"It's bigger," Rose noted as all of us 'children' moved into our new home in Hoquiam Washington, and it was true. The brick home, which Esme had come up two months ago to renovate, was larger than the house we had been in for the past two months, though was still in the middle of the forest. It was three stories, but with only three rooms on the top which would serve as Carlisle and Esme's room and their offices. Then on the second story was all of our rooms, two of which Esme had put two large walk in closets for Rosalie and I, then also on the second floor was another room for Carlisle's library. On the 1st floor was the largest with a wide living room jutted out to the right from the entryway, where the stairs were. And, on the back of the house, opposite the living room was the dining room and kitchen, separated by only a fireplace, all three of which we wouldn't use—well possibly the dining room for the table. Finally on the opposite side of the entryway the room was still open to the back where Edward's piano now stood, and to the front was another room, which would be used as our 'library', in other words where we would make our documents.
Moving around to the back I looked out to see that the small back yard opened up almost right into the dense forest which poured into the open wilderness where I could already hear heartbeats thumping away. On the other side though, I could hear the faint sounds of the town of Hoquiam, the lumber mill and my worries for Emmett kicked in. It would be their first time being around civilization in the year and a half that they had been vampires and both had slip ups, making us move three times throughout the year. But without a slip up in the past three months and Carlisle's new job in Aberdeen we were trying this.
"I guess we're going to need to find another finish line," Emmett said as he stepped up behind me.
"You can pick this one," I grinned and turned to him, "I'll still beat you." Leaning up, I pressed a soft kiss on his dimpled cheek as he let out a chuckle.
"Kids hurry and get unpacked," Esme called as she moved about the kitchen, setting out the props. "Tomorrow you start school."
I wrinkled my nose at the idea of having to go through school yet again. We hadn't been to an actual school for the past three years, since Rosalie came into the family but we kept up on our studies with the help of Carlisle's many books, which also meant school was going to be just as boring as ever. With a chuckle, Emmett tapped the tip of my wrinkled nose, making me smile.
"It can't be that bad," He grinned as we started towards the stairs.
"Oh the first time is fine," I shrugged.
"…it's the second, third, fourth…" Edward named off.
"You both know that it's important to go to school," Carlisle spoke as he moved through the door and up the stairs with a large box of books.
"Yes," we both groaned.
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Sitting down on the couch in my room, I fastened the strap of my moderate heels around my ankle then stood up to move over to the mirror on the back of my closet door. Brushing out my cream, and pink floral crepe day dress and straightened the bow on the neck before brushing back the bronze colored waves that I had pinned up at the nape of my neck. Fastening the Cullen crest locket—which now contained a small drawing of Emmett—around my neck, I finished off the outfit with my mother's garnet and diamond flower ring, slipping it on my middle finger and pinning the dragonfly pin up in my hair.
In one hour we would be heading into Hoquiam High School for the beginning of the year and while I didn't exactly aim to impress, I didn't want to look horrible. Stepping out of my room I walked across the hall and past Noah's to Emmett's at the end. Giving a soft knock, I heard him call to come in and pushed open the door.
"Ready?" I asked with a smile and leaned against the door, watching as he pulled on his brown waistcoat over the white button up.
"Almost," he stated and turned to me, but paused in mid button of the waistcoat as he looked over me. Slowly a wide smile spread over his face, making his dimples show.
"What?" I questioned with a small giggle.
"It's just you are so beautiful," He smiled and moved towards me.
"It comes with the lifestyle," I replied a bit embarrassedly.
"Nope, I've seen the pictures," he said with a shake of the head, talking about the few pictures of me from when I was a human.
"Well thank you," I smiled to him and reached up, straightening his tie a little bit and teasingly, ignoring what I knew he truly wanted. Reaching down, I continued buttoning up his waistcoat as he let out a small childish frown. "Something wrong?" I asked innocently.
"No, nothing," he answered getting the smile back.
"Good," I chirped and pulled on his tie slightly, pulling him down a little more to my height and placing a soft kiss on his lips. He broke away with another large smile, which he always seemed to get after even a simple peck on the cheek. "Now get your blazer on," I nodded to the matching brown jacket on the closet door.
Racing over he grabbed it and both of us started down the stairs where Edward was already waiting, just tuning up his piano a little bit from the move. Soon enough Noah and then finally Rose showed up down stairs and we all moved into the car. Having thought about this extensively last night I quickly grabbed the keys but before Rose could utter the words, Edward must have caught Rose's concealed thought right as she brought it up because he called the front seat.
"I hate you," she muttered as she passed him by and moved to slide into the back with the rowdy brothers who were almost annoyingly excited for their first day now that they had gotten together.
"Yeah, well don't really care right now," He shrugged and slid in as I started up the new Ford which was another thing that would set us apart from the other kids in the small farming town but how were we supposed to get to school. There was no way that Carlisle could drive us all in his car, we couldn't exactly run, and locking five vampires in a bus, especially two newborns didn't exactly sit well with any of us, even if they had just fed early this morning.
As I pulled past the wooden sign saying that we were coming up on Hoquiam High School, Home of the Grizzlies we all seemed to share the same thought and gave a few chuckles. "Now, no eating any Grizzlies you two," Edward joked to Emmett and Noah who had found a certain fondness for bears after everything. Both laughed as I pulled in and those already in the parking lot immediately looked to the new people. Edward gave another small chuckle and sly smile, undoubtingly picking up some thoughts.
"Alright, boys and girl, let's meet some humans," I murmured unenthusiastically as we stepped out of the car and started up to the school to start out the next three long years for Edward and Noah while Rose, Emmett and I thankfully only had two.
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Eight long hours of math, history, science, English, and in Rose's and my case home economics and finally we were back home and free to breath, literally. Throughout the day, especially at the lunch break we had little scares where a human would get too close to Noah or Emmett, just accidentally brush up against them and I would see Edward flip his eyes to them but otherwise there was nothing.
"So do I get a reward for not killing anyone today?" Emmett spoke from my door as I stood at the vanity, unpinning my hair.
"You have such a delicate way with words, Sweetheart," I teased without thinking, but instantly caught it, pausing mid-way of pulling out a pin as I saw his smile grow into a wide grin.
"Did you just call me sweetheart?" He started in and I was really glad that everyone but Esme was out of the house because I wouldn't ever hear the end of this.
"Did I?" I asked innocently as I continued in taking out my hair, and moving it over my shoulder to brush it out.
"Yes you did," he replied coming up behind me in the mirror, giving that dimpled grin. "So does that mean I can call you honey?" Looking at him through the mirror I couldn't help the wide grin as he wound his arms around my waist, overlapping them on my stomach.
"If you were inclined to," I smirked slightly as I sat my brush back on the dresser and slowly turned to face him, wrapping my hands around the back of his neck.
"Alright, Honey," he spoke, leaning down. Seeming to know what he was going in for, I tipped my head up but was a bit wrong, and let out a small giggle as he placed a gently kiss on the tip of my nose. Quickly, though, my giggles built into full blown laughing as he jokingly moved over to the side, placing pecks all over my face.
"Emmett," I laughed trying to pull away but he just followed.
"I don't respond to Emmett anymore," He spoke, placing a kiss at the corner of my mouth, but pulled back slightly, smiling to me.
"Sweetheart," I emphasized, brushing my fingers through the curls at the nape of his neck and he closed his eyes, as if relishing it, just like every time I did it. "I am very proud that you didn't kill anyone today," I whispered and he gave a wide pride filled smile. Leaning up I pressed my lips to his in a soft kiss.