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It's the Cullens first day of school
It will transfer between Renesmee's, Edward's and Bella's point of views.
Sorry it took too long. Enjoy.
School
Renesmee's Point of View
5am, not the best time in the morning, especially when you have Alice jumping up and down on your bed yelling at you to wake up. I had wondered why my mom hadn't stopped her but I looked and she was no longer lying next to me. Now I was in my bathroom with Alice flickering through my waist long bronze curls and messing with my make-up. She ended up putting half of it up into a ponytail and letting the rest of it flow down my back.
"I have the perfect outfit for you," Alice yelled when she was finished running into my closet. She was already dressed and ready to go. I was really hoping that not everyday was going to be this big of a deal. For all I knew, the human population went to school in their pajamas everyday. I wish I could do that but living with Alice that was never going to happen. I reluctantly followed her in and she was standing with an outfit in her hands. She left me alone to get dressed and I heard her dancing up the stairs.
I looked at myself in the mirror. I had on a pair of skinny black pants with a red, white and black printed silk halter-top matched with a pair of short black booties (3 inch stiletto heels may I add) and a silver stuffed belt that matched the buckles on the boots. I didn't really think that high school was the right place to wear this outfit but where did I have the reason to say anything about it.
I had never been to school and now I was starting out in high school. I had been hearing from my family that it was great but I was still nervous. I saw a bunch of television where high school was hell. It was a popularity contest and people who were different were being outcast. I was different too and my family and I was afraid of what the other students were going to think of us.
I grabbed a purse out of my closet and walked over to my desk throwing a notebook and a few pens and pencils into a sleeve in the middle. I also grabbed a few dollars because I was expected to eat human food today. I looked at myself in the mirror again before I headed up the stairs. Everybody was sitting or standing in the living room. My family was all dressed and ready to go to school. I walked over to my mother and father and sat on my dad's lap. I did this a lot because I didn't want to sit on the floor. Apparently the reason that my mom wasn't there in the morning was because Alice had gotten to her too. Her hair was curled more than usual and she was wearing a pair of dark faded jeans and black stiletto heels with a white tank top and half a black jacket that was closed with a buckle. I knew that she was very uncomfortable.
15 minutes passed without anybody saying a word just watching the morning news. Nothing was really going on and maybe here we wouldn't have any run-ins with other vampires like my parents did in Forks. The Volturi coming didn't count, they were coming for me. But the others showed up for no reason. James, he tried to turn my mother into a vampire. She still has the scar on her arm for where he bit her. Victoria, James' mate tried to kill my mother too. Good thing that my father was there and so was Seth. Apparently my mother was a danger magnet, I wish I would have known her then, when she was human. I have memories of her from when I was born and she was still human but it's not the image that I want of my mother. She was pale, sickly pale and she looked like she was going to die. And then I was ripped away from her when I wanted to be in her arms so badly. I also remember the vampire Laurent who tried to kill my mother while my dad was gone but Jacob ended up saving her.
Jacob, urg. I just couldn't get away from him could I. I really missed him but I wanted to give him his space. He was getting married and he wanted me. I felt like I was the bad guy. I had to tell him to go away because I wanted him to be happy. He was happy without me before and he could be happy without me again. I missed him to no end though. I only hugged him at my party briefly and walked away, even though I wanted to sit and talk to him the way that we used to. I still wanted Jake in my life but I wanted him to forget about me so that he could be happy.
"Nessie, are you ready," my mother asked me getting up off the couch. "We have to go to school now."
I nodded my head and got off of my father's lap, before we all headed outside into the brisk summer morning in New York. I got into the back seat of Uncle Emmett's jeep as Rosalie got into the front. I didn't want to be away from my mother for even a second. I was too nervous. I smiled when she came over and got into the Jeep with me. She held my hand and used her finger to rub my hand, trying to calm me down. There was always something about what my mom did that could relax me at anytime. Putting my head on her shoulder, her running her fingers through my hair, rubbing my hand with one of her tiny fingers, and basically just her presence made me relax. We drove slowly to school, not wanting to be the first ones there but also not the last ones. Alice reassured us last night that everything was going to be fine today but that didn't make me any less nervous. My heart beated faster than usual as we pulled up to the beautiful school.
It was a big brick building that had to be 3 stories high and the original building looked like there had been construction to expand the high school, the only public school in Utica, Thomas R. Proctor High school it was named. We went around the back of the school to see a huge parking lot already half full. The back of the building was very architectural, with a large courtyard in the back with a large, round space filled with greenery. That one little piece reminded me of Forks, which made me miss home even more.
I didn't realize the car came to a stop and everyone was getting out until my mom squeezed my hand.
"Come on honey, it's time to go inside."
"Yes mom," I said quickly. "Bella," I corrected myself.
