Chapter 3: Making Plans
A/N: This is chapter three. I changed it from what I was originally going to do so you could have more detail before the talent show. There is no song in this chapter.
This chapter is from Renesmee's POV.
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I waited till all of them exited the music room and I heard their bed room doors close. I slowly and quietly walked in to the music room. I closed the door silently. I turned around and looked up. My gaze met a very familiar pair of eyes. Alice. Thank god if it was anyone else I wouldn't know what to do.
"What are you doing?" Alice asked.
"As if you don't already know." I said smiling my half smile that I inherited form my dad.
"What do you need help with?" She asked pulling out her drum sticks and twirling them in her fingers.
"Stop showing off and I wanted to create a song because apparently my mom forgot me." I said.
"Well what do you want the song to be about and what do you want it to play at?" She asked.
"Well I kind of wanted it to be about my parents and I wanted it to play at their relationship." I said. "I've heard all the stories about them and how my mom came to Forks and they were together forever but I feel there is something missing."
"No one ever told you did they." Alice said as more of a statement than a question.
"Tell me what?" I asked eagerly.
"Well it was when your parents weren't together. You see at Bella's birthday party she sliced her finger and Jasper went ballistic and she was pushed back into glass and blood was every where. This was the time before she was a vampire and Edward didn't want her to be in more danger so he left." Alice said. (She explains the story of basically New Moon sort of.)
"I think I have the perfect idea thank you Alice. Oh and Alice could you help me with the music. I wanted to play my song on piano and sing to it at the talent show but I also want to put it on CD with other instruments. And you know this already don't you?" I asked.
"Yeah." She said.
"Would you help me?" I asked.
"Sure." She said.
"Ok I thought of a title. It's going to be called A Thousand Miles." I said.
"Sounds good now all we need is lyrics and music." She laughed.
"Ok but first I have something to show you." I said and walked out of the music room. She fallowed me to the basement. I turned on the lights we were in the garage. I walked to a door on the left that no one went in to. It was the storage room of the people who lived here before us. I opened the door and walked in. The walls were lined in boxes and in the middle of the room sat something under a table cloth. I pulled the cloth off and it revealed a red piano that I had discovered a few months ago. (The piano Vanessa Carlton uses in the A Thousand Miles music video.)
"It's beautiful Renesmee, how did you find it?" Alice asked.
"Well no one ever went in this room so I wanted to check it out. The coolest part about this room is this." I said and pulled out a remote. I pushed a few of the buttons and the one wall without boxes on it opened. It revealed the living room.
"Now let's get this piano into the living room." I said and started to lift it up. A minute later I closed the wall and turned back to Alice.
"This piano is going to make Esme freak." I said.
"Yeah." Alice laughed.
"I just had a great idea." I said and sat at the piano. I dusted of the keys and began to play. It was a tune me and my father made up five years ago. It was called Melody of a Thousand Miles. That's where I got the name a thousand miles. A few words started to form in my head but it wasn't enough to make a song. I finished the piano piece and Alice clapped.
"That was amazing." Alice said.
"Edward and I made it up five years ago he played one hand and I played the other but now I can play both. It was called Melody of a Thousand Miles that's where I got the name a Thousand Miles from. I have some words but it's not enough to make a song could you help?" I asked.
"Sure." She said. We sat down on the couch with a few pieces of paper and started to write. Forty five minutes later I had the words I made up while playing the piano written down and Alice had what she made up from what I sang to her written down.
"Ok let's see your ideas" I said. I started to sing a few of the lines.
"Making my way down town, walking fast faces past and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead just making my making a way through the crowd. Wow not bad here's what I wrote."
She took my paper and began to sing what I wrote.
"And I still need you, and I still miss you, and now I wonder. If I could fall in to the sky do you think time would pass me by? Cuz you know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you. If I could just hold you. Tonight. That's amazing. Maybe if we combine what I wrote and mix and match some parts we could put the song together." She said.
"That could work. "I said. We worked for another hour or so and had the song done. The sun was barely rising and I was glad it was a Sunday so I didn't have to go to school and stop working on the song.
"There I think we have it." I said.
"Now let's hear it to the piano." Alice said.
"K!" I exclaimed and I sat down at the piano and started to play. I sang the words to fit the music.
"Wow. It sounds great Renesmee. Now I think there's something that has to be done." She said as she led me to the bathroom. She started to cut my hair just a bit. My bronze curly hair had gone half way down my back and now it was a few inches past my ears and almost shoulder length. She had cut my bangs so that instead of being the same length as my hair they were barely at my eyebrows. The front of my hair was longer than the back. She had only taken a bit of hair on both side of my hair and cut them only and inch and a quarter longer than the rest in the back. I liked it better than the way my hair was before but Esme and my parents thought it should be long. Esme and mom were going to freak.
"Perfect now we can work on the other parts to put the song on a CD." Alice said smiling. We walked up to the music room.
"Renesmee I want you to start playing the piano and sing as usual and I'll join in on the drums when I know where the drums should be. Ok?" She asked sitting down at her drums.
"Alright." I sat down at the piano and began playing the beginning piece. When it was on the que for me to sing Alice started playing the drums. A few minutes later the song ended.
"What other instruments do you want?" Alice asked.
"Let's see I was going to add guitar." I said. She played back what we recorded and I played guitar where I wanted it added.
"That's just perfect now I have on more instrument I want to add." I said. I walked over and picked up a violin.
"You play the violin?" Alice asked with genuine confusion on her face and I knew she hadn't seen this coming.
"Yeah." I said and I played part of a song for her. I saw her face change from confusion to surprise then back normal really quickly.
"Well we better get that added." She said. She turned on the new recording and I played where I wanted the violin to be played. When we edited the CD we ended up adding some bells in there a few times.
"Great now it's ready to go." Alice said handing me the CD.
"I say five seconds." I said
"I say ten." Alice said.
Just as Alice predicted ten seconds later we heard Esme down stairs.
"OH MY GOSH! Where did the gorgeous piano come from!?" She shrieked.
We were down stairs in a flash. Rosalie and Bella were already down there.
"Renesmee found it in the basement." Alice said. All heads turned to me. I saw both Esme's and my mom's facial expressions change from astonishment to extreme anger.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR HAIR?" They both yelled in unison.
"Alice cut it." I said.
"Don't try to rat Alice out young lady." My mother said. "I knew you didn't like your hair the way it was but you didn't have to go and do this."
"Well her hair was getting rather long and have you seen your hair lately. Hers is only a little bit shorter." Alice said.
"Ok fine, fine. I give." Bella said.
"Nice hair mom." I said.
"I have to admit I like your hair too." Bella said ruffling my hair.
"Hey!" I said. We all burst out laughing.
"If only Edward was here I wonder what he would say." Bella said. She got a sad look on her face.
"Come on Alice, Bella we have to practice for the talent show." Rosalie said.
"You're joining too?" I faked surprise.
"Yeah." They said.
"Cool. Good luck." I said. They turned their backs and headed upstairs to the music room. I remembered the look on my mother's face when she mentioned Edward. She must miss him. Now the song I wrote for the talent show and mom is so going to be worth it. Just to know that is good enough for me. Dark Angels you're going down.
A/N: That's the end of chapter three. I hope you like it and are looking forward to chapter four that is going to be named Chapter 4: The Talent show. See Ya!