Author's POV

Claire twirled her long shiny raven hair around her tan colored index finger. She quickly darted to the door when she heard footsteps outside.

She sighed when she realized that it was none other than some of her classmates from school. They looked at her strangely. Claire smiled ruefully

to herself. She knew that though almost all the boys at the reservation's high school found her beautiful in an exotically strange way they also find

her quite weird. She couldn't blame them anytime they saw her outside of school she was with a man who could pass for at least 20 and she would

be laughing and giggling at whatever it was that he was saying. Most people besides the few who knew the truth found the both of them quite a

scandalous pair. As she was thinking about how people perceived her and Quil she was suddenly surprised to find a warm pair of arms wrap around her.

"Quil." She sighed contently as she snuggled in deeper. "I missed you." He murmured into her hair. "I missed you too." Claire replied, happy that he was

once again with her. "Sorry I'm late." Quil said as she turned around to look at him, she noticed the worry that was in them for the first time. "We received

some bad news late, well really early this morning." Claire bet her pink plump lip before she spoke. "What's wrong?" Quil fought the urge to kiss Claire as she

chewed on her lips. "Remember the stories I told you about the Volturri?" Claire shivered as she recalled the memory. "Yeah, how could I forget?" Quil looked

down at Claire and pulled her closer as he saw the fear in her eyes. "Well they are returning in about three months, but this time they don't have any intentions of

letting us live." Claire eyes widened and her mouth flew open wide. "What?" She practically screamed. Isn't this just my luck? She thought. How ironic that vampires

would be coming to destroy the Cullens and werewolves when Claire and Quil had just officially became a couple less than a month ago. "Are we going to be okay?"

Claire asked in a fear-filled voice. "Yes Claire I promise that I won't let anything happen to us." Claire felt a little better as she heard his words. "Okay then I trust

that you won't." Quil looked at Claire for a long time before he spoke again. "I do think that you, Emily, Kim, and Rachel should take a trip down to Florida in three

months though." He said as he braced himself for her response. She didn't disappoint him. "Florida?!" She said in an angry scream. "While you stay here and your life

is in danger you honestly expect me to take a vacation?" She said with disbelief in her voice. "Claire please don't be so mad. You know I never want for you to be

away from me but this is for your own safety." Claire continued as though she hadn't heard him. "Let me guess the caring, loving, and concerned werewolves all

decided that this situation was way too dangerous for their human imprintees to be around right?" Quil nodded as though he didn't catch her sarcasm. "All we want is

for the loves of our lives to be safe and sound when such dangerous vampires are coming." Claire rolled her eyes and sighed. She didn't feel like arguing so instead

she said, "Okay but first let me talk to the other girls about it." Quil looked surprised. "Really?" He hadn't expected her to give in this early if at all. "Yeah really Quil."

Claire said offended that he didn't believe her. "I know it will be easier for you to concentrate if you don't have to worry about me the whole time." Quil smiled sadly.

Even though a part of him was glad at Claire for giving in another part dreaded the thought have having to be away from her for more than a few hours. Suddenly

Claire pulled Quil's head down to her and kissed him passionately. Just the thought of losing him drove her crazy. His smooth russet skin, his beautiful long black hair,

and his sweet eyes were what her world revolved around. She knew she would not be able to survive if he didn't. Quil took a deep breath and decided that this was

the moment, it was now or never. He bowed down onto one knee and took Claire's hand into his. "Claire I love you. I have loved you since the moment I saw you

when you were two years old and I will love you until the day that I die. I know that you are only 15 and I know that that is way too young to get married, but I also

know that we are different. What is marriage when we have already committed our lives to be each other's soul mates? I have already talked to your parents about it

and they think that it would be fine if we got engaged until you turned 17 and then got married. Claire will you please make me the happiest man in the world and

marry me?" Claire was so surprised at Quil's actions that she couldn't speak for a moment. Once that passed she managed to squeak out the answer, "Yes." As tears

poured down her face and Quil picked her up to kiss her and twirl her around she knew that everything would be okay. She wouldn't let herself worry now she was

going to enjoy the happiest day of her life.


The whole entire werewolve and vampire crew were here to celebrate the engagment of Quil and Claire. Renesmee and Claire were in the corner giggling and talking

like to school girls as Renesmee examined the ring. Both girls had good news to share with Renesmee's new relationship and Claire's engagment. It was no surprise

that the two girls were best friends since they were physically about the same age and Claire was so much more mature than most other girls her age. Renesmee

loved having someone to tell all the secrets that she could not tell her family. And since both girls knew all about the supernatural world they could speak openly and

honestly to each other about anything. Claire suddenly turned serious. which was a rare thing for the fun-loving giggly girl, Renesmee knew Claire well enough to

know that that meant that there was really something bothering her. "Do you think everything will be all right when the Volturri come?" Renesmee furrowed her brow

as she answered honestly, she had no experience since both girl's were both too young to remember the last time they had visited. "I don't know to tell the truth. All

I can do is pray and hope that none of us are injured." Claire turned her mouth into a frown as she said, "The boys are sending Emily. Rachel, Kim, and me to

Florida." Renesmee smiled in relief. "Well even though i'm going to miss you guys that makes me feel a lot better to know that I have four less people to worry about."

She paused for a minute before she continued, "And when everything is all over I'm going to go down there for a much deserved vacation." Claire squealed,"Girl time!"

Renesmee laughed. "We need some of that since we haven't seen much of each other lately." Claire's eyes turned sad as she heard Renesmee's words. She didn't

know what she would do if she lost her best friend. She know was worried for Nessie's and Quil's health. "Whatever happens Nessie, I love you and your are like a

sister to me and God couldn't have sent me a better best friend. A tear poured down Nessie's cheek as she pulled Claire in for a hug. She prayed that everything

would be okay and that they could have many more nights of girl time. Jacob and Quil came over and laughed. "You guys act like you will never see each other again."

Jacob said with a laugh. "You never know with what is to come." Claire said quietly. "Congratulations Quil." Renesmee said quickly to lighten the mood. She hugged

him and patted his back. "It takes a real man to put up with my crazy and silly best friend." Claire stuck her tongue out at Nessie. "Isn't that just the pot calling the

kettle black?" She said. "Besides you make me the silly person that Quil loves." She smiled at Jacob. "I wish you the best luck with dealing with Nessie we all know

how crazy she can be." She said as she pointed to the stairs. Nessie and Claire had had a sleepover at Renesmee's house recently and Nessie had had the idea to

use pillows as sleds and slide down the stairs. She had tumbled off of the pillow and right through the last stair fortunately she was half vampire and was unhurt. The

same could not be said for the stair. Jacob pulled Renesmee to him and kissed her lovingly. "But I love her." He said as he looked down at her. "And i will never know

why." Claire said as Renesmee gently shoved her shoulder.