Chapter 11: Welcome to a world down under!
BPOV
(SORRY IF THE TIMING OF THE PLANE AND STUFF DOESN'T MAKE SENSE! OH AND I DON'T THINK I'LL INCLUDE THE JET LAG IT'S TO HARD!)
"Bella time to get up" Alice whispered softly.
I sat up and looked around "But it's still dark outside" I whined the light was on in here but outside it was pitch black. I heard a chuckle and I looked over to see Edward smiling at me.
"What time is it?" I asked.
"Exactly four in the morning" Alice replied smiling
"What...What th- Alice...I...er...Why?" I stuttered Glaring at Alice.
"We have to get to the airport by 5.30am so I had to get you and the girls up now so you guys can get ready then we'll leave" She said logically.
"Oh ok well I'll go get the girls ready then you just have to wait on me" I smiled groggily
"Oh no me, mum and Rose will do that for you" she smiled
"Oh ah wow thanks" I paused "so all I have to do is have a shower and get dressed?" I asked
"Yeppo" Alice giggled
"For god's sake is that your new favourite word or something?" Edward asked from where he was sitting
"Yeppo" she turned around and giggled. Edward chuckled lightly.
"Well me and Edward will leave you now and you may want to take a shower we have a long flight ahead of us! Oh and I laid some clothes out for you on the bed" Alice smiled closing the door.
I suddenly felt a flutter of excitement I was off to Australia today oh my god! I've never been on a plane let alone overseas this is sooooo exciting.
I was walking down the stairs now I was dressed my hair was done and dry. I had to stop on the third to last step to look at the view before me. We looked like a real family. Jasper and Lexi were on the couch reading a book together, Emmett was tickling Ellie her giggles carrying through the room, Rosalie and Alice where talking to each other, Carlisle and Esme were hugging and Edward and Amy were waiting at the bottom of the stairs for me.
"You right?" He asked.
"Yeah" I smiled probably looking dreamy eyed.
We all filed out into the taxi van that Carlisle had ordered half an hour ago it was an extremely funny and nice taxi ride and we were all laughing almost the whole way there.
We got to the airport at 5.30 on the dot right on time we checked in quickly. we got to the gate lounge and we waited a while before a voice came out of the speakers above us "People with small children and disabilities boarding flight QF134 to Australia please start boarding" We stood up.
"Score one for the Swullen's" Emmett wooed.
"Swullen's?"
"Score one?"
Alice and Edward questioned.
"Well you see" Emmett started off on his logic "the Swullen's because we're travelling together and we look and act like family but we have two different last names so I smartly put them together to create the Swullens" he paused to take a breath "and score one cause we're travelling with little kids so we get to go first" He smiled, we all chuckled. Stupid Emmett and his logic.
We all finally got into our seats. With a little confusion. There were 3 seats on each side then 5 in the middle. Amy sat to my left at the window seat and Edward sat to my right in the aisle seat. across the aisle from him was Alice then Ellie next to Ellie sat Jasper and then of course next to Jasper Lexi sat. Next to Lexi sat Esme and across the aisle from Esme sat Carlisle, Rose and Emmett. Confusing, right?
The plane's engines started up and I started to panic what if the plane crashed! All those shows I watched about Air crashes! Shit! oh god why did I agree to this? I started to breathe heavily
"Bella are you alright?" Edward asked.
"What if the plane crashes Edward? Crap I can't let that happen not when the girls are so young ahh Edward what am I going to do" I ranted.
"Bella calm down" He chuckled lightly but you could see the concern in his eyes "The planes not going to crash and nothing's going to happen we have very experienced pilots in the cockpit and a whole load of safety procedures that will keep us safe" He smiled "Why didn't you tell us you where a nervous flyer ?" He chuckled
"Cause I didn't know, I've never been on a plane before that's why I was so excited!" I said still panicked.
