Cassie's Story

Cassie's P.O.V.

Intro/ Chapter 1

Hey, my name is Cassella Hale, but everyone calls me Cassie. I live with my mom, Renesmee (Nessie), my dad Nicholas (Nick), my adopted sisters, Bella, and Rosalie, and my adopted brother, Jasper. I am fifteen years old, and just moved to a small crummy town of Forks. We live in a forest, surrounded by trees, the only people in walking distance are the Cullen's, all of the children are adopted by Carlisle, and Esme, who I call my uncle and aunt, oddly they are all dating one of my adopted brother or sisters. There is Edward, Emmett, and Alice. They live in a house down the road from us that seems as if it could fit all of us. Carlisle, like my mom is a doctor. Esme is and interior designer, and dad is a . . . (oops I never thought about what Nick does for a living! Well then if you would be so kind, I wouldn't mind suggestions on what you think he should be) I don't really know what he does, and everyone else is in school.

It's not that I don't love my family, but being in the same family as them I get teased A LOT. They are all physically flawless, literally. They all have really pale skin well I do too, but I am no where near as flawless as them. That is why I get teased, I have pale skin, and I am surrounded by a bunch of beautiful people, I am a reject, of course who has no friends.

I have only been here one day and I already hate it, it is just like every other place we have lived, cold and wet, and there is never any sunshine. I mean it's not like there going to burn in the sun like a vampire or something, and they never sit and eat with me, except for mom, she does sometimes. Last year we had to write and essay about what we did for thanksgiving, and I had to write about sitting at the table silently with mom, as everyone else was going hiking, or something. We had to read these aloud to the class, and I had to listen as everyone told about their grandparents coming out, and their aunts and uncles. I had only met my grandparents on my dad's side once, and never my grandparents on my moms side. Mom was an only child and I met my aunt and uncle on my dad's side once as well.

"Renesmee. I am going for a hike, I'm going to scope out the land." Bella called.

"Bella? Do you think I could come with you?" I asked, knowing she would say no, they always do.

"Uhm, ask your mom, if she says yes than you can come," I stared at her in shock no one had even said THAT before.

I ran upstairs where I found my mom unpacking many boxes. "Mom, can I go for a walk with Bella?" I asked breathless. For some reason she had an alarmed look on her face and was clutching the shirt in her hand very hard.

"BELLA!" she almost screamed throughout the house.

The next minute Bella was beside me, "Oh Renesmee, I am just going to look around. She will be perfectly safe," mom's face calmed but was still not smiling.

"Fine, you may go," I jumped up and down and hugged them both, "but take a sweater," so I did.

Bella and I started out into the forest, and walked for a long time, until she stopped abruptly.

"What's wrong Bella?" I asked turning around.

"I- I can't go any farther any more." she whispered. Then crinkling her face she added, "there is a horrible smell. We have to go home NOW." she started muttering things, "Nessie is going to be so mad- I should have never taken her- I would never have let HER go- WAIT! I know that one,- But who?- Seth? No- Leah? No- It couldn't be? Jake? Yes it is JAKE! Ugh!" out from behind one of the trees a tall muscular, shirtless, teenage boy came out.

"I didn't know you were in town Bella," he spoke roughly.

"Yes, but uhm, we are going to be leaving soon, we uhm, have to leave now," she was at a loss for words.

"We?" he inquired.

"Yes this is Cassella Hale, Renesmee's daughter," she spoke quickly.

"Cassie," I said turning towards him and extending my hand.

He gasped, and Bella smacked her forehead.

"Seriously Jacob? Do not make me punch you, because this time I won't break my hand," I looked at her in confusion.

He shook it off, and took my hand, "I didn't know Nessie had a daughter," he smiled.

"Of course you can't stay out of our lives, you always find a way back in. I mean I love you and all, but I don't think Renesmee is going to be happy . . ." she grabbed my wrist and pulled me back down the path. I made a phone with my hand and signaled for Jacob to call me, I had a feeling he already had my number.

Instead of going home we went to the Cullen's house, "Bella why are we here?" she was still pulling me, and pulled me straight to the kitchen where Aunt Esme was.

"Carlisle!" she called, and he was there in a flash.

"We have a problem," she said raising my wrist.

"What ever do you mean? Cassie, could never be a problem," Esme said putting her arm around Bella's shoulder.

She dropped my wrist, "I took her with me for a walk right? Well guess who we saw! Yes we saw them! You know what he did? I am pretty sure he just did the same thing to Cassie he did to Renesmee all those years ago." she had fallen to her knees.

"Why didn't I just-"

"Bella! You would NEVER! You know perfectly well why you kept her, because you loved her. You know perfectly well, that Carlisle and Edward were wrong! You and Renesmee both made the right decisions! You will NOT doubt that," Esme, was yelling, I had not ever heard her or Carlisle yell.

"Bella had a daughter?" I squeaked.

All three heads turned to me, "No she had a dog! She died the year before you were born," Carlisle said anxiously.

"You two should be going home," Esme said pushing us out of the door.

