Author's note:
Stephenie Meyer owns Twilight I'm simply playing with her characters.
Renesmee's POV:
My Christmas day was boring to say the least. I just went hunting with Emmett and my dad. Before I went to sleep I checked my phone to see if Aiden had texted me or anything. He didn't. I slept without dreaming for the first time in months. My dad woke me up at 11:00.
"wow you haven't slept that long since you were a baby" he commented when I awoke to him gently shaking my shoulder.
"dad go away!" I said sleepily. He laughed.
"your mom wants you downstairs." he said and before I could protest he picked me up and ran me downstairs.
"I am not a child this isn't funny!" I yelled as I tried to break out of his grip to no success.
"Edward put her down." my mom said from where she was sitting in the living room. My dad did as she said and placed me down on my feet.
"what do you need mom?" I asked as I rubbed my eyes.
"I notice you haven't been wearing your ring." she said sounding cavalier. I looked down at the floor.
"no I guess I haven't. I'll just go get it." I said as I turned towards the stairs.
"there's not need for that I have it right here." my dad said and handed me the ring. I looked at it and for the first time got a good look at it. The first time I saw it I was too mortified to realize that it's shaped like a heart and it's covered in diamonds(probably another piece of jewelry my dad inherited from his mom). I put the ring on my left ring finger.
"are you happy now?" I asked in a irritated tone.
"yes" she said with a smile and ran into the kitchen at vampire speed. Sometimes I think she's too used to being a vampire and that's the real reason why she doesn't get out much. I ate a pomegranate for breakfast while I watched TV in the living room. They were showing first season episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I was really getting into it. By the time I had been watching the show for an hour, Emmett had joined me and cracked up when Angel's face changed while he and Buffy were making out.
"oh my god that was hilarious!" he roared. He then decided to tell me some more Cullen Family History. "you know when this show first came out in 1997, Carlisle got so paranoid about us being exposed that he wouldn't let us go to school for two months, until Alice convinced him that the vampires on the show were so stupid that nobody would suspect us." I find it funny that so many stories about Emmett have to with pop culture. Emmett and I watched three more episodes before Esme nagged us about being couch potatoes and that our skin would end up looking like Vladimir and Stefan. After that for fun Emmett grabbed a baseball from his and Rosalie's room and suggested we play catch outside.
"ok." I answered and we walked to the backyard. Emmett stepped a good distance away from me and lightly(for him) threw the ball towards me. I caught it with ease and threw it back.
"so how's Aiden?" Emmett and threw the ball back to me. I caught it and answered,
"I don't know I haven't spoken to him since he was here on Christmas eve." I spoke the truth and sent the ball back his way.
"really? Usually you guys don't go two hours without talking." Emmett said, his voice disbelieving.
"yeah I'll probably call him tonight." my hand was starting to sting from not using a glove. When I got to thinking about it, it was really weird that Aiden hadn't called me. I'm not saying he's clingy, but Aiden certainly likes to be around me and the chances of him forgetting to call are close to none. "he's probably just with his band." I said, telling myself more than Emmett.
"whatever you say kid."
Aiden's POV:
I sat in the middle of my living room on the floor. All of the windows were covered and I didn't make a sound. If Renesmee was going to kill me she would have done it already right? I wasn't taking chances. So I sat in the silence and darkness eating Cocoa Puffs straight from the box and drinking bottled water. I had wrapped myself up in a blanket my mom had made me but I was shivering.
After five hours of this I'd convinced myself I'd gone insane and when someone came to check up on me I'd be sent to a psychiatric hospital. But what if I wasn't? what if Renesmee's family really were vampires? What if Renesmee really was something not quite human? Did I care? Yes.
I decided I would check my phone. It said I had two missed calls. One was from Tiffany accompanied with a message. I'll save you the pain by saying it was her singing All I Want For Christmas Is You. I shuddered and deleted the message. The next was from Renesmee. The message was her saying,
"hey Aiden it's me. Uh…call me when you get this message." it was short and sweet. She sounded the exact same as the last time I'd seen her, not the evil voice I'd imagined her to have now that I knew her secret(kind of). I sighed and deleted her message. I decided to listen to my Walkman to pass the time. I must have fallen asleep because by the time I woke up it was morning again.
