A/N: Hey there. My name is Savvy Cullen and this is my first fan fiction so be gentle. I'm not a writer, just a fan. I've read a lot of fan fiction, but I don't pretend to be an expert. I'm a slow writer so it might take a while between chapters to update. Sorry :( Solar Eclipse
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I'm rating this story M for violence, course language and potential lemons... ;)
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Chapter 1:
I crouched down and a low hiss, built in my chest, escaped my throat. My opponent, my prey, smiled wildly at me, standing there mimicking my stance, it was intimidating, but I still couldn't help but chuckle.
"Come on, Ness. You're supposed to take this seriously." Uncle Jasper was trying to be stern, but I know he enjoyed the training sessions when there was less "fighting" involved. You are so fragile and my adorable little niece, he had told me. "You said you wanted to train and I could be doing important things, you know?"
Huh, what other things? You're a vampire who's lived for hundreds of years, if you had any important things to do, you would have done them by now.
"Hey, how am I supposed to concentrate when he's doing that?" I asked, pointing over his shoulder to my other uncle. Uncle Emmett, the clown. During the last two minutes of the lesson, Uncle Em had been amusing himself, by trying to throw little berries into a sleeping Jacob's open mouth. "He's missing his mouth on purpose and now they're all over him."
I tried to suppress another chuckle as the incredibly deep sleeper, Jake, rolled over, still snoring, squashing about thirty small red berries that had been behind him. Jacob, so sweet, he came to watch my lesson outside in the rare sun and almost instantly fell asleep under a nearby tree. Even though he was covered in berries and quite a bit of mud, he was still as I had always seen him. My light, my sunshine, bright and warm, with his long muscular arms and his soft, beautiful russet skin...
"Nessie?"
I was suddenly aware that Uncle Jasper and my Dad, who had been sitting serenely soaking up the sun with my mother, reading a book, were both looking at me funny. Uncle Jazz had the smallest hint of a smile in his confused stare. Whereas, I could have sworn for a second that I had seen anger on my father's face.
Shit. Why was he so angry?
"Watch your language." He said sternly, and then turned back to his book. Then quietly although everyone here had either had vampire hearing, half-vampire hearing or werewolf hearing, so I didn't see the need, he said, "It's nothing. I-I uh..."
"Renesmee are you hungry?" Uncle Jazz interjected. A wave of calm silently passed over me, but the look on Dad's face, suggested that he would benefit from it more than I would.
"Um... yeah, I am actually. I better check if Jakes' hungry. What am I kidding? He's always hungry. I swear if he wasn't a wolf I'd have sworn he was an elephant." At that exact moment Jake let out a loud snore that sounded oddly like an elephant, which just proved my point.
Uncle Em, let out a roar of laughter and the berry he was throwing at the time landing directly into Jake's exposed ear, which made him kill over with laughter once again.
Jake stirred and then opened his eyes. "Hey, you guys all finished? I'm starving."
I just grinned to myself and starting walking up the backyard to get to the kitchen first and save my favourite stool at the breakfast bar and heard from behind me.
"Hey, why am I covered in berries?"
I couldn't hold my giggles in anymore.
Grandma Esme was already in the kitchen when I entered, with Jacob in toe, picking berries out of his ears, and from underneath his shirt.
"Mmm... Smells great Esme, roast beef and gravy?" He quizzed. Jake was playing his annoying little game of guessing all the ingredients in any given meal, a fun little game that everyone tolerated because to make their lives a little more interesting they liked to slip in surprise ingredients and hoping he'd guess them wrong. He may eat a lot but he isn't a master chef like the rest of my family members, who probably know every type meat, fruit, vegetable and spice known to man. Jacob picked up the gravy and gave it a little sniff. "And do I detect a hint of... is that parsley and cinnamon in the gravy?"
