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Chapter 8 - Family... Repaired.. somewhat.


3rd Person Point of View. (After Isabelle went to bed.)

Esme just sat on the couch. She was feeling proud, proud for all of the people standing up for Bella in the house. She was also proud that Edward owned up to his mistake, and said the nice things about Bella. Carlisle, was the same, but was still mad at Edward for doing the said punishable things.

Jasper was so mixed full of emotions that he couldn't tell whose was whose; He felt sorrow, sadness, humiliation, love, happiness, neutral, joy, disbelief in the slightest, and a mixture of many other feelings. He was just so packed, and was lucky that his feelings of a bit of gratitude to Edward and the others was there, and his sadness for what that cruel woman did to his sister and him mate.

Emmett was, well just to say bluntly honest, pissed. He was mad that she would say such things to Bella, about Bella, about Alice, and even about Renesmee. He felt like ripping off her head, but, that would not really help the current situation. He was only a smidgen of thankful for Edward, and even less for Rosalie. They didn't gain back his trust, only a temporary pleasant felling towards them from him.

All the rest of the people were just normal, no special feeling, not anything out of the ordinary. Everyone started slipping off to bed, and they were slowly falling asleep, one by one with Bella's extraordinary gift. The Cullen coven decided to finally go to bed, and Esmé and Carlisle stayed in one room, the one next to Bella, Emmett, and Renesmee's on the left.

On their left, was Edward and Rosalie, where Bella had forced their bubbles into it, and in their guest room. On the right of Bella's room was Jasper and Alice, and it was only them on that hall, and the others were on different floors. As Esmé and Carlisle passed, they heard that Alice was already in her room, as was Bella. Nessie was asleep along with Alice and Bella. Jasper and Emmett bid them good night, just as Edward and Rosalie did to the rest of them before they were forced in their rooms.

Everyone went into their own rooms, and they fell asleep, ready, or maybe not so ready, to face the next day.


Emmett Point of View. (The next day.)

I woke up to my arm slung lazily over Bella's waist, and her biting her lip gently. She was still asleep, ans Nessie was just stirring. I went over to her crib, and grabbed out something I hopped would match good enough for Alice to approve. I tried to decided whether to choose the royal blue dancing leotard with a thin strap on one shoulder, and another strap with a bow on it that had a silver jewel in the middle. It also had a sticky-outy tutu with light pink lining and rhinestones going down the while tummy and back and sides. Or a light pink dancing leotard with a v-neckline, and it had a sticky-outy tutu and had rhinestones on the chest part that ended at the sides. The arms for the outfit went down to right below the elbows.

I looked at the outfits, then at my daughter. Her dark auburn hair mixed with the little black streaks, she was so adorable. And her blue eyes, the color of the Destin, Florida beach water. I decided on the blue outfit. I also grabbed a pair of black tighst, and a pair of royal blue ballet flats with to strings that cris-crossed behind the ankle, and then tied in the front to make a bow. I made sure that the strings would not come undone, and that the shoes were comfortable on her and would not fall off.

I grabbed her up, and noticed that I was still human. I heard the sound of things clattering around downstairs, and went to inspect. When I got down there, I noticed that it smelled strongly of food. As a vampire, it would normally stink, but it smelled delicious right now. I went into the kitchen, that was absolutely huge, and saw Isabelle making food. She must have heard me enter because she turned around.

She looked like she wanted to say something, but like she was just scared to say anything. I smiled at her, not completely forgiving, just trying to get the point across. She went and turned around, back to the food, and gestured me over to her. She looked at me. She was smiling apologetically and then she went and smiled at Nessie, not daring to do anything other than that.

"Emmett, I know that I was wrong in saying all of those things to Bella and Alice. And about Bella and Alice, and especially Renesmee, she had nothing to do with this. Just because I was in denial for everything. I just hope that you can understand where I am coming from. I haven't seen my sister in about one-hundred and thirteen years, since she was eight. And now, here she is, showing back up at our old house, and she is now a seventeen year old that was turned into a vampire. It is hard for me, and I was just in denial, thinking it was just a sick joke.

"I realized it wasn't. I will apologize to them, and I will mean it with all of my heart. But, I will not do anything yet, at least not until they have calmed down. I know my sister. If Bella is anything like her, then I am sure I will want to wait. But, until then, I just want you to know that I am truly sorry."

