Chapter 22: Reunited

Nessie's POV

For a moment it seemed as if all of our problems vanished into thin air. Seeing my mother and father together for the first time filled me up with a happiness that I could not even begin to describe. I could clearly see the love they still had for each other after all these years. My mother was crying what I assumed were tears of joy. Although my father wasn't crying I could hear the sobs resonating in his chest.

I could feel my own tears beginning to well up in my eyes and clouding my vision. For the first time in my life I had both my mother and father together. This is the way that it should have always been. Maybe though, just maybe, this is the way that things would be from now on. I could not change the past but maybe, just maybe, the future could change. I didn't see why we couldn't be the family that we were always meant to be. I loved my father, my grandparents, aunts, and uncles. I didn't ever want to part from them.

"So this is where you've been hiding this whole time," my father was the first one to speak after several minutes of silelnce.

"I'm sorry Edward. I never wanted to hurt you. I love you. I just-" mom cried.

"It's okay Bella,"

"I was afraid that when you found out about the pregnancy that you would think I cheated on you. I didn't want to hurt you by telling you what happened so I thought leaving was best so I-"

"You thought leaving was best?" dad asked, sounding very confused. "Bella do you have any idea how much pain you caused me by leaving? Do you have any idea how much the whole family has been suffering since you left? You are my wife, a daughter to Carlisle and Esme, a sister to Alice, Rosalie, Emmett, and Jasper. You are family to us. We have always and will always love you. You're absence nearly killed all of us,"

"I'm sorry," mom sobbed. "I thought I was doing what was best for everyone. I never meant to cause so much pain,"

At the moment I felt like I was intruding upon a private conversation. So I left without anyone saying anything. I needed to go and find my brothers anyway. I needed to make sure that they were okay. As soon as people saw me they stared. They looked at me like I was an alien or something.

"Look it's that girl from the video," I heard one man say.

"The one that bit and did something to that police officer," a woman said.

I tried to ignore and block out their voices. Suddenly there was a godawful stench in the air. I almost fell over vomited because of the revolting smell. It could only be described as a very strong wet dog smell.

Wet dog? Images of my two brothers as wolves popped into my mind. Could it be them that was giving off that godawful revolting stench? There was really only one surefire way to find out. I had never tracked anyone before being a human and all but I have seen dogs do it on TV so I had an idea of how it worked.

I sniffed in every which direction to see where the scent was coming from the strongest. As soon as I had it I followed the scent as fast as I could without drawing anymore attention to myself. A feat that was nearly impossible as I seemed to catch the eye of every single person that I passed by. A lot of people moved away from me but some decided that it would be a good idea to poke and prod at me.

I didn't know how long I was tracking for when I finally found my brothers, as humans again, on the beach. People were watching in the distance.

"There you two are. I've been looking all for you. What happened?"

"I think you saw what happened Nessie," Jr. said. "We turned into wolves in front of a crowd of people,"

"I know but how did you turn back?"

Turns out that as wolves we can hear each other's thoughts. Dad heard us all the way back in Washington and told us how to calm down and turn back. He's on his way here to come get us. Anthony informed me using sign language.

I could hear somebody else walking around on the beach but neither my brothers and I really paid attention. We were too engrossed in our story of today's events.

"Yeah as it turns out were descended from a long line of majestic werewolves," Jr. said. "But enough about us. What happened with you and the police? What are you? You're not a wolf like us. I can tell by the smell,"

I took a deep breath before answering. "I'm half vampire,"

"Half what?"

"Vampire. I'm half vampire. Believe it or not vampires exist just like you werewolves do. The Cullens are full vampires," I explained. "When I bit the cop earlier I started his transformation into a vampire,"

"Does mom know?"

"Yes mom knows. She's known about vampires all this time,"

"I wonder why she didn't say anything before,"

"Because knowing is dangerous," I said. "Apparently there are laws. There's a group of vampires called the Volturi. I think mom said their names were Aro, Caius, and Marcus. They make the laws. The biggest one is that the vampire world remain a secret. Mom thinks we're in danger because of all the people recording what happened earlier,"

"Yeah about that," Jr. said suddenly nevous. "Someone's recording are conversation right now,"

I turned around way too fast for a human. Just a few feet away from me was a teenage girl with her phone out.

"Who are you?! What are you doing?!" I shouted hysterically. How had I missed this girl?!

"Just someone who recognized you from the video,"

"How long have you been standing there?"

"The entire time. I've been livestreaming your whole conversation,"

I felt the blood completely drain from my face. "Now it all makes sense,"

"Nessie!" I heard dad shout. The girl left as soon as my dad started running toward me.

"Renesmee Carlie Cullen don't ever just disappear like that!"

"Dad?"

"Yes?"

"I think we're in trouble," I was barely able to choke out the words.

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