A different lifetime

BELLA

I never thought I would be in this position again. Especially not with so many things that had changed. It was almost surreal.

"Bella, love" Edward, my very own piece of surreal, nudged me out of my trail of thought. (Instead of nudging me he pushed me in further) How cans this god, be mine? I thought to myself. It was actually quite funny, as Edward thought I was the prize. How silly, how I could I compare myself to him?! I know that now to human eyes I may have seen substantial, looks wise, now that I to was a vampire, and uncannily beautiful as the rest of my family.

My family, I liked hearing it that way, and I knew that it would always stay that way; Alice and jasper, Rosalie and Emmett, and Jacob and Rename. The last two always had the most getting used to. I still wasn't there yet, Edward was further away then I was. Ah Jake, mine and his relationship had changed so much from that kiss before fighting Victoria. It seemed almost a lifetime ago, I suppose it was, I was now in a different lifetime, one where I was a vampire.

I had the most beautiful daughter in the world, and Jacob was still my best friend, and it seemed as though my wish from a previous lifetime had come true. Jacob was like my brother, and a family member in so many ways, in the right ways. The way he was like this, is what I didn't like. It's what caused me to lunge at his throat, a few years ago when I was a new born (I would still be regarded to as a new born, but my gift proved me wrong otherwise. I didn't have as strong and urge as a usual new born would, regarding blood).

I had gotten more used to the idea, as I saw the unconditional and genuine love he had for my daughter. My baby girl, 7 years old, and looked 16 the very idea of her growing up so fast was shocking me, still. It still didn't fully make me agree to the idea. The things he got her into! I know I had done worse probably, (falling in love with a vampire, throwing myself off cliffs etc.) I tried to keep the crazier things I had done from Rename so that when she got herself into trouble she wouldn't be able to tell me I had done worse. It was so hard to watch my baby grow up so quickly, six years had flown by and she was nearly fully grown. The most beautiful and eloquent 16 year old I had ever known. Edward agreed of course, I knew we were biased but I was positive everyone agreed with us. Or they didn't want to disagree.

A family of vampire, and a werewolf could be quite intimidating! I laughed to myself, but I think Edward must have noticed.

"Bella, could you please stop day-dreaming into oblivion, I thought that when you became an immortal, that power of yours would stop, but it's only gotten greater." Edward whispered in my ear.

Emmet laughed boisterously "oh chill out, what do you expect her to do, it's her first day of restarting high school. No offence man, but you're not exactly the most interesting person Edward, no wonder she's day-dreaming!" he teased lightly. I think he was trying to get on my good side. He had spent the last month teasing me nonstop, about eating the whole student-body. I knew deep down that my unreasonable self control and my family would stop me from doing this, but I was slightly frightened. "Emmett. Edward knows I was day-dreaming about him." I smiled at Edward to show him that I wasn't frightened, but he saw through me as usual. Even though he couldn't read my mind officially, it was like he could. "Bella, love really there's nothing to worry about; we are all here for you." My smile grows larger and more genuine. "And of course Bella I would see if you were about to eat someone!" Alice, my favourite sister, chimed in. Everyone laughed, including me.

"Who would dare to disagree with our futures? Especially with Alice predicating them!" jasper added. I suddenly felt a wave of calm around me. I smiled subtly at jasper. I looked at Rosalie, the only one that hadn't spoken. She smiled at me, (my relationship had grown a lot more with rose, and I was so glad, she understood me) "she's not worried about eating anyone, she's worried about Renesmee. As we all are but Bella is just the worst at hiding it!" rose said in a don't mess with me kind of way. "Oh please babe. Renesmee will be fine, she's tough. She's got all of us. I mean for god sake, she's at the same school as us." Alice stated.

