A/N This is my first FanFic and I would really appreciate some feedback about it. I have worked hard at this and will update every two weeks. This story follows Renesmee's childhood from her first birthday and I would like to continue with other books that follow the rest of her life.

I don't own anything except the ideas of how the story changes.

Chapter 1- Birthday- 10 September 2007

I felt a beautiful, warm, soft hand stroke my face and I could smell the beautiful woodsy scent of the hands owner. Jacob; my Jacob.

'Wake up my beautiful Renesmee. Happy Birthday!' He excitedly said as my eyes fluttered open.

'Thank you Jakey! But what time is it? I want to go back to sleep!' I really wasn't a morning person; I wanted to stay in bed until later.

'It's almost nine in the morning Ness. And you have to get out of bed now or Alice is going to go mental!'

'Five more minutes?' I hoped.

'Not a chance birthday girl! Up you get!' And with that he pulled back the covers and carried me out the door. I was staying in my room in the cottage for now but in a week we were going to move to Canada, so this week I had to clean my room.

As Jake carried me into the lounge room I heard Aunt Alice giggle, she really wasn't very quiet for a vampire.

'Happy Birthday Renesmee!' Everyone yelled as Jake and I walked in.

Everyone then started to sing Happy Birthday to me, but all in a different language. Mum sang in English as she knew the least amount of languages, Alice sang in French, Jasper sang in German, Rosalie in Spanish, Emmett in English but a joke version and Daddy played the piano because he didn't like to sing. Nanna Esme and Grandpa Carlisle didn't sing but they stood in the middle of the room holding my presents. If anyone else was to sing one song in so many languages at the same time, they would've sounded horrible but my family made it work.

After they finished singing I noticed that Uncle Jasper had a camera and kept taking photos every few seconds and Uncle Emmett had a video camera recording everything. My family went a bit insane in recording every part of my short childhood.

Aunt Alice then leapt forward and pulled me into her arms for a bone crushing hug. I was then passed around like a parcel in pass the parcel with my parents the last to claim me.

'Happy Birthday darling, we love you so much.' Mum whispered in my ear.

'More than my own life.' Daddy repeated, I had heard that phrase so many times in the past year.

Nanna then announced that it was time for me to open my presents. From her and Grandpa I got a simple silver chain necklace that had a small pendent on it of our family crest.

'Once you have been part of the family for a year you get your own piece of jewellery with the crest. It is a bit of a tradition we have going on that your grandfather started when we got married.' Nanna explained to me.

I touched each of their cheeks and gave them a silent thank you, it's beautiful.

From Aunt Rose and Uncle Em I got a box filled with old books and movies that they thought I would enjoy. Aunt Alice and Uncle Jaz got me a suitcase filled with clothes and some vouchers to go and get more.

Mum and Daddy's present was next. The each took one of my hands and led me outside the cottage and covered my eyes. They then walked around the side of the cottage and took their hands off of my eyes. In front of me was a bike! My first bike! It was different to most bikes aimed and children my age. You see, although today is one year since I was born, I age the same amount in three months that a human does in a year. This meant that I was physically the same as a four year old but I had the brain capacity of a vampire and was much smarter than a four year old.

This bike looked like it was built for speed. It was shiny and black, with thin wheels like a racing bike, but was much smaller. It still looked a little big for me, but that was good because I wanted to keep it longer than three to six months. It was beautiful and I guessed that it would've been either custom made or my family made it.

Thank you so much! I pushed into both of my parents heads, before I let go of their hands and ran to the bike. I carefully moved the bike away from the wall it was leaning on and wheeled it over to where my parents and Jake were standing.

'So who is going to teach me to ride this?' I asked them.

'Well Nessie, I think you should go inside, have some breakfast, get dressed and then you can choose who gets to teach you. How does that sound?' Daddy replied.

'Okay Daddy. Jake, would you like to teach me how to ride my bike? Please?'

'Anything for you Nessie. But I am really hungry, so let's have breakfast first. Okay?' Jacob replied.

'Sure, sure.' I smiled at the use of Jake's phrase.

