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Chapter 18
Renesmee's Point of View
The morning came faster than I imagined with a lot of dreams that night. I missed school and I wanted to get there faster than anybody could imagine. Ann was by my side at 5 o'clock in the morning, just like Alice had been yesterday. I went into my bathroom and Ann turned on the curling iron while I grabbed a chair and sat in it.
"I had a vision Nessie," she told me taking my hair out of the messy ponytail that it was in.
"I thought Alice was the only one that could have visions."
"Well I can too but not as clear as Alice. Now be quiet and stay still."
"Not a problem."
She ran the brush through my long hair and started to use the curling iron, leaving loose beach curls through out my hair. She put a blue and white striped scarf around my head like a headband that matched perfectly with the shirt that we had bought yesterday.
"Where did you get this," I asked her as I looked at my hair in the mirror. She did as good of a job as Alice would have done on it. I looked more beautiful than usual.
"I pulled it out of my closet. I was there with you yesterday and I thought that it would match perfectly so there you go."
"Thank you Ann."
"You're welcome. Now wear the outfit that we bought yesterday and you will do great today, I promise."
I did as she asked and when I came out into my bedroom, she was holding a navy blue messenger bag for me. I smiled and took it, surprised that it matched my outfit. Had she bought this when I wasn't looking yesterday.
"It's Alice's," she said answering my thoughts. So now she could see the future like Alice and read minds like my father. "I showed her the headband and she said that this would look cute and you could carry your books in it. Did you finish your homework?"
Now she was my mother too. "Yes I finished my homework."
"I put some gym clothes in there too. We can share a locker if you want."
"Sure."
I was glad that Ann was here. She was a friend of my mom's but she was also my friend and it was good to have somebody know everything about me that wasn't a part of my family. I checked myself in the mirror one more time after I put my shoes on and I had to admit that I looked different then I normally do. I looked more grown up, more sophisticated and sexier. I smiled and followed Ann upstairs to where everybody was sitting in the living room. Alice's eyes filled with a little sparkle when she saw me.
"You did this on your own," she squealed before running over to me and giving me a hug. "You look adorable."
"Thanks," I said blushing slightly. Damn my mother and her blushing habits.
"You look beautiful baby," my dad said approaching me and putting his arms around my shoulders. "Any particular reason?"
Great, he was never going to get off my case about this was he, though my mom had probably told him to keep tabs on what Ross was really thinking about me. I hated the fact that my dad could read minds, even when I was in my mother's stomach.
"No, it's just school."
He looked at me like he wanted to say more but closed his mouth before any words could come out. I looked down at my feet and took a seat on one of the chairs in the living room. We still had around 20 minutes before we had to leave for school and I took the opportunity to look over my homework instead of being interrogated by my family. The room stayed in a deadly silent as I tried not to focus on the eyes that were piercing a hole through me.
Esme walked into the room and said "Okay kids, it's time for school." I looked at her and smiled as she looked like she was ushering a bunch of kindergarteners outside to the bus stop. I chuckled a little bit, seeing the image in my head of what my family would have looked like when they were so small.
I continued to think about it on the way to school. I was more nervous about seeing Ross again today and talking to him then I was about the upcoming events with the Volturi. I saw Emmett as a little boy, cute as a button with his dimples and he was bullying my dad, he was smaller than most of the boys with his hair a mess. Uncle Jasper was calm and quiet, not paying attention to the other kids around them except for Aunty Alice who was tiny and running all over the place. My mother sat to herself as the little boys tried to pick on her but she didn't seem to care and Aunt Rosalie had her blonde hair flowing down to the middle of her back trying to be the center of attention. Ann was playing kickball, intentionally aiming the ball at poor Carrie, who looked like she was about to kill her as John and Alex stood to the side laughing at them. I then saw myself wandering around in circles, trying to figure exactly what I wanted to do. I looked like I was sad and confused as I watched everybody in their own little situation. I went over to the little version of my mother and beat up the boys that were picking on her. I laughed quietly to myself and I wished that I could take a picture of my mental image I would. Oh now I remember, I can.
When Emmett pulled up to the school and put the car in park I ran over to my mom and put my hand to her head. As the images I had of my family in kindergarten ran through her head it was hard for her to hold her composure and when I pulled away she instantly started laughing. Everybody was looking at us with a confused expression, except for my dad who had seen it in my mind. I was doing okay at blocking him on my own and I figured that my mom needed a rest by now. I continued to show everybody else what I was picturing and they had the same reaction as my mother. The kids must have thought that us Cullen kids were crazy but I didn't care.
