Chapter 7
irresistible
It wasn't far now. I stopped abruptly trying to get my bearings strait. My parents were at my side immediately. "Renesmee! What are you doing?!" my mother shouted at me. My father began to tug at my arm trying to pull me to him, but I wasn't budging. I kept sniffing around trying to find it again. I bolted away from my parents when suddenly I crashed into something rock hard. I gasped and fell to the ground. What did I run into? Suddenly I was set up right again.
I looked around and there in front of me was someone I have never seen before. It was a boy. He was tall and handsome. He had sandy brown hair and golden eyes. He had a very squared jaw and pink lips. He looked like an angel sent strait from heaven. I stared at him and realized it was him I smelled. He smelled so delicious it was all I could do to not attack him right there. "Hello." He said in his angelic voice. "I am Antoine." I stood there and looked at him. I just couldn't take my eyes off of him. He was just so beautiful.
"I...I…I'm Renesmee Cullen." I finally choked out. He held out his hand for me to shake it. I looked down and stared at it. Finally I reached out and shook his hand. I gasped at how warm it was. How was this possible, he had the golden eyes of a vampire and the pale skin, but he was as warm as a human? I'm not even as warm as a human. "It's nice to meet you, Renesmee. I must say, if you don't mind, that is quite a unique name. I don't think I've ever heard anything like it before. It is very lovely though, nonetheless." He said politely. I smiled up at him and nodded. "My mother named me after both of my grandmothers. Their names' are Renee and Esme." I responded shyly. "Is that your cabin a few miles north?" he asked and gestured over his shoulder. "Um, yes. My parents and I live there." I answered. We stood there and stared at each other for quite some time and then my parents were at my side. "Renesmee, it's time to go home now." My mother said and then she looked at Antoine. "Who's your friend, Nessie?" She asked. I looked at her and then at Antoine. "This is Antoine, I ran into him as I was running through the woods." I replied.
My father stared at him with a look I have seen countless times. He couldn't read his mind. Finally Antoine held out his hand for my father to shake. My father looked at his and then reached out to shake it. "Hello Antoine, I am Renesmee's father, Edward Cullen." My father said politely. They let go of each other's hands. He then held his hand out for my mother to shake. She looked at it and then at my father. He gave her a slight, barely noticeable, nod and then she shook his hand. "I am Isabella Cullen, Renesmee's mother and also Edward's wife." She said. He looked at them and smiled. "It is such a pleasure to meet all of you." He said smiling at us. "Tell me Antoine, what is a young man such as yourself doing in the middle of the woods unaccompanied?" my father asked suspiciously. Antoine looked at my father as if he was gathering his response. "Actually I am a photographer. I love to take pictures of the wildlife here. It is quite a lovely sight, don't you think Mr. Cullen?" Antoine answered politely.
Wow, a photographer. I have never tried anything of the arts source. He was so beautiful standing there in the sunlight. "Yes, it is quite lovely. Well, loves, why don't we head home now? It was a pleasure, Antoine, and please call me Edward." My father said with a slight tension in his voice. Antoine nodded. My parents began to walk away, it wouldn't be long before they kicked it up to vampire speed. I stayed behind to talk to Antoine a little bit more. "Your parents seem very nice, you're a lucky girl." Antoine said in a calm tone. "Uh, yeah, they're…they're…uh…really great." I replied. It was silent, but not an awkward silence like I have with Jake. I heard my mother calling for me. "I…uh…I should get back. My parents are going to be wondering where I am. I'll see you later?" I asked. He nodded and smiled a wide grin. "Of course, I'll see you later." He gently grabbed my hand and bent down and gently kissed it. "Until we meet again, Renesmee." I smiled and nodded and began to walk home
. I looked back ever so often to look at him. He just stood there and watched me. When I was totally out of his sight I kicked it up to vampire speed. I reached home and walked in the door. My parents were standing there waiting for me with a strange look on their face. "What?" I asked. They continued to stare at me. "I want you to stay away from that boy Nessie." My father said. I looked at him shocked and confused. "Why?!" I asked loudly. "I just think that it would be safer, I can't read his mind. I don't know what he is thinking and when I don't know what he is thinking…I don't know what he has planned for you." My father said. I looked at him and decided I wasn't going to push my luck with this. I sighed and nodded. "Ok." It was three in the afternoon and I was bored. "I think I'm going to go see Alice, I haven't talked to her since yesterday." My parents looked at me for a while and then they nodded, allowing me to go. I ran out the door and then I was at the Cullen's. I walked in the door and there was Carlisle reading and Esme on the piano. Rosalie and Emmett were back in Australia for another "honeymoon". I said hello to everyone and gave hugs and headed upstairs to Alice's room. When I reached her room the door was closed.
