2
Time flew by. I wanted to stop it, but I couldn't. New Year celebrate came, and I just cried. I had to leave. I leaned on a wall, Emm and Mary were with me. Soon was time to tell them...
"Rosalie", I heard someone say. It was Greta. "Sophie and Jeff Hale are here."
"Right. I... I'm coming. Just a minute..." I said.
"Okay. Two minutes, and I'll be here again. And then I won't give you time anymore", Greta answered and left.
"Mary I'm sorry. In the letter... They said I could take one person with me, like I said..."
"I know he wants to come with you", Mary said immediately. "Don't you, Emm?"
"Well... Yeah..." Emm said.
"The only thing is, that it's so unfair to you, Mary!" I said.
"I said I don't care. Just promise to write letters, you both, please..." Mary's voice cracked. I hugged her.
"We promise. We won't never forget you, Mary", I conviced and let her. "Or...?"
"No we won't! And we'll write letters all the time, I promise" Emm conviced too.
"Thanks... Emm, you should pack your suitcases..." Mary's voice was still just a whisper.
"I'm going to miss you", Emm said and hugged Mary quickly. Then he left to pack.
"Mary I..." I wanted to tell her, how much I was going to miss her.
"Shh. I know this may sound odd, but I don't wanna say 'goodbye'. It sounds like we're going to die soon..."
"Okay. Lets just say 'see ya', OK?" I asked and hugged her.
"Rosalie! You're out of your time!" Greta shouted. I turned to look at her and saw two random people behind her. I guessed they were Sophie and Jeffrey Hale. I was right.
"Dear child! I'm Sophie Hale, and this is my husband Jeffrey. You must be Rosalie?" woman, Sophie, babbled. I mumbled something inpenetrable. Greta walked away.
"So you don't have anyone you cannot leave behind, or have you?" Sophie asked. I couldn't answer before Emm was standing right next to me.
"I do, him..." I said with teary eyes. Few tears fell down my cheek.
"Oh, dear child, don't cry!" Sophie ejaculated and wiped my tears away.
"You don't understand... This is where I've been my whole life..." I mumbled.
"I'm so sorry. But a proper home will be better. Not people like Greta spinning around and complaining about how cousin's aunt's brother's sister-in-law isn't behaving and stuff", Sophie consoled.
"Yeah, I should be more thankful for getting me away from her. But I'm just going to miss my best friend..." I said and giggled.
"So, you guys are ready?" Jeffrey asked smiling.
"Yeah, I guess we are", Emm said looking at me.
"Yeah. Just one thing..." I turned to Mary and hugged her. "I'm going to miss you so much!"
"Me too!" Mary said and hugged me.
"Well... Like we promised... See ya, Mary", I said fighting against crying. Moving into a proper home is really a good thing! ...Or I guess so.
We found out a most wonderful thing in whole world. Emmett's mother was one of Sophie's three sisters!
Two weeks after our moving I was in a little garden with Sophie.
"Sophie, why did you chose right me to adopt?" I asked.
"Because you remind me of my sister. You look a little like her. She died 11 years ago", Sophie told.
"Why she died?" I asked.
"She was sick and she had too much stress", Sophie told me.
"Stress? Why?" I wondered.
"Her husband was hitting her. Plus she had a daughter, but she was too young to take care of a little girl, and her husband hit the baby too. She felt guilt for sending her own daughter to orphanage", Sophie explained.
"Orphanage? Where was that orphanage?" I turned to look at Sophie.
"It was just the same, where you're coming from", she smiled.
"Sophie, wake up! Don't you see?" I started.
"What?" she didn't understand.
"I look like her, I'm from the same orphanage she send her daughter, I don't know anythig about the time I was little... I don't know anything, but I hate violence more than anything", I explained.
"Wow. You hate violence 'cause your father was hitting you when you were baby. Oh Lord, I'd found my own niece! Oh, dear Rosalie!" Sophie cried and hugged me. We were just crying.
"Wait a sec, Jazz, I'll be right back!" I heard Emm shouting to someone and saw him running to us.
"What's wrong Rose and Sophie?" he asked.
"We just realized, that I'm Sophie's niece..." I whispered with tears of happiness.
"Oh my..." Emm thrilled. "That's great!"
"So you two are cousins!" Sophie whooped. Emm's smile faded.
"So I haven't got a choice... Or have I, Sophie?" he asked. I had no idea what he was talking about.
"Your others cousins. Elle, for example. Or Joanie", Sophie said.
"Uhm... What are you talking about?"
"Many hundred years in Cullen's family men had married only their cousins. If there's no girl-cousins , his parents will search an eligible bride. What reminded me, you're going to see Joanie, Elle, Megan and Rosana soon. Portland, if you don't remember", Sophie explained. Then she smiled. "But I need to go cooking", she continued and left. I stared at Emmett, and he stared back.
"Who are Joanie, Elle, Megan and Rosana?" I asked quietly.
"My cousins... Joa and Elle are twelve like we are, Meg is thirteen and Rosa is five", he explained.
"Emm, are you coming or not?" shouted a boy's voice.
"Jazz, Ed, come here!" Emm shouted back. Two boys and one girl started coming closer.
"They're my friends..." he sighed and turned to look at them. I saw those three looking at me.
"Who's this?" girl asked.
"She's my cousin, Rosalie Hale. Rose, these are my friends. Jasper", he introduced and pointed to one guy.
"Hi, say Jazz", Jasper said.
"Alice", Emmett grinned and pointed to a girl.
"Hi, Rosalie, call me Ali", she grinned to me. I nodded.
