A/N: Hi guys! So this is my first fanfiction, I hope you like it!
POV: Bella
Chapter 1: Moving Day
It was an hour and a half after dawn. I looked down at my beautiful daughter, sleeping peacefully like an angel, and hesitated. Today was moving day for my family, the Cullen coven, and I knew that I had to wake my daughter up so that she could get ready before we left. But she looked so peaceful, so carefree and beautiful while she slept, that I didn't want to rouse her. I stalled a few minutes more before finally shaking her shoulder gently and whispering, "Wake up, Renesmee."
She opened her gorgeous, warm chocolate-brown eyes and gazed up at me sleepily. "Good morning, beautiful," I said softly, stroking her perfect bronze ringlets and kissing her forehead.
"Morning, Momma," she said sleepily, rubbing her eyes, before her eyes popped open and she sat up in bed at a speed that made her nearly blurry. "Moving day!" she exclaimed happily, jumping out of bed with an air or hyperness and energy she could've only gotten from her Aunt Alice. At near full vampire speed, she ran over to a small pile of clothes prepared last night by Alice, and I left the room while she dressed. Edward was waiting out in the hallway, and he greeted me with a soft kiss.
"Good morning, my beautiful Bella," he said. "Is Nessie awake?" I sighed at hearing the nickname. Though I refrained from using it, I'd gotten used to others calling my daughter by 'Nessie'.
"Yes, she's getting ready," I replied. I looked around our little cottage, the magical, fairytale house that had been ours since Esme gave it to us on my nineteenth birthday - well, not really, because I was frozen forever at eighteen. That was two years ago. Our life since the encounter with the Volturi and their witnesses had been calm and quiet, secluded and joyful. However, Carlisle could no longer pass for the age he claimed to be at the hospital in Forks, and my dad, along with others, were becoming suspicious of our seemingly still-young status. So we were leaving, heading out to start a new life near Long Island Sound in New York, almost all the way across the continent. Everyone was driving their own cars, filled with furniture from the main house.
All of this occupied my mind while I looked around our still-furnished cottage, Edward's arm wrapped around my waist. It and everything in it would be staying, while the majority of the furniture at the big house was traveling with us to New York. I sighed, already filled with nostalgia, and Edward heard me.
"What is it?" he asked.
"I'm just thinking of how much I will miss this little cottage of ours," I replied sadly.
"I'll miss this place too. We all will. We'll come back eventually, though. We just need to move on. You'll get used to traveling after a decade as a Cullen," my husband teased, flashing me his crooked smile.
"I wonder - why Long Island Sound? It's like the sunniest place we could go. Besides California and Florida."
"We have already bought a couple of houses there - one for you, me and Renesmee, one for Emmett and Rosalie, and a main house of course," he explained for nearly the thousandth time already, rubbing soothing circles on my back.
Right then, Renesmee came out of her room, wearing her travel clothes, and, as always, her black converse. It was a trait she'd inherited from me, and, no matter what Alice tried, Renesmee wouldn't wear any other shoes. Like me, she absolutely loathed high heels. Her fast growth had slowed down drastically over the past couple of years; at the moment she looked like an average five or six year old and was growing about three physical years a year, while her mind was much farther ahead, at the level of an average eighth grader.
Edward and I grabbed Renesmee's hands and went into the kitchen with her, where she ate a hearty breakfast of an egg and cheese omelet. Eggs were her favorite food, no matter how they were cooked. I now realized why eating human food was so gross to other vampires - it smelled and tasted like sour dirt and earthworm.
My daughter finished eating in three minutes, gobbling everything up. Even though she still prefered a blood diet, she ate more human food than she used to. "Are we ready to go to the house?" Edward asked her when she ran to him and jumped up into her arms, immediately pressing her hand to his face. "Let's go then!"
We were at the main house in no time at all. Emmett, Rose, Carlisle, and Esme were already outside, waiting for us. Alice bounded out of the door to greet us, followed closely by Jasper. "Hey, Bella!" she bounced forward and hugged me. "I haven't seen you in forever!"
"You mean yesterday?" I responded, laughing to myself. "Or more accurately, last night?"
"Oh, that's right, we went hunting last night!" she exclaimed. Alice was just being Alice, and I loved her for it. Even though she could be annoying at times, she was an amazing sister and I was grateful to have her.
"Oh, come on, Alice. It's been, what? Six hours?" Edward chuckled, holding me close to him.
"I see your point. Whatever." Alice suddenly became very still and her eyes became cloudy, her whole figure a statue. Then, as suddenly as the vision had come on, it went away. Before anyone could ask anything, she chirped, "Jacob, Seth, and Leah will be here in two minutes and six seconds!" Everyone laughed. Including Rosalie. Since I'd become a vampire two years ago, she'd become way friendlier towards me. Especially because of Renesmee. Anyone who looked now could barely tell that we'd hated each other - well, really it was her hating me - three years ago.
Suddenly, I heard heavy breathing, running, and beating hearts nearing us. I already knew who it was; my best friend, Jacob, was coming to see us off. He emerged out of the woods behind us, trailed closely by two large wolves: Seth and Leah.
"Hi, everyone. Is everyone leaving yet?" he asked, trying to put as much enthusiasm as possible into the question, but I could see past that and to the pained sadness he tried to hide. Renesmee and Jacob had grown so close over the years, and he was like a big brother to her, but now we had to leave, and Jacob couldn't come with us. He had duties as Alpha to protect his pack and the people of Forks, but he'd come and visit us in New York occasionally and we'd visit Forks as well. Being separated from my daughter, his imprint, was very painful, but he couldn't come with us.
Renesmee jumped out of Edward's arms, where she was still situated, and into Jacob's, sensing his pain like I did. She hugged him nearly ferociously, and when they broke apart, both were crying. Being separated from Jacob hurt my daughter nearly as much as it hurt him. Jacob put Nessie down, and said goodbye to everyone, even Rosalie. Everyone loaded into the five already-packed cars. I had refused to drive my Ferrari to New York, insisting that it stayed here, so I was riding with Edward and Renesmee in his silver Volvo. Rosalie was taking her red Lamborghini, Emmett his Jeep, Esme and Carlisle were riding in Carlisle's car, and Alice and Jasper in their car. Still, five cars was a lot. We'd probably be driving day and night, except to stop for Renesmee's human needs. Because of this and our crazy insane driving, we'd probably reach New York in less than a day compared to the normal 26 hours it would take.
We were driving out of the house in no time, and I made the mistake of looking in the side mirror, where I could clearly see the tears streaming down my best friend's face.
A/N: So what did you think? Please leave me a review with your thoughts! The next chapter will be in Percy's POV. Thanks for reading my story!
