Becoming a fictional character

By EdwardCullenManiac4Eva

Chapter Three

Meeting The Family

I was sat in the passenger seat of Edward's Volvo C60R and Carlisle was behind us following in his black Mercedes SS5 AMG. It was awkward between me and Edward because he knew that I knew everything but he was still concerned for me considering he'd hit me with his car. I still didn't know if he could read my mind or not so I decided to try it out.

'Can you hear me?' I asked looking at him, I saw no change in his expression that told me he had heard what I was thinking. Hmm... Maybe he's ignoring me...

'Alice and Jasper had sex in your back seat'

That did it, the breaks slammed on and the car jerked forward to a stop, knocking the wind out of me. As I struggled to get my breath back, Edward looked at me, silently fuming. Carlisle had swerved to avoid us and was now walking at human pace towards us as we were on a road near houses. When my breathing calmed Edward turned on me.

"What do you mean, Alice and Jasper had sex in my back seat?" he asked his voice cold and hard. I looked at him for the first time with fear but when I saw his eyes soften it went away.

"They didn't have sex in here" I told him reassuringly, "Emmett and Rosalie did" I muttered as low as I could. Edward roared and then Carlisle was pulling me out of the car before he sped off at 200 MPH down the road. He was properly going to beat Emmett up and the Esme will break it up but one of them will break something so when I get there it will all be depressed and everything. Sigh, not how I wanted my first appearance in their house to be like.

"Sorry about that, he's very sensitive about his car" Carlisle said resting his hand on my shoulder. I put my hand on his, to anyone else it would properly look like a romantic gesture but to us it was just a friendly one. I smiled up at him.

"I know, want to go home?" I asked dancing out from under his hand and towards his car, I heard him laugh and as I looked towards the car door he was suddenly there opening it for me.

"There might be people in these houses you know" I scolded him, he shook his head.

"Their all at work, I know, trust me" he smiled, dazzling me so I shook my head and climbed in. As the door closed and I reached for my seatbelt, Carlisle was already waiting for me. As I fastened the seat belt he set off not going nearly as fast as Edward did but fast enough for the scenery to blur past us. We sat in silence but it wasn't an awkward one, it was natural.

There was total silence until my stomach rumbled. I blushed and looked out of the window. I could hear Carlisle chuckling, He pulled into a shopping centre further up the road. He parked in front of the store waiting for me. I quickly undid my seatbelt and scrambled out of the car. He had locked it before I had even reached the front of the car. He walked round and stood next to me, I stood there wondering what to do. He put his hand on my waist and pulled me towards the shop, getting a trolley on the way. We walked in through the automatic doors and I stood there looking at the size, it looked bigger on the inside than it did outside, kind of like the Tardis. Carlisle looked at me and waited.

"How much do I have?" I asked my voice breathless; I was still in awe at the size of the store. I heard rustling but I didn't turn to look. I was too busy looking at the different isles and wondering how much food they would have from England and what I would be able to eat. I wonder if Carlisle will let me spend more than a hundred, Gill only ever let me spend one hundred when I shopped for food.

"Umm, I have about two thousand dollars on me, will that be enough?" he asked, I could hear the nervousness in his voice, I turned to him.

"Two thousand dollars?! I think that is well more than enough what in your sane mind let you think that wouldn't be enough?!" I whispered angrily, Alice and her shopping addiction popped into my mind, "actually don't answer that." I grabbed the trolley and started to walk around. I looked at the prices and they were all in dollars, I groaned.

"What's wrong?" Carlisle asked worriedly. I looked at him.

"It's all in dollars, I hate it why can't they just be in pounds?! I don't even know what half of the stuff is!" I exclaimed, I was starting to feel like a baby with all the whining I was doing, time to suck it up and smile. "Oh well, I'll just do everything from scratch" I said smiling at him and heading towards the pasta isle. I got the pasta I needed for lasagne, I got sauce meat and cheese, I picked up a grater and some pans as well as Carlisle said they didn't have many. I got things for pizza, spaghetti bolognaise, Sunday roast and lots of little things I could have whenever I wanted to. I was about to go to the till when I saw the sweet isle, it was the whole length of the store. I just wanted to run and grab everything but I knew it would be bad, if the Cullen's didn't like the smell of normal food how would they react to theses sweet god sends? I tare myself away and started to walk towards the till when Carlisle stopped me. I didn't look at his face.