I knocked on the door. "Alice? Can I come in Alice?" I asked sheepishly. "Nessie! Of course you can come in!" I opened the door. There was Alice, doing the usual, lying on her bed looking at clothes magazines. "What cha up to Ness?" she asked in her high lovely voice. "Ehh…just kind of bored I guess, so I thought I'd come see what you were up too." I replied smoothly. She kept looking at the clothes magazine. Then she suddenly jumped up from the bed and pulled me out of the room. "Come on, let's go!" she shouted. "Where are we going?!" I asked. "We are going shopping!" she answered excitedly. "Where?" I asked. "New York!" she answered loudly as we rushed down the stairs. "What?! New York?! Alice I can't just leave, I have to ask my parents!" I answered. "Esme!" Alice shouted. "Already on it Alice my dear!" she shouted back. Alice led me out of the house and into the garage. We jumped into the yellow Porsche that Edward had bought her.
I buckled my seat belt and waited for her to rev up the engine. The engine then roared to life and we sped out of the garage. "So, Nessie, I can tell you have something on your mind, or someone." Alice said as she turned and looked at me. I looked down and then back out the window. "Yeah, I do." I answered defeated. "Well, who is it?!" she asked bouncing up and down. "It's this guy." I said smiling to myself, picturing him again. "Who?!" she urged. "You can't think about him around my father okay?" I demanded. She looked at me and held out her pinky for a pinky promise. I locked my pinky with her's. "Okay well, his name is Antoine and he is around my age. He has sandy brown hair and golden eyes." I stopped talking waiting for a response. "Oh! So he's a vampire too?" she asked happily. "Well, I don't really know…I mean he's got the pale skin and the solidness and the golden eyes. But I'm just not sure because he is so warm. Not even a hybrid like me is as warm as a human." I said, confused by my own words. Alice sat there, looking at everything other than the road. "Okay, so why am I not allowed to think about him around Edward?" she asked. "Because he can't read his mind, just like my mom." I replied. "He thinks I would be safer staying away from him." I continued.
She looked at me with a sly grin on your face. "You don't think you can stay away from him do you Ness?" I looked down and I could feel myself blush. I looked back up at her and she was still grinning. "No, I don't think I can." I admitted. "Well what is it about him?" she asked. "He's so polite and mysterious at the same time. He's a photographer and he goes out into the woods a lot. I guess I just find him, irresistible. I mean, is that weird…I know they say things like love at first sight and I feel really weird but am I too young to have love at first sight?" I asked. She looked at me shocked. "Ness, you can have love at first sight at anytime of your life, you are never too young or too old to fall in love. It is just something natural that just randomly happens." She replied with a sentimental tone in her voice. "Well, I can't be sure if I love him, I only spent a few short minutes with him." I said. I turned on the radio and blasted it so loud that you could feel the rhythm of the drums in your chest. We sang along to the music, I've never had so much fun in my life. We drove, and sang and looked at the sights. This all took up maybe about an hour, getting to new York would normally take a person a total of 5 hours, but with Alice driving, it should only take 2 and half. So, I decided that I would take a little nap until we got there. I began to think of Antoine and wondering what he was doing right now. Before I knew it, I was fast asleep.