Hello All! Some of you who have me on Author Alert may have already read some of this story, but I deleted and now I'm reposting it. There have been minor changes, so I would appreciate it if read from the beginning again and tell me what you think of it, especially being that it's been over a year.
Thank you to my Awesome Beta, jandmsmommy.
Disclaimer: Stephenie Meyer owns all of Twilight and it's characters. I just get to play with them.
My Extended Family
I sat there looking at my beautiful family playing and having fun together and I couldn't help but think about how lucky I am. I was the luckiest woman alive. I have this beautiful family, a marvelous home, and a miraculous career. I truly have it all. And to think, at one point in my life, I thought I had the worst life possible. I know all to well how everything can be taken from you in the blink of an eye. It has happened to me so many times already. It was like the seven years of bad luck myth was true only my seven years had been extended. Every time I felt like things were looking up, it never failed for the carpet to be snatched right from under me. That was all in the past for me now and I have Carlisle and Esme to thank for that.
Carlisle and Esme weren't my biological parents, but they were my parents in every other sense. They had been a part of my life since I was born and they were my parents' best friends. My parents had made them Emmett and mine God-parents. I'm sure when that decision was made, no one ever thought that something would happen to our parents. Even though I am willing to bet everything that it wasn't an issue for Carlisle and Esme, I know that they would have never thought that they would end up with three sets of siblings having a total of six kids all around the same age…and then some.
Of course, Carlisle and Esme didn't have any biological children of their own. Esme found out very early in life that she would be unable to have children. I know that had a lot to do with why she took care of us all so well. The twins, Jasper and Rosalie, were the first set of siblings to end up with my God-parents. They had been with them since they were born. They were the biological niece and nephew of Carlisle and their mother had died right after giving birth to them. Their mother was Carlisle's only sister. Carlisle and his sister were orphans leaving him their only known family, so Carlisle and Esme were ecstatic about having them. The funny thing about those two, is that nobody realizes that they are twins until you tell them. They were born almost three hours apart causing them to have separate birthdays. Rose was born a little before midnight on September 1st and Jazz was born three hours later on September 2nd. That being said, Jazz didn't make the birthday cutoff for school, so he started a year later than his sister. He was a clingy child, where as Rose was as independent as the come, causing Carlisle and Esme to have no qualms about them being separated.
Edward and Alice were the last to join our family having come only about a year after Emmett and I. They were the biological niece and nephew of Esme. Their mother, Elizabeth, was Esme's little sister and she had died in a terrible car crash with her fiance' and their infant daughter. I guess one would consider Elizabeth a 'black widow' of sorts being that she had married both Alice and Edward's fathers and lost them both shortly after each of them were born. Elizabeth had a twin bother, Eleazar, but Esme felt he had enough children of his own. Esme's parents had passed a few years before. Edward and Alice were very close to Carlisle and Esme. They would come visit from Chicago every year for the entire summer since they were three. No they are not twins, but everyone thinks they are. Edward is the oldest, but Alice was born premature making them only nine months apart. Edward's birthday is in June and Alice was born the following March
The six of us were best friends and did everything together. I guess in some strange way, we were all the luckiest kids in the world. Having lost our biological parents, we couldn't have asked for better guardians. I just hate that it took so long for me to be truly happy. Fate has a crazy way of working things out, but things turn out fine in the end. I am living proof of that and this is my story……..