A week had passed since Renesmee had started at her new school. She'd gotten used to the early starts and the long bus journeys. She'd even gotten used to not having all her family there. But she still couldn't get used to not having Jake around. As she got ready for school she couldn't help reliving some of her memories of Jake. The time they'd gone cliff diving together was the first to come to mind, she smiled sweetly to herself remembering how they'd dragged their soaking wet bodies from the ice cold water and collapsed in fits of laughter on the beach. She remembered the horrified look on Alice's face when she saw Renesmee's ruined outfit, the look of fury from her parents when they found out they'd been cliff diving. She laughed quietly to herself as she remembered the funniest part of the memory. Edward had been furious with Jacob, they'd yelled at each other for near ten minutes when finally Jake decided he'd had enough and shook his dripping hair in Edward's face and completely soaked Edward.
Her phone beeped and she was dragged from her memories and back to reality. The message was from her new friend Melody, it read 'hey, I NEED to talk to you when you get in! OMG the goss your gonna luv it x'. She laughed ever so slightly, Melody had this need to be up to date with the gossip, it was quite sweet if you thought about. Walking down the drive Renesmee went over her day in her head. She had Chemistry and Maths in the morning, and after break was Geography which was then followed by lunch, and finally in the afternoon she had PE and English. Renesmee was starting to understand why everyone moans about school, it really was ridiculously dull.
The bus rides went quickly today, that was always a good sign. It was nearly 8 o'clock when she started the climb up the hill to school, everyday she had to resist the urge to run up that hill, but everyday she had to remind herself that no one could find out the truth about her. No one. No one could ever find out about her being a half vampire, the Volturi were already looking for excuses to end her. She couldn't give them a reason, she'd barely escaped the first time.
With these dark thoughts running through her head Renesmee walked through the gates and towards Melody who was standing in the playground waving her arms wildly above her head. Melody's impatience got the better of her and she ran forwards to meet Renesmee as she walked. Renesmee noted the excited expression that was plastered all over Melody's face and for just a second heard the excitable thoughts of the girl. Renesmee focused hard on looking happy, trying desperately to block out the thoughts of her friend. She hated this. Ever since her 10th birthday Renesmee had started developing her fathers' power. She'd been working so hard for years to block out the thoughts of others but the older she got the harder it got.
Melody grabbed Renesmee's arm and dragged her quickly into the building, up the stairs and into the classroom that they spent break times in along with the other girls. Jessica was already there, she too looked excited. Their excitement was starting to confuse Renesmee and she started to wonder if she should allow herself to hear the thoughts of the other girls, but she was instantly reminded of Carlisle's words 'If you start, you are going to struggle much more to stop.' She snapped out of her thoughts and started listening to what Jessica was beginning to say. "So Nessie, you know that boy in maths that sits at the table on your right? Well anyway yesterday I was in the shopping centre and I bumped into him. So basically we were talking about... well a load of crap really. But getting the point, he talked about you! He was saying how beautiful he thinks you are and how he really wants to ask you out but ya know... he hardly knows you so he's a bit nervous." Jessica spoke so fast and paused so little that Renesmee's brain was almost having trouble processing what she was saying. Melody had decided from Renesmee's expression that she had not understood, so she decided to make it clearer, "Basically Nessie, what Jess is trying to say is that Connor has like a major crush on you!" The girls were both grinning like crazy so Renesmee came to the conclusion that the best reaction would be shock. The girls didn't know about Jake, they didn't know anything really. "Oh wow, are you serious?" Renesmee said making a very good job of acting shocked. Melody was clearly pleased with her reaction because she started nodding her head frantically, so much so that Jess had to grab her head to stop her. The girls went on talking and laughing about it for ages before the bell went.
