A Random Peek into Life at the Cullens'

Disclaimer:

If I owned Twilight, I'd be endlessly signing autographs.

I don't own Twilight, so I'll just sit here and write a fanfic.

Okay, let's just say it's 20 years after Eclipse, Bella's changed, Breaking Dawn never happened, and our charming Cullens moved to the fictitious town of Segoe, Ontario.

Chapter 1: Move

Bella's POV

"Bella," Edward whispered. "We're almost there."

Startled, I looked up from Wuthering Heights. Even though I was a vampire now, I never had gotten over that book. "We are?"

"Silly Bella." He chucked. "You never really did get over that book, did you?"

Sometimes, it seemed that Edward really could read my mind, even with the whole 'mental mute' thing.

We, the Cullens, were moving away from Lockheed, New Hampshire, to the town of Segoe, Ontario. Right now, we were all driving (well, Edward was driving, I was reading) in our cars, and according to Edward, we were almost there. We could have just ran, but, of course, that would have been suspicious to the townspeople of Segoe.

I looked out the window, and saw Alice driving her Porsche 911, right beside me, with Jasper in the front passenger seat. She waved to me and winked. I took this to mean that we were almost there.

Finally, after about 15 more minutes of driving (it had taken us 5 hours to get there, even with our intense driving), we pulled onto a long driveway. I estimated it to be about 2 kilometres long.

We stopped right in front of the house, which was probably a century old. Esme had came and decorated before the rest of us had seen it. There was a forest and a creek running behind it, just like the house in Forks. Esme had even stopped Edward from seeing it, by humming Fur Elise in her mind. Happy to be out of the Volvo, I took a breath of fresh air, stretched my arms, and looked towards the cloudy sky. This was so much like Forks.

Everyone else's cars arrived about a minute later. Alice bounced out of her Porsche, with Jasper coming out of the other side and taking her hand; Rosalie stepped out of the BMW M3, looking absolutely stunning as usual; Emmet jumped out of his Jeep Wrangler, looking intimidating; Esme got out of Carlisle's Mercedes; and Carlisle pulled up in the monstrous truck that contained our furniture.

"Well," said Esme. "Do you like it?" She had an anxious and slightly nervous expression, as if she wanted us to give her our opinions, but was at the same time scared of what she might hear. Of course we would like it! If Esme decorated it, we would instantly fall in love with it.

We carried our luggage into the house without a problem, obviously, considering our extreme strength. Emmett, Jasper, Carlisle and Edward carried the furniture into the house, with Alice, Esme, Rosalie and I looking smugly on and directing them where they were to put the pieces. When Emmett was carrying Edward's piano into one of the larger, higher-ceilinged room, a small smile formed on his face and Edward cried, "NO, Emmett!"

Emmett gave us a baby face. We all burst out laughing, even Edward, who, two seconds ago, looked as if he was going to rip Emmett to shreds.

"What was he going to do?" I asked Edward.

"It involves my piano, the creek behind the house, and a couple of trees from the forest." Edward murmured back.

"Oh…" I trailed off, getting the gist of the idea.

"Nevermind that. You know what, Bella?" said Alice with a glint in her eye.

"Oh no…" I groaned.

"SHOPPING TIME!" screamed Alice and Rosalie together.

"Oh no-no-no…" I stuttered. "I think I'll just stay behind and help Esme direct the guys where to put the stuff.

"I don't think so, Bella." Alice said. I swear, sometimes that little pixie could be extremely annoying. "I've seen that Esme can do all this by herself. Let's go!"

She and Rosalie pushed me to Rosalie's BMW. I protested, kicking and screaming all the way. Edward gently set down the sofa that belonged in his room and ran over to me. "Don't worry, Bella." he said, dazzling me again. You'd think that now that I was a vampire, he'd stop doing that, but no. "None of Alice's plans involve anything…too torturous.

"Great.." I grumbled.

He gave me a long, passionate kiss, and then ran back and picked up his sofa, winking to me as he walked up the steps of our new house.

"Don't leave me.." I mumbled. "I can't survive 5 hours of shopping with a pixie vampire who's been cooped up in a car all day."

"Aw, come on, Bella." Alice said. "New town, new wardrobe! I think you need a pair of strappy heels, and flip flops, and, of course, a new dress, and…"

"Stop that thought, Alice!" I heard Edward, and I spotted him shaking his fist out of a second-storey window. "I don't need all of the hormonal teenage boys in town chasing after Bella!"

"Oh, all right, all right, Edward, nothing that will make Bella too gorgeous-looking." Alice shouted up to Edward.

And with that, she and Rosalie dragged me into the BMW, jumped in, Rosalie stepped on the pedal, and we were off.

Well, seeing we have a 20-minute drive to the mall, I'll just tell you a bit of our history, shall I?

Edward and I got married after graduation, and he bit me at his house over the summer. Charlie now knows that there's something up, but he doesn't question it, and I often visit him from time to time. Also, Jake imprinted on a girl from Port Angeles, and they live together in La Push. He's still a werewolf, and we're on good terms. Can you actually believe that Sam allowed Edward to bite me? He figured that the Cullens could keep me restrained, and that it was what I truly wanted. Actually, the Cullens didn't need to restrain me when I was a newborn! It's one of my powers. I have really good self control, so that I 'skipped' my newborn year. I can resist the smell of a human almost as well as Carlisle. Another one of my powers is that I can act as a physical and mental shield. For example, I can block Edward from getting in my head, and no one can touch me unless I wanted to. I just let Alice and Rosalie drag me into the car because I figured that it would happen some way or another. I can extend my shield to wherever I want, so I can protect whoever I want. My last power is being able to know all about a person, just by making eye contact with them: name, occupation, age, and all that. The Volturi have approached me, asking me to become a part of their guard, but, of course, I said no way.

"BELLA! STOP DAYDREAMING!" Alice was practically in my face. "WE'RE HERE!"

Wearily (well, not exactly wearily since vampires don't get tired, but you know what I mean), I stepped out of the car, facing the huge monstrosity of a mall, right here in our charming town of Segoe, Ontario.

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