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Chapter Eight

Alice went hunting with Jasper, thankfully; I could dress myself up this time.

I went to my closet, which now looked like some kind of a secret CIA room; a lot of drawers, numbered in codes.

After about half an hour of searching through the 'mystery drawers' as I'd called them, I finally settled on my black skinny jeans with a blue blouse, a black waist-belt and the-exact-shade-of-blue ballerina flats with their matching bag.

I also wore the wooden charm with my name that Jacob had given me; I knew he'd love to see it on me. My make-up and hair were pretty much the same as what they were in the morning, except that I left my hair loose, only holding a strand with a blue clip.

I was re-applying my gloss when I heard a knock on the door.

"Come in!" I said.

Jake opened the door and came in cautiously; his eyebrows were raised in shock," You have two crazy aunts, you know." I chuckled and nodded. I could hear Rosalie growl from her room.

He approached me with my smile on his face. I could feel my heart melt with each step he took.

"So, you're ready?" he asked, still smiling. It's torture! I sighed; I would have to talk to him about this, apparently.

"Umm… what?" He chuckled.

"I was asking if you were ready," he said, his black eyes melting into mine.

Jacob Black

I could stare into those chocolate-brown eyes for ages and never get bored! I'd missed her so much. I still can't believe how much I love her. Every single thing about her, I adored. Of course, that was why Edward wanted to 'talk' to me today again…

Flashback

I entered the house, expecting to find Nessie waiting for me; I was a little bit late. But, instead, I found Edward there, sitting on the couch, his face unreadable. See who's putting on the poker face again! I wonder what's wrong.

"Hello, Jacob,"

"Hey, Edward," I replied cautiously.

He stood up, motioning for me to follow him.

I followed him to the backyard, where we had 'talked' last time.

"Jacob, I need you to listen to what I have to say," I waited while he glanced around him, probably to double-check that no one was there, "I know how much you love Renesmee, how much you'd protect her and would make her happy; that's the most important thing, I want her to have the best she could have, Jacob. But I have to point out some things that-" I cut him off.

"What? Why now? You know I have been 'in love' with her since her birthday. So, why do you want to tell me 'this' now?" I knew what he was going to talk about, what else?!

He grimaced, "Well, honestly, Jacob- and I swear I'll kill you if you ever tell that I'd told you- she's beginning to have the same feelings for you-"

I beamed. Finally! I thought I was going to wait for a very long time before this would happen!

He continued without stopping,"- And I want to tell you the ground rules for being with her, since I doubt it would be the same now. She'd be hanging out with you more often, and probably alone. So, first of all, you have to take good care of her, I know you will but I'm just pointing it out. Second, the furthest thing you'd ever reach together is kissing, before you're married, I mean, and that's not up for further discussion." I nodded, I won't do this to her, not like I won't want to, but I just can't.

"Good," he commented on my thought, "and finally, Jacob, if you ever hurt her, in any way, I swear that would be the last thing you'd do; I will gladly rip you apart."

"You know I won't, Edward,"

"I do. I was just stating a simple fact," he smiled.

End Flashback

I sighed.

"Earth to Jacob!" she waved her hand in front of my face.

"Very funny," I said sarcastically. She smiled.

"Come on; we're going to be late!" I rolled my eyes.

"Who reaches the Rabbit first gets to drive!" I challenged her; she'd loved that since the day she was born!
"Deal!" she said as she stormed out of the closet.I knew I'd be able to win, I always let her though. But, this time, I wanted to drive. I laughed

at the thought; I was being so childish!

Renesmee Cullen

He won this time! No way! I always win! Maybe he let me. I'd make him pay for that later. I grinned an evil grin.

We got into the Rabbit and he started the engine. How was I going to tell him? I had no idea.

The way to the movies was almost silent; only a few questions about my school day though. I just showed him the whole day as soon as he parked the car in the garage associated with the movies.

I remembered him growling at the whole "Mr. Peterson" thing. Why was everyone making a big deal out of it? I didn't know. Good thing Daddy didn't find out; he tends to overreact.

"Come on, Ness; your friends are waiting right there," he pointed to where Mary, Stacey and Brad were standing. I knew Matt and Samantha were coming, they were probably late.

I opened my door to find him waiting for me, grinning. That's weird; he isn't usually so quiet.

"Nessie! You made it!" Stacey yelled. If she only knew how sensitive my ears were!

"Yeah! I told you I would!" I said as I greeted all of them.

