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Chapter Nine

Finally some quietness today! I thought; the computer program chose my outfit and make-up –after the modifications that Daddy applied on it yesterday night- so I got to dress up in a good mood today. Jasper must be having one of his greatest days today; everyone's been in a good mood all day because Alice and Rosalie went shopping; although he loved Alice, he was as relieved as everyone else that she chose only Rosalie to shop with her.

For my second day of school, I wore a simple white skirt that reached my knees with a button-down pink shirt and pink ballerina flats. And the same usual make-up.

My hair was different today though; it got back to its usual curls after I'd taken my everyday shower so I left it loose.

I quickly grabbed my cell phone, put it in my pink Gucci bag and headed downstairs to the car.

"I want to drive today!" Emmett said.

"Hey! I don't get to ride that often!"

"Come on, Ness; I want to go to school faster than yesterday," he whimpered, "You get the first grizzly, okay?" I smiled.

"Deal!"

"What grizzly?" Daddy asked.

"I told her I would take her to hunt some grizzlies today or tomorrow," Emmett replied, winking at me; he must have had a plan or something.

"Emmett!! I think what happened the last time Renesmee went 'grizzly hunting' is enough for even you to be convinced that there's no excuse for me or anyone else to allow it again! I know she heals fast but I won't risk it in any way!" Daddy yelled at him.

"Edward's right, Emmett; I won't allow it either," Momma commented.

"Okay, fine; we will only hunt deer this time! It'll be the most boring thing I'd ever do! Even more boring than stupid classes!" YEAH! I had to ask him what he did during boring classes! Maybe I will as soon as we're in the car.

"Good," Daddy said as he started his engine.

I let Emmett drive this time, of course. But as soon as we were on the road, he took a different path to school than the one Daddy'd taken.

"Call Jacob," he told me.

"Why?"

"Oh, Nessie! Did you really believe I would give up grizzly hunting that easily? I was surprised that Edward believed it even though I was thinking about a football game while talking to him!" I smiled.

"Great! Where and when should he meet us?"

"Today in the school's parking lot as soon as the last period's bell rings. Make sure you don't tell him what we're doing, though." Emmett was one of the best people in the world who'd plan hunting trips and fighting perfectly.

"Sure."

I dialed Jake's number and waited for him to answer but he didn't. He must have been asleep; it was his turn to patrol last night! So I decided to text him instead.

Who's the sleepyhead now, huh? Look, come to Port Angeles High at exactly 2pm and wait by my Nissan. We're going on a special hunting trip ;) Don't ask me anything because I won't tell you. Just be there and don't forget to bring extra clothes with you; last time you had to wait an extra hour in your wolf form because the lion we were hunting cut your sweats. Come :) Miss You btw :) (L)

"What are you doing all this time? Just tell him to come!"

"I'm done anyways, Emmett. How far are we from the school?"

"Exactly one minute," he informed me, "Ah, Ness, remember the song that I told you that it pisses Edward off each time I think it so he switch to anybody's thoughts except me?"

I thought about that for a moment, "Please Don't Stop The Music?" I asked, not quite sure.

"Yep. You remember the lyrics?"

"Umm.. Yeah. Why?"

"Just think it each time he's around so he won't know what we're planning and if he asks you why you're thinking it just say it's the way I told you about to endure boring classes; he'd told me you'd ask." Okay. But why did he tell him that I'd ask?

"Why did he tell you this?"

He looked slightly embarrassed, "Just to be on the safe side. You can imagine people with animal heads, too, you know," he added, chuckling.

We were there in a minute as Emmett said. Daddy and the others were in their classes already; we were a little bit late, thanks to the long path we'd taken.

I entered the French class to find the teacher explaining some grammar lesson.

"Pourquoi êtes-vous en retard, Renesmee?" she asked me.

"Désolé, madam; Je me suis réveillé en retard," I replied, getting to my seat.

"Hey, Nessie," Stacey whispered, smiling.

"Hey, Stacey. How are you?" I whispered back.

She wrote me a note as she realized that the teacher was glaring at us.

I'm fine! I wish you came to dinner with us yesterday, though. You're better now? Brad told us that you didn't feel good.

Sorry. I felt a little sick; it was probably something I'd eaten. Or rather NOT eaten, I added mentally.

Yeah, probably. I want to talk to you about something at lunch though. What?

What is it?

AT LUNCH! Now the teacher is going to kill us :P

Okay ;)

I decided to not think about it anymore; it was probably nothing.

After French was finally over, I headed off to Geometry. I stood by the door for exactly one second before I decided that not waiting for Emmett as he'd told me won't probably hurt anyone.

