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I'm keeping it short, just like the chapter.

Here is chapter 30, enjoy...

Renesmee's Point of View

"Get up would you," I heard Alice yell for the millionth time. I had been perfectly content laying there with Ross all day and I didn't care about all the presents that were under the tree. It wasn't even Christmas anymore. There was no need for it except for Alice's excuse to shop more. I hated the little pixie so much at this moment. I felt her jumping on my bed and it took every ounce of restraint that I had in me to not knock her feet out from under her. She would never see it coming but she probably wouldn't fall, which wouldn't make it as much fun. I did it anyways and I heard her light feet hit the floor. "Are you seriously trying to knock me over?"

I opened my eyes and looked at her. She was wearing these ridiculous reindeer pajama pants and a matching red shirt. Normally she would never be caught dead wearing that but at my first Christmas I made her promise to wear them every single year for the rest of eternity. And surprisingly she agreed and had kept up her end of the bargain. However the stance that she was in just put the icing on the cake. Her hand was on her hip and she was tilting her head looking at me while her foot tapped the floor impatiently. I couldn't help but laugh at her.

"You put me in this stupid outfit now you need to get up and put on yours. You too Ross. Your pair of pants is in the bathroom. You two get up because the little monster known as Annie is chomping at the bits up there."

"Fine," I grunted throwing my legs out of bed. I put my slippers on and shuffled to the bathroom to get changed. I looked like a mess but there was nothing I could do about it. I pulled my pajama pants on, nice fuzzy red ones with Santa Claus on them, and walked back into my room. Ross was standing next to the bed stretching.

"I don't think I will ever need a heater again," he stated sarcastically. "I think I sweat off 20 pounds last night."

"I'm sorry baby," I said wrapping my arms around him. "Next time we'll turn the air conditioning on."I heard my mom and dad laugh upstairs and Alice was still yelling at us. "I think you should get changed and do it fast. Otherwise Alice will come and carry you upstairs." He laughed at me almost instantly. "I'm not kidding," I told him seriously. He kissed my forehead and ran into the bathroom. He was out in less than a minute.

"Let's go," he said. "I'm excited for you to see what I got you."

"How did you afford to do that?"

"With one of the credit cards they managed to slip into my car. I think there were two in my wallet and at least 5 in my car. They probably thought I would try to get rid of them. Persistent little pixie she is."

"That she is. Come on," I stated grabbing his hand. He smiled at me as I dragged him up the stairs and into the living room. My family was all sitting around the Christmas tree, everybody in their Christmas related pajamas. Even Ann, Alex, John, Carrie, Nahuel and his family were in the stupid pajamas. I think that they looked absolutely ridiculous but it was one of the only traditions that we had. It was the one time of the year where Alice didn't dictate what everybody was wearing.

I sat down next to my mom at the bottom of the tree. Annie sat jumping up and down on Ann's lap excited to get everything started. Esme had been working on her room the entire night. She had a room at Ann's house but she was going to have Ross' room here now that Ross was staying with me. It made me excited that they couldn't go back on their word now that the guest room was made up for a 4 year old little girl. Pink and frilly, just the kind of room Esme had always wanted to do.

I looked around the living room and I got sad. I didn't know if this was the last time that I would be able to have all of my family together with me, all happy and excited. I didn't want this to be the last Christmas that I would have with them. I needed more time with my family and I needed more time with Ross. We needed to make it to our first year anniversary and be able to have a life together. I looked over to him and he knew what I was thinking about, squeezing my hand to have me calm down.

I pushed all of the horrible thoughts to the back of my head. I didn't want to ruin this for anybody. I wanted to be happy in this moment. I watched everybody as they watched Annie tearing through the wrapping paper. All of us took our time watching her because this was all for her. If it was up to me this year I would throw the gift at someone and have them open it up later. Most of the gifts underneath the tree were for Annie anyways. I remembered that I had gotten her a little stuffed monkey. If I was younger I would have loved it and she held onto most of the time.

