His Golden Haze Part I

Ballad of the Golden Hour

Chapter 8: Ballad of the Golden Hour

Jacob POV:

Today Nessie and I went to Matanuska Music to buy her a guitar. She’s always wanted to learn but never got a guitar to start on. I found it weird since the Cullens have all the money in the world and Edward’s wise smug ass surely learned how to play in his 100 plus years. I’m not complaining though, the more time I got to spend with her the better. Luckily for her I know how to play a little bit so I could teach her while I was still in Alaska.

She had an entire list of songs that I needed to teach her, a lot of them were from Bon Iver. Seeing the excitement in Nessie’s eyes was one of the most adorable things ever. I noticed some guys catching glances at her and I shot them a glare. The fuck, don’t look at her like that. She’s mine.

“What about this one, Jake?” Nessie asked as she pointed to this dark brown guitar. 

“It’s an acoustic, it’ll be perfect.” I said as I picked it up and gave it a good look, “I’ll tune it up when we get to the park and I’ll teach you a few things.”

“You’re really going to buy it for me?” Nessie asked, nearly bouncing up and down.

“Of course, baby.” I wrapped an arm around her waist and kissed both of her cheeks.

Renesmee squealed and wrapped her arms around my neck, saying ‘thank you’ over and over again.

The cashier ringed up the guitar and my sweet Renesmee happily held her guitar all the way to my car. I put my keys in the ignition and turned to face Ness. She was admiring her musical instrument and tracing her fingers along its strings. She was in complete awe. 

I smiled to myself and started the car before driving to the park near her house. Nessie turned up the radio because she heard an Arctic Monkeys song come on. I hummed to the melody and she rolled down her windows and belted the song to the top of her lungs. Some of the cars honked and we both laughed. She may act like a public menace from time to time but I could care less because she’s my public menace.

It didn’t take us long to arrive at the park, I parked the car and grabbed a couple of blankets out the back seat while Nessie and her guitar exited the car. She took my hand in her’s and we spotted a place where we could be alone together. I laid the blankets across the patch of grass and we sat down. Renesmee sat between the opening of my legs and had the guitar on my lap.

“Okay, beautiful. Which song do you want to learn first.” I asked as I dug a guitar pick out of my pocket.

Nessie thought a bit and snapped her fingers, “Holocene.”

“We start off with a C chord.” I said to her while I placed my fingers over hers and pressed them against the strings and across the frets and used my right hand to help her strum, “Then we go A minor.”

I assisted her with her finger arrangements for the A minor and then I did it again for the G chord.

“It should sound something like this now.” I said as we slowly played each note, “Sing it.”

“Someway, baby, it’s part of me, apart from me.” she softly sang to the tune, “It sounds so beautiful, Jake.”

I kissed her temple and nodded in agreement while I taught her some more of the chords from Holocene. It was so relaxing having Nessie by my side while we strummed the beautiful tune. It seemed as if there wasn’t a trouble in the world and that everything was the way it was always meant to be. I couldn’t wait until this could be an everyday thing for us, and my mind wandered to the thoughts about what could be. We would have beautiful children, as many as she liked and we’d travel everywhere together with our family. I wanted this so bad and it almost pained to think that I’d have to wait for such a wonderful life with her.