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Jacob and Nessie will not be together just yet. Sorry, I know a lot of you are waiting for that to happen, but there's still something in store for them. Besides, I don't want to totally crush Ken's heart.

Disclaimer:

Characters based on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga.

(Nessie POV)

The next few days were a bit chaotic at home. I didn't get a chance to talk to Jacob after I heard his pre-recorded message. Our families from Washington were occupying a lot of my family and the pack's time that it was hard to get a time alone with him.

Grandpa Carlisle also took advantage of my vacation to continue my telepathic training. Like Jacob said before, he was always around when I trained since I told him about passing out. It was a bit nerve wrecking to know that he was around; it made me a bit conscious. Having a lot of audience didn't help either. I was grateful for Uncle Jasper's gift that made me calm every time I was a bit nervous.

"Nessie, are you ready for today?" Grandpa Carlisle asked. We were outside and my vampire family and the werewolves, except for Jacob and my mom, were spread around the forest, varying in distance. Dad was settled near me, close enough to hear both my thoughts and my intended mind-listener.

"What are we doing today?" I asked Grandpa as I settled in the middle of everyone. The humans were seated on the side and gathered together as they watched the training session. Since we already knew that my power worked on humans, we left them out of the training. We all felt that it was better to have them closer in the middle so that if anything happens, it would be easier to protect them if they were in the same location.

"Try switching your thoughts quickly around everyone. I want to know if there's any delay," Grandpa Carlisle instructed.

"Okay, uhm, just random things?" I asked. Grandpa nodded and I turned to my dad to wait for his signal that his head was clear.

"Clear your heads. Don't answer out loud, just in your heads, and keep it short. Nessie needs to switch around quickly and I need to make sure your reactions will match what she said," dad announced. He nodded at me and I started projecting thoughts.

Alice, I read Memoirs of a Geisha like ten times already and edited my review at least five times.

Rosalie, are you going to do anything to my Beetle or you already did your magic?

Uncle Emmett, when are you watching my next game?

Tanya, how are the others doing?

Leah, learned new recipes lately?

"How did I do?" I asked my dad after the first set of thoughts I projected.

"Really good; you switch really fast that I have two or three answers in my head while you're asking the next set," dad answered.

"Impressive," Grandpa Carlisle said.

"Does she do this a lot?" I heard Grandpa Charlie asked my mom while Grandpa Carlisle was taking notes.

"The training? No, just when she has spare time. She doesn't usually project her thoughts since we don't want her causing trouble 'outside'," mom explained.

"She really is a very special young lady," Sue said but it was not addressed to my mom. From where I was standing, it looked like she said it to Jacob. I wasn't sure if it was just my imagination since I didn't know why Sue would say that to Jacob.

"Nessie," I heard my dad call me.

"Yes, dad?" I asked. He was shaking his head. He must have read my thoughts when I was wondering earlier.

"Stop over analyzing things," he simply said and smiled. Of all the powers out there, my dad got mind-reading. How inconvenient!

"I wonder what else we should try," Grandpa Carlisle's voice brought me out of my daze.

"How about moving target?" Uncle Jasper suggested from afar.

"Not a bad idea," Grandpa Carlisle said. "We need you to move around, but not so fast. Let's keep this simple for now." I heard shuffling sound from the woods; everyone must have started moving already.

You really think I could do this? I asked my dad through my thoughts. I didn't want anybody else to know that I was having self-doubt. Dad nodded at me. I took a deep breath and concentrated.

"We're getting tired moving around, you know," I heard Seth shout from the forest.

Oh, shut it. I'm still concentrating, I thought in my head.

"Ohhh, Nessie's getting feisty," Seth laughed. I looked at my dad; we were both confused.

"What am I missing?" Grandpa Carlisle asked.

"How did you do that?" dad asked.

"I don't know. I was still trying to formulate a thought in my head then he answered," I said.

"Gather 'round," Grandpa Carlisle called out and everyone met up with us.

"What happened?" Jacob asked.

"I think Nessie's power just got a lot stronger in the last hour that we were training," dad said. "Earlier, she managed to switch targets quickly. Just a minute ago, she managed to project thoughts to Seth without saying his name. She just concentrated on what he said."

"This is getting better and better," Alice chimed.

"Yes, but now, angel, you have to be more careful than before," mom warned and I nodded.

"I think that's enough training for now. Humans have to eat, vampires need to hunt," Granma Esme announced and we all went inside. After Granma served our food, she and the rest of my vampire family excused themselves to go hunting. I hadn't gone hunting since winter break since we had human visitors and it would be impolite to leave them without a host. Not that I was complaining, my mom and Granma always cooked a feast each day for all of our visitors to enjoy.

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Three weeks break from school was not enough time to spend with my family. The days quickly passed and then it was time for our visitors to go.

"We'll see you in a few months," Grandpa Charlie and Grandma Sue said as they both hugged me.

"Can't wait for summer," I said and kissed them both on the cheeks before letting go. I hugged everyone else, including Paul, who did not shrug after I hugged him. Last to say goodbye was Tanya and Embry.

