It's only 2:30 and Jake's already had a pretty nasty run in with a snake, and Leah has some scratches on her rib from some rough tree bark. It's a very rainy day and the visibility isn't so great. Esme made chicken noodle soup and Bella and Alice have been watching some old school Halloween movies all day, despite it being the first day of September. I can't pick on them too much, it's the sort of day you just want to curl up into your bed and never get up. Jake's on a reluctant break so his ankle can heal and he's sipping some soup, making worried eyes at Bella who's decided on her baby name. "Renesmee is a bit of a mouthful." He mentions lightly, not fully wanting to upset the pregnant lady.

Alice gives him a look that could kill before turning back to Bella. "I think it's a lovey name." She coos, rubbing little circles over her big belly. "Very meaningful." Her voice is a mere flutter, so light and airy.

Bella looks proud of it. "And EJ if it's a boy for Edward Jacob." She has a warm blush on her cheeks, the most warmth I've seen on her face since her honeymoon.

Jake looks taken aback and smile grows on his face. "EJ is nice..they're both nice." He corrects. Her smile grows wider at his praise. No matter what they've gone through Bella has always had deep love for Jacob, though it's familial. He took care of her when Edward was gone, he helped her get better. She'll never forget those days.

Edward walks in with a smile on his face, kissing the top of her head. "So you finally told them?" He rubs a hand over her hair, moving in from her face. "She's got some great names." Edwards been so supportive through her whole pregnancy, but his worry clearly grows each day. Before the blood drinking was figured out he was an absolute wreck seeing Bella so frail and weak. He's doing his best to stay calm through it all, but clearly he's terrified of her not making it through childbirth.

There's a lot of mixed emotions about the whole thing, but I think that Bella and Edward have a miracle baby. Bella gave up any ideas of having a biological child the moment she realized what Edward is. And Edward of course never thought it was possible either. It's a miracle, but it's something new, so it scares the pack of course.

They've phased in order to protect people from "the cold ones" and here the cold ones are, reproducing. No one knows what to expect from a half human, half vampire baby. I have some faith that it will all work out, the Cullen's deserve that much.

I also know that Bella and Edward aren't the only ones affected by all this. Rosalie's dream has always been to have children and she has a horrific backstory. I would love to see her be able to be an aunt. Emmett would love having a little kid around to play sports with. Alice can't wait to dress the baby and I think her and Jasper always talked about adopting.

Plus the baby will have some amazing grandparents. Esme already knows how to cook and Carlisle is a doctor, the baby will be healthy and safe. I just hope Charlie can be involved someday too. I can imagine him taking the baby to baseball games, fishing, doing some hiking too.

"Gwen I think I'm fine now." Jake repeats for the third time now, this time trying to sound more earnest.

I roll my eyes and move onto the floor to take a better look at his wound. The snake got him in the ankle and it was a pretty nasty bite. Carlisle got all the venom out and left me to clean it up and check on it so he could get back to the hospital. Poor Jake was teary-eyed over the pain, I think he's just a bit embarrassed.

I remove the bandage and dab the area. "I think five more minutes and you'll be good to go." They have quick healing times. Initially it was difficult to figure out how to help them without knowing the true recovery time. It was trial and error but I think I'm practically a werewolf nurse at this point.

I cover his wound again and plop down on the opposite couch with a huff.

Jake's phone buzzes and he holds it up to his ear. I get up to get a snack but while I'm walking past Jake he grabs my wrist. I turn to look down at him and he's staring up at me rolling his eyes. "Seth I can't leave right now I'm on patrol, I just had a minor snake bite, Gwen can pick you up." He gives me a look and I nod, not minding a drive.

His face lights up with some amusement and I notice Edward chuckling a little bit. My lack of superhuman hearing prevents me from being in the know. "Quit being embarrassed, it's just Gwen, she's the only one available."

I shoot him a confused look but he just shakes his head a little bit. "She'll be there soon, bye." He hangs up, chuckling. "Sorry Gwen, Seth's car isn't starting and he needs a ride from school. He's embarrassed."

I scrunch my eyebrows together as I grab my purse from the couch. "Why?"

"Cause he's still in high school and we're not, I don't know." He dismisses it. "Sorry I'd go but, ya know."

I wave a hand at him. "It's not a big deal, I got it. You can start your shift again now if you feel okay to do it. Don't push yourself too early." I warn. Seth does that a lot with his wounds and he just ends up worse off.

I collect my things and head out to my car to make the short drive. I think it's stupid Seth's embarrassed he's still in high school, we're all only a year older. Though I think he's always been embarrassed about being the youngest. Sue also sort of cradled him for a while, but he was always such a momma's boy, I'm sure she just couldn't let that go. It's not that she gave him special treatment, she just kept him away from girls and alcohol for longer than he wanted to. She raised him to be sweet and reserved.

