Chapter 5 – Forks High
"Ness… Ness… Come on Sunshine, you have to wake up" I heard coming through my dreams. I was shaking… Or more correctly I was being shaken. "Renesmee! It's time to get up!" "Daaaddyyyy I don't want to get up" I moaned rolling over and squashing my face into the pillow. I heard him laughing at my reaction. When did Daddy's voice get so deep? Something wasn't quite right. I breathed in deeply trying to clear the last of the sleep induced stupor from my brain. I could feel a warm hand on my shoulder and I could smell a woodsy scent all around me. Jacob! I bolted upright into a sitting position in the bed, eyes wide taking in everything around me. "Oh." I was in my room at Jacob's place, only I didn't remember getting here. And why am I still in my swim-suit? As if he'd read my mind Jacob answered "You passed out in the car Hun, I carried you in and put you to bed." "But you better get up now" he added. "You have school today." I groaned and flopped back down onto the bed covering my face with the pillow.
Jacob sat on the edge of the bed, bouncing up and down jostling me all around like we were in one of those ridiculous bounce-house things for little kids. "Jacoooooob" I whined peeking out from under the pillow. "How about you let me skip today? It'll be our little secret!" I said doing my best impression of Seth's eyebrow maneuver. "No way Sunshine, your dad would rip my head off if he found out… and you know he would." Damn mind-reading fathers. I humphed and crossed my arms. "I'm not getting out of this bed!" "Wanna bet Ness?" Jacob said raising an eyebrow. Before I even had time to react he had me out of bed and deposited in the bathroom. Damn sneaky werewolves. I growled at him, he just laughed and left the bathroom saying "Get in that shower little lady, you've got 30 minutes before we've got to go."
I completed my morning routine without any further prodding from Jacob and was standing in front of the closet attempting to pick something out when Jacob knocked on my door. "I'm not dressed yet" I yelled out. "Call your dad before he blows up my phone" he said through the door. I turned back to the closet eyeing the mass of craziness inside. I had secretly been hiding some of the things Alice had bought me here; she bought way too much clothes and I had no clue what to do with half of them! I'd already unloaded anything that would fit her onto Willow. I sighed and went to my dresser for my ever reliable jeans. I pulled out the only pair in the drawer and groaned. I hadn't spent the night here in a while and they were too small. Oh the joy of having a booty.
I grabbed my phone and called Daddy while glaring menacingly at the closet. "Hi Daddy. I'm getting ready for school right this minute, my books and supplies are in my locker, and I'm not running late." I said before he could say hello. "Did you have a good time sweetheart" he asked. "Yes Daddy, I had a great day, I'll tell you all about it when I get home from school." "Alright, be safe. Love you" "I love you too Daddy." "Love you honey" I heard Momma say in the background. "Tell Momma I love her too, but I better finish getting ready." "Alright, bye sweetie." "Bye" I hung up the phone and sighed. They were so overprotective. If any parents ever had a reason to not worry about their child, mine definitely where the ones that should feel that way, but no, of course not.
I glanced at the alarm clock on the dresser. Crap. I grabbed the first thing my hand touched. It turned out to be a white cotton sundress, I stared at it; it had a delicate cutout design across the bust, down the front and along the hem, dainty little cap sleeves, and slit pockets on either side. It would do I thought shrugging. I hurriedly pulled it on, awkwardly reaching behind me to zip it as far as I could. I ran to the door throwing it open. "Jacob I need you to zip me!" I yelled out into the hallway and went back into my room to throw all my stuff into my backpack. "What am I zipping?" Jacob asked from the doorway. I turned and showed him the half zipped back of the dress. "Hurry" I squealed impatiently hopping from one foot to the other "I'm supposed to meet Willa before class and I don't want to be late!" "Geez Ness, make up your mind, first you want to stay home, now you're worried about being late." He came up behind me placing his big warm hands on my hips and positioned me in front of him so he could zip. As he pulled up the zipper his hand brushed against my bare back sending little sparks straight through my skin to my spine. Oh man.
"Breathe Ness." Jacob said laughing. I blushed and turned burying my face into his shirt. Would these feelings ever stop? This was getting to be so embarrassing. "As enjoyable as it would be to stay here hugging you all day Ness, you've got people to meet. Remember?" I turned back and grabbed my backpack sliding my arms into it walking out into the hallway. "Alright, let's go." "Um… Ness?" "Shoes? Hair?" I froze. Great way to NOT make yourself look like an idiot there Renesmee. I ran back into the room and grabbed a pair of white flats and slid them onto my feet. "There is that better?" I grinned. "Hair?" I hadn't done more than towel dry it and finger comb it after my shower. "I'm not worried about it, Willa will fix it" I said grabbing his hand and pulling him out the door.
