The Renesmee Series

by greenpeach20

The Story of how, through her many life experiences, Renesmee fell in love with Jacob. It's primarily romance and humor, but also has a hint of everything else in between.

31. Love Story

Love Story

As daddy said they would, everyone left for their private vacations the next week. I didn't need to pack anything seeing as I already have stuff at Jacob's apartment. All I needed was my phone, mp3 player, my jewelry box with all my hair pieces and I was good. I chose not to tell anyone that I was staying with Jacob. Particularly not Aida. If I ever told her, she would never let me hear the end of it.

After a few days, it was getting closer and closer to winter break. Jacob said that he was able to get time off from work that coincided with my time off, so that was something I was happy about. There was something going on with Jacob, though. I could tell. He'd looked like he was plotting something. When I'd asked daddy about it, without missing a beat, he told me not to worry about it and that I would find out soon enough. I hated it when daddy did that to me.

When it was a week before winter break, everyone was feeling anxious for the time off. I had to admit I was too. Jacob and I would have two weeks of just us. It would be great. I planned on working slowly from there. Jacob hadn't pushed me away when I'd kissed him. In fact, he'd held me closer to him. That made me hopeful that any further advances on my part would be acceptable. I was actually curious what 'it' would be like. I'd heard kids in my class and the upper classes talk about it all the time, but I've never involved myself with conversations like that. Now I was starting to wish I had.

"Nessie." I looked at Madison from the sauerkraut covered hotdog I was indulging in. In truth, the sauerkraut helped delude the taste of the hotdog itself. It was still there to taste, but it was tolerable.

"What?" She was smiling widely at me. I think in the right light, she would have sparkled.

"You know what we should do before winter break?" I shrugged. I had a gut feeling that I wouldn't like where this was going.

"What should we do?" She took my hand. She looked at Candy and Megan, who didn't really act on it. Candy was still mad at me for turning down Kevin. In her mind, she was doing me a favor. But the truth of the matter was that she didn't want to go out with Kevin, so she tried dumping him on me. Megan was pretty much a slave to Candy's decisions. When they didn't act as she wanted them to, Madison brushed them off and looked at me again.

"We should have a sleepover!" Yep. I knew I wouldn't like it. Aida laughed an evil and mocking laugh.

"Aren't we a little old for sleepovers?" Madison glared at Aida's mocking tone.

"No! We are not too old for sleepovers. You're never too old for sleepovers." Madison looked back at me. "Come on, Nessie. We can play games, watch movies, do each other's hair." Candy interceded.

"Talk about boys." Madison sighed.

"I guess we could do that too." Everyone at the table laughed. Candy's voice was mocking.

"Okay, we can talk about girls too. But we are not, and I repeat, are not playing spin the bottle again. I swear, last time we played that game, you frenched me." I looked at Madison and shuddered.

"Yeah. Definitely no spinning of the bottle." Aida laughed at my discomfort.

"Oh come one, Nessie. You might like it. I'm sure your boyfriend won't mind it."

"Aida, shut up." All at the table looked at me shocked. Matt and Kevin looked heartbroken as they spoke in unison.

"You have a boyfriend?" I shook my head.

"No, I don't have a boyfriend. Aida's just trying to be funny." Once everyone was calmed down, they laughed. Finally, when Madison let go of me, she started going a little more into detail.

"I'm thinking we should have it at Nessie's house." Said Candy after a few minutes of everyone talking. I looked at her like she was insane. Aida, of course, laughed, and Madison's face lit up.

"That's a great idea, Candy! What do you think, Nessie?" I shook my head.

"No." Candy spoke to me now.

"Why not? You're the one with that huge ass mansion outside of town. According to our older siblings and friends, that house was huge and would have plenty of room for a sleepover."

"Because I said no." Madison started pouting.

"Please Nessie. Just for one night. It would be a lot of fun. And I'm sure your parents won't mind if you ask them nicely."

"Madison, my family isn't home. I'm staying at a friend's house right now." Something I hadn't meant to tell anyone, and now I felt stupid for letting that get out. Everyone started staring at me almost star struck. When Candy spoke this time, her voice was disbelieving.

"You mean to tell me that your parents are out of town and you aren't throwing a party? What the hell's wrong with you?" I became offended, but kept my voice steady.

"I don't want to throw a party." Matt got my attention.

"Why don't you want to throw a party for us?"

"Because I don't trust you people not to demolish my house." Everyone made an offended look and looked back at their lunch. Candy made a snide remark.

"Well excuse me." I ignored Candy's remark and got back to my lunch. Madison spoke.

"Okay, no party. How about we have the sleepover at the house you're staying at right now?" Madison's eyes looked so hopeful. I sighed.

"I'll ask if it's okay. But if he says no, then let it go, okay." Madison smiled widely.

"You bet. This'll be so fun." Megan looked up from her lunch and at me.

"Does this person you're staying with have any liquor?" I looked at her a moment trying to decipher whether or not she was being serious, then answered.

"What does it matter? He wouldn't let you have any of it anyway."

"Who said we'd tell him?"

"He'd know. He doesn't drink a lot. I've seen him have one drink since he turned 21. He'll know if you take something." Megan shrugged.

"I guess." Megan let the subject drop after that. Madison begged for my attention.

"Wherever we have the sleepover is fine, but let's just have one. Please, Nessie." I sighed.

"As I said, I'll ask if it's okay. If he says he's fine with it, then we can have the sleepover there." Madison smiled and hugged me again. When lunch was over, Aida and I walked to science and the teacher let us get to work on our new projects as soon as we got in.

"Why do you let Madison push you like that?" I shrugged.

"I don't know. I really don't know." Aida smirked.

"You could always not tell Jacob and come to school claiming he said no." I laughed.

"I should. Or at the very least, make sure Megan and Candy don't come." Megan wasn't the one that bothered me. She was quiet and to herself for the most part. She did give people weird looks a lot, but it was usually in response to what Candy says. Candy's the problem. She's really desperate for any form of attention and often doesn't care if she hurts your feelings or even makes herself look stupid. Someone even told me once that she didn't like me because Matt had a crush on me or something. I really didn't know, or care, about all the details.

"Hells yeah to that. I hate those two." I giggled.

"Believe me, the feeling's mutual. When you weren't at school that one day, she told everyone at the table that she saw you sacrifice a live dog." Aida laughed.

"She saw that huh?" I looked at her weird a moment. She saw the look on my face and rolled her eyes. "I'm joking, Nessie." I breathed.

"Good. I couldn't tell. You sounded so serious." Aida rolled her eyes again.

"Nessie, I don't sacrifice things. I don't have the money for the utensils to do so."

"The utensils?" She nodded.

"Yeah. Dogs and cats are the favorite to sacrifice. And you need a pyre to do it. But those things are expensive."

"Please tell me you're still joking."

"Yes, I'm still joking."

"Good." We laughed a little as we continued working on our project. I saw Aida smirk.

"So. You and Jacob are alone together for a while." I rolled my eyes.

"Not a word out of you, Aida." She shrugged.

"All I'm saying is now might be a good time to get the bang bang on."

"For the love of all that's holy, please shut up."

"I don't have a love for all that's holy."

"Does the word Satanist mean anything to you?" I looked at Aida a moment in disbelief.

"Seriously, Aida. How 'bout that therapy?" She crossed her arms and glared at me.

"Therapy is for quitters." I wanted to saw more, but I thought better of it, sighed, and let it go. While Aida and I talked for the rest of the hour, I kept thinking about the sleepover. I honestly wasn't sure I wanted to do it. I could imagine inviting Madison and Aida, but never Candy and Megan. But I didn't want to have to explain to Madison why I wasn't eating any of the ice cream or popcorn she promised to bring.

I thought a little more about it during gym class. Aida was my tennis partner and Madison made sure that she and her team mate played against me, so she took that time to further try to convince me that we should have a sleepover. When the day was over, I went to my locker to get my things and then go outside to wait for Jacob. I knew that Jacob would be a little late today, so I waited at the door so I wouldn't have to worry about the rain.

I said goodbye to everyone that passed me as they walked out of the school and answered their concerns when they asked me who I was waiting for. By the time all the other students had left for the day and the after school programs were starting, I saw Jacob drive up to the first door. When I saw his car, I lifted my hood over my head and ran to his car. When I had all my things in his car and was in myself, I reached over and kissed his cheek and he smiled.

"Sorry I'm late." I shook my head.

"It's okay. How was work?" Jacob answered as he started driving out of the parking lot.

"Same as usual. Several oil changes and changing tires. One guy brought his car in for a new paint job. Guess what color he asked for." I pretended to think about it, then giggled.

"I don't know? What?"

"Pink."

"What?" He laughed.

"That's what I said."

"Why would he want you guys to make it pink?" Jacob shrugged.

"He said it was a present for his daughter's sweet sixteen birthday or something."

"How pink was it?" Jacob laughed.

"Let's see. I think it's called hot pink." I scrunched my nose.

"Eww." Jacob laughed harder.

"I was sure to keep that to myself until he was out of the shop." I started laughing with him. When we got back to Jacob's apartment, we took off our coats and I started rummaging through the fridge to find something to lay out for his dinner. I found some stake and decided to stick with a simple stake and potato dish with some macaroni and cheese. Jacob kept smiling as he watched me take all the things out of the fridge. Once everything was laid out, I looked at Jacob and saw a silly grin on his face. I smiled back.

"What are you smiling about?" He shrugged.

"I just like watching you, is all." I laughed lightly at the strangeness and yet normalcy of his statement. I've noticed him doing that a lot lately. He would watch me do things more than he already did. Every time I saw the look in his face, he looked hopeful and excited. We looked at each other a little longer. The question came to my head, so I sighed and asked. "What?"