"Really? Oh you should have told us silly Bella" He chuckled "So you've never been overseas before?" he asked
"No" I replied "Have you?" I countered back
"Of course I have I'm a Cullen remember any country, you name it I've been there" He smiled
"Okay how about...Kazakhstan" I giggled looking up at his face.
"Okay apart from there" he chuckled
"Look all the people look tiny Bella" Amy giggled, looking out the window at all the men loading the plane and doing various different jobs.
I looked out the window we were quite high up for still being on the ground. It was a huge plane that had two stories we were on the second so that's probably why we were so high up.
We were now 5 hours into the flight and I was watching a family guy episode. I was starting to get tired from waking up so early. I lent my head on Edwards shoulder deciding that it was the comfiest position. I was expecting Edward to get a fright or look at me or have some sort of reaction but all he did was sit still his eyes closed listening to his IPod.
I looked at Alice and Ellie who were giggling uncontrollably then at Lexi and Jasper who were both reading books then at Esme and Carlisle who were talking casually to each other then finally at Emmett and Rose; Emmett had just earned a hit on the back of the head from Rose, for god knows what reason.
I looked down at Amy who started giggling she was watching monsters vs. Aliens I'd have to watch that sometime she looked like she was really enjoying it.
When I looked back, Edward had his eyes open and was looking down at me, I smiled and felt the blush creeping up my face he gave me a lazy smile that made my heart beat go crazy then turned back to where he was and closed his eyes.
I went back to watching family guy pulling the blanket the plane provided up over me. I bought my feet up so now I was huddled up surely looking like a giant marshmallow.
After about 15 minutes I felt Edwards arm snake around me pulling me closer. I looked up at him as he was looking down at me his beautiful emerald green eyes caught mine and we stared into each other's eyes for a few seconds at that moment I decided that I Bella swan liked Edward Cullen. He was beautiful in every sense of the word.
I looked back to family guy after a while sensing I would have heart attack if I didn't look away. It felt nice being this close to Edward it felt...right.
I turned off family guy and quickly fell asleep.
"Bella, they're serving lunch do you want anything?" Edward shook me awake.
"ummm yeah what is there?" I asked
"Chicken, lettuce and mayo sandwich, creamy chicken and mushroom with rice and a chicken lettuce mayo and pesto wrap."Edward said.
"I'll have a wrap thanks" I smiled
The lady handed us our lunch and went to the people behind us. I tucked into my wrap it was really nice. Edward had got the creamy mushroom and chicken with rice he caught me staring "want some?" He asked. I nodded, it was really nice.
"Want some?" I asked in return, he nodded and leaned over taking a bite.
"mmmrmm thats good" He smiled.
"So is yours" I replied "How's your sandwich Amy?" I asked looking down at Amy.
"Good" she smiled back up at me.
I quickly finished my wrap and went back to being a giant marshmallow, not really doing anything.
"How much longer?" Amy asked looking up at me.
"ummmm I'm not sure bubba. Why don't you have a sleep then when we get there I'll wake you up so the time will go faster." I was trying to get her asleep since waking up at four and the whole jetlag thing would make her tired and a tired Amy meant a pissed off one and man you really didn't wanna see that. Trust me. (AN: this is actually true cuz Amy is based on one of my best friends Amy and when Amy is tired she gets really pissed and man is she scary! Once at a sleepover me and my other best friends accidentally woke her up and she was petrifying we all thought she was gonna hit us haha ahhhh good times )
"Okay I'll try" she said grudgingly. She grabbed her pillow and blanket got comfy and closed her eyes. Luckily within 20 minutes she was asleep.
"Wow that was easy" I laughed.
"What was?" Edward asked looking at me
"Getting Amy of to sleep" I smiled
"Oh" he said turning back to a Simpson's episode he was watching.
I settled back into the position I was in before lunch had arrived, a few minutes later Edward put his arm around me and I fell asleep completely at ease. This was what it was like to be free.
