A/N: Hello everyone! Happy Easter to all of you and a belated-Easter to those who have already celebrated it or will have by the time that you read this. This is a small update with some more characters in it. The Muses have been playing hide and seek with me and I just can't catch them long enough to produce a large piece for you. That aside, I hope that you enjoy this little chapter update.

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Sadie rolled over on her bed when she heard someone tap the glass of her window, glad for the distraction from her Calculus homework. Alice waved outside the window and stepped across the tree limb that sat just in the right space. Sadie waved her hand to let the vampire know that she could come into the room.

"Doing your homework?" Alice said, slipping into the room. "I thought you were more of a rebel than that."

"I don't want Esme or Carlisle to think that I'm slacking when they've done so much to make me feel welcome here," Sadie explained, closing the heavy book on her notes. "Where's your other half at this hour?"

"Jasper, he's prepping for something," Alice muttered, looking suddenly nervous.

Sadie patted the empty spot next to her on the bed. "C'mon Alice. Tell me what's going on around here that's so serious that Jasper has to prep his empathy for."

The vampire moved across the room and sat on the edge of the bed, folding her hands on her lap. "You promise not to freak out or start thinking about things too much?" she asked and Sadie nodded. "Emmett and Rosalie are coming back to the house tonight and Rosalie isn't in the best of moods right now. So she's probably going to say some nasty things to you and once she finds out that you're a permanent resident here, things could get worse."

"Probably? Could?" Sadie prompted, a small smile tugging at the corner of her lips.

Alice smiled. "Right. Psychic. Sees future." She shook her head. "Do you think that you can handle the bitchiness without losing your own cool?"

Sadie reached out and took hold of Alice's cold hands, squeezing gently. "I'll be fine. I've dealt with bitchy people before. This will only be a test to see how my training has prepared me." She glanced at her clock. "When are the two of them coming home?"

A car horn beeped loudly outside of the house, spooking Sadie. Alice smiled slightly.

"Right now."

"Gee, thanks for the heads up," Sadie said, pressing a hand against her heart and mentally telling herself to calm the racing muscle.

Alice smiled and bounced onto her feet. The vampire pulled Sadie to her feet and tugged her towards the door. "Are you ready for dinner too? Esme wanted to know, but she didn't want to bother you if you were actually studying. She's made some chicken tacos."

The vampire continued to ramble on and on as she pulled Sadie from the young wolf's room. Sadie smiled, but didn't pay attention to half of the words that Alice was saying. She heard Edward playing on his piano in the other room as she headed down the stairs, but didn't miss the sound of Bella's heartbeat under the peaceful notes.

No wonder I fall asleep so quickly whenever he plays at night, Sadie thought, brushing back a strand of her dark hair. He's like my own personal lullaby machine.

There was only a slight hitch in the vampire's playing and Sadie had to smile, knowing that she had gotten Edward's attention for a moment. Then the vampire was playing like nothing had happened. Alice caught Sadie's eye and smirked, showing that she had heard the small hitch as well.

Sadie's smile was short-lived as she became aware of unhappy voices at the front of the house.

"Why does it smell like a wet mutt has been sleeping all over the house?" a woman's voice said, rising above the sound of Edward's piano. "Have you been letting that mutt friend of Bella's sleep here while we were gone hunting, Carlisle?"

"Jacob hasn't been here in a week, Rosalie," Carlisle said patiently.

"It smells more like a girl wolf has been here," another man's voice said and Sadie could hear him take a slow, unnecessary breath. "For a while."

Alice bounced down the rest of the stairs ahead of Sadie, coming into the view of the two new vampires. "That's because we have a new houseguest. She's going to be staying here for a while. A long while, hopefully."

Sadie descended the remaining stairs alone, shoving her hands in the pockets of her jeans to keep herself from wringing them. The new female vampire caught her eyes instantly – being one of the most beautiful she had ever seen. A harsh look was in the vampire's eyes though when her eyes landed on Sadie and her nose turned up in disgust almost immediately. Sadie knew that her scent was harsher to that vampire, Rosalie, than Rosalie's scent was to her.

"Another wolf?" Rosalie hissed. "Haven't we enough of those? Can't she go to her people or did they kick her out of the pack too?"

"Rosalie," Carlisle said, crossing his arms. "Sadie is a welcome guest in this household and it would do me a great favor if you would treat her kindly."