"Madison wants me to host a sleepover at your apartment." Jacob's face turned straight and emotionless.

"And?" I couldn't stop a smile.

"And, I was wondering if you were okay with us doing that." Jacob's face became confused.

"That doesn't really sound like something you would be into, Nessie." I laughed and shrugged. He knew me so well.

"A far cry from it." Jacob shrugged.

"I don't know, Nessie. Aida's a bit of a loose screw. And Madison just freaks me out." I laughed and nodded my head.

"I won't argue with you there." I looked at him a moment. Then he said something.

"So what's up with Aida and the Devil?" I started laughing. "Could you explain that to me for the millionth time before I let her into my house?" I kept laughing until I couldn't breathe anymore. When I did stop laughing, I looked at Jacob with a silly smile.

"So no sleepover?" Jacob smirked.

"I'd say let it wait." I shrugged.

"That's fine. I was planning on telling them you said no anyway." Jacob tilted his head.

"Then why bother asking me in the first place?"

"I don't know. I think I just wanted to have your reaction in mind." He laughed his laugh for me and took a sip of some bottled water when he'd recovered from it. I started cooking dinner at five that night. Jacob had forgotten his lunch earlier so I knew he was hungry.

When I finished dinner, I plated it and Jacob took the plate with him into the small dining room right next to the kitchen and started eating. I sat across from him at the table and watched him eat his food. He took his time eating so we could talk a little more about our days and how they went, what new things, if any, came up and so on. When Jacob was finished eating his food, he helped me clean and put away all the dishes we used. When we finished, Jacob changed the subject from school to something else.

"Hey, Nessie, while I'm thinking about it." I looked at him from the sink.

"Yeah?"

"Billy is throwing a New Year's party at first beach. The Pack will be there. Sam and Emily said they would come and Charlie too."

"Sounds like a lot of fun. Are we going?" He smirked.

"I was going to ask if you wanted to go, but it sounds like you don't mind going." I nodded.

"I love New Years parties. Everyone's always in a good mood. So long as I don't need to eat any herring for luck or something." I shuddered for effect and Jacob laughed. Grandpa had made me eat herring one year for good luck. Daddy and momma even ate some. It took all I had to keep that slimy stuff in my mouth and swallow it.

"Like I said, Charlie's coming. So I wouldn't doubt he'd bring that for everyone to eat."

"But I don't want to eat a herring." Jacob gave me a half hearted lecturing look.

"Well neither do I, Nessie, but you don't hear me complaining about it do you?" I pouted at him and his face stayed the same. We stared at each other for a long time, not changing the looks on our faces. Eventually, we both started laughing at the awkwardness of the situation.

"Fine, I get it." Jacob took a deep breath after he was able to stop laughing.

"Exactly. I have yet to meet a single person that likes that stuff. Charlie doesn't even like it."

"Then why does he make us do it?" Jacob smirked.

"Bella said that grandma Swan really liked it." I scrunched my nose.

"Gross." Jacob chuckled.

"Yeah." We looked at each other a moment. I started really looking at Jacob's face. He was smiling at me with my favorite smile. Sometimes, it seemed like his eyes were actually sparkling. His eyes were the most beautiful dark brown in the world. They were all the more beautiful with the seeming sparkle. I started smiling. Jacob's smile widened. "What?" I shrugged.

"Nothing. I was just looking." He gave me a strange smile, then shrugged.

"If that's all it is." I laughed lightly at his remark. "So what should we do next?"

"Make fun of some movies?" He chuckled and nodded his head.

"Sounds like a plan." I clapped my hands and made a small jump.

"Awesome." I took his hand and pulled him with me to the living room. When he was seated on the couch, I sat next to him and took the remote in my hand. I turned on the TV and went to the OnDemand menu and straight to . I looked through the B-rated movies and a few famous movies. We'd already seen most of these movies.

"Let's watch Haunting in Connecticut. It's actually a really good movie. Creepy." I smiled and clicked on it.

"Isn't this supposedly a true story?" Jacob nodded.

"Yep. A family in the 1980's were forced to move to a home near a clinic for their son's cancer treatment or something. Apparently, the house they moved into used to be a mortuary."

"Interesting."

"Let's watch The Amityville Horror after this. That one's based on a true story too. That movie actually scared me." I looked at him surprised.

"Seriously?" Jacob nodded. "It was scary enough to scare even you?" Jacob nodded and smirked at my disbelief.

"That little girl in the movie freaked me out." I laughed.

"The Ring and The Grudge had freaky kids in them, but they didn't scare you." Jacob shrugged.

"That ten year old from the Grudge did. Seriously, what is it with Japanese movies and freaky ten year olds?" I giggled and shrugged.

"Cause freaky ten year olds are scary I guess."

"Interesting. Americans like to scare their public with graphic dismemberment, and Asians like to use freaky ten year olds."

"I don't think it necessarily matters what country you're from, I think it depends on what countries just happen to have what writers." Jacob and I laughed.

"And what countries have what freaky 'true' stories." We laughed some more and didn't stop laughing even when the dismalness of the movie started making its appearance.

As we watched the movie, we made fun of everything there was to make fun of. I couldn't not laugh at the creature that was morphing out of the son's mouth. It was actually sickening to watch.

"My god that's gross." Jacob laughed at my discomfort.

"I know. Embry said that when he saw this movie in theatres, a girl that was sitting next to him vomited all over his shoes." I stared at Jacob with a wide grin.

"Seriously?" Jacob started laughing and nodded.

"Seriously. You should have seen the look on his face. Seth was with him and he was thinking about it the whole patrol that night."

"I'm sure he was happy about that."

"Thrilled." Once the movie was over, he took the remote and found Amityville Horror and put that on.

As promised, the movie was really freaky. He was right about the little girl. She was a lot freakier than any of the creepy ten year olds from any of the Japanese horror movies. I wasn't expecting her to scream at the end of the movie, but when she did, it made me jump. Jacob laughed a little when he saw that.

"Stop laughing. That was really bone chilling." Jacob finally calmed and kept smiling at me. He wrapped his arm around my shoulder and brought me closer to him. I suddenly wasn't scared anymore and I let myself move even closer to him as he pulled me with him.

"I'm sorry, Nessie. It was just funny. I've never heard you yelped like that." I looked him dead in the eye.

"What are you talking about? I didn't yelp."

"Yes you did. You were already backing away when you saw that little girl, and when she screamed, you yelped and jumped. It was cute." I rolled my eyes.

"I'm glad to know that you think me being scared of something is funny."

"It is when that something is just a movie."

"You jumped too."

"Not nearly as much. And besides, I admitted that little girl freaks me out. So there's no surprise." I sighed and looked back at the screen where the credits were playing.

"Whatever, Jacob." Jacob brought me slightly closer to him and he bent his face to the top of my head. When his face and my head were close enough together, Jacob kissed my head and began burying his cheek into my hair.

"If it's worth anything, I would definitely save you from a real ghost should the opportunity ever arise." I laughed lightly at his little joke. I brought my arms around his neck and hugged him. He wrapped his arms around my waist and hugged me back.

"I'll hold you to that promise." Jacob chuckled.

"You can count on me, Nessie." Jacob laughed lightly and began to let go of me.

But I didn't let him. I held onto him and kept him in my hug. He didn't fight me and just kept hugging me back. I felt Jacob's head look forward, at the clock I was assuming. Without warning, Jacob lifted me into his arms and started carrying me with him out of the living room and down the hall to where our rooms were. When he was standing in front of my room, he placed me down on my feet and kissed the top of my head again.

"I better let you get to bed, Nessie. You have school tomorrow remember?" I shrugged.

"I can always handle staying up a little later." Jacob smiled and shook his head.

"Sorry, kid. Time for bed. Go brush your teeth, wash your face, and get ready for bed okay." I smiled back at his teasing smile and nodded.

"Alright. You do the same." He chuckled at my joke.

"I will." Jacob bent his head down and kissed my head again before going into his room and closing the door behind him. When he was gone, I did as he said and got ready for bed. I heard Jacob's shower go on while I was brushing my teeth. When I was done, I went to my room and got dressed in my pajamas for the night.

When I was dressed, I let myself into Jacob's room and waited on his bed. I wondered if Jacob ever expected me to wait for him. I always did. While I waited for him, I picked up one of his magazines and started looking though all the models of cars and some commentaries that I questioned if anyone actually read. I finished half of the magazine by the time Jacob was done. I looked up to see him towel drying his hair and he laughed when he saw me.

"Honestly, Nessie, we go to the trouble to paint your room red and you don't even enjoy it by sleeping in your own room." I smiled and shrugged.

"I prefer to sleep in here. It's calmer." Jacob laughed a little harder.

"Gee Nessie, I wonder why. I told you red wasn't a color you made a bedroom."

"I think it looks great, Jacob." I crossed my arms and started pouting. He just smiled.

"Sure, if you're Quagmire. Red's the color you make a room when you have a lot of 'company'." I playfully rolled my eyes.

"That's not true, Jacob. Just because I like having a red room doesn't mean that I'm promiscuous."

"I never said you were. I only said that's the impression it gives off. That and red is an excitement inciting color. It makes you more energetic, hence you're not able to sleep, hence making visitors more in the mood."

"Are you implying something Jacob?" Jacob held up his hands defensively and kept smirking.

"Not at all Nessie. Not at all." Jacob brought his hands back to his head where the towel was and finished towel drying his hair and put it on the door knob to the bathroom door. When that was hung, he walked over to the bed and I hopped off to help him take down the covers. "I don't think you've sleep in your room once since I moved into this apartment." I shrugged.

