Forever Is Shorter Than I Thought It Was

I gazed up at the dark gray clouds overhead. I wished it would be sunny again soon, I dreaded school. It was 6 a.m. and Edward still hadn't come back from his hunting trip with Jake and the rest of the Cullen men. "They'd better not be late for school, if I have to endure the first day of school alone, I'll be hunting them." I thought to myself as I was in the kitchen, admiring my old home. I'd missed the cottage so much when we left a couple of decades ago to Alaska.

I was just about to call the boys and threaten them about being late when Renesmee walked to her bathroom across the hall from her room. I still couldn't believe how fast she'd grown in such a short amount of time. She had a sixteen year old body, but in reality she was really 75 years old.

"'Morning Mom," she said to me, in her wind chime voice. "where's Dad and Jake?"

"Good morning Nessie. They're out hunting with Emmett and Jasper."

"Oh." Her angelic face dropped, but she recovered quickly. I knew that she loved seeing Jake in the morning and smelling his 'musky scent' as I heard her once say to him. "Well, I'm going to get ready, is Aunt Alice around? I need her to help me pick out an outfit, I don't know where anything is since she and Aunt Rose went out and bought 'Summer Clothes'." She made a face.

I heard the sound of tiny feet running to the cottage outside, and I knew it was Alice, since I could hear her heels.

"Your Fashion Guru has arrived!" Alice announced, in her chirpy voice.

Nessie smiled. "Good morning Alice, could you pick out an outfit for me? I need to get into the shower." She said, glancing at the clock on the wall. It was already 6:45 and the guys still hadn't shown up.

"Sure thing" Alice said happily with an evil glint in her eyes.

Renesmee was walking into the bathroom when she whipped around and gave Alice a stern look. "Nothing that has to do with heals."

Alice's face fell, and pouted at Nessie. "Please?" She asked.

"Not a chance. Mom, could you please go supervise her while I'm washing up?" Nessie asked me with pleading eyes.

"Sure, sure." I sighed as I followed Alice into Nessie's mall of a closet.

"Why aren't the guys home yet?" I asked Alice curiously.

She gave me a confused look. "They are home." She replied as she was looking at dresses.

"Then where's Edward?" I asked.

She hesitated. "I'm not sure…I would have thought that he would come home with the rest of them."

Huh. Where could he be? I missed him, silly as it might be. He had just left yesterday morning. I didn't like having him away from me. Still, after all these years together. I even still get butterflies in my stomach when I hear his name.

The front door opened, and Jake walked in with a smile on his face. I remembered –dimly- that I used to call that my smile, back when I was human and Nessie hadn't even been born yet. But this wasn't my smile; this smile was wider and brighter. Jake had really changed when Renesmee had reached her full growth. He was more romantic and careful. This was Nessie's smile.

"Mornin' Bells, Mornin' Shorty." He greeted Alice and me.

We greeted him in the same fashion when he suddenly gasped.

I ran to the kitchen to see what was up, then stopped and glared at him. Renesmee was wrapped in a towel with her beautiful curls falling down her back, with a blush on her face.

"Nessie, get inside your room," I said in my 'parental voice' as Jake would call it. I snapped my fingers at him "and you should go find Edward, I have to change."

Jake looked at me with a confused look on his flushed face. I guessed it was from checking out my daughter, and getting caught for while doing it.

"He's not here?" he asked.

"No…" I replied, giving him a confused look of my own. I would have thought he would've known that Edward wasn't here due to the fact that he had been with him only hours ago.

It seemed like he was thinking about something when his head suddenly snapped up and said "Hm." Looking behind me distractedly.

I turned around to see Renesmee coming out of her room with Alice in tow. She was wearing gray skinny jeans and a navy and white striped tunic. Over the tunic she wore a black blazer. Her red boots where pulled over her jeans, and she was gripping a red purse. Her beautiful curls flowed around her back and shoulders, her hair was so long it went down to her tiny waist. She had a scrowl on her beautiful face.

I sighed. She was just like me. Neither of us had much interest in fashion. A fact that Alice didn't want to accept.

I glanced at the clock, 7 a.m.

"Lets go!" Alice said cheerfully. She was wearing a silky gray shirt with white polka dots on it and it matched perfectly with her black heels and tights. Over the tights she was wearing a gray and black plaid skirt that went nicely with her black purse and bangles.

Alice was strolling to the door when she glanced at me and gave me a horrified look. She groaned when she saw that I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt.

"Bella! I thought I taught you better than this! What are you wearing?! This isn't a trip the Dump. We are going to the first day of school, for crying out loud!" She said as she pulled me into my room and plopped me down on the bed, scrolling through the racks of clothes I never bothered to look at, let alone wear.

I knew better than to argue, we were going to be late. So I kept my mouth shut when she threw my outfit at me.

I put on the black skinny jeans and the silver cami she had picked out for me to wear. Then I put on silver flats that matched the shirt perfectly, and we were off. I didn't bother to look in the mirror.

We walked out to the cars and I was still wondering were Edward was. The Volvo was gone. Maybe Carlisle needs him at the hospital. I thought as Jake drove us to Forks High School in his Mustang GT. It had been a long time since I'd been there. And it was Renesmee's first time at a school, the reason why I enrolled in the first place. I forced Alice to come with me. And so Alice forced Jasper, and Jasper forced Rosalie. Rose didn't need to force Emmett, he wanted to go. And Edward went where ever I did, so no forcing was needed with him either.

Rose decided to take her BMW. Emmett, Alice, and Jasper rode with her. Edward was supposed to be in the back of the mustang with me.

When we arrived, we had just enough time to inspect the newly renovated school. As I was following the others in, a still white figure caught my eyes.

Edward.

He was leaning against the Volvo with a smile on his lovely face. I crossed the parking lot over to him. He was holding on to a folded white piece of paper.

"Good morning, love" He said to me in his velvet voice. I kissed him in greeting. He wrapped his strong arms around my waist and pulled me in tighter. I guess we both got carried away, because a couple minutes later, Alice cleared her throat and I pulled away from him. If I was human, I would have been blushing 8 shades of red.

"Where were you this morning? And what's that?" I asked him after Alice had walked away, glancing down at the paper in his hands.

He smirked at me. "This, my love, is my new schedule. I had a talk with the principal, so now we have almost all of our classes together. That's why I wasn't at home this morning, I don't like the idea of the hormone-crazed teenage boys looking at you. And I can't stand being away from you for seven hours a day." He explained to me, glancing around the parking lot.

People were staring.

Well, boys were.

I laughed. "Edward, you're insane. I don't want anyone else but you, hence the marriage and my change." I said to him with a smile on my face.

He frowned, glancing down at my left hand. "I know, but you're not wearing your wedding band, and so they must think that you're available."

I sighed.

Edward's only objection to going to High School was the fact that neither of us could wear our wedding rings. I minded it as well, but I knew that people would think we were crazy to have been married and still in high school. And also too young, Edward and I would be posing as 17 year olds. Alice was as well. The three of us were juniors. Again.

Renesmee was 16, as was Jake. So they were both sophomores. Rose, Emmett and Jasper were posing as 18 year olds. They were seniors.

"Edward, don't worry so much. No matter where you are, my heart is always with you." He smiled down at me and gave me a peck on the lips.

We caught up with the rest of our family, and I reminded Nessie and Jake not to touch people, there temperatures would alarm the kids. We all stood in a line in front of Forks High School's doors, taking deep breathes, since there would be nothing but humans inside. I waved to my family with Edward as we headed off to our first class. People stopped and stared at us as we walked through the glass doors.

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