AN and Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight – but Emma, Ian and Jayme are mine! Take them and the real Kiki will growl at you!
Enjoy as usual!!! I lack sleep for ya'll!!
Chapter 10:
Alice's POV:
I was as happy as I had ever been. My parents were bringing home my best friend along with a new sister! I literally felt like Tigger – I was bouncing with giddiness and I couldn't stop. Their plane had just landed! So that meant, at most, another hour until we saw them, since they had to go through Customs and all.
Next to me, Edward chuckled and placed a hand on my shoulder. "Alice calm down. You don't want to scare Emma do you?"
I sighed. He was right. Mom had already had a long conversation with me about Emma. She had warned me that Emma kept to herself a lot, preferred to play soccer then do her make up – she, Edward and Jasper would get along great – and she hated shopping. When I found that out, I almost fainted. Who in their right mind hated shopping? Wait. Bella hated shopping – but at least she humored Rose and I from time to time. Hopefully Emma would. Perhaps I could do a Barbie Emma…
"How did you convince your parents to let your leave after eating to come with us?" Edward asked turning to look at Rose. His question brought me out of my thoughts of major makeovers, spa trips with mom, Emma, Bella and Rose, and even shopping sprees! "I know that the holidays are a big deal to your parents."
"Ironically, they understood. Jasper and I had told them about Emma and that Bella was coming home as well. Jasper was actually the one who convinced them to let us come with you."
I turned and looked at my ex-boyfriend in shock. He smiled and winked at me. "It's the truth," he said hugging me. "You and Edward are gaining a new family member, while Bella and Emmett need all of us. Besides Rose misses Emmett a little too much."
I hugged him back. Thankfully, when we had decided to end our relationship, we had agreed to stay friends. We hadn't really fought, just grown apart. He was more into soccer, making the varsity team at Forks High along with Edward, while I was into everything but sports. I was grateful that we had stayed friends and I know he was as well. He was my best guy friend, who would beat up anyone who made me mad or treated me the wrong way – just like Edward would.
By then people had slow began to filter out of Customs gate. I turned my attention back to the gate with a huge smile plastered on my face. I really wanted to jump up and down, but I knew that Edward would hold me down.
A few more minutes went by before Emmett made his way through the gate first, with Bella right behind him. Rose and I wasted no time in running up to Bella and both tackling her in a huge hug at the same time. We were so happy – our family of friends was whole again.
Behind them, their aunt Jayme and cousin Ian followed. Emmett introduced them to us, while Rose and I refused to let Bella out of our arms. Jayme looked to be around my parent's age, while Ian on the other hand was gorgeous. He was tall and slender, built much like Edward was, but he had light brown hair and breathtaking hazel colored eyes. I could literally feel the heat rising in my cheeks when he said hello to me with his accented voice.
But I couldn't spend much time on daydreaming about him. That was when I spotted my parents emerging from Customs as well. Dad was first, wheeling someone out in a wheelchair, followed by mom. That was when I noticed who was in the wheelchair.
My new sister!
Her knee was propped up and encased in a leg brace. I remembered mom mentioning something about Emma hurting her knee a few weeks ago. It hadn't dawned on me just how bad it was. But besides, her knee being injured, I smiled as I took her in. She looked to be about Bella's size. Her hair was pulled back in a messy bun. But I knew with just a little bit of work, she could be breathtakingly beautiful.
I couldn't wait for this challenge.
Edward's POV
I watched with a smile on my face as Bella emerged from the Customs gate and was practically attacked by Alice and Rosalie. It was then that I noticed that everyone, for the first time in months, were smiling.
Alice was ecstatic.
Rosalie was as well.
Emmett seemed to be out of his funk of not having Bella around, yet was still a bit sad. That was to be expect though.
Jasper was even smiling. I knew that he had missed Bella. They hadn't always been close, but he did consider her like a sister and would do anything for her.
