Hehe. Sixteen reviews is amazing. I LOVE YOU ALL! Like you have no idea. Thank you to those of you who reviewed, favorite-ed, and alerted my story. I love you all also. I also love all of you that are waiting patiently for me to update. And about that, I really am sorry. I had two big tests this week (which I got A's on! Yaay!) so I have been studying. So I am horribly sorry that I haven't updated sooner.

Okay, so twilightbella2 had a fantastic question, and I feel that I should answer it. So your question about making vampires sleep- I honestly haven't thought of that. But I'll discuss that with you later. I'm not sure if I'm going to be putting that into the story…

So wanna hear some amazingly cool news? You've probably heard all about the H1N1 flu virus (aka "Swine Flu") in the news lately. Back in 1918, the H1N1 had another name … the Spanish Influenza. That's right — the very same illness Edward Cullen was dying of when Carlisle found him and turned him into a vampire! Isn't that amazing? Well, you know what I mean…

Lol, look what else I found! Our Edward, Who art in Forks, Hallowed be thy sparkles. Thy Volvo comes, thy will be fast, On Earth as it is in the meadow. Give you this day, our daily blood; Forgive us our heartbeats, As we worship Carlisle for giving you life. Lead us into temptation, Deliver us to you. For thine is the vampire, The music and the hotness, Forever and ever, A-Edward.

But anyway, I guess I should get on with my story.

*this chapter is dedicated to .cRaZy, because her review was amazing, and I'm amazed that she stayed up all night and read all twenty four chapters. This goes out to you! (also, you asked a question about this story, and I decided to incorporate it into a conversation with Emmett.)*

Oh, by the way everyone, this is the last chapter (chapter 24) in Edward's point of view! (:

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EPOV

"How are you so clean?" Emmett asked from behind me. I could feel his gaze on my white shirt that didn't have even a drop of blood on it.

I snorted and rolled my eyes. "Because I go for an easy kill, and I don't spend my time torturing my prey to death." I stated, talking about Emmett's hunting technique.

Emmett just laughed. "You're too boring. I actually enjoy hunting. You seem not to." he said, and I turned to face him. I saw a glint of some unknown emotion in his orange-ish eyes. He was blocking his mind from me with singing some odd campfire song. I raised an eyebrow at him, but he just sighed. "When are you going to ask her?"

"What?" I asked, confused to what he was getting at. Carlisle was suddenly standing in the clearing by us, staring at me, waiting for me to answer.

Emmett shook his head in what seemed to be shame. "It's been what, two years now? Yet you've known her for forty. Why haven't you asked her?" he asked. I frowned at him. I knew he must be talking about Bella, but what haven't I asked her? I know all there is to know about her so what is he….oh. "Are you afraid of the commitment?" Emmett asked before I could say anything.

"No, Emmett. that's not it. I haven't asked her because the time isn't right yet. But I will, don't worry. Eventually…" I said, remembering the ring my mother had given me. Carlisle patted my back and smiled warmly at me.

"I'm done hunting. Are you two ready to go yet?" Carlisle asked, breaking the all too serious mood.

I nodded, but Emmett groaned. "Why? There are so many more grizzlies out there! There aren't many back home!" he complained loudly.

I smacked his arm and Carlisle scowled at him. "Stop acting like a child Emmett. wouldn't you want to surprise the girls by coming home early?" he asked, and I instantly brightened. I could finally see Bella, and not have Emmett bothering me about being 'clean'.

Emmett grumbled something incoherent, but nodded sourly. "Fine." he agreed reluctantly. I grinned at him. He must be thinking of what I was just thinking - seeing Rose. "But can we come back here again?" Emmett asked as he walked towards Carlisle.

Carlisle just rolled his eyes. "Sure, but not for a while. Now let's go if we want to surprise the girls. And no, Emmett, you can not come here without us." Carlisle said, reading Emmett's facial expressions. I laughed quietly as Emmett sulked. Carlisle started to run, with me and Emmett following after him.

We were running in comfortable silence, but not full speed. After about a half hour of silence, Emmett finally stopped blocking me. if I went here, Carlisle would have to stop, and I could get my grizzly. But then of course there is always the Edward factor. Mmm, Rosalie… he thought, trailing off to pictures of Rosalie, which made me tune him out. I turned to him and glared. "Don't even try Emmett." I said in a cold voice. I would really like to get back to Bella now, and finish composing her lullaby..

He turned and glared back at me. "Way to ruin my fun." he said grudgingly.

"Emmett, what were you planning to do?" Carlisle asked as he turned around to face us. We all stopped running, and Emmett sighed loudly.

