Chapter 10: Pain

Nessie's POV

I couldn't even look at any of my family members in the eye. The embarrassment, the shame, it was all too much to handle. I could feel all their eyes on me though. Watching my every move. I didn't even want to know what was going through their minds. Especially my mother's and father's.

I left school early that day. I made up an excuse of not feeling well when my parents asked me what happened after they got a call from the school.

All I really wanted to do at that moment was crawl in a hole and die. Never to be seen again by my biological family. Mostly I was also terrified of their reactions. So what did I do? Well being the coward I was I did everything I possibly could to avoid my family. I even went as far as to put an extra lock on my window. Of course I knew that they could easily break the window if they wanted to but I was hoping they'd respect my decision to not talk to them. At least not now.

Only Ellie was able to bring me comfort in the following days. She would just look at me with those soulful eyes of hers and then lick my face a couple of times and instantly I would smile. I didn't know what I would do without my most loyal and truest friend.

A couple of days went by and I still hadn't spoken one word to my family. We would just see each other in class and pass each other in the hallway. Other then that. Nothing. Maybe they didn't know what to say either. I was starting to think that this was worse than getting yelled at by them.

"Renesmee are you okay?" Jennifer asked me on Friday evening. "You've been acting funny lately"

"I'm fine Jennifer"

"Oh come on Nessie you are not fine and everyone knows it. You know those Cullen kids keep asking about you?"

"They have?" This was the first time I had even heard that my sister was talking to them.

"Yeah that Bella girl. She seems really worried about you"

"I wasn't aware that you were friends with them"

"Well maybe if you paid more attention in the cafeteria you'd realize that Bella keeps sitting next to me at lunch.

She's really nice. She reminds me of Bella Swan from Twilight. It's kind of creepy really"

"Yeah, anyways what have you two been talking about?

"She mainly has a lot questions about us and our family. Kind of a little strange but I like her. Anyway enough about me I want to know what's going on with you. I'm worried"

"It's nothing, I'm fine"

"No you're not" Eric suddenly appeared in my doorway. "We can all see it"

"I will be fine. Look I don't want to talk about it, okay? So can we talk about something else now?"

"Fine. Since mom and dad are out for the evening why don't we go downtown to that new restaurant that just opened? They even allow dogs" he added with a glance at Ellie.

"Yeah that sounds great!" Jennifer added.

"Easy for you two to say since I'm the only one that has a job and can afford to pay"

"Oh come on Nessie please?" Jennifer begged.

"Yeah come on Nessie we'll pay you back every cent for our meals, I swear!" Eric added.

"Yes!" Jennifer agreed.

Even Ellie looked like she was begging. I sighed.

"Okay fine, but I'm going to hold you both to that promise to pay me back. Anyway let's go and hopefully we can beat the crowds"

I convinced myself that this would be good for me. That a night out away from everything was just what I needed.

My siblings already knew not even to bother arguing with me when I helped Ellie get into the front seat. They used to fight me on it constantly but after biting their heads off numerous times they learned to just deal with it.

My brother started telling some jokes and we were all laughing. It felt good. I hadn't laughed like that in a long time.

My phone rang and I looked down for a brief second to see who was calling.

"Nessie watch out!" Jennifer screamed in a panic.

I looked up and saw a young blonde girl, about 12 or 13 years old and wearing a black cloak, suddenly standing in the middle of the freeway in my lane. There was no time to brake so I swerved around her and collided with the car next to me.

For the next few seconds all I heard was tires screeching, car collisions, and people screaming. Everything happened so fast that I wasn't even aware that my car had overturned at first. All I could feel was pain. Pain. One of my legs was caught between something and I couldn't move it.

I looked back at my brother and sister and saw that they were bleeding badly and barely conscious.

Then I looked at Ellie. She had a huge head wound that wouldn't stop bleeding. I watched as her breathing slowed down before stopping entirely. I wanted to scream and cry. Ellie was gone.

I raised my trembling hand to my forehead and that's when I realized that I had a head would myself. I couldn't feel or move my legs. I couldn't do anything to help my brother and sister that looked like they were barely clinging to life themselves.

I heard footsteps. I slowly raised my head that was hurting more and more as the seconds ticked by. It was that young blonde 12/13 year old that caused this.

My heart stopped when I saw her red eyes. The last thing I saw before I passed out was her sadistic smile.

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