New FanFiction! This is a new story of mine about Bree, which if you read Eclipse you would know who she is. I wanted to take her character to a new level, so I decided instead of the Volturi deciding to kill her they allowed the Cullens to adopt her and teach her their way of life. This is how she is getting along with the other Cullens and what happened to her prior to being involved in the newborn army. There are a lot of flashbacks throughout the story, so if you dont understand, then please tell me and maybe i can change something around or explain better. The whole story takes place in Bree's POV, but there may be another point of view later in the story.

dISCLAIMER: i dont not own any of the characters in this chapter. SM owns the characters, i only own the plot.

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"Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday Dear Renesmee

Happy Birthday to you!"

The musical voices of the Cullen family twinkled in the living room wishing Renesmee a happy 5th birthday. She looked like she was my age. Or she looked she was real human age, which is technically 16. She's grown up so fast. It seems like just yesterday she was just a baby and I wasn't allowed to touch her because I was still a "newborn." But in the past few years Renesmee and I had become best friends—Bree and Nessie, BFF's.

I noticed that Renesmee had picked up my gift for her. It was small turquoise box from Tiffany's with a pearly white bow on top. She opened the box to reveal two simple silver necklaces—each had different symbols dangling on them. One had a star and other had a crescent moon.

"Thank you, Bree," Nessie said smiling over at me.

"Alice helped me pick them out…they're friendship necklaces. We both choose which symbol we want to wear."

"They're beautiful."

Renesmee came and sat down beside me with the jewelry. She handed me the star necklace and she took the moon. After we put the necklaces on, we hugged each other.

"Alright, enough with the gushy best friends crap, let's get on with the good stuff," Emmett whined.

Renesmee continued to open her gifts until all the presents sitting on the table were open, except for one small black box. She picked it up and stared into the golden eyes of her family and Jacob.

"Who is this one from," she asked referring to the black box.

"It's from your mother and I," Edward said. "It's not more jewelry and it's not a gift certificate…just open it." Nessie opened the box and pulled out a set of keys…car keys. "Go outside."

Renesmee jumped up holding the keys and dragged Jacob and I outside to reveal her brand new car.

"Ahhh!," she screamed from joy. "I love it! Thank you so much mom and dad! This has been the best birthday ever!"

Renesmee's words sounded exactly like the ones I'd used on my birthday, about five years and five months ago. My birthday was so similar to Renesmee's right now—the happy family, the happy friends, the happy teenager, great gifts, and a car. It had been one of the best birthdays I'd ever had and the worst…