"It's a condo Jacob. A condo." Jacob teasingly glared at me and laughed despite himself. "That reminds me Jacob, your stock went up again today." Jacob threw a pillow at me and I caught it laughing.

"Shut up little man eater." I threw the pillow back at him.

"Don't tell me to shut up you mutt." Jacob forced his next words out through his laughter.

"I'll tell you all I want." He threw the pillow back at me and I took a firm hold of it. When my grip on it was firm, I hopped back onto the bed and started hitting Jacob with the pillow. He held up his hands trying to protect his face and was laughing just as hard as I was.

Jacob didn't reach for a pillow himself. He just kept holding up his hands in a defensive manner and circled his bed trying to get away from me. I followed him and never faltered on hitting him with the pillow. Eventually, Jacob decided he'd had enough and grabbed the pillow while it was about it hit him. We started pulling on the pillow, neither of us giving in. Jacob then decided he didn't want to risk breaking the pillow and let go of it, sending me falling with a loud bouncing sound onto the bed. Jacob was laughing and I was trying to make an angry face at him, but I knew I wasn't doing a very good job of it.

"Very funny Jacob. I still win." Jacob shook his head.

"Sorry Nessie. The one that falls backwards is the loser."

"Is that so?" Jacob nodded.

"Them's the rules of the game Nessie."

"So if you fall backwards, that means you lose." Jacob nodded.

"Yep." I gave Jacob an evil smile for a moment to which he gave me a confused grin. Jacob's face became aware when I jumped from the bed to his arms and he fell backwards from the force of my jump.

As we were falling, I wrapped my arms around his neck and he wrapped his arms around my waist and started chuckling while we fell. I giggled when we hit the floor with a loud thud. I laughed even harder when I heard the people below hit their roof and our floor telling us to keep it down. The thumping from below didn't stop until we finished laughing. When we stopped laughing, I lifted myself upright so that I was straddling his waist and looking down at him. We both blushed. If not for my perfect eyesight, I would have never seen it in Jacob's cheeks. I didn't let it stop me from teasing him though.

"Ha. You lose." Jacob started laughing again and my body moved subtly with the vibrations of his chest. The sensation made me feel light headed and warm all over and I felt that annoying sensation at my core that was so wonderful but aggravating at the same time.

"Okay, fine. I lose." Jacob then lifted himself up so that he was sitting upright and our faces were only a breath away. The sensation grew, but I tried not to let it show on my face. Jacob seemed to be doing the same. Then he sighed. I breathed in his rosewood musky scent when he did that. "Well."

"Well what?" He laughed under his breath.

"Are you going to let me get up or do I have to carry you?" I smirked and brought my fingers to my chin to pretend to think about it. When I had done that for long enough, Jacob began looking impatient, but not in a mean way. It was a playful aggravation. When I'd had enough of pretending to think, I looked at Jacob again and smiled sweetly.

"Well, it really hurt when you made me fall on the bed." Jacob lifted one eyebrow and smiled amusingly and huffed a small laugh.

"Did it?" I nodded.

"It certainly did, Jacob. I don't want to risk hurting myself by walking. I think you should carry me."

"Well maybe it hurt when you threw me to the floor. Maybe you should carry me." I gave him a lecturing look that was still smiling and teasing.

"Jacob Black! You would force a lady to do such work?" Jacob started laughing again and was shaking his head and rolling his eyes.

"Fine you little man eater. I'll carry you." I smiled sweetly.

"Thank you mutt." He kept laughing as he held onto me and lifted himself off the floor and carried me to the bed. When he was right in front of it, he tossed me on and I bounced as I landed. I watched him walk around to his side with a teasing glare. He looked at me with a cocky smile that a child would give a parent when they know they've done something wrong, but they know they won't get in trouble for it.

"Was that to your liking, madam?" I pouted and crossed my arms and he started laughing.

"You could have placed me down gently." Jacob shrugged.

"You're a hard nail, you can handle it." I stuck my tongue out at him and started pulling the covers over me. Jacob got in and started pulling up his side of the covers.

"Still. You shouldn't have thrown me." Jacob playfully rolled his eyes.

"I didn't throw you on the bed, Nessie. I dropped you on it. There's a big difference. Now get some sleep."

"Fine, be that way." Jacob and I were still smiling at each other with that little interaction. Then Jacob's head rested on the pillow and he turned off the lights and closed his eyes. When his eyes were closed, I decided to give him a goodnight kiss. I brought my face close to his and his eyes opened when he realized I was close to him. When our faces were close, I kissed his warm lips with a long peck. I felt him kiss me back, and I felt like I could fly.

The kiss didn't last long enough. But Jacob took his mouth away from me and started caressing my hair and running his fingers threw my hair. He gave me that smile that I loved so much and I smiled back.

"Night, Nessie."

"Night, Jacob." With that said, I rested my head on his chest and listened to his heartbeat. Jacob held me close to his chest in his arms and let me fall asleep in them.

The next morning, I woke up and Jacob wasn't in bed with me like he was last night. I heard movement outside in the kitchen. I lifted myself out of bed and walked out of the room to go to mine. I got dressed and went into the bathroom for my morning routine. When I was done, I walked down the hall and into the living room, then into the kitchen where Jacob was eating a large bowl of cereal. When Jacob saw me come into the kitchen with him, he smiled at me and I smiled back.

"Morning, Nessie."

"Morning Jacob. Why didn't you wake me up? I could've made you breakfast."

"I didn't want to wake you. You looked like you were having a good dream. Besides, it was too early to wake you anyway." Jacob finished his bowl of cereal and looked at the clock. "We better go. School starts in twenty minutes." He smirked and I smiled back.

"I'm sure that's plenty of time for an erratic driver like you." Jacob's face became serious and he held up his pointer finger in a lecturing fashion.

"Your Cullen Clan are the erratic drivers. The highest I've ever gone over the speed limit is fifty. Edward's gone as far as 130 above the speed limit." I shook my head and giggled.

"Fine Jacob. Now let's get going before you make me late for school." Jacob broke his serious stare and laughed.

"Alright Nessie." Jacob and I got our coats, locked up, and made our way to the parking lot and got in the rabbit and started driving to Forks. It took Jacob five minutes to get me to school, which left me with plenty of time to kill before class started. Jacob stopped in the general area where my first class was and waited for me to get out.

"Are you staying late after work?" Jacob gave me an apologetic smile.

"Most likely. I'll try to get out of it, but I can't promise anything. I'll text you when I know, okay. See if Aida or Madison can have you over for an hour, just in case." I nodded.

"Sure. Thanks for the ride." He smiled.

"Anytime Nessie. Have a good day."

"You too." I reached across the seat and kissed the tip of his nose and got out of the car. Jacob waved goodbye and I waved back before he drove out of the parking lot and back onto the road to make his way to Seattle.

"So what did he say?" I was startled a moment and looked around at the person talking. It was just Madison. I smiled apologetically at her.

"He said no. He's going to be working late tonight and he didn't want to leave me and a group of friends alone at the apartment." Not entirely the truth, but close enough. Madison's face became sad.

"He did? Aw man, I brought a change of clothes and everything." I shrugged.

"Sorry Madison." Madison pouted for a few moments. But then her face became cheerful and anxious. I sighed.

"Maybe we can have it at my house instead! That way, we can still have a sleepover, and we'll have my parents there to keep an eye on us. Candy can come, and Megan and Mackenzie. Oh, Nessie, it'll be so much fun, please say you'll come."

"Could we invite Aida?" I knew that with Madison, this sleepover would end up turning into a mad house of girly things that I wouldn't like. I needed someone there to dim everything down, even if only marginally, whether Aida liked it or not. Madison's face fell.

"But Nessie, she'll only sour the party. Talking about being miserable and all. How do I know she won't sacrifice a goat or something or bring spirits into my house?"

"I doubt she has that kind of power, Madison. And where is she going to find a sacrificial goat in Forks?" Madison's face stayed skeptical.

"I don't know Nessie."

"Come on Madison. It's just for one night." She looked at me a moment and sighed.

"Okay, she can go." I smiled sincerely at Madison and gave her a hug. She hugged back enthusiastically.

"She'll be on her best behavior, I promise." I brought my arms down from her, but she still held onto me. I sighed. "You can let go Madison." Madison finally did so reluctantly.

"Sorry. You smell really good." I kept my face as close to the same as possible.

"Thanks." I pretended to look in the distance at the clock. "We better get going or we'll be late for class." I took Madison's hand and led her with me to our first class.

Later that day at lunch, Madison was all too eager to let everyone know that she was hosting a slumber party tonight. This also meant that I needed to tell Jacob what was going on. While Madison was preoccupied with talking to Megan and Candy about her plans for tonight, I used the time to text Jacob.

I got some news for you Jacob. I sent the text and waited for Jacob to respond. Madison grabbed for my attention asking what I thought we should have for dinner. I noticed Aida force back a laugh when she asked that question.

"Yeah, Nessie. What should we eat for dinner tonight?" I glared at her and she kept laughing under her breath. Aida, as I predicted, wasn't happy about being force invited to the sleepover. This was her small way of getting back at me. I looked back at Madison.

"Whatever you want is fine, really."

"Are you sure? I don't want to feed you anything you don't like." Candy interceded.

"How about what we want to eat? Maybe I don't like something that Nessie likes." Everyone just looked at Candy. Half the time, I wondered f she ever thought before she spoke. Madison sighed.

