Chapter 6: Growing up with a rite of passage.
Edward slowly walked into Renesmee’s bedroom, while she was still asleep. He knelt down in front of her bed.
“Hey Ness, I‘m going now sweetie” his hand stroking her forehead. Her eyes threatened to open.
“When will anda be back” her eyes opening as her voice went from groggy to normal.
“I‘ll be back in a week atau two” he smiled when she grabbed his hand and said.
“Be safe, dad”
“I Cinta anda Renesmee” he kissed her forehead and walked out of her bedroom. Edward, Emmett, Jasper and Carlisle were going on a camping trip, leaving Renesmee there with the girls of the house.
“Alice are anda absolutely sure? anda know how subjective your visions can be, especially concerning Nessie. She is just so young!”
“Yes, Bella, I’m sure. This is not something anda choose, it just happens. Like the weather and I’m always right about the weather.”
Great, now we’re going to discuss the weather? What is going on?”
Alice turned to look at Renesmee.
“Nessie, how old are anda now?”
Okay, from the weather to my age, why does everyone worry so much about my age? It’s freaking hilarious. No one in my entire family has a realistic age! Three-hundred year-old Carlisle tries so hard to look older, but he barely passes for thirty. Dad is almost one hundred years older than Mum, but they’ll both be teenagers forever…
“Umm… it’s not a difficult soalan Nessie.” Alice was still waiting for an answer.
“Actual Age atau Earth Years?”
Alice just smirked, raised her eyebrows and waited. Renesmee knew no one counted Earth Years except her mum.
“My AA is sixteen but I’m due for an update seterusnya week.”
“Did anda hear that, Bella? sixteen.”
The Actual Age kemaskini were Carlisle’s idea. Renesmee had grown from a tiny seed to a fully formed infant in less than two months. She was born with a full set of teeth and she could talk when she was only a week old. At three months, she could run. She had read the entire Harry Potter series twice before her first birthday.
Everyone, except Bella, agreed that it made lebih sense to calculate Renesmee’s “Actual Age” sejak evaluating her physical, intellectual and emotional growth. She wasn’t too crazy about the updates; it involved those darn needles and lots of boring educational and psychological tests.
The only good thing about the constant kemaskini was every time she passed a major benchmark Alice would throw a party.
“How much biology have anda studied, Nessie?” Alice’s voice interrupted her thoughts.
“Not much, why? Dad says I need to master chemistry and physics first. Besides, I like art and literature much lebih than the sciences. So I don’t really care.”
“This is crazy! But it also sounds just like Edward! We need to put someone else in charge of your education.” Alice paused and asked,
“Has anyone talked to anda about puberty atau menstrual cycles?”
“Well, I think puberty is when humans are old enough to have babies. But I haven’t heard anything about men’s true cycles.”
“Oh dear,” Alice sighed.
“I can’t believe this!” Alice narrowed her eyes and shot a disapproving glance at Bella. She turned back to Renesmee and then kindly asked, “Do anda know how Bayi are made?”
“Alice! One thing at a time.” Bella groaned and pinched the bridge of her nose, a habit she had acquired from Edward.
“Seriously? Come on, Aunt Alice, everyone knows that,” Renesmee scoffed.
“Well the father’s rockets fly to the mother’s moon and then the moon turns into an infant over time then, its ready to come into the world”
“Where did anda hear that story?” Alice asked, obviously laughing.
“Auntie Rose.” Alice, Bella and Esme all looked at Rosalie with matching expressions of incredulity.
“Sorry, but that was basically the story I got the first time I asked. Only instead of ‘it’s ready to come into the world‘, the midwife came and helped get the baby out through the belly button. I knew Nessie wouldn’t believe that. To be fair, Nessie’s AA at the time was only fourteen.”
“Will somebody please tell me what is going on?” Renesmee begged.
Alice darted upstairs and was back in less than a second. She inserted a DVD into the audio-visual system, grabbed the remote and pulled Renesmee down onto the sofa, kerusi panjang beside her.
“I thought we might need this soon, so I picked it up on my last trip into town as well as a few supplies. Why don’t we all watch this together and then we can answer any soalan Renesmee might have.”
The content of the “Puberty for Dummies” DVD was presented in an overly simplified manner, so when Alice asked if she had any questions, Renesmee Nodded her head.
“Yeah I do. How do the ‘rockets‘ manage to get to the ‘moon‘?”
Renesmee was lebih than embarrassed. She was disturbed and confused.
