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This is my longest chapter by far but one of my favorites too. For those who wish to know I have chosen a power for Jace (not revealed for 5 more chapters :P) If you wish to guess what it may be in your reviews you may. Anyone who guesses correctly will be rewarded by getting a special sneak peek a couple of chapters ahead!!! Again please please please review. I love getting your comments coming in to my IPhone all day, makes me smile where ever I am!!! Without further ado I present chapter 35!
CHAPTER 35
BPOV
As I heard the family come up the drive I started to get nervous. How were they going to take our news? I cuddled into Edward and took a deep breath. He looked at me, love radiating from every pore, then went back to staring at his children. The hand that was on me was gently rubbing the skin of my shoulder.
As they got to the porch we overheard the conversation Rosalie was having with everyone and we smiled at each other. We knew they would never guess in a million years what surprises we had in store. As the door opened Edward bent his head and placed a soft kiss on my lips. Smiling his wonderful crooked smile as we broke apart.
Before I could take a breath, Alice was standing in front of me. Her eyes so bright and excited. She looked like she was about to pounce on me when she saw them and froze right in her tracks, mouth hanging wide open. The rest of the family joined her quickly and were all stunned. Frozen to their spots, except for Rosalie who was grinning from ear to ear.
She stared at the other members of our family who were currently frozen in place and said, "Hey look Bella, we made Vampire statues in my living room."
Edward and I both laughed softly then he whispered to me, "I guess she's been married to Emmett a little too long." Then we laughed again.
The family remained frozen for almost a minute staring at us until Alice finally broke the silence.
In her best Ricky Ricardo voice from I Love Lucy she said, "You have some 'splaining to do Bella."
"Okay," I said. "Where do you want me to start?"
"At the beginning is a great place," said Carlisle. "But I think I am going to sit down. I have never felt that need until today but I'm feeling it now."
Everyone quickly found seats except for Rosalie who happily stood beside me.
"You better start with introductions." Rosalie said to me.
"Can I?" Asked Edward, not looking up from his son and daughter.
"Yup." I said, popping the p.
"Well guys I would like you to meet our children, Jace Edward Cullen and Arriel Carlie Cullen." he said grinning from ear to ear and looking at his family's shocked expression.
"How is that possible Edward?" Esme asked stunned. The rest were still too shocked to say anything.
"When we left, when I left... Bella was pregnant. That's why she ran. These guys were born two days ago." He said.
The gasps from the family as they got what he was saying were almost funny. I looked at Carlisle who was trying to figure everything out.
"And when did you change?" Carlisle asked.
"Jace bit me shortly after he was born." I supplied quietly.
"But that was only two days ago. Shouldn't you still be burning?" Carlisle asked.
"I guess but I only burned for a little less than 12 hours." I said
More gasps from the family.
"And your eyes? They aren't red at all!!" Carlisle observed.
"Nope they were golden right away." I said smiling.
"And you should see her self control. I had her in a mall before she even hunted." Rosalie smiled. "She wasn't even tempted once."
"Rosalie!!" Carlisle gasped, shocked.
"We needed some things for the twins. I decided that I would rather risk her being with me in a mall than alone. I was honestly trying to protect them." Rosalie said stunned, not liking the disapproving tone Carlisle was using.
"And I will thank you forever for that Rose." Edward said looking at his pretty blonde sister.
She smiled happily at his statement.
"Maybe I should start at the beginning." I said.
"It would probably be most helpful, Love." Edward said kissing me gently on the lips.
I took a deep breath and started.
"So I think you all know we got engaged." I started.
"Engaged??? Do I get to plan your wedding? Please say yes Bella!!! Please!" Alice interrupted.
"Alice if you keep interrupting I will never finish my story." I told my spunky sister and friend.
"You can't just say engaged and expect me to be quiet!" she gasped.
"I can and I do!" I said. She pouted in response. I can never refuse her when she pouts and she knows it. Stinkin' pixie!
"I love you Alice. Yes you can plan my wedding but there will be limits." I told her. She bounced and clapped in response but kept silent.
