Hi! I'm so very sorry for the late!! I had to prepare for an important physics exam, besides I was writing the 2nd chapter of another story, so I couldn't keep on writing the chapter as much as I was used to… I know, I want to do too many things… X)

I hope the waiting has been worth!

It was unbelievable that the answer to our researches was so near and we didn't know it. It seemed a disquieting joke. Just when Edward could be so determining, his capability of reading thoughts was practically very nearly vanished, so when we talked with our daughter about her first day of school he couldn't recognize her new friends.

This was definitely a bad joke of destiny.

But was still destiny to decide that Renesmee had those friends? Friends that had already known her, and looked for her with unexplainable interest. We didn't know them, so why did they know her? This was not fate, this was only the proof that someone should have told them about her. Someone who even knew where we lived. What did it mean? My vampire's brain couldn't catch it.

Was it possible for us to obtain peace? I sighed at this thought and came back to the present.

I saw Edward tightening grip on the wheel, his eyes were fixed on the road through which he was driving without respecting a single rule of the traffic. Suddenly he shook his head and took a deep breath.

"Edward" I whispered.

No response came from him.

I waited some seconds, but nothing changed, so I took his hand from the wheel, pretending not to notice the difference of colour between my ivory hand and the delicate, dim pink which was slowly appearing on his skin. I put his hand on my cheek and felt his heat arriving as far as my bones and my heart, but I didn't move it. I soon felt his breath slowing down, as always the physical contact between us reassured me and him.

"Edward" I newly called him.

As I saw the school of Renesmee and Jacob appear in front of us -after only five minutes that we had left ours- Edward turned his face on mine and looked at me with a guilty glance. He moved his thumb up and down my cheek, then moved away his hand and switched off the engine. We were in front of the sports ground of that high school, some metres far from me was the changing room from which some students were beginning to exit.

"I am completely useless" he suddenly lamented and covered the eyes with his hand.

"Don't you ever dare say that again" I replied to him out loud. I could repress neither my voice nor the snarl which escaped from my throat without control. Those words pronounced by his mouth were unbearable to me, they were a blasphemy.

"No, Bella, If only I could still read mind we had known everything instantaneously. I'd have understood it by a simple look into Renesmee's mind". He said and shook his head.

He was right, but this wasn't certainly a fault.

"Yes, at any rate we've understood everything very quickly, so Edward calm down" I explained to him, "we are here, and we've been very lucky". Indeed, only from a single point of view we had been lucky in all this thing, and it was the fact that we had understood almost immediately that the girl was the right answer to our questions. And it was all thanks to Rosalie, in fact her incredible and visceral will to find a way to come back human made her brain work better then ours. Her hope was too close to be granted to give up, and Edward was in front of her showing that there was a way to fulfil her only desire.

"And Renesmee? What if it happens something to her?" he finally replied to me with apprehension, I knew that his concerns weren't for himself, but all for our daughter.

"Jacob is with her, nothing will happen to Renesmee." I remembered him, then added "Nessie is fine". I didn't know why, but I had the odd feeling that she was safe.

Then I turned my face towards the door of the car to get out. We wouldn't had trouble to find them, because I saw Jacob almost in front of me.

He had just exited from the changing room to follow his mates, and Renesmee had reached him with her natural grace, and an unusual grimace on her face. He smiled at her confused as he didn't understand the reason of her expression. Suddenly Renesmee astonished him, and me.

My eyes popped. "I'd say more than fine" I whispered with a smile. Edward followed my gaze suspiciously and breathed resigned. The image in front of us was what we both expected to see someday, but not so soon.

Renesmee had pushed him back to the wall of the building, and keeping her hands on his shoulders she rose up on tiptoe to kiss him. Jacob was completely astonished. In fact he kept his hands up as he was going to be arrested by the police, and didn't move. When Nessie perceived that he wasn't answering to her kiss, she budged from his face and looked at him, frustration and disappointment were evident.

"Renesmee's definitely your daughter. She assaulted him like you did to me" said Edward shaking his head. I couldn't believe that he wasn't angry. I had thought that he would have been jealous, but he didn't look like annoyed.

I smiled at him.

"Jake" Nessie pleaded. Jacob didn't answer, but bleary-eyed looked at her for a moment.

Studying his face and not understanding the meaning of his expression, Renesmee lowered her arms and rolled over to go away, crestfallen and hurt. A tear damped her cheek.

She strode two steps before Jacob took her arm and made her body turn towards him. He was now looking at her with adoring eyes, his mouth was folded in a blissful smile and his joy was shining on his face. He slowly put his hands on her neck, fingering her face as it was made of porcelain, I even could perceive from my place that he was almost trembling when he lowered his lips on hers to give her a tender and passionate kiss.

A honk made jolt me and them.

I glanced at Edward who was now leaning over the wheel, his eyelids were closed and his breaths deep. "That dog want me to go mad" he muttered.

"Edward" I grouched.

"It's true, he always wants my women" he explained raising up his face towards me.

"He's got good taste" I joked.

"He's got very good taste" he corrected me seriously.

"And you must admit that Jake loves her and he's the only one who really deserves her" I replied to him, knowing that he agreed with me, even though it was difficult do admit.

"yeah…" he only whispered, then he looked behind me to see Renesmee and Jacob approach us. I was facing Edward, but I didn't need to turn my face to control that he was looking at them, because their hammering heartbeats were more and more near.

