a/n: so this chp picks up after the last one and then skips to nessie and jake leaving for London. Sorry it took a while but I hope with me rushing its still of good quality. again thatnks for the reviews they are truly appreciated. Hope you like it....
11) Doors from Portland to London
"You must be Nessie?" The blonde lady, who just said she was Ashlee's aunt, asked me.
"Y…yeah." I choked out.
"Here is your pocketbook." She handed me my bag, giving me a very strange look.
"Nessie this is Jessica Stanley she went to High School with us." My mother spoke up. It took me a few moments to process what was going on but then it all clicked. The strange look Jessica was giving me, the tension I could feel radiating off my father and my mother and the low chuckles I heard coming from Jacob. This was another of those complicated situations were I had to be careful what I said. Couldn't she have come when I wasn't falling over?
"Oh, hi and thanks." I stumbled over my words trying to sound half way intelligent and not totally wasted.
"No problem I figured I'd have to come over and apologize to your parents. Are they here?" She asked looking around.
"Uhhh."
"Yes, hold on I'll get them." My father spoke up thankfully saving me from my immense vocabulary.
"Why don't you sit down?" My mother offered sweeping her hand across the living room.
"What a lovely place this is." Jessica said.
"Thanks. Can I get you anything?"
"No. I'm good." She answered I took a seat closest to the bathroom (just in case), and Jake took a seat on the arm of the chair.
"Hey I remember you. You're Jacob right?" Jessica pointed towards Jake.
"Yeah." He said slowly.
"Jessica I'm sure you remember my parents, Carlisle and Esme." Edward spoke coming down the stairs with my grandparents trailing close behind.
"What a surprise." Esme said giving a warm smile to Jessica who sat with her jaw dropped.
"Is everything alright?" Carlisle asked.
"Oh…uhh…yeah its just you all look the same as you did 7 years ago." We all stopped in our tracks exchanging glances and trying to think quickly on what to say.
"Well with all the cosmetics they have come out with its not that hard." Bella chuckled and we all followed suit nervously.
"Right. So Dr. Cullen."
"You can call me Carlisle."
"Alright, Carlisle I'm so sorry to have to be the one bringing the bad news of why your daughter is drunk but it seems my niece, Ashlee, took when I said a few friends to the extreme. I also want you to know that I'm terribly sorry and Ashlee will be receiving consequences for this." She looked around and straightened up in her seat after she was finished.
"It is understood, and no need to worry I don't blame you." Carlisle said looking very fatherly. "Kids will be kids."
"I just wanted to let you know." She was going to continue but was cut off by Esme.
"Thank you that was very kind." She stood up trying to usher Jessica out.
"It reeks of alcohol down here what is going o…" Alice yelled while she ran down the stairs.
"Oh my…Jessica I didn't see you coming…I mean I didn't see you here." Alice rambled nervously.
"I was just leaving because I came here to apologize for my niece's party." She played nervously with her hair.
"Oh." Alice looked just as confused.
"Very well then, nice seeing you." She started back up the stairs. We all watched her retreat back and then run to her room. Then after a few minutes or maybe it was just seconds, because my brain was a pile of smoke and vodka.
"I'll be leaving sorry again." She broke the silence and took off quite fast through the doors and into her car.
"What a small world." My mom whispered.
"I'll say and that had to be the scariest 5 minutes of my life." My dad said looking at no place unparticular.
"Oh no." I yelled and ran or more like stumbled my way into the bathroom. Unfortunately me being half human meant I could get drunk and also throw up.
"Honey are you okay in there?" My mom knocked on the door.
"Dandy." I answered picking my head up and looking at my reflection. And what a terrible reflection it was, blood shot and glassy eyes along with some mascara underneath my eyes. My hair was going every which way and well I smelled like I took a bath in a bar. I splashed some cold water on my face and opened the door.
"Maybe you should go to sleep?" My mom said holding me up.
"Yeah maybe." I agreed and was literally carried up the stairs by Jacob.
"Yell if you need anything." He said and kissed my forehead.
"Jake!" I yelled giggling.
"Yeah?" He said coming back over to my bed.
"I need something." He nodded for me to continue. "I need you to kiss me." I giggled some more.
"Alright fine." He lowered his head to mine and kissed my lips softly. I of course being in my state almost suffocated Jacob by pulling him closer and not letting go for a long time but I don't think neither of us were complaining.
"Besides you tasting like warm milk I enjoyed that very much." He complimented pushing my hair away from my face.
