Disclaimer: I don't own anyone here except the kids, Annabelle, Noell and her aunt. The rest of these characters belong to Stephinie Meyer.
Annabelle POV
I was surprised. It was her. Robert's Mom! That was Noell's aunt… and she was related to Robert that jerk!
"Wait you mean…" Noell trailed off and looked at me and then she grinned and started laughing.
"You mean you punched my cousin? And you rejected him?" I blushed and Emmett started laughing too.
"I did."
"You are my new best friend." she said and she hugged me tightly. "You showed him he doesn't always get what he wants."
"She did indeed! I didn't think I would ever see you again sweetheart!" her aunt said looking at me.
We all laughed and they left a few minutes later. She would bring her back here in two hours or less. When the door was shut Alice started talking.
"I didn't realize that was his mother. Oh my goodness. Let's all be thankful none of them remembered the whole jaw relocating part of it." She said. "Yet." Jasper added.
"Yeah, yet."
"Until then let's get ready for Renee's arrival here in three days." Bella said.
Friday, September 20th, 2014
"Hand me that stapler please?"
"Sure." Noell reached up and handed me the stapler. I was making a banner for them. They were do at four. It was noon now. Noell's Aunt had left earlier this morning. They had buried her parents yesterday. We had gone with them. Noell wanted us there. It was simple and sweet. None of them had seemed to remember the boyfriend part of Robert's tail. Noell hadn't asked me. She probably figured that since Robert was always wanting to be the center of attention, that he made it up.
I finished stapling the banner and then with her help, we hung it outside. Emmett held the ladder for me.
"It looks awesome." he said when it was hung.
"Thanks Emm." I said climbing down and looking up at it. It had big blue letters that read: Welcome To The Family Andrew Joshua.
Noell had drawn big, beautiful stars and bears all around the letters.
I showered and dressed and ran downstairs and grabbed a sandwich and helped decorate the living room. Noell said she couldn't wait to meet my mom.
I had briefly filled Mom in and she said that she'd bring Noell a small gift, because well, she wanted too. Mom was all about making people feel welcome.
"Wow, look at all the balloons." Seth said as he walked by on his way upstairs.
"No sucking the helium out of these please." I said.
"Oh come on. Just one!" he pleaded.
"Fine, fine. But only one, alright?"
"Yes." he said happily.
Carlisle and Edward came home from work at three thirty, having gotten off early. They went upstairs and showered. They were fresh and good smelling by the time Mom and Phil pulled up.
Bella and I ran and opened the door. Mom was there with a tiny blue bundle in her arms. Phil carried their bags.
"Hi Mom." I said.
"Hi baby."
"Come in." Bella said helping Phil with the bags. Edward went back out and came back with a few gifts. We all settled in the living room and Mom showed everyone the baby. She gestured for Bella and I to sit next to her. I peered into the blanket and saw his tiny little face. His eyes were open and he looked around curious as to where he was.
Bella held him first and she declared him the most beautiful baby brother ever.
"Annabelle here." Mom said taking Andy from Bella and handing him to me. I took him into my arms and held him close. He was so warm, and smelled sweet. Carlisle and Edward were taking pictures of us.
"Hi Andy. It's Belle. I'm your big sister." He looked at me intently.
"I'm so happy to finally see you little guy. I love you." I kissed his cheek and I held him for a while longer before passing him to Edward. He was passed from hand to hand. Bella and I took pictures of Edward and Carlisle and the others. Mom meanwhile was talking to Noell. I was so happy that everyone was welcoming her into our ever-growing family.
That night I was on the balcony outside of my room, looking at the stars holding my baby brother. Mom found me there.
"Ah there you are." Mom came and stood next to me.
"Hi Mom."
"I think he loves you already." she said smiling at my brother.
"I love him too Mom. He's the best."
"Bella said the same thing when you were born. And look at you two. You two are the closest sisters I've ever seen. I'm so great full to have two wonderful daughters like you."
I hugged Mom and I looked down at my sleeping baby brother. "And Andy's going to have the best big sisters ever."
"I know that for a fact." Mom said and we both laughed.
