Together Again, Maybe?
I watched the girl fall into Anthony's arms and began to dry sob. She was so pale and thin, she looked like she hadn't eaten in weeks! Anthony brought her up into his arms and cradled her against his chest.
"Anthony, lets get her up to our room, she needs help now. We'll have you father look at her." Anthony nodded and we walked through the lobby and into the elevator with no problems. I pulled out my cell and called Edward.
"Hello?" He said.
"Edward's its Bella. We found her, she's not in to good shape. Tell the kids and I'll tell Anthony in a bit." I said. Anthony glared at me, but I ignored it for now.
"Alright love, we'll see you in a minute." He hung up.
I looked up at Anthony, he looked mad but he didn't say anything because he was to focused on the girl in his arms.
"I want to be mad at you right now Mom." He said. "But I can't because of her."
"Don't worry Anthony, I'll explain everything after we make sure that she is alright." He nodded and followed me to our room.
Edward was waiting for us. He had a doctor's bag in his hands and told Anthony to set her on the table. The kids were all in the other corner of the room while Edward, Anthony, Karalynn, Kenny, and I sat around her and helped Edward in anyway possible.
Edward removed her shirt and we all gasped at the sight, her ribs were easily visible and it looked that for weeks she had hardly eaten anything..
I saw Edward pull back from the girl and place a blanket over her. "It looks like she fainted form starvation." He said. "We need to monitor what and how much she eats for the next few weeks to a mouth. It's a good thing she finally came. Another few days like this and she surly would have become anorexic."
"Ok will someone please tell me what is going on here!" Anthony seethed. "I meet this girl the first time in my life and I feel like I've know her forever. What is going on!"
I let out a deep sigh I knew I had been holding. "Anthony, honey, this girl is your 'La tua cantante'." I said. He looked like he didn't understand. "In translation, it means she is your singer or soul mate, that her blood calls to you, it the pull you've been feeling all this time. I was the singer of your father before I was changed. Now we are soul mates forever." He looked very shocked.
"Almost every vampire I know has a soul mate or has a singer. Your father and I, Esme and Carlisle, Alice and Jasper, Rose and Emmett, and Karalynn and Kenny. Now you and this girl are added to the group." I explained. Anthony nodded and stayed quiet. I looked over at Edward and for a quick second removed the shield and asked Edward in my mind, "What is Anthony thinking Edward?" Edward lifted his head from looking at the girl and walked over to me.
"He is thinking about how his girl ended up like. How she didn't get fed and why she was walking the streets of Paris, France alone." He whispered to me. I didn't miss the part about his girl though.
"His girl." I giggled. Edward chuckled quietly and we walked over to the girl. Her eyes fluttered and we all crowded the table around her. Anthony walked over to her side and held her hand. She immediately looked up at him and smiled. "Hello my love." She whispered. Anthony grinned at this and helped her sit up.
"How about we start with introductions first?" Anthony asked her. She nodded and looked at us. "Ok well to start with, next to me is my father, Edward." Edward gave her my favorite grin. "Next to his is my mother, Bella." I smiled at her and leaned into Edward's chest. "Next to my Mom is my sis Renesmee or Res or Nessie, what ever you want to call her." Renesmee scowled at her. Krystal started to jump up and down and tackled-hugged her. "We'll be best friends! Just like you will with Auntie Alice when we see her and the rest of the family in England!" She squealed. I pulled her off and Edward held her against him so she couldn't get away.
"You have to be gentle with her Krystal." Edward said in a whisper to her. Anthony kissed the girls cheek and continued with the introductions. "Ok well now next to my Mom is my cousin who saw you coming, and who tackle-hugged you, Krystal." Krystal bounced up in Edward's tight embrace. "Next to her is her brother, who is probably the most laziest person on the planet, Kevin." Kevin scowled at this but shrugged it off and gave the girl a smile. "Next to his is my Uncle, Krystal and Kevin's parents, Kenny." Kenny walked over and took her other hand in his and kissed it. She slightly blushed and Kenny went back to his place next to Karalynn. "And last is my Aunt Karalynn, who is next to Kenny. And my name is Anthony." She looked at us all around and seemed a little pressured to speak. I walked over to her and took a hold of her free hand.
