Chapter 1
It was time for school again. After spending another wonderful sleepless night in Edward's arms it was time for us to wake our daughter Renesmee, so we all could endure another day of high school. Edward Cullen is my husband, my vampire husband, and Renesmee is our daughter who I had given birth to before I had made the change to a vampire.
As I glided quietly to Renesmee's room, I could not hear the usual calm murmur of her heartbeat; instead I heard the heartbeat of a hummingbird and the low pants of someone trying to slow that heartbeat. I don't know why that girl thought she could fool parents with extremely sensitive hearing.
I quickly opened the door to her room. There was my daughter, Renesmee, tall and graceful with beauty that any normal person would envy. She had long flowing reddish brown hair with a naturally perfect curl that was somewhat between waves and pin curls. She had big deep chocolate brown eyes like mine before I had changed into a vampire. Renesmee's skin was not as pale as ours, it had a slight flush of color due to the blood that ran through her veins, but it was just as impenetrable. And her scent, it was beautiful and delicious, but not in a way that would make any vampire want to kill her and drink her blood, in fact it was just the most delightful flowery fragrance that one would ever smell. She was almost 90 years old but didn't look, at the oldest, a day over 22, she stopped aging when she turned 7.
"Out late with Jacob again?" I asked already knowing the answer. Renesmee still did not understand the meaning of a school night. Even though she looked like an adult she was still the same beautiful baby who used to read her own bedtime stories.
"Mom, I don't see why you even try to keep me from him." She said as she floated toward me, reaching out her hand for me to take it.
As I took her hand she showed me with her gift, that was a reverse combination of Edward's gift of mind reading and my gift of shielding others from my mind, last nights events. I could see that she and Jacob, in his wolf form, were hunting in the forest and spending the rest of the night curled up in the meadow that used to be the one Edward and I would always go to. It was all innocent, at least what she was showing me was.
"Is that all that happened Renesmee?" I asked, trying to use my interrogating tone over my musical voice.
"Well mom I did leave one part out-"
"Dammit Nessie!" Edward said from our room. As I frowned out of distaste for the nickname that every seemed to call my daughter, I just guessed that whatever event had been left out of Renesmee's story had just scarred the mind of my husband.
"Nessie what did I tell you about thoughts like that around me?"
"Sorry dad, I couldn't help it. But I don't see why it's so hard for you guys to accept what Jacob and I are. I mean we are technically married."
"Ness, I love you, but I swear you are just as stubborn as your mother. I told you just because you two have been together for the last eighty years doesn't mean that you're married. You have my terms Renesmee, once you graduate this last time you can marry Jacob and do whatever you want with your life." Edward said all of this in the serious tone he used to always use on me when I was in trouble.
"Edward you know they're not coming back so just let Nessie go already." Emmett said from downstairs with his laughter booming as usual.
"Sure, sure Emmett but you never know. We can never be too safe or prepared" Edward responded.
"Either way we could take them." Emmett chuckled; he was always ready for a fight.
We hoped what Emmett said was true. The Volturi, the band of vampire royalty, who had tried to destroy Renesmee along with the rest of the Cullens almost 90 years ago. If Alice had not come back to us with proof of someone else like Renesmee, they would have succeeded in their mission but instead were sent back to Italy with their tail between their legs. We had been expecting some type of rebuff from them but nothing has happened as of yet.
As the three of us made our way to the garage, Rosalie, Emmett, Alice, and Jasper were already there and ready for school and waiting on us. Edward, Renesmee, and I got into our car and everyone else got into Emmett's car, Esme and Carlisle wished a good day at school and we were off to school.