Again, most of these characters are not my creations; I'm just playing with them!

Chapter 2

EPOV

We all have seen that movie moment when someone hears a gunshot near them and for a tenth of a second their life flashes in front of their eyes; yeah well that didn't happen to me. When I heard that shot, all I could think about was the fact that I had nothing to defend myself with. Like any sane person who hears a gunshot sound coming from outside of his property, I looked around for something that I could use as a weapon, and then soon realized that all my things are still packed in boxes and I was shit-out-of-luck.

Not knowing what else to do, I slowly walked towards the front door where I could hear people shouting right outside; before opening the door, I picked from the window to see what was going on. A young woman with brown hair was standing in front of an older man, her back to my door, and he was holding the damn shot-gun.

"Gramps! I told you not to touch that shot-gun again; I swear talking to you is like talking to a 4 year child!" I heard the woman yell.

"And I told ya, I saw a man walking around inside, ya know as well as I that ain't no one living in this place since Sam's parents died!" I heard the older man's voice; I guess he was "Gramps".

"Eeehh," she yelled, throwing her hand in the air, "Didn't you hear Esme at the dinner last week? She was talking about the place being sold to someone!" By the tone of her voice, it was obvious that she was irritated, couldn't blame her though, Gramps was trying to shoot me dead.

"Are you sure she said that? I don't remember that," he stopped for few second, as if he was trying to remember what happened.

"Yes, I'm sure, and you probably don't remember it because you were arguing with Carlisle about the last piece of that damn lime pie! Now please give me that gun, before they call Sam or Emmett to take you to jail." She stretched her hand, "because I swear if they take you, no one will come to bail you out again!"

After few seconds he passed her the gun; thinking that now it was safe, I cracked opened my door just a little.

She turned around to face me and I could tell she wasn't wearing an ounce of make-up, yet she was beautiful, "You can come out now, he can't shoot you." She told me.

I made my way outside, hands up in the air, "Hi" I said, "can you please make sure the safety is on? I would hate to call my mom and tell her I got shot my first day here." I told them with a smile on my face.

"Hi, sorry for the confusion, I promise that he will not do this again." She said, sending a death glare towards Gramps, and like an idiot I just noted my head. Let's be honest here, with that smile and face she could've told me anything and I would've just agreed with her.

"What's your name boy?" Gramps asked, boy? I haven't been called that since I was in middle school.

I extended my hand, "I'm Edward Mason, and like she told you, I did buy the place few weeks ago" I explained to him.

He shook my hand looking at me as if he was trying to remember something, "Mason? Are you related to Garrett and Kate Mason, son?" he asked, would you look at that, now I'm son? They were my grandparents on my dad's side.

"Yes, they are my grandparents, Elizabeth and Anthony are my parents; they are still in Chicago with my grandparents." I told him.

"Well sorry for trying to scare you off son, guess I should have paid more attention to the conversation than the pie" he says while laughing.

"That's ok, if you are talking about Renee's pies then I understand, earlier I had some of the cookies and cannot wait to go the bakery and get more." I really couldn't blame the man, they were good!

"Well, we better get going gramps" she told him and turned to me.

"Again, sorry for trying to scare you off son, but we look at for each other around here," Gramps added, stretching his hand and I took his. "I'm Chuck by the way, Bella's Gramps" he introduced himself and after shaking hands he walked off the porch.

"I'm Bella by the way, Renee's daughter" she said starching her hand to shake mine, after making sure Chuck was on his way. Well I guess I just found out another reason to be visiting Renee's bakery a lot more.

"Nice meeting you," I shook her hand, "do you work at the bakery too?" doesn't hurt to ask, "No, I actually own the flower shop next to the bakery," I guess I could always use some flowers to brighten up my new office!

After introductions were made she walked away and I went back inside, but not before making sure no one else was lurking around my house.

Since I couldn't get back to sleep, I decided to do some light unpacking; starting with my TV and entertainment system, but just one look at the wires and remotes I gave up. It would be best if I can hire someone to do this part; I am intelligent person with common sense, and that common sense tells me to not mess with these things.

I decided to look on line see if I could find anyone for this job, but soon realized that my internet wasn't hooked up either; this is turning out to be more difficult than I thought. Finally giving up, I looked around the living room and decided that I could at least start to organize my books and other small items. After about an hour, I decided to get ready and head out to Esme's place.