"Would you like to come with me and get you cleaned up and get you some food, then you can tell us about yourself." I suggested to her. She nodded her head and held tightly onto my hand. She reluctantly let go of Anthony's as I brought her into the other room with Karalynn on our tail. The others stayed in the other room as we helped the girl into the kid's bedroom.
"Can you undress yourself, or do you need help?" I asked her. She nodded and I walked into the bathroom with her and Karalynn. I pulled off her clothes as Karalynn filled the bathtub. I picked her up and set easily into the water.
"Lexi..." I heard her mutter.
"What did you say honey?" I asked.
"M-my name is L-Lexi." She said weakly.
I walked over to the side of the tub, sat on the edge and kissed her forehead. "It's going to be ok Lexi. We'll get you cleaned up and fed and then you can sleep for a while. Ok?" She nodded her head. I began to wash her hair while Karalynn did her body. The bathroom was filled with the smell of vanilla, Lexi seamed to like it. A weak smile was on her face.
"I like vanilla." She muttered.
"Well we bought it just for you. We have two future seers in the family and one of them saw what you like and we got it." She nodded and leaned into me. I smiled at how close she was to us already.
We finished her bath and I helped her get out. I helped her get dry and put on her clothes. We got her into the sundress, but left he shorts and the belt to when she would get up. I helped her walk over to Anthony's bed and tucked her in. I hummed the tune of my lullaby to her and she soon fell asleep.
I smiled up at Karalynn. She smiled back. We both walked out into the other room. All eyes were on us as we walked into the other room.
"How is she?" Anthony asked me.
I smiled. "Lexi is fine. She's asleep now in your bed. I don't think that she'll be up a while anyway." He grinned when I said her name. He ran by me into the other room. Renesmee went after him but her father held her back.
"Give him a few minutes Res. Besides she needs some sleep before you bombard her with questions." Edward said. I smiled at him, he grinned back. Renesmee pouted and tried again to pull from her father's grip, not working.
"But I don't get why she is such a big deal, she's just a human! What's so special about her?" She snapped at all of us.
"She is special because she is your brother's 'La tua cantante' or his soul mate for eternity. You should be happy that he found his special someone for him." I snapped back at her trying top keep calm. She let out an ear-piercing screech and walked out of the room. No one made a move to fallow her. I ran back into the other room to check on Lexi and Anthony. Lexi was wide-awake and Anthony held her as she cried in his arms. I walked over and began to rub soothing circles on her back, it seemed to work because she bag to calm.
"Lexi, what's wrong?" I asked. She looked up from Anthony's chest and turned to face me.
"She hates me, and I don't know what I-I di-did wr-wrong!" She sobbed and turned back into Anthony's chest. I could see the tears start to form in Anthony's eyes as she sobbed harder.
"It will be ok. Res just doesn't like change that much, and you were like a surprise to her that sent her into a stage of shock. She'll come around, just give her time. Ok?" Lexi nodded and pulled Anthony onto the bed with her.
"I'll make sure she gets some sleep Mom." Anthony said. "Is there anything you want to eat when you get up later?" Anthony asked Lexi.
She nodded her head and looked up at me. "Can you make some chicken tenders, french-fires with vinegar, and some mozzarella sticks? And for dessert a vanilla milk shake?" She asked me. I laughed and nodded my head.
"Its will be ready by the time you wake up." I said. She smiled and snuggled into Anthony's chest. I walked over to the side he was on.
"Make sure you get some sleep too, young man. And don't stay up all night watching her sleep. Your dad did that, but the only reason he didn't have to stop was that he didn't have to sleep himself." He chuckled and I left the room.
I set
off to prepare the food that Lexi had requested. I was just putting
the food in the oven when Renesmee burst through the door. Edward
instantly ran to her side and locked her into his tight embrace. She
kicked and tried to bite to get away from him, but Edward was to
strong for her.
"You and I are going to have a little chat
about this attitude of yours young lady." He said sternly. He
dragged her out of the room and Karalynn gently closed the door
behind them. I heard them walk off down the hallway and into the
elevator. As soon as they were out of hearing range I pulled out my
cell and called the family.
"Hello?" Esme said.
