A/N: From time to time I'll throw a chapter in Jake's POV like this one.

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Promise

JPOV

"Why are you so nervous?" Seth asked, sitting next to me in the swing outside Bella's house.

"Nessie is out with someone who might be dangerous," I answered. "That's enough reason for me to be nervous."

"She's with someone who might hang out with someone who might be dangerous, that's a big difference, now she's with a human, Nessie can handle a human bro, you already know that."

"Maybe is a trap, maybe Josh set her up and he's gonna take her somewhere her sister can attack her," I argued.

"Now you're being ridiculous!" Seth exclaimed. "It was Nessie the one who made the invitation, not him, you're overreacting Jake. Besides, you know Edward will be near, you are not the only one who cares about her, you know?"

"I know!" I yelled. "But I can't help it! I don't want her anywhere near that boy!"

"Are you sure this has nothing to do with the fact that you're jealous?" Seth inquired, making my blood boil.

"This is about her safety," I hissed between clenched teeth. "My feelings got nothing to do with it."

"Why don't you just tell her?"

"I have! I told her this morning! I told her I didn't want her to go out with Josh! But she didn't listen to me."

"I'm talking about your feelings, you fool!" Seth sneered. "You ought to tell her how you feel! She's in school meeting new guys while you're here doing nothing!"

"I can't tell her, not until I'm one hundred percent sure she feels the same way," I replied after a big sigh.

"Oh, come on! You know how she feels, you know how this imprint thing works," Seth argued.

"What do you mean?" I asked confused, looking at my cellphone for any signs of Nessie for the tenth time in half an hour.

"What do I mean?" Seth asked in disbelieve. "You become whatever she needs, if you love her that means she needs you to love her… That only can mean one thing, man."

"That she loves me back," I concluded closing my eyes. I always knew this day was going to come – the day we fell in love – but I always thought it was going to be easier, that one day we were going to wake up, realize what our feelings were, and be together. But is not like that and I hate it.

"Yeah," he agreed. "So you gotta tell her how you feel."

"I can't Seth," I told him, the defeat thick in my voice.

"Why not?" he asked me; I opened my eyes and smiled.

"Because I made Edward a promise," I answered. "He told me he wouldn't make my life impossible if I ended dating with her daughter if I could promise him two things."

"What things?" Seth pushed, furrowing his eyebrows and sitting in the edge of the sit.

"I can't tell her that I imprinted on her until we are actually together," I sighed. "And I can only tell her how I feel until after the moment she says it to me."

"So, you can't tell her you love her unless she tells you she love you first?"

"Exactly," I sighed and got up, just in that moment I heard Edward's car parking outside the house. Seth looked at me with wide eyes and we both ran inside.

We got to the living room just in time to see Nessie getting inside the house, arguing with Edward. The rest of the family was already there – except for Carlisle who was at work.

"I need to be able to block it dad," she whined. "I'm sick of it."

"Your mom can protect you with hers when I'm around," Edward answered softly.

"That's great," she smiled. "But not enough."

"What do you mean, sweetie?" Bella asked confused, cocking her head to the side. Apparently none of them where paying attention to the room full of vampires and shifters who wanted to know how everything went.

"In a second Jacob," Edward answered to my thoughts, making me shush with his index finger.

"My main goal isn't keeping dad out of my head – that's just a plus. What I want it's to be able to control my power, to block other people out," she answered.

"But I don't know if your power works that way," Bella replied. "Maybe you can't block it, like your father."

"Well, at least I need to try," Nessie argued. "I want to be able to shake hands with someone without them hearing – or seeing – what I'm thinking."

"I thought you loved your power," I argued and she looked at me, blushing.

"I do," she said in a lower voice. "But it doesn't help me in the task of acting human. Besides, you've been around my dad; you know how annoying it is when someone's hearing to your every thought."

"But, why now?" I inquired.

"Because the only human I've been around in the past five years is Grandpa Charlie," she replied, looking a little confused, clearly thinking it was obvious. "Now I'm surrounded by humans, Jake, I need to be able to control my power."

"I think Nessie is right," Jasper said. "We can't run any risks."

"Yeah, I know, but what if she can't?" Bella replied.

"Then she'll never be able to touch a human for long without exposing herself," Jasper concluded calmly. "But we'll never know if she doesn't try it."

"You're right," Edward agreed. "We'll start working on your power today."

"Yeay!" Nessie squeaked.

"Now can we know what happened with Josh?" Alice asked, clearly annoyed that they were taking so long.

"His sister is the vampire and they know about us," Nessie told us without beating around the bush.

"They know we are a big coven – who is one of the biggest in the vampire world - and they don't have problems with it?" Jasper inquired.

"Well, I think they just knew about me and mom," Nessie replied, sitting in the couch. "Now they'll know about the rest."

