Tossing Our Hearts.
Chapter 4.
Destined.

A/N
So I've decided to give my story a bit more plot, and meaning. Adding another character as well.
I'm thinking of adding Lacey as maybe a main.
But please, tell me what you think. It all helps (:


I rolled my eyes, sighing silently to myself.
Praying to God, that this wasn't going to go downhill.
I tried imaging it differently in my mind, but so far, not so great. All I had were endless bad endings.

"Alice?" I looked back, hoping to find her re-assuring face.

"Yes, Bella." I flung my body back around, she was already standing in front of me.

"Oh God." I held my hand to my chest. "You have to stop doing that."

A giggle escaped her lips, she looked down for a second, then straight back up to me. "I'm sorry."
I tapped her arm, laughing gently, swaying my head around trying to find the other Cullen's I'd invited to tag along.

"Rosalie? Jasper? Edward?" I called aloud, searching, waiting for them to call back.

"Bella." three voices came from behind.
I swung back around, a smile plastered against my face as I looked down to their hands.
Each of them were carrying huge baskets of things that I'd gone shopping for earlier on in the week, they only held 3 each, and we knew they'd be able to carry more, but they had to obtain that weak human image.

"Excellent." I gestured towards the door of the orphanage, leading them inside.
This was my 2nd visit in the past day, I'd come earlier to tell each child to expect a big surprise in the afternoon.
The excitement on their face was a sight for sore eyes.
Edward turned into the dorm on the left, Rosalie headed for the dorms in the middle, and Emmett followed the path on the right that lead him to the playroom.
Alice and I stood side by side, grinning at one another as we checked down at our watches.
It was dinner time for the orphans, they'd be in the Mess Hall out in the back, they wouldn't be done for another hour.
We had all the time in the world to make this an un-forgettable night.

"we'll start on the left dorm." Alice began. "that's the dorm for the youngest kids, Rosalie and Emmett will work on the middle one, and Edward's setting up the playroom."

"It's going to be amazing." I looked down to my feet, playing with my fingers as Alice kept going.
It would be, I was sure of it, now.
Alice took my hand and led me down the halls, as we passed the children's room, I took everything in.

I'd never walked down these halls before, never seen their dorms before.
But as you peered in, it made you appreciate every little thing in your life.
These kids had nothing, nobody, all they had was each other, and sometimes not even their health.
Each room held 10 bunks, and 10 single beds, it reminded me of a hospital, except not such a sterile environment.
The rooms were all decorated the same, each wall painted baby blue, bedding baby blue, wall paper baby blue. Tables, chairs, windows, yes, all baby blue.
Ever since the accident, the orphanage had been flooded with home-less children, even before that the home was already full since it was the first one for about 10 hundred miles.
It just made everything so much more cramped.
They didn't get to choose to live like this, and they couldn't change it either, they didn't get to shine like kids these ages should be doing.
They had to accept, and live.

"Look at this." Alice's voice burnt through my thoughts, making me spin around to check what she was talking about.
I looked through the doorframe and saw her bent over a bed, a photograph and a plush toy in her hands.

"That's all each of them have, look around, Bella." she pointed to every bed in the room.
Surely enough, they all had a photo on their pillow and a torn plush toy at the end of their bed.

"Rae said they didn't have much, but I didn't think they had, THIS little." I blurted, sitting beside her, softly leaning my hand on the small of her back.
I saw her head nod, and decided it was time to move onto the end room.

"Come on, we can change this, remember?" Her face turned to me and I saw that smile.

"You're right, let's go."
I tagged along behind her again, we reached the bottom room were it was filled with baskets of toys, furniture in boxes, buckets of paint, everything we needed.

"Right." she sighed.

"Right." I repeated, walking over to one of the buckets, it was filled with orange paint, I grabbed it and the one next to it, that was filled with pink.

"Let's go."
I ran straight over to one of the walls, knowing that we had limited time, I held my paint brush to the wall and began drawing love-hearts and stars, anything that came to mind really, I didn't have a lot of time to think about it.
I peeked over my shoulder, watching Alice for a few seconds rush around in vampire speed through the room setting up the kiddy tables, chairs, couches and desks that we'd purchased.
We continued like this, Esme and Carlisle joined at one point.
Esme spreaded the toys around the room, and Carlisle helped me paint.

45 minutes passed, Rosalie and Emmett had retreated back to the girls dorm were Alice, Carlisle, Esme and I were struggling to get everything complete, and figured they'd help us for a bit before they went to go check on Edward, since the playroom only needed a little touching up.

"This looks awesome, Bella." Emmett grinned that goofy smile of his over at me as he finished tying the curtains up against the windows. "You've really outdone yourself."

"I couldn't have done it without all of you guys." I replied in a heartbeat. "Do you think they'll like it?"
Esme and Carlisle strolled out from the room next door.

"Bella, dear." Esme started, laying a hand on my shoulder.