"So I managed to convince Edward to, well to...." I said. If I were human I would be blushing a hundred shades of red.
"That couldn't have taken too much convincing." Emmett snorted. Rosalie slapped his head and Edward growled.
"I'm just saying... a guy has needs and well it has been like 100 years." Emmett continued earning another slap from Rosalie and another growl from Edward.
"You guys are so sensitive. I could tell you guys stories of Rose and I that would...." He continued.
"You cannot and never will." Rose growled at him grabbing him by his ear, "At least not if you ever want to ..... again!"
"Okay okay. I'm sorry Rosie. Please forgive me. Please?" He pleaded with her, folding his hands in front of him. Geez he's almost as good as Alice!!
"I'll think about it. If you'll shut up and let Bella tell everyone the rest of the story." she told him, smiling. He nodded in agreement, looking adoringly at his wife.
"Okay, well I think we all know what I was getting at and well the next thing I know I woke up alone. I mean I was fine but someone took offense to the bruises, although he should have known I bruise easily and for no particular reason." I said looking at Edward. He grinned sheepishly.
"Anyways I was stuck at your house. No car to get home and nothing to do. Thank God you guys had like a million channels. Anyways I was certain he would be back, I thought I was just biding time until he came home." I sighed. He looked down and took a deep breath. I rubbed his leg gently with my free hand.
"So by Sunday night I figured that he was not coming back. I figured.... well it doesn't matter what I figured, but anyways I crawled into his bed and went to sleep. The next thing I knew Esme was there waking me and everything. So I went back to sleep and in the morning Esme took me home." I said smiling slightly at Esme. She smiled back at me but her gaze soon returned to the babies, just like everyone else.
"I went up and went to shower. My stomach was still in nots but I assumed that was because of stress. It hadn't been right at all when I was at your house either but then it started feeling worse. So I took a long hot shower and went into my room. That's when I found the envelope from Alice, "I smiled at her. "By the time I got over the shock of Alice's gift, I knew I was going to be late for school, so I grabbed a granola bar and headed to school. The granola bar was the grossest thing I had ever tasted, so I spit it out and went to class. At lunch I grabbed a hard boiled egg and an apple. The egg was fine but the apple was... Yuck!"
Everyone was just looking between the babies and I with such focus that I asked, "Any questions so far?"
"Gift from Alice?" Carlisle asked.
"Well I saw she was going to need money for some reason and I had no clue how much so I made Jazz stop on our way to the airport and we left her $100 000.00." Alice filled in.
The others nodded seeming to understand what I still couldn't grasp. Apparently being a vampire didn't make money blase to me, like my family seemed to feel. I smiled at the fact that most of my core traits were still mine.
"Anyways after trying to eat the apple I lost it. I was sick. I figured that I had the same flu that Angela and half the school population had. I was excused and went home and spent the next couple of days alternating between sleeping and puking. Not pretty. In the midst of all that Charlie noticed my ring and much to my surprise was not that upset by it at all. Anyways by Thursday Charlie was worried and told me that if I wasn't feeling better by Friday I was going to need to go to the doctor. Well I woke up Friday morning still feeling awful. I went in and showered and looked at myself in the mirror. I looked horrible! So I went into my room grabbed some jeans and tried to put them on. I assumed they would be big on me considering I hadn't really eaten much in 5 days, but I couldn't even zip them up. I was stunned but suddenly my mind put two and two together and came up with pregnant. I was certain I was wrong. I mean I had watched everything on TV and I knew nothing was supposed to happen for weeks, but still all the symptoms were there. I was sure it was just an over active imagination or my heart doing what it could to hold onto Edward. In any case I decided that if I was indeed pregnant there was no way I could stay there."
"Why couldn't you stay? I mean, I'm sure Charlie would have been mad but you shouldn't have been alone." Jasper gasped.
"Well Jasper it was obvious to me at the time that if I was pregnant I shouldn't even have known myself yet. I knew I wasn't going to get a nice easy 9 month pregnancy with a sweet little newborn at the end. I kinda figured since the daddy was a vampire and my symptoms were so out of whack so early that I needed to be away from people who knew me and people in general. I didn't know what my baby's diet would be but I tried to be prepared for the worst case scenario."
