Eggs and Bunnies

Jacob was holding my hand while we were walking through the grocery store in Forks. I had grown yet again since February. Then I looked like I could be six, now I looked like I could be a very small eight year old. Whenever we were in the grocery store, people would always stop to talk to me, saying that they thought I was cute. I recognized the girl that was standing in the aisle. I had never met her personally but I had seen her in momma's and daddy's high school year book. Her name was Lauren. I couldn't remember her last name at the moment. I remembered momma telling me that she was never fond of Lauren and that they had never gotten along while they were in school. Daddy had said that she was one for holding a grudge. Apparently, she hated momma because a guy that she liked asked momma out to the spring dance or something. When momma had simply said not to worry about her, I brushed Lauren off and looked at the other pictures in the yearbook. She was in the dairy aisle looking at eggs when she noticed me with Jacob walking down the aisle. Her face seemed to light up the moment she saw me.

"Oh my god, she is sooooo cute." She had a very irritating voice. I never minded being praised and being told that I was beautiful, I just wish people wouldn't scream about it. I may be a child but that doesn't mean I'm def. She kneeled in front of me, looking me in the eye. Then I saw some strange spark of familiarity pass on her face. "Is she you daughter." She didn't say this with nearly as much enthusiasm.

"No, she's not my daughter. I'm just a family friend. You're Lauren Miller right?" MILLER, that's what it was.

"Yeah, I am. Who are her parents than?" Her tone was beginning to bug me. The politeness almost sounded forced now.

"Edward Cullen's her dad. Bella Cullen is her mom." Jacob never really cared if people knew that I was actually Edward Cullen's and Bella Swan Cullen's biological daughter. He hated lying to people and he thought the resemblance between all three of us was far too great to ignore. So he just flat out told people. Daddy always had something to say to him when he did. Emmett and Seth always teased Jacob about his indifference. They would both have a good laugh after daddy was done yelling at him and Emmett would say, 'You better watch it Jacob. One of these days, Edward'll get tired of yelling at you and just shove a silver pole up your ass.' Daddy would then throw something at Emmett for saying a bad word in front of me, and Emmett would start laughing again. Lauren's facial expression changed from forcingly polite, to blatantly annoyed.

"Really?" She then went back to what she was doing. Jacob rolled his eyes at her, grabbed four cartons of eggs, put then in the cart and walked away, still holding my hand firmly. When we were in the next aisle, Jacob had his little mini rant.

"Jesus, I knew that girl and Bella didn't get along in high school but god damn." I laughed a little. He stopped the cart, kneeled down to face me and took my tiny shoulders in his enormous hands. "You didn't hear me say that okay? I would rather that Edward continue to acknowledge Emmett as your primary source of bad words one on one." I laughed again. Jacob rarely ever swore in front of me. Those incidences when he would were few and far between. If there was anyone I learned those words from, it was Emmett. It angered daddy to no end though. And Emmett never saw anything wrong with not only swearing in front of me, but explaining to me exactly what the word means and other situations where that word could be used.

"Emmett's funny." He really was, even if his humor tended to be vulgar. Jacob wasn't too thrilled about Emmett teaching me swear words either.

"Yeah, Nessie, he's really funny. He'll have you cussing like a sailor by the time you're one." I giggled. Knowing Emmett, I didn't doubt it. We got to another aisle that was full of chocolate bunnies, little bird things called peep and a wide array of chocolate eggs. Jacob grabbed a large handful of peeps and then got a few chocolate bunnies and eggs. When we went to the next aisle, he grabbed a handful of watercolor paints. I decided now was as good a time as any to ask Jacob what he was doing.

"What is all this stuff for?" Jacob turned his attention to all the things that he had in the cart. He looked back at me and smiled at me.

"It's Easter tomorrow. The pack wanted to do a fun little Easter thing. This will be the first year that Quil will be spending Easter with Claire. Sam is bringing Emily, Jared is bringing Kim, Paul is bringing my sister Rachael and so on." Jacob's hand then went to the back of my head and patted me gently. He ran his fingers through my curls one time and then put his hands back on the cart.

"Am I allowed to come or is it a strictly pack gathering?" Jacob stopped moving the cart and looked at me a moment. He didn't look mad or surprised; he was just kind of looking.

