Chapter Twelve

Renesme's POV

"How was the bonfire last night?" Bella asked me while my aunts were handing out their gifts to everyone.

"It was really fun." I said with a sigh. "I'm really going to miss the gang."

"I know you will, sweetie. But you'll love it in Alaska. The Denali's are just the kind of people to distract you from Forks." Bella commented with enthusiasm.

I could tell that the year she spent with them since my wedding was good for her. She seemed less stressed and more bubbly. I even heard Edward admitting that she let Alice dress her while they were up there. That alone is mind-blowing.

"If you say so." I said, still in a funk. Something about the bonfire last night seemed really permanent. I didn't like that feeling.

My eyes drifted to my kids and I had to laugh. EJ and Rosie, who were both physically three years old, were unwrapping their gifts in a hurry while Carlie had to have Jake unwrap her presents for her since her one year old body didn't comprehend the fact that the wrapping paper was not in fact the present.

"Ness, you gotta see what Emmett got them." Jake said with a laugh, pulling me up off the couch next to my mother and dropping me on his lap on the floor.

"Oh, no, you didn't." I said, glaring at my favorite uncle. "Take them back this instant. I do not want my kids riding on motorcycles."

"Toy motorcycles." Emmett corrected. "Besides, they are perfectly safe."

"For you. My kids are partly human. You don't know what this could do to them if they crash." I said angrily, going into crazy parental mode.

"Chill, Ness. They're cute and harmless." Jake commented in my ear.

I glanced at the three identical, except color, mini motorbikes. EJ's was black as night with a sidecar attachment on the side while Carlie's was hot pink and Rosie's was black with pink flames across the sides.

"What's with the sidecar?" I asked skeptically.

"Oh, its for Carlie to ride in with her twin until she grows big enough to ride her own." Emmett explained. If he thought I was going for one minute let my normal daughter in that contraption, he had another thing coming.

Rosalie rolled her eyes. "I told him to buy them something practical like Alice and I did, but he was set on getting them those." My aunt said with a pause. "Though, we may have gone overboard with their new wardrobes."

Now Alice rolled her eyes. "We are simply prepared for their next growth spurts."

"Sure, sure." Jake said, knowing that we wouldn't have anywhere to put our other stuff at our new house in Alaska thanks to their shopping spree.

"You haven't opened my present yet, Nessie." Jasper spoke up and I looked around for my pile of presents that I had been slowly dismantling.

"Sorry, Jazz." I apologized and Rosie looked up at me. Oops, I had forgotten that we called her Jazz sometimes too. She was named after him after all.

I opened Jasper's gift and nearly burst into tears. It was an old picture from before the Volturi 'battle' of my whole family, including Jacob. I was barely two weeks old in the picture though I looked much older. The picture was framed in a picture frame that I didn't recognize. It was older than most of my other presents and appeared to have writing on it.

'To my little sister -Jasper' it read and I gasped. This was from his human life and to his actual sister that died when he was changed.

"No…I can't accept this, Jasper. Its too much." I stuttered.

"But you are my little sister now." Jasper admitted, understanding where my mind had jumped to. "She would understand. Please, Nessie, you're insulting me."

"Are you sure?" I asked, still unsure. I knew that he didn't have many human relics from his old life and I knew that it was really special to him.

"Positive." Jasper replied.

I scanned the pile of my presents. Fancy clothes from Alice, Rosalie's favorite pair of earrings that I've been coveting since I was born, a very inappropriate pair of lingerie from Emmett, Jasper's picture, Daddy's old Volvo, comfortable outfits from Esme and Mama that made Alice yell at them for but I will appreciate forever, and an old bible from Carlisle that was so worn out that it had to be one of the oldest ones he owned…hmm, where was Jake's present?

"Babe?" I asked, distracting my Jacob from our children.

"Yeah?" He responded back.

"Where is your present for me?" I asked, trying not to sound like the eight year old I was.

"In my pocket." He said and Emmett burst out laughing which caused my husband to blush. "Not that, you sick freak." He growled at my uncle and the rest of the vampires laughed, except Edward.

Jacob pulled the small package of brightly wrapped paper out of his pocket and placed it in my hands. "I was going to wait until later, but you seem to want it now." He said with a smile. "My impatient little Loch Ness."

When I unwrapped the green paper, I gasped. It was another Quileute promise bracelet. The last one I had broke before the wedding and, at the time, I was too excited about my ring to care. But lately, whenever I'd visit Claire and see her's, I'd get jealous.

"How'd you know this is what I wanted?" I asked in shock.

"I knew that you would want to feel connected to La Push once we leave and that this can be a daily reminder of it." Jake admitted with a blush. "Plus, it seems weird to see you without it after having one your whole life. You don't have to wear it if you don't want t-"

"I want to." I said with a cheesy smile. "This means more to me than the wedding ring, because it's a symbol of your loyalty forever."

With that, he placed the homemade bracelet on my wrist and brought my face closer for a kiss.