"Jake?" I mumbled in a very morning voice. "Hm?" He responded from the floor. But before I could say anything Dad, and Rose were in the room. Dad whispered something and shook Jacob, who shot up like a rocket from the ground, grabbing me in the process by the arm. "We have to go." He said, sounding much more authoritative than the hm? he had said a mere seconds before.
"What? Why?" "Sh!" Rose glared at me. I felt dizzy having stood up way to fast, thanks to Jacob and was now being dragged into Carlisle's office and then into the basement. "What the hell?" I asked trying to adjust my eyes to the light Jake had just turned on. He closed the door quietly behind us and we began to walk down the stairs. "Jake would you please-" "keep walking." he said in a serious tone. "I deserve to know-" "What did I just tell you?" He quietly shouted at me. My heart was racing. Jacob never yelled. And if he did it was at Dad, not at me.
I ripped my arm out of his hand and stood still on the stair. "Please…" I whispered, my arms folded and freezing cold by the basement air. He turned around abruptly and looked into my eyes. My heart skipped a beat. "Renesmee, you need to trust me. You need to trust Edward. Just keep walking." I did. Silently trailing behind Jacob.
We got to the base of the stairs and Jake flicked off the lights. "What are you doing? Are you crazy? I am not the best at seeing in the dark!" I whispered, reaching blindly for his arm. If only I inherited Dad's eyesight. Jake grabbed my arm again and we began walking in the dark, me blindly following him. I could now hear voices talking upstairs. I inhaled quickly. "What is it?" he said stopping. "That's Jane!" I whispered back, fear crawling up my spine. "Don't worry about it." he whispered pulling me deeper into the basement. He started feeling the wall. "What are you doing?" I asked. He didn't answer. I could tell he tugged on something and a door swung open. "What the-" "C'mon." He said pulling me into the space behind the door.
He felt the wall and found a light switch. He turned it on and a faint glow lit up the room. It was a closet. Who knew there was this closet in the basement? It was a rather furnished closet too. There were two beds, pj's folded neatly on top of each bed. One, a girls pair and the other for guys. There were two pictures hanging on the wall. One of Jake and I when I was little and the other a picture of a sunset.
The walls were a shade of mint green and there was a small cabinet on the wall, which I opened and found was filled with non-perishable snacks, juice and water bottles. "Did you know this was down here?" I asked Jacob. "No." he said quietly, shutting the door behind him. Locks jingled as he bolted the door closed. "Did you?" He asked. "No." I answered, grabbing a bag of chips from the cabinet.
"Are they here?" I asked, hearing more footfalls from above. "All of them?" "No. Not all of them." I didn't know what else to say, so I just munched awkwardly on my chips. "Hungry?" I asked, putting my bag of chips towards him. "I'm fine Ness." He said taking off his leather jacket. "Who is here? Just Jane?" "I don't know Nessie." Jake said sitting on his bed, putting his head in his hands. "It sounds like there is just her. That Jane girl." "Are you okay?" I asked ignoring what he said. "I should have just brought you home and not let you go to that party." I was shocked. "What? Are you kidding me?" I said jumping off my bed and sitting next to him, bringing my knees to my chin. "This isn't your fault. If this Volturi girl wanted to find me, she would have, party or not." He didn't move. "Jake?" I asked, trying to look at his face through his hands.
"What?" He said, his voice cracking, sounding like he wanted to cry. I put my chips on the bed and hugged him. I rocked him back and forth like he used to do when I was upset. Whatever this Volturi wanted I wouldn't go down without a fight. After a while his body went limp and he started snoring. I giggled quietly glancing at his watch which read 4:00 AM. Just seeing the time made me tired. I soon fell asleep too for the second time that night, this time listening to Jane's faint talking from up above.
I woke up covered in Jake. He was practically on top of me, making it slightly hard to breath and his arms were splayed all over the place. Then I saw Dad standing above us, just watching. I almost screamed out of suprise.
"Daddy! How did you get in here?" I was pretty sure Jake had done a good job locking the door. "Alice has her ways." He said staring blankly at the picture of the sunset. I made a desperately lame attempt to push Jacob off of me, but he was too heavy. But he did sort of roll over enough for me to get out from underneath him. "So… what happened last night?" I asked. "Not much." Dad said not breaking his gaze from the picture. "Does she want to talk to me?" "No." Dad's voice sounded empty, like there was no more life in it. "Are you okay?" I asked. "He's fine." Mom's voice came from the doorway. "Edward?" She said looking at him. He finally broke the stare. "Come on, let Jake sleep he had a rough night too." Mom said shuffling us out of the closet in the basement. When we got upstairs there was no smell of pancakes, waffles, eggs or anything breakfasty that hit my nose.
It smelled like nothing. And nobody was talking. Mom led me to the living room where everyone was sitting in silence. Dad suddenly growled staring at Carlisle. "How could you think that?" he bellowed. Carlisle stood up. "It may be our only option. They would realize she is just like us. They wouldn't be as inclined to do the uh… the um.. testing." "No. They don't need to even see her." Dad said.
"Is anyone going to tell me what is going on here? Or what happened last night?" I asked the room in general. No one responded. Finally Esme stood up. "Nessie, last night Jane came over. Jane from the party you were at." She was just stalling. She did this when she didn't want to say what was really going on. "And she asked us some questions… about you." "Why? And why did Jake and I need to hide?"
"She didn't need to see you or know you were here." Dad said. "If she came to talk to me then…" "She came to talk about you. Not to you." Dad interrupted. "She was nice at the party. I don't see why I needed to hide in the basement." "It doesn't matter." Dad said through his teeth. "If it doesn't matter I shouldn't have had to hide!" I shouted back.
"If someone doesn't tell me what is going on I will personally call this Jane girl. She gave me her number. And I am sure she will tell me-" "Calm down." Alice said jumping up and grabbing my shoulders. I wanted to tear away and say no, but I didn't. I just started crying. What was my problem? Why was I crying so easily in the past twelve hours? Alice looked up slightly past my eyes and whispered, "They are going to come back. This time they want to search. There will be more of them." Everyone was around us at that second. "They won't leave until she's destroyed."