"Lets go!" I said, putting the bowl in the dishwasher. I stuck my head into the living room. "Jacob and I are going to the beach, so Alice is coming with me to the cottage to get ready," I told my parents, both now on the couch. Looks like my mom decided to share once the movie was done, but she still had her legs over my dad's lap. They nodded to me, smiling, and I left through the back door with Alice.

"You," Alice said, pointing at Jacob, "chill here for a little bit. Leave when I come back. I don't want to ruin the reveal!" You could hear it in her voice-this was a game to her.

"Here we go again," I muttered as Alice pulled me from the room, leaving everyone snickers behind me.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Jacob, can I talk to you for a second?" Edward asked me.

Here it comes, I thought.

"No, it's not. Well, not really. Just come on," he said. Damn, forgot about the whole mind-reading thing.

"You seem to do that a lot." He did it again. I just shrugged.

We went into the back yard of the large white house. I could still smell Nessie's trail to the cottage. It was nice.

"I know you know already why I brought you out here," Edward stated. I nodded to let him know I followed. He wanted to talk about Nessie.

"That's right. Look, I know the deal with this imprinting thing. I've been listening to your thoughts and hers all day. You two were kind of loud, so it was hard to tune out," he said rubbing his temple.

"Sorry about that," was all I could say. I didn't know when my mind was screaming or not.

"Don't worry about it, thoughts like that tend to be a little louder, it seems. And since one of the parties in question was my daughter, I guess I was already tuned in." He shrugged a little. "In any case, I've come to realize that things may be changing between the two of you very soon, and I need to face that."

"Wow, Edward. That means a-"

"I wasn't quite finished, yet."

"Sorry. I'll stay quiet."

"Thanks. Anyway, although I've known this change was inevitable between you two, with the imprinting and all, I just have one favor to ask of you."