He went through his next two classes with Bella thinking about how the girl had begun to block out her thoughts. The best someone had ever done to evade them from reading his mind was distract their thoughts and that was after they had met him. He had never met this woman before during his existence. The last class officially ended and him and Bella went back to their house.

Bella was still concerned about Edward. There was obviously something wrong. Edward had barely spoken a word during and in between their classes. She was hoping that soon he would be able to tell her. The college was out of sight and figured that Edward would soon start to speak. She began to worry when he did not.

"What's wrong?" asked Bella.

"Nothing that you have to worry about love?" said Edward.

"I know that look, Edward. You're worried about something, and you're trying to figure it out," said Bella.

"Yes there is something that I am trying to figure out," smiled Edward, "but it's nothing that you can help me with love. I have to have Jacob help me with it."

That caught Bella by surprise. She had never heard Edward ask for Edward's help before, only when he was forced to. Now he was asking for help.

"Why can't I help?" asked Bella.

"Because I can't read your mind love," said Bella, "I need to conduct an experiment with Jacob."

Bella was still curious to what Edward was trying to find out but he sounded like his normal self again. He wasn't asking for help from Jacob he was going to have him do something. Even though she would like very much for the two of them to get along other than just through Renesme and behave civilized to one another she accepted they would never really truly get along.

They shortly arrived back at the house and when they opened the door no one was around. No one was on the lower level and there was no noise that could be heard from the house in general. Bella began to become worried. Then there was a load crash from upstairs. Bella quickly looked at Edward, then heard Jacob moan upstairs.

In a flash they were upstairs, in Renesme's room. Renesme was sitting on top of Jacob, who was laughing while he was on the floor.

"What happened?" asked Bella.

Edward laughed. Bella knew that he saw the answer in Jacob's mind.

"I got Jakey," said Renesme.

"I can see that honey," said Bella, but what was that crash.

"Jacob and Renesme were wrestling. And Nessy won," said Edward.

"Wrestling, I don't think that's a good idea," said Bella.

"Relax Bells," said Jacob, "Nessy knows that she can only wrestle with me. Right Nessy?" said Jacob.

"Right. And animals too," said Renesme.

"Don't play wrestle with animals like you do with Jake okay? When you hunt you only attack don't wrestle okay?" said Bella.

"Okay," said Renesme.

"Bella, why don't you stay with Renesme for a little while, while I talk to Jacob," said Edward.

Jacob's eyes widened with shock at the realization of Edward's words. He picked up Renesme and walked over to Bella, handing her over. Edward turned around and left the room followed by Jacob. Edward kept walking until he was downstairs in the living room. Jacob silently followed. Edward turned around to face Jacob.

"Listen, I'm sorry if I did anything you think was harmful, I wouldn't…" Jacob stopped as he saw a smirk appear on Edward's face, "What's so funny?"

"You're not in trouble Jacob. As for the wrestling, she's going to wrestle animals anyway and you're the safest animal there is because you could never hurt her. I know you can't," said Edward.

"Well if you didn't want to scold me, then what did you want to talk to me about?" asked Jacob.

"I need to try a little experiment?" smiled Edward.

"Whoa hold on a sec. What kind of Experiment?" asked Jacob nervously. Edward smiled that there was a little bit of fear in Jacob still against him.

"You know I can read your thoughts right, very, very clearly, right?" said Edward.

"Yes."

"Your thoughts are probably one," Edward smirked, "if not the loudest I know. If you wouldn't mind could u try to soften your thoughts."

Jacob had a puzzled look on his face trying to think of why Edward would ask him to do that. He had known Edward for over two years fully aware that Edward could very easily read his mind. He hadn't had a problem with the loudness of his thoughts before, at least when he wasn't trying to take Bella away from him. Edward smirked at his thoughts.

"No. It's not for any of those reasons. As I said it's just an experiment," said Edward.

"Why?" asked Jacob.

Edward looked at Jacob directly in the eyes. Edward described what had happened in class, earlier that day so quickly and softly so that only the two of them would be able to hear.

"Everybody that I have met within the last one-hundred years that has known about my power has never been able to soften their thoughts to where I was almost not able to hear them. I don't know however, if people have tried to quiet their thoughts before and they just distracted themselves. I have to be sure. So will you please help me Jacob," said Edward.

All Jacob could do was nod.

"Thank you," said Edward, focusing his mind on Jacob's and no one else's.

"Is there anything you want me to think about in particular?" asked Jacob.

"Think of something that you know by heart, that's verbal, and you can easily repeat over just in case this takes a while. Then try to quiet them," said Edward.

Jacob nodded. The one thing that Jacob had memorized to heart were all the moments that he had spent with Renesme, since the time that she was born to the current moment. He began with him sharing feeding Renesme human blood from the bottle with Rosalie. Then he thought about teaching Renesme how to hunt animals by making a game out of it. The thoughts became more current and Jake tried to make his thoughts seem as quiet as he could.

After about ten minutes of Edward reading Jake's mind he gave up. Jake was able to silence his thoughts. There were small dips where his memories would seem quieter but that happens with every mind as they start to lose some small amount of focus. Jacob noticed Edward relax and brought his thoughts back to the current day.

"Did it work?" asked Jacob.

"I guess that depends on what you mean by work," said Edward.

"Did my thoughts get quieter?" asked Jacob.

"No."

Jacob looked at Edward, trying to read his face. There was a slight twitch that showed a grimace but he quickly reposed himself. Then Jacob looked to Edward's eyes, he was clearly trying to figure something out.

"Should we be worried?" asked Jacob.

"Not until I speak to Carlisle," said Edward.