"Weeeell." he said, stretching out the well, "I was going to get another grizzly bear." he stated bluntly, surprising me that he was being completely honest - not that he never was. But him telling Carlisle his plans was not like him.

"Wow. Emmett, being honest? Who would have thought!" I said sarcastically, and started to slowly jog ahead of them. Emmett scoffed, but followed after me with Carlisle right behind him. "So Emmett, why were you being honest anyway?" I asked, making light conversation.

He shrugged, a frown on his face. "I'm not sure. But oh well. I was thinking of Rosalie at the time, and I'm sure she would have enjoyed me being honest for once." he said, his thoughts going back to Rosalie.

I rolled my eyes. "Yes, I know you were thinking of her. That's actually why I'm blocking you out right now, by the way." I said bitterly, not wanting to see my sister figure like the way Emmett was picturing her. Carlisle chuckled quietly at us, but kept his mouth closed to prevent commenting, and sped up. We could both easily keep up with him, and I knew that we were all anxious to get back to the special women in our lives.

"I hate to break the moment, but the boys are within hearing distance." I heard Esme saying to Rosalie and Bella in the distance. All of us exchanged glances, and sped up slightly more.

"Well, it seems like the girls have something to hide." Emmett whispered, wiggling his eyebrows in a suggestive way. I smacked his arm for his disturbing thoughts, and his loud laugh filled the air in response. We continued to speed up until we were flat out sprinting, everything passing by us in what you would think was a blur - but it wasn't, obviously.

When we got to the back doors, all of the girls were waiting for us, all of them standing close together. "ROSIE!" Emmett shouted, acting like the child he is, and barreling towards her. In the process he knocked over one of Esme's vases, and Rosalie's hand shot out to get it, before she kissed hm chastely. I was surprised that she caught that movement, but didn't ponder it much. When I looked over at Bella, her eyes were on Esme and Carlisle, who were staring at each other lovingly. I walked up behind her, "Bella." I said, and she turned to meet me with a strange expression on her face, which was why I gave her a passionate kiss. I pulled away after a minute, and smiled at her loving expression. "I've missed you. You have no idea how hard it is to be away with Emmett for a weekend, and not with you." I told her, flashing back to Emmett's constant agitating. It was either 'I was too clean' or 'that was too short. Did you enjoy that at all?"

She smiled back at me. "Yes, I can give you that. But that wasn't a weekend, it was a day and a half. But we all loved how you three wanted to surprise us by coming early, which is why we have a surprise for you." she said sweetly, looking at both Rose and Esme from the corner of her eyes.

I looked at her confused. "How do you have a surprise so quickly?" I asked her. She couldn't have possibly known we were coming home early, could she?

"That's not important right now. I want you to see the garage." she said nonchalantly, and started to pull me to the door that led to the garage. Everyone else trailed behind us, and I saw Rose and Esme trying to stifle their laughter with their hands. What on earth was going on? I looked around quickly, and Emmett and Carlisle seemed just as confused as me.

As she opened the door, revealing the garage that was filled with boxes and furniture. I was confused - why would she want to show me her newest remodeling project? But when I looked closely, I realized the furniture was mine, which led to my shock. I was confused yet again. Why was my furniture out here? When I looked even closer, I saw my piano shoved against a corner. I was angry now. My music room was the girl's latest victim? I noticed Bella looked behind us. "Bella. What is this?" I asked in a cold voice.

She smiled warmly at me, like nothing was wrong and everything was absolutely peachy in the world. "It's your surprise. You don't like it?" she asked, clearly messing with me.

I looked into her eyes now. "Why would I like that you moved my music room into boxes, and into the garage? Did you not like my music room that much?" I asked her in the same cold tone, silently questioning her sanity in my mind.

She must have realized how angry I truly was, and sighed. "No, that's not it. But moving the stuff was necessary. We redecorated while you were gone." she told me simply, looking at me for a response.

As I looked at her now regretful expression, I knew I couldn't stay mad. I could never be mad with Bella - surely her intentions were good. Right? "Why did you redecorate it and keep the stuff outside?" I asked her finally. She just sighed, and grabbed my arm. Rose came up from behind and did the same, and soon I was behind dragged up the stairs with the rest of the family trailing behind.

When we got to the door, both Rose and Bella turned to look at me. "Are you ready?" Bella asked me, and all I could do was nod. I really didn't want to see what they did to my poor music room. It was probably a baby pink.