I saw a few of my classmates looking at us and shaking their heads before laughing themselves. Little did they know what we were actually laughing at. Ann and I went to gym after saying goodbye to everybody and we were playing volleyball inside because the forecast said that it was supposed to rain, even though I knew that it wouldn't. Ann and I enjoyed gym, pretending to suck at everything. I pretending like I was my mother, again, where I had no coordination at all and "accidentally" hit the bleach blonde in front of me in the head. I heard her talking about me in the locker room and although I know it's not right for me to hurt somebody, I just couldn't resist. Ann and I laughed with each other for the rest of the class.
I got changed in the locker room back into the outfit that I had carefully picked out and I looked at my hair. I didn't want it to be messed up from sweating in gym and thankfully every wave was still intact. I smiled and met up with Ann to walk away from class. My Algebra class with my parents went quickly, surprisingly, but I was too busy thinking about what I was going to say to Ross in our Spanish class 4th period. I still had to go to English lit with my father and I was afraid that he would see right through me.
I tapped nervously on my desk as my English/Lit class was coming to a close. Either my mom still had her shield on me or my dad just didn't want to make a scene in the middle of class because he didn't even seem like he was paying attention to anything. Maybe he was just drowning out everybody. The bell rang and I almost jumped out of my seatwith excitement. I went to my locker, thankful that my dad just went to his history class and didn't bother to escort me. I needed time to think without worrying about what my father was thinking. I dumped my English book in my locker and grabbed my Spanish book and notebook.
"Hi," a smooth voice said to me. I practically jumped out of my skin and almost hit my head on my locker. "Sorry I didn't mean to scare you."
I looked up and saw Ross standing next to my locker looking down at me with his tall frame and his goofy grin stretching across his face. "I'm fine, you just surprised me is all."
"You look nice today."
"Thank you," I said nervously trying not to think about the little blush that was surely making it's way into my cheeks.
"How was the rest of your first day," he asked as I closed my locker and then leaned against it. The way that he spoke to me made me so nervous and I had no idea why one person could do that to me.
"It was good, long. I had a lot of classes with my family."
"You have a big family don't you?"
"Well yeah but my adoptive dad just has a big heart is all. I had been friends with Edward and Alice for a long time and I think that's why he took in my cousin and I."
"Your cousin is Bella right?"
"Yes."
"And Edward and Alice are also adopted by the Cullens," he asked not sure of himself. Apparently he had been asking around because I knew that he wouldn't talk to my family unless he was looking for a death sentence.
"Yes and so is Emmett and then there Rosalie and Jasper Hale. They are Esme's niece and nephew."
"You must have one really loud house."
"I do but I have a room in the basement so I get to be secluded from them as much as possible."
"Do you mind if we walk to class together?" The inside of my stomach was doing flips over and over again and I didn't even feel like I could talk. When he asked about my family I was able to talk to him just like he was any other person but when he asked to walk to class, the class that we had together, I wasn't able to speak. He was just being courteous, offering to walk me to class but I nodded my head and we headed off to our class.
"So how long have you lived here," I asked trying to get the conversation off of me and onto him. Plus I genuinely wanted to know more about him.
"I moved here about 2 years ago from Massachusetts. My dad wanted to move away from home when my mom died and we moved here to kind of get away from that."
"I'm sorry about your mom, what happened?"
"She had cancer. We knew that it was coming but it was still hard none-the-less. What about your parents? You're adopted so something must have happened to them."
"They died in a fire along with the rest of my family. Bella and I were visiting the Cullens to kind of get away for a little while and I guess we never left."
"I'm sorry about that. I can't imagine what it must be like to lose your entire family."
"It was hard but the Cullens are like a second family to me so I guess that I still have a family."
What was wrong with me? This guy had actually lost a parent and here I was pretending that my parents died in a fire when in reality my parents were perfectly fine. I didn't want to lie to Ross, he seemed like he had been through so much and he was feeling sorry for me because he thought I lost both of my parents. Little did he know they were in their gym class probably listening to what we were talking about.
"Do you have any brothers or sisters," I asked trying to get off of the topic of death.
"I have 2 older brothers, Scott and Steve. They are both away at school right now."
"Are they that much older than you," I asked trying to figure out exactly how old he was. He fell for my trap instantly.
"Well I'm 16 almost 17 and they are in their twenties. My parents thought that they were all done having kids and then poof, there I was," he laughed. I loved his laugh and the way that his face looked when he laughed because the action made his dimples even more noticeable.
"That's cool. I never had any brothers or sisters, just Bella, but she was always like a sister to me."
"When is your birthday," he asked me, curious, good.
"I just had my 16th birthday August 24th."
