By the time Jade had come home from school, I was just getting back from the Rez. I just spent the afternoon at Emily's eating lunch with the whole pack. Jared and Paul obviously didn't think it was weird for me to be there. Quil, Embry, Jacob, and Seth didn't have a problem either. Emily freaking loves me by the way! It was the others (Sam, Leah, and the two new wolves) were hard nuts to crack; especially since Sam has been a grumpy butt since Nessie was born. But that was beside the point. Besides it wasn't like Paul and I were dating or anything. We're just really good friends. Sparkles just sent me a look that said, 'Really?'. What? He shook his head and continued playing the piano. Anyway, Emily loved me so much, she invited me to eat with them again. I told her I would do it again. Anyway, after grabbing myself a snack, I went upstairs and found Jade sitting in her room, staring out the window. That's weird. She's usually playing with Bree, Nessie, or the boys. I lightly knocked on her door. She turned around and frowned. "How was school today?" She looked like something was bothering and I want to find out. She shrugged.

"It was okay," She said before turning back to looking out the window.

"Just okay?"

"Yeah," I frowned.

"Do you want to talk about it?" She sighed.

"I don't have any friends in my class and everyone still makes fun of me." She said looking down at her lap, sadly.

"Is there any one in your class who doesn't make fun of you?" She started to shake her head no, but then looked thoughtful.

"There is one girl." Okay, that's a start.

"What's her name?"

"Her name is Nina Williams."

"Is she new here?"

"Uh-huh and everyone thinks she's weird." I wanted so badly to roll my eyes, but I didn't.

"Why's that?" I asked, genuinely curious. "She can't be that weird. I mean, I'm the weirdest person I know, so that's saying something coming from me." Jade giggled a little.

"I don't know why they think that. I think she's nice." She said smiling. I nodded.

"Good. Have you tried talking to her?"

"Yeah, but she's really shy." Jade was frowning as she said this. "I want her to be my friend." This was good.

"Then keep trying to talk to her." Hopefully if she becomes friends with Nina, then Jade will want to go to school more. "I'm sure she'll eventually come out of her shell. Just keep talking to her and if you have to have a partner for an assignment, make her your partner." Jade nodded.

"Okay, Aunt Pyper, I will." I grinned.

"Good and if those kids keep making fun of you, just ignore them. They're just jealous of how awesome you are." I said winking at her. She grinned back. She ran over to me and hugged me before taking off to who knows where. I shook my head.

"Good job," I turn around to see Shay standing there, smiling at me.

"Thanks. I could see that something was bothering her, so I wanted to try to see if I could do anything to help."

"I think that whatever was bothering her, isn't bothering her anymore." Shay said and then went to go find the boys, when we heard a big crashing sound. I knew that everything was fine because I heard Emmett laughing and Sparkles cussing up a storm. I grinned. Aw man, I wish I was there to witness that. Oh well, I hope that whatever got broken wasn't something Esme would get upset over. I know how she is about her things getting broken. I went to my room to find the boys hiding under my blanket.

"What are you two doing?" I was so confused.

"Shh, we're playing hide and seek." Dorian said smiling. I nodded.

"Okay," I guess I won't be sitting on my bed any time soon. I thought going to my bookshelf and pulling off a random book that I'm pretty sure I read a bunch of times already, but oh well. I guess I'll go read on the porch then... or maybe I could find a spot in the trees? Nah, that's way too much effort to read a book. On my way down stairs, I noticed Bree was looking in rooms and in corners. "Playing hide and seek?" She nodded.

"It's really hard not to cheat." She said pouting. I grinned.

"I know, but they'd get mad if you did that." She nodded, frowning.

"I know."

"Good luck," She grimaced.

"Thanks, I'm going to need it." I nodded before continuing on going outside. She's gotten very mature since she's started staying with us. I wonder when her birthday is. I feel like she could use a birthday party or something. Sparkles was outside, blowing off steam I guess, when I got out there.

"Having a bad day?" I decided to ask. Sparkles just scowled at me. "Hey, I was just asking." I said rolling my eyes as I sat down on the porch swing. He sighed.

"No, I'm sure you've heard about what happened just now." I shrugged.

"More or less,"

"Plus Bella is starting to be difficult."

"How so?" I was curious.

"I've been trying to convince her to go on a vacation with me the past week. I was planning on having Esme to watch Nessie while we're away, but Bella won't have anything to do with it."

"Maybe she's not ready to leave her yet." He frowned.

"It's been months since Nessie was born,"

"Yeah, but you know how protective of Nessie she is. You can't honestly expect her to just separate herself from her daughter that easily. I understand that you just want some time with just the two of you, but you're going to have to try a lot harder than this to convince her." He sighed.

"You make no sense." I grinned.

"I know!" He scowled at me. "But seriously, though, you should try a little harder to convince her." He nodded.

"Thanks, I guess."

"You're welcome!" He shook his head and most likely went back to his and Bella's cottage. I love messing with him. I thought as I opened my book to the first chapter. I wish I could go on a vacation. I wonder if I could convince Paul to go with me. Now that would be a challenge. Sam probably wouldn't be very happy about it either. If I did get Paul to come with me, I'd probably want to go to New Zealand to do some sight seeing. I heard that it's really pretty there.