Chapter 14: Back to school

Renesmee's POV:

I woke early Monday morning, to fog and mist. I sighed, knowing that this weather was nothing that could cause us to stay indoors.

I sat up slowly, detangling Jacobs's arms that wound around waist, and stepped off the bed. I turned to look at him sleeping peacefully, his mouth open and his breathing slow, on the verge of quiet snoring. I stared at him for a moment, but then turned and strode the large bathroom.

I took my time showering, in no rush to be out the door. I took an equally slow time combing through my wet hair, before I pulled it up into a ponytail on top of my head. I didn't bother to spend time choosing my outfit, and simply pulled on a cream black sweater dress, that Alice had given me the previous month. With nothing left to do, I tiptoed out of the bedroom, doing my best not to wake Jake, though I could see that he was waking, and walked to the kitchen.

After I had eaten my bole of cereal, I checked the clock and saw that it was nearly seven o'clock. I jumped up and jogged back to our room to wake Jacob.

"Jake," I murmured gently, giving him a kiss on the forehead. "It's time to get up sleepy head," I gave him a slight shake, and he moaned dramatically.

"fivmrminust" He mumbled, turning over and starting to snore again.

"Jacob, come on u lazy mutt," I said, giving him a more pronounced shake, and raising my voice.

"imcomin, imcmin," He yond. I gave him another kiss on the forehead and turned to the closet, coming back with a clean pair of boxers, a shirt, and some genes. He was stretching when I returned, and his eyes were mostly open, so I smiled and gave him a "good boy" , before turning and walking out.

"Good morning sweetheart," Dad welcomed as I walked into the living room to find all the others, besides Carlisle, waiting.

"Morning daddy," I said, skipping over to him and giving him a hug and kiss on the cheek, then doing the same to mom.
"Did you sleep well?" Rosalie asked kindly.

"Yes, though Jake may have been enjoying his sleep a little too well. I thought I might have to drag him to school!" They all laughed.

"Is he almost ready? We don't have all of eternity!" Emmitt teased, knowing very well that Jake could here all of us.

"Ha Ha," Jake said sarcastically, now entering the room, fully dressed and awake, " and last time I checked, we do have all of eternity."

We all laughed, and walked towards the door. Jake led me to his car and opened driver's door for me. I quickly jumped in, and started the engine. As soon as his door was closed, I hit the gas, and sped out of the garage. The others, who where all riding in the Volvo, where close behind. When we hit the pavement, we both went faster, knowing that no one would ever be on this road at seven in the morning. We raced side by side until we reached the town lines, then I surrendered with poor grace.

"I'll get you next time!" I thought, knowing dad was listening. I could practically here his smug laughter.

We pulled into parallel parking spaces, near the front of the school. Jake opened the door for me, but I hesitated. I knew that the stares, pointed whispers, and rumors where guaranteed to be worse after out dramatic exit the previous week, and that was not something I looked forward to. I hated school already and did not want to add on to my disliking with silly rumors.

"Sweet heart," Jacob murmured when I still didn't get out. I sighed, took his out stretched hand, pulling the hood of my raincoat over my head, and lifted myself out of the car.

Every one was, of course, staring in shocked disbelief. I dropped my gaze and stared at my shoes, letting Jake lead me across the parking lot and through the crowds. Though I never aloud myself to glance at the faces of the students in the crowd, I could feel all of their stairs, burning into the back of my head, as we passed by. None of the others seemed bothered by the wide eyes fallowing our every move.

I walked to class keeping my eyes determinedly locked with the passing floor tiles. When I reached the door to my first class however, Jake put his hand under my chin and lifted my face until our eyes met.

He didn't need to say anything; I could read it all in his eyes.

"I'll be fine,"

He reached up to touch his warm hand to my face, then turned to leave.

The day passed slowly. Class after class I sat silently, dazing off into space. Alice sat next to me in English class, but never looked away from the front of the room. I could tell by the look on her face that she was not in the same place as I was, but was watching the future closely. She had been much more serious about her job as watchmen since Jane and Dassin had managed to enter our territory without notice. Mom and dad where not so distracted though. We had silent conversations all through geometry, about whatever was on our mind, though we all did our best to keep the thought of the battle out of our minds.

When the class was over, we all rose gracefully and strolled to the cafeteria. Jake was waiting for me this time, and I happily took his hand as we walked into the spacious room. We all stood in line to get food, though me and Jake where the only ones that ate, then went to sit at the always empty table, in the far corner of the room. Lunch was by far the best part of the day, cause we all got to be somewhat ourselves. We joked and talked while me and Jake ate our pizza. But of course it had to end.

I rose and went to face the second half of the day for the first time. It would be the first day all over again. We where the last ones in the room, so I turned to give Jake a kiss before I went to Spanish. Then mom and I turned and walked together to the far building, while the others went to their classes. The Spanish teacher, a young woman with unnaturally blond hair, had never seen us before, but didn't disappoint in her reaction. Her eyes popped, and her breathing seemed to stop for a moment, before she collected herself and spoke.

"Oh…um…. U must be the Cullen's." She fumbled, flushing.

"I'm Bella Cullen, and this is Renesmee Neisse." Mom introduced.

"It's a pleasure to meet you both, and I look forward to having you in class. I'm Miss. Weatherfield. According to your records, you both are fluent in Spanish already?" She said it like a question, sounding doubtful, referencing a sheet of paper on the top of her cluttered desk.

"si," We both answered, and shock crossed her face.

"Well then in that case, you won't have any trouble in this class. Why don't you two have a seat over there." She said in Spanish, pointing to two desks in the far corner of the room.

