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"speaking" 'thinking' "projected thoughts" change in point of view/time lapse/chapter title

Chapter 9

It was Esme; she had a confused look on her face. She was probably wondering why there was two strange girls in her house. She was walking down the stairs as she watched us, I was a little nervous, Esme was always one of my favourites and I didn't want to embarrass myself in front of her; she always reminded me of my mother, I think that they could have been good friends, if they had ever met.

Alice grinned and pulled Maya and I towards Esme as she said, "Esme, this is Maya and Nova. . . Whitlock," she added as an afterthought.

Esme smiled as she finished walking toward us and said, "It's nice to meet you both, I'm Esme Cullen, their mother."

Maya almost laughed as she started to say, "I thought it was pretty obvious of that, as Alice said, I'm Maya, and this is my twin sister; Nova, it's very nice t o meet you, I love your house."

Esme gave a soft laugh and asked, "Which one is the older twin?" I smiled as I raised my hand, indicating that I was the older twin. I would have loved to have been able to answer her, bt I didn't want to risk it, maybe later. "By how much?" she continued.

I looked at Maya, indicating that she should answer this one, "She only a few minutes older than me." She caught the confused look on Esme's face, noticing that she was wondering why I wasn't the one who answered and she added, "Nova's almost mute and doesn't want to risk anything right now, she did tell me that you would hear her talking later on when we explain things."

Esme nodded and said, "I hope you aren't uncomfortable with speaking to explain whatever it is that you need to explain."

I smiled and sent her 'I think you'll find that I can talk without actually speaking out loud.'

I caught her surprised laugh and Edward smiled as he said, "Yeah, she tends to do that when she has something she wants to say something without hurting herself."

"That's useful," Esme said.

Emmett mumbled something that sounded like 'freak.' I glanced at him as he suddenly felt a sense of fear.

Maya grinned and asked, "Did you say something Emmett? I could have swore you did."

Emmett gulped and shook his head as he said, "Who me? Nope, didn't say anything, why do you ask?" He turned to Jasper and asked, "Are you making me feel this, or is it Nova?"

Jasper gave him a look and said, "I haven't done anything to you, though I admit I should have."

Edward interrupted the conversation and said, "Maybe we should do something until Carlisle get home."

"Like what?" Rosalie asked rudely. I don't think she's going to like me any time soon.

"We could play twenty questions," Maya suggested excitedly. I punched her arm as I gave her a look. "What?" she asked me. "I know you'd like to do something to learn some more." I sighed and nodded, indicating htat she was right.

Emmett shouted as he punched the air, I gave him a funny look and he just shrugged and said, "Who's going first?"

Alice smiled and said, "I will. How old are you two?"

"17," Maya answered with ease. "How old are you all?"

"17," Alice and Edward answered.

"18," Jasper, Rosalie, and Emmett answered.

I snickered and sent to all of them, 'Lies.'

"That's not the age I was asking about," Maya said.

'I know all of you are extremely older than that, so don't try to lie,' I added.

"104," Edward answered with a smile on his face.

"73," Rosalie answered with a scowl.

"71," Emmett answer with a grin.

"163," Jasper answered in his Southern drawl.

"I don't kow my exact age," Alice admitted.

Maya smiled and said, "That's okay, I do know your age, it matches someone else in this room, take a guess."

"Rosalie," she guessed immediately. I shook my head and she changed it to, "Edward?" When I nodded she squealed and said, "Yay! I know how old I am!"

Edward interrupted her squealing and said, "I think we should all find a place to sit, Carlisle is on his way home, he'll be here any minute."

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