Meeting the Cullens
This is what would have happened if Bella had chosen Jacob, and me and my friend Lily had come to Forks…. Quick disclaimer, I unfortunately did not write and do not own twilight.
First Chapter – Moving
Eighteen, and already we'd moved out and found our own place. Lily and I had moved from Surrey (in England) all the way to Forks in Washington. I moved so that I could get back to a place I had lived when I was a child. Well, I had lived in the south of Texas, but Forks reminded me of England, because of the weather, but was in America, where I felt most comfortable. Lily had moved with me because we had been best mates since year 7, and could never be separated, lest the space/time continuum explode (not really, but sounds dramatic, don't it?). She also wanted a taste of life in the USA, to see if it lived up to her expectations ad stereotypes. Which it did.
So we had bought our own house in a quiet, dreary town, and had flown out to see what we were getting ourselves into. We caught the flight from Gatwick, and flew all the way to Washington. It was amazing how many times the weather changed. It literally went rainy-cloudy-sunny-windy-rainy-hailstorm-sunny. When we finally landed after the almost 20 hour flight, we were slightly jetlagged, and as it was one o'clock in the morning in England, we got a taxi straight to our new house. We arrived to find that our movers hadn't arrived yet, which was surprising as the company we moved with said our things would be there before we were. Nevertheless, we opened up, set some blankets on the floor of what would be our living room, chatted, and fell asleep. About an hour later, there was a knock on the door.
"Just a sec!" Lily called out. "Can you get that?" she said, right before falling straight back to sleep. Thanks Lilz.
I got up, stretched, and walked briskly to the door. I opened it, and was absolutely stunned. There, was a pale skinned, redheaded GOD. And right next to him, an even paler skinned gorgeous blonde boy, whom I instantly thought was a statue, the way he stood there so still.
"Hello, I'm Edward Cullen, and this is my brother, Jasper." The redhead said.
"H-h-hi." I stammered. "Lily, c'mere a sec darlin."
"Eff off I'm trying to sleep." Was the reply.
"Come meet people. NOW." I ordered.
"All right all right keep your clothes on… woooooooooah." Was what she said as soon as she came to the door.
"Lily, this is Edward and Jasper. Edward and Jasper, this is Lily. And I'm Sally by the way. What brings you here?"
"Well we were wondering if you needed any help to unpack? We're very strong and fast." Jasper said, with a little wink towards his brother. I wasn't sure what it was, but somehow Edward seemed very distant, as though he had just been through a great tragedy, and come out fighting.
"We'd love some help, but our stuff hasn't actually arrived yet. I've been meaning to call the company, but my mobile doesn't work out here and we don't have a landline yet."
"Well then, how would you like to come to our house, you can use our phone and meet the rest of our family." Said Jasper kindly.
"YES, we'd LOVE to." Lily said. And in an undertone: "if the rest of the family's as attractive as they are, I want to meet them."
Suddenly Edward smirked and stifled a little laugh.
"Ladies, if you'd care to step this way," Edward said, without taking his eyes off Lily.
So we followed them and got into a little silver Volvo. Edward seemed to drive just slightly faster than anyone else would, but he managed to keep control and not crash. We were there in five minutes. We stepped out of the car, and I looked on at the breathtaking view of their gorgeous manor house. We followed them inside, with Lily muttering things in my ear like 'Oh em gee, I am sooo marrying one of them.'
Jasper took my hand, I swear his hand was like ice, and lead me through the door. His family was all there, standing in a little group, with smiles lighting up their beautiful faces.
"Welcome to our home. My name is Esme, and this is my husband Carlisle. These are our children Rosalie, Alice and Emmett." Said the beautiful young woman who only looked three or four years older than her children.
"B-but you're so young!" Lily said what I was thinking.
"Well," said the girl who had been pointed out as Alice, "we're actually all adopted by Esme and Carlisle. We're all only a few years younger than them."
"Wow, that's really nice." I said, not the most amazing sentence I've ever strung together, but I didn't quite know what to say.
They lead us to their living room, lavishly furnished, but modestly so. We chatted for a while about how the move was, what it was like in England, and the usual niceties, before Edward tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I'd like to use their phone. I followed him back into the entrance, and he pointed to the phone. I thanked him, then picked it up and dialed. After being put on hold for a half hour, I gave up, and hung up. I turned around to find Jasper right behind me. It made me jump, I had no idea how long he'd been standing there.
"Get everything sorted?" He asked.
"Er, not quite. I was put on hold. Doesn't look like we'll be getting our stuff anytime soon. Ah well, sleeping on the floor again tonight."
"If you'd like, we have a lot of rooms in this house, you are welcome to stay as long as you need to?"
"That would be nice, but I wouldn't want to inconvenience you, I'm sure we'll be fine."
"It won't be an inconvenience at all, but if you would prefer we can lend you some mattresses, pillows and blankets? It must be odd being offered a place to stay by strangers."
"That would be wonderful! We don't have a car big enough to fit it all in though."
"Don't worry about that. It will all be there by the time you get home." He said with a slight wink.
"Ok…"
True to his word, somehow they managed to set up our beds, before we ourselves got home. Although I had been panicking about our things not arriving, somehow when Jasper looked at me I felt a wave of calm flush over me. I realised that, unsurprisingly, I was starting to develop feelings for him. And Lily, well, she would not shut up about Edward. He seemed very nice; he was very quiet and dark, but every time Lily said something to him he would look deep into her eyes as though drinking her in. I think they would make a great couple. Jasper explained about some ex-girlfriend of Edwards who had run off with someone else, which was why he was so depressed. Jasper and Alice were an item, but Alice had a very odd look come over her, and kept glaring at me, then at Jasper.
During that night, I had the feeling someone else was in the house, and I was sure at one point I saw a blonde head duck out of my room when I opened my eyes. When I spoke to Lily in the morning, she said that she had the same feeling.
A few days later, after visiting and being visited by the Cullens, our furniture and things finally arrived. The Cullens arrived almost immediately, as though they had been waiting, and got stuck right in unpacking. I swear it took like a third of the time it should have. It was slowed down by the fact that both Lily and I are very, very, very clumsy. Lily managed to trip over the doormat, sending a box of plates flying down the hallway, then when clearing it up, also managed to get stuck half in/half out of the trash can. Luckily for her Edward heard her very muffled cries for help and lifted her out. Myself, well, I walked into the door, forgetting that it was closed, and then I set the box I was carrying down, turned around and tripped right over said box. Not clever. Jasper could not stop laughing. Once we had unpacked most things, we sat on our awesome beanbag chairs in the living room giggling like idiots and telling each other the stupidest and funniest things we'd ever done. Mine was walking along a jetty (I sail) and forgetting that they do end at some point… Yes I walked right off the end… Lily beat me I think… She was by a pool, slipped on water, fell into the pool, dragging a guy, who in turn dragged a deck chair with another girl in it into the pool with her… Then almost lost her bikini top… But it was ok in the end, he kissed her and they went out for while.
After our chat that went late into the night, the Cullens left, except for Jasper, who insisted on helping us make up the beds. He waved goodbye, didn't take his eyes off me, and walked to his car. My heart fluttered.
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