Bella hurried me home, and forced me to go to bed, claiming I needed rest before school tomorrow.


I stayed up and when I was sure everyone was asleep I silently got up and reached under my bed. I pulled out a box with a photo album, inside, the first thing I saw was a picture, of Esme, Carlisle, Edward, Bella, Rosalie, Emmett, Alice, and Jasper, there was also another little girl in Bella's arms. She had little ringlets that looked the same colour as Edward's hair. Her eyes were a deep brown, the same as mom and I's. The odd thing was, Bella's eyes appeared to be a different brown, like she was wearing contacts over a darker colour. I flipped to the next page and there were many pictures of the little girl, with Edward, Bella, Rosalie, and occasionally with others. Each picture looked like she was older, and she had her hand placed on faces in many pictures. There was also another boy in many pictures, Jacob, from the forest today. I continued to flip through the pages, when I noticed Bella's eyes had changed to a golden colour like the others.

The pictures stopped when the girl appeared to be seven or eight so I reached into the box and found a small journal. I opened it to the middle and read:

Dear Diary,

I don't know what to do, I mean I know I am supposed to be with Jacob but I just don't feel it anymore. Ever since we moved to Canada, things have been difficult. I met a girl named Nicola, and even started dating her brother Nick, the only thing is, I can't tell Nicola our secret. Nick knows but that is only because Alice saw he would join us one day. I really miss Forks, grandpa, and the reserve, this place just doesn't feel like home to me.

Mom's coming, I have to go now, I'll write more soon.

Nessie

I flipped closer to the back and found another entry;

Dear Diary,

Today she was finally born, Cassella Edith Alexa Hale (Cassie), she was finally born. I know I should be happy, but Nick and I decided not to tell her, and I can't help but feel bad. Maybe when she is older she will know, but she deserves a normal life . . . at least she deserves to think she has a normal life.

The nurses are nagging me to sleep so I probably should.

The new mommy, Nessie

I stared blankly at the book, I found her diary, that she has kept since she was a little girl.

I dropped it with a loud thud, and hurried to put everything back in the box. I shoved it under my bed and pulled the blanket back onto me, seconds before my door swung open. Dad was at my side checking for injuries, somehow knowing I wasn't asleep.

"Are you alright? What happened? I heard something fall," he rushed out.

"Nothing I- I fell out of bed. That's all. I'm fine," I assured him.

I went back to bed and fell asleep this time.


I woke up the next morning, and went through the usual routine of getting ready, before lazily making my way to the kitchen.

I was greeted by my whole family, who were all waiting to go to school looking bored.

"Morning," I mumbled starting to eat.

As I ate I tried to bring up the courage to say something, I had to find out why the little girl was in Bella's arms the whole time.

Finally I formed the words on my tongue and said them aloud, "Bella, uhm, have you ever . . . uhm, had a baby?" I looked down at my breakfast afraid to look up.

I heard shattering sound, and looked up to see pieces of a glass, and milk around Bella's feet, "Why would you ask that Cassie?" Rosalie asked forcing joy into her voice.

Dad checked his watch, "time for school, and work, come on every one better get going now!" he said rushing us out the door.


I was silent on my way to school, and ignored them as I went to the admin. office.

"Cassella Hale, I'm new here," the lady at the front desk searched through some folders.

"Ah yes, and are your siblings here as well?" she handed me my folder.

"Yeah they'll be here in a minute, thanks," I took the folder and left not bothering to look at them.

I went to my first class, and had to stand in front of everyone while the teacher introduced me to the class.

I sat down beside a boy with sandy blonde hair.

"Hi, I'm Harry. You're Cassella right?" he said trying to sound polite.

"Cassie," I said softly.

The class began, and I sat quietly jotting down my notes, before noticing that no one else was.

The bell rang moments later, and I slowly gathered my stuff together.

"Wasn't class horrible? I mean she just talked the whole time!" I heard a girl saying as I left.

I tried to duck past them but to no avail they stopped me and attempted to start talking to me, "Hi my name is Ashley, and this is Lauren," the girl said motioning to the other girl beside her.

"Cassie," I replied.

"You're like new here right?" said the second girl.

"Uhm yeah, my family moved here last week," I told her as I caught a glimpse of Jasper. "I have to go, thats my brother- Jasper!-" I called waving to him.

I saw the girls out of the corner of my eye do a double take on Jasper as I ran up to him. I looked at his face, seeing that he looked like he was in pain, like he needed drugs or something.

"Are you okay Jasper?" I asked cautiously.

"Yeah," he said swallowing loudly.

"Uhm okay?" I said checking my schedule and rushing to my next class.

I walked in and saw many people from my first class, and in the corner I saw some girls whispering and giggling about something. I sat down at one of the desks and noticed them pointing at me, I ignored them and started working on a drawing. They walked over and tried to cover their giggling, "so uhm your last name is Hale right?" said one of them.

"Yeah?" I said putting my pencil down.

"Jasper is your brother right? And he hangs around with the Cullen boys, do you know them?" said another.