"Let's go Vanessa," she stated to me with a smile. I slid out of the car with my purse clenched against my body. I guess I just wanted to hold something close to me. My dad went to my mother and wrapped his arm around her shoulder and smiled at me. Is anybody wondering anything yet? He shook his head slightly in my direction.
"Don't be afraid," he whispered into my ear. All of us went into the office and got our schedules. Carrie, who turned out to be a good friend to me, Ann, John and Alex walked in after us. They asked for their schedules also and we made small talk about being new and trying to make it seem like we just met each other. It was all so strange. They gave us a quick tour of the school and we missed half of first period. Ann and I had gym together first period. Whoever had the idea that athletics were good first thing in the morning had to be insane.
"This is going to be a long day," I stated under my breath. Ann brushed her arm against mine, sending a chilly shot down my body. "Don't stun me."
"I won't. Everything will be alright. I'm here for you," she said to me with a genuine smile on my face.
Bella's Point of View
Having to leave my daughter was going to be hard but it had to be done. Alice and I went off to Spanish together before I could even think of my daughter.
"This is fun," Alice stated. "I've missed school."
Some of the other students looked at her like she was crazy. Not many high school students would say that they actually missed school over the summer but it had been 2 years since Alice went to school.
"Me too," I whispered to her. "Do you see anything," I asked as she stopped dead in the middle of the hallway. I pulled her into a corner next to the end of a row of lockers. "Alice, snap out of it. We are already late." It took another few moments but she was back in the world of reality. She looked a little bit frightened. "What is it?"
"The Volturi are coming back together again, Aro forced them," Alice whispered very quietly. "They are a few short though."
"Who," I asked eager to know what opponents we wouldn't need to be taking out anymore.
"Felix and Demitri," she responded quickly. "Come on let's get to Spanish. We'll miss how to say hello."
"Hola," I stated back. She smiled and chuckled a little bit before we headed off to class. The teacher introduced us to the class and we sat next to each other against the wall near the windows. I spent most of the time of class with my mind wandering in all different directions. Demitri being gone wouldn't be much, he was a tracker. If we were to go there that wouldn't mean that much of an advantage to us anyways. But Felix being gone was a good thing. He was evil and destructive and very violent, always wanting to start a fight. He had tried to kill Edward the last time that we were in Volterra. I didn't ever want to go back to that place. Aro must have been extremely upset in order for everybody to come back and join him, to stop causing havoc all over the city. I saw Alice go in and out of visions. I had to nudge her a few times to bring her back. It looked like today was going to be a very long day.
How were we going to proceed with the battle, if we even needed to have one now? Was them losing 2 of their strongest members enough to teach them a lesson? I also wondered who had the strength to kill Felix. Felix was one of the guys that used to accompany my nightmares and he still frightened me, although I knew that he would never be able to hurt my family or me again.
The loud bell interrupted my thoughts as I snapped back into reality and Alice I walked behind the rest of the class out the door.
"Well that was interesting," she whispered to me.
"Why? Has anything changed?"
"Aro keeps changing his mind about what to do with the Volturi. It's just giving me a huge headache is all. But they have killed so many people and they've been turning on each other. I think on the next outbreak is when we will need to intervene."
"So you see us in Volterra?"
"All of the time but I've seen them in Forks, out here. Sometimes I see us in a forest outside of Volterra, a huge clearing, their castle but it continues to change."
"But there will be an altercation?"
"Yes there is no way of escaping it. We are the only coven that could overthrow them and with the help from our friends it won't be too hard, I don't think."
"Do you think that they will replace their fallen members?"
"If we know anything about Aro then yes, they will."
"Alice, try not to think about it okay? Just think of Jasper, he always seems to calm you down."
"I have civics with him next so maybe he can through a wave of calm over me. He's going to be wondering what's going on."
"We should wait until lunch or until we get home to discuss this with everybody else."
"You're probably right. But we should go, we don't want to be late."
"Well we could always use the excuse that we are new and don't know our way around yet," I laughed. There would be no way that any of us would forget where we were going. I said goodbye to Alice and made my way to Algebra. I stood outside for a moment before breathing in a deep breath and stepping into the classroom. I smelled a few familiar scents and looked up to see my husband and daughter sitting side by side, with a seat open next to Edward.
"Hey," I said giving Renesmee a little squeeze on the shoulder and taking a seat next to Edward. "How's your day going Ness?"
"Good. Gym first period, you know."
"We'll talk about it later."
How is she really doing I asked Edward. He just nodded his head towards me and the teacher walked in.
"My name is Mr. Johnson. First of all we should go around the room and introduce ourselves."
We listened to the rest of the class introduce ourselves and then it was our turn.
"My name is Bella Swan and I just moved here with my family from Washington. I love reading and spending time just thinking."