"This is the captain speaking, we will now be making our descent into Sydney please fasten your seatbelts and make sure all luggages are safely stowed away. It is now 7.00 am in Sydney and the temperature is set to be 40 degrees Celsius today."(AN for all my American readers 40 degrees Celsius is 104 degrees farren height) I awoke to the pilot saying.
"Good morning sunshine" Edward laughed.
After Lunch I had fallen asleep for an hour or two we then had dinner and watched a few things before I went to sleep again for the night.
I looked out the window Amy was eagerly looking at. We were over water but I could see land ahead of us. I started getting really excited then. We were coming in lower and lower every second until land was finally below us.
Finally the plane made a reassuring thump onto the ground and we had landed, I was in Australia. OH MY GOD!
We got off the plane quickly and went to baggage claim we got our bags, headed through customs and finally got out of the airport.
"Look for a sign that says the Cullen's" Carlisle called out over our group.
"Does that say Cullens?" Amy asked, I laughed and looked to where she was pointing there was indeed a sign that said 'Welcome to a world down under the Cullens' But that wasn't what stunned me behind the guy that was holding the sign was a stretch limo.
"Carlisle you ordered a limo?" I asked
"How else was I supposed to transport eleven people in style?" He chuckled.
"A van" I said incredulous
"That's not in style Bella" He laughed .
It was nice to see Carlisle's childish side. Everyone was already over at the limousine and the driver was packing all of our bags...well trying to pack all our bags into the boot.
I walked over as everyone was getting in. The only seat left was next to Edward which secretly I was sort of pleased about.
"Wait...don't we have to wear seatbelts here?" I asked
"Oh yeah good thinking Bella" Carlisle chuckled "Everyone put your seatbelts on!"
I giggled at the look on all three girls faces. I felt Edwards hand creep over mine; it felt nice his hand was nice and warm.
"Okay well I may as well give you all a briefing of where we're living and details like that" Carlisle smiled. "We're going to be living in a suburb called Lane Cove it's like ten minutes to everywhere in Sydney...well not really but it's really central" He paused "We've rented out a unit block that has four two bedroom apartments in it, So Me and Esme will take one and I'm assuming each of the couples will want one each so sorry Bella and Edward that leaves you two. Oh and the girls can swap between wherever they want since apart from Edward and Bella's apartment there is a spare room in each apartment" My heart started pounding I was going to be sharing a whole apartment with Edward?
"We've also organised a driver since I don't think you guys will remember to drive on the opposite side" He chuckled "but most of the time you can catch public transport we live 100 meters away from a main bus interchange so there are buses there all the time."
We small talked for the rest of the ride, as we were driving into our driveway I saw that there were 2 girls and 1 boy who looked around our age playing a volleyball like game. I then turned my attention to our new home it was big and it looked nice I couldn't wait to get inside.
The chauffer unloaded all our bags and left, Carlisle walked into the hallway and opened the first door on the right then the second then turned around and unlocked the two doors on the left.
"There all the same so choose" I walked towards the furthest left door and Edward followed
"Oh right I'll get the girls sorted you go in and choose a room I'm happy with whatever" I smiled at Edward.
"You sure" He asked
"Yep" I replied
Carlisle and Esme where still out in the hall way "Bella why don't they put all their bags in our second bedroom and that can be their base camp then they can go wherever?"
"Oh ok that sounds good" I smiled
"And don't worry I'll get them sorted and get them some breakfast" Esme smiled.
"you sure I'm quite happy to sort them out" I said.
"No you go un-pack!" Esme said almost as an order
"Ok fine..." I paused "You guys spoil me" I said flatly.
I walked back out into the hall way and into our apartment I looked around this was downstairs I guessed from the stairwell to the right of me. Straight ahead of me were three lounges making a semi-circle around a big plasma screen TV then to the left of me was an open kitchen. It was basic but nice. I walked up the stairs into a hallway there where two doors on the left side and one door on the right I opened the closest door to me it was the bathroom I opened the next door to find Edward unpacking "Oh sorry" I said surely blushing.