"Bella? What do they eat?" Carlisle asked.
I looked down, not sure how to explain.
"They're breast fed Carlisle." Rosalie responded for me, grinning from ear to ear.
"How is that possible? I mean what....?" Carlisle asked so stunned that he couldn't continue.
"Hey I promise you can poke and prod me all you want to figure out your answers because I didn't have a clue. I just woke from my transformation and they were all over the food thing." I said.
"I forgot to ask. What were the goats all about?" Edward asked.
"Well my diet changed while I was pregnant so I assumed they wouldn't want formula. There was no way I was going to be able to take down an irritable grizzly for them so it was the best I could do." I said laughing.
"Yum grizzly." Emmett said.
"Your diet changed?" Carlisle asked.
"I'll explain when I get there, if that's okay." I smiled at him.
"Anyways I packed a small bag of things I'd need and the money that Alice left me. I never did thank you properly Alice. So umm thanks. It was very helpful." I smiled at her.
"Glad I could help," She smiled back. "Although I can't fathom why you needed to go to a Walmart!"
I laughed at Alice. "Sorry... I didn't really research my choices, just went with the flow."
"Maybe that will help make up for the fact that I have been so blind over the last few weeks." she said sullenly. I smiled softly at her and continued.
"So on with the story. I decided there was no way I was buying a pregnancy test in Forks. If I did everyone would have known my business within 5 minutes, so I decided to wait until Port Townsend. I drove out of town in a hurry, anxious to find out if my suspicions were true." I started.
"You drove in a hurry? In your truck?" Emmett asked, snickering.
"Hey! Be nice I liked my truck!" I told him.
Rosalie slapped him on the head again.
"Hey what was that for?" Emmett asked, rubbing his head.
"Interrupting!" she glared at him. He smiled at her and closed his mouth, pretending to lock it and throw away the key. Then he pulled her onto his lap and everyone turned their attention back to me.
"I got into Port Townsend and went straight to a drug store. There were 20 tests to choose from so I chose the one that answered in words. The stupid old pharmacist just looked at me funny and shook his head. Judging the pregnant teenager," I said. Edward growled softly at my side and I turned to him and smiled.
"So I drove to the nearest gas station, filled my truck up and went into the bathroom."
"So how do you do the test? Are they like yes and no questions?" Emmett asked.
"You pee on a stick Emmett. No questions to answer at all." I said shaking my head, while Rosalie and Alice giggled.
"Anyways I stood there for a bit, scared too turn the test over. I placed my hand on my tummy and prepared to turn the test over, when I felt a little nudge from inside. At that point I didn't even have to look. I knew I was pregnant. I turned the test over and sure enough PREGNANT was written in bold letters." I smiled, "So I put the test in my bag and walked out of the gas station and drove to the ferry."
"So Edward, we had the gas station and ferry right." Alice smiled at him.
"That was about all we had right Alice." I smiled at her.
"Very true! Very true!" She said nodding her head.
"So I got off the ferry on the other side and followed the flow of traffic to Oak Harbor. I knew I had to call and tell Charlie something, though I didn't know what to say. In the end I just babbled, hopefully enough to give him some peace." I said sadly. "I knew that I was being swallowed up by the myths that surrounded me and I had to do what I could to protect him."
Edward sympathetically squeezed my shoulder and I took a deep breath. "So I needed to find somewhere secluded, not many people wandering around if I planned on keeping the baby vegetarian. So I figured that Canada has one tenth our population so I headed north. Once I reached Canada I stayed in a motel and decided I needed to try to eat again. I ordered an omelet and managed to keep it down. Sleep did not come easily but I managed some. When I got up to go in the morning the truck was acting sluggish so I decided I needed a new one. I went to a dealership and was surprised how much they gave me for my old truck. The car salesman was talking about a town called Williams Lake so I headed there after a quick stop at Walmart to get some necessities."