Sitting in registration Renesmee began to think about how to deal with the situation. She didn't want to disappoint her friends by saying she didn't like Connor, that would be horrible and anyway it would be a lie. She decided she couldn't lie again, she was already keeping way to many secrets and lying way too much. Anyway she did like Connor, he was nice and kind of cute as well. Renesmee's first lesson was chemistry and as it happened Mrs West was her teacher. Renesmee liked Mrs West she was kind but it was funny because everyone thought she was so strict, really she'd just let people believe the harsh rumours about how scary she was. She smiled at Renesmee as she walked in and took her seat behind the lab bench. Once everyone had arrived she handed out the exam paper they were meant to be completing. The teacher got everyone started before coming over to Renesmee saying "Don't worry if you can't do it all, just try your best and do what you can." Renesmee nodded as Mrs West looked at her. The exam was easy, she was done in less than 30 minutes. So she started gazing around the room, Mrs West saw Renesmee's absent minded gaze fluttering around the room and Renesmee caught a snippet of her thoughts 'I guess my hopes were too high.' Renesmee smiled ever so slightly to herself. She knew she'd done well in the exam, Carlisle had spent weeks teaching her this stuff, she was hardly going to forget it quickly, or ever for that matter.
It wasn't until the last ten minutes of the lesson that Renesmee realised someone was staring at her. She shifted her gaze slightly allowing her to see who was staring at her. Of course, I should have guessed she thought to herself, who else would have been apart from Connor. It took Connor a moment to realise she'd caught him and when he did he blushed so much he began to look like a tomato. The exam ended and everyone turned in their papers. The class walked out grumbling about how hard the test had been. The rest of the morning passed quickly. Once again maths was easy and geography a bore. It wasn't until lunch that things started to get a little bit more interesting.
Just the same as last week Renesmee sat in Melody's tutor room along with Mel obviously, and Laura, Jess, Hannah and Shanice. Renesmee had been texting Kayla a girl she was friends with back when she was in the States. Anyway she'd just put her phone down for a couple of minutes while she talked to Mrs West about how she was getting on so far. When she came back she noticed that her phone was no longer on the table where she'd left it. Instead it was in Laura's hands. Renesmee watched as Laura's smug foundation covered face changed into a look of shock. None of them had noticed Renesmee was back so she just stood at the door and watched as Laura told the other girls to look at Renesmee's phone Hannah and Shanice jumped up quickly to gawp at the screen. Mel and Jess were a little more hesitant but they looked all the same and their faces too became expressions of shock when they saw the screen. "Who? Who the hell is that?" Laura asked in a quiet but still annoyingly high pitched voice. "I have absolutely no idea" Jess said very slowly. They all stood rooted to the spot staring at the screen. A few seconds passed and the girls appeared to be in a trance. It was the phone beginning to vibrate that yanked them back to reality. Renesmee walked forwards and quickly pulled the phone out of Laura's grip.
Renesmee looked down at the screen. The message was in Portuguese, which meant it was from Jasper and most probably another rude joke. Renesmee translated the message quickly in her head and laughed out loud. She would never understand how Jasper found these jokes, but it had kind of become a game the two of them played sometimes. Renesmee closed the message and saw the picture that her new friends had been looking at. She walked forwards to the table they were sat on, while she looked at the picture of her and Jake that had been taken just before Renesmee had left for England. It showed them at the beach, Renesmee was on Jacob's back with her head bent down, his arms were tensed supporting her weight and his head was angled up towards hers in the process of being about to kiss her. Renesmee smiled at the picture and then looked up at the faces of her friends.
They all erupted with questions at once. Shanice shouted out "Who?!". Laura screeched "Who the bloody hell is that?" She looked slightly angry which just made Renesmee laugh. Mel and Jess just sat there looking slightly stunned. "Okay, okay. What do you want to know?" Renesmee said laughing. Jess snapped out of her state of shock and simply said. "Who is he?" Renesmee smiled as she answered, "His name is Jacob." Laura interjected quickly, "Are you two together or...?" Renesmee became a machine automatically answering their questions. "Yeah, we've been together for nearly two years." It wasn't really a lie, technically they only became a couple about two years ago. Of course it was Shanice that asked, "How old is he?" "He's 18." The girls broke out in a round of awww's and OMG's and why didn't you tell us? After a couple of minutes Jess slammed her hand on the table and said loudly "Ohhh so that's why you weren't all that excited when we told you about Connor this morning!" Jess stopped abruptly as Mel glared at her, Jess looked up slowly at Laura. Laura's face was red with anger and her eyes were beginning to look bloodshot. "What about Connor?" Laura practically yelled at Jess. "Umm well don't be angry, I know you have like this massive crush on him, but I swear to god it's not my fault. So umm Connor has like this huge crush on Nessie? Like he was gonna ask her out and everything." Jess shied away from Laura as she finished. Laura actually looked like she was going to explode. The tension in the room was unreal and all the girls could feel it. Laura stood up suddenly and stormed from the room knocking a chair over in the process and slamming the door loudly behind her.
