I do not own twilight or any of the characters therein.
This is my first fanfic, I hope you enjoy! More chapters very soon.
A/N: A special thanks goes out to Christiemariecullen for pointing out an unintentional grammatical error on my part.
Chapter one: Birthday
Renesmee POV
"Happy Birthday to you!" Ugh.. This song is so annoying, even when sung by the perfect pitch voices of my family. I could feel the blush rise in my cheeks, a gift from my then human mother. They continued through the song, at least my father and uncle Jazz could sense my discomfort as they barreled through to the last chorus of 'Happy Birthday Dear Nessie!' I ground my teeth together at the casual use of my old nickname, something that made my mother smile. I had preferred the more mature sounding "Ren" since I hit what normal humans would consider adolescence at the age of 5.
The mountain of chocolate cake covered in white icing sitting in front of me, the top of it aflame with eight candles was hardly reminiscent of your typical birthday cake. But then again, I was hardly reminiscent of your average 8 year old either.
At eight years old I physically resembled a woman closer to eighteen or twenty. I am 5"10' with the dimensions of a world class super-model -or so I was told nearly everyday through the deep calming voice of my werewolf boyfriend. With the intelligence and wisdom of someone who was perhaps a century older than I to boot. Though it seemed entirely normal to me to develop at this rate, (I had never known anything else) I could always sense the irritation in my mother's face when people likened us to sisters in public. I knew the irritation she felt was not seated in her desire for us to have a more appropriate physical age difference; it was her desire to have me around as her little girl a little longer that was the cause of her annoyance.
My mother and father were seated to my immediate right. Their perfect faces both held the same jubilant expression. an expression that was nearly mirrored by Jacob, sitting to my left. But his face was arranged into an altogether different smile, one of happiness and a hint of longing. My heart fluttered a little faster for a second as I looked into his eyes. I heard my father huff in annoyance at that moment as I pulled my eyes away from my Werewolf and turned toward my cake. Uncle Emmett laughed at my embarrassed blush as i hid my face behind my bronze curls. I knew the only way out of this embarrassing ceremony was to follow it through to the end.
I closed my eyes and shifted my hair out of my face as I blew out the candles, to the applause of all my of my favorite people in the world seated around the table. Grandpa Charlie was seated at the other end of the antique table with a slight frown that had been ever present on his lips recently. Grandma Sue was next to him. they had been married for 3 years now and even though they were rarely separated anymore I could always sense her slight discomfort at being surrounded by the rest of my family. Next to her was her son, my uncle Seth, who shared none of the discomfort his mother showed being surrounded by a large coven of vampires. Seth had come home from college this weekend for the party. I was pleasantly surprised by his presence tonight as he rarely came home anymore. do mostly to the fact that he had imprinted on one of the co-eds at his school.
Next to Seth was Aunt Alice and Uncle Jasper, Alice's pixie-like face alight with laughter. A tinge of annoyance seeped into my thoughts as I gazed into her face. I had recently inherited my mother's distaste for surprise parties and being the center of attention. But leave it to Aunt Alice to conveniently look past that and decorate every nook and cranny of the house for this birthday party, though it wasn't like she was without help.
My eyes shifted to Aunt Rose and Uncle Emmett sitting across from Alice. In all activities centered around me, Alice and Rose were partners in crime. As of late I had tried to make my feelings clear about my growing distaste of being the center of attention but all my pleas had fallen on deaf ears it seems.
after the cake had been cut and served to those of us who had the ability to appreciate it, most of us had broken off into separate groups, mom and dad where talking to my vampire grandparents. my uncles Emmett and Seth and grandpa Charlie were watching the mariners in some sort of post-season playoff game talking shop about the game. Charlie would always do this when he felt like he was getting overwhelmed by our world just to get himself back into some kind of normality. Grandma Sue quietly stroked his hand while she looked at the flatscreen, not really seeing the game. I saw the concern in her eyes and turned to Jacob, we were now the only ones left at the table.
I placed my palm on Jacob's cheek and he turned to look into my eyes as I conveyed a memory of Leah Clearwater with an undertone of concern. How is Leah?
He seemed to take a moment to think about what he was going say then he looked back down at his plate. "She still won't talk to me or Seth. She just snarls at Quil and Embry when they try to talk to her. And I can't bring myself to order her to come back. She can deal with her pain better in her wolf form."
Jacob speared a piece of cake, the creases in his forehead lightened somewhat. "Oh, she did want me to wish you a happy birthday for her."
This revelation surprised me, as far as I knew Leah still hated me and my mother and was openly hostile towards the rest of my vampire family.
He took a thoughtful bite. My hand on still on his cheek, I thought, She'll be back.
"No. she's not coming back. there's nothing left that has enough meaning to her to draw her out of her wolf state now" he said.
I dropped my hand from his face as I thought about the reason for her departure.
six months ago, with nearly as much fanfare that my party generated from my family, Sam burst through the door of the Cullen's home with Emily in tow (We had had an open door policy with the wolves since the routing of the Volturi 7 years ago much, to Aunt Rosalie's chagrin) to announce that Emily was pregnant with their first child. the couple was quickly surrounded from all sides by vampires and wolves alike, receiving hugs and handshakes all around. Alice was already planning a baby shower while Emmett, seemingly out of nowhere produced cigars. the moment of levity abruptly came to an end when there was a quiet sob from the back of the room where Leah had been standing talking to Jacob. We turned in unison just in time to see Leah phase as she jumped through the glass wall in the back of the house. Jacob quickly followed after her, but Leah was the fastest wolf in either of the packs. He returned a few hours later, looking so utterly defeated that it broke my heart to look at him.
"she's not coming back" was the only thing he could say.
I asked Jake why Leah had reacted like that, I knew that her and Sam had been engaged when Sam imprinted on Emily, but she had had several years to get over that. She had even been one of Emily's brides' maids. I was confused why she would snap in that particular moment.
"Because she thinks she can't have children. She still envies Emily so much, and here yet again is another thing that Emily has that Leah can't."
I was thinking about the look on Jacobs' face that night when I felt a cool hand land on my shoulder. "are you okay Ren?" I should have known that Jazz would pick up on my mood. I immediately felt a wave of calm wash over me as Jasper used his gift on me as I heard my father's voice
"why don't we unveil Ren's gift now?"
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