Authors Note: All characters belong to Stephenie Meyer. I just exercise them and let them sparkle in the sun. Thanks for all the reviews!! Luv ya'll! I'm not totally happy with this chapter, I cannot seem to get inside Edwards head properly. Well, it's only for this chapter.

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Chapter 3

Edward

I watched as the car disappeared out of sight, wishing that there were nothing more to it than my sister taking her niece shopping. Well, for Alice it wasn't, but the way Nessie kept all her thoughts on a tight leash, I knew this was just an excuse to get out of the house and my hearing range. I took a deep sigh, the act instinctively made me focus better, and I turned to the forest. Bella and Jasper had decided to go out hunting, and I picked up their scent as I started walking. I was in no hurry to have this discussion. I found my wife, just finishing of her meal, a red fox, after about half an hour.

"Bella, we need to talk, and I would really appreciate if you could lift your shield so I could share your thoughts about what I am to tell you."

"Sure thing. What's it about, you can't be worried she's shopping to much, she's been avoiding this trip for months now."

I felt her mind open to me, and saw that she was just happy that Nessie finally decided to get new clothes without us having to force her. Well, that was about to change.

"No, the shopping is good, I just don't like the reason for it..."

"What? You're the one who's been going on about her tops and skirts all being to short."

"Yes, but her decision today wasn't based on that, no matter what she said."

I could hear the calculations in her head, trying to sum up the information and get to a result.

"A boy? Why haven't you said anything?"

"She had a dream last night, and I didn't like it, it was so loud I would have heard it even if I had been in the garage. But it wasn't very unlike dreams she's had in the past. What worries me is her reaction to it, as we saw this morning, and the fact that she is trying so hard not to think about the dream and the person in it."

I could see my wife wrinkle her forehead as I spoke, and her thoughts were racing.

"What was it about? And why would she be ashamed of it?"

"It was about Jacob... Bella, I believe our baby girl has discovered boys, or really, a certain werewolf..."

I felt her mind stop. And then start to work so fast no human would have survived.

"NO! It's too soon, she's only five for crying out loud!"

"Honey, she'll be six in just another week, and Carlisle said that she's almost fully grown by now, he believed her to be around 15-16 in real age."

"I don't care! She's too young!"

"Too young for what? Falling in love? Bella, she's not that much younger than you were when we first met."

"You must have seen this coming, why didn't you stop it?"

"Stop what? I can't make her not dream things, can I? And I actually hoped that she was dreaming of Jacob because he's been keeping himself away from her as much as he possibly can lately."

I sensed how she started to calm down, and in the corner of my eye I saw Jaspers shadow. I'll have to thank him for this later.

"I've been meaning to ask you about that, why IS Jacob keeping away all of a sudden?"

"Well, he was the first one to discover that Nessie was turning in to a -I winced at the word- woman... He told me that he'd try to keep away because he couldn't help but to think inappropriate things and he didn't want me to have to hear that."

"So that's why he only comes around when you're out hunting? WHAT DID YOU SAY, INAPPROPRIATE?? JASPER, GET OF MY EMOTIONS, I'M GONNA KILL THAT..."

Her thoughts snapped shut before me as her mind filled with rage. I wrapped my arms around her, now that she wasn't a newborn anymore I could easily hold on to her even when she fought with all her strength.

"Bella, he can't help it. Not more than he could help the imprinting itself, it's how it works. He feels awful about it. Do you really think I would have been able to not rip his head of, if all those thoughts didn't fill him with remorse?"

Once again, she was soothed by Jasper, and this time she let it happen.

"So he's really not going to act on those feelings?"

"Bella, I know how it was between the two of you, but he has grown up since that happened. He's just as afraid as you are that he will repeat that pattern. Also a reason for him avoiding us."

I could see that "thinking wrinkle" in her forehead, and wondered why she hadn't lifted her shield again.

"What are you thinking? Let me hear."

"I'll tell you in due time." She actually had a smile on her face, and were mocking my curiosity. "I'm going to try something, so please don't be worried if you all of a sudden can't hear the thoughts of someone in the house."

"Are you going to try and shield them? That's really a nice idea, but you'll get exhausted going around keeping it up all the time."

"I'm not so sure, I mean, it doesn't take any power to keep my own head shielded. That's why I wanna try. It would make a great gift for her birthday, don't you think?"

"You amaze me everyday, you do know that right? Your mind truly work in different paths than normal."

Since both she and Jasper were done hunting, we started back towards the house. Just before we could see it Alice's thoughts broke in to my mind.

WARNING! WARNING! I CAN'T TELL YOU WHY, I PROMISED, BUT WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM ON OUR HANDS!!

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A N: Please review. This one was really, really difficult. I'm so not a vamp-minded girl. Don't worry, Nessie will be back to tell her side again.