"I didn't think you would want to honestly. I know that you hate the smell of eggs. And you don't like chocolate. And Rachael will be cooking for us." I winced. Oh the joy of Rachael's cooking. It was nice that she was trying, but it was blatantly inedible food. One time she was making cookies for everyone and she got the sugar and salt mixed up. I didn't need to have human taste buds to know that was bad. "Besides, I kind of assumed that Edward already had something planned for the family, this being your first Easter and all." I looked to make sure that no one was in the aisle, looking. When I saw that the coast was clear, I hopped into the shopping cart and stood up so I was facing Jacob.

"I can always ask if I can come. I'm sure that if I ask, daddy won't mind. Besides, Rachael's cooking isn't that bad." Jacob laughed loudly. I'm sure everyone in the store stopped what they were doing when they heard him laugh. I liked his laugh though. It didn't sound like a donkey was in pain the way Paul's laugh was. His had a strange bass sounding quality.

"Right Nessie. This coming from the little girl that thinks all human food tastes like dirt." He kept laughing, though not as loudly. When his laugh calmed a little more, he looked at me again and put his hand on my face and rubbed my cheek. "Do you want to spend Easter with us Nessie?" I beamed a smile that I knew always made him putty in my hands.

"Yes, Jacob, I would love to." Then I hopped off of the cart and started walking on my own.

"By the way, Nessie." I turned around to face Jacob. He looked like he was embarrassed about something. Why would he be embarrassed?

"Yeah?"

"I know that you know better and all, but Claire doesn't. So when we go tomorrow, would you mind pretending that you believe in the Easter Bunny?" The what? There was an animal for this holiday? Valentine's Day had a weird enough mascot as it was. Even after daddy explained to me who Cupid was, it was still the dumbest thing I'd heard. I liked the version daddy explained to me much more than the watered down baby in a diaper that the holiday portrayed. The real Cupid had been beautiful and wore the same clothes as any of the other gods. Jacob took in the confused and slightly annoyed expression on my face. "The Easter Bunny is supposed to be this bunny that hides chocolate eggs in these random places for kids to find. I know you think it's silly but pretend you believe okay? Quil has everyone pretending for Claire."

"Why should we pretend?" Jacob sighed.

"Renesmee, you forget that Claire is only three years old, physically and mentally. She still believes in this sort of stuff. That's the beauty of being a kid, they're blissfully ignorant. You still are too sometimes." Jacob laughed a little to himself at the last thing he said. I didn't feel like pushing that subject so I stayed on the initial one.

"Okay, sure. If it's for Claire, then I'll pretend the Easter Bunny is real." Jacob raised his eyebrow at me. I sighed. "And I'll pretend that Rachael's cooking is the best food I've ever eaten." He laughed again. He walked over to me, lifted me up into a hug, kissed my head and I hugged him back. Taking my spot in the nook of his shoulder.

"That's all I ask Nessie, that's all I ask." But it still bugged me that Rachael didn't like me. I had never done anything to her to make her dislike me so much. It wasn't like she went out of her way to show that she didn't like me. She just never acknowledged me. If I tried to talk to her, she would keep the conversation as brief as possible and then run off to Paul to talk to him.

"Jacob?" He took his face away from the top of my head and rearranged me on his chest so that I was facing him again.

"Yeah Nessie?"

"Why does Rachael hate me so much?" Jacob gave me a 'what are you talking about' look.

"Nessie, where would you get that idea?" I touched my hand to his face and showed him every interaction that had ever occurred between me and Rachael, all of which had clear indications that she didn't like me. "Oh Nessie, it's not that she doesn't like you. She does like you, she thinks you're adorable. She just doesn't know how to feel around you is all. She knows that the Quileute wolves are supposed to be enemies of vampires and she just finds it strange that a vampire and a human would have a child and that I would imprint on one." I already knew that Jacob had imprinted on me. I didn't quite know what it meant, I just knew it was something significant. Whenever I tried to ask daddy or anybody what it meant, they all told me the same thing, 'I'll explain it when you're older.'

"That doesn't mean she has to make every effort not to acknowledge me." I made a pouty face at Jacob.

"Just bare with her Nessie. She'll open up to you eventually. That's just the way Rachael is sometimes. She's very to herself. But once she gets used to you, she can be really chatty. Just give her time okay, she'll come around eventually." I nodded at him and laid my head back down on his shoulder. Jacob finished the rest of the shopping that he needed to do. When we found the shortest line, it was still really long. Jacob kept me in his arms. "Do you want to help Claire find her eggs tomorrow?" I looked at him and thought about it. I did think it was a little silly, but I did like Claire. She thought I was wonder girl because I grew so fast. She was cute and she made me laugh a lot. Poor Quil was a much abused nanny and loved every minute of it. I always thought that was cute.

