Rising Day
Story takes place after Breaking Dawn with no infringement intended. All characters are that of the original author.
After the stories of my father and mother's dealings with this Volturi, why would I assume I would have any peace? Since my beginning, I have been sought by them, the piece to this mad man's immortal quest into the fascinating world he dare calls science. Leaving all behind, I take one last look at my life…
Chapter 1 Closer
Every day for me is compared to a month's growth of others, mortals, around me. My family has decided of all places, school is not for me, not yet. I sit here waiting for my father, the teacher, to call a break to have fun. I can't wait until then. That is when my Jacob will pull me closer and swing me around in a world of dizzy, our world.
It is nice that they want the best for me, to make sure I am well educated. Sadly I have not patience for that. I am too intrigued in how he lives. Such freedom, I don't see any sense in learning the basics since they come so easily for me. It is as if it were to be better for father to just speed through, get it over with so I can go about enjoying my time here.
No, father says it is best that we pull from the basics to give me a strong foundation. He wants it to be easy for me to develop my mind when I do choose to go to a proper school. By that time I will appear to be as old as them and a student, no doubt, in all of their classes when we attend. Only about a year before that happens.
Still, nothing is better than being with the warm heart of my protector Jacob.
"Nessie, when you want to get the big one, it might be better if you share." Jacob gloated, noting the last time we hunted together I wasted my kill.
I really hate wasting, it just does not seem right. Besides, Jacob eats the meat, where as I'm only after one part of the beast. "I guess I can share, as long as you don't mind going last."
"Not really, that way I don't have to get all messy. I'll leave that to messy Nessie." He roared his laugh and it echoed of the cliff face.
"Thanks, now we have to go quite a bit away. Any chances of catching something with in this forest have been shattered by the loud mouthed mutt." I poked a joke at him.
"Like you could catch anything worth wild with your yapping mouth." He soon grabbed me by the waist and swung me into the air as he maneuvered the removal of his pants phasing with one leap catching me on his back. I kind of liked it when he pulled me close protectively, I only acted like I didn't so he wouldn't think I was weak. I think he eventually caught on because more and more of our hunting trips were with him carrying me.
After the kill and we were both full, we laid down in the soft spring grass growing just outside Jacob's cabin. It was only shortly after winter, and though both of us were rather warm blooded, it still felt nice curling into him watching the sky fill with clouds.
"You know, soon you and your parents will enroll in high school for you to get the experience of a teenager." He was always evading the topic, not wanting to see us move.
"Do I really have to go? Can't you come with us? You're not aging either. Once I stop, we can all do it together." I did not want to leave him. It seemed that the closer to my short growing up were to end, the closer I was to lose him. Even though I am not a teenager by years, I was surely having the feelings of one. I don't know when, but somehow I've grown to love Jacob more than a parental figure. The way the Quileutes always spoke of. The way my father and mother did not want to happen.
Stroking my cheek with one hand as he cradled my head into his overwhelming chest, he looked at me with a particular look about him. "It really is not up to me. Though you and your parents will look that of a youth in high school, I will still look a little older. I appear to be 25, and unless I have been majorly held back, no one will believe it."
I could see he really wanted to be with me when I take this step into adolescence, it was just this slight fact that he appeared to be a giant.
"All the same, I really wish I could have you to protect me from my parents. Nothing is worse than going head first into a new experience, but with your parents?! Am I supposed to be friends with them? Where they cool in school, I mean what is cool anyway?" I really wanted to say can't we just skip out on them as if we were skipping out on a bill? How long can they stay angry with me? With us I mean?
"Little Ness, it will be fine. It is only for the day, I will be waiting daily to take you home every day. I may not being joining you with the school part, but I never said I would not move with you." With that he squeezed me closely and I nestled my face into his scent.
"That's all I ask, for you to be within arm's length" I let a sigh run through my teeth before I knew it. He must have heard, because he leaned in to kiss me on my forehead.