A/N: Thank you all so much for your advice, I really appreciate it. I also have a basic, really basic outline for the next 5 chapters at least so I will be trying to write as much as possible. I've had a lot of tests this week so I'm trying to keep it up. Anyway left me know how I'm doing. Thanks for reading, leave a review and enjoy.

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The piano lesson was going great so far. My attententiveness really seemed to help in this case. If I had ever tried to learn the piano as a human then it would have been extremely hard. I just never had the coordination or the memory to really understand any of this. Edward was very patient with me as he slowly walked more through all of the keys and some basic jingles. I was so wrapped up with learning the piano that I didn't realize anything that was going on around me. It seemed absolutely silent except for the murmurs of Edward's voice and the strokes from the piano keys. I looked at Edward in amazement, much like I did every day. The feeling that I had for him, for his beauty, would never go away. Alice tapped on my shoulder when I had understood the first few keys of Chopsticks. It was really complicated but I seemed to understand the basic gist of it.

"Yes Alice?"

"You are doing really well Bella but we have to go soon."

"Where are we going?"

"Well I called Leah and told her that we were all leaving to go to New York and she said that today would be as good as any to go searching for bridesmaids dresses. She found this place and it's where she got her dress. She figured that maybe we would be able to find something there."

"I guess I have to go," I told Edward. He nodded and he kissed my forehead.

"Go ahead love, I'll go help Nessie and Emmett. It will give me something to do."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah no problem."

"And," Alice added in. "Jacob is coming with her. I think that he misses being here so he's coming to hang out."

I nodded and stood up. "What should I wear?"

"Just some jeans and a t-shirt. Also grab some heels to see how they look with the dress. Classic black stilettos will do just fine."

"I don't have any of that here."

"Then you better get moving to the cottage and grab that."

"Fine."

I kissed Edward goodbye and ran off to the cottage. I was glad that Edward hadn't come with me because if he did I wouldn't have wanted to leave. I opened the door and went to my monstrous closet. I looked through all of my shoes and grabbed a pair of black stilettos with rhinestones going over the toe strap. I then just put on a plain light blue t-shirt, a pair of dark blue jeans with white sneakers. I threw my hair up into a loose bun and sighed heavily looking in the mirror. I didn't want to outshine Leah on her wedding day but it might just have been like Alice and Rosalie on my wedding day when I was a measly human. However, if Alice did such a great job on me then maybe Leah could us her expertise. I would talk to her about that.

I grabbed all of my stuff, including a little black clutch with glitter embellishments and put a credit card and my license in there. I then ran with my shoes and my clutch in my hands back to the house. There was a black sedan outside of the house and I knew that it was Jacob and Leah. They finally got a new car. I walked into the house and everybody there was sitting in the living room chatting.

"Hey guys."

I went to Jacob and Leah and gave them a hug. The heat that radiated off of their bodies was intense. I almost couldn't bear it because my skin was so cold. It felt like taking a blistering hot shower after being out in the snow all day. I pulled away and went to sit on Edward's lap, who was sitting in the chair adjacent to them.

"Hey," Leah said. "You look nice."

"Thanks," I murmured. I looked at Jake and I could tell in his eyes how happy he was. He had his arm tightly around Leah's shoulder. It looked like he never wanted to let go of her and I was happy for him. He finally had found someone that he could feel like that with, the same way that I felt with Edward. The ever lingering feeling of not wanting to ever leave their side, no matter for how long.

"How are you doing Bells," Jacob asked. It still shocked me at his voice. I hadn't heard it so long and the way that he said my name. It wasn't filled with the love and passion that it used to, which made me feel even better.

"I'm doing great, I get to go shopping. How exciting."

"You don't have to go," Leah said.

"No, I promised you that I would be a bridesmaid and if that means putting on frilly dresses all day, then that's what it will take."

"I promise that there will be nothing frilly. I don't do frilly."

"Good, do we get to see your dress?"