"Sure, I'll help her." Jacob gave me a wide grin and kissed my forehead. After we were done paying for everything, we went back out to the car and went back to La Push. Billy was waiting for us when we got there. Quil, Embry, Leah and Seth were there too. Jacob's pack had volunteered for egg coloring duty, so I've been told, and Sam's pack was in charge of hiding all of the eggs. Claire wasn't going to come until tomorrow. I helped Jacob take out all the supplies and put them all on the counters and the kitchen table. It was such a small table and it was hard to work on, but it was still fun.

"Nessie, you should handle draining the eggs. I think you're more likely not to break any of them." Quil said to me. He really wanted tomorrow to be fun for Claire. I agreed to drain the eggs. I used a thick needle that Emily had lent to them and used the needle to scramble the egg so it would poor out. When most of the content was out, I drained it with water from the sink, keeping the water gentle of course and not filling the egg all the way. I had eight eggs done in less than five minutes.

"Awesome Nessie. At this rate we should be done in under an hour." Quil spouted his praise. None of the eggs were damaged and they all ended up looking really cute. I decided to bring one home to momma and daddy tomorrow when I went home. I had already called daddy asking if I could spend Easter with Jacob. We hadn't had anything planned for tomorrow so daddy said it was alright. I pushed my luck and asked if I could sleep over. I didn't have to worry about lacking in something to wear or in danger of not having a tooth brush. I had an extra set of things at Jacob's apartment cause I was there so often. Begrudgingly, though I knew that his annoyance was over dramatized, he said I could spend the night.

After we had finished the eggs, Quil took all of them back to his place so he would be sure that the eggs would be okay. Jacob got back into his rabbit and drove us back to his apartment. Jacob had just gotten his own place last month. We had recently gotten everything unpacked. Jacob had managed to get his GED and had a good job working for some car repair shop in Seattle and he got good pay. He had gotten the job right after the mess with the Volturi was done and he was finally able to concentrate on those things. It was a pretty good sized apartment and I could live with the fact that the hallways reeked of bad Korean and Indian food. I had my own room, though it was kind of small, I still liked it. I had a bed and a small dresser for the few things that I kept here for whenever I spent the night. I had a small desk that held an iPod stand and a charger for the phone that Rosalie had gotten me when she had bought Jacob's phone. Mine was a blue razor. Jacob was saving for a new phone. 'This stone age phone is grinding on my last nerve' he would say. It was one of those cell phones from the eighties that could kill a wild cat if it came at you. That's how Jacob always described it to people. But of course he pretended to love it whenever Rosalie was around.

My bed was a small twin bed that was positioned at the window in the corner of the room. A small table sat next to my bed and held a lamp. That stand was where I kept my spare pajamas and tooth brush. The desk was across from my bed. The closet was in the center between my bed and desk on the wall. Jacob had the master bedroom which wasn't too much larger than my room. The only thing his room had that mine didn't was a walk-in closet, small but still a walk-in, and his own bathroom. We walked into Jacob's apartment and had the pleasure of smelling what his neighbors were having for dinner. I felt my stomach turn uncomfortably. I wrinkled my nose. Jacob saw me do that and chuckled lightly.

"Don't worry Nessie, I've been told that they're planning on moving to Seattle soon." I smiled at him. We got into the apartment and Jacob got started with his normal routine. He took my coat and hung it up on the peg near the door, put his keys on the counter, and checked his phone messages. He only had one from Sam reminding him that they were meeting tomorrow at Billy's house for the Easter party. I went to my room to hook up my phone and iPod, then went back to the main room of the apartment. Jacob had turned on the news. Nothing interesting was going on in the world, so he changed the channel to a game that was playing.

"Charlie is coming tomorrow by the way." He was coming from the couch and walking over to where I was standing.

"Grandpa's coming?!" I was excited. Grandpa was always the best. He had no idea why I was growing so fast, but he never questioned it. I even showed him an image once by accident and he didn't question that either. He gave me a horrified/intrigued/confused/proud look when I did it but after the initial shock wore off he didn't ask questions. He simply acknowledged it as a sign that I was special. Jacob would always confirm that thought.

