Surrounded by darkness, I could barely make out the trees around me; let alone what was in front of me. This was odd; I could usually see in the dark, this frightened me. I screamed and shouted for mom, but no sound left my mouth. I knelt down on the cold, dirty forest floor and buried my head in-between my knees and cried. Suddenly, there was a noise approaching the trees before me, my head shot up to see Aro, smiling a mischievously evil smile, his shocking red eyes fixed in mine. He was then joined by my whole family. I smiled when I realised it was them, but my blood turned cold once they opened their crimson eyes, and lifted the hoods of their red cloaks and placed them on their heads. Their scarlet eyes stared at me until they jumped, aiming for my neck...
Sweating and gasping for breath I woke up in mom’s cool, calming arms. She was stroking my forehead and gently rocking me from side to side. I felt her soft hair tickle my cheek as she kissed my forehead. She hummed my lullaby whilst wiping away the tears streaming down my cheeks.
“Its okay baby,” She whispered, still rocking me “Don’t be scared, we would never ever hurt you, we love you too much, it would be impossible, and we would protect you from Aro, as if he would actually even try, he’d be outnumbered and we have the wolves.” She’d obviously seen my nightmare after practising reading my mind, she did that a lot. I sniffed then lay down and closed my eyes as I listened to mom humming, and soon I’d fallen asleep.
I woke up late; the sun was higher up in the sky than it usually was when I woke up. Dad walked into my room looking quite concerned.
“Nessie, I know you will strongly dislike this, but could you please show me the nightmare you had last night? I need every detail.” He asked. I closed my eyes and replayed the nightmare in my head. When I reopened my eyes, he was talking at an unbelievably fast pace on his cell phone at such a low volume I couldn’t hear him. After 5 minutes, he put the phone down and studied my face, wracking my brain, trying to figure something out. He thanked me and kissed my cheek before leaving the room.
I took a shower, dressed into a white t-shirt, skinny jeans and flat shoes. I combed my hair and put in a white hair band, put on my make up then left my bedroom, to find Jake sitting on the sofa, eating a very large looking sandwich, watching baseball with Phil. When he’d noticed I’d entered the room, he jumped up and walked over.
“Hey beautiful,” he smiled, then kissed me tenderly “So, you up for ice cream?” I nodded and smiled, grabbed my purse and shouted goodbye as we walked out of the front door hand in hand.
We drove to the new ice cream parlour in La Push, Emily’s. Sam and Emily had decided to set up the ice cream business to reign in extra money as having 3 teenage kids wasn’t cheap. They had twin 15 year old daughters Leila and Molly, and a 13 year old son Jesse. They expected Jesse to phase in a few years, so they’d let him in on the secret, so he’d be prepared, unlike the others who only found out when they first phased. I’d be shocked if the twins phased, they were too girly, nothing like any of the pack, even Leah.
The girls were working at the ice cream store and Molly served us,
“Hey you guys! What can I get you?” she smiled.
“I’ll have a caramel ice cream please, and Jake will have everything you’ve got! I laughed
“Anything else, or have you got enough there?” Molly joked. Jacob laughed and shook his head and paid her whilst I went and sat at a table. Jacob wolfed down his ice cream, followed by complaints of a brain freeze, which I laughed at. I enjoyed mine, so I ate it slowly. I looked up from my bowl to see Jacob smiling. Our eyes met and feeling my cheeks blush, he whispered, “I love you” and leaned over the table and kissed me.
We walked home, hand in hand, talking about our memories. I preferred to hear Jacob’s, his lasted longer, and although I’d heard the hundreds of times, I liked to listen to stories about mom when she was human. It was hard for me to imagine mom as a human, I’d known her for almost 20 years as a beautiful, amazing vampire, and only 5 minutes as a human. He told me about the day I was born, the stress dad was in and how mom knew she would pull through my birth, even though most of the others disagreed. It was only then that I realised that my birthday was tomorrow. I’d had so much on my mind lately, I hadn’t thought about buying a dress for my birthday dinner with Jacob. I already had hundreds of dresses I’d already worn; maybe Aunt Alice wouldn’t notice I’d recycled one.
At home, I sat and drew in my sketchbook, and then at 10, I went to bed and read Romeo and Juliet, and then went to sleep.
My last day of being a teenager was over.
