EPOV
We brought the girl back home and we sat in the living room watching her. She stared at me again. Why was she watching me? Carlisle obviously didn't get that she wouldn't say a word and tried to get her to talk again.
"So how old are you?" She looked at him and blinked…for the first time since I met her. "When were you changed?" He tried again she blinked again and then looked back at me again looking bored. "Do you know Edward?" Carlisle asked. She shook her head once. She actually replied...unusual.
"Oh." Carlisle said his voice filled with realization. "Will you answer my yes or no questions?" She rose her eyebrows and looked shocked at what she just did turning to him and swallowing. Carlisle sighed in frustration. "I'm guessing that a no." He tried again. She just stared at him. He nodded finally giving up.
Edward would you mind giving up your study for her bedroom? Carlisle asked through his thoughts and I shook my head. I didn't mind. Her room would be right across from mine. Why did that make me feel so good? Can you show her the room than? He thought.
I nodded and stood up. The second I did she looked up at me with a panicked expression opening her mouth slightly before closing it again.
"Follow me." I said. She obediently she got up and followed me up the stairs not even glancing back at my family.
BPOV
They brought me back to their beautiful mansion. And sat down with me in the living room. Then the leader, Carlisle tried to get me to speak again.
Carlisle said something and I looked up at him. I didn't hear him. I had been watching Edward. So I blinked…I hadn't blinked in such a long time.
"When were you changed?" Two hundred years ago…I wanted to say. But my mouth wouldn't move. I wanted to turn to Edward and tell him my whole agonizing story and how much I wished to be dead. But my mouth seemed to be super glued shut. So I just blinked again hoping he would get the fact that I wouldn't tell him anything no matter how much I wanted to.
Then I turned back to Edward and sighed in head, he was beautiful and I was falling for him like a hormonal teenager. "Do you know Edward?" Carlisle asked and I raised my eyebrows. Is that what it seemed like to them? That I knew Edward, maybe in my human life. Then without even thinking I shook my head stopping before I made a semi circle…what was I doing? Maybe he wouldn't notice.
"Oh." Carlisle said and I sighed in my head. He didn't notice, or so I thought. "Will you answer my yes or no questions?" I raised my eyebrows once more and turned to him in shock. I couldn't let him think I had emotion or that I could reply he would make me talk. And the weird thing is that that didn't bother me as much as it would with the Holland's.
"I'll take that as a no." He said finally giving up. Good because if he tried any harder the rest of his family probably would have joined in. And I don't know if I could ignore Edward.
Then Edward seemed to reply to questions someone was asking in their head. He stood up and I almost yelled No don't leave me! But I caught myself before I did.
"Follow me." He said in his beautiful velvet voice. I sighed inwardly. He wasn't leaving me. I followed him up the stairs not taking my eyes off of him even though I felt the rest of their stares on my back.
He led me into a beautiful room with a large window that had a balcony. The room had shelves of books and CD's. A computer was in the corner on a desk. In the middle of the room was a couch. It was plushy and beige.
"Do you read?" He asked and I glanced at him. It's the only thing kept me from going to the Volturi while Damien was at school. I wanted say but instead I walked over to the book and picked out one. Persuasion by Jane Austen. One of my favorites, next to Wuthering Heights. I picked it up and looked up at him holding it up and he smiled. I tried and to smile and managed to lift the corners of my lips up for a second. It made him smile even wider.
"I like that book too." He said. I put it back. I walked onto the balcony and sat on the edge. He sat next to me.
"I never got to introduce myself. I'm Edward Cullen." He shook my hand. I'm Isabella Swan. I wanted to say.
"How long hand it been since you've talked?" He asked. 200 hundred years. I suddenly wished he could read my mind. He sighed at my silence. "If I talked would you listen?" he asked and in reply I looked into his eyes in a contented way. He smiled happily and looked at the sky. It was twilight. My favorite time of the day…evening.
"It's good to have someone listen to me. I'm usually the one listening; being the mind-reader and all." I nodded slowly. His smile widened again and lit up his eyes. "Can I tell you a bit about myself?" I would love to know you. I said in my head. But I stared at him in my replying way once again.
"I was born in Chicago in 1901." He started I listened to his story. He had a very short life, and his mother had known, but how? After he was done he glanced at me. The Sun was rising. "Did you know anyone that died of the Spanish influenza?" He asked me.
My whole family. My mother and my ex-fiancée and his family and eventually my father. Then all of my family's descendants. I thought sadly. I knew he saw the look in my eyes and nodded. "I know how you feel. Were they your family?" My lips trembled and I sobbed one sob. He gaped at me with sympathetic eyes. I didn't need this. I didn't need his pity. I stood up and opened the door. He looked at me pained.
"Sorry." He muttered before leaving. He glanced at me once more before leaving and I ran over to the couch and full out sobbed knowing that the Cullen's could hear me.