The drive over was only about 10 minutes, I soon realized that driving to anyplace around here would not take more than 10 to 15 minutes. I drove up to their house and noticed that it looked similar to my place; it had three stories and mostly covered in windows. There were few cars parked front of the house, following them I parked my car, I made my way to the door and knocked few times but no one opened. Was this some joke they played on the new guy in town? Pretend to invite him to dinner and don't answer the door. Out of curiosity I made my way around the property, that's where they all were, in the back yard - or more like football field- it was so big. I knocked on the wooden fence door and that's when Esme saw me, walking towards the door, she let me in.

There were a lot of people there; I'm guessing they were her sons and their families. She walked me over to the table and introduced me everyone. As soon as we met, I knew that I would be good friends with both Emmett and Jasper. Even though they were brothers, there was nothing similar between those guys, but they were both warm and welcoming.

Emmett, I came to learn, was 29 years old and was one of the sheriffs in town and was married to Rose, a stay at home mom. They had two kids, a set of identical 5 year-old twin boys, Logan and Lucas, and for the life of me I couldn't tell them apart. Their boys were great, and I could tell they got into a lot of trouble, mainly because of their dad.

Jasper was the older sibling at 31 and was married to Alice; they had a daughter named Olivia or Livy for short. She was an adorable 6 year-old little girl with curly hair and a big smile. I also learned that Rose and Alice were co-owners of the book store in town. And as luck would have it, all 3 children had multiple pets that would pretty soon become my patients.

They all welcomed me as if we had been friends for years, and while we got to talking, they mentioned Emmett was a geek when it came to hooking up entertainment systems and all that came with it. Both he and Jasper promised to stop by my place the next day and help me fix it. Dinner was great and I was glad that I went, with promises of seeing each other soon I drove home around 10 o'clock and since I had to get up early in the morning to start unpacking, I took a quick shower and crashed on the couch.

BPOV

I couldn't believe Gramps, it's like he is trying to get people to hate us! What sane person will take a shot-gun and start shooting in bright day light? He is lucky Edward didn't call the sheriff's office and asked them to arrest him; on second thought, I wish he had done that; this man needs to learn his lesson.

After dropping Gramps off at their house I drove to the bakery hoping my mom would agree to talk to him, God knows he won't listen to my dad or Grandma. After that I had to head to the flower shop and wait for the new shipment of flowers coming in today.

After dropping Gramps off, it took me less than 10 minutes to drive to main street and park in front of the store and headed to the other building into the bakery.

"Mom?" I yelled for her, God I loved the smell of this place, it was a great mix of chocolate, vanilla, fresh bread and cookies. Just few seconds later my mom came out of the back room drying her hands on her apron.

"Hey what's going on? And shouldn't you be at the store right now for the shipment? James came in to get some coffee earlier and said something about you going after Gramps?" she asked me with a smile on her face, I could've sworn she knew what he was up to and didn't do anything about it. With that grin on her face, you would think that she was actually Gramps daughter and not daughter-in-law.

"Yeah and by the looks of it, you knew about it!" I told her, "He gets the gun and runs to the plantation house wanting to shoot the guy who is in his own damn house! And you didn't do anything?" I really was mad.

"Well don't get mad. Es and I thought it was funny! I'm sure his parents would agree too." This, ladies and gentlemen, is my mother trying to make an apology.

"Well next time he goes around shooting people, I won't have anything to do with it, and when they call from the sheriff's office you can go pick him up!" I answered.

"Ohh c'mon Bella, you know no one at that station will do anything to Gramps, hell most times they help him with this pranks." She started laughing, and that was my cue to leave. I should just talk to my dad, Charlie, maybe he'll do something about it.

I headed to the flower-shop and started to help James with the new shipment; making room in the walk-in refrigerator and placing the flowers in their appropriate vases.

After spending a good few hours at the store, I got a call from my mom telling about how she had made my favorite pie and wanted me to come over for dinner. I think this was her way of saying sorry for me having to go after Gramps today; whatever her reasons are, I don't care; I would pretty much do anything for her cooking and it gave me a chance to have a quite night in with them. I left the store around 5 and headed to my parents' place.

Dinner, like always, was great and while I was there, my parents made a point of telling me about Edward's parents and grandparents. I had met them few times when they were visiting but didn't know much about them. Usually when they were here, they would stay at the B&B about 30 minutes from town and visit the Cullens, my parent and some of their other friends.

I was actually excited about having a new person in this town; it also was great that we didn't have to drive an hour to the next vet's office, since Carlisle had retired recently.

***No major cliffhangers, but we did get to meet some of the characters!

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