"I'm only trying to find something that everyone would like, Candy. Everyone has a common ground." Candy rolled her eyes.

"Whatever you say Madison." Madison looked at me again and smiled.

"So what would you be in the mood for? I know a great pizza place that's down the street from my house." Mackenzie intervened this time.

"Madison, it's the only pizza place we have." I smiled at her comment when everyone else laughed lightly.

"That doesn't make it any less great Mackenzie. So does everyone want pizza?" All the girls invited nodded their head and/or mumbled in approval. I finally felt my phone vibrate and I reached for it and read my text under the table.

What's the news? Is everything okay?

Everything's fine, don't worry. Madison decided that she wanted to have the sleepover at her house since we can't do it at my house or your apartment. It's going to be tonight and I can send you directions to her house once I know what it is. Do you mind me going? I pressed send and waited for his response. In the meantime, I pretended to be interested in what Candy was saying about her upcoming vacation to a topical location. I answered when I felt my phone vibrate.

I'll be out on patrol tonight, so I won't have my phone with me if anything happens.

That's alright, Madison's parents will be there. And I have Billy's and Sam's number and such. I can call them if something happens. I sent the text and waited for his response.

"Who're you texting there, Nessie?" I looked up and saw Candy and Megan looking at me. As usual, Megan looked more or less indifferent to what I was doing. Candy looked like she was 'fishing for gossip' as Aida liked to call it.

"Just a friend."

"And who's your friend?" Aida looked at Candy and answered for me.

"God, what business is it of yours who she's texting? If she doesn't want to tell you, she doesn't want to tell you, so leave her alone."

"I wasn't talking to you, Aida." Candy looked at me again. "So who're you texting?" I sighed.

"A friend."

"What friend?"

"Jacob."

"Franklyn?" I shook my head.

"Jacob Black. He's the guy I'm staying with while my family's out of town." Candy's face became intrigued. That look always made me nervous. Candy could keep a secret about as well as a parrot.

"Really? Are you and he close?" Aida threw her spoon at Candy then and earned from her a loud screech. Megan held back a giggle and tried to look appalled. "What is wrong with you?!"

"You're badgering her. Stop it."

"Candy, you're being overbearing. Just leave her be." Madison added. Her voice was much calmer than Aida's, but it got the point across all the same. Candy crossed her arms and rolled her eyes.

"Fine." Not a moment too soon, I felt my phone vibrate.

As long as you'll have someone to call. So how're you getting there? I hadn't even thought of that. I looked up at Coralline, who was sitting quietly next to Aida like she always did.

"Coralline?" She looked up at me with a questioning look. "Could you give me a ride to the apartment to go get my stuff?" She gave me a light smile.

"Sure. Where is it?"

"It's in La Push, but it's not hard to get to. I'll just get my stuff and come right down." She nodded.

"Okay, sounds good. Now that I'm thinking of it Aida, you'll need to stop by the house and get your stuff too."

"Fine, drive me with you and we'll go to Mad's house after I have everything." Madison 's voice was quiet, but harsh.

"It's Madison ."

"You say one, I say the other." Coralline spoke before Madison could retort.

"Aida, you'll need to take the bus. It would be too much out of the way to go all the way to La push, then go all the way home, and then go the other way to Madison 's house. You can take the bus, get your things, and walk to Madison 's house."

"What do you mean out of your way? Sure it'll go back and forth, but why use the bus when you have the car?"

"Because, Aida, I'm your sister, not your scoffer."

"Exactly, you're my sister who does shit for me."

"Well, today, you're taking the bus."

"Coralline, I hate the bus. All the kids on the bus are loud and gay." Madison sneered at Aida. "Oh, sorry, Madison ."

"No you're not."

"You're right, I'm not. So, seriously, Coralline, just let me drive with you guys."

"Aida. You, bus. Nessie and me, my car. Capish?" Aida stared at Coralline for a few minutes. I answered my phone when it vibrated and heard Aida continue to heckle Coralline about not wanting to ride the bus.

How are you getting there?

I'm hitching a ride with Coralline. She's going to take me to your place so I can get my stuff then she'll drop me off at Madison's house. I pressed send and waited for a response.

"Okay, fine, you can drive with us. But we aren't listening to any heavy metal while I'm driving." Aida rolled her eyes.

"Oh sure, we're going to listen to that powder puff crap you like to call music."

"It's not powder puff. It's modern music."

"Britney Spears is hardly modern. Neither is Kelly Clarkson or Kanye."

"Kanye's good, okay. I'll admit he's not my favorite, but he's still good. And Britney Spears was good too."

"Until she shaved her head." Everyone started laughing. I vaguely knew what they were talking about. I wasn't alive when any of this stuff happened. What little I know about this stuff, I learned from Emmett, daddy, and on occasion, momma.

"Jesus, Aida, leave Britney alone." Aida crossed her arms and sneered.

"I hate Chris Crocker." Everyone started laughing again. This one I laughed at. Emmett had shown me that video a few years ago, so it was one of the few Britney Spears bashing jokes I actually appreciated. I answered my phone when it vibrated.

Alright. Call someone if you need help, okay. Have fun. I smiled.

Here's to hoping, Lol. When lunch was over, Aida and I walked to science class in more or less silence. We were watching a movie today in science, so that would give us plenty of opportunity to talk.

When we arrived to Science class, we sat in our seats and waited for everyone else to sit and quiet down before the teacher started the movie. I wasn't sure why the teacher was making us watch An Inconvenient Truth, but no one commented about it. Except Aida, of course. I felt my phone vibrate and I answered my phone under the table to read it.

Why do they still show this movie? I sighed.

I don't know. This isn't something I'm all that familiar with. I waited a few seconds before I got a response.

How can you not be familiar with it? Al Gore used to be Clinton's vice-president turned runner up for president turned obsessed about Global Warming.

He sounds like the kind of guy Emmett would label as a hippy. That's probably why I don't know a whole lot about him. I sent the text and waited for a response. I heard Aida's phone vibrate and she answered her phone. She laughed lightly at my text and sent a response.

I don't think Hippy is too far from the truth. More people would call him a tree hugger though. I smirked as I answered the text.

Aren't tree huggers and hippies the same thing? I didn't have to wait very long after sending the message before getting an answer.

A lot of people can be labeled as tree huggers. That's what's bad about that little term. It's so broad that it can apply to anyone. I couldn't hold back a smile at that. I decided to change the subject to something else.

You don't mind going to the sleepover with me do you? When Aida received the text, she sighed and answered. I answered when I got the text.

I'm going to be surrounded by pink fuzzy things and bitchy girls that talk of nothing but the best way to fuck a guy. You owe me big time. I sighed and rolled my eyes.

They aren't going to talk about that sort of stuff. I can't imagine they would completely exclude men from the conversation, but I can guarantee you that Candy's the only possible candidate for such talk, and that Madison would most likely stop her from talking about it. I sent the message and waited for her response. She laughed under her breath at my text and sent one back.

Even so. What if they try to tell shitty ghost stories? Let's face it, Nessie, preps can't tell ghost stories worth shit.

Well, then you tell a better one and make her look bad. You like making preppy girls look bad. She laughed again when she got my text. I couldn't stop a smile when I got her response.

I know, right? But on a serious note, I'm counting on you to keep me entertained tonight. You read me?

Yes, Aida, I read you. We laughed lightly together when she received my text. The teacher looked at us to see what we were doing and we stayed quiet when we saw him looking at us.

We finished the movie from science only moments before the bell rang. Aida and I walked to the locker room and started changing for gym. When we were all halfway dressed, a teacher walked into the locker rooms and told us that they weren't making us change today since it was the Friday before winter break. Half the girls cheered and immediately started changing back, where as some girls voiced their annoyance for not being informed earlier.

Madison had everyone sitting together to make some more last minute planning for tonight. By the time school was over, Madison had planned out just about every detail of the sleepover and what we would have for dinner. I walked with Aida and Coralline to their car and we went to La Push first for my stuff.

Once I had everything, we drove to Aida's house and got her things. It was the first time I'd ever seen Aida's house. It was really clean and well organized, far from what I was expecting. I figured if anyone had a mote or a dungeon, it would be Aida. But when I came into Aida's room, I saw everything I would expect to see. The walls were black and covered in Korn, Slipknot, and Evanescence posters. The poster above her bed was a poster of a band called Within Temptation.

She had millions of candles all over her room. They weren't scented from what I could tell. The only thing that made her room have its scent were all the incense she had burning in little dragon, vampire, and gargoyle stands. Her bed sheets were a deep purple and she had a spider web rug off to the side of her bed.

"Wow. Your room's as dismal as your mood." Aida huffed a laugh.

"Dark ones need to live in darkness." I shuddered at her words and watched her gather the things she needed. When she had everything packed, we went back downstairs and to Coralline's car to drive to Madison's.

By the time Aida and I got to Madison's house, everyone else had made it there. They were waiting for us and watching a movie that had Reese Witherspoon in it. Madison greeted me enthusiastically. Everyone else waved lazily without looking away from the movie.

"So what movie are you watching?" Madison started pulling me with her to the living room with Aida following closely behind me.

"Sweet Home Alabama. It's one of her better movies in my opinion." I shrugged. I never really watched chick flicks. Emmett and Jacob didn't like watching them, so I never saw them. "Later, we're going to watch 10,000 B.C."

"We're watching what?" Aida's voice was harsh. I looked at her and then at Madison.

"10,000 B.C. It's a movie about…"

"I know what it's about." Aida interrupted rudely. "I also know that it's one of the shittiest movies ever made. I mean come on. They took down Egypt in fifteen god damn minutes. And I say that bitch should have stayed dead. Old woman gave her last breath to give her new life, my ass."

