Chapter 7: The Invasion of the Malibu Barbie Wannabe

Bella's POV

A/N: Oh. My. Gosh. I am soooo soooo sorry!!!!! I feel so bad about now getting this sooner but everything has been sooo crazy here!!!!! I hope you can forgive me! And they're going to be eight not, and you'll never guess who's paying them a visit: The Denalis!

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Life had been very good these past three years. I was eight now. Edward and Alice were my two very best friends, Emmett and Jasper were like the two older brothers I had never had, and Rosalie was the very best big sister. Beside Meg, Shortney, and Brooke. I saw them every weekend and was just as elated each time I saw them.

Momma Esme told me that we would be having company. The company would be a family who was very close to ours; the children were practically cousins to us. There were four girls and a boy. The oldest were Carmen and Eleazar. Carmen and Eleazar was adopted, like me. Eleazar and Carmen were both thirteen and were dating.

Then there were the other three girls: Irina, Kate, and Tanya. I knew that Irina was ten, Kate was nine, and Tanya was eight, but that was all.

And there was their car: they had arrived.

They lived with their mother, Sasha. Their father had died of some sort of cancer when Tanya was five, but no one really liked him much, so that was okay.

Tanya was the first to the door. Momma Esme was already waiting there so she opened the door before Tanya could even knock.

"Hello, Tanya, how lovely to see you!" exclaimed Momma Esme, hugging her.

"Hi there, Esme, it's great to see you again! Where's Eddie?"

"I'll call all of them," she assured Tanya. "Jazz, Rose, Em, Ali, Ed, Bella, come here to see the Denalis."

"Bella, who's Bella?" asked Tanya.

"She's your new cousin."

I caught up with the rest of the Cullens and Hales as they rushed into the foyer to greet the guests.

By then, the rest of the Denali family had joined Tanya and everyone was hugging everyone. Except for me.

Then Poppa Carlisle scooped me up onto his shoulders. "Everyone, this is Bella. Bella, these are the Denalis. Bella joined our family three years ago.

He let me down then. I was very scared. What if they really hated me?

Sasha approached me first. Then she gave me one of the biggest hugs I had ever received, and lately, I had been getting pretty big hugs.

"Velcome, sveet Bella," said Sasha in a very distinctive Russian accent. "Ve cannot vait to get to know yoo better."

"I can't wait either. I've heard so much about all of you. Good things, of course."

She smiled at me and then turned to speak with Momma Esme.

Carmen and Eleazar were next to meet me. We spoke and then I was greeted by two very, very, very exuberant girls: Kate and Irina.

"Hiya, Bella!!! We're gonna be GREAT friends, I just know it!!!" They said that in unison.

I grinned. I couldn't wait to get to know them better.

We were talking for a bit until I noticed something. "Where's Tanya?" I asked.

Then I heard a laugh. Well, I wouldn't call it a laugh, but more an ear-splitting screech.

"Oh, Eddie, you're so funny!" said the very obnoxious voice.

"There she is," Kate said.

"Tanya, can't live with her, can't live without her," Irina said.

"Tanya," said a very annoyed Edward, "Please. Let. Me. Go. Please stop clinging to me."

He and Tanya were right in front of Kate, Irina, and me.

Edward gave me a look that said: help me, Bella, please!

"Tanya, do you hate Edward?!" I asked, tears in my eyes. The tears were from something I wasn't sure about, but they were convincing to Tanya.

"No, of course not! I love Eddie and we're gonna get married one day when we grow up."

"If you love him so much, then why are you strangling him?"

She finally realized the strength of her grip and released him. She brushed her hands on the skirt of her dress and stuck her hand out to me. "I guess you know who I am already. I'm Tanya, the future Mrs. Edward Cullen."

Edward pretended to gag himself, complete with sound effects.

Kate, Irina, and I giggled.

"Don't flatter yourself, Tanya," Kate said.

"Yeah," Irina added. "It's not like he would actually want to marry you. You're only eight years old."

"So? Who else would he marry? Not you two. Nor would he marry Bella, no offense, Bella, but you don't seem like Edward's type." I hated her.

Alice, who had heard this, walked over to us laughing her head off.

"Bella? Not Edward's type? Oh, that's a riot! They were married a year after she joined our family."

Tanya huffed. "Well then, they'll just have to get a divorce, now won't they?"

"And if I don't want a divorce?" Edward asked.

"Wh-what do you mean, you wouldn't want to divorce her. Not divorce her for me! The thought of that!"

"You think wayyy to highly of yourself, Tanya," Irina said.

"Really," Kate agreed. "You need to tone that ego down a notch or two…or ten."

Tanya huffed and walked away.

"She'll be back," Alice stated ominously.

"And when Alice says something," Irina started.

"You had better believe her," Kate finished.

Edward looked over at me. "Thanks bunches, Bella, I thought I was a goner. And those tears really did it for her. She's a sucker for waterworks."

I laughed. "Glad to be of service."

Edward hugged me, another form of his thanks.

"No, really, Bella, I don't know how I would've gotten outta that without you. Everyone else was laughing at me. I didn't know how to detach myself from her."

"You're welcome, Edward, you really are."

"You're the greatest, you know that, Bella?"

I blushed. "No, I didn't, actually."

"Well, now you do."

A/N: Once again I am so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so sorry!!!!!!!! But I hoped you liked this chapter! Irina is definitely OOC but that's okay, they're just kids.

R&R please!!

Thanks buches my loverlies!

~Lissie