Willa wasn't there yet in our usual spot on the benches outside. We had made it to school in plenty of time thanks to Jacobs lead foot. I sat with Jacob in the car listening to the radio for a few minutes before a tapping noise on the window startled me. Willa was leaning down staring into the window grinning. I waved and got out when she backed up. "Hey Willa" "Hey Ness" we greeted each other hugging. Willa leaned back and eyed my choice of outfit critically, nodding her head as if she approved. "Well don't you just look so cute and virginal today." She teased. I swatted at her playfully in response. Jacob got out walking around the front of the Rabbit to join us. "Hey there stud." Willow said huskily to Jacob. I sighed. It was like this every time she saw him. Get your own man! "Hey there tree." Jacob teased because of the combination of her height and name. "I see you've got some green in your hair now, is that supposed to be your leaves?" "Ha ha beefcake. So cute. When are you gonna let me get in those pants of yours?" she purred draping herself against him. He wrapped an arm around her waist and laughed that big deep bass laugh of his.
They looked good together. I was so jealous. Jacob's tall dark looks were complimented perfectly by Willow's tall pale beauty. Willow was everything I'm not. Fashion forward, tall, and super model pretty. I studied her look for today, her black wavy hair and side-swept bangs where always perfect; the newly acquired green streaks through her hair brought out the vividness of her bright green eyes behind her thick-rimmed cats eye glasses. Her eyes were lined in jet-black kohl and topped with a hot pink shade of shadow that lightly winged out at the corners giving her eyes a sultry slant, she always went crazy with her eye make-up and wore nothing else but gloss. Her skin was naturally radiant so she never needed anything more. She was wearing a black tank-top with her ever present I'm sexier than you pin pinned on the right shoulder, a hot pink tutu skirt on top of black Capri leggings, and hot pink Converses. Why did she have to be so damn pretty?
"Rennie, convince your stud-muffin over here to take me out sometime, tell him it'd be well worth his time." I rolled my eyes "Willa, you've got your pick of all the guys here at school and then some. Leave. Jacob. Alone." She pouted "But they're all just little boys Rennie, I want a piece of some of this big hunky red." I glared at her and she slowly took her hands off of him and stepped away. "Sorry Ren, I didn't see your stamp on him." "N..n.. No! That's not it!" I flushed and stammered looking back and forth between them. Damnit Willow! I was so going to kill her later. Jacob cleared his throat and looked down at the pavement. "I better be going, don't want to be late to work." He hugged Willow lightly goodbye and turned to me with his arms out. "Can I get a hug goodbye from you too Sunshine?" "Seeing as your stamp is all over me" he teased. I went willingly into his embrace, eager to have his arms around me. He leant down and kissed my cheek. "I don't mind Ness, honest." He whispered into my hair before making his way back around and into car taking off through the parking lot. I stood staring at his car drive away with my mouth hanging open. What?! What was that supposed to mean? He didn't mind Willow throwing herself at him? Or he didn't mind having my supposed stamp on him? Please, please let it be the latter!
"So Ren, when where you going to tell me that you had a crush on Mr. Bodyguard?" Willow asked bringing me back into reality. I turned back to her glaring "Could you possibly be any more embarrassing!" I hissed at her stomping my foot. "So I'm right? You have fallen for him?" "I don't know Willa; I'm confused about it all right now. Could you just shut-up and do my hair please?" "Ok, ok, geez Rennie, bite my head off why don't you!" she said digging through the tote hanging against her hip. We were silent as she brushed through my hair and pulled it into a low side ponytail, the curls draped over my shoulder. "I'm sorry, you know I love you Willa" I whispered. "Yes, I know you love me, how could you not?" she laughed gesturing at herself. I leaned my head against her arm sighing. "You wanna talk about it Ren?" The morning bell sounded signaling we should make our way to class. "Maybe at lunch" I answered getting up.
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The day went by painfully slow. I could never understand why I had to go to school in the first place. I knew every subject they offered here by heart thanks to the homeschooling Daddy and Carlisle had done pretty much since my birth. Apparently Daddy was just as obsessed with me having a normal life and participating in the usual rites of passage as he had been with Momma before she changed. The only thing that makes this all worthwhile are my zany friends. They were like my second family, next to the guys that is. Willa, Jon, and I are the closest of the bunch. I hadn't ever told Momma or Daddy, and definitely none of the rest of the family, but both Jon and Willa knew my secret. Well not really the full extent of my secret. I could just imagine. Hi Willa, hi Jon. I just wanted to let you know my whole family is a large group of vegetarian vampires and I'm the love child of a human and a vampire, making me some sort of freaky vampire-human hybrid.
