Chapter 2: Two Hundred Years Later…

Alice had really felt all giddy while reading the new novel she had bought at an antique store. Bella went over to her sister and frowned as she looked at the spunky young lady go gaga over the old book.

"What is that, Alice?" Bella asked, deadpan.

"Oh, you see, this book by Johan Lake is the best! Like, I found this author 50 years ago, and I happened to fall in love with him! It seems that this Johan guy had written a lot of books in his lifetime, and believe me, this is a classic!"

"Why? What is the story about?" Bella asked.

"Don't ask me, silly," Alice laughed. "You should read this."

She handed the book to Bella. "You know I am not one for books. Besides, I am busy being a mother."

"Oh Bella, Renesmee is already seventeen!" Alice said. "She can take care of herself. Besides, she had learned brawling from Emmett."

Rosalie came in, and as usual, was a very strict woman that she is. But she isn't bad at all. She came over to tell Bella that they all need to transfer locations, as people had started to notice that neither of them seems to age. People also noticed that Renesmee had stopped aging like her peers.

During their travel, Bella got sick over Alice's new obsession. Not even Jasper could stop his mate from falling in love with a centuries-old author whose novels were a hit back then and even now. They had a new version of a DVD player, and it was already all right to be bringing a cell phone onboard. Alice had really a huge collection of Johan Lake's novels as well as his movies which he had produced and directed in his lifetime. Some of his books were also made into movies. And believe me, Alice couldn't seem to get enough of Lake's movies while they were on board.

"Where are we going, Mommy?" Renesmee asked Bella. She was busy doing her nails while they were on board the first-class accommodation on the plane.

"I happen to don't know, my dear," Bella told her teenage daughter. It seemed that her daughter and she looked a lot like sisters more than a mother and daughter. "What do you think, Edward?"

"Carlisle said we will be going to Japan," Edward said calmly. "I've heard that the country has preserved its beauty over all the centuries that had passed."

Edward was always formal. What is? However, Renesmee never got his formal upbringing. She was more of used to her mother's awkward ways and her aunt's sunny lifestyle.

"Japan? Cool! Like, it is still the land of anime, right?" Renesmee beemed. She had read in a cool website in the internet that Japan had once been dubbed the anime country, full of anime and J-pop music many centuries ago. She had wondered if it was still the same. And being a girl of technology, she surfed on the net while she was doing her nails, and found out that Japan was still the anime country it used to be. She had announced that she wanted to experience cosplaying, but Aunt Rosalie forbade her to do so. They might get exposed, she reasoned out.

"But cosplaying is fun, Aunt Rosalie. I want to try," Renesmee answered back.

"Let her try having some teen fun too," Esme said to Rosalie. "After all, she is a teenager."

"Now that you mentioned it, I wanna try cosplaying too!" Alice beemed.

The other people in the airplane fumed upon hearing the noisy family, but they couldn't apprehend them for the vampires really looked scary. Bella had already been used to those scared faces for centuries, and she didn't mind.

"Wake me up when we get there," she told Edward

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