I can't believe this is happening. I'm packing to go to a magical boarding school. It all started at the beginning of the summer…
I woke up in the morning to the sound of tapping on my window. I silently opened it, half expecting to see Jake standing there, ready for our usual early morning run. However, I found a beautiful snowy owl perched gracefully on my windowsill, an envelope in it's mouth. I thought of calling my parents in, but they would just tell me to send the owl away. So I quietly opened the window and accepted the letter from the beautiful bird. I took it in my hand and was about to open it, when Jake jumped up onto my windowsill and proceeded to say
"Hey! Whatcha got there?"
I jumped. "Oh Jake! You startled me!"
"Whatcha got there?"
"Nope. Not telling until you apologize."
"Sorry. Now will you tell me?"
"Yes. I don't know what it is. I haven't opened it yet."
"Well are you?"
"I don't know what to do."
"Would a run help to clear your head?"
"You know what? I think it would"
"Then let's go."
"Um...still in my pajamas here"
"Then change and let's get going."
I put on a tank top and an old pair of running shorts, pulled on my sneakers,and put my light brown curls into a ponytail to keep it out of my face. I then left a note to my parents telling them where I was going, though they probably knew already, I go out for a run with Jake every morning, and slipped out the window to head out for a run. I didn't know how my parents would react when they found out about the letter. My father can read minds and would know about it as soon as I came back inside, and would undoubtedly tell my mother.
You're probably wondering, what is she talking about? Her father can read minds? That's impossible. Not if you're a vampire. That's right, vampire. My parents are vampires. So is my father's whole side of the family. My grandpa Carlisle was born in the 1640's in England. He was turned in the 1650's, at the age of 23. Then in 1918 he found my father, Edward, dying of the Spanish influenza. He was able to save my father, obviously. Within the nearly 100 years between the time my father was turned and when my parents met, my grandfather made a whole family for himself of people he found nearly dying, my grandma Esme, my aunt Rosalie, and my uncle Emmet. I have another aunt and uncle on my father's side, my aunt Alice and my uncle Jasper, but they were both already turned when they joined our little clan. My parents met when my mother moved in with her father, my grandpa Charlie, because her mother and stepfather had to go on the road for spring training(my mother's step-father was a minor league baseball player). My parents met in high school biology and fell in love, and my mother did know about my father. My parents got married and wen on their honeymoon, with plans to turn my mother afterwards, but the impossible happened, and my mother got pregnant with me. My father's family wanted to do a c-section as soon as they could, but my mother was bent on carrying me full to term. However, my mother's back broke and my father, my two aunts and Jake had to do an emergency c-section because my grandpa Carlisle(he's a surgeon) wasn't home to do it. My mother nearly died, and my father was able to turn her at the last minute.
So almost 11 years have passed since then, and some weird things have been happening. I mean besides the fact that I'm 10 and I look like I'm 17. I'm talking about stuff happening just because I wanted it to. And whenever I'm mad at Jake, things tend to fly off the shelves and hit him. This worried my parents, and they sent for Elazer, their relative from Alaska, to come and see if this was another gift I had developed(Elazer has a knack for spotting gifts). I already had a gift, I can communicate with people through physical contact. It's very rare for a vampire to have a gift, much less two, and I'm not even a full vampire, I'm half vampire, half human. I'm like other vampires in the fact that I can't die, but I have a heartbeat. Anyways, Elazer found another vampire who had this sort of gift in north England who had the same sort of gift, but when Elazer asked him about it, he said "a vampire muggle is still a muggle" and then left. Since then my family and I left Oregon and moved to North England to track down this strange vampire. We've been living here for a year without any luck.
"Ness"
"Ness!"
"NESS!"
Jake had to scream my name three times to pull me out of my thoughts.
"Yea?"
"Were you listening to me?"
"No, not really. Sorry."
"Well I asked you if we could take a rest."
"Yea, sure"
I sat down on a stump next to a very out of breath Jacob.
"Thinking about that letter?"
"Yea."
Jake was about to say something when all of a sudden I got a phone call.
"Hello"
"Renesmee Cullen! Where are you?!"
"Mom didn't you see my note? I went for a run with Jake. Like I do every morning."
"Oh sorry. Right. Can you come home though? We have something we want to discuss with you."
"Yea. We'll be there in about 20 minutes."
"Okay honey. Be safe."
"I will. Love you mom. Bye"
"Bye"
"Jake, she wants us back home."
"Ok. Let's get going."
Jake and I ran back home, an got there sooner than expected. By then I had decided that I would open the letter. But I cleared it out of my head so my father wouldn't see it in my thoughts.
"We're back!" I called out.
"In the kitchen" my mom said.
Jake and I walked into the kitchen.
"You said you wanted to discuss something with me."
"Well not us, aunt Lea and Uncle Tom have something they want to tell you."
"What is it?"
"Why don't you ask them?"
My family stepped aside, revealing the huge new MacBook my grandpa Carlisle had gotten. In return, grandma Esme had gotten his old one, uncle Jasper had gotten her old one, aunt Alice had gotten his old one, uncle Emmet her old one, aunt Rose his old one, dad her old one, mom his old one, Jake her old one, and I had received his old one. This was a family ritual that took place every January 1st, and the old one was put in a box for the local high school's electronic drive that they have each year. Along with the old MacBook is the old iPhone, the old iPad, the old macintosh(though we only keep 2 in the house) and the old iPod touch. Yea, I know we have a lot of apple stuff, but my family is very wealthy, that's what happens when you live forever, it just kinda accumulates over time, so we spend some on new electronics every year, and my family gets all the pre releases because we have a lot of money invested in their stocks.
On the screen of the new MacBook was my grandpa Charlie and his wife, Sue. Their faces lit up even more when they saw me. I'm the only biological grandchild grandpa Charlie will ever have, as he only has one daughter and my parents can't have anymore kids. Sue has 2 children though, Seth and Lea, but they both live on the Rez because they are both a part of the pack. They are both out of college and they're both married, but neither of them have any children yet. Behind them was Lea and her husband, Tom, who she'd been married to for a couple years. They had the hugest smiles on their faces.
"You guys have something to tell me?"
"Well we have something to tell all of you, but Jake already knows."
Of course he does. Jake is a part of the pack, so he has a connection to them that no one else here does. He can see their thoughts, all the way across the world. I know, it's amazing. He's amazing.
"What is it?" Mom asked.
"I'm pregnant!" Aunt Lea replied.
"Wow! That's great you guys." I said. I was going to have a little cousin. I was over the moon excited.
But I wanted to go open my letter.
"I'm a little tired from my run with Jake. I think I'm gonna go take a little nap. I'll be back in a bit." I said. I was the only vampire in my family who could say this, because I'm half human, so I sleep. I wasn't actually asleep though. I was sneaking out of my window and going off to the woods to open my letter.
