A/N sorry for the long-ass chapter 8. I just got so excited it was like asdfghjlkl. SM owns a lot of diz.
NESSIE POV
"Well, I think we know why Nessie's gift just got much stronger. It seems to be that when a half vampire reaches their puberty, their gifts become fully unleashed. Renesmee can, with the touch of a body part, take someone's gift into her mind and make a copy of it for future use," says Carlisle.
"So, when I reach, uh, puberty will I be able to do more cool stuff?" asks Dalia nervously.
"Probably you will be able to project your shield without touching a person. Childs' gifts usually seem to work with touch only apparently," says Edward, marveling over me. I smile, keeping my hands under my legs but projecting my happiness and worry over my new condition. Momma- I mean Bella- hugs me tight.
"I bet Dalia gets hers in the next few days, huh?" says Jasper proudly.
"Yeah, Dals, you'd better be on RED alert!" Emmett crows, laughing. Rosalie hits him and Esme hits him harder. We're all sitting in the massive living room, talking about stuff.
Dalia blushes bright scarlet and looks at me for help. I send a rude gesture in a mental image to Emmett. He starts to laugh and Edward gives me a warning look. I smile at him. Whoa, it's getting late.
"Dalia and I should get to bed; we've got school in the morning. Don't stay up too late, vampires!" I chuckle. They all smile warmly at my joke, and I go to hug Momma and Daddy.
"I'm sad to say that this is your last night as my parents for now… Momma, you're my sister and Daddy, I'm just living with you. PLEASE don't do parent stuff at school. Leave all that to Carlisle and Esme, okay?" I whisper to them. They nod sadly.
"The outfits all arrived today. Remember planning them? We'll put them on in the morning!" Alice chirps. I smile at her, then I turn to Dalia. She takes my hand and we run upstairs into our room.
"You're not saying goodnight to Jacob?" she asks me as I get into bed.
"If he wants to talk to me, he'll come in here like a proper man," I huff at her.
"Uh, Nessie, proper men aren't supposed to enter ladies' bedrooms…" she trails off. I throw a decorative pillow at her.
"Am I interrupting something?" says Jake as he walks in. I look up, slightly frostily.
"Looks like it. Well, goodnight anyway. I'll see you in the morning. I'm going to school too, remember," he turns and walks out of the room, closing the door. I exchange looks with Dalia and turn off the light.
I blink awake, feeling suddenly cold. It's still really dark, and I see a glint of white in the darkness. My eyes adjust enough to see Alice sitting on my bed in front of me, grinning.
"Alice! What are you doing?!" I hiss. "What time is it?"
"It's six AM! Get up; we only have an hour and a half to do your hair and makeup, little sister."
I groan and throw the covers off. She's already pounced onto Dalia's bed and is waking her up. I pull on my fluffy white robe and walk into the bathroom, yawning. Rosalie and Bella are waiting for me, with me and Dalia's makeup kit.
I am subjected to a hot shower, blow dry, style, makeup, and by then the light is starting to pour in. Dalia was not far behind me. We get dressed in our previously chosen outfits and meet up downstairs for a bottle of Plasma each. We finish our drinks and brush our teeth.
"So, who's driving who?" says Edward as we all gather in the garage.
"I'll take Nessie, Dalia, Emmett and Alice. You take Rose and Jasper, okay?" says Bella. I grab Edward's hand for good luck, but then I grin evilly and steal his gift. He roars at me but everyone laughs and we run away. My group climbs into Bella's new 1960 Chevrolet Corvette that Emmett found her and restored. He installed an extra seat in the middle front so we can take five people per car. I climb into the middle front seat, Bella into the driver seat, Dalia takes shotgun, and Emmett climbs into the back with Alice.
We all speed down the mountain, past the ugly yellow buses and towards the local high school. It's pretty big, with about 3,000 students. As we pull into the parking lot, I read the minds of the kids around us.
Are those kids new?!
Wow, this year's going to be a blast!
Holy shit, that car is hot! But I like the driver better!
Damn, that young one with the reddish hair better look out or I'll snap her up.
I wonder if that chick is a virgin, she looks like a slut!