"Mmm yeah." I mumbled realizing how tired I was. I heard him talking in the background but my ears were ringing from the music that still pounded an hour after I left in my head. I pulled the sheetsup, and fell into a very deep sleep.
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"Are you sure you have everything?" My mother asked me for the fiftieth time. It was the day Jake and I were scheduled to hop on a plane and head for London. So naturally all hell broke loss at my house that day.
"Yes mom I made a list and everything is checked off." I reiterated.
"Okay. Oh I'm going to miss you so much." She gushed pulling me into another hug.
"You know you can call me." I said pushing away.
"I know but still you're my little girl." She took my face in her hands and smushed my cheeks together.
"Mommy these are for you." Helena chirped jumping up and down at my feet.
"And that's my little girl." I smiled picking up the now physically 1 year old. She handed me some pink roses that I knew she picked out of one of Esme's vases.
"How pretty and they smell wonderful."
"I'm going to miss you." She started to cry.
"Oh baby don't worry your Aunt Rosalie will be there for you all the time." I said pointing to Rose who was backed up against the wall looking like she was about to cry any second.
"I know but I love you." She sniffed and I swear that's when my heart cracked into a million pieces. For the first time in a while I wasn't sure if I was making the right decision to go away. But I knew I had to the reason for the trip turned into something more then just wanting to be alone and have sex it morphed into a better educational system, a wonderful opportunity to meet with different cultures and have some what of a teenage life. So I couldn't cancel but then again I couldn't stop myself from missing everyone.
"I love you too and I'll call every day." I promised to her and to myself.
"The cars all packed." Emmett called into the house so I set Helena down on her clutching the roses she gave me close.
"I'll miss you and take good care of her for me please." I said while I hugged Rose.
"Nothing less and thank you." She whispered in my ear.
"For what?"
"For giving me this opportunity to have some sort human experience." She kissed both my cheeks before pulling me back into a giant hug.
"No problem." I sniffed back some tears that started to sting my eyes.
"I love you." Rosalie said before handing me off to Jasper, and then to Emmett who I swore might've suffocated me if he hugged me any harder. Then I had to say goodbye to Esme and Carlisle and then to Alice, which was a whole production.
"We have a plane to catch." My father said trying to hurry me up.
"Okay I'm ready." I choked out giving one last kiss to Lena and then closing the door to Portland.
"I thought you were never coming out." Jake joked when I slide into the backseat next to him.
"Yeah." I tried to laugh but I couldn't.
"You're doing the right thing." He reassured me.
"For me not for her." I looked into his eyes and I could see they were blood shot and shiny from crying just as well as mine.
"Nessie when will you realize that she needs someone who is stable not still growing in a sense." He sounded so much so much like a father while I sounded like me with maybe a little bit of motherhood in there.
"I understand I just feel terrible for not being that stable person."
"Don't worry after you graduate I'm sure you'll be more stable then a rock." I had to laugh a little at that because Jacob was so not the person to make metaphors. We sat in silence for the car ride to the airport and most of the time we waited for out flight to be called was in silence as well.
"Don't leave honey." My mom wailed in the middle of the terminal.
"I'll call and visit whenever possible." I said trying to wrench myself out of her death grip.
"You better." She said.
"I'll miss you and be good." My father said pulling me into a hug. He was just about to say something before I heard someone calling my name.
"Nessie! Nessie!" It was Ashlee and she was running towards me. I remember she said she might stop by before my flight to say goodbye that is if she got out of being grounded.
"Ashlee, I'm so glad you stopped by." I yelled pushing past my parents.
"Well I couldn't not say goodbye to the person who changed me." I looked at her and saw actually wasn't wearing any makeup. Well maybe some foundation and lip gloss but that was it.
"You're not wearing any make-up." I blurted out loud and she laughed.
"I know I thought I might try your airy look out and I have to say guys have actually been staring at my face and not my body. Who would've guessed it?" She smirked.
"Amazing isn't it." I smiled.
"Last call for Flight 26L heading to London. Last call."
"That's me." I said.
"Yeah so I'll see you around?" She asked looking even sadder then before. At school she had this complete front that nothing could touch her and though I knew she broke down just about every night seeing her as this new person was like looking at her for that first time in the bathroom when she almost found out what we were.
"Yeah, I'll text you even and you can call whenever."
"Whatever." She rolled her eyes and started baking away. Well there goes the real goodbye I was hoping for.
