Jacob’s face hurt from smiling so much.  They had been out for about an hour so far and Renesmee was doing very well with her driving lessons.  The thing she had the most trouble with was keeping both hands on the steering wheel.  Jacob had to keep getting after her every time she reached for his hand.

Jacob happily watched her as she attempted to back into a parking spot at the beach.  “For this, you can take one hand off the steering wheel, place it on the back of the seat in order to see behind you better,” Jacob instructed.

She smiled slyly as she slid her right hand behind his neck and began playing with his hair.  “You need a trim,” she teased.

“You need to focus,” he reminded her, pulling her hand from his hair and then he turned to wink at her.

Renesmee backed in slowly, her tongue slightly peeking out from between her lips to help with her concentration. “There...I did it!” she announced as she completed her task.

Jacob unbuckled and exited the car, looking all around to make sure she had parked correctly.  “You are amazing,” he declared as he circled around and opened the driver’s side door.  “Wanna go for a walk with me?”

She sighed softly, unbuckled and joined him.  She took his outstretched hand and intertwined her fingers with his.  “I’d love to go anywhere with you, Jacob.”
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Renesmee squeezed Jacob’s hand and glanced up at him. They had been walking for a little while and he had become quiet.  “Everything okay?”

He nodded slowly as he turned to look at her.  “I was just wondering...how was your date last night?”

Renesmee shrugged her shoulders. “Where is this coming from?”

Jacob cocked his head and made a face, “Well I was thinking…”

“Never a good thing,” Renesmee teased.

Jacob growled playfully and tried to look mad, but he just couldn’t do it.  “Anyway...I was thinking maybe you should tell me what happened with Seth.”

“Why?”

Jacob stopped and walked around to face her. “Because...I’m gonna find out sooner or later,” he paused when she made a face indicating she didn’t understand.  “Wolf telepathy remember?”

“Oh.”

“The next time I’m around Seth and he thinks about you, then I’ll see it and...I’d like to be prepared,” he explained.

Renesmee furrowed her brow. “Why would Seth be thinking of me at all?”

“That’s pretty much all us guys do...is think about girls.”

She smiled widely, “Oh really?”

Jacob rolled his eyes and sighed.  “I’m not really supposed to tell anyone that,” he said as a smile started to form at the corners of his mouth.

“And why is that?” she purred as she slid her hands around his waist and gazed up at him.

Jacob trailed his hands up her arms and brought them to rest on her shoulders. “Because it makes us sound like dogs.”

Renesmee stifled a giggle.  “Oh, I see,” she replied sarcastically. “Unlike the dogs you really are.”

Jacob groaned playfully as he lifted her over his shoulder and ran toward the water.  “That’s it, Nessie!  You’re goin’ in the water!”

“Jacob, no!” she squealed, barely able to contain her laughter. 

He pulled her off his shoulder and cradled her in his arms.  “Ready? 1...2...3....” he teased as he held her over the water.

Renesmee held on to Jacob for dear life.  “You better not!”

Jacob smiled at her, no longer able to keep up his charade.  “Alright, Nessie...you win,” he declared as he set her back down in the sand.

She kept her hands clasped behind his neck and then pulled him down to her.  “I love this...being with you like this.  You make me so happy,” she gushed.

Jacob sighed as he pressed his forehead to hers.  “I’ve dreamed about this for so long.  I can’t believe this is real.”

Renesmee let her eyes flutter closed as she tipped her head back, inviting Jacob in for a kiss.  He pressed his lips softly to hers as his hands slid down to her lower back and he held her closely.  She raked her fingernails through his hair and opened her mouth, deepening the kiss.

Jacob gasped a little as she slipped her tongue between his lips.  She moaned softly into his mouth as his hands smoothed over her buttocks. He lifted her easily and she instinctively wrapped her legs around his waist.  He kept his hands underneath her, pressing her impossibly closer.  Suddenly he pulled back and whispered, “You’re vibrating.”

Renesmee frowned, “What?”

He slid his hand into her back pocket and retrieved her phone. “Your phone? It’s vibrating.”

Renesmee’s eyes grew wide as Jacob set her back on her feet. “Oh my gosh, what time is it?”

Jacob glanced at her phone and said, “It’s 5:30.  Why? Are you late to dinner?” he asked jokingly.

“Haha, very funny,” she replied as she grabbed his hand and began to drag him toward her parked car.  “I told my mom I would be home by 6.  Let’s go!”