"Yeah. They said that they needed to re-fit it. They just want to make sure that the adjustments that they are making are going to work, so when we get there I will try it on again."

"How are you doing keeping it a secret from Jake?"

"I don't phase much. I'm always thinking about it so I try not to let Jake see it."

"Yeah that would probably be best."

"Will Renesmee be joining us?"

"No, she's off with Emmett setting up for a family sports tournament in a few days."

"That sounds like fun."

"It's something to occupy her mind. She gets very bored very easy. I think that she's color coordinated 5 times in the past month."

"That's bad."

"I know. So we should be getting going? We'll take Edward's car."

"You're taking my car," he whispered in my ear. "And who is driving?"

"Alice. You're car has enough room for all of us and it's the fastest."

"Fine. You twisted my arm."

I leaned my head towards him and kissed his lips. He hugged me tight against his stone body and didn't want to let go of me. I also didn't want him to let go. But I knew that I needed to. I grabbed the keys out of his pocket and escaped from his grip. I lightly tossed the keys at Alice and all of the girls stood up. I sat in the passenger seat while Alice took the driver's seat and Leah and Rosalie in the back. I felt bad for Leah. She was stuck in a car with 3 vampires. The smell for her must have been horrible. Even her smell was overpowering to me enclosed in the small sedan. It was nice though, to be able to be out with the girls, without my husband or my daughter. It was like a girls night out. Man if only we could drink alcohol. It would be fun to try and get drunk but I would be afraid of what it would do to my body and if there would be any permanent affects. It took us no time to get a small bridal boutique called Brocklind's in Seattle. It had a lot of beautiful dresses. Leah looked absolutely amazing in her dress.

It was very simple and very elegant. She looked absolutely gorgeous in it. There were double spaghetti straps with a v-neck. All the fabric bustled together just underneath her chest and held for a few inches before flowing out. It was cross-pleated with a chiffon bodice and skirt and simple beading around her upper body. The fabric then went out into a court train. It wasn't very long but the dress was very much Leah. It was simplistic but yet very gorgeous on her tall, lean body. It took us a while to find the perfect bridesmaid dresses. Her maid of honor Emily met us at the bridal boutique and she had the most say in what was going on. Leah's wedding color was a dark blue and it was during the summer so she wanted something that was knee length. We all decided on a lovely blue silk dress with a sweetheart topped. Like Leah's dress it criss-crossed around our upper body and then pleated out to just below the knees. It looked great against Emily's darker skin and our pale skin. I knew that Edward would love our dresses and especially the way that I looked in it. We were only there for about an hour and half and ordered the dresses that we needed in the sizes that we needed.

Renesmee's POV

"Thanks for helping me uncle Emmett."

"No problem kiddo. Anything to get these muscles working."

"I still appreciate it though."

"I said that it was cool. I think that it's really great that you are organizing all of this. I think it's cool."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Carlisle's been on us a lot lately about doing more as a family and I think that this is suiting our needs more than mini-golf is. At least this way we can use all of our strength." Emmett laughed as he hearled a pole into the ground. It was very tall, probably around 13 feet. It was one of the basketball nets for the next day. I climbed up the pole and attached one of the nets. We were playing basketball at an old house in the woods. The driveway was a perfect place to play basketball on for our family. Then soccer, football and baseball were all going to be played in the clearing.

I liked the fact that I was doing something for the family. And it also made me happy that my family was going to enjoy it. Emmett and I had gone back to the clearing to set up the soccer nets. I was trying to try the nets in place, sitting on the top of the goal, when a figure emerged from the forest. No, it was 2. I jumped down to stand behind Emmett.

"Nessie," a familiar voice called. It was Jake.

"Jake," I screeched and ran over to him. I got to see him again. I was sure after the last time that I had seen him that it was all talk and that I still wouldn't see him. He hadn't been by the house at all in the past few weeks. When I reached him I threw my arms around his neck and I smiled. "What are you doing here?"

"I figured that since your mother and Leah are off that maybe we could go for a walk and talk."