"And Bella?"
"She'll be 17 on September 13th."
"So you are only about a year apart."
"Yeah I swear my mom saw Bella and saw how cute she was and said 'I want one' and here I am."
He chuckled again as he opened the door to our Spanish class for me. We sat down next to each other in the little half circle that the desks were in. I liked the idea of him sitting only about a foot away from me.
The entire class I kept looking over at him and I was wondering what he was thinking. Once in a while I would see him look at me and smile and then look back up to the teacher. I couldn't concentrate again and I now understood why some people did bad in school, they were too busy thinking about the boys that they liked. And who ever thought of putting students so close to each other anyways. Remind me to thank my teacher later.
Ross' point of view
I talked to her and now I have to stop the damn roll that I am on. I wasn't tripping over myself or stuttering at all. I hate Spanish but I love the fact that I am here with her today. She really does look nice today, even better than yesterday but I wonder what that hair of hers really looks like. She must look adorable first thing in the morning when her hair is all messy and covering her face. She probably wears fuzzy pink pajamas or something. I looked over at her and I thanked God that her hair was out of her face. Her dazzling brown eyes seemed to overcome every thought that I have ever had. She moved her face to look at me and I looked down at my paper, pretending to understand the material that we were going over. I was more than likely going to fail this class if I had to sit within inches of Vanessa all day.
I continued to watch her out of the corner of my eye, watching her put her hair behind her ear when it fell into her face and the way that she smiled like she was replaying a funny movie in her head. I never wanted this class to end but of course it went by faster than I wished it had. When the bell rang it was time to go to lunch and I was sure that Vanessa was going to sit with her family again. I saw that kid Edward looking at me yesterday and I swear that he was trying to see what I was thinking.
Vanessa and I got out of our seats and quickly fell into a rhythm walking with each other to lunch.
"That class sucks," I stated to her to start the conversation back up again. I wanted to hear her voice, I didn't want to walk in silence. Her beauty still astounded me.
"Yeah but I'm glad that I already know what we are learning."
"So you speak Spanish," I asked. This girl knew everything didn't she?
"I can speak the basic terms but that's only because I took two years back in Washington and I aced the classes. I never really did anything else besides school."
"You didn't go out at all," I asked. I was curious to see what my chances where.
"No I really didn't. I had a few good friends but I stuck with my family. I just never found a need to go out all the time." Damn, I thought to myself. Now all hope was lost. "But who knows," she added. I couldn't help but let a smile creep across my face. "Maybe now that I'm here I could start going out soon. I got my permit so I can drive with an adult. All I need now is to wait 6 months to get my license."
"Well I have mine but I need to get a car." I think I saw her smiling at my comment. I decided to just go with the flow as I grabbed whatever was in front of me for lunch. I hated my huge appetite, I was going to look like a pig. Now I sound like a girl, great. This girl is making me into a chick, but it's well worth it. She paid for her lunch before I could even try to pay for it and I paid for mine and to my surprise she was waiting for me. "Do you want to sit with me today," I asked her. I just let that fall right out of my mouth and she contemplated it for a minute. She looked over to her family and the bronze haired boy, the one name Edward, nodded his head and I saw her cousin Bella smile and the little pixie girl jump up and down with excitement. Man that house must be crazy.
"I would love to," she said nervously and I saw her cheeks become a light pink color. I loved when she blushed, she looked even more beautiful then she normally did. I escorted her to an empty table in the middle of the cafeteria, hopefully nobody would pay attention to us. I just wanted to be alone with her and I didn't care who knew that. I just didn't want any distractions between us. I wanted to know everything about her and I wanted her to know everything about me. She took a seat and I sat down next to her, as close as possible.
"Aren't you going to eat," I asked her as she stared meaninglessly at her food. "It's not as bad as most, come on and eat."
She smiled at me and looked at her food with disgust written all over her face. She took a smile bite of the pizza that we both got and looked at the pepperoni and flung it back onto her plate. She ate the entire piece of pizza off the plate and looked like she had just drunk blood instead.
Renesmee's Point of View
"Aren't you going to eat," Ross asked me. I looked up at him and he said "It's not as bad as most, come on and eat."
I can't believe the lengths to which I was willing to go to make this guy happy. I took a small bite of the piece of pizza in front of me. The pepperoni actually made it worse. I procedded to take off the pepperoni and basically chuck them onto my plate. And there was no way that I could just get rid of the food because Ross was looking at me intentially the entire time. Perhaps if Alex knew what was going on he could have freezed everyone long enough for me to throw the piece of pizza away.
