Chapter Three

Love will find a way.

I felt no more love for him than I had before, and I didn't really see him any differently either, I had known his was beautiful before. But I thought differently about him now. I had always looked up to him as a role model but now I looked across at him, as an equal. When you love someone as much as I loved Jacob, it didn't matter the age. You just lived for them. The only problem was that I was in love with someone who was now the same age as me. Not a good combo.
Jake must have noticed my awareness and he swooped even lower, so his russet lips were only inches away from mine. I held out my hand running it down his smooth face.

This is about the only time that my gift came in handy. I could now show Jake how I felt… about his hair and about him. He flinched and his eyes clouded over as he saw himself from my point of view. He shook his head and gave me a lob sided smile, resting his nose on mine.

"You really think my hair looks good?" He asked, his blonde eyebrows questioning me. I nodded, feeling a blush seep through my cheeks.

"I think you look good." I smiled back at him and breathed in his smell. It was ghastly. Horrible. Like all werewolves did; Jacob stank. I crinkled my nose and he laughed, inclining his head so that our lips touched.

A snarl rose quickly and we broke apart, like two kids getting caught. Which is what we were. There was silence and I mentally screamed at Edward. That was beyond rude, even for an overprotective father like mine. His snarl echoed through my mind and I gave a sideways glance at Jacob. He looked back adoringly, his eyes as soft and smiling.

I grinned and stretched out my hand, flicking it through his hair. He caught my hand and twisted it into his, helping me to my feet. It felt so right for us to be together and I couldn't believe that only an hour ago, I had only thought of him as a friend. We walked down the steps casually and I gripped his hand tightly. We were together now and I had no idea how everyone would react.

We reached the crowded room and all heads turned in our direction, laughter filling the room. At first I was almost hurt, why were they laughing at us? And then I saw that it was actually Jake's hair that they were staring at. Most likely the cause of Edward laughing earlier, although I would have appreciated it if he had warned me.

"Wow. Jake you look…Great!" Bella talked into Edward's chest, her body shaking with laughter.

"So, Jacob," Rose glanced at us, a mischievous smile spread on her lips. "Tell me again how a blonde kills a fish?"

"She drowns it. Har har." Jake answered gruffly before sitting down on the only free space on the couch, cradling me into his lap. He buried his face in my copper curls and the laughter grew around us. Charlie had tears spurting from his eyes and he was doubled over in silent laughter, gasping for every breathe.

"Jake?... I never… pictured you as… a blonde!" Charlie sunk back into his fit, looking up every couple of seconds to check if he wasn't hallucinating. I couldn't help but giggle too and I felt a sharp nudge in my back. I shut my mouth quickly and eyed Emmett, who was laughing the hardest of them all.

"Nessie! You ought to become a hairdresser, how on earth did you get him to agree to this?!" The laughter died down as soon as Emmett's words had escaped his mouth. All eyes were on me again and Jacob pulled his embarrassed face out of my hair. My eyes swept the room and fell on Edward, who hadn't moved since we walked in. His face was frozen and his eyes fixed on how Jacob's arm was draped around me.
I pulled the arm tighter, feeling the scorching heat radiate through me. Bella was biting her lip, thinking through many thoughts that swirled through her head. I didn't really care what the others thought of us, maybe Rose but she knew this was going to happen, they all did. But it was my parent's I was worried about. I wanted them to be happy with this decision. I was happy with it now; I didn't even see Jake as my mum's sloppy seconds, anymore. I shifted uncomfortably and Jake moved me so that I sat directly in front of my parents, still nestled on his lap. Emmett broke the silence, but I didn't look at him, I was too busy trying to decipher what my parents were thinking.

"Oh well. It was bound to happen anywayz…" The volume on the TV turned up and the football game surrounded my ears.

"What? Me turning blonde?" Jake asked, his voice playing innocent.

"Err… Yeah. You turning blonde… Did you know that blondes are seventy percent more likely to score with a—" Emmett's lame joke was interrupted by Edwards voice. I silently thanked him. It would be extremely embarrassing if my grandpa was here to hear Emmett's crude humour.

"Just don't spring a baby on me, okay?" Edward was half-joking, but the protectiveness in his voice, told me he was serious.

