A/N: I don't own twilight… I wish I did. Then I could own Edward ;)
As you probably have guessed from the title… this story is based around the song ' On my own' from the musical Les Miserable. Review please!
I looked in the mirror and saw two people staring back; the girl I've always been and the girl I long to be. Renesmee Carlie Cullen is aged 21 years, 300 days, 6 hours, 30 minutes and 6 seconds old. She is the daughter of Isabella Marie Cullen and Edward Anthony Mason Cullen. She is a vampire, well half a vampire and half human. She's immune to the lust of human blood and eats normal food and drink, yet has to drink animal blood once a week to stay healthy. Her parents are both vampires as are her fathers family. She finished high school 10 years ago and studied at Cambridge university in England, to become a doctor. She is the girl I have always been- yet the one I wish I wasn't.
And then there was Vanessa Isabella Mason- my cover for the humans. She is 26 years old. Her parents gave her up for adoption at birth and she grew up with a great foster family. She studied and became a doctor. She was a full normal human, who never needed blood, she had a family to talk of and didn't feel alone 90% of the time. I've longed to be her for the last 10 years.
My parents left me when I was 3 years old- for my safety, as always. I looked like I was 15 years old and I had the intelligence of a 18 year old, so they thought I would be fine. They were wrong. When they left I felt lost, so I stayed in the main house- on my own. Charlie had died after breaking his neck from falling down a flight of stairs, two years after they left… he was my only family.
I walked down the stairs and passed the pictures I had left up as reminders of my family. And ran out of the house towards my Vauxhall Corsa. The journey to Forks general hospital had been surprisingly short today, unlike most days it seemed to drag on. I have the powers of a mind reader, but I prefer not to know what people were thinking, in case they were about me. I walked into the ward and there he was. My grandfather. Carlisle Cullen looked at me briefly and went back to the patient. I couldn't help it, but I had to listen to what he was thinking.
' That girl looks so familiar… It couldn't be could it? No stupid, dear Renesmee died along with Jacob in that car accident 10 years ago. Such a sweet, sweet girl she had been, before we left. I will never forget Jacob, and that's for certain.'
I winced at the most painful memory I have. Jacob died from a car crash, while I survived. He had crashed the car after trying to find the family with me and swerved the car with the ice in Alaska. After that day I never went looking for my family again.
" Hello doctor Mason, Miss Stanley here, has four broken ribs and a broken finger" he spoke, in which pulled me out of my trance.
" Yes, thank you grand….. I mean doctor Cullen" he looked into my eyes once more and then turned back to our patient.
The rest of the day went by fast, as my grandfather did not speak to me again. I walked into my home and all 8 members of my family stood right in front of me with caution and wary faces.
" Who are you?" My father asked.
"Vanessa Isabella Mason" Grandfather answered before I could.
"Wrong" I said shortly and sharply. " My real name is … actually no I'll let you guess."
" Just tell us! Actually what the hell are YOU doing in OUR house?" Emmet asked rather rudely.
" I've lived here for approximately 18 years- on my own."
" What?" they all said in unison.
"Oh but you fought for me, for 3 years didn't you mum! Then left me on my own!" I looked at my mother who was totally shocked.
" I am not your mother! Wait …. How old are you?" I could see that she was the only one who was at least trying to put the pieces together.
" I'm 21 years, 300 days, 16 hours, 30- no wait!- 31 minutes and 5 seconds old."
All 8 vampires stood there frozen and looked shell- shocked.
"So that means…" my mother trailed off.
" Yes, my name is Renesmee Carlie Cullen. I was born on the 10th of September 2006 at 6pm. You married my father on the 13th of August 2006 at 2pm ; actually you married him in this room in fact. You were officially a full vampire on the 13th of September 2006, your 19th birthday. You left me on the 18th of October 2009. Charlie died two years later- from a broken neck. Jacob died from a car crash- which I was involved in I might add- 10 years ago… all while you were gone. And by the way, I think your all arseholes! You left me to fend for myself! And guess what… I remember EVERYTHING!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. At this point tears had already streamed down my face at the painful memories. My family just stood and looked at the girl they had once known and had always loved.
I turned around and headed for the stairs.
" I'm off to bed night!" I said almost sarcastically. With that my mother grabbed my wrist and looked me in the eyes.
" Where'd you think your going?"
" You really don't want to do that" I said sharply and grabbed her wrist and showed her everything. How it hurt to lose the two most important people in your life at the tender age of 3. Then your grandfather to die in front of you and to watch your best friend die instead of you. The one memory I lingered on was the fact that I had…. Had …. I had once loved someone so much that I was going to marry them.