Rosalie Hale

The entire family waltzed through the front doors of the mansion, all flabbergasted as to what just happened.

"What the hell just happened?" A taken aback Nessie stumbled in as Jacob held her close to him.

Emmett followed behind them with a Carter in his arms.

"Get him to the office!" Carlisle demanded as he sprinted superhumanly down the stairs.

The second Emmett and I reached the office and placed Carter's small unconscious body on the hospital bed. Carlisle began rummaging through his medical kit whilst some of the family came in to witness what was happening whereas the others stayed back, distancing themselves.

I was distraught. Watching Carter, someone so young, a baby go through such a mighty experience was terrible to go through. At that moment, I felt like a mother almost losing her child. I never thought I'd ever feel that, but I did. I needed to feel him.

I felt my breathing hitch and the lump in my throat aching to burst.

His skin was pale, paler than anything, nearly sallow. His usually diminutive, honey lips were washed out. He seemed lifeless and I couldn't shake the image out of my head.

I could hear his heartbeat but I couldn't feel his presence.

I needed to feel him.

As I went to press my hand against my Carter's forehead, Emmett held me back.

"Babe, don't." He told me.

I shook his grip off me, not moving eyes away from Carter's face. I found my hand slowly land on his forehead, immediately causing me to snarl at the burning feeling.

"He's sweltering hot!" I wept. "This is not normal! This shouldn't be happening!" I sobbed, glaring at Carlisle.

"Believe me, I know." Carlisle replied, rummaging through the drawer.

"Do something about it!" I demanded.

"I will. Just give me a second," He said, before pulling out a large metal syringe filled with liquid.

"What's that?" I queried, dreading to hear the answer.

"I've done some tests on him before and I have realized his not so common heat temperature. The average hybrid temperature is 108 degrees, his however is abnormally high." Carlisle said, moving me to the side and placing his finger against the five year old's neck, feeling his pulse.

"How high?" I asked.

"185 degrees," He told me, slipping a thermometer into Carter's mouth. "The temperature rises every time he ages. Right now he's raging in two hundred degrees."

My eyes widened. "And you didn't bother to tell me this?"

"I had no valid clue what it could be. At first I thought it was Pyrexia, abnormally high bodily temperature but then I closer look and I was shocked. I needed to be sure that my assumptions were correct, but now I'm back to square one and I have no idea what's wrong with him." He told me.

I shook my head. This is not happening!

"Okay, so you're saying by the time he's full grown he'll be a walking furnace?" Emmett questioned, worry flooding his face.

My eyes widened in horror.

Carlisle did not reply to that comment.

"So, what is the syringe for?" Bella asked. She and Edward were the only ones in the room.

"This is one of the very few needles that work on him. I filled it with liquid that up the pH Levels and bloodstream, decreasing the heat temperature. I'm hoping it will work on him. Everyone, stay back." He told us.

He looked at me for approval. I nodded my head before I watched him take Carter's wrist and injecting the thick needle through his vein.

After what felt like centuries, Carlisle pulled the syringe out and eyed the monitor where we saw Carter's vitals and temperatures decreasing by the second.

"He'll be okay after a few hours." Carlisle said.

This only solidified my relief and I exhaled a much needed breath.

I turned to my husband and I watched him smile reassuringly to me.

"He's going to be okay. He'll be fine!" I chuckled, completely relieved.

He'll be okay.

... ...

Jacob Black

As I crunched down on a packet of chips, I heard a loud knock coming from the front door. I frowned as I dropped the packet on the counter and made my way to the door, but was stopped when I got a text from Nessie.

I snatched my phone from the counter.

Omg! Jennifer's trying out for the softball team!

-My baby, Nessie

I sighed, placing my phone onto the counter and making my way to the front door.

I breathed in the familiar scent before flinging the door open to see Embry supporting his tall, slender frame with his hand against the frame of the door.

"Hey buddy!" He spoke enthusiastically, wiggling his eyebrows.

"Hey man," I laughed, embracing in patting hug. "Thanks for coming." I told him.

