Class ended much sooner than I was hoping. It didn't help that the professor dismissed us twenty minutes early. Any other day I would be excited to leave, but today I knew Jacob was outside waiting for me.

"I guess I'll walk to my car alone." Luke suggested when he met me outside my class.

I nodded. "I think that's a good idea." Sighing, I turned and dragged my feet towards the parking lot.

I caught Jacob leaning up against my mom's car. He eyed Luke as he walked towards his own car. I took a deep breath before walking up to him.

"Hey," I whispered.

"Ness," Jacob closed his eyes, reaching out for me. "Please, if you want to be with other guys you should have never-"

"Okay listen up, Jacob!" I huffed. He was going to understand that I didn't see anyone else the way I see him. "I love you, only you. That pull you feel towards me… I feel it, too! So don't give me that crap. We were just talking; that's it, nothing else."

"Didn't seem like it." He muttered.

"Can you stop being so jealous?"

Jacob snorted. "Me? Jealous?"

"Don't deny it."

"I'm not."

I rolled my eyes. "Jacob." I mumbled.

"Look, Ness, I was thinking…" He trailed off as I walked around the car to the drivers door. He hurried to follow me before continuing. "You really want to wait until June?"

HA! So this was how he's going to deal with the jealousy he's denying. I turned around to face him, folding my arms against my chest, and trying to hide my smirk. "Why Jake?"

"Well… I just love you so much… that I don't see a point in waiting any longer."

"Translation: I want to tie you to me so no other man can come and try and take you away."

"Since you put it that way…" He trailed off, winking at me.

I couldn't help but laugh at him. "You're hopeless."

"What do you say?" He urged.

"I say we're getting married in June."

"Is Luke the rea-" He started, but I cut him off.

"Do not finish that sentence!"

"Whoa, I was kidding… I trust you. It's just that it really threw me for a loop when I saw you two," his eyes narrowed. "Alone eating lunch. Wasn't something I was expecting to walk in on."

"Well I wasn't expecting you there in the first place." I snapped my mouth shut. That didn't come out the way I wanted it to.

Jacob's eyes shot open wide as he stared down at me.

"No, no! Jake, I didn't mean it like you weren't supposed to see us talking. I just meant I probably would have made it not so obvious…" I trailed off. I was just making it worse instead of better.

He nodded, taking a deep breath to calm himself. "I don't think I'm even going to ask you to finish that sentence."

"I didn't mean it like that!" I argued, but there was really no sense. "I just meant that Luke wanted to talk to me, I owed him that. I ran out on him, freaking out. He deserved an explanation. He offered to buy me lunch…" Why couldn't I learn to just keep my mouth shut?

"So I did walk in on a lunch date" He separated the last word into two syllables.

"No, well he mentioned…You know what, I'm done."

Jacob laughed once and opened the drivers side door for me. "I was wondering how deep you were going to dig that hole."

I tightened my eyes, he was still mad at me?

"Oh, yes." He nodded. I didn't need to put my thoughts in his head for him to know what I was thinking. It must have been written all over my face.

I took a deep breath before sliding into the car. The drive home was long and quiet.

"Hey, little school girl." Derek greeted me as I stormed into the house, slamming the door shut behind me. I was hoping Jacob would get the hint, but the door opened again shortly after, then slammed once more. "Well, someone's not a happy camper." Derek muttered as he watched us cross the room.

"What's going on?" My mom asked as she watched me walk straight for the stairs. I felt Jacob following me. There was no way I was going to listen to more of how he's mad at me. There was no reason for it.

I spun around, shoving his chest back. "Don't follow me."

"Ness?" My dad walked towards Jacob and I. His eyes watching us cautiously.

"Ooh, Jacob's in the dog house! Get it…" he slapped my mom's arm. "Dog house!" He doubled over laughing at himself.

My mom rolled her eyes and stepped away from him.

"I'm not the one caught red-handed." Jacob muttered.

"Me?" I shrieked. "I'm the one caught red-handed? We were just having lunch!" I yelled as loud as I could. "You're the one making your own accusations of the whole thing. He respects that I'm engaged-which I've reminded him time and time again! Plus he's older than my parents." I repeated what Alyssa pointed out earlier. That got him thinking.

