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Chapter 7

Esme's POV

I looked back out of the limousine watching my wonderful family until they had disappeared in the distance. The drive took quite long and the driver didn't speak to me once. Finally the driver turned off at a corner and we stopped in front of a normal sized house.

It looked relatively modern with white walls and a flat roof on which I could see some plants. I couldn't see much of the rest of the house because a tall wooden fence encircled it. The driver gave me a key and then drove off after wishing me good luck. A car that had driven right behind us stopped and people got out. They signalled for me to ignore them and when they started getting equipment out of the car I realised that these had to be the camera men.

So, ignoring them as best I could, I walked around the fence until I found a gate. I used the key I had been given to unlock the gate and stepped inside. A rather small lawn went all around the house. To my surprise that was it. There was just grass and nothing else. No flowers, no garden nothing just plain grass only intercepted by a stone pathway leading to the house. The white house door was also locked and I again used my key and stepped inside.

I found myself in a small room where to big closets lined the walls. A shoe closet was by the entrance to the next room. I opened one of the closets and wasn't really surprised to find that it was filled with coats. From what the coats looked like I could guess that this family had two children. A girl and a boy. I said this out loud as I had a feeling that the camera men wanted me to say more.

I took my own coat off and hung it up and then continued to the next room. It was a living room with a sofa and a large bookcase. A TV was also in the room but it was strangely enough locked in a glass case. I walked up the staircase ignoring the doorway that presumably led into the kitchen for now. There were five rooms upstairs. The first room I entered was the master bedroom. A large bed, a closet and a bedside table were the only things in the room. I noticed the colour of the bedspread didn't match the light green colour of the wall but decided not to remark on it. Instead I said, "Well they certainly keep a tidy household." This wasn't exactly true I could actually see a faint trace of dust in a corner but I doubted it would be visible to humans.

I entered the next room and found an ordinary office with a laptop on the table and filing cabinets next to the desk.

Finally I entered the boy's room it was surprisingly clean as well. It was also almost empty. There was a bed, a desk and a bookshelf. The wall was painted a soft blue and when I walked over to the bookshelf I saw that all books were non fictional. On the desk were papers that looked like a homework assignment. "Someone's very studious," I remarked. In the whole room there was nothing that gave any hint of personality. The girl's room was exactly the same except that the wall was painted pink.

The last room appeared to be the guest room. I put my bags which I had carried with me into the room wondering how I would fit all the clothes Alice had packed into that closet. The room was very basic. There was a small window next to a double bed. A closet was at the end of the bed and I really doubted that my things would all fit. The window had plain white curtains as white as the walls and the closet.

Actually the whole house was so empty and sterile. It was as if no one lived in it. There was no decoration anywhere. No flowers or vases I already missed my own house.

I walked back downstairs and into the kitchen where I found the household manual. I pulled out one of the chairs around a round table and sat down to read the manual.

Dear Unknown Mrs.

I signed our family up for this program so that your family will be able to achieve the perfection of ours. My name is Ellen Smith I am 45 years old and married to Joe Smith who is a very successful business man. You are not to call him at work or disrupt him in any way while he is working. We have two children Ellen and Phillip.

Phillip is 14 years old and attends eighth grade. He is to take his studies seriously and always excels in science and maths while of course still getting good grades in every other subject. Ine is 13 years old and excels in the languages and has more trouble with maths but they are still among the best students of their grade.

He and Ine will prepare breakfast every morning as well as making their own lunches. My husband spends the whole day at work and only comes home at eight o'clock. He also eats at work. I get up at seven in the morning and sit down to breakfast.

When I come to breakfast I expect the children to be presentable. This means that their hair is in order and that they are dressed properly. They are not to wear any clingy clothing and Ine is not allowed to wear makeup or anything that has low neckline. I drive them too school, which begins at eight twenty five, after they have done the dishes.

While the children are at school I prepare some lessons for them to complete after school. You will find various books from which you can use lessons in the bookshelf in our living room. I eat a small lunch at twelve o'clock. After which I watch some educational television programs of which you will find a list next to the remote.

There are many dangers in today's world that we will protect our children from. For this reason they are not allowed to watch TV nor are they allowed on any computers. Their teachers have been notified of this and all the assignments that others do on the computer will be completed by hand. The internet is very dangerous and this protects my children from it. Being banned from the internet and the TV keeps my children focused on school instead of filling their heads with stupid ideas. Neither of them is allowed to date until they are finished with university. We expect both of them to get good jobs and to become high standing members of society and we will do the best to make this possible. They attend two music lessons a week. Ine plays the flute while Phillip plays the saxophone. Both of them are members of the school's student council and Ine is head cheer leader while Phillip is the star quarterback. I don't approve of the cheerleading outfits but cheerleading will keep Ine fit and healthy. They are expected to do well in these sports as it will teach them leadership. They are to show politeness to everyone but should show care in selecting their friends.

Ine and Phillip are both allowed to bring a friend home once a month after giving their father the filled out Friend Forms that he has in his office. Neither of them has had a friend over this month so they can still do that. They aren't allowed to go over to the houses of their friends and also aren't allowed to go into town or any place else without one of us accompanying them.

I pick up the children after school at three thirty unless they have football or cheerleading practice or if they have music lessons. After school they are to do their homework after which they will complete the assignments I prepared for the day.

The evening meal is prepared by me and Phillip while Ine starts her house chores. After dinner Ine helps me do the dishes while Phillip does his chores. A list of chores and the schedule for each day is on the fridge.

Both children are expected to be in bed by nine as a good night's sleep is very important.

On weekends the children are allowed to sleep for an hour longer. Weekends are mostly sport orientated and they will often have matches to attend. These are also included in the schedule and my husband and I will go and see the matches where Phillip will play and Ine will cheer. If there isn't a match my husband will o to the gym with them to build up strength and flexibility so that they will continue to excel at sports.

By reading our manual this far you must have realised that we are indeed a perfect family. I hope to introduce some of our rules into your family and hope to help you all achieve a better life.

Now I know that in this show you are supposed to introduce new rules for my family at the end of the first week seeing as this is obviously completely unnecessary we are even willing to pay you a substantial amount of money if you keep to our rules. The education of our children is too important to be ruined in one week.

Thank you and I hope you learn from us,

Ellen Smith

Shocked I put the manual down. I couldn't believe what I'd just read. "These parents seem extremely strict. I can't believe they would treat their children like this," I muttered.

I suddenly felt extremely sorry for my own children and for Carlisle. I missed all of them so much already and this woman would probably be shocked at our household and force my children to do things they absolutely despised. She'd probably be horrible to live with.

I shook my head and sighed. "Aah Emmett, what have you gotten us into this time?"

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