"Yeah, Billy invited him. He didn't want to be the only adult there. Sue and the other elders have other things they need to do tomorrow so they won't be able to come. Billy knew that Charlie has Sunday's off anyway, so he called him and asked him to join us and he said he would." I bounced up and down with excitement. Then I stopped. He would be shocked when he saw me.

"Do you think he'll be freaked out by how much I've changed since the last time he saw me?" Jacob shrugged.

"Most likely. But once you charm him again, he'll have forgotten about the whole thing." He smiled at me and knocked my chin gently with his closed fist. I smiled back at him and went to hug him around his neck. He wrapped his long, strong arms around my waist and hugged me back.

"I'm sure you're right, Jacob." Jacob chuckled a little.

"Aren't I always?" I began to laugh with him. We spent the rest of the evening playing board games like clue and scrabble. I knew that Jacob hated playing scrabble, but he liked that it was good for my spelling and that was good enough for him. He never won, and never complained about it. He had beaten me in clue a few times before though. When it got around seven, I heard Jacob's stomach growl. I laughed when I heard it. He looked at me and smiled a little. It was a guilty smile. "Could you make me dinner?" I laughed at his silly smile. Daddy had taught me how to cook some of Jacob's favorite foods. He really liked stake done rare with a potato and macaroni and cheese. I knew that dish by heart, so I went with that. Jacob got out the little stool he had made for me and I stood on it to start making him dinner. "You know Nessie, sometimes is so easy to forget that you're not even a year old yet." He laughed a little and I joined him.

"I get that a lot." We laughed again, a little harder this time. I started with the macaroni and cheese from scratch. That would take the most time to make. Once the macaroni was in the oven, I started the potato and put that in with the macaroni to bake with it. The meat wasn't frozen so that made my job easier. I cooked it so that it was rare, just the way Jacob liked his stake. Everything was done around the same time and ready to serve after a half hour. Jacob smelled it appreciatively and smiled back at me. I had moved to sit next to him at his little table.

"Perfect as always Nessie." I smiled and looked down at the table. I felt myself blushing. I always blushed when he complemented me, even if it was the smallest thing, like what kind of dress I was wearing. I was never fond of dresses, but Alice insisted that they were beautiful on me and that she adored me in them. That wasn't what convinced me to wear these silly dresses though. Daddy had told me once that Jacob really liked how I looked in dresses. He thought I looked cute and that they flattered me. That was why I wore dresses all the time, because Jacob liked them on me. I watched him eat his dinner while he tried to insist that I at least eat a little of the macaroni I had made. Just to appease him, I had a small plate. I had to take Jacob's word that I was a good cook, this stuff tasted vile to me. Like eating sticky dirt. And the only other beverage in the house beside's soda was water. Water tasted strange to me too, but it wasn't nearly as bad as soda. That stuff tasted like carbonated mud. If I drank it, I felt like I was drinking something that had been taken from a murky swamp and added a sour flavor to it. Water only tasted like drinking iron to me. After dinner, Jacob cleaned his plate and helped me clean the dishes. Then he walked over to the freezer and opened it. "Do you want any ice cream Nessie?" I just glared at him. He knew I didn't like ice cream either. Every human food I had ever tried tasted like dirt or mud to me. Asking me a day later didn't change that. He laughed at my expression. "Just thought I'd ask hun."

I blushed again at his choice of nickname. He would do that sometimes. He would call me honey or baby or sweetheart or any other pet name on occasion. It always made me blush when he called me things like that. They were the same pet names that Emmett would use with Rosalie, or daddy would call momma, or Sam would call Emily. They were pet names that people gave to their loved ones. It always made me feel special when he called me those things. Jacob took out a fudge cycle and started eating it. We walked into the living room and watched the game for a few minutes before Jacob finished eating his treat. He went over to his small stand where he kept all of his movies and began to browse through his movies. He didn't have as much of a selection as daddy, Emmett and Jasper did, but that wasn't bad. A lot of the movies they had were really old movies like Casa Blanca and such. I preferred the comedies by Mel Brooks and the classic horrors with Vincent Price and Hitchcock. Jacob had all of these movies. He still had the wide array of Disney movies that I loved, but I wasn't really in the mood for Disney tonight.

"What are you in the mood for Nessie?" He moved out of the way so I could see his selection. I already knew what he had to offer, but I liked to look anyway so I could decide what movie I wanted to watch. My eyes rested on the movie Space Balls.

