Chapter 12: Reunited
Carly's POV
I was really happy. For the first time in a really long time I was truly happy. I hadn't felt this happy in years. Even before the rape and before my parents died I hadn't felt this happy. I constantly thought about my brother and sister. Both of them who died so young and so unexpectedly. It almost felt like my family was just destined or marked for tragedy.
Now that I'm back with the Cullens. Back with my first family. I could feel happy again. The love, the happiness, and the concern that they all showed me and even toward each other was enough to erase the pain and the sadness, at least for now. I could only imagine how I would feel when I finally saw my parents again. I wondered how they would react to my story and to my pregnancy? Would I even be able to tell them about how I got pregnant in the first place? Way to many questions were just bouncing around my head.
I went and got Lizzie ready for bed. She was not ready to go. She was having way to much fun with the other kids and babies. She loved being around other kids and babies. But I was not going to let her win this argument. Rest was extremely important for her now more then ever.
I was also feeling really tired. I wasn't sure if it was because of the events of today, my pregnancy, or a little bit of both. All I knew is that I was feeling really tired and really sleepy.
I woke about two hours after I had fallen asleep. The baby started getting restless and kicking me like crazy. For some reason my baby was more active when I tried to sleep then when I was wide awake and wouldn't mind getting kicked around so much.
Eventually when that little girl inside of me calmed down again I was able to successfully fall back asleep again. When I woke up again it was morning. I looked over at the alarm clock right next to me and saw that it was exactly 7:36am. I felt unusually well rested for some reason. I was used to waking up at least a few times during the night due to either my baby kicking me or Lizzie needing me for one reason or another.
I got up and walked toward the front of the house where I saw my sister already eating breakfast. Turns out that Esme had already started cooking breakfast for all of us that actually do eat. Which considering we are a family of vampires is quite a bit.
Esme served me a plate of eggs.
"Thank you Esme" I said before spearing a forkful of eggs.
"You're welcome dear" she said sweetly.
As soon as I was done I got more. These days I was more hungry then usual. Although I suspected that had something to do with my pregnancy.
"Where is Carlisle?" I asked when I realized that he was the only member of the family that was missing.
"He left to the airport a little while ago" Tony was the one to answer. "Your parents as well my mine should be landing at any moment now so he went to pick them up"
I automatically felt my heart triple in speed. But in a good way. My parents were here. Or they were almost here anyway. I could feel the excitement bubble up inside of me. After 20 years I was finally going to see my family again. I started to cry tears of happiness. For once they were tears of happiness instead of tears of sadness. It all felt so real to me all of a sudden. I was going to see my parents again. Now I felt even happier then I had before. My happiness only continued to grow.
I wished now more then ever that time would speed up. I wanted time to just to go by faster so that my family would hurry up and arrive.
I never understood why time always seems to slow down when your waiting for something good to happen. Yet the exact opposite happens when you're waiting for something unpleasant to happen. Can someone please explain that logic to me?
"They are coming" EJ was the one to say this time. It seemed that both Tony and I were to anxious to say anything. I started twiddling my thumbs; something I only did when I was anxious or excited. I think it was a bit of both this time.
Soon enough even I was able to hear the sound of car doors opening and then shutting. My excitement and my happiness increased another tenfold. This was it. This was the moment I had been waiting for all of my life. Even my breathing sped up along with my heart rate.
"Can you please relax. You're making me anxious here" EJ said.
"Easy for you to say. You're not the one about to meet your parents for the first time in 20 years" I snapped at him.
"Okay, you're right. I'm sorry" he said.
I didn't even pay attention to Carlisle when he walked through the door. I was more focused on the people behind him. All I could do was stare. It was them. It was really them. It was my parents. My biological parents. Tony's parents were also there. But I was to busy focusing on my own parents to care.
They too stared at me. From what I could tell my parents had another kid. A little boy that looked to be about three years old. Also, my mother looked to be a few months pregnant as well. Much like me.
We were all too shocked to say or do anything. My parents just stared at me. My mom eyeing my baby bump just as I was eyeing hers.
Then suddenly we both broke down crying at the same time.
I ran up to my mom and hugged her as tightly as I could. She hugged me tightly as well. Love. Love was one of the strongest things in the world and I could feel it radiating off of her.
I was in my mother's arms again.
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