"Well done. But, I've been reading some Eastern European cookbooks recently so you wait til you come home for your break, you'll never guess." She said, slyly, cleaning off the plates and utensils she'd used. She pulled the container from the blender from out of the sink, which smelled strongly of washing up detergent. I assumed that she had blended the parsley and cinnamon into a fine paste to hide in the gravy then washed it thoroughly to make sure it didn't give any clues as to today's surprise.
"You can't trick this nose or this tongue!" He replied and stuck out his tongue, he then licked his lips and he looked so sexy that my heart started to beat a little faster. Stupid super hearing! Jacob and Grandma were looking at me suspiciously.
"I was just thinking about 'Grey's Anatomy'. Repeats are on tonight and I'm excited. McSteamy, yum!" Shit! You're a freakin genius, Renesmee, and that's the best you can come up with. Stupid, stupid, stupid girl.
"Well, I'm finished I think I better go check your bags again, I know that you already attempted to smuggle food and I'm sure the airport security will be very happy you've decided to bring your own half eaten lunch." I said sarcastically turning out of my chair from the breakfast bar.
"Hey! Esme can cook a hundred times better than plane food. Yuck!" He defended himself, while miming vomiting into his left hand, using the other to continue feeding himself.
"Thank you, Jacob that is very sweet. But Renesmee is right, besides the soup you attempted to hide in your jeans leaked and I had to rewash them." She seemed to be angry at having to rewash his clothes as a result of his mistake, but I remember that Grandma had been the one trying to sneak food in his bag and told him not to tell anyone. She left the room before patting Jacob on the back and muttering to herself. "Yes, that's very sweet."
I should have been spending time with Jake because he was planning on going to college. Tomorrow I will be starting high school. To say I was dreading it would be an understatement. I start High School as a tenth grader, my Uncles and Aunts will be seniors and my parents will be students in the eleventh grade.
"Renesmee, do you have everything packed, for your first day tomorrow?" Maybe Mom can read minds too. "Don't look at me like that; it's my first time at a new high school, as well."
I walked over to her because she genuinely looked nervous and put my palm in hers. "Mom it's different you've done it once, that's one more time than me. Please don't make me go, I've watched way too many teen movies about school life to look forward to anything. What if I eat someone? I might!"
"Renesmee! You will do no such thing! You're fine around humans, you're not even tempted." Damn she had me there! "It will be fine besides any movie that Emmett has been showing you is not reliable study material." Damn had me again! Because of the fact that my family and friends could all star in their own horror movies, I doubted that there would be anything weird enough to scare me, unless we all spontaneously burst into song in the cafeteria. "It will be fine, we are all going to be there, if you need us. Okay?"
I hadn't really mentioned it, to my parents, but I was nervous about them being with me all day, watching me and judging me.
"I'll be okay, thanks Mom." I gave her hand one last squeeze and gave her a peck on the cheek. I realised I better go spend some time with Jake and wandered over to where I heard the familiar sound of 'Call of Duty' on Playstation3. He was catching the Redeye flight tonight and be gone for four weeks before he would have a break and can come home to me. He is insisting on driving his car to the airport and leaving it there, in case he got really lonely and decided to come home. So I was driving with him tonightat around 9:30 and Dad would follow us and drive me home. I had to get some sleep, I unfortunately had school tomorrow.
"What are you guys doing?" I mused.
"Seth is online and we're killing him!" Wow, Em was way too into this, maybe because he doesn't kill humans, he likes to take it out on little cartoon ones, after all he doesn't sleep and his fingers would never get sore. "I think that he turned his microphone off coz he's crying!"
"I'm not crying!" I heard Seth yell from the TV speakers. "I was ignoring you because you cheated! How did you get that Space Gun?"
"Never you mind how I got it! You're the enemy and I'm not giving away strategy!" Uncle Em screamed back into the microphone hanging around his neck.
"Strategy? STRATEGY! You've got to be kidding me, right?" They'd paused the game to scream at each other, Seth was probably in the same position as Emmett, standing in front of the TV, pointing and shaking his fist. Now was my chance to steal Jake away. I walked over and put my hand on his shoulder, my heart fluttered when he visibly relaxed when I touched him. My warm hands must be a welcome change to the constant cold hands of the vampires in the house.