I could feel Edward shaking next to me "SHE WHAT?!" he half shouted. "Alice, what are you talking about I asked?!" I and Edward had decided it would be best off for Renesmee if she went to a private school, this was her first experience in high school and we wanted the best for her. Edward was visibly fuming next to me; I could see he was trying to keep control of himself, as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "Oh don't have a heart attack Edward. What I meant was that she would have probably would've worn us down by tomorrow. She's got us all wrapped around her little finger!" by the sureness of reading Alice's thoughts, and knowing that her and Ness hadn't planned something. He said quietly "I swear Alice, you are the most annoying, little vampire I have EVER met.", "I take joy in it!" Alice replied cheerfully. There tones were such contrasts that I had to join in everyone's laughing. Soon enough so had Edward.

Alice and Renesmee. A force to be reckoned with. When they united it was almost impossible to disagree with them. This is why I wasn't wearing converses today. My usual attire had been stumped. Instead Renesmee and Alice had forced me into wearing flats, I told them I wasn't wearing heels, and I stood firm on that. I was quite proud of myself for standing my ground, my daughter can be very persuasive, and it doesn't help that we unconditionally love her. She must be the most spoiled child ever, with Edward as her father. Edward, spoils her lovingly, often she does something to upset or disagree with him, he mutters about her being so spoiled, but we all know he doesn't mean it. She's daddies and mummies little girl. Truly one of a kind, and ours. I grudgingly call her nessie as Renesmee is a long name. Damn Jake for starting that. Recently I've started calling her nessa or ness; at least it doesn't share with the name for a lochness monster. I hope she's made friends, I thought. My train abruptly changing. Then I was suddenly aware of my surroundings.

"I hope you enjoy your day today, kids" said the woman who had been handing us our schedules. As I caught the end of her, must have been a long winded, speech. Was she staring at Edward this whole time?! I thought to myself angrily. She staggered whilst she handed the schedule to him. I knew it was ridiculous to feel guilty but I still did. As if by reading my mind he tilted my chin up to his face and kissed me softly. When he looked at my eyes the way he did I thought my knees would give in (of course being a freakishly strong vampire this wouldn't happen). I saw the women try to hide her jealousy. I smiled. "ALLLRIGHT. Let's get going!" Emmett said laughing. As we walked through the corridor, splitting up into different rooms. "See you guys at lunch!" Alice rolled her eyes, and Jasper had a knowing smile on his face.

We were already slightly late getting our schedules, it's a good thing I couldn't blush or I would be so red right now. Edward gracefully opened the door and walked in, holding it for me, I followed his lead. 30 people or so must have been staring right at us both, not that I blamed them. But I was getting kind of pissed at the admiration Edward was getting, not that they could help it but still. Edward probably didn't like some of the looks I was getting either. "You must be the new students, Edward and Bella Cullen?" the teacher staggered. "Yes sir," Edward replied politely. I just stood there, even though it was impossible to blush I still tried my hardest not to. "Well, ermm, take a seat" he gestured to the two at the back. The only free. "Would you like to tell us a bit about yourselves?" he asked. "Edward walked to the front, "my names Edward Cullen and I just moved her from Forks." He sat down swiftly. "Your turn" he whispered in my ear. I hated public speaking. "Hi, my names Bella swan, and I to moved her from Forks." I said quietly. Then before embarrassing myself I sat down. I tried not to glare at Edward as I could see he was laughing to himself.

"What?" I hissed to him. "Bella, you're so funny! The way you're so oblivious to why everyone's staring at you, it's because you painstakingly beautiful!" I scoffed. "If anyone's getting looks it's you" I pointed out, I couldn't stop myself from scowling. "Mrs. Cullen are you jealous?" he whispered grinning. "Love, you have nothing to be jealous about. You are my life, you and nessa." Nessa. That brought me back to thinking of her. I hoped she was ok. The boy sitting in front of me turned around whilst the teacher was calling out names. "Hi, I'm Elliot, burnough?" he huskily stated, expecting me to know who he was. I saw Edward angrily looking at the guy from the corner of his eye. A lot of the girls, and some boys were looking at his talking to me. "Hello, my names Bella. Cullen" I stated. He laughed realising I thought he was pompous. Which he seemed. "Hi Bella. Moved here from forks huh?". "Yeah." I think he must have gotten a bit annoyed that I wasn't adding additional details.

