We had run home, and Jake was panting and I was fuming.
The kids kept quiet, and I looked directly at them
"You embarrassed me, a lot today" I said, to all of them
"What did you want us to do about it?" Billie answered, her arms crossed
"I firstly, want to rip you to shreds" I said to them, looking both at them directly in the eye.
Timothy hadn't said anything, or done anything wrong, Billie held her arms open to her father, and Jake took her upstairs, careful to not touch me at all.
I went into the kitchen, and turned the kettle on, made a coffee for Jacob, and left it on the side, on top of a blank piece of paper.
I then upstairs, and into our room, I launched myself at my wardrobe chucking on hunting clothes; jeans and a t-shirt.
I then ran back the downstairs, and ran out the back door dry sobbing all the way.
I ran unconsciously to the meadow, and sat down, in the same position I had when Edward had broken the tree, which was lying on its side, forgotten about.
I walked slowly towards it, what humans would call slow, so it was an achievement, when I reached it I picked it up, the tree was completely rotted, as I picked it up, I angled my arm towards the Cullen house, and through it.
It was then that I laughed, loudly, loud enough for them to hear my peals of laughter echoing off of the trees, to my specific destination.
The flow of the wind picked up, ad I sat down, looking up slowly, to see Edward.
"Ah, I see you got the message" I said smugly, knowing that he could never be properly mad at me for long satisfied my desire to through many more trees to their house.
"Yes, so did Emmett, he was going to come here and tear the vampire to pieces until I convinced him it was you, using Jasper."
"Nice" was all I could reply
"Sorry about earlier" Edward muttered quietly, I nodded
"I don't know why you're sorry, Christ, you don't have to worry about twins, who walk, and talk too early, and being captured by the Volturi"
He grimaced
"I wanted to talk to you, because well, I need to just talk to you," I confessed, and a grin went straight across Edwards face.
"Just talk?" he confirmed
"Yep, just talk"
"Okay, what do you want to talk about?"
"What have you been up to recently, just before you moved back here, and after you left me alone, to scream every night, to bath in horror during the day, knowing full well that somewhere you exist, that Edward Cullen exists, and so does Alice, Jasper, Emmett, Carlisle, Esme, Rose, where James did exist, and where Victoria was there, and so was Laurent. I mean even the Volturi where in my little bubble, the spoiled polluted part of the bubble"
Edward nodded
"I sat down in my room, and moped around, I eventually had to leave because Jasper couldn't stand the emotions, after I left, Rose and Emmett went to Europe for a two month holiday, Alice and Jasper hung round, but Jasper mainly worked on his hold on his emotions, as well as how he acted around humans, he got a little way, Alice wasn't herself anymore, she sat there and researched what you had found out about her, she found out quite a bit, then read all the books in our house, at human pace, it was annoying to say the least. Carlisle found a hospital to work at, he did long hours there, and Esme, Esme, found a Victorian house to work on, as soon as Alice found out, they painted together, until Esme said that she wanted to do it by herself, it took longer, gave her something to do, and Jasper also did night courses for a degree, so not a lot really"
His voice was so depressing, he himself was dry, life sucked out of him.
"Our family was held together by you Bella, and only you, as soon as you where gone, we tried to go backwards, we tried, and we failed miserably"
"It's okay, Edward, look I'm going to need your help, okay?"
He nodded
"With the kids, and running, one of them will take on Jake's gene, we recon its Timothy, but we can't be sure"
Edward nodded gravely, and I knew then that this was going to be a hard line to walk.