PROLOGUE

RPOV

I don't know what she was thinking when my mother named me, but she must have been sleep deprived or completely and utterly drunk. I mean, Renesmee? What kind of name was that? I've heard the story about a billion times about how she named me after both of my grandmothers, and my middle name was after both of my grandfathers, but I just didn't understand why she had to name me that. Renesmee Carlie Cullen. Ugh! I wish my name were something…well…simple! Like Courtney! Or Lindsey. Anything but Renesmee.

My dad, who is also one of my best friends, has the world on his shoulders. Or at least the Cullen world. That's why he always has the dark circles under his eyes, cause he never gets any sleep. I don't know why he knocked up my mother when she was only eighteen, but when I ask him about it, he simply says:

"We were in love, and felt we were ready for a child".

Although they definitely weren't ready for this child.

I have despised my mother since I was 12 years old and smart enough to realize there were people out there who had sisters 18 years older than them. Usually, people see the young mother as the victim and the father as the criminal, but I saw it the other way around. My father would have given anything to my mother, and since she wanted sex, he gave it her. At first, he didn't want the child and was about to have Carlisle (my Grandpa on my dad's side) remove me from her – which I wish would have happened – but my mother (the idiot she is) obliged. So my father, reluctantly, went through with having a child.

My aunt Alice is, like my father, one of my best friends. She's absolutely adorable, and has taught me anything and everything I know about fashion. All my friends love her too! She's young and fabulous!

Uncle Jasper I, oddly, get along with. He's very quiet and keeps to himself a lot, but he's very passionate about anything he does and everything his family does. He's very knowledgeable, also. Which helps me a lot with school and junk.

Uncle Emmett is…well…uncle Emmett. He's loud and obnoxious and the best uncle in the whole world, which is absolutely great to have around when you're in high school, but my friends are a little scared of him, which isn't too good.

Then there's aunt Rosalie, whom I get along with to an extent. She doesn't like me very much because of whose daughter I am, but she's loved me since I was born just because I was a baby. You see, Rosalie has never been able to conceive a child, although she would love to, she can't. So she's attracted to any baby, really, but since I'm family, me the most. Uncle Emmett tries to get her to be as friendly as possible towards me, but sometimes it doesn't work. Sometimes she can be as nasty as some of the girls at my school, which sucks, cause I think of them as fire breathing dragons.

My grandparents, Carlisle and Esme, are the amazing. So gentle and sincere. I love them, and I always will.

As for anyone on my mother's side of the family, I despise them all.