"Renesmee Carlie Cullen! You had better be in your room studying, not racing back across the river!" Bella finished her loud warning as she flung her daughter's door open. She had been out hunting to the north and come back to see if she would catch her daughter out. She and Edward had decided that at the physical size of a nine year old and half way to maturity, that it was time for them to put their collective foot down and remove all human blood from Renesmee's diet.

They had been having trouble, after Renesmee had convinced her Aunty Rosalie to giver her just one little drink because "it's really hard for me! I've always had it and it's like loosing a part of myself" Bella and Edward had not only threatened Jacob and the rest of the family, but also declared that Renesmee must have at least three human-food meals every week so that she would appreciate the taste of animal blood.

So Bella was checking up on Renesmee to make sure that she hadn't snuck over to the 'big house' to try her powers of persuasion again or, heaven help her if she did, take the blood herself from her grandpa's personal stockpile. She could be so quiet sometimes that even Bella had trouble hearing her if she was still, of course Edward didn't have this problem with hid ability to read her mind from an extraordinary distance.

Bella flung the door open and froze in shock. Sat on her daughters desk was no other than Jacob Black. Jacob Black who was supposed to be away for the next three days visiting his sister, Rebecca. Jacob Black who was now sat facing her daughter, next to him were two plates piled high with steaming hotdog sausages. Jacob and Renesmee were staring at each other in an almost hostile way as she entered, Renesmee raised her hand to Bella but did not break eye contact with jacob.

Bella pressed her daughter's warm hand to her neck and saw what her daughter has lived just twenty minutes earlier.

"Come on Renesmee, I'm not going to take you to a bonfire. You don't even like human food, me 'en my brothers are practically eating champions. We compete to see how many hotdogs we can down before they're all eaten. There is no way I am going to take you there when you can't understand that. You'll think we're a bunch of pigs."

"Oh come on, Jake! I could compete with you if I wanted to. And I know you're not a bunch of pigs, a pack of wild dogs maybe, but I could still beat you in an eating competition if I wanted to."

He'd laughed in her face and she had felt a flash of frustration and rage. She may have been able to analyse religious criticisms through the ages and play flawlessly on the violin and clarinet (and she was getting closer to Edward's level of incomprehensible perfection on the piano every day) but she was still a child when it came to recognising things like manipulation.

"Fine!" she had all but shouted in Jacob's face, "I'll prove it to you. I'll have an eating contest with you. There are hotdogs in the fridge for you all the time anyway. First one to finish a plate full wins."

The image in front of Bella's vision changed and skipped forward in time. Jacob was setting down the two plates on Renesmee's desk.

"Right, now we have to do this the right way. At a bonfire, while the 'dogs are cooking, we stare each other down, try to intimidate your opponent. It's when bets are made, but since we already did that bit and cooked the 'dogs already, I guess we should do the stare down now."

His face turned serious and she tried to match the expression in his almost-glare.

"By that way,"he whispered as the side of his mouth lifted in a half smirk, "you're going to lose."

Rage flashed again.

The vision faded and Renesmee took back her hand. Bella stood squarely behind her daughter and mouthed "thank you" to Jacob. He was still her bestfriend, he always knew how to help her.

To Rnesmee she said, "This is not studying, young lady."

&S

So I wanted this to be Renesmee and Jake while he is still playing the role of a big brother. That annoying, taunting quality that all brothers posses comes across quite nicely and I think it's nice to have a little Bella/Jake friendship in there as well. If you're wondering, Edward was out buying a new bathroom sink. Bella had an 'Emmett' moment and 'smashed the place up a bit' when Nessie stayed the night at Charlie's.

Renesmee was studying zoology by correspondence (this time around, her third degree) focusing on the over abundance of animals in some areas. It seemed to her like she was perusing a world wide menu and found it a huge joke.

I'm just finishing a uni assignment of my own, it's shorter than this story and had taken me three days. This took 15minutes.

Please review...Please?