My days would usually go like this:
Every morning at about Eight o'clock I would get up. Mom and Daddy would usually already be at the Big house, so I would have the whole cottage to myself.
Mornings were so beautiful here, with the soft glow of the morning sun shining through my window and the birds chirping outside. It made me just want to go outside into the woods!
The first thing I would do though, was go into my bathroom and brush my teeth with my favorite strawberry flavored toothpaste. Then, I would usually take a shower. I liked to take long showers, wasting water and shampoo, but a hot long shower just made me feel good and refreshed, ready for a day with my loving (or crazy. Chose either.) Family.
Basically, that would conclued my bathroom routine.
While my hair would already be drying in bronze curls across my back, I would put on deodorant and face cream.
So far, so good.
Then the hard part would come: Clothes.
Now, maybe you would think: Clothes? But Clothes are so much fun Renesmee.
Well, would you let me tell you, I don't really care. Clothes can be fun and all, but really, in my opinion, a perfect outfit is jeans and a t-shirt.
Sadly for me that would usually not work out well. Why?
My aunt was Alice Cullen. If you wore the wrong thing, you'd sent back to change. If you were unlucky she would come with you and you'd probably end up in a ball gown.
This day I chose a black shirt with silk sleeves, jeans, and green ballerinas. The outfit was complete with my diamond stud earnings. I looked at my self in the mirror. Alice was going to be disappointed, but she wasn't going to make me change.
Daddy had made her make a deal with me that I could wear jeans at least once a week. It was really sweet of him, but the resulting argument had lasted two hours and at that point I would have been more than ready to give in. Daddy didn't though and in result, I got a jeans day every week!
After getting dressed, my almost but not quite, favorite part of the day would come!
Breakfast with the werewolf!
Since the rest of my family didn't eat food, It had been a tradition for me to cook and eat breakfast with Jacob every morning.
I was half vampire, so I needed food as well as blood to survive, but I really preferred blood, so breakfast was my only meal a day.(Daddy and Mom made it mandatory for me to have at least one meal of human food per day, so true to the tradition I chose breakfast.)
This day Jacob was already waiting for me in the kitchen when I bound down the stairs, excitedly.
"Good morning!" I bounced to him and give him a quick hug before grabbing one of full the paper shopping bags that were standing on the counter.
"So what are we making today?" I asked. "Uhm." I looked down into the bag. " Flour, strawberries, syrup?"
"Pancakes." Jacob said and laughed, already turning on the stove.
"Oh, great!"
I loved pancakes with strawberries.
" Do we have wiped cream? "
"I don't know." Jacob was already mixing up the batter. " Check the fridge."
"Right." I mumbled. We did have wiped cream.
"Here, let me do it," I said and took the mixing bowl from Jacob. " I want to cook. You can sit down."
"Okay." Jacob chuckled and sat down on on of the bar stools across the counter from me.
"So Jake." I said, stirring the batter. " About the wedding. . ."
"Yeah" He tensed up a bit. I scowled.
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing Nessie." Jacob said. " There's just been a small problem with the wedding."
"Alice has gone completely nuts and is trying to plan a wedding in a week?"
He laughed."Pretty much. The thing is just. . . You know how Charlie and Sue have only been dating for 3 months?"
"Yes." I nodded. "That's why I was a bit surprised when I heard about it."
"Well." Jacob rubbed his head." They called me last week to talk about what they had planned: They wanted to get married because they loved each other and thought they were old enough already."
"Okay." I agreed." That makes sense."
" But they didn't want to make a big deal out of it or have a big fancy wedding so they decided to elope-"
Elope?!
"No!" I cried, shocked. "Grandpa is eloping!? Jacob, Alice is planning a wedding! Oh my gosh, are they already married?!"
" No, no!" Jacob reassured me. " The plan was for them to take Seth, Leah, Bella and you to the courthouse, get married, then the next day have a small reception party with all of their friends. That's what Alice got the invitation to!"
"And now she's taken to it to plan a gigantic wedding instead!" I groaned and almost dropped the pancake batter.
" Careful there." Jacob got up and took the bowl from me. "I think the batter is ready."
"Yes,Yes." I started pouring the mixture in a baking pan. " So did they tell Alice they didn't want a huge wedding?"
"They tried." Jacob flipped the pancake. "But. . ."
"Alice is Alice." I finished.
Jacob nodded. "She convinced Sue into this whole huge ceremony and wedding, but I know that's not what Sue really wants. And don't even get me started on Charlie."
"So," I demanded. " What are you going to do?"
Jacob grinned at me. "Conspiracy werewolf meeting is in an hour. "
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" If It's a werewolf conspiracy meeting, then why am I invited?" I murmured as I climbed out of the passenger seat of the truck.
We stood before Emily's and Sam's small house in La Push.
"Honorary werewolf." Jacob grinned at me and I rolled my eyes.
"Oh, and Emily wants to see you."
"Alright." I conceded. "Honorary werewolf it is. Are we going inside?"
