4 years later
The sun was high in the sky as the Cullen family packed boxes filled with their personal belonging and family heirlooms inside of the moving van and their respective cars.
The years had flown by and Esme was happy yet sad at the same time to move away from their cozy, two story brick red house in New Orleans. She was going to miss the warmth of the chimney in the ice of winter, the orange/red leaves as they fell in autumn and the freshness of spring when all the new cubs and kits emerged from their dens with their watchful mothers trailing behind them.
Esme was also going to miss the place where her four year old son grew up and flourished. She would never forget the time when Edward walked, while the whole household was watching "How the Grinch stole Christmas" on Christmas Eve. Edward was leaning against the pillows, joyfully sucking on his blue green pacifier when suddenly he decided that the green monster on the television needed a closer inspection.
She would never forget his first words either, which he had spoken on his 7 months of age. Esme was just getting his breakfast of applesauce when suddenly Edward laughed and giggled "Bell". She was confused because no one in the house was named Bell or anything remotely close, she secretly wished his first words would have been "Ma" or "Pa" but she always knew Edward was special.
"Mommy" Esme turned around and say Edward waddling towards her, his little hands reaching out towards her stomach. Carlisle often laughed that he was trying to take his place of protecting Esme, often always standing in front of her with his little arms crossed whenever anyone came near her 6 months pregnant stomach.
Leaning against her, Edward tried to wrap his arms around her large stomach and hummed a song she had never heard of before.
Looking at his red copper hair filled head, Esme whispered "Sweetie, who taught you that song"
Suddenly, Edward's face grew ecstatic as he started babbling about his friend named Bella and how he heard her mother singing that to her and how he thought the new baby would like it.
This is what unnerved Carlisle and Emmett. They thought the phrase of talking to his imaginary friend would begin to fade away but from two years he always talked about this "Bella", as if she was a real person. Esme thought their fears were for nothing and this would slowly go away.
Carlisle looked at his son and smiled, seeing his peaceful expression as he sang some melody, he figured Esme had taught him. The years had flown by so fast, now people were getting suspicious of them, seeing as they were supposedly "36" but they didn't look a day over at least 21. Their kind stopped aging at around 19 or 20 and Carlisle knew after getting asked what kind of skin cream he was using from the staff at the hospital, it was time to move on.
Their destination was Port Angeles near Washington State. They had researched the area and discovered that there was a lot of foliage surrounding the new estate they had brought. It held deer, foxes, rabbits and even the occasional brown bear, good food source for his expanding family, especially their insatiable son Emmett; he didn't have to worry over the little ones until their seventeenth birthday.
"Okay, that was the last bedroom set" Emmett screamed from the moving van, making the blue bird flutter and fly away from the surrounding trees that lined their now old yard.
Emmett ran from the moving van and scooped up his baby brother and ran him around in circles, making Edward laugh.
"EMMM ah ah, put me down" Edward spoke between fits of giggles, which in turn made him glow blue. His glowing now appeared only when he was emotionally unstable either was he was angry, sad, happy, or giddy. It was normal for the little ones to have no control over it until seven years but Edward had once made himself glow after complaining of boredom to Esme but she had just sat him in his playpen. After two minutes of pouting, he had made himself glow blue, just to have something to do. He was nearing 2 and a half, at the time.
The laughing family split in to, two groups, Emmett in the moving van, and Carlisle and Esme with Edward in the red Volvo.
Bella's day (four years)
Renee sat on the park bench, watching her little girl playing in the sand. Her pink frilled dress, bunched up under her bottom. She had gone from a little newborn, into a toddler who couldn't walk more than two feet without tripping, to this new little individual who despised shopping in the mall with her Mom but loved just sitting at the window reading her kids nursery rhyme book.
"Momma, look" there she came now, running at full speed, her arms and face littered with sand but a huge smile gracing her lips.
"Bella, don't run" but just as she yelled it, Bella tripped, but instead of falling face flat on the park pavement, a shimmering dull light surrounded her and she steadied herself. This had been going on for almost three years now and Renee never knew what caused it. Luckily hardly anyone was on the park today and those that were, were too infatuated with their own children, than to noticed what had happened. Charlie and Renee knew this wasn't normal and had tried hard to contact Bella's birth mother on her first birthday but alas their research proved fruitless.
Two more years of endless fruitless searching had resolved the couple of just accepting Bella wasn't normal. Through the years she just banned normalcy more and more, from her fast healing pace, to her glimmering white light and even years before when her first words were spoken. Neither Charlie nor Renee had ever spoken the name Ed but alas, that was what first came out of her mouth.
"Momma, look at what I built, all by myself" Bella announced proudly, looking over her shoulder at her lop sided sand castle. Renee glanced at Bella for a split second and then looked where her daughter was eagerly pointing at. The castle had four holes which could pass for either doors or windows and a huge circle around it, which Renee guessed was some sort of moat.
"That's lovely dear, but how about we go home and ready a bath, you are a mess" Renee cooed to Bella, who faithfully obeyed her mother and skipped to the car.
After her bathe, Renee had dressed Bella in her favorite pink, Dora the Explorer pajamas and feed her dinner.
Now they lay, spread out on the sofa, waiting for Charlie to come home from the office. He was a lawyer and his income alone was enough to support his small family, so Renee stayed home and minded the house and Bella but still found time to write her "New York's Bestseller" novels. Yes they were well financed.
Tucking Bella in to bed, Charlie heard her whisper "Eddy" before succumbing to sleep.
Charlie signed and looked at his daughter, who was soon ready to enroll into Seattle's ELC.
"Time really waits for no man", Charlie thought before showering and snuggling into his wife in bed.
A/N I would really like to thank the first three reviews I got for my last chapter, they really encouraged me to get off my lazy butt and write this chapter, so reviews= faster updates, if I receive 12 I will update tomorrow morning, if not, then I will update again on the weekend. Also this is embarrassing to ask but does anyway know how to create those dull lines in writing which separate one segment from another when writing and also does anyway know how to check the number of hits of story gets. Also about this story, I am going to write one more chapter about pre teen bell and Ed and then the next chapter after that will be where all the action starts to happen. Did anyone guess yet what the Cullen's and Bella are yet and NO they are not vampires.
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Silverdust101
