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I stretched before I opened my eyes. Then I realized that move should have either pushed Jacob off the bed, or I should have hit him. If anything I should be able to feel him next to me, but I didn't. I sat up and rubbed the sleep from my eyes and leaned over the side of the bed before I put my feet on the floor. Jacob wasn't curled on the floor in his wolf form either. I got up and walked into the living room. Leah and Derek were watching TV. Both of them with plates piled with food from the cart that was sitting next to them.

"We do have a kitchen, you know." I informed them. Just incase they forgot.

"I don't cook." Leah mumbled with her mouth full.

"Oh, so instead of pouring yourself a bowl of cereal, you would rather spend my parent's money." I insisted.

"Yes," Leah hissed.

I rolled my eyes and walked into the kitchen to find me a pan and some eggs to fry up.

"Where's Quil and Jacob?" I called from the kitchen.

"Out," Derek was the one to answer. "I saw them leaving when I got up about an hour ago."

I dropped the frying pan and it clattered loudly on the floor. Is everything ok? The Volturi? My parents? My family? I put my frantic thoughts in Leah's head. She hated when I did it to her, but I needed to know and I seemed to lose my voice.

She glared at me and sighed. She knew I was going to be overly worried because it was Jacob out there. "Everything is fine." She assured me.

"Jacob looked a little worried though." Derek spoke nonchalantly.

Leah raised her hand and slapped the back of his head.

I ran towards the door. I wasn't sure where they were, but I would find them. I needed to help Jacob. I needed to be with him. If he got hurt I don't think I would be able to live with myself, no I knew I wouldn't be able to handle that.

Leah was behind me, her hands locked around me upper arms. "He's in no danger. I for one, wouldn't be sitting here calmly. No, Jacob didn't give me an order to stay this calm in front of you. He knows you too well. They just went to go into the forest to check some things out. Sam smelt a trail heading our way. Jacob thinks they sent someone to look for you, but don't worry. They wont find you." Leah spoke softly, which threw me off. She has never even touched me a day of my life. She must be telling the truth, either that or she's really desperate for me to believe a lie. I decided to believe her and go back to making my breakfast.

The hours went by slowly and Jacob and Quil were nowhere to be seen. Derek read the worry on my face and put his arm around me. "They're fine. I wouldn't want to mess with those big guys."

I couldn't help but laugh at his attempt to make me feel better. I leaned into his side, it wasn't Jacob's arms holding me, but it still made me feel better.

"Hey, lets go swimming!" Derek jumped off the couch and I had to catch myself before falling face first into the cushion. I was leaning on Derek, but when he got up I had nothing holding me up.

"I don't want to go swimming." I whined. Why should I go out and have fun when Jacob was off doing something to keep me safe.

"Well, you're not going to mope around the place. Come on! It will be fun."

I groaned, but let Derek pull me off the couch. It was hard to stay in a down mood around him. He was always so bubbly about everything. I wondered what kind of medication he was on.

I pouted as I put my bathing suit on and dragged my feet out into the hall to take the elevator up the stairs.

"Look what I found!" Derek cheered when he reached into a closet and took out a whole bunch of diving toys.

"Good for you." I mumbled.

"Cheer up Ness, lets race and see who can pick up the most." Derek threw them colored objects into the pool and readied himself to dive in. "Ready?" He asked me.

I huffed, "Fine."

Derek counted and we both jumped in. I could see more clearly under water, thank you dad, and also thanks to my vampire half I could swim faster than a human. When I came up and put my arm full of colored toys on the side of the pool I laughed. Derek was smiling and counting the five that he got. I cleared my throat when he went to go look for more.

"Got them all." I smirked and pointed to the ten that were in front of me.

"You have some sort of immortal swimming speed! That's not fair." He pouted and splashed me with water.

"Stop being a baby!" I yelled and splashed water back at him.

We dove for each other at the same time and fought to dunk the other under the water.

"Get your hands off my girl." I froze when I heard Jacob's voice. Derek hurried to let go of me and Jacob laughed. "I was just kidding, kid."

I scrambled to pull myself out of the pool, and smiled when warm hands were wrapped around my wrists. Jacob pulled me swiftly from the water. My feet never touched the ground as he held me in his arms. I wrapped my legs around his waist and dug my face into his neck. "I'm so glad you're ok!" I mumbled into his neck. "Are they coming for me? Do we have to leave? I shouldn't have been swimming, I should have been packing! I'll get my stuff…" I wiggled to get out of Jacob's arms and he held me tighter.

"Nessie, baby, everything is fine. Who told you someone… Leah." Jacob growled her name. She's got it all wrong. I don't know what lame ass story she told you, but Sam crossed a trail and informed Quil this morning. Quil woke me up and we went to go see who it was."

"That's what Leah told me. She said you were going to see if whoever it was were coming for me."

Jacob nodded and he smiled my favorite smile. "They are coming for you." He hissed.

My heart took off beating faster than it's normal speed.

"Jacob." Only one voice in the entire world can say his name with so much hatred.

"Dad!" I gasped and unlocked my arms and legs from Jacob's body. He helped me steady myself on my feet before I turned around to face my parents. I went to take a step towards them when I saw my father's hands ball into fists as he glared at Jacob. Jacob's hands were on my shoulders as he thought through everything that we talked about yesterday. I wasn't sure if his hands were keeping me from going to scream at my mother, or if they were there to hold me in front of him as a shield from my father. He wouldn't attack him with me standing in front of him. The look on my dad's face made it clear that he didn't like the fact that Jacob had claimed me as his.

