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Somewhere Love Remains

Chapter 6: Part of Me

Throw your sticks and your stones, throw your bombs and your blows
But you're not gonna break my soul
This is the part of me
That you're never gonna ever take away from me...

As I got closer to where they were, my smile was growing wider.

I would have chickened out in a situation like this. If I was who I was a few hours ago. Now, I needed them to know that I exist and they needed to treat me as a person. Sometimes, I felt like my mother acknowledged the maids more than me.

They were all laughing at something that Edward's father said as I approached. None of them had noticed my presence as they continued to talk.

"I'm sorry if Edward wasn't able to attend Rosalie's party last night, he had to do some errands for the company," Edward's father said, giving Harold and Rosalie an apologetic smile. So spending the night with me was an errand?

"It's fine Carlisle, we understand," Harold replied.

This was the first time that I got a closer look on Edward's father. I now know where Edward got his godly looks. They shared the same set of eyes. He was like the older version of Edward. His whole family looked impossibly beautiful. His mother didn't look that old, she looked like she was in her early forties in her slim body, caramel hair and loving gray eyes. His sister was beautiful too though she was small...I was a lot taller than her. She still had velvet black hair that reached her shoulders. She had the same eyes as her mother and she looked like a miniature of a doll. She was so cute and I liked her already. If only I got to know her before things reached to this point.

It was like everything was in slow motion.

With one final step of my foot and with the clicking sound of it, all eyes were on me.

The Cullens looked at me curiously except from Edward who had his eyes wide in shock. While the Hales...well, their look was priceless. Their expressions were full of horror, as if they had seen a ghost.

I just smiled at them and laughed half-heartedly. "I hope I wasn't too late. Nineteen years wasn't that much right?" I said with the slightest hint of sarcasm on my voice.

They were still speechless including my dearest mother. Things would surely change after this day. The death glare that she was giving me said it all. I was afraid that if she didn't stop, her eyes would stay like that forever. It would be hilarious.

"I'm Isabella Marie Hale, Rosalie's older sister, nice to meet you all," I said, facing the Cullens.

Edward's mother face went pale and I was afraid she was going to faint. I was sure that this was going to cause a misunderstanding between the Hales and the Cullens. They would know that Harold and Illiana had been lying to them all along. The family whom they trusted their son to was playing them. This would be a fun, fun show.

"Who is that girl?" Carlisle asked 'my parents'.

Harold gave my mother an unsure glance. Oh, he didn't know what to tell them. If I only knew that things would be this entertaining, I would have done it sooner. But I guess, this was the perfect timing for a payback. I was working hard on stopping myself from laughing hard.

"I thought you know me already since I would be marrying your son. You had an agreement with my parents, right? The eldest daughter and son thingy? I might have been a bit late, but I'm here now. It's not yet too late to get to know my future family, right?" I said innocently, playing with the hem of my dress. This just fuelled up the anger of my Mother and Harold was looking at her, sending her a mental message to do a damage control.

"Esme—"

"Just tell us the truth, please," Esme, Edward's mother interrupted my mom.

"Fine," Mother said, defeated.

Harold looked down and covered his face with his hands. Rosalie's face seemed emotionless. I didn't move even for a bit. I just smiled even more to annoy my family. Now they know what I felt all these years. They had their moment, now it was mine.

"Isabella is my daughter too. I had her before I married Harold. It was a drunken mistake why I had her, but I all my regrets faded away when I saw how beautiful she was when she was born," Mother said in a sickly sweet voice. She was so good at lying.

"So, she's a Hale?" Edward's sister asked. Her voice was cute and musical.

"Yes," I answered for them, "Harold adopted me."

"Then she should be the one that Edward should marry," Esme said.

"Yes," I agreed, flashing Edward a fake smile that made him cringe. I wonder why he had that reaction to me. He was so far from the guy who was with me last night.

My mother stood up. "No, I won't force Isabella to do such thing. Rosalie is more willing."

"But we had an agreement," Carlisle argued.

"Isabella isn't a pure Hale," Harold who remained silent all this time finally spoke.

"That isn't the issue here," Esme cut in. "We agreed that our eldest son and your eldest daughter are going to be married."

And so the families began to argue. I was left there to watch them bickering. Sometimes their voices would get a bit loud and sometimes a bit to gentle. They were arguing on who to consider between Rosalie and I.

My heels were already killing me, I hope the argument would end soon.

It did after almost an hour.

The Cullens stood up and looked at both me and Rosalie. Esme walked toward me. When she was in front of me, she held my hand and smiled fondly.

"Welcome to the family," she said warmly.

Edward's sister approached me too. "I'm Alice, I have a feeling that we're gonna be great friends. I'm so happy to have you in our family. And oh, I like your dress. Where'd you buy that?"

Bella won!

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