Chapter Twenty-Five

The next day, I was glaring at Garrett, wishing I could throw him in front of Aro. He was the most infuriating vampire I had ever met, and I had grown up with Emmett around. "Kate, stop using your power against him, it's upsetting my appetite." I growled over my cereal, as I watched, yet again, Garrett spazzing on the ground in front of me.

My aunt shrugged at me, "He keeps asking, I'll keep shocking him." She shot a flirtatious smile down at him as he breathed shakily.

"You're amazing." He breathed, not the first time he was saying those words.

I rolled my eyes at Kyle, who smirked behind his book. "You are masochistic." I told Garrett as he stood up.

"Ah, but aren't all vampires you've met?" He asked, and I didn't have an answer to that. It was kind of true.

The wedding was tomorrow, and I was not looking forward to it. Wedding meant having to dress up, and Renesmee was fulfilling her threat on not allowing me to wear black. She had shown me my dress yesterday, the purple fabric seemed to go on for miles, it draped more than my cloak in some places. This meant that my attitude was not exactly stellar towards any supernatural being at the moment. "Stuff it Garrett, or I'll stake you."

"I'm so scared." He mockingly shivered, before giving me a challenging smile.

I half rose out of my seat, but my dad firmly set me back down, keeping his hand on his shoulder, "Carlisle wouldn't like it if you fought with our guests, Edelle."

I shook his hand off, glaring at him. "She's just mad because I took her ipod away yesterday, Edward." Kyle told him, and my father raised his eyebrow.

"Really. Why?"

Kyle glanced at me, before shrugging at Edward, "My thoughts are my own. It's bad enough that my girlfriend's father can read them, why should my girlfriend be allowed to also?"

"Your logic doesn't make sense, since Edelle can block your thoughts from me," Edward looked at me, "Did you two get in a fight?"

"No." I shot back, struggling to hide my embarrassment. It wasn't that Kyle had taken it away, but I had broken it by mistake.

Emmett came in, catching the blush that was appearing on my face, "Oh I see…things get a little feisty when you guys left to the cottage yesterday?" he asked, waggling his eyebrows before having to duck to avoid my bowl of cereal.

"I'm done." I walked out, and Kyle scurried after me, wrapping his arms around my waist once we were far enough away from the house.

"It's cute to see you embarrassed," He whispered before kissing my neck.

"Your fault for leaving the iPod in your back pocket," I hissed back, "Now I'm defenseless."

"You're hardly defenseless, you proved that last night." Kyle replied with a laugh.

I groaned, "Your fault for declaring a water fight when you spotted the water guns in my room. Now my iPod is waterlogged, and I have to go buy a new one."

Kyle laughed, "Are you going into Forks to get it?"

"Their selection is laughable when it comes to anything, I'll be going into Seattle… I have some clothes I want to get from our house there too, as well as my car."

"Another house? Can I come with?" He asked, but I shook my head.

"You can stay here and keep my family company…that'll keep them from worrying that I left again to avoid wearing that purple monstrosity. Besides, I can travel faster if I run."

Kyle smiled and kissed my cheek, "Come back fast…leaving your boyfriend behind for interrogation isn't nice."

"I'll be back before the sun goes down." I promised, but he looked skeptical.

"Why do you need an iPod today anyway? Just order it online, and you can have it shipped to you in a few days."

"I can't handle a few days without my power constantly on… I don't want to have to work on it during the wedding…it would look weird to my family if I was constantly moving to keep the jewelry jingling. Not to mention that would drive Renesmee insane to hear that in her ear."

Kyle still didn't looked convinced, "And she'd rather you having a headphone in your ear?"

"I'll be buying a Bluetooth one, so that it's in my ear and there are no tacky wires." I smiled at him reassuringly, "you'll do fine with my family, they love you. Trust me."

He finally smiled, "Just hurry back." He kissed me and headed back towards the house, passing Renesmee on the way.

I sighed, knowing this conversation was long overdue, "I'm sorry for leaving you with the family."

She smirked, "They freaked. And they'll freak again when you are leaving."

"That doesn't surprise me." I told her, walking to the nearest tree and quickly climbing up to be near the top, my sister following close behind.

She settled on the branch above me, looking down at me, "Where did you go Edelle?"

I hesitated, but knew that no one was nearby who could hear, "Italy."

She blinked, taking in that information, "Italy."

"Yeah," I almost could see the yarn twisting in her mind, even without my powers on, "Speak your mind Renesmee."

