Cold Moon

Hi there. I haven't written a story in so long. So I thought I would come back and give this a try. I finished the Twilight series in less than a week. I lost weight and sleep in that week. But after it ended I just kept wondering, what happened next? Then I had the dreams. And before I knew it I was writing this story down. This morning I had a weird vision of the end. It's an awesome ending, well at least I think so. So, at least I know where I'm going.

Chapter 1. Neighbors

I drove down the foggy road at lightning speed. Much faster than I used to drive. Or so I think. I don't remember with complete accuracy, as to my pre Edward existence. I do remember my human life, but only as far back as Forks. It was as if my life started in Forks. I remember Renee and Phil, and I remember a few blurry things about Phoenix, but Forks is crystal clear, much like all my memories of Edward. I think it's because my memory of Forks and Edward are intertwined.

Today was a bitter sweet day. I will remember this day forever. Not just because I'm a vampire with perfect recall memory. But because this is a special day. We are leaving Forks. Edward and I had attended Dartmouth via internet and we had one class a week. That was plenty of time for us to go down there, get homesick, and come back. In the meantime, rumors about the Cullens' looks started to spread. At first it was comments like, you look so young for your age. Then it was whispers when people thought that one of us was far enough away to not hear. The move was a long time coming. Charlie was sad when we told him about our preparations to leave. But he had to have sensed it coming. People were starting to talk about him as well.

"Poor Charlie Swan. Has anyone seen what his daughter looks like now? No one hardly ever sees that girl since she married that Cullen boy." Charlie loves the Cullens, and he loves Reneseme. We are still on a very need-to-know-basis with Charlie. We do not mention why Reneseme has grown so rapidly, or why none of us seem to be aging at all. He never asks. He knows it is too dangerous for him to know the exact truth of us. Edward once told me that he knew, but didn't want to say it out loud, for fear that it would chase us away. He knows we are something just as magical as Jake, the Werewolf shape shifter. The tribe had accepted Charlie in openly. Maybe that is what took us so long to leave Forks. We wanted to make sure Charlie was all right. He had married Sue Clearwater last Summer. We were all there. Reneseme was even the flower girl. That was probably when it was decided for sure that we would have to leave.

We will get to see Charlie on the weekends. We had promised both Charlie and Jake that we would be down almost every other weekend. On the weekends we did not drive down, they could drive up. We only moved three hours away. A little over an hour if we drive. A little under two hours if Jacob runs and three and a half hours if Charlie drives.

"Momma, when are we going to get there?" Reneseme's voice rang, musically, a trait inherited from the Cullen's family. Reneseme looked at me questioningly from the passenger seat of my Ferarri. In truth, Reneseme was four years old, but due to her lineage she has aged to look thirteen or so.

"Marks, is only thirty minutes away from where we are now." I said, still glancing at the road. My car was in the middle of the group. Carslisle and Esme's SUV led the way, four miles behind them, Rosalie's convertible, followed by Emmit's huge jeep, a few miles back from them was my Ferarri followed closely by Edward and his shiny silver Volvo. Behind us was Alice in her shiny Yellow Porshe, a present from Edward about five years ago. And following her was Jasper in his sleek black motorcycle. The reasoning behind our lagging behind each other is due to the size of Marks. In a town as small as Marks, seven shiny expensive cars traveling so close might cause stares. So we tried to put a few cars inbetween us. Not that it will stop the gossip. The Cullens have always had a habit of being the center of rumors and gossip.

"Momma, may I start school like you and daddy?" Reneseme asked sweetly.

"I don't know hunny," I admitted, "Your aging has slowed down tremendously, but we are just starting out here. We'll have to talk it over first." She smiled excitedly. I had no fear of her academics, but I was worried. Reneseme has never been around a lot of children at one time. The phone rang and Reneseme grabbed it out of her purse, by the sound of the ringtone I could tell that it was Edward.

"Carlisle and Esme just arrived at the new house, We'll be there shortly." I could hear him through the receiver.

"Okay, thanks daddy!" Reneseme chimed.

Soon we were at our new house in Marks. It was fancy, like the house in Forks, but not as remote. The wooded area that we had grown to love in Forks, was much more dense and the road wasn't too hard to find. The house it self was large and beige. But the part that I found most surprising was the lack of windows. This house looked like a normal house. A LARGE normal house. By the time Reneseme and I had parked the car, Emmet and Rosalie were already unpacked, and Jasper and Alice were pulling into the driveway. Reneseme grabbed her bag out of the trunk Esme and Alice had made the trip to Marks a week before the big move. Alice took a lot of our clothes down and Esme moved some of the furniture. The movers had probably just made it out of Forks by now. We didn't take all the stuff from Forks with us. We left some of the furniture for Charlie. It was our subtle hint that he should spruce his place up a bit. Esme also had some of the furniture and clothes that she had sent down to Renee. With the way that Alice shopped, all of us had more clothes than we knew what to do with. Edward ghosted up behind me and wrapped his arms around me.

