This chapter is the introduction, so it is not the most interesting chapter, but it is necessary for setting up the story.

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, Renesmee, or Jacob. Nothing in this chapter is mine.

There is no sun as I dress in the clothes Alice has set out for me to wear. My room glows in the dim light. The sea-blue walls make up for the lack of color in the sky. Paired with the brilliant white carpet, my room reminds me of the beach on Isle Esme, where my parents had brought me for a few months after the battle with the Volturi.

The Volturi haunted my dreams after they left. I woke up screaming every night. My parents asked me to show them the dream that I was having, but I refused to conjure up the images. They were worried that they weren't able to help me. With lack of anything better to do, they took me on vacation to the bright and colorful island. I loved lying on the warm sand and swimming with the creatures in the sea. There was something so magical about that island that the dreams all but vanished, and my parents thought that it was time we returned to Forks. But the dreams came back the first night I slept in my own room. They still come; not as often as when I was younger, but they are still there. I worry that the Volturi will come back for a rematch; and next time, losing will not be an option.

I turn as I hear a light thud. "Hey, Jake," I grin at the boy who had just crawled through my window.

Jacob smiles at me. His smile is always so warm and bright. All the worries buzzing in my head vanish instantly whenever I am around him.

Today is the first day of school, and I am nervous. I got little sleep last night (although I can go a week without sleeping if I want to) and my heart is pounding harder than I ever expected possible. It feels weird.

"Nessie, you look terrible," Jacob jokes, as his eyes find the darkened bruises under my eyes. Of course, the dark skin is always there; it is our inside joke. "Didn't you sleep well?" he asks with mock concern. I let out a sarcastic laugh as his lips turn down in disapproving lines.

"Now that you mention it, laying still was not my specialty last night," I tell him, the smile on my lips fading. All this talk about sleep is reminding me why I had been nervous mere seconds ago.

Real concern enters his eyes. "Why? Are you having second thoughts? You don't have to go, you know."

I do know. Going to school had been my idea. I look Jacob straight in the eyes. "Being nervous isn't, and wasn't, my problem. Last night just wouldn't end fast enough."

Jacob leans closer to me, as if he wants to touch me, even though I know he won't. He never does. I have to make the first move. "Are you sure you want to do this?"

I lay my hand gingerly on his cheek. I send him a picture of himself as he looks right now, human and fully clothed. Then I send him a picture of the school I will be attending. "I wish you could come with me," I whisper.

Jacob reaches up and lifts my hand lightly into his. "I wish I could come with you. But you know that I can't."

I roll my eyes as I recall what everyone told me when I asked if Jacob could be my escort, instead of Aunt Alice and Uncle Jasper. Dad insisted that someone accompany me, at least for the first couple weeks of school, to make sure everything goes smoothly. Dad simply said that he preferred someone else be my chaperone. Mom said it wouldn't be fair to ask Jacob to leave his pack just so that he could be with me. Jacob had chuckled and said that he would never be able to pass as a seventeen year old. It had been hard enough when he had actually been seventeen. And Jacob does have his pack to look out for…

Because of my abnormal growth spurts Mom, Dad, and I had to leave Forks when I was three to avoid attracting attention. The rest of the Cullen family came with us, deciding that their time in Forks had expired for this century. It had hurt Jacob to watch us leave. He had desperately wanted to come with us, but he decided it wouldn't be fair to leave his pack. Our new house is only a two hour run from La Push (for the wolves), but it has limited the amount of time I've had with Jake.

"I'm sorry," he says as he wraps me in a warm hug. "I really don't like making you unhappy."

"Don't worry about me," I say as I disentangle from his embrace. "I don't think going to school with Alice and Jasper will make me miserable." I make a face that contradicts my words.

Jacob laughs at me. "Yeah, it should be fun."

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