"My name is Edward Cullen. I also just moved here from Washington and I love listening to music, composing it and I'm very interested in cars."
"And my name is Vanessa Swan. I moved her with my cousin and the rest of our family. It's a complicated story but I love to do so many things. Music and cars are my passions but I also like to shop and spend time with my family."
The next person went and I breathed a sigh of relief. The class passed fairly quickly and it was amazing to hear Edward say what people were really thinking. After I left Edward until lunch, I was upset that I didn't have more class with him.
Edward Point of View
After leaving Bella and Nessie I felt like I was alone. I could hear all of the voices and thoughts of the people around me but they all strayed away from me. A lot of the people were wondering about my family, where we were from, what exactly our story was and why Nessie and I looked so much alike even though we weren't really related. A few people suggested affairs by our parents and she was my long lost biological sister. They were all completely wrong.
I tried to pay attention through my classes although I had already studied the subjects millions of times. Before I knew it, it was time for lunch. With the amount of people we had in our family now, we needed to sit at two separate tables. Renesmee, Bella, Ann, Alex and I sat at one table and Carrie, John, Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper and Alice sat at the other.
'Man those girls are gorgeous. Especially the one with the long curly hair. I would like to get with that'. The voice came from a guy a few tables down from us. A little hiss escaped my lips as I continued to listen. 'She seems to be the only one available. All of the other members of that family are all over each other. Can you say gross much'?
'That Bella chick is some kind of hot, another voice started, interrupting the guy that I was listening to. Maybe she isn't as taken as everybody thinks she is. I would like to take her and throw her down on my bed.'
'Edward relax,' Bella's voice rang through my head. 'You're going to break the table.' I hadn't even realized that I had been gripping onto the table before I released my hand from it. All of a sudden the voices from inside my head disappeared and all I could hear where the thoughts of my family.
"Thank you," I said gratefully to Bella. She smiled at me and put her hand on my shoulder.
"You know that I can't do this all day."
"I know that you can't but I really appreciate it at this moment."
"You don't like people thinking about Nessie in that way do you?"
"Or my wife."
"People are thinking about me," Renesmee asked more excited than she should have sounded. I was her father, did she really think that I wanted to listen to what teenage boys were thinking about my 7-year-old daughter. No, I really didn't but she just seemed so happy about it. We were going to have to talk about the boy situation, urg, not the conversation that I ever wanted to have. Maybe Bella could talk to her about, it's supposed to be more of a mother daughter thing anyways.
"Yes they are Nessie but it's not in a good way." I looked over at Bella and she looked confused beyond belief.
"What," I asked.
"I just wish more and more everyday that I could hear what you are thinking."
"No you really don't." The last thing that I needed was for my wife knowing everything that was going on inside my head. The way that Renesmee was acting towards people when we weren't around (some guy named Ross), the way people were thinking about her and Bella, the impending doom that the Volturi would bring, most likely taking a member of our family, probably me. I kept thinking about my love, my wife and my daughter and I knew that I would do anything to save them, including sacrificing myself.
'Cut it out would you,' Jasper yelled into my head. I can't take your emotions any more man. Just don't worry about everything so much or you'll give me a heart attack.' Edward laughed a little bit as Jasper sent a wave of calm in our direction and I felt the tension in my head go away and the thoughts of my family also became calm and serene.
'Can I take my shield off now?'
I leaned over and whispered in her ear "You can take off something else." If she was still human then I was sure that her cheeks would be blushing with the darkest shade of red anybody had ever seen. She snapped her shield off of me and it was like the floodgates were opening with a loud, almost over-powering buzzing coming into my head.
That girl is really sweet, Vanessa she said her name was. I can't believe that she actually talked to me. She's so smart and beautiful, but what am I thinking. There is no way that she would give me the time of day.
I looked over and realized that the thoughts were coming from Ross. He was almost the mere image of Emmett but his hair was short and straight instead of curly. And he was a few inches shorter but he was probably around my height but his build was the same exact way. A wrestler, a football player, weight lifter perhaps. His thoughts, however, were refreshing. After hearing all day about the way that Renesmee looks and the fantasies that these guys had in their heads, Ross had pure thoughts and it was good to here something nice about her.
The bell rang and we got up with the rest of the student body, dumping our trays of uneaten food into the trash. Bella and I went off to Biology together. We sat at the same lab bench and smiled at each other. I remembered the first time I saw her in Biology. She was so beautiful, so intelligent, and so clumsy and she smelled so good. I'm that I didn't do anything stupid that day because we wouldn't be sitting here today.
"Okay class, we will start with a brief introduction and then we will go onto labeling the different stages of mitosis."
Bella looked at me and cracked a huge smile and I returned it, knowing that she remembered that memory also. I didn't think that she would have retained so many human memories.
