Author's Note: I don't own the Twilight Saga or any of the places or characters mentioned below. I wish I did but sadly I don't; Stephenie Meyer owns them.

This is what I think JAsper would be thinking on a more rebellious day :) Hope you like it!!!


Terrible Tender Twos

Ch.8- School

Jasper's P.O.V.

God, I don't know how I get stuck in these type of situations. First, the earring incident and now this. What won't I do for my wife? But when she begs I just can't say no. And that's how I ended up having to home school my niece today. Apparently in the early hours of the morning Carlisle got a call from the hospital about someone trying to cliff dive in La Push and it didn't go so well. Bella was lucky the time she tried but this guy wasn't so lucky. So any way, Carlisle normally teaches Renesmee basic skills like math, science, history, English, and reading but since he is gone at the hospital I have to teach the little thing. I love Nessie; don't get me wrong, I just don't have much patience for the youthful. It probably because of the constant mood swings that come with being a toddler or PMSing girl. But either way I can't stand these two stages (if you have two X chromosomes; only one stage if you have one X chromosome) in a person's life. Did I mention how much I HATE high school? I wanted to go to an all boys school but no. Again I fell for Alice's begging game and I went to public, co-ed, high school with her.

So here I sat, waiting for my niece and her always late parents, in the dining room. Carlisle had time (thank God!!!!!) to write me a note telling me what to do and what we were suppose to cover today. It was all basic things like adding, subtracting, verbs, nouns, planets, and some geography instead of history. These things she would pick up quickly; Nessie is an insanely fast learner. The toughie was getting her to sit still long enough to actually learn, memorize, and complete assignments on the topic at hand. I had watched a few of Nessie and Carlisle's schooling sessions; they almost never ended on a happy note. Nessie almost always through a fit about how it was boring, no fun, useless, or how stupid she was because she couldn't learn a complete lesson in five seconds. I mean, she is very young and she isn't use to focusing that long. She likes to run around, play, color, or jump around. She can barely sit through a movie. She is just a massive ball of energy.

I wasn't surprised when she came in with her parents, late as usual. But it was strange, she seemed… tired. She had dark spots under her eyes and her hair was a mess. She was gloomy and I instantly felt her emotions of sleepiness when she walked in the room. OH HAPPY DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If she's tired then she will sit still. If she sits still then she learns faster. The faster she learns the less time I have to be a teacher to an emotional toddler!!! And even better it's raining out which always puts humans in a more relaxed state of mind.

I know what you're thinking: why don't you just change her emotions? I would if I could but sadly, I can't. Bella and Edward made me agree to not change her emotions. She needs to learn to control them by herself. So there is the answer to your question.

Nessie walked very slowly over to the chair across from mine.

"Good morning Renesmee." I addressed my niece as if she was a grown woman. I don't feel it is right to treat children as if they are stupid, because most aren't. They are fully capable of understand us.

"Jasper, may we have a word?" Edward asked.

"Sure. Stay right here Nessie." I walked over to Bella and Edward and followed them outside onto the porch.

"Jasper, something's wrong with Nessie." Bella said.

"What do you mean? She's tired that's all! Humans do get fatigued; don't you remember Bella?"

"No Jasper, this is something else." Edward told me; notice how he told me, he didn't just say it. "She has been like this all morning. She won't eat, drink, play, or speak; she won't do anything. We had to pull her out of bed five minutes ago. It's like her hearing and speaking have just turned off. She mopes around if she has to, otherwise she will just sit down on the ground and hang her head. You need to find out what's wrong with her. She won't talk to us, so maybe she'll talk to you."

"I'll help with whatever I can." I said. I was militarily trained to accept challenges and over come them; this was no different.

"Edward and I are meeting Angela and Ben in Port Townsend so we'll be back at around three thirty this afternoon." Bella informed me. Now I had a deadline to meet, but hey, I do like a good challenge.

"Okay you guys go. I'll take care of this before you get back. Have fun and tell Angela and Ben we say hi." I headed back into the house. I walked over to the dining room table. Nessie wasn't there. I ran over to Rose and Emmett kissing (yuck!) on the couch.

"Have you guys seen Renesmee?" I asked.

"Do I look like a babysitter?" Emmett asked.

"I'll take that as a no. And a bit of advice: GET A ROOM!!!!" I yelled. I ran upstairs into Esme's office. "Have you seen Nessie?"

"No Jasper. Honey, is everything alright?" Esme asked in what was suppose to be a soothing motherly tone but it just made me even more worried.

"No. Nessie was sitting at the dining room table and I stepped outside to talk to Edward and Bella and they said that she is having depression-like symptoms and I was told to fix it and then I came back inside and she wasn't there and I asked Rose and Emmett and they haven't seen her." I took a deep breath.

"Ok. Let's find her before it gets out of hand."

Esme followed me into the computer room. Alice was online shopping, again.

"Alice, sweetie, have you seen Nessie?" Esme asked.

"No, but I did hear little foot steps go past the stairs when you were outside talking to Edward and Bella." She said.

"Thanks honey." I said to my wife.

"Hold on. I want to help out too."

So now I had Esme and Alice following me. I stopped and so did they. I listened. I could hear something coming from the kitchen. We walked into the kitchen really quietly. I looked around. Crouched down in the corner Nessie was sitting eating a cookie. Alice crouched down next to her.

"Nessie, what's wrong?"

There was a very long period of silence. She looked up guiltily. "I'm sorry. I was hungry."

"It's fine honey. How about we get you some real breakfast?" Esme asked. I picked Nessie up and placed her in Alice's lap on the couch. Alice started to brush her hair while Esme made her breakfast. Renesmee barely ate. Esme made her a cup of hot milk. Renesmee barely drank. In a whole hour of trying to get her to perk up she only said about five words. Something was seriously wrong.

