Surviving Seventeen
The sequal to Sweet Sixteen. Please read that first otherwise you will be confused. I was surprised by the reivews i got for Sweet Sixteen so i just had to carry on with it XD
All characters are not created by me but the amazing Stephenine Meyer. I only made the story line :)
Chapter Nine - Plasma Screen
I laid in bed curled into Jake, I was warm to say the least, he kissed my head softly and I snuggled in furthur. I smiled.
"Why are you smiling?" he whispered into my ear. "You are usually rather bitchy in the mornings."
My smile grew wider.
"Because i'm very happy Jacob. And FYI I am sooo not bitchy in the mornings." I whispered back, I plopped myself up on my elbows to look at him. The rising sun came through the window and shined off his soft copper skin while his shaggy hair sprawled out over the white pillow, his arms were behind his head. He turned to look at me and smiled and my heart thumped erractically, he smiled wider at my hearts response and I blushed. His large hand started to twirl a lock of my hair as I traced the pattern of his veins on his muscular arm and I sighed.
"What's up?" he asked and I turned to look at the rising sun.
"School." I groaned and then turned over burying my head into the pillow. I felt Jacob's hot hands carress my skin lightly but I kept my head firmly down. I had a bad feeling, a sickly feeling was burning in the pit of my stomach. We were starting off as seniors because Aunt Rosalie and Uncle Emmett were off on another honeymoon plus I wanted to get married, and I was eighteen after all...
"Why did you want to be a senior Ness? That means less time spent here." he asked puzzled, my head still stayed buryed in the pillow.
"Jacob, Jacob,Jacob. I want to get married this year and go to school at my actual age. Rose and Em are off on another honeymoon and Jasper is looking forward to college. I was thinking about doing some traveling in the summer, I want to go to Wales and see all the welsh culture. It fascinates me." I replied slightly turning my head. There was a sharp knock at the door.
"Nessie, Jake up now please." It was my Mom. I sighed again. All our family had been fine with me and Jake sharing a room apart from my overprotective father, when was he going to learn that I was an adult? And that I had my own mind?
"Sure." I yawned towards the door and I rolled over, straight out of the bed and onto the floor. Jacob laughed.
"Arn't you supposed to climb out of bed and not roll?" he laughed.
"Not in the mood Jake." I said seriously jumping up off the floor.
"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed, or should I say someone rolled off the wrong side of the bed? This is the usual morning Nessie I know." he laughed again and I chucked my pillow at his head and growled loudly. I folded my arms and he made an attempt to stop laughing, his lips pressed into a hard line. I turned towards the bathroom ready to have a shower and wash my hair, as soon as my back was turned he errupted into laughter again. I turned sharply and pounced through the air knocking him off the bed and onto the floor. He stared up at me in shock.
"Look who else rolled out of bed this morning." I laughed. He continued to stare at me like a goldfish. I patted his cheek lightly, the door opened and suddenly my father was staring at us. I was straddling Jake while wearing nothing but a tshirt and Jake was only in his boxers, this did not look good especially to my father. I leaped up quickly.
"Good morning Dad." I smiled uncomfortably and he looked between us both.
"I was going to ask whether you wanted to hunt before school but you are busy I see." he growled.
"I hunted last night Dad, should be fine. I'm going to jump in the shower." I said, I kissed my Dad on the cheek on the way past.
"Ness we'll be out hunting please get ready so that we can leave once we get back." He moaned, I smiled.
"Sure Dad, I love you." I said sweetly and then proceded towards the bathroom. I showered quickly and danced out of the bathroom into my room-sized-wardrobe ready to prepare what I was going to where today. When I walked back into the bedroom, Jacob covered his eyes with his hand and turned away to face the window.
"What are you doing?" I laughed
"Your father is a mind reader remember?" Jacob said without turning back. I looked at myself, I had a towel around my body and my wet hair just hung limply.
"And?" I asked confused.
"You are standing near me in just a towel Nessie, your father is going to go ape." he informed and I scowled. My father was what was keeping me and Jake from having a proper relationship.
"For goodness sake Jake, I am covered up, but if thats the way you want to play it..." I said angrily picking up my clothes and heading back towards the bathroom. I felt a hot hand on my shoulder and shook it off.
"Nessie...?" Jacob pleaded and I turned to face him.
"What Jake? There seams to be three of us in this realtionship. You, me and my father!" I said outraged
"Nessie, it's easier for your father." he sighed
"How exactly? We might as well not have a relationship!" I cried. I fled the room and locked the door of the bathroom. Jake's hand knocked gingerly on the door.
"Nessie?" he asked, his voice was heavily smothered with pain.
"What Jake? Your more intrested in keeping my father happy than you are in being with me." I cried.
"Nessie please come out?" Jacob begged.