Bella's Point of View
I couldn't believe that I remembered the last time that I walked into Biology for the first time. It replayed itself over and over again in my head, the way that Edward looked at me that first day, the way that he held his hands in a first, the way I thought he was going to break the table and the way that he looked like he was in pain. I know now why he was in pain but I hated to see his face like that. Edward and I walked hand in hand to an empty lab table. He sat closest to the window and I took the aisle seat. I looked at him for what only seemed like a second, which was not long enough at all.
"Okay class, we will start with a brief introduction and then we will go onto labeling the different stages of mitosis."
I smiled at Edward and he smiled back at me. It was the first day all over again when he decided to finally talk to me, after a very extended absence. It was the lab that we had done and he didn't think that I knew anything about it. I had already taken honors biology in Arizona so I already knew the subject. Edward had a death grip on the table again. I sighed and threw my shield over him.
'Is it about me again?' He shook his head no. 'Then Renesmee?' He nodded and smiled a little bit.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome."
My mind wandered again as I tried not to think about Alice's new discoveries. I lost that battle very quickly, wondering what would happen in Volterra. Edward then passed me a note.
What's going on love? You need to tell me. Crap, my damn mind and forgetting that my shield was around him
'Alice saw something this morning but it keeps changing. Aro is trying to get control of everybody and Felix and Demitri are both gone, dead. We're not sure yet if they will replace those members or not. But Alice's vision keeps changing and the next big outbreak is when we should attack. But this will all be discussed tonight so we shouldn't worry about this until then.'
Are you sure about that? Should we really do this?
'I think that it's time for us to get over this without having to took over our shoulders for them to capture you or Alice. I couldn't let that happen to you or to her. I don't know what I would do if I lost either of you to the Volturi.'
They want you too. I've read Aro's mind. And when he finds out about Nessie's powers, he'll want her too. Not to mention our new friends. A coven where every one of them has a power, and such strong ones at that and the fact that they are vegetarians it is not going to be good.
'But Edward, I can't lose anybody.'
You are one of the ones that voted for it. Bella, love, we are ready, more ready than we will ever be, You shield is very strong, stronger than any shield I have ever seen before, and we have enough people with enough powers so that nobody will get hurt or captured, I promise.
'Do you swear Edward? I won't lose you?'
I promise Bella, I will not get hurt.
He put my mind at ease a little bit but I finally threw my entire shield over him, blocking out myself also. I didn't want him to see what I was seeing inside of my head. My mind was playing tricks on me. I kept seeing pictures of Edward, lying in pain on the ground, scars all over him from fresh vampire bites, trying to stay alive. I tried to shake them away and just looked at the man sitting next to me. He was fine, he wasn't hurt and he promised me that he wouldn't get hurt.
The bell ran and it scared me, snapping my shield back to me like a rubber band. I was so surprised; I grasped the table and almost fell off of my seat. Edward then caught me from falling.
"You really need to watch what you are doing," he said to me, moving closer and closer to my ear.
"Go away," I told him sarcastically. "Thank you."
"You're welcome," he whispered in my ear continuing. "For a vampire you are pretty jumpy."
I wanted to smack him as hard as I could but I knew it would be a little suspicious that the wall would break from the force of his body. I understood when it was a car but something told me that these people wouldn't like it too much. Instead I settled for gently smacking him in the arm. He laughed at me and put his hand on the small of my back leading me out of class. I needed to go to my history class, while Edward had gym with Emmett. I really would love to see Emmett in gym. I could just imagine when he got mad and then had to hold his composure to keep himself from popping the ball that they were playing with or punching the wall in. I thought about what was going on in gym all of my history class, not paying attention at all to what was going on. If I sat here daydreaming all day what was the point of me even coming to school?
At the end of class I then remembered that I had a music class with almost everybody from my family, leaving out Emmett and Rosalie, who had shop class. Rosalie really wanted to take it and Emmett went just so that he could be with her more than once a day.
I saw my daughter and she ran up to me and gave me a hug.
"Shield me," she whispered in my ear. I did as she asked and looked at her confused. "We'll go out hunting later and I will tell you," she whispered again. "I don't want daddy to know yet."
"Hi Edward," she said to him looking like she was hiding something. She walked passed him and into the classroom, following behind Ann and Carrie.
"What's going on Bella? I know that you two are hiding something from me," Edward asked me in a low hiss underneath his breath.
"She told me to shield her so I did. She doesn't want you prying into her mind before she knows what's going on. I don't even know what's going on but I will later. Come on, we are going to be late. We want to get a good seat."
We walked into class and saw the rest of our family sitting in a little circle, leaving two seats for us in the middle of their circle. That was our last class of the day and when it was over we got into our cars to go home. It was such a good day and I was really looking forward to what Renesmee was going to say.
A/N: I hope that you liked it
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