It wasn't long before everyone knew about Jake. Renesmee went through the rest of the day in a sort of daze. Everyone was asking her questions, who is he? How did you meet? Where is he from? How old is he? The questions were endless and by the time the final bell rang Renesmee was completely exhausted. Renesmee walked to the bus stop with Melody as usual, but she was more than aware that Callum and another boy who's name she had recently found out was Sam, were following her. The bus emptied out quickly but both Callum and Sam stayed, they followed her as she changed buses. It seemed to her like they were spying on her, which was amusing, even if she'd been human and had normal sentences she would have noticed them. It was until she reached the gate to her house that she rounded on them. "What," she said abruptly, "do you want?" The boys looked up as though shocked she'd noticed them. "Erm nothing, honestly Renemsee, the world doesn't revolve around you." Sam said quickly. She laughed "So why are you here then?" The two boys looked at each other and then back at her and shrugged, "Dunno really, just felt like it." Callum said casually. She nodded and turned towards the gate again. Pressing in the key code she pushed open the cold black iron gate but just as she was about to step through Callum cried out, "Okay, so we wanted to see where you live." Sam glared at him clearly frustrated but Renesmee just laughed and surprised them both by stepping aside to let them through the gate.
The three of them walked swiftly down the drive towards the large house. Renesmee watched the boys looking up at the huge house with slack jaws and wide eyes. She thought they were going to have a fit as they walked through the door. Callum had to hold onto Sam to steady himself. "wow" the boys said in perfect unison gazing around them at the large white hallway and through the doorway at the oversized living room. Renesmee stepped past them and dumped her bag counter, before going to the fridge to get something to eat. When she turned back she saw Sam walking slowly down the hallway with Callum in tow. Renesmee pulled out one of the stools that were underneath the counter and plopped herself down waiting for the boys to finally reach the kitchen, she couldn't help but think that their reaction was a bit much, but then again she'd grown up living in houses like this one so it had all become very insignificant to her.
The three had been sat in the kitchen talking for nearly half an hour when Bella arrived. She walked swiftly to the kitchen and Renesmee realised how much trouble she was in. Edward had made it very clear that she was to tell her parents if she was planning on having people over, oops. Renesmee jumped up almost too quickly and met her mum in the doorway. She whispered very quickly explaining what had happened in less than two seconds. Bella knew instantly that Renesmee was telling the truth from the innocent expression on her pale face. Bella smiled at the two boys, "hello" she said politely to them, and then turned to Renesmee, "they need to be gone by the time your Dad gets home." Renesmee noted the seriousness in her voice and nodded slightly. The three teenagers sat in the kitchen for a while longer talking about school gossip and bitching about teachers. Eventually the boys decided they should go if they didn't want to be yelled at by their parents. Renesmee walked the pair to the gate and waited there until she was sure they were gone. Slowly she turned her back on the gate and faced the house again.
She took off in a blur, streaking across the lush green grass. It felt so good to be able to run at last. She sped around the house enjoying the buzz she was getting. It took a while for her to notice Bella's stern face glaring out one of the upstairs windows. At last Renesmee slowed down and walked into the house. Bella was standing at the top of the stairs waiting for her. Renesmee stormed past, she knew what was coming. The speech. You can't do things like run or hunt, don't expose who you really are... blah blah blah. She knew the speech off by heart now, but Bella give it to her anyway, not that Renesmee was actually listening. She was tired, tired of suppressing who she really is, tired of hiding, tired of lying, just tired of being fake altogether. It was worse now she was away from the rest of her family, she had no one to turn to, no back up, nothing. She sank into her bed fully clothed and slept straight through to the next day.
