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Blue Moon
Chapter 3--Lesson 1--Don't Look a Gift Horse in its Mouth
Jacob's POV
"Alice! Leave me the hell alone!" I snarled, moving away from the tiny leech.
"Oh, come on…" Alice pouted, "It will only take a minute.
I groaned.
It was Saturday morning and I was at The White House. As soon as I had arrived this morning I knew it was the biggest mistake of my life. Alice was on a rampage.
I had hoped to be in and out this morning, just long enough for Nessie to change into the new dress that Alice had bought for her and be off with Bella and Nessie to Charlie's, but no just luck followed.
As soon as I had opened the door, Alice had practically tackled me.
"Alice, I'm not going to let you measure me so back off!" I exclaimed. I was getting really annoyed at the tiny vamp.
She put her hands on her hips and glared up at me. "Jacob," she warned, "You're part of the family now, it's time for you to start looking the part. No more cut-off sweats!"
"I wouldn't go that far…" Blondie retorted, obviously miffed that Alice had called me family and she thought other-wise. I couldn't blame her on that. I wasn't a vampire.
Turning, I glared at her. "Hey Blondie, what does a blonde and a beer bottle have in common?" I asked. Refusing to look at me, I continued on, "They're both empty from the neck up!"
Blondie rolled her eyes, crossed her arms, and focused very intently on the TV, not commenting.
Edward chuckled and Emmett covered up a laugh with a fake cough--very convincing since vampires cough--looking sheepish. Jasper had a smile on his face from where he sat behind a book.
"Please, Jacob…I promise that I'll keep your style in mind…well, omitting the sweats, anyway." Her eyes were all wide and earnest looking, like a puppy.
"Just let her, man," Emmett voiced, "You don't want to wake up in the middle of the night with her touching you in all the wrong places, right?" He laughed boomingly, obviously imagining the scenario.
Bella laughed. "You wont be able to stop her, trust me on that one." She rolled her eyes though I saw the relief on her face that she wasn't the one being measured.
Nessie sighed in my arms and touched her palm to my face. She showed me the many times she had to stand still, being measured and then she tied it into the many times Alice and Rosalie dressed her up like a doll. The vision portrayed impatience and annoyance, but acceptance.
"Just close your eyes and go to your happy place," Bella advised. "That's what I do."
I sighed and set Nessie down. She ran and leapt into Edward's arms. He chuckled and kissed the top of her head.
"Fine, shortie, but make it fast and don't buy me anything patsy looking," I amended.
Alice smiled brightly, excitement filling her eyes. "Thank you, thank you, thank you! You wont regret this!" She wrapped her arms around my waist and then in the next second she has a measuring tape in hand and measuring me.
"I better not," I grumbled as she forced my arms away from my body. But one look at Emmett told me I would definitely regret this for the rest of my life.
Sighing, I closed my eyes tightly and gritted my teeth waiting for Alice to finish.
Eyes snapping open at Alice's hands running up my leg, I swatted her away, saying, "Hey! You don't get to go there!"
Everyone in the room cracked up, even Blondie cracked a tight smile.
"No need," Alice replied, "I already have your measurements."
Raising my eyebrows at Bella, I asked in a whine, "Can we leave now?"
Bella laughed and nodded.
Jumping out of Edward's arms after another kiss, Nessie ran outside. Chasing after her, we climbed into Bella's red Ferrari.
Revving the engine, Bella turned to me and said, "Congrats, Jake! You are now officially part of the family."
"How's that?" I inquired, furrowing my eyebrows.
"Alice is finally dressing you," she joked, though I knew she was being serious.
I sighed and cringed. "Is that all it takes to be a Cullen?" Though I really didn't want to became a Cullen or a Hale. I wanted to stay a Black.
"Pretty much." She nodded.
Silent for a few minutes, I finally asked, "Bells? How do you deal with the money and the gifts? It's like they're shoving it down my throat. I mean, I found a thousand dollars shoved into my wallet this morning. I'm not even living with you guys yet."
Bella cringed. "You found that already, huh?" She asked.
"Yeah…who the hell did it?" I demanded.
Shaking her head, she said, "You wouldn't believe me even if I told you."
"Try me," I countered.
"Jasper."
I guffawed. "You've got to be kidding me."
Bella turned very serious and looked at me. "He likes you, you know. Even if he doesn't show it, he does. He's always been kind of quiet."
Huh?
Shaking that off, I asked, "So how do you deal with it?"
"Just accept it," she replied. "You know I hate the kinds of gifts they get me…too expensive…to extravagant. I prefer homemade gifts better, as you know,"--she lifted up her wrist to show me the wolf charm I had made her for her graduation--, "But I've learned to keep my mouth shut and accept it. They never give up. Plus, they've accumulated millions of dollars over the last century and mainly because of Alice."
"What's Alice doing?"
Bella laughed. "She can predict trends in the stock market."
I rolled my eyes. So Bella is trying to tell me that I should keep my mouth shut and accept that they have plenty of money to throw away.
