I slowly turned around to take a look at Jake. His eyes were wide and full of fear. I can't say that my expression was any less panicked. I gave Jasper a frantic look. He nodded and gave me the 'Relax, I have it all under control' look.

I walked back over to Jacob and grabbed his hand. He squeezed mine so tight it hurt. But the pain was nothing compared to what I knew was ahead of me. We walked slowly toward the door as Uncle Jaz followed. We were about to step inside when my dad spoke.

"There will be no need for your assistance tonight, Jasper. I am completely under control. Please return to the family and we will see you in the morning for the party." Dad said in a calm, gentle voice.

I gave Jaz a frantic look pleading him to stay. He shrugged. "Daddy's orders," He joked, "I did what I came here to do. You're on your own now kiddo." He smiled at me and turned away. He stopped mid walk and abruptly turned to Jake. "Child molester." He laughed as he disappeared into the forest. And we were alone.

"In. Now." Dad said harshly and pointed inside the doorframe.

Jake and I crept into the small cottage and took a seat on the faded couch facing the stone fireplace. My dad shut the door behind us and turned on the lamp for Jake's sake. I knew perfectly well that dad and I could see just fine. He slowly walked to the front of the couch to look at us. He starred into both sets of our eyes and sighed. Then he walked over to a wooden rocking chair next to the fire.

"Before I begin," My dad sighed as he rubbed his head in his hands, "I'm just going to relieve the tension by saying that I am not planning on detaching anyone's body parts from their bodies tonight. No matter how much I would love to do remove a certain body part." He paused to stare at Jake who let out a quiet, deep whimper and squeezed my hand tighter.

I focused on what my dad just said. He wasn't going to murder us? I was utterly shocked. What the hell was going on in his mind? My dad usually jumps at any opportunity to injure Jake, but now he has this huge and reasonable circumstance and he's backing out? I had no idea what was going on. I was expecting the first words out of my dad's mouth to be 'what the beepity beep beep beepity beep is going on in you beeping minds!' Or something along those lines. My dad was actually being reasonable for once in my life.

I focused back to my dad's face and he was giving me a dirty look.

'Sorry.' I thought.

"Like I was saying," dad continued, "Bella and I were just about to go for a hunt before I…heard you. I was pacing around the house thinking to myself that you were dead or injured. But I kept my cool for your mother's sake. You had no idea how worried I was and you're lucky I didn't go over to the reservation right then and there to find you. That would be one awkward meeting don't you think? But then I heard Jasper's thoughts and I couldn't believe it for a moment. And then I heard you begging for me not to kill your or Jacob. I knew it had to be true but I didn't want to believe you either. You wouldn't do that. But then the…images….in Jacob's mind. They were so disgusting yet I knew what he did to you was true. And you're right. I should be cracking some skull's right now but I'm not going to because I'm going to be 'reasonable'" He paused in deep thought and restraint. "Anyway, I'm glad you're safe. No, I'm thrilled that you're safe. And I understand that what you had to tell Jacob was…"he struggled to find an appropriate word, "…important. I guess you would say. But the reason you had for being late? I cannot believe you would disobey me and my morals. Not just me, your mom, Charlie, your aunts and uncles. None of them would ever expect you to do this." He ended that thought angrily and I could tell he was holding back a lot of emotion. He probably wanted to punch Jacob in the face multiple times and then disembowel him.

The thought of me being a disappointment to my family was too much for me to handle. So I started to cry, again. For the trillionth time today. "Dad I-"

"I know, Nessie. I know that you're a smart girl and I know you think you did the right thing but you're so young. You don't know anything. Nessie, you are eight years old!" Dad stood up and got in my face. "As if being more than two hours past curfew wasn't bad enough, you had to do the unthinkable and make a-a-whore out of yourself. There I said it." My dad sighed at sat back down.

I started to sob. He was right. I did act like a whore. I acted like the girls me and Jake always make fun of. The girls I thought I was different from. I couldn't believe myself.

"Nessie, I didn't…I didn't mean it like that. I would never accuse you of being such a vile thing. I know you love him; for some ungodly reason. And I know you want to spend the rest of your life with him but now was the worst time to do…that." My dad walked over and knelt in front of me. He started to stroke my cheek. "Renesmee Carlie, I love you so much. You are my little girl. The only child I will ever have that I created with the love of my life. You are beautiful and talented and one-of-a-kind. I just thought you were smarter than that. And you know I have every right to throw a fit. But I'm not going to. It's your birthday and we're all going to put on a happy face until the parties over. I won't tell the family not even mom. But just promise me, you'll be smarter in the future. I do love you more than you can imagine, Nessie. So I'm going to remain calm and civil. For one night at least."

I tried to make a full sentence between my sobs. "I'm sorry daddy, I know you mean what's best and I love you too." He wrapped his arms around me and kissed my forehead. I started to calm down. "Thanks for postponing my death sentence until tomorrow." I chuckled.

He started to stand up. "Anytime." He kissed my head again and started walking toward the door. "I'm going to meet mom up in the mountains to hunt. It's our little secret, for now. We'll be back in the morning. Get some sleep you look awful." He joked as he opened the door. "I love you and Happy 8th Birthday." He said as he shut the door. He dragged out my age when he spoke.

I was shocked and confused. I only had a two minute lecture and I was off the hook for now. There was no screams or bloodshed. That was definitely a first for us. I looked over at Jake who was also in shock.

"What the hell was that?" I asked astonished.

"I have no idea." Jake answered.

"He didn't take one leap and you and only made one single comment about detaching your man junk." I teased as I laid my head on his shoulder.

