Ch. 3

Emmett POV

I was sitting on the couch while the girls were cleaning up a bit. Mel was vacuuming in front of me with her MP3 stuck in her ears. She was listening to some weird band called 'Stealing Jane'. It was really low and I was surprised she could hear it over the vacuum. Then, it switched to a song from 'Wicked' called Defying Gravity. Her vacuum became her microphone stand and she was singing at the top of her lungs and dancing like a fool. It was very entertaining to watch. I just smiled at her. Rosalie did that when one of her favorite songs came on. When she saw me looking at her she quickly looked down at her vacuum. It was cute and she was funny. And beautiful like Rosalie with red hair. It was weird I was falling for some one other than my Rose! Snap out of it!

I couldn't! I wouldn't! Cross my non-beating heart and hope to be destroyed. She sat next to me with a Batman comic in her hands. It was the Batman Begins graphic novel even though she had seen the movie many times before.

"What?" she asked looking at me with a small smile. I hadn't realized I had been staring at her.

"Nothing." Even though I can't help but stare at you. I walked up stairs before I could say anymore. I saw Rosalie in her every time I looked at her now.

Carlisle POV

Kim was helping me clean out my office. I had to get everything organized. After the deaths everything was just put where I could find space to put it. Kim neatly placed it in the correct files and set them in neat piles. She also took some time to wash, fold, and hang my clothes that were thrown all over the floor. She even found a tie coral so I could spin the thing and find exactly the tie I wanted. How nifty.

"Your ties are all in order by how much you wear them and color. The ones with a pattern are on the top half and the others that are just plain colored are on the bottom half. Perfectly organized." Kim said spinning the thing.

She is showing signs of OCD, or more accurately for her CDO. Alphabetic order. She was wearing a pair of jeans with paint splattered on it and a simple tight yellow tank top with a slightly lower cut. She was wearing a wooden cross with simple black string. Many people thought Vampires hated crosses, but we are very Christian people who just don't go to church. She looked gorgeous in her simple outfit. Like Esme in her younger days, simple and maybe a little paint or dirt from the garden. She didn't care, I didn't care. Love was all we needed.

I sat on at my desk while she wondered around the office tidying up odds and ends. She picked up Esme's poem book and began to sift through it. I saw her face change from smiles at some poems to sadness at others.

"These are beautiful! She was such a good writer. They really portray the emotion she wanted." She said not looking up from the book.

"Thanks." I continued to watch her and saw her beauty and grace. The way she walked and talked. She was perfect. She could be Esme reincarnated. I hope so. Love has reentered my life.

Jasper POV

Shasha was sitting in Alice's room with me admiring her paintings. She would turn her head back and forth as she looked at them, almost studying them. Her mood was content and happy.

"Is this when you first met?" She asked pointing to Alice's first vision of me.

"Yea, she had just happened to walk in. I knew something was perfect when she walked in." I said moving to stand next her.

"These are all beautiful and done so well. She had real talent." She had moved onto the portraits of the other girls.

"So, these are the others?" She asked standing in front of Esme's picture.

"Yes, that's Esme. She was Carlisle's wife and our adoptive mother. She was like a real mother. Then there's Bella. She was a real clutz. That's why she has a band aid on her head." She laughed. It was a beautiful laugh. It could make anyone laugh along with her. "That's Rosalie. She was defiantly the diva. She had tons of clothes and shoes."

"I think Mel can fill the shoe part. She has so many and some are just different colors."

"Good. And that is Alice. Those are the flowers she gave to Bella when she first met her." Alice had her famous smile on. It said pixie all over it.

"I love the paint splattered on her face. She was so pretty."

"Thanks. That's the necklace I gave her. It was lost when she died."

"Oh, I am sorry." She gave me hug and sat me down on the love seat. Her hands moved in slow circles on my back. I placed head on her shoulder. She hugged me again and just held me humming a sweet lullaby.

Sympathy and happiness was all I could feel from her. Happiness because she was with me. The way Alice was.

Alice.

Edward's POV

I was laying on the bed that I had gotten for Bella. I was composing more music. I scribbled out notes and changed the timing and key tons of times. Nothing seemed right. Sheet music with scribbles on them littered the floor. Eryn was staring out the rainy window with a note book in her hands. She was writing a fantasy fiction story about mythical creatures.

She put the note book down and put a C.D. in my C.D. player. I had been listening to easy going classical music. All piano. It was really quite beautiful. Then she started singing to some awful.

"In the dark of the night evil will find her!" She sang at the top of her lungs dancing around kicking my sheets of music everywhere.

"What is the horrid music you chose to play?" I asked clasping my hands over my ears and making my way to turn it down.

"SHE'LL BE MINE!" She shouted even louder than before. I was finally able to reach it and turn it off for good. "Hey, what are you doing?"

"Turning it off."

"Why?"

"Doom her!" Shasha said walking in to the room. "Aw! I missed it! Why did you turn it off?"

"I think they all need a big dose of Anastasia!" Eryn said.

"What in the world is that?" I asked watching their faces turn to me and look like they were about to torture me. I was scared. This was not going to be a fun night.

"Movie night!" Shasha yelled when she get down stairs. She put it in as the others pulled up chairs. I noticed Kim sat on the couch close to Carlisle. Mel sat at Emmett's feet on a pillow, his arms rested lightly on her shoulders.

She reminds me of Rose. I think I might love her too. Emmett said in his head his child like eyes looking at me.

Esme reincarnated possibly. Carlisle's mind said. He had gently put his hand on her knee and her hand was on his.

Jasper had pulled up a chair next Shasha. She was laughing at something some one said. Their shoulders were touching and Jasper was watching her face carefully.

Happy. Joyful. Graceful. Was all could get from him.

There was room on the couch next to Eryn. She smiled at me as I sat next to her. I smiled back.

I hope he likes me. Like the others like the girls. I gently took her hand in mine. Her smile grew even bigger. Truth was I did like her. She wasn't clumsy like Bella, but there were other qualities to her like Bella. The hair color, her attitude, her smile and the way she thought of me. Maybe Carlisle was right.

When 'In the Dark of the Night' came into the movie all the girls sang along. It was fun to watch them smile like they did. To enjoy everyone's company. I think everyone was right. There was so much love in the room. This was for the girls who were no longer with us. This is what they would have wanted. Who would have known we would find such awesome girls.