Chapter One
Isabella Cullen
"Renesmee, honey, it's time to go!" I shouted to my daughter, it was her first day at primary school. As usual with Renesmee, she was cheery and upbeat, but how could you blame her? Her life was perfect, just like mine. We had forever together, a family, for eternity. How could it get any better than that?
Rensemee looked about four, but older somehow, still more in proportion that most children her age. She had the amazing grace of a vampire as she ran around the Cullen house hold getting ready for school. Alice had insisted she pick Renesmee's outfit for her first ever day of school.
"Get ready to see your beautiful daughter, Bella!" Alice chimed to me. Her excitement was almost leaking over the edges, I swear you could almost see it...
Renesmee walked down the stairs. Her cotton knee length summer dress was odd this time of year, and in Forks, but she looked adorable. The dress was pale pink with a black waist band and decorating the bottom was black lace. Her strappy black sandals with the little pale pink flowers on, matching the colour of the dress perfectly, showed off her small feet that had her toe nails painted. They were pale pink too.
I looked at my daughters face, her big brown eyes looking into mine, waiting for approval. Her hair fell past her waist in ringlets, just as always. I smiled at her.
"Pretty, Nessie."
"Pretty, Momma." She grinned her pearly white teeth at me and jumped into my arms, placing her hand on my cheek, Where's my Jacob?
"Jacob's coming Renesmee, you know he wouldn't miss your first day of school." I said, still smiling at my small daughter, her copper curls spilling over her face making her look adorable. Pressing her palm to my cheek again she placed in my mind, Where's daddy?
"I'm here, Nessie." Edward said, reading her thoughts. He wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me into him, kissing my lips and then Renesmee's forehead. "My two beautiful girls." He smiled again.
"Where's my Nessie?" Jake said as he bounced into the room, looking at me then Renesmee in my arms.
"Jakey!" Renesmee squirmed in my hands, I put her down and she leaped into Jacob's arms.
She pressed her hand to Jacob's cheek, obviously asking him something, as Edward's exaggerated eye role informed me. Bringing his lips to my ear he whispered, "She wants him to take her to school with us." The smile in his voice made me shiver as he kissed my neck.
Nessie bounced out of Jacob's arms and ran to me and Edward again, "Momma, when are we going?"
"Now if you like." I smiled involuntary again, she was one of the reasons for my existence.
"Yey!" She shouted happily, taking Jacob's hand and waving to Alice, "By Uncle Jasper, Auntie Alice, Uncle Emmett, Auntie Rosalie, Grandpa and Grandma!" She said, waving furiously to the now accumulated family. I smiled again at her.
Pulling Jacob along to the car, she waited impatiently for me and Edward to reach it. "Come on, your vampires, not human's! Why you being slow?" She asked, pouting at us. We walked a little faster. Reaching the Volvo, Edward placed the Key in the ignition and then started backing out of the Cullen's large Garage.
The trees flew by as Edward speeded down the drive and through the forest to LA push Primary School. It was a small school on the reservation, ad with our new found treaty with the wolves' the Cullen's were aloud on the reservation for certain things, Renesmee's schooling was one of them.
"I'm going to make lots of new friends and play with them and eat human food and do school work and meet new people and have a teacher and..." She drifted off placing other things into Jacob's mind, I smiled at my her babbling.
Jacob chuckled at Renesmee and I wondered what he was laughing at, Edward smiled as well. Renesmee was a special little girl who everybody loved and cherished, I sometimes wished I could have another child, give Renesmee what I never had, a little brother or sister to play with, but really she had lots of brothers and sisters. The wolf pack treated her as one of their own. I would miss Renesmee, but I had to face my daughter was growing up, and as she wanted to go to school, it was the only thing me and Edward could do for her.
Momma I'm scared. I heard as a small warm hand touched my cheek, I smiled at her, "I know honey, but when you get their you'll make lots of new friends and have a wonderful time!"
I smiled at Renesmee, her warm eyes melting into my own. "I love you momma."
"I love you too, Nessie, more than-"
"your own life, I know momma." She smiled at me as she put another message into Jake's head. He started to laugh and so did Edward.
"What?" I asked, frowning.
