Sorry it has been a while since I have updated. But this one is longer than the last one.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

I awoke rather early considering I had no school today. Thank goodness for Thanksgiving break. Thanksgiving was tomorrow and I had agreed to have Thanksgiving lunch with Shane and his mom, and have dinner with Charlie and everyone from La Push. The only thing that worried me was that Charlie really wanted to meet Shane, only he didn't know that Jacob had confessed his love for me and Shane knew. I could only imagine how awkward it would be with Jacob and Shane in a room together. I shuddered at the thought.

I took a shower and ate breakfast and went to sit in the living room on the couch next to my mom. She looked up from her book before she started speaking.

"What's wrong sweetie?" she asked before looking back down at her book.

"I'm worried about dinner tonight." I confessed.

"Why?" she looked up from her book with a confused look on her face.

"Jacob and Shane have never been in the same room together. The one time that they were in hearing range was when we went to the beach, and at that point in time Jacob hadn't told me that he loved me. And I'm just worried about how awkward it is going to be tonight with them in such close proximity to each other." I took a breath.

"I'm sure it will be fine, but if you want me to I'll talk to Jacob and tell him to behave." She winked.

"No, no. It's fine." I smiled back at her.

"Nessie!" Alice screamed from the other room. "I went shopping for you for your Thanksgiving lunch, and got another outfit for the dinner." I rolled my eyes. I didn't really need two outfits for one day, but Alice would probably shoot me if I didn't.

"You better go." My mom smiled, and she leaned over and gave me a kiss on the forehead.

I slowly got up off the couch, and walked to Alice's room. She was in her room sized closet, all the way to the back where she had dedicated a rack of clothing just for me.

"Okay here." she said, and she held up a garment bag. I raised my eyebrows up, questioning her. If it was a ball gown I was going to leave kicking and screaming if I had to. But for once she didn't go extremely overboard. She unzipped the garment bag and revealed a simple navy blue v-neck dress made of silk. It was short sleeved and zipped in the back with a bow that tied in back, and fell just below my knees. It was gorgeous. Not too dressy but sophisticated enough to wear to lunch.

"Wow, Alice. I love it." I said.

"Good, now for the dinner. I figured it would be more casual so I got this." And she unzipped another garment bag and revealed a black dress that landed just above the knees. "Do you like it?" she asked.

"Yes definitely." I smiled.

"Good." Then she took both dresses, put them back in their bags and moved to the "shoe" section in her closest. "Now I got these shoes for the blue dress." She said as she pulled out a pair of black stiletto heels.

"No way." I said.

"What? They will go perfectly with the dress." She wined.

"Do you see how tall those heels are? And it's going to be cold outside; do I not get a jacket? You know flats would work just as well." I exclaimed.

"Okay, one: it's only a four in heel, nothing bad. Two: your not going to spend the whole day outside, and three: flats don't look as good as heels." She smiled.

"Fine." I gave in. No point in arguing against something that I will never win at. "What are the shoes for the black dress?" I asked quietly, waiting for the horror that was about to arrive.

"Okay don't freak out. It's only an inch higher than the other ones. But they will go great with the dress." And she pulled out a pair of five inch satin stiletto heel peep toe pump. Oh no, this was not good.

"Alice, I will admit that they are cute, but I am not wearing that to Charlie's. I don't want to be taller than everyone. And please tell me you spent less than a hundred dollars on the shoes?" I begged.

She sighed. "Oh sweetie, you can't put a price limit on shoes. And you're short enough as it is, so you won't be taller than everyone…. I really wish you hadn't inherited the "anti-shopping" gene from your mother."

This was pointless. "Okay fine. Anything else I should be warned about?"

"Oh were just getting started. Go try on the first dress with the shoes. I have to match up jewelry next." She cheered.

I ventured back to the dresses with the black shoes in my hand and dreading the following moments. Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE clothes. But I don't like being Alice's makeover Barbie. I went into the bathroom and tried on the blue dress, which really was beautiful and put the shoes on and walked back to the closet.

"I'm back here." Alice called. I walked back to a counter that held all of Alice's jewelry. "Rose will be here any minute."

"Rose?"

"Yeah she picked up the pearl necklace that you're going to wear."

"Pearls?" I asked in disbelief. "I love pearls, but they cost way too much."

"Nessie, you know money isn't a problem, so stop worrying about it. Oh here's Rose now." And at that moment Rosalie walked in with a bag from Tiffany's and pulled out the infamous blue box with the white ribbon.

