Summary: This story begins 4 years after Breaking Dawn and will continue for several generations after. This story is part 1 of a 3 part saga and will center on Jake and Nessie but will include new characters and adjacent story lines as well. We will also get Leah's story and her imprint. Pieces of the last 4 years will also be revealed. I tried to stay true to all SM characters and pairings. Rated M for adult subjects.

Author note: This story and this saga is quite long. There are 26 chapters alone for this story so please keep reading because it gets more interesting as the story and characters develop. Also, I try to update a much as I can. As I said in my bio, this story is already complete, I post chapters as soon as I finish editing them. Its not going to be an everyday update situation because, I do have a life; however, this is also not going to be one of those one chapter a month stories, so please add me to your story and author alerts.

Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns all Twilight Saga and characters.

Renesmee

"What do you think the boys are doing?" She asked Leah without turning to her. I already knew that this question was not being directed to me. To her, I was just company; I was un-relatable, maybe even scary so I was never a true part of her life. Nevertheless, I felt bad for her. She must be bored and ready to leave by now.

"I don't know." Leah told her as she shifted to lay on her stomach. Her eyes still closed, she was facing me. "Probably eating Esme out of house and home." I could see her smile at that thought. I wondered what was amusing about it. Hungry wolf boys should not be unusual to her. Anna also turned to lay on her stomach and sighed. I followed their lead not wanting to be impolite. It was silly to invite me to sunbathe at the beach today. Though I did enjoy these scarce sunny days, I couldn't tan. They both knew this.

A part of me wondered if their invitation was out of politeness or perhaps some alternate plan to get Anna to like me. I knew Leah enjoyed my company so I was certain she wanted me there. Leah was my best and only friend. Her brother, Seth, was always an uncle to me. After, their mother married my grandfather two years ago, he was officially my uncle Seth but it was different with Leah. I never called her aunt, nor did she want me to. She never coddled me or treated me like a child. To her, I was just Renesmee. I never told her how much I appreciated this but it is one of the reasons why she is so important to me. She was always able to see beyond what was in front of her, to see the real me.

"So Nessie, what is Alice making us wear tonight for the bonfire?" Leah she continued our conversation, her eyes still closed.

"I saw her with some bags from the new boutique in Portland. I'm sorry but I didn't really pay much attention to what she was saying." Aunt Alice had walked in this morning raving about the new boutique with excitement. Normally, I would join her enthusiasm but I had other things on my mind. Leah sighed, knowing why I was distracted.

"You still want to start school this fall." It wasn't a question. She looked at me this time. Her brows furrowed, thoughtfully.

"What?" I asked, confused by her expression.

"I've been thinking about it and I think I might have the solution to your problem. Why don't you let me pitch it to Eddie this time? "

"I have no problem that. But you should know that Jacob and Seth already tried and failed—miserably, might I add."

"Those two idiots are no match against a 100+ old overbearing vampire who thinks he knows it all. I may not be older than him but, in many ways, I am much wiser than dear old Eddie. I promise you that you will be attending school this fall. Trust me." She closed her eyes again and faced the sun still smiling.

"I always do." I trusted Leah had her ways of outsmarting my father. I smiled at her knowing that whatever argument she had planned would work.

My father didn't understand that I was an anomaly. I was something that shouldn't exist and, for once in my life, I wanted to have something that was normal. Unlike vampires and shape shifters, I didn't come from a normal human background. I didn't have any memories of being human or normal. All I had was disparity. Disparity and change followed me everywhere—haunting me. I was done being a victim. Change was the main theme in my life. Physically, I changed quickly and it was finally time for my life to change too.

It was a silly request, almost childish, when you consider the excellent education I was already getting; but, I wanted to go to school in the worst way. My father didn't understand why I needed this. He and my family could provide and have provided me with an education that was superior to that of even the most exclusive private schools. Sure, he understood my need to develop social relationships other than those of my family. 'Real friends'. However, he did not understand the other element—the part that made me want this more than anything.

For the past 4 years, every time I looked in the mirror in the mornings there was someone different, older staring back. I was different, something other, something that stood apart from everyone else around me. They all have some human past to ground them to this world, to link them to humanity but what did I have? I had a sheltered life, full of supernatural beings. Additionally, everyone that was in my life was in it because they had to be, because they were my family or imprinted or bound to a pack that had sworn to protect me. I did not have one true friend. Even Leah, who is the closest thing I have to a true friend, is still bound to me because I am her alpha's imprint. Though a part of me knows that even if she was human she would be my friend, the rational part of me also acknowledges that our friendship was an anomaly. I was stuck in this 12-13 year old body, a girl of her age and a girl of my age would not be best friends in the human world. Anna was closer to my age in looks but Leah was closer to my age in mind and interests. It wasn't always like this. I always had the mind and understanding of an adult but there was an innocence to it. It was almost a year ago that my mind had a growth spurt of sorts and my body was slowly trying to keep up. Normally people don't notice when they are maturing but my change was so abrupt that it was impossible not to. I no longer held interest in dolls or cartoons or any of the things that I liked a few days prior. My mind would reason things differently than it had before. At first they thought that I was depressed because a few months prior, one of my dearest friends, my 'little brother', had left us to return home. I took a deep breath in a vain attempt to calm the worry that usually accompanied my thoughts of him. Nevertheless, it wasn't depression. Once again I had changed. Once again I was different.

