Epov.
I was sitting in the study with Carlisle when Jasper came bursting in without even knocking. He had clearly ran here.
'She's escaped,' He panted. I could hear my father swear loudly but I wasn't looking at him. I jumped up from my seat and made my way out the door. I knew we should have put more security on the girl she had shown us her ability to out run and out wit us many times. My side still hurt at times from the whole taser incident.
'Where did she go?' I asked Jasper as we jogged down the hall.
'Toward the north wing of the house, we have all the exits covered, both in the house and on the grounds fences, she hasn't left the building yet,' He informed me. That was good, we had a much better chance of catching her if she was still in the building. If she had managed to get onto the grounds it would have been impossible to find her in this darkness.
'How did she get out anyway?' I growled at my brother.
'Alice went to see her,' I stopped running, staring at Jasper.
'Alice knows about the family?' I asked incredulously.
'Told her last week, took her a few days to come round to the idea but after that she was fine, she accepts what I do,'
'Well have you proposed?' We only told the women in our family who we were after we married. It made them a lot more accepting of the idea if we they were already married to the criminal.
'Right after she accepted who I am,' Jasper was wearing an ear splitting grin.
'Wow. Uhh. Good for you man,' I was at a loss for words. Jasper was getting married now. That was a a bit of a shock. I had thought he was going to wait ages to tell Alice the truth about the family.
After that very short little revelation we started searching again. This girl had managed to elude us entirely. She hadn't left any of the exits and she was somewhere in the building, what was this? The biggest game of hide and seek ever? Knowing this girl she was probably deriving some sort of amusement from the events that are taking place.
As I ran up and down the corridors, I began to wonder to myself, would I ever really settle down and be a true member of the family? With Jasper getting married that left me as the only single male Cullen left. And I wasn't even the youngest! I couldn't picture it though, myself with a woman settling down and popping out a few kids. I would make a terrible father and any kids I had would be utterly fucked up, my brothers would do a good job. Jasper was so caring and compassionate. Emmett was just a big kid himself, Rose had a job ahead of her, controlling her children and her huge giant child of a husband.
Me? I would probability turn any children I had into fucked up messes.
My cell phone started ringing, I pulled it out and didn't even bother to look at the called ID before answering it.
'Any luck?' I asked.
'Nope... she's hiding somewhere in the building, start looking in the guest rooms, cupboards, under the beds, you know the drill,' Jasper told me.
Great, so now we had to tear our home apart in order to find this girl. Why was she such a pain in my arse?
All of the Cullen's had been running round the mansion like we were chasing the god-damned road runner.
We upturned every single room in the mansion, it was like she just went poof into thin air (which knowing this girl probably had happened)
Three hours, three god damned hours later and we still hadn't found her. All the family had gathered in the living room, in a attempt to try and figure out where she's gone.
'Maybe she's on the grounds?' Emmett asked, scratching the back of his head awkwardly.
'Not possible. There's guards on every door and she hasn't managed to slip past a single one of them, so she's got to be here,' My father said.
I looked around at my family, noticing that someone was missing.
'Uh...Where's Emmett?' I asked.
'Fuck knows,' My father told us 'Right now all we need to focus on is finding Isabella. As long as all the grounds are covered we can simply wait her out. She'll slip up soon enough and we'll find her.'
'We have to find her now!' My mother demanded. She was a mess to be frank, her hair messed up and she had this oddly wild look in her eyes, like a mama bear who was worried about her child. She was really freaking out hoping that Bella was okay.
'We'll find her soon dear,' Our father told her rubbing her back, she didn't take his attempt at soothing her to well.
'She could be hurt! We need to find her now! Stop rubbing my back Carlisle!' She snapped, slapping his hand away. None of us children dared say anything. Yes, we were absolutely terrified of our father but when push came to shove our mother could make us all tremble in fear.
Without warning my huge lug of a brother came bursting into the room.
'Hey Hey Hey!You guys gotta see this! I found her! She's so cute!' He cooed.