"Esme, its Bella. I hope I'm on speaker, cuz we just meet the girl! She is so sweet and shy, and cute. She has hazel-green eyes and copper colored hair.
"Although she is rather thin is the problem we are worried about. We plan to find out why she is so thin and if she was abused or ignored in some way tomorrow when she wakes up. She fell straight to sleep after we cleaned her up. She also wasn't afraid of us when we found her. She felt the pull to and somehow knew that Anthony was the one that she was being pulled too.
"Res isn't to keen on the idea of her with us. I think she is mostly jealous of her because she gets all of her brother's attention. When all her life she is the one who got all the attention from her brother. But now she needs to realize that she makes her brother happy.
"You should see Anthony too. He looks like he's seeing the world for the first time when he saw her. The gaze into their eyes is incredible." I said with so much happiness in my voice, and I was happy.
"Jeez Bells, I thought you were never going to let us talk!" Emmett said.
"Didn't want to forget." I said as I took deep breaths after my long speech about them.
"From what you've told us it sounds like she is a wonderful girl, and in a way, sounds like you back when you were human." Carlisle said.
"Yes she does." I said back to them. Just then I heard my daughter's frustrated scream and I ran to the window. Edward and Renesmee were on the ground and arguing.
"Listen I'm going to hand you to Karalynn, I need to take care of something." I threw the phone to Karalynn and took off down the hallway and down the elevator.
I soon reached the ground and ran outside to Edward and Renesmee. "What is going on here!" I yelled at them. They both stopped yelling at each other and looked at me. Edward walked over to my side and wrapped his arms around my waist. Renesmee ran up to me and had on her best puppy dog pout.
"Mom, I'm not getting a good vibe from her, we shouldn't be so close to her." I saw what she was doing she wasted the family to hate the girl so she could get all the attention back. She was jealous that her brother wasn't always with her now.
"Just because your jealous of her doesn't mean that you can hurt her in ways you have already done. Don't you want your brother to be happy? You don't want to hurt him right?" I asked her.
She dropped her head and tears fell from her eyes. "I don't want to hurt him, and I want him to be happy, but I feel like he's leaving me." She cried.
"Res, honey, I want you to listen to me. Ok?" She nodded her head. "Back when I was human, your Auntie Rose was jealous of me. As a result it made her bitter toward me and she hated me, but didn't say anything for the happiness of your father. And with you it's no different. You have nothing to be jealous of over Lexi though. She is a sweet girl that would love to have fun with you. You just have to understand that Anthony loves her and needs time with her ok? And I want you to call you Auntie Rose tonight and asked her about how she felt about me back when I was human. Alright?" She nodded and sobbed in my chest.
"Thanks." Edward whispered in my ear. "I wasn't getting anywhere with her, but you settled it al out. How?"
"It's the gift of a mother." I replied and we walked back up into the hotel.
Waiting for Lexi to awaken, and tell her story.
Author Note: Hey guys! Wow, didn't expect Renesmee to get jealous did you? What do you think? I got only 3. ONLY 3 REVIEWS FOR THE LAST CHAPTER! What is with you people and reviews? Do you not like them? (Not blaming you Chocolate Coffee, you have been there every step of the way for me and this story.) Anyway, I STILL NEED REVIEWS! Oh and I am going to camp on the 18 and coming back on the 26. So I won't be able to post the next chapter until about a week after I come back.
I also wanted to let you know that I have a new story that I will be putting up near the end of the Together again, Maybe? story. This new story is called Finding love in the England Asylum. Below is its summary.
Finding love in the England Asylum
Bella and Emmett Swan live together in their small town of forks. One night during a thunderstorm, their next door neighbor, James Tyler, broke in. They fought him off and end up being sent to an asylum in England! They soon meet the Cullens, Hales, soon to be Howls, and soon to be Cheneys. What will Bella find is store for her when she falls for the bronze-haired Cullen boy and has to find a way for all ten of them to escape!
So what do you guys think. If you guys give me more reviews I might be able to get chapters online faster so you can read this story and read the next. For my new story I have almost 4 chapters done and I'm writing them while I wait for your reviews. I think that it's kinda bad to only have 19 chapters for a story that has about 13 chapters, don't you?
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