Rhiannon's POV
It's finally the day! It seems like the week slowly dragged past just to irritate me. Jacob and his friends are coming to stay here, we (Mum, Dad, Sophie and I) are going to pick them up. We had to take a minivan?!? There were going to be quite a few people. The journey to the airport was going to take two hours to get there and the plane lands at seven o'clock. That's right, I, Rhiannon Steevens have had to get up at four o'clock in the morning! It should be illegal to wake up that early. I groggily dragged myself into the shower and avoided the water touching my hair. I didn't want to get my hair wet since I wasn't allowed to use a hairdryer. That's right, I have a schedule, for when I can use...a hairdryer. Only between 7 and 8 pm, and my mum doesn't like to use it anyway.
As usual I wanted to clip up my fringe. I desperately searched through all the drawers for a clip that wasn't luminous. My eyes and head would not withstand the brightness, I wasn't properly awake. I'd have to wear my sunglasses just to go downstairs. I chucked on some jeans, t-shirt and converses before slowly making my way downstairs. I had the shock of my life.
There were white sheets covering the walls. Huh?
I searched around for my mum on the bottom floor, I knew she was up because I could smell her melted cheese toastie, I followed my nose and ended up in the reception room where my mum was putting up more curtains over the walls. I noticed that her cheese toastie was balanced on the corner table that was so small it barely held anything. I went to take a bite from the food and the crunch made my mum almost fall off the ladder.
"Oh my god Rhiannon! You made me jump right out of my skin!" She put her hand to her heart and breathed deeply. Her knuckles turning white as she gripped onto the side of the ladder.
"Mum, what the hell are you doing?" I gestured towards the walls and she looked around the room. I noticed one wall hadn't got a sheet, the wall was white instead of it's usual bright orange.
"I'm afraid our guests won't be used to the colors, so I'm toning it down, a lot. I'm going to do a similar design to your bedroom but with silver paint instead of gold and vertical lines instead of horizontal."
"You can't do that mum, what's dad gonna say?"
"Don't worry about him, he'll survive, besides, it'll be back to normal once Jacob's gone back to America."
I put one of dad's t-shirt's on and helped paint the walls white. I was leaving the silver to mum, anything done by me, would look like it was,well...done by me. We managed to do the whole room before it was time to leave. I washed my hands and threw the shirt in the washing machine.
"Mum! You're in your pyjama's! You can't go to the airport like that!"
"I'm not going now, I'll be busy decorating. Paula and Maddison will be here soon to help out."
Oh great, I rushed out the room and made sure dad was ready. I did not want to meet Pie-face Paula or Mental Maddison. They treated me like I was three years old, I was shocked that I didn't get a Barbie doll for my birthday.
I grabbed the minivan car keys and rang Sophie to check she was up. Thank god she was, I don't know why I was even suspecting slightly that she wouldn't be. Her mum would make sure she was up, she would have cold water thrown her if she stayed in bed. I grabbed my coat and dad and I drove to the Hawthorne family mansion.
I don't come here much when Sophie's family are around. The first time I went for dinner was traumatizing. Sophie hadn't warned me that they had the really posh table settings. With all the different forks and knives and spoons and plates and god knows what else, I had no idea what I was doing. It was all odd and formal, like the way you'd dress and act if you were having a dinner party with all the posh snobs. They were all dressed in weird suits and I wasn't. Apparently it's like that even when they don't have guests round. After that, I made Sophie teach me the correct cutlery to use, which outfits from my wardrobe were acceptable etc. I wasn't taking any more chances, it was so uncomfortable.
My dad pressed the intercom and waited for a response. The same strange man that always opened the gate for people that were on 'The List' answered.
"Hello, this is Tim Steevens, let us through please?"
"Sorry, we are not expecting any Tim Steevens. Anyway, you're not on the list. Please leave now."
I got out the car and slid in the gap between the wall and my dad's minivan. I pushed dad's hand out the way and pressed the button to speak.
"Tim Steevens is my dad. I'm Rhiannon Steevens, you're expecting me and I know for a fact I'm on the list."
I get irritated far too easily. Especially at 5 o'clock in the morning. I heard the man chuckle and then he opened the gates for us. I got back in the van and brushed the hair out of my face while my dad drove into the posh drive of Hawthorne Manor. It was a really posh front garden, one with a fountain and all the swirly tall tree's. I don't know what they're called.
Sophie was waiting for me outside with a small carrier bag and a much larger bag which no doubt carried her real outfit. She jumped in the back and pulled the curtain across so she could change. Once she was done, I climbed into the back seat with my huge bag of food and a cover for her suit.
Sophie pulled out some weird looking food that didn't look very appetizing from her bag. I was surprised, Georgia was usually an amazing chef.
"Mum wouldn't let me take anything nice, I'm not even sure what this is, Mum didn't leave me alone so Georgia didn't have any time to sneak anything in."
She looked down at her food in disgust and I unzipped my bag. I tipped it away from me so that she could see what was inside. Lot's and lot's of junk food. Mum likes me to eat healthy, but I don't particularly like all the crap she buys so I just end up with this. Sophie smiled and we sat and eat junk until I fell asleep.
After a while I felt someone shove me awake and I attempted to slap them away.
"Get up! We're here!"
I shot straight up and I saw Sophie trying not to laugh. She gave me a mirror and I could see that the back of my hair looked like I'd just been electrocuted. We laughed like lunatics and I quickly brushed the knots out as best as possible before getting out of the minivan and walking towards the terminal that Jacob was going to be waiting at.
It wasn't hard to find him. He was possibly the tallest person in the airport and next to him were three gigantic boys. They were obviously his friends.
"Dad, he's over there!"
We all walked towards where he was standing and I attempted to tap him on the shoulder. Unfortunately he was extremely tall and so I ended up just poking him in the back. He turned round a gave me a huge grin before pulling both Sophie and I into a huge person-squishing hug.
"Jacob..can't...breathe...let go."
"Oops, sorry."
Jacob introduced us one by one to his friends that would be staying with us. Quil, Embry and Seth were the three boys that had been standing next to him, it was weird, like they were his bodyguards. Then he introduced us to his friends, the Cullens, who would also be staying with us. Edward, a completely gorgeous looking bronze haired boy. Bella, Edward's girlfriend who was just a bit taller than Sophie and I. Jasper, a strange tall, blond boy who had a weird distorted expression on his face. Alice, a tiny girl, she was way smaller than us. Rosalie, scary blond girl and her boyfriend Emmett, who had so much muscle he might have been on steroids and finally Renesmee, Jacob's girlfriend.
I am not very observant when it comes to big things, important things. I notice the small things, like if a person has two different ears. One thing I noticed was that, although they weren't all related, they all had the pale white skin and golden eyes. Except Renesmee, she had brown eyes. I decided against bringing it up and we all piled into the minivan to drive home to decide who was going where. The Cullen's were only staying with us until their parents have sold their house in America. I found out that Jacob will be staying here too. Because of the amount of time they are going to be in England, they have to go to school.
By the time we reached the house, we knew a lot about each other. I know that Edward plays piano and speaks a lot of languages. Alice loves to shop and Emmett is not on steroids. Jacob was quiet the whole way there. Occasionally, Renesmee would touch his face.
I noticed Jasper was looking at me, all of a sudden I realized how tired I was. I yawned and started to close my eyes and saw that Sophie was doing exactly the same as me. It didn't bother me long, I was soon in a dreamless sleep.
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