"I don't get why you'd want to go to school anyways. High school sucks! Trust me if I had the option I would totally choose homeschooling." Anna said, finally joining one of our conversations. Anna was the only imprint my age, or at least the age I appeared to be. Brady imprinted on her when 2 years ago. This year Jacob decided that we should be friends and would encourage us to spend time together; however, she never came to my house and I was never alone with her. I had a feeling that either she or Brady were afraid that something would happen, that I would loose control.

"Well... Then maybe we can switch places." I smiled at her. She lifted her body, putting her weight on her elbows so that she could look at me over Leah's body. She had a pensive look on her face before it turned into a frown.

"No, you're right. Homeschooling with OCD vampires who expect you to know everything would suck even more." She said as she nodded her head.

"Especially with a teacher that can read your mind to tell if you didn't do your homework." I reminded her.

"OMG! That would really suck!" She shuddered and scrunched up her nose in disproval. Leah and I both chucked as we continued to sunbathe and talk. It was days like these that made me appreciate the seemingly everlasting rain of the Olympic peninsula. It made the sunny days brighter and even more special.

Leah

We were in the middle of forest behind the new Cullen house. We both faced each other with our arms crossed, staring. I had not said a word yet but he already knew what I wanted to talk to him about. He already knew I intended to get my way. He sighed, finally, probably realizing why I was going to get my way this time.

"You really shouldn't make promises you can't keep, Leah." He looked at me with that annoyed look he always had when someone challenged him. He can be such a whiney baby sometimes. I really don't know how Bella can stand him when he's like this. Oh yea, cause she's a whiney bitch too.

"Do you really not get it? Are you that dense?" I threw my arms up in the air, exasperated with him.

"Leah..." Bella sighed and moved away from the dead tree she was sitting on to put her arms around her now visibly pissed off husband. "We get it. We just think it would be better if she waited a few more years until she is full grown. She'll be more controlled, her rapid growing won't put us at risk, and she will still get to experience high school for the first time. I'm sure it'll still be as 'thrilling' then as it would be now." She rolled her eyes when she said thrilling. I shook my head. She was just as stupid as he was.

"She is growing, changing and she hates that." I told them both as if they didn't already know. "She hates her body because it doesn't represent who she is. She sees change as the thing that's wrong with her life because it's what keeps her from being normal. I get that if she goes to school now, it's not going to make her stop growing but at least she'll get a chance to experience something that she can only experience once in her lifetime."

"What that's that?" She asked me incredulously. Moron! Her Eddie was a bit more sober now that he could see where I was going with this.

"This is her only chance to go to school and have friends that grow and change with her. Sure she already knows the material and is more mature than them but if she goes now she'll finally share something that's normal with these humans. This is the only chance she'll get to BE normal. To BE human. If you wait until she's full grown then she'll be stagnant while everyone else grows and changes. When she realizes that being stagnant actually is the thing that separates her from them she is going to hate herself even more and she is going to be even more isolated." I had more to say but I stopped because they both looked at each other. I saw the change in their eyes. That's right leech, I win! Ha! I get to keep my promise after all.

"Yes, you do." He told me with a smirk. "Thank you for pointing all of this out to us."

"Wait Edward. What about losing control or changing too quickly? Things might happen that we won't be able to explain to the humans." Bella looked at Edward with concern.

"Leah already thought about that. She thinks Renesmee should attend school with Anna and the younger wolves at the tribal high school. 'They have experience with growth spurts and weird there'." He quoted my exact thoughts, smirking at my choice of adjectives. As long as I get my point across, I didn't really care. Bella smiled at him again, finally getting it. She was usually a lot faster than this but I got why she was so afraid. It would only take one mistake to make them come after her again. This was something we all wanted to prevent.

"Thank you Leah." She smiled at me. Her tone held some emotion I couldn't pin point. I stared at her grateful and relived expression and that's when I realized that she wanted this too. She wanted to give this opportunity to her daughter just was badly as Renesmee wanted it, if not more. She just didn't know how until now.

"Yea well... you know look for any opportunity to outsmart Eddie." I gave them my best smile and ran back to the backyard where we had left everyone so that I could make my argument in private without idiot triplets, Emmett, Embry, and Jacob, interrupting us. As I left, I could hear his too content sigh and her not so quiet giggle. Yuck! I guess it's up to me to give Renesmee the good news. This was gonna be a whole new experience for the kid. I just hopped she was ready for all the drama that high school kids go through. That particular part might be very amusing for me or very annoying. A gorgeous, genius, half leech who's imprinted to an alpha around horny teenage boys and jealous hormonal teenage girls. What could possibly go wrong?!

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