"Bella, Nessie, Jacob and Edward will go in Edward's car, Jasper, Alice, Emmet and Rosy in Roaslie's car, and Me and Esme will go in Jasper's car, Now scramble!" Carlisle commanded. There was a rush of movement and suddenly everyone was in the cars faster than I could turn around. Esme and Caralise pulled out of the garage first followed by Alice & co. Then finally, I hopped into the backseat of Edward's car next to Nessie. We sat in silence for a while. Nobody had anything to say.
"Shut up Nessie!" Edward suddenly shouted.
"She didn't say anything!" Bella defended.
"Cut it out," Edward commanded.
"Alright alright!" Nessie giggled. "Actually I'm going keep singing that song in my head in my head till you tell me why Jacob doesn't want me."
"What song?" I asked.
"I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves! I know a song th-"
"Alright, stop that!" Bella commanded, turning in her seat to face Nessie.
"Sorry." Nessie said sarcastically.
"She's still singing!" Edward growled.
"Stop the car." Bella sighed. Edward pulled over onto the pavement. "Get out." Bella ordered Nessie.
"It's just a song," I laughed, what were these two? Control freaks? "Give her a break."
"You get out too Jacob, we'll go on. You tell her about why your doing this." Bella said sharply. We both bundled out.
As soon as Nessie and I were out of the car Edward pulled away causing other drivers to beep and swear at him. I caught a glimpse of Bella scolding Edward but not for long because I saw Nessie begin to run away down a street. Turning on my heels I chased after her, whatever was going on, she deserved to know. "Ness?" I called after her, she turned around, arms crossed and an angry pout on her lips.
"What?" She grunted back at me, in an alarmingly menacing tone.
"I'm just going to expla-"
"-Renesmee? Jacob?" Somebody cut me off, a familiar voice. I turned around, my heart started beating faster than it was already, and I heard Renesmee's silent scream behind me. Where was Alice? Surely she would have seen this?
"Charlie.." I started, but then stopped again. Why now? To him Reneseme was supposed to be a 6 years old with a medical condition making her house bound with no outside visitors, a stupid cover but there wasn't much else we could do.
"Renesmee? No, I thought you were someone I kne…" He trailed off too, he couldn't be mistaken she looked just the same as she always looked. Not only that but now, more than ever, she looked like Bella. A slightly more outgoing and stylish Bella. Or maybe that was just my bias opinion. I didn't need to turn around to sense Alice running up behind us. "I need to know the truth," Charlie blurted out, addressing Alice.
"Now's not a good time," Alice pleaded.
"I need to know now, you've kept this from me for long enough now." He demanded, walking up to me and taking my shoulder.
"Edward only dumped you too because he wanted you to talk things over!" Alice hissed at me and Renesmee while Charlie was at counter buying a beer, while we were sitting un the most private café table we could find outside.
"We weren't to know!" Renesmee replied.
"What about the others? Surely you can contact them," I pressed, I was more concerned about the fact that we were planning on telling Charlie his daughter and her husband were vampires, not to mention the fact his daughter had conceived and given birth to her half-vampire child when in her human form and oh yeah, that she's immortal.
"I can contact them if I want but somehow we need to get this over with - better late than never." Alice reassured me. Charlie was returning now. Beer in hand he sat down and simply said.
"Tell me."
"You already know Jacob is a werewolf, don't you?" Alice started.
"Yes." Charlie took a swig. Alice shot me a look, they were all fuming when they realized I'd told him.
"Well he's not the only one who's….. different." She continued.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work that out." Charlie grimaced.
"Well, Charlie. Let me tell you my story it'll be easier."
"I don't want to here your story I just want the flippin' truth!" Charlie was trying to keep his voice in control, I could tell. He was never usually like this. "I want to know why my 6 year old grand daughter looks more like 16. And why my own daughter who lives only thirty minutes away has only visited me once in six years. And how Renesmee can possibly be her daughter!"
"One thing at time," Alice soothed. "To be honest I don't know where to start.." She continued.
