I managed to get pretty damn close to Carlisle last time but Edward helped him and he caught up easily, someday I will catch one of these Twilight characters but for now I don't own Twilight, and yet Stephanie is still able to keep up with vampires, lucky woman.

When I heard Carlisle's voice he seemed excited, about what I don't know. Tulip and I were still listening for Andrews's response, while he was probably scrutinizing his every word and movement. When we finally heard him his voice was icy, "Mother we have guests". I decided I would make my appearance then. Carlisle still looked amazing, if you weren't someone that was in on the whole vampire thing you would think that he was a god with the shiny blonde hair, and dark blue dress shirt and black slacks. With a slight sigh I approached him and gave a small smile. I heard a two small gasps behind him, and was suddenly attacked to the ground in a bear crushing hug; it could only mean one thing, Emmett.

For about a full minute he just clung to me on the ground like I was going to disappear into thin air. Finally I decided that this was enough "Emmett I am finding it difficult to breath you know?" He got off the ground and pulled me up with him. "This is so exciting I got my little sister back"! Just then I heard a simultaneous "No" crowded in my head. "Well it looks like we have a new family member" I told the twins and Emmett in my mind. This can't be good. I turned to Carlisle and Esme who were still standing in the doorway with confused expressions on their faces. "Pardon my manners, wont you come inside", I turned on my heel and led them to the living room. I heard all three of them gasp when we entered, probably noticed my nude pregnancy picture on the wall. 'Maybe I should have taken that down'. I was surprised when Emmett answered my thought. "Why would you take it down?" He asked aloud. The twins answered for me in an icy voice together "Probably because we would want to keep your family out of loop as much as possible". Carlisle and Esme looked absolutely confused. I heaved a heavy sigh and offered a seat to the new guests, and new family member.

I was startled out of my thoughts when Tulip motioned towards my outfit. I was truly embarrassed for this much of my body to be seen. "Oh heavens would you please excuse me for just a moment I need to go switch back into my school clothes". "You are fine dear you don't need to change for our benefit". "No, no, we are having guests over in about thirty minutes for dinner anyways, if you'll excuse me for just a moment," I quickly ran up the stairs to my bedroom to get changed. I had just taken my take top off when I heard a 'Hot' followed by two growls that I recognized as the twins. I opened the door and yelled down the stair case "Emmett knock it off". This must have scared him because he was focusing intently on Carlisle's and Esme's faces.

When I finished pulling up my dress, and slipped on my dark blue ballet flats, I quickly made my way downstairs to see the confused faces of Carlisle and Esme, and the red hot glare of the twins towards Emmett. "Sorry for that I wasn't expecting anyone here other than Johnny and Lucy later". 'And the new baby'. I thought silently. Emmett's curiosity was now piqued "New baby", he asked aloud. I sighed this was all going to come out sooner or later, might as well get this over with.

I turned to look at Emmett "you now have a power". He looked truly confused so I continued "You can now read me and my family's minds, we are all connected. When you told me that you had your little sister back, you truly thought of me as a sister so you are now connected to my family. Just watch when you listen to others, the twins will get mad easily. Like what happened earlier". I heard growls from the twins again. Esme spoke up now "What happened earlier, dear?" I spoke exasperatedly it was such an Emmett thing to do "He came into my mind while I was changing and looking in the mirror so he caught my reflection, and this obviously angered the twins. I smiled at both of them, grateful.

Carlisle gave Emmett a disapproving look and turned to me and said "twins". I looked back at them and silently asked 'I don't want them to know anything that you don't want them to know' 'they are going to find out sooner or later like you thought earlier', Tulip responded. I gave them a nod and responded "true" out loud. Emmett looked at me then and said "well that was certainly odd, was that an argument or something". We all answered in through mind 'We don't argue, we settle and make peace'. "Man this is so creepy! You guys must be related or something". I nodded and turned towards Carlisle and Esme.

