Nikki's POV

Bella dragged Jacob out of the house, and sent him flying off the porch. Esme was the first outside to see if Jake was hurt. I was the second one out, followed by Edward, Alice, Jasper, Carlisle, and then Emmett.

"You imprinted on my daughter?!" Bella yelled furiously. I rushed to Esme's side and sorta hid myself behind her a bit. This kind of behavior I had never seen from a newborn. Esme's arm wrapped around my outside shoulder.

"It wasn't my choice!" Jacob protested,

"She's a baby!" Bella yelled. Carlisle walked up to Esme's other side and wrapped his arm around her waist.

"It's not like that. Do you think Edward would have let me live if it was?" Jake said.

"I'm still debating it," Edward retorted from next to me.

"I've held her once! One time, Jacob! And already you think you have some sort of moronic wolfy claim on her?" Bella yelled as Jake as she stalked down the steps. "She's mine!" She yelled, shoving Jacob, and sending him to the ground. Hard. I felt Esme's grip on me tighten. Was she scared too/ or did she fear my safety? Next to me I heard Edward laugh. And then there was a series of growls as Seth and Leah appeared from the woods in their wolf forms. Leah growled, ready to attck,

"It's fine Leah," Jake said, standing up.

"Your gonna stay away from her," Bella said getting closer to Jake again.

"You know I can't do that," Jake said. Bella lunged and hit Jake again, sending him flying into a tree. More growls.

"Stop her Edward," Esme pleaded,". I agreed with her.

"He said it's fine," he retorted, "She's a mazing right?" he asked looking back at all of us, and then back at Bella. I looked back to. Seth and Leah stalked forward to Jake's side, as he stood up.

"Do you remember how much you wanted to be around me 3 days ago?" He asked, "That's gone now, right?"

"Long gone!" Bella snapped at him,

"Because it was her. From the beginning, it was Nessie who wanted me there," Jake said.

"Nessie? You nicknamed my daughter after the Loch Ness Monster?!" she yelled. Smart moved Jacob! I said sarcastically in my head. Edward laughed at my comment. Bella lunged at Jacob, But Seth snarled and jumped in front of Jake. Bella threw Seth into a nearby tree. Esme gasped and my arm came up to her back to reassure her. Seth whimpered as Bella looked on at what she did. Leah rushed and Jake rushed over.

"Seth are you ok?" Jacob asked. Seth whimpered in reply. Carlisle's doctor mode took over and he stepped forward to go help. But Esme's hands came up and stopped him. Seth whimpered more,

"Seth, I'm sorry,?" Bella said, clearly upset she had hurt him. Seth whimpered and stood up slowly, limping over to Leah.

"He'll be alright," Jake said, turning around. Leah nuzzled her brother, and then snarled at Bella. No doubt pissed at what she had done. "Bella, You know me better than anyone. All I want is for Ness-, Renesmee to be safe. Happy. Look, nothing ever made sense before. You, me, any of it. And now I understand why. This was the reason." He said. Bella sighed, accepting what he said.

That night...

Alice had persuaded me to follow her plan to surprise Bella for her birthday. I followed them out to the middle of the woods to see the cabin Esme had decorated. It was beautiful. It was to be a starter home for Bella, Edward and Renesmee. This also meant, that I would get to move out of the pathetically small spare room, and into Edwards room. I had everything ready, and were headed Back to the main house. I was being chased around by Emmett as Carlisle and Esme walked side by side, talking nonchalantly about nothing really in particular. Alice and Jasper suddenly dropped out of the tree's and shared a quick kiss, before we approached the house at a human like speed. Alice burst through the door, followed by Jasper, and then the rest of us. Jake was on the couch, and was rudely awaken by us. Rosalie had taken Renesmee from Bella once again. Bella turned around,

"Happy Birthday," Alice said cheerfully.

"I stopped aging three days ago," Bella replied.

"Well we're celebrating anyway. So suck it up," Alice retorted. She handed Bella a key and then dragged Edward and Bella into the woods.

Later...

I sat down on the couch next to Esme. Carlisle had disappeared to try and find out more about what had happened between me and Esme the night Renesmee was born. I stared at the marks on my hands. then looked up at Esme,

"Has he found anything yet?" I asked. She shook her head.

"Not that I know of. But he hasn't said a lot about it either, so I'm not sure," she said. I sighed and looked out the window, toward the direction of the other house deep in the woods.

"So what do you think their doing?" I asked randomly. Esme chuckled to herself.

