Ch 2 : Esme is my GRANNY!

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I know you,

I have touched you.

Yet I couldn't hold

I could only hope.

Hope.

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When you have a granny who is dying due to multiple organ failures and she asks you to find her elder sister who INTURN turns out to be your real Great Grandmother, exactly what will your reaction be?

Don't know? Let me tell you!

When Granny handed me that photograph and asked me to find her sister (that's Esme), I thought she had gone crazy. But when she told me the real DEAL, never, AND I repeat, NEVER in my life, I thought it to be about my REAL Great Grandmother, her death and her child...

Earlier...

"But Granny! How can we find someone who is dead? I mean she committed suicide, remember?" I couldn't believe it. Granny was literally asking me to bring the dead sister back. The sister who jumped off a cliff when her child was stillborn.

She was arguing vehemently, "She promised! She wouldn't ever leave me like that. Atleast not without a good bye. Esme won't do that to me. I know she won't ..." she started sobbing like a kid, caressing the photograph.

I hugged her quietly, rubbing her back and rocking her slowly. She was still blubbering something"..have to...give her back...have to...her place here..."

I wiped her tears for a while." Shh... Granny its alright. Its all going to be ok. It's time for your medicine. I am going to call the nurse again, ok ?", I asked. Seeing no reponse from her, I slowly stood up and marched towards the door when she she whisphered...

"I am not your Granny. She is."

I stopped. My breath caught in my throat. I wanted to yell, but it all got stuck in my mouth. Sensing my erratic behaviour, granny said, " Come here, Evy. Its time you knew a little more about the Frost."

I would have liked to think that she was joking, that once I approached her, she winked and laughed out at my face, saying that she had got me aagain ( yeah, me and granny are always pranking each other. She may be old, but believe me guys, she CAN pull some really awesome tricks.).

Sadly, that wasn't the case. Not only did she tell me about Esme, her sister, but her husband and the 'stillborn' baby.

Gilbert Andrews Frost. One of the most powerful persons during 1920s. The only son and heir to his father's immense fortune. A fortune with came with a deadline. See, Gilbert was a gambler and was leading a lavish life wasting away his inheritance. Old Mr. Frost was on his way to grave then. So he did the only thing that he thought would change his son. He changed his will and put in a deadline for his son. It stated, that if by the age of 30, Gilbert doesn't marries and provides a heir to the Frosts. And the only other eligible woman for him would have been Esme's so, Gilbert's father denied him a penny unless he married Esme. Greedy Gilbert, didn't waste a second in making Esme, his beloved wife.

Sady,the "beloved" part didn't work out much.

See, Gilbert's old habit still stuck to him. But with the deadline was indeed coming closer as he was 29. All in all, he was horrible to young Esme. Used to get wasted outside and come home to thrash her. This went on, until, Esme became pregnant. And then began Gilbert's wait for immense fortune. He never planned to become a father. He was just after the money. Also, Esme was proving more of a burden to him as she was against his mingling with other women.

Esme was already 7 months pregnant, when Gilbert decided to finish things with her. But a simple divorce wasn't enough. Gilbert's father had named all his property and the Frost Enterprises on the future heir. Only a child of both Esme and Gilbert was to be acknowledged for that vast wealth. So Gilbert made an all too sure plan. A plan that worked too well.

When Esme's son was born, Gilbert replaced the child with that of a stillborn from the hospital. Esme saw her dead child, she couldn't bear it. With all the tortures that she had endured in the Frost Mansion, she didn't wish to go back. She committed suicide by jumping off a cliff. At last, Gilbert was a free man. With a young child and no Esme, he was given the inheritance till the child was of age. And so the child was brought up in Frost Mansion. Later, when Daniella turned 18, due to her social status and family, she was forced to marry Gilbert, so as to look after Esme's son. Danni never allowed Gilbert to touch her and so never bore any children of her own.

The only problem was Esme's body. When the Frost were informed of the body's disappearance, Daniella was the first to believe that Esme was still alive. She demanded that her sister should be searched for and brought to home again. But they never found her. Or her body.

After she told me the whole thing, I could understand why she still had hopes for her sister. Who could have died a long ago. But I wasnt going to tell her that.

"If Esme Frost is alive anywhere, I am gonna bring her home." I solemnly promised Granny, silently stroking the picture.

Third persons POV

In a hospital,Phoenix...

"Come on Edward! Cheer up! Bella's gonna be up any moment", a spiky haired girl, Alice, whispered to her brother. Seeing him still mope, "Ok! Why don't you tell me what's wrong? Cause it's not James. We killed him. Renee is gonna be here. And Charlie's here. Bella... Bella is finally safe, Edward.".

"Safe? You call her that?! Just LOOK at her Alice! She almost died! Because... Because of me...She is nothing but safe, ok." Thundered an angry Edward.

Silently, he stood up huffing and without a glance back entered the closest room.

"Ugh! I hate it when he does that! I was just trying to help!" Alice rubbed her marble temples furiously. Someone touched her from behind and she relaxed instantly. She couldn't help but smile.

"Trying to be sneaky on me, Jazz?"

"ME? No way!", chuckled Jasper, as he wrapped his arms around her. Alice let out a sigh of contentment as she leaned on him. Jasper led her to one of the metal chairs and together they sat down.

"Don't worry. Bella is going to be alright. Carlisle's right here to help," Jasper soothed Alice.

Rubbing on her shoulders he continued," Rose and Esme are coming here too. Maybe we can-"

His sentence trailed out as Alice gasped and her eyes glazed over. Her body jerked forward and she sat up a bit straight. He realized what was happening.

A vision.

As Alice's eyes focused again, Jasper, asked "What did you see?"

Alice explained her vision of a girl and an old woman holding a photograph. The girl was promising the old woman that she would find the latter's sister. "Oh. That's wasn't expected, I guess. We didn't know the girl, did we?" Jasper inquired. She shook her head. Her eyes were bright, he could feel the excitement emitting from her. He asked again," What is it?"

Alice started, "The girls in the photograph, we know one of them."

"Who?"

"Esme!"

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A/N: I just hope its not that confusing. In a gist, Esme is Evy's Great Grandmother. She died/committed suicide after Edward becoming vampire... So that must be after 1920s... And Daniella is way younger to Esme when she was married. So later, 18 year old Danni marries a 40 something Gilbert...in maybe 1930s...So, she z currently 80 something.. and it fits weirdly.. I hope so... so that make the timeline for this book to be 2010...

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