My Twilight fanbook
CHAPTER 1
It was an unusually warm day in Forks, Washington and as I looked up, I could see my daughter, Renesmee, sitting upon my best friend who was also a wolf, a protector to the good people of La Push, Jacob's back as though he was a horse. When I looked to my right I was being stared at by Edward, my husband. Forever. Edward smiled at me when he saw my content expression.
"You're happy" he whispered, as he stroked his smooth hand down my face, I couldn't help but giggle at that. Ever since I had moved to Forks to live with my dad and fallen in love with a one hundred and nine year old vampire, my life had been what I thought complete. But there were complications with my best friend, who was in love with me and it had turned out I was in love with him too, but ever since Edward and I had married and my daughter had been born everything had become perfect.
I took another long gaze at Edward and took his hand in mine and whispered back
"Never been happier"
In the past couple of years, whenever Edward and I became overwhelmingly happy, something, often in the form of a sadistic vampire named Victoria, happened. But Victoria was dead, along with the rest of her coven, James and Laurent, and I knew there was no longer anything to be afraid of. Edward and I could live our lives, with our daughter and be happy.
"Bella!" I heard my new sister's voice chime through into the garden "It's time! Rosalie and I are waiting!" It was time for the newly acquired annual Cullen shopping trip. Esme was already strolling out onto the lawn to collect Renesmee to take her on her also newly acquired grandma's weekend. My mom, Renee, and Esme were taking Renesmee away to a ridiculously large children's theme park for the next two days whilst I had to endure two days worth of shopping with clothe-obsessed Alice and the beautiful and stunning Rosalie. Edward, Jasper, Emmett and Carlisle were off on a men's weekend away, or that's what Renee and Charlie knew anyway. To us vampires, it was a hunting trip with all of their favourites, mountain lion for Edward and grizzly bear for Emmett, Jasper and Carlisle weren't at all bothered what they ate…as long as it wasn't human blood that they fed on.
All of a sudden I was being pounced on by a very tiny sort of monster,
"Momma!" Renesmee shouted at me whilst she hugged my very tightly with her tiny arms
"I love you momma! I will miss you lots but Grandma Renee and Nana Esme said I can phone you EVERY day!" she trilled in her high voice.
"My darling sweetheart, you can't phone me everyday" I smiled at her and she looked back with a worried little face
"Because I'd be the one doing the phoning, every five seconds" Nessie beamed back at me and then took one long hard look at Edward
"What about you Daddy? Are you going to phone me or will I have to?" Everyone laughed at that, the way she eyed Edward as though he was a huge criminal.
"Do you honestly have to ask that, love? You know that you mean more to me than the world, you and your mother are my world"
Renesmee took another long look at Edward and then placed her palm delicately upon my cheek. Edward chuckled at her warmly and grinned,
"Yes, I'm sure Jacob will manage without you for a few days, I'll make sure of that" Renesmee hit Edward over the head with her tiny fist and scowled at him,
"He wasn't s'posed to hear!"
As Jacob couldn't go along with Renesmee for the weekend because of Renee being totally cut off and in the dark about the supernatural and my being a vampire it had been decided that he should go along with the Edward, Jasper, Emmett and Carlisle for the hunting trip and he wasn't looking forward to being away from Renesmee for that long.
"BELLA!" Alice yelled at me, honking the horn of her yellow Porsche, I guess they were waiting for me
"I'd better go" I murmured reluctantly "Wouldn't want to anger Alice anymore" Edward smiled sympathetically at me and bent towards my ear to whisper something to me when suddenly, Alice was bent beside us
"No, Edward, you are NOT going to take her away to Esme's Island to help her" Alice shook her head at him "Honestly, you'd think he'd have learnt by now that I do know every little move he will EVER make" Renesmee began to giggle at her aunt, she loved Alice a lot for many reasons, the main one being that she shouted at daddy. A lot. All of a sudden, Renesmee's giggling was cut off and replaced with a lot of high-pitched screaming
"Uncle EMMETT!" she yelled at him, he had picked her up off her feet and started whirling her around Emmett was laughing his very loud and very strong echo-y laugh he enjoyed 'torturing' his little niece more than any of us and Renesmee enjoyed playing with him too, but you could see that Alice was getting impatient.
"Come on Emmett leave Nessie be now, Bella needs to be able to say goodbye to her properly" Rosalie smiled, stepping out from Alice's car. I really didn't like the sound of the word 'goodbye' so once Ness was firmly set on her feet again we hugged and kissed and I told her I'd see her soon. Then it was time to leave Edward, I detested being away from him with a passion
"I love you" he told me "more than the world"
"I love you too" and then a strange stinging and burning sensation pricked my eyes. Vampire tears.
"Don't cry, love" Edward soothed, hugging me tight
"I don't want to be away from you all" I whimpered, but then seeing Nessie's worried face I gathered myself together and put on a huge grin.
"Well, I guess I have some shopping to do then!"
"Finally" Alice said walking away, she and Rosalie had already said goodbyes but Rose couldn't resist yet another kiss from Emmett so we all turned away from them, none of us could stomach their passion when they were together.
"Bye Jake!" I called and repeated this process of hugs and kisses for the rest of my family and got in the car.
When Rose, Alice and I were firmly on our way I noticed that there was something in my back pocket.
"Hmmmm…." I murmured confused, digging deep into the small denim pouch. Paper. Still confused I unfolded the tiny piece of mystery and read it:
Be safe - and take care of my heart, I left it with you
It was a note from Edward, 'Be safe' was what he'd written on the first note he gave me when I was still human and when he left me to go on a hunting trip, the thing about taking care of his heart was something he frequently told me to do whenever I was away from him.
"What is it Bella?" Rose questioned, hearing me sigh
"Oh, ummm nothing" I replied back smiling "Alice put on some music, actually put on this" I handed her a shiny silver disk, it was the one she and Edward had given me for my eighteenth birthday, a memory I did not wish to bring up again so quickly shutting it away as quickly as it came back. When the beautiful music was flooding the car, if I was still human, I would have been calm enough to sleep, but as sleep was an impossible thing now, I settled for talking to Rosalie about what clothes we would buy for Nessie, that was close enough to being asleep.