"No problem," He mentioned, shoving a wine cooler to my chest, forcing me to hold it and just waltzed into the house, examining it. "Nice pad you got here," He muttered approvingly.

"Yeah, thanks. I work hard on it." I said, shaking my head as I placed the box on the counter.

"Man, California is a dream with some mighty fine babes! Katy Perry's voice is blasting in my head right now." Embry said.

"That's nice, Embry." I said. "Anyway, I'm really glad you came."

He smirked. "You look wrecked, boss." He told me.

"Well, thank you for sugarcoating it." I said sarcastically.

"What's going on man?"

I sighed, grabbing two cans of Heisler from the refrigerator.

"Things have been rather...shitty here," I chuckled.

I vividly remembered the incident that happened less than a day ago. Carter literally lost his cool and blew up in flames –okay maybe I'm exaggerating there – and one more step and I could've lost her. I could've lost the love of my life in one swift movement.

"Do I really wanna know about it?" He asked.

I sighed, shaking my head as I handed him a can and we both made our way to the couches.

"So…" I grunted as I took a seat on the leather couch, placing the can on the coffee table and clearing up all Seth's work papers. "How have you been, dude?"

"Hey man I've been epic! La Push has been crap since you left so I thought I'd do some low-budget travelling. I just got back from Memphis." He said, sitting back on the couch.

"What were you doing in Memphis?"

"Nothin' much, you know. Watching football, meeting up with the ladies, you know, the usual." He told me.

"Ha! That's great man." I said with lack of interest.

"Yeah, now that everyone's all coupled-up and imprinted-up with kids it's kind of killing my single vibe you know." Embry said.

I gave him a small smile. "It can't be everybody, there's Leah?" I pointed out.

He gave me a look and raised his eyebrows. "Leah? Really? Don't insult me with bitterness! I don't want her to ruin my cool-aid."

"Okay…what about Colin?"

"Yeah, he's the latest person to fall prey to curse! The love disease," He laughed.

"Oh right, I forgot." I said to him. "Sorry man."

"Why? Dude! I'm lit right now! In the past week, I've been introduced to ten different flavors of women. I actually ran out of condoms yesterday so I hope you and Seth stocked up. How's Nessie doing?"

"Um…yeah sure," I said. "So, like that's the reason why I asked you to come over. I need your help."

Embry frowned.

"I'm having some lady troubles." I admitted.

"Tell me something I haven't heard or seen before." Embry joked inconveniently.

I gave him a straight face.

"Aww, Nessie's not putting out? And you're trying hard to keep it in the pants and I'm assuming she's controlling your every move?" He cooed.

I snarled.

He chuckled.

"I'm not laughing," I growled.

He shut up. "I'm not laughing either." He said, gulping before he exhaled a sigh. "Okay, in all seriousness."

"So Nahuel's sister –"

"Nahuel? That short weirdo that came to save our asses them years ago?" He said.

"I wouldn't say he saved our asses but yeah. So his sister's in town and Nessie's not comfortable around her." I pointed out.

"Why is she? Nessie's freaking gorgeous!"

I eyed him carefully. "Yeah, well clearly that's not what's bothering her. She thinks Jennifer 'wants' me or whatever."

"Mhmm…so she's jealous. Yeah, I'm getting some major flashbacks to younger version of a guy I know. His name was Caleb. He hopelessly fell in love with a girl that embarrassingly turned him down for an older guy. You know him right, Jake?"

"Yeah, okay! Yes! I fell in love with Bella and got rejected but we both moved on."

"You weren't just in love dude. You were obsessed." Embry added. "And now you're dating her daughter. It's funny how things turned out."

I groaned. "This was a bad idea."

Embry laughed. "Okay, girl meets boy and now new girl's into you and her brother's into your girlfriend leaving the both of you jealous. Mmm. That is a problem. Fixer." Embry nodded.

"Uh…not exactly like that but yeah." I told him. "So will you help me out?"

He curved his lips into a smile. "I thought you'd never ask man. I'll definitely get that fine piece of ass off your case and you and Nessie can continue being grossly cute as per freaking usual."