I was early, again. But this time, only two students were there. I would have to remember to walk slower next time. Though that was already too slow for me.

"Good morning, Ren," Mr. Peterson greeted me. Why wouldn't he learn? Emmett was pretty clear yesterday that my name is Renesmee. I sighed; I didn't want to be rude to him while we're still in the beginning of the year.

"Good morning, Mr. Peterson."

"You're okay today? Samantha told me that you were sick last night." Samantha?

I studied his features more carefully. He couldn't be her father; he was too young, may be twenty-five or something. He could have been her brother or cousin though; he had her blue eyes.

"Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm fine." I was still surprised by this new piece of information.

"Good. I was worried about you." Okay. Totally weird. Next time I should definitely wait for Emmett.

"Hey there, Nessie!" Emmett called from behind, trying to sound casual but my super sensitive ears can't be fooled that easily. He was damn furious. Probably at me though.

"Hello, Mr. Cullen," Mr. Peterson said, intimidated yet again. Good; he needed that.

"Oh, I'm 'Mr. Cullen' and she's only 'Ren'? Oh, Mr. Peterson that's so unfair!" he said, now amused by Mr. Peterson's reaction.

"Everyone, the bell had rung. The lesson's about to start so take your seats," he ignored Emmett, "you, too, Ms. Cullen." I couldn't help but laugh; having a 'super-sized' uncle as I'd called him has its benefits.

"Why didn't you wait for me outside? That sick thing was nothing but trying to flirt. Trust me, I know that better than anyone," he whispered, too low for anyone to hear. So that's why everyone was being so sensitive about that! How couldn't I see it?

"Sorry, Em. Won't happen again. Promise."

I waited for Stacey at the door of the cafeteria after Chemistry; she'd said that she wanted to talk to me.

"Hey, Ness!"

I greeted her back and asked her about what she'd wanted to tell me.

"Oh, yeah. I want to ask you something first. Jacob is your 'best friend' only, right?" What? That was unexpected.

"Umm... I guess, so far. Why are you asking?" She looked at the ground as if trying to decide whether to tell me or not.

"You wanna know the truth?" No, I want you to lie. Of course I did! What kind of question was that?

"Sure. You can tell me,"

"Ummm... Mary was thinking about asking him out sometime but, considering the way you two were close to each other and how frantic he was when he'd thought you were missing, I thought you were more than just 'best friends' so I told her that I'd ask you," she was still looking at the ground when she said that.

The strange feeling of burning in my chest was back again. I didn't like that very much, to be truthful. Heck I was going to tell him that I loved him last night! And now I know that one of my friends was considering asking him out? 'Uncomfortable' was barely the word to cover what I felt at that moment.

"Well, Stacey, I, well,....am going out with him this weekend. You know, on a date," I lied. But I had my reasons!

"Oh, well, good luck on your date! You two look cute together!" she smiled politely, blushing.

"Thanks."

When we arrived at the table, everyone started asking me about my health. I told them I was fine and ate the chocolate that I'd remembered to bring. A couple of minutes later, I felt my phone vibrate, it wasn't a text this time; it was a call. I didn't see who was calling when I answered.

"Hello?"

"Nessie! How are you?"

"Jake!" - I saw Mary glance my way but I didn't care that much- "I'm fine. Wait, did you just wake up now?"

"Yeah; I had to patrol, you know that!"

"Aha, well, are you coming?"

"Yeah, sure. What is it though?"

"Told you I won't tell you!-" Mary was still listening so I decided to play a little, "-It's a surprise, Jake. You surprise me a lot! I had to think of something!" I grinned mischievously.

"Oh, yeah? Well, okay, I guess. You said after school?"

"Yep! 2pm in the parking lot." This was going to be so much fun!

"Cool. I'll see you then. Miss you already,"

"Miss you even more," I said, quietly but loud enough for Mary, who was sitting next to me, to hear. I could feel her getting angry, I didn't need Jasper's gift to know that.

I snapped my phone shut and turned to find everyone engrossed in whatever they were doing. Well, Mary, for example, I knew was pretending not to care.

This was a little mean, I admit. But it made the burning better, much much better.

"So you're officially dating that Jacob guy?" Brad asked.

"Well, we haven't really been on our first date yet so we're not 'official' " I replied, smiling.

"Maybe, if you two want to double, Stacey and I could come with you." My eyes widened in excitement. He asked her?

"You asked her out?"

"Yep! Just now, when you were talking to Jacob," Stacey squealed, obviously happy.

