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(WHY ME?)

They were really telling the truth. I was sitting in a house full of vampires. This morning when I left home I had a firm grip on reality, now I felt like I had just stepped into the pages of a horror movie.

"So, Bella," Carlise said, "I'm sure you have a few questions."

"Well, yes. I know I asked some at lunch today, but I really thought you all were just playing, so if I repeat myself, humor me and answer it again please." They all nodded. "OK, let me see, this is one of those situations where you think you'll never be able to stop asking questions when really, you can't think of any to ask." I sighed. "Well, sunlight?"

"It doesn't burn us, but we do look different, which is why we choose to live in cloudy places, it won't look to suspicious if we stay in a lot"

"Right, sparkly vampires. How could I forget. OK, do you sleep in coffins?"

"Nope," Emmett answered this one, "Don't sleep at all."

"Ever?"

"Ever."

"OK, um, is it hard for you to be around humans?"

Carlise took this one. "It's different for all of us Bella. You see, I was changed centuries ago, I fought what I had become, I didn't want to kill anyone. One day the thirst became so great, I attacked a deer and realized that I could survive off the blood of animals. Now, as you know I work in a hospital, I am all but immune to the smell of blood."

"Was it that way for all of you?"

"No. It is very difficult for some."

"I've never tasted human blood before either." Rosalie bragged.

"Have any of you?" I looked to Emmett, "have you?"

"Yes." Was all he said.

No one else wanted to say anything about it, so I let that one go. "So, how did you meet?"

"Well, many years after I was changed," Carlise began, "I changed Edward, Esme, Rose and Emmett. All at different times, and only because they would have died had I not changed them."

"What about you and Jasper?" I asked Alice.

"I had a vision of this family, and I had one of me and Jasper, after I met Jasper, we came here. Well, not here here, but here to the Cullen's"

"Wow, OK Why me?"

"What?"

"Why me? Today in Spanish class Alice said, and I quote 'We came because of you.' Why did you come because of me?"

"Well," Emmett began. "You see," He tried again. "The thing is.."

"Spit it out Emmett! Is it that bad? Do you want to kill me? Is that it, you came here to kill me?"

"NO!"

"Then why?"

Esme started, "You see dear, it all started at the airport that day. I'm sure you remember."

"Yes," I said. She didn't need to know how well I remembered.

"Well, we didn't know about you until after we had gotten home. Emmett and Alice decided to keep it a secret. Anyway, after we got home Alice told us she had had a vision, of Emmett and a girl." I think I was starting to see where this was going, and I wasn't too sure how I felt about that. "Apparently Alice noticed you that day looking at us," I started to blush, feeling embarrassed even after all this time. My embarrassment started to fade, I looked over to see Jasper watching me, I smiled a thank you to him. Esme continued, "When she saw you it triggered a vision. One of you and Emmett, together. So we waited until the time was right, and came to find you." Now I was starting to feel a little angry.

"So, you mean to tell me, that ten years ago, when I was 7, Alice had a vision of me all grown up, with Emmett?"

"Pretty much." Emmett mumbled.

"And now what? I'm supposed to just fall head over heels for him now because of something she saw? Do I not have a choice in the matter?" Jasper tried to calm me again. "No Jasper! I want to be able to have my own feelings." He stopped. "Thank you. Well? Is that what you all think?"

"No Bella."

"No what?"

"You aren't expected to just fall head over heels for me because Alice had a vision. I don't want you to feel anything you don't." Emmett said. I looked toward Jasper. "He wouldn't do that. It would make us all happy, but he would never manipulate your emotions to make you think you have feelings for me you don't really have. I wouldn't let him anyway."

"Well thank you for that. So what then? If you don't expect that, then why come?"

"To give you the chance. But in the end it's your decision. If you say, 'yes Emmett', I'll be happy, if you say 'I'd rather be friends', I'll learn to be OK with that, and if you say 'go away Emmett, I don't want to see you', well, I'd do it, even if I didn't want to, if that was what you wanted."

This was getting to be a pretty deep conversation. "Could we maybe go somewhere more private to talk about this? I feel like I'm on display here."

"Sure, I'll drive you back to your house, it's getting late anyway, your dad will be worried if you're much longer."

"How will you get back...never mind, you'll run." I laughed.

Emmett opened the door for me to get into the truck then ran around to the drivers side. "Guess we should continue this now huh?"

"Yeah."

"So, how do you know that you would be happy with me?"

"I've lived a long time Bella. I was turned when I was 20, back in 1937. I had a bit of a rebellious period where I left Carlise and Esme and went off on my own. I was tired of seeing them together, and Ed and Rosie, and then Alice and Jasper. I went off of our vegetarian diet and I didn't care. But after a few years I decided it wasn't the life for me and I came back. It was soon after that that I met you. I could feel you looking at me while I was walking through the airport. I didn't think anything of it until Alice told me about her vision. Then I looked at you, really looked at you, and something just clicked."

"Emmett, it might not click for me. I'm not going to pretend love when I've only just met you."

"I wouldn't want you too. And I would want you to think before you decided about everything you couldn't have with me."

"What do you mean? You have eternity right?"

"Yeah, I could give you eternity. An eternity of days that never end even when the night comes. A family, yeah, but I couldn't give you your own, vampires don't have children. And when you find a home you really love, you can only have it for a few years before people start to question why you never seem to age, and then your real family is out of the question, it would be too dangerous to be around them."

"You don't seem to like the life of a vampire much."

"I don't mind it, but I'd never condemn someone else to such a life unless they were completely sure that's what they wanted."

"So what do you want from me then."

"Just don't count me out yet."

"OK." We pulled up at my house and Emmett ran around and opened the door for me.

"Good night Bella." Emmett said and started to walk away.

"Emmett," I called when he reached the back of the house. He turned and looked, "Save me a seat at lunch tomorrow?"

"You got it." And then he was gone.