Bella POV
I smiled as Renesmee blew out her two birthday candles. It had been a year since the Volturi had come to Forks, and all was well. I raised the camera in my hands as I took a picture of her, Edward, and Jacob smiling. Edward came behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist.
"Hey," he whispered in my ear.
"Hi," I said, grinning.
"What are you thinking about?" he asked.
I let down my shield so he could read my mind. I was getting better at it every day. He read my thoughts for a minute, and I put my shield back down. He wasn't teasing me as usual about my thoughts. Instead, his and Alice's faces were frozen into the same mask of shock.
"Edward?" I asked. "What happened?"
"I don't know," he said. By now, everyone had gone silent and was staring at him.
"Alice?" asked Esme.
"Someone's coming here. I can't tell who."
"The Volturi?" Renesmee asked in a scared voice. She ran to me and I picked her up.
"No. Not them. A human…" Alice said.
"It's probably nothing to worry about," Carlisle said.
"Yeah, what's one human against us?" Emmett bragged. Even though I knew he was right, I still felt uneasy. What if someone tried to hurt Renesmee?
"When is the human coming?" asked Rosalie.
Alice shook her head. "Sometime this week. I think."
Alice's visions had never been uncertain. This human was definitely unusual.
"I guess we'll have to wait and see," said Jacob.