I then heard daddy growl.

"Daddy, knock it off. Uncle Emmett is going to need your help. I will be fine."

He growled again when Jacob put his arm around my shoulders and we walked off into the woods.

"I'll race you," Jacob said quietly.

"Oh you're on."

I took off towards nothing. I didn't know where we were running to but it was fun none-the-less to be competing against Jake. It was like when I was younger all over again. I slowed down as I was coming into a very small clearing. He then caught up to me.

"Girl you didn't tell me that you got so fast."

"I know but maybe you just got slower."

Jake put his hands on his face and pouted. It was funny seeing his face in that way. He looked like a little child.

"You know this place is familiar."

"Why?"

"Because one day a long time ago, your mother was up here and it was when I had just become a wolf. She was in a lot of danger because she was still human and another vampire was about to kill her. The pack and I came here to help her. She looked so frightened. It was when your father left."

"Why am I just learning about this?"

"Your mother never mentioned this."

"No she did. I'm just talking about when daddy left. She just told me about it and now you are."

"I just think that we were trying to shield you and we didn't want you being mad at your father."

"I was never mad at him. I understood why he left and I feel bad for how my mother felt after he left. But now that I know that they can't live without each other it makes me happy to know that my parents aren't going to separate."

"I guess that is a good thing."

"It is a great thing. There is too much in the world of people now where the parents get divorced and the child is stuck in-between the whole thing."

"Well no worries for you then. When the Cullens mate, they mate for life."

"So Jake what did you want to talk about?"

"I was just wondering how you have been."

"I've been good."

"Good," he stated under his breath. Was Jake nervous?

"Come on Jake, what's going on? Just spit it out already."

"I just thought that all of my feelings went away."

"For my mother," I questioned. It didn't sound like he was talking about my mother that way. I knew that he always had feelings for my mom. But I figured that after all of these years that something would have clicked in his head. For God sakes, he was getting married in a month.

"Well no."

"Then who? You can tell me."

"I'm not sure that I can."

"Spit it out Jake," I yelled at him. Jes, I sounded like my mother in every single way.

"When you were born I kind of made a promise to always be there for you, to give you anything that you wanted. Usually that would turn into something more like the other members of the pack so I was hoping that it would happen with you too. I wanted to take care of you when you were younger but now you are all grown up. I just don't think that I can be around you too much anymore. I can't do this," he confessed as he started to get up.

"Jake wait, what are you talking about? You and mom are keeping a secret from me and I don't like."

"I imprinted on you and I know that means absolutely nothing to you but it basically means that you and I supposed to be together in one form or the other. It's like a love at first sight thing."

"How could you do that to me," I snapped. "How could you do that to my mother? To my father? Why would you do that?"

"I can't control it Nessie. When you were gone it was hard. I wanted to be your best friend and have a shoulder for you to lean on but now, that I have seen you and your all grown up, I can't hind my feelings for you."

"But Jake you are getting married. That's not nothing. You can't just tell me that. I'm still so young and I could never see you in that way. You are like Uncle Emmett and Uncle Jasper. I just can't ever see you as more that. I love you but I can't ever be with you. I don't have those kinds of feelings for you. I'm sorry."

I looked at him and I saw a tear form in his eye and drop gently down his cheek. I didn't want to see him sad but I knew that I couldn't ever be with him. So this is why my mother didn't want me to come back here. I understood now and I loved my mother for keeping me away for as long as she did. I felt horrible though. I couldn't explain it. I wanted to run over to him and give a hug but I had to resist that urge and let him leave. He got up and ran through the forest. I took out my phone and called my mother.

Bella's POV

When we got back to the house, Jacob was sitting in his car waiting for Leah. He looked really upset and I didn't know why. I wanted to go and ask him if he was alright. Leah apparently noticed his mood and put a hand on my shoulder.

"I've got it," she said. It was as if she could read my mind. I just didn't want to let her be the one to comfort him that was always my job. "I'll see you guys August 6th then for the bachelorette party."