"Okay, thanks again dude."

"No problem." Embry told me, sitting back onto the couch and placing his feet on the coffee table . "Ladies love me and this girl won't be any different. It will give me time to add onto my building roster."

"Your roster?"

"Yeah, my list of top lays. A group of girls I hook up with, with the intention of not settling down." He said.

I shook my head.

"You're a fucking douchebag."

"Tell me something I don't already know, baby!" He called, imitating some gangster.

You wouldn't think it since Embry was pretty much the scrawniest of all of us but he was the most candid and confident when it came to approaching the ladies. Not that we were wimps but it was just that Embry really liked girls (more so than Quil before Claire), even back when he sucked at life and went through the geeky phase where he basically beat off every night over a girl he had a crush on. He wasn't looking to settle down like all of us and hardly thought about imprinting in the future.

"Dude, don't play with the girl's feelings though." I said, heading to the kitchen to grab a packet of chips in the cabinet.

"Who said anything about feelings? Remember when we were all a bunch of dudes not ready to get attached? Oh wait, y'all left and got yourselves imprinted while I'm pretty much enjoying my twenties single. This is great! In your thirties you'll probably be married, probably have some kids and live a boring life while I'm living wild and young and free!"

"You don't want that for yourself?" I asked.

"I don't know. If it happens for me it happens but this about me right here and right now! I'm holding onto my twenties. I'm not ready to be tied down." He confessed.

"All right, whatever man. Do what you want." I said, tossing him the packet. I sent Seth a text, telling him about Embry visiting. "Seth will be back later."

"Mmm…" He hummed, throwing chips into his mouth as I hopped back onto the couch. "This apartment's crap, dude,"

I gritted my teeth.

… …

Renesmee Cullen

"Huddle up! Warm up time!" Coach Flak exclaimed before blowing into his whistle.

PE. Great!

The girls huddled up together on one side whereas the boys huddled up on the other. Everyone suddenly began gearing up for the physical torture session whereas I was pretty much out of it.

I couldn't wrap my mind over what happened yesterday. Of course we were glad Carter was okay but what happened still didn't make sense to us. What was he?

Of course he was a hybrid but could a vampire hybrid be able burn a field on fire? Could a vampire hybrid not drink blood? Could a vampire hybrid have two abilities? Could a vampire hybrid almost kill an entire vampire clan in one swift movement?

And not to mention he was only a couple months old.

It was messed up!

"Jumping jacks!" Coach Flak exclaimed, pacing back and forth, blowing into his whistle.

"Hey!" I heard Felicity call out to me, forcing me to shift my focus to her. "You okay?"

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" I told her, in defense.

"You just seem a little off. Like you're out of it or something." She told me as she stretched her leg before jumping.

I sighed. I wanted so badly to talk to her about my feelings, I just needed to rant it out to someone but I knew that wasn't an option.

"I'm good. Just got a lot on my mind," I replied truthfully.

"Is it about Alex?" Felicity whispered.

I glared at her, creasing a frown.

"Cullen! Focus!" Coach whistled into my ear before walking away from us. I sighed.

I found my eyes wandering around until they landed on Jennifer jack jumping in some really short pale blue shorts and her OWHS tight, baring tank top and trainers.

I noticed a couple of guys eying her carefully across the field and chanting out flirtatious, inappropriate suggestions to her which caused her to blush and smile her bright, welcoming smile of hers.

"Are those shorts even allowed?" I blurted out.

Felicity followed my gaze before chuckling, "I smell a new perfume on you. It's called 'Jealously by You'."

"I'm not jealous of anything. I'm just saying, last time I checked, the school has a strict no skin-tight-revealing outfits on school grounds policy."

"Um…that didn't stop Genevieve "Gigolo" Harlot from wearing practically nothing today!" Felicity replied.

I scoffed as my gaze diverted from Jennifer onto Justin sneaking glances at me as he jogged along with the other guys.

"Now stretches!" Coach Flak whistled.

"Y-You…don't think Justin's still into me, do you?" I asked Felicity.

