"Who are you texting?" Dad asked me as our food was being sat down on the table.
"Alice." I told him as I sat my phone back on the table.
"Enjoy." Megan said with a smile as she sat our food on the table and walked away. Dad and I dug into our meals as we talked about how I wanted to surprise everyone. It was around 2:30 by the time we got home from lunch. When I got out of the truck and walked up to the door I saw that it was already open. Dad came over with his gun pulled and grabbed me by the arm and pulled me behind him and slowly we entered the house.
Bella's POV
As we walked in my heart was pounding, who would be dumb enough to break in to the Chief 's house. But I had to admit it was a little cool to see dad in work mode. As dad and I walked around we couldn't find anything out of place in the living room, so we moved on to the kitchen. Nope all clear, we both let out a breath we didn't know we were holding and turned back to walk into the living room to hang up our coats as soon as we made it pass the door frame we heard someone say boo real load. We both turned around screaming. In the process of turning I fell down and dad had his gun raised pointing it at who was behind us. The person who scared us was a woman in her late 40's, she had long wavy brown hair that had a red tint to it in when she was in the sun and it ended about 8 inches past her shoulder blades. She was about 5'6" with pail white skin and golden eyes and she was laughing so hard she was doubled over grabbing her sides.
"Not funny mom." Charlie said putting his gun up.
"Yeah Gran not cool." I said.
"Yes, yes it is." She said in a fit of laughter. Dad and I couldn't help but find our self's laughing as well. After the laughter died down dad helped me off the floor and we gave Gran a hug.
"Oh my baby and my grandbaby, I've missed you both so much." Gran said giving us a hug again.
"We've missed you too mom. I thought you were out hunting?" Dad asked.
"Yeah, what are you doing here?" I asked.
"Well I was but grandma called and told me that you, and I quote had the best birthday present ever for me. I was closer than I thought I was so after I finished my hunt I thought I would come by now, and here I am. So where's my present?" She asked with a big excited look on her face. I laughed at her and smiled.
"I'm sorry Gran but I can't give it to you yet, I left it at the Cullen's for safe keeping. But trust me when I say it will be the best thing to ever happen to you well except for dad and I but still, just be patient. Okay?" I said.
"Oh okay." She said giving me a hug. She turned around to face her son. "So Charles did you have the Cullen's help you clean the house because it's the cleanest I have ever seen it?" She asked him. I wasn't kidding when I said she liked to have a clean house when she came to visit. Dad looked a little uncomfortable and looked like he didn't want to answer her.
"No Gran dad didn't ask the Cullen's to help clean the house I did. He was freaking out because he didn't want to get grounded on your special day so I asked them to help out while I took dad out to lunch to help him clam down." I said.
"Well they did a great job. Speaking of the Cullen's when do I get to meet them? I would love to meet the man who stole your heart." She said making me blush like a freaking tomato.
"Later tonight mom and do we have to get all gooey about my daughter's love life right now?" Dad asked with an annoyed look on his face. Before she could answer my phone rang.
"Hey Bella it's me um can you come over I need to talk to you about something." Alice asked.
"Yeah sure I'll be there in a few minutes, just let me tell my dad and Gran real quick." I said to her.
'Wait your Gran is there as in you know, your Gran." She asked.
"Yes Alice she's here. What are y- "She interrupted me by screaming her omg I'm so excited scream. I had to take the phone away from my ear and decided to hang up on her.
"So that was the famous Alice Cullen, is she alright?" Gran asked.
"Yeah she's fine just excited to meet you later." I said as I put my phone back in my pocket.
"So what did Alice wont anyway?" Charlie asked.
"She said she needed to talk to me so I'm going to head over there and see what she wants. Don't worry I'll be back for dinner." I said as I went over to grab my keys. Gran stopped me right before my hand could touch my keys.
"Don't worry about driving I'll take you." Before I could say anything to stop her she picked me up and put me on her back and ran out the door.
