Party
Today is the day of Jacobs's party: Everyone will be round by noon.
Jake still isn't up although Nessie is. Everything is set up outside.
Ten tables are clothed with vibrant blue tablecloths which are sprinkled with tiny little sparkly wolves and 19's.
There is also a massive banquet table filled with shiny silver covered platters. Beside it is the expensive modern barbeque still new: ready to be used. We will pretend to eat as we have guests who still think we're normal.
We are in the living room: sitting down, Alice is sitting next to a pile of presents wrapped in precious copper colored paper: which Nessie chose to match Jake's eyes. Nessie has just returned from waking up Jake from his usual sleeping spot outside.
Nessie announced proudly "He's just getting dressed, he'll be here in a …" Just then Jacob walked in to the room, towards her, in a dark blue t-shirt and three-quarter length jeans. She smiled her beautiful, heartwarming smile at him, her chocolate brown eyes lit up.
Everyone else was silent just like in movies when it's an important bit, and its in slow motion.
Alice sighed as Jacob and Nessie sat down. She broke that peaceful but tough silence.
" Jacob couldn't you dress a little more sophisticated, it's your birthday!" She said in her high soprano voice sounding almost as if she was singing.
He ignored her, and cuddled up to Nessie. Edward, whom I was sitting next to, stiffened lightly at the movement.
"So are you going to open your presents, or are we going to just sit here? " Alice demanded
" Do I even have a choice?" he sighed, "You're so impatient!" Alice handed him over the carefully wrapped present, which he quickly unwrapped: ripping the paper to pieces.
Inside, was one of the presents, from all of us, which I chose myself: a Swiss army knife with his name engraved upon it: that I thought would be a good idea.
"This is brilliant, thanks" He said excited staring at the deep red knife.
" That's ok " I said relieved that he liked it.
"There's more though!" Alice said smiling handing him another present: this time flat.
In one small rip: the wrapping paper was on the floor: shredded to pieces and balanced on the palm of his gigantic hand was a card.
On the front of the card was a big drawing of Jake as a wolf
glaring at a massive 19 shape: both drawn by Nessie. Like Edward, she is good at everything.
"Thanks Ness!" Jake said to her, hugging her tightly.
She released herself easily rushing him saying "Come on, read it then!"
He sighed and opened the card. His big dark eyes ran quickly across Nessie's untidy beginners scribble. He looked up, his russet face confused
"Is it a treasure hunt?" He asked.
We all laughed. Which all at the same time produced a beautiful musical harmony.
Nessie was the one who answered him " Sort of, come on!" She laughed pulling him up effortlessly from the sofa. She is quite strong especially when Jake isn't trying!
We all followed them rapidly down to behind our cottage. Where there was a smaller version of it right next to it. It looked even more fairytale-like when it is smaller. I looked up to Jacob: he looked even more confused.
"What is it?" He asked.
Alice answered excitedly "It's a cottage for you!"
His mouth fell open.
Esme continued, "We agreed you'd spent to long on the ground! So we thought you needed your own space not to far away!" She smiled and Rosalie made a sarcastic face.
"Go in!" Nessie insisted
He twisted the decorative doorknob like he was opening the way to a secret world. Inside it was decorated modernly/rustically with lots of windows and glass, but with many things made out of beautifully carved wood. The layout was like a loft apartment with everything in one room, just there is a bathroom too.
As soon as you come in, straight ahead is a long black leather sofa with chunky wooden legs and a big black Flat screen. On the left is a big glass window covering the whole of the wall and facing it is a large double bed covered in a black and brown duvet with the same chunky wooden legs. Behind the sofa on the wall where the front door is: was a big wardrobe filled with clothes (chosen by Alice) and the door to the bathroom. For a one-bedroom apartment, the bathroom is very big: it has light blue walls with some blue tiling. There is a vast modern see-through glass sink, a white toilet and a shower big enough for two.
Esme had definitely gone overboard.
We all stood there silently like statues: watching eagerly at Jake's expression. He moved from his confused position at the front door, to jumping up and down with excitement in the middle of the room.
"Thank you so much!" He said to us
"You're welcome, we'll leave you to embrace it on your own for a bit" Esme said kindly
"Oh… Ok "Jacob said.
"I don't want to leave, I still have something to give him " Nessie said in her moany voice.
"Fine" I agreed. Normally humans would give me an 'Are you out of your mind' look. But not my family: because they trusted me.
We left the two alone. I wasn't worried anyway, because I knew what she was giving him: her own present for him: a bracelet that looked like a leash made of brown leather with J-dog carved in it.