I mentally growl at the last one. Edward's Volvo pulls in behind us and we all step out. It feels natural as I soak up the looks of these humans. I flip my hair and Alice puts her arm around me.
"Welcome to high school," she says. Some fruity looking blonde girl walks up to us and smiles with perfect teeth. Well, perfect for a human.
Ha, these ones will be perfect to have as my followers. They had better not get more attention than me or they're dead.
"Hiiiiiii, my name is Kelli Monroe. Perhaps you've heard of my dad? Kevin Monroe?" she announces. From the thoughts of the kids around me, she's the queen be here.
"No sorry. Can we help you?" says Alice. Kelli looks furious for a moment.
"Welcome to my school. I'm super popular here. If you want to be in the It crowd, I think you'll want to stick with me."
"I think you'll find that we don't need anyone to make us popular. Thanks for the offer, Cary!" I smile brightly at her.
"It's KELLI," she grits her teeth.
"That's nice," says Dalia, and we all walk inside. There's a rumble behind us, and Jacob speeds into the parking lot on his motorcycle. I see Kelli look him up and down, plaster that simpering smile on her face, then walk over to him. I run up past her.
"Jake!" I yell, and launch myself into his arms. He swings me around and kisses my head.
"Hey, Nessie! Glad you got here before me. I slept in, can you tell?"
"Nope, you're still my Jacob, bread and butter," I say, then realize he doesn't know I can read thoughts. Time to make the best of this.
Well, I'm glad she's thawed out already. I hate it when she's mad at me. Who's that behind her? He thinks. I put a thought in his head accidentally.
"Protecting my territory" was the thought. When he hears it, he chuckles.
"Have you borrowed something of Edward's, love? Oh well. Good to know I'm your territory," he laughs at me. I hear Kelli clear her throat behind me, and turn around to see the whole school looking at us.
"Make out sesh much?" Kelli snaps.
"Jealous much?" I say right back. Jake puts his arm around me and we walk into the school, leaving the crowd laughing.
"Shut up!" yells Kelli.
We all move into the office where we get our class assignments and locker combinations. I have almost every class with Dalia, and quite a few with Alice. Alice is posing as our age to keep an eye on us. On my way to my locker, I bump into someone and hear their heart accelerate.
"Oh, sorry!" I say, looking up at a blonde guy with pale blue eyes. He looks like a male Kelli.
"Don't worry about it, sugar. Hey, I'm Elliot. What's your name?" he says.
"I'm Renesmee. You can call me Nessie, though," I tell him.
"Nessie. That's a pretty name you have, it matches your face," he looks behind me. I turn around and Kelli is there, sneering.
"Getting around today, are we, Ruh-nez-mee?" she glares at me, walking over to Elliot and trailing a long fingernail down his chest. "See this? It's mine."
"Carrie, darling, it's simply unattractive to sneer like some deformed zombie. Halloween isn't for another month or two, isn't it?" I say ever so sweetly.
"It's Kelli, you brainless twit! Come on, Eli, we don't socialize with foreigners here," she snaps, trying to pull him away.
"Oh, sorry Kerrie. Your accent is so… charming? And I'm pretty sure America isn't that foreign. Oh, and you missed a spot with that fake bronzer," I say back to her. By now, a large group has formed around us.
"Watch your back, dolly. Nobody screws with Kelli!" she hisses.
"Well I guess if you change the 'nobody' to 'everybody' and drop the 'with' then your sentence is correct, no?" I laugh. The kids around me all start hooting with laughter. Kelli fumes as she drags Elliot away.
"Who is that girl?" someone says. I turn around.
"Hey, guys! I'm Renesmee Denali," I chirp, just like the intro for our YouTube channel.
"Hold on, Renesmee! You're from that video!" someone yells. What video? They see my confused look, so someone hands me their phone and I look at the screen. It's a familiar webpage.
"Holy crap, our video got two million views?" I say, looking at the Dalia and Renesmee on screen, singing and swaying. "That's so cool!"
Everyone wants to get my number and talk to me now, and I feel suffocated.
"Back off, guys!" booms Emmett. "She's got to get to class now!"