"Do you want some sweets?" He asked I nodded ashamed that he had realised. "Then go nuts, get whatever you want, there's something in me that tells me you deserve it" I looked at him and back to the sweet isle, then back to him. He heard my silent question and nodded his head. I squealed and hugged him; he was chuckling at my sudden mood change. I let go off him and ran to the sweets. I ran up and down the isle grabbing things I liked and things that I knew I would like. I made sure none of it went over forty dollars though. I dumped the sweets in the trolley and walked towards the till. I loaded everything on to the conveyer belt, as Carlisle stood back and watched. I waited at the other end and loaded everything into bags as the person on the till beeped everything through. I didn't look at them but I could feel their eyes on me. I put the bags into the trolley and pushed it to Carlisle. Then I walked in front of the till to find out how much everything was.

"That will be two hundred and fifty dollars, please." I looked up at the person who was talking, he had soft blue eyes and slicked blonde hair. I noticed the spots near his hair line as his head was turned slightly downward so he was looking at my boobs; I had to repress a shudder. I looked at Carlisle and in my sweetest voice said, "Daddy, please could I have the money?" I quickly looked at the cashier; I could see his eyes were wide with shock.

"G-g-good afternoon, Dr. Cullen," he stuttered not meeting his eyes. I had a feeling about who this was but I wasn't sure.

"Good afternoon, Mike. When did you start working here?" He asked his voice soft but I could hear an underlying anger, at who I'm not sure. His name dawned on me, was this Mike Newton? I hoped not, I don't want him following me like he did to Bella.

"I needed more money to fix my car and my parents couldn't give it to me," he muttered. I saw him glance quickly at me but I didn't meet his eyes.

"Daddy?" I asked again in my sweetest voice, and I used puppy dog eyes for the full effect. I saw a slight smile on his face. He pulled his money out and placed three hundred on the counter. "Thank you, Daddy." I hugged him, thinking I could get used to having a Dad around. I felt his arms wrap around me and hug me back.

"It's okay, Darling" he whispered, it was then I realized that I hadn't even told him my name; I decided to do it as we left the shop. Mike coughed interrupting our little moment, I pulled away and left Carlisle to get the change. I grabbed the trolley and headed towards the exit, I heard Carlisle tell him to keep the change as he jogged to keep up with me, we walked in silence towards the car. I stood there whilst Carlisle began loading the boot.

"Annabella Jacobs" I whispered, hi head snapped towards me I looked into his eyes, "Annabella Doreen Bibi Didyme Gilliet Jacobs, that's my full name. I am fifteen years old and my birth day is on the 25th of October, I was born in 1994" I told him in a rush, knowing that he would hear it anyway. I started to shift nervously from foot to foot waiting for his reaction. I couldn't look him in the eyes, so I kept my eyes trained on the shopping.

To say I was shocked when I felt Carlisle wrap me in a hug would be an understatement. I was absolutely amazed and confused.

"Thank you. I'm glad you trusted me," he whispered in my ear.

I hugged him back. We stood there hugging for a while before we finally let go. We smiled at each other and then began to pack the rest of the car. He closed the boot and since I was taking the trolley back, he got into the car. I began pushing the trolley back towards the rest of them when I decided suddenly decided it would be more fun to ride it. So I pushed it hard and took my feet off the ground and placed them on the bar at the bottom, I made sure to keep my weight balanced.

I laughed as the wind ripped through my hair. I jumped off just before I hit the rest of them. I felt happy and light as I skipped back to the car, not tripping once. As I got back I remembered I was hungry so I opened the boot and rooted around for some sweets to eat before we got back to the house. I grabbed a chocolate bar, I was surprised that they even had galaxy over here, and some rainbow drops. I closed the boot and skipped around the side of the car. I was at the back door when I tripped and fell into the open passenger car door.

"Ow!" I said rubbing my head where I hit it off the window. I heard Carlisle laughing at me so I glared at him as I climbed in and closed the door. I put my seatbelt on and opened the rainbow drops, tipping the packet back I poured them into my mouth.

"Drive" I commanded him pointing my finger towards the windshield and pouring some more rainbow drops into my mouth. Carlisle was full out laughing as he backed out of the parking space and continued down the road towards the Cullen's abode. Haha abode, hehe why do I use posh words in my head?? I don't know why do you use posh words in your head? I don't know that's why I was asking you! Huh? "Huh??" I hadn't realized I had spoken out loud until Carlisle spoke up next to me.

"What are you talking about?" he asked me. I looked and him and blushed. I had been caught.

"Oh well, it's that I tend to use fancy words in my head but I never say them out loud" I looked at my hands and wondered if the chocolate in my lap was melting, before I felt anything else off it I picked it up and put it in the side pocket so that it wouldn't melt.