I tried to ignore the looks that my family was throwing me as I ate the food but mostly because I didn't want to see the expressions on their faces about the whole situation with Ross and I, although there probably wasn't much of a situation. I was trying not to get ahead of myself as I swallowed down the last piece of the pizza. From now on at lunch all I would get would be a piece of cheese pizza and if I needed to eat then I could bear with that. I looked over quickly to my table and saw my dad laughing quietly and turning to my mother whispering something into her ear. It went around the tables like that until they were all laughing in unison.
"I wonder what's so funny," Ross asked in-between eating his food. He eat so much no wonder he was so overpowering. If Emmett were a human, I was sure that those two would have a food-eating contest. However, it would even funny if Ross challenged him now because no matter what the challenge Emmett is always willing to accept it.
"Yet another inside joke with my family that nobody would ever understand."
"I want to meet them sometime," he said bluntly and out of the blue.
"Give it time and I bet that you won't. My family isn't what you would call normal."
"Yeah but who's really is. The perception of what is or isn't normal has altered. Nobody is normal and the people who think that when somebody is different means that they aren't normal has some serious issues."
Yeah but a whole group of vampires really isn't normal. "Good outlook."
"Thanks."
"So do you think that maybe sometime that you could help me with Spanish? I know that I am going to do horrible at it."
Oh my God, did he just ask me on a date? No, it's just to study, for me to tutor him, why am I getting so ahead of myself? "Sure, no problem. Let's see how the first week pans out. If you have troubles then perhaps over the weekend we could do something."
"I'm sure I will have troubles so clear your schedule."
He made it seem like he wanted to hang out, whether Spanish was in the equation or not. It made my stomach flip on the inside and my already panicky heart-rate was quickening.
"Schedule cleared," I declared.
Not to long after our conversation ended, the bell rang for us to get to our next class. Great now I had to deal with Alice. I was about to get up when she came skipping over to our table.
"Hi Vanessa, who's your friend," she asked but I knew full well that she knew who he was by now.
"This is Ross, Ross this is…"
"Hi I'm Alice," she said reaching out her hand to his. He shook it and I could see him shiver from the coolness of her skin. "Sorry I'm a bit cold today, too much soda not enough coffee."
"Like you need any of that," I said. "You're already too perky to begin with."
"I'm Ross, it's nice to meet you Alice. Well, umm, Vanessa, I guess I will see you tomorrow."
"That you will."
He looked like he wanted to say more and not leave, but he turned away reluctantly and headed for the door.
"Great Alice, you scared him off."
"Just be glad that I am the first of the Cullens to meet him. I'm the easiest one."
"You have a point there."
"Imagine when Edward and Ross meet, that will be interesting," she said as she put her arm around my shoulders and we headed off to class.
Music was at the end of day and it was ackward the entire time. My family seemed to be fixated on me and I was wondering if they were all trying to read my mind. I told my mom not to shield me anymore, hoping that my dad diving into my head was better in a public place with witnesses instead of at home where I would be getting yelled at. At the end of the day I went to my locker by myself and told my family that I would meet them there. I needed to get a few books to do homework and then it was off to go train.
"Hey there," a now familiar voice said to me. I again jumped.
"You've got to stop doing that," I said holding my heart with one hand and playfully slapping him with the other.
"Sorry but I just wanted to get you alone without your family around."
"Why is that," I asked Ross. I really wanted to know what was going on inside of his head and I was hoping that he would tell me. Thankfully, all my dreams were coming true today.
"I didn't get to give you a hug after lunch and I really wanted to."
"Oh." I looked at him and he was looking down at me, like he was asking for permission. I threw my arms around his chest; it was about as close as I was going to get to his shoulders, even with 3-inch heels on. He wrapped his arms around me and squeezed. I'm guessing he thought that it was tight but nothing could ever beat the strength of uncle Emmett's hugs. He then released me and smiled. "Well I've got to go and get to my family before they get worried," I said not ever wanting to escape that embrace of his. It was so warm and filled with emotions that I never wanted to let go. I grabbed the rest of my books, putting them into my messenger bag and closing my locker.
"Mind if I walk you to the parking lot," he asked me.
"Not at all, just no hugging in front of my family. They are a tid bit over protective." And that's to say the least.
"Then one more now for safety," he said engulfing me into his arms again. I smiled as I breathed in his scent and it was one that I would never forget. He smelled so good, like a mixture of fabric softener and a really good cologne. I hugged him back and we released walking to the parking lot. Once we were there we said our goodbyes and I headed to the cars, sliding into the backseat of Emmett's jeep with 10 pairs of eyes fixated on me.
A/N: Poor Nessie and those intimidating Cullens.
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