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A/N: I thought a little comic relief would be called for right about now.

Chapter 8

Bella won, of course. Emmett's hand smashed through the glass table with a loud crash that echoed throughout the house.
"Uh-oh. You woke Renee and Nessie up." said Alice. Everyone laughed quietly at Emmett's loss, and watched as Renee and Nessie came down the stairs together.
"What was that crash?" Renee asked.
"Hey, Mom. We were arm wrestling."
"Oh. Who was?"
"Emmett and I."
"Oh."
"Bella won. The crash you heard was the coffee table breaking as Emmett's arm went through it." Edward laughed.
"Emmett is the strongest one in the family. Or... used to be." said Alice. "Bella can give him a run for his money." she added, laughing.
"Or dignity." Edward said, still chuckling.
"Uh-oh. You made a bet with her, didn't you, Emmett?" Renee asked. He nodded. "And now what do you have to do, because you lost?" she asked.
"He has to take you around Forks and introduce you to everyone in town."
"That's it? Bella, I thought you'd have been more creative than that."
"Oh, I was. He has to wear a dress while doing so."
"Oh, Bella honey, that's cruel."
"That's funny!" said seven voices at once. Emmett just sulked in his defeat.
"Can I help pick the dress that Uncle Emmett has to wear, Mommy?" asked Renesmee.
"Of course you can, Nessie."
"And, of course, we'll need to get some heels too, Mommy."
"You're right."
"And some makeup, and a handbag, and we can do his hair pretty. And, paint his nails, of course."
"She's as diabolical as her mother." laughed Alice.

"Yes. She certainly is. She's well developed, but she still enjoys kids' games. Last week she convinced me to play horsey."
"What's horsey?" asked Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Rosalie, Jasper and Emmett, together.
"You know. I get down on my hands and knees. She climbs on my back. Then I crawl around on the floor like that for a while until she gets bored." The Cullen clan burst out laughing. Bella remembered making both of her parents play that when she was little.
"Hey, Mom, do you want to come see the cottage?"
"Oh. Yes. I'd love to!"
"Bella, how are you going to get her over the river? She can't jump like we can."
"I'll carry her on my back." Renee looked at her daughter in shock and confusion.
"Come on, Mom. Climb up. I'll show you something really cool." She did so. Bella was about to atke off running but Edward spoke to Renee.
"If you get dizzy easily, you might want to close your eyes." Renee did not do so, and Bella knew her better than that, so Bella took off. She ran out the door, around the back of the house, and jumped over the river. She stopped there. Her mother climbed off her back, looking thrilled.
"Bella, that was amazing."
"Yeah. Isn't it?" But Bella was occupied, thinking about something she had heard just after leaving the house.
"She's acting strange." said Alice.
"Her emotions are going to be a little haywire for a few days, maybe a few weeks, while she tries to figure out how she's feeling, and separating it from how she wants to feel." replied Carlisle. Renee, of course, was not able to hear this conversation, because she did not have sensitive vampire ears. Bella lead her mother to the cottage and grabbed the key. She unlocked the door. She let her mother step in before her. Her mother's eyes took in the full beauty of the house. She stopped searching when she spotted the fireplace and the huge bookshelf.
"There are A LOT of books here."
"Well, it's good for something to do after dark."
"What do you mean?"
"We don't sleep. We CAN'T sleep. Ever."
"Wow." They had made their way down the small hallway. "So, then, why is there a huge bed in your room? If you don't sleep, then what do you...? Ooooh. Wait, never mind, I know." Bella smiled. Her brain used to be slow like that sometimes, too. She then showed her mother Renesmee's room, as the last stop on the tour.
"But, Bella, there's no bathroom."
"Oh, I know. We don't do that either. The bathroom in the main house is for cases when you or if Charlie ever came over. And, Rose likes to look at herself in the mirror and remind herself of how beautiful she is." Bella rolled her eyes.
"Oh."
"Yeah. Well, shall we go back to the house, then?"
"Yeah. Okay."
"Come on, climb on my back."

A/N: Now, in this chapter, as you saw from the first sentence, I kept it that Bella had never lost the strength of a newborn, even though she's been a vampire for a few years now. I thought it would make the story a little better.