"You obviously don't appreciate a happy ending."

"No. I appreciate a good, well thought out ending. That was just crap."

"It was not crap. It was a romantic movie."

"Fucking clit pusher." We all stared at Aida. Even the girls in the other room looked at Aida.

"What did you just say?" I said. Aida shrugged.

"Clit pusher. It's the nickname I give to women that read dirty girl books and watch chick flicks."

"What does that even mean?" Aida rolled her eyes at me as if it were obvious.

"A chick who masturbates a lot. Clit pusher, masturbation. Get it?" I stared at her a moment in shock before talking again. As I spoke, I walked closer to the living room where everyone else was.

"I don't know you anymore." As the afternoon wore on, we watched the rest of Sweet Home Alabama. The movie wasn't horrible, but I was beginning to understand why Emmett and Jacob never watch chick flicks.

All hell broke loose when Madison put in 10,000 B.C. Aida made comments about everything there was to make a comment on about the movie. It was worse than sitting in front of a black woman at a suspenseful movie.

"Why didn't they just kill the dumb broad?" Candy rolled her eyes at Aida's comment.

"Duh. Because she was the girl that was going to fulfill a prophecy and stuff."

"Yeah, and the prophecy was bad. I say give her a can of soup, throw her on her ass, and wish her the best of luck."

"Well, Aida, not all people are heartless satanic bitches like you."

"And not all girls are retards that wish they were blonde like you." I went in between them to break it up.

"Okay, you two, shut up. Aida, it's just a movie. And Candy, just shut up." Candy glared and crossed her arms as she took back her spot on the couch. We continued watching the movie in mostly silence.

"Why did D'Leh have to tell everyone the truth about that fucking animal he didn't kill? He finally has Evolit and he fucks it up. Dumb ass." Madison sighed.

"He was being honorable."

"Yes. And by doing such, he lost his wife. Yeah, good call, D'Leh."

"Could you please just sit quietly and watch the movie?" Madison rose her voice only slightly, but she sounded on the edge of yelling.

"Fine. I won't make any more comments about this gaywod crap you call a motion picture." Madison glared.

"What is it with you and gay jokes?" Aida shrugged indifferently.

"They make you uncomfortable, hence I am amused." I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose, but didn't say anything. I didn't think saying anything would do any real good in a situation like this.

It took a minute to finally get Madison and Aida to stop arguing, and everyone sighed in relief when I did. We continued to watch the movie with Aida still making several snide comments. D'Leh was a retard, his friend was a whinny little bitch, Evolit needed to die, how the hell did a bunch of slaves bring down the Egyptian empire, and how would the old lady be able to give her new life by breathing out once?

If I would ever have enjoyed the movie, I would never know. Now, thanks to Aida's constant criticism of the movie, I hated it and couldn't stand to watch it anymore. When the movie was finally over, Aida snatched Madison's remote, happily discovered that Madison has OnDemand, and started looking through . I cheered up. Everyone else started getting angry.

"Aida, I don't want to watch a scary movie. I hate scary movies." Candy complained. Aida stuck her tongue out and spoke.

"You forced me to watch that caveman hoopla and some dumb bitch that ends up going back to her redneck husband. Now I'm going to show you guys movies that are actually good."

"What, exactly, did you have in mind?"

"Whatever's good and OnDemand." Aida searched through trying to find something good. All the girls except me sneered at all her picks. The only one I sneered at was 28 Days Later… I'd seen it way too many times.

"We could watch an American Haunting. I never saw that one."

"What's that even about?" Candy asked.

"I don't know. I've never seen it." Aida answered.

"It's basically the same as Haunting in Connecticut, only this isn't based in Connecticut and it's based in the 1800's. It wasn't bad, though." I shrugged.

"Let's watch this then." Aida smirked and pressed play. The movie was completely different from Haunting in Connecticut, but it was still good. The daughter was possessed by demons and they didn't leave her alone until her father died.

Aida and I were the only ones to like the movie. The others actually screamed at some parts of the movie. I had to fight back a laugh at them whenever they screamed. Aida didn't bother trying to hold back her mocking laughs. By the time the movie was over, the movie had become a comedy for me and Aida.

"Why is this so funny to you?!" Candy screamed. As throughout the whole afternoon, Megan and Mackenzie stayed quiet. They didn't really seem interested in the party. They were scared by the movie, but they didn't look surprised that Aida and I were amused by their fear.

"Because, it's just a movie, and yet you're screaming at it. It's funny." Candy glared at Aida while she laughed. I kept my laughter back.

"No it's not!"

"Yes it is." Aida kept laughing at Candy and Candy kept yelling at Aida for laughing at her. Eventually, Megan was laughing under her breath, but trying to make sure that Candy didn't hear it.

When everyone was done laughing, Madison's mom came into the living room and told us that she'd brought the pizzas. We all went to the kitchen where Madison's mom put all the pizzas. She'd brought pepperoni and cheese and sausage pizzas that everyone loved. I forced a cheese pizza down my throat with the straightest face I could muster. Aida smirked when she noticed my face cringed.

"How's your pizza, Nessie?" She asked sarcastically. I glared at her.

"Shut up, Aida." She smirked and continued to eat her pizza. I was glad that no one questioned why I only had one slice. As far as Megan and Mackenzie were concerned, it was more pizza for them.

After an hour spent eating dinner, Madison took us back to the living room while her mom made us popcorn. Madison started asking us what we wanted to do next or what movie we should watch that isn't a scary movie. Candy refused to watch any more scary movies for the night. Aida suggested telling scary stories, to which everyone said it was best not to.

It wasn't hard to convince everyone to not give me any popcorn. Megan and Candy wanted that more than any of us. Later on in the night, when everyone else was asleep, I got a text from Jacob. I was glad that I'd put my phone on silent. The last thing I needed was Candy heckling me about who I was texting. I answered the text and smiled when I read it.

So how's your first sleepover going? I replied with the same smile on my face.

It's not all it's cracked up to be. I half expected Madison to try and started a naked pillow fight. I pressed send and waited for Jacob to reply. I kept smiling as I read his reply.

That's a shame she didn't. I just wanted to faze back for minute and check on you before I went back on patrol. I feel better knowing that you're okay. I smiled and blushed as I replied.

Well, I'm okay. Thanks for caring. I didn't wait very long before I got a response.

That's what I'm here for. So what time do you want me to come get you? I pressed respond and thought about it for a moment. I tried to think about what would be the appropriate time to take my leave. I didn't want to have to explain why I didn't eat breakfast. I wasn't sure if I could stomach eating breakfast after eating pizza tonight.

How about you come and pick me up right after you're done with patrol. Say that you and I need to go to something important. Like a doctor's appointment or something. I waited for a response and was happy not to have waited for a long time.

I come off duty at six in the morning. Are you sure you want to leave that early?

Yeah, it's fine. I just don't want to explain why I'm not eating breakfast. You don't mind do you? I pressed send and looked at the light of my phone under the sleeping bag waiting for his response. I looked at the text when I received it.

As long as you're sure, I don't mind. I'll be there to pick you up by 6:30. Is that okay?

Yeah, that's fine. Just call my phone and tell me that you're coming to pick me up and I'll let them know I'm leaving after that.

Alright. I'll see you in the morning. I sent a mutual response and finally went to sleep for the night, but not before putting my phone on vibrate so it would wake me up when he called.

The next morning, Jacob called my phone and told me to get ready as I'd asked him to do the night before. He made up that I had an early dentist appointment that I needed to go to. Madison and Aida woke up when they heard me start getting my stuff together and asked me where I was going. I told them the story that Jacob gave me and Madison's face fell. Aida's face just became a glare. I think she knew that the dentist story was bogus, but she didn't say anything.

Jacob showed up at six thirty like he promised he would and took me back to his apartment. I practically ran to his building and let myself in with my key and walked in. Jacob was laughing lightly as I made my way in and he followed closely behind. He unlocked the door when we got to his apartment and I walked in with a sigh.

"Was it that bad?" I smiled and looked at Jacob,

"It was a lot of arguing."

"Over what?"

"Madison and the others wanted to watch 10,000 B.C. and Aida was insulting the movie the whole time." Jacob shrugged.

"I don't blame her. That movie was horrid. I swear, Titanic wasn't even that bad." I giggled.

"The Titanic wasn't that bad, Jacob." He gave me a playful glare.

"You're dead to me." I laughed at his over exaggeration and he laughed too. I walked to him and hugged him tightly around his waist. He hugged me back just as tightly.

"I missed you." He chuckled and I felt the vibrations of his chest as he did so. It made me feel warm again.

"I missed you too. The place feels empty without you." I giggled and breathed him in. "It never dawned on me how bad of a cook I was until I didn't have you to cook for me." I smacked his chest lightly as I laughed harder.

"Not surprising when you always mooch off me, Esme, and momma to feed you." He hugged me tighter and lifted me up slightly off the ground with a big laugh. I had that same warm sensation when I felt his chest vibrate again.

"Are you saying I should go hungry?" I smirked into his chest and shook my head into my nook.

"No. I'm saying you need to learn how to cook."

"If you say so, Nessie." I giggled.

"Exactly. Now let me make you breakfast so you don't starve to death. And here's the twist. You're going to help me make your breakfast." Jacob smirked into my hair.

"Yes, Nessie." We laughed together as we walked into the kitchen and started making breakfast. Since I was going to take the time to teach him a few things, I figured it was best to start small and do an omelet. He liked a good cheese and sausage omelet anyway.