"And Edward", Emm said pointing to last guy.
"Say Ed", Edward said.
"Hey. You guys can call me Rose, everyone does", I grinned.
"So, Emm, is this your becoming wife? Everyone knows the Cullen's tradition..." Jazz hinted.I blushed.
"I truly have no idea. I'm, correcting, WE, meaning me and Rose, are going to see my other cousins soon", Emm sighed.
After two weeks we were in the car.
"Not long anymore... We're soon at their place", Jeffrey said.
"Great!" I whooped.
Soon Jeffrey stopped, and we four stepped out of the car. A little girl ran out from a house what was in front of us.
"They're here! Fish-eaters are here!" she shouted, smiling.
"Fish-eaters...?" I whispered to Emm. "What does she mean?"
"She's totally in love with 'The little mermaid'-movie. She thinks she's a mermaid. She keeps talking weird words and nobody understands her. The truth is, she's just freak", Emm explained and held his laughter.
"Hey, that wasn't very nice! She's just a little girl", I laughed.
"Five years old", Emm corrected. "Hey, Rosa, this is Rosalie", he said louder.
"Hello Rosalie. I'm Rosana. But people calls me Rosa", she said and curtsied.
"Hey Rosa. You can call me Rose", I laughed.
"OK", she grinned and turned to look at the house. "MEGGYY!" Door opened and another girl stepped out. This one just was a little older.
"What's up, Rosa? Oh, they're here!" The girl looked at me, smiling.
"Is she.. Rosalie?" older girl asked.
"Yea, she is", Rosa grinned.
"Yeah. Your mom's name was Laura, isn't that pretty?" girl asked.
"Well, yeah..." I was a little confused.
"Oh, you can't remember me. Oops. I'm Megan, Meg. I knew you when you were baby", she introduced.
"Great." That was all I could say to Meg. Pathetic. I couldn't think about that for long, door opened again and two girls stepped out.
"Who's that?" other asked ungraciously.
"She's your cousin, Rosalie", Meg smiled.
"OK. I'm Elle Cullen, and this is Joanie Cullen. We're twins. Emm's our cousin", shorter girl introduced.
"Hi", I said again.
"Come on in, Rose!" Rosa shouted and grabbed my hand. She started to pull me towards the house.
"I probably should come", Meg giggled and ran after us. Emm followed us too.
I was interested in my mom's family, and when Meg told me, I learned so much more about her. She had got three sisters, and Sophie was one of them. The others were Savvy and Lawni. Sophie was the oldest, Lawni was the second, Savvy was the third, and mom was the youngest. Savvy was Elle and Joanie's mom, and Lawni was Emm's mother. That was the time I realized, how much their family had lost. Lawni and Laura, both had died. I became good friends with Meg and Rosa, but i never learned to like Elle and Joanie. But like I said, I was great friends with Meg and Rosa. We could spent so much time just sitting in Rosa's room, singing songs. Rosa loved music, and hearing me and Meg sing to her. But once I was going into room, that I and Emm shared, but I heard Sophie and Savvy talking about me, so I stayed to listen a little. It really wasn't a good decision. I knew Savvy wanted Emm to choose Elle or Joanie, and she saw me as a threat, but I didn't know she hated me so much.
"How Emmett is so much with Rosalie?" she asked.
"He's been with her for so long. He knows her well. Better than he knows Elle and Joanie, I guess", Sophie answered.
"But still! Elle and Joanie are... some kind of... proper, aren't they?" Savvy stammered.
"What do you mean?", Sophie asked.
"There's something so wrong with Rosalie!" Savvy spatted.
"Oh please, Savvy. You know as well as I do, that she's just as normal as everyone else", Sophie sighed. She seemed to think Savvy's so wrong.
"No, listen. She IS weird. First of all, she wants to know everything. What does she do with all that knowledge?" Savvy started.
"She just wants to know more about Laura's family..." Sophie tried, but didn't sound so convinced about her words anymore.
"And then how she sees things. She understands too easily. Like she's older than she says she is", Savvy continued starting to sound kinda... happy in an evil way. My eyes widened. What was this?
"Mmh..." Sophie muttered hesitantly.
"And the way she sings, have you heard? She is too good! There IS something wrong with her, she's only twelve!" Savvy said triuphantically. Wow, she said I sing well...
"You're right, actually. There really is something weird in her", Sophie said confidently. I started to be in tears. Aunt Savvy didn't just think I was stupid, she also thought there was something wrong with me. I quietly ran up into our room.
"Rose, are you okay?" Emm asked immediately when I stormed into te room. It evidently was obvius that I was about to cry.
"I just heard Savvy and Sophie talkin' about me. They said there's something so wrong with me", I said bitterly but then I tried to smile.
"They're crazy. And Elle and Joanie are as crazy as their mother", Emm said.
"Yeah. But the worst part is that Sophie admitted, that there's something weird in me", I sighed.
"That's crazy! 'Cause I know you better than she does and..." he hesitated, seemed to be about to say something what he shouldn't.
"And what?" I asked.
"And... she... forget about it", he said. I rised my eyebrows but let it be.
"She's-an-idiot", I said slowly.
"Freaked out", he continued. It made me happier to blame Sophie behind her back. Somehow. I knew it wasn't quite grateful or friendly, but in other hand she just said to Savvy, that there's something wrong with me. That wasn't quite friendly or polite either, was it?
"However, we should get some sleep", I smiled.
"Right. Goodnight, Rose", Emm chuckled.
"Goodnight", I replied.