Disclaimer: See chapter 1 or 2 or 3, whichever
On with the show!
I saw Vanessa Wolf. I should make T-shirts for a living.
AND I GOT A PICTURE!!!!!!!!!!!
It was really weird taking a picture of someone my own age. I don't know why. It was a lot weirder than taking a picture of someone who's older than you. Hmmm...
She left halfway through the day, before lunch, which was probably a good thing. If she'd stayed, I would have forced her to sit at our lunch table. Probably.
"Did you see her?" I asked immediately as I sat down at the lunch table, next to Emily and Maddie and across from Kara.
"No!" Kara said forlornly. "I wish I had! Everyone keeps talking about her, and I feel really sad I didn't even get to look at her!"
"Who?" inquired Ali from two seats down.
"Oh, God, she was in my Spanish, and I almost died!!!" Emily's eyes were wide as she spoke. "At first I just thought it was a resemblance, but when Mr. Morse said who she was… yeah, I died."
"Who?" Poor, Twilight-deprived Ali.
"I saw her in the hall. I'm so mad. I didn't imagine her like that at all!!" Maddie seemed as infuriated by the imposters as I was.
"Who?"
"Really?" Emily was incredulous. "I kind of thought she looked just like that. You know, later on."
"WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!!" Ali practically yelled.
"Vanessa Wolf?" I gestured with my hands in an attempt to make her understand. I don't think it was working. "The new girl? A.K.A. Renesmee Cullen? A.K.A. vampire/human hybrid daughter of Edward and Bella? A.K.A. Twilight?"
"Ohhhhhhhhh…" I think she got it. Maybe. "But, isn't she like, fictional?" She thought we were all crazy.
"Well, yes." Maddie was always better at explaining things than we were. "But when there was, like… a problem with the Volturi… the vampire police, kinda, Bella had to make a fake I.D. for Renesmee. And her fake name was Vanessa Wolf. That was in Breaking Dawn."
"Yeah, still kinda fictional."
"Well," Maddie stated the obvious, "Now there's this girl walking around school pretending to be Vanessa Wolf - "
"A.K.A. Renesmee Cullen."
"Laney! We get it!" Kara could be a bi-atch when she wasn't being nice.
"Sorry, I just like saying 'A.K.A.'"
"You're such a loser."
"Enough with the verbal abuse, now." Maddie, however, was usually very polite. Just don't give her any Mountain Dew. She'll just about spontaneously combust.
"So, we've got fictional-character-is-alive syndrome?" I always told Ali she could be a doctor.
"No, we're not that obsessed." Emily leaned over her Twilight coffe cup. Which I was going to steal from her while she slept. Some night. When she least expected...
Ali gestured at the cup. And then at my Cullen Crest shirt, which i just so happened to be wearing that day.
"OK," said Kara. "We're still obsessed, but not certifiably insane obsessed, that's just Laney."
Like I said, bi-atch.
Edward's POV
After leaving the high school - we didn't think an explanation was necessary, seeing as how everyone there was at least partially insane (AN: Twilight Fevah, Edward, get used to it.) -Bella and I drove to the middle school to pick up Renesmee.
We'd attracted a few odd glances, though thankfully no one took our picture, before we made our way to the main office.
Holy Mother of Maracas! thought the secretary. I can't say I've ever heard that before. What a hunk-a-licious man!
Nor that one.
"Why, hello there," she said, emphasizing the last syllable of hello with a flip of her hair. At least I assume it was a flip. It was hard to tell, because her hair was so short and full of hairspray that it didn't actually move.
"Hello, we were wondering if it would be possible to take Ness- Vanessa Wolf out of her classes." I smiled, being careful not to show my teeth, and her heartbeat increased.
"Oh, you can do whatever you want," she replied. Whatever.
A few awkward moments passed, during which I twisted my arm around Bella's waste.
Oh. Stupid, young chick. I bet he likes older women.
"Could you please make an announcement?" Bella spoke for the first time. Her eyes were narrowed and her voice was tight.
"Mmm-hmm." The secretary pursed her lips and bent her eyebrows like they were a piece of wire. Small, angry pieces of wire.
But, she picked up the telephone and said "Vanessa Wolf, please come to the office. Vanessa Wolf to the office."
Once Nessie came in, we were out of there before the secretary could flip her hair again. Or try to.