SO SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG! Yes, I waited another week for you guys to review because i only got like, two from a guest reviewer (THANK YOU to whoever you are!) and then my editor didn't get my email about the chapter and i would've felt a little uncomfortable releasing the chapter without her reading it... SO she finally got back to me today. xD
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37. BACK
As I walked back into my home, it was like I never left in the first place. Almost everything was where it was when I left. The "Freedom Wall" only had a few things on it, same floors, the piano and guitars were in the same places with a few new additions, all in all, almost nothing changed.
I put down the bags I brought from my dad's trunk. My dad told me that Alice was at Jasper's so they couldn't see me, and Emmett was a friend's house. I was almost immediately pounced by our dog, Duke, greeting me as if I was only out for a quick walk.
"Hi Dukey!" I said in my adoring voice. He put his paws on my legs as I squatted down to him and rubbed behind his ears as he wagged his tail and licked my face. It reminded me of Jacob a little, I tried not to cry so I picked up my bags and went to my bedroom.
I went to my bedroom and again saw no change. The sheets were neatly on my bed, despite how many cousins probably stayed in my Disney/Moviethemed room. Most of my clothes were gone from my packing to Forks, it was cleaner than I remembered it being, since I almost never cleaned it.
"Glad to be back?" My mom said as she came up from behind me, making me jump a little. We laughed a little from it, and I answered.
"Kind of, yeah." She smiled.
"Plan on moving back anytime soon?" I shrugged.
"Mom, I've only been here for ten minutes. No." She laughed, I knew she got the reaction she was expecting, though in her eyes, there was that hint it was only half a joke and that little glimmer of hope was now gone.
"Okay, well, Emmett should be home soon from Ashton's and Alice won't be home until later." Alice knew I was coming over tonight, the thing with her is that even when something special was happening that when we needed family, she'd either show up late, or invite Jasper. I never invited others on my birthday dinners because it was my family and I. Jasper was, of course, a tiny exception, but it still felt a little rude.
"No problem, should I pick up Emmett or..." She shrugged.
"If you're not too tired." I shrugged.
"I'm jet lagged, mom, I'm fine." It was about five p.m. here, in Forks it would be was about two so I was still wide awake.
"Okay," My mom shrugged and left to make reservations at Swiss Chalet (a Canadian restaurant that me and family always ate after coming back from another country). I took another good look around, unpacked my stuff, put it on the bed, and started walking with Duke toward Ashton's house.
I met up with Emmett on the way because he was headed back himself anyways. He ran toward me.
"Renesmee!" Emmett got way taller, and burlier than I remembered. My little brother was like a weed, only a freshman and he would've passed as a senior now.
"Hey Emmett!" We hugged for a minute-he was "too manly" for hugs, I guess-and Ashton followed by looking at us.
"You haven't changed a bit," I commented. Ashton still looked like an eighth grader, smaller than me by about an inch, and shaggy blonde hair with almond eyes.
"You lost your tan." I rolled my eyes, even though I knew it was true. I used to have a slight tint of brown to my skin, I've gone pale from my months under the trees.
"Don't get much sun where I've been." I said back. Emmett laughed and we walked back home, Duke now in Emmett's hands as he offered.
Alice joined us back at home and she, as always when I'm away, just said a simple hello and went on with her business.
When we went to the restaurant, I didn't see anyone familiar in the room, which surprised me, and made me a little sad until our waiter came in. He recognized me as fast as I him.
"Renesmee?" He said. I smiled and got up to hug him.
"Hey Jeremy!" He smiled brightly, as always. Jeremy and I were never close, but he played Joseph in the last musical we were in.
"You moved back?" I shook my head.
"No, I'm just visiting for the week." He frowned.
"Aw... We need you for next year's musical. We're thinking of doing Hairspray." I frowned.
"You're kidding me, right?" I liked Hairspray, but I didn't know if I did enough to want to come back.
Jeremy nodded. "You're our best alto, chances are you're going to be Penny, especially over Ariana." He rolled his eyes. Ariana was a major diva, she was pretty nice but was one of the people who thought she deserved her own bow for having one solo. Honestly, she wasn't that good of a singer either. "I'm staying for another semester to play Corny Collins." Penny was one of my dream roles. I shrugged.
