Chapter 15: Her Mom

Jake and I decided to spend the afternoon playing his Xbox. He let me choose what game we played, but when I held up Call of Duty, he tensed and nodded. I put it back down, and began searching through his other games. I didn't want to add to any of his stress.

"Ness, it's okay. I'm going to have to get over this at some point. You love killing the zombies on Black Ops. Let's just play." Jake tried to get me to change my mind.

I shook my head, and crawled over to where he sat with his legs crossed on the floor. I hesitated briefly before climbing into his lap and hugging him. I whispered, "You're not ready, Jake, and that's okay. When you're ready we'll play."

Jake's arms came up and hugged me close to him, burrowing his face into my neck and breathing deeply. It was a rather intimate position, but I reminded myself that we were best friends first always and pushed away that warm feeling in the pit of my stomach.

"So, what are we going to play then?"

I removed myself from Jake's arms. "Umm, how about Need for Speed?"

Jake laughed and reached for the controller. "I'm gonna kick that sweet ass of yours."

I narrowed my eyes at him. "No, you're-" I was cut off by my phone ringing.

I went for my phone on the bed and managed to grab it just as Jake grabbed my leg and pulled me back down to the floor.

"Hello?" I was half laughing because Jake started tickling me.

"Renesmee, sweetie?" My mom's musical voice danced on the other end of the line.

I quickly sat up straight and pushed Jake's hand away. He gave me a questioning glance, so I raised my eyebrows and said, "Hey, Mom." Jake's eyes widened and he stopped messing around. "What's up?"

"I just wanted to check up on you because Alice wasn't able to see you starting in the middle of the night last night and hasn't been able to see you since. The last thing she saw was you driving to La Push. Is everything okay?"

Alice had expanded her power to include me over the years. She had always been able to see humans and vampires. She hadn't been able to see me, a hybrid, at first, but eventually she was able to adapt to me. However, she still couldn't see the wolves, so my family always knew when I was hanging out with the wolves.

I normally only hung out with the wolves for a night at most. Any longer and I would call my parents to let them know where I was, and I never went to La Push in the middle of the night. I understood that this looked very suspicious. The only other problem with this situation was that my parents didn't know much about Jake and I's relationship.

They, of course, had known about us dating while I was in high school, but since they had been living up in Alaska with the Denali Coven for about 5 years, they didn't know the extent of that relationship. I had never told any of them, even my mom, that Jake and I had been sexually active. They knew about Jake leaving for war and him breaking up with me, but that was the last they had heard. Let's just say they weren't happy with that situation at all. Maybe that's why I never told them that Jake had returned, and now that we were friends again, I knew everyone was going to throw a fit.

I could see it now. All eight of them would drive down here. Carlisle and Esme would try to calm down the rest of them to no avail. Jasper would use his gift to send Jake the hurt and pain I had felt after he had left. Alice would smile sweetly and threaten to castrate him with a sugary voice. Emmett would probably just go after him which would result in Jake getting hurt. And finally, let's face it, my mom, dad, and Rosalie would skip the threatening and tackling and just rip his head off.

I had spaced out and my mom was trying to get my attention. "Sweetheart, what's wrong? Is it Charlie? Do we need to come home? Renesmee?"

"No, Mom, Grandpa's fine. Everyone's fine. I do, um, have something to tell you, and I don't think you're going to like it."

I could hear her take a breath, not that she needed it to survive. "Okay."

I began twirling my hair with my finger. It was starting to become a nervous habit. I looked at Jake who was watching me intently. I could feel myself calm down a bit as I looked at him. "Jacob's back."

There was silence on the other end of the line for a solid two minutes then, "Are you with him now?"

"Mom-"

"Is he with you now?" She sounded pissed. I don't know why. Well, I do. As I said earlier, none of them were happy when Jake left and broke my heart, but I mean it's not like I had told her we were back together.

"Yes, Mom, he's here, but before you say anything, I want you to know that he needs me, Mom. I'm not back together with him. We're just friends. Let's face it, we'll always be best friends. I already gave him the second degree. He's been back for weeks, and I just agreed to be his friend again last night."

"Weeks?" Her voice was gradually getting louder. "And you didn't tell me? What happened to our open relationship, Ren? You used to tell me everything. And where was he when you needed him, hm? He left you, Renesmee. I don't care if he's got some, stupid claim on you-"

Jake's hearing was good enough that he could hear my mom. He visibly flinched and his face turned downcast when my mom mentioned his leaving. I gave him a look that said "stop that" but he just shrugged.

"Oh, c'mon, Mom. I don't tell you everything." I said

"Oh?" Well, shit. I didn't mean for this conversation to go this way. "And what haven't you told me, Renesmee?"

"Mom, let's not, please."

"No, I want you to be honest with me and tell me stuff, and I don't want you to be around Jake."

"Mom, I'm nineteen. I'm allowed to have my own life, you know. I can choose what I want to keep to myself and who I want to hang out with."

"Fine." She hung up.

I widened my eyes at Jake. He watched me cautiously, and when I removed the phone from my ear, he asked, "What?"

"She hung up on me." My hand fell the rest of the way to my lap. "My mom actually hung up on me. Oh, shit. I can't believe she hung up on me." My voice started to get squeaky.

Jake leaned over and pushed my hair out of my face. "It'll be okay. Your mom loves you, and you guys have a good relationship. It's just a fight."

"She didn't want me to even see you." I looked down.

"Yeah, I know. Thanks by the way."

I looked up at him. "For what?"

"For loving me enough to not give up on me or our friendship." His thumb swiped across my cheekbone.

"I could never give up on you, Jake. Now, let's kick your ass in this game."