Chapter 10: What the—

"Knock, knock! Sorry to interrupt an average day in the Cullen household!" The sound of his voice made me stop short. I dropped the bowl I was holding (the glass bowl) and, ignoring the complaints of everyone else in the room, sped to fling open the screen door leading out behind the house.

"Ahh! DREW!" I squealed and flung my arms around him [there you go, xXNightmareGirlXx!] Drew slipped his arms around my waist and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Hey there, Ren," he whispered in my ear. I giggled and pressed the palm of my hand to his face and thought, Ren is THE cutest nickname ever!

I could practically FEEL the anger and discomfort of every single person in the house, but I didn't pay any attention to it. And why would I? I mean, with such an amazing guy right in front of me (who has nothing to focus on besides ME), why would I even bother acting like any other person matters? I wouldn't bother; because they don't.

When my father's voice yelled, "RENESMEE CULLEN," I flinched and sighed.

"WHAT, Dad??" I yelled. "What?" I spun around to face my parents, standing in front of me with wide eyes and looking like they were about to have heart failure [heart failure… haha! Their hearts aren't beating! Get it? Get it…never mind…]

Even though they stood right before me, my eyes clouded over with Drew. His amazing baby blue eyes, his strong arms, his sweet smile, his lips on mine… and did I mention, he has a six pack? A six pack!! I sighed and swooned on the spot, achieving more glares and weird looks from my so-called loved ones. Oh well!

EPOV (If you haven't figured it out yet—which you should've—the part above was in Renesmee's POV)

How?? How???? How did my sweet 5 year old daughter go from precocious, innocent little girl to big, nasty bitch? I didn't even regret the thought. Why not admit the truth?

Bella's thoughts floated to me: What. The. Hell. Is. That. THING. That's. Replaced. OUR. RENESMEE??? If thoughts could talk, hers would be screeching. I rubbed my forehead and tried to figure it out too. And then I realized, duh, what's Renesmee thinking?

Drew… Drew… Drew… six pack!! Ah! Mm… Drew!! Big blue eyes… strong arms… so sweet, so nice, so amazing… DREW!

I clapped my hand to my mouth; just a natural reflex most people do to keep from barfing. You know, one would think I would've gotten over that reflex in my 108 years of living on Earth, but no—it's ever present. Bella frowned up at me. What is wrong with you? Edward, we have to figure out what's up with Renesmee. I glanced at Bella. She looked stressed and rubbed her forehead with her fingers.

Then I looked back at Renesmee and said angrily, "You do not talk to me like that." Then I turned, a stony expression on my face, and stalked up the stairs. Bella followed me, her long brown hair dancing behind her. I heard footsteps behind us, but I didn't look back. Renesmee was supposed to think that I was furious at her; which in fact I was, but whatever.

I reached Carlisle's study and paced around in there until the door opened and Bella walked in… followed by everyone else in the whole house. Well, besides for Charlie and Jacob, who were talking it up in the next room, and, of course, "Ren" and her pretty boy downstairs.

I stared around at all of them in surprise. And everyone was looking back at me, expectantly. So I cleared my throat and said, "Something is seriously wrong with Renesmee." I paused and listened carefully to Renesmee's thoughts, making sure she couldn't hear us.

Carlisle spoke up, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "I don't think she just likes him. I mean she loves—loved Jacob but she was never this way. He's doing something to her on purpose. It's possible he has a power that can do something like this—but what it is, I can't say."

"I think I know." I looked up, having another jolt of surprise as Tanya slipped through my family members to stand in front of me. Bella walked over to slip her own hand in mine, her jaw clenched. Before continuing, Tanya gave a small sigh and looked straight at Bella, who averted her eyes but tightened her hold on my hand. Turning her gaze back to me, she continued, "When I rescued Charlie, they had taken him to some sort of cave. It was full of fog but unguarded—I followed sounds and voices until I reached him and then I got us outta there. But outside the cave someone was there who hadn't been there before. It was that Drew character—the one who's standing a floor beneath us and kissing your daughter." Her stare was leveled. Bella's breathing grew short.

"So Drew's with the Volturi?" I asked angrily.

"Probably," she agreed, "but I want to tell you about what he did. Charlie was on my back, because I was planning to run him back here. And this Drew guy looked me in the eyes and suddenly I felt like putting Charlie down and walking to the guy. But then I blinked or Charlie said something or some other thing happened and it broke his concentration, and I took Charlie and began running. I think his power is something like control someone's actions or maybe mind-control."

I nodded. "You're right. That would explain why all Renesmee's thinking about is him." But then I focused in on the jumble of thoughts coming from downstairs. Oh no!! I did it again, didn't I? Jacob—what is he—NO! And then another… Stupid jackass comes here like he owns the place and makes my girl go all swoony? HELL no. Take that, bastard! And then, another, this one of blond hair and cutesy blue eyes: Who the hell does this asshole think he is? I'll give him a piece of my mind…

I interrupted the conversation that had started about Drew's potential powers, said, "They're having a fight!" and sprinted out of the room and down the stairs.

A/N: hey guys! I'm soo sorry that i haven't uploaded for a long time! I know you guys must hate me and you have every right to. I just lost my inspiration for it for a while. And then I started looking back on my older stories and i started writing more chapters for this one and well.. here you go! (= I hope you guys liked the chapter. I'm a little rough on Twilight nowadays. But I'm trying my best. And i did finally get the Doc Manager working so i don't have to bother Switz all the time! She, by the way, is one heck of an author. You had better check out her profile! You can get the link to her profile, as well as some of my other buds, on my profile: .net/~topaz1901