Rose opened the door to reveal two people -clearly vampires- standing there. I took one look at them, and turned to stare at Bella with what I'm sure was piercing eyes. "You got rid of my room to house strangers? Do you know how dangerous this is? We don't know them!" I said angrily, glaring at her. Was she really insane? Could vampires go insane?

She clearly looked frustrated about something, and slapping my arm lightly proved my suspicions. "Yes, I did. And this isn't dangerous, they're good people, or vampires, or whatever. And we do know them, we met them last night." she said, just as angrily as I did.

I studied her face for a minute, and sighed. She obviously believed that, so I turned to look at the two strangers standing in my old music room. "Fine, whatever your reasons are, why my music room?" I asked, staring intently at the newly remodeled room. It was all a cream color, and actually looked very good.

"It has the best view." the tiny female vampire said simply, speaking up for the first time. Everyone laughed at that, but I just nodded my head, still very angry about this whole situation.

"Well, now that we got that out of the way, who wants to go shopping?" Bella asked, clearly trying to break the intense mood. Rose and the other female looked excited, while everyone else looked hesitant. "Jasper, you are coming whether you like it or not. You need new clothes, and don't you want a say in what your room looks like?" Bella asked, turning the spotlight onto the male that was standing there awkwardly. He just sighed, and nodded his head.

It looked like something clicked within Bella, and she quickly turned to us. "Oh, I almost forgot, this is Alice and Jasper. Now, we need to go before all the stores close." she said, pulling on apparently Jasper's arm.

"Bella!" Emmet said, annoyed. "Its only twelve in the afternoon! How long do you plan on shopping for?" he asked her, and she just glared at him. He obviously knows the answer to that question, and well, I think we all do. "Oh, right." he said, realizing he did know after a minute of thought.

Bella smiled again. "Okay, lets go!" she said happily.

She then ran out of the room with Rose, Alice and Jasper, leaving the rest of us (discluding Esme) shocked. We all stood there for a minute, but then I slowly turned to Esme. "How?" was the only thing I asked her. She let out a small laugh, and then sighed.

"The girl is a clairvoyant. She saw us, and wanted to live with us. She came while you guys were gone, and we excepted her." she said simply, still smiling at us. I could tell that she was very excited about the new additions to our family - and her thoughts showed the same. I was still mad that they took my room out of all of the other rooms of the house, but I guess since they were new…

"Are they together?" Emmett asked suddenly, breaking me out of my thoughts. Esme nodded, still smiling brightly. Emmett had a thoughtful look on his face, but then grinned. "Sweet." - the signature Emmett line.

"Wait," I said, recapping what Esme had just said. "You said she is clairvoyant? She can see the future?" I asked, not believing my ears. Is that possible?

"And this is coming from the mind reader…" Emmett mumbled, leading Esme to smack him. I smiled my thanks at her, and she nodded again.

"Yes, she can. It is very fascinating, and that is how we knew you would be coming home early, and were prepared for it. She can see your decisions, I'm guessing. I don't know for sure, but either way, it is quite fascinating, to say the least." Esme said proudly, already taking on the mother role of them.

"Aw! That means no more Emmett ideas." Emmett said, jutting out his lower lip into a pout. I laughed at his wording, but was celebrating on the inside. Emmett's ideas were humorous, but normally ended up with humans getting hurt.

"Yes, well Emmett, I guess there will be some peace in this household." Carlisle said, speaking up for the first time since he had seen the newest additions. Esme and I chuckled at that, and Carlisle smiled slightly. "Well, they do seem quite honest, so I don't mind them here." Carlisle said after another moment, confirming that they would indeed be staying in the family. I nodded my head and sighed. I still couldn't believe what they did to my poor, helpless music room. Where was I going to put my other piano?

"Oh, Edward, you can move your stuff into your room. I'm sure you will have room, and if not, you can move that music room into another room in the house." Esme said, acting as the mind reader instead of me. I nodded my head solemnly, and dragged my feet to the garage, not eager to re-organizing my music room. At least I could keep it, I decided. Now, onto what Emmett had said earlier before we came home…

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I know, I know, it was shorter then normal, and I am sorry. Once again, I am sorry for not updating sooner, and I am sorry for that dreadfully long author's note at the top. But you should read it if you haven't. I'm sure you'll learn something. *wink wink*

Well, anyways, review and if I could, I would mail you Edward! But instead, you will be getting mail in your inbox with a lovely reply from me. (:

GUYS, I UPDATED THIS BECAUSE MY FRIEND POINTED OUT SOME SPELLING MISTAKES, SO I FIXED THEM FOR YOU. (: