A/N: Hi everyone! This is my second fanfiction and it's all about Jacob and Nessie. It's all in Nessies POV :) I hope you enjoy the first chapter! And please let me know if there are some major grammar mistakes or anything :)
Disclaimer: Twilight, New Moon, Jacob, Nessie... It's all Meyers, sadly.
Chapter one - Birthday
"Please Nessie, just one more round!" My uncle Emmett pleaded. He was pouting his wide mouth. I let out a small laugh. It was just sincerely funny to see a grown man to pout that way.
Sometimes I felt like I was hundreds of years older than Emmett. He just was so child like, like he'd never ever gave up his childhood. It was the opposite that I felt about myself. To me it felt like I had never experienced that childhood that humans treasured so dearly. But still, I never got the feeling that I had missed something. I had always been like this. Yes, I had grown height and weight and maybe I had become more intelligent, but still I couldn't see the mental growth. I had always seen the things like I did today, on my seventh birthday. Maybe this was because it truly had been only seven short years. It was short time when humans measured it and was just a blink of an eye with vampires. Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, my uncles and aunts were all sad about this thing. They felt like they missed something. I never felt that way and neither did my all time best friend Jacob. He was the only one of the people I knew that didn't mind my super fast growing. He always readjusted to the situation of that time. Of course I loved my family, but somehow I just always felt that Jacob was the most important thing in my life. Sometimes I did question that when I abandoned my family because of him. Because my family was fine with it and it was the most natural way for me to act, I never questioned it again.
I had been thinking just about a second and still he noticed.
"What are you thinking Nessie? Are you afraid of losing?" He questioned and laughed merrily. I sighed and shook my head. I still had a smile on my lips. There just weren't anything that Emmett could do or say that would make me angry.
"No Emmett, I'm not afraid, just ask Jasper. I just don't want to waste our time."
"Nessie, wake up. We have plenty of time. Immortals, remember?" Ah, the funniest man I have ever met… I didn't have anything against one more round; I was going to win anyway. It was just that we really hadn't much time. It still was my birthday which my uncle seemed to have forgotten.
"Alice." I called quietly. I knew she would hear. Emmett was never going to let it be, but I hoped that Alice would help me to get rid of Emmett just for a while.
It was just a second when Alice, my fairy like aunt danced into the room, her husband Jasper fallowing her.
"Hi Nessie, Emmett." She said and sat down on the floor. Jasper didn't sit down. He just looked around the room and looked amused.
"What are you Emmett, eleven?" Jasper asked and tried not to laugh.
"I'm about to win…" Emmett murmured. Alice shook her head. It seemed like she had heard that million times before. It appeared that Emmett hadn't changed at all during the years Alice had known him. Emmett was going to be Emmett for always and forever, but no one minded. Now Alice was just frustrated because she wanted to play Nessie the Barbie. I wasn't as resistant as Mom, so Alice had almost given up on her a moved into me, well just almost.
The room was quite. Emmett was surely thinking about his next strategy. Jasper and I were watching Alice. She sat on a lotus position and her eyes were closed. It took her less than a minute to speak again.
"Emmett… Face the fact; you are never ever going to win Nessie in this game." She said this with her fortune telling voice and I had to fight to keep myself from laughing. Emmett awoke and stared at Alice. If he could have gotten any paler he would have done it now. He seemed to be shocked from Alice's announcement. Jasper had turned his back on this little play that was going on in my bedroom right now. I could see him shaking from laughter. It must have been hard for Jasper, sensing all the hilarious emotions.
"Alice, don't say that, please!" Emmett pleaded. He was on his knees on the floor. Jasper was shaking more violently. Alice rose up and walked to Emmett. She put her tiny little hand on his huge shoulder.
"Emmett, it's time for you to realize that you, Emmett Cullen, over eighty year old vampire, lost for this seven year old half-vampire girl… on Twister!" And then the laughter filled the whole house. Mom and Dad were laughing in their bedroom, Grandma was laughing in the kitchen with Grandpa and Rosalie was almost choked with the laughter in the garage. Emmett was the only one who didn't laugh. He lifted his chin and looked down on me. I was still laughing and he seemed to be offended by that.
"I'll be back. And next time, I'm going to win…" He said and marched out of my bedroom. It had been silent during Emmett's threat but now the house was filled with laughter again.
