Chapter 10.

The Runaway

Phil had a baseball game in Orlando, Florida, so Renee had to leave early. I waved goodbye to her from the doorway of the Cullen manor.

I looked back at the rest of the family. They were waving as well.

I gave a glare at all of them, and walked silently, arms crossed, to father's room. I slowly walked up the stairs noticing Rosalie and Esme following me. I opened the doors of the room wide, and one thing caught my eye. The callendar. I noticed one big circle around today's date. I quickly walked over to the callendar anxiously. I glared at what the event said. This cannot be happening. They would plan something like this without me? Cruise trip. What cruise trip? I turned around and glared suspicously to Esme and Rosalie. Rosalie scratched her head akwardly and crossed her arms. Esme already had her arms crossed and looked at me with a regretful expression. I walked over to her and put my hand on her shoulder.

What cruise?

I asked in my head.

She sighed, took a hopeful look at Rosalie, who returned the look, and then they both looked at me.
"We were all planning a suprise cruise trip as your 16th birthday present. Everyone was going to go. I was planning to, your father was planning to, your mother was planning to..." she trailed off. I took gave a sigh and looked at Esme. What in the world?
"We were going to go to a cruise? Don't I have enough birthday presents?" I asked while walking to father's couch and setting myself down. They gave me a Mercedes which was lying, unused, gathering dust in the garage, since I didn't take my driver's test yet. I also got a designer handbag, lots of clothes and shoes, and many other things that Barack Obama could afford.

Rosalie walked over and said, "We were really looking forward to going, but we aren't going anymore, and we were wondering if it was okay with you." Rosalie said as she sat down next to me, putting her hand on my shoulder.

"Of course I don't mind. I don't want to go with Kaleb torturing my mother, and Jacob, and Alice.." I trailed off. I looked back down to my hands.
"Well, we have to go now." Carlisle said as he walked in. Father, Emmett, and the rest followed behind him. They were all crowded in father's small room.
"Why?" I asked.
"It's Kaleb. We just went searching for him." Jasper said, while pushing his lips together in regret.

"And, he formed his own coven, and we saw what they could do." Carlisle said.
"We kept following them, until eventually one of them found out we were there."

I opened my mouth to say something, but didn't. His own coven? This was going way to far.

"We all saw them leave Forks, in one of the cruise ships that left the docks for Spring Break." father explained.

"We don't know where he and his crew (making quotation marks) are planning to go, but we are pretty sure the boat is headed somewhere in the Carribean." Emmett said.

I sighed and looked away. I looked to William. who looked down regretfully. I knew that he didn't want any of this to even happen.

"Wait, what about Bella, Alice, and Jacob?" Rosalie asked.

"We searched their over-sized cabin. They aren't there." Emmett said while glancing over to Carlisle. Great. Kaleb and his oh-so coven are going around the world with my mother, boyfriend, and aunt. That is perfect. I balled my hands up angrily and clenched my lips together. Esme started rubbing my shoulder in effort to calm me down. Everyone was quiet and still for a few moments. Talk about akward.

"I'll check their schedule for when we leave." father said. He walked out of the room dashingly.

"I'll go pack." Esme said as she got up and walked out. Rosalie followed behind. No one looked enthusiastic about this "vacation". I sighed and walked out of the silent room. I walked rather quickly down the staircase and out of the house. I heard silent, gentle footsteps behind me. I kept looking straight and walking.

"Just where do you think you're going?" I heard William's voice ask. I stopped dead in my tracks, and turned around quickly, making him nearly run into me.

"I'm going back to my house. I need to pack!" I said angrily, and then turned back around and started for my house again.

"Let me come with you." he said while following me once more.

I stopped again and turned around. Our lips were 2 inches apart from each other. It was tempting.
"Don't you have things to pack?" I said angrily.

"What's wrong with letting me help you?" he said soothingly.

"Fine." I said, walking again.

Kaleb's POV

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"What's the point of doing this? We're not getting any darker." Katherine said while giving a chuckle at the end of her sentence. We were sitting by the pool, on the big cruise ship we were on. I looked to her bare body, covered with a bikini. I had enchanted our skins so it would not sparkle.