"That's really great! 'you two look cute together'," I quoted and winked at her. She grinned.

"Come on, Nessie, the bell is going to ring now," Daddy said from behind me.

"Oh, okay, Edward," I turned to everyone else and waved them goodbye.

"So, where are you going with Jacob after school?" he asked as soon as we were alone.

"Hunting with Emmett; I haven't hunted with him for a while," I put on my innocent face. " It's gettin' late, I'm making my way over to my favorite place, I gotta get-"

"What are you two hiding? Emmett's been thinking about this song today, too," he accused.

"Nothing at all; he just played it for me today and I like that song so I was thinking about it. Simple." I grinned playfully.

He raised an eyebrow, "fine," he shrugged. "You said you're going out on a date this weekend?" he asked, "you could've told us, you know."

"Edward, I'm not going out with him this weekend, I just said that!"

"Oh," he said, his lips twitching, fighting a smile, "I see."

We continued working on 'Arms and The Man' today, too. I swear this Raina is just stupid, and that Sergius is a sick fool.

I met Jasper on my way to Gym.

"You look cute when you're jealous," he commented after we greeted each other.

"Jealous? When?"

"You don't know?" he laughed," This Mary girl was making you jealous. I still can't believe you were!"

"Oh, you mean that uncomfortable burning in my chest?"

"Yeah, I was going to change your mood but I decided against it; you looked too cute," he smiled. I punched his arm ever-so-gently; I didn't want to break my hand.

After Gym was over, I changed to my skirt and shirt again and headed towards the parking lot to find Emmett and Jacob waiting by my car.

"Got the spare clothes?" I asked Jake after I hugged him tightly; I truly missed him. How would I continue the rest of the academic year like that?

"Yep! Aren't you going to tell me where we're going?" I glanced around me to make sure Daddy, Momma and Jasper were gone.

"Grizzly hunting!" Emmett and I said in unison, over-excited.

"What? You know Edward wouldn't allow it!" I rolled my eyes.

"I know! That's why we didn't tell you until he was gone!"

"Come on, guys, in the car!" Emmett yelled from inside.

"You're not grizzly hunting again, Nessie! Don't you remember what happened last time?"

"I do. That's why I want another chance; I was too young! Now, come on!"

"NO!"

"If you don't come with us now, we'll go alone; Alice is out of town anyways so even if she called Daddy he won't be able to catch us before we do it!"

"I said NO, Nessie! You're not grizzly hunting and that's final!"

Emmett got out of the car then.

"If you don't want to come then don't. But she's coming,"

"Aren't you worried about her at all?!"

"Listen, you mongrel, she's my niece! Of course I'm worried about her! I won't let anything happen to her in the first place!"

"Just like last time, huh?" Jake snapped.

"You were there last time, too! So don't blame it all on me! Yes, it was my idea but that doesn't make it all my fault!"

"ENOUGH!" I yelled at both of them, "you know what? I'll just go home now. I don't want to go hunting and I most definitely don't want to hear you two fighting!"

I left them there and walked away, waiting to be somewhere alone so I could just run. To my surprise, none of them tried to stop me. After about half an hour of walking in human pace, I was able to find the woods.

I kept wandering there for what felt like hours; I didn't want to go home and see anyone now. You know what? What the heck! I'll hunt alone!

I concentrated really hard on the scents around me, hoping to find a grizzly or a mountain lion. Until 15 minutes later, I could smell a grizzly.

I remembered that scent by heart; though it was because of the unpleasant memories associated with it. I lunged at it, irritating it to an extreme.

I kept fighting the bear for a long time; sometimes it'd scratch me with its claws, other times I'd break one of its bones until it surrendered. I was sucking its blood when I heard a noise from behind which I hadn't expected; I was too busy concentrating on the bear I had.

Too late, I found out it was another grizzly, heading to attack me. Before I could even react, I heard a loud screech which I realized came out of my back. I felt the cut from the back of my neck to my hip, stinging badly. I'd had about five other cuts from the first fight, which were really deep that, even after all that time, they were still bleeding.

My humble attempts to defend myself were useless as my vision went blurry. I thought I would play dead and it would walk away.

I held my breath for a moment, which didn't really help my vision. At all. And I closed my eyes, praying it would leave me alive.

After sniffing me for a few seconds, the bear turned around and went away. I sighed in relief.

My cuts were still stinging and my vision wasn't any better. I dragged myself slowly to where I'd left my bag, beside a tree.

I got out the phone and dialed the first number I saw. Alice. But before she could even answer it, I couldn't feel anything any more.

The next thing I felt were cold hands touching one of my cuts.