It was midday and I was sitting in the huge bathroom of Alice and Jasper. Alice was doing something with my hair but I wasn't interested. Mom was in there too. I could see her through the mirror. When she saw me watching her, a wide smile brightened her beautiful pale face.
"You look beautiful Nessie." She said looking kind of sad. I wanted to ask her what was it this time but I knew how useless it would be. Sometimes Mom had that sad smile on her face. I had asked her about it for thousands of times but she never answered. This thing really teased me because everyone else expect me seemed to know what was it about.
When Mom wore the sad face, Dad stroke her back and kissed the top of her head. Alice always looked annoyed and so did Rosalie. I could see that they still were annoyed from much differed reasons. Jasper and Emmett usually kept quiet but they didn't like the idea either. Dad was the worst. He did comfort Mom, but on those times he became very protective. Grandpa always tried to talk him some sense, but it didn't do much good. Grandma was the only one who didn't seem to mind at all. She just smiled me reassuring and said to with her pretty eyes that everything was going to be alright.
What irritated me the most was the thing that Jacob seemed to be in this too. During Moms sad face periods he always kept very quiet and tried to be invisible. He was avoiding my Dad too. I couldn't remember these periods from my early childhood. The first period was when I looked about thirteen years old. That hadn't been so long time ago. Mom usually had this sad face about once in a month but it only lasted about two days. Usually after this period I just forgot all about that until the next one. I was very disappointed that the she wore the sad face now. It was after all my birthday.
"Okay Nessie, now you're ready!" Alice said and clapped her hands. I was standing in her room, in front of the gigantic mirror. Alice had worked on me for an hour or so. I had to admit that I really liked the results. Alice had given me a natural nude makeup. My hair was on a ponytail and I had a wide black collar in my head. I was wearing a black blouse made of linen and a green skirt with a very high waste. Alice had also bought me very nice looking green high heels. I was very happy on my appearance.
"Thanks Alice, you did a great work." I said and hugged my aunt tightly.
"Okay, go downstairs and do a little spin for your father, will you." Alice asked. I smiled at her and run to downstairs.
Emmett, Jasper and Dad were all sitting in the living room. They were watching baseball from the TV. I wrinkled my nose; football was my sport not baseball. I walked in front of the TV, so they would have to look at me. I did a little spin like Alice had asked. Then I stared into my father's eyes, waiting for approval. My seventeen year old father stared me back and then nodded a little. I smiled widely and hugged him.
"Thanks Daddy." I said and kissed his cheek. Dad had been very sensitive about my wardrobe lately. It didn't matter when we were just with family, but when we were expecting quests…
"You're welcome sweetie." We smile to each other and I sat beside him. I saw the remote control and took it quickly. Emmett and Jasper groaned. They had something against my favorite TV show. I turned on the MTV.
"Why do you watch this crap Nessie?" Emmett asked. I glanced at him angrily.
"I watch it because I love it." I answered and turned to the TV again.
"This is crap Nessie. There are just a group of teenagers who are constantly making out. Why do you even let Nessie watch this Edward?" Emmett asked.
"The show is completely harmless." Dad said and I smiled with relief. Only my Mom and Dad were able to tell me no. Nobody else could even do that.
"You say that now. Just wait, Jacob is coming for a visit soon…" This sentence made me look at Emmett and Dad. Dad was furious and Emmett had put his hands up as surrender. Suddenly I felt the wave of calmness and I knew that Jasper had to take the situation under control. Dad calmed down, but was still looking at Emmett. But now there was something else in his eyes.
"I don't want it either, man. But you know, it's unavoidable." Dad nodded and I was more confused than ever.
"What are you talking about Jacob? And what is unavoidable?" I wanted some answers but when I saw the face of my father, I knew that I wasn't getting any information. Nobody had time to answer, because then we heard familiar voices in the road nearby. Our guests were just a couple miles away. I couldn't wait to see Jacob.
"Nessie! Happy birthday!" Seth, one of my werewolf friends shouted when he stepped into the house with his friends. Nobody ever used the doorbell in this house. It just wasn't necessary. Seth hugged me and I hugged him back.
"Thanks for coming." I said on took the present that Seth offered me.
"We wanted to come." Quil said on came to me. He put his large palm on my shoulder. Then he sighed and looked at me with a fake sad face.
