hey everyone! moony's back. just before you continue reading, this one hopes that 'Rosalie' is satisfied with the time of the update. the chapter would've been up sooner, but this one was busy over the weekend ^^" please remember to R&R, but if you don't this one will still post the next chapter as an Easter present to all the readers :)

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CHAPTER 11-Renesme.

I flop down onto my bed. My beloved, overly extravagant four-poster bed with elegant steel rose vines wrapped around each post. It's perfect, except that one rose is missing. Something about Dad breaking furniture unnecessarily.

I hear a soft knock on the door, and my mom peeks into the room. "Hey baby." She says softly, walking gracefully across the floor and sits at the end of my bed. "You tired."

I touch her face, my favourite way of communicating ever since I was a young child.

How tired I was. My annoyance at that flight attendant-who must've been at least thirty-five years old- that kept flirting with Jacob. My friends that I met in St. John's, and that I missed a lot even though I saw them several hours ago. How much I missed her. How much I missed everyone. How much I missed Hun-!

I flinched back, clutching my hand to my chest. I've gotten careless. I forgot. If I want to keep something-no! I have to stop. Dad. Daddy. He can. H-he…!

I scream and buried my head in my pillow.

"Reneseme? Renesme!" I hear my mom saying anxiously. I've never acted like this. Because something like this has never happened before. my thoughts aren't safe here.

I suddenly begin to calm down. I take a deep breath and prepare to spill everything to mom when my deep breath becomes air that I will very well likely use to scream.

Jasper! I saw him downstairs when I came home, he must've sensed my hysteria! I cover my mouth with my hands in a desperate attempt to silence my whimpers, as my eyes widen as I realize just how vulnerable I am to another's will. And Alice must've known too!

"Renesme Carlie Cullen. Please tell my what's wrong!" my mom says, stroking my hair.

And I can't help but wish he was the one stroking my hair and trying to console me.

"Momma." I whisper, sounding more like the seven-year-old child that I really am, than the sixteen-year-old that I appear to be. "I have to go." Saying that I sprinted out of the room would be an understatement.

I'm so desperate to get out of our little cottage. As I run out of the house, I see Jasper and Alice talking by the fire place with twin looks of concern on their faces as the watch me dash out of the door.

Five miles. I think desperately. Dad won't be able to hear me if I'm out of his five mile range. I'm so focused on my thoughts that I don't realize there's someone in front of me, until I run into them. Literally.

"Hey Shorty." Emmett says with a cocky grin. Normally I would've made a snarky comeback, but I'm too distressed to think of one.

"Ness." Emmett repeats, seriously now, "is there something wrong?"

"Is my dad around?" I choke out. He shakes his head, fully understanding my predicament, or at least part of it.

I sigh in relief, and collapse on the spot. "It's safe."

"From…?" Emmett asks, arching an eyebrow.

"From my thoughts being intruded on, from my emotions being toyed with, from worrying about whether or not I can keep a secret. From the danger that someone might pick something that I'd rather them not know." And I go into almost everything. Omitting the name and face of him.

When I finish my little speech, he snorts, and leans against a nearby tree. "You think it's bad right now? You're a good kid Ness, so you probably don't have hat much to hide. But trust me, if you have a secret that isn't mandatory to keep, it'll be better to come clean that for your ass of a father to find out himself.

"My dad isn't an ass.!" I say hotly, but I wink so that he knows that I'm teasing.

Emmett throws his head back and starts laughing, almost hysterically. "Trust me Shorty. After living with someone who can read minds for over half a century, and him knowing exactly what everyone's thinking at any given time, you find that he'll be the biggest ass that you'll ever meet." He ruffles my hair and heads on back toward the main house. "If you ask me, you should go to the rez'. Your dad won't be able to get you there at least.

I grin, and sprint to the border, knowing that no one in my family can nor will follow.

hee:)

this one hasn't said this for awhile, but sorry about the spelling mistakes...