Unfortunately I still don't own Twilight, so sadly I cannot claim anything for my own :(
Chapter 2
We drove almost non-stop to New Hampshire, other than the few bathroom and food breaks for Jake and Renesmee, we made it across country in a day and a half. I remember hearing once that it was virtually impossible to drive cross country in under 3 and a half days. Obviously those people weren't vampires. The fall weather danced around the area while the treetops shined in the sun with rich orange and red colors. "Edward, are you sure about this? I mean what about the sun?"
"Bella," he started before pinching his nose, "trust us, we've done this before. And besides it's a little bit easier now that Dartmouth offers some online courses. When I got my first degree from here, that option wasn't available. You'll be fine." He flashed his crooked smile at me before turning his eyes back to the road. He knew how much I hated for him to drive without looking at the road.
"Hmmm." I turned my attention back to Renesmee in the backseat. Even though I could hear her breathing, I half expected her to be asleep, though I knew she was too excited. She must have noticed that we had slowed down, indicating that we were close to our destination. Jacob, however, was knocked out, and snoring. Loudly. I let out a small chuckle just looking at him. I loved watching him sleep because he didn't seem so massive, in fact he still had his baby face while he slept. That combined with his tongue hanging out of his mouth like, well like a dog, was hilarious.
Edward made a quick turn to the left, and we were on the road of our new home. I only knew this because Alice had called a week ago to describe the area. She had said on either side of the street, there were these enormous houses that had huge acres of land between them, but as you drove towards the end of the road, the distance of the houses were even wider. By the time you got to the court in the road, where our house was, there seemed to be nobody around. On top of that, the house was surrounded by a lush mixture of tall evergreen and oak trees, so that it wasn't visible from the street. All that could be seen was the white gravel driveway that led back onto the property. Driving on the driveway now, I could see why Esme chose this house, besides the obvious seclusion. It was beautiful.
The house was raised on wooden planks, hidden behind and above some of the trees, it resembled a tree house to me. A long staircase led up to the front door, which rested above a six car garage. I suspected that this was an amended feature since none of the other homes on the street boasted anything larger than a three car garage. Somewhat adjacent was a carport which knowing Rose was where her BMW and tools were going to be held. Esme opened the front door when she heard our cars come to a complete stop, and Renesmee ran out of the car so fast and up the steps to her grandmother. Alice came outside behind Renesmee and ran down the railing of the steps to her husband. They kissed rather inappropriately with a child present, but Esme seemed to know what was going to happen and already brought Renesmee inside the house. "Ughh get a room," Emmett hissed to their direction.
Reluctantly, Alice pulled away from Jasper, "Emmett why don't you try spending some time away from Rosalie and tell me how you'd react." Edward started laughing at something, but I knew I wouldn't have to press him for answers because obviously he heard something in someone's thoughts that e found amusing. Sure enough, Emmett started cursing at Jasper. Jasper was emitting some serious lust and longing over to Emmett's direction. Unfortunately, Rose happened to walk in front of Emmett and he decided to act on the feelings he now possessed, courtesy of Jasper. Grabbing Rosalie, he slammed her against the BMW and started to kiss her.
"You big ape, watch it!" She slapped him upside the head and pushed him off of her. She got up to inspect the damage and sure enough there was a Rosalie size crumpled dent in her car. Rose glared at Emmett, and I swore if her eyes could change color, they would be red with rage. Poor Emmett just looked frightened of his wife, and for a change it wasn't even his fault. "Don't even think of touching me!" She pointed her finger at him and started to push the car over to the carport. Emmett followed her, begging for her forgiveness.
"Jazz, that wasn't really nice." I said.
"No, but you didn't ride with him on the way here, he wouldn't shut up," Jasper commented. We ran up the steps and entered the house. Alice took a moment to show us our rooms, and our closets. I followed Alice to Renesmee's room and decided that she needed to take a nap. She was too excited on the way here, that she barely slept. "I think Carlisle wants to have a meeting soon, so when you're ready, come down." I nodded, as I scooped Renesmee in my arms. First things first, my baby needed her rest.
I walked downstairs into the dining room. I guess no matter where we lived, the dining room would always be our meeting room. Everyone grabbed a chair but we didn't sit down, we didn't need to. "Well, I guess it's time that we got our stories together. Bella, thank you, for getting the necessary paperwork from J. Jenks." Carlisle took his time passing papers and other documents around. "Bella, you and Edward will be transferring the credits you guys earned from Washington State University to Dartmouth. That helps explain the two year time difference and why you are starting out as juniors. We can always say that since you two decided to get married right out of high school, you wanted to save money first by going to a less expensive school." To me that sounded like a plausible story, even though with Alice's skill of telling the future, we had more money than we knew what to do with. Plus the story was only half true. Edward forced me to take online courses at WSU to make up for the classes I would have been taking in the two year interim. I had enough credits to graduate with honors in English Lit at Dartmouth.
Carlisle spent the next few moments going over our cover stories. Edward was Carlisle and Esme's son, Renesmee was their daughter as well. Renesmee looked too much like her father, more so than me so it was much more believable. However, we did plan on keeping Renesmee out of the public eye as much as possible since she grew at such a rapid pace. Rosalie and Jasper were Carlisle's cousins, the Hale's. The McCarty's, Alice and Emmett, were to be Esme's twin brother and sister. Jacob was going to stay with the family as a friend of the family to help raise Renesmee. Rose got a kick out of that and started calling him the "Nanny." Alice for whatever reason wanted to go to high school again so she and Jasper were enrolled at Hanover High as sophomores. Rose wasn't sure what she wanted to do just yet, so she and Emmett were going to be high school students again, only they were going to be seniors. Everybody agreed that we'd take turns homeschooling Renesmee.
As the meeting started to wind down, everyone started leaving the dining area. Edward, Emmett, Jacob, and Jasper raced each other to the den and started up the Wii. After a stern warning from Esme about breaking the furniture again, I could hear the competition getting heated already. Alice and Rose started talking about wardrobe changes so I ran the other direction quick and ducked into the library. I needed to remember to thank Esme and Carlisle for their contribution to the library. Somehow they were able to find first editions of some of my favorite books. I heard Carlisle saying goodbye to Esme for his first shift at the new hospital. I wanted to call my father, but I noticed that with the time zones change, he'd be sleeping at the moment, and besides I'd be calling him a full two days before we supposed to be arriving in New Hampshire. I found Wuthering Heights and started reading it once more before I heard a soft rapping on the door. My beautiful Renesmee poked her head through the door and ran to me when she saw my smile. Without even measuring her, I could see she grew an inch since I laid her down for her nap. Renesmee scurried up into my lap and curled herself into a ball. Placing my book down, I started humming the lullaby that Edward wrote for me. I never considered myself a singer, but my voice as a vampire was angelic. So there I sat humming my daughter back to sleep.
