Lose Leads to Love

Chapter two

This one is longer! Yay! I would like to thank Viivsz who was the first person ever to review my story! Thanks!

I sat in the waiting room, holding onto my wrapped arm, crying softly when I heard a loud, booming voice at the front desk.

"No, I need to see my sister, now. Her name is Isabella Swan." I looked up and saw Emmett. I stood from my spot.

"Emmett!" I yelled, running towards him.

"Oh Bella." Emmett ran toward me and scooped me up in a bone shattering hug.

"They're gone, Emmy!" I sobbed, "Both of them, they are both dead." He squeezed my small body tighter.

"Shh Bells its okay, Shh." Though he said this, I could hear the tears in his voice. This shocked me since I had never seen my big brother cry. He gently led me over to the waiting room seats, which was when I noticed a gorgeous blonde girl standing behind him. She was fairly tall, about 5'8, which to my 5'3 was tall but probably not to Emmett's 6'2. This girl was curvy, with wavy blonde hair and startling violet eyes. She wore a black, knit sweater that hung lightly off her shoulders and dark jeans with black mid-calf boots.

When Emmet and I sat, this girl was still standing when he introduced her, "Bells, This is Rosalie, she is my girlfriend. Her and her twin brother, Jasper are my age, and they live at the Cullen's with me, along with the Cullen twins Alice and Edward who are going to be seniors when high school starts back up, a year older than you." I nodded at the blonde girl, Rosalie.

"Call me Rose," She said in a musical voice, "Bella I am so sorry about what happened" She sat down next to me and wrapped me in a hug, oddly it felt right to hug her.

"Bella, tell me what happened." Emmet said in a strained voice. I told him everything I could remember about the accident.

"Emmett I have nothing now," I said when I finished telling him what happened, "Our parents are gone and now I have no where to go, I mean I doubt anyone would let me live in the house by myself." Another sob escaped my chest ass a realized that I might as well be homeless now, and I had no where to live.

"Bella don't talk like that, you will come live with me at the Cullen's."

"Emmett, no. I could burden them like that. They obviously have enough kids living in their house." Emmett and Rose both laughed.

"Bells, the Cullen's house is huge, they have more than enough room. Let me go talk to Carlisle." Before I could protest Emmett stood and walked away, leaving me with Rose.

"Bella, the Cullen's would love to have you, I know it. I know that Alice, Esme, and I would love to have another girl in the house too." I smiled at her but still couldn't hide the fact that I knew moving in there would be a burden to them all. Emmett came back with Dr. Cullen trailing behind him.

"Bella," Dr. Cullen spoke softly, "I have talked to my wife, Esme, and we would both love to have you come stay with us."

"Dr. Cullen―" I started but he interrupted me.

"Please call me Carlisle. It is much less formal." I nodded.

"Carlisle, I couldn't burden you all. You already have five kids living in your house."

"Nonsense. We would love to have you come and stay with us, in fact we insist." Knowing that he wouldn't stop, I nodded.

"Okay, thank you Carlisle." I stood up shakily; Emmett came over and wrapped his arm around my shoulder.

"Come on Bells, let's go." I didn't say anything but let him lead me out of the hospital. I knew that once I left this hospital it would be the end of my life with my parents. A few tears escaped my eyes as I thought about how I would never see them again. "Don't cry Bella, we'll be alright."

We drove to the Cullen's house silently. I sat in the back and Rose and Emmett were in front. I saw Rose rubbing Emmett's shaking shoulder comfortingly, and I knew Emmett was silently crying. Eventually we pulled into the drive way of a beautiful Victorian house. "You live here?" I asked, understanding what they meant now when they said the Cullen's had plenty of room. Emmett and Rose nodded and led me up the front steps and into the house where we were greeted by four lovely faces. "Bella, this is Esme," He pointed to a petite woman with brown hair and chocolate brown eyes, "This is Jasper," He pointed to a tall muscular boy with blonde, tousled hair, "This is Alice," He gestured to a pixie girl, shorter then me, with black short, spiky hair, and navy blue eyes. "And that is Edward." Emmet said, pointing to a boy, who looked more like a Greek god with unruly bronze hair, and deep green eyes. Esme came over, giving me a gentle, motherly hug, "Welcome Bella, we are so glade you are here." I smiled politely and hugged her back. Jasper came and shook my hand.

