Here is Edward! In all his glory, for those of you who need alot of desciption, i purposely left out a description of the house, I'm sure we all have an image of the house in our minds and i wouldn't want to mess with that for anyone. Anyways... ENJOY!
"Excuse me?" He said. "My… My what?"
"Your children, Edward. Brooke, and Darrin." I said. I wanted to explain everything to him but I didn't know where to start and I figured it best if I just let it all sink in for a moment or two.
"Uhh….umm… So, how are you alive exactly?" He asked me. He obviously didn't know how to respond to the information that was just thrown at him, so he chose to change the subject.
"It's a really long story. So how about the short version for now, I went to Seattle to go shopping," He looked at me skeptically when I said this, I've always hated shopping, even as a human, and he remember that, this made me happy, maybe Alice was telling the truth when she said that he still loved me, "and when I went into the parking lot to leave I was attacked by a vampire and dragged into an alley. But it was scared away by a bunch of humans who stopped at the edge of the alley when they noticed what was happening. It must have been a newborn or something, any experienced vampire wouldn't have done that in plain sight. But anyway so I was bitten and not killed and well, here I am."
"Huh." He replied. I couldn't understand his reaction right now. "We certainly have a lot to talk about Bella."
"Yes, we certainly do. Where is everyone else?" I asked secretly hoping that they were away so I wouldn't have to deal with them all at once.
"Hunting, I was waiting for Alice to return. So I stayed behind." I sighed a sigh of relief. Good, two down, five more to go. "Could we… Could we go talk in my room Bella?"
"Yes, of course. Umm… Alice can you show Brooke and Darrin around the house while me and Edward talk?"
"Actually, I was just about to suggest a little hunting trip of my own. So would you like to go hunting with you Aunt?" She asked Brooke and Darrin. For the first time today, I noticed the dark purple areas underneath her eyes. Edward's were also like that. I felt guilty for breaking up their hunting plans, but I couldn't resist the chance to be with him alone.
"Sure, we haven't hunted for a couple of days, not that that's a long time, but I enjoy it." Darrin said shrugging his shoulders, we all started laughing.
"Yea, I'll go too, It'll give us a chance to plan a shopping trip, Alice!" Brooke told her. I rolled my eyes and turned back towards Edward.
"Well, how about we go inside so we can talk." Edward said as he opened the front door of the house and motioned for me to come in. I walked up the steps and stepped into the house. It looked exactly the same as it did seventy-three years ago when I spent so much time here. It felt like stepping into a dream. The best dream that I could ever imagine.
Edward stepped around me, since I was just standing there. He walked over to the couch and motioned for me to sit down. I walked over slowly, still feeling as if I were dreaming, and sat down next to him.
"Since we're alone, more alone then I thought we were going to be, I see no reason why we can't just talk here in the living room." He said. He was staring at me, it made me feel as if I were almost in a trance, I tried to look away but I couldn't.
"Alright, that's fine. So, what is it that you want to know first?"
"Well, Brooke and Darrin seem like a good place to start. You said I was their father." He said. It was more of a statement, not a question. But I answered it anyway.
"Yes. You are." I said. "Look Edward I know everyone is going to think I'm crazy and that this is just impossible and that vampire's can't-" I stopped because Edward put his finger to my lips.
"Bella, I believe you, and I don't think your crazy. I was just going to ask you how they felt about me, since I can't read their minds."
"Oh." I said, feeling embarrassed. "Well, they didn't object to meeting you and they actually seemed kind of excited about it. I've told them a lot about all of you so in a way they already know you all."
"That's good." He said. He was thinking about something. I could tell by his face. "I should have said something to them, I should have said something, anything. I just didn't know how to respond to such big news. I hope they aren't hurt by my reaction."
"I think they'll understand. Uhm… Do you want to know how the whole process went on?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean like how they're vampires."
"Well, they're like only half vampire aren't they? I mean if that's possible, I don't really know, I've never heard of anything like this."
"I know, that's what Alice said. But no, they aren't half vampire. They are just as much a vampire as you and I. Alright, this'll be easier if I just explain it to you from the beginning. Okay, so I gave birth to them, just as any other human would. They were completely normal toddlers and preteens, just like every other kid, growth spurts and bloody knees. So I thought that maybe they wouldn't even be affected by their vampire genes, but shortly after their fourteenth birthday they lost their color and they started to show the speed that all vampires had. Brooke was mad at me for week's after I made her quit soccer." I said laughing at the memory.