Edward chuckled "That's ok I was only unpacking"
"So I'm guessing the door on the right is my room huh?"
"Yep" He smiled
"Ok well I'll go get my bag and then unpack if you need anything you know where I'll be"
"I already brought your bag up for you" Edward smiled
"Always the gentlemen aren't we Edward" I teased "Thank you" I smiled before leaving.
I walked across the hall to my room again Edward the gentleman had given me the bigger room. I walked into my room in there was a big king sized bed with a bedside table on either side. There was a built in wardrobe and beside that a set of drawers on the other side of the room was a big full length mirror and a couch.
I started unpacking when suddenly Alice and Rosalie burst through my door I screamed in fright then broke out into giggles.
Alice and Rosalie sat down on my bed looking serious "Why so serious?" I asked suddenly Alice jumped on me.
"You like Edward" She giggle-yelled
"What how- I mean no" DAMN I HAD NO EXPERIENCE WITH THIS SORTA STUFF I'D NEVER EVEN HAD FRIENDS LET ALONE GIRL FRIENDS!
"Yes you do" Rosalie smiled
"No I don't" I insisted
"Yes you do" Alice replied.
"Hey we do have eyes" Rosalie smiled
"Well tell me what they see?" I liked my witty comeback.
"Ahhhh well they saw on the plane a certain giant marshmallow leaning it's head on Edwards shoulder and Edwards arm around a certain giant Marshmallow and in the limo a certain Bella's hand enclosed in Edwards..? What do you think they see?"
"Me liking Edward?" I asked defeated, they knew.
"Yeppo" Alice smiled
"And that's why we're going to secretly set you up" Rosalie said leaning out from behind Alice.
"WHAT?" I yelled.
Alice and Rosalie just giggled. "You can't...you...what no you can't do that!"
"Watch us" Rosalie said as she walked out my door Alice in tow.
I stood there for a minute before I decided to just give up, I wanted this, right?
I turned back to unpacking.
I had been unpacking for a while so I sat on my bed and looked out my window my window looked into a window of next doors. The three teens I saw playing the volleyball-ish game earlier today were in there. I was guessing by the looks of it, it was one of the girl's bedrooms. They obviously had music on cause one of the girls was dancing crazily the other was singing into a hair brush and the boy was lying on the bed laughing.
One of the girls stopped and stared at me for a second then started frantically waving I timidly waved back blushing.
Alice and Rosalie walked back into my room and the girl started waving even more, of course Alice got excited by the thought of a new friend and waved back just as frantically which set all three of the teens into laughter.
The girl ran to her desk looking for something, finally she found it, it was a piece of paper from the looks of it she scribbled something on it then held it up to the window it said in neat handwriting Come over so we can meet our new neighbours :) I looked at Alice and Rosalie who nodded at her then walked out the door.
I followed running to catch up.
"Yay we have teen neighbours maybe they can show us 'round" Alice giggled excitedly
We were walking into their drive way now; they were just walking down the stairs into their yard.
Close up they all looked amazingly alike The first one walking down the stairs had long brownish-blonde hair that was down to her tummy with natural blonde streaks she was average height and was curvy, the girl behind her had the same hair down to her shoulder's she was taller and less curvy and finally the guy had the same hair except only to his ears he was very tall they all had very tanned skin and electric blue eyes.
We were all standing in a straight line them opposite us "Hi, I'm Georgia this is my sister Siena but we call her Sie and my brother Asher" The girl I fist described said. Australians sounded nothing like what the American media made them sound like. That's weird I was expecting it to be really hard to understand them.
"Wait so your triplets?" I asked
"Yeah" Georgia giggled
"THAT IS SO COOL!" Alice said, the triplets laughed "I'm Alice by the way" She giggled "and this is Isabella and Rosalie but we call them Bella and Rose" she introduced me and Rose pointing to us.
