Sorry about the long wait, I was pretty ill, in fact I still am, but I'll try to update sooner. To make up for it I made more than 1000 words!

Happy reading!

Ilovetwilight2012

I had to really strain my ears to hear the conversation; there had been a long pause. After that first awkward minute of silence, Grandpa had given a quite cough and said something that sounded like, "I bearlly cub you".

I sighed; I was never going to be able to know what was going on!

"Eally sand?" said Mum.

I was going to have to lip read.

Cautiously, I looked around to check that nobody was looking – all the family had told me not to look, and give them some privacy – and peeked over the sofa, but I could barely see the cottage, let alone know what was going on inside!

I checked again to see that I was unnoticed and crept so silently, I was sure that there was absolutely no noise coming from me and drifted like a ghost up to the window of the cottage door, and ducked underneath the windowsill.

I was pretty sure that Dad wouldn't be able to read my mind; he would be pretty intent on hearing Charlie.

They had broken the silence while I was concentrating on coming here noiselessly. I started listening to them again.

"- And I swear we would never hurt you, we only hunt animals, not people."

"Who, um, changed you?" asked Charlie, though he clearly didn't really mind that she was immortal, I bet he would be pretty angry at whoever had done this to his daughter.

"Edward." Mum whispered in tiny, squeaky voice.

Charlie looked at Dad with a look that clearly said you will pay. Bella gave a small, exasperated sigh.

"And him?" asked Charlie, shifting his gaze from Dad to Mum.

"Carlisle found him dying in the hospital of the Spanish influenza in 1918 at the age of seventeen, his mother had told him to change him so he took him out of the hospital. He found Esme after she…" looked like she was going to give the whole story of our lives.

I started to translate the Declaration of Independence into Catalan, to pass the time.

Quan en el curs dels esdeveniments humans es fa necessari per a un poble dissoldre els vincles polítics que l'han lligat a un altre i assumir entre els poders de la terra, el lloc separat i igual que les lleis de la naturalesa i del Déu de la Natura dret ells, un respecte decent per les opinions de la humanitat exigeix que declari les causes que l'impulsen a-

"But the reason we told you about us is important, and it is to do with you," said Mum, capturing my attention immediately, "As you may have guessed, there are others of us, and there is a big coven of vampires, that are extremely powerful," she said, easing him in gently.

"These people lay down laws, a bit like the police, and they have a huge guard, so they are also a bit like royalty, and they are incredibly rich." Said Mum.

"But, what's the problem, then?" said Grandpa, picking up where this was going.

"The problem," said Mum, sighing, "Is that, like I said they lay down laws, and we have broken one. We have had contact with a human." She smiled almost sheepishly at Grandpa.

"But, why is that bad?" asked Grandpa, still seeming non-plussed.

There was a long minute of very awkward silence, and then he got it.

"Oh," he said, looking a bit disgusted for a second, and then pulling himself together.

"RENESMEE CARLIE CULLEN!" an angry voice yelled from the house

Oh no.

As quick as I could I ran back to the house, hoping that I could claim to have been there the whole time, but, they had probably already guessed where I was, from the tone of their voice.

When I got there I saw Alice, looking furious at me.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" she screeched at the top of her voice.

"What, what is it? Are you okay, what's going on?" said a frantic Jacob running down the stairs; Alice paid no attention to him though.

"HOW COULD YOU DO THIS? DO YOU NOT LOVE ME?" cried Alice.

I was quite concerned now, she couldn't be that angry with me, could she?

"Alice, what did I do?" I said.

"LOOK AT THESE!" she sobbed pulling out two white objects.

I burst out laughing when I saw what they were.

They were two, very battered, very muddy high heels.

Both Jacob and I were hysterically rolling on the floor, doubling up even more at Alice's mortified expression.

"Laughing! How can you be laughing! These are innocent shoes here!"

I literal couldn't breathe.

"What's wrong?" said Emmett coming down the stairs, but Jake and I were in no fit state to tell him.

"Alice-yelled-shoes-muddy-can'tstop!" I managed to get out

He stood there just taking in the weirdness of the scene, and shaking his head until I was completely drained of energy after all the laughing.

"Ness, you should really get some sleep," he said pointing his head to the window, when I had finally calmed down.

Wow, It was already dark, had the time really passed that quickly?

"Come on," said Jake "I'll take you."

As he tucked me in and kissed me on my forehead I asked,

"How is the pack?"

"Okay, we've got two new members, Ace and Jayden Denman, they are brothers. Jayden has imprinted, on a girl named Kelly, but there is no big drama, she is twelve, so only a few years younger than him."

I nodded. Jacob's pack had gotten most of the new members; Ashton, Robbie, Florence, Mike and these new two. Sam's pack only had Paul, Jared, Brady – Collin had joined Jacob's – and one called Liam who was causing some trouble, he had a temper that matched Paul! So the fact that Liam and Paul got into a lot of fights wasn't very surprising.

"Love you Jake," I said, yawning.

"Love you more, he said and walked over to the door.

I swear I heard him whisper "more than you know" after he turned out the light.