"Are you excited yet?" he laughed. "This will be your second time through high school." I paused for a second, letting the comfortable embrace entrance me. Even as a vampire, Edward had the ability to dazzle me. Suddenly, Edward tensed.

"No, She is too young to go to school." He said sternly.

"What? You can't read my mind." I argued, as if that would change the outcome of his answer.

"No, But I can read Reneseme's. She's an open book." Reneseme pouted.

"But daddy, I will be at home in Grandma's way." She protested.

"She has had to stay hidden all her life, for fear that someone would notice how fast she grows." I pointed out. "Since her growth has slowed, she could start school up and we could make her a freshman. She could pass as fourteen." Edward frowned.

"It will be too dangerous." He continued, but I could hear his resolve slipping. He hated not being able to show Reneseme off. Taking her out was a mess when she was younger. We had to make sure that we went to another town, and that we kept her inside, and tightly guarded. She has never even showed a hint of thirst for a human, but there was always a fear that someone would smell too good to pass on. We kept her at the house a lot. Her big vacation away from Forks was going to La Push for Jacob visits. Since Reneseme was born, the loosly held treaty between the Cullens and the Quillettes vanished. There were no more lines. We were invited to La Push anytime. The pack accepted the Cullens as friends and loved Reneseme as if she had been one of their sisters. Jacob had grown fond of teasing Quil about Claire not growing as fast as Reneseme. The idea of Jacob imprinting on Reneseme was still a sticky subject with Edward and me.

"Daddy please! I will be at the same school and you can watch me. You can make sure I don't do anything bad." Reneseme pouted, sticking out her bottom lip.

"YAY!" I looked up in time to see Alice dash down the stairs of the house and run towards us. " Nessie's going to school with us!" She beemed. Edward glared at her.

"I haven't agreed to that." He pointed out.

"But you will!" Alice laughed. Reneseme clapped her hands and hugged Edward. She was bouncing as much as Alice was.

"We will have to get her papers redone. We had her age as twelve." Edward mused. " We will need to make her fourteen. That will take a few days. We will also have to work with her and Bella," He noticed that I was listening. "In preparation for the new school year." He pointed out.

"I'm prepared." I protested.

"Really?" He smirked. "Quick, what's your birthday?"

"September thirteenth, nineteen eighty five." I answered without thinking.

"Wrong answer. We would have been discovered." He said smoothly. "Being born in nineteen eighty five would have made you twenty three." I cringed. I should have remembered that. "Your birth certificate says that you were born in nineteen ninety three." This was going to be harder than I imagined.

"I can remember my birthday, daddy!" Reneseme chirped. "September tenth nineteen ninety four!" Reneseme sounded convincing and she was quick to do the math.

"Edward." Edward added. " You can't call me and your mom, Mommy and Daddy, You'll have to call us Edward and Bella." Reneseme looked confused.

"Do you not like me calling your daddy?" She asked innocently.

"Nessie, normal kids do not go to school with their parents. Nor do they call other kids that look their age, Mommy and Daddy." Alice explained. Nessie nodded.

"Bella, You and Jasper go get Reneseme's papers fixed and we'll all begin school on Monday. That will give a few days to get you two ready." Edward held back a smile. "You two will need all the help we can give."

"And that gives me time to go buy us some new outfits." Alice smiled. Reneseme loved shopping with Alice. Unfourtunatly, not many others enjoyed it. Alice stopped and was lost in a vision. Edward and I exchanged glances. Alice blinked, and turned and looked around. In a split second Edward and I followed her gazes. Rosalie was zipping around unpacking everything. Emmet was all ready up the tallest tree, checking for prey, Carlisle was carrying in suitcases, six at a time and Jasper was ghosting around the woods, making sure there was nothing suspicious.

"Everyone! I saw something!" Alice called. Instantly, the whole family was around her. "I saw someone approaching."

"The movers?" Rosalie asked.

"No, they just left Forks. They're lost. It will take them a few hours to find this place." She replied. "I saw, a family, and they're on their way here."

"I wonder why.." Jasper mumbled.

