Sorry this is a short chapter. I never really get time to update because of school so i rushed this. Promise it will get better soon though. (:
Chapter 3 – Retard
Renesmee woke up at ten o'clock the next morning. Nobody was home yet. I knew they would be soon though. I was sitting in the dining room, eating a bowl of cereal when Renesmee skipped in and sat next to me.
"Want some?" I offered, motioning towards the box of cereal and carton of milk on the table.
"Yes please." She said politely, and smiled a sleepy smile at me. I made another bowl of cereal and passed it to her.
"Still tired?" I asked her.
"A little bit." She answered. "When is everyone coming home?" She wondered, looking a bit worried.
"Well, in my vision I think it was around midday." I told her honestly. She just nodded her head and carried on eating her cereal. I couldn't believe she actually liked it. I thought her diet was more vampire. But, she was a surprising person I guess. It was her nature.
When we'd finished eating, Renesmee helped me clear the table.
"I'd better get dressed." She muttered.
"Race you upstairs." I grinned.
"Go!" She yelled, grinning back, and took off running. I was right behind her. Since I let her win the cleaning competition last night, I decided to beat her this time. I reached the top of the stairs while she was still at the bottom.
"You have longer legs." She sulked. I just laughed and started tickling her.
We eventually stopped joking around and Renesmee went into Alice's room to get dressed. She came out only seconds later wearing an adorable pink chequered dress. It had spaghetti straps with two cotton flowers sewn onto the left one and a matching one on the waist. She had pink flats to match. It suited her perfectly.
"You're so pretty." I cooed, more to myself than her. I wasn't sure she'd heard me until she gave me her dazzling smile. It was just like her/our (that's going to take some getting used to) dads'.
"I picked out some clothes for you!" She beamed, jumping into my arms. "Auntie Alice won't even notice they're gone, so don't worry." She smiled, placing her tiny hand on my mouth when I tried to protest.
"Two minutes." I told her. I placed her on the ground and walked into the bedroom and towards the humongous king sized bed in the centre.
Lying on top of the bed was a great outfit. You would never have believed an almost toddler had picked it out.
It was perfect for me. Not too casual, and not too fancy either.
There was a pair of dark, super skinny jeans. Above them was a navy blue Where's Wally? Tee, which was a coincidence because it was my favourite book when I was Renesmee's age (vampire or no vampire, you have to love Where's Wally?). And last but not least, there was a pair of navy blue pumps to match.
My perfect outfit.
I quickly got changed into the new clothes and headed downstairs to Renesmee. I'd just reached the top of the stairs when I heard a giddy squeal.
"Daddy!" I heard Renesmee cry in excitement.
I stopped dead in my tracks. They were back. Well hell!
Don't get me wrong, it was good that Renesmee didn't have to worry any more and she had her family back. But part of me – a big part – wanted nothing more than to stay. And now that everyone was back I had no choice but to leave. Tears started to well up in my eyes then, threatening to overspill. Damn traitor tears!
I let out a shaky breathe that I'd been holding subconsciously, and slowly made my way down the stairs.
As soon as my foot reached the bottom step, I was crushed into a bear hug. I tried to move my head to see who it was – and breathe - and found Emmett looking down at me with the cheesiest grin I'd ever seen plastered all over his face.
"Emmett, put her down! She has to breathe!"
Finally, I was set free and turned to see Edward standing with Renesmee balancing on his hip, with an equally cheesy grin on his face.
Renesmee wriggled out of his arms and ran up to me and into mine. I scooped her up and she nuzzled her face into my neck. Suddenly she was acting all shy. I giggled slightly before the thought that I had to leave her hit me like a tonne of bricks.
"Uh, I-I'm sorry. I found Renesmee in the woods on her own and I couldn't leave her so I brought her back and then when we got here no one was here and I had a vision and I knew you were out and I didn't want to leave her so I-"
"Thank you!" Edward beamed, interrupting embarrassing verbal diarrhoea.
I stood there, stunned. I thought they'd be angry. I thought there would be yelling and screaming, not hugs and thank-you's.
Renesmee climbed back out of my arms and back into Edwards and placed her hand on his neck. I saw in his mind that she was telling him I'd saved her. Bless!
"What's she saying?" Jasper asked. I hadn't heard him say much, but I knew he found the strictly-no-human diet hard.
"She says Autumn rescued her." He chuckled and looked over at me.
