Sorry the prologue was a bit weird. It's supposed to be Renesmee looking back from some point near the end. Now it's Bella's turn as she enjoys her new life.
Chapter 1 – Bella - Home
I turned over the calendar page with a smile. It was finally August! It felt like I'd been waiting for the blessed month for almost the whole year. This last year had been hard on us all. All of my family had graduated from school and disappeared for awhile, pretending to go to collage or university but really going on 'honeymoons' to exotic locations with interesting hunting possibilities, and then we all retuned to the house in Forks to wait until the move to Glasgow. It had felt like we had had an entire year of just waiting around. I had found my self packing and un-packing things just for something to do.
Of course that was only when Edward wasn't around. Then I had rather more interesting things to do. But even that was limited to whenever Nessie was around. Not that she was in the house very often. She was the main reason we had waited another year before moving. That and the fact that the entire town of Forks seemed to think that Dr. Carlisle Cullen, the head of the family, was experimenting with plastic surgery on us, so we had a good excuse for not aging.
Nessie had wanted to stay as long as possible in Forks for her husband's sake. His whole tribe, the tribe he and his pack of shape shifting wolves when assigned to protect, was in the small reservation of La Push just outside of town. Nessie and Jacob had been living there, away from the rest of the Cullen Clan. That, in truth, had been what had made this last year truly hard; I missed her.
Now that August was finally upon us again the entire Cullen clan, including Jacob Black by marriage, was going to uproot itself and move to the almost constantly rain covered Glasgow, Scotland. The hunting possibilities weren't good but the lack of sun was. Although it was known to be very sunny in the summer, the school we all planned to attend was known for its truancy problems. No one would notice or even care if on the days building up to the summer holidays a few more students didn't bother to show. It was perfect.
We were all going to start again and pretend to be 16 or 17 years old. The younger we started out in a place the longer we could stay there. Nessie was to change from being my daughter to Edward's little sister and Jacob would go from being her husband to being her boyfriend and Carlisle's godson. All wedding rings were to be moved to the right hands until we officially staged getting married to the general public.
Nessie would be living with us again and would have to until at least graduation before she and Jacob could possibly live separately from us. That thought made me happy. Everything about spending time with my darling Nessie made me happy. It made everyone happy. Nessie was perfect.
"What are you thinking about?" my Greek God of a husband asks.
I smiled, opened my mental shield to include Edward, and watched his face as he read my mind. It annoyed him endlessly that my mind was the only one he couldn't read, so I made it a habit to let him in as much as possible. I felt the shield snap back around my mind, keeping all but myself out. I felt safe again.
"You've missed her a lot" He said, in reply to my thoughts. It wasn't a question but I still nodded. He placed one perfect finger on the tiny square that marked the first of August and smiled my favourite crooked smile.
"We've all been looking forward to this move. It's going to be interesting to see how you handle it. You're going to have to be the new interesting girl again, but this time be you'll have to be antisocial and push the other students away."
I rolled my eyes. "It's not like I'm going to have to deal with it all by myself. You'll all be with me. We'll be a new family, not just one new girl. And besides, with Rose and Nessie in the room no one's going to notice me"
"I'll notice you" he said smiling again.
I laughed "I should hope so" I grinned and kissed him.
"All right! All right! Stop the snogging the kids are coming in!"
I broke apart from my husband but didn't look at the door. I didn't need to.
"Hey Jake. Hey Nessie."
"Hey Mo- I mean, hey Bella." Nessie had been trying to call us by our names and not mom and dad. She was supposed to be Edward's sister in Glasgow so calling him Dad might be problematic. "How's it going?"
"Same old, same old" Edward smiled and turned to hug his daughter. "Missing you, you know."
Nessie smiled awkwardly. Edward could read her mind but that didn't mean he could understand it. Nessie didn't appreciate being everyone's personal gift from God. It made her feel like she was letting everyone down some how – or rather that she would one day let everyone down. I couldn't understood her when she felt like that, I mean I never liked the spotlight but she… well she loves to be loud and the centre of what ever is going on but she just doesn't like it when people have such high expectations of her. It made no sense to any of us, Nessie was perfect. She could do no wrong.
She smiled up at me, probably guessing what I was thinking. She was good at that. Better than her father even, when he wasn't simply reading minds that is.
Edward spoke then, breaking the awkward silence I hadn't realised was there. "Did you have a reason for visiting or did you just feel like dropping in?"
"We were wondering if well…" She broke off and looked at her Jacob. It was still strange to see her look at him that way. Not that she knew. But not that long ago, it seems, he was my Jacob.
"There's a barbeque down at La Push tomorrow night and Sam said we can bring some Cullens if we wanted, not all of them, just one or two. I don't think Paul could handle it if you all turned up but Jake and I where just wondering if you wanted to come." She looked at me quizzically.
At first I felt happy that Sam still felt kindly towards us and include us in his party but then when Nessie looked at me I felt some what unsure. It had been along time since I'd been in La Push and longer since I'd attended one of their pack parties that served not only as fun but as a council meeting. Last time I was at one I was still human. I was still Jake's girl.
I answered with a smile, trying not to make it too forced. "Yes, I'd love to come. Edward?" I looked at my husband and he nodded. We both pretended that it didn't sting a little when Nessie had not included herself as a Cullen. She wasn't anymore really, but she was still one of us underneath it all, and sometimes I wanted to remind her of that so much that I had to stop myself. Remember Jacob. Love came before family. I knew that all too well. After this move I would probably never see my Dad again.
"Of course you'll have to go hunting first, just to make sure. Just in case, you know." Jake smiled, embarrassed that he had to say it. He did that a lot; say things not because he wanted to but because it was his job to. I hated it when he did that, it made me think of the days before Nessie when I was constantly fighting for him to be my Jacob and not Sam's; my friend, not the hostile werewolf.
"Well I guess we'll see you tomorrow night then." Nessie said, uncomfortably.
"Yeah, sure honey. See you then" I said, trying to sound sincere. I hated it when she had to leave. My thoughts were left with her always. She was my baby, still. I just wished she could see how much she meant to me.
Nessie and Jake walked out the door and I could smell, rather then see, them heading east to their home. Edward put his hand on my shoulder. "Alice wants you, love. We should head down stairs before she comes to find you." Edward grinned. I could tell he was changing the subject.
"Let me guess" I smiled, playing along. "She wants to start planning our next graduation party two years in advance?" Alice will be Alice.
"Not quite. She finished the ground plans for that party five weeks back. She can't do more until she's seen the venue." He grinned again.
"So what does she want us for?"
"Oh, she's moving on the wedding now. She's thinks to have us get married some time in the fall, so we can be outside." I moaned. How far ahead does this girl think?
"But what about Rose and Emmett's wedding? Aren't they first?" I was snatching at straws. I hated weddings. Especially my own. Edward did make them more endurable though…
"They still are. Alice is going big on the theatrics this time round. She's going to have them run off to Vegas just after graduation" I was stunned.
"That was what we were going to do!" I have laughed out and he grins down at me.
"Bella, Edward, could you come down here please?" I hear Alice's voice from down stairs as clear as a bell despite the fact she was only speaking at normal volume. I laughed again and started down with Edwards hand tightly in mine. This was going to be a long day.
Ok so not much drama yet I know but I'm working on it. It's all going to kick off at the barbeque I promise. Meanwhile, you seen that lovely blue review button? Doesn't it just look like it wants to be clinked?