"You're part of the Volturi."

"You don't seem too surprised." I replied, and she shrugged.

"I kind of figured it out when the adults were conversing yesterday… you just confirmed it for me. What are you doing with the enemy Edelle?"

"I…I knew Mom and Dad wouldn't think of looking for me there, so that was the first place I went." I admitted, and she just shook her head.

"You always did like jumping feet first into a stupid situation. Does Kyle know?" She asked and I laughed.

"Kyle's known everything from the very start of our relationship. My power doesn't work on him."

"No shit!" Her eyes widened, "Like, at all?"

"I can read his mind…I just can't erase his thoughts."

"Erase…" She mulled that over, "So that's why no one can remember exactly what you looked like."

I had forgotten that I had learned that bit of my power just before I left, "Wait, if you didn't know that about me, how did you figure out that I was the new member of Volturi?"

She smirked, "The mask. It sounded exactly like the one you stole from me two Halloweens ago dumb nut."

I groaned, "I forgot about that."

"It's a pretty cool mask to leave in people's memories though…you were going for Phantom of the Opera style right?"

I laughed, knowing I wouldn't be able to hide long from Renesmee's reasoning. When I hid from the other family members, I went to her side. Of course she knew everything already. I checked my watch, "Listen, I need to go buy an iPod in Seattle, but I'll be back tonight, just in time for the bachelorette party Alice is planning." I waggled my eyebrows at her, and she groaned before jumping down to the ground.

"I told her no parties!" She whined, and I jumped down as well.

"Just go with it Renesmee, you should be happy about all the attention."

She was about to leave to give Alice a piece of her mind, but paused, "You will come back right?" she asked, unsure, "You won't ditch Kyle and run off?"

I laughed, "I promise I won't ditch Kyle."

That seemed to placate her, so she tossed me her phone, "Just in case someone needs to contact you."

I caught it with a smile. I never did like having a cell phone, mostly because I didn't like my music and my calls happening on one device, and I didn't like carrying around two devices. "I'll give it back."

She smiled, "Take care…" she paused, before throwing me a wad of cash, "Buy a nice black dress too."

I grinned in surprise, "Really?"

"Yeah…the purple monstrosity was a joke…I never wanted that thing anywhere near the family photos." She shivered in disgust, before walking towards the house.

I smiled and tucked the money into my pocket along with the phone, before I started running, realizing just how much I had missed running through the forest.

When I got to the edge of Seattle, I called a taxi, not planning to reveal myself to humans just because I was too eager to get my iPod. While I waited for my taxi, I made a few other calls with Renesmee's cell as well, knowing my sister wouldn't mind.

When the taxi arrived, I laughed despite myself. It was the same taxi driver as the one who drove me to the airport all those weeks ago. Of course, he didn't remember me, but I remembered to ask after his family, to his pleasant surprise. We had a lovely conversation on our way to the store.

I looked at him, "Do you mind waiting a moment? I just have one item to get."

He waved me on with a grin, "I'll wait, no worries. You're my last customer of the day anyway, I don't mind waiting."

I nodded my thanks, before disappearing into the store, heading immediately to customer service. The teenage girl working there looked up and smiled, "You must be Edelle. You do look like Renesmee! Your iPod is all charged and ready to go, the music files you sent over are on there as well."

I smiled, handing her the money for the iPod, as well as the extra forty dollars I promised her over the phone yesterday. "Thanks for this, my iPod broke yesterday, and I was quite desperate for it today."

She waved her hand, "No worries! Happens to me all the time…tell Renesmee that Erin says hi, and that I'll see her at school next week."

"Will do." I smiled my gratification, before taking the iPod and walking away.

I was just taking it out of the case and was waiting for it to power on when I exited the store. I looked up for the taxi, and stopped. The taxi was there, but the driver was gone.

"Maybe he's having a smoke break?" I wondered out loud and walked to the left, putting the headphone in as I did so. I was just about to turn the music on, when the iPod got snatched out of my hand by a teenage punk running by.

I groaned, "Really? This is not my day" I ran after him, and entered the alley behind him as he paused, panting, "Not cool dude, not cool." I kicked the ipod out of his hand and snatched it out of the air in one fluid motion.

"Hey, don't hurt me, this wasn't my idea to do this!" He said defensively, and I look around the alley, seeing the unconscious body of the taxi driver.

"Shit." I rushed to get my iPod on and in my ear, but before I could do so, something hit the back of my head, and the world went black.