Chapter 3 : The pack
Once everyone had left the room Jake turned to me ," So whatcha wanna do Nessie?".
" I don't know, it's sorta weird with no one else here."
" Well, we could go to see my pack. Haven't been in about a week, Leah must be getting pretty proud."
I smiled and touched his cheek Jacob Black I'd love too.
He smiled in return flashing his perfectly white teeth. " Well Renesmee Cullen, just let me change to see if it's………safe. Turn around, I don't want all my clothes to rip".
"OKay," I said feebly turning around.
I heard him chuckle as I did so.
Oh my goodness, this always made me nervous for some reason. Basically he was stripping so that when he changed to wolf form, his clothes wouldn't be shredded.
" Okay , you can turn around when you hear the door shut. I'll be back in about ten minutes."
"Okay," I said nervously.
He snickered as he left the room.
I heard the door shut behind him, and I turned around. I looked out the window just in time to see the end of his tail disapear in to woods. I looked out into the meadow and saw Jake's shoes and t-shirt sitting on a tree trunk, his pants were always tied to his back leg when in wolf form.
And then it hit me. A sense of emptyness without his presents. This feeling was new to me; I couldn't bare it. I felt it becoming harder to brreathe. My breathe oming out in short gasps. What the hell?
I walked to the kitchen to find something to occupy myself. There was a cook book on the granite counter; I picked it up. I skimmed through the pages until I found a recipe for 'Homemade Supreme Pizza', since the whole reason for me staying behind from the hunting trip was to practice eating real food, I decided to make it. Jake could have some when he got back.
It didn't take me long to make the pizza, 5 minutes tops. The oven Esme had bought was amazingly fast. But I still had about five minutes until Jake got back. That's a delimna. I still felt empty. I set a piece of the pizza on each of the two plates- one for me and one for Jake. I held my nose as I did so- human food smells horrible. I sat down an waited for the next five minutes to pass.
The minutes tricked by slowly - 1:11, 1:12, 1:13, 1:14, 1:15. Finally ten minutes have passed! But why wasn't he here yet?
I walked out onto the front porch, and looked toward the woods - no sign of Jake. I looked down at the meadow below the steps, he wasn't there either. I looked to the place where Jake had left his clothes and they were no where t be found. Where was he? Where were the clothes?
I heard a rustle coming from the edge of the woods. I went into the defensive form.
" I come in Peace," Jacob said playfully walking from the woods, hands in the air.
I relaxed my stance. A sense of relif washed over me. Jacob was back .Safe. But was there ever any danger?
I smiled the biggest smile. He returned the favor.
"He walked to the porched swiftly, and before he could say anything I touched his cheek. In my thoughts I went very quickly through the events that took place while he was gone - skipping the emptyness part. I finished and removed my hand.
"Well lets eat," he said enthusiastically.
I grinned.
We walked to the kitchen where he pulled my chair out for me. I sat, touching his face. Thank you.
"Your welcome my lady," he said playfully. " The pizza smells great. But typically, humans, have cokes to go with their meals".
I blushed. "Oh".
He chortled. "Don't sweat it , I'll grab some".
He proceeded to walk to the refrigerator and take two red cans and set them on the table.
I just stared at it. It smelled horrible. Was I supposed to drink it? Like blood?
"It's okay. It won't hurt you I swear," he teased.
I leaned over the table and touched Jake's face. I thought very clearly about the smell.
" Oh well, more for me ," Jacob said sliding my plate next to his.
I stood as Jake proceeded to stuff his face. I got the rest of the pizza and set it on the table.
"Are sure their okay with me coming?" I asked Jacob as we climbed out of his hand-built Rabbit.
"Of course, I already told you, they've been dying to show you the rez. Besides their a bonfire tonight."
"Where?"
"Sam and Emily's, naturally."
Jacob helped me out of his hand-built Rabbit, and lead me to the door of Emily's little gray house. Jake didn't bother to knock, he just walked right in as if he owned the place.
Emily was the only one in her little niche of a home, fluttering around her tiny kitchen making enough food to feed an army- an army of wolves.
"Jacob, Renesmee!" She squealed, flying across the room to embrace us both.
"Hey Mom," Jacob said playfully.