They looked at me curiously obviously trying to remember if I had mentioned any family members in the past. I looked Carlisle straight in the eye and said it as bluntly and quickly as possible, this is always a sore subject for me. "Two days before Edward left we had sex; three days after he left it was very obvious that I was pregnant. My pregnancy lasted less than a month, and I gave birth to twins". They all gasped and turned to look at the twins. Emmett was the first to get over his shock and yelled out "I'm an uncle"! I decided that I would just finish the story and hopefully they would leave me alone. "I went downstairs in my house in Snoqualmie, to get something to eat and I remember there was a very bad pain in my stomach, then a burning that didn't last very long but it hurt. Then I passed out and by looking at the clock on my oven and the calendar on the fridge, I found out I was out cold for a day and a half and turned into a vampire. When I awoke I had already decided on names Andrew and tulip. As you can see from the picture – I gestured towards the wall- I'd say I made it pretty close to the full three term pregnancy except it was sped up quite a bit. Just over twenty years later I went grocery shopping and came across Johnny. His mother had abandoned him in the grocery store, he was three years old. He asked me if I would be his new mommy". I smiled as I thought back to that day.

I looked up to see all eyes on me Andrew and Tulip walked over to me and sat down on either side of the couch and gave me a strong hug. Esme broke the silence "Oh you poor dear, I guess we have some explaining to do" I shook my head quickly as I thought back to the day in the forest when Edward told me he didn't want me and said he didn't love me. This made Emmett gasp and stand from the chair he was sitting in, he was angry it didn't take a mind reader to know this. "He said that to you, the one that has been crumpled in his room for over forty years"? I hope he wasn't angry with me, I was utterly confused. 'What are you talking about Emmett'? The twins and I were suddenly hit with a bunch of thoughts of Edward over the years sobbing in his bedroom, and leaving the family, starving himself, and everything he has done. Why? This was my only thought on this, Emmett didn't speak aloud he just kept running these terrible thoughts through their heads. "Why"? I spoke aloud. Esme piped up now "Sweetheart, we left so you could be safe, so you wouldn't have to live in the vampire world", she said it so sadly. I was about to respond when the doorbell rang.

This instantly brightened my mood as I hurried to answer the door; Andrew was having none of that. He gently pushed me down onto the couch and got up get the door. I looked at Tulip and sighed "We aren't ever going to be able to answer the door when we have guests are we". She shook her head and smiled at me "not for a few more lifetimes' mom, I thought you understood". I shook my head and smiled at my daughter. Emmett spoke up then "He does this every time someone comes to the door?" Tulip and I both nodded. "Why am I hearing someone else in my head, I thought it was just your family?" He asked confused. I nodded towards the door "They are human, but when Johnny joined the family he could read our minds and us him. Then when he got married to Lucy on that day he put the ring on her finger, she could read our minds to. Like I said we are all together, there are no secrets in the Swan family."

Carlisle spoke as calmly as possible when he said "that's amazing". Just then we heard a very loud shout "where's the new grandma?" I jumped up off the couch and ran and gave Johnny a big hug he barely managed to gasp out "mom, I need to breathe you know?" I quickly set him to his feet and took a good look at him "my little boy is so handsome", he was blushing the slightest shade of pink, and we all laughed. I then turned to Lucy and smiled "you're absolutely glowing" then hugged her gently by her shoulders not wanting to hurt the new baby at all. "I have been cooking turkey all day for everyone so why don't we go to the kitchen and get everyone settled". Tulip thought that now would be a good time to make a joke "You said everyone does that mean you are going to set a live dear on the table for yourself and guests." Everyone shared a hearty laugh when I turned to the Cullen's. "Would you like to stay for dinner, you wouldn't have to eat anything?" We all shared a small laugh, and they all nodded their head.

We were all seated at the dining room table when Lucy spoke up "Mom, why am I hearing a new 'voice', in my head it's very childlike, and I thought I was hearing the baby for a minute". We all laughed except Emmett. "Emmett is now in our minds he managed by putting all of his love in when he called me his little sister, so now he can hear us", I answered quietly. 'Don't ask me now please, just wait till they leave and I'll tell you' 'you know it's rude to talk about people when you think that they can't hear you', I looked up and Emmett grinned.

Once we said our small Grace, Carlisle spoke up again. "Bella, I didn't know you were religious". I thought for a moment before answering "Not, really religious just a small grace for snack and dinner. We are also going to church this Sunday." Emmett decided then was a good time for a joke, "this is defiantly one for the books, a vampire going to church!" He exclaimed loudly and laughed, I thought the whole house was shaking for moment.

Then we just went off into our own little conversations I was talking with Carlisle, Esme, and Emmett about the half-vampire habits, and what I have been up to for the last forty years. All the while Lucy and Tulip got into a conversation about taking the new ultrasound photo and enlarging it for a frame on the wall, and that Tulip could set up her studio so she could have a pregnancy photo shoot. Andrew and Johnny were discussing the play that they were going to continue when they were all moved up here. This certainly piqued my interest.