"Whoa! No chance of that happening, pops." Jake laughed from behind me and Edward cringed at his new nickname. The room was quick to fill with voices again and the noise was soon overpowering.

I tried to ignore Emmett and Jasper's rants about the game and thought back to what Edward had said earlier. What would happen if Jake and I had a baby? What would it look like? Was it even possible? I mean, I didn't stop aging for another six months. It would end up being a quarter human, a quarter vampire and half werewolf. Wow. That would be awesome. I was pretty sure that there weren't any other people like that. What would it smell like though? Would it stink like its father, or want to rip itself apart? I smiled at the thought of a mini Jacob attacking his reflection. Edward snarled loudly and the previous noise died down again.

"You won't be the one to find out." He glared at Jacob, who threw me a questioning glance before shrugging and focusing on the TV again. I nodded on the outside, even though he knew I was already agreeing on the inside. I was only six and I didn't exactly have any plans for children. Even if it would turn out to be a pioneered, mutant baby.

The night passed quickly after that. Charlie and Sue left after the game and Emmett ended up giving Jasper fifty bucks for the outcome. I headed off for bed just after midnight, with Jacob quick on my toes. That was the other annoying thing about being half human, I had to sleep. The others got to stay up all night and talk or whatever, but I had to go to bed and sleep. It was such a lame thing for a vampire to do. Jake followed me up and waited patiently in the hallway while I got changed, not that he hadn't seen anything earlier today. I slipped into a pair of silk, blue pyjama's that Alice had brought home for me and slid into the bed before calling out for Jacob.

"Come on in, Sweet heart!" I propped myself up on the many pillows and watched as Jacob's shadow entered the dimly lit room.

"Sweet heart?"

"Or would you rather, kitten? Or darling? Or my little pansy wansy?" I waggled my finger at him and his face split into a grin.

"Sweet hearts okay with me… as long as it comes from my sexy little, teddy bear…" His smile spread from ear to ear as he shook of his shoes and slid under the covers beside me, making the bed double with heat.

"Teddy… bear?" Ew. If he could think of a worse name to give me. I stared at him through the darkness, which I was sure he could see clearly.

"Yep. My little, sexy, teddy bear." He clarified this with proudly, his chest broadening with ego.

"Oh, Man! Fine, my little, blonde puppy dog."

"Well, it was either teddy bear or lochness monster…" His grin broadened further as I slunk under the covers and rolled on my side. My mother hated the nick name "Nessie", because it reminded her of the lochness monster. Even though I had gotten used to it; I hated it too. He took my change in position to be defeat and chuckled darkly. I felt him move too—possibly because the whole bed moved at the same time—and the heat from his body pressed into my back. I snuggled into the warmth and sighed. I could stay like this forever, maybe sleep wasn't so bad. My eyelids slid closed quickly and I avoided a yawn by making conversation.

"Hey, Jake?"

"Yep?" His voice was as tired as mine and I reminded myself that he needed sleep as much as I did.

"I was wondering before… What do you think would happen if we did have a baby?" My voice was filled with curiosity but I hoped he wouldn't get the wrong idea. He was silent for a minute and I began to wonder if he had fallen asleep, when a chuckle filled the darkness.

"We would have one hell of a hottie on our hands!" He laughed openly again and I rolled my eyes, I didn't doubt that our child would be beautiful.

"But… seriously…"

"Well… It would half human—"

"Wait. Half? Don't you mean like a quarter?"

"I'm not a complete dog, you know."

"Oh. Right." He was spot on. He was half human as well and only half wolf. Well, technically he was a shape shifter, but I was already confused enough, without adding that.

"So it would be half human, and half werewolf-vampire… Cool!"

"I know." I grinned. Of course Jacob understood my curiosity; he was probably just as curious. "… I only have six months left! Dang it!" I joked, poking his ribs with my elbow. I couldn't have a baby in six months and after that, my body would be like Bella's and Rosalie's. Frozen.

"Hmmm… I wouldn't want you to go through that anyway. The last time someone tried to have a baby with another species—"

"—I happened" I felt him nod into my hair and I sighed. Maybe I could have a baby in six months. Bella had only conceived me for two months or something. It might hurt me too…. And you couldn't exactly give me venom like they did for Bella, because I was already a vampire. I nodded back and lapsed into the shadows, welcoming any dream that would make me forget our conversation.