"So I know about your family but tell me more about them on a personal level" I asked Carlisle, Bella didn't describe them very well in the book. I looked at Carlisle and saw he was deep in thought, so I stopped the impatient 'Carlisle' that was on the edge of my tongue.

"Why don't I let you see for yourself?" He looked at me smiling and then looked back out of the front window. I looked out quickly shocked to see the Cullen's house in front of us. The house was three storeys high and had windows all along the front and the right side –I couldn't see the other end- It was painted a rustic colour to give it an oldie worldy feeling. It looked simple but beautiful; I think I was falling in love with this house.

"Annabella? Are you going to come inside?" I looked to the other side of the car for Carlisle but he wasn't there. I looked around for him and spotted him next to the front door, the shopping bags at his feet. I slammed the car door shut and ran as fast as I could towards him. I tripped but didn't fall to the floor just jolted myself forward I carried on running as I laughed at myself. I finally joined him at the door to see him holding in his laughter. I shoved him in the shoulder and pretended to glare at him before picking up some of the bags and entering the house. I had five on each arm and as I walked in I didn't even bother looking for the rest of the Cullen's I just wanted to get the bags down. I walked through the house and up the stairs I walked along the hall and into the kitchen; I dumped the bags on the counter top and looked around. The kitchen was just like the one in the film but cleaner. I looked around to see if I could find anything wrong with it but it was spot less, won't be for long, I thought. I started to put things away, I noticed Carlisle come in and begin to put things away as well, we were done in no time.

"Want to meet the family?" Carlisle asked me suddenly, I could only guess that they had just come in. I looked at him, contemplating.

"Sure, let's go!" I smiled at him standing, he stood and held his hand towards me I took it and he led me back down the stairs to the living room. I didn't look up as we walked into the living room, purely for the fact that I didn't want them to think of me as a threat, this was their house after all. I kept my eyes on the laminate floor for another minute before lifting my head and looking around at everyone. The living room was on the side of the house do light poured through the windows and eliminated the Cullen's beauty. I looked at Carlisle; his amused eyes were watching me carefully but kept flicking to the woman sat on the couch opposite. She had soft caramel hair and sat with a straight back and had her hair elegantly draped over her shoulders and down her back. Her golden eyes were only full of love for her family, but the held the tiniest amount of fear in them. I looked back to Carlisle and carefully detached my hand from his.

"Go" I gave him a slight push on his shoulder so he would get my message. He smiled and hugged me before standing and moving to sit next to his wife. I smiled at them when I saw him embrace her place a gentle kiss on her cheek. It was so sweet, it also made me think of all the things I had missed in life, but it also made me realize that even though they were vampire's they had still managed to keep their humanity. I sighed and looked away. I looked at the rest of the Cullen's, they were all sat at different points around the room, Edward was the only one who wasn't sat down, he was stood next to the arch leading to the piano, watching me with guarded eyes. I cocked my head slightly to the right, without even realizing it, and looked at him questioningly. I couldn't stop the rush off questions that sped through my head and I could see that he was getting confused. My thoughts suddenly cut short and I felt calm, sleepy calm, my head snapped towards the blonde, sat furthest away from me.

"Stop" was all I said and the calm feelings secede. "Thank you" I told him sincerely, almost everyone was looking at me shocked now.

"How did you know about that?" He asked me. I looked at him, you could see even under the soft light that shone through the windows. I could still make out the soft scars on his neck and his upper arms, my eyes trailed down his arms and I was shocked to see that they got less prominent the nearer to his hands I got. My eyes then slowly made their way back up to his face, his eyes watching me carefully and calmly.

"Major Jasper Whitlock" I whispered, his eyes showed his shock and fear and I knew the question he was silently asking me, how much did I know? "at least that's what I think your rank was when you met Maria, Nettie and Lucy it wasn't explained very much only that they hadn't been together very long and that Maria had found the other two as they were all survivors of the recently fought south wars, they were making a new army –a better one- but they had to do it much more carefully than usual as the Volturi had only just left...." Oh god, I was rambling again, "sorry" I quickly apologized. "I tend to ramble a lot" I ducked my head down when I realized I was blushing, no need to set jasper off.

"It's okay, he's in more control that you would think" Edward's velvet voice spoke softly from behind, I hadn't notice him move but now he was knelt behind the settee. He stood slowly, aware of my eyes following him, and walked round the side of the settee and sat down next to me. "Why don't you tell us a bit about yourself?"

"I...I...I don't know where to start" I stuttered, I was getting lost in his eyes and I didn't like it, I could feel the fear building up inside of me. Apparently Edward heard something he didn't want to as he suddenly broke eye contact with me and our connection was gone. My fear dissipated and I looked away.