"It' so hard to believe, that you are seven years old already. It seems to me that just a year ago you were just a baby." I elbowed him into ribs. He let out a groan of pain. I heard Embry chuckle behind Quil. Vinnie, Embry's girlfriend for last four years was standing next to him, her arms around his waist. Vinnie let go of Embry and walked to me. She was human, and very slow. I didn't see humans that often, so I wasn't used to her human phase. I liked Vinnie really much; she was so fun to hang around. She was very tall compared to me; she was about 5'9'' and I was just 5'1''. I had always thought that Vinnie was really beautiful. She had nice café latte color skin, long black silky hair and grey eyes that reminded me of steel. Vinnie's real name was Winona, but nobody ever called her that. Vinnie fitted her so much better. She wished me happy birthday and I thanked her.
"So, did you marry Embry already?" I asked. This question had become a joke. Vinnie just wasn't so eager to get married unlike Embry.
"Unfortunately not." Embry said and hang his head. "Mom is very disappointed, she wants grandchildren already." Everyone bursted into laughter.
"Hey Nessie." It was Jacobs's soft voice. I turned around and saw him on the threshold. He was smiling beautifully. Seeing Jacob made me instantly feel like I was the happiest girl in the world and like nothing could ever go wrong.
"Your dad asked me to check on his car so I went to the garage first." He explained his late arrival. I nodded and catch up the space between us. I reached for Jacobs face with my hands. I wanted to show him what had happened during the day.
It was quite rare for me to use my talent. Now when I was older, things I wanted to show had became more intimate. I didn't use it in a small thing like I did before. Now days I used it to show people how I saw them. I wanted to show them things in them that they didn't see themselves. Sometimes I wanted to use it to show something fun to someone. Only with Jacob I used it casually. It was part of our everyday routine to me to show him what had happened during the day when he wasn't there.
I showed Jacob the whole day and lastly I gave him a glimpse of what I had felt when he had appeared on the threshold.
I let go of Jacobs russet color face and smiled at him. Jacob's beautiful face was smiling at me. He took my hand on his and squeezed it gently. Neither of us noticed my father and uncles standing a couple of feet away from us, until Emmett let out a little cough. Jasper and Dad were both staring at Jacob with angry expressions. Jacob stared back looking kind of humble.
"What if we all go to the living room?" I said and lead Jacob out of the hall into the living room.
After a couple of minutes my granddad Charlie arrived. Sue, his wife came with him. I loved it when gramps visited us. The only downside of these visits was that you could never talk about anything that was related to vampires or werewolves. Gramps accepted us and loved every one of us, but he didn't handle what we were. He never once mentioned the fact that I grew super fast and that nobody else aged. Everything was fine when we acted like we all were normal human beings.
"Happy birthday Nessie dear!" Gramps said and pulled me in a tight hug. "You look pretty hun."
"Thanks Gramps. Alice dressed me up." I said. Gramps smiled. He had his own experience of Alice dressing him up.
"Time to open up the presents!" Emmett shouted and run into the room. "Open mine first!" I took the box from Emmett's hands and thanked him.
"The newest play station. Thanks Em." I said. Aunt Rosalie sighed deeply.
"Luckily I bought you something else Nessie. I have known Emmett for a while and I know that he only buys things that he likes. So, this is the real present from us." Rosalie said and handed me a bigger, but lighter box. There were the brown leather boots that I had mentioned I liked.
"Thank you so much Rosalie! I know just the clothes I'm going to wear with these." My dad groaned unhappily when he saw my plans. He couldn't say anything because of Gramps and I was glad about that.
"So I and Jasper got you something that you really like." Alice said. "It's hard to get presents, but I think I got it right." She smiled happily and handed me down a white envelope. I eagerly opened it.
"Two tickets to Super Bowl?! Wow Alice, you are the best!" I had never seen Super Bowl live. Jacob and I were going to have the best time of our lives.
"This is from your father and I. We hope you like it." Mom said and handed me a gift that clearly was a book. I eagerly opened it. I sighed with enthusiastic. It was the first edition of Anne of Green Gables, my favorite book of all times.
"Thank you so much! I love it." Mom and Dad smiled and said that they were glad that I liked it.
"We know this isn't much, but it's very, very hard to get you presents. Boys bought it, and it's kind of a joke." Vinnie said smiling.
"I bet I love it. You know it doesn't have to be much. Less is more." I said and really meant it. I didn't want fancy presents from my friends. My family spoiled me too much anyway. It felt nicer when I got something that had cost only a few bucks but came straight from the heart. The presents that my friends from the pack gave me were always like this.