My dad, of course, was a romantic. Why did they have to be so sickly in love with each other all of the time? He had gotten my mom a dozen roses that were preserved in 24kt pure gold and each of the roses had a message on it. I only listened to a few of them because it was really romantic for a while. "If I could dream at all, it would be you," was my favorite message on it because it was something that had described them years ago. "Would you please stop trying to take your clothes off," was one that I wish I could forget. "Bella you have never been merely pretty." "So you seduced your all-too-willing husband. That's not a capital offense." And when it got to the "I bit a pillow. Or two," I decided to stop listening to that. I remember them telling me about their honeymoon, in bits and pieces, and my dad destroyed pillows and a headboard trying to keep control of his thirst. They had told me so that I wouldn't underestimate that.

After everybody got sick of listening to them they focused to the gifts that I had gotten Emmett. Alice started laughing immediately which made me chuckle. I got him an unbreakable Rubik's Cube. I figured that would keep him entertained for a little while and it would make us laugh seeing him trying to not chuck it at a wall.

Emmett had decided to get my dad a book, like he needed anymore of those. I swear between my parents' room and Carlisle's study we had more books than a library. "How to stay humble when you're smarter than everybody else," my dad read out loud. "Emmett you are seriously a child," he said with a chuckle. "I can't believe you even bought this."

"Well you really are smarter than everybody else, well except for Carlisle, but you will never beat him out when it comes to intelligence. But he carries it off better than you do."

"What do you mean," Edward asked with a little bit of a growl.

"I mean that you show off way too much when you don't need to. You need to learn to be humble and that's why I got you the book."

"And you already have way too much stuff which is why I didn't get you anything."

"We did though," my mom interrupted. "It's upstairs in the music room. We got you a gigantic bean bag chair so that you can play your video games. It's about the size of the couch you're sitting on."

He looked down the couch and the size of loveseat amazed him. "It's really this big," he asked.

"Yes and you have to wait to use it until we are done here," Esme interjected. "We aren't done here."

"Okay," he said with a little bit of a pout. I laughed at him and turned to Ross. He was holding a little box in his hands. I looked at him and then down at the box. It was the size of a ring.

"It's not what you think," my dad said. I let a breath out that I didn't realize I was holding in. Not that I didn't love Ross but I wasn't going to be getting married for a little while. I wanted to wait until I was at least out of high school. Ross laughed a little bit and handed me the box.

"Go on and open it," he stated eagerly. I unwrapped the snow flake wrapping paper and there was a little velvet box. I opened it and saw a beautiful ring. It looked like shooting stars on a ring. 4 separate hearts where intricate on a 4-prong setting. It had little diamonds on the hearts in a white gold. It was so beautiful that I started crying. "It's a promise ring," he stated in my ear. I took out of the velvet box and put it on my left ring finger. It fit perfectly. "It's a 10 karat band and a 1/6 karat diamond, whatever that means. The woman that sold it to me said it would be perfect."

"Perfect doesn't describe it," I mumbled through my tears. I couldn't stop smiling as I looked up to him. I looked into his eyes and I knew that I could promise to love him. I could promise a lot of things to him. Everything about him was just perfect. I couldn't believe that he got me a ring. It was like nothing that I had ever gotten before. Maybe it was because of the person who was giving me the gift. That's what made it so special.

"So you like it," he asked.

"I love it," I answered with a kiss.

Emmett threw a pillow at us and I realized that everybody was staring at us. I had been complaining about my parents being romantics but we were just as bad. I had gotten Ross a set of dog tags on a white gold chain. One of the dog tags was a bunch of little diamonds and the other was white gold with an engraving on it. "I just want you close, where you can stay forever. You can be sure that it will only get better… -Love Renesmee." I wanted to get him something that he would like and possibly wear. I didn't even know what to get a boyfriend. Guys had it so easy because they could just buy flowers or a teddy bear or a piece of jewelry and everything would be okay. But then the girls had so many other things to consider. I decided on it last minute and it's what I decided to get him. He held up my present, dangling it up in the air and smiled towards me.