"Come on. Let's go outside for walk." I sent this message to him silently through my palm, which was resting on his soft, warm shoulders. He obeyed and got up to follow me outside. It was weird I'd been alone with him a billion times over the past eight years since my birth, but now knowing that tonight will be the last time I see him for a whole month, made me utterly sad.
We walked down the back steps and turned to face each other in the grass, which was now damp from the early evening drizzle.
"So...?" It almost seemed as though he felt the same way. It was odd to be standing here not saying anything when tomorrow if I wanted to talk to him I won't be able to.
"Jake?"
"Yeah?"
Oh, his beautiful piercing almost black eyes, now everything I say is gonna sound corny.
"Jake I'm going to miss..." I couldn't even complete the sentence when my eyes filled up with tears. I buried my face in my hands, embarrassed by my sudden emotional outburst. I was shocked to feel a pair of big, warm, muscular arms engrossing me in a hug. I buried my face deep into his chest and the smell of musk and the woods, seemed to soothe my whole body and I felt like jelly, being only held up by Jake's supporting hands. "I'm sorry, it's just that, I- I'm going to miss you so much!" I sobbed into his shirt. It was sweet that my family, although they could easily hear us, decided not to acknowledge our teary exchange.
"I know how you feel. I've never been away from you for more than three days and even that was torture. I'll call every day I swear." He whispered into the top of my head. "I'll tell you about all my classes I'm failing and you can tell me about all your annoying teachers and the homework you could, easily do in your sleep. Okay?"
I chuckled half heartedly and nodded into the front of his shirt. I felt much better; he always knew how to cheer me up. But standing here wrapped in his embrace, made my stomach twist in an unfamiliar way.
Hmm... He smelled so beautiful. God! His scent is intoxicating. I felt dizzy and very grateful that he was holding me up. My Sunshine... My Jacob.
"Renesmee! I think there is still a lot of stuff that Jacob needs to pack!" Dad yelled, from his seat at the piano. "Maybe you should come inside now and finish packing, Jacob?"
I could have sworn I saw his russet cheeks turn a blushing red and he gulped. "Ah, um – Yes I think I should. I'll see you later." He kissed my forehead and headed for the house leaving me standing here in the evening air alone.
I looked up at the house, the beautifully sculptured house, with thanks to Grandma Esme and Aunt Alice for interior decorating. A Cathedral style ceiling in the living room glowed in the lamp light. I turned around, staring down the darkening backyard, which led to the pool house. I started to walk down hoping to calm my nerves at the pool.
The water was freezing, but I still dipped my feet in. The cold didn't affect me like it would a human but it was still chilling my bones. It wasn't even winter, in the winter the pool would have been frozen over.
School is going to be mind numbingly boring, classes I could teach, all those students staring. I should probably hunt now my thirst seems to be slightly happier to go to school with all those humans and blood... Okay. I should definitely hunt. Um? Dad, can you ask anyone if they would like to go hunting coz I'm going now?
I pulled my now blushish feet from the water and stood up. Uncle Jasper, Aunt Alice and Mom were standing behind me; they obviously thought that it would also be prudent if they were to hunt before school tomorrow.
"Come on, I smell dear!" I said running full pelt into the woods surrounding the property. I loved running; I just loved the feel of the cold wind on my face as I dodged trees and did my best to keep up with rest of my family. They usually slowed to keep pace with me but tonight I guess they felt a little competitive and easily ran ahead of me.
I didn't even want to think about when I would be able to hunt with Jake again. This thought desperately saddened me and I slowed to a human jog. He'll be gone tonight and life will be horrible. I need him to be around, he's my best friend. He won't be there when I wake up, when I have breakfast, to sit next to me in classes, to drive me home, and he won't be there to kiss my forehead before I go to sleep.
I don't know how I'll survive.
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