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Bella's POV

I don't think I have ever been hugged so much in my life. I think though that this little boy gave the best hugs. Without even knowing it he was healing a small part of me. As another tear rolled down my cheek I wished I could stay here forever.

"Are you better?" Jasper's sweet voice asked. I nodded and whispered quietly,

"Yes..."

He pulled back and used his sweet little hands to dry my wet cheeks.

"No more crying ok? Unless you got a boo boo somewhere...then its ok to cry but you gotta tell me so I can kiss it better...do you got a boo boo?" He asked curiously looking at me closely. I chuckled and shook my head.

" No boo boo's here but I promise you will be the first to know if there's a boo boo to kiss ok?" I looked him right in the eye as I made the promise. He nodded concisely as he turned and gave his dad a hug.

"How was school buddy?" Carlisle asked, as though to give me a few moments.

"Um...I'm going to step outside for a moment..." I said quietly. Carlisle nodded and continued his conversation with Jasper as Rose followed me out to the front porch.

"Its going to be ok..." She said quietly while wrapping her arm around my shoulders. I nodded.

"I'm so mad...How could she do this to me?" I asked while trying to keep my tears in. I shook my head and sighed, "Wait, I know how...She hated me...the product of..." I cut myself off.

"I didn't know your mother very well...I was very young when they dated and I hated all of my big brothers' girlfriends...I was very jealous...but I don't think she hated you. I think that maybe she just never knew how to be a mother...as much as I dislike how she disappeared I think maybe she didn't want Carlisle to regret anything..." She said gently. I nodded my understanding.

"I just wish I could get some answers...Why didn't she just send me here if she didn't want to raise me. Maybe I'm naive but if she would have put me on a bus and sent me here your family would have taken me in no questions asked...right? Carlisle said he's thought of me as a daughter all these years...that wouldn't have changed if I would have come back without her...right?" I looked up at her, pleading with her not to lie to me.

"Yes...you have and always will have a place to come when you need it. My house or Carlisle's." She said as she pointed to the house across the street. "From now on we are your family...you call me aunt Rose or Aunty Rosie or whatever the hell you want and I'm sure if he was out here right now my brother would welcome you to call him Dad or whatever you want to call him." She laughed with her arm still around me. I smiled and layed my head on her shoulder.

"I should probably go home soon..."I sighed reluctantly, "my roommate probably thinks Carlisle killed me...I'm surprised the cops aren't here yet. I told her when I got here and I told her his name with his address and I haven't talked to her since because my phone is in my car." I pointed to my bright red Chevy Impala in the driveway.

"Are you close with her?" Rose asked. I shook my head.

"She's kind of a bitch and I try and stay out of the apartment except to shower and sleep." I said with a laugh.

"how about this...Move out of the apartment and move into my house with me...I'm all alone over there and it gets very lonely...We can get a truck tomorrow evening and have you all settled over there by bedtime...Jazz will love it...he loves you already..." Rose suggested excitedly. I gaped at her.

"I don't think I can afford to do that...I would have to keep paying my rent there until the lease is up and pay rent here as well...or I would have to buy my way out of the lease and that's even more expensive...I truly appreciate the offer but I just don't see how it would work out..." I explained.

"Don't worry about that at all...let me take care of it...and the house is fully paid off so no rent here just chip in on groceries and we'll call it even...you'd really be doing me a favor...I get lonely and bored over there by myself...and Carlisle will love you being so close." She waved my worries away. I hesitantly nodded and she squealed with delight.

"This will be so much fun!" She said happily. '

It seemed to me that things were finally turning around.

I have a family now.

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