I could already smell his familiar scent as we waited outside the door for him. Our first stop was at Grandpa Charlie's house.
"Hey Jacob! How are you?" he seemed thrilled about our visit. Although he was informed about it. He hugged Jake. Sue was standing beside him.
Then he turned towards me.
"Oh my god renesmee…..is that you?" he seemed amused and emotional at the same time.
"Yes grandpa that's me" I said smiling and hugging him.
Although I had just few memories with Grandpa Charlie but still after all that my mom told me about him, I kind of liked him.
"It's just been four years renesmee and you're already all grown up….um…sorry…I guess I'll just take some time to digest that." He was shocked but apologetic at same time.
"Did I add grown up and beautiful." Grandpa smiled.
"Thanks grandpa. So how have you been?" I asked as we walked in.
"Super….sue has really changed my life." He gleamed.
"How's Bella?" he was serious now.
"Mom said she misses you."
"I too miss her…a lot."
Jacob rested on the couch and turned on the TV. Now both Grandpa Charlie and Jacob were stuck to their TV screens because of the game.
"My mom told me he loves watching football." I turned towards sue.
"Loves? He gets stuck to that screen while watching games." She answered and we both laughed.
"So how has he been? I mean after we left….my mom asked me to ask you this." I said while walking towards kitchen with her.
"He's been doing fine….obviously he misses her. First he could not just get out of the fact that Bella wasn't a human anymore…that was the hardest part for him…..it took him almost two years to digest all of that…." She looked worried as she thought about it.
"But he's back to normal now…so tell Bella that do not worry about him. He's perfect now as ever." She added with a smile.
I knew my mom would be very relieved to hear that.
It was almost lunch time. The table was set. We all sat together and talked about stuff we had missed all these years.
I noticed Grandpa Charlie staring at me.
"What is it grandpa?" I asked.
"Um….sorry. It's just that Edward never used to eat anything…now I realize why…but you…" he sounded confused.
"Yes grandpa I eat human food. I am a half human remember."
"So what about your half vampire side? Do you have that food too…? I am just curious." I could feel it he was very reluctant to say blood. Maybe that disgusted him.
"Yes. It's like I do eat human food but that doesn't satisfy me so yeah I do drink…."
"Okay I get it." Grandpa snapped.
I didn't blame him for being disgusted. He was just a human. Even Jake was disgusted by this.
"But only animal's….we consider ourselves vegetarians….you know that right." I said proudly.
That didn't seem to have interested him even a little.
"Time for us to leave now." Jacob said.
"You won't be staying here?" grandpa asked.
"No. we'll be at Billy's." Jacob replied.
"Okay. Then it's fine. We'll come and visit in between." Grandpa replied.
I hugged them and we drove for la push now.
We stopped outside a small house. At least small if compared to the Cullen house.
"So... this is my place." Jake said while pointing outside.
It was beautiful and peaceful. I had never been to Jake's place before; actually I had never been to la push before. I was a small child although an unusual one when we moved from forks. So I never had a chance to visit la push. Pack always came to meet me at my house. I did remember all of their faces.
We were still in the car when I saw Seth, quil, embry, Billy, Sam, everyone coming out.
We started walking towards them.
"Oh ho ho…..that's a Cullen car. Jake was driving it." Quil said with a big dazzling smile.
"Come on quil! He has every right. He's a family to them now." Embry said teasing Jake.
"Shut up you guys!" Jake said embarrassed.
"Oh….we missed you Jake." They said while Jake hugged all of them.
"Think of yourself as blessed because I too missed you guys a lot." Jake smirked and they all laughed together.
"Hey Jake! Won't you introduce us to that beautiful lady?" Seth said while looking at me and teasing Jake.
"Alright guys this is renesmee….." Jake said.
"Hope you guys remember me…because I missed you guys a lot" I completed.
"Oh my god nessie…..you grew really fast. We knew that you would be growing really fast but we didn't expect to see you today as all grown up." It was Billy who spoke first.
"And beautiful….." Seth added with a smile.
They all were like brothers to me. All the memories of them came back to me again.
Everyone was there today at Billy's as they knew we were coming. I could see the happiness on Jake's face. He was overwhelmed to be with his family and pack again. He told me he was happy because after a long time his nose was relieved of the scent he hated the most which was all around him when he was with my family but I knew that was just Jake being…Jake.
Suddenly I realized I was sitting among people and blood flowed in their veins and I was supposed to be here for sometime now so I felt an urgent need to feed myself. I called Jacob from this large group.
"Jake I need to go hunting. I didn't realize that before but I need to feed myself." I told him.
"That's okay ness…..let's go."
"No Jake…. You hate watching me hunt I know that. I'll go."
"Trust me nessie, I can assure you that at least I'll not throw up." He teased me. "I won't let you go alone… you've never hunted alone before and you don't even know this area." He was serious now.
"But I'll be fine Jake….don't worry!" I tried comforting him.
"No. I am coming." He was pretty serious.
"Ugh…..okay! But promise me you'll not even look at me until I clean up."
"Trust me I don't even want to." He laughed.
He took me to place nearby and told me that according to him my family used to hunt here so maybe this was a place suitable for hunting.
I laughed at the faces he made.
I told him to stay at some distance from me. To which he readily agreed.
He was right. There were plenty of animals here to hunt. I caught a deer first.
"Jake….." I ran back towards him terrified for him because he wasn't phased at the moment.
"Nessie what's wrong?" he asked me shocked.
"Jake there was a vampire there….I smelled it." I blurted out.
"What? I told you not go far. What happened? Who was he?" he looked worried.
"I don't know Jake….I didn't recognize its scent. I was just terrified for you…I thought he would attack you." I said breathlessly.
"He wasn't even close here ness…don't worry…..how come there's a vampire here in forks?" he looked a lot worried now.
