Title – Forever & Always
Disclaimer– Clearly I'm not the owner of most of these characters but I have my fun!
Setting – Portland, Oregon/ La Push, Washington/ Italy
POV– Nessie/Jacob/Jaymaya
Summary– Nessie and Jacob embark on a new adventure. They must endure new troubles together and Edward and Bella have to learn to let go of their little girl. Jacob and Nessie are soon to be Seniors in College, 5 years after Jacob's promise. Everyone has settled down and attacks are improbable but not impossible as are life's surprises.
Author's Note –

Chapter 25

He chuckled. "Open it."

I eyed him. What could it possibly have inside? I took the envelope and opened it. Inside were pictures. I turned them over so I could see. I smiled at what I saw. They were pictures of a little dark haired boy. "Is this you?"

Before he answered a new waiter came to bring me my drink. "I'm sorry about that. Is there anything else you need?"

"No, thank you."

"Good your food will be out soon."

I shuffled through the pictures some more. "Yeah, it's me. Rachel was cleaning and she found them. So I heard."

"You were so cute!" I flipped through the pictures and spotted one that caught my eye. It was a beautiful woman with dark black hair, perfectly arched eyebrows and chocolate brown eyes. She was holding a baby boy in her arms. "Is this your mom?"

"I've never seen this picture, let me see." I gave him the picture and he looked at it. He didn't take his eyes off it for a while. "I almost forgot what she looked like." He whispered sadly.

"What happened to her?" That was so inappropriate I shouldn't have asked that. "Never mind, sorry, you don't have too."

"No it's okay. I don't know, it's been a long time. I was like 6 and that night my mom and dad went to dinner. They were driving on the road and, as always, it was raining. I stayed home with my sisters. They were driving and they crashed. I know she died and my dad got out with not a scratch on him."

"I'm sorry."

"It's been almost 20 years, I'm fine." He handed me the picture and I put back in the envelope. I reached over the table and took his hand.

"There." He pointed to woman reading a book. She sat waiting for a table with her friend. She was reading Pride & Prejudice. "You love that book if was the first full length book you read by yourself. You read over and over and over. The same copy is on the third shelf from the top, ten books over in the bookshelf in the living room."

My mouth dropped. "Wow, you're good I never even thought of that."

"2-2."

"Your food." The waiter came to our table hold two plates. He put mine down first and then Jacob's. My stomach turned when I smelt it. I covered my mouth.

"Bathroom." Jacob asked for me. The waiter pointed towards the small hall. I all but ran towards it.

I hated throwing up. Not that I did usually. I never thought about it but I didn't get morning sickness, I don't think that ever happened. I guess it did now.

I swished water in my mouth to get the bitter taste out. It wasn't working.

Finally I stepped out of the bathroom and met with Jacob who waited by the door. "You okay?" I nodded. "Are you sure?"

"Yes. I'm just a bit insane right now."

"You want to go home?"

"You can eat. I'm not hungry." I thought of his food and it made me want to throw up again.

"I thought it was cleared up that we know each other pretty well. You hated the smell, I saw you. Let's go."

I didn't object because he was right. "Okay let's go."

"Good let me pay and we can go." He took out his bank card and paid for the untouched food.

"I think your dad still thinks I don't know."

That caught me off guard. I had no idea what he was talking about. "Don't know what?"

"That I'm living off him and Carlisle."

"Oh." My dad had kept doing that. He said the next time we moved he would work because he was tiered of school. "Yeah I don't know what you're talking about." My dad said I wasn't supposed to tell him because he's too prideful.

"So there's random money being deposited into my account?"

"Maybe you're just lucky." I offered.

He took the card back from the waitress and walked me out to the car. "Maybe your dad's depositing money into my account."

"Maybe."

"I knew it."

"Oh come on he wants too. Let him."

He sighed. "I have to until I graduate and we move."

Moving. He was right we would move soon, very soon. We'd been here for 7 years and we stayed in forks for 7 also, we would have to move probably after we finish College.