He moved onto Edward "so you moved her from forks to?" ohh so that was his game, he wanted to see if we were siblings. "Yes I did, as I said earlier." Edward glared. "Alright man, chill just asking." The boy muttered people must have treated him like a king or something like that. He moved back to me and whispered so that Edward couldn't hear, but of course he could, "so that your brother right?" it was obvious people would make that assumption, so I wore my wedding ring. People would probably think it was a promise ring or something. "No, were in the same foster family" I stated, as I tried to explain. "We are both adopted as well as my other brothers and sisters who go here." "So you're not a couple?" he asked, visibly eager.

"No he's, my fiancé." I said smiling. "Your fiancée?" the boy repeated. He looked angry, but it quickly past. "Isn't it a bit early to only have one boy? Don't you want to level the playing field?" he tried to smoothly attempt. This is where Edward broke in. "what is that your were say to MY fiancée?" he fumed. I think Elliot must have got the message, because he was like "nothing man, just small talk." Then turned around for the rest of the lesson. While he had Edward glaring at him, I had to wait for the end of the lesson. "Edward Cullen. Please tell me you're not jealous, because of that boy. Jazz and Emmett go through this enough. You put him in his place." I said. "I know, but I'm just not looking forward to fighting off every boy that lays eyes on you." In a way I was glad he was jealous.

We then met up with the rest of my family. "Edward, feeling the heat?" Em teased. "Shut up." Edward said bluntly. He was still mad. I couldn't see why he was so angry.

"Edward just gets used to it. I've had so many people look at Alice. If you glare at them scarily they soon get the gist." Jasper said calmly. I agreed "exactly, I mean so many people must look at Rose, but when they get a shot of Emmett, they look away." My family laughed again. I felt more at ease. Thoughts of nessa came flooding back. "How do you think she's doing?" I asked. While we sat at our new lunch table. It was huge compared to forks high. Everyone knew who I was talking about, if they didn't love her so much the would've got to annoyed, this being the 15th time today I had asked. "She's probably having a great time." Edward said. "Probably meeting some good looking boys" Emmett laughed. "She goes to an all girl's school." Rose corrected. Jasper laughed and said "Bella, shell be fineeeee." I looked towards Alice, "I would've seen it if something happened." She matter-of-factly said. "Unless Jake whisked her out of school to do some bungee diving." The look on mine an Edwards faces made them laughs. "If Jake..." Edward started. "Calm, I was kidding. She's doing science right now. She looks as though she's having a blast." Alice amended dryly. "Ohh Edward she looks like she misses us! Can you blame her?! Let her join this school!" "I want her to have the best, and so does Bella." Edward said firmly. "Oh c'mon, I want my niece to go to the same school as us. It's not like this I so bad, she will have a really long time to go to great schools, and she's so clever. She might as well have some fun with us, and that way you'll know she's safe." Emmett persuaded. I will have to admit, it made sense. Edward must have noticed this to. He knew he was wearing it down. "Fine. You knew you were going to get your way." He scowled. "She knew that this would happen." Alice smiled "she'll be so happy!" this made us smile. Then I saw a group of girls and boys staring at us, I wonder if this is what I looked like, all those many many years ago. Okay, well 6. I was sitting on Edwards lap. That must have made them jealous. Now that Jake found out nessa was going to this school, he would be over the moon. He begged Edward more than Alice to let her come. The reason he missed the first day of school, is because he had to stay with Billy, and as he was moving, it was the last time Billy would see him, before they went to visit each other. Paul and his wife of three years Rachel, and there baby girl, Sarah, where there to. He would be here tomorrow and would be so happy he could get to start school with nessie. It made me feel good, that with Jake and his 6.5 frame that no boy would dare to look at ness twice. Personally I couldn't wait to rush home and tell her, I missed her.