I actually haven't even been down to the high school since graduation day, so it's a little bittersweet to be in the parking lot again. There's still a lot of students crowding the lot but I manage to find Seth leaning against his car. He looks pouty with his arms crossed and a frown on his face. I can't help but laugh a little. I park across from him and get out of the car to see if I can help fix his first.

"Hey." I smile at him.

His face is scrunched up and he looks like he's in pain the moment he sees me. "I'm really sorry about this, it won't happen again. I couldn't fix it on my own so I'm gonna have to get a tow." He looks both frustrated and embarrassed.

"I wasn't busy, I was just babysitting Jake's snake bite." I smile, shaking my hand. "Wanna wait for the tow?" Without Seth being on patrol I have a lot less responsibility to be there, plus it's such a nice fall day I wouldn't mind hanging around here. This weather reminds me of when we'd all come to football games on Friday nights after pregaming at Quil's. It was all so fun and easy back then.

He looks around and seems defeated as people pass by us. "Are you sure? I don't want to make you wait."

I roll my eyes teasingly. "If you're not the one on patrol I have no need to be there." I joke, leaning against his car next to him.

I notice two girls from Seth's grade that I had some classes with and they both smile big at me. "Oh my god Gwen! We miss you." Lindsey gushes, coming over to give me a hug. Alexis is right behind her, waiting to hug me as well.

I giggle excitedly. "I miss you guys too!" I gush. "How's school been?"

Alexis rolls her eyes. "Boring, I'm ready to graduate already." She moans. "What are you doing here?"

I motion to Seth. "Seth's car broke down so he needed a ride, we're gonna wait for the tow."

The girls both inspect Seth. "It must stink that all your friends graduated." Lindsey frowns at him. "I miss the old seniors so much, it feels weird not having everyone around." I would be disappointed too if I were Seth and all my friends graduated before me. I'm sure he has some school friends, but he's way closer with the guys than anyone else. We were all a tight group in high school and even before that. We had a few friends outside of the group but it was never anything serious. Now that I graduated I stopped really talking to everyone else. That's also because we haven't been having get togethers, normally we'd invite some outside people to come too.

"Yeah it sucks." Alexis grumbles, kicking at the ground. "We'll catch you later Gwen, text us!" I agree and they head to Alexis's jeep.

I turn back to Seth but someone else catches my eye and I inwardly groan when it's too late, I've already made eye contact. Jeff and Peter start walking our way with big smiles on their faces. They were considered the "popular" guys because they were athletes and total assholes to everyone. No one actually likes them but they think they're superior. They always flirted with Kim and I, mostly to piss of Jared and the guys. I completely forgot about them until now.

"Gwen, no way." Peter smirks, headed my way. "I haven't seen you since you graduated." He places a hand on the small of my waist and I want to cringe. Truth be told when I was a sophomore and Peter was a freshman I went on one date with him. Back then he wasn't a super-douche, he was sort of sweet and innocent. We even made out in his car. This dissolved naturally between us shortly after and not long after his freshman year he became unbearable.

Jeff stands next to Seth, looking him up and down. "What are you doing here?"

"Car troubles." I grumble, moving away from Peter, stuffing my hands into my hoodie pockets.

"Don't go tellin me you two are a thing." Jeff gives us a judgmental look, motioning between us.

"There's no way in hell." Peter snorts, folding his arms over his chest.

"Oh fuck off, Peter." I grumble, kicking a rock near my foot. I have no pleasantries for them, none.

A big smile crowds Jeff's face at my vulgar words. He always looks to get a rise out of someone and I just gave it to him. "So defensive Gwen. You were always such a minx. I miss that." He pouts. Jeff has pale skin, a shaved head, and is very tall, even taller than Seth and the rest of the guys. He's not unattractive, but his personality is hideous. Peter is more of a pretty-boy with perfectly curled dark brown hair and a clean shaven face, with a sharp jaw. Peter comes from a bit of money and that somehow gives him the right to be a prick with a whole lot of expectations from woman to like him. I just didn't know that at first.

I fake pout at him. "How's the chlamydia chain you've started? Still going strong?"

He chuckles louder and tries to move closer to me but Seth pushes off the car and moves in between the too of us. Jeff notices the stance and puts his hands up in defensive. "We're not trying to start any trouble, just wanted to see our favorite girl." He says with a snort before turning and walking away, Peter following after him casually.

I let out a frustrated breath and shake my head, moving the hair from my face. "Dicks."

