The weeks went by quickly with school. I've made a ton of friends, and since my parents were never home they all liked to hang out at my house. Of course As soon as my now cousins, Alice and Jasper got home they were forced to be my babysitters. We had a month left of school and I was excited for summer vacation. Summer meant Jacob and Claire.
"Earth to Nessie!" Derek pulled me from my thoughts as he threw a pillow at me.
Derek, Alyssa, Lauren, Melissa, Ben and I were sprawled across the living room floor surrounded by our school books. Alice and Jasper were due here any second so we figured we'd look like we were being responsible.
"Sorry, what?" I asked once I came back from my thoughts.
"You going to the dance tomorrow?" Derek asked me.
"I thought we were all going together." I looked down at my notebook and doodled on the paper that was supposed to be my math homework.
Derek punched my arm and laughed. "Yes, space cadet! We were just talking about that while you were off prancing around in that head of yours."
I punched him back. "I'm back now, so drop it."
"Ok you two." Alyssa laughed.
Derek and I have became really close the past 2 months. We go to each other for just about anything. He's here everyday after school, we're attached at the hip whenever we get the chance to be together. My dad even likes him a lot. I know it's only because Derek and I have absolutely no serious feelings for each other, but I didn't care.
"Who's hungry?" Alice called out as she came gracefully into the living room. We jumped because we didn't hear the front door open or close.
"Hi, Alice," I looked behind her expecting Jasper, but he wasn't here. "Where's Jasper?"
"Home. He was going out with Aunt Esme and Uncle Carlisle." Alice winked at me and I knew they were going hunting. I saw by her dark eyes that she needed to go also. I quickly looked around the room of humans and back at her.
"Why didn't you go with them?"
"Because Edward would have my head if I left you kids here alone."
I knew Emmett was working, so that must mean Rosalie was going hunting too. I got up and walked over to her, taking her hand. "Come on I'll help you make some sandwiches." As we walked into the kitchen I flashed her visions of her going hunting with them. You really need to go and you know it. Dad is just going to have to realize having a thirsty vampire in a room full of humans is worse than having a handful of kids home alone for a few hours. I let my thoughts linger in her mind as she pondered over what I just showed and told her.
"You're absolutely right." Alice whispered. She made the sandwiches quickly, kissed my forehead, yelled a goodbye to Alyssa and ran out the door. I bumped the sandwiches in the garbage and climbed on the counter.
"Hey guys!" I called over my shoulder as I reached for the jar on the shelf above the cabinets.
Everyone ran into the kitchen and took in my stance as I stood with my hand in the Jar fishing for my prize. "What are you doing?" Derek gasped as he walked up to me holding out his arms ready to catch me if I fell. "Aren't you a little old to be being caught with you hand in the cookie jar?" Derek laughed. I wrapped my hand around a bundle of cash and pulled it out.
I fanned myself with it and jumped off the counter. "What do you guys want to order to eat?"
"No way!" Derek gasped as he snatched the money out of my hand. "There has to be hundreds of dollars here!"
I shrugged. "Pocket change. Anything in that jar up there is play money."
"I knew your sister and brother-in-law were loaded, but I didn't think they were that loaded!" Ben gasped as he took the money out of Derek's hand.
"We could go out somewhere." I shrugged. "What is there to do for fun around here?"
"You mean besides hanging out at your house?" Ben chuckled as he looked around the large kitchen.
"Let's order from every take out place around the block and watch the millions of movies you have downstairs in the theatre!" Alyssa, of course found the responsible thing to do. Well, responsible enough for us.
"I guess we could do that." Melissa said as she reached for the phone. She started dialing and ordering as the rest of us picked out movies to watch.
I noticed the time and realized my parents would be home soon. "Time to go." I sighed.
I looked around at the mess from the empty containers from the pizza, Thai, Chinese, taco's, and some health food place that Lauren was obsessed with. Everyone helped me clean up and they walked home since they lived a few blocks away.
"I suppose we should get some homework done." I told Alyssa as we settled back on the living room floor.
"Probably." She sighed and we sprawled ourselves out once more to finish our homework.
I yawned and looked up at the clock. It was past 10 and I was forcing my eyes to stay open. I refused to sleep upstairs in my room when I was home alone. I don't really know why, but just the thought of me sleeping up there with no one home freaked me out. Alyssa was already passed out with her face in her history text book. I closed my eyes for a moment.
The next thing I realized was that someone was moving me. I could smell my mothers sent and curled into her. "Sorry." She whispered.
Too tired to talk I lifted my hand to her neck and assured her it was ok. Then wondered where dad was.
"He brought Alyssa home. He'll come in and say goodnight when he gets back."
She brought me into my room and helped me change into pajamas. I laid in bed while she tucked me in. "How was school today?" I yawned.
"Grandpa has us working hard, but I like it. I'll pick you up from school tomorrow." She informed me. "I don't have my evening class."
I yawned again and rubbed my eyes, trying to keep them open. "Will you take your car?"