"She's lost a lot of blood. Whatever that had attacked her did it with a lot of power." Was that Carlisle?

"The cuts in the front are healing already, but the one in the back still has time. What do we do now?" Daddy?

"Nessie? Can you hear me?"

Yes. But your voice keeps fading.

"Carlisle, she can hear us but she said that our voices are fading," he said, frantic.

"Alice- the morphine," Carlisle said.

"Here it is," Alice answered. That's when I couldn't hear them again.

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"I leave her with you for a couple of hours and I come back to find my daughter covered in her own blood!" Daddy said, his voice too close.

"If it wasn't for that mongrel fighting with me we would've gone together! None of that would've happened!" Emmett defended himself.

"Me? Now you're blaming me? I'm the one who objected to the whole plan!" Jake argued.

"YOU LEFT HER ALONE! She walked away alone and you LET HER! It's both of your faults!! If ANYONE of you had the least sense in him he would've gone after her and took her home HIMSELF. But, instead, you just LET HER GO!"

"She said she'd go home!" Emmett said in a small voice.

"Since when does she say what she's really doing? Or better, since when does she go home when she's upset?" Daddy was still yelling.

"All of you, SHUT UP!" Momma yelled at them, "you arguing isn't going to change anything! What's happened happened and Thank GOD she's alive. Now shut the hell up!"

"I have every right to blame them," Daddy told her.

Umm... you all can hear each other perfectly well without YELLING. Now, could you please lower your voices because my head REALLY hurts from all that shouting! I thought.

"Renesmee, honey, can you hear me?"

How do you think I've objected to the yelling? Of course I can hear you!

"Sorry. Can you open your eyes?" Good question. I tried but couldn't find the energy to do it.

No. I want Momma now, can you bring her here, please?

"Bella, love, she wants to talk to you,"

"Renesmee? Oh, honey, are you okay? Stupid question! I mean, do you feel better now?"

I put my hand on her cold cheek and thought,

I think I'm better; I can't feel the stinging anymore but that's probably the morphine. But, Momma, where am I? And what happened?

"Alice saw you in a vision, but only after she answered her phone and you didn't answer her. Edward says that's probably because she was concentrating really hard on shopping. So, she called us and told us where you were. Carlisle, Jasper and Edward went to get you but wouldn't let anyone else come. They brought you here, where Carlisle fixed what didn't heal from your cuts. We're in the main house, in the living room to be more specific."

Where were Jacob and Emmett then?

She sighed, "They got home here after you left them there, hoping to find you - which didn't really make any sense to me- that's when Alice called."

I could open my eyes now. So I opened them really slowly, afraid they might just fall and close themselves again.

"Daddy?" I whispered; that's all I could right then.

I was going to sit up when I felt his strong hands pushing me back, "stay where you are," he told me, choking the words. I relaxed then, it felt good, frankly.

When I could open my eyes all the way, I saw where I was.

It was the living room, that I could tell. I was lying on a white bed, that I didn't know where it came from, connected to some kind of machine that kept beeping in a noisy way.

Everyone was there. Literally, everyone; Sam, Emily, Seth, Quil, Billy, Leah, Alice, Jasper, Rose, Emmett, Jacob, Momma, Daddy, Carlisle and Esme.

"Look who's awake now!" Seth said, trying to sound casual.

"Hey, Seth," I whispered.

"Don't talk," Daddy told me. I rolled my eyes.

"Jake?" I called, still whispering. Daddy hissed. Daddy, please, can I talk to him for a minute?

He sighed and motioned for Jacob to come by my side.

"Hey, Ness," Jacob said in a quiet voice, "I'm sorry," he whispered in my ear.

I was going to talk when Daddy raised an eyebrow at me challengingly. I sighed and put my hand on his cheek.

I'm the one who went hunting in the first place. Sorry you're in trouble. You can still come here, right? Please don't tell me you can't please please please!

He sighed, "we'll talk about that later, now you need to sleep,"

I've been out all day! I don't want to sleep!

"You have to!" Daddy and Jake said in unison. I frowned.

"No!" I said, gaining more power in my voice.

"Renesmee Carlie Cullen you're in no position to argue! You're in so much trouble, young lady. We'll discuss it in the morning," Daddy said, his voice harsh. I winced.

Sorry Daddy.

"I'm not going to school tomorrow, right, Grandpa?"

"I don't think, even with the rate of your healing, that you would be able to go anywhere before Thursday or Friday," Carlisle said in his professional voice, forcing a smile.

Ha! And I thought I would tell Jacob today! I wonder if I'm going to tell him any time soon...