"Something that makes me glad I'm out of hearing range," she said and smiled. I knew what she was talking about,

"Eww," I said plainly. She chuckled again. I thought for a moment. "Esme, About the other night? You- You never really got to finish the story," I said quietly. She looked at me intently,

"Well I guess we can continue. I mean. It only gets better from where we left off.' She said, repositioning herself on the couch so we were facing each other. It felt like we were best friends about to share gossip. It was kind weird. "Let's see... Oh yeah... What I remember when I woke up, was Carlisle standing over me, and Edward was off to the side." She paused as Carlisle walked in and sat down on the other side of her,

"What are you two lovely ladies talking about?" he asked, curiously, putting his arm around Esme. She smiled,

"I'm telling her my life story," she said.

"What part are you up to?" he asked. Esme smiled.

"When I woke up," she said. Carlisle grinned.

"I remember it like it was yesterday," he said, jokingly.

"Of course you do," Esme stated, matter-of-factly. they rubbed noses and shared a quick kiss, completely forgetting their surroundings. I couldn't help but look away. I felt I was intruding a private moment. Carlisle spoke and I looked up,

"You woke up, and it was chaos. You panicked quite a bit," he said in a teasing tone.

"Well yeah. Tell me you wouldn't panic if you woke up in a house with the person you missed for ten years and some strange boy." She teased back. He smiled.

"ok. I'll give you that one. But I'll leave you ladies to your conversation," He said, and stood up, giving Esme a kiss ont he cheek and then rushing upstairs. I watched her as she watched him until he disappeared. She turned back to face me.

"You know, I think I have a few photo albums around here." She said, and stood up, walking over to the large, neat book case about the couch, were Bella spent most of her sicker days. Esme searched for a minute and pulled out 4 albums, all enormous in size. "Here we go," she said, sitting back down next to me, placing the albums at out feet. She picked up one of the largest. It was a 1x1 foot squared album. It was entirely white, but the years she had it had faded the color. In the center of the cover, there was the letters "C" and "E" written in silver hand writing. Esme move a little closer to me, and flipped the album open. It was very basic inside. Basically just the pictures glued or taped to the pages, with a sentence scribbled in calligraphy underneath each photo. The first three pages had many random pictures crammed onto the pages. The first page had several worn down, black and white photo's on it. Many of them were of what looked like different ancient cathedrals. There was a picture of a church, along with a picture of a couple. Below it was a picture of a man, and a younger boy.

"Is that...Carlisle?" I asked, pointing to the small boy. Esme smiled, and chuckled,

"Yep. That's him." she said. I smiled as well. Esme flipped the page. This page was filled with way to many pictures. So many I had to look twice and count how many there were. Many of the pictures were of a little girl.

"You?" I asked, pointing to a picture of a ten year old girl in a tree. Esme smiled,

"Yeah, that's me," she said and laughed a little. I looked around. I saw another girl in a picture.

"Is that you too?"

"No. that's a picture of my sister," she replied. I was shocked. Esme and Grace looked extremely similar. I noticed there was no pictures of her said ex-husband or baby boy. But I decided not to say anything. Esme flipped the page again and there was a picture of Edward, Carlisle and her, standing in what seemed to be a living room. There was a tree behind them as well. Underneath was scribbled "First Family Christmas". The next page over was just the two of them. They seemed to be outside in the snow. The page over had a picture of Carlisle standing at a sink washing what looked like clothing. He had a jokingly exasperated look on his face, while Esme hugged him from behind. Her eyes were closed and she had a cheesy smile on her face. Underneath the picture there was scribbled the quote "your a peach". The picture over was of the two of them in the roof of a house, watching the fireworks on New Years Eve. Carlisle arm was around Esme, and she was resting up against his shoulder. The next was them on Valentines day. Then on a walk. Then there was one of Carlisle on one knee holding out a ring, and Esme was in complete shock. Then one of Carlisle and Esme on their wedding day. They looked so perfect together. There were several more pictures of Carlisle and Esme. Dates, anniversaries, more Christmas', vacations, trips. But what interested me the most was a page that was completely taken up by a photo copy of a certificate. I read it. It was an owners certificate for an island of the coast of Rio. The island was called Isle Esme, and was signed in Esme's name, but was no doubt forged by Carlisle. I looked up,

"You own an island named after you?!" I asked in shock. She nodded.

"It was a 50th wedding anniversary present from Carlisle," She told me. I was blown away. Amazed.

We looked through the rest of the albums as Esme told me about how the family came to be. On book had Alice and Jasper, another Rose and Emmett, and the last had Bella and Edward.