Chapter 2: A visit bearing shells and an unwanted stench to my room.
EPOV
When I got to the cottage Bella was in our bedroom or rather her closet, she was sniffing out the most 'normal' clothes she could find while slinging many of Alice's ball gowns to the back of the room. Human eyes wouldn't have even seen Bella she was moving so fast. But I could. Bella stopped turned around and looked at me. 'What's wrong' she questioned. 'Is it the Volturi or Tanya's coven in Denali? Is Irina coming to take a chunk out of Jacob? No I said, nothing like that IT'S coming. Bella laughed. 'Something that minor, you look as frustrated as you did when Jacob broke my arm.' That's because it's another problem I grumbled. Something else the world wants to throw at me, I never seem to get any time with you at all these days. Can't we just pretend we aren't in? 'Edward Rennesme's your daughter. Are you telling me you are going to hide away because you can't stand Tara? Besides I would have thought she would stink. She's part werewolf.' There is some logic to what you're saying Bella but the human side of her is a lot more dominant to, remember Jacob is mainly human. Bella grabbed my hand; we could both hear six footsteps crunching up the porch, we both new who they belonged to…
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Rennesme smiled as I opened the door she'd anticipated I'd be there. She didn't bother knocking; knowing that we could all hear her family as they'd approached the house. 'Hey dad' she said laughing. 'Do I look that bad, you look horrified.' 'No Nessie' I stuttered as I turned to face Bella, who had obviously spoken to Jasper. She was stood with the others, who were all huddled by the stairs. 'Hey mum.' I heard Nessie say from behind, she grabbed my arm as she stepped forward, showing me a conversation she'd had with Jena that morning, warning her to keep her distance from me so that I could control myself fairly easily. Rennesme was always so thoughtful, always thinking of others before herself. 'Hey Rennesme' Bella said whilst hugging her daughter. 'Where is my favourite grand daughter?' Bella questioned, Jacob laughed, 'Your only grand daughter' he giggled. Jena stepped out from behind her father's protective shield, smiling shyly. 'Hey Grandma, I've made you a shell necklace to go with the others. We went to la push to see Grandpa Billy and dad took me to the beach.' Bella laughed grabbed Jena's arm and lead her upstairs, 'lets put it with the others' she said. I followed, keeping on the left side of Bella… and away from Jena; Bella didn't look much like a grandma she still looked like an 18yr old girl. Not a 20 year old vampire. Carlisle was much the same- saying he was 38 now, though he looked more like a 23 year old man.- Most of us looked good for our age. The three of us entered my old room, where Bella had hung several rows of shell necklaces. Bella placed this new one onto the right side of the wall, above my CD collection. I took a breath in, yuck the room smelt horribly of sea water, I should have realised it would after all there were a lot of shells in here. I decided I wanted to spend as little time in here as possible from now on as it smelt also of Jena whose sweet scent covered my room. Jena looked up, her finger bobbing up and down as she counted the number of necklaces in here. 'That's 233' she said happily, this was the third year since she'd began making shell necklaces for Bella, strangely she never did get bored. Bella smiled back at Jena, equally as happy that she'd pleased the young girl. Emmett broke a brief period of silence, charging into the room at a lighting pace he picked up Jena and jumped out the open window. There was a thud as they landed on the soft, muddy ground followed by a giggle that clearly wasn't Emmett's, Jena was obviously happy to have attracted someone else's attention. I laughed, grabbed Bella by the waist and dragged her down the steep steps, passed the many graduation hats and into the living room, leaving the shell necklaces to sway in the wind.