"They're being friendly. They heard they had new neighbors and they wanted to say hi." Carlisle guessed. "I also think they saw all the cars. Well, We all know the last names we're using? Jasper and Rosalie Hale, Alice, Emmet, and Edward Cullen, and Bella and Reneseme Swan." We had decided that it would be easier if we said that Reneseme was my cousin. She had my brown hair and eyes and followed my body shape, therefore it would be easier to explain her as a relative to me. The story was that my dad was taking care of both of us, and then died in a car accident. The Cullens were kind enough to take us both in. The wreck happened four years ago. Which, technically, was when we joined the Cullens. "All right, we are to act like a normal family. Emmet, help me carry in the suit cases, one by one. Bella, you and Reneseme, unpack one of your suitcases in your car and repack it. Make it look like it came undone, or that you are searching for something." We took to our chores. Jasper, Rosalie and Alice went inside. They would look like they were arguing over who had to cook tonight. Edward stayed with Reneseme and me. Reneseme had just strewn our suitcase all over the back of my Ferarri when I heard the noise of an SUV turn down our road. We stood and didn't begin to repack our stuff until we could hear the SUV better. The SUV was a black Toyota. Once it was in sight we could tell there were four people inside. Two adults, and two teenagers. The teens were about the same ages as we were pretending to be. Once the car stopped. The people paused for a second and then stepped out. The driver was the first one out. He was an older man. Mid fifties. He was tall and missing a lot of hair in the middle of his head. His hair was greyish white. He seemed friendly. The lady in the passenger side was about the same age as the man. She was a little more plump, and had short reddish brown hair. She seemed to have a fake smile on. The kids were the last to exit the car. There was a boy, who appeared to be the oldest. He was really tall, not taller than Jake, but still tall. He had funny curly brown hair and was probably prettier in his mind that in reality. Then there was a younger girl. The girl was a bottle blonde, and had smaller features than the boy, but it was obvious that they were brother and sister. Her nose was long and pointy. Her freckles stuck out more than anything. Her true hair color was probably red. The man walked toward us. We waited until he and his family were closer for us to act like we noticed them.

"Why hello there, young man." The man said in a warm tone to Edward. He seemed to pick Edward out of all of us to say hello to.

"Hello." Edward replied. He then looked back to the house and called out in his velvety voice, "Dad, we have company." Carlisle bound out of the house, in what looked like a human jog. For Carlisle it must have been embarrassingly slow. Esme followed behind him. He approached the man and his family and shook the man's hand.

" Hello, I'm Carlisle Cullen, You must be the Ogdens." Carlisle smiled at all of them. That's when Alice, Jasper and Rosalie made their walk out of the house. They were noisely arguing about who had to cook supper. They all made a point of seeing the newcomers and quickly bounded up to say hi. Emmet also appeared out of nowhere and took flank next to Rosalie.

"Well yes, we are." Mr Ogdon flushed, obviously surprised at how many of us there were. " I'm Bob Ogdon, this is my wife, Gina, and my kids. Mike, and Carol." The kids stepped forward to get a look at all of us.

"Nice to see you again Bob." Carslisle turned to Esme. "Bob is the CEO of the hospital. He was kind enough to give me a job here." Carlisle then looked at all of us. "These are my children, Emmet, Rosalie, Jasper, Alice, Edward, Bella, and Reneseme." Carlisle made a point of indicating all of us as he spoke our names. The Ogdons looked shocked to see so many of us. Mike and Carol gave each of us a look over. Carol's eyes flashed with envy when she eyed Rosalie. Rosalie gave her trademark smile. It is the type of smile that says, hi, and yes I am prettier than you at the same time. The girl look dumb struck and upset. Mike on the other hand, searched us up and down. Edward watched him wearily. When Mike's eyes made their way to us, Edward quickly, took my hand and nudged me a step behind him. Then Edward's eyes flashed and he was struggling to hold back a growl. I quickly realized what he was mad about. Mike was staring at Reneseme. I let the band of my shield slip around Mike so that Edward could not hear his thoughts. Edward seemed to relax a little. The Ogdon's didn't seem to notice Edward's glare at Mike.

"Wow, Bob never mentioned that you had so many lovely children." Mrs Ogdon marvelled. She blushed a lot around Carlisle. Mr Ogdon had probably warned her about how young he looked, but forgot to mention the unbelievable amount of beauty we all possess.

"Well, they are our adopted children. Emmet, Edward and Alice Cullen came to us at various times a long time ago. And Rosalie and Jasper Hale are twins, they are Esme's sister's children. They've been with us since they were eight, and Bella and Reneseme Swan are cousins. Their father died about four years ago and they came to live with us." We have definatly hit our teen vampire quota, I thought. Seven kids is a lot of explaining. Mrs. Ogdon looked at each of us. She motioned to her son.

