(Chapter 4 is my favourite chapter in this whole story so I hope you enjoy it, Again i don't own the twilight characters, please feel free to review the story! :) )
Chapter 4: New Addition
January was coming to an end with still no word from Jake, we had been talking back and forth by e-mail, but he became too busy with hunting for Paul and being with Jillian that we lost touch. I hadn't heard from him in three weeks. I missed him so much it hurt, but it made me happy to know that he was happy, even if he was happy with some other girl.
One morning I decided to take some nature pictures with my new camera. I needed some new art on my walls. The forest was beautiful this time of year, it didn't snow here but the trees still lost all of their leaves.
As I walked through the woods I became nervous; I wasn't sure why I felt this way, but I decided to turn and head back to the house. A branch snapped behind me and I turned to see Paul standing ten feet away. I screamed and began to run away from him; I looked behind me a couple of times and he was running not far behind me.
I turned to look one more time and ran right into a boy with a shot gun. He looked to be no older than seventeen and he was very handsome; he had chocolate brown hair, it was shaggy like he needed a haircut. He was also very built for his age, not as built looking as Emmett, but definitely more built looking than Jasper.
I fell to the ground at the boy's feet. He must have seen Paul behind me, because he took a shot at him. Paul yelped but didn't stop running towards us, he lunged at the boy knocking him to the ground. The boy screamed in pain as Paul bit his shoulder and neck over and over again. The boy managed to get another shot off and hit Paul in the chest. Paul yelped again and took off into the woods. I ran to the boy's side and he was bleeding badly.
"Thanks for saving me." I said to him
He smiled but he was too badly injured to answer. I knew he was going to die. "I can't let him die." I said in my head.
"I'm going to carry you to my house my Father's a Doctor." I said to go a long with the lie that Carlisle was my adopted father. He looked up at me a said in a low weak voice "I don't think you'll be able to lift me."
Of course I heard him loud and clear I had great hearing, I smiled and picked him up into my arms and began to run home. By the time I got him to the house he was unconscious and his breathing slowed. I kicked open the front door and yelled
"Carlisle?"
He came running and stopped as soon as he seen me holding the bleeding boy. We were both covered in blood.
"What. What happen?" he said while taking the boy from me and setting him on the dining room table.
"I'll just show you it's faster." I replied while placing my hand on his face. It only took a few seconds to show him, so when I was done he got right to work on the boy.
"You have to save him Grandpa, he saved my life!"
"Who saved your life sweet heart?" my father said while walking through the door. He stopped when he saw the boy lying on the table. I hadn't noticed that I was completely covered in the boy's blood until my father came through the front door. His mouth almost fell to the floor and my mother; who was close behind him screamed "What did you do, Renesmee?"
"Mom, dad; I was in the woods taking pictures and..." I realized that I didn't have to say it out load so I placed my hand on my mother's face and all my father had to do was read my mind.
"See." I said out loud "He saved me from Paul, we have to save him!"
"He's lost too much blood, I'm losing him!" Carlisle shouted
"No Carlisle, Please save him, I owe him my life, please!"
"Nessie, I'm not sure what you're asking me to do here." He replied
"Please don't let him die! Turn him if you have to, but don't let him die! Please Carlisle!"
"Nessie, think about this please, what if he has a family here in town, we'd have to move again; further from Forks!" Carlisle said
"No Carlisle, don't do it, if he dies then he dies!" My father said "It's just a part of nature."
"Dad! I owe him my life; I can't let him die because of me."
"Nessie, it's part of the natural order, He's meant to die some day." He said, he then turned towards the door with a blank look on his face, just as Alice ran in and said "Carlisle save the boy!"
We all looked at her in shock and then turned back to the boy. "What did she see?" I wondered.
"It's only right to save him he saved me from Paul!" I screamed
"I'll do it." Said my father. "If it means that much to you Sweet heart then I'll do it for you!"
"Are you sure you can Edward?" Asked Carlisle
"I can see that it will haunt you if you do it Carlisle, so I'll do it." He replied. They then nodded to each other; which meant that they were having a mental conversation.
"Thank you Dad, this means so much to me."
"Just think about the consequences of our actions Renesmee, What if this boy's family comes looking for him?"