"Once I am appropritaly dressed as you put it." I spat. I heard Jake's footsteps plod away. I was going to talk to my father, this was not fair. Him being the way he is, is just ruining my realtionship with Jake. I dressed quickly and dryed my hair, I gave up on styling it and just let it hang loosely, the bronze curls tumbed over my shoulders. I stayed brushing it but there were only so many times a girl could brush her hair and I didn't want to go bald or make my hair greasy, after three hundred strokes I set the brush down and exited the bathroom. As soon as I was out of the doorway Jake pulled me into a tight hug and kissed me fiercely.
"What is your obsession with being practically half naked around me Miss Cullen?" he laughed softly.
"Jake, clothes." I said indicating my outfit to Jake smiled.
"I meant earlier." he laughed
"I could have just called it a towel dress then would you have let me near you?" I teased and he cleared his throat. The Jake I had always heard about was not shy about these things, if I remembered correctly he lip-raped my mother all them years ago.
"Come on or we will be late for school, everyone is in the garage." he said changing the subject.
Brilliant, two things to deal with.
Number 1 - An Overprotective Father
...and...
Number 2 - An Underconfident Jake.
We ran to the garage and sure enough everyone was there.
"Good morning." Alice smiled as I put my schoolbag in the car.
"Morning all." I replied smiling. "Let's get going"
Me and Jake rode in my purple convertable while the others took the Volvo, as I pulled out the driveway I looked at Rosalie's convertable under the sheeting and sighed. I missed her and Uncle Emmett. .
"Don't worry they'll be home soon." Jacob soothed and I gave him a small smile. I hoped so, the house was quiet without Em's jokes and I missed arguing over shoes with Rose also it was pretty boring with just me and Alice shopping together.
"I hope so." I muttered back.
For the first few minutes, we drove in silence. I kept my eyes on the road as I thought of ways to talk to Dad and Jake, I sighed.
"What's up Ness?" Jacob said looking at me, I glanced towards him and sighed again.
"Jake, in a few weeks we'll be married and you still treat me like we are friends and not partners." I said truthfully.
"Renesmee, it's not my fault you are ruled by your teenage hormones." he laughed and I gave him a dirty look.
"Jake you won't kiss me in front of my father, and you freak out when I walk out of the shower wrapped up." I stated. "Are you saying you don't feel like that about me?"
"Nessie your body is always tempting but your fath-" he started
"If you say my father I am going to kick you Jake!" I yelled and tears came to my eyes, I was glad I was near the school now.
"But that's how it is." Jake sighed. I had a brainwave
"Fine then, we are moving out." I smiled proud of my sudden brainwave.
"WHAT?! WHY?!" Jacob shouted, he worshipped the game room and the basketball court.
"You say it's because of my father so I can cut him out of the equation." I shrugged. I parked next to the Volvo.
"But the plasma.."he groaned.
"Thanks Jake, so a plasma screen TV ranks higher than me." I yelled getting out of the car.
"It's not just a plasma screen it's an 80 inch plasma HD screen with touch screen." he clarified then laughed and I shot him another dirty look. I stalked off to where Alice was and collected my schedual.
"Ness we have english together but that's it." Alice said, her smile was large at the start but got smaller and smaller.
"We have biology together." Dad said nodding.
"Great." I mumbled sarcasticly. I had Spanish,English,Maths,Biology and then Art. I had Maths with Jake. I set off to Spanish using my map to guide me. I sat down on an empty seat and suddenly Lucy was beside me.
"Hello again Renesmee." Lucy smiled as she took the seat beside me. I gave her a smile.
"Hey Lucy, call me Nessie." I told her warmly and then I exhaled deeply.
"Ok then, Nessie. What's wrong you look rather annoyed." she said quietly
"I am." I clarified.
"Can I ask what?" she said politely.
"It's Jake my boyfriend, well fiancee. He's being an idiot." I groaned.
"Bummer! Nate isn't like that though." she said organising her books.
"Is Nate your boyfriend?" I asked curious.
"No, no. He's my brother. He's really nice." she said nodding, she raised her hand to scratch her head and I noticed the strangest mark on her hand.
"What an intresting birthmark." I said looking at the shape. It was a cresent moon on the palm of her hand it had a slight grey colour to it. I looked up to her green eyes and they stared back at me.
"Yeh it's strange, Nate has the same mark and apparently some of our ancestors had it too." she smiled and then the teacher called the class to order. I'd never heard about a birthmark being passed on from parent to child.
I left Spanish and pulled my map out of my bag to try and find english.
"See you later Nessie." Lucy called. I stood against the wall and studied the map, soon I wasn't alone.
"Can I help you?" A male voice asked. I turned around to see a baby faced boy with blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Um yes please. I have english in building four." I said smiling.
"Mrs Francis?" he asked and I nodded.
"Me too, I'll walk to you there." he said kindly.
"Thanks, i'm Renesmee Cullen, but you can call me Nessie." I said shaking his hand.
"I'm Chris Newton but I err...don't really have a nickname." he laughed. Newton? I laughed.
"What's funny?" he said.
"Is your dad's name Mike?" I giggled and he nodded confused.
"I think my Mom knew him." I laughed again and he smiled. We were by the door now, Alice was guesturing me over to her. "See you Chris." I called as I headed towards Alice.