No wonder they have houses everywhere and extravagant toys. I mean, they have technology in their house that I've never even heard of.
"So…I should just shut up?"
"Exactly," she mused and then jokingly added, "And you get to deal with us and our pricey indulgences for the rest of eternity." She glanced back at Nessie with a slight smile.
I groaned.
"Actually, Jake, I'm surprised with you."
"Why's that?" I asked, confused.
Bella chuckled. "Well, the old Jacob would have found that money and would have went on a rampage trying to reveal who did it and then would have punched the culprit."
I glared at Bella. "I'm still the old Jacob."
She sighed and took hold of my hand. "I know that, Jake. It's just that you've grown up so much this past year and a half. I'm proud of you."
Pulling into Charlie's driveway, I turned to Bella and asked, "Does Charlie know that you're leaving?"
Her eyebrows pulled together anxiously. "Yeah, he knows," she answered. "I told him last night."
"How did he take it?"
She waved her hand dismissively. "He really didn't react. You know how he doesn't show his emotions very often…but I could tell that he was upset, though oddly happy that I was finally going off to school and an Ivy League one at that." She rolled her eyes. "I promised him that we'd visit on holidays and that we'd keep in touch." Sighing, she looked over at the house. "At least I don't have to worry too much about him now that he has Sue. He wont starve, anyway."
Yeah, Charlie and Sue. That was weird enough to think about. I would have never thought that they'd ever be together, but they were. I'd have to admit, though, that if they ever got married it would be funny. The vampires father and the werewolves mother tying the knot. It would be pretty dysfunctional.
In retrospect, however, maybe it was meant to be. I'm not much for existential thought, but ever since Nessie's birth I've thought about fate. I believed it wasn't mere coincidence that brought Bella here to Edward and me or coincidence that he left and then came back. If Edward had never left, I believed that Bella and I would have never gotten close. Of course, I still would have turned into a werewolf, but if all the past events didn't happen, there would probably been a great chance that I would have never seen or met Renesmee.
Maybe there was a bigger purpose on why I imprinted on Nessie, a half-human half-vampire hybrid? And maybe there was a purpose on why Harry Clearwater passed away and Sue and Charlie getting together?
Were the vampires and werewolves getting tied together?
That would be pretty screwed up.
Shaking my head from all of these uncharacteristic thoughts, I followed Bella and Nessie to the house.
Charlie met us on the porch with a huge smile on his face. I was bombarded by the scent of lunch cooking. I was starving and Sue was an excellent cook.
"Grandpa!" Nessie cried, running into his arms.
Nessie had finally gotten over the aversion of not speaking in front of Charlie a few months ago. Though she kept it to a minimum. She talked often to him, of course, but she kept most of her intelligence on the DL.
Pulling back from the hug, Charlie held Nessie back at arms length and looked her over. "Still growing like a weed, I see, huh?"
Nessie blushed and giggled.
Charlie has also gotten over the shock at Nessie's accelerated growth.
"Where is my son-in-law, today?" Charlie asked Bella, standing erect.
Bella smiled, saying, "He had some errands to run today."
Charlie nodded before turning to me. "How are you doing, Jacob? I heard about the reasons behind the bon fires…" he trailed off with an angry tightness around his eyes.
Though Charlie had no idea about vampires, he's learned an awful lot about werewolves this past year. He never liked getting too much information about the supernatural, but seeing as his best friend was Billy and his girlfriend was Sue, things involuntarily slip when you don't have to be too secretive.
He knew about the packs and he also knew about Seth and Leah.
For God's sake, he's witnessed us all phase at one time or another. Like Leah. Before Leah left for school, she had become aware that Sue and Charlie were in a relationship. She had become so angry that she had exploded into her wolf form. Luckily for Sue and Charlie that they were all outside and Leah had ran away right before she phased.
It was actually hilarious seeing the look on Charlie's face when he witnessed this, because at that point the had no idea Sue's children could turn into horse-sized wolves. For all anyone knew at the time, he probably thought I was the only one.
After that episode, though, he had demanded some limited answers like the logistics of the whole thing. So he found out about who were all werewolves and he got a censored version of our history, omitting the vampires, of course. He was told there was a catalyst in for why there were shape shifters in the area but he didn't want those details, which was a great relief, because if her knew about vampires and the Italian leeches ever found out, he would be sentenced to die one way or another.
Edward did explain that the foreign vamps would probably turn him, though, because he was Bella's father. Asked why, Edward finally revealed that he really couldn't get a read out of Charlie's thoughts, except disjointed words and just the tenor of them. And the bad thing was that the Italian leeches already knew this. If given a reason…well, it wouldn't be anything good happening on that front, because obviously Charlie could be another strong shield. Of course, his would definitely work different from Bella's, but we had no doubt that it would probably be almost as strong.