"Now when are you and Carlisle going to give me a grandchild? I want to see a baby with your blue eyes and his blond curls and his facial features." I blushed.
"I don't know Mom."
"You two need to just skip the engagement and get married." she said.
"Bella said that too!" I said.
"Well Bella's right."
"Yeah." I said smiling as I looked up at the stars.
We went in a few minutes later. I sat on the floor and pulled out my album that I had under my bed. I opened it to the first page and smiled to myself. It was a picture of me minutes after I was born in Mom's arms. I flipped through it, as I watched myself grow older. I smiled when I got to the page filled with pictures of my first day in Forks. I smiled as I remembered that day. That's where my new life had begun. There was a picture of Carlisle and I with Emmett in the background. There was another of me eating a piece of cake. I soon found the pictures of me in the hospital. Then graduation pictures, pictures from our trip to Disneyland, and Edward's birthday party. There were a few pictures of Nessie's babies and the last one was of me and Bella as kids. I smiled to myself as I tied the ribbon on my album and put it away.
I yawned and went into the bathroom and brushed my teeth.
Carlisle was waiting for me when I walked out. He had my album in his hands.
"I see you found my album." I said going to sit next to him. He was looking at the pictures of my time in the hospital.
"It's almost been seven months." I reminded him.
"Those were the worst days I could have ever lived through." Carlisle said shutting the album and setting it aside.
"I know they were. I should have taken someone with me when I left the dance." I said sadly.
"It wasn't your fault."
"Yes it was. I was so careless."
"Angel, you weren't careless. You were being yourself. A teen having fun at her winter formal."
"Still." I said fluffing my pillow before I lay down. Carlisle lay next to me.
"What matters here is that you're still alive."
"And so in love." I added before we rapped our arms around each other and kissed.
"We've gotta tell Noell the truth. Alice said she has a mate. And I think that if we don't tell her, she'll be scared. It's only fair. You all told me. And I kept the secret. I think we can trust her."
"I suppose we could." Carlisle said.
"The Volturi has to know about her anyway." I added.
"We can't leave her alone when we go. We'll have to take her. I'll call Aro tomorrow. And we'll tell her everything after your mother leaves."
"That sounds like a plan. I just don't want her to be in the dark. I think that if we tell her, it'd make things easier for her."
"And we have to tell her before we leave. You know how excited Caius and Aro get over seeing you, the only human. They'll be quite overwhelming with her."
I laughed. "Oh right. That's something I forgot about. When do we leave for Italy by the way?"
"From the 24th till the twenty eighth."
"Wow! I can't wait! I miss Jane and the rest."
"And I know they miss you too."
"I miss them." I said sighing.
"I love Andy. He's so cute. He's the best little brother I could have ever asked for."
"He looks a little like you. I think he may have your eyes."
"You think?" I asked.
"Yes. And your hair color." I smiled.
"I'm hoping he has my eyes."
"You have beautiful eyes." Carlisle said touching my cheek.
"Speaking of eyes and what not, you know what Mom told me earlier?"
He smiled knowingly. "I know. I heard."
"And?" I questioned, curious to know whether he wanted to take Mom's advice.
"I can't say I don't like either of those ideas."
"But which one do you like better?"
"Both of them, actually." he said smiling at me.
"Well which one first?"
"I'd say the marriage first, wouldn't you?" I smiled.
"Yes!" I liked the idea of marrying first, then having our baby. Our baby!
"And you have to finish school." I sighed.
"Oh right, school. I forgot about school." he chuckled and I said, "But I could still finish it, I mean even if I change beforehand, I can stay at home and finish it all online. At least till the thirst calms down and I can keep control, right?"
"Hold on now angel, let's talk about one thing at a time. Changing is a long way off. At least another four years or so."
I laughed at my self. "It is, sorry. You know me, I get carried away."
"Don't I know it."
"However, you could do what your friend Emali is doing."
"Take triple the amount of classes? I would die."
"No you wouldn't. You'll have help, of course. I'll see to it that you don't fall behind, and that you stay on track with all of your classes until you graduate."
