Sunlight - Book 3

Chapter 11

As the day continued on I began to worry about my parents finding out about my detention. I was only half focused during all my 'before lunch' classes trying to think of a way to keep what was done a secret.

My father said I had a mental shield so maybe if I figured out how to put that up then I could keep him out of my thoughts. But still, how would I know if it was up or not without anyone to test me?

The other worry I had was my aunt Alice. What if she saw and was going to tell my dad. That would ruin everything before I had a chance to do anything.

As the final class before lunch ended I quickly left the class and found some secludedness in a unoccupied courtyard just outside the photography classroom. I quickly dialed my aunt Alice and waited as it rang.

"Hello missy." Alice answered she sounded annoyed.

"Er. Hi Alice." I responded.

"How is school going?"

I sat down on one of the benches and ran my fingers through my hair. "It's going alright."

"What's going on Renesmee?" she asked.

"Don't you already know?" She was gifted with precognition she shouldn't ever be in the dark when it came to events happening so surely she should know right?

"One second Renesmee." I heard someone talking in the background. "Absolutely not that goes in the summer line and that doesn't go out until April. This section right here needs to be replaced with the winter line that is on the floor. This entire wall."

"What are you doing Alice?" I asked curiously.

She laughed. "Just setting up the shop. I have my own clothing boutique now. You should find the time to come and see it. Business is blooming."

"I bet. Your eye for fashion is wonderful."

Alice sighed. "Okay, enough sidelining me what is going on with you?"

I was silent as I debated whether or not to tell her what was going on? Anyways she should already know right? She can see the future.

"Renesmee Carlie Cullen...." She snapped.

"I got a detention."

Now it was Alice's turn to be silent.

"Are you going to tell dad?" I asked worridly.

"This is a difficult position that you have me in. But no I will let you tell him yourself. Confessing that you have gotten yourself into trouble is part of growing up." She explained.

Great. I could see that this was evidently going no where. I was trapped and couldn't do a thing. I had detention after school meaning my driver would have to wait. I just knew that if I didn't show up right away they would call my parents and then my dad would ask where I was.

"Okay. Well thank you."

"Just make sure you do it. You will feel alot better." There was another voice in the background. "Tell the delivery guy to bring it around the back and I will be there in a moment to check inventory."

"Let me guess you need to go?" I said sadly.

"Yes but I will see you for your party this weekend."

After our goodbyes I hung up. So I needed to tell my dad. Sighing I pressed the speed dial button and brought the phone up to my ear. It ran three times before he answered.

"Renesmee?"

"Dad I just called to ask you if you could change the time for the car to pick me and Tyler up after school. Maybe two hours after school gets out if that's alright."

"What is going on?" he proceeded to ask.

I nervously tucked a trendil behind my ear. What would I tell him? That I got detention?

"There are tryouts for the lacrosse team today and I want to go." I lied quickly. I felt my cheeks enflame as I blushed madly. If my father was here right now he would know that I was lying.

"Okay. Make sure you call us before and after you are done. Then once more when Roxette picks you kids up."

"Yes father."

"Have a nice day."

When I hung up I felt the tears behind my eyes threaten to burst. I can't believe I lied to my dad. I never lied to my dad. I am such a horrible daughter.

"Hey are you alright?" An unfamilar male's voice asked.

Wiping my eyes quickly I turned towards the sound. "I'm fine." I lied as my eyes fell on a boy with red hair and green eyes.

He warily took a seat across from me and propped his head up with his elbow. "I didn't mean to intrude on your emotional moment but I don't think you are alright." He smiled and I immeadiately felt my stomach sink.

"I don't want to talk about it." I said as I wrung my hands nervously under the table. I had an uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach.

"I'm a good listener." he then added.

I looked at him and then quickly turned my gaze away. Something about this boy made me feel uncomfortable. Maybe it was just his unfamilar presence. I mean this is the first time I met him. I looked at him again and he was staring at me, he suddenly smiled. That had to be it.

This could possbily be another chance to make another friend. I could always use more friends right? If I talked to him then maybe he would want to be mine.

I sighed before turning to look at him. His green eyes were intense as they held mine. It made me feel uncomfortable so I moved my hands to the table top and resorted to staring at them.