Nessie

God I missed Jake. He was only gone for a day, but still. I knew he didn't like the fact that he wasn't driving me to school as much as I did. I tried to ground my thoughts as dad was in the car. "Bye ness, have a good day baby" my mom said. My mom was so beautiful, she looked at me worriedly "oh chill out she'll be fine" uncle e hushed them. Before they could gush anymore, aunt Alice saved me, "your gonna make her late, bye sweetie." And I got my get away, "I will see you guys later, love you" I instantly missed them as I got out of the car. Hopefully I would wear dad down and I could go to their high school.

As I walked through the corridors and went to get my schedule, I ducked into the bathroom. I checked myself in the mirror. In my jimmy choos, I could pass for 6.7. I wasn't wearing too much make-up; I took after my mom in that sense. I straightened my uniform, which could make the girl with the most curves, look frumpy. I bet my dad and uncles got relief from that. I made sure my bronze curls were okay, and then walked out.

I knew I would get in trouble for my shoes, but that didn't bother me as I smiled to myself, mom and dad weren't too happy. As I walked into class, I felt everyone's eyes on me. "And you are?" the teacher said. "I'm Renesmee Cullen, the new student here." I stated. "Of course" she stuttered, "come sit here." She said politely trying to seem calm. "I hope you enjoy this school." "Thank you" I said politely. Gosh, there so polite. "Hi my names, jenny" a pretty bleached blonde girl said to me. "Renesmee right?" she asked. She seemed alright. "Yeah, but everyone calls me nessie." She laughed lightly "ness it is" I smiled lightly, but in my head I was thinking I said nessie you retard. She turned around, and we worked in silence. After class she and her group came up to me, "so this is the gang," she pointed to the girls in turn, I think there were about five of them but I immediately forgot the names she dropped on me. She smiled politely at me, but it could have been me mistaking it for sarcasm. Bitches. It's a good thing dad couldn't hear me right now he disapproved of me swearing, he disapproved of a lot. He loves me though I thought smiling, then I scowled, reminding myself that I was at shitty girls school for boffs, while him and the rest of my family were in a high school probably having a lot of fun. GAWD. I miss JAKE. I can't wait to see him, maybe we can go wakeboarding.

Abruptly jenny said "where are you from ness?" "Forks," I replied. "I moved here with a few of my cousins, and sisters" I continued. She looked shocked probably thinking ""there are more of them!"" . "Do they go here?" "Nah, they go to londtribe high" she looked relived. "Well I would love to meet them some time" she smiled in an obviously fake facial expression, I responded with the same amount of enthusiasm "oh yeah sure." I smiled back. Bitch was starting to piss me off. If Jacob was here he would probably start laughing and be all "I love you" and then say something to make me laugh, but he wasn't here and that pissed me off the most. I was acting very immature and one of the things that bugs me is when I'm reminded that I'm only7 years old, of course I look so much older, but the girls at the this school were older than me, it was hard to adjust to. The rest of the day went by slowly. Finally I heard the bell ring, gosh I sound like an American teenager! I swiftly packed my bag and said goodbye, and walked out the class room.

If my family were late, I swear..... Deterred by my moody thoughts I then saw Emmett come out his car to get me. Woops. Everyone looked as he approached me; they thought my uncle was sexy. Ugh. "Hey nessa how was your day?" he asked, "sucky." I grumbled. He started laughing. Immediately I felt at ease and walked with him to the car, I saw the jaws drop as I walked to the lambo. I thought I was about to be flooded with "how was your day?", "did you have fun?", "what was it like?" but no instead it was just uncle E and Uncle j sitting in the car. "Where's everyone?" I asked, "Nice to see you to! There all at the house, they have a surprise for you."

I pondered on this the whole drive home, which wasn't a very long one. I ran into the house, "mom, and dad?" I yelled. "Right here sweetie" my momma said, "how was your day?" dad asked. "Fine." I replied. "How would you like to go to school with us?" Alice asked. "yay!" I yelled. I knew they would! "Thank you." I said. I couldn't wait to tell Jake! "Jake can come to right? I mean he already was going to enrol with us." I asked frantically. "Yes, sweetie." Mom answered patiently. "I LOVE YOU!!!" they all started laughing. "Who could help it?!" said by uncle E.

