 inches from his face.

I backed up a few steeps and turned my face away from him. "Good night Jake." I muttered. Giving him a brief hug I ran into the house.

Great job Ness, things were just really awkward.