"Well, the sun feels good, and we have to blend in here." I said. She stopped looking at me and back towards the sky. She took the strawberry smoothie in a fancy cup from the small table next to the lounging chair, and took a sulking sip from it. She swallowed disgusted.
"I know, but this crap is disgusting now." she said while fiddling with the umbrella hanging out in her cup. I sighed, and looked at her sharply. I mainly focused on her throat. I changed her throat back to her human one. I felt force and waves coming out of my eyes, through my sunglasses, towards her throat. She flinched and looked to me sharply through her sunglasses.
"Try the smoothie now." I said while taking a sip from my martini. I tasted the original good tasting martini that I drank back then when I was human. It was good to be this powerful.
Katherine looked at me oddly. She picked up the glass suspiciously, keeping her eyes on me. She took a sip and I saw her eyes open wide.

"It's good! It's.."

"Good. Yes. I know." I said proudly, sighing. She started grinning happily and started taking more sips. People started staring at her.

"Katherine, I think that is enough." I said. She looked at me, and then around her. She saw several eyes staring at her. She stopped the smiling and kept sipping the juice normally.

I looked to a human who was staring the oddest at her. I watched him get up, and go to the bar. I heard him order, "'Hey, can I have the smoothie, blondie over there is having? It sounds pretty good."

I gave a snicker. Stupid humans. I looked into the pool. Silver, Matisse, and Brian were all swimming and splashing each other happily. Bridget and Hillaine were in the hottub, surrounded by guys, talking happily, and probably gossiping about who knows what. Roland and Dylan were playing volleyball with girls in small bikinis. I put a thought into their heads saying that we had to fit in here, and that they must not feed on those girls. I noticed Roland looking over to me, nodding. I gave a small nod back. I looked back to the pool, watching Matisse, Brian, and Silver all messing around. I watched Bridget and Hillaine flirt with the topless college guys that surrounded them. I jumped as I heard a loud slurping sound right next to me. I looked to the left and saw Katherine, finishing the last few drops of her smoothie. I laughed. Life cannot get any better than this. Especially with Bella and whatever their names are, locked up in my bedroom. They will never be found, and we will never be found. The Cullens should just give up.

Renesmee's POV

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I looked out into the beautiful sea. I saw dolphins jump out of the blue waters. It was a beautiful sight. I was sitting on the bench, on the dock. Emmett, William, and Jasper were taking all the bags out of Carlisle's expensive Mercedes. My hands were between my legs and I looked down regretfully. Esme walked over to me and sat down beside me. She put an arm around me. I looked up to her and asked, "Esme, everything's going to be fine, right?"

She looked at me hopefully.

"Honey, I'm pretty sure it will be. We will track down Kaleb, get your mother, Jacob, and Alice back, and we'll be fine." she said, giving me a small smile. How can she be so certain?

I sighed and walked over to the pile of luggages. I picked out my teal suitcase, along with the brown designer duffel bag Alice gave me for my birthday. The rest of the family picked out their luggage also. I heard a loud voice from the big cruise shout, "All aboard!"

I walked up first on the platform that lead from the dock to the cruise. I gave him my ticket. He hole punched it, and I smiled at him thankfully. I walked up and stopped smiling. I walked into the cruise ship. Once inside, I saw a large hall. There was a doctor's office. There was a large giftshop. I walked up stairs. I looked back and saw the rest of the family behind me, lugging their luggage without any trouble at all, except my bags were heavy. I felt William hold my hand as he held his big suitcase over one shoulder with one hand. Gosh, these bags are heavy. Especially on stairs. William stopped on the stairs, and set his suitcase down. The rest of the family went past us on the stairs, leaving us last. What in the world was he doing?

He took my two heavy bags from me.

"William, wait. I can carry them." I said trying to follow him, while he was walking quickly up the stairs.

