AN: Hey fans! After long awaited months, here is the first chapter of Dear Jacob! (Yeah, I know, calm down). Hope to hear from The Twilight Notebook fans! The cover here is on my youtube profile (RenesmeeTheWerepire) as well as the trailer and any extras I put up for this story :) I think I did a great job! So, enjoy!

I DO NOT OWN PLOT OR CHARACTERS! ALL GOES TO NICHOLAS SPARKS (GREATEST LOVE STORY WRITER OF ALL TIME) AND STEPHENIE MEYER (BEST INSPIRATION OF ALL TIME!)

PROLOGUE

When I was shot, do you want to know the first thing that came to mind: Wolves.

Suddenly, I'm eight years old again, listening to Old Quil tell the stories about how our elders protected our land as wolves, or werewolves. From the beginning of the tribe, to the stories of the cold ones... but through those memories, the story that stood out was the story of the third wife, and how she sacrificed herself for the tribe.

I'm a wolf, sacrificing myself for my country, fighting against the cold ones... but they don't fear me and my weapons because I have two holes in me holding me down...

Do you want to know the last thing that came to my mind before I blacked out?

You.

"There I was again tonight,

forcing laughter, faking smiles.

Same old tired lonely place.

Walls of insincerity

Shifting eyes in vacancy

Vanished when I saw your face.

All I can say is it was

Enchanted to meet you.

Your eyes whispered

'Have we met?'

'Cross the room your silhouette

Starts to make its way to me.

The playful conversation starts,

Counter all your quick remarks like

passing notes in secrecy.

And it was enchanting to meet you,

All I can say is I was

Enchanted to meet you.

This night is sparkling,

Don't you let it go.

I'm wonderstruck

Blushing all the way home.

I'll spend forever wondering if you knew

I was enchanted to meet you.

The lingering question kept me up,

Two AM who do you love?

I wondered 'till I'm wide awake.

And now I'm pacing back and forth

Wishing you were at my door, I'd

Open up and you would say,

'hey it was

Enchanting to meet you.

All I know is I was enchanted to meet you'

This night is sparkling,

Don't you let it go.

I'm wonderstruck

Blushing all the way home.

I'll spend forever wondering if you knew...

This night is flawless,

Don't you let it go.

I'm wonderstruck dancing around all alone.

I'll spend forever wondering if you knew,

I was enchanted to meet you.

And this is me praying that

This was the very first page,

Not where the story line ends.

My thoughts will echo your name,

Until I see you again.

These are the words I held back

As I was leaving to soon:

I was enchanted to meet you.

Please don't be in love with someone else,

Please don't have somebody waiting on you.

Please don't be in love with someone else,

Please don't have somebody waiting on you.

This night is sparkling,

Don't you let it go.

I'm wonderstruck blushing all the way home,

I'll spend forever wondering if you knew...

This night is flawless,

Don't you let it go.

I'm wonderstruck dancing around all alone.

I'll spend forever wondering if you knew,

I was enchanted to meet you.

Please don't be in love with someone else,

Please don't have somebody waiting on you."

-Taylor Swift, Enchanted

DATE: MARCH, 2000

LOCATION: FORKS, WA

Forks... the most rainiest, smallest, and most boring town on Earth. Not that the army is any different. It's not like in any war video game you've played. Even the thought that your life is on the line doesn't do much. If you must know, Forks is my home town... well, La Push is, but it's the same area so there really isn't any difference.

I was visiting- just visiting- my dad in La Push. I was on leave for the spring, just like everyone else at school (I felt like such a child). I've never been to college. I finished high school and went straight to the army after a year or two. I had no money or grades for college then. I figured I should do something with my life, unlike my married sisters.

Sure, I've had a girlfriend or two, even thought I was in love once, but of course, I wasn't enough for them. I'm not a distant relationship kind of guy. I've seen people in the army writing and receiving letters and talk about wives and girlfriends all the time. I was bad news anyways, but I'll explain that later on, this isn't the story of my childhood, not completely.

My dad and my relationship isn't what you would call verbose. We don't talk much, and barely through letters. There used to be a time when me and my dad were really close, but now, that's history.

My dad has a weird obsession with the Quileute legends, which are complete bull crap to me. I stopped believing them a long time ago. To me, believing in those stories is like believing in crap like Santa actually puts presents under your Christmas tree.

"Are you sure that you want to go?" My friend Kirk said to me. "I know you don't like Forks much, the way you talk trash about it." I shrugged.

"I really have nothing better to do, besides, I promised my sisters that I'd check on my dad every chance I get." Kirk shrugged.

"Why can't you just tell them something came up?" I shook my head.

