I sat on the smooth leather couch, staring at the wall, smiling. Everybody thought I was just being odd. They always think that…but there was something on my mind. The happiest night of year had rolled around once again for me. Christmas Eve. Edward and Bella were snuggled up by the fire, while Renesmee was seated between Carlisle and Esme, who were reading her Twas the Night before Christmas. Rose was finishing a gingerbread house. We make one every year, but of course we never eat it. I guess it just makes us feel more human. Usually, we just end up throwing it off the roof to see how loud it is when it crashes… Jasper and Emmett were upstairs, attempting to wrap presents. The ones they do always end up deformed…sometimes they don't even close up the ends. But it didn't matter. We had just watched It's a Wonderful Life as we do every Christmas Eve, and I was truly happy. Jasper walked into the large family room with Emmett behind him, carrying gifts, which were, as I had imagined, terribly wrapped.

"Are we ready for the White Elephant gift exchange?" what? I thought to myself…I had not idea whatsoever what it was, since we had never done it before. Edward noticed my thought, and explained.

"Didn't anybody tell you? I guess you haven't been around much lately, with all the shopping you've been doing…it's our first year doing it. Bella, You, Jasper, Emmett, Rose, Carlisle, Esme, Jacob, and I…Jacob should be here soon…anyways, we all get numbers, randomly. Every one of us gives a gift…but the gift has to be something you already own. The person with number one picks a gift, not their own, while it is still wrapped, and then they…unwrap it. The next person to go can either take the gift the first person got, or unwrap another one. So, it's good to have a high number. If you had the highest number, you could see all the gifts, minus one, and choose. If a gift is taken from you, you have to unwrap another one. You can't take somebody's…get it?"

"Wow. That was a very…detailed explanation…" I understood, and was glad the "gift" had to be something you already owned…I wouldn't have to go out.

"Kay' everyone…got your gifts?" Emmett shouted excitedly. I was certain his gift would be something he found amusing, but that all of us would find disgusting, or completely useless. Jacob burst through the front door, wearing a Santa hat…

"Ready?!" he practically screamed as he threw a gift towards the tree—luckily Rose caught it, giving him here usual greeting when dealing with any of the wolves—an eye roll, accompanied by a snide smirk.

"Dog." She spat, a hint of amusement in her voice.

"Leech" Jacob chuckled—they were sort of warming up to each other. Jasper came and sat down next to me, and held out an old looking hat.

"What do you want me to do with that?" Something in my voice amused him, I guess. He laughed as he shook the hat around, jumbling the paper inside it.

"Pick a number…Edward explained before, right?" he had…but then I realized! I had no gift!

"Hold on! I'll be right back" I yelled, darting up the stairs into my bedroom…what should I give? I looked under the bed and in the closet briefly. Finally, I found the perfect thing, sitting on a shelf in the corner. I stuffed it up my shirt and ran back into the full living room.

"Hold on! Lemme get a bag!" I quickly picked a pink striped gift bag from the dining room closet.

"Okay…let's go." I squealed.

"Alice—you got number three…I got six, Edward got one, Bella got eight, Emmett got four, Rose got seven, Carlisle got five, Esme got two, Jacob got nine…" Jasper read of the list he had made. Edward groaned, knowing he would get the worst of the gifts…Jacob smiled to himself, nodding.

"So…Edward…how about you go pick a gift?" Edward stood up and walked over to the tree. He selected a small boxed gift with a shiny green bow—mine. Edward ripped the paper off as her sat down in front of the fireplace, next to Bella, again. He looked semi disturbed when he saw what was inside.

"What are these?" he gestured to the socks

"Sushi socks!" Jasper and I answered in unison

"We bought them a while ago…I thought somebody might like them!" obviously I'm not the mind reader, but I could tell Edward was hoping desperately that somebody would take the socks.

"Okayy…Esme!" Rose sang. Esme also chose a small square present, well wrapped. It was a digital photo frame from Edward. As the next people went, the gifts were somewhat acceptable. I ended up with a pizza slicer from Jacob, though. Emmett got a camera case with the Cullen crest from Carlisle. Carlisle got Scene it Squabble from Bella, and Jasper opened the "sexy Santa" suit from…of course, Emmett. Rose claimed it was hers and took it when her turn came around. Jasper opened his own gift, and kept it—a Worst Case Scenario guide to the holidays. The trouble came when Bella opened a beautiful gold locket from Esme. She loved it…and then, Jacob took it. Obviously, it was just to annoy her…and he got a kick out of it. Bella clenched her fists in anger growling at Jake the whole time, even after she opened a limited edition Louis Vuitton from Rose. She argued with Jake that he would never wear the gorgeous necklace, but he simply told her that "rules were rules". Ahh…and that's how Jacob ended up with a 14 karat gold engraved necklace…

"Kay', Ness…let's go upstairs. Santa's gotta come!" Edward said, before carrying Nessie upstairs with Bella…

And then, Jacob chased me around with the pizza slicer.