We sat there in silence for about ten minutes. I can't even imagine what was going on in Jake's head. I can tell you what I was thinking. I just got the best birthday present in the entire world. I got to see another day. My dad totally took one of those chill pill's I proscribed him eight years ago.

"You need to get to bed." Jake finally said as he picked me up from the waist. "You look awful."

"Thanks." I muttered as I was being forcibly moved into my bedroom.

"You know what I mean." Jake joked as he put me down on my feet. He went over to my bed and laid across it to watch me. He looked so funny lying across my purple bedspread.

I walked over to my dresser and through a pair of green and black flannel pajama pants on the floor along with a black tank top. I took off Sue's shorts as Jake whistled obnoxiously at me. You'd think after all we'd been through that night he would of gotten a little more mature. But he was Jake so of course not. I stepped into my pajama bottoms and slipped off my shirt and bra. I threw the tank top over my head as I totted lazily to my bathroom. I looked in the mirror. Eww, Jake was right. I did look like crap. My entire day consisted of crying, passing out, and having sex in a river. No wonder I looked homeless.

I brushed out my tangles in my spiral hair and neatly gathered them into a pony tail in the middle of my head. I put my Batman toothpaste on my Spiderman tooth brush and brushed lazily for a good three minutes. I spat in the sink and splashed my face with water. I could barely move I was so tired.

When I got back to my room, Jake was under the covers in my bed lying against the wall. I shuffled toward him and climbed in myself. He pressed his body against mine and started playing with my hair.

I was almost asleep when Jake started to laugh.

"Hey, Ness." He chuckled.

"What?" I whined. I was so tired I was about to throw a shoe at him.

"You didn't turn off the light." He said as he pointed to my celling light.

"Hey, Jake, fuck you." I joked.

He got up without being told and flipped the switch on the wall. I felt him climb back under the sheets with me and it became warm again. I snuggled against his chest and sighed.

"Long day, huh?" He whispered into my hair.

"You have no idea." I replied.

"Get some sleep birthday girl." He laughed. "I got a big surprise for you in the morning."

"Like this morning's surprise wasn't bad enough?"

"This one's even better."

"Fab-freakin'-tabulous" I sassed.

He laughed into my pony tail. "Go to bed."

"You too Mr. Man. You're about as human as I am."

"Fine." He sighed as he wiggled closer to me. "Goodnight, I love you. Ms. Cullen."

"I love you more Mr. Black." I joked as I slipped into unconsciousness.

"That's impossible, future Mrs. Black."

I was too exhausted to reply. Did he just say Mrs. Black? For god's sake he just told me he loved me today and then we had sex now he's planning marriage? All within at 24 hour time frame? He was rushing and what for? We've got an eternity to live. I felt him kiss my relaxed lips. I couldn't even kiss him back. My exhaustion took over and I was out. I sunk into deep sleep.

I had my dream again. Except there was more to it. I was running in that familiar forest. I heard the voice again. The whisper. "Get her" it said harshly. I spun around to see where it came from. Nothing. I kept running and running. I ran to a huge cliff. Something inside of me wanted to jump. My body needed to do it even though I had no clue why. So I crouched low to the ground and sprang up with force. Something was falling down with me too. I couldn't focus on it. It was moving too fast. Right when I hit the bottom I woke up.

I sprung up to a sitting position in my bed. I was breathing heavily. I touched my forehead and it was drenched with sweat. I glanced over at Jacob who was still sound asleep. The clock on my dresser said 10:23am. I only got eight hours of sleep but I was oddly wide awake. The dream I had seemed so real. I'd never had it go that far before. I usually always wake up when I hear the whisper. That night was different.

I slowly stepped out of bed and crept to the bathroom. I felt gross so I decided to take a shower. I climbed out of my clothes and undid my hair. The shower was set on cold which was a good thing. With Jacob in bed with me it had to of been 110 degrees under the sheets. I washed my hair and shaved as usual. When I stepped out of the shower I was overcome with intense nausea and fled to the toilet. I violently threw up the contents of my stomach. I heard Jake run to my side.

"Nessie," He sounded panicked, "What's wrong?"

"Go away." I ordered, "I don't want you to see me like this."

"Not likely, Nessie." Jake said as he sat next to me. I was still blowing chunks.

After about five minutes I was feeling better. Jake helped me up and I flushed the nastiness down the toilet. I walked over to the sink to brush my teeth.

"Nice toothbrush." Jake joked.

"Don't be jealous." I sassed back.

I walked back to my room when I was finished and picked up the clothes my Aunt Alice laid out while I was asleep. I never had to worry about what I was going to wear. Jake followed me back to the room looking at me like I was going to die or something.

"Jake I'm fine," I said while putting on some panties. "It's probably just stress."

I put on my strapless bra and grabbed the dress that was picked out for me. When I studied it I groaned. It was pretty and all but I'd much rather wear something comfy that I can get dirty in. I slid on the pale blue strapless dress and tied the navy blue ribbon behind my back. I walked back into the bathroom to put on my face. I used a little blush to brighten up my pale complexion and I put some eyeliner and mascara on to bring out my eyes. I really didn't wear much makeup. I didn't see the need. I saw a silk headband made out of the same materials as the bow on my dress sitting on the counter. Alice must have put it here. My hair was pretty much dry by that time so I parted it evenly and placed the headband neatly behind my bangs.

I picked up my clothes from earlier and walked back to my room to put them in the hamper. I walked in and Jacob whistled. I rolled my eyes at him as I put the clothes away.

"I've got the most beautiful girlfriend in the entire world." He said as he grabbed me from behind to kiss my neck. Was I really his girlfriend now? It sounded so weird. I thought it was more than that but there really wasn't a word to describe Jake and I's relationship. Girlfriend didn't really cut it.

"Are you ready for your surprise now?" he smirked.