"Renesmee's just saying how predictable you are." I smiled at Edward, he always told me what Renesmee thought of me.
We began to walk to Edwards silver Volvo when Renesmee chanted, "Rabbit! I want to ride in the rabbit!"
"Aww, Nessie, it's so slow." But she pouted at me, and I melted under her gaze. "Fine." I sighed as I turned to the Rabbit. Edward got in the back with me, and Renesmee took her usual seat at the front next to Jake.
We drove slowly down the small road to the reservation, that was where Renesmee insisted on going to school. The ride was only 12 minutes in Jacob's car, but that seemed forever to me. Renesmee was almost hyperventilating as she got out of her seat.
"What if they don't like me momma? What if they think I'm weird? What if I mess up?" She kept asking random questions.
"Renesmee, they will love you. Now, calm down, do you remember the story?"
"Grandma and Granddad are my Adopted momma and daddy, your my sister as well as Alice, Daddy is your boyfriend as well as Emmett's brother and Rosalie and Jasper are twins." She resisted.
"Well done, baby." I hugged her. "Oh, I can't believe it's my daughters first day at school!" I took out a camera and snapped a shot of Renesmee.
"Momma, I wasn't ready!" She looked appalled.
"I know. That's why I took it." I smiled at her, she was a perfectionist a bit like her aunt Alice!
"Ohh momma, I'm gonna miss you and Daddy!" She said, her lip wobbling and tear streaking down her face.
"You wanted to come to school baby, we can always take you home if you want." I said to her.
"No, I want to go." She smiled turning to Jacob and hugging him. And I couldn't help but stifle a giggle at how small he made Renesmee look with his 6'11 tall figure compared to her 3'1.
She turned, walking into the school yard and into a future I could barely comprehend...
Renesmee Cullen
Here I was, school. The young children running around made me smile, they were all so childish! The children (which I was one of) all began to line up in front of a small blonde lady, her pale blue eyes made me instantly think of the sky, her warm, open smile invited us all in and her soft voice echoed through the playground. "Children, please could you line up? I'm going to read out who will be in my class; I will be having grade one which will have in:
Tara Hawkins, Helen Harris, Samantha Jenkins, Chloe Somerton, Charlotte Somerton, Jack Parker, Jessica Simon, Renesmee Cullen-" YES! I got a nice teacher! "Mathew Murray, Josh Jibbing, Harry Nicolson, Nicole Smith, Aaron Priestly, Natasha Arey, Ellis Gibbon and Cullum James. If you could all line up and follow me please!" She called, and just like that my new class was formed.
The classroom was small and yellow with wooden desks for each pupil. On the teacher's desk I noticed a few pens and paper laid messily as distorted angles and on her computer desk was more paper, work sheets to get to know each other I was guessing.
"Right, I'm Miss Childs, and I am your new tutor for the year! I would first like to get to know you all by you all saying your names and saying a bit about your selves. We will start with Tara and after you have said a bit about yourselves you may choose a desk." She smiled at Tara.
Tara was a small girl, about my height, she was thin with light caramel skin and dark brown hair, but with startling blue eyes that didn't seem to match her other.. bits. "My name's Tara, I live with my foster family in La Push, I have a baby brother who lives with me also called Michael, I am from the Caribbean." She smiled at us all, her unusually long hair reaching her waist.
Helen Stepped forward next after being called to. "I'm Helen, I'm 5, I live in forks, I have four brothers and I'm the only girl."
Next Samantha, a tall blonde girl with dark brown eyes, "I'm Sammy-" Then I zoned out. I could easily ask them later, but now it was annoying watching a bunch of nervous children blab on about who they were. I only noticed when it got to me how many people had been before.
"I'm Renesmee Carlie Cullen, I can speak French, Italian and Spanish fluently, play the piano, read, right and I am adopted. I have two sisters called Bella and Alice, I have four adopted siblings called Edward, Emmett, Rose and Jasper. My momma is called Esme and My daddy is called Carlisle and he is a doctor." I said and everybody seemed very shocked. Damn, maybe speaking 4 languages and playing the piano was a little weird at my "Age".
"Well Renesmee, that is interesting!" Said Miss Childs looking mildly shocked.