She got into the driver's seat and pulled away down the driveway. I went upstairs to Edward's room and mine and he wasn't there. Then my phone vibrated in my pocket.

"Nessie," I asked concerned. I heard her crying on the other end. "Where are you? Are you alright?"

"Can you come see me?"

"Where are you?"

"A meadow. Jake said that it's where he saved your life."

"I'll be there soon."

I jumped out of the window the minute that I heard 'a meadow.' I knew exactly where she was. It took me a few minutes to get there, only having the vague human memories as my guide. When I arrived in the meadow I saw Renesmee sitting on a rock with her head in her hands. She looked so upset and it reminded me of Jacob sitting in the car. Then everything all clicked at once. They were the reason the other one was crying. I walked over to her and she jumped into my arms and tears started to drenched my shirt. I rubbed her back and cooed her, rocking her back and forth. I soon heard her sobs come to a minimum and her breathing slowed, into a steady pace. I looked down to her and she was sleeping, snoring quietly in her sleep. I placed her hand in mine to look into her dreams. They were empty and blank; all black with no images whatsoever. After a while, there was one picture kept popping into her head. It was an image of Jacob sitting across from her with a tear in his eye. She started breathing heavier but it stopped once the image was gone. She was in a deep, dreamless sleep. I took out my phone to tell Edward where we were and he was there minutes later. He placed a blanket over Renesmee and wrapped his arms around us.

We spent the night in the meadow that I loved so much. It was a place of happiness and it was Edward's and mine. But the thing that sucked was that it was where Renesmee felt heart break. I had wondered what happened last night and what Jacob had said that made her so upset. I was ready to run to La Push and kick his ass for hurting my daughter. I toyed with the idea all night but went against it thinking that she would want me to be there in the morning. She ended up sleeping until the sun rose over the horizon. Great, it was sunny. That meant that I couldn't go shopping with Angela. That disappointed me too, I was really looking forward to that. Edward's arms never disconnected from us all night. I hated that I needed to comfort my daughter because I hated seeing her hurt. I only saw her cry two other times; when Charlie died and when we left Forks. But they were both unpreventable.

Renesmee stirred and I didn't release her. I wanted to hold onto her for forever. She smiled at Edward and I and rested her head on his shoulder. He kissed her forehead and we all sat there, with our arms around each other, for a few minutes. Renesmee got up and stretched in the sunlight. It actually felt nice on my skin, like it always had before. I was just happy to see the Renesmee wasn't crying anymore.

Renesmee's POV

I felt something warm hit my skin and I knew that it was time to wake up. I was comforted in my dreamless state but I knew that it was time to wake up. I opened my eyes and saw both of my parents. They were holding me so tightly. It felt amazing. I smiled up at them and daddy kissed my forehead. He always knew how to calm me down, almost as well as Uncle Jasper. I sat and enjoyed the feeling for a few minutes. I then got up peacefully and stretched. Alright, sleeping outside was not for me. I ran my fingers through my hair and it was knotted beyond belief. I looked at my mom and dad and their concerned eyes. Jacob was not who I thought he was. I didn't want to see him hurt but I had to do what I had to do. I needed to tell them.

"I was upset because of Jake," I said looking at them breaking the silence. Dad's hands balled up into fists and a low growl escaped from his mouth. "He told me about the whole imprinting thing last night and he told me how mature I looked and stuff like that. I told him that I didn't feel anything more than a brother, an uncle of sorts. He was just really upset. A tear fell from his face and he walked away. I felt awful that I hurt Jake and I just wanted to help him but I let him go. But now, I am fine." Mom looked at me like she didn't believe me and dad just nodded his head. He could see inside my head so he knew how I was truly feeling. "Really mom, I'm okay. I'm still hurt but I will live. Now lets go home, we have some things to take care of."

Dad broke into a run and mom and I followed after him. That was the one and only time that I was going to talk about the situation with Jake. I was over it!

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