For the rest of the morning, Jacob taught me how to ride my bike. I was pretty good at it and after one lap around the big house with Jacob holding onto the back of my seat he let go. He kept running next to me for another half hour, steadying me when I needed it but that wasn't often.

At around twelve thirty in the afternoon, my party guests started to arrive. First Grandpa Charlie came in the cruiser with Sue and Billy. Then Sam and Emily, Paul and Rachel, Jared and Kim, Quil and Claire, Seth, Leah, Embry, Brady, and Collin all came to the big house. They were the pack members who had continued to phase after the Volturi incident happened nine months ago.

The other wolves had all decided that they didn't want to be a wolf and they stopped as soon as they had enough control, and they went on with their lives, and I didn't really know them. I had expected that Sam, Paul and Jared might stop phasing soon to grow old with their imprints but Grandpa Carlisle made the discovery that the imprints all aged rather slowly; around one year of age every five years. So physically all of the wolves were still older than the girls and would be for a long time. We had also found that Claire was aging slightly faster than other girls her age, but only subtly and nothing like my aging. She would just be one of those girls that people call and early bloomer or something; I still didn't completely understand that.

Once all of the guests were here Alice came out of the house to drag me off of my bike and inside for my party. As soon as I was inside I ran, at human speed, to Grandpa Charlie to give him a hug. I was used to seeing him at least once a week and now I was moving away! I was going to come back to Forks with Mum and Daddy and Jacob once a month but I still wanted to stay here.

'Happy first birthday, Nessie!' He said to me as he hugged me tightly.

'Thank you Grandpa!'

After a few minutes Grandma Esme and Aunt Rose brought all of the food out for everyone to eat. They had cooked lots of party food like mini pies, sausage rolls, hot dogs and some other dishes like salads and a pasta bake. Everyone dug in and laughed at Claire, who had put up a bit of a fuss when Quil tried to give her some of the salad.

Then it was time for my presents. Sue (who was seeing Grandpa Charlie and living with him) I got a box full of hair stuff and play make up. You might think that because we had all of this money that I wouldn't be interested in play make up, but I was still a little kid and I really did want to go and play with it.

From the wolf girls (the imprints and Leah) I got a beautiful handmade dream catcher that they had obviously put a lot of effort into. It was a large wooden hoop wrapped in red brown coloured cotton with the cotton making the web designs through the hoop. Hanging from the bottom of it on thin leather strips was an assortment of feathers and a large carved wolf charm. I thought it was absolutely beautiful and I hugged them all.

Leah and I had a weird relationship. Everyone expected her to hate me and I think that at first she only hated the idea of me not actually me. But after the Volturi incident passed, she accepted me and got to know me, and we now saw each other as sisters. We usually got along well but could have our disagreements.

Billy and Charlie had put some money together and bought me a little fishing rod because about a month ago they had taken me with them and I loved it. It was really weird but I loved just sitting there in the boat and watching the fish swim around under us. My eyesight was good enough that from sitting in the boat I was able to see that a shark had swam underneath us. But when I told Grandpa and Billy, they couldn't see it and Grandpa started reciting his motto of 'need to know' over and over again.

From all of the wolves I got a necklace that was made of thin leather strips that had some small coloured stones weaved into it and a small wolf charm that someone had carved that was the same colour as Jacob's wolf form. They later told me that Jacob had carved the charm, and it was absolutely beautiful. The charm was just like tho one that Mum had on her bracelet that Jake gave her when she was human.

Everyone hung around for the next few hours and I spent a lot of that time trying out my new make up on Claire, Leah and I even got bit of eye shadow on Seth when he fell asleep on the couch because he had patrol last night. After Emmett took a few photos on his phone, we woke him up and it was possibly the funniest thing that happened all day.

At around six o'clock Jacob walked up to me and picked me up.

'Nessie, I have another present for you! Actually it is from the pack as well, but it was my idea first!' He sounded quite proud when he said that it was his idea. In the last year the packs had reformed and Jacob was now the Alpha of all the wolves with Seth as his Beta and Sam was just a wolf, not a leader. This is what he had wanted as he felt like he needed to spend more time with Emily and he didn't want to have so much responsibility.

'What is it Jakey?'