My father did change the boy just in time to save him from dying and I was very grateful. Alice explained that she had seen the boy becoming a new addition to our family that's why she ran in so fast, and I liked the idea of having a brother, even if he was created and not born my brother.
After the long three painful days of his transformation the boy awoke. He seemed okay with this new life. I had explained to him what had happened and that this was the only way to save him from dying.
He told us that his name was Adam; he was seventeen and that he had been on his own for the past two years. His parents died when he was five and he was placed in foster care. He hated his foster parents and took off two years ago; they never tried to find him. He lived two towns over in an apartment; which he paid for using the trust fund his parents had setup for him as a baby.
Immortality suited him, he was even more beautiful than before, minus the red eyes, and I had pictured all of the girls in a high school chasing after him and that kind of made me laugh. He was also handling the thirst better than anyone else, well except Carlisle; he had centuries of practice, but he was even stronger at resisting than my mother had been.
We went on a hunt, just hours after he had finished the change and came across some hikers; the minute we smelt them, he had stopped dead in his tracks and ran in the opposite direction.
I wondered if my father's venom was the cause of this reaction; since he had only changed two people and those two people were the second best at resisting human blood. I say second best only because Carlisle beats them all hands down.
When we returned to the house after finding a few deer to prey on; I showed my family what had happened on our hunt; by using my gift and they too were all amazed at how he was able to run away. I also told them of my theory. Carlisle was intrigued by the idea, but my father was skeptical and shot the idea down. I wondered where Adam's room would be (even thought he didn't really need one). Carlisle had moved his office down to one of the sitting areas and created a bed room for Adam.
The mouths passed quickly and Adam and I had become close almost like we really were brother and sister, we did everything together, hunting, swimming, exploring the woods. I even fell asleep on the couch in his room after staying up most of the night talking.
Grandpa Charlie and Sue came for a visit in May. They were both shocked that Carlisle and Esme had adopted Adam, or at least that was the lie we were telling them.
The story was that Adam was Emmett's younger brother; they hadn't seen each other since their parents died. Esme and Carlisle had finally found him in foster care and decided to adopt him, so that he and Emmett could reunite.
Adam had no trouble being around Charlie and Sue for their three week stay. In fact Charlie had taken such a liking to Adam, that they even went fishing together; well with my Father's accompaniment, he didn't want to take any chances with Grandpa Charlie's life.
The last day of their stay Grandpa Charlie announced that he and Sue were getting married two years from now in August and asked that we all be there. My mother and father were unsure if it would be safe and Alice said she couldn't see anything, due to the fact that Sue's children; Leah and Seth were wolves. But she had seen that we arrived safely, which meant that we were going after all; and she had seen us all return in one piece.
"Alice, would you mind helping me with the preparations, you did such a wonderful job creating Bella and Edwards wedding and I was wondering if you'd do the same for Charlie and me?" Sue asked just before her and Charlie headed back home to Forks.
"I would be glad to Sue; you don't worry about a thing." Alice answered; she knew that if she chose the wrong stuff she'd see it in a vision and change her idea.
"Just remember the date is set for August sixth, two years from now." Sue said "I'll send you a guest list next week, Oh and Alice, nothing too fancy okay."
"Sure whatever you say!" Alice replied
They exchanged phone numbers and e-mail addresses before Grandpa Charlie finished saying his goodbyes. I hated to see them go, but I knew it was safer for them to stay away from us.
After they left I went to my room and decided to check my e-mails one more time. Adam had followed me and sat on my bed next to me while my laptop warmed up. I had shown him the whole story between Jake and me by using my gift. Whenever I opened my inbox to see that I had no new messages, I would become so sad; sometimes even cry. Tonight was different though; Jake had left me a message I opened it and read:
Nessie,
Hey I miss you too! Sorry I haven't messaged you back I've been kind of busy.
I'm going to come visit you on Saturday, if that's okay with you. Let me know
Love Jake
I couldn't believe he had finally replied and that he was coming to visit in just two days. I closed the computer and hugged Adam almost knocking him over which was hard to do to a vampire. I jumped up from my bed and grabbed Adam's hand and said "Come on I have to tell mom and dad."
He jumped up and we ran out of my room still holding hands.
"Mom, Dad guess what?" I shouted, as we ran down the stairs "Jake's coming to visit on Saturday!"