EPOV
I walked back downstairs feeling guilty. I could hear her sobbing. And it was my fault. "What did you do to her?" Alice asked. She was cradling a very depressed Jasper.
"I told her my story and asked if she had lost anyone to the Spanish Influenza. She gave me a sad look and I took it as a yes and asked if it was family and then she sobbed. When she looked back up at me she seemed sad but then she gave an angry look and kicked me out of the room." I replied sitting down.
"Jasper said that while you were up there she was feeling happiness and love, and then by the end she was depressed and then a little angry and then depressed again." Esme says.
"Love?" I ask. They all nod even the sobbing Jasper.
"Wow." I say.
We were all silent till about seven in the morning when we were forced to get ready for school and Carlisle for work.
BPOV
I stayed looking out over the balcony and watched as the five Cullen "kids" got in a silver Volvo carrying text books and binders. They were going to school… I sighed. I wished I could but because I would never speak again it was impossible.
There was a knock on my door and I just looked at it. After about a minute Esme peeked in. She smiled at me in a motherly way. In a way Paula would never smile at me.
"Hello." She said. I blinked at her. "Can I come in?" She asked and I gave her a slight nod. She came in and stood next to me and I looked out at woods. It was autumn. My favorite time of year.
Right before the dead leaves fell to ground and the trees were pretty colors. The smell of dead leaves was my favorite smell. It wasn't to hot or too cold; well it wasn't in most places (not that I really noticed the cold anymore…). It was surprising to find it wasn't raining this morning. The sun was shining, but not bright enough to make me shine like a crystal. It was still beautiful though. The way the sun shined on the colorful leaves.
"Beautiful isn't it?" Esme asked. I looked at her and gave her a half nod. She smiled brightly at this.
"So me and Alice talked last night and decide that we should take you shopping tonight." My eyes widened in horror, I didn't even like the thought of shopping. I shook my head desperately walking into the study.
"Well you don't have to…" Esme said following me. I looked at her desperately. She smiled and stepped towards me. "It's alright." She said. I nodded and she gave me a hug. I hugged her back. She was like he mother that died when I was fifteen years old. She even looked like Renee.
"Would you like to come downstairs?" Esme asked. I glanced over her shoulder at the open doors of the balcony and sighed. She looked in the direction of my gaze and nodded "Or; we could go out."
I thought for a second and glanced at the Forest longingly. She understood. "We could go for a walk..." She suggested and I looked her thankfully. "Come on." She said taking my hand. I sighed inwardly.
Maybe living with the Cullen's would be so bad. I was actually sort of happy. This group of strangers was taking me in as though I was one of their own. And they didn't give up on me.
When I moved in with the Holland's Paula and Fredric spent maybe two days trying to get me to show any emotions towards them. Not a day at the Cullen's and I had smiled, nodded and shook my head, sighed, and been very, very tempted to talk…to yell, and felt love for... no not love I could never love anyone again…well maybe Edward…NO! They also kept trying to get me to talk, to be more of a part of the family. It was weird. I felt like I belonged for the first time in two hundred years. I belonged to a coven…no to a family
By the time me and Esme got back she had told every one of her family's stories, including Edwards. She told me about her baby that had died and her suicide attempt. It made me think of the moment I found Deloris in her crib.
We were sitting in the living when she was telling me about her child and how it died. When the rest of the Cullen's came in she didn't acknowledge it she actually asked me something I was not expecting.
"Did you have children?" She asked.
I opened my mouth wanting to tell her about my sweet Marie and Deloris, even about my husband-to-be and his sister. But I closed it again and placed my head in my hands and started to sob tearlessly.
"Oh sweetie I'm so sorry!" She says coming towards me and hugging me. "I know what it's like to loose you're a child." She said. I looked up at her and shook my head. "You didn't loose just one did you." I started to sob into her lap again.
"I'm so sorry." She said. I looked up when I heard someone else sobbing. Jasper was curled up on the floor Alice sitting next to him.
I wanted to apologize for making him feel that way. I knew his power. That was one of my powers. I could tell what other vampire could do. Like I knew Edward was the mind reader and Alice could see visions. And Carlisle had super self-control. That was one of my powers too. All the same I hated being around other humans, another reason I never went to school.
I finally calmed myself down enough for Jasper to stop crying. Esme gave me a sympathetic look and again that spout of anger washed over me. I really didn't need pity.
"Why are you angry?" Jasper asked. I looked at him.
"She doesn't like it when people pity her." Edward replied. "That's why she was angry with met his morning. Right?" He looked and me but I just stood up and walked up the stairs in reply.
"I think that girl has had a very depressing past." Esme says. And she had no idea…
A/N: What do you think? I'm starting to pick up a plot; hopefully I'll have one my next chapter…please review!