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Correction
It was a hard thing to do, stunning a vampire. But as my eyes slowly shifted around the room I noticed that everyone, every single one of my family members was stunned into silence, not moving, not breathing, not human.
As uncle Emmett's laughter stopped the only sound that reigned was my faint heartbeat, it wasn't accelerated as was its nature, it was slow, as if it too had been stunned by the words.
"…Your Mom and Jacob only kissed twice... they did fall in love and they would've married eventually... In a way it's kinda funny, he can't seem to get over the Swan girls."
I failed to see the humor in that.
"…when he was younger he became very good friends with someone and eventually those feelings developed into something else, he fell in love with her…"
I could think nothing else, I could focus on nothing else but this new revelation.
Mom and Jacob.
"…he fell in love with her…"
Uncle Emmett's bear grip released me and he put me carefully back. "You look pretty, Nessie, Jake's gonna flip when he sees you." He said affectionately, flashing me a smile. And that was all it took for everyone to react, I could feel Uncle Jasper sending soothing waves my way that were doing nothing, because I was still shocked, I still hadn't reacted because I didn't know how to. I always knew we were unorthodox, I accepted that, but this…
My faint heartbeat slowed even more, and they all heard it.
My Dad came closer to me, he extended his hands to me, almost as if asking for my permission to take my hand, he approached me with exaggerated slowness, slower than a human. "Nessie…" was the only thing he said.
I didn't focus on him, instead my eyes fell on my Mother. I was human enough to be hopeful, maybe it was a joke, I didn't find it funny but Uncle Emmett had a weird sense of humor. And then I saw her, and so many things were confirmed.
I was in love with Jacob.
The feelings I thought were only developing were rooted much deeper than even I knew because you have to be desperately and passionately and blindly in love to suffer the heartbreak I did from just looking at her.
"Nessie…" she whispered quietly, and her voice was as broken as her look. Guilt was so evident in her eyes there was absolutely no way for me to think Uncle Emmett had been joking.
"…he fell in love with her..."
Surprising even myself I got up, slowly. If there was ever a time that my half vampire/ half human nature collided was now, I was human enough to know that the pain I was feeling could very well kill me… but I was vampire enough to know I would survive it even if I didn't want to.
I felt my heavy feet make their way to the bottom of the stairs at a painstakingly slow pace.
I felt everyone's eyes on me.
I felt my Mom's whispered plea to look at her.
I felt myself ignore it.
"Nessie." She tried again, this time closer to me. "Nessie, please let me explain, it wasn't like that, sweetheart, please…" The anxiety in her voice wasn't one I'd heard in a long time, she sounded desperate. It made no difference.
My feet continued their heavy journey.
"Nessie, honey, please, please just let me talk to you, please. Things weren't like that, it didn't happen like that… Nessie, please." Her pleading stopped me, I'd never heard anyone utter a more pained whisper, still, I couldn't look at her.
My lips moved of their own accord. "You didn't kiss him, then?" The pain in my whisper matched her own. My eyes were burning to shed tears, so I kept my head down.
Silence.
"You didn't fall for him, then?" I continued.
Silence.
And then my head moved in her direction and I knew that this wouldn't end well, it couldn't. Because her silence was a shouted confirmation, she fell in love with him, she fell in love with the person who from the very beginning felt mine. Jacob was mine, he had always been mine.
But he was hers first.
My eyes wandered around the room and then settled on hers. There was more pain in her topaz eyes than in all my family's combined, and the question I never imagined I would ask fell from my lips.
"Jacob didn't fall in love with you, then?" I was so beyond stupid there was still the smallest amount of hope in me that she would say no.
"Nessie…" And she said it so slowly and so quietly, like it hurt her to say it, like there was an obstruction, like a human would when they chocked on a sob.
And because we were all quiet we all heard it, we all heard my heart break into a thousand little pieces, we all heard it shatter. I felt my eyes pool with tears but knew there was no point in keeping my head down.
"I'm so sorry, Nessie." She breathed. "I would do any- anything to change that. I would give anything to take this pain from you…I-" Her tearless sobs prevented her from saying anything else.
I turned around.
"Could you please tell him I can't go out?" I asked no one and everyone at the same time and started climbing the stairs slowly.
"Nessie, sweetie, this doesn't change anything, you can still go, please, this doesn't mean anything, I swear, sweetheart please…"
And I froze.
Out of all the things she had said this was what turned my brain back on.
This doesn't change anything?
It was a slap in the face and I felt my emotions bubbling, she was coming closer to me and I begged she wouldn't touch me because I knew that the second her skin came in contact with mine I would lose it.
