"Sit still, Nessie!" Aunt Alice grunted, grabbing my hips and forcing me to stop fidgeting.
"Ow!" I yelled. "You did that on purpose!" I accused her as I rubbed the spot on my back where she poked me with the pin.
My mom laughed quietly behind me. "She didn't break the skin." She said through her laughter.
"Doesn't mean it didn't hurt."
"Doesn't help when I can't see you." Aunt Alice mumbled.
"Can I come in, please!" Alyssa begged, knocking on my bedroom door.
I turned my body to look at my mom, which earned me another prick. I flinched, but knew that one was my fault. Aunt Alice couldn't see my decision's to move, so she couldn't get the pins out of the way before they poked me.
"You got it?" I asked my mom. I was being fitted, and I didn't want Alyssa to think of what I looked like in my dress, and it get to my dad down stairs.
She nodded.
"Yeah, Lyss!" Before I said her name she was through the door and shut it quickly behind her. Her back pressed against it as she laughed.
"Jacob's sneaky." She giggled.
I rolled my eyes. "Go find something to do, Jake, you're not coming up here." I spoke as if he was standing in front of me. I knew he could hear me even if I whispered.
"Derek told me to." Jacob lied.
"Listen, frontline, don't drag me into this. Edward tell him not to drag me into it!" Derek wined. I was too busy trying to figure out what frontline meant to listen to them bicker.
The giggling going on behind me told me I was the only one in the room who didn't know. I even heard my dad laughing at whatever it was.
"Stop laughing at him! It only encourages him." Jacob grumbled and I heard him punch my dad.
"He's got humor." My dad laughed.
"Boys…" I relaxed when I heard grandma Cullen walk through the door.
"HA!" Derek laughed loudly. "You got the big momma Cullen mad." Derek teased.
"It wasn't me!" Jacob complained.
"I was talking to you, Derek." I heard her say, and the four of us in my room started laughing. "Big momma Cullen?" She asked him.
"Yeah, figuratively speaking you're the big momma with all these Cullen kids running around."
"Bella and Rosalie are mothers, too." She pointed out.
"Well, Rose is a Hale, not a Cullen. And Bella is the little momma Cullen cuz she only has Ness and I. You've got enough kids to start your own twisted Brady Bunch with fangs… and they all date each other." Derek snorted then laughed at himself.
"Sometimes I wonder what is really going through your mind all the time." Jacob wondered.
My dad laughed. "I get lost in his mind."
That brought me back to wondering what frontline meant. I turned and flinched from another prick. Aunt Alice growled and I shrugged, smiling down at her. "Sorry," I whispered, and looked up at my mom to ask my question. "What's frontline?" I asked too low for anyone downstairs to hear me downstairs.
She giggled before answering me. "It's a flea and tick preventative for… dogs."
"Oh," was all I could say. I wasn't sure if I wanted to laugh at how clever Derek was, or me mad at him for picking on Jacob for being a werewolf.
"Let it go, Renesmee, Derek's just… Derek." She shrugged and shook her head, smiling.
"Okay, all done. Arms up." Aunt Alice ordered, and I did as she asked. My mom helped pull the dress over my head and then handed me my clothes to get dressed.
I skipped down the stairs, stopping when I saw Jacob sitting on the couch smiling at Derek, sitting in the recliner over towards the far corner of the living room. My father and grandmother were in the kitchen. I could hear them clanking around dishes as they started making lunch.
"Why are you all the way over there?" My mom asked Derek when she walked into the room behind me.
"Esme put him in the corner." Jacob leaned forward, laughing hysterically.
I sat on the couch and he put his arms around me.
"I did not," Esme disagreed. "I simply told him to sit in that chair away from you, Jacob."
"Why can't the two of you just get along?" I mumbled, irritated.
"I thought he was ok when he was human. A little annoying, but I forgot things get brought out more when you're changed. I swear, his talent is being even more annoying than he was as a human, not his strength."
"Jacob." My mom warned.
"Bells, I'm serious. Don't get all protective over your boy. I'm just stating the obvious."
"You got more rude and mean when you changed." She threw back at him.
"No I didn't! You just love to disagree with me."
"When did this turn into an argument between the two of you?" My dad asked, handing me a sandwich.
"Don't' make them stop! This is fun!" Derek was sitting on the chair, his mouth hung open in a childish grin.
"This is normal." He rolled his eyes and shoved a plate towards Jacob.
"Still fun." Derek shrugged.
"Shut up!" Jacob hissed.
"Don't talk to him like that." My mom snapped.
Jacob laughed as he stared up at my mom. "Okay, okay, protect your baby boy. I understand."
"Question." Derek said after a moment of silence.
"Here we go." Jacob grumbled.
My mom slapped the back of his head. "What, Derek?" She asked him.
His eyes were locked on me eating my sandwich. "How does human food taste to a vampire? Like… where does it go if we eat it? We're like… dead, so we can't digest it."
"Oh!" Jacob yelled excitedly and leaped over the back of the couch, gripping the tops of my mom's arms. "Let me, come on! Please, Bella!" He begged her.
She looked around Jacob at my dad and he shrugged, hurrying out of the room to hide his smile.
"He's got to learn." I looked up at my mom and Jacob behind me.
"Yes! Listen to your daughter. She's absolutely right." Jacob shook my mom once.
"Okay." She sighed and my dad came out with another sandwich. The smile still stuck on his face.
Jacob took the plate out of his hands and walked over to Derek. "Here find out what it does." Jacob dropped the plate on his lap. "Go on, eat it. The whole thing. One big bite. I dare you." He pressed.
"Oh, a dare huh!" Derek got to his feet and shoved the whole sandwich in his mouth. I heard the vampires behind me groan in disgust. We sat silently as Derek's face slowly turned from excited to disgusted.
"How you doin'? My mom asked him.
"No so good." He mumbled with his mouth full.
"You have to swallow it or the dare is no good and you lose." Jacob crossed his arms against his chest.
Derek's eyes narrowed and he chewed with more force now. He swallowed and shuddered. "Edward…" his voice was strained. "Can vampires throw up?"
My dad laughed and nodded.
"Good." He said quickly and darted out of the room.
"Human food has no where to go, you vomit it up, moron." Jacob said when Derek came back.
"Thanks for telling me now."
"Not a problem."
"Jake." I hissed, taking his hands in mine.
He shook one of my hands off and brought it up to hook his finger under my chin, bringing my face up towards his. Our lips touched and I forgot what it was I wanted to yell at him for.
"I'm off to pick up the bridesmaids dresses." Grandma Cullen reached for Aunt Alice's hand and they both hugged my mom goodbye, then my dad, and me. I was excited to see them finished. Claire and Alyssa were the two bridesmaids. All the dresses were bought and taken care of. Now it was other things we needed to worry about. The list was never ending, and I was happy that I didn't need to worry about any of it.