"Eww nothing necessary should come from Walmart!" Alice groaned.
"We did good Alice," Edward told her, "We found everywhere she had been in Abbotsford."
I smiled at him and continued my story, "So I got to Williams Lake and met Dave at a realty office. I didn't want to use my name because Charlie would look for me and if I used Cullen he wouldn't be far behind so I chose a name that had meaning but that Charlie wouldn't look for," I explained to them.
"Masen. It actually made me hopeful that you didn't completely hate me." Edward said. I smiled at him and kissed him softly on his cheek.
"So Dave showed me the cabin and I knew it was the place. He suggested animals and I jumped at the chance. As I said my diet changed and eggs
were one of the few foods I could eat.... as well as really rare meat. After a couple of days gagging at the smell of the cooking meat I just ate it raw. It tasted much better. The only time I went into town was to buy meat and shop at a bookstore."
"We found your bookstore." Edward smiled at me.
"You guys were close. I guess we should have waited." I grinned at Rosalie.
"Anyways I just sat in my cabin reading out loud to the baby... babies. Finally, I decided I needed to come up with a name for the little person who seemed to be doing gymnastics inside me." I told them.
"I was wondering about their names, if they had any special meaning." Esme said.
"They do. Jace is a combination of the first letter of important men in my life. J for Jasper, A because it looked good, C for Carlisle and Charlie and E for Emmett and Edward and Edward is his middle name." I looked at all the men in the room, they were all speechless. Even Emmett.
"Arriel is named for the important women in my life. A for Alice, R for Rosalie, R for Renee, I for myself, E for Esme and L to bring it all together. Her middle name is Carlie which is a mix of her two grandfathers' names." As I looked around the room they all looked like they would be crying if they could.
"So now I'm getting to the exciting part." I told them and they laughed.
"So as I got bigger and bigger I got scared. I decided that I would try to call the house. I was hoping to find someone there. When Rosalie answered the phone, I freaked out and hung up." I said.
"So how big were you? I mean I'm just trying to gauge. Could you reach your hands around your middle? Could you see your feet?" Emmett asked excitedly.
"Very very big and no I couldn't see my feet." I answered before continuing, "I waddled my way back to my Jeep and as I got to the door I felt a sploosh. I had read enough pregnancy books to know what that meant. I drove home like a maniac really wishing that I had said something on the phone. I got into the house and decided to set it up so I could be in the living room to deliver. I set a fire in the fireplace for warmth and put everything I could need close by." I told them, smiling to myself as I realized that nobody in the room was so much as breathing except for the twins.
"So I paced the floor for a few hours as contractions hit me one after the other, and as twilight hit I knew I needed to push. I laid myself on a bed I had created on the floor and positioned myself just as the books had explained. I only pushed a few times when Jace came into the world. He wasn't screaming like the books said he should but I heard him breathing so I was content. I thought that was it and I laid back to relax when I felt the urge to push again. At that point I was remembering something about afterbirth so I was completely stunned when Arriel joined her brother. She did the same, no crying, just rapid panting and a dazed look as she looked around. By this point I was exhausted so I took off my shirt to cuddle them against my skin and keep them warm while I recovered. Both Jace and Arriel snuggled against my skin and I closed my eyes. Then I felt the burn as Jace turned his head towards me and bit me just above my left breast." I told my attentive audience reaching my hand into my top to feel the slightly raised scar left from my changing.
I took another breath and continued, "I screamed in shock and pain just once before I decided doing so would scare the babies. I kept silent and locked my muscles into place. I drifted in and out of consciousness for the next little while and when I finally opened my eyes these little monkeys had positioned themselves and were feeding. I realized what had happened and was stunned to see that it was only 12 hours after they were born. Since I wasn't tired anymore, thanks to my vampirization, I dressed all three of us and started to clean up the place. Then Rose showed up." I smiled at her.
"You guys can all imagine my shock as I got to the cabin and smelled a vampire and then the odd smell that these two give off." she said.
"But how did you find her? I mean I know how you figured out Williams Lake but how did you find the cabin?" Jasper asked.