"It's no big deal." he said while smiling at me. I sighed and looked around ruefully. It was no use arguing with him. After all, it was my fault he is now carrying 3 heavy bags. He knew my thoughts because he was holding my hand. I finally rushed up the stairs, finally catching up to him. I followed behind, feeling akward that I was not holding anything. I passed a mirror and stopped. I took a few steps backwards to the mirror. Father pushed the up button on the elevator panel. I heard the elevator coming down it's tunnel. We were all waiting for the elevator to come down. I examined myself in the mirror. I was wearing a fancy purple blouse, with a black vest over it. I was also wearing a black skirt, knee length, that fit around my thighs. I was wearing purple stockings underneath the black skirt. I was also wearing black high heels. It was a pretty professional outfit that Rosalie chose for me. I fixed my wavy light brown hair.

DING!

The elevator was here. My family walked in. I followed them. Finally, a thought popped up in my head once I was inside of the grand elevator.

"Wait, what about our skin?" I asked. I saw father look straight ahead in thought, and then around us.
"That's a good point. We're lucky it's cloudy today, but what about the rest of our trip? What if it gets sunny?" father said.

Jasper shrugged and said, "We can always stay inside."

"For the rest of the trip?" Emmett said seriously.

"Well, what else can we do?" Esme argued. I looked at Carlisle who was deep in thought.

"Isn't there some cream, or substance that can keep our skin from glowing?" Esme asked Carlisle, putting her hand on his arm.

"Tanya has some." Rosalie spoke up for the first time since we left the house. We all turned and looked at her, standing, arms crossed in the corner of the elevator.
"Tanya? Right. We can really contact Tanya and have her swim all the way across the ocean and onto this boat." father said annoyed.

"Ugh. Shut up, Edward. I brought some with me. Unlike you guys, I actually thought this trip out before leaving." she said angrily. The elevator bell was right on cue. The two metal doors opened, and Rosalie stormed out with her luggage. I watched Carlisle sigh and rub his face with his hands.

William was the first to walk out. I followed. We walked all the way down a fancy hall. We passed several smooth, brown, wood doors. I saw several tables with flowers, along with mirrors. I also noticed several paintings. We finally stopped by a few doors.
"Well, we all have different rooms. Rosalie and Emmett, you have that room to yourselves over there." Carlisle said as he pointed to room 516.

"Jasper and Edward, room 514." Carlisle said, pointing to the assigned room.

"Esme and I are in room 515. Edward, if you don't mind, Renesmee is going to sleep in the same room as William." Carlisle said somlemnly. I watched Father gulp. He opened his eyes wide. I could tell he was angry. He opened his mouth to say something, until he looked at me. In my head, I said: Daddy, please. I promise we won't do anything! Come on. You trust me right? Please!

I saw him sigh, and look at Carlisle.
"If it's alright with Renesmee, it's alright with me."

he said regretfully.

"Okay, now let's get settled in." Carlisle concluded. I walked over to room 517 with William. I looked at the rest of my family. They all opened their doors, and I heard gasps of delight. Wow. This cruise must be grand.

"Do you want me to open the door for you?" William said. I'm guessing I took too long, and he was probably anxious to see the room.

"No, it's okay. I think I can open a door." I said. I slid the card down its slot in the door near the door handle. I pushed the door open. I gasped. It was..beautiful. The walls were gold, and the ground was white carpet. I walked in further. The room had a rich, perfume scent. There was a small corner in the room that held a kitchen. It had glossy, pure, dark, wooden floor. I walked over to the kitchen and traced my fingers through the engravings on the counters. It was absolutely beautiful. I opened the fridge. Fully stocked. Soda, cake, pie, ice-cream, eggs, everything. Right next to the big fridge, was a mini fridge. I opened that and saw that it contained soda, wine, beer, and many other liquids that I did not know of. Next to the kitchen, was a small, wide, glass table that had two chairs surrounding each side. A fruit basket and apple cider was on it. I was smiling as I examined every detail of the room.

Across the room, there was a clear, glass door that opened to a balcony sort of thing, to get a view of the ocean. I also noticed a flat-screen TV, along with a couch. I entered the bathroom. That was grand, too. It had two sinks, one toilet, and a shower/bath. I walked back out to the room. I saw William stare at something. I walked over to him to catch a glimse at what he was staring at. It was a bed. One bed. A king-sized bed fit for two. Two people on one bed. Me and William on the same bed. My happy smile faded away.