"Why was she so upset?" Edward asked.
"She was the star player really. She played mid-fielder. Do you know what that is?"
"Actually, I don't, I haven't watched much soccer."
"Well, its like the position between defense and offense. Pretty much, they go where they are needed. If defense it getting attacked by the opposing offense then they have to race back to defense and help out, if offense is struggling to get past the opposing defense they have to race up there and help the offense out. She absolutely loved it. She was like you, she loved to run."
He looked up from the floor, the spot he had been staring at during the whole time I was talking about them. "Really? Do they have anything else in common with me?" He asked.
"Well, its mostly Brooke, she looks the most like you and her favorite animal to hunt is a mountain lion, just like you. They both have the same color hair as you, and when they were younger Darrin had green eyes, just like you used, too. Brooke had brown eyes like me though. Darrin reminds me more of Emmett then either of us, which is weird because he's never even met Emmett. But he's always joking around and acting like a tough guy, but he's really a softie on the inside. And his favorite hunting target is a bear." I said laughing at the irony that was going on in my head, I was thinking of Darrin as a big teddy bear when I said that.
"Wow, I've missed a lot, haven't I?" He said, guiltily.
"It's nothing that you can't make up for." I said trying to comfort him, I had to fight the urge to hug him. "But anyways, back to the explanation. After their first, umm… how can I describe it, uhh symptoms we'll call it, they started eating less and less over the next three years until they were eating a meal a day and then the couldn't even stand real food, so I taught them to hunt, well I didn't really teach them because they were more or less naturals at it. And once they were seventeen they stopped aging, no more growing or gaining and losing weight, they just stayed as they were at the age of seventeen." I let out a sigh when I finished telling him the last part.
"That sounds rather frustrating, trying to guess what's going on with your kids, having to make them quit things that they love, and introducing them to a whole new lifestyle."
"Yea, it was. But they were mostly really accepting to it. Even when I told them when they were fourteen, that the reason I never looked any different was because I was a vampire and that they're father was a vampire as well. They weren't like scared or mad or anything like you'd expect from teenagers. They were mostly excited and a little confused so I had to explain everything too them, let them know that what I told them could eventually pertain to them."
"Bella, I'm so sorry." He looked at me, I felt my breathing speed up so I looked toward the ground again.
"For what?"
"For leaving you, for not being there with you. You had to go through all that alone." He buried his head in his hands. Without thinking I put my arm around his shoulders and bent my face down towards his.
"Edward, it's fine, really. Brooke and Darrin made it exceptionally easy for me. They were the easiest kids to raise. They never even threw temper tantrums as toddlers, can you imagine that? Perfectly behaved children. I couldn't have asked for better children. So really it is okay, don't blame yourself. Alice told me why you left, and now I understand that you were just trying to do what you thought was best, just trying to protect me. You had no idea, you certainly can't blame yourself." I was doing my best to comfort him. Really, he had no need to worry about anything.
"They were really that well behaved?" He asked as he sat back up taking his head from his hands. He was smiling, for the first time today. His smile was dazzling. I had to look away or I was going to kiss him, and I didn't know if he wanted that.
"Yea, they were really that well behaved. And just so you know, because I know you've been thinking it, they don't hate you. They've never hated you. You're their father, and they need you, just as much now as ever."
"Thanks, but I guess that's something I need to hear from them."
"I understand." I realized that I still had my arm around his back and I pulled it back into my lap.
"Bella?"
"Yes?"
"Do…Do you still need me?… Want me?"
For what was probably only a few seconds, but what felt like an hour I just stared at him, trying to read his thoughts from his face, but it revealed nothing.
"Yes, Edward, I still need you, just as much now as ever. And I want you more then I ever have."
Edward just started at me. And after an excruciating moment or me trying to measure his reaction, he smiled, my favorite crooked smile. He leaned forward and just before his lips were about to meet mine he said "Well, I guess that's all I could ever ask for."
And then he kissed me. At first it was soft, as if he were waiting to measure my reaction. So I kissed him back, just like I'd always wanted to, with no barriers, with no excuses for him to stop. But he did stop after just a moment. "Bella, by the way, I need you, too. I'll always need you. I love you."
When he said these words to me I couldn't stop myself, I leaned into him and kissed him again, my tongue slipping into his mouth.
Just as I was about to lean back onto the couch, I heard someone clear their throat.
Ooohh... what an unfortunate time to be interrupted. Dang. How did you like it?