I sat silently on the hard black tire swing that hung from the gigantic tree. I turned my face towards the sun and let the sun beat down on my constantly pale face. It was a nice summer evening, the sun was high in the air and the breeze came just when you started to get too hot.

"Ness, earth to Nessie… you in there?" a familiar husky voice came from just behind me, it was Jacob, my Jacob.

"What?" I said with a smile as he spun my tire around so that I was now facing his face.

"It's almost three o'clock. Edward said we had to be back by then…" Jacob said, pushing my curly bronze hair back behind my ear.

"Edward Shmedward." I said with a smile, but I still jumped off the swing and stretched my arms. I put my small pale hand on his large warm russet colored face and showed him the image of him and me running towards the blue house.

"Okay…" Jake said and then he walked behind a bush and a minute later a big russet dog came out of the bushes with a wolfy grin on his face. He howled and I knew that was the signal to begin counting.

"One… Two… Three!" and we were off. Usually we were about even when we ran, since I was half vampire I wasn't as fast as a vampire, but I could easily keep up with a werewolf.

We hadn't been here in Blue Lake, California for a while; it was almost 2 years now. This place didn't seem like home, it never did. The only place that really felt like home was Forks, but I left there when I was only one year old. The only good thing about California was the lake that was placed just outside of the grounds that we owned. It was the only part in the wooded area that wasn't covered in shade, which was perfectly fine with me… since I wasn't all vampires.

As I ran, I looked at Jake and saw his large russet colored fur pushed back by the wind. Jake had been in my life for as long as I can remember. As the story goes, when my mother was pregnant with me Jake didn't like me, because I hurt Bella, and because he loved my mom but she loved my dad and blah blah blah. But anyway, when Jake saw me he instantly "imprinted" on me. Imprinted means kinda love at first sight, but it's not really love, it's more like "I'll be there for you always". So that's what Jake is to me, he is always there and doing anything that will make me happy. Of course at the moment, he was more of a best friend then a brother figure as he had been when I was younger.

We got to the house at almost the same time, but I waited for Jake to change back into a human and to get clothes on before we walked in the door. I instantly wished I had stayed back at the lake.

The kitchen was covered in blue and green streamers, my favorite colors, and my family was all standing next to the table which held a gigantic chocolate cake with the words "Happy Birthday Renesmee!" on it.

"Surprise!" Alice said to me, even though she was technically my aunt, I called her just Alice because that's what she was to me, she wasn't an aunt she was one of my best friends, she was Alice. And Rosalie was Rosalie, Jasper was Jasper, Emmett was Emmett (though I liked calling him Emmy), Esme was Esme and Carlisle was Carlisle.

"One, two, three!" Jacob yelled, smiling at me as I smacked him across his head.

"Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear…"

"Nessie!" Jacob yelled as Edward yelled "Renesmee!"

"… Happy Birthday to you!" everyone finished.

I laughed to myself as I looked around and saw the many people in my family who cared about me, the strange people who cared about me. Well, I guess strange people like strange people. And I was strange. When I was born I found out that I had a gift. I had the gift to project my thoughts onto other people; it was a pretty useful gift. But then again, when I was around seven years old, my father had to start teaching me to control it, because I would prefer to use that then speak and I was getting in the habit of not speaking. It didn't take long for me to learn when the right time was and when was the wrong time to use my gift.

"Blow the candles out baby" Bella, my mom, said interrupting my thoughts.

"Okay," I said, I closed my eyes and tried not to think to hard of what I was going to wish for. I knew what I wanted most was not going to please everyone in this room; actually I was positive it would actually cause one person to freak out like a maniac. But I still wanted it, so I was still going to wish for it.

Edward looked at me odd as he could tell I was projecting a blank thought into his head. When I was about seven or eight human years old, I found out that I could not only project my thoughts onto people by touching them, but I could project thoughts or images that I wanted them to see into people's heads. It was kind of like the ability to make people see or hear what you wanted them to see or hear. Which I just so happened to be doing right now with Edward.

It came in handy when I didn't want Dad to hear my thoughts, I would just project the image of me think of going on a run, or thinking of nothing at all and he would have to try very hard to see if it was my actual thoughts or my gift.

"Come on Ness, what ya gonna wish for?" Jake said, placing a large warm hand on my shoulder.

"I wish for…" it was pointless to go by that if you say t he wish out loud it won't come true superstition, because Alice could see what I wished for, Edward can hear what I wished for, and Jasper can feel what I wished for.

"I wish to go live in Forks, away from Mom and Dad…" I said quietly.

And then… all hell broke loose.