"Really? You will?" I threw my arms around him and kissed him. "OH MY GOSH! I love , love, love you!" He held me tightly against him and kissed me back.
"I love you." We lay down, and I fell asleep. Things were looking up for us.
The time Mom spent with us was too short for my liking. But Phil had to go back to work, and Mom wanted to be home again.
Carlisle Edward Bella and I took them to the airport. We followed them in Edward's Volvo.
We stood in front of the airport taking a few more pictures before we said our goodbyes. I held Andy one last time before we left.
Once in the car, Noell was brought up.
"Alice said that it'll go smoothly, so that's all that matters." Edward said as Carlisle turned on to the highway.
"Annabelle and I will be there, of course. We'll be fine!" Bellaassured us. "It'll be like when we told Jess."
When we got home, everything was in order. No messes, no wolves wrestling in the kitchen, no loud noises coming from anywhere. Emmett was outside watering the flowers and vegetables. Jasper was reading and Alice was pulling weeds.
I found Rose inside baking.
"I'll go and get her." I said going up the stairs. I knocked on Noell's door. "Noell? It's me. Annabelle. Can you come to Carlisle's study please?"
There was a short pause before she answered.
"Yeah, okay."
I went down the hall and found Carlisle, Edward Bella and Jasper already there.
I heard her door open and then her footsteps as she came toward us.
When she came in, I closed the door and she looked at us, looking a little scared.
"You aren't in trouble." Bella said smiling at her. She relaxed and I got a chair for her. I sat across from her next to Carlisle. Nessie sat on one side of her, Bella on her other. Edward and Jasper sat on the couch.
"Noell we want to talk to you about ourselves." Edward began.
"About yourselves?" Noell asked, confused.
"About what we are." Carlisle said.
"As in like the jobs you do?"
"No, like what we are, as in, what kind of thing we are. You'll understand soon enough." Bella said gently touching her shoulder.
"Keep in mind that if you don't like what we're going to tell you, you can leave here. We aren't forcing you to stay with us if you feel at all in danger. Is that okay with you?" Carlisle said.
"Yeah, what is it?"
"Look at us, do you notice anything unusual about us that you wouldn't normally see in any other human?" Carlisle asked her.
She looked at all of us and I smiled. "Don't look at me."
"Why?" she asked.
"I don't count."
She looked puzzled but didn't look at me.
"You said that Edward's Bella's husband right? And they're from two different families. Why are all of your eyes the same color except for Renesmee's and Annabelle's? Yours are like a goldish color, and Annabelle's and Renesmee's are brown and blue. Why?"
"Do you notice anything else?" Jasper asked.
"When Edward held me still the other night, his skin felt ice cold. And the same with Carlisle, Alice and even Bella. But when I came in contact with Annabelle, she wasn't like that."
"And." she continued, "All of you look really, and I mean very beautiful. It's unreal. And when you guys walk and move and stuff, it's like model status. No other human would walk like that. And I watched Annabelle and Jess walk and they walk normally. I mean like normal humans. And you guys don't eat a lot."
"What we're going to tell you must stay a secret. You can't tell anybody else outside of this house. You can't tell anybody at school, and you can't tell your Aunt." Carlisle said.
"Okay…" she looked worried.
"We, as crazy and as unbelievable as it sounds, are vampires."
Noell's eyes widened. Her mouth fell open, and her face turned white, then red, then purple, then back to normal. She looked straight at me.
"You're flirting with a vampire?" she squeaked.
"Actually, I'm in love and dating a vampire, but that sounds okay too." I said smiling.
"Wait, dating? In love?"
"I couldn't tell you the truth about my family because I didn't know if you could keep it to yourself. I'm super careful about it. And yes, in a relationship with one. Carlisle, actually."
"So you go and drink blood from humans then?" she asked looking scared again.
"No. We drink blood from animals. We're what you call vegetarian vampires. And as for our skin, it's impenetrable. And we're cold because we don't have blood running through our veins. Once we're changed it stops pumping blood. We don't need blood, or air to breathe as vampires. We don't sleep and we don't eat. We don't go into the sun, because if we do, we tend to sparkle in the sunshine."
