Chapter One
100 Years in a Nutshell
The excitement was bellowing up inside of me. It has been a little over 60 years since I've been back to Forks and 100 years since my last public appearance there. After my mortal transformation, Edward and I took a few years to celebrate our immortality as a married couple and to raise our daughter Renesmee. She grew quickly and only a few short years later it was Edwards turn to walk his daughter down the aisle and give her away to Jacob. It was the saddest and most pathetic day of my life. It turns out I'm more like my mother than I expected. Seeing Renesmee get married off so young, made me feel sick to my stomach. We all knew she was already immortal, just like Jake, so I wondered what the rush was. She told me she wanted her mortal family to attend the wedding. Edward sided with her and I was left fighting a losing battle. The wedding went off without a hitch, thanks to Alice's superb planning abilities, and my daughter is now a married woman.
Our stay in Forks was getting awkward because of our un-aging bodies. Edward, Renesmee, Jacob and I hung around in the shadows of town during our daughter's upbringing and the rest of the Cullen clan moved on. I wanted to stay with Charlie as long as possible and Edward was agreeable to this concept as long as we stayed out of the public eye. We crept into the shadows of society and were rarely seen. This worked out just fine for us because being around humans was difficult for Renesmee and myself. We were young vampires and the thirst for blood was a strong desire to deny ourselves.
Renesmee and Jacob hung around Forks for a few more years but decided they wanted to see the world on their own. It was then my attention focused back on getting an education and Edward and I attended Dartmouth. College was an interesting experience. It may have been more interesting for me because this was my first immersion into the human world since I'd taken the role as a vampire. I found this time confusing. Not because of the school work, which by the way was a piece of cake given I now had the capabilities to remember everything I heard and read the first time through, but because of the social aspect. I have never been a social butterfly and was perfectly content with this life choice. But now, people were scared of me. Sure many were dazzled by my feminine mystique and my husband's handsomeness; but in the end, they all turned their backs and scurried away. All the better I convinced myself. I was a young and hungry monster. Space would be a good thing.
Edward and I returned to Forks secretly and frequently to visit Charlie and his new wife Sue Clearwater. Seth had decided that life as a werewolf was not the life he wanted and stopped making the animal transformation. Overtime, the werewolf gene quieted itself down and Seth was now human and mortal again. It was nice that Charlie and Sue would have a `normal' child to watch reach the appropriate milestones of a growing human.
Charlie was the first to pass away. It was an un-climatic death. He just fell asleep one night and never woke up. He was a good guy through and through. He never complained much about the oddities that surrounded him and the loss of my dad will leave a vacant spot in my soul for the rest of eternity. Sue followed Charlie two years later. She was taking flowers to Charlie's grave and was attacked by an animal in the woods. Deforestation in and around the Olympic National Reserve has left hungry mountain lions and bears wandering into towns. Attacks on humans has become more and more common. Edward and I were climbing Mt. Everest when this unfortunate event happened and only found out about the attack weeks after. I take a moment to remember Sue every time I bite into a mountain lion and hope that I am doing my part to prevent another vicious animal attack on an unsuspecting human.
Years passed and the Cullen family reunited on and off again. I have graduated from high school at least a dozen or so times and have a couple of Masters and PhDs in various subjects. Our names have been changed throughout the decades as to disguise our familiarity in the history books and now after a generation of familiar people passing on, we can once again return to Forks and play the role of the strange family with all the strange kids that don't quite fit in.