"Hello Emily." I chimed.
" Everyone is outside Jake, you guys can go catch up if you'd like." Emily offered.
" Okay, theirs some things I need to talk to Sam about"- Jacob turned to me- " Are you gonna be okay in here for a while?"
"Oh, um, Yeah, I'll just see what help I can offer to Emily," I smiled in Emily's direction.
Emily returned the smile in what seemed to be a very thankful one.
"Okay, Nessie" he gave me a quick kiss on the cheek and rushed out the door. I found myself touching the place where his warm lips had come in contact with my skin. Replaying the moment again and again.
"Renesmee?" Emily sounded relived.
I snapped out of it, and looked up. She had an understanding smile on her lips, unknown knowledge hidden deep in her black eyes. " What would you like me to do?" I asked both eager to brake the silence and eager to have something obvious to do.
"You can ice the cake- I bought vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry, you can do what you'd like with it." She indicated toward a 3 foot tall yellow cake.
" Wow, Emily that cake is huge!"
" Well when you've got a family as big as mine, with their appetites' . . ." she trailed off feeling no need to finish the sentence. She smiled and continued to flutter around the her kitchen to finish her food for the army of wolves waiting outside.
"Warm enough?" Jacob whispered into my ear. We were far from the fire, sitting on a stray log by the green forest that consumed Emily's back yard, but I could answer honestly.
" Warm enough." Jacobs large arms were around me, and right here under the protection of his warm embrace I was in fact very, very warm.
"Do you mind if I ask you something, Jacob?"
"Shoot."
" Why was my dad so apposed to me staying here with you?"
" He wasn't."
I touched his cheek with my hand replaying the scene when I said I was going to stay. "Don't lie to me."
" Your dad never liked me much . . ."
I touched my hand to his cheek once more to ask why?
" Hey guys, why are you guys sitting so far away? Come join the party!" It was Emily's voice that drifted to us.
Jacob stood up " My lady?" He held a hand out to me and I took it. He lead me to a spot close by the fire and we sat with Embry and Quil on either side of us.
" At what were you guys doing over there?" Embry asked playfully nudging Jacob's side, while Quil gave him the all time famous wink.
I felt the heat rush to face for an unknown reason. What could we have been doing over there?
Jacob's hand came in contact with the backs of Quil and Embry's head, with the force that could have gave any normal person a concussion.
"What? It was just a question!" Embry continued even though Jake brought the subject to a close.
In response Jacob gave Embry a long hard glare.
"Enough of the fighting guys!" Seth spoke as he came to join us. "Hey Renesmee!"
Seth's arms flew around me. " Hello, Seth" I gasped through his strong embrace.
Seths arms left my sides just as Jacob pulled me beside him and put an arm around me to keep me warm, though we were very near the fire now-I didn't object.
"So Renesmee have you met Claire yet?" Quil asked of me.
" Claire? I don't believe I have met her." I spoke politely to him. "Or heard of her" I added.
I looked up just in time to see Quil giving Jacob a questioning look.
"Claire!" Quil called over his shoulder.
In no time a small girl ran to Quil and took a seat on his lap. " This is Claire. She's a . . . good friend of mine. Say hello ,Claire."
" Hi." Claire scanned the group until her eyes met mine. "Who are you?" She asked giving Quil a questioning look.
"Hi Claire. I'm Renesmee Cullen," I informed her extending my hand.
She shook my hand and then retracted her own.
"Re-ney- may?" she struggled
"How about we go with Nessie?"
"Nessie? That sounds famailiar. Oh I know! Are you Jacob's girlfriend?" She spoke with excitement.
I blushed, looking up at Jacob. He seemed amused, as if this were funny putting me on the spot. He then indicated Claire as if he wanted me to answer her. I loved Jacob, but I was definitely not his girlfriend.
I reluctantly turned back to Claire knowing Jacob would not answer for me. " No, Jacob's my friend, like Quil seems to be yours." I smiled letting her know I didn't take it rudely.
"But . . . That's not what Quil said!"
My blush deepened. And everyone one burst in to hysterics! I didn't understand. Why were they laughing at a little girls wrong choice of words! Or her misunderstanding what Quil had said? I just didn't understand!
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