We went up to the house, Emmett started to annoy Edward and me about the possible things that Jake and Nessie could be doing. So Edward told him about me letting him win our last arm wrestle. He just walked off, sulking. It had made him mad but he deserved it.
It has just gone 12 o'clock and everyone has arrived and are chatting at the moment. Nessie, Jake, Edward and me are speaking to Seth. We haven't seen him in ages, although he hasn't changed physically, he has a lot of things to tell us. At the moment he is talking about his being grounded several times since he's been home.
" I got grounded when I came back from your place, then again when at school I skipped the whole day, then another time when I went to a party where I was supposed to come home at 12 but I came back at 3. " He listed them all but apparently he hadn't
finished " oh, and when I was grounded I just escaped through the window and went to another party. I've been grounded quite a lot!" He said smiling.
I sighed. Nessie smiled back at him: the thought that Seth had just put all these Ideas in her head terrified me.
Nessie remembers Seth as the person who protected Jake from my anger.
"So you've changed a lot, now you're a rebel!" I said
He laughed. His faint laughter lines appearing in his tanned skin.
"So what else have you been up to? Edward asked. Since the fight with the newborns, Seth and Edward had become friends.
I left them alone and along with Nessie, went to greet the other wolves.
"Hey, Bella" Embry greeted me enthusiastically. Looking at him I thought back to the days when he looked like a usual teenager, along with Jacob, without all this muscle and tallness. When he had long hair.
"Hey Embry" I greeted him whilst picking Nessie up. He was smiling at her, so I asked him" Have you ever met Nessie?"
"No… I didn't get the pleasure. So Belated Congratulations!"
"Thanks, well Nessie this is Embry, Jake's talked about him: he's one of his good friends!" I said. Embry smiled.
"Jakey has talked about you, in a good way so you sound nice!" She said, showing her white teeth in a beautiful smile.
"So what have you been doing the last year, still at school. We've just spoken to Seth and he basically just listed all the times he's been grounded." I explained
"Oh, I still have been seeing him around, maybe he was lying…" He said confused
Nessie explained to him," He said that he just went out anyway as his mum can't stop him!"
"Oh, well I haven't been that bad! But I have been grounded a few times!" Embry Said whilst Nessie smiled enthusiastically and I frowned. " Cause Sam keeps putting me on patrol, so I have to sneak out. But my mum doesn't know why, so when I come back she grounds me and lectures me about talking to someone about it. I'm beginning to think that Sam does it deliberately."
"I suppose that's not you're fault!" I said scouring amongst the people for Sam's big body. I couldn't see him. Suddenly I wondered if something was going on: like a break-up between the pack, or danger on the reservation, something someone wasn't telling me?
"Where's Sam?" I questioned Embry
He answered immediately; he obviously saw the panic in my eyes.
"Don't worry Bella, he couldn't come because Claire and Emily are sick, Paul barely came but Sam and me convinced him! They've got the flu! But Emily suggested meeting up, as Nessie and Claire being similar ages"
I had been worrying lately about Nessie not having any friends her own age but I had never thought of Claire, or of any of the
wolves wanting them to mix, but I remembered we we're friends.
" Yeah that would be good" I answered
" Yeah ok I'll tell her, see ya later!" he said leaving us.
Nessie, who was in my arms, put her hand on my cold marble cheek.
She was asking me who Claire was. I wondered why she didn't speak.
" She's a little girl whose about you're age she's one of the wolf's wife's niece! Why didn't you ask?" I told her
She touched me again, showing me my confused face and said " I didn't know how to ask! Why isn't Claire with her parents?" She asked
"I'm not sure! But I am sure that you will make friends with her" I said, curious too.
"I'd like to make friends with children my own age!" She said, her face lightning up. I felt sorry for her; she should have friends her own age. Charlie asked me why she doesn't start pre-school; I didn't have an explanation I could tell him.
Suddenly Edward appeared behind me, Nessie didn't notice. Edward silenced me with his finger, he wanted to scare her: so he quickly put both hands on her shoulders: this startled her.
"Hello!" He said, coming to face us.
"Hey, you scared me!" She said, looking at Edward with a "that's not fair" look.
"I know I did!" He smiled "So who have you been chatting to?"
"Like you don't know already!" I said.
"Oh well, fine, I'll tell you what I've been doing: I've chatted to Seth, Charlie and Billy!" He said, I was surprised that he had hopefully, a normal chat with Billy, who wasn't fond of Edward but strangely he was with all the rest of us especially Nessie.
"Billy's here, I want to see Billy!" Nessie said happily. She loved Billy, Charlie and all humans.