"I'll think about it." I said, satisfying him with a smile. Then he took our orders.
When Jeremy left to get our drinks, my mom went right into conversation about how Forks was, if I was taking care of Charlie and school. I told them about Nahuel, little bits of Jacob that wouldn't give anything away, that is until Alice blurred it out.
"How is your boyfriend anyways?" My face froze and she covered her mouth, realizing what she just said.
"You have a boyfriend?" I bit my lip.
"Well... technically." I tried to keep my innocent poker face. I looked at my parents' face.
"How old is he?" My mom asked.
"My age, only a few months older than me." My mom smiled a little.
"At least he's not your father's age." My dad stayed silent. I always guessed that to him, I was still his little girl. Even though he still had Emmett, I guess I was still growing too fast for him. "So," My mom continued. "What's his name?"
"Jacob." I said. She stared at me for a second in disbelief.
"Jacob Black?" I nodded. She smiled and laughed.
"I used to baby sit him while still pregnant with you." She laughed again. "What do you know?"
"Yeah," Emmett added. "What if they get married?" They all laughed and I chuckled along with them. There was no need to go into details with me and him. At least not now.
The rest of the night we talked about what was new, my dad made annoying jokes about how I should come home and every word I said, all in all, nothing really new happened. At least not anything big.
After dinner, Austin called me.
"Hey, you're home!" He said, I could hear the smile in his voice.
"As promised." I replied.
"Great! So, my birthday is on Saturday since just about everyone's done exams then."
"Okay, sounds awesome! I may come early just to help out."
"You don't have to, Ren." I shrugged as if he could see me.
"I want to, you know me. Besides, the sooner I see you, the better." He chuckled.
"Okay, I'll see you then! I'll call you tomorrow!" Austin always called me more than texted me. I loved that about him because it was more personal.
"Great! See you!" I hung up and Alice came beside me.
"Austin still chasing you?" I rolled my eyes.
"He never chased me, Alice, you know that." She rolled her eyes.
"That's BS, either he's in love with you or he's gay."
"He's neither and you know it." She smiled slyly and kept walking with me.
The next day, I went for a walk with my other best friend, Nicole. I had to wake up early so I could walk with her to school. I made a reminder to myself to get a iced cappachino from across the street at Tim Hortons, yet another Canadian company that I missed the most.
Me and Nicole talked about boys, as always. I showed a picture of Jacob and she, surprisingly, stole my phone to get a better look.
"He's cute." She said, her eyes wide. I raised an eyebrow. Me and Nicole had too different taste in boys. Almost every guy I dated or liked she said wasn't good looking.
"Really?"
"Yeah, I mean, you're so lucky." I smiled and took my phone back.
"Well, I love him." She smiled.
"Aw!" I blushed a little.
When we got to the school, I saw very few changes. New flowers on the side, more people I recognized in uniform-which I remembered to wear to blend in-and the library finally had that missing "y" replaced.
"Nothing new, huh?" Nicole shook her head.
"Nope. Is Spoons more exciting?"
"Forks," I corrected. "And no, but it's entirely different."
"I figured." She said. Then I spotted a old frenimy of mine. "DEREK!" Nicole ran to him as always. Derek was one of Nicole's good friends. I walked to them as she showed her new pink sparkly nail polish to him.
"They're fabulous!" He said as Nicole giggled, then spotted me.
"Ren!" He smiled and hugged me. "You're back?"
"Visiting." I said. He smiled and I turned to Nicole. "I'm going to look for Marie." She shrugged.
"Okay, bye!"
I walked inside and again saw very little. New banners, paint was old and chipping, and the atrium was loud. I took a deep breath. I was home, but this was one of the high lights of my time here.
"Rennie?" I recognized that voice. My first instinct was to ignore him, but I needed to get this over with. My stomach churned a little and I tried to calm my anger as I turned.
"Hey Clark," I said, fake smile on my face.