I got out the car and saw Jacob and Renesmee coming towards us with an interrogative gaze, in particular Jake had a look at Edward and glanced down, knowing that we caught them in the act. Renesmee didn't seem to feel uncomfortable, on the contrary she looked satisfied, and relaxed, as she had thrown off a lead weight from her stomach. Indeed she was really happy, in fact in a quick move she took Jacob's hand and kept on walking smiling at us. Poor Jacob, he was really embarrassed.

They reached in few seconds.

"Hi! What are you doing here?" Nessie asked us with curiosity.

"You won't believe it, we must talk with your new friends!" I answered to her, and glanced at Jacob who looked up at us.

"My friends?" she asked suspiciously.

"Yes, Renesmee, Jake told they are vampires and we are convinced that they know what's happening to me" Edward explained her calmly.

"So, we are going to tell her that we are vampires?" she asked enthusiastically.

Her?

"Her?" Edward repeated my thought out loud.

"Yes, today Samanta's not there, Julia said that she had to go with her parents, but she didn't tell me when she'll come back" Renesmee explained us. "Isn't true Jake?" she said turning her face towards Jacob.

"Yeah" he simply nodded.

Renesmee turned her gaze and waved us one of the benches of the sports ground. "Look! She's Julia".

A girl with long yellowish-brown hair and pearly skin glanced at us for the briefest of the moments then looked away. She was definitely a vampire, a human wouldn't have heard Renesmee's voice, we were too far from the girl, and the move of her head had been too quick. But she wasn't the vampire we needed to find. Julia was the friend.

"Nessie, we should talk with her" Edward told kindly.

"I go and tell her. For PE I asked for a justification as you suggested me and she's got a justification too, so we are free" Renesmee told us satisfied, then added "Jake, you stay here with mum and dad" and walked away towards Julia.

Jacob followed her with his eyes for a moment before talking.

"Is Julia the girl you're looking for?"

"No, it's Samanta. But maybe Julia could help us, once we told her the truth" I said.

"I hope so" replied to me Jacob.

After a moment of silence I felt Edward tightening grip of his hand on my waist and then sighing "Jacob".

Jacob looked at him with a worried glance and said "Oh, ehm, I wasn't prepared. I didn't expect her to… I'm so sor…" but Edward stopped him.

"No, Jacob, we must apologize. We didn't want to see what we've seen, we knew this thing would have happened but certainly we didn't want to witness it, everyone deserves his privacy". I completely agreed with him and I smiled seeing the face of Jacob, who bite his lip as he didn't know what to say. Then Edward took a deep breath and continued staring at him, "Mostly I personally have to say sorry to you, because I knew you and Renesmee were going to date, it was obvious from the thoughts of both of you. But I didn't tell you what I should. I admit that I had a little fun looking how hard you were engaging not to think too much of her all the time. I am very sorry, I've been cruel, and I understand how difficult could be to love a girl whose dad knows your thoughts. So I'll say now what you deserve. You have my permission to officially date Renesmee, Jacob Black" he said convinced and even cracked a smile at Jacob, who didn't speak, but looked at him as he'd become green. I understood how hard was for Edward to speak about it, but I even knew that he'd make the right choice giving our permission to Jacob.

"Thank you Edward" finally Jacob found the voice to answer. His tone was serious and full of gratitude.

I hugged him and murmured on his ear "We are happy for you, Jake. Look after her"

"It's what I want" he replied and gave me the most Jacobian's of smiles.

I smiled at him then I went back to Edward and told him in a whisper "I love you". Edward tightened grip of one hand on my waist while with the other he caressed my neck, he was looking at me with a sweet green glance.

"I told you my parents are ridiculously madly in love…" we heard Renesmee telling to Julia.

I looked at my daughter and her new friend who were approaching us with the innate elegance of vampires. Jacob was staring at Renesmee, who grimaced at him and then looked away. He had a sigh and rolled his eyes.

Julia was a fine-looking girl, her brown eyes fitted perfectly with her long hair and her body was as thin as a twig. I understood why we didn't identify her immediately as a vampire. Her skin was pearly pink and issued warmth, her odour was very sweet to be a vampire, but not as mouthwatering as that of a human. She was a very strange vampire, there was something wrong with her.

"These are my mum Bella and my dad Edward, and this is my friend Julia" she introduced us.

As Julia looked through us she stopped walking and her lovely face froze in an expression of surprise and worry. I took a step forward and spoke, trying to make her feel at ease, "Nice to meet you Julia". I smiled at her, "We're sorry to bother you".

"You're the students of yesterday morning in the other school" she said stupefied.

But I was more stupefied than her, because I had heard a low thud coming from her chest. I concentrated on that sound and heard a very slow and low heartbeat. It was her heart.

"Yes we are" Edward answered to her with calm. Maybe he hadn't heard it.

Julia looked at him and blushed. She blushed. I remembered that also yesterday their cheeks had become red when he spoke to them.

"You're the Cullens" Julia asked without looking away from him. He nodded to confirm it. "I'm so sorry for you Edward" she said with evident regret.

"Why?" I asked her without hiding my haste.

"Because you're becoming like me and Samanta's not there to help us" she said cryptically. I wanted to shake her, to urge her to really explaining us what was happening, but Jacob prevented me to do it as he took her shoulders and fixing her eyes he exclaimed "What do you mean?"

"I'm a vampire, but I need Samanta not to have to choose between dying or being a monster" she said with glacial voice.

I am very sorry to have stopped there, but I had too many things to explain so I decided to continue in the next chapter. Things are going from bad to worse, I warn you.
I haven't received many comments, so I don't know if you like the story. I hope you've liked it!! :D