AN: Short, but we're all caught up. I've already wrote the ending, now I just need to work up to it. I'm also removing the options/voting stuff to surprise new readers. Enjoy!
It took awhile for me to be up to Alice's view of clean and respectable. I swear, everytime I tried to get out of the shower, she'd yell at me and tell me to get back in. It was like she was psychic or something.
Then again, showering was nothing compared to dressing. She seriously pulled me from the shower, barely giving me the chance to wrap a towel around myself. The guy she was standing with wasn't there, thank god, but unfortunately, Jake was there, talking with Embry. Both of us looked at each other, blushing, before I was jerked into the room.
Once I was in there she tossed me something italian and silky. I sniffed a bit, not used to anything over thirty bucks.
"Oh get over it." She muttered and waited for me to get dressed. I sighed and did as she asked me, knowing that I wouldn't get out of it.
Finally I was up to snuff and allowed to go downstairs, where everyone was waiting, expecting something. I blushed a bit a sat down, my eyes on the ground, embarassed.
"Go ahead." Esme murmured, smiling at me. Her motherly smile gave me courage, but also filled me with want. I didn't know either of my parents, but I figured my mother was dead. Roman told me some pretty malicious stories about things like me.
"How about we introduce her first." Bella suggested, her eyes on mine. The others nodded in agreement, and though I figured I knew all of them now, it would be nice to be formally introduced.
Esme and a man, evidently older than the other guys, with blonde hair and a face similar to an angels, walked over to me and held their hands out.
"I'm Esme, as you probably know." she told me. I shook her hand gently, then moved to the blonde man, who introduced himself as Carlisle.
"So you're the...leader of sorts, right?" I asked.
"Or father, depending on who it is." He smiled, flashing his brilliantly white teeth.
I nodded in response as the next two walked up, Alice and her man, whatever his name was. He looked at me, his eyes black. Even as a partial vampire, I knew that black eyes was bad, hungry. Of course, I wasn't afraid.
The man chuckled and held his hand out.
"Jasper." He told me.
From across the room, the blonde woman glared and spat her and her mate's, the dark haired guy who's neck a threatened to snap, Emmett, names. Rosalie. Sounded like it belonged to bitch.
There was a chuckle, as if it was responding to my hostile thoughts. Bronzey, looked at me and waved.
"I'm Edward and this is my wife, Bella."
Bella smiled at me and put her hand on the other halflings shoulders. She giggled and looked up at me.
"Renesmee...Or Nessie if you prefer." She giggled again, but the laugh didn't reach her eyes. Once again, her eyes were watching me with a nearly undetectable sadness.
"Yeah, and I'm Jake."
Both Nessie and my eyes snapped up to the tall indian. He chuckled and walked over to me, offering his hand. When I took it, he squeezed it in a tight grip. I looked up at him, unfazed, and smiled.
Him too?, I thought as his eyes trembled. Both he and Nessie were hiding something
"And you've met Embry." He continued, slightly quieter.
I nodded and looked over at him, smiling softly. He smiled back, causing my heart flutter once again.
Then all at once and air of seriousness took over. Everyone sat up and looked at me, their eyes worried and their bodies tense. They were waiting.
"So. Tell us who you are."