We stood akwardly for a few moments. Not knowing what to do. It felt like hours. No days. Years. I looked at the clock. 30 seconds have passed.

"How are we..?" I asked, not finishing my question. This was absolutely embarrassing.
"I really don't mind, if you don't." William said. My heart fluttered for a minute. I felt butterflies in my stomach. He was such a gentleman.

"Okay, then." I said in a high voice. Too high. I guess I was very nervous.

William laughed and flashed a beautiful white smile at me. I could've sworn I was about to melt. I collapsed to the ground. Startled, William rushed to my side, and caught me before I fell.

"Are you okay?" he asked worriedly. I saw concern and worry in his eyes.

"I'm fine. I just..forgot to breathe." I said. I watched him smile again. He chuckled.

"What?" I asked. I noticed he was still holding me in his arms.

"Your mother said the same thing." he said.
"What?" I said, smiling.

"Well, I checked your father's past, if you don't mind, and well, your mother was looking into his eyes and collapsed. Your father caught her in time before she fell, and she said she forgot to breathe." he said, smiling another smile.

I chuckled.

"Wow. It's like deja vu." I said. It was so comfortable in his arms. I didn't want to move away. I wanted to stay like this forever. God. I forgot about Jacob. This is wrong, but I want William. I want him. But, I want Jacob, too. This so confusing. William pulled away, frowning. Oh, shoot. My palms were on his arms. I saw a hurt look on his face. I watched him walk into the bathroom. I sat down on the bed. Looking down on the ground. This was terrible. I hurt him, I bet. It was the last thing I wanted to do. I sighed and pulled my bangs behind my ear. I peeked to check if he was still in the bathroom, and changed into my lacy pajamas. I walked over to the bed and climbed in. I pulled the covers over me and stared up to the wall. I was about to close my eyes until I heard a loud blare. I sat right up, startled. It was the horn of the ship. It was moving. I felt a small whiplash. I sighed, in relief. I set myself back down. I started counting the number of bumps on the wall. It was too much. I felt myself drift away. My eyelids started getting heavy. I closed my eyes, and saw William. I started dreaming.

"Renesmee." I heard William's voice calling from a distance. I was in a white room, except it wasn't a room, maybe. This was different. There were no walls or floors, it was all white. Everything was white. I was wearing a white dress with black heels. William was wearing a white suit with black shoes. William was standing a few yards away from me, also standing in this mysterious place. I saw him open his arms happily. I started walking towards him.
"Renesmee." I heard a different voice call. I turned around and saw Jacob. On the other side. He was wearing the same outfit William was wearing. I saw him look seriously at William. I looked at both of them. Oh no.

"Who is he, Renesmee? What have you done?" I heard Jacob's voice echo. Tears rolled down my eyes. I saw a dark figure starting to appear behind Jacob. I saw a shiny dagger in the strange shadow's hand.

"No. No!" I shouted.

"Renesmee, please." I heard William's voice plead. I looked in his direction. Kaleb had a dagger over his throat. I started crying frantically and begging.

"Please! No! William, I love you!" I shouted over to him.
"Renesmee, help. Please, Renesmee." I heard Jacob's voice shout. I turned towards him. Kaleb also had a dagger over Jacob's throat.

"No! No! No! I love you! Please! Don't!" I shouted, tears swelling on my cheeks.

"Who are you going to choose?" I heard Kaleb's voice echo. I looked at William, and them Jacob. They were both surrounded by Kaleb.

"Ahh!" William screamed. I shot a glance in his direction. Kaleb had struck the knife in his throat.

"No! No! William! No! Please! Don't leave me! I love you! No!" I started moaning, and begging frantically. I collapsed to the ground. I felt myself falling down a dark hole. Just falling. I saw Jacob's hand reached out towards me. I wanted to take it but I couldn't. I started screaming. Jacob's face drifted away.

"Renesmee.." I heard William's voice say.

"Renesmee.." I heard his voice again. This time it was clearer.

"Renesmee." I heard him say as I opened my eyes. I saw a concerned look on his face. I noticed I was breathing rather quickly. He was sitting beside me, hands on my shoulders.