"Nessie do you want to go color?" Rosalie asked.

"Outside?" Renesmee asked.

"No sweetie. You can't color outside, it's raining." Emmett said.

"Never mind, I don't like coloring anymore."

Renesmee hung her head. "Why don't we go do some math or reading Ness so when Grandpa comes home it's all done?" Alice asked.

"Ok." She walked over to the table and climbed on a chair. She reached across the table for a pencil and a math worksheet. She did it in a matter of minutes. Then she took a map. She filled in all the states west of the Mississippi River. She did a handout on verbs and nouns and read a story from a little book. She grabbed another book and read about planets. We all just watched with amazement. It only took her a half an hour to do everything when it normally took hours with Carlisle. She pushed her chair away from the table. She hopped down and walked to the door, opened it, and walked onto the porch. She sat on the swing in the front of the house and swung her legs back and forth. Then I made my move.

"Stay here." I told everyone. I walked outside, sat next to Nessie, and rapped my arm around her. "Nessie what's bothering you?"

"Nothing."

"If nothing is bothering you then why are you acting as if you are sad?"

"I don't know."

"Yes you do Nessie. Now tell me what's wrong, please." She didn't answer for a while.

"Well I heard Daddy and Mommy talking about me last night. They said that I had to learn to go potty on a potty but I don't want to. They said I had to be a big girl but I don't want to be a big girl. I want to be a baby forever." She started to cry. It took all my strength to not give her what she wanted. I could bite her and she could be little forever. But then we would have the Volturi on us about having an immortal child. Did I mention how much I HATE the Volturi?

"Sweetie, everyone has to grow up. Plus, being a big girl is a lot of fun. All you have to do is go to the bathroom on a potty and then you get to have lots more fun." I rubbed her back in soothing circles and hid her face in my chest. She looked up at me.

"But Uncle Jazz, you and everyone else never change or grow up?"

"We grew up a long time ago but we are still growing; mentally and emotionally, not physically like you." I told her.

"But I don't want to grow up." She told me.

"I know sweetie. I know." I pressed her cheek against my chest and she stayed there, quiet and still, for a long time. I looked down and I noticed she was asleep. I pressed her palm against my cheek and watched her dreams. She dreamt about her and me walking down into the forest. She found a box of five hundred crayons and drew an absolutely stunning picture. I think Edward had been showing her pictures from Picasso because these were strangely alike. I carried her into the house and into Edward's old room. I tucked her into the bed Bella use to sleep in. She was asleep for a long time. At about two in the afternoon she came downstairs. She got her box of crayons and drew a picture of our family. Then she drew a picture of a rainy day with a girl standing in it wearing a yellow rain coat.

Then Bella and Edward came home.

"Mommy!" Renesmee ran into Bella's arms.

"Nessie, baby, remember the game we played when you went to work with Grandpa?" Bella asked.

"Ya. Where I had to call you and Daddy my brother and sister?"

"Exactly. We are going to play that game for the next few minutes, ok?"

"Ok, sister." She smiled.

"Why are we playing this 'game' Bella?" Alice asked.

"Well… Ben and Angela are with us. They have some news." Bella said. Then right on time, Ben and Angela walked in through the open door. Everyone greeted them with hugs.

Angela crouched down. "This must be your newest sister-in-law, right Bella?"

"Yes, Angela. This is Renesmee. Can you say hi to Angela and Ben ?" Bella asked.

Renesmee looked up at Edward and asked him a silent question. He nodded in response. "Hi. My name is Renesmee and I am two years old." She said. I can guess the question she asked Edward was if she was supposed to give the usual public speech. He obviously said yes. "Mommy," Nessie looked at Esme, "do you want to see the picture I drew?"

"Of course sweetie. Why don't you show your brother and sister too?" Esme said. Renesmee walked over to the dining room table and got here picture. She ran to Edward and he caught her in his arms.

"See Edward?" Renesmee asked him.

"It's very pretty." Edward said then he turned toward Bella.

"It's beautiful Nessie." She kissed her cheek.

"Do you want to see too?" Nessie asked Angela and Ben.

"Sure." Ben said. Edward set Nessie on the ground and see skipped over to where they stood. She showed them. They praised her. She instantly found new friends. We all walked over and sat in the living room. Renesmee sat in between Ben and Angela. We talked for about an hour.

"So Bella said you had news… What is it?" Alice asked.

"Well… Ben and I are engaged and we wanted to know who Bella and Edward's wedding planner was because their wedding was so beautiful and we want the same for ours." Angela said.

Alice smiled. "It was Esme, Renee, and I!!!"

"So would you guys be able to planner our wedding? You can do whatever you want." Angela asked.

"Of course!!! I would love to plan your wedding!!!!" Alice ran over and hugged them both. They started to make plans and choose colors.

"Well, we should get going. I have to go over to Mike and Jessica's. Did you hear; Mike might be popping the question to Jessica?"

"I only heard rumors!" Bella was now jumping out of her chair.

Ben and Angela hugged and kissed us good bye and Renesmee drew a picture of them holding hands on a beach that looked a lot like La Push's Second Beach.

"Nessie? How would you like to be the flower girl in our wedding?" Angela asked.

"Really? I would love to Miss Angela!" She hugged Angela and Ben good bye and then they left for Mike and Jessica's apartment.

Then Carlisle drove into the driveway. "Hello everyone. Sorry I had to leave so early. Did you get your learning done Nessie?" He said as he hung up his coat and umbrella.

"Yes Grandpa. I did it all by myself." Nessie said with pride.

Then she skipped off to go draw more pictures. Maybe toddler's mood swings weren't that bad. But PMSing girls, co-ed high school, and the Volturi are still on my list of things to destroy.


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