Disclaimer: me no own Twilight, or any Christmas Carols that may or may not be used.
I need to remember this: G1 ROMOR
OK lets just pretend Edward never left in New Moon, and Bella and Edward aren't engaged (yet). This is the Christmas that Bella completely missed.
BPOV
As I wake up, the realisation hits me that today, December 4th, is the first day with my almost whole month with the Cullen's. The reason I'm staying at the Cullen's is my dad is going away, for almost a whole month. I'm still not entirely sure why, even know its been explained to me at least three time, I think my fake nod and saying 'yeah I get ya' is getting almost convincing.
"Good morning, darling," Edward says, I smile.
"Mmhmm."
"Bella are you ready to get ready to do to my house?"
"Mmhmm."
"I do warn you, Alice is in full holiday mode."
"Oh joy."
"Yeah, I know, she can be such a pain."
"So," I say as I get out of bed, "What's Christmas like with your family?"
He snorts then tries to hide it and replies "Fine."
"Just fine?" I ask.
"Sure, let's leave it at that."
In the bathroom, I ponder over what exactly Edward meant, because it was kinda confusing.
When we get to Cullen's, I can't really believe its Edward house. It looks so different.
The outside is so decorated it looks like, well I'm not sure how to describe it but it has so many lights I'll probably need sunglasses when they turn them on.
There are many garlands, lights, giant snowflakes, and a huge Santa Clause on one side of the front of the house. Then the other side is so much worse, I can't even describe it. I'm speechless; hopefully Alice takes it as a good speechless. It kinda looks like the Sprit of Christmas Decorating puked all over the house. Alice being the Sprit of Christmas Decorating, and of course she didn't actually throw-up on her house. Do vampires even vomit? Plus, there is a light layer of snow over everything, and more is falling as I think of this. Disgusting stuff.
Anyway, after the shock is gone, I'm aware of Rosalie asking, "Is she gonna be alright?"
"Yeah, she just shocked, no doubt because of the pure awesomeness before her that is our house," Alice replies.
"She should see the inside," I hear Emmett say as I shake my head to clear it.
"Um, do I even want to?" I ask in a rather weak voice.
"That's not even decorated yet, we want you to help, you will right?" Alice says in a sugary tone.
"Yeah," I say, I might just regret my decision to come here instead of Phoenix to visit my mom.
"Mmkay lets go inside now," Edward says.
"Haha, mmmaky," Emmett says.
"Rose that song is so old," Edward says looking at his "sister".
"I know, doesn't stop it from being stuck in my head."
"What song?" I ask confused.
"The one Rose has stuck in her head. And Alice's singing of Christmas Carols in her head is getting pretty lame as well."
"Well, I'm sorry Edward but I can't help it," Alice says, grinning.
"Yes, Alice, you can help it. You just chose not to for my displeasure," Alice smirked.
"So?"
"I don't like you," Edward said in a weird voice, I notice he's grinning as well. I officaly regret not going to Phoenix.
I shiver as the snow starts to come down a little faster, not much but still.
"Come on, love, lets get you inside," Edward says smiling at me, I nod my head, hoping its warm inside.
Inside, the house looks normal, pale and simply yet beautifully decorated. But it smells like ginger bread and other Christmassy thing. I hear the song 'Deck the Halls' coming from somewhere.
Esme, who is wearing a black turtle neck with a green ribbon looped through hole around the waist, dark red pants and has her hair in a pony tail, appears with something in her hand. She approaches me and says "Hear you go, dear. It's cold outside."
She gives me the thing in her hand, I realise its hot chocolate.
"I wasn't sure if you'd like eggnog or not, but I figured you'd like hot coco," she smiles at me, I smile back, at least someone is acting normal.
"DECK THE HALLS WITH BELLS AND HOLLY!" I hear Emmett sing very loudly.
"Fa la la la la, la la la la!" Rosalie sings in a beautiful voice, not near as loudly as Emmett though.
"Tis the season to be Jolly!" Jasper joins in, smiling.
"Fa la la la la, la la la la," Rosalie sings, again.
"Don we now are gay apparel," Alice sings in her pretty soprano voice.
"Fa la la, la la la, la la la" Rosalie sings.
"Troll the ancient Yule tide carol," Edward sings, I sigh, he has the voice of an angel.
Everyone starts to hum alone with the music, as we go into the living room.
"Want to watch a Christmas movie, Bella?" Rosalie asks me. Wait, Rosalie asked me if I want to watch a movie. I'm not sure my brain can comprehend.
"Um, sure, I guess," I mumble as the music changes to Frosty the Snowman.
"After we watch a movie, we should go outside, there should be enough snow to do something by then," Emmett says, everyone nods but I grimace. I really hate snow; this is going to be my first winter with it.
