EsmePOV

We pulled up at our house and the 6 children in the back stared up at the mansion in awe. Carlisle stepped out of the car, as did I and opened the back doors of the car. The children hadn't seemed to notice us until we had unbuckled them and Carlisle had opened the boot. The 6 kids scrambled out of the car, pushing and pulling and scratching to be the first one out. Carlisle and I stood back as the children attacked each other. We were shocked until they had grabbed their own belongings and stood in a line, staring at the house in awe again. We had to laugh at how silly they had looked fighting and going back into their formation as if it had been rehearsed. Bella turned around when we laughed and looked slightly embarrassed as she blushed. She stepped forward from her friends and walked up to our front door. Carlisle ran up to her and unlocked the door for her, pushed it open and motioned for her to enter. I had caught up to them by this time and watched as the small girl got on her knees and inspected the kitchen table. She wiped her finger over and looked at her finger and seemed shocked to not find a single speck of dust.

Eventually the other children made their way into their new home, inspecting it in their own different ways. When they were done, they took off their backpacks and sat quietly in a row on our sofa. "Do you like your new home?" Carlisle asked them. "Yeah!" they all shouted in unison. "Who wants to go choose their rooms?" I asked. All their heads snapped towards me and had huge grins of delight as I spoke. Carlisle grinned too and whispered in my ear as he walked past, "be careful with them. I'll get dinner started." I nodded back at him and stood up out of my chair. "Come on! Let's go up the stairs to the bedrooms!" and I started marching with the children following me in giggles, but marching also.

When we made it to the top of the stairs, the kids all panned out to look down the hallway. They loved the length of the corridor as they started running up and down until they saw me watching and stopped at my feet in a huddle. "Go choose your rooms! Tomorrow we can make door hangers so everyone can remember whose room is whose. We can even make one for the bathroom if you like, so you remember where that is." And with that, the children had disappeared into 6 different rooms. I walked down to the end of the hall and looked into each room to see who chose which room. I grabbed a piece of blue chalk from Carlisle's study first and wrote their names on the doors. I peeked into the first one and saw Edward moving the furniture around. I smiled and wrote his name on the door, just a bit higher than the children so they hopefully wouldn't rub it off before the door hangers were made. In the room across from Edward was Bella. She seemed to be moving furniture around too. Her head snapped up as I opened the door. "Do you have a nightlight?" she asked me very quietly. "No I don't sorry. I do however happen to have a few torches if you'd like one for tonight and we can go out and get you a nightlight tomorrow." She smiled and said yes. I shut her door and wrote her name on it before going to the room next to her. I opened the door and saw the smallest girl checking the measurements of the wardrobe. She seemed to look pleased with the size as she nodded while writing down the calculations on a notepad. I shut her door softly and wrote Alice on her door. I quickly walked over to the room across from her to find Emmett and Jasper wrestling on the floor. "Boys! What are you doing?!" I yelled at them. Their heads snapped up and hands were removed from necks while their faces turned bright red. "Whoever's room this is, they can stay, the other can go back to their room," and Emmett left and went next door. "Clean up the mess you made fighting please. Dinner will be ready soon," and I shut his door, writing his name on the door. I walked to Emmett's room and wrote his name on the door. I walked across the hall and wrote Rosalie's name on her door as she was the only one left.

I was just about to head downstairs when Carlisle called up the stairs, "DINNER'S READY!" and doors flung open and 6 small people came flying at me and down the stairs. As I regained my breath, I walked slowly down the stairs to find 6 eager faces awaiting their meals sitting around the kitchen table. I took my place at one end and scanned the small faces. Next to me on my right was Rosalie; next to her was Emmett then Alice. Across from Alice sat Jasper, next to Jasper sat Bella and next to Bella, on my left was Edward. I had the sudden thought, I wonder if they did this at the orphanage. Just before I asked anyone, Carlisle appeared with dinner. He placed a nice warm potato wrapped in foil on everyone's plate then went back to the kitchen. He came out next with a bag of microwave steam cooked vegetables, and emptied a packet onto each plate. He took the empty bags back into the kitchen and came back with bread and gave everyone 2 slices each before heading back in and coming back with a carved chicken. He placed a big juicy slice of chicken onto everyone's plate before saying, "do you kids say grace before each meal?" All the kids shook their heads. Carlisle said, "Then dig in!"

Dinner went by in a wiz, the way those children gobbled up their food. When they were done, they helped us wash all the dishes, take out the rubbish and clean the table. We set up a game of Cluedo on the kitchen table while the children brushed their teeth. We played 4 games before the younger three started to yawn. I carried Bella upstairs to her room, as she had already fallen asleep on the Mr Green piece of the game and had an imprint on her face where he'd been squished. I undressed her and put on her small pyjamas and placed her into the small bed. Carlisle had taken Alice and Emmett to bed faster as they were still awake and had a competition to see who could get into bed faster. I watched Carlisle as I sneaked into his office and found a small purple torch for Bella. I placed it on her bedside table before kissing her goodnight and leaving her room. Edward and Jasper had made their way upstairs and were getting to sleep as I left Bella's room. I kissed the other 4 goodnight before walking downstairs. I saw Rosalie packing up the board game and putting it back into its place as I got to the bottom of the stairs. "Goodnight mom!" she said and gave me a hug and a kiss before walking very gracefully up the stairs. I thought to myself as I watched them settle for the night; tomorrow's going to be a long day.

A/N: hope you like! I'm off to bed now as I don't want to sleep in again and have another day off school tomorrow (LOL)

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