Chapter 9: New Life, New Rules
Nessie's POV
"Where exactly have you been?" I swore that I could actually hear the anger simmering behind Carlisle's voice. It made me really nervous all of a sudden.
I gulped nervously. I tried to come up with a valid reason, a valid excuse for what I'd done. My mind kept coming up blank. I wasn't used to this. I disobeyed rules all the time and no one was any wiser. Therefore I never had to make up an excuse for breaking rules.
"On a scale of one to ten how much trouble am I in right now?" My heart was beating fast. Which was saying a lot for me. Since it naturally beat 150 times a minute.
"Try a fifteen. Now answer me. Where have you been all night?! Why did you leave when I specifically told you to stay put?! Do you have any idea how worried we have all been?!"
I didn't have a single idea on how to respond to that. Nobody ever worried about me when I snuck out so this entire situation was foreign to me.
"I'm sorry," was all that I could say.
"Answer the question Nessie. Why did you leave when I specifically told you that you were to stay put?!"
I opened my mouth to say something but the words never came.
"She isn't used to much supervision," Edward spoke. "She and her brothers are on their own most of the time and do whatever they want. She is used to breaking rules and not facing any consequences,"
I looked at him in complete shock. How the hell did he know that?! I've never mentioned that out loud to anyone before except for maybe my brothers. So how the heck could he possibly know that?!
Carlisle turned his attention toward me again. "Renesmee even though we've just discovered that you are apart of this family we already love you and care about you immensely. Also when I or any other adult in this family tell you to do something or give you a specific rule or instruction to listen. I understand that you are used to doing whatever you want whenever you want. You're used to being unsupervised. I need you to understand something. You better get used to having a lot more supervision now. If you do break any rules that we set for you there will be consequences. Is that understood?"
"Yes sir," the tone in his voice had caused me to flinch.
"Now can you tell us what on Earth possessed you to do such a thing anyway?"
"I went to look for my brothers,"
"Brothers?"
"I guess I never mentioned that did I? I have two brothers. We're triplets," I didn't even attempt to explain how they were identical twins and I was the odd girl out.
"Where are they?" This time it was Edward that spoke again.
"On the Quileute reservation. That's where I've been all this time,"
"Well unfortunately there's nothing we can do about that right now. Let's go home," Carlisle said. "and one more thing don't ever go on Quileute lands again. Understood?"
"Yes," I said although I knew for sure that I wouldn't be able to stick that order. The only beach around here was La Push beach and if I wanted to go surfing again I'd have to cross Quileute territory. Besides I really really wanted to see Luke Uley again. He was so kind, sweet, funny, and cute. The complete opposite of most other boys my age. At least the ones that went to my school.
I shuddered when I caught Edward glaring at me.
Wait. Why couldn't we go look for my brothers? That didn't make any sense. Unless what Luke told me about Cullens not being allowed there was true. Which seemed completely ridiculous to me. I chose not to question it though.
As soon as we arrived at the house I went to the bathroom to shower. Now that I was alone again I couldn't stop thinking about everything that happened. My brothers were with another family that claimed them. This 'Jacob' was supposedly our father but that just felt wrong to me. Anyways the Cullens claimed I was part of their family. I was going to get bottom of this one way or another. One thing was certain. Nothing would ever be the same again.
I had gone from having almost no family to possibly having two. I wondered what my bullies would think of that? They made fun of us for having such a small family. Even the girls were really cruel to me at school. There was one girl in particular that almost killed me last year. I have a severe peanut allergy. Most of the kids knew about it to. One day Lucy walked up to me and suddenly smeared her peanutbutter and jelly sandwich all over my face. I ended up in the hospital because of that incident. The worst part was that nothing happened to her. She didn't even get suspended. I'm surprised mom didn't kill someone that day.
Once I got out of the shower I realized how quiet it was. I walked down and into the kitchen amd still saw no one. I searched the area for food because I was starting to get hungry. All I could find was bread and...peanut butter. Go figure.
"Are you hungry?"
I screamed and jumped at the same time when I heard Edward's voice behind me.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you,"
"Dude you nearly gave me a heart attack. Where is everyone anyway?
"Hunting,"
"You're hunters? You go out and shoot animals?"
I could tell that he was trying not to laugh. I didn't understand what was so funny.
"So why didn't you go with them?"
