"Hey, Bella, when you growled at him, did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly.

"No! Of course not."

"No, not really? You really didn't attack him?"

"Emmett!" Bella protested.

"Aw, what a waste," Emmett groaned. "And here you're probably the one person who could take him—since he can't get in your head to cheat—and you had a perfect excuse, too." He sighed. "I've been dying to see how he'd do without that advantage."

She glared at him frostily. "I would never."

Jasper frowned.

Edward touched his fist lightly to Jasper's shoulder in a mock punch. "You see what I mean?"

"It's not natural," Jasper muttered, giving both me and Bella strange looks.

"She could have turned on you—she's only hours old!" Esme scolded, putting her hand against her heart. "Oh, we should have gone with you."

"What am I, invisible?" I muttered, not really asking that to anyone.

"Hey, did anyone hear something?" Emmett asked. "Why is Renessmee floating in the air?"

I groaned. "That's not funny." Emmett laughed. Nobody joined in with him.

"What?" he asked. "It's funny."

"Edward," Bella said, trying to see around Jasper to see Nessie better. "Please?"

Jasper didn't move.

"Jazz, this isn't anything you've seen before," Alice said quietly. "Trust me."

"Nothing's gonna happen," I grumbled. "Why am I being ignored when I am absolutely correct?"

"It's a situation we can't take lightly, Erin," Carlisle chided me.

I sneered at him. "Yeah, well…" I huffed, leaving the sentence unfinished.

Finally, though, Jasper moved out of the way of Bella. Slowly, she and Edward walked towards me. Very slowly, and it was too slowly for Nessie. She let out an irritated wail and everyone swarmed around me to see if she was all right. Everyone but Bella.

"What's the matter? Is she hurt? What happened? Why did you let Erin hold her?" Jacob asked instantly. He reached for Nessie and I let him have her.

"No, she's fine," I reassured him.

Renessmee touched her hand to Jake's cheek and reached toward Bella again.

"See? Rosalie told him. "She just wants Bella."

"She wants me?" Bella whispered. Her daughter stared at her impatiently. Edward darted over to Bella's side and urged her forward.

"She's been waiting for you for almost three days," he told her.

They were only feet away from Nessie now. Jake was trembling from fear that Bella might hurt her.

"Jake—I'm fine," Bella told him.

Said guy's face was filled with worry.

I sighed, exasperated. "Oh brother, Jake! It'll be fine!" And I flitted out of the room.

I was upstairs letting the family have their moment. It was like I was a stranger, an outcast. I didn't belong. They were enjoying their baby and totally absorbed in Bella's 'control' and treating me like a guest. That's exactly what I was: a guest.

"Be my guest. You're our guest, be our guest!" I mumbled the song from Beauty and the Beast randomly. I was sitting in the attic.

I was so caught up in my thoughts, that I barely heard Bella gasp: "No!"

Instantly, I was downstairs again, tense, and ready to stop Bella. This was exactly what I didn't want to happen!

"Calm down, Bella!" I shouted at her, but she didn't listen as she advanced on Jacob in a hunting crouch.

"You didn't," she snarled at him.

Jake backed away, palms up, trying to reason with her. "You know it's not something I can control."

"You stupid mutt! How could you? My baby!" Bella wasn't in her right mind.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" I stepped bravely in front of her. "I'm the one who sort of instigated this! It's my fault, 'k? I put the darn baby in front of him!"

Bella snarled at me, but stepped around me. Apparently it was Jacob's fault that I was the one who showed him Nessie.

Jacob! I shouted at him through my mind. He stopped short, staring at me, but quickly turned his attention back to Bella. I continued. Don't call Renessmee 'Nessie!' Please!

"I've held her all of one time, and already you think you have some moronic wolfy claim to her? She's mine."

"I can share," he said pleadingly as he retreated across the lawn.

"Pay up," Emmett said from my right. I growled at him, knowing he'd made a bet with Jasper.

"How dare you imprint on my baby? Have you lost your mind?"

"It was involuntary!" Jacob insisted, backing into the trees.

"And I helped!" I shouted, trying to divert the attention elsewhere. Didn't work.

Then Jake wasn't alone. Seth and Leah appeared in wolf form, flanking him on either side. Leah snapped at Bella. Bella growled back at her.

"Bella, would you try to listen for just a second? Please?" Jacob begged. "Leah, back off," he added.

Leah curled her lip at Bella and didn't move.

"Why should I listen?" Bella hissed.

And then my eyesight was engulfed in darkness. "Whoa, what the…?" I muttered to myself, stretching my hands out in front of me, trying to feel for some sort of piece of furniture. I couldn't hear the things going on around me, just my own voice. I found the couch and sat down in it.

Suddenly, I wasn't sitting on the couch anymore; I was standing in a blizzard next to a snow-covered freeway. Instantly, I recognized this as Minnesota. Don't tell me how I knew, you can just tell if you're from there. I saw a car drive by in slow motion. My new, Ford truck. I saw myself, human, and I had a sad look on my face. And there was someone in the car with me. Seth. I was back to the Christmas Eve crash, and ahead of my car, I saw a drunk driver driving on the wrong side of the road. The two cars were getting closer, and closer—

And then a loud crack! brought me out of the vision. Was I able to see the future? I didn't care at the moment. I rushed outside to see Seth still in wolf form whimpering on the ground.

Bella gasped. "Seth, I'm—"

"Not now, Bella!" I growled at her as Carlisle bent down next to Seth to help him. It was like my ears were muted again; I couldn't hear anything. Eventually, Carlisle got Seth to phase back and had him taken into the house and onto the couch.

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"I'm so sorry, Seth, I should have been closer." That was, like, the 20th time Edward had apologized in a matter of five minutes. Ugh, how annoying. I'd figured out the hard way that I had an even worse temper as a vampire. Bella kept trying to apologize, but they wouldn't let her finish a sentence. Serves her right. Soon, though, Seth fell asleep. What I wouldn't give to be able to sleep.

"It's impossible, you know," Edward smirked at me before taking Bella's hand and taking her to the back window.

I darted into the kitchen out of pure habit. That's where I always went when I was upset. But there was nothing I could eat that came from the kitchen anymore. Unless…I wanted to try something. I whipped the fridge open—gently—and grabbed a can of Diet Coke.

I mumbled this to those who thought I was going crazy. "I know it won't taste good, but I just want to make sure."

Knowing this wouldn't taste good anyway, I popped it open and took a sip. I got a surprise; it tasted good. Exactly the same as it tastes to a human. I was kinda disappointed that I'd have to throw it up later, but I downed the whole thing in ten seconds.

"What are you doing?" It was Carlisle.

If I could have, I would've blushed. I mumbled, "It tastes good."

"Fascinating." I couldn't hold grudges for any longer than an hour, unfortunately. "What was that when you went to sit on the couch earlier?"

"I saw my Christmas Eve crash," I said, but then remembered something. "But Seth was with me that time and I saw I was human."

"I think it was the future you saw."

I shrugged, grabbing another can of Diet Coke from the fridge. "Maybe. Now leave me alone with my addiction."