She laughed aloud. "Are you kidding me? He literally gawks at you every time you enter the room. If he's not still into then he has some serious eye troubles."

I rolled my eyes. I have enough drama on my plate so did I really wanna bother myself with more?

I sighed, resorting to leaving my focus elsewhere. My eyes ultimately landed on Alex talking to Rea who jotted something down into her Book of Darkness –aka her journal – as she just observed the session.

I needed to talk to her.

As much as I couldn't forget what she did to me just as she can't forget that I'm part of an immortal vampire species that her family hunt for a living, we had to put all of that behind us and probably move forward.

Also, I hated watching Seth in so much pain. He was lost without Alex. He was completely broken and empty and I couldn't bear to watch him go through that anymore.

So I had to talk to Alex.

But how do I do that without potentially getting killed?

… …

I slipped out of the girls locker room as soon as the bell went off and waltzed down the crowded, busy hallways. I made my way over to my locker where I placed my gym bag.

I sighed as I snatched my silky patterned scarf and wrapped it around my neck. As I eyed myself carefully in the small mirror I had in my locker, I caught the sight of the romantic photo booth pictures I took with Jacob –one of me wrapping my arms around his neck and kissing his cheek as he made a goofy expression to the camera, another with both of us grinning at the camera, one with us making out, and my personal favorite the one with him engulfing me in his loving embrace and kissing my head as I buried my on his chest.

I smiled, running a hand over the photo, memorizing it before slipping out of my trance and finally shutting the locker door. As I made this action, I suddenly found my eyes averting onto Alex standing by her locker a couple of feet on the opposite side of the hall.

I felt my breathing hitch as I replayed the images of that terrible prom night where I watched my best friend shoot the arrow that almost rendered me breathless forever, how much anger I must have felt but then images of Seth's unremitting damaged expression only diminished any other feelings I had towards Alex.

Knowing that Seth had sacrificed his true love's trust in order to keep my secret safe only made me feel even more regretful. I had to do my part.

"I promised myself I was going to do it. So I'm gonna do it." I encouraged myself –if lack a better word – and adjusted my bag, sucking in a deep breath before making my way over to the girl.

"Um…Hey!" I greeted a little too high than I hoped, causing her to flinch.

"Oh." She mentioned unenthusiastically as she realized it was me. "Hi. I thought you were Felicity."

I forced a smile. "Look, Alex –" I tried to cut to the chase but she immediately stopped me.

"No. You listen, Ness. I know you're going to try to apologize but when it's I that needs to do the apologizing. I couldn't sleep the past couple of days. It's been eating at me, this whole dynamic or I don't know, tension between us –"

"No, but I understand where you came from. I didn't tell you about my secret. I kept the secret from you and I lied –"

"You didn't try to kill me." She mentioned bluntly.

There was awful silence for a while until Alex and I's laughter filled the air, thinning the thickened stiffness.

It was weird to hear Alex's usual unfiltered nature coming out again. I guess she found it peculiar to hear her say it.

"Yeah, I guess that's the underlining factor." I sniggered nervously, staring at the ground.

I heard her sigh. "My dad told me about your family and the way you live and I felt like an idiot. I know we can't fully be friends again after what I did. I don't even think I'm there yet and I'm sure you're –"

"Look, Alex. I'm not expecting things to go back to where there were either but it's in the past. We should probably just try to move forward." I told her.

She nodded. "Couldn't have said it better myself."

I smiled. "Which…uh, brings me to the main reason why I want us to get past what happened. Seth. He's really troubled after the breakup between you two and I know you probably broke up with him because he kept this secret from you."

"He lied to me, Ness!" She tried to argue.

"I get that and if it wasn't for his loyalty to my family I'm sure he would've told you the truth. It was hard for him to keep this from you."

She shook her head. "Ness, I can't immediately be happy and forget about all of this."

"Of course not!" I told her, shaking my head. "And nobody's asking you to but all I'm saying is don't push him away when I know you really want to be with him and vice versa. Seth loves you Alex. He would go to the moon, heck to freaking Mars and back for you and at the end of the day isn't that more important that some small lie?"