"I'm sure you'll love the snow, dear," Esme says, I hadn't realised she'd followed us in here. I bite my lip in response, not hard enough to make it bleed, I would NOT want that.
"What movie should we watch?" Alice asks me, changing the subject.
"I don't know," I say shrugging.
"How about Elf? That's always funny," Rosalie says smiling at me. I'm getting kind of scared.
"Uh, ok, sure."
"Excellent."
The music stops and we all sit down on the couches to watch the movie, I have a blanket wrapped around me and Edward has his arm around me as well, we are sitting on the sofa. Alice is sitting on Jasper's lap on the loveseat; his arms are wrapped around her stomach. Rosalie is sitting on a chair and Emmett is on the ground next to her.
After the movie we were all grinning, Elf is probably one of the best Christmas movies of all time, haha!
"Everybody, come look outside!" Jasper says, opening the curtains. We all rush over to get a look.
"Wow." Everyone says at once, grinning from ear to ear, everyone but me of course.
"Ugh… do I really have to go out there?" I whine to Edward.
He pouts, "You don't have to,"
But gets cut off by Emmett, "Why yes, Bella, you do really have to go out there,"
"Aw," I say pursing my lips slightly as we leave the living room to go get warmer clothes on.
The Cullen's don't need to put on warm clothes, but most of them did anyway anyway. Alice is wearing a black coat that's kind of puffy and has fur around the rim of the hood. Rosalie didn't bother to put on a big puffy jacket or anything; she just has on, a Christmassy sweater that is white with the outlines of red Christmas ball ornaments on it. Jasper has a light blue ski jacket on and a dark blue headband. Emmett had a rather puffy dark green ski jacket on. Edward is wearing a navy blue jacket, not really fit to wear in the snow, if you're human that is.
There is way more snow of the ground then there was when I first arrived. Snow is still lightly falling.
All of a sudden a snowball flies right past me and hits Edward right in the face. My head whips around to see who through it, but everyone looks innocent.
"Grrr," Edward says his eyes narrowing, "Rose!"
"Yes, dear brother?" she asks smiling sweetly.
"Don't even act innocent, Rosalie!"
"Ok then," She says shrugging, and then another snow ball just skims by me and hits Edward. The rest of the Cullen's laugh, as Jasper all of a sudden loops his arm around my waist and runs.
"Hey, what the heck?" I say.
"Here," he says placing me in the dugout by the baseball felid. I give him a weird look and he sighs, "You'll see why I pulled you out of there in a second."
Everyone else arrives at the baseball field, and as soon as everyone stands still and Jasper gets on the field as well, snowballs start to fly. My eyes widen at the scene that is playing out in front of me, balls of white and laughter fill the air, everyone is chucking snowballs at everyone, and I can barley see what's happening because the snowballs are flying at such a fast speed. In a few minutes the madness stops and everyone is laughing, louder then they were during the fight, no war.
"C'mon Bella," Alice says, appearing at my side, "Lets make snow angels!" Alice's black hair has many flakes of white in it, and snow is clinging everywhere to her outfit.
"Ok," I say as she drags me off. "Um, Alice, what exactly is a snow angel?"
"Oh right! You don't know these kinds of things, haha! Just watch me," She lays down is the snow then starts to drag her arms in the snow up above her head and the down forming an arch on both sides of her, her legs do the same. Alice looks really silly doing that but, I notice she's not the only one doing it, everyone but Edward is. When Alice gets up, she somehow leaps from the ground and ends up not even touching the imprint she made in the snow.
"Huh, that's what you mean by snow angel, it kinda looks like an angel in the snow," I say, smiling at Alice.
"Yep. Now try it, Sliver Bells!"
"Sliver Bells?" I ask, as I lay down reluctantly in the snow.
"Yeah, a Christmassy nickname for you, Jaspers nickname is Toy Solider, mine is Noelle, Rosalie's is Holly, Emmett's is Blitzen, Edward's is Jack, Carlisle's is Father Christmas and Esme's is Mary."
"Why Jack, and Mary?" I ask as I start to move my arms and legs as Alice did.
"Jack Frost, and don't you know the true story of Christmas, Mary is the mother of Christ, we thought it appropriate because she's our mother."
"Oh, sorry, blonde moment. No offence Rosalie."
"None taken!" I hear her call from wherever she is.
I try to get up without leaving foot prints on my snow angel, but I wasn't able to completely avoid marking it up, but it still looked ok.
"Let's pair up and make snowmen in the front lawn guys!" Emmett says coming over to where we are standing.
"Ok," I say, going to stand next to Edward, he bends down and I climb on his back and he runs to the front of the house.
"I'll get the stuff for us, Jasper!" Alice says, grinning from ear to ear.
"I'll go for us," Emmett says to Rosalie.
"Be right back, dearest," Edward says, giving me a peck on the check.
