CHAPTER 2
New Beginnings
Carlisle Cullen
I was at the hospital, in my not actually first day as a doctor here.
Forks didn't change much, it's still its usual raining self it's still green-just like when I, Esme, Edward, Rosalie, and Emmett visited it nearly 90 years ago.
I can feel all eyes-specially the female ones staring at my back, marveling at me…
I wanted to work alone but seeing it isn't possible, I just ignored it and pretended it's nothing.
I passed the head-doctor smiling, remembering the day he accepted me without hesitation.
At last, my work was finished and I walked out the door with no word , leaving all the eyes behind me.
I arrived at our home and spotted my son playing the piano, my wife next to him wearing a motherly expression.
When Edward spotted me, he looked up to me and made a welcoming gesture with his hand. Esme followed his eyes and went to my side quickly using our "usual" speed.
Then, she went to give me a short peck on the lips and asked me the usual question.
"How did it go dear?"
"Well, the usual." I said as I grinned broadly.
She gave me a lovely smile in return. Lovely, even for a vampire.
I looked at the room and spotted Rosalie. She was scanning some fashion magazines absentmindedly and was surprised when she heard my question.
"When will your first day be Rose?"
"Hmm? Ahm I think next week, for sure. I haven't been on the school yet, I haven't accompanied Alice during the registration." She said with a guilty smile.
"But where are they?" I looked around, expecting to see the tiny pixie smiling at me but she was nowhere of sight.
"She's hunting, with Em and Jas." Edward said answering my question, no doubt, answering my mind.
Mary Alice Brandon Cullen
I was draining the elk slowly, for I'm not particularly thirsty.
I was just accompanying my wrestler of a brother Emmett and my love Jasper.
The elk was halfway drained when a vision appeared.
There was a girl, a vampire girl. Just like us. She had on clothes more suited for someone 10 years senior to her age, and she had closed eyes.
But she was still a real beauty. Her features were the one you expect a porcelain doll wear.
Her hair was dark, and I was certain it was a real brunette color.
She was in a meadow that looks strangely familiar.
She was then looking straight ahead, and I heard myself gasp.
She had golden eyes.
And then it became more mind-boggling.
She began crying, a heart-breaking sound no one but a very miserable person can make.
I wanted to be near her, which was foolish of me, I know but I couldn't shake the feeling off.
Her arms were wrapped around herself, and then her knees somewhat gave up and she kneeled on the soft grass.
The vision vanished and another one appeared. She was looking for someone in the forest…The vision shifted again. She was packing her clothes.
And then it twisted yet again. She was with us. She was shopping with Rose, laughing with Emmett, Playing chess with my Jasper and then..
She was arms to arms with me… we were both laughing so hard like teenage schoolgirls teasing each other.. Then Esme was hugging her while they were both crying hysterically.
Then..
Then…
She was kicking away from Carlisle while Carlisle was begging to her knees then it shifted again..
They were both hugging each other in a fatherly- daughter way and She
was asking him..
"Why didn't you find me?"
Then it vanished out of sight.
Edward. Where is Edward? these are the questions that pops in my head every time I have a vision...
But..
Edward was nowhere in it…
No...
Nothing…
Everyone was there except him…
I searched for his future but there wasn't anything there. All was normal.. Him trying to hum out the thoughts , him playing the piano….
But the girl was nowhere there.
Nowhere.. Nowhere…
Who is this girl…. ?
And why am I laughing with her?
Then a vision mad me hysterically shocked but happy...
Edward was in the meadow with her.. They were holding hands...they were talking.
They just looked so good together that I was certain she was the answer to Emmett's thinking Edward's gay.
Happiness flood over me.
I knew that this is the most vital one. Also, this is what's going to determine success.
I am going to have another new sister !
But who is she, and...
When Exactly?
I felt so confused, for the first time. The visions were shifting, shifting and shifting.
Which means only one thing.
The girl is more confused than I am.
Edward. He determines everything.
Then I remembered Carlisle.
What's this got to do with him?
Isabella Marie Swan Cullen
What Am I going to do ?
Knowing my chances,
I know that there is a chance that its all just a coincidence...
But there is a bigger chance that it isn't...
I moved from my room, to the kitchen and finally,
To my piano...
I stopped there.
I played one of the songs I play when I allow myself to ...
remember my dad...
DANCE WITH MY FATHER AGAIN
Back when I was a child, before life removed all the innocence
My father would lift me high and dance with my mother and me and then
Spin me around 'til I fell asleep
Then up the stairs he would carry me
And I knew for sure I was loved
If I could get another chance, another walk, another dance with him
I'd play a song that would never, ever end
How I'd love, love, love
To dance with my father again
When I and my mother would disagree
To get my way, I would run from her to him
He'd make me laugh just to comfort me, yea yea
Then finally make me do just what my mama said
Later that night when I was asleep
He left a dollar under my sheet
Never dreamed that he would be gone from me
If I could steal one final glance, one final step, one final dance with him
I'd play a song that would never, ever end
'Cause I'd love, love, love
To dance with my father again
Sometimes I'd listen outside her door
And I'd hear how my mother cried for him
I pray for her even more than me
I pray for her even more than me
I know I'm praying for much too much
But could you send back the only man she loved
I know you don't do it usually
But dear Lord she's dying
To dance with my father again
Every night I fall asleep and this is all I ever dream
I cried and cried with no tears escaping and I realized my own feet have taken me to the meadow...This is the reason why I don't allow myself to remember my family...
What am I supposed to do? Even if Dad is...
like me..
What am I going to do?
I cant just go to that hospital with no reason..
And what will I do If it really was all a coincidence?
How can I endure that?
Now that I allowed myself to hope,
Will I be able to repair myself again?
And besides.. If it is not a coincidence...
Will he accept me? Judging the fact that there are five new students.. and all of them are "Cullens" like me... they are his new family...
Are they like me too? Because all the facts leads straight to that...
A rainy little town...
Moving students in that...
But both of that will crumble with the last one...
Knowing my dad, if he is a vampire, he will take the way I took...be the "good vampire".
So he'll be here for years.
And I have got no choice but to stay here too, because the authorities have detected me somewhat, because of my vendetta against "talking to the right persons", meaning "pay".
What if I run to him in town?
What if one of them notice that I look like him?
And will they accept me?
There were more tearless tears that escaped me...
No... Chances are they won't...
I would once again, like I was with Peter, be the black sheep. The outcast.
And if I see him, I would never be able to escape the pain.
Why do I even want to meet my father again? He left us, right?
Abandoned us when we need him.
He promised. A promise that was broken with time.
He let my mother and me to suffer every night ..me emotionally.. my mom physically and emotionally...
The answer was clear in my eyes...
Because I need my father again.
But does he need me?
Time must have been kind to him.
He has new daughters now, 2 if I am not mistaken.
And 3 sons. I remembered that he always wanted a son.
He does not need me to ruin his perfect eternity, and I don't have the right to make him choose between me and them.
So I'll stay out of his picture.
Jealousy, if I am being honest was the real reason behind those words.
He replaced us, his true family for another! He never searched for me! He could have had spent a century or so searching for any trace of me, right? He could have had gone back to us.
He should have had control the monster inside him.
And although I knew I wasn't thinking clearly, that I was supposed to run to the hospital and demand him or his address, I didn't.
I stayed on the meadow and cried all night, with only my own arms wrapped around me and silence in the place of a warm reassurance.
What should I do?