"They're the worst." He grumbles, turning back to me. "Peter brings you up sometimes."

I look over at him confused. "He does?"

He nods slowly. "Yup. Nothing you'd want to hear." Seth's a gentleman, he wouldn't want to repeat the nasty stuff those guys say, but I'm too curious and pissed off to let it go.

"Tell me." I whisper, moving back so I'm next to him again.

"Just stuff about your body and how he got "so far" with you in his car. He makes comments about how he has a better chance with you than any of us guys." Peter and Jeff always thought I was sleeping with one of the guys, they just never could figure out who. That's because I wasn't sleeping with any of my friends. I never had interest in Quil cause we were too close, or Jake cause he's like a brother to me, or Embry cause he's like the definition of a platonic friend. Jared of course is with Kim. Of course there's Seth..but I didn't have that in my mind years ago. We were all just friends.

I roll my eyes. "Barf. I would rather never have sex again." Seth laughs a little at that. "Do you have any girls at school that you like?" The question stumbles out of my mouth before I can stop it.

He groans a little, tossing back his head. "Absolutely not. And don't make it sound like I'm a little high schooler." I laugh at his words and the blush on his cheeks. Seth hates being reminded that he's still in school.

"Sorry, you're a full grown man not some wittle high-schooler." I joke but he beams with pride and I nudge his shoulder so he loses a little balance.

"Wanna sit in your car, looks like the rains about to pick up again." I smile and agree and we walk over to my car, hoping in. It's pretty windy out so I don't protest the idea. The parking lot is much more cleared out now, just a few last cars.

We're silent for a few moments until Seth speaks up. "So, you were with Quil the other day?" I nearly forgot about that and the scent thing the two of us pulled off successfully. I bite my cheek to suppress a smile.

"Yeah I haven't seen him since everything happened and I missed him, plus I wanted to hear about Claire. Turns out that's all gonna work out pretty well, her moms moving up here." I'm really happy for him and I hope I get to meet Claire someday soon.

I look over at him and he's staring forward, nodding. "That's..nice." He's not too convincing. "He used to joke that he'd imprint on you someday." He adds in.

Clearly Quil's teasing of Seth went further than just the kiss. "He was probably joking. He never liked me like that we were always just good friends." That I know for sure. Quil and I used to have a flirty relationship, but it was all just jokes and because we got each other. Neither of us ever had feelings. "Jake mentioned to me that he thought I liked Quil back in high school, I don't know where everyone gets this stuff from." I laugh a little.

Seth frowns, rubbing the back of his neck. "You guys just seemed to have chemistry, I don't know. Like I always thought you two were sort of flirty with each other."

"Any chemistry we had was strictly friendship level. The kiss meant nothing and the flirting was just joking around. It was just fun back then." I shrug a little. "I never meant anything by it and neither did he. He's not my type and the kiss wasn't mind blowing or anything, not that it was bad, but ya know."

Seth sheepishly looks at me and I remember how he said he never made out with anyone. "I don't really know, I probably wouldn't know the different between a good kiss and a bad one."

My body heats up over the topic and I swallow. "You'd know, trust me. I mean I'm sure there's plenty of girls from here that would love to be kissing you." Sure, I wish it could be me, but ya know, anyone would be lucky.

He shrugs a little. "I don't like anyone from school and no one else catches my eye."

"Can't imagine why I did." I joke a little, lifting a shoulder.

He chuckles with me and shakes his head. "You're special." I raise an eyebrow and he continues. "Any guy would be lucky to have you. I had plenty of reasons for liking you, but I wasn't even allowed to come hang out with everyone." He mutters the last part, his eyes now faced forward staring out the windshield while my eyes are planted at the side of his face.

"So if you were allowed at those parties, what would you have done?" I press him, knowing I really shouldn't. But I like our little banter and I like talking about when he liked me. I don't do it to embarrass or tease him, I do it cause I know I missed my time slot big time and it's a huge regret of mine. I just never knew he liked me and I never thought of him like that during those times.

He smiles a little. "Well I'll admit I pretty much have no game." I laugh at that, shaking my head. "It's true! But with Quil always teasing me and trying to go after you to get a rise out of me I would have made a move..and probably would've crashed and burned." He nods once.

I smile and shake my head. "I doubt that."

"You didn't like me though."

I chew on the inside of my cheek. I really wish I did like him back then. "I just didn't know you well enough back then, we never hung out one on one and you never got to come to the big get togethers. Then when I actually started to get to know you you were a wolf by then and you were over your crush." And stupid imprints became a thing.

He's just staring at me and we're both silent for a moment until head lights flash us and I look up to see the tow.