Chapter 3

My last two classes went by pretty fast considering that I wasn't learning anything I hadn't already learned at least 3 times over. School was not something any of us needed since we all had been to college and received numerous degrees, it was just a boring tedious task that had to be done in order to keep up pretenses. I never understood why we couldn't just tell everyone we were home schooled, but Carlisle said that it be easier to keep rumors from flying about if his children attended the local school like normal children.

After our last class, Alice and I walked from the building out to the parking lot to meet the rest of the family. As we waited at the car I noticed that something had Alice in a tousle.

"What's wrong Alice?" I asked, wondering what was messing with her usually delightful mood.

"Oh nothing, except for the fact that our shopping trip has gone from blurry to crystal clear, and that I cannot see anything for the next few minutes."

"Jacob must be coming to get Renesmee."

"It would seem that way; I just don't understand why everyone wants to spoil a perfectly good shopping trip."

As soon as Alice finished her sentence, we could hear the thundering sound of Jacob's motorcycle in the distance, of course human ears couldn't hear it yet, it was not close enough to the school yet. After a few minutes, everyone had made their way to the cars and we all talked and waited for Jacob to pick up Renesmee. Within the next minute, Jacob had arrived, he was still the same tall overbearing Jake to me, it was just now he was about to be my son-in-law.

"Hey Ness, hey everyone!" Jacob greeted us. We were all on much friendlier terms than we had been when I first became a vampire.

"Jake!" Renesmee nearly yelled, as she ran and gave him a big hug and kiss.

"And where are you two going tonight?" Edward questioned.

"Oh, just out on a date, it being Friday and all." Jake answered, him and Edward were getting along pretty well over the past decades. That was probably because Edward had me and Jake had Renesmee.

Please don't start Edward.

Just as Edward was about to go into 21 questions with Jacob, I cut him off.

"Well just don't stay out too late, okay?"

"Okay mom." Renesmee said with a tone of gratitude.

"Well we have to go because your father has a surprise for me and I'm sure Alice can't wait to get her shopping trip started."

"What's the point if we're not going as a big group?" Alice huffed.

"Don't you want to help me get my wardrobe finished for the fall and started for next spring Alice?" Rosalie asked trying to lighten Alice's mood, which it did.

"Well I guess you have a point Rose. You would be lost without me." Alice cracked a smile with her better disposition.

"Well I'll see you guys later. Bye, mom. Bye, dad." Renesmee said from the back of Jake motorcycle as it pulled away. We all wave by to my daughter as she turned to hug Jacob's torso as they sped off out of the parking lot and onto the road to Port Angeles.

By this time the parking lot had emptied out and it was just us and our two cars left. Edward and I started to get into the car. I heard Jasper say that he and Emmett should go to Seattle with Alice and Edward. I saw through the tinted windows of our car perfectly into Emmet's car and saw his expression was first apprehensive and then he nodded toward Edward and me and then agreed with Jasper.

Edward pulled out of the parking lot at 120 miles per hour and sped up to 180 once we were on the street. Before I became a vampire I never really like when Edward would surprise me with things, but now since we were equals and Alice had helped me invest what was left of my college fund from my human days, I could surprise him with things too, so I actually started to like when he had surprises for me. This time around though, I knew whatever the surprise was going to be this time, it was going to be really, really good.