"No can do. Rebecca lives in Hawaii and Rachel's on a second honey moon." Kirk sighed.

"Well, okay. Go get your old man." I smiled and gave him a manly hug. "See you in two weeks.

After the long flight to Seattle, I took the bus back home. I met my dad at my old house, he was sitting on the porch.

"Hi, Dad." I said, feeling awkward.

"Hello, Jacob." he said, reading another Quileute book. I took my bags and brought them into my bedroom, taking off my boots and putting them in the closet. Dinner was done so I didn't hang my army suit up yet.

Billy and I ate dinner in silence, Monday is meatloaf night so I didn't question anything about dinner even for conversation before. I even knew what we were having for the next two weeks. That's my dad, always on schedule.

"So, um, dad." I said, trying to get rid of the tension between us. "How's Charlie?" Of course I would mention Billy's only friend, Charlie Swan, Chief of police.

"He's fine." He mumbled. "Same old Charlie..." I nodded and continued eating again. Then he sighed. "His granddaughter is coming into town for spring break, some kind of project having to do with repairing a flooded house."

"Hm." Was all I said.

The rest of dinner was silent until I told him I'd do the dishes.

"No, no, Jake. I'll do it." he said, wheeling himself to the sink. Did I mention he's disabled? Yeah, he's in a wheel chair.

I figured there was no point in trying. My dad had to get his way, no matter what. He'd keep arguing with you until you gave up, not that you have to. He won't yell at me or anything, he never has, even when my mom was around.

I had a good sleep in my regular bed, in my regular room, in my regular home. My army suit was in my closet but kept my dog tag on my bedside table; I always wore my dog tag, just to show who was boss around here and not to mess with me. But I'm not like the vietnam people who just say "I've seen some things, man..." with an eye patch and a missing arm or something. I only have a scar above my right eyebrow, but no one would really notice it. I don't even remember what I got it from.

When I woke up Billy was already starting to eat breakfast: his infamous pancakes. I joined him with a good morning and he just nodded.

Regular meal time, I was just thinking about what to do today. It was nice today so I thought I may as well walk to the beach today with some old friends, not that I have many. They just tolerated me.

As soon as I finished, I changed from my boxers- usual sleep wear- to swimming shorts and a grey hoodie. I grabbed my surfboard and started walking.

It wasn't that long of a walk to the beach. It's about fifteen minutes away from my house. I would've been there in about less then five minutes driving or taking my motorcycle, but I enjoyed the walk. I was actually glad I did since the beach was crowded. Full of Forks kids, Quileutes, I saw almost everyone I knew there.

Quil Attera, my cousin who idolizes me, was buried in a body sand castle with his girlfriend, Claire, who was building it. He was the first to see me.

"Jake!" he said. I smiled and waved, he was actually a really good guy, one of the few I would actually call a real friend. He got out of the castle and ignored Claire's yelling and ran to me. He hugged me with his sand covered arms.

Quil really wanted to join the army like me, but since he was only sixteen, he was underaged. I wouldn't have minded us hanging and joking around at the army camps, don't get me wrong, I have a lot of friends in the army, but they're not anyone I can really relate to, especially the fact that a majority of them are either married or have girlfriends.

"Are you bleeding anywhere? Got a scratch? Bullet? Broken bones?" I laughed.

"No, Quil." I said, still laughing, Then I got him in a head lock playing.

I finally surfed for a while, hung around Quil and my high school friend, Embry. Mostly, I ignored people's dirty looks though. Bad news Jacob, back with his attitude and his tough look. I'm a changed guy since I've joined the army, but no one really believes it. If they wanted to talk, they should walk up to me and see for themselves. My dad's kind of isolated all the time, so no way he could tell anyone himself.

Finally, my favourite part of the day came: the sun set. Everytime I was at the beach or anywhere else, I loved to watch the sky turn from blue or grey to orange and yellow and slowly to black. It's the most beautiful thing.

When I was at the beach, I would always look at it by the cliffs. I was there early today so the sky was still a little blue. When it was about to turn orange, I heard someone behind me. I turned seeing it were two guys, about my age, who I never saw before. One had black hair and dark skin and the other had light brown curly hair that was covered in a hat and pale. They were wearing jeans and a tee shirt, definitely not from around here.

"C'mon!" said the pale one. "What's taking you two so long?"

"Spring break will be over by the time you get up here if you don't hurry." said the other.

I moved a little bit to get a better view, also I preferred to be alone during this time, it was a time to relax and I wouldn't let college students ruin it.

"Nahuel! You know it's hard to climb in flip flops!" a high pitched voice said. Oh, I guess there's a girl here.

