Secrets

Chapter 1: Forks in the road

Renesmee looked out her window to make sure that everyone was gone, and everyone was, except Emmett, her uncle, who was still down stairs, since it was his turn to watch her. She was never allowed to be home alone and she hated that. She wasn't allowed to do anything any more since the Volturi had come after Ari, the coven guardian. Usually, she didn't care because she had Jacob, but Air had urged him back to school. That only left Renesemme and Uncle Emmett at home to watch her, and Nessie knew she could get away with murder when it came to him. She saw him sitting in the living room and smiled deviously. Quickly, she ran down the stairs. "Uncle Emmett," she called running to the living room using her sweetest voice, "Uncle Emmett," Renesmee batted her eyelashes, "can I go to Eden's and play for a while?" In her mind, she thought how childish she must look, and Renesemme was anything but a child.

Emmett looked away from the baseball game for a minute and then ruffed her hair. In his mind, she was still his little Nessie. "I don't know kiddo, can you?" He smirked at her. Nessie made a face, she was biologically only five years old, but her mind was ever growing, and her body matched that of a sixteen-year-old girl.

"Uncle Emmett, I'm not a kid anymore." She made a face at him, giggled, and batted her big brown eyes at him again. He laughed deeply. "Well, can I? I'm only going to Eden's and you know Ari doesn't care." She pleaded making a cute face and batted her long eyelashes at him a little harder. While the burly, pale vampire would intimidate most people, the little girl wrapped him around her finger expertly. She smiled at him. "Please, we'll behave." Renesemme felt her I.Q. dropping. She hated acting so childlike. It wasn't her style, but she needed to get to Eden's house.

"All right, kiddo, go a head, but stay out of trouble." He patted her head again. She gave him a hug and then ran out the door.

"Thanks Uncle Emmett." She called as she ran out the door.

Butterfly, butterfly, butterfly she chanted mentally as she ran to Eden's, so that Eden's mother, Arimethea, or Ari, wouldn't hear her thoughts, or at least wouldn't know what she was planning. Since sharing her thoughts was Nessie specific power, it was harder for her to block her thoughts than it was for everyone else. Thinking about something else seemed to work however, but now she hoped her mantra wouldn't clue anyone listening in that she was trying to hide something. She could see Eden's run down shack only a few steps away and sighed with relief. Eden hadn't warned her yet that anyone knew of their plan. In front of her, there was a tree with a low hanging branch, and as she ran Renesmee she saw long blonde hair and a round face hanging out of the tree, and before she was able to stop or even figure what was going on, Renesemme found herself in a tree, sitting next to Eden. She was about to scream, but Eden clamped a thin cold hand on Renesemme's mouth.

"Shush" Eden whispered. "Stop screaming, you dork. It's only me." Renesemme calmed down and as she did, she felt Eden's mind shield covering her mind, so that only the two girls could share a link between them. Eden narrowed her blue eyes at Renesemme and then removed her hand once she was sure that Renesemme would not scream any more.

Eden was a half-breed as well. Her mother was a Maladroit, and her father was a vampire. She was an anomaly in reality, even more so than Renesemme. Maladroits and vampire warred hundreds of years ago, and hated each other. The vampires had found that the Maladriots when turned were malicious, insane, bloodthirsty creatures desiring only their own kind. They were uncontrollable, like a turned child, all thoughts gone, only hunger. The only vampire that the Maladroits trusted was Carlisle and his coven by default, which is why they named Ari the coven guardian. When Eden's father, Bjorn, joined the coven, he fell in love with Ari, despite being on a mission from the Volturi. There marriage ultimately resulted in Eden, an anomaly in a strange world. She was literally the only one of her kind, because the Maladroits destroyed all others considering them abominations. Eden had escaped because she was growing under the tutelage of the only trusted vampire coven as well as her mother, a decorated soldier. Unable to know the extent of her vampire powers, Eden focused on her Maladroit powers received from her mother, even her mother's learned powers. Eden's mental powers surpassed her mothers. Now, she was using to shield the hide Renesemme and her from Ari's always listening mind. Once she felt secure in her own shield Eden spoke. "Ok, so a game plan, where are we going?" Eden asked, her voice was soft, not musical, like the vampires, but low like her mothers.

"New York" the older vampire hybrid responded. "I've always wanted to go there. I figured we could hide there best, just no where with a lot of trees." The Renesemme leaned against the tree trunk passively. "I'm so sick of trees I could scream."

"Well, I don't know, I was thinking something a little less big." Eden responded as she stood on the bow to reach to the next one. "I don't want to get to far from trees. They are nice you know."

Nessie rolled her eyes. "Eden, you are so weird. You want to leave Forks, but you don't want to go to a big city." Nessie sighed as she lounged against the tree a little harder. "I mean, imagine, New York City, the Big Apple, people—so many people." Nessie licked her lips, and as she thought of all the hapless, careless people wandering around the city, her eye glazed with hunger. As a young child, before Eden's birth people catered to her every whim, including Carlisle who would occasionally bring her human blood from a blood bank. Once Eden was born, everyone had to be more careful, so the human blood treats were getting rare. It annoyed Renesemme that one girl could so disturb her lifestyle. During Renesemme thought process, Eden had climbed onto a higher branch. Noticing that her friend was in a forbidden fantasy, Eden reached down and smacked Nessie's head. "OW, what was that for?"

"Stop day dreaming, I thought you were a vegan." Eden rolled her eyes. She was never allowed to taste the blood of her own kind, it was one of the conditions of her existence, and human blood didn't appeal to her. Secretly she resented Renesemme for not having so many laws that controlled her life the way Eden did. "Goodness, Renni, keep your mind on the problem at hand, instead of eating. You're always thinking about food." About three years ago, when Eden had first started talking, she couldn't pronounce the nickname or her real name, so she began calling her Renni. The girls only used it between themselves.

"Well, it's not my fault that you're a walking contradiction. Anyway, I still say New York City." Eden walked up and down the branch balancing. She stopped and looked at her only friend. She sighed.

"I'm going to pretend you didn't say that." They were silent for a few minutes. While they were quiet, Eden mulled the statement over in her mind. "Besides, you're no better, you're the same sort of contradiction that I am. Only you can feed on your own kind." She retorted. Renesemme glared at her for a few minutes, and they about broke into a scuffle, but each decided that they were better off not fighting; they had to work together if they were going to get anywhere. "Anyway, that's not the point, if we're going to get to New York, we had better go now. Everyone is going to be back in a little while."

"Yeah," Renni agreed, "so where are we going?"

"Well you wanted to go to New York, so give me your hand and I'll teleport us there." Eden lofted down a step and grabbed Reni's hand. She pulled away and down to the next set of branches.

"I'm not trusting you to teleport me, especially somewhere you've never been." Eden growled lowly. They were tense for a moment, neither girl truly knew if they liked the other, or if they were friends because they had no other choices. Ever since Eden's birth, Reni had to deal with the fact that she wasn't the main source of amazement. Eden had to deal with the jealousy that Renesemme could have the life that she never could. Right now, they were friends, but only because neither of them had been allowed out of the small little bubble that became their life. Together they'd devised a plan to show their parents that they could survive outside of the safety of Forks, Washington, the world's smallest town. They were going to run away together to get on with their lives away from the coven.

Ok so it's the same first chapter, but it orignally was complete drivel. I hope this one reads a little better, I'm sorry it's so short, but it's just a test to see how well it recieved. Anyway, constructive critisism always welcome.

Always,
Baby Turtle