"I lied to my father." I said plain and simple. Suddenly the memory of it brought me to tears again. Burrying my face in my hands I let the tears fall out. "I never lied to my father before about anything. I'm a bad person." I wailed.

The boy with the red hair moved over to my side and wrapped his arm around me and pulled me into his arms.

"Hey its okay." He crooned to me like my father did whenever he tried to soothe me.

After a minute the tears finally stopped.

"My name in Gregory." He said finally introducing himself.

I smiled. "I'm Renesmee."

"It's nice to meet you Renesmee." He looked over his shoulder towards the entrance of the courtyard and then back to me. "So how old are you?"

"I'm 16."

"That's wonderful. How long have you been going to school here?"

I blushed as I turned my head away. "This is my first year. Before this I was home schooled." I half-lied.

"Do you have a boyfriend?"

I shook my head. "No."

"Did you break up or something?"

I shook my head again. "I've never had a boyfriend."

"At all?"

"Never."

"Oh. I see."

He rose his hand and very slowly brushed my hair behind my ear. "You know I think you are very pretty. The prettiest girl in the school."

I felt my face flush and I knew I was red. "Thank you." I whispered.

"So, Renesmee since you don't have a boyfriend do you want to maybe be my friend with benefits?"

What was a friend with benefits? Was it like a best friend or something?

"I'm sorry I don't know what that means."

"Well if you want to I can show you what it means." He smiled at me and I felt my stomach clench unpleasantly.

I just looked at him confused from his friend with benefit proposal and the feeling in my stomach.

"So we will be friends?" I asked curiously.

Gregory smiled, bigger this time, and nodded his head. "Of course. I have lots of friends you can be another one."

I smiled sincerely. "Thats good because I've never had friends before I came to this school. I have one friend and now you will be my other."

Gregory narrowed his eyes. "So you have one friend besides myself?"

I blushed before nodding my head. "I've never been around anyone outside my family. This is the first time I get to."

"That's wonderful. I'll take you right under my wing. When I'm done with you, you will have so much experience you will want to give some away." He winked at me.

The lunch bell then rang signaling the end of the break. I rose to my feet and grabbed my back pack and my phone.

"Hey Renesme." Gregory called out.

"Do you want to hang out after school maybe?"

I frowned. "I can't I have detention with Mr. Hawthorne."

Gregory's eyes widened. "Well goodluck. Maybe tomorrow we can hang out during lunch. I'll show you a few things about how special our friendship is."

I smiled widely. "That would be wonderful."

I then walked off. My next class was Honors Calculus. This was one of my favorites.

As I entered the class I took a seat at my desk in the third row and brought out my paper and pencil. Then the teacher walked in. Her name was Mrs. Harvey. She was in her early thirties I presumed, with dirty blonde hair and brown eyes. Her figure was slender and she stood tall.

"Today you will have a pop quiz. This quiz will either make or break you for my class. If you get under 80% I would suggest you either take a lower class or get in line for a tutor. Once you are finished you may leave."

She began passing out the tests. Once I got mine I quickly began.

I breezed through all the questions easily and was the first one finished. After I turned in my paper I went back to my seat and gathered my things before I left. On the way out I got many strange looks from my classmates.

I had atleast thirty minutes before my next class. What would I do? I thought about the forest hide away that Tyler had showed me. That would be a good place to go. It was nice and secluded and serene.

Without a second thought I made the walk across the grounds, to the fence and into the woods. I easily found the spot where we had hung out the first time I met him and took a seat on the fallen tree. I closed my eyes and began thinking about things. The first thing that came to mind was my detention.

I frowned. Why did I have to open my mouth. What if my father ended up finding out. What if I can't control my shield and he finds out I was lying to him.

I took out my phone and dialed his number. Just like last time it rang three times and then he answered.

"Daddy I lied to you. I'm sorry I didn't mean to I just didn't want you to be mad at me." I said in one breath not giving him the chance to speak.

There was a long pause in which I only heard his unnessecary breathing. Then he spoke. "What did you lie to me about?" His voice was careful.

"About after school. I wasn't staying to try out for the game I was staying because I got detention from Mr. Hawthorne."