"I love it," he said giving me a kiss. "I really do," he stated putting it on over his head. I smiled to myself and there was no way that I went wrong with his gift.

Esme's reaction to her gift from the family was about the funniest thing that I had ever seen. Alice came up with the idea that we give her a family tree with pictures of all of her kids. It was absolutely amazing with her and Carlisle at the top. Bella and Edward were the next with me next to them. After them were Alice and Jasper and Rosalie and Emmett. At the bottom was a picture of Ann, Carrie, Alex and John along with Aedan, Camden and Ross. Esme looked like she had taken in all of these kids but I knew that she would crying if she could. It was the perfect gift for Esme.

Emmett got Alice a high heel shoe doorstopper in a bright red color. It was a funny gift for Alice that had fit her so well. And he got my dad a reindeer costume for his car. We all knew how obsessive my dad was about his car and getting him an outfit for it made everybody laugh. Rosalie got a necklace from Emmett that was two hearts. One of the hearts was just an outline with diamonds surrounding it and the other heart was white gold with Rose engraved into it.

Ross got a huge map of the United States made out of license plates. It was a huge piece of art that was extremely heavy. It was cool though, in a way. I didn't know where he was going to put it considering he didn't have a room anymore. I was assuming that Esme had gotten it for him when he had his own room.

I got a few other cute little things. One was a piano music box that played all my favorite Beethoven songs when it was opened. My parents had gotten me a snow globe with an angel inside of it. "May you always have your wings. Love mom and dad," was engraved on the base of the snow globe. I also got a really cool picture holder that said 'Friends and Family' and the pictures were somehow held up by the lettering.

Carlisle's gift had to be the most surprising gift of all, besides Ross'. He had given Ross and me a trip to go snowboarding in Beaver Creek, Colorado for just the two of us. We were going to be staying at the Beaver Creek Lodge with a room overlooking the valley in the King Suite. I saw the pictures on the cover of a brochure and it was breathtaking. I couldn't believe that Carlisle would do this for us.

"When are we going," I asked excitedly after hugging and thanking him immensely.

"On February vacation," he stated. "I think that will be okay because you won't miss school that way. You guys have missed too much school as it is. Teachers will be wondering how you are keeping your grades up."

"Grandpa," I said with my hands on my hips. "It's Christmas; can we not talk about school right now?"

"Fine but you are all going back when we get home."

From the way that he made it sound it seemed like we were just going on a little bit of a vacation. It was nothing for them to worry about. It wasn't like we were going to Italy to face our worst nightmare or anything. I knew that this was not the winter vacation that I was looking forward to and it was going to end with a big bang. Neither fighting the Volturi nor going back to school were making me happy at this moment.

We watched on as the rest of my family got their gifts from each other. Ross bought everybody books besides me and I thought that it was a great idea. It was something that was understated but meant so much to everybody. He was extremely considerate.

I had been wondering all night and morning what Ross was going to do when everybody showed up. I knew that it was easy for all of us to resist his blood but I didn't know how the other vampires would react. Jacob had been different the last time that vampires had invaded our home because he smelled horrible to all of them. But to me he smelled perfectly fine.

When our presents were all open we all went our separate ways to get changed for the day. I put on a pair of old jeans and a t-shirt with sneakers. I threw on a sweatshirt just in case it started snowing, which according to Alice, it would. Ross had decided to stay inside today instead of watching us practice.

"I talked to your mom," he said to me when I came out of the bathroom. "She told me that it probably wasn't a good idea to be in the range of vampires who were fighting. She said their instincts may take over and they would come to attack me so I'm going to stay in and put all of my stuff away. Maybe I could even do some redecorating."

"Don't change too much," I stated sitting on his lap on my bed, our bed.

"Well it is partially my room now and I find it to be a little too frilly for my taste. And we got all of those gifts and I think that we need to reorganize a few things."