"You in the mood for an annoying Druid princess and a dog man thing named Barf?" He laughed and pulled out Space Balls for us to watch. Then my eyes rested on Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It was without a doubt one of the dumbest, most half witted movies I had ever seen in my short life, and yet it was one of my favorites. I always found British people funny because of that movie. I think that was why Alister made me laugh so much. The Holy Grail was one of the first movies I had ever seen with Jacob, and ever since I watched that movie, I couldn't take British people seriously, I just started laughing. And Alister had a heavy British accent that had me in stitches every time he talked. He never thought it was funny, but he simply ignored me. "Could we watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail after that?" He laughed a little.

"Let's see if you can stay awake through this first okay?" I nodded my head and Jacob set up the DVD and turned on the movie. He sat next to me on the couch and pressed play when the movie got to the main menu. We spent the next hour and a half laughing at the movie. When the movie was over, I stared at Jacob and made my best pouting face. He sighed. "Okay, Okay, we'll watch Monty Python too." He got up from the couch and changed the movie. When he got back to the couch, he put his arm around my shoulder and I hugged him, resting my head against his chest. I was listening to Jacob's heart beat. It was such a soothing sound. That's why I always went to Jacob when I was really sad, his heart beat always calmed me down and made me feel better. I finally fell asleep when we got to the part where King Arthur and his smart knight were tormenting the old lady and trying to get a shrubbery.

I was woken up the next morning by a large hand caressing my cheek. Jacob was already dressed and ready for the day. I was in bed now, and under the covers. I was still in my normal clothes but that was fine. I had a change of clothes here. When my eyes opened, Jacob kneeled in front of me, meeting me at my eye level. He smiled his usual bright, loving smile at me and I smiled back.

"Morning sweetheart." I buried my face into my pillow as I blushed. I touched his cheek with my hand, responding to his good morning. "Time to get up Nessie. It's eleven thirty. The party starts at noon. I laid something out for you already if that's okay. If you want something else let me know." I blinked a few times and then forced myself out of bed. I saw the dress that Jacob had put on my bed. It was the green dress that had spaghetti straps and had an empire waist. It was Jacob's favorite dress on me, of course I would wear it. I got dressed very quickly. When I got to the kitchen, Jacob was making himself a bowl of cereal. I walked into the kitchen area so I was standing next to him. He was so tall. It never ceased to shock me. I had gotten taller since I was younger but he was still huge. I only came up to just below his hip.

"When do we need to be there?" He kept eating his cereal.

"Noon, so we have to be there in fifteen minutes." Did I really sleep in that late? Oh well. Jacob probably had too. He would have woken me up if he had been awake earlier. When Jacob finished his breakfast, he got his keys and we went to his car. The party was being held at Billy's place. He had a nice piece of the woods with his house and a lot of good hiding places for the eggs. Billy was on the porch with grandpa waiting for everyone to come. When grandpa saw me get out of the car, he ran over to me.

"Hey Nessie! How have you been?" I ran to meet him and hugged him back. I couldn't jump into his arms like I could everyone else, so it was best to just hug him. "My God child, you're growing faster than a weed. I think the Quileute growth spurt may be contagious." Jacob and I laughed with grandpa. When grandpa and I had finished our hug, he continued to hold my hand as we walked to the porch where Billy was sitting.

"How are things going for you Jacob? I hear you finally got your own place." Jacob nodded at my grandpa.

"Yeah, finally. It's nice to not be so cramped anymore right dad?" Jacob winked at Billy and Billy laughed his leathery laugh.

"You bet it is. And it's nice to not have to try and sleep through your snoring anymore." I broke out laughing. I was used to it, but Jacob could snore. The first time I had ever slept over at his house, I thought there was a bear outside and I was about to wake Jacob up so we could eat it, and to my surprise, it was just Jacob's snoring. It took some getting used to, but once I was used to it, it didn't wake me up anymore. Jacob looked at me with a look of betrayal.

"Oh come on Nessie, I don't snore that loudly." I walked over to Jacob and put my hand on his. I showed him the image I had in my head. Jacob sleeping in his bed, awkwardly sprawled out, mouth wide open and snoring loud enough to drown out a chainsaw. He gave me a half-hearted glare and I just smiled at him. "I think you're exaggerating." I sighed and ran over to Billy. I showed him the same image I had shown Jacob and Billy just busted into laughter.

"I'm sorry Jake. She has you to a T." He just kept laughing. Charles stared at everyone, not quite sure what just happened. I offered my hand to show him.

