A tired looking Jacob opened the door a few seconds later. The first thing he said was, "Nessie, aren't you grounded?"

"Yeah, but I'm trying a new thing lately. It's called see-how-mad-I-can-make-my-dad." He didn't laugh, he just looked discouraged. "Jake, I'm sorry. Can we take a walk or something?"

"Yeah, I guess." He stepped outside and began walking to the woods in the back yard. No one takes walks on the sidewalk anymore.

We walked into the trees and nobody said anything. The sun was setting below the treetops and the sounds of crickets chirping filled the summer air. I was glad the day was ending. Boy, it had been long. We walked for a long time, I guess we didn't know how much ground we were covering because we both were annoyed with walking at a human pace.

"I don't want you to get in trouble for being out, so what do you want to talk about?" His voice came across as somewhat harsh.

"I just wanted to apologize, that's all. I'm sorry about my dad and everything." I looked down and talked as I kept walking.

"It's not your fault, I mean, I shouldn't have told you without asking."

"You can do whatever you want." Why was my dad like some sort of lawmaker in life?

"What's with this new attitude?" That caught me off guard. I glared at him.

"What new attitude?"

"You're just not acting like yourself. You never usually get this mad at your dad."

"Sorry." I scowled at the ground and picked up my pace. It seemed like there was some sort of barrier between us.

He didn't talk for a while, and I was glad. Maybe I shouldn't have come at all. I just needed to learn how to leave things alone. I think I've caused enough problems.

We walked through a pair of trees and came to a small meadow buried in the woods. I wondered how far we walked. Fireflies lit up the night as they flew around the meadow. I had to admit no matter how bad a mood I was in, this was pretty. Jacob took my hand and I looked up at him. "Ness, don't be mad."

"I'm not mad!" Wow, that wasn't a dead give away.

"Yes you are," He smiled for the first time tonight. Oh, so now it was okay to smile. I give up on making people happy. "You're pouting."

"No I'm not!" This was just like when I was younger and he took down the biggest deer on our hunting trips. He always teased me about pouting. I smiled at the memory. How things have changed. He tilted my chin up with his other hand.

"Was that smile I saw?"

"Oh, so look who's happy now." I took a step backwards and tripped over my own feet, falling on back. We both laughed. Ah, there was nothing like me making a fool of myself to lighten the mood. He laid on the ground beside me and looked up at the sky.

"Being happy isn't so bad."

"Tell that to everyone else."

"At least no one is going to die now, on the bright side."

"How'd you guys know we were about to die?"

"Because things like that are what those Italian vamps look forward to." I sighed. My memory betrayed me. I wish I could remember all that happened when I was a baby. It's over now, everything is over.

"Don't worry about it anymore, Nessie. They aren't coming. It was just a false alarm I guess."

I was about to object but instead I looked up at the sky like Jake, and saw the bright lined against the dark sky. "Pretty isn't it?"

"Yeah-" He looked like he wanted to say something else, but he didn't. His warm hand took mine again, and looked at me, as if checking to see if it was okay. I nodded. It was more than okay with me. How could I possibly have thought this was creepy? We laid in the small meadow looking at the stars and I lost track of time. When I was with Jacob, I was happy, whether I wanted to be or not. He seemed to just take away my worries.

I know this chapter was short, but I just thought it was kinda cute. Hope you guys thought so too.. plz review!! :)