Nooo, that wasn't likely to make them come completely unhinged. The reaction I'd gotten from Willa when I'd unthinkingly showed her what I was thinking instead of just saying it out-loud had been bad enough. She'd let out a little yelp and then proceeded to act like a crazy lady bombarding me with tons of questions about it. Eventually she had forced me to show Jon too so he could join in with the questioning. I'd finally just told them I was a psychic of sorts. Kind of like a reverse psychic, I couldn't read other people's minds, but I could show other people my own mind through my touch. It had been like I'd just shown a group of five-year-olds a brand new toy; for weeks they had constantly had me showing them things. It finally got to the point where I started showing them images of myself strangling them; they quickly caught the hint and stopped harassing me.
"Miss Cullen, could you please give the class the answer to number 4?" I glanced down at the paper in front of me "Since cosine will never be greater than 1 there is no solution to the equation" I answered flippantly. Calculus bored me to tears and I absolutely loved to harass the teacher with a correct answer when he thought he'd caught me daydreaming. The bell rang. Lunch-time. Thank God. I gathered up my things and made my way out into the hallway. Sweeping my eyes left and right for a sign of either Jon or Willa not paying much attention to where I was walking when I bumped into him. "Well don't you just look pretty enough to eat?" he drawled. Adam. One of the many reasons I hated coming to school. "Don't start Adam; I'm not in the mood." "I bet I could get you in the mood" he said suggestively while putting his arm around my shoulders. "Are you ever going to get the hint that I'm not interested in you Adam?" I said shrugging his arm off.
"What makes you think that pathetic little thing you like to call Pedro could ever turn Rennie on?" Willa said coming up behind us. They had dated last summer and it hadn't ended nicely. "Why you, Renesmee, could ever hang out with something so nasty, is beyond my comprehension" he said to me pretending not to have heard her. "Well you comprehending anything at all would be a major feat" I shot back at him before Willa could continue their verbal sparring. "Ooo, she burned you good." She yelled back at him as I dragged her towards the cafeteria. She always had to have the last word. We made our way through the crowd and sat at our usual table. Jon was already there waiting for us.
"Ok Ren, spill." Willa had a one track mind. "I have something to show you first." My plan was to distract her as long as possible. I pulled out my camera powering it on to show her the pictures of Seth. "I happen to know a very sweet, very perverted, very single guy you might be interested in meeting Willa." She perked right up. Good, she was distracted and couldn't focus on my issue now. "Well let me see" she said impatiently putting her hands out. I scrolled through the pictures until Seth's face smiled back at me from the display screen. "Here you go." She eagerly grabbed the camera from me. "Oh Rennie… he's gorgeous" she sighed. Jon leaned closer to look and nodded in agreement. She scrolled through the rest of the pictures with an excited look on her face. "So? What do you think? Wanna meet him?" I asked even though I already knew the answer. "Really Rennie? You'd let me have my own personal beefcake injun?" She was nearly bouncing with excitement now.
I laughed lightly at her antics but said seriously "You can't play with this one though Willa. You can't do your usual use'em and lose'em with him. He's too special for that." She stopped bouncing but still nodded her head excitedly. I wasn't quite convinced. "I'm serious Willa, he's like a brother to me, if I introduce you two you have to be ready to be committed to only him if you decide to sleep with him. I won't have you breaking his heart, understand?" "Yes mother, take it slow, yada, yada, yada. Now dish on the info Rennie, tell me what he's like." I spent half of the lunch period describing Seth's personality and a few of his crazy antics to Willa and Jon.
"So Ren, what was it you were supposed to be spilling about when you sat down?" Jon asked innocently. I should have known better than to think I'd gotten out of it. I put my head down on the table. "I'm not sure I really want to talk about it right now guys." "Renesmee" Jon said disapprovingly. "Fine, but I don't really know how to say it, so I'll just show you two. Ok?" They both nodded in agreement placing their hands in mine under the table. I replayed yesterday for them in its entirety making sure to emphasize my reaction to him and all the feelings coursing through my body. "Oh Renesmee" they said in unison and smiled at each-other. "She's got it bad, huh?" Willa said to Jon. "Most definitely" he agreed. I looked back and forth at them confused. "What do I have so badly? I don't get it!" Willa smiled a small smile "You love him Ren." Did I? I did.
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Ok, so I couldn't take a break, sue me. I have to type everything out once it's in my head. I tried organizing thoughts and making a time line and all that jazz, it's just not for me.
I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter just as much as the others. Sorry this chapter is a little shorter than the rest, I felt like it was a good stopping point. Thanks for reading my story and thanks to those that have commented. xD
EDIT: To those of you that are worried, I didn't mean stopping point as in the end of the story . Just the chapter!