'Where?'
'You gotta see it to believe it!' Without another word he clomped out of the room. Curious, we all followed him up the stairs to the first floor. He stopped at the large wooden chest set that I think Esme had gotten from China or Japan.
'What are you doing Emmett?' My father asked.
'Look under the wooden thingie!' Emmett declared giddily,
I was the first to look under the chest and sure enough there under the chest, in that seriously small space was Bella, fast asleep snoring ever so slightly. I couldn't help but smile. She was so beautiful when sleeping. Her face was just so relaxed and calm. The left side of her face was slightly squished into the carpet making her face wrinkle slightly. She had her hands under her head.
'Isn't she adorable!? But be warned! Don't wake her up, she's killer with a bat!' Emmett whisper yelled. I sniggered to myself, remembering the very nasty way she put a baseball bat to Emmett's skull.
'Emmett, put her in bed! She'll hurt her back and neck like that!' Esme whispered.
Emmett just looked at his mother with a 'No-Shit' look. 'And how do you suppose I'll get her out from under there without waking her up?'
Esme looked perplexed. 'Could you could pick up the draws? Lift them off her? Quietly?' She asked. 'Jasper can help you!'
The queen had spoken. Without another word Emmett and Jasper went to either side of the chest and both of them grabbed a ledge, I was slightly shocked that Emmett didn't just bear hug the thing and lift it himself, but then again he would probably knock it over and wake Bella up.
Between both brothers the chest was lifted and moved to the side, and Bella didn't even move an inch. She was well and truly knocked out. She hadn't been sleeping much lately. Maybe she had well and truly knackered herself.
Just as my brothers were putting the chest down, with Esme whisper yelling at them to be careful with her Vintage Japanese Hand-Carved thing. I decided to pick up Bella, sliding my hands under her back and legs I lifted her to my chest easily. I smiled slightly. How the hell had she tired herself out so much? She was not going to be happy when she woke up and found herself back in her room. I'm guessing she would throw somewhat of a fit, have some considerable self loathing and such.
I carried her easily back to her room, Esme following me all the way like the psychopathic mother hen that she was. Quite like when I first brought Bella home.
Within moments Bella was tucked up in bed, snoozing away. I was almost excited to see the fit of kitten scale range that she was sure to happen. She was so cute when angry. She could never really do any damage though. So it was fun to watch from the sidelines.
I left the room quickly, locking the door. Leaving Bella to get her rest. The entire family was out in the hallway, clearly curious to what had just happened.
'I'm not going near her for a few days!' Emmett declared.
'Why would that be Emmett?' My father asked.
'I don't want her getting mad and bludgeoning me again!' He told us, indicating to the stitches on the side of his head. 'Rose is mad enough that I have this battle wound, I think if I turn up with another, Mom will have to wait a few more years for grand babies if you get what I mean!' We laughed, knowing full well that Rosalie would withhold sex to punish Emmett. It was probably the only thing that really got to him, that or taking away his food. He was a sucker for food.
My father smiled ruefully. 'It's your own fault for letting a 110lbs girl get the drop on you. If you had been more alert you would have known that she was nearby and armed,'
Emmett just grumbled in response, not having a comeback.
'Lets go have some food,' Esme declared happily, tugging on Jasper's arm. 'I'm sure Bella will be hungry when she wakes up!' We all followed Esme dutifully like the good husband and children we are.
Sitting in the kitchen was Alice, her eyes clearly red from crying. 'You found her?' She asked, standing up, the moment we entered the room.
'Yes, we did,' Jasper told his fiancée going over to hug her. 'But Ali, what were you doing, going to see Isabella before I told you?' He asked her.
'I just wanted her to have some good clothes! She's trapped up there wearing hand me downs! It's just not fair on her.' Alice cried.
I didn't really want to listen in on the family so I decided to walk upstairs and wait outside Bella's room for the kitten rage, smiling to myself, I took a seat outside in the hallway, waiting.
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