"Yeah, uhm he is adopted but yeah he is my brother, and I know the Cullen's," it wasn't the first time I had answered this question.

"Do you know if Emmett, has a girlfriend?" asked one.

"Or Edward," added another.

"Or Jasper?" added another.

I sighed deeply, and turned to face them, "look I know that they look good, but if I were you I wouldn't even bother, they all have girlfriends. And their girlfriends don't like to share their boyfriends, it can be pretty scary really," I said and turned back to my drawing. They all gave sad sighs and left no longer giggling.

I finished with English, and made my way to lunch. None of us really made friends easily so I sat down at an empty table as I waited for everyone. The whole cafeteria had gone quiet so I looked up and saw them walking in, Bella and Edward were first, then Rosalie, and Emmett, then looking three times as giddy and everyone put together Alice, (and Jasper). People stared mouths open as they all sat down at the same table as me. I sighed sadly, I never really like all the attention I got from being around them.

"What's wrong Cassie?" asked Jasper, even when I was doing my best to hide my emotions he seemed to know exactly how I am feeling.

"Nothing, I'm fine. Happy, I met some girls today," although all they wanted was to get closer to you but . . .

Edward started to laugh as though he had heard me. I sometimes I could swear he could read minds. I saw Alice's eyes go out of focus and Jasper took a protective hold on her. Her eyes came back to focus and Jasper hissed something in her ear. She grinned at him and announced that the sun would be shining brightly tomorrow, I had no idea how she knew this, but Alice was never wrong.

"No school for us tomorrow," said Rosalie with fake excitement. They would still make me come though, they always did. I hated it really, it didn't even make any sense. While they went out hiking I had to sit through a day of school work.

"Yeah have fun, tomorrow," I said sarcastically.

The table went quiet, and across the room I could hear some girls debating on coming over to say 'hi' to me. They eventually decided that one with long black hair would, I remembered her from earlier, she asked about the boys.

"H- hi, C- Cassie. Uhm, do you want to come and sit with us?" a wave of shocked expressions ran though our table, NO ONE had ever asked any of us to sit with them.

I saw some of the others shaking their heads but when I looked at Alice she was jumping up and down seeming to want to shout 'YES!' "Yeah sure," I said grabbing my tray and following her.

At the table were four other girls, the one with black hair that came to our table introduced herself as Taylor. The rest were, Isabelle, Kaitlyn, Bonnie, and Sarah.

I sat and listened mostly as they all talked about who the cutest boys were, all of course, were either Jasper, or one of the Cullen's.

"Who do you think is the cutest?" Bonnie asked me.

Truthfully I had never really thought about it, to me they were just family, "Uhm, I don't know. They're all kind of just like brothers to me," I said blushing.

"Seriously? I mean I understand Jasper but not, Emmett, or Edward?" said Sarah.

"If you like them you should see Carlisle and my father," I laughed.

"Who is Carlisle?" asked Isabelle.

"He is Alice, Edward, Emmett Cullen's dad," I said glancing sideways at the table where they were. They were all peering at me.

"Really? Ooh I just knew that their looks had to run in the family," how did they picture Carlisle? Knocking some girl up at eight?

"Uhm the Cullen's are adopted, and so are my brother and sister's," I said nervously.

"Oh, but I thought that you . . ." Kaitlyn trailed off.

"I am. I'm the only one though," I said and the conversation ended eventually turning into nonsense I didn't pay attention to.

I rushed off to class when the bell rang and tried keep to myself, but surely enough, everyone was asking about my brothers and sisters, because no one ever seemed to want to get close to them.

Thankfully the teacher came in a short time later and everyone left me alone.


After some painstakingly long classes I was on my way home and everyone was asking why I went to sit with those girls.

"Seriously Cassie, you know that we always sit together!" Edward said.

"Yeah well I'm getting sick of it, and what am I going to do when you all are off hiking and I have to go to school?" I asked rather loudly.

Bella put her hand to my shoulder in sympathy but I pushed her away. I saw that the library was coming up, "stop the car." I said quickly as we reached it.

Edward hit the brake hard and everyone turned to look at me, "I'm going to the library," I said getting out and going inside.

When I got in I made my way to the fiction section and started fingering through books. I picked one and sat down for what seemed like hours before some one came and tapped me on the shoulder. I whipped my head around and found that it was dad.

"Hi," I said sheepily.

He just smiled and hugged me. My dad always seemed to understand what I needed, after a day of being used to get to the Cullen's and my siblings, I just needed to know that someone still loved me for me, and a hug showed me just that.

We made our way home and I told him everything, from walking in to the get my schedule, to Alice saying that they weren't going to school tomorrow, to the girls wanting to get close to me to get close to the boys.

"I suppose I will have to call in to work tomorrow then," he said as I finished telling him.

'Of course,' I thought sighing.


This is a REALLY long chapter to start Cassie's story Thank you if you read this whole thing.

I would like to ask you if you would like, what you think that Cassie, and Nick's powers should be, or if you think they should have any at all.

Sorry it took so long.

-Mar