"I hope it is the right length." She said as she pulled out the string of pearls and wrapped them around my neck. "There you go." She said, stepping back as if she were looking at a piece of artwork. "You look gorgeous." She squealed.

"Yay." Alice squeaked, and clapped her hands together. "Now take the necklace off and go change into the other dress." She ordered.

As I was walking back to the bathroom to change into the other dress I herd a familiar voice.

"Nessie? Wow, you look great."

"Jacob? What are you doing here?" I asked.

"I was just stopping by for a visit." He said smiling. Then he walked over to me but stopped short as if questioning his movements.

I smiled back. "Well it's good to see you." I gave him a big hug and he hugged me back, but then pulled away after a few seconds.

"Yeah you too." He said standing away from me looking uncomfortable.

"Jacob, are you ok?" I asked. Concern covered my face.

"Sure, sure." He lied. He just stood in front of me, several feet away awkwardly, not knowing what to do. And neither did I.

"Well I need to go and change. I'm surprised Alice or Rosalie hasn't come out here to complain at me for not getting changed." I laughed, or tried to. It was a bad attempt to lighten the mood.

"Why are you dressed up anyway? Are you going somewhere?"

"Oh no." I smiled up at him. "I'm just trying on the clothes I will be wearing tomorrow for lunch and dinner."

"Oh, ok." He said quickly. "I have to go. See you tomorrow." Then he quickly walked away.

That was weird. I went to the bathroom and changed into the other dress and switched out my shoes.

"Took you long enough." Rosalie said as I walked back into the closet.

"Sorry, Jacob stopped by. But he was acting really weird."

"Oh who cares? Dogs don't know how to act normal." Rosalie laughed. "Now come on, you have to put on the diamonds I got you."

Oh no. They spent way too much money for one day. For my birthday I could understand, but Thanksgiving? Really? But I just stayed queit and let them dress me up in the all too expensive accessories that they had bought.

"Now tomorrow you have to get up early so that we have enough time to do your makeup." Rosalie smiled.

Yippee.

Not!

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I was awakened by Alice who ran into my room screaming at me for over sleeping.

"It's only 8:30." I complained.

"Yes but it's going to take awhile for me to make you look beautiful…not that you aren't all ready, but you know what I mean. Now go take a shower."

I did as I was told and when I came back the silk blue dress was hanging on my closet door, waiting to be worn. After I was dressed I walked into the kitchen to eat breakfast. I sat there for a while, eating, not paying attention to anyone or anything around me.

"Nessie?... Nessie? Can you here me?" Jacob's hand waved in front of my face as he called out my name.

"Oh. Sorry. I wasn't paying attention. What's up?"

"Nothing just came over to hang out. I thought that maybe we could hang out before you went to lunch." He looked hopeful, but I knew Alice would never allow it.

"I would love to. But Alice is helping me get ready, and you know her, everything has to be perfect." I laughed nervously. I didn't want him to be mad at me. As it was I still didn't know why he was acting so weird yesterday.

"Oh right. You wouldn't want to look bad for lunch." He frowned.

"Well don't forget that I'll see you at Charlie's tonight for dinner. Besides we can hang out tomorrow."

"Actually no you can't." My dad interrupted. "We are all going hunting tomorrow. Your mom hasn't been in a while, and neither has Jasper so we figured we should all just go."

"Good. I haven't hunted in a while either. And after all that food I'm going to be eating today, it will be nice for a change." I smiled. "And the family hasn't really spent a lot of time together in a while; I mean just the family without others around." This was going to be exciting. I hadn't hunted in a long time. It wasn't that I couldn't survive without blood, but I definitely preferred it over regular food. "Maybe Sunday?" I asked Jacob.

"Huh? Oh right. Sure." He said then he got up from the chair next to me and walked away.

"Dad?" I asked. "What's wrong with Jacob? He's been acting weird lately."

"Well I don't know if you really want to hear this from Me." he laughed.

"I don't understand. Who should I hear it from?" I asked completely confused.

"Ask your mom. Or ask him tonight at Charlie's." he smiled.

"Okay." I smiled back. "I better go to Alice. She'll kill me if there isn't enough time for me to get ready." I grimaced.

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"Lunch was wonderful Ms. Oxford."

"Thank you. I know your having Turkey for dinner tonight so I hope you didn't fill yourself up too much." She laughed.

"Do you need help cleaning up?" I asked.

