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"That's awful." Rosalie said, looking around at everyone. Everyone but Aria knew who that man was.

"Oh yay, the dvd is starting!" Alice said in fake excitement.

Chapter 9

Alice ran back to sit on Jasper's lap, and Aria snuggled into the corner of the couch.

During the movie, no one but Aria jumped at the scary parts. Although Alice did give a very dramatic scream on one of the scariest parts.

Once the movie ended, to Aria it seemed like it had only been a few minutes since they started the movie. Esme stood up.

"Alright, off to bed all of you. It's a school night." She said sternly, looking at all of them.

"Yeah, yeah." Emmett grumbled, standing up.

"Are all of you sleeping in here tonight?" Esme asked.

"Yeah! It'll be like a big sleepover! Which it kinda is..." Alice said excitedly. Aria wondered how all of the "kids" would fit into the room, but then she looked around the living room and saw how huge it really was.

"Alright kids,'' Esme smiled warmly, but then she regained her stern manner. "But don't stay up too late, don't pull any pranks, and no wandering around when other people are sleeping." She looked especially at Edward, Bella, and Rosalie. Aria didn't even realize what she really meant.

""Night kids." Carlisle and Esme said smiling before heading upstairs.

"Aliright! We're all alone!" Emmett said, looking slyly at Aria. "No adults to save you." He winked at her goofily (A/N: thats not a word, but I don't care.).

Edward, Bella, Alice and Rosalie went upstairs to get blankets and pillows.

"Don't worry Aria, he's joking." Jasper said smiling at her, then raising an eyebrow at Emmett.

"It's alright. It's nice to be around someone who has a sense of humor." she replied, grinning crookedly.

"I like you! No one else understands me!" Emmett said dramatically, putting a hand to his forehead and closing his eyes.

Aria giggled and Jasper rolled his eyes.

The four came down with their arms full of bedding. Aria couldn't believe tiny Alice could carry all of it.

"The least you two could do is help us." Rosalie grumbled to the two boys.

"We aren't your servants." Edward mumbled.

"Yeah, we're Aria's" Alice said cheekily. Bella smirked.

"Why are you being so mean to me?" Emmett fake sobbed and buried his face in Jasper's shoulder, who immediately shrugged away, swatting him on the head.

They all went upstairs to change, (the girls pajamas are on my profile, the boys are wearing...plain boys pajamas.) They came down and the "older cullens" set up the beds while Aria changed Ava's diaper, changed her, and fed her before putting her back to bed. Ava had always been easy to put to sleep, and stayed asleep all night.

They pushed the couch's towards the walls,the boys blankets and sleeping bags were in a line in the middle of the room, with the girl's directly across. When everything was set up, and Ava already sleeping, they all lay down on the 'beds' on their stomachs.

Emmett's 'bed' was on the far left, Edward was in the middle, and Jasper was on the far right. Alice's bed was set up so that her head was on the side of Jasper's pillow, Bella was across from Jasper, Aria across from Edward, and Rosalie across from Emmett.

"Let's play a game!" Alice said, clapping her hands.

"I don't think we should Alice, it's getting late, and we have to get up early." Bella said, motioning with her eyes to Aria.

"Fine." Alice grumbled, laying down. Everyone else did the same.

A few a hours later

Aria had dozed off 15 minutes after everyone had stopped talking. She was sleeping deeply. The six in their sleeping bags however, were laying on their stomachs, talking quietly and quickly. And all of them except Aria knew Carlisle and Esme were awake upstairs.

"I want her back. I miss her!" Alice said desperately. "She's my niece, I should have a say in this. We can tell her everything, and take her back!''

"Alice, we can't do that. We have to do whats best for her." Bella replied quickly, looking her in the eye.

"How is this what's best for her? We all heard what she was saying in the kitchen about her 'family'." Emmett said fervently.

"Yes, she needs us, we're her real family." Rosalie hissed.

"We can't do that! It's too dangerous." Bella replied. Edward pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed.

"Then why are we even here?'' Emmett asked angrily, his face matching his tone.

"Yeah, why did we even come back if we're going to leave again?" Alice said.

"And after she grows to love us, we're just going to rip ourselves out of her lives again? That's going to really hurt." Rosalie said passionately.

"For her or for us?" Bella asked quietly.

"Both." Alice whispered.

"It won't hurt if we don't leave!" Rosalie said.

"For all we know, this family could be beating her. They've changed since we first met them." Emmett growled.

"You three have to understand." Jasper finally spoke up. "We have to do what's best for Nes- Aria." Bella looked down sadly. "If we stay too long, it'll be dangerous."

"Then why the hell did we come back?" Rosalie hissed and glared.

"Because we all wanted to see her." Edward said.

''None of us just want to 'see' her, we want her to come back to the family." Alice begged. "You two should understand of all people, she's your daughter! Don't you miss her?"

''It's complicated Alice." Edward pinched his nose again.

"I miss her... so much" Rosalie said, her voice shaking. "This family was perfect before she was born, but when she was born this family was extraordinary. I know we all love her and want what's best for her, but what if what's best for her is for her to be with us?"

"Maybe it wouldn't be so bad. We could protect. We did it before, we can do it again." Jasper said, won over. He missed his niece too.

"It'll be too much of a risk. What if it happens again and she di..." Bella said in a choked voice.

They all looked at Aria sleeping peacefully, a small frown forming on her smooth face.

Bella, Rosalie and Alice started sobbing quietly. Edward put his head in his hands. Emmett buried his head in his pillow. Jasper looked at the floor sadly, rubbing Alice's back.

Their head suddenly jerked up when Aria started kicking violently. It would have hurt Bella and Rosalie if they weren't vampires.

"What's she dreaming about?" Alice asked Edward, never taking her eyes off the jerking figure.

Edward stared at Aria for a moment, before answering.

"She dreaming about when...Bella was in labor." he whispered. Bella and Edward's sad eyes met.

Aria was kicking and making choked noises. It sounded like she kept saying "no...no..no" through her gasps.

"She doesn't know it's Bella does she?" Rosalie asked.

"No, she just hears her screaming. She knows that she's screaming because of her. She feels so guilty. But she can't scream or cry because she was choking on the umbilical cord." Edward explained. "She's going to wake up in a few seconds, but she won't be able to see us, it's too dark in here." (A/N: Vamps have super good eye sight.)

"Just, everyone stay quiet, but make it sound like you're breathing deeply." Alice warned.

Aria sat up with a final piercing scream. Esme and Carlise knew what was happening, having listened in on some of their conversation.

Aria looked around, breathing heavily, and rolled over so that she was laying on her stomach, unknowingly her face was a few inches away from Edwards.

She stared at the space where Edward was, feeling like there was something watching her. Edward looked in her eyes, thinking how much they were like Bella's.

Finally after a few minutes, she gave up staring and rested her ear against her pillow. Jasper relaxed her emotions, so that within a few seconds, she was sleeping again. Within the next minute, she was sleeping deeply again.

"We should just stop talking, and lay down and think everything over until morning." Bella said quietly. They all agreed, and laid down, thinking of how to get Aria back. Even Bella and Edward were thinking about it.

They missed her so much, it hurt.

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