"Mike here is a junior, he's a basketball player, East high's best. And Carol is a sophomore, she's a cheerleader on the JV team. You'll be seeing a lot of them." I lifted my shield enough for Edward to hear my thoughts. I thought cheerleaders were supposed to be pretty. Edward's lips twitched. He glanced at me and at Rosalie and Alice. I guess I wasn't the only one that thought that.

"That's nice." Edward replied. He was the quickest person ever to be able to recover a joke. "Rosalie, Jasper and Emmet are Juniors. Bella, Alice and I are Sophmores, and Reneseme, here," He said putting his arm around Reneseme. "Is a freshman." Reneseme beamed. She officially was allowed to start school next week.

"We stopped by to welcome you into the town of Marks." Mrs. Ogdon said, she looked like she was having trouble making the words come out of her mouth. "This town is usually very quiet but we have had so many new people move into Marks this week alone. Your family, another family and a new teacher. We are having a dinner tomorrow to meet everyone. You have to come." She didn't make it sound like a request. "You just need to bring a dessert and we will all have fun." We all looked at Carlisle. We would stand out if the Ogdon's noticed that none of us ate, well except for Reneseme, who still preferred to hunt her meals.

"Well, we still have to get the children's files from their last school." Esme said, trying to help us get out of the dinner.

"Nonsense." Mr. Ogdon said, "The Bar-b-que starts at seven. No school will be open that late, it will be fairly informal so no need to dress up." I relaxed. A bar-b-que would be better. We could all walk around and discreetly dispose of the food on our plates.

"That sounds nice. We'll see you then." Esme replied, and her and Mrs. Ogdon fell into polite conversation. Mike looked around the area. He looked as if something was missing.

"Do you guys have a dog?" he asked.

"No, we don't have any pets." Jasper said quietly.

"Really," Mrs. Ogdon asked, "Everyone has a dog around here. Better than an alarm system. They are wonderful."

"Oh we used to have a dog." Edward looked at Reneseme and smiled. " He was a dumb thing. His name was Jake. We left him with some friends at our old town." Every one in the family laughed at the inside joke. Even Reneseme. Edward had to know that she was going to show this moment to Jake. The Ogdons looked nervous.

"Well, that's too sad." Mrs. Ogdon replied. "Our German shepherd just had puppies, when they get a little older, your family is more than welcome to one."

"We're not really pet people." Carlisle sighed. "We don't have a lot of time to properly take care of a pet." The truth be told, no dog would stay with us. Animals seem to be able to smell us and run. Most dogs don't even bark. Even the best guard dogs turn tail and run leaving their masters for dead, when we go around.

"Dad, we're going to go pick up supplies for supper." Rosalie said motioning Emmet to the large Jeep.

"And Jasper and I are going to go pick out outfits for the party tomorrow!" Alice rang.

"I hope you like Wal-mart clothes." Carol mumbled. Alice looked at her clothes and then glared at Carol.

"Why would you say that." Alice looked slightly hurt and mad that Carol had just mistaken her designer clothes for Wal-mart knock offs. Or even insinuate that Alice would shop at Wal-mart for her clothes.

"The only mall is almost an hour away. The only store we have around here is Wal-mart. And the mall that's an hour away only has Sears, JcPennies, and a few teen stores." Alice looked horrified.

"I forsee." She began. We all stiffened and looked at her horrified. "That I will be shopping online a lot." We all laughed a little tense. Alice stalked off, probably to go set her computer up and start shopping online. I lifted the shield away from Mike and Edward politely excused all three of us and we walked over to start organizing the suitcase that we had strewn everywhere.

"Mike's debating whether or not he should come and talk to us." Edward mumbled, clearly annoyed. "He's also deciding which one of you he wants to hit on." This time Edward sounded angry.

"Whose car is this?" Mike asked walking up to my Ferrari. I looked up. He was obviously transfixed on the car. It must be a guy thing.

"It's my car." I replied. "It's an early birthday present." I thought I had better keep the fact that Edward bought it for me as a wedding gift a secret.

"It's awesome." Mike said, looking only at the red car.

"Mike, it's time to go." Mrs. Ogdon called. Mike slowly turned and walked away from the car. The Cullens bid their farewell and walked back to start unpacking. We stayed near my car as they got in to their seats. They started the engine and let it set for a second. We could hear the family even though they were in the car and whispering.

"They are all so weird." Carol complained. "That's a lot of kids."

"And all the girls are hot, and creepy." Mike replied. "And did you see all of their cars!"

"They also look like they need a tan, and a nap!" Carol snorted, obviously trying to distract her brother from our looks.

"They are definatly something different." Mr. Ogdon replied. "They all look so young."

"And pretty." Mrs. Ogdon added. "We'll have to keep an eye on them."

Now I have this part down. I am working on the second chapter as I type. I would appreciate R/R. Thanks guys!