The crowd parts like the Red Sea because my big "brother" is massive. Emmett walks me to my first class, where I gratefully hug him and take my seat next to Dalia.
"Hey, loser. Had any more run-ins with Kelli?" she says, doing Kelli's snobby rich accent.
"Yeah, I practically called her a slut. Oops. So, have you?" I say, laughing.
"Totally. I was talking to Mark from the soccer team and she accused me of being a gold digger. I explained the meaning of gold digger to her, and she sneered that god-awful sneer," she mutters.
"Oh, lord. So, we're sitting with our brother and sisters for lunch?" I ask.
"Yeah, we're sitting like we did at the old school," she says for show. I nod at her like this is normal.
"Did you see Kelli's face when you tackled Jake? She flipped, oh my god. If she thinks she has a chance with Jacob Black, she's insane! We all know he likes diamond girls!" adds Dalia. I laugh at her nickname for vampires. Diamond boys and diamond girls.
"I don't know what the fuck a diamond girl is, but I can get Jacob Black without even trying!" we hear from behind us. I look around and figure out why Dalia was trash talking.
"And I'll have you know, Jacob was totally checking me out today!" snaps Kelli.
"Ew, it's you. Do you mind butting out? Eavesdropping is so creepy. We don't need a stalker, thanks!" snaps Dalia right back. I snort and turn around to see Elliot at my desk.
"Oh, hey Elliot! What's up?" I ask. He grins an adorable lopsided grin.
"Hey, Nessie. I was wondering if I could get your number."
"Of course!" I chirp, writing it down in my notebook and ripping it off for him.
"Thanks. I'll text you when I get my phone back from Mr. Wilanozki." He says and saunters off.
I plop my iPhone down in front of me as a greasy-looking boy tries to copy Eli's saunter as he walks up to my desk.
"Hey, baby," he says in a spitty sounding voice.
"Can I help you?"
"You can give me your digits," he says, adjusting his suspenders. Suspenders? REALLY?
"Sure!" I say, writing down the number for a Drag Queen convention. Rosalie made me memorize the number in case anyone tried to get my cell number and I didn't like them. He grabs the paper and walks over to his awestruck friends.
"Ew, you'll really get with anyone!" laughs Kelli, loud enough for the entire class to hear. I roll my eyes and point over at the nerd. He's tapping wildly on the keys to his phone, and then hits send and stares at my iPhone on the desk.
My phone remains completely still. He dials the number and holds the phone to his ear. My phone still remains silent.
"Drag Queen convention?! No! I'm trying to talk to Renesmee- No! I don't want to- uh, hello Ramsey. No, there's been a mista- EW! NO I WOULD NOT! GOOD DAY, SIR! I mean, Madam!" he yells and hangs up the phone. The entire class starts laughing, even Kelli.
The rest of the day passes quickly. I met a sweet girl named Paiden who's in my math class. I gave my number out to three people, Paiden, Elliot and another boy, Derrick.
"Oh, hello kids! How was your first day of school?" says Esme as we all parade into the kitchen, laughing and joking.
"Esme, it was fabulous!" I say, sitting at the table. She passes around bottles of Plasma for us and a Root Beer for Jacob. "There's this mean girl, Kelli. She's so rude, and arrogant!"
"Well, Nessie sure showed her! Thanks, Esme! C'mon Nessie, I want to go make some more music in the hizzie!" yells Dessie. Carlisle and Esme watch us all fondly as we all tousle around and cause a ruckus.
"Kids, shush now! The babies are having a quiet time; they've been fussing all day!" Esme calls over the noise. We quit jollying around and I take Dalia's hand, running upstairs.
"No recording until your homework is done!" yells Carlisle after us. I plunk down on my bed with my backpack and pull my books out.
Dalia and I start gossiping about our day.
"Oh my gosh, did you see that Elliot kid? He couldn't tear his eyes off you! Down, boy!" hoots Dalia.
"Really, he was checking me out? Dalia really! Are you playing?" I ask, doodling the Dark Mark on my notes.
"I'm totally serious right now. Okay, ten bucks tells me that Derrick is not playing for Elliot's team," she laughs.