“Oh yay,” Jacob commented sarcastically.  “I can’t wait for your dad to read our minds and find out what we’ve been up to.”

“Let me deal with Edward,” Renesmee replied confidently.

“Edward?” he teased as he held her door open.  “Since when do you call him Edward?”

Renesmee watched in rapt fascination as Jacob rounded the car and jumped into the passenger seat through the open window with such ease.  Oh how she loved having a convertible.  But she still had to tease him.  “Easy on the leather seats there, Mister.”

He reached over to tickle her as she started her car.  “No distractions!” she scolded.

Jacob slid a protective arm around her as he laughed heartily.  “Anything you say, sweetheart.”

Renesmee nodded as she drove off, trying not to be affected by his fingers on her shoulder and the way he played with the stray curls on the back of her neck.  She tilted her head toward his touch and sighed.  “You’re distracting me again,” she reminded him as she pulled out onto the stretch of road that would take her home.

Jacob pulled his hand back slowly, dragging his fingertips across her skin.  He smiled as he let his hand rest on her thigh.  “Is this better?” he offered.

“No,” she whined playfully, pushing his hand away.  “Can’t you be good?”

“Uh uhh,” he murmured softly.  “It’s just too tempting not to touch you...every...single...second,” he punctuated each word with a soft kiss to her shoulder.

“I’m gonna pull over if you don’t stop,” she warned.

“Then you’ll be late getting home.  Now what would Edward say?” he teased.

“Stop!” she groaned, reaching over to playfully punch him in his side. “You’re such a bad influence on me.”

Jacob captured her hand in his and pressed a kiss to her palm.  He placed her hand back on the steering wheel and laughed, “I know.”

Renesmee gazed out over the water as they traveled down the winding road that passed the beach.  Suddenly she said, “Did you mean what you said earlier...that all you guys think about is girls?”

Jacob glanced over at her, pushed a stray curl from her cheek and shrugged.  “Yeah, why?”

Renesmee paused and tilted her head slightly, eyes still trained on the road before them.  “So the next time you phase...around the other guys...they’ll know what I said to you and that we kissed?” she asked nervously.

Jacob shrugged and nodded, “Yeah, but...this is nothing for you to worry about,” he reached over to squeeze her knee and noticed she was biting her lower lip. “What’s the problem, baby?  Tell me.”

“I guess I never thought about it before.  You guys know each other’s thoughts.  And I guess I’m a little embarrassed about it.”

“You don’t want Seth to find out?” Jacob assumed.

Renesmee shook her head quickly.  “I don’t care about that.  He’s the one that helped me realize how stupid I was being.”

“How did he do that?” Jacob turned away from her, steeling himself for a response he might not like.

She pressed her lips together and shrugged.  “I told him that me and you were just friends and he knew that was crap.  And he called me on it.  He asked me if I was trying to convince him or me.”

“And then?”

Renesmee’s gut twisted with regret.  “I tried to convince him...by kissing him.  It was stupid and I don’t know what I was thinking.”  She came to a stop sign and rolled to a halt.  She sighed as she reached for his hand. “I’m sorry.”

Jacob clenched his jaw as he stared down at her hand as it joined his.  “Nothing to be sorry for,” he murmured.

“Jake…” she said softly.  “I didn’t mean to make you mad. I wish I could take it back.”

Jacob shook his head slowly, finally turning to face her.  A small smile was forming.  “It was nothing.  It shouldn’t bother me this much.”

“It was stupid,” she told him as she wrapped her hand around his bicep, gave him a squeeze and then continued on driving.  “We both knew it was a huge mistake.  And I felt bad for making Seth think I liked him.”

“Did he take it badly?”

“Omigosh, no.  He was so nice about everything.  Honestly.  He took me home right after that and told me he wished us luck.  He knew I had finally made the right choice,” she explained.

Jacob raised his eyebrows and nodded.  “That was nice of him.  I’ll have to remember not to kick his ass the next time I see him,” he joked lightly.

“You better not!” she warned as she pulled in front of her house.  She checked her phone for the time.  “Not even late yet.  We got five minutes to spare,” she said suggestively as she unhooked her seatbelt and leaned over to him.

“Renesmee Carlie Cullen!” Edward’s voice thundered from the doorway.

She froze, eyes rolling as she pulled back from Jacob.  “Here we go…”