"Gracias," we thanked her, and she nodded.

The class was just as easy and boring as the others. Miss. Weatherfield spoke mostly in English, and speaking slowly when she said simple phrases in Spanish. Some of the kids would sneak glances at us every few seconds, but looked away when they where caught by my ready gaze. By the end of the class, we had been given 2 pages of home work to complete by the next day. Social studies were fairly bearable, and passed quickly.

PE on the other hand was my favorite of all classes. I had it with Jake, Rosalie, and Jasper, and we would make to opposite teams evening out the chances of a real game. Unlike the others who worked to do well at the game, we all had to focuses on not being too good, fast, or strong. With Jasper and I on one team, and Emmett and Jake on the other, we managed to keep the volley ball from hitting the ground for ten minutes before jasper finally jumped up, hitting the ball down so fast they Emmett couldn't have even saved it if he really tried.

When school was over, I changed quickly and left for the front of the school. Alice, Rosalie, Jasper, Emmitt, and mom where already standing there, and I bounded up to them. Rosalie put her arm around my shoulder when I reached her side, and mom gave me a smile. Jake and dad drove up to us a moment later, and we all piled in to the cars.

We drove home slower than in the morning, but I was in no rush to get back. I sat holding Jakes hand as we drove through the winding roads. When we arrived at the house I jumped out and skipped to the door. Esme was standing in the entrée filling a vase with fresh flowers.

"Hello dears," She said as we all walked into the room, "how was your day?"

"Boring," we all answered together,then erupted into laughter.

"Well it's over now!" I announced, and then skipped off to the kitchen to get a snack and start my Spanish homework. Jake fallowed me whistling merrily to himself. I recognized the tune of the Jazz number and began to sing along, as I reached for the cookie jar. When I set the plate of cookies down and turned to the refrigerator for milk, he wound his armed around my waist and took my hand. We danced to my singing, and we where soon joined by Alice and Jasper who walked through the door. Jasper grabbed Alice, just as Jake had done to me, and they both began to dance and sing with me. Mom and dad came and joined the party moments later. When we reached the last note of the song, we all twirled once more then laughed.

"Well that was fun," Alice swirled again humming tunelessly to herself.

I turned back to my cookies and milk, a broad grin on my face. I took my snack to the table and pulled out the Spanish homework from my bag. It was overly easy, and I had it completed in fife minutes flat. Jake, on the other hand, was much slower. When I had finished, I started to help him. He had, of course, learned all of the schools materials before, but needed a bit longer to complete the assignments. After an additional 10 minutes though, he had also completed his work, and we both put the papers back into our bags.

"What do you want to do now?" He asked.

"How much time do we have before the girls get back?" the pack had run back to their home the day before to get some additional supplies, and where planning on returning sometime in the evening.

"They probably won't be getting back until around eight o'clock," he told me, "their coming by car."

"Well in that case, why don't we go down to La Push?" I suggested, "I haven't seen the kids in forever."

He smiled and nodded in agreement. I stood and walked to the door, grabbed my car keys off the counter.

"Where are you too going?" Esme asked as we passed.

"Where going to go visit Sam, Emily, and the kids,"

"Tell them I said hi." She smiled. "See you later."

"Can do,"

I walked out to the garage and slid into my porch. Jake did the same opposite of me. I turned the keys and we where off. It took only 10 minutes to arrive at the small cabin, going twice the legal speed limit. Emily came to greet us when the sound of the car doors slamming reached her. She gave both of us hugs, and then called to the others over her shoulder.

"Molly, Tom, Julia, we have guests."

One by one they all appeared in the door way, each face brightening at the sight of us. They all ran to us and half tackled us with their hugs.

"Aunt Neisse! Uncle Jack!"Tommy sang.

"I can't believe you here!" joined molly and Julia.

"You couldn't keep us away forever," I laughed.

"Come on inside," Emily invited, and we all fallowed her into the house.

We all sat down at the kitchen table and began to talk cheerfully.

We talked about school, friends, forks, La Push, and the kids' sport teams. Normal things. No vampire battles, no where wolf stories, and nothing about the coming horrors. We just talked about the trivial things going on.

"And my T-ball team just won our last game!" Tommy told us, sitting on jakes lap, with an exited expression.

"Wow, that's great!"

He beamed, and began to go into extreme detail about the game, when his mom cut him off.

"I'm afraid that you will have to save your story for later Tom," She told him, with an amused expression, "It's nearly dinner time. Your Father will be here with Pizza soon." She turned me and Jake, "Will you stay for dinner?"

Molly, Julia, and Tommy all erupted into begging.

"Yes stay,"

"Yes, Yes, Yes!"

"Pleeeeeeas"

I smiled but shook my head.

"Sorry guys, but we have to get home. Don't worry we will be back soon." I added as their expressions dropped.

Jake and I hugged them all in turn, and then turned to the car. The raid was falling steadily, and the sun seemed to be setting. We waved good bye as we ran to the car, then slammed the doors shut.

"Want to get some dinner?" Jake asked me.

I nodded, and he turned onto the high way, heading towards Seattle.

I didn't pay much attention. I had other thoughts on my mind, but kept both my hands folded on my lap, wanting to keep the thoughts to myself. Ever since I had started spending time with Emily's children, watching them grow and learn, I had gotten this strange, desperate desire, to have a child of my own, to love and care for. But I knew that the thought was foolish. Such a idea was impossible, and for that reason, I kept it to myself.

But as hard as I tried, I could not keep the dream out of my head.

I stared out the window at the sheeting rain, not seeing it. Only seeing the dream, painting a perfect picture in my head, again.