Derek's laughter grew louder when he heard me mention Luke's age.

"The dude's a cougar, nice!" He hissed.

"Derek," My mom snapped. "Go play outside or something."

"I like it in here…" He trailed off when she glared at him. "You know what, I haven't seen my skin sparkle in a few days. I think I should see if it still works." He mumbled to himself as he walked to the backyard.

"What happened?" My dad asked once Derek was outside, starring at his arms.

"Nothing!" I yelled. "I was talking to Luke at lunch and Jacob saw us and is blowing it way out of proportion!"

"Jacob, you should know better." My mom scoffed. "Renesmee has friends, and some of those friends might be guys. Deal with it. Edward does."

Jacob and my dad exchanged confused glances. "What do you mean?" Jacob asked her.

"Jake, you're my best friend… you're a guy. There's no threat of a relationship between us. You're not constantly trying to get in my paints-"

"Anymore." My dad grumbled.

I shuddered. "Moving on, please."

My mom's teeth snapped together. "I didn't mean back then." She spoke through clenched teeth. "I meant now, but thanks for bringing that up, Edward."

"What? I mean I see Renesmee's point. She was just talking, but I also understand where Jacob is coming from. He's already had a woman taken from him. He doesn't want it to happen again."

Jacob relaxed beside me, "Thank you, Edward." He didn't bother to hide the smug attitude in his voice.

"Okay, not that I even want to talk about before I was born, but mom was never his in the first place! He's mine! Therefore he shouldn't even think of losing me to another guy." I turned to Jacob, my reasoning was getting to him.

"I can't help but worry. I spent so long thinking she was…" he stared at my mom, then down at me. "I'm sorry I act this way, but it scares the hell out of me to think that it's possible for you to-"

"I'm not going anywhere, Jake. I'm yours."

He took a deep breath, letting it out slowly. "I'm sorry." He sighed.

"You're forgiven." I giggled. He looks too cute when he's ashamed.

"Can I come in now?" Derek asked, leaning in the back door.

"Yes," my mom chuckled.

"No more dog house?"

"Sorry, Derek." I laughed.

"Oh, and you guys forgot someone when you were talking about bff's. Yeah, I was listening in, it's not my fault you talk to damn loud. Anyway, you forgot me!" He bounced across the room, swinging me up in his arms.

"Yes, Derek, I don't know what I would do without you." I wrapped my arms around his neck. It was true.

"How does that make you feel?" He asked Jacob.

"Nothing, you're her brother."

"I wasn't before I went all vampy."

"I only saw friendship in both of your eyes."

"And you see more than friendship in her eyes with Luke?"

"No… but."

"No buts, it was a simple yes or no question." Derek said quickly.

Thank you. I told him silently. His arms tightened around me.

"Okay, okay! I get it. I said I was sorry."

I shifted out of Derek's arms and hurried into Jacob's. "Let's go for a run." I suggested.

"No." my parents said at the same time.

Derek threw his head back as he laughed. "Make up time!" He sang, and dodged my mom's hand as she swung at him.

"It's daylight, I figured Jacob wanted to run off some steam." I really wasn't thinking of that.

"Yeah! I'm sure he would like to-" Derek started, but my dad was quicker than my mom. "Ow! Jeez, didn't see that one coming."

My dad smirked and tapped his forehead. "I heard it before you even decided to speak it out loud."

"Damn! Forgot about that." Derek muttered. "I'm going to play." He announced, and walked down to my video game room.

"Back by sundown." My mom told me.

"What?" My dad and I asked at the same time.

She raised an eyebrow at my dad. I saw her glance quickly towards the closed basement door, where Derek had the surround sound blaring with one of the war games he was playing.

"Sundown." My dad repeated, nodding once.

I ran up the stairs to change into my hunting clothes. Once I was finished I met Jacob downstairs.

"Where's my parents?"

"Playing pool." Jacob said, pointing to the ceiling.

I shuddered. "That's gross, Jacob."

"No!" He doubled over hysterical. It was then that I actually heard the sound on them up in my game room, my mom shrieked when she made her shot. "They're really playing pool. Get your mind out of the gutter." He said, taking my hand, leading me out the front door.