Chapter 2: A Ghost Named Bella

Nessie's POV

I was still having a very hard time accepting that Bella was in fact a ghost and not some hallucination that my mind had dreamt up. If there was one thing I couldn't deny though is that whenever she wanted to she could in fact move objects. I could see her doing it but no one else could. Like the way she freaked out those kids earlier when she freaked out my mother by making it appear like a fork was floating in mid air.

"I think it's kind of fun to freak people out like that sometimes," she said when I asked her about it later on.

"You know you could give someone a heart attack, right?"

She shrugged.

"So what is the plan anyway?"

"I'm not sure how but somehow we're going to find my family and I need your help to do it,"

"Why me?"

"Because you can see me and hear me. You're my connection to the living. You can be my voice,"

"Okay so how do we go about finding them?"

"They only live in rainy sunless places so that'll narrow down the search quite a bit,"

"Okay what names am I going to google?"

"I'm not sure their names will be published online anywhere they're a very secretive bunch that don't like to draw attention to themselves,"

I rolled my eyes. "Well that certainly helps a lot! I'm suppose to help you find a family that's so secretive it's like finding a needle in a haystack!"

"I know it's a bit much to ask but I have to try but only if you're willing?"

I shook my head. "No. I help you find your family and you help me find my biological family. That was the deal and I never break my deals,"

"Renesmee who are you talking to?" mom asked right outside my door in an irritated voice.

"Oh, um, no one. I'm just role playing that's all,"

"You sound like an insane person so can you stop?"

I sighed. "Yes mom,"

"Is your mom always like that?" Bella asked.

"This is her on a good day. With her either I'm alone or wishing I was alone. I'm far too used to it to care though,"

"What exactly do you mean by that?"

"That she's never really given a crap about me," I muttered angrily. "She once told me that when she adopted me it was because I was 'the most beautiful child' but she didn't realize then 'how much work I'd be because of my disability' "I used my fingers as quotation marks.

Bella looked sad. "That's just sad and wrong on so many levels.

"Like I said I'm too used to it to care. I learned pretty early on the only person I could ever truly count on was me,"

"But Nessie-"

"It doesn't matter. So look where should we start?"

"Okay fine. Try searching the name Carlisle Cullen. If any of my family members have a chance at being searchable it might be him,"

Carlisle Cullen. Carlisle Cullen. There was something vaguely familiar about that name but I couldn't remember where I'd heard it before.

"Nessie are you okay?" Bella asked me in concern.

"That name it sounds really familiar but I can't remember where I've heard it before,"

"Impossible," Bella said. "If you'd met the Cullens you would remember them. Believe me,"

I didn't know what to think so I just stopped worrying about it and concentrated on the task at hand.

I googled the name but just as Bella had suspected nothing came up. I honestly had no idea where to even start looking anymore. We had nothing to go on.

"Well I have another idea. It might not work either but we can at least try,"

"Okay whats your idea?"

"There's a family that used to live in Alaska. The Denali family. They're close to my family. If anyone knows where they are it would be them. The only problem is there's a good chance they might not be there anymore,"

"Well that makes two problems then because traveling to Alaska in the first place requires money. Something we're severely lacking,"

"Actually no," Bella said with a smile. "When I was alive I had a savings account with about $10,000 in it. Going to college had been my plan B back then and I was saving money just in case,"

"What was plan A?" I asked her curiously.

"What?"

"You said college was plan B. I'm curious. What was plan A?"

She muttered something about me being "too perceptive," before saying "It doesn't matter. What matters is that there is money in there. Money that's probably grown a lot because of interest rates. All we need is a debit card and since I know the account numbers by heart all we need to do is have one forged and I know the perfect person for the job,"

"We do?"

"Yes his name is J Jenks and he lives in Seattle, WA,"

Okay. Traveling to Seattle I could manage. Over the years I'd received money from some of my other family members and I saved most of it.

I just had one worry about her plan though. "Does anyone else have access to your account?"

"Just my husband Edward," she said. "But I doubt he's ever touched that money,"

My heart tripled in speed. "Don't you'll think he'll notice when thousands of dollars suddenly goes missing at once after almost 13 years?! How do you think he'll react when he sees someone basically robbing his deceased wife's money?!"

"Nessie relax I highly doubt he's even looked at my account over the years. I'm positive he won't even notice there is money missing from my account,"

I wished that I had Bella's positivity but I didn't. I had to trust her though. So within hours I had booked a flight from Los Angeles, CA to Seattle, WA. Now all that was left was to plan my escape.

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