Notes – Firstly Thank you for your reviews, keep them coming. Also the first 2 chapters do kind of lack drama but there will be drama. Let me know what you think.

Chapter 2

Worries

Despite the lack of proper entertainment the rest of the morning with Grandpa Charlie passed relatively quickly. Uncle Emmett soon changed the television channel to a game for Grandpa – at this point I pouted pretending to be upset that I couldn't watch the silly cartoon anymore. Auntie Rose then gave me a sketch pad and some coloured pencils to keep me occupied – keeping up the pretence for Grandpa's sake.

Of course Grandpa had noticed how quickly I was still growing but it was best to keep up a little of the charade so it didn't bother him too much – he always turned an odd shade of purple when he worried about me. Momma said that shade of purple wasn't healthy for him so advised me not to speak very often in front of him – so I didn't. I loved Grandpa and hated the he worried about me but was thankful that since meeting Nahuel the rest of my family didn't seem so worried about my growth anymore. Grandpa Carlisle did still measure me a lot though – Daddy said this was more about his curiosity than it was necessary.

Momma and Auntie Alice were by the new Apple Mac while Daddy and Uncle Emmett pretended to be just as engrossed in the game as Grandpa was. I spent this time the way my family wanted me to, colouring. I have to admit I did find colouring really enjoyable, before I knew it I'd drawn a detailed picture of all my family on the first page of the sketch pad.

"Well would you look at that, Nessie's quite the little artist, gosh is that me?" Grandpa huffed bashfully peering over the picture.

I smiled sweetly before glancing at Daddy guilty, I should have remembered to colour silly pictures instead of detailed ones. He didn't seem to be disappointed with me though as he gave me his crooked smile coming over to kiss the top of my head tenderly before taking the picture over to Momma and Auntie Alice.

It sounded like they were scanning it in but the sound was muffled by the doorbell – it was strange hearing the bell nobody ever really needed to use in with Daddy around. I worried a little that there was something wrong with his mind reading until I saw Auntie Alice huff dramatically and realised that he was probably just keeping up the presence and that one of the wolves must be here – I hoped it was Jacob.

It wasn't.

It was Auntie Sue and Leah, I smiled sweetly at the both of them but Leah looked away from me sharply – she always did this and I didn't know why. After all Leah and I were very alike, we were both different. The rare ones in our families, the special ones – I was the only human-vampire-hybrid in my family and Leah was the only female wolf in hers. So why did she hate me so much?

I heard Daddy's teeth snap together and saw him glare in Leah's direction; clearly he had been listening to my train of thought. It was times like these I wished I was a shield like Momma was; some thoughts were meant to be private. Daddy's head had whipped around to glare at me now and he was frowning, it was strange to see Daddy wear this expression he rarely ever got confussed.

Grandpa Charlie left shortly after with Auntie Sue and Leah taking my picture with him after kissing me on the cheek and awkwardly hugging Momma whilst trying to balance on his crutches and touch as little of Momma cold skin as possible.

I was sad to see Grandpa leave; my Aunties and Uncles were constantly asking Momma and Daddy whether they had made a decision about Dartmouth yet – Jacob said if we went to Dartmouth we would be leaving Grandpa behind. I didn't want to do that, Grandpa Charlie was my family I couldn't imagine being away from him.

When Jacob had first explained to me about the Dartmouth situation I had worried it meant leaving him behind too but he assured me that wherever I went he would follow too. This made me worry a little less about what Momma and Daddy would decide but it still upset me thinking about moving away from Grandpa Charlie. I could feel tears pickle my eyes as I contemplated my family splitting up, I already missed Carmen, Zafrina and Nahuel dearly, I didn't want to miss Grandpa Charlie too.

Daddy made an odd choking sound before scooping me up in his arms cradling me to his chest as he ran with me. I asked him silently where we were going but he just made the odd choking sound again looking down at me intensely, seconds later when I felt the strange warm feeling surround my body I realised that Uncle Jasper was close by.

I bite my bottom lip a little guiltily but couldn't remember why I was guilty as another warm sensation warmed the tips of my fingers and toes – Uncle Jasper always made me feel so warm and safe, it was hard to feel anything negative when he around.

"Hi Jazz." Auntie Alice chimed kissing him on the cheek when, Daddy and I followed him back into the lounge room, before beaming her mischievous grin at Daddy – which he returned enthusiastically.

"That is a fabulous idea Alice, perfect timing too, my little miracle is in need of some serious fun and I also think my beautiful wife will be pleasantly surprised." Daddy asked Alice's thoughts eagerly his golden eyes burning with excitement.

Everybody including me looked back and forth at Daddy and Auntie Alice puzzled waiting for them to bring us up to speed on their silence scheme – I had to admit just looking at Daddies thrilled expression made me very curious and eager.

"There's a thunder storm coming!" Auntie Alice and Daddy explained together – I was obviously still missing something because this still made no sense to me.

That is until Uncle Emmett whooped "Baseball, hell yeah!"