Starlight

by Lovely Traum

My aunt Bella died after giving birth to Renesmee. A year later, the father, Edward, ran away with his sister Rosalie, taking my baby cousin with them. Eleven years have passed, during wich we never stopped looking for her. But she was vanished. Until last week, when mom met Tanya in the street, who told her: "Renesmee and her father are looking for you"...

1. Prologue

Prologue

I am Alice Swan and Jasper Whitlock's eldest daughter. I was six when my aunt Bella died. I have seen her pregnant and suffering, yet with an insane hope. When little Reneesme was born and brought home, I have taken care of her with the love of a big sister. I have kissed her, held her in my arms, fed her, played with her, and even changed some of her diapers- arguing with my parents when they didn't let me! I have loved her unconditionally. But she was taken away from me.
From me, from mom, from Grandma Renee and from Grandpa Charlie. And each one of us got a deep hole in the heart. "When she'll be old enough to choose where to live, she will come back", they told me, to give me some hope. But I was- we all were- heartbroken.
The years passed, and our hope grew thinner. We lost Charlie, and I became an actual big sister with the arrival of Alex, my little brother. He makes me happy. I think he kind of filled that blank space left in my heart, even if no one could replace Reneesme. And I have never forgotten her.
But now... Now that we found her... Now that Tanya, a friend of Edward that mom found in the street the other day put us in contact with him... And that it seems we will finally see Reneesme again soon... I feel afraid.
I don´t trust Edward nor his family, and I know my little cousin is different from the baby I have met. And I have changed too. But if I want to stay true, I must confess that my fear consists actually of loving her emunconditionally/em. I am afraid of giving her my heart to see it break again. Of surrender all I am but not finding her starlight.