"Start at the beginning." Charlie growled.
"YOU TOLD CHARLIE!" Bella screamed as soon as we set foot on the drive. The rest of the Cullen's were back already and it seemed they'd been waiting to pounce at us.
"What choice did we have?" Alice replied in a calm voice, Jasper was standing by her side in seconds so I guessed he was doing whatever he did to change moods, not that Alice was one for getting het up about anything anyway.
"What did he say?" Esme inquired.
"He wasn't that shocked actually, he suspected something anyway." I tried to sound like he hadn't shattered the beer glass and turned up the table before bolting out of the café and driving away recklessly in his police car, sirens blazing.
"He hit the roof," Edward stated. Damn, shouldn't have been thinking about that.
"Oh My God," Bella sat down on the porch steps, her head in her hands.
"He'll forgive us…." Alice whispered.
"Not likely!" Emmet remarked.
"Why is everything going WRONG AROUND HERE!" Suddenly Nessie was on her feet and running through the house, no-one tried to stop here. We heard a crash and a few bumps and shatters and then she was gone, probably back to Edward and Bella's cottage.
"Charlie's in his car right now, he's five minuets away, maximum." Alice suddenly gripped Jasper's arm. "He wants to talk to Bella, about why she kept this from him."
"No," Bella whimpered from where she was sitting.
"I'll go clear up Nessie's mess," Esme quickly assigned herself.
"Me and Bella will talk over what to say to Charlie, Rosalie - you go and talk to Nessie. Alice, Jasper, prepare something for Charlie to eat and drink. Caralise, can you possibly post phone the trip? Emmet, you can tell Jacob what Sam said." Edward gabbled, and the whole group disburse, leaving me and Emmet on the drive.
"Let's take a spin in Roaslie's car!" Emmet grinned, obviously taking this opportunity to muck about. I didn't have much choice really, so I hopped into the passenger seat next to Emmet who was already seated and had the radio and engine on. "So you wanna hear was Sam was on about?" Emmet started, as we sped away from the house at 5 times the speed limit.
"Yeah," I wasn't exactly comfortable with Emmet, with everybody else I knew my place. Not with Emmet, I pictured us as friends, we shared the same interests, cars, girl(s), hunting, ball… On paper we were fast friends but right now we weren't exactly.. Clicking
"He said Imprinting was the most powerful force he knew and he wondered if you could possibly have over estimated the love you had for Nessie. You may have thought you'd imprinted but really you hadn't.. She was just so like her mother you fell in love with her and immediately thought you'd imprinted, Overriding other feelings in your mind pushing yourself to protect her." Emmet explained.
"That's stupid!" I thumped my fist onto the dashboard.
"That's what we said."
"Great." I grunted. "Did he have any more stupid theories?"
"He admitted that he didn't know but after a bit of banter on the phone with the old peps from you tribes-"
"-The Quileute elders-" I corrected.
"Well they thought that you must just simply have fallen in love with someone else, causing your imprinting to be taken away by true love - soppy or what?" Laughed Emmet. I shrugged, maybe Emmet wasn't the best person to tell me about this.
"But imprinting is true love isn't it?"
"Apparently not, it's forced love. That's not saying that it's not true it's just you have no choice. Tue love is when you have the freemdom to find your Soul mate, so if you weren't a werewolf and you'd met Nessie she would have been your true love. Or something like that," Emmet shook off the deep feeling.
"Shouldn't we be getting back?" I said after ten minuets.
"Nah, they won't want us around." Emmet chuckled,
"You spoke too soon!" I remarked as my phone started to ring. Bella. I answered it straight away.
"Where ARE you? WHAT are you doing? WHERE'S Emmet?" She fired off.
"Woah! One thing at a time," I sighed, "We're in Roaslie's car, probably near Seattle-" I guessed,
"No where near!" Emmet scoffed.
"Wherever you are - get back here at once."
"Orders received." I groaned, and hung. Emmet spun the car round in the middle of the road and we sped off towards Forks again.