As for me, I couldn't take my eyes off Bella as she introduced us to her cousin and aunt. She was still just as beautiful as the last time I saw her. Her smile was breathtaking. So were her deep brown eyes – I loved to get lost in them for hours. I loved holding her in my arms as I gazed into her eyes and ran my fingers through her soft hair. Perhaps tomorrow, I could steal her away for a few hours and take her to our favorite meadow in the forest that we had come across a few summers ago while hiking. Just seeing her made me feel complete again. I hadn't felt this happy since she had left.
She was my other half. Without her, I was nothing. It was like I couldn't breathe. My soccer game had suffered – thank goodness that the season hadn't started yet. My music had suffered as well. Even my social life had suffered.
Sure Tanya was fun to hang out with. But I didn't want anything more…but that didn't seem to stop her. She was so damn suffocating. We had only been hanging out a few weeks, and she was smothering me. Thank God that Bella had come home. Hopefully we could pick up right where we had left off. I only hope that Bella still loved me…or even loved me to begin with. Ever since Bella and I had taken our relationship to the next level last summer, I couldn't help but dream of the future.
My dream included the entire gang going off to college together – didn't matter where – just as long as we were together. During our final year in college, I would propose to Bella and as soon as we had graduated, we would get married.
That dream was the only thing to keep me going when Bella had left in August. It grew even stronger when Tanya had tried to seduce me a few nights ago. And now it was so close to happening. Hopefully nothing would stop it from happening.
Fuck.
Tanya.
Tanya could fuck all of this up. Yes, she was beautiful in her own right. Yet, no one could hold a match to my Bella. Suddenly I was worried about Tanya screwing things up between Bella and myself.
As soon as Bella ad managed to get free of my sister and Rose, I took her in my arms and hugged her. "I missed you," I whispered into her hair, inhaling her sweet strawberry shampoo scent.
"I missed you too," she whispered against my chest.
I kissed the top of her head before reluctantly letting her go as my parents came through the Customs gate. Mom was all smiles, while dad was pushing Emma out in a wheelchair. Mom had mentioned to both Alice and I that Emma had sustained a knee injury during a soccer game a few weeks ago. When I had found out that she was an avid soccer player, I couldn't wait to meet her. We already had something in common.
But seeing my twin sitting in that wheelchair, I couldn't help but feel sorry for her. While I hadn't sustained any major injures during my athletic career, I have had friends who had. And it's not fun.
Mom hugged me first then pulled me towards Emma and dad with Alice in tow. Dad was helping Emma stand so that she could stretch her knee.
It was then that it hit me.
My twin sister was Emma McGregor.
Mom and Dad had never mentioned to us what Emma's last name had been before it had been legally changed back to Cullen last week. But if they had told us that it was McGregor, I would had called them liars.
But damn.
My twin sister was Emma McGregor, one of the best soccer players under 18 in all of Scotland. It was rumored that she had even been promised a soccer scholarship to the University of North Carolina when she was finished with high school.
I quickly caught Jasper's eye. I knew that he realized it as well.
Jasper's POV
No fucking way.
Emma McGregor is really Emma Cullen, my best friend's twin sister.
This is fucking unreal.
Emma McGregor – I mean Cullen – was not only a outstanding soccer player, but absolutely gorgeous as well.
One of my goals in life had been to become a professional soccer player in England so that I had more reason to go to Scotland and meet her in person. There were already comparisons between her and David Beckham about the way they could bend the soccer ball to their will.
But damn.
If I had thought that she was gorgeous from her pictures in UK Soccer magazines, it was nothing compared to what she looked like in person. And I know that I am not the only guy on the Forks High varsity team who thought that.
Wait until they all found out who was one of the two newest students at Forks High. Boy, Edward was going to have his work cut out for him.
Perhaps I could help him in protecting his sister from unwanted attention by giving her all of mine.
AN #2: ok I know that there was no Bella's POV – but I promise next chapter!! Thanks for reading!!! Oh and I know that Edward hasn't noticed that Bella has gained a bit of weight....but he's too wrapped up in the fact that she is actually home. But I promise that he will notice.
