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The sun became hidden by the canopy of giant trees above me as I stood in the midst of a cold, dark forest. I felt the sodden earth below my bare feet from the recently fallen rain. The smell of pine filled the air around me, as I felt a sense of longing in the pit of my stomach. My eyes wandered around the forest, searching, but all they saw were the rows upon rows of the giant fir and pine trees. My breath began to come faster as I felt someone eyes on me. I quickly whipped my head around, my long bronze hair flying behind me. Out of the ruffling bushes in front of my face, came a pale figure with messy chestnut brown hair and blue eyes that stood out against the pasty white skin. The figure was beautiful, a bright and shiny halo seeming to follow it, but a midnight black cloak seemed to drape around the seemingly flawless body.

"Aiden," I whispered to the boy as he came closer to me, walking in slow and graceful steps. A smile spread wide across his pearly white face as he recognized my voice. I smiled back to him, wanting nothing more than to go up and touch him, and hold the heavenly creature.

I heard thumping and running noises behind me, and as a sea of dark swam over me and the rest of the forest, I saw a herd of hooded black cloaks running towards me. The faces of the figures were unrecognizable, and covered by the black hoods.

I turned back to the angel boy, "Aiden, you've got to get out of here!"

I watched the smile fade from his face, as I looked up at two dark figures pinning my arms against them. I turned back to the boy, and suddenly he wasn't an angel anymore. His whole body shook as he transformed into a monster with ruby red lips and eyes and dark black circles around his eyes. The creature let out a screeching sound as blood dripped from its mouth and it began to move closer to me, putting his hands out as if to grab my neck. I let out a scream, struggling against the two holding me, as the creature tilted his head back and cackled, releasing the evil laugh within him, making me collapse to the ground and feel nothing but fear and desperation….

I bolted upright in my bed, the sweat dripping from my face, my hair matted. I looked down to see my pillow crumpled to the ground and the covers halfway off the bed. It had been one of the worst nightmares I had had in a few weeks, but I knew it would keep coming back to haunt me. I felt myself shiver at the thought of the monster that stood in front of me and the dark hooded creatures.

I turned around to look through the windows leading to my balcony and saw the moon shining down on the ocean current of Isle Esme. I climbed out of my bed to stand on my balcony to get some much needed air. I felt the humidity on my already sweaty skin. Even though I was half vampire, my skin apparently had human senses when it came to the weather.

I looked down over the railing, at the raging water below me. I suddenly felt an urge to just jump in, into the freezing cold water, and just leave everything behind me. I took one foot and put it on the middle rail, slowly trying to keep my balance. I was just about to go for the top rail when I heard my mother yelp,

"Renesmee!"

I turned around to see her standing in the door of my balcony, her skin glistening from the moon and her warm golden eyes staring at me worriedly. It had taken a few years, but my mother's eyes had finally changed to a warm gold from the ruby red that came from drinking the blood of humans, the same color as the boy's in my dream….

"What are you doing," she asked worriedly. Great, I thought to myself, next she'll send me to a mental institution.

"Nothing mom," I stuttered, "It's hot in there, I just wanted some air."

That seemed to calm her down more. What did she think I was committing suicide?

"Oh, well, the island can do that to you."

I nodded and turned back to stare at the moon in front of me, "Why do we have to stay here anyway?" We had been living on Isle Esme, the island Carlisle bought Esme located somewhere in the south pacific, for almost three day s now.

"It's safe," she muttered into the distance. My mother and father brought me here because it was supposedly safer than either Buffalo or Forks. The Volturi were supposedly in Washington and Alaska hunting down the Altaira, a new enemy clan of vampires, while Marney was still somewhere near Buffalo, or so we thought. I shuddered at the thought of Marney, and memories began to fly back at me—the collapsed bridge, the body lying next to the tree, her evil laugh, and my best friend screaming in agony as venom surged through him.

I blinked my eyes, trying to hold the tears back and bit down on my lip to hold in my cries, but my mother heard me anyway.

"Renesmee," she whispered softly.

"Just leave me alone mom," I choked out.

She came up behind me, and put her arms around me ever so lightly, pulling me in to her breast, "He's okay, don't worry."

"No he's not mom," I cried out, "My dreams. I know he's not okay."

"They're just dreams, they'll go away," she said.

"No they won't, not until I see him again and know he's okay."

I heard the sounds of more light footsteps coming onto the balcony and looked up to see my father standing in the doorway, with Jacob on his heels. Jacob had kept his promise and had followed me here, although I knew he was missing his pack greatly. It must have been killing him to not be there with them to run through the woods, without a care in the world, but it meant so much to me to have him here. I felt more complete with him near to me.

"What's wrong, Nessie?" he asked concerned.

"Nothing Jacob, don't worry about it," my mother told him. She was very protective of me when Jacob was concerned. It was like she was jealous that he would act like a better parent to me than she did.

Jacob reluctantly shrugged his shoulders and left, saying "If you need anything Nessie, you can come get me next door."

"She will Jacob," my father said, obviously trying to shove him out the door.

My mother and father sat with me until I fell asleep in their arms, like I would do when I was little. I fell asleep thinking about the boy in my dream, as he changed from an innocent angel to a monster in just a few short seconds. I fell asleep in complete darkness, but before my eyelids shut, the distant moonlight reflected onto my broken heart necklace resting on my neck, a beam of white light into my eyes, bringing me back to the image of the beautiful angel with blue eyes smiling down on me.