"What do you mean, Derrick doesn't even play sports!"
"Oh lord, darling you are so thick sometimes. Derrick is one thousand per cent homosexual!"
Oh, now I get it. I nod and chuckle a bit.
"I don't care what team he plays for, I want to be friends with him!" I tell her. She agrees with me. We put our homework away and tidy up the bedroom, opening the curtains wide. Dalia starts setting up her tech stuff while I freshen up my makeup and brush her hair.
"Is my guitar tuned?" she asks. I walk over and check the chords out.
"Sounds like music to me!" I say. She picks up the camera and plops it down on the tripod.
"Recording in five, four, three, two," she begins, then mouths the "one". I put my camera-face on and stare at the lens.
"Hey, guys! Wow, our video got three million views, last time Dalia checked! That's so fantastic and scary at the same time. Our first Sims 3 gaming session should be up tonight or tomorrow," I begin.
"Seeing as we just moved to Canada, we'd like to sing a song by a Canadian band today! We're doing How You Remind Me by Nickleback, but the Avril Lavigne version. This is dedicated to all our new homies at our new school!" Dalia yells, putting a heart in the air with her fingers.
"Yeah, but not Kelli because she was not welcoming towards us," I add.
"Oh well, there's always one. I'm sure her frosty boobs will thaw out!" chortles Dessie, and I swat her.
She strums on her guitar and starts off the vocals.
"Oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, whoa, whoa," she sings.
"I never made it as a wise man, I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing," I jump in.
"Tired of living like a blind man, sick of sight without a sense of feeling," she sings softly.
"This is how you remind me,"
"This is how you remind me, of what I really am…"
"It's not like you to say sorry; I was waiting on a different story. This time I'm mistaken for handin' you a heart worth breaking!" we're singing together now, getting into it.
"And I've been wrong, I've been down into the bottom of every bottle! These five words in my head," she takes the reins.
"Scream, are we having fun yet?" I sing louder to provide emphasis. We alternate like this through the whole song, purely enjoying it. At the end of the video, we added a little message.
"We can't wait to start meeting all the great people at our school," I say. Dalia turns off the camera and flips her hair back out of her angular face.
I look up and see Jacob standing in the doorway.
"Will people please stop creeping up on us while we're singing?" mutters Dalia. I walk over to Jake and hug him.
"Nessie, can I talk to you for a minute?" he asks me. I wonder what this is about, but I nod anyway. He brings me across the hall, through the sitting room and onto the balcony.
"What's wrong, Jake?" Have I done something to upset him?
"Well, I heard you and Dalia talking. I know you're growing up, honey, but please don't forget who you are," he begins.
"What do you mean remember who I am? I'm Nessie Cullen. YouTube Starlet, singer, social princess, destroyer of Kelli clones!" I say. He's being ridiculous; I know exactly who I am. He sighs sadly and shakes his head.
"I think I'm done here," he mutters and walks back down to the basement. I shrug and rejoin Dalia in our room, gossiping and laughing just like always.
JAKE POV
"What do you mean remember who I am? I'm Nessie Cullen. YouTube Starlet, singer, social princess, destroyer of Kelli clones!" says Nessie. That's just the problem! She's already forgetting how important she is.
She was Renesmee Cullen. First half-vampire with a surviving mother, wolf girl, possibly being hunted by the Volturi this very moment. Does Nessie know what the Volturi is? Does she even give a damn? Alice is stupid for filling their heads with this "Miss Popularity" bullshit. I need to have a serious talk with the Cullens.
"I think I'm done here," I growl and shove my hands in my pockets. It kills me, but I walk away from her. When I get downstairs, I hear her chatting away with Dalia like nothing ever changed. Little Alice runs up to me looking worried. She should be.
"Alice, you're going to march up-"I begin, but Alice interjects.
"We've got bigger problems, werewolf!" she hisses. I'm instantly on red alert.
"Who, what, when, where and why?" I growl.
"Volturi, experimenting with half vampires, for the past year, in Italy because they think they can breed gifted Halflings," she responds as I ask the questions.
"What do we need to do?"
