I loved all my houses, but the one that was hidden in the forest and mountain was the best. It was Victorian style with modern and earthy decorations. Huge floor length windows graced the front of the house, and a spiral staircase went directly into my room as soon as one opened the door.

"This way, would-be-father." I teased the vampire going up the stairs behind me.

I heard him trip, but he quickly recovered. "Father?" He asked quizzically.

"That is what you have been thinking all day would-be-father. Is your term not mine."

He thought about it for a moment, and when we passed the threshold of my room at the top of the stairs he spoke, "One cannot help but to wonder."

I pondered on what my family was going to say when I finally got home while I was stuffing shoes in a duffel bag. Twenty-five pairs seemed like a reasonable small number.

Then I proceeded to stuff there one third of my closet because I never knew what could come along on my agenda…

When I started dumping purses and clutches to match my shoes I heard a subtle cough coming from the sofa where a sparkly vampire was sitting.

"I am almost done!" I said to him cheerfully." I just need to find my stuffed animals. I can't sleep without Robert you know that."

"I know who is Robert?" He had a questioning look in his eyes and face.

"If you are going to act like my dad you should know that, right?" I asked him.

"A while ago you were thinking that. You were going to act like a dad should. You were going to ask me if I was married or had a boyfriend, then you were going to ask to meet him. You were going to enroll me in school and go to meetings with my teachers as my guardian or older brother. You were going to dress up as Santa for a late Christmas, or make Emmett or Carlisle dress up for it. You were seeing us playing baseball together."

"Well I-I-." he stuttered, so cute.

"You're thinking that its you who leaves her. That is not good Council-man Edward."

"What did you call me?" he asked me, that had caught his attention.

"It is imperative that you and your wife be together in the oncoming war Council-man Edward. You have to remember that. When you defeat the Volturi is because you get allies that believe in you and her, in family and an alternate way of life and all that gushy-lovey-crap."

"That does not answer my question young lady." He sounded like my dad, great.

"Ah," I sighed heavily, "its starting. Don't ask me questions about the future okay, you'll get there in time and know all. And when you do, I don't think I will speak to you for a very long time."

He was taken aback by that, even blinked a bit in awe, he even stopped breathing for a moment. He looked lost inside himself. "That hurt, it really did." I heard him half whisper to himself.

I felt bad, and desided to liven him up with my nonsense chit chatter, which usually brought him around. "Come help me choose matching hats to my clothes? Pretty-please with cherries on top?" I said with my puppy-sad-but-happy face with a frown yet smiling accents.

That made him smile. "Of course Elli."

We had bonded over clothes. I never thought possible that this would ever happen this way, but it did. Edward Cullen was helping me put outfits together. We spent the evening doing a fashion show on my room; it was around the costumes for next Halloween that we desided it was late, and we better get going.

Edward helped me dump half my closet on my magical duffel bag, his word not mine, and he carried it to his car. We stopped at a fast food drive in and he ordered us some food, which of course, I ate.

"Do you ever not eat? I've seen food put in front of you and watch you inhale it. Where does it all go?" He asked with a smirk on his face, and an odd look on his eyes.

"I am a growing child according to my mother, father, and grandparents. So there." I answered a little indignant.

He had mischievous look now. "I think it all goes here!" and he started tickling me all over.

I was not ticklish, but somehow I couldn't stop laughing. "Stop it!" I begged in between giggles.

"No, this is payback. No one gets away with dressing me up in a cowboy costume." I had made his clothes disappear and change into a Woody-look alike earlier, and he hadn't noticed until we were leaving my room.

"Stop it," I half yelled, "or I'll turn you into a frog or something," giggling I started coughing, "more awful!"

"You wont if you keep on laughing Miss!" He laughed at me and didn't stop.

Knock. Tap-tap.

Someone was knocking on the window. The smile on Edward's face faded a little around the corners, and he stopped tickling me. I couldn't help but turn around to see what had caught his attention.

It was boy, tapping on the passenger's window. Edward grunted a little as he rolled down my window.

"Hello Mike." He addressed the human boy with a little disdain.

"Hey Edward, what you guys doing here? I thought you and your wife Bella were going to be in Dartmouth this time of year." He said with a bemused smile.

I mentally laughed at this idiotic boy. I could see vary clearly into his head. He had thought that Edward was cheating on Bella with me, and that I didn't know about it. His plan was to uncover him in front of 'the hot chick' so that when I slapped him and got out of the car, he would be the shoulder I would cry on.

"We came back for Christmas, and we had some family complications." Edward answered him with a smile on his face. He too, knew what had gone inside Mike's head.

"Winter Break, right." Then he turned his head to address me directly. "And who might this be?" he meant it to sound flirtatious.

"Well Mike, I am truly amazed you don't recognize her. She was at the wedding." Edward responded still a little too cheerful.

"I think I would remember you." He smiled down at me. It was obvious he was not looking at my face, I might add. I would remember a pair like this, he thought to himself.

I fought the urge to punch his gut. Then something I did not expect happened.

Edward held my hand in his, and gripped it very tightly. As if he too was fighting the urge to punch him. Then his arm made its way around my shoulders, as his face was leaning more towards where Mike was. It was like he was embracing me, but I knew it was just so he would restrain from tromping the human.

"She is Elizabeth Masen, my under-age sister." He said carefully, controlling his tone and emphasizing the under part.

"Wow Cullen, I didn't know you had a sister." And a hottie at that, but figures, they are all hot. He added mentally. I smirked at that, Emmett was going to love this.

I desided to speak up, to draw his attention back to my face, or I would have hit him.

"When our parents died, I went to live in another foster home, different from my brothers. When Will got married, the state gave him guardianship of me. Now that Edward is also married and a legal adult, the state gave him guardianship of our niece and me." I explained.

"You have another brother? You are full of surprises." He addressed Edward.

"We had a brother, he and his wife died recently. That is why Elizabeth and my niece are here."

"Oh I am sorry for your lose." Hells no, thank you for it brought hottie here.

Edward tightened his grip on my shoulder more. "We better get going." I squeaked. "Esme is waiting for us. Remember…" I squeezed Edward's tight. That brought him around. "It was nice seeing you Mike." I fared-well the human.

"It was my pleasure. Hope I get to see you around more."

"Sure…" not likely.

Edward turned on the car after he rolled up the window, nearly trapping Mike's fingers on it, and quickly too us home.

One minute in the road and I started laughing. The vampire, of course, gave me a quizzical look.

"You should have seen your face when… oh god. How on earth did that guy not get a clue that you were about to chop his head off." I giggled in between words.

I had to beat him with a stick with my Bella and now with you too. He thought loudly to me.

"He thinks you are a lucky bastard by the way. Deep inside his consciousness. The things he had there! He could make a nice porno. Married woman plus the sister-in-law." I laughed.

I had never seen a vampire loose control of a vehicle before and choke at the same time, now I did.

"He did not." If he did, he's dead.

"Whatever makes you feel better would-be-father." I smirked at him.

"I cannot wait to tell Emmett!"