Bella

Days passed so quickly now, I wanted to slow them down. Alice and Rosalie had dressed ness into something completely inappropriate. I never used to dress that way! I had to admit, she was the most beautiful girl on earth although. She had a black dress on, it reached up way above the knee, but to make it Alice's version of "appropriate" she had added flower printed see through tights. Her hair was loose and reached the middle of her back, the ringlets were the exact same colour as Edwards. They had put a little bit of mascara on her massive eyes. And on her size 5 feet, were sky high black louboutins, her favourite, because they made her seem less short compared to Jake. Me on the other hand, I had jeans, a tight blue plunge neck sweater and jimmy choos, (Alice wouldn't let me leave without heels). Edward came down the stairs, with Emmett, it looked as though he was dragging him, "and may I ask, why you are MANHANDLING my husband?!" Rosalie enquired. "He wants to wait for Jacob to make my life more of a nightmare". He then said to ness "morning sweetie, how did you sleep?" then he looked at her, and gasped inward. "WHAT IS SHE WEARING?!" he was mad. I didn't blame him, no father would want his daughter leered at, at school, and with nessa already stunning looks the clothes didn't help us. "Alice, couldn't you have dressed my daughter in something less ... revealing?" he asked pinching the bridge of his nose. "I already have to deal with Jacobs thoughts, isn't that enough?" he said. I felt kind of bad for him, but he was already losing the battle. "Edward. Its fashion" Alice said quickly. She knew she wasn't going to change what nessie was wearing. Edward tried to breathe, it's a good thing vampires don't need air. As if on cue, Jacob came bounding through the door.

"JAKE!" nessie screamed and ran into his arms; they did make a pretty cute couple I thought wryly. "Jake." Edward said in a defeated tone. I couldn't help but laugh along. "Can you try and keep your thoughts to yourself, before I hurt you?" my gorgeous husband warned. "I didn't ask you to go into my head bloodsucker!" Jake teased, but knew better then to push him, and I think he moved on to thinking about different things. Alice piped, "Shall we get a move on, we don't want Jacob to be late on his first day" she then saw into the future. "Nope if we leave now we won't be late," grabbing jaspers hand she ran for her Porsche. We all spilled into our cars, me and Edward in the astin martin, Rosalie and Emmett in Emmett's truck, and Jake, and ness, in the car we had brought ness for her 16th birthday, a spider. I was kind of glad, they were in a separate car to us, and so Edward wouldn't grimace every time he heard their thoughts. We got to school on time, as Alice had predicted. As I walked the corridors, my hand entwined with Edwards, I couldn't help but realise this was a much better school then I thought, most of the kids were dressed in designer clothes, and looked like they were well brought up.

Maybe that guy the other day was just an exception. All the people I saw looked as though they had just come out of finishing school, I huffed to myself, and this is what I get for not paying enough attention to what surrounds me! I knew Jacob and nessie would do well, at studying here. I just hoped they wouldn't take too much of a romantic turn in their relationship yet, that reminded me I must tell Edward that we need to talk to Jake. He knew already but we still hadn't planned to speak with him. His feelings for nessie were getting more mature as where hers, but she's only 8 years old! I knew it wasn't fair for me to be like that, but I still felt that way. Why couldn't Jacob wait ten more years? She's not old enough; I knew it was his or her fault as she looked his age. I thought about this, then I saw nessie come into school with Jacob, also holding his hands, but I think it was a friendly gesture, I was quite positive she didn't know they way he felt about her. "Mo... I mean Bella! You beat us, damn!" she laughed. This was going to take a bit of adjusting I smiled. "Of course, I have Edward behind the wheel!" "Where are Alice and Jasper, and Rosalie and Emmett?" Jacob asked, "Where do you think?" Edward laughed, he then said "I must have more restriction with Bella, obviously because, well, nessie we don't want you to feel ermm..." he said awkwardly. I laughed. "Ermm ew". She replied and Jacob looked that way as well. "Before school really? Classy." that was ness. We all split up and walked into our classrooms, late again