"Where are you staying now"? I asked Lucy and Johnny. Johnny looked almost embarrassed to answer. "There is a very nice hotel in Sea-tac, that we have been staying in the past couple days we were here". That's when I blew "A hotel, you are trying to tell me that you and your pregnant wife are staying in a crappy hotel somewhere far away from us! What if there was an emergency? What if I couldn't get there in time?" I was ranting now, this was terrible. "Mother please calm down, I made sure to get the best one there was". "No, you are going to be staying in this house, I will fix up the guest room, and we can turn the other spare room into a nursery. Then we could all live together again for a few days, or years", I mumbled the last part quietly. I smiling so widely now, all my children were going to finally be home again in the same house! "Mom, please we don't want to intrude", Lucy said exasperatedly. "No, what would be intruding if I had to drive down to that crummy hotel everyday", I said with finality, she knew she couldn't win this one. I heard a quiet sigh 'Alright'. Me and the twins cheered among hearing that word said. "Now where are all of your things?" "We put everything into storage in Seattle". "Alright we can have everything here by the end of the week, I call the movers again". "Thanks mom" I smiled at the two lovebirds and sat down, happy that I was able to receive such love from them.

At nine o' clock dinner was over Lucy and Johnny decided to stay the night here, so they took their small bag of things from the car and went upstairs to go to bed. Jonny had a sinking thought that he knew that this was going to happen, that's why he took the job as a doctor down at Forks Hospital. This left the twins and the Cullen's in the living room again with me. "Well it was good to see you three again, tell Alice I said 'hello'." "Of course dear why don't you come by the house tomorrow?" Esme answered hopeful. HELL NO!!! "I am sorry but we are going to be busy tomorrow with all of the moving". Emmett started laughing then "That's not what your thoughts said", he managed to gasp out. I glared at him "she doesn't want to see Edward", he clarified.

Esme and Carlisle looked at me with sad looks "Sweetheart, this would be for the best he hasn't been himself since he left you. I don't want you to doubt his love for you, he told me that when you were to die he would follow right behind Esme and Carlisle looked at me with sad looks "Sweetheart, this would be for the best he hasn't been himself since he left you. I don't want you to doubt his love for you, he told me that when you were to die he would follow right behind you, he never wanted to outlive you by long", she tried to explain while I just shook my head sadly. "He doesn't love me, he told me so", I tried to get my point across. Carlisle walked over to me and gave me a strong fatherly hug "I think you need to talk to him dear, he needs you as you need him. The only reason he is not here along with the others is because we didn't want to overwhelm you. Rosalie even wanted to come here but I told her not to also, she also loved you like a sister she was just jealous, she was jealous of the fact that you were human. You were given what I took away from her, her humanity", I could almost feel the guilt rolling off of him. I decided that seeing Edward would give me better closure, so I decided. "I'll see Edward", I told them as calmly as possible. Emmett shook his head at me "It's not for closure Bella, it's so you could be together again with him, and so your children can have a father, I am not saying that they aren't fine without one it's just that they need more than the amazing coolio uncle I can be", we all laughed at Emmett's logics. They all gave me and the twin's hugs before swiftly leaving, and promising to see each other soon.

I don't know what to do. Should I see Edward, it has been so long. I realize that he would look the same but by seeing through Emmett's mind I realize that he has definitely changed. He is a broken man, I wondered if he was a broken man because I am not with him. I know what that feels like I don't know what I would do if I didn't have the twins, he had his family but he didn't have someone he could relate to or just openly talk to and let all of his feelings out. Jasper was the empathy, and he had to leave the house because of his emotions were too strong. Jasper told Emmett that his despair and loneliness was just too much for him to handle so he and Alice had to leave at points just so Jasper could feel some peace, he couldn't even get a handle on Edwards emotions.

Is this because of me? Could Edward really love me enough to have a major breakdown the day he left and told me he didn't love me? Did he want to get back together, and be a father to the twins? Did he really leave me to protect me from the vampire life? From Emmett's thoughts and Esme's sincerity I was finally letting myself hope that maybe he did love me, I know that I would always love him, I was just hoping that this love was now reciprocated.

I know that this is like a super long chapter, hope you all like it! It's a lot longer because I don't think that I could shorten it if I tried! lol! Let me know if you have any questions I would be happy to answer them!

Thanks again,

~Heidi