"Just don't touch my closet," I laughed. "I have it perfectly organized."

"But where am I supposed to put my stuff," he pouted.

"There is a little bit of space in there for stuff to hang up and the rest can go in the dressers. I don't even use those."

"Fine. You get to have all your clothes hung up and mine get crumpled up inside of a drawer. I see how well you do with sharing. It must be only child syndrome."

I laughed and nuzzled my head into chest. I wanted to stay there all day and we stayed in that position for a few minutes until I heard the arrivals taking place upstairs. I groaned quietly before kissing the nape of his neck and got up slowly.

"I need to go," I said kissing him quickly. "It's time to be the hostess."

"Have fun."

I looked at him one last time as I made my way up the stairs. I entered the living room to see Jacob's monstrous pack standing there. I wished I would have had Ross come with me. Just as I closed the door, it was opened again and he was standing beside me with his hand encompassing mine. I smiled up at him and gave his hand a squeeze. Jacob noticed instantly and left my mom to come over to us. This was not something I had been thinking about. The last time that we saw each other it did not go over well.

The minute that he stepped in front of us his face softened and a big smile burst across his face.

Jacob's Point of View

To say that I was nervous was an understatement. Leah had agreed to drive the monstrosity that was Seth's car. I never saw the point to an SUV until this moment but the damn car was a behemoth. We had left the minute that we heard the Cullens needed help. None of us argued or disagreed; we just packed up and left. Sue was in the backseat sitting next to Seth and Embry and Quil were in the way back bickering over an iPod. I couldn't believe that this is what it all came down to. The five of us wolves and Sue driving to New York to help our once enemies. The last time that I had visited them it hadn't turned up well.

I wanted to make sure that everything with Renesmee was alright. I wanted her to be happy with whoever she chose to be with. It was part of the reason that I had spoken to Ross. As hard as it was for me to let her go, I think it would have been harder for her to not have Ross in her life. If I were to pick somebody else for her Ross would definitely be my choice. He was a great guy for her and he made her feel more human, which was a good thing.

We pulled up their driveway and I didn't want to get out of the car. I didn't think that the family would ever talk to me again after the stunt that I had pulled a few weeks ago. I didn't want that to be the lasting impression I left with them. I got out of the car with Leah's help and we all walked up to the front door and Alice greeted us before we could even get to the door. She seemed bouncier than usual.

"Jacob," she yelled throwing her little body at me. "I've missed you," she stated while hugging me.

"Missed you too Ali," I said wrapping my arms around her and lifting her into the air. "How have you been?"

"Same old same old. Trying to see too many things at once. It's giving me one massive headache."

"Well it's a good thing that I'm here to relieve that headache."

We both chuckled before she went off to greet everybody else. I stepped into the house and shook the doc's hand.

"Hey doc," I said.

"Hello Jacob. How have you been?"

"I'm a lot better now," I stated enthusiastically. "I'm finally going to get my hands on those vampires. I've been dreaming about this day ever since we last saw them."

"Well we have training to do so why don't you say hello to everyone else and we will get started."

"When is everybody else showing up?"

"Throughout the day. It all depends on when their flights get in."

"Jacob," Esme said sweetly coming up from behind Carlisle. "How have you been?"

"I'm good, I'm good. How was your Christmas celebration?"

"Great. The kids are all just so sweet. They got me a family tree."

"It must take up the entire house," I stated with a chuckle.

"It pretty much does," she responded with a laugh of her own.

Bella came down the stairs and took all of my attention. I still could not believe what her transformation into a vampire had done for her. She was absolutely beautiful, even more so then she was before. She glided up to me and looked at me.

"You hurt her you know," she said to me, staring me straight in the eyes.

"I know."

"Do you know how much?"

"A lot and I made a horrible decision. I told you that I couldn't control it. I tried to make things better by talking to Ross. I hope that helped him. I just don't know how everything turned out."