She fell silent for a short while, probably rethinking it over but I shook that thought off when she finally answered.

"I appreciate your help, Ness but no." She said, shaking her head.

I nodded. "Okay, fine. Can you just promise me you'll talk to him? Or at least think about it?"

She gave me a simple nod, however, I felt she just gave it to me to drop the subject and so I did as the second bell went off.

She shrugged her shoulder bag over her shoulders.

"Okay, I guess we're going to see him right now." I said, wiggling my eyebrows.

She sighed.

"OMG!" I heard Felicity's familiar squeal come our way. "Do my eyes deceive me or are Alex Mazzola and Renesmee Cullen actually talking to each other again?"

"Oh boy," Alex sighed.

Felicity rolled her eyes at her as she and Rea stood in front of us.

"What was going on between you two?" Rea questioned, trying to play along with the oblivious card.

"It's nothing you need to worry about." I told her, even though I'm pretty much she knew exactly what was going on.

"You were snaking and eying each other like you were on some reality show or soap opera! The Real Teens of Oakland Woods meets Days of our Hormones!"

Alex and I laughed.

"Let's go to Geography before we're late." Alex told us.

"When are you eager to go to class?" Felicity frowned as she spun around and walked off with Rea.

"Hey, I'm going somewhere afterschool. Wanna come?" I asked Alex.

"Where are you going?" The tall, beautiful Italian asked.

"To get some answers." I said as we both walked into the classroom.

… ….

Seth Clearwater

As I watched all the teenagers roll into the room, there was one in particular I couldn't keep my focus off on. When Alex entered the room with Nessie, I felt the dire need to feel her close to me but she seemed so distant, like I'd never ever get the chance to experience the entrancement of her touch.

Her scent lingered in my nostrils like a herb, an alluring rosemary. I needed to take her in as my remedy but the sources of that remedy, her eyes, were not available to me.

If only she could look at me, if only just a second I wouldn't feel like dying inside. Her hazel eyes would save me from eternal misery.

"Uh…Morning everybody! Take your seats." I started down the lesson, my eyes not diverted from my imprint.

Through the thirty hearts in this room, hers was the one I was easily able to distinguish. Soft and chiming, like taps of tambourines.

"Today we'll be looking at airport protocols –no I mean airline protocols. Wait…um…no, that's not right." I stated as I glanced back at my semester plan.

"Uh, Mr. Clearwater?" A girl with a high-pitched voice called.

"Yes?" I said.

"You said we had to hand in our research reports today." She stated.

"Right! Yes!" I nodded my head, leaning against my desk. I glanced over to Nessie who raised her eyebrows at me, gesturing to the class with their reports.

"Right! Yes! Thank you! I'll just collect them." I scrambled.

As I collected the reports from the students I came across Alex who had her report facing me but not her actual face.

"Thank you, Alex." I said with a smile. "Good to know you took the time to actually do your homework. I'm sure you did amazing."

Some of the kids laughed.

But Alex wasn't having any of it.

"Well I wouldn't have bothered anyway. I just think reading up on the world and it's wonderful continents and coordinates doesn't paint the entire picture of the actual problem. The people. But I heard this report counts like 75% of my grade but I guess maybe that could be a lie too." She said, glaring at me.

The coldness in her look, the cold glare felt like a dagger to the heart. My heart.

She sighed, moving her eyes away from me.

"Also I had nothing else to do last night." She muttered gruffly.

I didn't mean to piss her off. I thought that's how I'd get her to smile. God! I was an idiot. Now I think, no I know I just pushed her further and further away from me and now I feel even more miserable and useless.

"Well, thank you again." I said.

She ignored me.

I sighed, turning around to see all eyes on us, scrutinizing and commenting on our heated encounter.

I gritted my teeth.

"Okay! I want you all to read pages 123-198 of your textbooks!" I told the class.

Everyone groaned.

The lesson ended after what felt like eternity but in reality it was only half an hour.

