Today is my Seventeenth birthday, well technically it was my seventh but when it comes to my family we don’t exactly go by technical terms. I mean my dad was about a century old and didn’t really look a day over 21 and my granddad was about 400 years old, roughly but he didn’t look a day over 25. Then there was my best friend Jacob Black he had been 16 for nearly 10 years but he looked older than my dad appeared to be. My family was just complicated like that.

Anyways today was my ‘Seventeenth’ birthday and thanks to my Jacob I was sat in a suite at the Hilton hotel in New York. I don’t know how but he had managed to persuade my mum and dad, well mainly my dad, to let him take me away for the weekend for my birthday. Of course Aunt Alice wasn’t happy that she didn’t get to throw me a party but I’d made a compromise with her she could throw me a small party and take me shopping so I had some new clothes for the weekend. Of course saying that she could take me shopping cheered her up a lot we spent all day shopping, I’m just glad I have such a big closet otherwise I don’t know where I would have put all the extra clothes.

But anyway back to this weekend I was currently sat on the bed checking my emails. Granddad Carlisle and Grandma Esme had bought me a new laptop for my birthday so I could use it for school when I started in a few weeks. I couldn’t wait it would be my first time and Jake was coming back as well so he could finally graduate, the only down side was the rest of the family were coming as well. What normal teenager goes to high school with there parents and aunt’s and uncle’s, but then when what normal teenager was half vampire half human.

I finally got signed into my emails I had one from mum and dad. What a surprise.

Nessie,

Hope your flight was okay. Remember what we said about going out on your own. Don’t do it! At all! Don’t leave the hotel without Jacob for any reason.