Noell looked overwhelmed.
"Wow… that's so much to take in… And I'm not afraid of any of you. My opinion about you hasn't changed. I know none of you will hurt me. I just wish you could have told me sooner."
"Hold on, there's more." Nessie spoke up.
"I'm not Annabelle's cousin. I'm her niece. I'm Bella and Edward's biological daughter."
"But how?" Noell asked.
"I'm half human, half vampire. I was conceived when my Mom was still a human. Her pregnancy was at least a month. I was born the size of a three month old. I had a very accelerated childhood. I was literally a kid for at least three years. And then I was a full grown adult at seven years. Since this year, actually. This year was my seventh birthday. Now I'll stay like this for the rest of my life. But that doesn't mean that all pregnancies like that are the same."
"So human females can have male vampires' children?"
"Yes." Carlisle said.
"How long do you live for?"
"Until we get our heads ripped off." Jasper said.
"So for as long as we can. Carlisle's over 300 years old, frozen at age twenty three. I'm around 200, but frozen at age eighteen as well as Rosalie, Alice, Bella and Emmett. Edward is the youngest stuck at age seventeen. "
"Oh… wow… this is so amazing! Can I be a vampire?"
Edward sighed. "It's something that takes a long time to adjust too. And our rule here is that we can only change you if you're near death." Edward explained.
"Or if your mate wants to change."
"Mates?" Noell asked.
"Yes, mates. Vampires have mates. Bella is my mate, Jasper is Alice's. And Annabelle is Carlisle's. She'll become immortal when she and Carlisle come to a decision as to when."
"And you Renesmee? Is Jacob your mate?"
"You could say that. I'm his imprint. Jacob, Leah and Seth are shape shifters. They're werewolves. But they aren't your typical werewolves. They shift at will. Not when there's a full moon. They call it phasing."
"So is that why they're so… big and muscular?"
"Yes." she said smiling.
"Oh wow. I appreciate that you all told me, but like I said, this doesn't change my opinion about all of you guys. Over the past few days I've come to think of you as my… second family."
After she said that last part, she blushed faintly.
"You do?" I asked.
"Yeah. I really do. And Annabelle?"
"Yeah?"
"You and Carlisle look so perfect together. I mean it."
"I know they do." Emmett said bursting in through the door a huge grin on his face.
"I call her Mom…" he trailed off.
"Why?"
"Oops, we forgot that." Bella said snickering.
"Since Carlisle changed first Edward and then Rose and Emmett, he sort of became the patriarch of our coven."
"Coven?"
"It's like a pack of wolves, but vampires. It's like a family." Emmett explained.
"Oh! Okay."
"Yeah, so since he's patriarch, that makes me Mom to them, almost I mean."
"Yeah, we call her Mom but she won't legally be our Mom till they get married. Oh, and she'll tell you she hates being called Mom, but I know she loves it, right Ma?" Emmett said reaching over and tousling my hair.
"When you don't mess up my hair yes." I said and everyone laughed.
"Noell, there's one more thing." Carlisle said. "And after this, I swear it's the last. We're going to Italy on October 24th, to see the leaders of our world. They're the Volturi. We have to tell them about you beforehand. Are you okay with that?"
"Italy? Are you serious?" she looked excited. "Yes." Edward said.
"Wow, all of us?" she asked.
"We're hoping so. But if not that's alright." Bella said.
"Cool! I would love to go!"
"Then it's settled. You'll be coming with us." Jasper said.
"And don't worry about packing. I've got you covered!" Alice announced as she came in with Seth who was eating a slice of pizza.
"Awesome!" Noell said smiling.
Noell turned back to us and started firing questions at Carlisle and I. " So tell me everything. How did you guys meet? Where? And how did you know you were each other's mates and stuff?"
Carlisle and I exchanged a smile and I started the story.
"Well it all started on a beautiful day in August of 2006 at Bella's wedding…"
A/N I like this chapter. Still have guesses as to who Noell's mate is? Let me know what you think in some awesome reviews!
Till next time!
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—RoseNEmmettForever—