"That's alright Nessie. I'd rather not know." I smiled and shrugged. I ran back to Jacob and hugged him, asking for him to forgive me. He pretended to still be mad at me.

"Please don't be mad at me Jacob." I made the pouty face that I knew would win him over instantly. Grandpa and Billy chuckled at my expression. Jacob avoided eye contact, knowing that he would lose it the moment he saw my face.

"Oh come on Jake. How can you be mad at a face like that." Jacob sighed and looked at me. I continued to pout.

"Please Jacob." I kept pouting. In no time, Jacob was laughing lightly at my pout and kneeled down to hug me. He hauled me up so he wouldn't have to keep bending over. I rested my head on my nook on his shoulder and breathed in his musky, rosewood smell. Jacob kept chuckling into my hair.

"Little man-eater." I laughed.

"Mongrel." Jacob laughed at my retort. Jacob walked us to the porch to wait for Sam's pack to be finished hiding all the eggs. Grandpa caught up with Jacob about his new job and apartment. He was happy to hear that Jacob had gotten his GED a few weeks ago. Jacob hadn't wanted to go back to school after being out for so long, so he just got his GED instead. His friends were still in school, but they were jealous that Jacob had his own place and a good job already, thanks to momma's good reference. We had waited for ten minutes before Sam and his pack came through the woods towards the house. Everything was set up and ready. It wasn't long after that Claire had showed up in Quil's arms. She was starting to use better grammar, though she still talked like a child. Claire looked up to me and sometimes would try to talk like me. I always liked Claire. She was such a sweet girl and she knew just how to make Quil smile without even trying. They could play tag and pick-a-boo for hours together and they never got bored. It was the same thing with me and Jacob. I always had fun with him no matter what we were doing. Jacob had told me that Quil had imprinted on Claire, so their closeness made sense for what little I knew about the imprinting process.

Emily, Rachael and Kim were with him and Claire. They all ran to hug their loved ones and Jacob just ran his fingers once through my hair. I hugged around his neck. Emily looked like she was gleaming with joy today. I wondered why that would be. I showed the image to Jacob and asked why.

"I don't know. She does look happy today doesn't she?" She looked happier than usual. She hadn't looked this happy since hers and Sam's wedding. It was a simple ceremony but it was nice all the same. She actually looked happier today than she had that day. Strange. I waved at them and they waved back at me, smiling. Even Rachael looked happy to see me. She gave Sam a passionate kiss, something that you saw in the movies only much more meaningful. The others stared with joy in all of their eyes. Whatever she was so happy about, the others were just as happy about it. Sam hugged Emily while they kissed and her arms wrapped securely around his neck. I overheard what Sam and Emily talked about.

"What has you so happy about today?" he said in a husky voice that was happy as well.

"I'll tell you at dinner tonight when everyone's together." He smiled again and they kissed once more. A kiss that was just as passionate and loving as the first. That's when Embry, Seth and Leah came. Leah made a sour face and went into the house without saying much to anyone. Seth came over to where Jacob and I were on the porch. Seth pinched my cheek gently. I never minded when Seth did that. He never made a huge thing about pinching my cheeks like other people had. He did it gently. I smiled at him.

"Hey Nessie. How is everyone? I haven't seen Edward and Bella in ages." I giggled. He was exaggerating. It had only been two weeks or so since the last time he saw them. But I thought I'd humor him.

"They're good. Daddy told me to tell you he said hi." Seth's smile widened a little. He was always smiling it seemed like.

"Back at him. You ready for your first Easter?" I nodded my head and Jacob tightened his grip on me a little and then released. He was giving me an encouraging hug. When Claire said she was ready, we started hunting for the eggs. I had found most of them on my own but I let Claire be the one to find them all. I would lead her where I had seen an egg and let her find it and act amazed when she did. Rosalie told me one time that toddlers like that sense of accomplishment.

"Wook, I found anoder egg!!!!" I started clapping my hands for her. She bounced up and down and Quil was cheering her on.

"Yay Claire!!" Quil shouted. Then I subtly led Claire in another direction where I had noticed an egg in a bush. She celebrated with every egg that she found and Quil encouraged her with his cheers. We looked for eggs for about two hours before Claire found all of the eggs. When she had found the last one, Quil pulled Claire into a twirling hug telling her how great she did and Claire hugged him back. Jacob nudged me a little with his foot.

