DISCLAIMER: I'm not Stephanie Meyer. I do not own twilight or any of the characters.

One year later

"How are you doing Jazz?" Alice asked him, concern etched on her face.

"I'm cranky, I'm depressed and I'm craving chocolate. I don't even eat chocolate," he grumbled.

"Well, you certainly are cranky," Alice pouted.

"I'm sorry, I-"

"NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!" Nessie screeched as Jasper retreated.

Bella rushed out of Nessie's room closing the door behind her. "I don't know how much more I can take of this," she said to no one in particular.

"Tell me about it," Alice frowned. "Jazz is up in our room nauseated, Nessie is always yelling, and worst of all, look what she did to this bebe shirt she didn't want to wear."

Alice held up a bright blue shirt that looked like it had been shred.

"She took scissors to it as if she was trying to make paper snowflakes!"

"I can't believe I'm saying this," Rosalie began, "but I can't wait for the dog to get here."

Screaming and crying came from Nessie's room.

Emmett walked into the living room pulling out ear plugs. "These don't work on us at all, but it was worth a try."

"Mercy that poor girl," Esme sighed, looking up the stairs. "Can you imagine how unhappy she must be?"

"Jazz can," Alice chirped.

"We knew that her accelerated growth meant accelerated hormones but I had no idea it would be this bad," Bella cringed as she heard something thud against Nessie's bedroom wall at the main house.

"Where are Edward and Carlisle?" Emmett asked as if just realizing something was missing.

"They have been in his study all day trying to figure out if there is a way to slow down this huge tidal wave of hormones."

"Couldn't Jasper-" Rose started.

"We tried," Bella interrupted. "Not only was Jasper's power no match for her bad moods but being so close to her feelings, just made him depressed."

"I'm never leaving my room!" Nessie yelled.

With Nessie's tantrum in full swing, they almost didn't hear, or smell, Jacob come in.

"I see, Nessie isn't feeling any better," Jacob shook his head.

"I'm just glad you're here, she is in one of her worst moods," Bella said. "She doesn't want to talk to any of us. We were hoping you would be able to calm her down."

Jacob's face looked pained. "I don't know Bells, she is my imprint and all but wouldn't she want to talk to… you know… a woman about these changes." He shuttered at the word. "Maybe I could get Leah to-" He stopped dead in his tracks. "Never mind."

Bella rolled her eyes, "You don't have to talk to her about any of that, just calm her down. Stop her from destroying the house and shrieking like a banshee."

Bella pushed Jacob in the direction of Nessie's room.

"Okay, Okay." Jacob sighed heavily up the stairs. Slumping his shoulders, Jacob was really hoping their conversation wasn't going to turn into "the talk". He was almost sure if it did his head would explode.

Edward, chuckled upstairs.

Bloody vampire Jacob amusingly thought to Edward.

Jacob walked over to her door and it did sound like she was trying to demolish the house.

"Heya, Nessie?" Jacob called from behind the closed door.

"Jacob?"

Noises from the room stopped as he heard her footsteps move closer. He felt the pull in his chest more and more to go comfort her the closer she came to him.

"Are you ok?"

"No, I'm not," she sniffled.

"It's ok," Jacob consoled. "What's the matter?"

"I just look so ugly, and I'm fat, and since when do I even care about these things?"

Jacob was a bit taken back. How could she ever, even remotely, think that she was anything less than lovely?

"Ness," he said quietly through the door. "Could we please talk face to face?"

"I can't"

"Why not?"

Nessie opened the door only a crack, peeking out at her Jacob. How could she leave her room looking the way she did? Jacob's skin was a perfect russet, even, smooth. He had to have the most amazing dark eyes she had ever seen and his hair was thick, straight and glossy black. Jacob was beautiful. Surely he didn't know what it felt like to be ugly.

"There you are," Jacob smiled.

Even his smile was perfect, Nessie observed. Just seeing his face made her heart swell. She longed to be where she belonged, right beside her best friend. She quickly snapped out of it.

"Jacob, I can't come out," Renesmee whispered. "I have…a zit."

Her face burned red.

"Is that all?" Jacob smiled with relief.

Renesmee bristled with anger and embarrassment. Jacob quickly realizing his mistake, composed his face.

"Ness, I am sorry you feel so bad but really, it's no big deal," He soothed.

After a few long moments, Nessie opened her door just a little more to slip her hand through the crack, grabbing Jacob's hand.

Pictures flashed into Jacob's mind. He saw Bella, Rosalie, Alice, and Esme flash quickly in front of his eyes. He saw them the way Nessie saw them, as perfect. She flashed a picture of flawless Rosalie's body. She flashed a picture of Bella's beautiful laughing face, Esme's hair without a single strand out of place, Alice and her amazing fashion sense and agility. Last she showed a picture of herself looking in the mirror as all of her gorgeous family hovered around her, playing with her hair and putting make up on her face for fun. Nessie showed him how she felt, that with all the hair care products and make-up in the world she would never be as stunning as them. Jacob could feel her flood of insecurity crashing down.

Nessie took back her hand, looking morose. She shifted her eyes from Jacob to her feet.

"I see," Jacob said with a look of fierce determination.

Jacob pushed lightly on the door as Nessie jumped back, allowing him to come in. He only took a few strides in when he noticed Nessie covering her face with her hair and backing away from him. Jacob couldn't explain the hurt that had built up inside of him as she did those actions.

"Nessie," Jacob stated as almost a reprimand.

Three steps and he was standing in front of her, then kneeled to get at more eye level because he towered over her. With his large calloused hands he pushed back soft curls from her face. He delicately lifted her chin with his finger. She finally looked him in the face, her eyes red, cheeks stained with tears. There was only a small red bump on her forehead.

"You really don't see yourself at all," he breathed. "Trust me Nessie, you are a hundred times more beautiful than anyone else, inside and out. I know how you feel.

At your age I was skinny and goofy," Jacob said. He pretended to think really hard. "Now that I think of it, I guess the goofy part stayed."

Nessie smiled.

"I hated it. Some times I didn't want to leave my room either. No girl would ever look twice at me… and the one girl I did like… had a super hot boyfriend" I hope you get a laugh out of that Edward, he thought, knowing every vamp in the house was listening "that I was always comparing myself to. But no human is perfect Ness. I still get bad hair days and zits. You're part human, Nessie and this is just a small part of being human."

Nessie felt bothered by this girl who had caught Jacob's attention, an almost possessive pull tugged at her. She pushed off those feelings and thought about how even Jacob felt like this. He understood. He was still human and had flaws. Relief spread through her as at least one person she was around wasn't completely perfect.

"Do you feel any better?"

"A little."

Jacob hugged Nessie and she held him and closed her eyes, really appreciating for the first time his musky woodsy smell. The warmth of his body felt like the fire on first beach on the coldest of nights. She breathed in deep and sighed feeling comfortable and really at home.