Renesmee awoke to a silent house. She knew immediately her parents weren't there. So she jumped out of bed and ran around the house just because she could. No Mum or Dad to stop her. She drank three of the blood pouches from the fridge and then ran some more before finally changing in to some less crumpled clothes and leaving for school. But even when she was outside the house she wanted to enjoy the tiny moment of freedom. Renesmee stood still for just a second making sure that there would be no one outside the gate that she might get seen by. Then she ran, reaching the gate in less than a second she made the snap decision to run all the way to school. It wouldn't be hard, if she stayed in the trees she could stay hidden from human eyes. With that she took off again in a blur.
When Renesmee arrived at school she was still high from the buzz of running. She walked swiftly to the place where she met her friends. But as she walked she realised everything was louder than usual, it felt like people were screaming at her, but when she looked no one was screaming, just talking. It wasn't until she walked past a teacher and heard the current of swear words that she finally realised she wasn't hearing their voices she was hearing their thoughts. Renesmee slowed her walk and tried so desperately to shut them out but she couldn't, the screaming thoughts were still there. This was it. She'd lost control. As realisation of what was happening dawned on her she began to panic. Standing dead still she tried so hard to calm herself down, but she couldn't, the thoughts kept screaming inside her head. She started walking again and then running (but only at human speed this time) until finally she crashed through the door of the girls toilets. Relieved it was empty she flung herself into the nearest cubicle and sank down to the floor, floods of tears streaming from her eyes and down her cheeks. The door of the toilets opened and she heard a voice call out "Renesmee is that you?" It was Melody of course but Renesmee couldn't focus, she could still her peoples thoughts and it was beginning to make her head spin.
Melody knocked lightly on the door of the cubicle, "Renesmee? What's wrong are you ok?" Renesmee still didn't answer instead she tried to stand slowly, but her head hurt so much, it was like a pressure building up inside. By the time Renesmee realised there was pulled pouring from her nose and mouth it was too late. She wobbled for a second before she crashed loudly to the cold hard floor, hitting her head off the empty metal bin as she fell. Melody heard the crash and banged on the door once more this time yelling "Renesmee? Talk to me! Are you ok?" When she still didn't get a reply she ran from the toilets and straight into Miss Kelly who happened to be Renesmee's form tutor. Miss Kelly looked at Melody's panic stricken face for just a second before Melody blurted out that she thought something was wrong with Renesmee. Melody led the teacher quickly to the toilet cubicle that she thought Renesmee was in. Miss Kelly bent down and peered through the tiny gap under the door. She stood up quickly and told Melody to hurry and get the Nurse.
Miss Kelly banged on the door of the cubicle hopelessly. Mr Roberts, who was the deputy heard of the College and had an office that was just down the corridor, heard the banging and hurried towards its source. He opened the door and stood in the doorway of the toilets. "What's going on?" He asked, shocked to find it was Miss Kelly that was banging on the door of the cubicles. "Renesmee is in there she side," the panic in her voice very clear, "she's collapsed on the floor." Just at that moment Melody came running back. "She's not in today," She said quickly, "according to the receptionist she's called in sick." Miss Kelly nodded and though for a moment, "We need to get her out of there." Melody walked forwards silently before she walked into the next cubicle, clambered on top of the bin and over the wall in between the cubicles. The door opened slowly and Miss Kelly rushed in. Mr Roberts who was stood at the door still asked in a heavily controlled voice, "Is she ok?" There was a pause before Miss Kelly answered and in that moment the bell went for the start of registration, but at last she said, "I don't know, there's a lot of blood." Mr Roberts nodded to himself and pulling his phone out of his pocket he dialled 999 and asked for an ambulance.
When at last the crowds in the corridors had died down Mr Roberts went to fetch the stretcher from the nurses office. Miss Kelly sat with Renesmee's head on her lap waiting for Mr Roberts to return so they could move her. Melody took the stretcher from Mr Roberts and laid it down next to Renesmee's unconscious form, carefully they moved her body onto the stretcher and then out of the toilets and into Mr Roberts office.
If you like it please leave a comment. I haven't completely decided what should happen next, this chapter kind of took a different turn to what I was expecting. Hope you enjoyed it all the same. Annaisawesome x