Throughout the week, as the New Year's party Billy was throwing started looming, Jacob looked like he was becoming more and more nervous. I didn't ask him about it. He would never admit to me that something was wrong unless he deemed it serious enough to be mentioned. In this case, it didn't seem worth talking about to him, so I let it go.

We spent Christmas with Grandpa at his house. Daddy and the others had left their gifts for me, Jacob and grandpa at his house and they were ready when we got there. Several of Jacob's other pack members and their families were there. I wished Seth could have made it. He and Alyssa had gone to Boston to meet her family. Sam and Emily were there with Mikey and their new daughter Katie. She looked so much like Emily and she had Sam's nose and fuzzy black hair that was already thick at her young age. And she had beautiful black eyes that made you think of onyx.

Allison Shea had grown a lot since the last time I'd seen her. She was already starting to talk. Jared was more than proud to announce to me that daddy was her first word. From there, it had progressed to chair, table, bunny fufu, and so on. She had a little bunny that she held with her everywhere she went. Apparently, it was a gift she'd gotten from Kim's mom. It was a cute bunny, and watching her carry it around with her was a sight to see.

I suddenly remembered a few years ago when Emily was still pregnant with Mikey. On the way home from the Easter party that year, I'd asked Jacob if I could have a baby. I couldn't look at him for a week after that without blushing. I was blushing now. But thinking about it now wasn't as strange as it had been years ago. My feelings for Jacob hadn't been as romantic back then. Now, I knew I loved him and was sure that he loved me back. And the idea of being the mother of Jacob's children made me feel warm all over.

Thinking about what went into actually making them made me feel all the warmer and I was glad no one was watching me blush. Jacob was talking to Sam and Emily and Kim were too busy cooing to their kids to talk at the moment, so I was free to blush all I wanted. And since daddy wasn't around to hear my thoughts, I was free to daydream all I wanted too.

I let my thoughts wonder to Jacob. The time I'd come into his room and he wasn't wearing his pajama sweats or boxers. I remembered it so well. It was so rarely that I was ever able to think about it with daddy able to hear my thoughts. I wasn't usually able to daydream in school either, whether it be from homework I was trying to finish or people that were constantly talking to me.

I remembered every glorious part of him. His skin was tan and his body strong and muscular. I'd seen his bare chest millions of times before, but combined with the sight of the rest of his body, his chest was even more beautiful to look at. He had long, powerful legs and his hips were narrow and meshed well to connect his legs and his chest. And, of course, the part of his body that held the most interest for me. It was a fascinating thing. As silly as the thought was, I couldn't help but smile. The gym I was in at school made us take a semester of health class, which also meant sex ed. The male anatomy that they'd shown us was nothing compared to him. What was shown to us in class was a disturbing thing to look at. It was no wonder a lot of girls thought it was a gross organ. But when I'd seen Jacob, that was far from the case.

I was taken out of my trance when Jacob ran his fingers once through my hair to get my attention. I looked at him and he had a funny smirk on his face which made me smile back. He ran his fingers through my hair again and breathed out contentedly.

"You looked miles away." He said, his voice husky. I smiled back at him.

"Sorry about that. I was just dosing off." Jacob smiled sincerely.

"What were you thinking about?" I held back my blush. I wondered if he'd noticed.

"Nothing really." He ran his fingers through my hair again.

"Nothing, huh. Is that why you were blushing?" Jacob was whispering to me now. I smiled.

"I never said it wasn't something nice." Jacob chuckled lightly under his breath.

"Nice enough to make you blush?" I smiled.

"Yep." After everyone had finished eating and all the presents were opened, we all went back to our homes to enjoy the rest of Christmas with our own family.

Jacob and I went back to his apartment to watch It's A Wonderful Life for the billionth time in the past few weeks. It was one of those old movies that you never got bored with. It was one of my favorite old movies. It was second only to Blazing Saddles. Or maybe Young Frankenstein. I guess it was better to place it as one of my top five old favorites. Jacob and I were sitting together on the couch watching the movie. He had his arm on the back of the couch so that his arm was nearly around my shoulder.

"How many times have we watched this movie just this week?"

"I don't know. I stopped counting two weeks ago." Jacob and I laughed together.

"That's too many times, then." Around the end of the movie, I scooted closer to Jacob on the couch so I was cuddling next to him. When I cuddled up to him, he wrapped his arm that was on the couch around my shoulders. It was getting late and I was getting tired. I listened to his heartbeat while watching the end of the movie. I felt Jacob nudge me. "Nessie." I looked up at Jacob and smiled.

"Yeah?"

"You look like you're about to pass out. You want to go to bed?" I nodded into my nook.

"Yeah. Can I sleep with you tonight?" He laughed lightly.

"Don't you always?" I smiled and hugged him tighter to me and kissed my nook. I heard Jacob take a sharp breath.

"I guess I do, don't I." Jacob chuckled and I buried my face into my nook as his chest vibrated from his laughter. Jacob nudged me with his shoulder after his laughter halted.

"Let's get ready and go to bed." I smiled and forced myself to get up from his arms and walked to my bathroom to wash my face and brush my teeth, Jacob went to his room to do the same. When I was done, I walked into Jacob's room and looked into his bathroom and watched him as he shaved his face.

He smiled at me from the mirror and I smiled back as he didn't stop what he was doing. When his face was shaved, he washed his face and finished with brushing his teeth and sloshing some mouthwash. I hated mouthwash. It was hard enough to brush my teeth with toothpaste. Mouthwash was all the harder. I stopped using mouthwash when I took one small amount and accidently swallowed it because of the gagging feeling that came from that first taste. It took forever for me to feel better after Carlisle had to pump my stomach so that I wouldn't get poisoned from the mouthwash. Daddy wasn't sure if it would have the same effect on me as it would a human, but no one was willing to wait and see.

When Jacob was finished with everything, he came out of the bathroom and walked to the bed. I got off and helped him pull the bed covers back and pull them back up when we both got in. When I had the covers over me, I scooted closer to Jacob and wrapped my arms around him. Jacob wrapped his arm around me and let me snuggle to him. I breathed in his scent and buried my face into my little nook and smiled.

"Night, Jacob." He kissed the top of my head, my forehead, and my nose. I kissed his lips and he smiled. He'd started getting used to me doing that to him and he never questioned the change.

"Night, Nessie." With that, Jacob turned off the lights and we both fell asleep together. A few days later, when it was the morning of New Year's Eve, Jacob caressed my face to wake me up from my sleep. When I finally opened my eyes, Jacob smiled nervously at me. I smiled back at him sweetly. "Morning."

"Morning. Are you okay?"

"Yeah. Why so you ask?" I shrugged.

"You look nervous about something." He looked surprised slightly.

"Do I?" I nodded.

"Is something wrong?" Jacob shook his head.

"Nothing at all." I smiled and he smiled back at me. We looked at each other for a minute before Jacob spoke again. "Do you want to go hunting before the party tonight?"

"Alright. I haven't hunted in a while." I really was hungry. I had a slight burn in my throat and my stomach was starting to grumble. "When did you want to go?" Jacob shrugged.

"Whenever you want to go is fine with me. I was planning on taking a shower before the party." I nodded.

"I think I should too. So we'll leave around noon. Is that okay?" Jacob smiled and nodded.

"Yeah. That's good." When noon came along, we left his apartment and walked over to the wooded area that was near his apartment. I walked ahead and waited for him to faze. When he was in his wolf form, we ran together through the woods looking for animals.

I managed to find a cougar a few miles away from Jacob's apartment are and the houses in La Push. I took that animal down and almost sighed blissfully when the warm liquid soothed my throat. After a few minutes, I was done drinking the animal's blood and I threw it aside. Jacob walked up behind me and nudged his nose against my back. I turned around to face him and smiled. He was giving me the wolfy grin that I loved so much.

"Can I look for one more thing? I'm still a little thirsty." Jacob nodded his large head and gently licked my cheek. I giggled and playfully wiped the drool off my face, though he was sure to not leave a lot.

When I'd wiped my face with my sleeve, I closed the distance between us and hugged around his broad neck. He nuzzled my hair and I thought I heard him groan or purr. It made me smile wider. When I let go of him, we ran further into the woods to look for something good. I couldn't find another cougar, so I settled for a large buck I found.

When I drank it's blood, the burn went completely away and my throat felt a lot better. Jacob made sure that it was good and dead and tossed it aside when he was sure we had nothing to worry about with the buck. We ran home after having traveled a good fifteen miles away from the apartment and we threw ourselves into our showers when we got back. I washed my hair and washed and shaved as fast as I could. Billy had said his New Year's Party started at seven and it was already seven twenty.

Jacob was done with his shower and, by the sound of the rustling that was coming from his room, looking for something to wear that would be considered New Year appropriate. I dried my hair and fisted my hair to tighten my curls as fast as I could. My hair was long enough that my hair would never look like a huge Shirley Temple mess of curls and Alice taught me how to make the curls look full despite the length.

When my hair was dry, I went back into my room and saw Jacob on the couch in the living room watching a random movie waiting for me. I got into my room and looked for something to where. I took out a pair of dark wash jeans and paired it with a dark grey v-neck sweater that would go atop a black silk camisole. For a pair of shoes, I chose simple tennis shoes. I knew we would be in the sand and wearing heels would be a bad idea. When I was changed, I went to where my hair things were and debated what to do with my hair.

I eventually chose my yellow rose comb and ran that through my curls until it rested at an appropriate spot on my head. I saved makeup for last. I didn't want to go with anything heavy, so I chose to draw the attention to my eyes. Jacob always said he loved my eyes. I put on eyeliner, mascara and a pale pink shade that looked natural and a light pink lip gloss that also looked natural.

