A/N: Here we go! Extra long chapter just for all you sweet people who reviewed my story! Thanks.
4 days later...
Little kids bounded around the beach, carrying ice cream cones in their hands. Nessie watched them while she sat on the beach, her arms folded around her knees.
It'd been a few days since she had been to the beach and since she had last spoken to Jacob. She knew he was worried about her and she felt horrible for not speaking to him but she just needed a few days away from him to get her thoughts straight. And that was exactly what she had told him after their last trip to the beach. Not that he wasn't keeping tabs on her. She knew that he had called Bella every night since she stopped talking to him to know what was going on with her. Which, the answer to that was, not much. She had basically been holed up in her room the whole time trying to work on her essay for Carlisle while also trying to sort out her head.
She sighed. Really, she had no clue what she had to think about that was so important that she couldn't talk to Jacob. They had a special bond between them that made her feel as if there was nothing in the world she couldn't tell Jacob and he would understand, even though she didn't always tell him everything but only because no one's thoughts were safe around Edward.
"Nessie!"
She looked up to see the familiar face of her friend, Trillion, with her black hair and wearing a black and white polka dotted bikini running towards her. Walking with her, was a guy with floppy brown hair that looked oddly familiar. But when they got closer she remembered why.
"Derin?" She asked, hoping it wasn't him and that he just had a twin.
"Yeah! I just met up with him at the beach and he says he knows you!" Trillo exclaimed.
Ooh. So it was him. How embarrassing. "Oh, well, hi, Derin."
"Hey, Renesmee! How's it going? Jeesh, I haven't seen you since you threw me into that wall!" He laughed and sat down next to her, draping an arm over her shoulders. God, he was going to be hard to get rid of.
Trillion raised her eyebrows up at them. "Well, I'll just leave you two alone, it seems like you have a lot of catching up to do." Then she walked away.
Derin started droning on about sports and school and blah, blah, blah...You had to hand it to him, the boy sure could talk. She could smell whiskey on him. He didn't seem drunk, but he didn't seem too sober, either.
Renesmee sat up and stretched her arms. "Well, Derin, as much as I really enjoyed talking to you, I gotta go."
"But-" He was about to protest before Renesmee ran off, faster than the human eye.
She stopped by the cliff side where her and Jacob had last jumped off. She sighed and took out her cell phone, punched in Jacobs cell number, the cell phone had been a present from the Cullen's.
Where R U? I'm sorry, can we talk? Send.
She waited a few minutes for his response and watched the sun set over the cliff. Her phone chimed.
Hell, U know how long I kept checkin my phone for? Where do U want to meet?
She replied. The cliff side. I'm already there. hurry.
A few minutes later, Jacob emerge from the woods.
She ran over and hugged him, trying to ignore the smell of his blood.
"Sorry Jake." She murmured into his jacket.
He laughed."Maybe you should stop talking to me more often if this is the reward."
She stepped back and smacked him playfully. "Aren't you wondering what I had to think about?"
"Not if you don't want to tell me." She saw a glimpse of hurt show in his eyes for a second before it was gone.
She opened her mouth to reply but another voice was suddenly talking over her.
"Hey! Renesmee! There you are! You ran off on me."
She turned to see Derin slowing running up the cliff towards her. Oh no. She glanced at Jacob who had his eyebrows raised at her questioningly. She turned back and dashed over to Derin, eager to get him away so she could talk with Jake.
"Derin, um, hey. I'm kinda busy right now so can you-"
"Who's that tall dude?" Derin interrupted.
"Uh-" She stammered but Derin was already walking towards Jacob. For a hybrid, she sure was bad at using her vampiric reflexes.
"Hey." Derin nodded to Jacob, whiling slinging an arm over Renesmee's shoulders. She shrugged it off.
"Nessie, who is this?" Jacob glared at Derin.
"A...person." She didn't really know why she was so reluctant to tell Jacob about Derin, probably because the less he knew about that party, the less chance she had of getting into trouble.
"I'm Derin. You must be one of Renesmee's friends. Right?"
"A family friend. And you are? A friend?"
Renesmee butted in before Derin could answer. "Actually, Jacob, I was just telling Derin about how we're dating so you're my boyfriend." She looked pleadingly at Jacob, wanting him to play along. He blushed at the word boyfriend.
"Oh, yeah. We've been together for a while now."
"Oh really? So then you know how she's such a good kisser than right?" Derin grinned.
Renesmee's face reddened, she couldn't believe he had just said that. Now her parents were going to find out for sure. She was doomed. She risked a glance at Jacob's face, it seemed to vary from shock to something she couldn't decipher...was it jealously?
She pushed Derin. "Time for annoying boy to go now."
"But-" She gave him another shove and he was gone.
"Jake..." She started but he held up a hand.
"Nessie, c'mon let's go somewhere we can talk." He grabbed her hand before she could protest and started leading her into the woods.
They ran through the forest until they reached a spot where the trees were especially dense and Jacob stopped and started taking off his shirt.
"What are you doing?" She asked, surprised by his behavior.
"Changing into a wolf, it'll be easier this way."
She didn't question him further but turned so she could advert her eyes.
She heard a soft sound and then a bark and spun around so she could see a great big russet wolf. Her russet wolf. Complete with a small braided band around his ankle with his jeans tucked into it. This reminded her of a similar bracelet that she wore around her wrist that Jacob had made for her and given to her when she was weeks old. She fingered it now as she climbed onto Jacob's back and slid into place between his shoulder blades.
He started off immediately and she had to grab tuffs of his thick fur to stay on.
She enjoyed the feeling of the wind in her face as the trees rushed by her. Jacob could run by far way faster than her but she could tell he was running extra slow now, trying to be careful with her.
She leaned down, laying her head against his shoulders and inhaling the earthy scent of his fur.
He stopped running when they reached a clearing in the woods. Renesmee knew this clearing; it was her mother's meadow, the place where her and her father often went to reminisce and watch eacthother sparkle in the sunlight.
Jacob came to a complete stop and crouched down. Renesmee jumped off him in one fluent leap.
Giving Jacob time and privacy to change form, she walked around the clearing surveying the pretty blossoming flowers. The whole meadow was extraordinary, with its lush green grass and the tall trees bordering it, complete with the sun shining on it, making Renesmee's skin have a little shiny tint but not near as noticeable as a full vampire's.
She heard Jacob approach and stand next to her. She tilted her head towards him and gently placed her fingertips on his face.
Her thoughts were a focused question mark.
Jacob gestured around him. "I thought it was a good spot. Y'know, scenery and everything. After all, it's where Bella used to go with Edward and they seemed to be all right." He grinned."They had you, didn't they?"
She nudged him. "Okay, c'mon then!" She said as she skipped into the middle of the clearing and sat down. Jacob joined her.
She looked inquiringly at him.
He cleared his throat before speaking."Uh, I don't really know how to begin this but I'm sure it's time you know. Well, I should have told you sooner but...it's not your birthday until a month so I was planning on telling you then."
Renesmee blinked. She had almost forgotten about her upcoming seventh birthday. But how could she forget? It marked the day (according to Carlisle's calculations) that she would stop growing for the rest of her semi-immortal life.
She waited for Jacob to continue. He did after a minute. And when he did, every word that came out of his mouth took Nessie a minute each to comprehend.
"Nessie, I'm imprinted with you."