"Oh how exciting!" Esme said
"Great, I'd better go get some air fresheners!" Said Rose
"Air fresheners?" Said Adam
"It took us three weeks to get the smell of dog out of the house last time he was here!" Rose replied
Adam turned to me and said "Why do they need Air fresheners?"
"Because they think Jake stinks." I replied
"No, we know he stinks; you'll see soon enough Adam." Emmett said "I'd go get something to plug your nose with ASAP!"
"Thanks for the warning, Emmett." Adam replied
"Don't listen to them Adam, he smells fine." I said while walking to the living room
"Do you think he'll be okay with Adam?" Uncle Jasper said "After all the treaty said we couldn't bite a single human and well here Adam is."
"I wouldn't want to cause us any problems." Adam Said. "Maybe I should go stay with Tanya and her family till he leaves!"
"The treaty only covered Forks and we don't live in Forks anymore." My mother said
"Bella's got a point there!" said Emmett "We don't live in Forks, besides Edward saved the kids life."
He then rubbed Adams hair messing it up even worse than it was before.
"But still do you think it'll be a threat for him to know about me?" Adam Asked
"It'll be fine Adam, don't worry about it." My father said. "The treaty only applies to Forks and we don't plan on going back there for at least eighty years or so."
"But what about Charlie and Sue's wedding?" Asked Alice
"Maybe I should go stay with Tanya's family, and then Jake never has to find out about me." Adam said
"Wait." said Carlisle "What if we tell him Adam is from Tanya's family and that he's staying with us!"
"I could just stay in my room till Jake leaves, besides I have a lot of reading to do if I am going to school in the fall with the rest of you."
"And I can distract Jake at night, so that Adam can go hunt." I said to my father
"Jasper and I can teach you all the things you'll need to know about pretending to be a human during the day." Said Alice
"See it's all settled then." Said Adam
We all turned to Alice to see if our plan was going to work. "I can't see anything remember, he's a werewolf." She said in an annoyed voice.
"So it's settled then, I'll stay in my room learning and getting ready for the fall, at night Nessie will distract the wolf and I'll go hunt." Adam said
"That seems like a great plan." Said Esme
Adam and I decided to go hunting on Friday so that he wouldn't be so thirsty on Saturday. We found a big group of deer and drained at least three each. As we headed back to the house we began to play fight with each other. My mother hated when we'd do this because she was always scared I'd get hurt. I had Adam pinned down to the ground and was about to let him up when Jake stepped out of the trees to the left of us. I jumped up off of Adam and said "Jake your early!"
"I couldn't wait to see you any longer, who's this?" He said motioning his head towards Adam
"Um, this is Adam, he's..."
"I'm Tanya's son, well sort of." Adam interrupted me.
Jakes eyes narrowed and he looked Adam up and down like he was jealous of him. Adam broke the uncomfortable silence and said "I'm going to head back to the house; it was nice meeting you Jake."
After Adam left Jake started questioning me about him. I felt like I was being interrogated.
"So Tanya made a new vampire? How long ago? Why?"
"Listen Jake, she saved him from dying and he's been a vampire since January or so, anything else?" I replied
"Do you like this Adam guy?"
"What do you mean Jake?"
"Do you like him as a boyfriend!" he said while looking at the ground
"No Jake, Adam is like a brother to me; well I mean I think of him as a brother."
"Does he feel the same way?"
"Of course, we'd never be more than that." The thought of dating my own brother was enough to make me throw up; but I didn't.
"Are you sure he doesn't feel differently?"
"Jacob, I've had enough of this."
"Well I don't like him one bit."
I stormed off towards the house to angry to continue talking to Jake. How could he think that Adam and I where a thing, an item? He didn't even know who Adam really was. Jake later apologized and we went on with our visit with each other. We would go explore the caves near the house and the waterfall at the other side of the lake, then hunt together and at night we'd have a bonfire.
There was no reason for Adam to hide from Jake during his visit, but he seemed to do so anyway. He would tell me that he really wanted Alice and Jasper to help him learn everything about fitting in at school. He seemed to only run into Jake and I a few times and they were not pleasant times either. Jake's resentment; or was it jealousy towards Adam made every moment uncomfortable.
Jake's visit ended a week later, he wanted to get back home, and his exams start on Monday. I hated to see him go; but he promised to visit me more during the summer, and when my school started he'd visit on weekends so I wouldn't get distracted.