"Why don't you start at the beginning?" a sharp voice spoke, and I wasn't surprised to find it was the only blonde female in the Cullen family –well for now ;)- Rosalie. She was sat on Emmett's lap. You could tell it was Emmett because he was big, no fat just big muscles. He had soft curly black hair and his golden eyes shone with amusement. He was whispering something to Rosalie that I couldn't hear, but reading his lips was easy. He said, 'Calm down Rosie, she's only a child' that made me mad.

"I am not a child" I hissed towards them Emmett looked at me with confusion written on his face, his eyes still held there amusement though.

"How the hell did you hear that?" he said his voice one of humour and confusion, a funny combination.

"I didn't," now everyone looked confused, except Edward who had a sly grin on his face, "I read your lips" I smirked. His laugh was unmistakable as it rang around the room and only an idiot would confuse it with anyone else's.

"Great," he spoke, after he finally stopped laughing, "we have a mind reader and a lip reader, anything else you can do??" he started laughing again so I decided to show off a bit.

'I can do sign language' I signed to him, let him figure that out! I watched as his head tipped slightly to the side in a sign of confusion and a look of concentration spread across his face.

"Huh?" was all he said, Rosalie whispered something in his ear but put her hand over her hand over her mouth so I couldn't see. "Sign language!!" Emmett suddenly shouted, I saw Esme jump slightly but no one else –including me- moved an inch. My smirk turned into a frown and I began glaring at Rosalie.

"Ruin all my fun why don't you" I muttered, knowing she could hear me. She glared at me and I glared back, still not blinking. We glared for a few more minutes before she got this look of disbelief on her face and turned to Carlisle.

"Is she broke? Shouldn't she have blinked by now?" when she said blinked, I remembered that I had to blink so I did, "Oh, never mind" she turned and looked out of one of the windows.

"Annabella, what happened then?" Carlisle asked me worriedly, I looked at him properly.

"It's nothing to worry about, I sometimes forget to blink, the longest time I haven't blinked for is for five minutes, I went to the opticians the other week and they had to remind me to blink!" I told him giggling at how stupid it sounded. He was looking at me with shock written on his face. "It's not really a major problem; it just makes me seem like a typical blonde!" I glanced at Rosalie when I said this, to see she had stopped looking out the window and was glaring at me again. So I did the most mature thing I could think of, I stuck my tongue out at her, to say she looked taken aback was an understatement.

"So what do you want to know?" I asked turning back to Carlisle, he looked thoughtful for a few seconds before answering, I had a gut feeling it wouldn't be a question I would like.

"What is your family like? Do you have any siblings? What do your parents do?" he nodded slightly when he finished; satisfied with his answer. With a sigh I began.

"So as Carlisle already knows my full name is Annabella Doreen Bibi Didyme Gilliet Jacobs. I am fifteen years old and was born at 5:01am in 1994, England. Ummm... I don't know my birth father, neither does my birth mother but that is because she is a bitch and a whore, I live with my foster mum and my oldest younger sister. She's called Hope –because my mother 'hoped' for a boy- she was thirteen years old when I 'disappeared' and would be about nine years old now, and I should be around eleven," I told them but I felt as thought I was rambling, "My foster mum is called Gillian Twiss, she was fifty three and was studying physiology –or some crap- at university, I don't have a foster dad. The only one I ever had I asked to be moved away from because I didn't like him, I got those bad vibes, ya know?" I was hinting this towards Rosalie but I don't think she realized because she was looking intently out of the window still. "Anything else you would like to know about me or my family?" I asked looking around, to my surprise –and everyone else's- it was Rosalie who spoke.

"How old were you when you first went into care? Why?" she had sat up a little bit straighter, watching me with careful eyes.

"Ermm... I was one and a quarter when I first went into care, it was because my mother found out she was pregnant with my little sister, I went back to my mum when my sister was born in September, two weeks premature. Nine weeks later we were both in care, but we went home a month later, we were at home a week when my mum started partying again, during that time someone at one of her parties caused me to have my first fit after they injected heroin into my system and I had an allergic reaction. After that we weren't allowed to go back to my mum's house"

"We went to more than fourteen foster homes but when I was six I finally settled down with Gill. My sister and I have been with her for nine years now. It has been fun but as she gets older she has started to lose it a bit so Yeah..... Anything else?" I finished lamely. I was holding back any pain or sadness I was feeling, just like I had for so many years, it was my nature now I had held back my emotions so many time I couldn't live without it.