"Umm… Ness, so that's 'Jake'?" Mary asked, smiling. I totally forgot about introducing him!!
"Yeah, guys, this is Jacob. Jacob, those are Mary, Stacey and Brad,"

"Hi" was all he said. What was wrong? Probably just me misinterpreting it; I'd inherited that from Momma.

"Oh, and Matt and Samantha are here now!"

"Hey, Nessie!" Samantha greeted me, I greeted her back. "I love your outfit!" Alice would just love to know that Samantha was my friend. I smiled.

"Thanks. I like yours, too," I really did; she was wearing a beige skirt with a simple brown tank top but it really was good on her.

"Come on, guys, the movie is about to start! Oh, Ness, Jacob, Matt and Samantha, we've already got your tickets so just come on; I hate it when I miss the first part!" Seems like Brad was pretty talkative.

I sat between Jacob and Stacey. Mary was on Jake's other side while Matt and Samantha sat alone, leaving Brad on Stacey's other side.

We had to wait a few minutes before the movie begun. It was pretty good…so far; just the usual, one evil woman decides to kill the rich man's sick wife and daughters to get his money and social position. Jacob kept making fun of how predictable it was.

"Look, Ness, now the dead girl's corpse is going to come out of the trash bag," he commented, grinning.

"No; it would be too predictable for its own good!" I whispered.

"Wanna bet?"

I grinned mischievously, "Sure!"

Nothing came out of the trash bag, I half-smiled; I was going to win the bet. Then, suddenly, the dead girl came out from under the oven. Mary screamed and jumped onto Jake's arm.

"Jeez! It was, like, the tenth time that girl came out of nowhere!" he said as he unlocked her arm from his. She blushed subtly.

"Sorry." She didn't sound sorry at all. I felt like some fire was burning in my chest, something really annoying. I didn't know what that was; I just felt uncomfortable, so I decided to concentrate on the movie.

"You won the bet," he whispered in my ear, his warm breath brushing my neck, causing me to shiver slightly.

"Yes," I kept it simple; I was still uncomfortable for some reason.

When I really concentrated on the events, I felt a burn in my throat; there was too much blood there that it reminded me that I have neither eaten nor hunted for a long time. The scents of all those people there were starting to have a strong effect on me.

"Umm… Jake, I'm going outside," I whispered in his ear.

"Why? Is something wrong? You're ok?" he was being too anxious so I decided not to worry him more.

"I'm fine; I'm just…bored," I smiled, trying not to breathe.

"I'm coming with you," he said as he started to get up. I stopped him.

"No, you're not; I'm...Umm…going to the bathroom. So just stay here," I hated lying to him, but I needed to call Daddy now and this whole issue is going to make him worried over nothing, I think.

"Oh, well, okay then. Just don't be late,"

"Sure,"

I got out of the theater as fast as I can in this human pace. As soon as I was out, I dialed Daddy's number. He answered after about five rings.

"Hello?" he sounded like I'd interrupted him. Well, this is important.

"Daddy?"

"Yes, honey, is something wrong?"

"Umm… well, the thing is-" What do I say? I wanted to suck those humans' blood? "Wait a sec, Daddy,"

"Okay?!"

I glanced over my shoulder to make sure no one followed me then I got out of the movies and went inside Jake's Rabbit; I always had spare keys.

"Daddy, I- I… Oh God!" I hate it when I was speechless! And he wasn't around so I'd show him what I think.

"Renesmee, you're making me worried. Did you get into trouble or something? Where's Jacob?" Why did he keep jumping into conclusions?

"No, I'm not in trouble…yet. Look, Daddy, long story short, I was two seconds away from sucking the blood of all those humans there! That's what's wrong!" He gasped.

"Can you come home now?"

"Umm…Well, I haven't told Jacob. And I don't intend on telling him,-" Jake was still sensitive about the whole me-drinking-blood thing,"- besides, it'll look weird if I just go home in the middle of the movie; I was laughing during the whole thing. Isn't there any other way?"

He considered that for a moment," Can you eat?"

"Daddy, you know that eating won't stop the burning!"

"Then just tell Jacob, fake an illness or something and come home. Now." He said with finality. I sighed.

"Fine, Daddy. I'll be ho-" I heard someone knock on the window. "Umm… I'll be there in half an hour maximum. Love you." I snapped my phone shut.

Brad was still knocking on the window. I opened it slowly.

"You okay? The girls were searching for you in the bathroom but you weren't there. Jacob was trying to call you but your phone was-" I cut him off.

"I'm fine. I just don't feel that good. Do you know where Jake is?"

"Umm…Yeah, he was searching for you there- there he is!" He pointed towards the entrance of the garage.