Edward's POV
I was sitting at my piano not playing anything, really just hitting random keys just trying to figure everything out. I just couldn't believe Emmett was Bella's long lost great grandfather. I knew what losing him did to her family. You could always tell there was something missing from their lives. Around the holidays and birthdays, they always got a bit sad or when Charlie flew back home to be with his mom because she was depressed do to the anniversary of losing her father. And it just so happed to be that, that was a weekend Emmett was upset do to losing his daughter. You think being as smart as we are, we would have put it all together much sooner but nope, we just didn't see any of the dots connecting together. Now it all seems oh so very obvious.
Bella and Charlie look like him I'm sure if Emmett was human he would have the same chocolate brown eyes. Bella once said when we first started dating that they were a family trait. Bella got hers from Charlie who got his from his mom who got hers from her dad (Emmett) who got his from his dad and so on. Alice was looking into the future while cuddling with Jasper on the couch. Rosalie was sitting in the big comfy chair reading a car magazine or at least that's what she wanted the others to think.
She was thinking about Marie and wondering if the younger woman who held such a huge part of Emmett's and Bella's hearts would like her. Would she ever in time look at Rosalie as a mother figure. Would this news that Emmett's daughter along with the rest of his biological change how he felt for her and for the rest of our family for that matter. I couldn't help but wonder the same thing, was Emmett the man I came to see and love as a bother leave us for his real family. It wasn't until that very moment that I realized how much I truly cared for him. He brought fun and laughter and happiness to this family that we didn't know we were missing. Just the thought of never seeing or hearing from my brother ever again truly did hurt me. And if I was feeling this I can't imagine what Rosalie is feeling right now or Esme.
She doesn't even know about all of this yet and I can already feel her pain at the possibility of losing her youngest son. Speaking of Esme, she was in the kitchen trying to plan a big birthday dinner for tonight. Bella had text her asking for help with coming up with a menu for tonight's festivities, but she was having a hard time do to the fact that she didn't know who she would be cooking for humans, vampires or both. We all new that Bella and Charlie's family could be tuned back to human form thanks to her Grans gift of changing someone's physical age. The youngest someone could be changed was 11 months and the oldest could be about 98 years old. So, it aloud her family to stay in the same place for a much longer period of time. But the coolest thing about her gift was if she changed your age you would look human and you could eat and sleep too.
When Charlie told us that we all wanted to meet his mom so we could see what it was like to eat and sleep again. Rosalie wanted to know if it was possible to still have kids. But Charlie shot that dream of hers down because it didn't work. He said his family tried but they all failed at it. I was about to ask Alice about the vision she was having but I heard a new very excited voice enter my head. OH MY GOD I can't believe I get to meet Edward ahhh I'm so excited maybe I can go sneak around their house and find my present. I was about to tell the others we had a guest but before I could open my mouth I heard Bella's voice.
"Gran! Stop! Please! You need to stop you can't go in to their house." We heard her beg her Grandma. By the closeness of her voice and the sound of running footsteps there were about to hit the front porch. "GRANDMA PUT ME DOWN RIGHT NOW OR I'M CALLING GRANDPA!" She yelled. They hit the porch then so her Gran put her down in front of the front door. Of Corse we all looked to the door then to hear what would happen on the other side.
"Gees Bell's there's no need to get me grounded on my birthday." Her Gran said a little miffed or as miffed as a middle aged woman could get.
"I'm sorry Gran but you can't go in there." Bella said moving to stand in front of the door.
"Oh come on please I want my present and I want to meet Edward." The moment Bella's Gran spoke both Emmett and Jasper flinched. "God, she sounds just like my Maire." Emmett thought grabbing his chest and rubbing where his heart is. "Gees what's up with Emmett." Jasper thought. We could tell she changed her age.
"Gran. You don't understand if you go in there right now you'll ruin everything I've been working on all morning. Your present it's not just for you, it's for our whole family and I think it's only fair that everyone sees it at the same time. Besides you can't beat me at the puppy dog face. Grandpa says I'm way better at it then you." Bella exclaimed to her grandma.
"Fine, I won't try to look at my present but can I at least meet Edward." She asked. We could hear that she changed her age again because she sounded like a teenager.
"Yes you can meet him but just try not to scream when you see him ok." She said getting up and walking down the front steps.
"Hey where are you going?" Her Gran asked.
TO BE CONTIUNED