“But anda berkata I was a surprise. How could that be a surprise?” She couldn’t hold back a reflex shudder.
*The seterusnya morning*
There’s just no way to hide the scent of blood from a house full of vampires. Renesmee woke up with bad cramps surrounded sejak all the woman of the family. Esme, Alice and Rosalie were beaming at her, and Bella was trying hard to smile, not quite pulling it off.
Alice leaped gracefully onto her katil and held out two boxes.
“Which do anda prefer Ness? Pads or….”
Before she could finish the question, Esme, Rosalie and Bella exclaimed in agreement,
“Pads!” they all started to laugh, even Bella. Renesmee might have gotten mad at them for laughing at her but it was such a relief to see her mum smile again, that she just joined in and laughed until she cried. Then she cried. For real. She didn’t know why she was crying but she was. Bella hugged her and said.
“It‘s okay sweetheart”
After she showered and got dressed, she was afraid to go out into the common area where everyone hangs out when they aren’t in their rooms. Alice knocked on her door and then waltzed in without waiting for an invitation. Renesmee looked at her with reproach, but Alice just smiled and said,
“You were going to invite me in another thirteen seconds. Come on! Let’s go! We’re going to have a party!”
Renesmee usually loved parties, but she didn’t want to leave her room just yet.
“Not today Alice, I think I’ll just hang out in my room, OK?”
“No it is not OK! I refuse to let anda start Berlakon like your mother! Now come on!”
Alice continued to drag her into the commons. She had cards and presents from everyone, even the guys. Everyone knew she had to open Alice’s gift first, even Alice, but she still bounced around on her toes chanting,
“Mine first! Mine first!”
Renesmee lifted the lid, and pulled back several layers of pastel tissue paper. She didn’t recognize the lacy little scraps of fabric at first. Pink, purple, red, black and white seemed to float on air inside the box. Renesmee’s face turned bright red as Alice plucked one of the items out of the box and held it up to her chest as if checking to see if it fit.
“Alice! That is not appropriate for….”
“Oh come on Bella! She isn’t a little girl anymore! And anda have to agree that these little bras and panties are quite modest, yet still feminine…”
“Thank anda Alice” Renesmee gushed just to make her stop talking about underwear!
“Aunt Alice, when did anda know that this was going to happen? I mean, it would have been nice to have a little lebih warning.”
“Nessie, when was the last time anda looked in a mirror? I didn’t have to see the future to know this event was about to happen.” Alice looked at Bella with a smug little smirk on her face and reprove,
“anyone who was paying attention could have told anda what was happening.”
“Nessie, open mine and Uncle Emmett’s next.” Rosalie handed her a small black velvet box. Renesmee sighed with happiness as she lifted a single zamrud, emerald suspended from a delicate silver chain.
“It’s beautiful, Aunt Rose. Thank anda so much!”
“It was Emmett’s idea. It belonged to his grandmother, and he really wanted anda to have it.”
“But, Aunt Rose, shouldn’t anda have it?”
“No Nessie, we both want anda to have it. Your eyes really are the perfect colour for emeralds.”
Jasper’s gift took her breath away. It was an authentic civil war fife. His card stated simply,
“This belonged to a friend of mine; I look ke hadapan to hearing anda play it.”
“Aunt Alice? Are anda sure?” These gifts are so extravagant.
“Of course sweetheart!”
Bella handed her a black A4 sized case. Renesmee smiled at her mother. She opened the lid slowly, to see an oval shaped locket. She picked it out of the case and looked amazed. She looked back at her mum and leaped at her to give her a hug.
“Thank anda so much mum, this is perfect” Bella hugged her back.
“I’m glad anda like it Ness” Renesmee sat back in her seat.
“I Cinta it” Alice helped Renesmee put it on.
“This is from both of us.” Esme handed her a heavy green box. Inside, wrapped carefully in archival paper, was an ancient Bible. The well-preserved leather cover appeared incredibly fragile. She sat it down on the meja, jadual with reverence knowing exactly what it was, knowing that her name and tarikh of birth was inscribed in that ancient tome under her parents names. The entire Cullen family pokok was in that book.
“Esme, this is too much. anda can’t give me Carlisle’s family Bible!”
“Yes we can, Renesmee and we insist anda take it. Your studies of historical preservation qualify anda to care for it properly. Besides, who better to give it to than the only member of our family that can pass it on to her children?”