"Renesmee, I'm not going anywhere." William said. I started crying and sat up. I dug my face into his arms. I noticed my body was wet, and sticky. I was sweating. What a terrible dream. Oh my god. I was talking in my sleep. Oh my god, I'm ruined. I said that I loved him. It was true, but that is just embarrassing. I am so ruined.
"You are not ruined." William suddenly said. My palms were on his arms. I started sobbing embarrassed.
"I can't believe..I.." I was about to say something, but William stopped me. He slid his lips onto mine. I didn't pull away. I felt his slow and even breathing. Our lips moved in a perfect motion. I felt his arms around me, and his smooth velvety lips. I was gasping and in the need of air. He pushed me onto the pillow. I started unbuttoning his shirt. He did the same with mine. This went on. I felt his bare back. We were rolling around the bed, on top of each other. I was in my lacy, black underwear. He was topless. I heard someone come in from the door. William stopped and jumped back to the side wall. He grabbed his shirt and quickly put it on. I grabbed my clothes on the ground, put them on, and casually relaxed under the sheets of the bed.

"Hey guys, we were gonna go watch a play. You guys wanna go?" Esme said as she came in. William sat casually on the bed at the edge, while I was still under the covers, leaning on a pillow.

"Yeah, sure." William said akwardly. He looked at me, and back to Esme.
"Just give us a minute to get ready." William said.

"Okay, we'll be waiting outside." Esme said. She walked out of the room. Once she closed the door, William looked at me.
"We gotta get dressed properly." he said. I noticed he was looking at my shirt. It was on backwards. I scratched my head embarrassed.

"I'll be in the bathroom." he said as he leaned to me and gave me a kiss on the forehead.

"Okay." I said dazed. He got up and walked to the bathroom. Once I heard the door shut, I breathed a sigh of relief. Wow. That was something. Did we almost just..do..it? Wow. This was different. I immediatly thought of Jacob. I suddenly felt a surge of guilt. Oh no. Jacob. What did I do? It felt so wrong, it felt so right! Ugh. Why does this happen to me? Just the two of them I really want to see. Why can't there just be one? Nobody knows what I am going through right now.

Me and Jacob are meant to be together. I felt the exact same way, but I met William. Ugh. This is so hard! I got up and changed into a knee-length black dress, not the same one from Charlie's funeral of course, but the color of it reminded me of the forever gone Charlie. I put on maroon heels, and added a maroon belt over my dress. I applied make-up on myself with the mirror by the table.
I heard a door open. I turned around and saw William in a tuxedo. It was a different one from the one he wore to Charlie's funeral. This one looked more..grand. How many pairs of clothes did he have? I gave him a small smile. He did the same. I grabbed my white shawl, and COACH purse, and walked out of the room, arm around William's arm.

Once I was out of the room, I saw plenty of other people in formal outfits in the hall, either waiting for the elevator, or talking casually with one another. I finally looked to my family, who were leaning on the wall, and talking happily. I smiled up to them.
"Okay, let's go." Carlisle said. We all started walking to the elevator. Once we were nearby, several other couples or families were also waiting by the elevators. Most of them were staring at us. I heard murmurs around the room. I heard a little girl, around 7 or 8 years old say, "Mommy, look at the pretty family!"

She said this while pointing to us. I saw Emmett give a small snicker. The mother looked over to us and stared for quite some time. I should've just worn jeans and a shirt just for them to stop staring. I was pretty used to one or two people staring at me, but right now, everyone, I mean EVERYONE was staring at us.

DING! The elevator door opened. I rushed into the elevator quickly, glad to be away from the long stares. Once everyone was in, and the solid elevators closed, I gave a sigh of relief.
Carlisle hit floor number 4 on the elevator panel. I felt the elevator slowly going down. It stopped a few times to pick up other people, who also stared at us. What was the deal? They were acting like they never saw a fancy family before. Finally, we were at floor 4, everyone walked into a fancy room crowded with fancy velvet theater chairs, along with people sitting down on them. The play today was Romeo and Juliet. Great. I read the book one too many times. Everyone was talking happily at each other, with drinks in their hands. We finally found a spot so sit in the theater. The lights dimmed, and the play finally began.