"Yeah. "
Emily and Sam had gotten married last year in a really very beautiful reception, with traditional Makkah and Quileute rituals. Even Alice had admitted it to have been very well done, although she herself had not been involved in the planning.
We stepped inside the cozy house and were immediately greated by the delicious smell of cake baking.
"Chocolate?" I stated. Jacob grinned."It better be."
"Renesmee!" Emily had come into the hallway and was pulling me into a hug. I smiled.
"Hello Emily."
I loved Emily. She was the nicest, most motherly person I had ever meet. Also she was always baking something delicious, that even I with my Actually I Like blood better attitude could never resist.
"Shut the door Jacob, the cold air is getting in." She scolded and proceeded to pull us into the cozy living room on which s couches various members of the pack were piled, laughing, joking and being stupid. And eating massive amounts of Chocolate cake.
"Cold air? It's barely fall." Jacob muttered under his breath, as I elbowed him quickly.
"That's not very polite."
Emily laughed. "You tell him Nessie."
She disappeared into the kitchen, hopefully to get us some of that cake everyone but us seemed to be eating.
"Nessie!" Seth roared and pulled me into a bear hug. "How's the loch Ness monster?"
I couldn't help but giggle at him. " Oh shut up." I laughed and smacked him lightly.
"Hey, if your Grandpa is marrying my Mom, what does that make you? My niece?"
"Oh no!" I groaned feigning horror. "We're going to be related!"
"Well, not by blood, but just call me uncle Seth!"
"And Auntie Leah." Embry chimed in.
"Shove of, Embry!"Leah muttered.
"Is she not happy they're getting married?" I asked, a bit confused.
"Are you kidding me?" Seth sounded a bit bitter. "She's Leah.
"Oh." I didn't really know what to say to that. To be honest Leah had always scared me a bit, although I thought that she really did try to tone down the I hate everyone and everything, screw the world thing in front of me, it was there enough to make me keep my distance.
At that moment, Emily and Sam entered, the room, Emily carrying a plate heaped with chocolate(Ohh!)cake.
"Although now," Seth was continuing, "I'm not so happy with it either."
"Sorry about my crazy Aunt." I grimaced.
Seth grinned at me. " Don't worry about it."
"Alright guys!" Sam sat down next to Jacob on the sofa and Emily put down the cake in front of us and finally(!) my mouth was filled with delicious chocolaty heaven.
I was glad to see Sam and Jacob getting along again though. The two separate packs still existed, but they were still all friends that hung out and patrolled together.
"Everybody, Sit!" Emily commanded and I quickly placed myself on Jacobs lap in between Embry and Sam.
"Hey where is Quil?" Jacob asked and Emily's face went blank for a second.
"That was going to be the first thing. Uhm." She sat down on an armchair. " He just called and apparently Claire was in a car crash and -"
"What?"
"Is she okay?"
"Is Quil okay?"
"Oh shit!"
"She's okay guys!" Emily reassured us quickly. "She's just got a broken leg, so she's in the hospital and Quil is going crazy."
"Oh dam!" Seth exclaimed and Jake pulled me closer protectively.
"You know how Quil is to," Sam said, "He's going to kill himself over this!"
Already my day was veering of It's usual schedule and into complete chaos.
Normally right now I would have just finished my lessons with Daddy and would be out hunting with Jacob or Mom.
Instead I conspiring against my aunt and Claire had broken her leg!
Poor Claire!
"Can we go see her?" I asked Jacob quietly as the rest of the pack was still roaring loudly.
"I don't know. But I Think she's okay Nessie, she's got Quil there for her. And you can believe me, he won't be leaving. "I know, but I wanted to see her." I insisted.
Claire and I were friends, she was the only friend who was even remotely close to my age, and I was worried about her!
"Alright, maybe later." Jacob said into my hair and I smiled at him in response.
"Okay, now about Charlie-" Jacob addressed the room loudly. And was immediately droned out as the werewolf's began noisily expressing their opinion.
"It's ridiculous!"
"Why would Sue want a wedding like that?!"
"That bloodsucker is putting ideas in her head! Hypnotizing her."
I rolled my eyes.
"The original plan was perfect!"
"Charlie doesn't want an extravagant wedding!"
"How do we convince Sue!"
"Guys,Guys!" Jacob was shouting to make himself be heard.
"Your right, Charlie doesn't want this, but Sue seems to think she does, so. . ."
"So there's nothing we can really do." Seth completed the sentence.
"Oh Bullshit! Leah exclaimed, sounding annoyed. "There is allays something you can do."
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After we left Emily's house with a lunchbox filled with chocolate cake, mind you, we went to the hospital to visit Claire.
Claire was asleep to my disappointment, but Quil was not and he was having a complete breakdown, so it took a while before we could leave.
( "It's all my fault, I should have protected her." "How can it be your fault Quil? Were you supposed to look into the future and see that Claire would crash into a car while on her way to school and save her?" "Yes, that's what i should have done!" "Quil!")
