Chapter Nine: A Pleasant Conversation Interrupted. I Should Have Seen This Coming.
I walked with Garrett a little away from the house. He was quite for a few minutes. The he stopped and turned to me. I stopped and stared at him, waiting for him to speak.
"Jacob, I wanted to give you some advice. I was the most recent to join the family and get married. I am eternally grateful to your fiancée." Garrett said solemnly.
I thought about that for a minute. I unconsciously smiled at his meaning. "I guess I can see why. If Nessie had not been born to cause conflict with the Volturi, you would have never met Kate. I can see why you would be grateful." I murmured.
He nodded and said, "yes. She brought me to Kate. Being apart of this family is my favorite part of life. It will be different for you, though."
"I know. I'm not a vampire. I will never completely fit in with this family." I sighed at that.
"No, that is not what I meant. They have already claimed you. Bella claimed you as part of her family long before the others did. I simply meant that you have waiting a long time for this. You deserve it. I had to earn my place in the family. You are already a member." Garrett told me.
I let his words sink in. they were true. Bella had wished that I were her brother. She had always thought of us as family. The rest of the Cullens accepted me soon after Nessie was born. I guess I was part of the family.
"Thanks Garrett. Is that all you wanted to talk about?" I asked. I wanted to get back to nessie, my fiancée. I smiled at the thought.
I watched the sandy-haired vampire as he replied, "I just have one question: how were you able to wait twenty years for your beloved? She was fully matured when she was seven and yet you waited. A commendable feat but how and why did you do it?" he stared incredulously at me as I thought about how to answer.
"I wanted to be respectful of Edward and Bella. Yes, I could have asked for her hand when she was seven. I probably would have made Bella murderously angry. You should have seen her reaction when she found out I had imprinted on her daughter." I snorted before doing a decent imitation of Bella, "How dare you imprint on my baby! She is mine, stay away from her. So I gave them time to have her as just their daughter. Bella is my best friend and I owe them that. I wanted to make them all happy so I gave them some time." I told garret. I could hear the others in the house talking. They were planning the rest of the evening.
"Very impressive, Jacob. I can respect that." The sandy-haired vampire mused.
"I would have done the same thing if I had imprinted on a normal human. I would have waited until the object of my imprint was twenty anyways. I wanted her to have a normal life first. Or as normal as she can have it." I smiled. Has never and will never be normal but I could try to make it that way.
"So I suppose Edward and Bella are ok with this. You marrying their daughter, I mean."
"Bella was thrilled when I asked for their permission this morning. Edward not so much at first." I told him.
"I wonder why Edward reacted that way. He seems to like you a lot. Called you his son when you were getting ready to run away with nessie from the fight." Garrett pondered.
I shrugged. " I guess fathers are like that with their daughters. He's ok with it now. Edward is just that way. He wants to protect the people he loves and knows that I really do love his daughter."
Garrett was bout to say something but his words were drowned out by a howl. The first was followed by three other howls. They were close, maybe two miles away from the house. If that. It could only mean one thing: four wolves were coming! And there were sixteen vampires here. This had to mean trouble!