Edward took the car ride to tell me more about his family as well as their lives as high school teenagers. A short while later we pulled up to a gorgeous house in the middle of the woods. "What do you think?" Edward smirked as he saw my appreciative reaction.
"It's wonderful, what a beautiful bac-" I was cut off by a small pixie sized woman tackling him to the ground - from his descriptions in the car I assumed that this was Alice.
"I'm so glad you came back Edward!" she shouted jumping off of him, then turned and wrapped me in a hug "It's so great to meet you Arielle, I'm glad Edward convinced you to come visit with us!"
I smiled, Edward explained how shed know all of this information already, "It didn't really take much."
"Well good!" she cheered linking her arm with mine and pulling me towards the house, "Let me give you the grand tour and we can leave your stuff for Edward to get!"
Edward laughed "Easy Alice, don't scare her off already"
The inside of the Cullen's house was just as spectacular as the outside, it was graced with many floor to ceiling windows as well as some fantastic art pieces and a stunning grand piano. As we walked through the large house each room seemed to get better and better.
"And this is the guest room!" Alice stated pushing me through the door after we had walked down a long hallway towards the back of the house. It was perfect, there was no other way to describe it. 3 sides of the room were all floor to ceiling glass walls and it was just the right size, not overwhelmingly large but not a closet either "It's right next to Edward's and has a great view of the woods. "
"Its lovely, I cant even thank you guys enough for letting me stay here"
She beamed "Ohh! Carlisle is home!" she announced as we heard the sound of a car pulling into the Cullen's massive garage. "Come, let's go meet everyone else!" I hesitated a minute before following her back down to the living room.
Carlisle stood at the entry of the living room one arm wrapped around Esme they smiled at Alice as she lithely danced over to the chair Edward was in and sat on the arm. Across from them sat the biggest vampire I had ever seen with his arms draped around a beautiful blonde vampire, I guessed this was Emmett and Rosalie.
"It's so nice to see you again Arielle" Carlisle smiled wrapping me in a hug as I reached them.
"You as well. Thank you for letting me stay here, you have a lovely home"
"It's nothing dear" Esme turned to hug me as well "And these are my children, you already know Alice and Edward" she said leading me farther into the room "and this is Emmett and his wife Rosalie" Emmett smiled and waved at me, while Rosalie merely nodded.
"Its very nice to meet you, Edward has told me a lot about all of you"
"I heard you're back" A tall, blonde vampire said walking up to Edward and giving him a hug "And with a friend" he said turning and facing me - Edward hadn't told me about this brother.
"This is Jasper - our newest edition to the family" Carlisle stated.
Well now I knew why he didn't tell me. My voice was shaky and low, it just couldn't be "Jasper?" His sandy blonde hair disappearing into the darkness was the last thing I saw of him and that was over 100 years ago, and now here he stood staring at me; his golden rimmed eyes wide with a mixture of emotions, the most blatant being shock.
"Arielle?" I heard him whisper, and then everything went dark…