A/N This one didn't turn out as good as I orginally hoped, but I posted it anyways. Again I don't own anything!
Age swallows our childhood. ~Jareb Teague
Sometimes I think I'm too old for this. Jacob thought it would be good for me to play with someone my own age. To "just be a kid" as he had put it.
I know he means well but the idea of sitting in the mud with Claire, as nice as she seems is not appealing to me. I would rather compose music with Daddy, or learn the science of the "common cold" with Grampa. Anything else, but this really.
Jacob seems to forget- I may look like a 5 year old, but I am not a child. I have more important things to do than waste my time poking my feet in frigid cold water. "Try it, Ness" he says. And only because he is my Jacob, I told him I would give it a try.
So here I am being introduced Claire, as if we have something in common. As Jacob sees my irritation, he slowly gives a little push towards the little girl. "Hewooo. I'm Cwaire. Whas your name?" She said.
"I'm Renesmee Carlie Cullen. But you can call me Nessie if you'd prefer." I replied. She gave me an odd look.
" Wanna pway in the sand wif me? I'm going to make a pretty caswle for a princess!"
She had to be kidding me. I looked over to my right and saw Jacob give an encouraging smile. He really owed me BIG time. I followed Claire to a pile sand and a couple of pails and shovels. Claire plunked herself down into the sand and began to fill her sand bucket. "SIT! SIT! SIT!" She said.
To stop the potential tantrum, I sat down and began to dig with the shovel.
As I was sitting there, I stopped to look at Claire. There she was, just playing along without a care in the world. I forgot what that was like. With my life, the way it is and my progressing intellectual growth, I found it hard to forget my worries. But watching Claire so happy, truly made me wish for the first time in my short life that I could be like a normal child. A human one.
So just, like Claire I began to fill my bucket. And with every swoop of the shovel I forgot. I forgot I was a half vampire. I forgot the Volturi want me dead. I forgot I knew how to read, write, to do anything at all. All I was was a child. And for the first time I appreciated things I never even took the time to notice before. The sun's rays beating down my back, the crystal blue sky, the calming sound of the waves crashing against the shore and Jacob talking to his friend with the biggest grin I had ever seen.
Before I knew it, I began to hear the hard footsteps of my wolf friend. " Time to get you home, munchkin." Said Jacob.
As I looked up to Jacob to protest, I realised the sky behind me was turning pink as the sun was setting. I has spent a whole afternoon just playing in sand- just like a real child.
With a big grin, I got my self up and said goodbye to my new friend Claire. I leaped into Jacobs arms and as we walked away back towards the forest, I put my hand to his cheek showing him how much fun I had, asking him to come back. And with a big grin he said "Anytime Ness."