Chapter 10: Lost

Nessie's POV

I woke up in the middle of the night when I felt Shadow jumping into my bed. I glared at him and he just stared back at me innocently. I sighed. I couldn't stay mad at this dog no matter what he did.

I saw movement in the corner of my bedroom and I nearly screamed my lungs out. Then I realized that it was just my father.

"Dad what are you doing here? You almost gave me a heart attack!"

"I am keeping an eye on you that's what I'm doing" he retorted. "After finding out that you're alive and then finding out all of the dangerous situations you have been in in the past how do you expect me to react?" he asked.

Dads. So overprotective. God if he kept that up I was going to get really annoyed really fast.

"I don't care how annoyed you get. I will be as protective of you as I feel is necessary," he said as he crossed his arms.

"Don't you think the rest of the family is going to get suspicious when they notice you are gone every night? I mean do you have any explanations planned to give them?" I asked hoping that my father would realize how ridiculous this whole thing was but, of course, my father had to be more stubborn than a mule.

"It doesn't matter," he said. "I will think of something," he folded his arms across his chest making it clear that no matter how much I fought and argued he was not going to change his mind.

I fought the urge to roll my eyes. All I could do was hope that he would eventually see reason and be less, well, father-like. One dad was bad enough but two? The thought alone was enough to make me shudder. I cold tell that my father wanted to laugh.

After giving up on the idea of my father leaving I turned on my side, closed my eyes, and fell asleep. Only when I woke up a few hours later did I realize that my father had finally left.

As soon as I got to school I was ambushed by Alice. Well I think the word 'attacked' might be a better description of what she actually did. As soon as I was alone she scared the crap out of me by appearing out of nowhere and hugging me.

"Aunt Alice-"

"Oh my god Nessie it really is you! My visions weren't lying!"

"Have your visions ever lied to you?" I pointed out. "Subjective is one thing but lying is something else"

"True but reincarnation? I just I-"

"Couldn't believe it?" I finished for her. "Believe me I couldn't either. Not in the beginning anyway,"

Her bone crushing hug nearly crushed the life out of me. Physically she was smaller than I was now but she was definitely stronger.

"What are you doing here anyway? I mean aren't the rest of the family going to get suspicious if they see you hugging me for no reason?"

"No," she said. "Because they aren't here yet. I had a vision of you getting here early so I came early too. The others thought I was crazy but I didn't care,"

"Oh Aunt Alice its so good to see you again," I bawled.

"Nessie you have no idea how much I've missed you. You're my favorite niece-"

"Pretty sure I'm your only niece," I corrected. "Unless something has changed over the years that no one's told me about"

"Okay fine but don't let that lessen the compliment! You're still my niece even though you look very different now,"

Me looking very different from my original family wasn't something I had thought of much until now that she mentioned it. I was a far cry from the girl I had been in my first life. Overweight, glasses, acne just to name a few. I was far from being as physically perfect as I was the first time around.

Aunt Alice hugged me once again before letting me go.

"I'd hug you all day if I could but the others are going to show up in about thirty six seconds and if they catch me hugging you they will have questions,"

"I understand,"

"Anyway bye Emily," she winked at me before joining the rest of my family as they arrived.

It seemed like mere seconds later that it was Jacob who was scaring the crap out of me by appearing out of nowhere.

"Jesus Jacob you nearly gave me a heart attack!"

"Well at least you would've died happy," he smirked.

"Wow Jacob way to be humble,"

"Couldn't help it," he smiled. "Anyway are you free this Friday?"

I was so glad I was eating or drinking anything in that moment because I was sure that I would've choked on something.

"What?" I asked hoping that I heard correctly.

"I was wondering if you were free Friday? If you already have plans I understand-"

"No I'm free,"

"Good," he said. "Because I probably would've hunted you down and joined you on whatever it is that you were doing anyway," he laughed.

"I probably wouldn't have objected anyway,"

Out of the corner of my eye I saw my dad glaring daggers at Jacob and I had to choke back a laugh. Honestly I wished I could've heard what Jacob was thinking to make my dad react like that.

Jacob put his arm around me and my heart skipped several beats. I could almost feel my dad glaring at the both of us now.

Throughout the day I could tell that the rest of my family thought it was extremely odd that my dad, Jacob, and Alice had suddenly decided to be friends with me. Well odd in the sense that they were spending more time with me, a supposed stranger, than their own family. At least my mother wasn't hostile toward me anymore. She was just really closed off and that made me sad. I wanted to be close to her again.

The rest of the day passed by without incident. I was lucky enough not to get any homework that night. Having a torture free night freed up a lot of extra time for me so I took Shadow out for a walk a little earlier than usual.

I stupidly decided take a different route through the woods than I normally would have. Why did I do it? Well I felt like being adventurous. What ended up happening? I got completely lost and started to panic. My panic only increased when it started getting dark and I realized I had forgotten my phone at home.

Shadow pulled me in another direction and I followed. At this point what did I have to lose? I was already lost. If I was lucky he'd lead me to a cabin or something.

Well as it turned out he was leading me toward something. It wasn't a cabin but it was definitely a house. A large see through made of glass house.

I knocked on the door hoping that whoever lived their would be kind enough to let me use their phone.

To my surprise it was my grandma Esme that appeared. She looked at me full of concern.

"Are you okay young lady? Do you need anything?"

"I'm sorry to intrude like this ma'am but my dog and I were walking through the woods and we kind of got lost and I need help,"

"Oh gosh," she gasped. "Come in and I promise we will help you. What do you need?"

"Just to borrow a phone if possible. So I can let my family know what happened,"

"Of course young lady what is your name?"

"It's Emily and this is my dog Shadow,"

"Well come on in you two. My name is Esme by the way," she smiled at me kindly.

"Thank you you're so kind,"

Esme disappeared for a few seconds and came back with a cellphone which I promptly used to call my family. The only person who answered was Eric who promised to come get me right away as soon as he got dressed. My parents had gone out for dinner a few hours earlier and forgotten their cellphones apparently.

Just then my grandfather walked in and he noticed Shadow and I right away.

"Who are you?" he asked me.

"Carlisle this is Emily and Shadow," grandma said. "They got lost in the woods and need help,"

"My brother just told me he's coming for me. I just hope he doesn't get lost I mean this place is pretty secluded,"

"Don't worry dear we will help you find him," Esme said. "In the mean time would you like anything to eat?"

"Just a sandwich would be great thank you,"

I left to go use the bathroom for a few minutes and when I came back there was a sandwich with chips and a soda waiting for me on the kitchen table. Shadow was sitting in the corner of the kitchen eating some raw meat and making a mess I might add.

"I'll can clean that up," I was about to get up when Esme stopped me. "Don't worry Emily I'll get it,"

"Okay thanks,"

I was expecting Esme to throw out the bits of meat that Shadow had dropped everywhere so I was extremely surprised when she kept it instead.

Shadow walked over to me and put one of his paws on my leg in an effort to beg for more food and that's when I noticed one of his toenails was missing. Well it was cut way shorter than all the other ones and I was certain it hadn't been that way before. Oh well maybe he had clipped a nail and I didn't even realize it until now.

As I was eating Carlisle came running in.

"Esme I have to go right now. Something's happened with Bella,"

"What is it?" Esme asked worriedly.

He looked at me before whispering something into her ear that I couldn't hear and that had me extremely worried for some reason.

Then suddenly I sensed something. Eric was in danger.

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