"I love being a girl!" She said to him sticking out her tongue. "Actually I stumbled upon Dave by accident and with a few bats of my eyelashes he was writing directions for me."
Jace started squirming and opened his dark chocolate eyes and stared at everyone.
Everyone oohed and aahed over how cute he was. Rosalie got off Emmett's lap and reached down and picked him up from his daddy's arms.
"Hi handsome boy," she said to him. "Do you want to meet your family? Well I guess you know Mommy and Daddy and your little sister Arriel. And you know me but you haven't met Uncle Emmett. Then there's Aunty Alice and Uncle Jasper and finally you have your grandparents, Nana Esme and Papa Carlisle."
Jace looked at her like he understood her. Carlisle stood next to Rosalie looking at Jace before turning to face Edward and I.
"May I?" he asked looking down at Jace.
"I would be thrilled." I told him. He carefully reached down and took Jace from Rosalie. He looked at my son with so much love that my heart just about exploded.
"He's absolutely perfect Bella. After you joined our family I thought we were complete. I was wrong. I never realized we were missing these guys because I never would have dreamed it was possible. They are both perfect." he said, emotion pouring out with every word.
"MY TURN," Emmett boomed walking over next to Carlisle.
Arriel opened her eyes with a snap and stared up at me. Edward looked down at her too. She reached her tiny hands to both of us and showed us a picture of her smacking Emmett's nose.
We both laughed and Edward called Emmett," Hey Bro, I think little Miss Arriel would like you to hold her."
Emmett dashed over until he was right in front of her. He reached down to her, moving closer.
"Look at those green eyes." He said, "She's stunning."
He moved closer and I held her up to him. Just as he was about to take her she pulled her hand back and whacked him on the nose HARD.
"DUDE!!! Man that girl packs a wallop!!" Emmett said backing away.
Everyone laughed as Emmett looked stunned at our baby girl.
"That girl is definitely a Cullen." Rosalie smiled as Emmett rubbed his nose.
Arriel reached up and touched my arm, showing me a picture of Esme holding her.
"Esme," Edward said, "Would you like to hold her? She says she would like that very much."
"She will be on her best behavior." I promised.
Esme came over and took Arriel from me gently.
"You are a beautiful baby girl." She said to Arriel, standing next to Carlisle so he could admire her too.
"What do you mean Arriel says? And how did you two seem to know what she was going to do to Emmett? How did you know she wanted Esme to hold her?" Carlisle asked.
"She is gifted Carlisle, very gifted." Rosalie said. "By simply touching you she shows you pictures of things that have happened and that she wants to happen."
"Really?" he asked stunned.
"Not only that she showed me this house before she had even been here so it means she either read my mind, or she can see the future." Rosalie finished.
"She doesn't even need to touch Edward he can just see it." I smiled and Edward wrapped both of his arms around me pulling me even closer now that our children were not in our arms.
"Amazing! What about Jace?" Carlisle asked.
"Nothing yet, other than the venom, but he has time still." Rosalie said defensively.
"Gifted or not, both of these two are miracles." Carlisle said looking at them.
"Alice you're awfully quiet. Are you okay?" I asked her.
"No it's okay Bella." she said quietly, "I'm good. I'm just stunned. I have missed so much. As your best friend I shouldn't have missed this. I just.... I just should have been there."
I stared shocked at her for a minute.
"Alice I know you would have been there if you could. I'll admit I was confused as to why you didn't come for me. I tried to leave you notes. I wanted you with me. I'm sorry if you're hurt. I don't want you to be sad. I..."
"So you still love me?" she asked quietly.
"Of course I still love you. How could I not love you?" I told her, watching as her face lit up with an ear to ear smile.
"How much do you love me?" she asked slyly.
I knew she was aiming somewhere. I knew I was crossing a dangerous line by answering this question, but it was Alice and I could never refuse her.
"Alice I love you enough to let you buy me a whole new wardrobe." I said smiling at her.
"Really??" She squealed with delight, jumping up and down.