When Edward comes back he has a bag in his hand. I take the bag and look inside, in it is a single green light bulb on a double white wire, and several small shiny half balls red in color, and two black shiny half balls, bigger then the red ones.
"Ok, so you can start making the base, just roll a big ball of snow."
"How big?"
"As big as you want it to be," he grins at me, a playful, happy, cheery glint is in his eyes, and I can't help but grin back.
"Aren't you glad you're human for this? This amount of peacefulness wouldn't be attainable if you were a newborn" he says after a few minutes of peaceful silence.
"Hmm," I say, not wanting to agree with him.
"Sliver Bells!" someone says.
"Yeah?" I say.
"Huh?" Esme answer, as I realise she wasn't addressing me, probably just talking about the song.
"That's Bella's holiday nickname, mom."
"Oh, that's cute!" she says to me.
"Thanks, Alice made it up."
"Your welcome and I know, she always loves to give people nicknames."
"Haha, yeah," I say smiling.
"I think I'm done, Edward," I say as Esme goes over to talk to another group.
"Perfect!" He says looking at my big snowball. I look around at the others, my eyes widen at Emmett's, it's so huge! It's a little taller then Emmett and way wider, and he still has to put on the head. Alice has a bunch of little snowman made, some look like they are carolling, while others look like they're just in groups, hanging out, partying doing other things.
"I'm sorry for my terrible job," I say to Edward, grinning sheepishly.
"It's fine, just let me round it…" he mumbles the last part and quickly fixes it, it looks much better now. Edward puts the middle on, then makes the head to fit it.
"Ok, let's put on the face and stuff," he says, handing me the two shiny black half balls. "Those are the eyes," he smiles at me, I smile back.
"Ok," I put them in place by wedging the cut off side into the snow as he loops the white wire around the head, then fixes it so the green light bulb is the nose. Then, together we put the shiny red half balls as the lips of our snowman.
"Oh, wait!" Edward says as he runs away from me. He comes back with two sticks, a sting of lights wrapped around each, and something tucked under his arm that I cannot see. He puts one stick on each side of the snowman, for arms then he hands me the other thing. It's a scarf, with shiny sliver and gold colour string. I walk up to the snowman and put it around his neck, then stand back to admire our work.
"Perfect," we say at the same time, smiling at each other.
"Awww, cute," Esme says, looking at our finished product. "I'm going inside now, see you children later," I smile at her.
I look over at Emmett and Rosalie's huge snowman; I think for the eyes they used bike tires, a hose for the mouth and for the nose, a brown salad bowel. Nice, guys.
Alice and Jasper have quite a few snowmen, snowwoman, and snow children scattered all over the place.
"Shall we go inside?" Alice suggests. I am suddenly aware of how cold I am, and nod yes at her.
Inside, Esme has more hot chocolate for me when we go into the kitchen.
"Would you like a chocolate chip cookie dear?" she asks holding out a plateful.
"Sure, thanks," I say, taking one and biting into it, wow, for someone who doesn't eat, Esme sure can cook.
Edward nudges Esme and jerks his head toward Emmett who is standing next to me; Esme sighs and says "Emmett would you like a cookie?"
"Yay," Emmett says softly, he has a very sincere smile on his face as he reaches out and takes a cookie, and his softness is kinda creeping me out.
Emmett breaks his cookie in half and offers Rosalie half, she shakes her head at him, he moves the cookie closer Rosalie sighs takes the half and eats it with disgust on her face. Emmett eats his with a grin on his face.
"Alice?" Esme offers the plate to Alice; she takes one and nibbles on the edge.
"Jasper?" Jasper looks at her like she's crazy.
"No thanks, mom, I don't want one,"
She turns to Edward, who is standing next to Jasper, he shakes his head.
"Babies," I hear Alice mutter.
Both boys reach out, take a cookie and eat it simultaneously.
I think I hear the front door open, but I'm not sure.
"Hello, everybody," Carlisle says as he comes in, I guess I did hear the door open.
"Hey, dad," Edward says, funny, I don't think he normally calls Carlisle 'dad'.
"Father Christmas!" Emmett says grinning.
Alice went over and hugged Carlisle, saying "Daddies home!"
"Hello, darling," Esme says.
"Dad," Jasper says smiling at him as Alice finally lets go.
"Welcome home," Rosalie says, smiling slightly.
"Uh, hi," I say, feeling kind of awkward.
"It's ok, Bella, no need to feel out of place, your family now too," Jasper says to me, and I kind of got the feeling Jasper didn't like me around because my blood was too tempting so, hearing him say that really touched me.
"Thanks, Jasper," I say smiling at him.
"Anytime."
I officially am glad about my decision to stay with the Cullen's.
Awkward place to stop, eh, Ya I know. R&R to tell me what you think.