At that moment a door opened and Renesmee stepped out into the living room. She looked at me like she was seeing a ghost. I didn't know what to make of it. She looked like she was upset or confused, I couldn't really tell. She stood there for a moment in shock and then a familiar face was by her side. Ross had gone back to her, just like I thought he would. It looked like he took my advice and got her a promise ring for Christmas. I had thought of it when we were driving to Washington. I approached them with nerves wracking through my body and when I was in front of them. I looked into her eyes and I saw that she was nervous too. I smiled and tried to soften my face to make them both feel more comfortable.

She smiled back and wrapped her arms around my neck. I picked her up, hugging her around her waist and squeezed her. She put her hand on my cheek when we released.

Thank you Jake for everything. Thanks for bringing Ross back to me and thank you for being here even though it might be killing you. Thank you for being calm and listening to me. Just thank you.

I kissed her forehead and nodded extending my hand to Ross. I knew that she didn't say those things aloud for a reason and there was no need for me to say you're welcome. She understood that without me needing to say anything.

"Nice to see you again Ross," I said stepping back for a moment. "You don't look like you're going anywhere."

"No I'm staying in today and reorganizing some things."

"Don't change too much. She doesn't like change at all."

"I have learned that. Well you guys have fun or whatever it is I'm supposed to say to you."

I laughed at him as he looked around the room and went back downstairs to the basement. He was going to be changing around Nessie's room. It was going to be challenge for him non-the-less.

After talking with everybody for a few minutes we made our way outside to the backyard. All of the Cullens and a few new additions were out there with my pack. I remembered seeing them at Nessie's birthday party and apparently the Cullens decided to adopt a few more teenagers. Nothing could ever stop the Cullens from adding to the gigantic family.

I started off fighting members of my pack in wolf form. It didn't really help that we could all read each other's minds because of the whole the pack shares one mind. It was great when we were in battle with other people but when we were practicing against each other it was annoying. After a while we moved on to fighting the Cullens and the rest of their friends. Our party kept on growing throughout the day.

More and more vampires showed up with every waking moment. Sue and Ross stayed inside of the house. They had made the pack dinner and when it was time for us to take a break we went inside.

"Smells good Sue," I said sitting down at the table with a huge plate of food in front of me.

"Doesn't it always," she stated. Ross was sitting next to me with a little bit of food on his plate and the look on his face was priceless. He had a look on his face that made me think I had two heads.

"You're going to eat all of that," he asked pointing at my plate.

"Of course I am. I'm a big guy and training makes me hungry. Sorry if that makes me a pig."

"It doesn't make you a pig but I'm just a little surprised is all. I have never seen somebody eat so much before."

"Well you don't hang out with wolves very often then."

"I try not to," he laughed. "Let me see what am I going to do today? Oh yeah, hang out with some wolves who eat a lot of food and scare the crap out of me."

I laughed at Ross and started downing my food. I didn't know what it was about Sue's cooking but it was delicious. About halfway through Nessie came in and took a plate of food. She sat down next to Ross while I eyed her suspiciously.

"Since when do you eat like a human," I asked her. My tone didn't come out as nicely as I thought it should have.

"Since I started dating a human who likes to eat. I don't eat very often but this food smelled so good that I had to come in and give it a try."

"I cooked it," Sue stated putting her hand on Nessie's shoulder. "Of course it tastes good. Between Seth and Leah I really needed to know how to cook well."

We all talked and laughed a little while longer until it was time to get back to practicing. I didn't know what to make of everything. The day after tomorrow we would be leaving for Italy. It wasn't like I really wanted to fight these idiots but I wanted to just to be able to protect Nessie and the rest of my family. As many conflicts as I've had with the Cullens they were my family. My pack, my dad, and the Cullens were my family. There was no other way for us to all live peacefully. We were supposed to be mortal enemies but somehow we were all family to each other.

A/N: I hope that you liked the chapter. It was a little bit shorter than others but at least I got it out.

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