"Alright, read up on the Stonehenge rocks and the cavemen because I may or may not surprise you with a pop quiz." I told them.

"I think that takes the definition of pop quiz, Mr. C." Cassie told me.

"Well, thanks to your smart comment smartass, you're all writing a test tomorrow!"

"Really, Cassie?" The guys retorted as they all rolled out.

Suddenly, I received a text from Jake.

The skinniest jackass MF just showed up with a U-Haul. Any guess?

I scoffed. Embry's in town.

I slipped my phone into my pocket.

Alex was conveniently the last one to head out and I took that as a sign to steal her.

"Alex."

"I've got to go, Seth." She told me.

"No you don't. I know you take your time to get to class and Mrs. Thomason is basically a corpse so she won't even notice you're late. Bless her soul," I said to her as I pulled her by the hand and shut the door, flipping the blinds down.

She frowned and flipped the blinds up as a counteract.

I sighed, shutting the blinds.

As she went to jostle them up, I pressed my hand against the door window.

"Don't even think about it." I warned her.

She exhaled a heavy breath.

"What do you want, Seth?" She demanded.

"What was all that about earlier?"

"What are you talking about?"

"You've been avoiding me ever since the school year started and when I try to talk to you, you just snap at me."

"Okay! I'm sorry, Mr. Clearwater. I've just got a lot on my mind and I blow off on people. I hope you don't call the principal." She laughed. "So, if you forgive m-me- I hope we can move past it." She said to me.

"Okay," I said in reply.

As she went for the door, it immediately clicked what she was doing. She was deflecting and avoiding. She was avoiding the topic which meant she was trying to avoid me.

"No! No!" I uttered firmly, shutting the door as she opened it slightly. She breathed. "You're doing it again, Alex?"

"Okay! So what do you want me to do? Do you want me to just forget the fact that you lied to me and pretend like I'm some love-doped puppy? Well I'm sorry to disappoint."

"I'm not asking for that! I'm asking for you to talk to me. Not push me away!"

"Seth, you're asking for something I can't exactly give to you." She told me.

I sighed and began rubbing my temples. "God, I know. I know. I screwed up."

She shook her head. "Look, this has been hard for me –"

"Has it really? I may have not told you about Nessie and her family, because it wasn't my place but you not telling me where you were for four months! You just getting up and leaving? How do you think I felt? I was broken without you, Alex! Broken!"

She scoffed, shaking her head. "You think this hasn't been hard for me too? Seth! It hurt me knowing you were miles away from me. I couldn't sleep at night because all I would do was dream about you but you weren't there." She shouted.

"Then why did you leave –?"

"But I couldn't." She stated, adding onto her previous statement. "I couldn't let those feelings get to me because it hurt even more knowing that you and I just don't fit together. I get it, you lied to protect Nessie's secret but I would never do that. That's precisely the reason why you and I don't fit together. You're kind, sweet, caring, loving and I'm the complete opposite. How do you love me, Seth? If I just push you away,"

"You don't have to." I told her, taking a step closer to her.

"A-and then what? Should I just kick the big elephant in the room to the side? The fact that my family hunts vampires and you're best friends with vampires and not only that but you're a werewolf?"

"Those are just titles! Those are just traits of who I am but that's not the man that loves you with all his heart. I would do anything to prove to you that I'm the guy you're meant to be with." I said, grabbing hold of her hands.

"Seth! You're my teacher."

"Then I'll fucking quit!" I retorted.

"No. I can't –"

"Stop trying to push away reasons why we're meant for each other. You bring out different sides of me I didn't know I had, that's one reason why you're made for me."

Her eyes bored into mine and vice versa. Her eyes were glistening as she contemplated. I could feel her pulse picking up. She wanted this.

She wanted us.

She shook her head, pushing away any positive thoughts and stepped back, dropping my hands.

"I can't."

"Why?" I asked, my voice breaking.

"It's not that I don't want to but it's because I can't want to." She told me.

I frowned. What did she mean.