"So what Am I supposed to do about aunt Alice?" I asked Jacob as we drove back home.
Together the wolves had come up with an actually pretty good plan, fueled by Leah's insults and comments about Charlie, bloodsuckers and just the world in general.
"See if you can get through to her about calling of the crazy plan-"
"Yeah right."
Jacob gave me a look. " And if you can't, well then just try not to get viciously murdered by that horrible flowers girl dress.
I giggled." I'll do my best although I don't know how I'm supposed to walk down the aisle wearing that. I tripped three times yesterday just walking to the bathroom. I'll never make it!"
Jacob laughed. " Well if our plan works you won't have to hopefully."
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"Momma, Daddy, I'm home!" I yelled bursting through the front door to the big house.
It was only 4 o'clock in the afternoon so they would still be at the big House.
Inside though, I was greeted by silence and a completely empty living room. Huh. Were they out hunting?
Jacob had just dropped me of at the cottage, saying he was sorry but he had to run, Billy had a doctors appointment, so I came to the Big house hoping to find my family and spend some time with them.
How was I supposed to spend time with someone who wasn't there?
"Grandpa? Grandma? Aunty Alice? "
"In the kitchen, Renesmee." Alice's voice sounded and I walked into the room relieved.
Aunty Alice And Daddy were standing there, next to the counter.
"Hello." I said cautiously. For some reason they looked worried.
"What's up?"
"Nothing's up Renesmee." Alice forced a smile at me.
"No, something is wrong," I said. "What happened. Did you find out about the wedding?"
Alice's eyes turned to focus on me and her voice suddenly sounded dangerous. "Find out what about the wedding?"
"Uhm nothing!" I quickly backtracked.
Daddy let out a surprised breath and I realized he must have read my thoughts.
Shoot! How could I have forgotten my mind reading father!
Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight
Daddy looked at me in a rather confused matter now.
The method of singing in your head when you wanted to shut Daddy out was one I had been taught by Jacob A few months ago and was actually incredibly effective. It didn't really work for long periods of time since you had to keep singing a song in your head but for situations like now it worked great.
"Edward?" Alice's voice was beginning to sound shrill again. "What does Renesmee mean?"
Daddy turned back to her looking shocked. "Does it really matter anymore?"
"Of course it matters!" Alice all but screamed at him. I backed away, shocked.
"It matters," Alice was speaking through clenched teeth and she looked like she was trying really hard not to yell. " Of course it matters! Just because they-" She was shaking. "have to come and ruin everything! Possibly everything! We've worked so hard! I've worked so hard!"
"Alice, calm down."
What was happening? Where was Mom?
"Now! Right now! Fuck them! Nothing good can exist in their world!"
I backed away further and fought the instinct to flee. What was wrong with Alice?
"It's not that big of a deal."
She looked positively shocked and taken aback. "Edward, I saw it! Every moment in our lives will be ruined! Charlie's and Sue's wedding! Renesmee's birthday! Rosalie's new child! The new house! Renesmee's wedding!"
My what!
"Everything! They just couldn't leave it alone!"
Daddy's voice was hard as he grabbed her wrist. " It's a possible future. Just a possibility."
"A very likely possibility. I just-" And then she broke down crying.
The day really was veering of It's usual schedule. Normally I would be relaxing watching some sort of sport with Emmett and Jake, while Rosalie was playing checkers with Jasper and Alice was of planning everyone's clothes for the next day. Grandpa would be in his study working and Grandma would be cooking dinner for Jacob and whatever werewolf's were around. Daddy would be playing the piano. Momma would be reading.
Daddy wouldn't be comforting a hysterical Alice on the kitchen floor. I wouldn't be standing here to shocked to move and be asking myself what could have possibly happened.
What could have possibility happened?
She had had a vision. She was freaking out. What had she said?
They have to come and ruin everything. Nothing good can exist in their world.
The Volturi?
Every moment of our lives will be ruined.
I suddenly felt like I couldn't breathe.
Renesmee's wedding.
I turned and ran out of the kitchen.
I ran into the cottage. I ran up to my room. I locked the door and the windows.
I was safe.
Yes, today was completely of schedule.
I would have just watched Jacob eat dinner and had some O negative from Grandpa''s blood supply.
We would have watched some movie until I was to tired to keep my eyes open. Then someone would take me back to the cottage, usually Jacob. After I had gotten ready for bed, he would have lain down beside me and I would have fallen asleep feeling content and safe.
I felt anything but safe right now. I was terrified. Alice had seen something. Something bad.
I got my cellphone out of my bag and dialed a number. Minutes later, Jacob was knocking on my door.
"Jake!" I opened the door and practically threw myself at him.
"Alice saw something and all of our moments will be destroyed including my wedding!"
"Nessie." Jacob lay down on the bed and after a moment of slight hesitation I lay down next to him and cuddled up beside him,
"No one can take your moments away from you. "