'Close your eyes and you will find out.' He whispered mysteriously into my ear.

Just then Mum walked up, gave me a hug and put a blindfold over my eyes before once again saying happy birthday and walking off, to Daddy I presume.

After Mum had moved away Jake started walking outside and got into the backseat of a car with me. I smelled Sam and Emily so I presumed that it was their car. Someone then started driving and we headed towards La Push. We drove for around twenty minutes and when Jake opened the car door I could smell the sea, forest and something burning.

'Surprise Nessie! We are having a little pack party for you! And the elders have come and they are going to tell you the stories and then I have something very important to tell you, don't worry, your parents already know everything and they are okay with it.' Jake told me as he took off my blindfold, revealing the cliffs that I had always been able to see from First Beach but had never been on top of.

For the next hour or so I watched all of the wolves, their imprints and the elders cook hotdogs on stretched out wire coat hangers and drink huge amounts of soft drinks straight from the bottle. I didn't need to eat very often and had already had two meals today so Jake gave me a small bottle of lemonade to drink instead of having a hotdog, and lemonade was my favourite thing to drink apart from blood.

After everyone had had their fill Billy started to tell the stories. The whole pack was there with their girlfriends and Quil had even brought Claire with him. The stories that Billy told were the ones of the Spirit Warriors and Taha Aki. Quil's Grandpa, who everyone called Old Quil, then told the story of the third wife and when he told that I instantly made the connection of between the third wife and Taha Aki's relationship and how it ws like some of the wolves relationships with their girlfriends.

After the stories were told Jake asked me if I wanted to go for a walk and he took me down to the beach where we sat on a big white log that looked like it was a whole tree that washed up onto the beach in a storm.

'When you heard the story of the third wife, what did you think?' Jacob asked me.

'I thought that it was really special how he loved her more than his own life and that he wasn't able to return to his human form after she killed herself to save the tribe. I also thought that I had seen that sort of relationship before and then I decided that it was just like how Sam and Emily, Jared and Kim, Paul and Rachel are. Then I thought about it more and it was very similar to how Quil and Claire are. And You and me.' I said the first part of this little speech very confidently and then as I got to the part about us I started to talk a little quieter and less confidently.

'You are such a smart girl Nessie, and I am glad that you made the connection so quickly and understand that it doesn't just happen like in the story, but can be different as well.' He seemed a little nervous now. 'We have a new name for it now instead of a spirit wife, we call it an imprint. The story says that it is really rare but it is happening quite a lot with this pack and I imprinted on you when you were born.'

What does it mean? I used my gift to ask.

'Well, it means that I am whatever you want me to be. I can be your big brother, your best friend or anything else that you need me to be. But I am always going to be yours.' He said the last bit with conviction.

So Sam, Paul, Jared and Quil have all imprinted and they are whatever the girls want them to be? I was a bit confused because Sam and Emily were getting married soon but Quil was like Claire's abused babysitter. Did the girls decide that this is what they wanted?

'Yes Nessie, they all imprinted and the older girls all fell in love with their wolf but because Claire is so young they are like brother and sister. Maybe one day she will love him, but for now he is happy just to play with her.'

Does that mean that one day we will love each other like that? I was curious now; it was such a strange thing to happen.

'Maybe, but the decision is all yours. I am only telling you this now so that you will know why I am moving with you guys to Canada. I don't want you to feel like I am leaving my family and home behind because where ever you are in the world is where my home is. Okay Nessie?'

'Sounds good to me. So you are really coming with us to Canada?' I was really happy now because even though Mum and Daddy were bringing me back to Forks once a month to visit everyone, I still knew that I would miss Jacob if he didn't come with us.

After we talked a bit more Jake picked me up and carried me back to the top of the cliffs where the fire was. I was starting to get a little bit sleepy and I could see that Clair was as well. Jake sat down next to Quil, who had Claire in his lap wrapped up in a blanket, and I reached up to Jake's face to show us sitting like that. So he grabbed a blanket from behind him and wrapped me up like a little present.

As I sat there thinking about how much of a great day I had, I fell asleep. It was nice and warm and soft here in Jacob's arms. He was my Jacob and nothing would ever change that.