Lowering her voice, she began in a whisper. "You're going to make a lot of people happy."
Then she turned, taking her hand off my shoulder and wavering it around the room. "I'm so proud of you, my dear."
I nodded, staying completely silent, we'd managed to transform 36 rooms, and 1 major playroom into paradise for these kids, it was a speech-less kind of moment.

"We're going to go check on Edward now, but Bella, this will change their lives, for somewhat, forever." Carlisle's voice chimed as he, Esme, Rosalie and Emmett all fled quietly out from the room.

"Well, there." Alice let out another giggle, dancing around to me, wrapping her hands around my waist, touching my neck softly with her cheek.

"Thank you, Al." I chuckled nervously, my heart beating a million miles a second. "Thank you for utterly everything."

It was time.
Time to show the children.
Time to watch the light shine through their faces once again.
Or it could go completely opposite.

We were in the right-hand corner of the playroom, all crouched down and ready to jump up at the switch of a light.
Edward was crouched on my right, Alice on my left. Esme and Carlisle had gone behind us, and Rosalie and Emmett were arm in arm on Edward's left, trying not to giggle as they played with each others hands.
The minute seemed to last forever, like the whole world had stopped for 1 minute, purposely dragging out this highly exciting minute.
As the door creaked open, I nudged both Alice and Edward softly, signaling to them something they were most likely already aware of.

"Shh." Edward's voice, quiet as a mouse.
A tiny hand reached towards the light switch, and flicked it on slowly.
Slow enough to make me die with anticipation.
With one child, followed another, each one's eyes as wide as an eight ball.
Catching each of the kid's attention as we jumped out of our crouched positions in the corner, they squealed out in joy, running around touching all the new stuff that replaced all the old stuff.

They enjoyed this? Wait until they got to their rooms.

"Everyone!" Carlisle shouted smoothly. "Everyone!"
You couldn't control them, they'd gone crazy in delight. It had made my smile literally eat my face, my grin felt like a permanent fixture on my face.

Once they settled down, they all sat on the floor before us, whilst we stood on chairs, waiting for them to quiet down so they could at least hear one of us.

"HI!" I shouted after a few minutes, watching their eyes fling to me.

"HI!" They all screamed back, I couldn't help but laugh.

"I'm Bella Swan!" I hadn't need to call now, they were dead silent after they clapped for my name.
"I'm not sure if you know me, but you surely all know the Cullen's. Dr. Carlisle, he's probably helped you with a few of your boo-boo's before, and his lovely wife Esme." I waved my hand to each of them as I introduced each one. "the very beautiful, Rosalie and her hilarious boyfriend, Emmett. Edward. And then of course, someone who you should stay away from unless you want to be attacked with endless make-over's, Alice."

I checked over the kid's faces, their expressions were priceless, I almost went speech-less again, I just wanted to burst out in tears of happiness.
It was a once in a lifetime experience.
And you had to be there, to feel the love in the air, to feel how truly beautiful the whole night was.

"Each and everyone of you, have a destiny, a destiny, is something that was made for you, your life's plan, your life's purpose. What's happened to you all, is something terrible, your stories may be different to each others, but that's because it's your story. It's something you shouldn't have to go through, nobody should, and I'd give my life if it meant that all of you didn't have to end up here. But you are here, but you won't be here forever, you're all going to go somewhere in life, live out your destiny, and when you do, I'll be so proud and amazed by you all. I admire each one of you, for how strong you all are. The Cullen's and I decided that, you's need to enjoy your time here, it's apart of your destiny that you ended up here, you may not know why, but it's definitely for a reason. When you go to your rooms, you're going to find an endless supply of toys, teddy bears, barbies, x-boxes, play cars, go-carts, a lot of other things, then each room has new tables to draw on, desks, you have TV's, DVD players, all that kind of stuff, you room's are all painted, new curtains. And outside, up the back, you even have 3 ponies, and there is 7 lizards over there for the boys, and who knows maybe some daring girl might like them too."

I could barely breathe after I finished my speech, I hadn't even planned it, it all just flowed out.
But as I started listing things, I couldn't stop, their reactions were too much to handle, the chatter grew, and my voice had to be risen louder.
Half-way through some of the children started standing up, rushing off to their dorms, you could hear them from the play-room, shouting. 'LOOK WHAT I GOT, STEVE!'.

After the room was cleared and everyone had left, I started to pace around, thinking to myself.
You could still hear the echoes of the children playing with their new dollies or racing cars, it'd been 2 hours, but you could never get sick of their adorable squeals as they found a new feature on their toy.

"Isabella." Her sensitive voice made my eyes close gently for the most of 3 seconds.
As my body turned, my eyes looked forward, waiting for someone to appear in my vision, but nothing, then I heard that voice again, calling from below, I stared down.

There she was.

Her hands were clutched around a tiny rag doll.

"I'm Lacey." her voice was filled with emotion as she cautiously walked closer.

"Thank-you." she murmured, extending her fragile petite arms out to mine, placing her dolly in my hands. "For you."