Chapter 4: Growing Girl

Renesmee's POV

I couldn't understand what was going on. Why did I suddenly grow again? My whole family and I were certain that I wouldn't grow any more. How could I suddenly be two inches taller and five pounds heavier? I hadn't grown in a year so I thought for sure I was destined to remain being 4 feet 8 inches tall. It made no sense at all. Then I remembered something. Nahuel had said that he reached maturity when he was seven years old. I'm only six years old but I'm four months away from turning seven. Maybe the final months is when I would have my final growth spurt before I stopped ageing forever.

Should I tell my family? No, they would bring me home in an instant and that is not something that I wanted. I was finally away from my overbearing and overprotective family. I finally had some freedom and I was not about to give that up. I would keep this a secret from them as long as I could. Maybe I won't even grow fast enough to be noticeable to the unsuspecting humans around me.

I went to sleep that night unsure of what I should do. I decided that the best thing for now would be just to keep monitoring my growth on my own.

I woke up the next morning with a strange feeling. I shook it off as I got ready for my day. It wasn't until I finally looked in the mirror that I noticed that something really was off. I looked older. My face no longer resembled that of a fifteen year old girl but that of an 18 year old girl. My heart started racing and my palms became sweaty. There was no doubt that my accelerated ageing had resumed again. I decided to measure and weigh myself again in hopes that nothing else had changed. But I knew it was a feeble hope before I even stepped on the scale. I now weighed 135 pounds. That means that I've gained 15 pounds in the course of just two days. That is just not normal at all. My heart nearly stopped when I measured in at 5 feet 2 inches tall. I grew seven inches in two days. That was not normal at all either.

Whatever doubts I had about my ageing suddenly vanished. I was growing again and there was nothing that I could do about it. I still wasn't planning on telling my parents about my rapid growth rate any time soon. I didn't want to go home and if they knew I was growing again they'd put me on the first plane back to Washington. No, I wasn't going to tell them. If my growing got out of hand then I might not have a choice but for now I was going to remain mum on this.

A sudden knocking on my door brought me out of my thoughts. When I opened the door I nearly had a heart attack when I thought it was my father coming for me. Relax, breathe I told myself over and over. I wanted to laugh at how stupid and paranoid I had been. My father was on the other side of the continent for crying out loud! There was just no way that he'd know about my growing again. It's not like aunt Alice could have told him, she still can't see me in her visions.

The image of Tyler is just something that I'd probably never get used to. I wondered what would happen if they ever met each other. Wow, that would be hilarious. It probably will happen when my parents come visit me on September 14th for my birthday. I was already looking forward to that meeting.

"Nessie are you okay? You're giggling" Tyler said. I felt myself blush a deep red. I must have looked like an insane person giggling for no reason at all. I wanted to crawl into a hole and die now.

"I'm fine I just, I don't know" I said blushing again. "What are you doing here?" I asked.

"Well, I had such a great time with you last night that I was hoping that you'd allow me to take you out again. For another stroll around the city. There's still so much of New York to see" he said.

"I would love that" I said.

"Okay, I'll come get you in a little while" he said.

I smiled at the thought "Sounds good to me" I said.

"You look different today" he said catching me off guard.

"Is that bad?" I asked.

"No, it just is what it is" he said.

"as long as it's not bad" I said.

"Nothing about a beautiful girl like you could ever be bad" he said and then left.

I started breathing a little bit faster. I wasn't sure that I'd ever get used to hearing those words coming from my father's image.

He came for me two hours later.

"Sorry I took so long. Aidan was holding me up" he said.

"Who's Aidan?" I asked.

"Oh he's my roommate. He can be a bit of an ass sometimes but you get to love him after knowing him for awhile" he said.

"Oh, will I get to meet him?" I asked.

"You sure will, but I should warn you he loves pretty women such as yourself" he said making me blush again.

"Thanks for the warning" I said.

We hadn't really decided on where we were going so we decided to take the subway and just see where it would lead us. We ended up in lower Manhattan. Right away I saw the twin towers standing proudly in the heart of the world trade center. The north tower stood proudly with it's antennae standing out proudly distinguishing it from the south tower. I had never been here before and yet I was already proud to say that I'd be working here for the course of a year.

"Can we get closer to the towers Tyler? I really want to see them up close" I said.

"Anything for you Nessie" he said.

These were the most massive buildings that I had ever seen in my life. It was hard to believe that they were over a thousand feet tall. They were beautiful.

I fumbled around my purse for a minute before I found my camera and snapped a few pictures of them. I wanted something physical to remember them by. With my good memory it was unlikely that I would ever forget what they looked like in years to come but I still wanted some physical proof.

"Tyler will you take a picture of me with the world trade center in the background?" I asked.

"Sure Nessie" he said. He snapped a few photos of me. All of them were beautiful.

Then a stranger came by and offered to take a picture of both of us. We were both smiling happily happy in the photo with the twin towers standing proudly in the background.

We continued walking around for awhile. I took pictures of the statue of liberty. I took pictures of just about everything.

"Would you like to see Central Park?" asked Tyler.

I was excited at the very thought of seeing central park. It was one of the places that I have always wanted to visit since I was little.

"Yes Tyler, I've always wanted to go there" I said.

"Then let's go" he said.

Central park was a beautiful place. It was the biggest park that I had ever seen. Of course I knew that it would be huge just from what I had seen in the movies. I just never thought that it would be this huge

Tyler really was a sweet guy. He insisted on showing me as much of the park as possible. He even bought me a strawberry flavored ice cream. We sat down by a nearby pond and just enjoyed the scenery. He wiped some of the ice cream when it dribbled down my chin.

The way he laughed and the way he smiled just melted my heart. I had a feeling that I might just fall in love with this guy. I just knew it. I was already starting to feel something for him and I just couldn't explain what it was. As much as I didn't want to fall in love, much less with a guy that looked just like my father I couldn't deny that I felt something. I felt a spark between us.

He took me home after that. He gave me a kiss on the cheek that sent butterflies flying around in my stomach.

"I look forward to seeing you again Nessie" he said.

"I look forward to seeing you to" I said.

Once he left I booted up my computer and loaded up all of the pictures onto it. I was determined to save every picture that I took here. I had a strange feeling that I needed to save every memento that I get of the world trade center. I wasn't sure why though. This feeling was very confusing. I knew that I would come back and visit the world trade center in a few years, also I have a very good memory, so I didn't know why I felt this strange need. Somehow I just knew that I needed to document the time that I spent there. I needed to treasure and value the time that I would have at the world trade center. I was a little worried and scared that I had this feeling. It was as if something was going to happen, something big and life changing. The scary part is that my gut instincts have never been wrong before.

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