"Thanks for helping her Nessie." I played dumb.

"I didn't help Claire. She did it all on her own." I made a proud face at Jacob. He laughed and kneeled down to hug me. I hugged him back.

"You're right. What was I thinking?" Jacob was chuckling at my comment. When we had finished hugging, Jacob stood back up, keeping his hand on my head. After Quil had spun Claire around a few times, he stopped spinning and held her in his arms, her still holding her basket of eggs.

"Why don't we let Claire see what the Easter Bunny left for her?" Claire clapped her hands together, the basket now hanging from her arm.

"Yay!!! See what Easter Bunny give me!!!!" I giggled at her grammar and Jacob just chuckled. We went back to the tables that Billy had set up outside. It was cloudy outside but nothing that was too bad. The news had said that there wouldn't be any rain today. Claire spent the next hour looking and playing with the little toys she found in the eggs and Quil tried hard to tell Claire to save the chocolates for after dinner. It wasn't dinner yet, but Rachael called everyone's attention by tapping on her glass of water.

"Emily, isn't there something you wanted to tell everyone?" She was smiling widely at Emily. I had never seen her smile like that, except whenever she looked at Paul. Sam and everyone else focused their attention on Emily and what she had to say.

"Rachael, I wanted to wait until dinner." She gave her a half-hearted scold.

"Oh come on Emily. This is news that can't wait any longer." She smiled at Sam and winked at him. Sam didn't give her gesture much thought. He stared at Emily waiting for her to say what was going on. Emily took in a deep breath.

"Okay, if you say so." She looked at Sam with the love and adoration in her face that she had earlier. Even her scar didn't look gruesome anymore because of how happy she was. "Sam." Sam smiled at her, his smile a little concerned.

"Yeah Emily?" Emily took Sam's hand in both of hers, never taking her eyes off of him. She actually began to cry a little. Sam's face took on a look of concerned. But that concern was slashed from his face when Emily took Sam's hand and placed it on her lower abdomen.

"I'm pregnant Sam." Sam's face showed he was shocked. Then his face started to turn happy. Leah even smiled a little, though I'm sure she wasn't as thrilled as everyone else. Sam's face kept looking more and more contentedly blown away. He looked like he might shed a tear. He didn't, but he looked like he would.

"Really?" That's all he said, all he needed to say. Emily started crying from happiness. She nodded her head and Sam's smile beamed back at her. When Sam kissed her, everyone started clapping and cheering. They were inseparable for what seemed like forever. Paul hugged Rachael and gave her a kiss on her cheek.

"When are you and I gonna have a baby huh?" I heard a cracking sound, which could only be Paul's nose. Billy gave Jacob thumbs up for the punch and mumbled 'good boy Jake'. Everyone else except Sam and Emily, who were still kissing, started laughing.

"You knock up my sister and so help me god I will rip off your head and shove it up your ass." Everyone kept laughing while Rachael yelled at Jacob and Paul repositioned his nose. It was amazing that Paul's nose was still straight. I had lost count of how many times Jacob has punched him in the nose a long time ago.

"I would never knock her up!! Besides, we're engaged anyway." I giggled. Paul had asked Rachael to marry him on Valentine's Day. Jacob had been so happy when he left the house that day and then came back to the house the next day cranky as a crab. It wasn't that he didn't like Paul per se. It was more that he felt Rachael could do better.

"Please don't remind me." I put my hand on Jacob's arm. He was starting to shake a little.

"I will remind you. We're engaged and we're getting married in June." Jacob was about to lose it and I knew it. I didn't have many eggs in my basket, but I had enough. I picked up one egg and threw it at Paul's head. After just staring at me, shocked that I would throw something at him, Jacob started laughing, followed by everyone else, including Sam and Emily. Jacob was on the verge of tears from laughing so hard and wrapped his arms around me in a hug.

"That's why I love you Nessie." I blushed again. He continued to laugh and I laughed with him. Rachael kept yelling at Jacob for punching Paul and how hard I was going to be to get the blood out of his shirt. After Rachael had gotten her fill of yelling at Jacob, she and Emily went into the house to start dinner. Sam didn't stop smiling the whole time we were there. He didn't even stop smiling when he started eating Rachael's cooking. It didn't have a weird after taste this time so that was good at least. Emily had helped Rachael make a creamy chicken paste thing with broccoli. I whispered to Jacob.

"Is it any good? I can't tell." Jacob laughed lightly.