I smiled, even as a human, I could tell that she meant it, and I believed her one-hundred percent. I told her okay, then asked what she was making.

"I am cooking a down-home southern breakfast. Normal, Blueberry, and Chocolate chip pancakes, with grits, sausage, bacon, fried bologna, biscuits, and gravy."

I looked around and saw like forty pieces of bacon, two pots full of grits, a plate with at least forty pieces of sausage, thirty chocolate chip pancakes, thirty blueberry pancakes, thirty normal pancakes, a pan with about sixty biscuits on it, and a ton of butter, and syrup. I smiled, and looked at what she was doing now. She was making gravy, homemade, just like everything else except the sausage and bacon and grits.

She handed me a biscuit and told me to sample it. I took a bite, and it almost like melted in my mouth, it was soft and chewy, but not under-cooked, and it was lightly browned. I told her how amazing the food was, and she smiled and said thank you. She asked if she could give Ness some, and I told her sure. She gave Ness a bite of the biscut, and Ness showed me and her a black board with "Yummy!" On it. If possible, her smile grew wider. My four month old baby already has two teeth and the digestive system of baby over a year old.

She asked if I could help set the table, to which I gladly applied my services. Once the table was set, we brought over all of the food, and then went in the living room, where we talked and let Nessie play with the toys that Bella had brought, plus some that they had from when Carly and Stacie were babies.

"Who picked out Nessie's outfit?"

"Actually, I did. Alice has gotten to me."

"Ahh, yes Alice always one for fashion. Well, she certainly looks adorable, you did a good job."

I thanked her, and then we just talked about Alice when she was little. How she used to bite her lip, and she would do that when she slept. Almost any time really. She just said so many things about the family, and she was actually very nice. She smiled at Ness when she clapped at Mickey mouse while playing with country Barbie.

Finally, all at the same time, everyone got up. They were all coming and behind then were all of the Cullen's and Bella was last. She ran right over by Nessie and I and Alice was right next to her. She just sat down. Isabelle announced that there was breakfast and everyone went and ate.

Even Alice and Bella thanked them, and all of the rest of us as well. Everyone was going to go out and go to the beach, and play soccer and then play volleyball. No one objected. This family seems to love nature. Everyone had on a swimsuits and flip flops. Bella had gotten on a little royal blue sweetheart neckline strapless bikini top with the matching bikini bottoms that seemed a bit to small.

She had on a pair of shorts that were blue jeans and had holes in them a bit, they were also to short, and looked like they had been cut from jeans to shorts, she also had a pair of blue flip-flops. So, the girls brought Renesmee out side to the park on the beach, not far from where we were. Bella gave us some human traits. The seeing, hearing, and the abilitly not to get sunburned, but we still had the normal human skin, it was just as hard as a vampires, so we couldn't get a sunburn; she did the same thing for Ness also. And, I found out that we even get our eye color back.

So, all of the Brandon's rode on a horse, Jasper, Alice, Bella, and I did as well. Jasper took Rosalie, Alice took Edward, Bella took Carlisle, and I took Esme. Of course, Esme was holding Rensemee behind me. Carlisle's rode on the back of Bella's horse with his arms wrapped around her, which made me a bit jealous. She was there in a neck and neck tie with Alice. They were the first one's there, followed by Jasper, after about thirty seconds. Then Isabelle, her aunt Alice, who we are now calling by her middle name, Makenna, Renee, and all of the other Brandon's.

Then the last one's that got there were Me, Carly and Stacie. We all put the horses in the horse yard and went back to the beach. We played vollyball first. Bella and Alice were the best and then there was Rosalie, and then Makenna, Renee, Lilly and Jenna, and then the rest of us. We went on to play soccer, and the best players were the same, Alice, and Bella at the top of the list.

After going swimming, then just laying around, and then even having a campfire and and roasting hot-dogs and marshmallows, making some smores. We all went back to the house, and we watched some movies, mainly the Harry Potter series. We made some progress today, and we grew a little bit closer as a whole. I told Bella in private, about all of the things that Edward said, the rest of the family said, and even what Isabelle said to me.

Bella said that she will believe her if she tells her and Alice some other time. All in all we had a good day, and the whole family bonded. We have made progress and that is a good thing, and I do believe that we will all grow closer with passing time, the only thing holding us back is Alice, Isabelle, and Bella's stubbornness with somethings. But it will get better eventually, I know it will, even with out Alice's gift.