"You can all call me Nessie by the way." I smiled at the class of children, Tara caught my eye and she smiled at me.
At break time everybody seemed to have formed groups, I seemed to stay with the popular children, until I saw Tara sitting in the corner by herself.
"Hello, your Tara right?" I smiled at her.
"Well my names actually Taramina, but Tara is what people call me." Her vague accent made me smile.
"You seem lonely." I said to her.
"You have no idea, being different sucks." She said to me, "Can I ask you something, How did you learn all that stuff, you must be like, really clever?" She said.
"Yeh, I guess I'm clever."
"Huh, that's interesting. I'm clever I guess, but being different, I guess that's possible. You remind me of my dad." She said.
"What's your daddy's name?" I asked with as much innocence as I could.
"Which, my real one or my adopted one?" She smiled at me.
"I don't know, which ever."
"Nahuel Hawkins." She smiled.
"Nahuel?" I asked a little shocked.
"Yes, why, does the name frighten you?"
"Did you know him?"
"No, I knew none of my parents, I just know that he left my mom and that I was adopted but my momma's sister who knew what I was."
"What do you mean, what you were?" I asked.
"I've said too much, it doesn't matter." She brushed me off.
"Are you a half vampire?" I asked abruptly.
"Yes I am."
"How old are you?" I asked her.
"I'm almost six months old, Renesmee and I know you're a half vampire."
"So your daddy left your mom?"
"Yes. She was only 16, he had sex with her to see if he could control himself, he never presumed he could have children and conceive a child who is a half vampire, but here I am. I grow about double human speed." Tara smiled at me.
"well, at least I'm not the only weird one here! When did you move to forks?" I grinned at her.
"I moved to La Push when Nahuel decided to tell my aunt and uncle that there were good vampires up here. We wanted to be near vampires so I could integrate with my kind."
"So you like blood then?" I asked casually as if this topic was normal.
"Yes, I prefer it to food but I do like normal food too." Tara nodded as if confirming this news to herself as well.
"How about you come to my home after school?" I said to her.
"I'll as my Auntie. Hey, are your parents really the doctor and his wife?" Tara smiled at me.
"No, there really Bella and Edward. My momma was human when she had me."
"Your momma survived?" She looked a little upset.
"Yeh, I'm sorry that you killed your momma." I said, realising once it was out of my lips that it sounded cruel.
"I didn't, she died after child birth because she was too weak, too young to have a child. If she would have being older, she might have survived." She looked a little sad discussing her momma.
"I'm sorry."
"It's ok, my Auntie is like my Mom now." She smiled; her dark blue eyes sparkled with tears.
"What do you say we go over to the popular kids and make you some friends?" I grinned.
"Sure, if you can make friends with humans, I'm sure a more human-ish vampire can." She smiled and reached for my outstretched hand as I helped her up, I decided to send her a thought, This is my vampire gift, do you have one? She unclasped my hand with shock.
"Yes, I have a gift, though it's more of an illusion thing. I can make people see things." She smiled "Watch as an apple seems to form on the bench." Her face scrunched up as an apple did seem to appear on the bench.
"That's amazing!" I gasped.
"I can make people hear things too, listen." Renesmee... Renesmee! Her name whispered eerily around me. I shivered.
"That is seriously cool, we can have like, private conversations and stuff, you have to sit next to me in class." I grinned at her.
We began to walk over to the more outgoing children, the popular ones. It was like already there was a hierarchy building itself, and I wanted to be the highest.
Tara looked nervous as she twitched over to the children with me.
"Hey Charlotte, Chloe." I nodded as the two girls sent twin grins to me.
"Your Tara right? Wanna be our friend?" Asked Chloe.
"Sure." Tara said looking much more outgoing than she must have felt. She brushed the dust of her dress, which I noticed was a pale blue lycra material which fitted in at her waist and pooled out into netting that had crystals and sparkles encrusted into it. She was also wearing leggings, a black cardigan and black flip-flops. My Aunt Alice would approve.
I looked down at my own outfit, Aunt Alice was amazing. I smiled at Tara as she talked to Chloe. She looked just like a normal child, maybe I could too. An inkling of hope was all I needed as I stepped forth into a future I could not comprehend...