A/N This chapter just focusing on them as a family, rather than any problems that they will encounter in this story.
"You throw like a girl!" Masen shouted to Aunt Alice. This was his first time playing vampire baseball with the family. He was physically ten now and we figured he could play now. He'd been jealous that I'd been playing for a while (I was physically thirteen now) and it was either that or leave him at home. And trust me: he was one of those kids you don't want left alone with sharp objects or anything that could start a fire! He grew even faster than Ian had. In the year since we'd adopted him he'd gone from a one year old to a ten year old. Ian had slowed down considerably in the last year and was now physically around my age. Kylie was a lot slower than the rest of us. She was physically seven or eight. She was here with us, but she was just being a referee with Grandma Esme.
"I would assume so! Heads up!" She threw the baseball at him. He hit it towards the trees, threw his bat behind him and started running. I chased after the ball. Baseball with the family was fun for the others. For Uncle Emmett, Aunt Rose, Masen and I, it was do or die… I raced through the forest after the ball. I dove into a bush to grab it and then sprinted back to the clearing. I threw it to Grandma Esme, who caught it and touched Masen's leg as he tried to slide into a base. Kylie laughed and made the 'out' signal. I jogged back over to everyone.
"Rematch?" He asked as he stood up and brushed himself off. That was the last inning and his team (consisting of dad, Aunt Rose, Ian, Uncle Jasper and himself) had lost. I grinned as him as my whole team (Uncle Emmett, mom, Alice, Carlisle and myself) shook their heads at him.
"Besides you know that Renesmee and Ian have school tomorrow and they need to get some sleep." Mom reminded us. I grimaced at the thought. I hated this new 'no staying up late on school nights' rule she had put up. Ian and I had slowed down in our rapid aging enough that Grandpa Carlisle said it would be fine if we go to school. Despite our motions of 'no, stop talking' behind our moms and dads, he kept talking and they all thought that it was a wonderful idea if we went to school together. We'd be in the Jr. High together and they thought if we watched out for each other so we didn't attack humans or anything, then we'd be fine.
"Let's head back." Mom added. We collected our things and headed back to our houses. We had built an add on to the cottage so I got a new bigger room with a huge closet. Masen got my old one. Aunt Rose, Uncle Emmett, Ian and Kylie had their own cottage right next to ours. It was the same size because they had the same size family. Grandpa Carlisle, Grandma Esme, Aunt Alice and Uncle Jasper all were still at the big house and we normally hung out there during the day. I gave Kylie a quick hug as we neared my cottage.
"Goodnight."
"Don't let the bed vampires bite!" She told me. I smiled. Uncle Emmett said that to her once and it sparked an hour long argument on how it made more sense for it to be 'vampires' instead of 'bugs'. Ever since then, she had said that phrase every night to one of us.
"Don't you let them bite either!" I told her. We headed into our houses. I went to my bedroom and stripped off my baseball uniform. I got into a tank top and sweat pants and crawled into bed.
The next morning mom shook me awake.
"Come on, get up, Renesmee. It's your first day and you don't want to be late." She sounded like she was more excited than I was. In fact, I was almost sure she was since I didn't want to go at all.
"Can't I skip a day… or a year? I'm immortal there will be plenty of time to go to school later!" I moaned, rolling over to bury my face in my pillow. I looked up to see her walk over to my closet.
"There's no time like the present!" She cocked her head, listening to something. I did the same and heard nothing. By the look on her face, that was the problem.
"MASEN EDWARD CULLEN, GET YOUR BUTT OUT OF BED NOW! I TOLD YOU ONCE AND I'M NOT SAYING IT AGAIN! YOU ARE GOING TO SEE YOUR SISTER OFF TO SCHOOL AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE HAPPY ABOUT IT!" She shouted at him. She was a very nice mother… until you disobeyed her. Then things got ugly…
"Renesmee, you'd better pick out some clothes before I pick them out for you." I knew she had no sense of style and if I had to go to school, I was going to look good. I got out of bed and headed for my closet. She smiled.