"I hope you feel better. See you tomorrow at school?"

"Sure." He waved me Goodbye and walked out of the garage.

"Ness! Where were you? You scared me!" Jake said, getting into the car. I sighed.

"I was right here. Sorry I didn't tell you," I avoided eye-contact with him. He raised my face to force me to look at him.

"What happened?" He demanded. I looked down, ashamed.

"I-I… didn't feel well." That part was true.

"You're sick or something? I thought half-vamps didn't get sick!" What do I say? What do I say?

I can't lie to him!

I sighed, "No, I'm not sick. My throat was burning so hard that I thought I could attack someone there! Jacob, I wanted to drink their blood!" I confessed, sobbing. His eyes widened in shock.

"You what?"

"What you've heard! Don't make me say it again!" I was still sobbing.

"Shhh…It's okay; you didn't hurt anyone. Everything's fine," he said, rubbing my back. I could still hear the shock in his voice.

He started the engine.

"Where are we going?" I asked, after I was finally calm.

"Home! Where else?" he asked, confused. I'd wanted to tell him about how I felt that day. But I decided that I couldn't; it wasn't the most romantic moment to tell someone you loved him. Imagine that, a girl telling a guy that she wanted to suck everyone's blood then she tells him that she's in love with him! I laughed without humor.

"Yeah, home," I whispered.

As we arrived there, we found everyone waiting in front of the door. Oh, great. They have to make a scene, don't they?

I walked past them and stormed to my room; I felt too ashamed to talk to anyone.

Jasper Hale

I knew how she felt; I've experienced it for years.

"I'm going up to her," Bella said, walking towards the stairs. I stopped her.

"No, Bella. Leave her alone; she needs that,"

"She's my daughter, Jasper! I know what she needs, now let me go!" she was extremely annoyed, angry and worried. It wasn't in any way comfortable. So, I sent a wave of calmness through her. She sighed.

"She's Edward's daughter, too, Bella. And you don't see him running to her room!"

"That's because he's shocked; he hasn't talked to anyone since she'd called him. It's even worse than the day he found out I was pregnant! I have to talk to her, Jasper, please,"

"If anyone should talk to her it would be me. I'm going to talk to her. Happy?"

"And why do you get to talk to her while I don't?" she raised an eyebrow.

"Because you've had super self-control since the day you were changed! You know absolutely nothing about this!" I snapped. I never wanted to tell her anything about that but I had to now. She sighed.

"Fine. Go talk to her," she said in defeat.

"Do you want me with you, honey?" Alice asked, still worried about Nessie.

"No, Alice; I can handle that alone, I guess. Now, you go snap Edward out of this; nothing's happened." She nodded and went to where Edward was sitting, surrounded by everyone else.

I walked up the stairs. I could hear her sobbing in her room. Poor Nessie; she never saw that coming. I knocked on her door.

"Go away! I don't want to talk to anyone!" I knew that!

"It's Jasper, Nessie. Please let me in," I said quietly. She sighed and opened the door.

"Please don't make me talk about this. Please," she pleaded, her eyes bright red from sobbing.

"I won't. I just want to tell you something, sweetie." She looked at me with confused eyes and nodded.

"You know I wasn't really the best 'vegetarian' in the family before you were born, right?"

"No." She was still confused. Wow. Edward and Bella never told her about that, did they?

"Well, I had trouble coping with our, well, diet. Do you know what got me through that time?" She shook her head.

"You, Ness. Of course, Alice and Carlisle and the others were great help but when you came, I wasn't the one who had trouble with not drinking human blood. I'd decided that for you, I wouldn't even think about it again. Because if I didn't, you would've got hurt and I couldn't stand that. I discovered that all what I needed was someone I could do that for; Alice would've supported me in whatever decision I'd make, she helped me through the time before you were born but I did that for you, for you to stay alive. I hated the idea of you getting hurt because of me.

"Same with your case here; I know how much you love Jacob, how much you're attached to him. All what you need is to remember him. Remember that you're doing that for him. You know how much he hates the idea of you being a 'monster', sucking innocent people's blood. And so does your father, he has suffered a lot when your mother was human but he restrained himself for her. He also hates the idea of you drinking human blood; actually, he hates himself for it-"

"Why?" she whispered.

"Because he feels that it's his fault,"

"But it isn't, Uncle Jasper! I was the one who was going to do that! Why would he feel that way?"

I grimaced and was about to answer when Edward entered the room. Thank You I thought. He just nodded; he was obviously still in pain but at least he'd snapped out of the shock!