"I'll tell the others to come down to Forks this summer so we could have a little get together when you go home for vacation," Tanya said.

"I'm looking forward to that," I said with a smile.

Our visitors loaded Jacob, Leah and my parents' vehicles. It would be a few months before I would see them again, but it would not be so long and I had something to look forward too.

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"Nessie! Alice!" Ken greeted as he ran up to Alice and I as soon as he saw us walking. "I didn't know it was you. New car?" he asked. Since I got my Beetle, Alice and I agreed that I would be driving to school from now on.

"Yeah; gift from my family," I answered. I remembered the gifts I got aside from that; a cell phone from my family in Forks and La Push and the voice recorder from Jacob. Both of these gifts never left my pockets since I got them.

"Nice," Ken commented which brought me back from my daze. "My parents promised me a brand new car after graduation."

"You won't have to wait too long, then," I said as he grabbed our bags.

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"How's your vacation?" Marianne asked Alice and me after giving us a quick hug. The whole classroom was buzzing with students talking about what they did over the winter break.

"We had a full house and Nessie got a car," Alice said.

"No way!" Marianne shrieked. "What kind?"

"A purple Beetle," I smiled.

"How cute!"

"And I'm going to need your number again so I could save it on my," I said then pulled out something from my pocket, "cell phone."

"Oh, you suck! You have so many cool gifts! My cell is old but my mom won't buy me a new one yet," Marianne said.

"It pays to have a large family. I only got two gifts but they totally rock," I said.

"You forgot about your third gift," Alice teased.

"What is it?" Marianne asked but before Alice could tell her anything, Miss Cheung entered the classroom and started the lesson for the day.

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"Hey," Sabrina greeted us when we entered our English classroom. "Marianne was just giving me some info about your gifts," she said to me.

"What was the third gift?" Marianne asked.

"It's not just the what, it's also from whom," Alice teased.

Stop it already, I said to Alice in my head. She just rolled her eyes on me.

"Was it from Jacob?" Sabrina squealed. Alice nodded.

"Details!" Marianne demanded but I was saved by the teacher again; Mr. Thomas called the class in order.

The class went faster than I hoped for and I knew that Marianne would bug me as soon as we were out of the door. "Don't spill any details until lunch, I want to hear it at the same time," Sabrina said as she dashed out of the classroom after English. Marianne, Alice and I walked to our History class; Marianne didn't ask for any info about the third gift. I wanted the hour to pass as slowly as possible so that I wouldn't have to deal with the interrogating party at lunch.

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I dragged myself to the cafeteria after History. Sabrina and Ken were waiting for us at our usual table and waved us over. It looked like they had enough food for four; they must have bought extra food for me and Marianne so that we would have more time to chat.

"I wasn't sure what you want to eat today, so we just took almost one of each," Sabrina said as she patted the space beside her for me to sit on.

"Sabrina was babbling about gifts you received for Christmas. I told her I saw the car," Ken said. "Then she mentioned something about a cell phone so I was wondering if I could get your number."

"I guess," I shrugged my shoulder and Ken took out his phone so that I could enter my number on his.

"So, what's the third gift?" Marianne asked.

"You said she only had two," Ken said to Sabrina.

"Two from her family. Jacob gave her a separate gift," Sabrina said. Though it was low, I heard Ken groan.

"He gave me a voice recorder," I finally told them with hopes that this part of the conversation would end. I hoped in vain.

"What so special about a voice recorder?" Ken snorted.

"I don't get it either," Marianne said.

"When you went to our house and sang with Nessie, Jacob told her that she was good. Nessie, here, said that Jacob was just saying that because Aunt Esme fed him, then he said that she should hear herself sing, hence the voice recorder," Alice explained.

You're so not helping! I screamed in Alice's head. She flinched, but the others didn't notice.

"Oh, that's sweet. He's a really big fan of your beautiful voice," Sabrina cooed.

"Have you recorded anything yet?" Ken asked; his voice was bitter.

"Yeah, just one song," I answered truthfully.

"Can we hear it?" Marianne requested.

"Play it, Nessie," Alice said. "I haven't heard it yet either."

I pulled out the voice recorder from my pocket and pulled out the earphones from the jack. I carefully chose Track 3 so that they wouldn't hear the message from Jacob and the song that he downloaded for me.

"What song did you record?" Ken asked.

"It's the first song I learned to play. 'You were meant for me' by Jewel." I placed the player on the table and we all leaned in so we could hear the song.

"I think I've heard this song before," Sabrina said and Marianne nodded.

"Turn it up a bit," Alice requested.

You can hear it perfectly fine, I snapped at her. She stuck her tongue at me. I turned the volume up a little bit, but still low enough so that only the five of us could hear.

"I wish you had that when we were singing last time. At least you'll have something to remember me by as well," Ken sighed. I felt bad for him. I knew how much he liked me and I didn't want to lead him on. He was a great friend and he knew that that was all he was for me.

"Maybe next time," I said and smiled at him.

"Looking forward to it," he beamed with a smile that didn't reach his ears like it normally did.

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A/N: It's not a very good chapter. I just needed to make Nessie's power better for later.