That’s when she realized this was lebih than just a rite of passage celebration. Each gift was a family heirloom; a priceless treasure that should have been handed down from father to son, and mother to daughter. There would be no sons atau daughters for Rose and Emmett, Alice and Jasper, atau Esme and Carlisle. All of their human hopes and dreams had died years ago, when they became immortal. Renesmee’s coming of age was a new beginning for all of them. Her children would be their children. For the first time in her life, Renesmee was thankful that she was indeed half-human.
Edward slowly walked into Renesmee’s bedroom, while she was still asleep. He knelt down in front of her bed.
“Hey Ness, I‘m going now sweetie” his hand stroking her forehead. Her eyes threatened to open.
“When will anda be back” her eyes opening as her voice went from groggy to normal.
“I‘ll be back in a week atau two” he smiled when she grabbed his hand and said.
“Be safe, dad”
“I Cinta anda Renesmee” he kissed her forehead and walked out of her bedroom. Edward, Emmett, Jasper and Carlisle were going on a camping trip, leaving Renesmee there with the girls of the house.
“Alice are anda absolutely sure? anda know how subjective your visions can be, especially concerning Nessie. She is just so young!”
“Yes, Bella, I’m sure. This is not something anda choose, it just happens. Like the weather and I’m always right about the weather.”
Great, now we’re going to discuss the weather? What is going on?”
Alice turned to look at Renesmee.
“Nessie, how old are anda now?”
Okay, from the weather to my age, why does everyone worry so much about my age? It’s freaking hilarious. No one in my entire family has a realistic age! Three-hundred year-old Carlisle tries so hard to look older, but he barely passes for thirty. Dad is almost one hundred years older than Mum, but they’ll both be teenagers forever…
“Umm… it’s not a difficult soalan Nessie.” Alice was still waiting for an answer.
“Actual Age atau Earth Years?”
Alice just smirked, raised her eyebrows and waited. Renesmee knew no one counted Earth Years except her mum.
“My AA is sixteen but I’m due for an update seterusnya week.”
“Did anda hear that, Bella? sixteen.”
The Actual Age kemaskini were Carlisle’s idea. Renesmee had grown from a tiny seed to a fully formed infant in less than two months. She was born with a full set of teeth and she could talk when she was only a week old. At three months, she could run. She had read the entire Harry Potter series twice before her first birthday.
Everyone, except Bella, agreed that it made lebih sense to calculate Renesmee’s “Actual Age” sejak evaluating her physical, intellectual and emotional growth. She wasn’t too crazy about the updates; it involved those darn needles and lots of boring educational and psychological tests.
The only good thing about the constant kemaskini was every time she passed a major benchmark Alice would throw a party.
“How much biology have anda studied, Nessie?” Alice’s voice interrupted her thoughts.
“Not much, why? Dad says I need to master chemistry and physics first. Besides, I like art and literature much lebih than the sciences. So I don’t really care.”
“This is crazy! But it also sounds just like Edward! We need to put someone else in charge of your education.” Alice paused and asked,
“Has anyone talked to anda about puberty atau menstrual cycles?”
“Well, I think puberty is when humans are old enough to have babies. But I haven’t heard anything about men’s true cycles.”
“Oh dear,” Alice sighed.
“I can’t believe this!” Alice narrowed her eyes and shot a disapproving glance at Bella. She turned back to Renesmee and then kindly asked, “Do anda know how Bayi are made?”
“Alice! One thing at a time.” Bella groaned and pinched the bridge of her nose, a habit she had acquired from Edward.
“Seriously? Come on, Aunt Alice, everyone knows that,” Renesmee scoffed.
“Well the father’s rockets fly to the mother’s moon and then the moon turns into an infant over time then, its ready to come into the world”
“Where did anda hear that story?” Alice asked, obviously laughing.
“Auntie Rose.” Alice, Bella and Esme all looked at Rosalie with matching expressions of incredulity.
“Sorry, but that was basically the story I got the first time I asked. Only instead of ‘it’s ready to come into the world‘, the midwife came and helped get the baby out through the belly button. I knew Nessie wouldn’t believe that. To be fair, Nessie’s AA at the time was only fourteen.”
“Will somebody please tell me what is going on?” Renesmee begged.
Alice darted upstairs and was back in less than a second. She inserted a DVD into the audio-visual system, grabbed the remote and pulled Renesmee down onto the sofa, kerusi panjang beside her.
“I thought we might need this soon, so I picked it up on my last trip into town as well as a few supplies. Why don’t we all watch this together and then we can answer any soalan Renesmee might have.”