"Really," I smiled back at her, taking a deep breath. Edward knew what a sacrifice this was for me and he squeezed me supportively, both his arms wrapped tightly around my waist.
"First off I think Bella should finish telling us everything. I mean we just got to the part of the story where Rosie arrived." Emmett said still rubbing his nose.
"So I was sitting on the couch with these two. Just looking at them, kinda stunned by the events that had just occurred. I mean I went through the fourteen days of pregnancy I knew about, thinking of one baby and suddenly I had two. Not only that I was suddenly a vampire and I never figured that into the equation at all. So I sat there wondering why my throat wasn't burning at all. After all you guys have always said thirst would be my greatest desire... I ..."
"You weren't thirsty? I mean you controlled your thirst right away? Explain please." Carlisle sputtered out, shocked by my revelation.
"Well I hunted tonight, just a little while ago. But I didn't feel like I needed too, I haven't been thirsty at all since, well since I was changed." I said quietly, worried I had done something wrong.
"So these guys don't make your throat tickle at all?" he asked.
"Nope." I answered, popping the p.
"And Rosalie took you to the mall and you didn't feel any burn?" he asked, sounding more enthralled by the second.
"Nope." I answered, popping the p again.
"Well I'm just flabbergasted! I mean I have never heard of anything like this. This is absolutely amazing!" Carlisle said, more to himself than anything.
"I've always known you were special," Edward whispered into my ear, nibbling it little.
Again I was thankful that I was a vampire, if I wasn't I'd have been blushing at this...
"I think Bella is blushing!" Emmett yelled.
"That's impossible! I mean there's no way," I stared at everyone as I lost all ability to speak.
"And here I thought I was going to miss that when you were a vampire." Edward said kissing my cheek.
"Well that just sucks!" I said.
"Oh Bella I am going to love having you around to tease still. I was going to miss that too!" Emmett laughed.
"Dang it!' I muttered.
Everyone laughed again in shock and I continued the story. "So I was sitting there and I felt someone watching. I took a deep breath and knew it was a vampire. I turned as fast as I could and saw Rosalie in the window. I was stunned when I saw her. I didn't even know what to say. I didn't know if she was there to help or not. To be honest I was kinda scared!"
Rosalie laughed at that. "I guess I was kind of mean to you before, so I can see how you would be a little leery of me."
"I was so glad to have my new rapid fire brain because I might never have had time to figure out what to do. I laid the twins on the couch and went to talk to her. After I decided that she was there to help me I calmed down and decided to introduce the twins." I smiled at her.
"She was shocked to say the least but she didn't freeze or anything the way Edward did. I thought he might remain a statue on the doorstep for life."
Emmett and Jasper roared with laughter while everyone else just giggled a bit, except for Edward.
He growled then said,"Imagine how you guys would have felt if everything you knew was thrown to the wolves. No pun intended. I had been killing myself over the bruises I inflicted on her then left her to face THIS all alone. Seriously I just couldn't even imagine what she had gone through and then the fact that I'm a father! I couldn't imagine anything better now but that was one thing I was certain I could never be. I still can't quite believe that this is real, not just some strange and wonderful hallucination."
I kissed him softly at the end of his tirade and smiled. He returned my smile with a crooked smile of his own and wrapped his arms around me, tighter. "You are incredible and amazing. I wish I could have seen you pregnant. I wish I could have seen you through it all. I am going to regret that until the end of my days."
I was about to answer when Esme spoke up stunned, "Ummm Edward, I think she wants you. In fact I know she does. That is quite the amazing gift!"
Edward unwrapped his arms from me and went to take his baby girl from Esme's arms carefully. As soon as she was in his arms she reached her hand to his face and he stood there watching the vision she gave him. We all sat silently waiting for Edward to tell us what he saw.
"What is she showing you?" Emmett asked impatiently.
"Bella.... From the moment I left until the moment I found her again. EVERYTHING!" he exclaimed.
"But she couldn't have seen everything, I mean she was there but couldn't see. How can she show you this?" I asked stunned.
"I don't know." Edward answered.