"Good girl. Come to the big house when you're ready." She gave me a quick kiss on the cheek and hurried out of the room. I picked out a pair of hot pink pants (Aunt Alice was so thrilled that I was willing to go shopping with her whenever she wanted that she ignored my mom's rules about 'weird' pants and bought some for me) from the bottom sections. Then I headed for the tank top section of my closet. Aunt Alice ordered grandma Esme to make the closet a certain size so that it had big enough sections for each type of clothing. It's even bigger than my mom and dad's closet because unlike them I actually enjoyed shopping and dressing up. Mom didn't get it and Aunt Alice and I had jokingly disowned her when she asked why I had to have such a big closet. I grabbed a black tank top and then went for my jacket/hoodie section. I grabbed a black and white pull over hoodie and then went to the massive shoe section. I snatched a pair of black and white high-tops and then headed back into my room. I got dressed and then went to the accessory rack on the inside of the double doors of my closet. I grabbed my black book bag I was planning on taking and headed for the door. Then I looked down at my hands and remembered something. I headed to my bedside table and opened the jewelry box I had there. I slipped on my ring with the Cullen crest on it and then my bracelet with a wooden wolf charm from my best werewolf friend/imprinter Jacob Black. Then I headed out of my room and over to Masen's. He was just coming out of his room in a faded t-shirt and ripped jeans.
"Come on, mom will be pissed if we don't get moving." We super sped out of the house and through the woods until we got to the big house. As soon as I was in the house, I was caught up in the small, cold but familiar arms of Aunt Alice.
"You're outfit is Alice-approved." She told me. I looked over her and saw mom grimacing. Obviously not mom-approved, but she had no sense of fashion so I wasn't too worried about it.
"Let's go see you're brother off." Aunt Rose's voice came. She came down the stairs with Kylie's hand in hers. Kylie was wearing lime green leggings, a purple sun dress and purple sandals.
"Oh jeez, mom! She looks like Barney the dinosaur sneezed all over her!" Ian complained loudly from beside the stairs. Kylie gave him a death look and so did Aunt Rose. Uncle Emmett was about killing himself on the couch trying not to laugh at that comment.
"She looks nice, Ian… Come on, Bella, we've got to get the kids to school early so that we can take a couple minutes to take pictures." Aunt Rose reminded my mom. Ian and I exchanged 'oh no' look with each other at the word 'pictures' but said nothing. We said goodbye to everyone and then headed to the garage. Jacob was waiting there by mom's car.
"Hey, Nessie." I ran over to hug him.
"I thought that you were going to miss my first day." I told him.
"Never… I do actually have some official pack business, but I did want to say goodbye before you left. And Leah can't come but she said to tell you to have a good day, Ian." He said.
"You just said it, dog." Aunt Rose reminded him. He gave me another hug and then headed for the garage door. Aunt Rose and mom climbed into the front seats of moms' mustang. It was a Christmas present from dad. She hated expensive gifts, but this one she just couldn't say no to. It was awesome. I opened the back door so that Ian could get in. Then I climbed in after him and shut the door behind me.
"Okay, buckle up, kids; I'm going to drive Cullen-speed." My mom told us. Ian and I grinned at each other as we put on our seatbelts. In no time at all, we were in the Jr. High parking lot. Aunt Rose pulled out a camera from her purse.
"Picture time!" She sang happily. Ian and I scooted closer together in the backseat and forced smiles to humor her. She snapped a few pictures and then we all climbed out of the car.
"Can we go now?" I asked. Aunt Rose took a couple more pictures and then hurried over to hug the two of us. My mom came over to join the group hug. Then they released us, nodding.
"Yeah, you can go have fun." My mom told us. Fun? This is school. It isn't 'fun'. I thought bitterly. But I forced another smile to humor her.
"Thanks." Ian and I walked into the Jr. High school building together. Well, Nessie… Welcome to school.
A/N So what did you guys think of the first chapter? The next one will be up soon, probably today.