When I was finally finished and pleased with my makeup, I snatched my phone and tucked it into my back pocket. I didn't feel like taking my purse. This way, it was one less thing for me to carry around. When I walked out of my room and down the hall to the living room where Jacob was, he looked up and smiled a strange smile. It was a smile I thought I'd seen possibly once before in Florida at Disney. I smiled back shyly.

"You look beautiful." My smile widened.

"I do?" He nodded.

"You always do, hun." I blushed at his words. He turned off the TV and got up from the couch to approach me. When he was standing right in front of me, I looked up at him and he looked down at me. He smirked a little. "Let's have a lot of fun while we're at Billy's, okay. I want this to be a night you'll never forget." I giggled.

"Did you have anything in particular that you planned?" He shrugged.

"Possibly. You'll find out later tonight, I'm sure." I pouted at him.

"You're keeping secrets from me now?" he chuckled lightly and brought his face closer to mine to speak.

"It'll be well worth the wait, Renesmee." Renesmee? It was so rarely that he ever called me by my full name. It was always when he was being serious about something. I didn't bring it up as I smiled sweetly.

"I hope so." Jacob laughed one more time before taking my hand and taking me with him out the door and to his car to drive to first beach where Billy and the others already were and waiting. When we got there, there was a bonfire going at full salute and the flames almost looked like they were running to the skies.

Everyone was either dancing around the fire or talking close by the fire with a drink of some kind in their hands. Everyone greeted us enthusiastically when they saw us coming. When they asked why we were so late, I took the blame by telling them about our hunting trip and my taking so much time to get ready. Sam laughed when I finished explaining.

"Well, Nessie, if that's the case, you're both forgiven." I smiled.

"Thanks Sam." Sam smiled in return and Mikey, who was in Sam's arms, smiled at me and greeted me in his cute baby voice filled with youthful enthusiasm. Emily was smiling widely and I looked at the new little baby girl she held in her arms. "Hi Katie." I looked at Sam again. "She looks so much like you." He smiled.

"Unfortunately. I'm hoping she'll wear my face better than I do." Emily giggled and lightly hit Sam's arm.

"Don't say things like that." We all laughed.

I talked a little more with grandpa as Jacob went and got something to eat. He knew there would be food at the party and didn't want to eat anything while we were out hunting. Grandpa asked a lot about what was going on at my school and how I liked it so far. I sometimes still saw grandpa shudder lightly when he brought that up. Daddy had said it was because he couldn't get himself to wrap around the fact that I had grown so fast.

He laughed when he found out that I was good friends with Madison and Aida. I was surprised, but somehow not surprised, to find that Aida's father was a scientologist. I couldn't hold back a hard laugh when he told me that.

"Wait, a scientologist?" Grandpa nodded with the same humored smile.

"Yep."

"You mean scientologist, as in the people that believe that some alien dude killed a bunch of aliens and the souls of those aliens took over the bodies?" (*I'm not making that up. That is seriously what they believe. You can find it on Wikipedia or Google.*)

"Yes."

"Wow. And I thought her worshipping the Devil was weird. At least the Devil is someone that's been around for most human history." Grandpa laughed and shrugged.

"Better to worship something that's been around for a while than a science fiction writer from the fifties." We had a good laugh together on the subject. We talked a little more as the night wore on. Jacob stayed close to me as I talked to grandpa and would talk to someone when the opportunity came up. Then grandpa's face became aware of something and he turned around to go to a cooler he'd brought.

"What?" He took out some crackers and a jar of herring. I scrunched my nose.

"Don't make that face, Nessie. You knew this was coming."

"I was hoping you'd forgotten." Grandpa laughed.

"You wish any of us were that lucky." I smiled awkwardly as grandpa made me eat the herring and was even kind enough to eat it with me. I forced it down and he laughed at the face I made. I was overjoyed when Claire came over and saved me.

Claire invited me to play a game with her and Quil after she saved me from the herring thing. It was a silly rock tossing game that Claire had invented when she was little. The point of the game was to throw a rock as hard as you could into the ocean and see who could throw their rock the furthest. Quil always let Claire win. It was obvious that he could throw it a lot farther than what he was. I did the same and let Claire beat me by a hair.

As boring as the game might sound to most, Claire made it fun. She teased that Quil or I had hit a fish when our rocks landed in the water or that she and Quil should try fishing like this some time. I couldn't imagine Claire enjoying fishing, as energetic as she was, but I was sure it had to do with Quil. It was so cute. Whatever Quil liked, Claire liked too. She was even beginning to get interested in cars thanks to Quil.

We played several rounds of that game before Claire became bored and dragged Quil with her back to where the party was. I watched them run away and stayed where I was. When they were back, I looked away and out at the ocean. The smell surrounded me and the sound of the ocean was proud. I could even hear it over the eighties music that Billy had playing on his small boom box. I smelled a familiar, soothing musky scent approach me and I looked around to see Jacob walking over to me. I smiled at him and he smiled back. He looked nervous again.

"You enjoying the party?" He nodded, then laughed under his breath. "What?" Jacob sighed with a smile.

"Guess what I just found out." I shrugged.

"I don't know. What?" I smirked again.

"A girl from the Makka reservation tried hitting on Quil." I giggled.

"Really?" Jacob nodded.

"Yeah. Claire saw her put her hand on Quil's shoulder. When she saw that, she walked over and grabbed Quil from her. Then she announced, in front of everyone, that Quil was her boyfriend." I laughed out and Jacob joined me. It took me a minute to recover. I spoke through my laugh with my first comment.

"Did she really?" Jacob nodded. "What did the other girl say?"

"She thought it was funny and apologized to Claire. Quil blushed every shade of red imaginable. Everyone else just laughed."

"I bet. I'm sad I missed it." Jacob and I smiled at one another for a minute before he closed the distance between us and took my hand. One of the slow songs come up on Billy's boom box and Jacob smiled at me.

"Could I have a dance?" I smiled and held his hand in both of mine.

"Sure." Jacob smiled nervously again and pulled me with him back to where the bonfire was. There were already a few couples dancing together, Claire and Quil included. She was standing on his feet while he swayed her around to the music, and I could hold back a smile.

When we found a good spot, Jacob held my right hand and wrapped his other arm around my waist and lifted me up so that I was nearly two feet off the ground and at his eye level. I watched him as he swayed us aimlessly to the rhythm of the music. We smiled at each other and a tingling feeling spread through my body at the look in his eyes.

Near the end, I rested my head on my nook and let the motion give me a euphoric sensation. Jacob rested his chin on the top of my head when I did and continued to sway to the music like all the other couples. When two slow songs went by, another upbeat song came on and the earlier dancing pattern came back. Jacob kissed the top of my head and placed me back down on my feet, then stopped one of the other people to get the time. He grinned when he learned it was eleven fifty. Once he had the time, he looked at me and smiled nervously again. I smiled back as sweetly as possible. Then he took a deep breath.

"Nessie?"

"Yeah?" He took another deep breath.

"Let's go take a walk on the beach." I grinned. We hadn't done that in a long time.

"I'd love to." His smile widened as he took my hand and led me with him to the shore of the beach and we began walking together along the beach hand in hand. I loved that this action didn't feel strange. It felt right. More right than anything else.

After we'd walked for a few minutes, Jacob saw something he'd been looking for and pulled me with him a little faster to where he had planned to go. He led me to a white tree stump that looked like a natural version of a park bench on the beach. When we were right in front of the tree stump, Jacob pulled gently on my arm, inviting me to sit next to him on the tree. I sat next to him as he'd asked me to and scooted as close to him as I could get. He wrapped his arm around my shoulder and I rested my head in my nook and looked out at the ocean like Jacob was doing. We sat there a few minutes until we hear fireworks go off and heard shouts of happy new year. I looked at Jacob and smiled.

"Happy New Year." He smiled.

"Happy New Year." When he said that, he kissed the tip of my nose and I sighed. I rested my head back on his shoulder and brought my hand to his chest. I really enjoyed the intimacy of the action. When I rested my hand on his chest, Jacob took a hold of my hand and held it there where I'd placed it. I looked up at his face to see the nervousness was still in his eyes.

"What's wrong?" He s shook his head and sighed.

"There's something I wanted to talk to you about."

"Okay. What is it?" He didn't answer me at first. He was staring at the ground. I lifted m hand to his face and made him look at me. "You know you can tell me Jacob." He smiled and took another deep breath before continuing.

"Renesmee." I smiled back at him when he said my name. It was filled with what could only be love. I felt my heart swell and a fire burn through me.

"Yes, Jacob?" I answered after a few blinks of his eyes.

"Are you…….happy with me? You know…..like whenever you're hanging out with me or spend the night or spend the whole week?" I giggled.

"Of course I'm happy." I caressed his cheek. "You make me happy no matter what we end up doing." He smiled.

"And you know that……..I will..always be here for you, with you…right?" I nodded.

"I know." He grinned again and breathed.

"Renesmee……There's something I've been wanting to tell you. Something I should have told you a long time ago." Something in me made me want to fly and my body tensed with greedy, cheerful anticipation.

"What do you want to tell me?" A few blinks later, he answered. He brought his hand to my cheek and started caressing my cheek affectionately and it began running through my hair and down my neck. I had to force my eyes to stay open.

"You're everything to me, Renesmee. You're the only thing that gives my life a real purpose. You've healed so many wounds and you've taken away all the pain I'd ever felt. You gave me my life back and made everything make sense again." I could feel my eyes tearing up, but I forced them back.