"Stop the Volturi, protect the girls, and protect the Plasma. If Aro can create even more powerful breeds then he will, and that includes using our Plasma to do it. He's taking gifted male vampires and using their sperm on captured females, and raising the gifted children for his army. So far we have a shield that can block anything that tries to harm the Volturi. With that to go up against, our gifts are useless. I can't even see them right now!"
"Why would he want Nessie and Dessie?" I ask. Then I realise. Nessie is perfectly capable of bearing a child, with Dessie not far behind. The thought made bile rise in my throat.
"All I know is that they're accusing us of harbouring a criminal, being Dalia. They're still sore over her escape, and this time was inevitable. She's my eldest daughter, Jacob. We protect her, not just turn her over for Nessie's safety. You got it?!"
"Whoa, back down, Alice! I'd never turn Dalia away for Nessie. It would kill me, and her. And you, of course," I hasten to add.
"We need to get Renesmee and Dalia back from la-la land. They have to be on their game for this war, not blogging about shoes," adds Emmett as he walks in.
"I suppose we got a little carried away with that," says Alice.
"So are we going to tell them? The girls, I mean," says Emmett. Alice nods.
"Gather the entire family in the living room. This is important!" Yells Alice. We all run to the living room, calling for various Cullens. The babies all sit in their play pen.
Dessie and Nessie looked annoyed at being interrupted.
"The Volturi, as you all know, tried to take Dalia when she was a child," began Edward, who also knew what was going on. "We knew they weren't going to let this one slide. We were beginning to wonder why there was no retaliation, seeing as they already have reason to hate us,"
"So," continued Alice. "Our limited sources have confirmed that the Volturi have been breeding an army of vampires. These are half vampires, bred using humans that had a strong sort of affinity like Bella did, and gifted vampires. If they found out about our babies, or Plasma, we would be dead!"
Esme put a hand to her heart. Nessie looked confused.
"Quick lesson, Renesmee. The Supernatural world is a lot more complicated than it seems, it's not all adventuring through high school and being beautiful," I say. Nessie looks hurt, but she needs to know how it goes around here.
"Aro will try to steal Winnie, Brooke, Erica and Adrian at any cost. Rosalie, he'll steal yours as well," says Carlisle, who's been really quiet this whole time.
"Not to mention Nessie and Dalia. When he finds out about their gifts…" I say.
"They won't! We can't let them. I knew this would happen, so I took the liberty of creating an underground facility where the kids will be safe. We'll need a team of three or four to stay with them, obviously," says Jasper, hugging Alice's waist.
"You can't actually expect me to go through with this? I'm practically seventeen! When Harry Potter was under seventeen, they basically let him into the Order of the Phoenix! Why not me?" Nessie yells.
"Renesmee Carlie Cull-"begins Edward.
"No, Edward. She's right, her gift could turn even Jane into a sobbing mess!" Jasper cut in.
"You're not turning my daughter into a weapon!" snarls Edward.
"Edward, she's my daughter too. At her age, I was making my own decisions. I saw we give Nessie the freedom to choose her role," says Bella. I can't believe she's letting Nessie get away with this!
"I heard that, Jacob Black. I've heard all your thoughts about my current situation. Have you people ever heard of 'finding yourself'? That's what I was doing! The second I change, you all jump on my back about it!" yells Nessie, tears streaming down her face. "I don't want to be popular, or end up like Kelli, okay? Is that what you were worried about? Do you vampires trust me that little? All I want is to protect my family. I'm fighting this war, like it or not!"
"Renesmee, we're so s-" Edward begins to apologize.
"Dad, I don't want to hear it. It's fine, really. I think we should pull my ability to the max! I can gather talents from gifted vampires like you, and use them all at the same time!"
"That's totally insane!" I shout.
"No, it's totally genius!" says Jasper. "If anyone wants to let Nessie have their affinity, please stand up."
Bella rises instantly. Alice and Jasper are not far behind. Edward remains seated, obviously seeing as Nessie pinched his gift when she first learned how to do it.
"Me first! It will be so amazing to finally have someone who knows what I'm going through!" chirps Alice.