Edward's calming, soothing voice spoke: " Why don't you go find Jacob and then go see Billy, on your own?"
"Ok, bye" She hugged us both and then ran off, jumping toward the people. My daughter is not like me: she is very athletic and flexible and she is very active. She is also very friendly and affectionate, and extremely beautiful with her golden caramel curls and chocolate brown eyes.
Edward was smiling a lot, as if he had just heard a joke.
"I've missed you, can we wonder around together from now on?" I asked pleadingly
"Of course!" He said, his smooth lips all of a sudden we're on mine. This lasted for a minute or so, until who ruined it, other than… Alice.
Was it important? No, well for her it must have been.
"Bella, have you looked in the mirror?" She said pulling me. We had now arrived in her enormous bathroom and I was staring at myself in her wall size mirror. My makeup: which Alice spent ages on this morning, had smudged; all across my pale white face
I looked like a scary clown. That's probably what Edward was smiling about.
"Sorry!" I said looking at her annoyed little pixie face. It was impossible to take her seriously. I laughed quietly to myself.
"Bella it's not funny, you're a Cullen: you're supposed to look nice..."Alice said, trying to sound annoyed. Until she was interrupted by Edward:
"She does look nice, she looks beautiful: she always does!" he said, kissing me on the forehead. That kiss felt like having water as a human when you haven't drunk in ages. For some unknown reason I missed him, just after a few minutes without him.
"Edward you would say that even if she had a big red spot on her face! You can see her in a bit, after I have dealt with her mess!" She said pushing him out of the door.
But I held on to him. As Finally I was stronger than her and she knew that. " Alice, I can wipe it off myself, I'm fine without makeup!"
Edward backed me up again. " A bit is too long to be without Bella and she is beautiful with or without. Why don't you try losing your reputation of being awfully annoying and leaving us alone?"
"Edward don't be mean, though!" I told him.
"Fine" Alice agreed "But don't let her come out until she looks decent!" She said, walking off with a grin on her face.
We both sighed. I quickly went into Alice's bathroom cabinet, (more like a wardrobe), and got a wipe for my face.
"So now that's done, we can do what we said!" Edward said, picking me up and kissing me. We we're romantic, but not as physical as Rose and Emmett.
We wondered around together up till the end, we spoke to everyone and heard about their own lives.
Now it is over and if I were still human I would feel tired like Jake and Nessie are: they are both collapsed in front of the TV together.
It is two days after the party; everything was cleared up long ago.
Last night I spoke to Edward about Nessie having friends her own age.
We we're down at the cottage, Nessie was asleep and so was Jacob. We we're sat on the couch:
" Edward, I know you heard my conversation with Embry the other day about meeting up with Claire, which I think is a good idea. But the other day I was worrying about …" I stopped. I didn't know how to go on.
"Yes, I think it's a good idea too. But what we're you worrying about. You should have told me. This is why I hate not being able to see what your thinking" He said, worrying himself. "Tell Me Bella, love! Please!"
I relieved him " Don't worry, I was just worrying that Nessie
doesn't have any friends" I cuddled up to him, speaking into his clothes. "Then Charlie asked me why she doesn't start pre-school and I realized there was no reason! She should socialize!"
He smoothed my hair and calmly said; " Bella, you don't need to worry. You should have told me and not kept it to yourself. If you think she should start school then I will back you up on that. Do you think so?"
It was a hard question to answer, Nessie was fine with humans but would she be ready?
After a reflective pause, I answered him: "I don't know, should we wait… but then she won't have any friends. But she's not even a year old!"
I collapsed on to him with anguish.
He rubbed my back, calming me. I wanted Jasper; I wanted him to make me feel all happy inside.
"Lets try something; well meet up with Claire and see how Nessie is with her, if she enjoys her company then we will see how she feels about starting school." He said explaining his solution. I nodded
We snuggled up; Edward kissed me, his lips are the perfect temperature now I am a vampire; they are hard but smooth.
I sighed, he stopped kissing me: "What is it?" He asked, confused
I let him into my head: this was easy for me to do, but I didn't often do it, only when necessary.
I was thinking of how quickly our daughter has grown up.
He looked into my eyes, showing me my favorite smile of his:
"It's true, she is growing fast. Some parents would say we're lucky: to get past the months of only sleeping and eating" I huffed at this. "I know we wouldn't. But Bella, she hasn't grown for 4 weeks. We're lucky if she were she would be starting middle school!"
I smiled, "So what age do you think she can pass for?"
"Her birthday isn't far away we could say she's turning 3, we can get away with that! Although she looks four!"
"I suppose that's only two years older!" I kissed him.
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