"Who's that Nessie?" Alice asked nodding towards the boy. I laughed again and she looked at me as if I was insane.
"You knew his father." I said sitting in my seat.
"Did I?" she asked confused.
"Think about it this way, who does he look like from your high school days?" I said and suddenly Alice's face turned into a mask of amusment.
"Mike Newton?" she asked gobsmacked and I giggled. The teacher called the class to attention then and I listened as she expalined the reading list and other things that we would be studying this year. The reading list was fairly simple, mostly classics which I had read at home in my early years. Class flew by and soon it was time for maths. My lesson with Jake. Chris showed me the way to my room and I took an empty seat. Jake turned up then and sat next to me. I did my very best to ignore him. When class began a note found it's way onto my book.
Please talk to me Nessie. I love you
Don't you mean you love your precious plasma?
If that's what you want then we will move out. leave everything behind, i just want you to be happy.
I know you're only doing this so that I won't make you sleep on the floor.
No honey i mean it.
Jake, i just want us to have a proper relationship.
Let's talk to your dad at lunch then. i'll even kiss you if your lucky
Jake, do I look like this is funny or amusing? No. I love you, sometimes I feel that you don;t love me anymore.
Thats stupid, of course i love you ness. Always have and always will.
Focus on your work Jake x
I could never stay mad at Jacob. I loved him too much. I laughed to myself and also focused on the work. It was boring, so boring that I was near sleep. When the bell rang I was happy to escape. I packed my stuff away and dragged Jake from the room, in my haste I ran into Chris.
"Hey Chris!" I smiled
"Hey Nessie. I was wondering whether you wanted someone to sit by at lunch but I can see that you have plans." he said his smile fading
"Yeh, sorry about that Chris, you were great earlier." I said smiling. I liked Chris we could get on, he seamed like a nice guy and I wanted friends. Just friends.
I sat with my family at lunch and picked at an apple. We had a few stares, a group of big guys walked past and wolf whistled. Alice laughed and winked back I smiled brightly.
"Don't encourage them!" Jacob hissed and I just laughed again. I put bits of apple in my mouth and kissed him on the lips. Dad growled and I kicked him.
"Edward stop it." I hissed and he looked at me.
"Make me." he smiled. Child games? When was he going to learn
"Fine, come on Jakey let's go christen the janitor's closet here." I said standing up and taking Jake's hand. Dad shot us a look and Jacob laughed.
"Sit down Nessie." he ordered and I obeyed. I kept hold of Jacob's hand. The bell rang then and I stood up.
I hugged Jake and he played with my hair as I kissed me nose. I was glad the barriers had gone. He was now treating me like his fiance and not like a friend.
"See you after school, meet me by the art block 'kay?" I said smiling.
"Sure thing, wouldn't miss it for the world." he laughed. Alice and Bella pulled him off in one direction and Dad pulled me off in another.
"Edward, you will give me away right?" I said quietly walking into Biology. Dad was a traditional man and even though Carlilse was the head of the family I wanted my Dad to do it. He looked at me shocked.
"I haven't detected anything in your thoughts, for long have you been thinking about this?" he asked as we took our seats.
"A little while actually, i've been blocking you." I admitted
"Sure Nessie, yes. I'm sorry I have been a little overreactive. It's just your so young and my daughter, Jacob is alright if you get to know him I suppose. You could do worse." he laughed and gave me the crooked smile that made my Mom fall for him. Tears welled up in my tears.
"Thanks so much, you have no idea what this means to me." I breathed pulling him into a hug. He smiled back at me.
"Don't tell Emmett I gave in so easily, I will never hear the end of it." he laughed
"Sure, seriously thanks." I smiled, the tears threatened to overcome me again so I took this opportunity to compose myself the teacher called the class to order. Biology flew by and it was time for art.
Art.
I loved art, drawing, painting, anything to do with it. I loved it. I sketched in my free time and painted with Grandma, my faveourite hobby.
"Hello you must be Renesmee." Mr Steel my art teacher asked.
"Yes, hello sir." I said holding out my hand for a hand shake.
"We are working on filling up a scrapbook based on a theme. We haven't worked on it long so you should be able to catch up. I will show you some examples." Mr Steel said calling me over.
"Wow they are really good." I smiled at the filled scraps books.
"Yes, this one did music, she did faires etc. We do research on our chosen theme." He smiled. I smiled back.
"Do have any idea what theme you want to do?" He asked as I flicked through the books. Click. I knew exactly what I was studying.
"Yes, I think I do." I said
"What may that be?" he asked
"Vampires?" I said. "Myths, legends all that jazz."
"That's really good, i've never had a portfolio based on that. It will be intresting to see." he said.
"Do you have any examples of your work on you Miss Cullen?" Mr Steel asked.
"Yes I think so..." I said as I rummaged through my overcrowed bag. At the bottom I pulled out a book. It contained many of my sketches, I passed them too him.
"You are a very good drawer Renesmee." he said awestruck as he flipped through my drawings. I smiled. I think I was going to like it here.