Clark changed out of everyone I saw. He cut his hair by a large amount and he changed his glasses from chic to geeky. He was still a little big and carried his guitar on his back, dark tanned skin and kind eyes. One thing that surprised me the most though, was that his girl friend, Eleanor, wasn't in tow.
"Why didn't you call me?" I shrugged. I didn't know you care. I thought back. But as always, I was too nice to say it out loud.
"I only came back yesterday." I crossed my arms. "Why did you call me? What about Eleanor?"
"We broke up." He said. "She cheated on me with Alexa two weeks ago." I shrugged. Your fault.
"C'est la vie." The old me would've hugged him for about five minutes. I think that's the reaction he was looking for in me. I didn't care though, why should I?
"Um... yeah..." He sighed. "Are you going to Austin's birthday?"
"That's why I'm here. I promised." And I keep mine, unlike you. He sighed again and looked up to his left.
"Hey, Martin!" He called him over. Martin I didn't hate that much anymore after we broke up, in comparison to Clark, we were friends still after a year of awkwardness. I smiled as he jogged over.
"Hey, Ren." He smiled. Martin didn't change one bit. Still had his headphones around his neck and had glasses. His image was nothing like this before we dated. I like to think him dating me was for the better.
"Hey Martin," I smiled.
"How was Forks?" I shrugged.
"Same old, but I love it."
"Hey!" Clark said. "You guys are both single, you should date again!" I turned to Martin.
"You're single again?"
"Yeah, Amy broke up with me for a college guy." So many people are breaking up since I left. Was I gone for that long? I turned to Clark.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be. We felt it was going to happen at some point." I turned to Clark to answer his question.
"Well, no thank you, sorry, I'm dating someone else." Clark's smiled, thinking I was lying.
"No, you're not." Think I can never get a boyfriend, do you? I wanted so badly to say that, but I kept my mouth shut as I lifted my chin proudly.
"Yes, I do. In Forks. His name is Jacob Black, and he's the most amazing guy I know." He kept his sly poker face.
"I thought I was the most amazing guy you knew." I glowered at him.
"I never said that." The world doesn't revolve around you. Martin bent down to look at my full face from his six foot height.
"I think she's serious, Clark."
"Thank you!" I said. Clark stared at me for a second, his smile disappeared.
"Oh... wow..." I looked around for someone else to talk to, I couldn't stand talking to Clark any longer. I spotted Marie and left without another word except a mumbled "Bye Martin".
"Marie!" I screamed, I knew the whole atrium could hear me but I didn't care. She turned, then looked down at me from the second floor. We ran to each other as I went up the steps. When we met up, I hugged her tightly.
"OH MY GOSH!" We said over and over as we squealed like the girls we were and I almost cried out of happiness.
"I missed you so much, you have no idea!" She said.
"Same!" I turned to Beth, a friend of mine and Marie's, but more Marie's though, who just stared at us.
"Hi," She said, as always, too quiet for me to even make out the words. But I knew it when I read it off someone's lips.
"Hi Beth," I said back politely and turned back to Marie. Unfortunately, the bell rang for her to go to class.
"Dammit!" She said, then turned to me. "Second last exam of the week today. You want to have lunch after? Last Friday of the month." I laughed a little, remembering what we used to do every month when I was still going here.
"Absolutely." She smiled. "I'll meet you here at eleven twenty."
"Great! See you!" I waved at Marie and Beth just stared followed Marie.
AN: REVIEW REVIEW!
Q. Is Forbidden Woods becoming a movie?
A. Yes, but it's Sims xD I only have one audition so far, but i think this is going to be great xD look at the video I posted on Facebook to see the characters xD I didn't make them, but they had my consent first xD
Q. Do you really live in Toronto?
A. No, I don't xD I live an hour or two away from it xD. I don't think I ever said I lived there, but I just remember when I went to Forks, when people asked where I was from I said "Toronto" cause technically, I flew in from there and no one knows my city even exists xD I love going to Toronto though, so many shows to see and stuff :P. But yes, Tim Hortons Ice Capps, i'd probs marry them if I could xD