I decided I was being insane and decided to go for a jog. I changed into some new clothes and walked down to the sidewalk. I saw the trees across the street shake and I swore there was something in the tree but when I looked again it was as if it were nothing.
I like jogging, it gives me time to think. But at that particular time that probably wasn't a good idea and my mind instantly went to Renesmee. Weren't vampires just crazy people that killed people to drink their blood? Real vampires were just myths right?
You know the irony in it all is that my favorite show was True Blood and when I watched it I'd never been terrified of the vampires like I was of the Cullens. However Stephen Moyer isn't really a vampire.
I had been running along the sidewalk for five minutes before I realized I hadn't put on a jacket. I get cold easily so usually I don't forget to put one on. At the moment I wasn't concerned about freezing though as I continued to run. I must have gotten a mile from my apartment when I decided to turn back.(a word of advice, never go jogging without a jacket while it's 30 degrees outside and you're emotionally unstable). While I walked back to my building I decided something.
My life had been good before I met Renesmee. It wasn't perfect, but it was at least normal and comfortable. So I decided I would go back to that. I would live my life as if Renesmee were simply figments of my imagination. I would hang out with my friends and focus on the band again. But most of all I'd try being single for a while. Only bad things come out of me dating anybody.
It wouldn't be easy but I had to do it. The only thing that was going against my plan was that I knew it would hurt Renesmee. And even though she was something that might want to kill me, I still cared deeply about her.
Renesmee's POV:
It had been over a week since I'd seen or heard from Aiden. I was almost tempted to have Emmett track him down but I decided against it. I couldn't help but think of what I'd done wrong. At least when I'd lost my first love I'd known the reason. No, I didn't love Aiden but being ignored by the guy you're dating hurts.
It was New Years eve and I sat sulking in my room. I didn't cry. I refused to cry over a meaningless distraction. But still there was a wave of depression over me.
Jasper had offered to kill Aiden twice but I'd turned him down. I didn't want Jasper to ruin his streak of almost ten years without killing a human and Aiden didn't deserve to be killed. In fact I still felt compassion towards him and his childlike demeanor towards certain things. It was about two in the afternoon that I decided that not knowing the reason for Aiden's recent behavior might kill me.
I jumped out my window and decided to go to Aiden's apartment like I had days before. He'd seemed disturbed about something when I'd watched him from the trees across the street. I got into my car and drove off. I knew my parents would be worried but I had to get to the bottom of this. I parked my car in the parking lot across the street from his building and to my luck just then he got out of a black van which then drove off. I was able to run at human speed over to him I cried out,
"Aiden!" he turned around and looked at me with wide eyes. Almost as if he were terrified of me. Then he turned back around and started to walk to his building as if I wasn't there. I put my hand on his shoulder and said, "oh no you don't! you're going to tell me why you've been ignoring me." I could feel him trembling.
"I-I'm sorry just please don't hurt me!" he begged for…mercy. I looked at him with a confused expression on my face.
"what?" I asked in a tone that matched my face. "why would I hurt you?" I asked calmly.
"b-because of what you are." he stuttered out. My eyes widened.
"what?" I asked in disbelief. He couldn't know the truth right? "I mean what are you talking about?" I asked more calmly. He grabbed me by the arm and took around to the back of the building.
"I did some research." he confessed. "you're a vampire." I was beyond stunned. Firstly because he'd actually been half right but second because he actually thought I was a pure vampire. I shook my head.
"no I'm not a vampire." I said truthfully. Aiden looked into my eyes meaningfully.
"that's what I thought." he said quietly. "but you aren't human and I know your family are all vampires." he said as if he'd never been more sure of anything in his life. I debated with myself. Should I tell him he was crazy and have my family move again? Should I tell him the truth and say he's right and then hope he can keep my family's secret like my mom did? Or the third option, should I say nothing and run away? With my fast thinking I made my decision after thinking all scenarios through. I put my hand on his cheek and used my ability on him for the first time. I showed him my mother running through my house, I showed him Emmett uprooting a dead tree, finally I showed him my father killing a deer. When I took my hand off of his cheek he gasped out,
"what are you?"
Ok guys that was the end of the first part of this story. There will be three total parts in all. I'll be continuing this story in another story so make sure you're all following me and not just this story. finally remember to review it's what motivates me to continue writing.