When school ended, we went over to visit Renesme and Jacob. Rosalie still hated Jake, but she sucked it up to see Nessie. "Hey guys!" Jacob said warmly, his arm wrapped tightly around Nessie. She was beaming with happiness, as was he. I was too when I looked over at Edward and saw his smile. "Hey mom! Hey dad! How was high school?" Nessie laughed with us all as she spoke. I had no idea where she got that bubbly personality of hers. Edward and I were always the "suffer in silence" type, but when Renesme was upset, she let the whole world know. "Fine, dear. Very boring. How is it going here?" Edward was still happy. But that didn't surprise me anymore. "Good, good. I got a promotion at work." Jacob was glowing. "Impressive, even for a dog." Yep, Rose and Jake's relationship had definitely stayed the same. "We've got more great news, much better than that." Jake announced. Nessie glowed-her skin shined like she put on a tiny amount of body shimmer-but there was no sun. "Um, I'm gonna have a baby." My eyes widened. I was crying. Well, vampire crying. Still. "Mom? Mom! What's wrong? I'm sorry!" Renesme was shouting loudly, though I was standing next to her. "I'm just so... so... so... happy. I thought you could never have kids, but I was wrong. And if it's what you want, then I'm the happiest grandma-to-be in the world." I finished speaking, and I smiled because I spoke only the truth. I realized I hadn't seen everyone else's reactions. Esme was as thrilled as I was. Carlisle had a curious looking gleam in his eyes, so I knew he would be helping out around here. Alice was clapping her tiny hands and was hopping up and down. "I am so gonna throw a baby shower!" she squealed. Rosalie looked disturbed yet happy at the same time; another little one to look after, but with half of the creature she hated in it. Emmet was obviously trying to conjure up all the things a creature that was a quarter vampire, a quarter werewolf and half of a human could do. Jasper was interested as Carlisle was, intrigued that something like this could exist. And Edward was ecstatic; I could see it in his eyes. When he and I were arguing about my becoming immortal, he was always concerned that he was taking my ability to make other humans away from me. We lucked out, but I knew he was always feeling bad about taking it away from Renesme. And he hadn't. Jacob looked, well, words really couldn't describe it. Happy? No, more emotion than that. Excited? No, he wasn't bouncing of the walls. Maybe it was relief. But then, right then, the way he looked at my daughter made me know right away. It was true love for him. Now, Nessie and Alice were chatting about baby showers. Jasper, Emmet and Carlisle were discussing the soon-to-be baby's special abilities. Rosalie and Esme were debating if she would have a boy or a girl. And Edward and Jacob were talking about Nessie. They were talking about her health and appetite, no doubt comparing it to mine when I was pregnant. How could anyone like me ever think that the strangely gorgeous boy in her Biology class would be a vampire who she would marry and have a daughter with, and become a vampire. To think that her best friend would fall in love with her, kiss her and she would kiss him back, though it was very wrong. To think that her best friend would end up being a werewolf, who then married the vampire's daughter and got her pregnant. Yeah, well, don't ever assume anything.