"You've done so much for me over the years Jacob. I owe you so much." He shook his head, but took both of my hands in his and started rubbing the back of my hands with his thumbs.

"You don't owe me a thing, Renesmee. I'm the one that owes you. For everything you've given me." I hugged Jacob around his neck then. I buried my face into his collar bone and breathed him in and he wrapped his arms around me in return and buried his own face into my neck as well.

Several minutes passed in complete silence. I couldn't hear the music from the party anymore. I couldn't hear the ocean or the birds or anything at all. All I heard was Jacob's loud heart and the breathes he made. I was crying lightly now. It seemed a like a great weight had been lifted off my shoulders and I was weightless. It felt like Jacob's arms were the only thing keeping me on earth. He brought his lips to my ear and I felt a shiver run up and down my spine pleasantly.

"I love you, Renesmee. More than air. I loved you the moment I looked into your eyes. And I always will." Jacob's hand trailed to my neck and he took a hold of the locket he'd given me, and in the language that was written in my locket, he told me, 'with all that I am'. My hold on him tightened as I forced my voice to be steady. Every loving thought and emotion seemed to be crashing down on me at that moment, and yet, I still felt weightless.

"I love you so much. I should have told you the moment I knew." I shook his head and held me tighter.

"No. I should have told you a long time ago." I nuzzled my nook once more before I took my face away from his chest and looked into his beautiful dark eyes. He was smiling at me with love glowing in his eyes. I brought my hands from around his neck to his face and held him. I would finally get to kiss him the way I'd always wanted to.

"I love you, Jacob Black. Since forever, I've loved you." Before he could say a word, I crushed my lips to his with more force than I'd ever used. He didn't push me back. He only tightened his grip impossibly more around me and kissed me back.

Our mouths moved together with a delicious friction that sent shivers of pleasure down my body. I felt that wonderful, annoying heat at my core start to grow as we kissed more. We kissed several times, some shot little peck which were then followed by a long passionate kiss. I eventually worked up the courage to like his lips gently and he groaned softly when I did. I took advantage and let our tongues duel at long last. I let my hands trial up through his thick hair and I moaned when his hands started to roam.

I let my hands begin to trial from his hair and neck to his chest and I ran my hands along the hard plains of muscle as if looking for something that would never be found. I forced my way onto his lap so that I was straddling him and had better access to his mouth. He didn't stop me, so I took it as encouragement. His hands roamed everywhere they could, even to my most intimate of places.

I let myself say his name against his lips in a soft moan and he started kissing along my cheek and my jaw until he reached my ear. When he'd bitten my ear, I rested my face against his and sighed blissfully. I whispered his name again and smiled when one of his hands come up to stroke through my hair. I was touching his neck with both of my hands. I needed to tell him. This was hardly the place for this.

Take me home, Jacob. Please. I pushed the thoughts into his mind. I also pushed every emotion and wonderful sensation I'd felt now and over the past year into his head and he groaned. I smiled at the thought that I was the one to make him feel this way.

"Alright, Nessie." I forced myself to get off him and he and I walked together back to the party. When we were close enough, Jacob let go of my hand and walked over to Billy. He told him we were going back and wished him a happy new year.

We went to the car at an annoyingly leisurely pace. When we finally got to his car, Jacob drove out of the spot at a normal pace and drove off doing the same. It only took us two minutes to get back to the apartment. But it was two minutes too long. When we did finally get back to his place, Jacob parked the car and turned it off with me already taking off my seatbelt.

But when I was about to open the car door, I felt Jacob gently grab my arm and pull me towards him. When our faces where only millimeters apart, he took my lips to his and kissed me sweetly and lovingly. His fingers were laced through my hair. I imagined my comb was in disarray by now. The kiss was over to soon. He gave me one more chaste kiss before taking his lips away completely. His eyes looked glazed over and darkened with lust when he looked at me. He smiled.

"That was to make up for homecoming." I wasn't sure what he meant at first. But I remembered the homecoming kiss Jacob and I'd almost shared that had been ruined when Madison tapped on the window. There was no one to bother us now, though.

"I'm glad I finally got that kiss." He smiled. "Jacob."

"Yeah?" I wanted him. It was so much stronger now. But I wasn't sure how to ask. Was I supposed to come out and say it, or was I supposed to ease into the subject? But I figured I should wait until we were inside. I didn't want to risk anything ruining this moment.

"Let's get inside." He smiled and nodded.

"Sure." I rushed out of the car and followed behind Jacob as he opened the door and walked up the stairs to his building. When we were finally inside the apartment and completely alone, I looked at Jacob, who was also looking back at me. I walked closer to him and closed the distance between us yet again with another searing kiss.

I mimicked everything that we'd done on the beach earlier. I licked his lips asking for entrance and he let me have it. His tongue explored and I did the same. The sensations all made my head spin and I felt myself desperately needing more. But I had no idea where to start, and our kisses didn't help me think. Eventually, I decided to go with my gut instinct on what to do. I ran my hands over his chest a few more time before I began letting my hands trail down further. I was inching down shyly to where I wanted to go. I knew I was blushing, but I pushed that aside and let myself feel as Jacob earnestly kissed me back.

When my hands finally got close, I started forming circles on his hips, just for the fun of it. Jacob smirked against my mouth and his hands started smoothing over my back and arms. When I was finished making little circles around Jacob's hips, I let my hands trail lower and lower until my one hand grabbed the bump in his jeans that caught my attention. Jacob hissed with an intake of breath and I ripped my mouth from his to look at him.

"I'm sorry, Jacob. Did I hurt you?' Jacob shook his head and finally smirked at me.

"No. You didn't hurt me. It felt good was all." We looked at each other for a moment in a daze. I kept a firm hold there, now knowing that he enjoyed it, and was about to bring my lips to him again. But he stopped me this time by gently pushing me back by my shoulder. I looked at him confused.

"What's wrong?" He looked at me apologetically, then he sighed and took my hand away from him and held my hand. He started rubbing my hand affectionately as he did so.

"I promised we wouldn't." I looked at him a moment before I realized what he meant by that. I shook my head.

"Just don't think about it in front of daddy." Jacob sighed.

"Nessie, that's not how it works. You know that. And if either of us were to let our mind slip even once, I won't live to see tomorrow."

"Since when are you scared of daddy." Jacob shook his head.

"I'm not scared of him, Nessie. I respect his position is all." I knew I was pouting now, but I really didn't care.

"But, Jacob, this isn't between us and daddy. This is between just us. We can say whether or not we want to do something." But then a thought occurred to me that made me let go of his hand and back away from him. "I mean…..unless you don't…want to." Jacob's face became scared as he shook his head. He closed to distance between us again took me in his arms.

"That's not what I meant, Nessie."

"Do you want me?" Jacob's heartbeat accelerated all the more and I felt him start to tremble. It wasn't in fear, though. It wasn't his faze tremors either.

"Yes." I finally wrapped my arms around him.

"And I want you too. Isn't that enough?"

"It's not as easy as all that Nessie." I looked at him with disbelief and he tightened his hold on me as we looked at each other and took a deep breath before continuing. "I won't say I don't want you, Nessie. But you're too young, Nessie. And I don't have a way to protect you from getting……" He blushed and looked away from me.

"Pregnant?" Jacob nodded as his blush deepened.

"Edward would skin me alive if I got you pregnant now." I couldn't fight a light giggle. I rested my head on his shoulder. Jacob started brushing his hand through my hair. "I can wait until you're old enough, Nessie." He brought his lips to my neck and gave me sweet kisses. I shuddered and held on tighter.

"But I don't want to." Jacob chuckled.

"I know." Jacob and I just held each other then. His hold on me was tight and comfortable and his heartbeat made everything float away. I held onto him like a lifeline and breathed in his musky rosewood scent and let it sooth me.

"Does this mean I can't share a bed with you anymore?" I felt Jacob smirk against my neck and kiss my neck sweetly.

"No. You're welcome whenever you want." I smiled.

"Does tonight count?" Jacob laughed and raised his head to look at me.

"Sure. Get ready for bed and I'll see you in a minute." I nodded.

"Okay." Jacob let go of me and smiled before walking away towards his room. I walked to my bathroom and started getting ready. I noticed that my lip gloss was smeared as I was cleaning. It made me blush and giggle. When I was cleaned up, I went to my room to change into my pajamas and undo my hair.

I put on my pajamas as quickly as I could and went straight to Jacob's room when I was done. Jacob was already laying in bed waiting for me when I came in. We smiled at each other shyly as I walked to his bed and helped him pull back the covers and pull them back over when we both were in. I snuggled up to him as I'd always done and rested my head on his chest. He held me close and kissed my head. Then I lifted my head so I could kiss his lips. He kissed me back, then pulled away. I was glad to notice that he pulled away with some reluctance.

"Goodnight, Nessie." I smiled.

"Goodnight, Jacob." I kissed him again. "I love you." He smiled and kissed me again.

"I love you too. With all that I am." My smile widened when he said that. He smiled too, letting me see his gorgeous white smile. I brushed my hand against his cheek once before kissing him again.

This kiss was longer. It was still only our lips moving together, but it was a passionate kiss all the same. He brought his hand to my cheek as mine was on his and he kept kissing me. We kissed each other for several moments before Jacob took his lips away from mine and kissed the tip of my nose with a smile. I smiled back at him and brought my head to his chest where I rested my head on his shoulder burying my face into my nook and sighed contentedly. His hands started rubbing my back comfortingly and I let my hands rub his chest. Eventually, when I did fall asleep, I had sweet dreams about me and Jacob and knew that I smiled all throughout the night.