"Drugs?" Emmett said in monotone, I just looked at him and nodded, who made that sort of stuff up?, "Does that mean your hard core?!" He asked his face lit up with excitement, I saw Rosalie's hand sneak around and hit him on the back of his head before I collapsed into a fit of laughter. I was laughing so hard that it hurt to breath, for some reason my happiness doubled and I started laughing so hard that it was just coming out in silent laughter. I had a feeling that jasper but I didn't have any time to think about that as I was running out of air. I felt my lungs collapsing with lack of air and my humour and happiness was quickly turning into fear and helplessness, the mood darkened immensely as Carlisle tried to get me to breath normally again.

The minutes were tense and the breathing was shallow as everyone waited for Carlisle's okay. My heart rate started to go down and my breathing became slower, Carlisle was rubbing my back in a circular motion to help me. When my heart rate and my breathing were normal again, he stood up and went back to his seat after making sure I was defiantly okay. I rasped out

"I'm fine" My throat was horse and my voice sounded crackly but it was only to be expected from a situation like that, "I never knew you could die of laughter!" I tried to joke with them; everyone just seemed to look at me like I should be in a mental hospital, instead of their living room. "So what is your verdict about me staying?" I asked in a small voice, something told me that if I lived with them, even for a little while, I would have a lot of fun. Especially with Emmett around, he would just make it a blast.

"Well, I personally think we should all vote on it" Edward spoke from his spot besides me. I had almost forgot that he was there. "Carlisle, Would you like to start?" Edward asked him politely, he really had a lot of respect for Carlisle.

"Thank you Edward," He looked at Edward, me and then the rest of the family. "I think you already know what my answer will be but I would like to explain it first. I would love Annabella to join our family but I want everyone else to agree first, I think that it will be interesting to see everyone gets on with you, and I was wondering if you would let me look at that brilliant body of yours again" That sentence made my dirty brain kick into action.

"EW! That sounded so wrong!" I looked at Emmett to see that we had spoken at the same time. We burst out laughing when Carlisle's face turned into a frown.

"I didn't mean it that way" he muttered, Esme gently patted his shoulder.

"We know dear, their just being vulgar" She smiled at us sweetly, as though we had no clue as to what she was saying. Emmett and I pouted and crossed our arms over our chests, leaning back into the couch as if we were sulking. It was hard to keep a straight face but Emmett was having as much trouble as I was so I used my super acting skills to keep my facial expressions in place whilst in my head I was laughing like a mad man.

"You have a very.... funny mind" Edward whispered in my ear, I jumped out of the seat in shock.

"Stay out of my mind!" I shouted as I stormed over to where Esme was sat and hid behind her. She had amusement written all over her face and her body was shaking with silent laughter. Once I was sure Esme couldn't see me I pulled my tongue out at Edward, his face dropped in shock. I held back my laughter, who would have thought it? Little old me would ever see Edward Cullen's shocked face.

"Anyways" Alice said jumping up and walking towards me. "I would love for you to join our family! I can see it will be brilliant and we will have loads of fun shopping!" she pulled me out from behind Esme and into a tight hug. I laughed as it was so sweet and kind.

"Alice!" she let go of me and looked up at me, my 5'5" frame towering over her 4'10" one. I wanted to crouch down but that would properly annoy her. "If we are to go shopping together I have rules"

"Huh?" her head tilted a little in confusion, why hadn't she seen this? "One, we shop where I want. Two, I eat when I need to. Three, we must go to at least one game store, if not more, every time we are out. Think you can follow those few rules?" I asked her, my hand placed on her shoulder as though I was comforting her.

"Err......Yes?" she said nervously, I giggled.

"Alice, we are going to get along great!" I exclaimed as I hugged her. She was still for a second but then she hugged me as tightly as she could without killing me.

"Erm Alice? Don't you think other people would like to talk to Annabella and not have her crushed to death?" Carlisle asked from behind me. Knowing him he was properly worried for my health, well with the way Alice was squishing me so would anyone else actually. She let go, smiled at me and Carlisle then went back to sit next to Jasper.

I shook my head behind her back and went back to my 'hiding' spot behind Esme. It wasn't surprising that Esme talked next considering that I was right next to her. She turned to face me and started raising her hand.

A/N: Okay I know this is late, like major late but I really had problems writing this chapter, I didn't know how much truth to put in and how much lies, I re-wrote the bit where Annabella explains her life about three different times and then I ran out of space in my book so I had to get a new one, then I became too lazy to type it all up so it is all my fault and I take all blame!

On a happier not this chapter is 5225 words long :) omfg that is a lot of words lol my aim was 5000 but apparently I beat it so yay me! I hope you enjoyed it please let me know what you think by reviewing it! Lol thanks for reading!

EdwardCullenManiac4Eva xxx