"Wait you're American" Georgia giggled
"Yeah" Alice said
"So have you guys moved to Australia or are you just here on holidays? And are you all related?" Sie asked
"We're just over here for a month with me and Rose's family."
"You and Rose are related" Asher asked quirking up his eyebrow
"We're adopted so are the rest of our siblings" Alice smiled.
"Oh ok. So Bella you're not related to them?" Asher asked
"How about we take you over so you can meet our family and understand it a little better because trust me it's really hard to understand" I laughed.
"Ok" Sie agreed
We walked over in silence to our units; we walked in.
"EDWARD, EMMETT AND JAZ GET YOUR ASSES INTO CARLISLE AND ESME'S UNIT!" Alice yelled banging on the door of her unit. We then walked over to Carlisle and Esme unit.
The door was open and I could see the girls eating something at the breakfast bar. "Georgia, Sie and Asher these are mine and Rose's adoptive parents, Carlisle and Esme" Alice introduced "Mum, Dad these are our neighbours Asher, Georgia and Sie".
"Hello dears" Esme smiled from behind the breakfast bar.
"Hi nice to meet you" Carlisle said shaking each of their hands.
"And these are my little sisters Lexi, Amy and Ellie" I said walking over to my little sisters
"Hi guys" Georgia smiled to them waving.
Ellie jumped off her stool giving me the fright of my life and ran over to Georgia "How old are you?" She asked.
"17" She laughed.
Edward, Emmett and Jazz walked in then "Finally god!" Alice exclaimed.
"Georgia, Sie and Asher meet Rose's twin Jasper and my adoptive brother" Jasper nodded curtly "And my other two adoptive brothers Edward and Emmett" they both waved "Edward, Em and Jazz meet our neighbours Asher, Georgia and Sie"
"Are you guy's triplets?" Em asked
"Yep" Georgia smiled; she always seemed to be smiling.
"We were about to head to the beach with our little sister's if you guys wanna come" Asher asked
"Yeah we can show you 'round Sydney a bit" Georgia added
We all turned to Esme and Carlisle "CAN WE!" we all seemed to say at the same time.
"Yes of course it's your holiday" Esme giggled "do what you want"
"We'd love to come" Alice smiled
"Ok well get your swimmers on and we'll meet you in our driveway, we can take all three of our cars, we have 2 five seaters and 1 seven seater so that should fit all of us in, we'll drive because well you guys do drive on the wrong side of the road..." Georgia giggled. We waved them good bye then went up to change.
"Girls I'll come and help you change in a minute" I said to them as I left.
"Oh its fine Bella I'll do it you take your time."
"Thanks Esme" I said out in the hallway.
I got into our unit and walked to my bedroom. I opened the door revealing Alice which gave me the fright of my life.
"Alice what are you doing?" She turned around a mischievous smile plastered her face.
"Giving you your new swimsuit" Oh god.
From behind her back she pulled a bikini. Shit.
"Alice I can't and won't wear that" I said.
"Oh for god's sake Bella you have to get over the fact that I'm gonna buy stuff for you"
"It's not that I just-I can't wear bikinis" I said
"You so have the body you so can" She wasn't getting it.
"Alice I'm wearing my tankini" I said.
"But Bella-"
"No Alice" I said in a very strong almost yelling voice. She looked taken aback and I instantly felt bad "I can't" I said in a gentler voice.
"Ok" She said in a sad sort of scared voice and walked out of the room.
I sat down on my bed and for some reason started crying and getting really angry this was my dad's fault. I had made Alice scared of me because of what he did. I couldn't wear bikinis because there were scars all up and down my belly they were disgusting and very noticeable. I wanted to kick something, punch someone and do god knows what else I was so angry.
"Bella" Edwards soft velvety voice sounded with a knock "are you ok?" It was only now that I realised how loud my crying was.