"What did you do?"

"I told him he couldn't give me a detention."

"Why did you say that?"

"Because I didn't do anything wrong. I thought he was talking to me when he said detention at lunch but he was talking to Tyler but before I realized that I told him he couldn't give me one." I was in tears at this point and breathing heavily. I felt so bad lying to my father. "Please don't be mad at me daddy I didn't mean to get in trouble I swear."

"Renesmee. Relax. I'm not mad."

I stopped crying. "You're not mad at me?"

"I could never be mad at you. After school do you detention and then come home. Just don't ever be afraid to come to me with things like this. I'm your father. I will always love you no matter what."

I smiled. "I love you daddy."

"I love you too Renesmee."

I then hung up. It felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. It was relieving.

"Hey again." I heard Gregory's now familiar voice call out.

I looked up and smiled. "Hi. What are you doing here?"

He shrugged his shoulders. "I was just hanging out at the field and saw you head this way so I thought I'd come and keep you company."

"Sure." I beamed as I patted a spot beside me.

Gregory walked over to my side and ran his hand along my leg before taking a seat close beside me. I felt uncomfortable as his body was close to mine. I didn't like the close proximity to this perticular guy. I didn't exactly know him well. Then again I didn't really know Tyler well either but I felt completely at ease beside him. Maybe it was just under the circumstances in which Tyler and I met. I was in a better mood then I was when I met Gregory.

"So I was thinkng that maybe instead of waiting tomorrow I can show you the special things about being a friend with benefits."

"Uh.... Okay I guess. You can show me."

His green eyes looked into mine and then very slowly he lifted his hand and slowly grazed his index finger from my ear, down my jaw line and then along my neck before stopping at the spot by my heart.

I felt a tingle run through my body and suddenly my pulse began speeding up. What was happening to me?

Then Gregory leaned in and kissed me once on my forehead and leaned back. I blinked confused. That was the first time anyone has every kissed me outside my family. Did that mean he cared about me like my family did?

After a few more seconds he leaned back towards me and kissed my on my nose. His long red hair tickled my face and I giggled as he leaned away.

He leaned back towards me once more but this time his lips were on mine. Several things happened in one split second. It was like my heart was the blades of a helicopter, it wanted to burst out of my chest. My stomach was fluttering sorta like butterflies were flapping their wings inside me. And lastly the feeling that I felt when I hugged Jake tightly and he hugged me back, when we were on our way home from Denali, ignited deep inside me. In a spot I never knew existed.

The feeling I felt was very pleasent and it made me want more. How did I get more? When I came back to reality I realized I was staring right at Gregory who was watching me intently.

"Are you okay?" He asked me.

I nodded my head. "I liked that."

Gregory smiled. "Have you never kissed a boy before?" he asked me.

I shook my head. "I've never felt what I'm feeling before either."

"What are you feeling?" he asked me his voice softer.

"I don't know but I want to feel it some more."

Then Gregory leaned in towards me and matched his lips to mine. Very slowly they moved against mine and the feeling was back.

My breathing began to quicken and my breathing became labored. The feeling was beyond word description. I just wanted more.

Then Gregory pulled away leaving me hanging. What no! I wanted more of this special feeling.

"Please?" I whispered to him.

"Do you like that?" He asked me with a slight grin.

I nodded my head quickly. "Please I want to feel it again."

He ran his fingers through my hair. "Oh you will but first I have to explain the rules of our friendship."

I listened.

"Our friendship is a secret."

I grinned. "I can keep a secret."

"You better. If anyone found out, especially your family they wouldn't let us be friends anymore and I wouldn't be able to make you feel good."

"Okay. I promise I won't tell."

"Secondly we can't be friends around others. If there are people around you and you see me pretend like you don't know me."

"Why?"

"Because they might get jealous and I don't want anyone angry at you."

"Okay."

I didn't want anyone angry at me either. The last time that happened, I thought back to when I assumed my father was mad at me and then before that, the baseball game with Emmett.

"Lastly. You can't talk about the things we do. They are also secrets."

"Okay. I promise I won't mess up."

Gregory grinned. "Good."

He leaned in and kissed me again. As if it was called the good feelings were back.