My mom sighed heavily. "I suppose." She smiled down at me and leaned in to kiss my forehead. "Go to sleep. I'll be in my office if you need me."
"Mmhmm." I mumbled already half asleep.
I knew I was dreaming, but it felt all too real. I was standing in a meadow looking at a woman I have never seen before. She was holding a familiar looking toddler in her arms as she yelled at someone. I looked across the small space to the man I immediately recognized, my Grandpa Swan. His expression was nothing but pain. Whatever the woman was saying was hurting him. She clutched the squirming toddler closer to her chest, but the little girl reached effortlessly for my grandpa. I gasped when the small child looked directly at me. Her brown eyes, my brown eyes stared at me. It was my mom, the woman was the same one holding her in the picture in my mom's office. That must have been the trigger for the dream, my mom saying she's be in her office if I needed her.
As little Bella looked at me the tears fell from her eyes. She turned her attention back to my grandpa. "Daddy." She cried in her tiny squeaky voice, reaching for him once more.
"I can't have her grow up in this stupid small town life! Charlie, let me go." The woman begged of my heart broken grandfather.
I blinked and the scene in front of me changed. The woman was now my own mother, holding a toddler almost identical to the one that was just in the strange woman's arms. My eyes flashed from my own hands reaching for… my father as his pain stricken face watched my mom back away from him with me in her arms.
"Just let me go." My mom's voice echoed in my now nightmare.
"Bella…" My dad gaped. For the first time real tears streamed down his face. He looked at me standing watching the scene play out in front of me. My tears matched his.
"No! Don't take me away! Please, I want my dad!" The thoughts from the toddler rang through my own ears, but the voice was not mine, it was my mother's small voice.
The scene shifted again and it was, what I assume was my mother's mom, turning to walk away with my mom reaching over her shoulder for my grandpa. "Come back! Don't leave him!" I yelled across the empty space. A reflection of myself appeared on the other side of my grandpa, and slowly disappeared as the woman carried my mom away. "No! Come back!" I yelled over and over again.
"Renesmee, honey wake up. It's just a dream. Sweetie wake up." I could hear my dad's voice echoing in my head. I woke to my screams, and jolted upright. Immediately my fathers arms encircled me. Protecting me.
"Dad." I sobbed into his chest.
"I'm right here." He whispered as he rubbed my back. His hands moved to my shoulders and he held me away from him, his face serious. "What was your dream about?"
I shrugged. "I don't know." I thought for a moment and sighed. "Mom I think. Grandpa Swan was there too."
"What happened?" He urged.
I told him about my dream, cringing when I mentioned that the dream shifted to mom taking me away from him. He pulled me onto his lap and held me tight.
"Show me." He insisted. He looked confused. I closed my eyes and relived the horrible nightmare. "Come on." He took my hand and led me out of my room, down the first flight of stairs to my parents wing. He paused at the closed door to my mothers office.
"What's wrong?" My mom asked as she suddenly appeared at the door.
"It was a dream about Renee." My dad still seemed confused.
My mom's eyes widened as they fell on me. "You did?"
I shrugged. "If Renee is that woman," I pointed towards the wall of pictures. "Holding you when you were little, than yes."
"Did you say anything about her?" My dad asked my mom.
She shook her head.
"It was me, I saw the pictures when we moved here and I was curious. I guess when mom told me she was going to be in here before I fell asleep it triggered the memory of the picture and that I was curious as to who she was." I mumbled, my sentences sounding like one.
"That's my mother." She whispered.
"She left Grandpa when you were little." I whispered back, already knowing the story.
My mom nodded and looked up at my dad.
"She did, but it's ok. They are both re-married now and happy with their lives."
"Do you still talk to your mom? How come I've never met her? Does she even know about me?"
My mom's hands came down on my shoulders as she pulled me into her. "She doesn't know about you, but only because she can't be dragged into our world. It's too dangerous for her. I do talk to her, once in a while."
"She really hurt Grandpa when she took you away. You didn't like it either. I heard your thoughts. You wanted to go to him," I swallowed. "You didn't want to leave him."
"I don't really remember that day, the memory is even more unclear since it was a human memory." My mom looked up at my dad. "But I do believe that's all that was going through my head. I was 4 when she left him, and I was old enough to realize I was being taken away from my father. And no, I would never do that to your father. The three of us are a whole." She paused and looked back down at me. "Renee is not a bad person." She said quickly. "Her name is part of yours." She pointed out. "It's a combination of Renee and Esme."
"Oh! I finally understand the freakiness of my name." I was excited to realize where my name really came from.
"Will I ever get to meet her?"
"Maybe, one day." She shrugged and bent down to kiss my forehead. "Next time, if your curious about something just ask. No need for unnecessary nightmares, trust me I would know." My mom chuckled.
"Any more questions?" My dad asked as he swept my matted hair behind my shoulder.
"No, sleepy." I yawned.
My dad chuckled and swept his arm behind my knees and lifted me into his arms. I must have fallen asleep on the way back up to my room because I don't remember being placed back in my bed.