The content of the “Puberty for Dummies” DVD was presented in an overly simplified manner, so when Alice asked if she had any questions, Renesmee Nodded her head.
“Yeah I do. How do the ‘rockets‘ manage to get to the ‘moon‘?”
Renesmee was lebih than embarrassed. She was disturbed and confused.
“But anda berkata I was a surprise. How could that be a surprise?” She couldn’t hold back a reflex shudder.
*The seterusnya morning*
There’s just no way to hide the scent of blood from a house full of vampires. Renesmee woke up with bad cramps surrounded sejak all the woman of the family. Esme, Alice and Rosalie were beaming at her, and Bella was trying hard to smile, not quite pulling it off.
Alice leaped gracefully onto her katil and held out two boxes.
“Which do anda prefer Ness? Pads or….”
Before she could finish the question, Esme, Rosalie and Bella exclaimed in agreement,
“Pads!” they all started to laugh, even Bella. Renesmee might have gotten mad at them for laughing at her but it was such a relief to see her mum smile again, that she just joined in and laughed until she cried. Then she cried. For real. She didn’t know why she was crying but she was. Bella hugged her and said.
“It‘s okay sweetheart”
After she showered and got dressed, she was afraid to go out into the common area where everyone hangs out when they aren’t in their rooms. Alice knocked on her door and then waltzed in without waiting for an invitation. Renesmee looked at her with reproach, but Alice just smiled and said,
“You were going to invite me in another thirteen seconds. Come on! Let’s go! We’re going to have a party!”
Renesmee usually loved parties, but she didn’t want to leave her room just yet.
“Not today Alice, I think I’ll just hang out in my room, OK?”
“No it is not OK! I refuse to let anda start Berlakon like your mother! Now come on!”
Alice continued to drag her into the commons. She had cards and presents from everyone, even the guys. Everyone knew she had to open Alice’s gift first, even Alice, but she still bounced around on her toes chanting,
“Mine first! Mine first!”
Renesmee lifted the lid, and pulled back several layers of pastel tissue paper. She didn’t recognize the lacy little scraps of fabric at first. Pink, purple, red, black and white seemed to float on air inside the box. Renesmee’s face turned bright red as Alice plucked one of the items out of the box and held it up to her chest as if checking to see if it fit.
“Alice! That is not appropriate for….”
“Oh come on Bella! She isn’t a little girl anymore! And anda have to agree that these little bras and panties are quite modest, yet still feminine…”
“Thank anda Alice” Renesmee gushed just to make her stop talking about underwear!
“Aunt Alice, when did anda know that this was going to happen? I mean, it would have been nice to have a little lebih warning.”
“Nessie, when was the last time anda looked in a mirror? I didn’t have to see the future to know this event was about to happen.” Alice looked at Bella with a smug little smirk on her face and reprove,
“anyone who was paying attention could have told anda what was happening.”
“Nessie, open mine and Uncle Emmett’s next.” Rosalie handed her a small black velvet box. Renesmee sighed with happiness as she lifted a single zamrud, emerald suspended from a delicate silver chain.
“It’s beautiful, Aunt Rose. Thank anda so much!”
“It was Emmett’s idea. It belonged to his grandmother, and he really wanted anda to have it.”
“But, Aunt Rose, shouldn’t anda have it?”
“No Nessie, we both want anda to have it. Your eyes really are the perfect colour for emeralds.”
Jasper’s gift took her breath away. It was an authentic civil war fife. His card stated simply,
“This belonged to a friend of mine; I look ke hadapan to hearing anda play it.”
“Aunt Alice? Are anda sure?” These gifts are so extravagant.
“Of course sweetheart!”
Bella handed her a black A4 sized case. Renesmee smiled at her mother. She opened the lid slowly, to see an oval shaped locket. She picked it out of the case and looked amazed. She looked back at her mum and leaped at her to give her a hug.
“Thank anda so much mum, this is perfect” Bella hugged her back.
“I’m glad anda like it Ness” Renesmee sat back in her seat.
“I Cinta it” Alice helped Renesmee put it on.
“This is from both of us.” Esme handed her a heavy green box. Inside, wrapped carefully in archival paper, was an ancient Bible. The well-preserved leather cover appeared incredibly fragile. She sat it down on the meja, jadual with reverence knowing exactly what it was, knowing that her name and tarikh of birth was inscribed in that ancient tome under her parents names. The entire Cullen family pokok was in that book.