"It's nice to meet you Bella." Next was Alice who looked like she was about to explode with excitement. She ran over and hugged me tightly.

"It's so great to meet you Bella. I know we are going to be best friends." I hugged the small girl awkwardly. Emmett laughed at my expression.

"Chill Alice." Rose said, laughing too. When Alice pulled back, Edward came over and shook my hand.

"Pleased to meet you Bella." He said in a velvety voice that made my breathing stagger and for a moment I forgot how to talk.

"Nice to meet you too. All of you." I said.

"Come on. I'll show you your room." Esme gently set a hand on my back and led me up the steps, Emmet following close behind with Alice bouncing right along with him. I was led to a room with pale blue walls, a full size bed with a white comforter and various pieces of furniture throughout the room. Overall it was bigger than three of my bedrooms put together.

"Wow, this is amazing but really it's too much."

"Nonsense." Esme said leading me further into the room.

"Look in the closet Bella." Alice said excitedly, pointing to a door. I opened it cautiously, and saw that it was packed to the brim with clothes of all sorts.

"How in the world did you get these so fast?" I asked her.

"Don't question Alice's shopping skills." Emmett warned. I gave him a questioning look which he simply shrugged to.

After giving me a tour of the rest of the house we ended up in a large room with a piano. "Oh, I love the piano." I murmured remembering the fact that my mother had been teaching me to play, she was excellent at it. When everyone left I silently sat down at the bench, closed my eyes and started playing the first few chords of River flows in you onehandedly, my mother had been teaching me this song but we had only gotten through the first three chords. I had just finished the third chord for the second time and was about to start over when someone began playing the next chord of the song. I opened my eyes quickly and saw Edward sitting next to me, his hands moving swift over the keys.

"You know Rivers flow in you?" I asked, shocked. He nodded, smiling a crooked grin.

"It's my mom's favorite, I play it for her all the time." I smiled sadly down at the keys, and felt a few tears fall from my eyes landing on the keys.

"It was my mom's favorite too." I whispered. The music abruptly stopped, I glanced up and saw Edward looking at me with a pained expression.

"Bella, I'm sorry I wasn't thinking." I shook my head, trying to tell him not to apologize but I was crying hard now and the words wouldn't form in my mouth. To my surprise, Edward pulled me into his chest, hugging me tightly. Even more surprising was that I wrapped my arms around him, not feeling awkward or embarrassed at all. For some reason this felt right.

My tears slowly subsided but I didn't make any move to pull away from the embrace, neither did Edward. We sat like this until I heard footsteps as someone entered the room, "Um, what's going on?" I heard Emmett asked. I glanced up to see Emmett looking at us confused, Rose who was smiling slightly, Jasper who was holding hands with Alice (I guess they are an item) who was beaming. I could just see the wheels in her head turning.

"Nothing." I said wiping my eyes. When Emmett saw this, his confused look turned to one of concern. He came over pulling me into another one of his bear hugs.

"Dot cry Bells, we'll get through this together."

"Em. Can't. Breathe." He let me go quickly, laughing a little.

"Sorry." Alice came over then and hugged me gently.

"We are all here for you too you know. Were here for both of you." I hugged her back, feeling the tears pool my eyes again.

"Thank you Alice." She pulled back and brightened up quickly.

"I know what we can do to take your mind off things!" I looked at her curiously, wondering what she was up to now, "Let's go try on your clothes." She suggested, the look on her face was so serious that I actually laughed.

"Actually, I really kind of want to sleep, but tomorrow okay?" I said this but dreaded the words, I didn't like shopping or dress up or anything like that. She nodded and Emmett took my arm leading me upstairs.

"Sorry about her." I whispered I shrugged.

"She's nice, I like her." I went to my room and awkwardly changed into a pair of shorts and a t shirt, having a cast didn't help much. When I got into bed Emmett came back in.

"You okay?" I nodded as he came and laid down on the bed next to me.

"I can't believe they're gone Emmy." I whispered.

"Me neither Bells." He said pulling me into a hug, being careful of my arm. I fell asleep like this, with Emmett hugging me, telling me everything would be okay. This was also the first time I realized that it was truly possible to cry in your sleep.