Chapter One: Home

My eyes were closed as I lay my head on Edward's bare chest. He was caressing my back gently, absentmindedly. The sun was creeping up and over my skin. Its warmth was wonderful. I knew now why my human touch always sent Edward at ease. I was trying to block out the weird chaos that was going on in the world around us.

It has been about a month since we've returned from Volterra and the vampire world has been sent into upheaval. The rulers over the vampire race had been beaten for the first time in three thousand years. The chaos was running ramped. The chaos however I did not care about. I was at peace, completely content with my existence now that I was back in my Heaven with Edward.

For the last couple of weeks I had an odd feeling but I could put my finger on what it was that was bugging me. I was trying to block out that particular feeling when my thoughts were broken by the ring of the doorbell.

I looked up at Edward with my brow furrowed. To tell the truth, I didn't even know that the Cullen's home had a doorbell. I never heard it before. Then I heard the door open and Emmett call out.

"Umm, Bella you have a package." The sound of confusion in Emmett's voice let me know that I wasn't the only one more then a little confused.

When I got down stairs, Edward close behind me, there was a medium sized wooden crate in the middle of the living room and four very confused vampires standing around it. I walked over to it and pulled the top off. Ok, now I was very confused because out of the crate jumps a little fawn.

"Umm, ok? Since when did we start getting snacks delivered?" I looked over at Edward. He was just as confused as I was. They all were.

"Carlisle," we all called in unison. Within a moment Carlisle was decending the stairs from his study. His eyes fell immediately upon the fawn. The fawn quickly ran out of the back door and escaped into the woods behind the house. Esme came in from the kitchen wondering what the heck a fawn was doing in the house.

"Emmett, how many times do I have to tell you to keep your snacking outside…" Esme was always the mom.

"Hey, that was not me." Emmett said in his defense.

"There's no one else who would bring an animal in the house."

"Hey you can blame Bella for that one."

"Thanks for throwing me under the bus, Emmett." I gave him a whack on the arm.

"Ow!" he said while rubbing his arm. I laughed at the thought that I could now inflict playful pain on Emmett, especially when I think of the bear-hugs that he used to give me when I was human.

Carlisle came over to us now. "Does someone want to tell me what that deer was doing in here?"

"Umm….someone sent it to me."

"Was there a note?"

"I don't know. I didn't look." Rosalie bent down and pulled out a piece of paper from the inside of the crate and brought it over to Carlisle. He opened it.

To Isabella Cullen:

From your friend…

The rest of the note had been nibbled off by the fawn.

"My friend? I don't know anyone who would send me a fawn. Let alone call me Isabella Cullen." This was getting more and more confusing. Carlisle looked just as confused as the rest of us.

Alice closed her eyes for a moment and when she came back to reality she has a curious look on her face.

"There are others coming."

"Why?" Rosalie asked.

"I'm not sure yet." She replied.

This was getting frustrating. Alice looked at me and decided I needed to get out of the house.

"Bella you and I are going to Port Angeles. You need some fresh air." Despite the fact that I really didn't want to have to suffer through an Alice shopping spree, she was right that I needed to get out of the house. My powers still needed a lot of control and concentration to keep them under control and I could use a distraction.