“Esme, this is too much. anda can’t give me Carlisle’s family Bible!”
“Yes we can, Renesmee and we insist anda take it. Your studies of historical preservation qualify anda to care for it properly. Besides, who better to give it to than the only member of our family that can pass it on to her children?”
That’s when she realized this was lebih than just a rite of passage celebration. Each gift was a family heirloom; a priceless treasure that should have been handed down from father to son, and mother to daughter. There would be no sons atau daughters for Rose and Emmett, Alice and Jasper, atau Esme and Carlisle. All of their human hopes and dreams had died years ago, when they became immortal. Renesmee’s coming of age was a new beginning for all of them. Her children would be their children. For the first time in her life, Renesmee was thankful that she was indeed half-human.
It is being reported that Taylor Lautner snagged an amazing 7.5 million to bintang in Northern Lights opposite Tom Cruise. Nikki Finki has deduced that with this sum of money Lautner has sky rocketed to being the highest paid teenaged actor in Hollywood over Zac Efron and Miley Cyrus. peminat-peminat of Twilight might think he’s worth the price tag, but as Cinema Blend points out, Lautner hasn’t carried a film on his own yet which makes the paycheck that much lebih impressive.
“Given that Lautner hasn’t carried a single movie without the word Twilight in the title, that’s a pretty significant gamble. Robert Pattinson’s projects beyond Twilight haven’t really gone anywhere, though granted, he hasn’t been groomed as a new bintang sejak a studio in the same way. But can the Twilight effect carry on without Bella lurking somewhere in the frame?”
January 2, 2010 ·
Coming in at number 4 the infamous crash scene from Twilight, on Moviefones bahagian, atas 25 Movie Moments of the Decade.
How could anyone ever forget that scene? When I first read Twilight, and read that part, the hair was standing up on my arms and I held my breath. To actually see that on the big screen was amazing. That one scene set all future events for the Twilight Saga in place, and marked the beginning of Bella and Edward’s journey. Even though it was not exactly like the book — it was dead on in all the important aspects. I was quite pleased with how that scene turned out.
This is a poem I wrote in my spare time. I morphed it into a song and entered a contest with it. I won 3rd place! Hope anda like.
Repeat: This is about TWILIGHT. No other books.
Going in alone.
No turning back.
I have good intentions,
But this might be my last chance.
I wonder, is the choice I'm about to make,
Really the path I should take.
Hunting me down,
Evil dreams,
Lurking in the shadows,full of pain.
Don't understand,
I'm tired of mind games,
But in the mirror, it's all the same.
Blink of an eye,
Might actually have to say goodbye,
But I hear the voice of my guardian angel,
Calling my name.
Not my last fight,
Not my last hope,
Not my last wish,
Not my last breath...
For now, my hati, tengah-tengah is mending,
but I'm still alive.
This is about the confrontation with James at the end of the book.
I hope anda like it. Rate and review. I'm having doubts...
Repeat: This is about TWILIGHT. No other books.
Going in alone.
No turning back.
I have good intentions,
But this might be my last chance.
I wonder, is the choice I'm about to make,
Really the path I should take.
Hunting me down,
Evil dreams,
Lurking in the shadows,full of pain.
Don't understand,
I'm tired of mind games,
But in the mirror, it's all the same.
Blink of an eye,
Might actually have to say goodbye,
But I hear the voice of my guardian angel,
Calling my name.
Not my last fight,
Not my last hope,
Not my last wish,
Not my last breath...
For now, my hati, tengah-tengah is mending,
but I'm still alive.
This is about the confrontation with James at the end of the book.
I hope anda like it. Rate and review. I'm having doubts...
sejak Twilight_News
There is a casting scam going on regarding Breaking Dawn that has caught a couple of people. Lana Veenker, who cast several of the roles in Twilight, explains how the scam works and how not to get caught up in something like that!
“If you’ve been around my blog for a while, anda know how much we hate, HATE, HATE scam artists who prey on aspiring actors and movie peminat-peminat (especially kids) with fake casting calls.
A new one involving Breaking Dawn, the final installment in the Twilight series, has come to my attention. BE WARNED! As I’ve done in the past, I’m going to dissect it, tunjuk anda all the red flags and demonstrate how I did the research to uncover the scam artist behind it all.
So seterusnya time anda get an e-mel like the one below atau see something online that sounds too good to be true, you’ll know how to dissect it yourself to find out if it’s bogus atau for real. Take note!