"Yeah" I said but the crying was obvious in my voice.
"Can I come in?" He said just as softly.
I tried thinking of excuses "I'm getting changed I'll be out soon" I frantically got my swimmers and started changing into my tankini. I pulled some short shorts over the bottoms grabbed my towel and wiped my eyes with it then headed out.
I almost walked into Edward "Bella you've been crying" He stated
"No I haven't" I said
"Yes you have I could hear you and your eyes are all red and puffy"
"I'm having hay fever" I told him.
"No you're not Bella, don't lie to me" he said
"Even if I was crying it's none of your business" I said coldly
"I want it to be my business though, I want to help you." He said suddenly embracing me in a hug.
"Edward" I said into his chest.
"Yes" He said letting me go and looking me in the eyes.
"Is there something going on between us?" I asked
"Yes" He said awkwardly
"Are you going to ask me out?"
"Yes" He smiled.
"When?" I asked, I must sound like a five year old right about now.
"now" He chuckled
"Really?" I asked again
"mhm" he paused "Isabella Will you go on a date with me?" he asked dazzling me.
"Yes" I giggled "When?"
"Tomorrow evening?" He smiled
"Sure" I smiled, excited. "Should we tell the others?" I asked.
"No they'll find out soon enough" He smiled taking my hand as we started walking.
"Why won't you wear a bikini?" Edward asked suddenly
(AN: SORRY BUT 20,000 WORDS WOOT WOOT!)
"Because" I said not able to think up an excuse quick enough.
"Because...?" He queried.
"Because I can't" I said my tone getting colder with every word.
"why?"
"Look Edward please just drop it." I said looking him in the eyes pleading.
"Ok" I looked down at my feet as we walked in silence noticing Edwards board shorts they were like a beach at sunset and they had lines going across them they were really nice and suited him extremely well probably the work of Alice.
As we got to the bottom of the stairs Amy came running towards us she was in a very cute swimsuit it was white and red striped and had a bow in the middle and suited her extremely well. She had little denim short shorts on and a pair of thongs. Alice had obviously gone shopping.
"Alice told me to tell you to get some warm clothes to wear after we go swimming" She said looking up at us then down at our hands and then back up to our faces. "Why are you holding hands?" she asked "I want to hold Edwards hand" she said looking at me.
"Well go ahead then" I said letting go of Edwards hand so she could hold it. I held her other hand and we all went upstairs together.
Finally we got down to the triplets driveway. Georgia was strapping down a surfboard onto the roof on a silver car and Asher was walking down the stairs with another in his arms.
Sie was in a yellow summer dress sitting on the bonnet of one of the three cars parked in the driveway.
Two girls that looked exactly like the triplets only younger came out the front door and were walking down the stairs talking to each other.
"Hey guys" Georgia said when she finally saw us. Asher waved as he lifted his surf board onto the same car Georgia was. "Sie introduce the bubs to Edward Bella and Amy"
Sie sat up and walked over to the two girls
"George how many times do I have to tell you stop calling us the bubs!" The older one said.
"We only call you that because you're the babies of the family" Sie said
The girl jokingly death glared at her. "Guys this is Mei" Sie pointed to the older looking one "and this is Paige" she said pointing to the smaller one who looked around 3. "Mei, Paige this is Edward, Amy and Bella."
"Hey" Mei smiled
"Hello" Paige said cutely
"How old are you guys?" Amy asked
"Free" (THREE) Paige said in the same cute voice sticking out three fingers.
"Thirteen" Mei smiled.
HAHA wow that was a loooooong chapter well for me anyway...
Hope you enjoyed! I sure did :)
Sorry I had to ad in my own country it's fun! And Asher is actually my older bro who is 18 and Sie is one of my besties who looks EXACTLY the same as me and same with Paige and Georgia of course is me :)
And please review!
I got this idea from another fanfic I'm gonna start putting questions here for you to answer!
Have you ever been to Australia?