We drove home where Esme had put everyone to clean their rooms. We hadn't been here in a week and dust had gathered and when we packed we left a trail of mess.

I had missed my home a lot.

We got our things out of the car, by we I mean Jacob because he was being paranoid and wouldn't let me touch anything. In the backseat of the rental car I spotted the box Rachel had given me. I took it inside, it didn't weigh anything, and I was itching to know what was inside.

"What's that?" Jacob asked as he sat down next to me.

"The box Rachel gave me."

"What's inside?" he asked.

"You don't know."

"Nope, I didn't hear anything about the box."

I flipped the box open. Inside was a hand made blanket.

"Where the heck did she get that?" Jacob murmured.

I assumed it was something special. "Why do you say that?"

"My mom made for me when I was a baby."

I took it out and it was a white, soft baby blanket. "Our babies can share it."

He chuckled. "It's an old blanket, Nessie."

"No it's yours and I like it holds love and I want that for my children."

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The next morning we woke up and got ready for school. I hated that all of a sudden I had morning sickness, for this reason only I yearned Italy. Apparently I didn't get morning sickness in Italy. After I recovered I brushed my teeth. "Are you sure you want to go, we can stay here?" Jacob offered. He looked at me sympathetically.

I forced a smiled. "I'm totally fine. We've already skipped like a week, we want to graduate right?"

"We have a life time."

"I don't want to stay home, let's just go. Besides our friends are going to kill us, we left without a word."

"There's the trouble of being human. People care if you're dead or alive." He said with a chuckle. "If you feel bad tell me and we'll come back."

"Fine but I'm sure I'll be perfectly okay."

The drive to school made me get back into the hang of things. I could not believe there was a vampire war 3 days ago and now we're heading to college like nothing. My husband was almost dead and now he's driving fit as a fiddle. We have got to be the freaks of both worlds.

We arrived an hour before our class started. We got a schedule that started our classes mid morning at 10. "Nessie!" Gabby chimed. "We thought you were like kidnapped."

"No." That was last time, I wanted to add. "We had stuff to do, we're fine."

"Where's Kylie?" Jacob asked. I elbowed him and he tried to take it back.

"Probably with sleeping with another guy from the football team." Scott muttered.

I closed my mouth. "Oh, okay."

"He's sorry, right?" Gabby said. "He's still a little but upset."

"Pist is the word, I'm pist." Scott clarified.

Kara rolled her eyes. "Forget about her that goes to show she was not that in to you. Look at the bright side, you can get some freshman to go out with you. You're a good looking guy." She teased.

"Shut up." Scott crossed his arms. "I'm fine and you know what I think I will."

"How was good old Italy?" Julian asked.

I laughed. "Not too bad actually."

"Where'd you go?" Kara asked.

"Volterra." Jacob answered.

"Werewolves!" She yelled.

My eyes widened. "What!? Where'd you get that from?" My mouth dropped wide open, Jacob tensed beside me.

"Crap, that's Romania." I was bit speechless. "Vampires!"

"London, Kara." Julian clarified. This girl was going to give me a heart attack.

"Leprechauns?" She added.

"Ireland." Jacob said. It was a good cover.

"What's in Italy?"

Scott laughed. "Spaghetti and Pizza."

"Sorry, we're looking into legends in different countries in class. There's nothing in Italy." If only she knew.

"I guess not." I added with a fake laugh.

Despite that brief scare the day went pretty well. We were getting back into the feel of being human. We had a ton of work we had to finish. It was a good day by far. It was easy actually. In the coming months we would have to learn a lot of responsibility. I had faith in us. I knew we could do it.

Grr, I'm so tiered, like sleepy tiered. But I'm going to be nice and update before I sleep, and I really need it. Be nice and review BOTH chapters. Thanks so much for the feedback from the last two.

As a heads up for the next chapter I'm going to go through from October to February all in the next chapter, IDK how to describe it but you'll get something from each month. I hope you're intrigued.

I'll post SOON (maybe tomorrow), leave your love.

~Toodles.