"You told them about us too?" Seth asked and she shook her head.

"Of course not! I only showed him the vampires," she told him.

"You showed him?" Rosalie asked her, freaking out. "You mean you showed him your power?"

"Yes," Nessie whispered gulping. "He was willing to tell me all about his sister; I had to do something to show him I could be trusted."

"But you can show him about our extra powers!" Rosalie shrieked. "We try to keep them a secret in case someone tries to attack us Nessie, you know that! We need the upper hand!"

"Rosalie, there's no need for you to raise your voice," Esme warned.

"Yeah babe, take a chill pill," Emmett agreed. "Beside, we are one of the biggest covens in the world, we already have the upper hand against them, they are just two."

"I didn't tell about any of your powers," Nessie replied looking to the ground. "I just showed him what I can do."

"What did you find out about them?" Jasper asked, ignoring Rosalie's outburst.

"Not much," she answered.

"Why don't you just show us what happened?" I asked her and she looked at me alarmed.

"That's a good idea," Esme agreed. "Maybe we could end the fighting and the doubts if you just showed what happened sweetie."

Nessie bit her lip and looked at the ground.

"She doesn't have to show us," Edward came to the rescue. "She already told us everything she knows, she'll find out the rest tomorrow."

"Are you going out with him again?" I asked her, trying really hard not to show her it bothered me one little bit, but failed miserably.

"No," she blushed – I don't know if she was angry or embarrassed. "We'll see each other at school."

"Oh, sure," I replied, but I still didn't like the idea of her being near him.

"Well, that's it, he knows all about us – except for your powers – they know we don't drink human blood and that we are a peaceful gang. Now, if your excuse me, I'm going to my room," Nessie got up, smiled, and went up the stairs, leaving all of us discussing about what she told us.

I was barely listening to the discussion, my mind was upstairs with Nessie; she obviously was upset about something – or else she'd be hear giving her opinion, like always – but I don't know what… Since when she doesn't like to show everybody what she's thinking? Even though she can communicate just fine without using her power, she still prefers talking like that, I know that because she's always talking to me like that when I'm at reach. But now? She was arguing about blocking her power and she obviously told Edward through her mind she didn't want to show us what happened with Josh…

I finally gave up trying to hear the conversation in front of me and decided going upstairs to Nessie's room. I knocked and she opened the door after a couple of seconds.

"Can I come in?" I asked and she opened the door wider, giving me room to enter. I sat in her bed and she sat in her desk, facing me.

"What happened today, Nessie?" I inquired.

"What do you mean?" she asked, looking at her hands intently.

"You are upset about something and it's worrying me. Did something happen with Josh that you haven't tell us?"

"No, our conversation went smoothly," she replied with a tiny smile, still looking at her hands.

"Then what is it? You know you can trust me…"

"I know," she told me, finally looking at me. "The problem is that everything is different that I imagined."

"What do you mean? You don't like going to school?"

"Yes! I do," she corrected me. "But I thought it was going to be different; I thought I'd be feeling less like a freak and more like a human, but I don't! Every time I'm with April or with the team I feel like I don't belong, I feel everything but human."

"I thought you loved being different," … like me.

"I… I don't know anymore; I feel like I don't belong anywhere," she replied, looking to the ground again, her voice barely a whisper.

"You belong somewhere Nessie," I told her, jumping down her bed and kneeling in front of her, she wouldn't look at me so I raised her chin with my index. "You belong here, surrounded by vampires, werewolf and humans, 'cause it doesn't matter what you are – what any of us is – it matters who you are."

"I don't know who I am," she whispered.

"You are a sweet girl; you're smart, funny, impulsive, stubborn, trustworthy, beautiful… You may be one of the few half-vampire in the world but, without meeting other than Nahuel, I know you are best."

She smiled and snorted.

"Thank you Jake, you always find a way to make me feel better," she kissed me in the cheek and got up. "But I still want to learn how to control my power."

"It's a good idea," I agreed. "But you can still use your power with me."

I'd love that... she said by touching my face. With you I feel almost normal.

"A seven foot shape-shifter makes you, a half-vampire, feel almost normal? You have a serious problem Ness," I joked and she snorted. I took her hand in mine and looked at her – you could see she was trying really hard not to show me what she was thinking, trying to concentrate only in our intertwined hands, without adding any thoughts to it.

"Promise me," I said in a low voice, looking deep into her eyes. "That whatever happens in the future, you still going to be you around me, that you'll never try to change because you think that's what I want or what the rest considers normal, that you'll come to me whenever you have a problem… That you'll always have me in your mind."

I promise, she said trough her mind, biting her lip furiously and blushing a lovely pink.

Perfect, I thought to myself. That's the only thing I wanted to hear.

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