I heard her quiet footsteps and screamed in my head for my Dad to stop her.
"Bella, maybe we should give her some space." Dad's voice was as pained as the expression he wore when this whole thing started. I was thankful he'd listened to me and I hoped she would listen to him. I wanted, needed to be alone, it's never good to talk when you're upset and her words would only break me further.
But of course she didn't listen.
My frozen body had still not recovered and I knew that in less than a second she would come to me. Uncle Jasper's frantic attempt to soothe my anger was failing royally.
And then her hand closed around my forearm and I felt myself go cold, matching her body temperature for once, and I tried, I tried to control the growing anger that was threatening to spill over, I tried to control the urge to slap her hand away, I tired to control the tears that wanted to fall freely.
I felt myself hold still.
"Nessie, please go, please don't let me ruin this for you. Nessie, Jacob and I-"
And I lost it.
Because she spoke his name, because she spoke their names, together, as they had once been.
I felt myself break.
I felt my tears fall.
Jacob and her…
I felt myself hate.
I whipped around so fast and with so much force if I wasn't a hybrid and she wasn't a vampire I would've torn her arm apart and would've fallen to my knees, losing my balance.
Breaking my neck.
I was seething. "Jacob and you, what, Mom? You never got to plan a wedding so that makes this okay? He couldn't have you so he settled for me? He takes the leftovers, is that what you're saying? Well, guess what? I don't want to date your reject, Mom! I refuse to be second best, I refuse to let him compare." I was breathing so hard my chest felt like it was going to explode, my previously slow heartbeat was faster than normal, my skin felt hot and my tears didn't stop.
Through my tears I still saw her and I would never forget what I saw.
She looked human.
Because a vampire, a real vampire could never look so hurt. So lost, so weak. My words broke her more than I ever knew they could, they finished her.
And still my hatred lingered, I was broken too.
My next words came in a whisper so small she would hear only because we were so close together. "How could you do this to me, Mom? How could you not tell me? How could you let me fall in love with him?" There was no point hiding it, we all knew my words were true, I loved him, I loved him more than I knew I could…and it hurt.
She couldn't talk. She looked once more into my eyes, an apology plainly written in them and then her lips moved: "I never meant to hurt you, I love you more than anything."
I didn't react.
"I'm sorry." She whispered again, and her words were so defeated what she did next didn't surprise me, she walked out of the room, out of the house, into the forest, where her sobs wouldn't be heard.
I turned around again, refusing to look into anyone's eyes.
"Where did Bella go?" A husky voice asked, again I stopped.
He was here.
"I tried asking her what was wrong but she took off running the second she came through the door, I don't even think she saw me." He said.
No one said anything.
"Guys, is everything okay?" He asked, uninformed.
"Jacob, I don't think now's the best time for this." Grandpa Carlisle spoke for the fist time since entering the room. "Nessie and Bella-"
He was beside me in a second. "What? Are you hurt? Did something happen?"
His concern made me cry, whether it was because I was moved or angry I wasn't sure.
"I can't go out." I managed in between a sob.
His warm hand made my face turn to him.
I'd never seen him like this before, he was wearing dark jeans and a button down shirt, his shoes had laces on them, his hair was styled carefully. He made an effort for today, he wanted to look good, and he did, he looked amazing.
And my heart ached when I noticed the bouquet of pink roses in his hand.
"Why are you crying? What happened? What's wrong?" He asked worriedly.
I couldn't answer. I tried to move my head out of his grasp.
He looked into my eyes to find an answer and saw only pain, his eyes moved around the room, taking everything in: my family, worried and hurt, my Mom absent, her quick departure, my reluctance to go out with him, Grandpa Carlisle's warning and unfinished words and I saw something click in him.
His eyes closed as realization dawned on him. He turned to face me slowly.
"Nessie… I can explain. It wasn't like that." He said urgently.
I started for the stairs yet again, determined to make it up them this time, I couldn't stay here anymore.
"Nessie." He called after me.
I turned around again, because there was something I needed to do. Looking into his eyes, I saw the pain I felt mirrored in his.
"My name is Renesmee, Jacob." I said in a sad voice. His face fell at my correction because he knew what this entailed; I had cut ties with him. I wasn't going to be a part of this charade.
I made my way to my room and closed the door quietly. I went to my bathroom and turned on the taps. Sitting on the floor, by the corner, I hoped against hope that the running water would die out my cries.
Angsty, much?
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Next chapter should be up by Monday or Tuesday.
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P.S. Are you guys celebrating Edward's birthday tomorrow??... Eh, yeah, right, me neither *Pulls decorations down from the walls*
