-Evening Sun- Book 1, Chapter 6 : Bliss
Sunday, January 2, 2011@4:26 PM
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Book 1: Renesmee
Chapter 6: Bliss
I saw myself stuck in a gigantic oven, and the oven was starting to heat up. After a minute or two, my skin felt like it was on fire, like sunbathing without sun block lotion. Ouch! Suddenly my arms started to burn, with intense heat. Then the rest of my body followed. It was unbearable, the pain was excruciating, like a thousand daggers, heated in a fire, were nudging against my cement-hard skin. Though my skin was impenetrable, but the tips of the blades were sharp and very hot. Nothing could escape that pain. My body felt like it was walking into a burning fire, a scorching, stinging fire. Something nice and cold embraced my skin, like ice. I wanted to see what was embracing me with that cool, soothing touch.
As I turned around, I saw Mommy. I was no longer in that oven. However, I still felt the heat, just not that intense as compared to in my oven dream. Uncle Jake was cradling me. Hmm... I’m already ten, and sooner or later I’d be 17, so should I start calling Uncle Jake as Jacob or Jake? I’ll ask.
“Hey, can I just call you Jake or Jacob, without the ‘uncle’? Because it makes you sound like you’re very old. You ARE only 16.”I explained.
“I was waiting for you to ask all this while, since your first birthday. It feels so much better listening to you calling me by my first name; ‘uncle’ makes me feel old.” He laughed.
When I peeked out of the window, I saw very little cars lined up along the road. The trees along the road were decorated beautifully with white satin fabric, hanging from tree to tree. Dim, yellow lights were hanging around tree branches and tied about tree trunks. When we were nearing our destination, the gigantic house came closer in my view. We parked all 3 cars in a line, and made our way to the house. The house was beautifully decorated with the same white satin fabric I saw hanging on the trees outside. Many flowers were placed along the sides of the stairs. I could very distinctively identify one of the flower scents. It was wildflower.
“Alice.” Mommy said, confident that her guess was right.
“What?” Aunt Alice replied nervously, not focusing on one spot for more than three seconds.
“Being the wedding planner again huh? Everything looks the same, just like when I officially got married to Edward.”
“You know I love to do things nice and pretty, and I love planning things too!”
They both started to giggle.
“Come on; let’s go help Kate and Tanya get ready for the ceremony. The guests are reaching soon.” Aunt Rosalie interrupted the giggling playfully and pulled Mommy and Aunt Alice up the stairs, while Grandma Esme followed closely behind, in a flash. “Take care of Renesmee, dog.”
“Sure thing, Blondie.”
Jake and Aunt Rosalie loved to argue. I’ve experienced all their heated conversations since I was just a few months old. They could find fault with each other on just about anything! It was always interesting and hilarious to hear their quarrels. They loved to call each other names.
We walked out into the night. The sun had set perfectly on time behind the trees, lost beyond the horizon. Not a slight tint of yellow or orange was brushed along the initially grayish clouds twenty minutes ago that were now black. Many chairs were lined up in rows and columns. We searched for the chairs that had our family’s names pasted on them, and there were exactly ten chairs lined up in the first row on the right side of the aisle. Carmen and Eleazar walked towards us from out of nowhere. Greetings, congratulations and thanks started to fill the air.
“So, who are the grooms?” Grandpa Carlisle asked.
I could hear Eleazar asking Carmen whether they should unveil this meant-to-be-a-surprise secret. Then, there was a slight discussion that all of us could actually hear, though muffled, but we could still decipher the exact words they were speaking. They finally came to a conclusion. According to Carmen, since we were considered their extended family, we were granted all insider information. Daddy laughed, probably because he was invading Eleazar’s head. Whatever Eleazar was thinking, it would probably explain his annoyed expression on his pale white face.
His eyebrows had fallen into a stubby, thick straight line across his forehead, his liquid-golden pupils seemingly his whole eye because his frowning made his eyes look really small that all the white was gone. He was obviously in great disagreement with Carmen on the ‘insider information’ situation. He was pouting like how a small kid would when he didn’t get things his way, or when his parents refuse to buy him a toy or ice-cream. To adults it would be taken in to mind as childish, but to me I felt that it was insanely cute, and if he were my younger brother I wouldn’t mind pinching his slightly-chubby cheeks. He looked like a teddy bear! So… Huggable.
