Chapter 1
"I bet I will catch the biggest elk!" I said to Jacob smiling. He rolled his eyes at me as if to say yeah right and then he went behind a bush to phase. Jake was my best friend. He had been there since I was born and has always been like a brother to me. I had been alive for about 8 years now so I was fully grown and now immortal, although i still had some human traits. My mother and father, Bella and Edward, said I would have to start going to school now that I had stopped growing. I didn't mind as I love to meet new people. I am just afraid they won't like me and think I am the odd one out. Everyone in my family is so beautiful and I'm not. They all say I am but it's hard to believe. I was just thinking about being rejected at my first day of school when a big russet coloured wolf knocked me over.
"Hey! Jake what was that for?" I complained to him. He just gave me his wolfy grin and then licked my face.
"Ew, gross Jake." I got up off the floor and then ran deeper into the forest. I didn't have time to mess around with Jake I haven't drank anything in the past two weeks.
I was getting changed to go to bed; I put on an old pair of sweats and a plain old tank top. I was just getting in to bed when Jake came in to say goodnight to me. He was wearing some long shorts and that was it. I had never noticed how muscular he was before. He had an amazing six pack, at that moment I realised that Jake looked…well he looked…hot. Wait whoa! I can't be thinking that he is my best friend it's not right.
Just at that moment Jacob cleared his throat. I blushed realising he had caught me staring at his body. Jake just gave me a strange look and then came and sat down on my bed next to me.
"Nessie, remember if you ever need to talk about anything, I am here for you." He smiled at me caringly. What would I have to talk to him about? Hmm, strange. He then kissed me on my forehead and left my room. I wonder what all that was about. Oh well I'm too tired to think about it. As soon as I closed my eyes I was out cold.
The next morning everyone was acting strange. I really didn't understand.
"Nessie, I think you should stay away from Jake for a while" dad said. What?. What is he talking about? My mum came over and elbowed him.
"He didn't mean it Nessie" she said smiling at me. "So today is your first day at school. Are you excited?"
"Erm, not really, I feel like all im going to do is embarrass myself and stand out more than you guys" I admitted sadly.
"What makes you think you're going to stand out?" asked Rose. She seemed worried.
"Because you're all so beautiful and everyone will think im the ugly one of the family." Once I had said that to them they all looked at me like I was mad. Since I was about a year old they have always told me – especially Jake - I was the most beautiful out of all of us. Of course, I never believed them.
We arrived in the school parking lot. Me, Edward, Bella and Jake were in Edwards Silver Volvo. Rosalie, Emmett, Alice and Jasper were all in Emmett's big jeep. As we was walking across the parking lot to get to the main reception a lot of students stopped in their tracks just to stare at us. However I had been expecting this mum and dad had both told me that humans find our beauty shocking and can't help but stare. When we got to the office the lady there asked us if we were the new students Edward said yes and introduced us all. "My name is Edward Cullen. This is Alice and Renesmee Cullen, my sisters. Emmet Cullen is my brother. This is Rosalie and Jasper Hale; they were adopted into our family, and finally Bella and Jacob Wolfe; they are very close family friends." He said as he pointed to each of us separately. The woman at the desk stood there speechless for a while until Emmett cleared his throat to remind her we were waiting for our timetables. She gave us to them and I was happy to notice that Jake was in all my lessons except Biology. Unfortunately I had biology first so I had to go to my first lesson on my own. Jacob walked me to my biology lesson and I was holding on so tightly to his hand that he was actually trying to get me to let go. I was so nervous.
"So this is where I leave you, Ness. Have fun and I will see you next lesson", he said with a smile on his face, but it didn't touch his eyes. I could still see the concern and worry there, deep in his brown eyes. For a moment I got lost in them and forgot I was meant to be going to a lesson.
"Nessie? Are you alright?" Jake asked getting worried.
"Yeah I'm fine, just you know, nervous." I didn't know what else to say, there was not point lying to him he would have seen right through it. I was a bad liar just like my mom had been, or so everyone said she was. Then Jacob let go of my hand and walked away. I walked into the class and like I predicted everyone stopped talking to their friends to stare at me. I felt myself blush, another trait I get from my mom. I walked other to the teacher, who was at his desk. He told me his name was Mr. Price and he handed me some books and pointed to the only spare seat in the class. I shuffled along to the desk not looking up so nobody could meet my gaze. I didn't even want to know what people were thinking. Probably along the lines of;
Oh she is so ugly.
Or
Oh my god she is strange what is up with her?
I took my seat and looked up slightly when I felt eyes to my left hand side gazing at me. I looked up and I was sitting next to one of the most gorgeous boys I have ever seen. He had short, jet black hair and the most amazing green eyes. He was smiling at me so I smiled back.
"Hi, my name is Nate."
"Er, hi…I'm Renesmee." I said smiling more because this gorgeous boy was talking to me and he didn't seem scared of me. I though to myself; I will make a friend of the first day of school. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad.
"This may seem strange to say because I only just met you but I just had to say, you are very beautiful." He looked away obviously embarrassed about what he just said. Although he didn't need to be, I was embarrassed enough for the both of us. My cheeks were no doubtingly bright red. This guy seemed to like me. And I think I like him too. During that whole lesson I kept my head down looking up every now and then at Nate. But every time I looked at him he was looking at me and my heart would flutter. I think I like him. But how is that possible I only just met him. Wow, I really don't know much about human emotions.