"I stayed behind to keep an eye on you,"
"Oh," I guess Carlisle wasn't kidding when he said that I'd better get used to a whole lot more supervision now. That would take quite a lot of getting used to.
"You still didn't answer the question. Are you hungry?"
"Yes," I answered quickly.
"Okay then why don't you come with me and I will buy you some lunch? I want to get to know you more,"
"Really? Why?"
"Because you are my daug-my family," he said. "and if we are family don't you think we should know each other better,"
All I cared about was getting some food in my stomach at this point. Strange how these people had so little food here.
"So you came all the way here from Hawaii?" he asked once we were on our way. Odd because I was certain that I hadn't msntioned that fact yet.
"Yes. Oahu more specifically,"
"So what happened? Why did you leave? How did you get here?"
"It's a long story,"
"We've got plenty of time,"
"Okay," I took a deep breath. "A month ago there was a car accident and mom ended up in a coma-"
"Bella is in a what?!" Edward shouted suddenly hysterical.
"A coma. Since we had no other family we were put in foster care. Wd found out not to long ago that they were going to separate my brothers and I and send us all over the state. We didn't want that to happen so we came up with a plan to escape. We wanted to find our real family and since mom was from here we thought it was a good place to start. So I hacked into the airline's computer system and got us tickets,"
By the time I finished my story we were walking into the restaurant. The reason we got there so fast was because Edward drove faster than the speed of light. Okay maybe that was an exaggeration but still.
"You hacked into the airlines?" he asked in disbelief.
"Yup. I don't want to brag or anything but I'm pretty darn smart," I smiled.
"You do realize how stupid and risky running away was, right?"
"Yeah but it worked, didn't it?"
He smiled. "Believe me I'm glad that you did it," he sighed sadly. "Your mother is really in a coma?"
"Yes and the doctors pretty much said it would take a miracle for her to wake up,"
He looked sad. Extremely sad. I didn't know what to do or say to comfort him.
"Are you guys ready to order?" I looked up when I saw the waitress.
"Fettuccine Alfredo please. Oh and I'd like a root beer please,"
"What about you?"
"I'm good. Maybe just water please. Oh and please be careful about peanuts don't get anywhere near her food. She's allergic,"
I could almost swear that my jaw dropped to the floor.
"Okay how did you know that?"
"Know what?"
"You keep knowing things about me that I haven't revealed yet. Like when you told Carlisle that I'm not used to a lot of supervison. Or how you knew I was from Hawaii when I hadn't said anything about that yet. And now my peanut allergy?! You're seriously starting to freak me out,"
He didn't say anything probably because he knew that I was right.
"So how do you keep doing that?"
"Renesmee-"
"Don't 'Renesmee' me. I wanto to know what's going on,"
"and you will but just not yet,"
I decided to let the subject drop. I wasn't going to continue to pester him when it was pretty obvious he didn't want to talk about it.
"So what do you do for fun?"
"Well it's nice to know that you don't know everything about me," I laughed. "But the answer is surfing, baking, and movies,"
"Favorite movie?"
"The Lion King. Been obsessed with that for years. I'm super excited for the live action version,"
"Favorite music?"
"Rock. Mostly the Beatles,"
"Favorite food?"
"Italian," I said before biting into the food that had just been brought to me.
I was liking this game of twenty questions. As weird as Edward was I was starting to like him more and more. And we looked so much alike that the waitress thought we were siblings. If it weren't for his age I might've actually believed that he was my father.
So who was my father? If it wasn't Edward who was it?
It couldn't have been that Jacob guy from the reservation. But why did he look like my brothers.
I suddenly had a flashback to the conversation I'd overheard when he first arrived.
It happened the night before the wedding. Bella kept saying that she didn't want to because she loved Edward but I could tell that she did want to. She just didn't want to admit it. I wanted to show her what it would be like if she stayed human. She finally said 'yes' and that's when it happened. Edward never found out because I was able to stop myself from thinking about it at the wedding.
Then he had added. It didn't matter how many times Bella said 'no'. She could deny it all she wanted but I knew she wanted it. That's why she eventually said 'yes'. She just needed a little convincing.
I was brought out of my flashback when the glass Edward had been holding suddenly exploded. He was so angry all of a sudden that his eyes had gone pitch black. Before I knew what was happening he had stormed out of the restaurant. All I could do was run after him as I wondered what the heck had set him off so badly.
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