“Okay! So remember Garrett? The curious one. He was with us few years ago when this little one’s life was being threatened by the Volturi?” She patted my head. I could see Daddy wince. It had been a tough time for him and Mommy, worrying about the Volturi wanting me dead, worser than the rest. “He followed Kate everywhere she went, as he had promised her on the battle field that if they had survived it he would do so. So eventually they decided to get married. It is the way one says ‘I love you’ in our world, right?”
Daddy smiled, like he was in reminiscence about something. “Yes. Of course it is. I remember when I told that to Bella while she was still human, and she said that marriage was just a piece of paper, and at her age it just meant that she got knocked up. Now she knows it’s more, huh?” He laughed. “So, getting back to the grooms, who’s Tanya marrying?”
“She’s marrying Pete!”
“Pete?” Uncle Emmett asked.
I could see Jake in deep thought. He must be like me, thinking ‘Who is Pete? American nomad? What coven? Or is he human?’
“Does he know?” Jake asked.
“Yes, Jacob.” Eleazar spoke under his breath.
“Is he...?” Jake asked again, inhaling deeply, then wincing. He had forgotten that the scents of the Denali Coven were unfamiliar and he wouldn’t be used to it yet, thus the wincing. I knew he meant whether Pete was human.
“Oh! No.” Carmen looked as if that question she deemed unexpected.
“Then, how?” I was being curious-me again. Daddy and Jake laughed, and Jake placed his humongous palm on my head, not exerting any force, and holding back some weight. The rest of the crowd chuckled softly, except for Uncle Emmett, whose laugh boomed as loud as a stereo set at half the maximum volume. He could be taken as the third one laughing, though he only meant to chuckle.
“Like Esme. Pete only remembers that some people in the woods had pushed him down a cliff, and he hit his head. He was knocked unconscious, then nothing. We found him in a bush near the shore. We think that someone near the shore saw him in the water, and tried to save him. However, he couldn’t wake up anymore and was as good as dead to human ears. So they just threw him into a bush and left. We were passing by on our way back from that battle few years ago, and we found him. Tanya insisted we save him and bring him back.”
Grandma Esme? What relation was between Pete and Grandma Esme’s near-death experience? I would have to ask her later, as now many guests were waltzing down the aisle to their respective seats.
“Oh! We got to go! We have to entertain the guests.” Carmen exclaimed, rushing.
Carmen and Eleazar left the perimeter quickly. Many guests started flowing in like luck knocking on the door during an auspicious day, like a river of water flowing down the stream. Soon, Aunt Alice, Aunt Rosalie, Grandma Esme and Mommy’s chatters and giggles could be heard, and it meant that they were done with Tanya and Kate, and the ceremony would be starting in a few moments. They took their seats accordingly.
“Mr. Weber? Wow! Alice, you still use him? He may see the difference in me! And Renesmee! Gosh, did you think about that matter?” Mommy questioned Aunt Alice really quickly and softly, too quick and too soft for human ears. It was too quick for Jake too, though he could hear it. I could identify each word she said in my mind.
“I told him already, that we went overseas for two years for mine, yours and Edward’s University schooling. Then you adopted Renesmee, out of kindness sake. He believed the story totally.” Aunt Alice explained patiently.
The ceremony started quickly, Tanya and Kate walking down the aisle with either Eleazar or Carmen, Pete and Garrett waiting at the other end, standing beside Mr. Weber. The same words about holy matrimony and wedding vows that I heard and read at least a million times, from all the movies and stories, ran in my mind again as Mr. Weber spoke. The only words that were altered were ‘Till death do us part’ to the more appropriate ‘as long as we both shall leave’. All the couples at the wedding were smiling sweetly. The four “I do’s” brought harmonious cheering and best wishes into the air.
The wedding flowed into the reception party smoothly—proof of Aunt Alice’s flawless planning. Both our families had the customary dance with Tanya, Kate, Pete and Garrett. Once it was midnight, everybody started making their way home. We bid our good-lucks and goodbyes to the newly-weds and their family, and, too, made our way back to Forks.