"No, thank you. You and Shane can go into the living room and watch TV or something. I'll be fine." And she walked off with plates in her hands towards the kitchen.

We walked hand in hand towards the living room and sat down on the couch. The TV was on low, set to the sports channel, but neither of us was paying attention to it.

"I hope this wasn't completely boring for you." He smiled.

"No, no, of coarse not. I had a really good time."

"Good." He smiled, then leaned over towards me and kissed me. I completely forgot where we were until I heard coughing in the background. I looked up to see a man standing in the doorway.

"Hi." I said, extremely embarrassed. "Who are you?"

"Hello. And I'm Shane's father. Didn't I tell you I was coming." The man directed his question towards Shane.

"Yes," Shane stood up shielding me from the man's view. "But every other time you promised you would show up, you didn't. So why would I think this time would be any different." He glared.

I shifted my position and peered around Shane to get a better glimpse of the man who claimed he was Shane's father. He looked just like Shane except only older. He had the same hair and the same face. Everything was the same except his smile. His smile scarred me. It wasn't sincere, he looked detached from Shane. It was just a cover for what he really felt.

I took my attention off of the man's "smile" and back on the conversation. "Well, we were just leaving." Shane sneered. He grabbed my hand and pulled me off the couch and pulled me along with him towards the kitchen. "Mom! What is he doing here?" he screamed.

"What are you talking about Shane? Calm down, what's wrong?" she said calmly.

"What's wrong is that he is here. In this house. Pretending that everything is ok." He screamed again through clenched teeth. "I can't stay here. I'll come back once he's gone." He said. He gave his mom a hug and a kiss, then turned around and grabbed my hand again and pulled me back to the living room. We walked around Shane's dad who kept calling out his name, in a plea to not leave, and we left.

He drove back to my house and we just sat in the car. I didn't know what to say to him. I just continued to hold his hand. "You can stay at my house" I said after a few moments. "If you need to, if you really don't want to go back to yours." I smiled at him.

"I don't think your parents would like that." He laughed shakily. You could tell he was upset about his father's appearance.

"Believe me they won't mind. We have a guest room that you can stay at, and I'm sure that Alice would love to go shopping and buy new cloths for you." I laughed. He gave me a weird look. "Alice likes to shop. No matter whom it's for." He nodded as if he understood, although I don't think he really did. "Come inside with me." I nodded towards the house. "Believe me they won't mind." He just nodded and got out of the car.

We walked hand in hand towards the front door when Alice came running outside. "Finally. Where have you been? You need time to get ready for the dinner!" she pulled my arm, but I yanked away.

"Alice, something's come up. I need to talk to my parents." I hope she realized that I was referring to Carlisle and Esme.

"Okay. Ill go get them." And she walked off. I took Shane's hand and we walked to the living room.

"What's wrong Renesemee?" Esme asked, concern flowing through her voice.

I looked at Shane to make sure it was okay to tell them what had happened. He just looked down at his lap. "His dad came to the house while we were there, and they got into a fight. Do you think he could stay here until his dad leaves town?"

At that point my dad had walked into the room and gave a small nod towards Carlisle. "Of coarse he can stay." Carlisle said. "Esme will prepare a room for him." Esme smiled and walked upstairs to get the guest bedroom to make sure it looked like an actual bedroom.

"Do you have clothes?" Alice piped up. "Because if you don't, I would be more than happy to get you some clothes." She smiled.

"No he doesn't. And thanks Dad" I looked towards my real dad, "for letting him stay here." He just nodded. "Ill show him where the bedroom is."

I led Shane to his room and we sat on the bed. "Do you still want to go to the dinner tonight or just stay here?"

"We can go. I know that Bella's dad really wanted to meet me."

"Yeah he does. He's like a grandfather to me, so it's important to him. But he can always meet you another time, and also Jacob will be there. And everyone else who will be there will either be related to Jacob or really good friends, so I don't think you will make many friends. Maybe Seth, he probably would love you, but the rest… not so much."

"If it's important to you, then we will go." He smiled and gave me a kiss on the cheek.

"Okay. I better go change. Other wise Alice will kill me." I smiled then walked out of the room, leaving Shane alone.

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A/N: So I know I haven't updated in a while, and I apologize. But school is really hard right now (mainly because I am failing Spanish) : (

Anyway please review and tell me what you think, I really want to know. And I like to hear sugestions on what you might want to happen!! and I PROMISE I will try to update much sooner!! OH and tell me what you thought of the movie?!