Chapter 2

We were living quiet lives in Denali, with Tanya, Kate, Garrett, Carmen, and Eleazar, for the last decade or so since living up there in mostly wilderness didn't require us to make fake identities so life had a bit of normality to it, at least for vampires it did. Renesmee had pleaded for us to come back to Forks so she could be closer to Jacob, her so called soul mate. The only problem was that Jacob was a werewolf. He had imprinted on Renesmee the day she was born, making them both two halves of a whole and making him to be forever intertwined with her. I first was against their relationship but I later came to understand it and came to love Jacob as a son. My full acceptance took place around Renesmee's 40th birthday; Edward is still having trouble accepting it.

Jacob could not come with us to Denali. Even though he was the only werewolf left in the pack, because everyone had started their families and either moved or died, Jacob still had to stay on the Quileute reservation to protect its people. Jacob was considered to be the chief elder. Jacob was 108 years old, but he didn't look a day over 25, it was thanks to him keeping up with the werewolf phasing that let him keep his youth and keep up with Renesmee. Jacob would come to Denali occasionally to visit Renesmee but he would always have return to Forks for his people.

Edward and I could see the emotional toll it was taking on them both, so Edward overprotective as usual, came up with those terms to keep Renesmee under our watchful eyes a bit longer. She's 90 years old but we still can't imagine parting from her. After all we went through to keep her safe we found it hard as parents to be away from her.

It's April and Alice, Renesmee, Edward, and I are pretending to be juniors, while Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper are playing seniors. The story is that we are all Mrs. And Dr. Cullen's adopted and foster children. The Cullen children, Edward and Renesmee, because of them having the same hair color and the only difference that a human would notice between them is their eye color, but the humans tended to shy away from us so no one ever noticed, they were also the children of deceased distant relatives of Mrs. Cullen. The McCarty children, Emmett, Alice, and myself, since Emmett and I both had dark curly hair we just played brother and sister, and Alice was our cousin which no one ever questioned. Then there were the Hale twins, Rosalie and Jasper, both with blonde hair and both in the same grade so it made sense.

It was so funny how the human mind could not be more imaginative even after 90 years. When we first arrived back in Forks in January, we all laughed at the murmurs of gossip that swarmed about the couples in our family. Within the first week of school Edward overheard the thoughts of one the boys in Renesmee's English class hoping that if Dr. Cullen would adopt him then he could date our daughter. I was not surprised that the boys admired our daughter, I just hoped that Edward would not do anything hastily, which he didn't as far as I knew.

All of the admiring boys' dreams were shattered about a week before Valentine's Day, when Jacob showed up that Friday after school to pick up Renesmee for a date. Edward and I knew about what Jacob had planned, but when Renesmee saw Jacob, sitting on his big shiny chopper of a motorcycle, she ran into but his arms and kissed him so passionately as if they hadn't kissed in forever. Every admirer was in the parking lot to see with jaws dropped and pride hurt. The rest of the family laughed about it, if I could have, I would have blushed a mother's blush as if seeing her daughter kiss for the first time.

That day was the same day as any other Alice and I had just about all of our classes together while Edward managed to sweet talk his way into all of Renesmee's classes to keep an eye on her, and to be her protector from the other boys. Renesmee didn't mind having her father in all of her classes. In fact, she found the notion quite entertaining. At lunch we all sat in the cafeteria at our usual table. Forks High had changed so much since the first time I attended.

"So are you coming shopping with Alice, Renesmee, and me after school Bella?" Rosalie said, interrupting my thoughts. Rosalie and I had become quite close over the years, almost as close as Alice and I were. But I still hated to go shopping, so I sent Edward in to save me.

Please save me Edward! I thought jokingly toward him as I lifted the shield from my mind so he could hear my thoughts. This was something I did often to make it easier to talk to Edward about things that shouldn't be talked about aloud.

"Actually Rose, I have a surprise for Bella so she will be unavailable for the rest of the day." Edward interjected with the crooked smile I always loved.

"Oh really?" Rosalie questioned slyly as she glanced at Alice. Alice just rolled her eyes in disgust for missing another shopping trip. I giggled at the notion.

"Yes, really, Rosalie." Edward spoke. Right then Alice's face turned from disgust to utter excitement at what she was seeing in the future.

"You really do have a surprise for me don't you?" I wondered.

"I definitely do and I'm not telling you a word about it until we get home."

"You would make me suffer the rest of the day not knowing what's going on Edward, love?"

"There's no pleasure without pain, my dear." He chuckled at my puppy dog eyes that wanted to know what was going on.

"As we all know too well" I said.

As we started to get up from our table, Renesmee being the only one who had eaten anything from their tray because she wouldn't have to cough it up later, the bell rung signaling only two more classes before the end of the day.