The present that Vinnie handed me was a very odd shaped and soft. I ripped eagerly the wrapping paper off. It was the cutest stuffed animal I had ever owned.
"It's a wolf." I stated the obvious. Everyone tried not to laugh because of gramps. He seemed not to even notice.
"But thanks so much, guys. It's so cute. I think I'm going to take it in bed with me." All the wolves, expect Jacob were laughing. Everyone in my family, not including gramps and Sue, looked kind of disturbed. I let it be because of gramps, but I was going to give a third degree on Jacob and the rest of my family.
I got the newest CD of my favorite bands from gramps and Sue, a beautiful pearl necklace from Grandma and Grandpa. Only Jacob's gift was left. This was the present I had most eagerly awaited. Jacob always gave intimate and personal gifts that I loved. I was so excited.
Jacob looked deep into my eyes before handing the present for me. I stared him back. I could see his excitement from his coffee brown eyes. He loved giving me gifts. This had to be an extra special. I could tell it from the way Jacob acted.
There was the fire in his eyes and he constantly touched me. His hands were on my hand, my knee or around my shoulders. He was smiling the smile that I had only seen when he was watching me. I called it the special smile. It showed so much of Jacob, it showed his soul. Even I didn't have my father's talent; I could almost tell what Jacob was thinking then. Jacob knew for sure how much I was going to love his present. My hands tickled from the urge to open the present.
Jacob had wrapped the present with light yellow paper. He looked down at me, smiling. He bend closer to me.
"Happy seventh birthday Nessie love." He whispered so quietly that only I could hear it. It was too quiet even to sensitive vampire ears to catch it. I suddenly felt something I had never felt before. My stomach was full of butterflies. And I think I blushed. Happiness and something else filled me. The only thing I could see was Jacob.
The moment seemed to last forever. But still it was too short. I wanted to stare Jacob again when he broke our gaze and handed me the gift. I opened it up, but now I would wanted so much more just gaze Jacob. I had no idea why I felt this way.
"It's a photo album…" I spluttered when I opened the green album. Everybody gathered quickly around me, wanting to see the photos. Somehow, I was reluctant to show them. Still I opened it up.
The first picture of me was when I was on my mother's arms as a small baby. Mom looked exactly the same that she did now. It was a very warm photo.
There were at least twenty pictures of me as baby and toddler. The second one that really caught my attention was about Jacob and I. I looked about ten years old in human years and Jacob looked same as always. My bronze colored curly hair was open and I had a white summer dress on. I sat in a swing and Jacob was pushing me some speed. We both looked so happy.
"Thank you Jacob." I finally managed to thank him. I just had been so caught up with the pictures. I hugged his waist tightly.
"This is the best gift that I've ever got." Jacob looked really happy about my reaction.
"I just thought that you would like to have these, 'cause you're not growing anymore and that stuff." He said just low enough that the humans wouldn't hear.
"You are the best Jake." I said, rose on my toes and kissed his silky cheek.
My pink birthday cake run out in fifteen minutes. Four werewolves is a sure way to get your fridge empty. Vinnie, Gramps, Sue and I only got one small pieces each.
We had so much fun that the time flew. It was nine o'clock when Sue and Gramps left. Half an hour later other wolves with Vinnie left. Only Jacob stayed. Nobody even thought him as a quest. He was a part of family.
"Nessie, you should go to bed." Jacob said after I yawned. I was dead tired but I didn't want to go to bed. I wanted to stay up and talk with Jacob.
"I'm not tired." I lied. Jake snorted and ruffled my curly hair.
"You're as good liar as your mom." He laughed.
"Okay, I'll go to bed then." I said reluctantly. I knew there was no point arguing when Jacob decided that this was best for me.
"I'll tuck you in." He said playfully, his eyes glowing. I took his hand in mine and let him lead me to my room.
"Sleep tight Nessie. I'll see you tomorrow." Jacob said and left my dark room. He jumped out of my balcony into the dark night.
I had almost fallen asleep when I caught Jaspers low voice. I could tell he was walking away from the house with somebody.
"I think she needs some kind of a diversion." Jasper mumbled. Who was she talking about?
"Nessie is a big girl. She can handle it." Alice said to her husband. Jasper sniffed.
"You didn't sense what she was feeling. She was also confused. She has no idea what she's even feeling."
"Then what did she feel?" Alice asked. After that I couldn't hear anything. They had gotten too far.
What had they been talking about? After this I fall asleep and dreamed sweet dreams like Jacob had told me to.
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