"She is extremely gifted. This is astounding. I wonder what else she can show us." Carlisle said, "Maybe if we asked she could show us anything we want to see."
"That's a lot to ask her. Maybe another day," Edward said firmly. "After all we have forever."
The rest of the family quickly agreed and Edward sat down beside me with Arriel firmly in his arms. He alternated looking at me and at her as her little eyelids drooped and sleep overcame her.
"So what happened after Rosie came. We need to hear the rest." Emmett said.
Rose spoke up before I could, "So she shocked me with these guys, her golden eyes, and her control. Since we didn't know where you guys were or if you would show up there at all we would go to the most logical place. Forks... Home."
"Rose explained that you guys would either check in or show up there at some point in the very near future, so I figured it was the best thing to do. We emptied the cabin and loaded everything in the Jeep."
"Speaking of Jeeps where is it?" Emmett asked.
"Gone. I could only take one extra car from Forks so I chose the Vanquish." I told him.
"You chose the Vanquish? Why?" Edward asked stunned.
"I know you loved the car and Rosalie confirmed that." I shrugged at him. With his free arm he pulled me into a tight embrace, well as tight as it could be with Arriel in one arm.
"Anyways we drove to Kamloops and stopped to get car seats. Somehow I never thought about that, and even if I did I would never have bought two. Anyways so we went to the mall. It was very weird Rosalie told me to hold my breath the whole time so I couldn't really speak and just nodded yes and no to her purchases. Then we drove back to Forks but not through a normal border crossing because we didn't have papers for the twins."
"I can take care of that," Jasper said smoothly. "We'll do that tomorrow."
"Thank you Jasper." I said to him then continued with my story. "When we got back to the Forks house I went to your bedroom Edward and took care of the babies while Rosalie tried to track you all down. She was just calling the Denali's when the wolves came. I guess you guys heard all of that from Tanya though right?"
After a chorus of yeses I told Rosalie to continue from there.
"So after I talked to Tanya I gathered all the trunks and important stuff from all the rooms, as well as the cash that we had lying around. Bella fed the babies, changed them and got them ready to go. We were done in under 40 minutes and had the truck and car loaded. I decided that I was not going to let a bunch of mangy dogs plunder and destroy my home so I grabbed the gasoline from the garage and started pouring. Once I got back outside I put my lighter to a piece of newspaper and threw it onto the gas. We watched as the fire lit then we left Forks." Rosalie said.
"Why didn't you go to the cousins in Denali?" Jasper asked.
"With their bad feelings about immortal children I decided it was best to avoid them unless it was absolutely necessary, and preferably when we were all together." She finished.
"We headed here and decided to wait. I knew Alice would see us here and you would all come." Rosalie said.
"But that's just it. I couldn't see you guys at all. I tried and tried but it was like getting static where you guys were supposed to be. All I got were flashes here and there. Then finally I picked up Bella hunting. Great job on that mountain lion by the way. I was able to see the house as she was returning home so Edward and I took off while the others were hunting. It's a good thing I saw you when I did or Edward and his pacing were going to drive me insane. When we got close Edward begged me for an hour before we all joined you guys. After he left I saw that he would find Bella in about 2 minutes so I happily waited for the rest of you guys to show up." Alice said quickly.
Everyone seemed to sigh as we had finally reached the end of the story. I knew there would be questions for months to come but the main points were out in the open.
"Now I just want to know why I couldn't see you guys." Alice grumbled.
No sooner were those words out of her mouth when both Jace and Arriel stirred simultaneously. Arriel held her hand up to her dad and he immediately laughed.
"Apparently it is dinner time for these two." Edward smiled.
"We'll go and give you four some peace." Carlisle said. "Then tomorrow we need to make some decisions as to where we want to settle."
He passed Jace to me and they all left the room. I arranged myself to nurse them again and Edward sat back and watched.
"You are so beautiful." he said to me as Jace and Arriel went about their business. I blushed slightly and leaned over towards him. He gently pulled me in to his arms so my back was against his chest, with his arms around me he gently caressed each of our children's heads with one hand and started humming a new song.
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