Chapter 1

A blast from the past

I wouldn't say that I woke up – obviously I couldn't sleep - but I awoke from a daydream I was having, rather, a night-dream as I looked at the watch on my perfectly pale wrist. It had been about how in 3 hours my fellow peers would be getting up to get ready for their first day... at Dartmouth. I looked over at Edward who was looking at me with his golden eyes – we had hunted the night before last in preparation for my first day at college.

"What are you thinking?" He asked me while stroking his finger up and down my spine. I effectively answered his question by flinging myself at him and kissing him everywhere I could reach in a very human way...

About 2 and half hours later we broke apart as we were both immersed with thoughts of our daughter Renesmee. What would she do in the hours that we were at college? Would she miss us? Would she miss Jacob who could only come down at weekends as he had to lead his pack back in La Push? In any case I would miss her but at least I had Edward.

I was going to be taking English Literature with Edward "The first time round!" as Edward called it and I was more or less happy with that decision as we both got out of the bed of our new house – which was nothing like our first and best home in Forks - and got dressed without even looking at what we were putting on because we were both staring into each other's eyes.

A few hours later we were walking up to Campus where students were flocking from every entrance and chatting animatedly about what they had done in the summer, who had hooked up with who and so much more that even my vampire ears couldn't make out the separate sentences. I heard Edward growl next to me just as I clocked a group of people staring at us.

"They all think you're. Really. Hot." He said in-between growls of anger- his nostrils flaring. "Not that I blame them, love." And he faced me and kissed me fiercely. As we pulled away I noticed that he had a victorious, smug face and I guessed that the kiss was not only for our benefits.

"I should be the jealous one. All the girls are gawping with just one glance at you!" I commented with my hand creeping round his waist and my ring thoroughly on show to show all of those girls who was boss. I didn't have to fear competition as I knew that Edward loved me and vice versa.

The second part of my heart belonged to my daughter Renesmee who was just one year-old but had the physical age of 7 and was staying with Rosalie and Emmett –who were living as a married couple- only a mile away... but it still hurt to be away from her.

As we headed to the main building we passed a student who looked familiar in some way but it was probably just a feature that someone in my past life had possessed. He looked up at me through thick glasses and seemed to recognise me. Just as he opened his mouth to speak Edward gripped my waist more firmly and pushed me passed him into a deserted alleyway.

"I recognise-"I began to say but Edward cut across me.

"That guy thinks that you look uncannily like one of his 'fellow rejects', as he calls them, from his high school in Phoenix. Coincidentally her name was Bella Swan and she moved away around 3 years ago... This is a problem." He said while looking around to see if anyone was watching. The guy in question was staring over at me with his hands in his pockets. When he saw me looking he blushed and looked down at his battered old converses.

I guessed he was embarrassed and sort of freaked out by the ferocious glare Edward was giving him... I wasn't surprised. I turned to my husband and gestured to move on.

The day went without a hitch and in fact it was quite enjoyable to be back in a human scenario but that ache in my heart for my daughter was almost unbearable so as soon as we left to go home we rushed past the fragile humans who were going off for a night out and as soon as we had got into the trees we sprinted for Mr and Mrs Hale's – they were going under Rose's name – to see our not-so-little Renesmee.

She was waiting for us, of course. As soon as we entered the front door Renesmee reached out for us, her hand outstretched. We settled down for the evening watching the news while Renesmee showed Edward and I her day. I got worried when Nessie abruptly stopped showing me her day until I breathed in and smelt the familiar smell of-