I wasn't ready to yell at my mom yet. I wanted to make sure everything was ok first. I wanted to smell her scent to make sure she was really there in front of me. The good part was that she didn't look jealous that my arms were just around someone she once… I shuttered. She had a million different emotions running across her face. As for my father, well, he was fuming.

"Let her go." My dad said each word slowly.

Jacob dropped his arms from my shoulders, and I took a step towards him. I wasn't aware that I was actually running towards them until I slammed into my fathers stone body. "What was it like? Did they hurt anyone? Is everything ok?" The anger I felt a second ago towards my mom disappeared as soon as I felt her hand on my back. I pulled away from my dad and laughed when he pulled at his now wet clothes.

"We're all fine." She said softly and kissed my forehead. "They know that we are hiding the both of you, but they're not going to try and find you. They know what kind of powers we have, and that they're no match for us. They told us the same rule applies, and they will be back to check."

I knew that rule. They gave that rule to my mother. She knew about my Dad and rest of my family, and they gave her the choice of immortality or death. So that meant the same rule applied to Derek. No! I put the word colored with anxiety into her mind. She pulled me against her and held me tight.

"We'll find a way through this." She whispered. My mom looked up at my dad, expecting him to say something to back her up, but he was still glaring at Jacob.

"That's it I swear!" Jacob put up his hands, palms towards my father and backed up.

"I ask you to protect my daughter and that is how you protect her? She's still just a child!"

"It happened. It wasn't just me. She felt it too." Jacob stammered. I glanced at Derek moving to the opposite side of the pool. He was watching everything closely. I was sure he was betting on my father to kill Jacob.

"Stop!" I yelled and they both looked at me. "Leave him alone." I narrowed my eyes at me father.

"I'll deal with you in a minute." His voice colder than ice.

"Edward, she knows everything. I told you this after she was born. There is nothing that you can do to make me stay away from her."

"She's not fully grown yet!"

"She knows what she's doing."

"I do." I put my hand on my fathers arm and he looked down at me. "I love him and there is nothing that you can do about it." I turned to look at my mom who stayed quietly in the background. "He's mine." I said coldly.

"What?" My mom looked at me confused. Then her eyes shot up to glare at Jacob. I flashed her visions of him and I talking about what happened between them. "Oh," she gasped and stepped back, like she was recovering from a slap across the face.

"Bella?" My dad turned around when he heard the pain in her voice. He turned back to Jacob and growled deeply. "Why would you tell her that?!"

"Why did she have to do that?!" I threw back at him before Jacob could answer.

"I never understood the relationship between Bella and Jacob, but after you were born I was happy it was all explained, but not happy at the fact that I barely knew you and already he had a claim on you. Just like he thought he had one on Bella before you were born. I had no control over the relationship between your mother and Jacob, but I did have control over his relationship with you." He paused and looked at Jacob. "I still do. She's not of age, or full grown."

"This has nothing to do with my age or if I'm still growing or not. I know how I feel. You can't take that away from me and you know it! You tried it before. You took that away from Mom. She loved you more than you thought, and you took yourself out of her life. How did she take to it? Let Jacob refresh your memory if you don't remember. It nearly killed her! You want to put me through that?"

"Of course not, but --"

"But nothing, Dad. This is the same thing. She loved you like I love Jacob. She fought to be with you and I'm more than willing to do the same for him."

For once my dad was stunned to silence. He knew I was right. My mom went to hell and back for him. I would do the same for Jacob.

"There will be rules." My dad growled.

"What? Your just going to let it happen?" My mom gasped.

"Why? You still have feelings for him?" I asked coldly.

My mom shook her head and glared at me. "No!" She snapped. "Why would you say something like that?"

"Oh, I don't know… maybe because you were engaged to the guy you nearly died for, but couldn't keep your hands off the one that belonged to me!"

My mom's nostrils flared and she pushed past my dad.

"Bella," He reached for her, but she pulled her hand fiercely out of his grasp and charged towards me.

She bent over me and I cringed. "Take that back!" Her high pitched bell voice made my ears ring. I caught Derek's hands fly up to cover his ears.

"No! Why did you have to be so selfish? You already had someone."

"I know!" She screamed. "I can't explain it. I loved Jacob, still do, but he's like a brother to me. Nothing else."

"You kissed him."

"I was being pulled in two different directions. The pull that Edward had on me was stronger than the pull that Jacob had because you weren't complete. The part of me that belonged to you was what was pulling Jacob and I together. I always belonged to Edward, but I couldn't deny the feelings that would be yours. It's not like I knew I was going to have a daughter that was destined to be with my best friend and wanted to take him from her!"

"That's enough!" My dad stepped between us and pushed us apart. He turned his back on my mom to glare down at me. "You will not speak to your mother like that. If I can let all that go than I think you can too. You really think she would deliberately hurt you like that? The same woman that fought to keep the both of you alive despite the danger she inflicted on herself to carry you until you were able to live without her. She was willing to end her life in order to give you life. You have absolutely no right to speak to her like you are."

I knew he was right, but I was still mad at the fact that they kissed. "I want to go home." I groaned and pushed past my dad.

My mom reached out and grabbed my hand. I didn't want to look into her eyes. I didn't want to see the pain that would make me apologize for hurting her feelings. I pulled my hand out of hers, leave me alone. I put the words in her head so I wouldn't have to deal with my father protecting his sweet innocent Bella.