"And Emmett, keep your mouths shut or spring break will be the end of you." said another voice, not as high pitched but enough to know it was a girl.

Huh, two girls and two guys... figures.

I zoned them out to my sunset. Beautiful as always, but then I got bored for some reason and decided to listen to what they were saying. But in order to do that, I'd have to look at them.

The one with the high pitched voice had spiky black hair, pixie like, she wasn't bad looking either, but she had a boyfriend who wasn't here by the sounds of it. Then came the one who threatened the brown haired one, Emmett:

She had wavy copper hair that flowed to the middle of her shoulder blades, pale skin like her friends and by the looks of it, she had brown eyes. She was by far, the most beautiful girl I've seen and I knew then, I had to have her.

I didn't really get to think of a way to impress her, this had to involve thinking because it's been so long since I've ever been with a girl. but then the dark one, Nahuel, accidently pushed a bag over the cliffs. She gasped.

"Oh, no!" she said. "Nahuel! My entire life is in that bag."

"It's okay, it's okay," he said, not really much of an apology. "I'll go get it! I promise Ren!"

Nahuel started running down the cliff side to go around and get the purse, but I was already on my feet, taking off my sweater and diving in to get it.

The water was freezing now, but I ignored it, trying to look for her bag. I actually didn't have to look for very long since I remembered where it dropped. It was close to the ocean floor when I picked it up and started swimming back to the shore, where I saw Nahuel frowning and the copper haired girl, Ren I guess, running toward me. I walked toward her as Mike was saying, "I was going to get that..." to me, or himself, I really didn't know. "Thanks for going in there." Now that, I knew was for me.

"No problem."

"I can take it from here."

"Thank you!" The girl said when she reached me. She had my sweater in her hands and she gave it to me. "Here's you sweater. Alice has your surfboard."

"Thanks." I said, smiling. She was looking in her bag, probably to see the damage.

"What a mess..." she mumbled. She looked up and smiled, I think my heart actually stopped for a second, she was more beautiful up close. Believe me, I'm no romantic. And though I've heard all about love at first sight, I never believed in it until now.

I was wondering what to say next. My name? Go on a date? Wow, I was so clueless...

STOP STANDING THERE LIKE AND IDIOT, JAKE! I was screaming in my head. SAY SOMETHING!

"I'm a soldier in the american army."

WHY THE HELL DID I JUST TELL HER THAT? I was cursing myself in my head. Ren actually raised her eyebrows.

"Really?" she said. "I bet it's scary."

"Boring, actually." she laughed, I laughed with her. Huh, it wasn't that bad.

"Well, I'm actually here with some people from school to repair a flooded house." she shrugged as if it was no big deal. I wondered if she knew Charlie's granddaughter.

"That's great! You're in school." It actually explained why I haven't seen her before. Her or her friends.

I wanted to talk to her more, but Nahuel got in the way.

"Well, um, thank you, Sergeant, for retrieving Ren's bag." he turned to Ren. I really wanted to punch him for interrupting, the old me would've. "We better get going, we have the barbeque, remember?" Her eye widened.

"Oh, right! I forgot!" She turned to me. "Well, thank you so much." she turned around, going in the same direction as I was. I followed.

I was behind her, I put my hoodie on while she walked with her friends. The pixie haired one whispered to Ren something and they giggled and Ren denied. Then she looked at me. I waved casually, then walked back to me as her friends kept walking.

"I'm just going in this direction." I said before she could ask if I following her, which is what I assumed she was going to ask.

"No, no, I get it." she giggled. She really liked to laugh, my kind of girl. "Do you want to come with us to this barbeque?"

Was she asking me out? No, it's just an invitation to a party. Play it casual, Jacob.

"No, it's okay." I said. "I don't want to intrude, my dad's making dinner."

"Oh, okay." she said, with a little disappointment in her voice. "Well, c'mon. At least let me get you a beer or something. I have to repay you some how."

Nahuel kept looking back at us with eyes that showed jealousy. I chuckled.

"Well, okay. But I can't stay for very long." she smiled again.

"Of course," she put her hand up like a salute. "Sergeant..."

"Black." I filled in. "Jacob Black."

"Oh, well then, Sergeant Black, I'm Renesmee Cullen." This is where our story starts...

AN: I'm very proud of this chapter :) Check my YouTube to see the Trailer for this (proud of it too) and The Twilight Notebook (based on The Notebook) and extras. Also, listen to me sing "Paperweight" on my channel (The Dear John theme song that plays like, a million times in the movie). And see my other stores... and I think that's it xD REVIEW! (Sorry, have to do this again) I need say... lets try at least 4 (I'm sure we can do better though)