Chapter 25: Home Sweet Home

AMBROSIA POV

As I stepped off the plane, Elyador's arm around my waist, I noticed Alexa trip on the edge of her dress and cuss. Alice was at her side in a second. "Shopping time!" she squealed. Alexa groaned.

"Please no! I'd rather were this honestly!" she plead, but once Alice got started…she was unstoppable. We waited for a two hours in a food court until they came back. Alexa still walked slowly and carefully, but she was out of the dress. She and Alice had hit up a Rue 21, (best store ever!) and Alexa now wore a plain pair of sweatpants, a high-end looking pair of tennis shoes, and a striped white and grey long-sleeved shirt.

"Wow Alexa, that's a record. Alice hasn't come back from shopping with less than ten bags since…never." Emmett said. Alexa grinned.

"I should have won Olympic gold for the effort it took." She joked with a laugh. Alice pouted.

"But there are so many things there that look so great on her!" she said in defense. She eyed up another store as she spoke. "Speaking of that…Ambrosia, you could do with a new wardrobe too…" she trailed off.

"Time to go!" I said quickly. Edward chuckled, with a arm around Bella.

We left the terminal into a busy Seattle. I stopped dead as I looked at one of those electronic signs in front of a bank. It had the date on it: April 22, 2023.

"Um, guys?"

ALEXA POV

I was walking slowly; tired even from walking out of the airport, so Elfohrys supported most of my weight easily. Then I heard Ambrosia say something. "Um, guys?" she said in a really weird voice. Esme gasped when she saw the date.

"What the hell?" Paul said, shaking. Sam laid a hand on his shoulder.

"Time flies when you're having fun," I muttered. Carlisle quickly shepherded us into a café, and we all squeezed into a booth. "We have been gone for years?" Rosalie hissed. Just then, a waitress appeared.

"Can I help you?" she addressed the crowd. Her name tag said 'Tiffany.'Esme looked up.

"No thank you dear." She said, flashing her a dazzling vampire smile.

"Um, sure." She walked away unsteadily.

"Any theories Carlisle?" Edward asked quietly.

"I think the time we spent in portals did it." Seth said.

"Why do you think that?" Carlisle turned on him.

"Um…because they are all freaking magical and shit?" Seth offered. Carlisle stared at him for a second.

"Works for me." He said. So we all left the café.

"I take it we can go back to Forks now?" I asked. I was tired. Being half dead for a couple weeks can do that to a girl.

"We can try…our house might be occupied." Carlisle said. We walked casually to the woods. The pack morphed. All except for Sam.

"We are going to go to La Push now. See you later?" He asked me.

"Definitely." I replied. He smiled, than turned and ran into the woods. Elfohrys scooped me up, and then we were running. As the trees flew by, I reached up with ease to touch his face. He smiled down at me, and kissed my hand. Within minutes, we were in the woods surrounding the Cullen house. The yard was unkempt, a good sign. Carlisle disappeared.

"A little dusty, and all the furniture is gone, but the house is still good." His voice was there before his body, but he appeared a second later.

"Time to re decorate!" Esme cried.

ELYADOR POV

We stood in the vacant living room of the Cullen house. Alexa was on the couch, resting. Elfohrys was reading a magazine. I had my arm around Ambrosia as we looked out of the window we had just repaired. Esme and Alice had thrown themselves into the clean-up effort, Edward and Bella were working on the outside, and Emmett, Rosalie and Jasper were going to re-buy some cars.

"Hey…what are you thinking about?" I whispered into her ear.

"You. Us." She whispered back. There was a loud slamming noise outside. Alice was motioning in a semi filled with furniture. Plus, Emmett, Rosalie and Jasper were back, each one driving a different car. Emmett, a blue jeep, Rosalie, a white convertible and Jasper was driving a yellow Porsche for Alice.

ALEXA POV

As the sun set, Esme was darting around the house, dusting. In one day, we had managed to re decorate and make the whole house suitable for us to live in. But what really frustrated me is that nobody would let me help with the big stuff. They just told me to 'rest'. So I got to lay on a couch for most of the day. I think the only actual work I did was to put books in bookshelves. But now I was laying on my new bed. Well, half of it anyway. The other half was taken up by Elfohrys. I had insisted, (red as a tomato the entire time) that Elfohrys and I could share a room and bathroom. In the end, we got two bathrooms, but whatever. Ambrosia and Elyador had their own room too. Big surprise there.

What I found funny, was the fact that we had a bed. I mean, as elves, we don't need to sleep, or eat. But Esme and Alice had insisted. So now things were somewhat back to normal. Unfortunately, I was still 'weak'. Carlisle had told me that I needed to take it easy for a while. What sucked was that 'a while' translated into 2 weeks. I mentally cursed Aro again. I hated being useless. But for now, I was content.