I sighed and ran up to his room, I laid the clothes on the bed, they definitely looked worse in my head. I think I preferred Esme's choice in clothing it was very plain, very me. It was a pair of white linen trousers and a loose fitting white shirt which could have been one of Edwards if it wasn't for the new expensive tags. I changed into them just in time to hear Rosalie's car pull into the driveway. I took a couple of seconds to see how it looked on me. I've looked worse, my hair was still damp so I tied it up to prevent it turning the shirt see-through, although Edward probably would be too bothered. I laugh at myself and make it downstairs in time to catch Rose coming through the door with Renesmee sleeping in her arms.

"Hey. How is she?" I asked

"Tired I think all that running tired her out." She smiled.

"Where did you go?" I asked as we headed over to the sofas

"Up to your meadow and around that area, she loves it up there almost as much as you guys. Anyway I'm sure she'll tell you all about it when she wakes. I've got to go see Emmett and get changed I take it were all wearing white for tonight then." She sighed and handed Nessie to me being very careful not to wake her. "See you later." She waved and again was out the door again. I grabbed my MP3 from the table and settled on the sofa with Nessie cuddled up to my side. I closed my eyes rested my cheek on top of Nessie's head and let the music take me over opening my mind. I felt the sofa shift besides me and snapped my eyes open and sighed.

"Hey." He smiled at me.

"It's time. Everyone's waiting for you two. Oh and could you shield Carlisle and Esme please request from them. Something they don't want me to know yet."

"Sure. Now?" He nodded once. "Will Carlisle mind if she sleeps? We can fill her in later; I hate to disturb her when she's sleeping so soundly like this." It was true, she was beautiful, so still, so peaceful.

"Come on, I'll carry her. I haven't seen her for a couple of days."

"OK." I let him pick her up off of me; he was so gentle with her. He held her in one arm and put his other around my waist like he often did and we walked to the dining room where everyone was already sat. We took our places at the table Edward sitting next to Carlisle and myself sitting next to him with Alice on my right. Edward shifted Renesmee so she was resting against his right shoulder sitting upright gently waking her at the same time.

"I would like to, on behalf of the rest of the family thank you Bella, for if it wasn't for you none of us would be here." No one has mentioned anything about that night since it hapened. I guess we were all trying to forget, though being vampires with our eidetic memories it was next to impossible. Sensing much of this was going to be directed at me I try to interject.

"None of you would have been in that situation if it wasn't for me." I muttered more to myself than anyone else but I could tell that Carlisle had heard me. He smiled.

"You have been part of this family since Edward first brought you home, and anyway it doesn't matter how we got into the situation the fact is that if you weren't able to protect us all from Jane and Alec we would well..." He saw me about to protest and held up a hand. "You saved our family Bella. Edward heard what Aro was thinking, he would have attacked and the main thing that stopped the Volturi from doing exactly that was you."

"Asides from that you have brought our family together." Rose was speaking now. "You and Edward having Nessie helped me to come to terms with being a vampire, being an aunty and helping to bring Nessie up is the closest thing I will ever get to having a child. You have no idea how much it meant to me, and Esme, we both wished we could have a child." She smiled at us both and I knew now that she didn't hate me anymore, hell maybe she even liked me.

"Now we have embarrassed Bella," They all smiled and I cringed, looking down at my hands. "We would like to get to the point of us getting together like this. When Bella joined our family, even before she even knew that she would, we felt our family was finally complete and since we are unable to officially adopt you as our own we have come up to our own way to show how much we feel towards you all, something to remind you all, we are a family. Here everyone loves and cares for everyone else and I also know due to all of our actions over the years that we are all willing to die to save one another. To symbolise our commitment to each other I would like to present you all with these." He gestured to the table we all sat around and for the first time I noticed that in front of everyone there was a small silver jewellery box.

"We would like you to open these in your own time, all we ask is that you wear them." He smiled and stood, leaving the room. Gradually everyone left wanting to open theirs in private and I put up my shield to include everyone so Edward could still have a supprise. Nessie was playing with her box, itching to open it. I smiled at her.

"Go on then, take it to your room and open it up there then straight to bed OK?" she nodded vigorously, jumping off Edward's lap she ran to the stairs. Edward cleared his throat and she spun on the spot to face him. I had to stifle a laugh at this.

"Oh, sorry." She began and skipped back to his side. "Night Dad." She said giving him a hug.

"Night Ness." He replied smiling kissing her on the forehead. He released her and she walk round him to me.

"Night Mum." Giving her a hug and kissing her on the cheek.

"Night sweetie." And she was gone, skipping up the stairs in a blur of excitement. I turned to Edward. "Would you like to open them together, or alone?" I asked.

"Together." He smiled, scooping me up taking me to the sofa, settling me down next to him. I swung my legs up across his lap and looked up at him, waiting. "OK?" He asked and I nodded. I stared at the neatly wrapped box, contemplating how to open it, finally, getting impatient with myself I just tore off the paper and opened the small velvet box within.

"Oh." I gasped. It contained a white gold strangely shaped locket with my name Bella Cullen engraved on the front of it with lighter lines decorating it. It was around one by two centimetres. It was beautiful. I removed it from the box and clicked the clasp, opening it. Inside it contained a photo of all nine of us; even though it was small I was still able to make out the tiny figures. It was such a wonderful gift. I lifted my gaze ever so slightly to sneak a peek at Edward and caught him just as he was closing his; it looked like we all got the same. He flipped his over to read something else, I copied and flipped mine over swiftly. On the back, in the smallest, delicate handwriting it read 'Forever and always, one of the family.'

At that moment Esme entered the room and Edward shot across to her.

"Esme..." His voice trailed off as he hugged her. Of course this would affect Edward the most, he was the closest to her and Carlisle and besides he had been around them the longest. "Thankyou." He choked out and I came to join them.

"They are beautiful." I breathed, though I was still curious about the shape of them. "Esme?" They both turned to face me.

"Yes dear?"

"The shape?" This seemed to be the question on everyones lips and within seconds, having heard our exchange, they surrounded us She seemed to understand straight away and gestured for me Edward and the others to give her ours. Here I'll show you she said heading over to the table laying them all out.

They formed a tree with Hers and Carlisle's forming the trunk, Alice and Jasper's forming the right branch, Rose and Emmetts the left and mine, Edward and Renesmee's forming the canopy. The lines tracing under the names gave the tree more detail, giving rise to the branches and leaves.

"A family tree." I gasp. They had put so much thought into it. "Thankyou." We all chime.