"Bye Ashlee, I'll miss you." I swallowed hard. She met my eyes again and then she broke down crying in the middle of the airport.
"Can you believe it 2 fucking months and you have this much of an impact on me. I'm here crying because of you. God do I hate you Renesmee." I gasped at her words not sure what was going on. "I hate you for breaking down the person I was and making me this fucking cry baby who has emotions. But I love you for realizing I needed a friend there." She ran back over to me pulling me into a giant a hug and then out of nowhere and I mean no where she kissed me. Yes, that's right Ashlee the girl who is known as man-eater at school kissed me full on the lips.
"Uhh, ummm, ugh." I stuttered trying to find words after her not just a little kiss but if we were dating kiss.
"Oh god, oh god, I can't believe I just oh wow umm I hate you." She yelled and then ran off towards the doors.
"Umm Nessie come on!" Jacob called. I shook my head trying to re gain some thought before running towards the terminal.
"Bye love you." I called after my parents luckily they didn't see that or maybe they did but decided not to say anything.
We gave the attendant our tickets and ran onto the plane. We sat down in our first class seats holding hands. Jake started kissing my hand up my arm and up my neck.
"We're in public." I reminded him.
"Do you think I care?" He breathed.
"No but people are starring." As if almost on cue a man in a suit who was sitting next to us in the next aisle coughed loudly in our direction I was sure. Jake held my face and kissed me pressing the back of my head against the window. The man coughed again but neither of us let up.
"Excuse me sir, miss? We are going to take off soon so we need you to be buckled properly." The flight attendant pressed as she pointed to the diagram of how to buckle the belt.
"Sorry." I whispered eyeing Jake.
"Are you two married?" A woman who was about twenty-six I'd say asked. She sat behind coughy but was close enough that we could still see her. We both just looked at her confused.
"I'm sorry that was rude. It was just you." As she pointed to me, "Look like you're about seventeen and I'm guessing your husband looks like he is twenty-five. I didn't mean to interrupt but I just had to ask."
"Actually I'm only sixteen and this here, Renesmee just turned sixteen. We are off to get married legally in London considering our parents don't get along too well and I just can't keep my hands off of her." Jacob explained as I blushed heavily. I hit the back of his head but he just smiled and growled a romantic growl in the back of his throat.
"Oh how nice." She lied before putting her headphones in.
"Your could've told her truth." I told Jacob.
"I know but what fun would that be. We're going to be in a different country by ourselves, no parents breathing over our shoulders. We can do what we want." I smiled at the idea of finally being alone for once.
"I guess you're right."I kissed his cheek.
"You know I'm right." He whispered back. So we satyed in our seats talking about what we imagined the school to look like and what new things would be in store for us. We both tried our best at using a british accent but that didn't turn out so well. After a few more hours we finally arrived at our destination London. There wasn't much to see while in the air port but once we got a cab and started towards the school it was literaaly a whole other world. London made Portland look like a little country side town. There were so many people and so history lining the streets it was surreal.
"It's gorgeous." I mused looking like a complete tourist whith my face pressed against the window staring at the long rode up to the school.
"Indeed it is your very lucky to be a part of it." Our driver said in of course an accent.
"So I've been told." I answered watching the dances of the fountains that greeted us as we made our way up to cobble stone drive way. We opened the door and although it was drizzling the school or actually palace was still gorgeous. The front of the school was done in a very Italian Villa way with white marble and columns that towered above us.
"You must be the American transfers?" A very tall, slim woman with long wavy strawberry blonde hair came to us with a giant smile.
"Yeah." Jacob answered.
"Welcome, I'm Melinda Tudor your Principal."
"Wait? You're literally a Tudor?" I felt myself saying without any filter.
"I'm a decendant more by marriage then by blood but yes my last name is Tudor." She explained. "Won't you follow me inside?" She waved for a bell boy to open the door so I took up my lighter bags and followed her.
"Wait her for just a second and I'll get you our booklet." She showed us to a sitting area that had some kids with books that started to stare at us and whisper.
"We've made it." Jacob whispered.
"Through lying and cheating we did." I reminded him.
"It doesn't matter how just that we are." I sighed leaning my head and thanking my lucky stars for getting me away from my parents so I could live a little.
"Let's sit down in my office." Melinda interupted my thoughts.
"Sure." I answered and with out another glance back the door to ger office shut and finally sealing the deal that Jacob and I were on our own ready to offically start another chapter.
----So there were some interesting surpirsies there don't you think? Ashlee? tell me what you think!---