Dislclaimer: I Do Not Own Twilight
Chapter 1: Strange Occurrences
I awakened slowly to darkness all around me. I turned ever so slightly toward my alarm clock. 4:34. I sighed. There was no way that I'd be able to go back to sleep now. Not when I'd have to get up in less than an hour and start getting ready for school.
I reached for my lamp and turned on the light. My wheelchair was less then a foot away from me. I pulled ever so carefully and slowly toward my bed knowing that if I woke my mother I'd have to face her wrath.
With little difficulty I got myself seated on and made my way to the bathroom. Despite my circumstances I was very independent and able to do most things on my own.
I was back in my bed less than ten minutes later. I turned off my light and just stared at the blackness that was my ceiling. In less than an hour I'd be getting ready, making breakfast for myself, and walking to school myself. Well I'd still be in a wheelchair but you get the point. My mom didn't care enough to get me to school herself so I had to manage on my own. I'd begged her to get me a car to make things easier but she flat out refused for no reason at all.
My whole life has always been like this. I think she saw me more as a burden than anything. I didn't even know why she adopted me when she knew I was disabled at the time of adoption.
According to my social worker at the time I had been found after having been involved in some sort of accident. I was about five years old at the time. No one could say for sure what happened because the accident had not only claimed the use of my legs but my memory as well. Only the name "Renesmee" stuck with me so I figured that must've been my name.
That was 12 years ago. I'd asked my mom if it was possible to have surgery to fix my legs so that I'd be able to walk again. She never considered the possibility because it was "too expensive" and she'd never spend a single penny on me unless it was "absolutely necessary". That's why when I asked years later for a car she reiterated what she'd said years earlier. I tried to get a job to save the money for a car myself but I haven't had any luck. So for now I was stuck getting myself to school even on rainy days. Those were the worst.
My alarm blared at 5:30. Alerting me to the fact that I'd had no choice but to get out of bed now. I heard the wind howling outside and I went to look out my window to see how bad it was. I was surprised to see a young woman about my age standing out there. She had brown hair, chocolate brown eyes, and a heart shaped face.
The young woman suddenly noticed me watching her and she looked at me in pure shock. She tilted her to the side and I mirrored her movement without realizing it.
I shook my head. I had a lot of other things to worry about without adding a strange girl on my front lawn to the mix. When I looked again though she was gone. I just shook my head again.
I showered and got dressed. Afterward I did my makeup. By the time I was eating breakfast the strange woman had been all but forgotten. That was until I'd gotten to the crosswalk. One minute I was crossing the street with a bunch of other students and the next she's standing there in the middle of the road.
I wouldn't have thought much of it until I saw someone walk through her. I had to rub my eyes to make sure that I wasn't hallucinating or something. When someone else walked through her I was sure that I was tripping. Had my mom slipped something in my drink last night and was now causing hallucinations. I felt my face run cold and she stared at me strangely.
"Move out of the way you crippled loser!" A voice that I was all too familiar with yelled behind me before pushing me out of the way. He pushed so hard that I was surprised my chair hadn't tipped over. It's happened before.
The girl that pushed me was Mary. A girl that seemed to make it her life's mission to make mine as miserable as possible.
She continued her slew of insults "Jesus you're getting harder and harder to push out of my way. Maybe you should join the basketball team and lose some weight. Oh that's right," she laughed as she glanced at my legs.
I sighed. I didn't say anything. Then again I never did. I just continued on my way to school as if nothing happened. I saw the strange girl again several times throughout the day. I swore I was losing my mind every time someone walked right through her. I couldn't even focus on what was being taught that day.
The quietness of the neighborhoods was quite spooky as I made my way home that afternoon. It brought back some bad memories of a very similar afternoon two years ago that I didn't want to remember.
"Can you see me?"
I screamed.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you!"
It was the strange girl I'd been seeing all day. Great so my hallucinations talk now.
I couldn't speak so I nodded.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to sneak up on you like that. I'm just not used to people being able to see or hear me anymore. I'm Isabella Cullen by the way but you may call me Bella,"
"Nessie," I muttered. Why was I talking to a hallucination?
"What?"
"Renesmee. Well Nessie. I mean never mind.
you're just some crazy hallucination of mine and if I'm seen talking to you people will really think I'm crazy!"
"I'm not a hallucination I swear Nessie. I know it's going to be hard to believe but I'm a ghost,"
"A ghost?"
"Yes a ghost,"
I burst out in laughter. My hallucination was getting crazier and crazier by the second. She picked up a small pebble and threw it at me.
"Ouch!"
"Can a hallucination do that?"
"I don't know much about hallucinations so I can't be sure,"
"Okay then watch this," she said as she disappeared and then reappeared across the street. She grabbed a ball from some kids that had been playing and threw it. The frightened kids obviously saw the ball but not her.
"Believe me now?" she asked.
"Maybe," I gulped. "What's going on?"
"I died 12 years ago in childbirth. I died giving birth to my baby girl. Her name was also Renesmee. Strange coincidence I guess. I disappeared for some time neither going to heaven or hell. Then I suddenly came back several months after my death. My entire family had moved and I discovered to my horror that no one could see or hear me. Not until today anyway. Not until you,"
"Why me?"
"I don't know Nessie but maybe you can help me with something,"
"With what?"
"I want to see my family again. I want to see my husband and my Renesmee. I want to find out how they're doing and in return I'll do something for you. Whatever you want,"
I thought about it for a second. "Only thing I want is to see my biological family again. They might not want anything to do with me but I have to at least see them,"
My ghost or hallucination, honestly I wasn't sure at this point, smiled and nodded in agreement.
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