"Err... well, I'll just go." I whispered. I started heading to the front door when I felt a hand restraining me and turned around to see Emmett again.
"Where're you going?" He asked in his booming voice.
"Yeah, we didn't spend almost twenty-four hours looking for you to watch you walk out of here." Jasper laughed.
"You're a Cullen now." Edward smiled at me and Renesmee joined in.
"But, Bella..." I started, biting my lip and trying not to make even more of a fool of myself by balling my eyes out.
"We talked, and she agrees you should stay. She knows I love her, and she knows I also love you. You're my daughter." Edward told me. I'd dreamed all fourteen years of my life to hear those words come out of my dad's mouth and now it was finally happening all I could do was stand, open mouthed, gawking like a retarded fish!
"You mean..." I stuttered, the tears finally spilling over.
"You're staying!" Emmett boomed again. "We won't let you leave without a fight."
I smiled at my family and finally settled my eyes on Renesmee and saw that she was crying too. Then I looked around again.
"Hang on, where is everyone?" I asked. There was only Edward, Emmett and Jasper here.
"Carlisle and Jake went to find the girls and tell them we'd found you both." Jasper explained to me. Even he was smiling.
"Group hug!" Emmett yelled.
The next minute I was squashed in between Emmett and Jasper with Edward behind me and Renesmee in front.
"Emmett, are you sure you're not gay!" Jasper complained and tried to pull away, but Emmett just pulled him in tighter. I was finding it hard to breathe and also trying not to squash my little sister.
"What's gay?" Renesmee asked innocently when Emmett finally let us all go.
"Jasper!" Edward growled, shooting death glares at his brother.
"Sorry." He answered sheepishly. "Oh, and, nothing you need to worry about darlin'" He told Renesmee, his Southern accent thick in his voice.
I was so overwhelmed by every emotion possible. Seriously, I was sure I was dreaming. I had everything I wanted. But, something had to go wrong. I'd gone my whole life with everything going wrong, why should it start going right now? Nope. No way did I trust this to last. But I might as well make the most of it while it lasted.
We'd been waiting for fifteen minutes now. They must have gone really far out to look for us. I was sat next to Edward on their posh leather sofa, watching Renesmee twirl around the living room giggling to herself. Emmett and Jasper were happily playing on the X-Box. We'd agreed to leave the questions until everyone was back so there was no repeating.
I'd just about bitten my nails down into nothingness from the nerves. I really needed to do something to keep my mind busy. Thinking wasn't doing me any good. All that was going through my head was What if they all hate me? What if I do something wrong? What if upset Bella again? What about Renesmee?
I was going insane. I turned to ask Edward if he knew when they'd all be back when I heard footsteps coming up the path outside. Well, this was it. Crunch time. Hopefully that was just theoretical. I shivered at the thought of it not being. As if I wasn't worried enough without thinking stuff like that. I stood up off the sofa and mentally scolded myself, promising myself not to think of things remotely similar to that.
Jasper and Emmett quickly turned their attention to the people outside. They got up and ran to meet they're wives', while Edward was torn between me and Renesmee, and going to Bella. Renesmee stopped twirling and came to stand by me. I picked her up and balanced her on my hip. It was like holding a feather.
"Go." I encouraged him. With a smile and a nod he followed his brothers' out of the front door, leaving me and Renesmee standing alone in the middle of the big empty room. Me looking like an utter retard. Nothing out of the ordinary then.
Only seconds later the rest of the Cullens and the wolves came into the room. Suddenly it seemed a lot smaller.
I decided not to listen to their minds. I didn't want to know what they were thinking. Hell, I was too chicken for that!
I hadn't really studied them much before, but now, as I stood there like the fool I was, I noticed how beautiful each of them were. Especially Rosalie. She looked like a Goddess. Well, that was my self confidence significantly lowered.
They all came in smiling at me – apart from Rose, but hey, that was nothing new – even Bella. Alice came in last and immediately ran up to me and Renesmee. She flung her tiny arms around us and hugged us tightly. Wow, she was strong for her size!
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" She squealed.
I just stood there – as per usual – until my mind started to scream say something idiot!
"Oh... Err, th-that's okay." I stuttered uneasily. I could feel my face heat up. I must look like I'd been hanging upside down for past year and all the blood had rushed to my face.
The words 'epic fail' suddenly sprung to mind and I felt like just digging a huge hole and burying myself in it.
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