She turned her back towards me. "After that night, something changed. Something changed in me. I'm not the same girl I was before. I'm worse. Every time I look at myself in the mirror, I see someone different. She's shattered." She said, facing me.

"I want more than anything to go back to the girl I was because the girl that she's become…" She paused, her voice cracking as her tears welled up. "The girl that I've become is somehow darker…I feel faulty and I don't think I can go back. I've seen way too much to try to get to a happy place."

She halted for a while, biting back her tears but ultimately not working for her.

"Because if I do…" She cried, her breath uneven and her lips quivering. "If I get to that happy place, I know something will ruin it and I can't risk that. I've done terrible things, Seth and if I told you, you wouldn't look at me the same way."

I kept quiet for a while.

"Alex…I want to be your safe haven. I want you to vent out all your feelings. You can't keep all of this in. you can be happy again. You can be happy with me." I assured her.

"Seth…"

"I've witnessed a lot of crazy things in my life. I've lost quite a lot too but I got through with it. You can get through this too. I can help you." I said, taking a step closer to her.

"Seth, you don't have to convince me that everything's going to be okay." Alex said.

"I know. I wish I could though. I wish I could tell you that you'll never feel pain but you can through this. I hate watching you like this. It's my job to make happy, it's my job to protect you. And you may try to push me away but I'll keep fighting. I'll keep fighting until –"

"Until I give in?" She giggled, sniffling.

I smiled as I placed my hand on her cheek, wiping the tears from her eyes.

"So are we cool?" I asked, more like pleaded as I locked my eyes with the gorgeous hazel eyes I love.

She snickered.

"Like a cucumber," She told me with a laugh.

I released a sigh of relief, causing her the giggle some more before laying a gentle kiss on her soft, warm lips. Dammit! Did I miss those lips?! It felt like the first time (even though I romanticized it).

She pulled away – flabbergasted at how amazing the kiss was – to gasp for some air and exhale heavy against my lips.

"I need to get to class," She whispered.

I cleared my throat and nodded my head.

"Yes! Uh! You should…get going."

She shrugged her bag on her shoulder and headed for the doors. She halted for a second to glance back at me. I grinned like an idiot and she smiled slightly before flinging the door open and slipping out.

It's not going to be easy getting back to how we were but I was hopeful.

It's all about the love, right?

… …

Renesmee Cullen

After the school day ended, Alex and I hopped into my car and I drove us to the place I had been contemplating to go for a long time now.

Alex and I sprang out of the car and closed the doors as we ogled the tall, rundown building in the most remote part of the town. The scent of sewer water filled the air.

"Wow!" I muttered to myself.

"Well this is gross and depressing." Alex said bluntly before shrieking. "Omigosh I just saw a rat!"

I inhaled the heavy, strong scent of decayed matter and burnt possessions. I stared at the remains of this giant edifice. Shattered windows, charred brick walls and piles gravel ashes. It didn't seem like a recent burning. The burned house/mansion/maybe loft probably had a good fifteen years of deconstruction.

"What did you say we're doing here again?"

"Getting some answers." I said as I walked up to building.

"Um…okay. I don't know how you're going to get any answers from something so dead but okay." She said, following my tail. "Who even lived here?"

"Ray Parker," I told her.

She halted in her tracks, causing me to do the same.

"Ray Parker?" She questioned. "The crazy maniac serial killer?" She demanded.

I nodded. "I just wanna know more about him. He saved my life one night and I want to know why."

"Are you kidding?" She demanded.

I sighed.

I never got a chance to thank him. This may be a death sentence, this could end very terribly but I needed to know why he saved me from that vampire the other night? How did he kill that vampire? Why was he there when Charles tried to kill us? How did he know where we were? Is he actually a good guy?

A/N: Hello everybody! Geez! I've been gone forever it seems. Like omg, life is crazy right now but I'm not neglecting this story. I've just got a lot on my plate at the moment, what with being a mom, supporting my fiancé who got into an ATV accident on his 26th birthday last month and basically…idk, life in general but everything's okay now.

I hope you enjoyed this crazy chapter because it's about to get even crazier! So stick around.

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