Renesmee Cullen

Jasper walked out of the room when Daddy entered.

I never knew about that Jasper's been through that before. It felt good talking to him; well, he did all the talking, actually. But what he said was true. I had to do that for Jake and Daddy. Plus, I had to hunt more often, apparently.

"Sorry I didn't come up earlier," he said, sitting on the edge of my bed.

It's okay, Daddy. I know you weren't exactly thrilled about that.

He smiled, "I see Jasper has done all the talking. What do I do now?"

Wow. Daddy, you sound better. You looked like someone died downstairs.

"Sorry. I just had to comprehend what had happened. And it's my fault, sorry again,"

"Why on Earth would this be your fault? Why do you take blame for everything Daddy? It's not your fault and, please, stop talking about this; I feel bad enough,"

He sighed, "Okay, honey. Do you want to go hunting now?"

"Su-" Alice interrupted.

"NO, no, no! She can't go hunting in this! Come on, young lady, to the closet! And, by the way, you're so in trouble!" The whole house was laughing now.

"Why?" I asked her as soon as I could catch my breath.

"Because the closet was a mess! I had to re-arrange each and every outfit and put it back in its drawer!"

"Yeah, the 'mystery drawers'," I mumbled.

"The what?"

"Oh, never mind, Alice," Daddy was still chuckling when he said that.

I hunted a lot of bears today. Good thing Daddy allowed it this time; bears were the reason we'd discovered that I heal as fast as Jacob. Emmett still feels bad about this.

"You're a natural! We'd have to try that with grizzlies," Emmett was over-excited about this. I laughed.

"If Daddy allows it I'm cool," I answered him. He grimaced.

"Now you're never going to do that!" he whined. I chuckled.

"Who knows? Maybe someday he'd allow it," I muttered.

"Yeah, right. Nessie, honey, you have to accept the fact that Edward is never going to allow a lot of things!" Rose commented.

"We're sneaking out!" Emmett suggested. I agreed; it would be fun to see the look on everyone's faces when we get back.

"Just pick a day Daddy isn't here. Or Alice," I whispered.

"Brilliant!" he grinned playfully.

"Stop planning! Alice would know!" Rosalie was excited for some reason I couldn't understand. It didn't matter that much anyways.

"We'd get Jacob with us! No way she'd see anything now!" I whispered, grinning mischiveously.

"You cunning little evil Nessie!" Emmett 'complimented' me as he tickled me.

Jacob! Where was he? I hadn't seen him since I got out of the Rabbit. What happened? Did he go back to the Rez?- Oh, enough thinking! I'd better text him or something.

Hey, Jake. Where are you? Sorry for what happened earlier. Can you come over before I sleep? You know I have school tomorrow :S I texted him.

Half an hour later, I heard my phone vibrate.

Hi, Ness. Sorry I left you there; you looked like you wouldn't talk so I went home. You're better now?

YES! NOW COME!

Yes, Jacob. I'm fine. Can you please come? *pout*

Sure, sure. I'll be over in a minute. Well, about half an hour :P

Waiting... ;)

I snapped my phone shut and went up to my room to change.

29 minutes later- I'd been counting minutes, yes- Jacob knocked on my door.

"Come in, Jake,"

He came in with a smile on his face.

"You feel better?"

"Yep! You're okay? I'm sorry I told you about this; I shouldn't have; I know how those issues irritate you."

"I'm perfectly fine. And don't you ever think about hiding something that big from me again, ever!" I chuckled.

"'Sure, sure'" I quoted. He laughed.

"You know the worst thing about this?" What?

"No; what?"

"You missed the last part of the movie!" he teased.

"Really? What? Did the police find out Rachel was the evil nanny after all?" I asked sarcastically. He laughed.

"Nope; it turned out that Anna was really sick and that Rachel was totally innocent. And, listen to this, Anna's sister was dead the whole movie! She was imagining her!"

That was unexpected.

"Then who killed all of them?"

"Anna," he said, smirking.

"No WAY!"

We kept talking about movie nonsense like that for the next hour. Then I felt my eyes drooping.

"You wanna sleep?" he asked, tucking me under the cover. He didn't even wait for me to answer.

"Yeah," I mumbled.

"You had a long day today, huh?" I remebered what Daddy had said this afternoon and chuckled.

"Yep,"

"Come on, sleep, Nessie," he kissed my forehead, "I love you,"

"I love you, too, Jacob. More than you know," he chuckled. I wondered why but I had no energy to ask.

"No way," he whispered in my ears. I wasn't really sure he even said that; I was already half-unconscious.