After all of this was revealed and Bella had cooled down, they all sat together and playfully mused about what his powers could be. Even I had to admit it would be interesting. But hopefully we'd never have to know first hand. I think the farthest we'd go would to get Eleazar here and read him.
But despite the facts that Charlie's knowledge of the supernatural was only limited to shape shifters and that he finally accepted me and the others, he will probably undoubting learn about vampires someday, even if it took him years and finally realized his daughter wasn't aging.
Emerging out of my thoughts, I smiled at Charlie and said, "I'm doing good, despite what happened last night, but those kids were idiots. They don't understand much and they don't really know me or the Cullen's."
Charlie chuckled and muttered, "Blunt as always," which I probably wasn't meant to hear. Turning down to Nessie, he said, "Lets go inside and see if lunch is ready."
Going inside, with Nessie chattering away, we found Sue in the kitchen. The smell of garlic, tomato sauce, cheese, chicken, and basil filled my senses and my stomach growled.
Bella laughed quietly at the sound. "Sorry, Jake, that you had to deal with Alice, which made you miss breakfast."
I patted my stomach and grinned. "S'all good. Now I have more room for Sue's cooking."
"You always have room, you bottomless pit," Bella cracked.
"Hey, guys!" Came Seth's enthusiastic voice as he entered the room.
"Uncle Seth!" Nessie practically shrieked as she let go of Charlie's hand and sprinted into Seth's arms with a laugh.
Seth chuckled and kissed her on the cheek. Nessie blushed, ducked her head, and jumped out of his arms and into mine.
We spent the rest of the afternoon at Charlie's eating, talking, laughing, and watching the baseball game.
When we got back to The White House, Nessie was cuddled up in my lap, sleeping. Walking into the house, no one was present besides Edward who was playing the piano.
He stopped playing once we entered he room, stood and embraced Bella, kissing her softly. "Welcome home," he murmured. After a minute, he turned to me and asked, "Hey, Jacob, can you take a look at the Volvo? I think the transmission is going but I need a second opinion.
"No problem," I replied, giving Nessie over to Edward after kissing her forehead. "Do you want me to take a look now?"
"Yes, that would be great," he answered, following me through the door and outside to the garage.
On the way there I wondered where the rest of the Cullen's were. Why couldn't Blondie take a look at his granny car? Maybe they were out hunting?
Walking into the garage, I found the Cullen's standing around. Alice, Esme, Jasper, Emmett, Bella, and Edward yelled, "Surprise!"
Furrowing my eyebrows in confusion, I turned to Edward and asked, "What the hell is going on?"
Edward smiled and pointed. "Look."
Looking where he indicated, my eyes nearly popped out of my head. Directly behind the Cullen's sat a sleek black car with a large silver bow on it. "Holy shit," I gasped.
Esme came over and hugged me. "It's all for you," she muttered in my ear.
"W-what…how?" I stammered.
Bella walked up next to me and laid a hand on my arm. "It's the car you'll be using in New Hampshire."
"But I have a car." Getting over my shock, I turned angrily to Edward and demanded, "What the hell did you do?"
Emmett laughed his booming laugh, interrupting what Edward was about to say. "Just take the damn car, Jacob. You'll need and awesome car to go with your cover story anyway."
Furrowing my eyebrows, I nodded and stepped forward. As I did that the rest of the Cullen's flitted out of the garaged, besides Edward and Bella and Nessie, who was now awake in Edward's arms after the commotion, looking satisfied with themselves.
Running a hand along the hood I looked at the make and model.
Almost gaping like a fish, I turned to Edward and asked, "You got me an Aston Martin Vantage?"
"Yes," he replied, I saw in your head how much you liked my Vanquish. But keep in mind that I get to borrow this car whenever I want." He ended in a chuckle.
"Deal," I breathed. Turning back to them, I beamed, saying, "Thank you." Pausing, I furrowed my eyebrows and added, "But keep in mind that I'll get back at you for this."
Though I was awed by the car and I was taking Bella's advise to keep my mouth shut, I was still a little pissed that they spent all this money on me. I was happy enough with my Rabbit.
Nessie laughed and jumped out of Edward's arms and into mine. Pressing her palm to my face, she said with her thoughts, I'm glad you're staying with me.
Kissing her head, I replied, "I'm happy to be with you too."
We're going to be together forever, aren't we, Jacob?
"Yes, forever," I firmly answered with a smile.
Sorry this story is going a little slow, but it's just starting. I just wanted to establish the changes that has occurred in the last year and the relationships that has grown. And as you noticed Jacob is a little less sarcastic, because as Bella pointed out, he has grown up, plus the influence of Nessie has calmed him a bit. Also, sorry that I haven't put too much Jacob and Nessie interactions in so far, but the next chapter will be nothing but them.
I also want to put out there that I won't do too much Nessie POV's in until the second part of this story when she's older. You'll see a couple in here probably in the beginning, but I'm not too sure yet.
Please stay tuned and Read and Review. I hope you are all enjoying this story so far. I promise you that it will get even better and a lot funnier.