"It's actually not bad. She over cooked the chicken a little but it's better than what she's done in the past." We continued to eat dinner, everyone talking amongst themselves. Jacob and Seth talked to each other for most of the dinner. Grandpa and Billy were making plans to go fishing next week. Grandpa had taken me with him on a fishing trip once and I had hated every minute of it. I didn't see the appeal in it. It involved to much sitting. I ended up falling asleep on Jacob's shoulder. Emily, to everyone's silent relief, had taken on making dessert for everyone. She made an apple pie with French Vanilla ice cream on top. Jacob ate that in seconds. (Note to self, Jacob likes apple pie). After everyone had finished eating and had spent hours talking, the sun began to go down and Claire was falling asleep in her chair. Everyone said goodbye to one another and Jacob and I drove back to the house. The clock read eight twenty five.

"That was a long Easter party." Jacob smiled.

"Yeah, it was. But it was fun. I'm so happy for Sam. He was wanting to start a family. She's certainly gonna be happy for the next few days." Jacob smiled to himself while driving on the road. I thought about Emily and how happy she was about her pregnancy. I was actually jealous of her I realized. I kind of wanted a baby of my own suddenly. I didn't know how to get one, but I'm sure Jacob would tell me how.

"Hey Jacob?"

"Yeah Nessie?"

"I want a baby." Jacob slammed on the breaks of his car and we came to a screeching stop. He just stared out his front window, looking at nothing with a shocked and almost guilty expression on his face. I just looked at him and waited for his answer. When he finally looked at me, his face was a mixture of so many emotions at once that I wasn't sure what it was he was feeling.

"What?"

"I want a baby. How can I get one?" Jacob's eyes just started to widen. He swallowed hard.

"Ummm……..Nessie……..I don't think you realize what goes into having a baby. It takes two people to make a baby." He was shaking again. Not the shaking that he did whenever he was fazing. It was a different kind of shaking entirely, like he was scared to answer me.

"Will you help me make one then?" His hands snapped his steering wheel. I got nervous then. Had I made him mad? What did I do, what did I say?

"Nessie………….It's..more complicated than that. There's a whole process to it." He was still shaking and he was holding part of his steering wheel in his hands.

"I'm sorry if I made you mad Jacob." I wasn't sure what I had done, but whatever it was, it had made Jacob angry or scared, and I felt bad about that. Jacob loosened up and looked at me. He dropped the steering wheel parts he was holding.

"No. No Nessie you didn't make me mad. It's just that you're too young to have a baby. And if I 'helped you' with that, Edward would skewer me and make me bleed to death." I was confused now.

"Why?" Jacob was getting nervous again. Why? What was it about this that always made everyone so hesitant to answer me?

"Well………..ummmmm………you see Nessie……..when two people decide they want to have a baby……..they do something called have sex…and…..well……ummm………..oh god……..sex…to put it frankly….is when two people….well……you see Nessie…men and women have different sexual organs and those organs are aroused to join the two together……and….when they do that..they make a baby." That made no sense to me. I just looked at him with a strange look on my face.

"Why can't I have a baby?" He stiffened further. This subject was making him uncomfortable, I knew, but I wanted to understand why I couldn't have a baby. It sounded nice to have one, so why should I be deprived that?

"Because you're too young Nessie. At this point in your life….you're physically unable to have a child because you're not a woman yet. You're still just a little girl. Girls don't become fertile until they have their first period." I was even more confused now.

"What?" Jacob sighed heavily.

"What would you say if I told you to ask Bella?"

"I'd say why can't you just tell me."

"Because Nessie….this sort of thing is a mother daughter sort of talk. And honestly, I don't know how to explain this to you in a way that won't gross you out." I stared at Jacob for a few seconds before shrugging it off. I could tell that this was making Jacob uncomfortable so I decided to wait until I could ask momma. When we were in front of the house I heard daddy fuming to momma. He knew what I was going to ask her to explain to me. "Okay Nessie, I'm glad you had a good time."

"I did. And Rachael's cooking is getting better. It only tasted like plain dirt this time." Jacob laughed his husky laugh. He reached over to hug me and I hugged him back.

"I'll see you tomorrow okay babe." I blushed at the word.

"Yeah, see you tomorrow." When I got out of the car, Jacob didn't leave until I got to the door. I opened the door to the house and had what ended up being the most awkward and overall uncomfortable conversation with momma and daddy we had ever had.