The look on Rosalie's face told Sadie that she wasn't going to grant that favor. "I'm going to go change my clothes," Rosalie said, brushing past the wolf. "I don't want to stand in filthy clothes that smell of dirt."

Sadie moved out of the way and watched the blonde vampire disappear. Her eyes turned towards the new male vampire and took a glance over his handsome features. He stood there silently, staring at her like he was struck dumb – something that Alice had said was an endearing trait of his when they had talked about her brother. Sadie's mouth felt dry and her tongue felt thick in her mouth as she looked at him, her stomach tightening.

Another minute hitch in the piano music told her that Edward was very aware of what was going on in the room and had Sadie snapping out of her small trance. She pulled her hand out of her pocket, glad that it wasn't sweaty, and held it out to the large vampire.
"I'm Sadie," she said, holding his gaze with her own. "I hope you'll be able to tolerate me better than your friend."

Emmett glanced down at the girl's hand and hesitantly took hold of it. "Emmett. I can. Tolerate you, I mean. I can do that." His brow furrowed. "I think."

"Sadie!" Esme said, appearing in the hallway. "Are you ready to eat now, dear?"

"Yes, ma'am," Sadie answered before turning her gaze back onto Emmett. "You wanna toss a ball around later? I hear you're pretty athletic."

"Uh, yeah. I am." A small smile tugged at the vampire's lips. "Are you?"

"I wouldn't be asking if I wasn't."

"I'm game."

"Then we'll throw a ball around after I have some dinner."

Emmett nodded. "Deal."

Sadie's eyes lowered for a moment. "Um, Emmett? If I'm going to be eating, you're going to have to let my hand go. Like now."

The vampire glanced down and stared at their joined hands for a moment. He dropped hers after a moment, taking a step back. "Right. Sorry." He looked Sadie in the eyes. "See you after dinner."

"Yep."

Sadie quickly turned away from the giant vampire and followed Esme into the kitchen where Alice and Jasper were already standing around. A pained look was on Jasper's face as he stood there with Alice stroking his arm soothingly. Sadie sat down at the counter and looked at her friends.

"How'd I do?" she asked, glancing from Jasper to Alice and back again. "Did I do something to make you feel sick, Jasper?"

"Considering that you didn't say anything to Rosalie when she was snubbing you, I think that was a good start," Alice said, leaning her head against Jasper's shoulder. "Jasper's just having the usual reaction that he has whenever Rosalie comes back into the house after hunting for a while. It has nothing to do with you, Sadie." A slow smile crossed over Alice's face. "You know, I think that Emmett is going to be a good friend of yours. I mean, he seems to like you already and that's a good thing. You just have to learn how to exist around his other half."

Esme set down a large plate of chicken tacos in front of Sadie. "I'm sure that you and Rosalie will get along nicely, Sadie. It will just take some time because she doesn't like strangers."

"That's an understatement," Jasper muttered, his brow still furrowed as if he was thinking about something unpleasant. "Especially when the stranger is a wolf."

The matriarch of the Cullen household sighed and wandered out of the room, pressing a hand on Sadie's shoulder as she moved past the girl. Sadie watched the woman disappear, probably to fetch Bella for her own veggie dinner, and took a small bite from her first taco. Her stomach was tight and painful, but she made herself eat because she knew that her stomach was also very empty and required that she eat a hardy dinner. Her spine remained stiff and her eyes remained glued on the plate in front of her. Not even Edward's continued piano music could make her settle down as she heard the soft footsteps of Rosalie entering another room of the house.

"Carlisle, why are you letting that – that girl stay here?" Rosalie's voice hissed low enough to hide the words from Bella, but not from Sadie's ears. "Shouldn't she be on the reservation with the rest of her kind? Can't you send her back to that pack?"

"Rosalie, she never came from Sam's pack," Carlisle said calmly as ever. "She came from a place far away."
"Then she can go back," Rosalie said. "You can send her back to her own pack and everything will go back to normal. You can't deny that she would be happier among her own kind."

I can't go back, Sadie thought, seeing images of her past that made her stomach clench even more painfully. I can never go back there. All I can do is keep my head down and…leave if I have to.

She lifted her eyes to see that Alice was frowning over her head and that Jasper was watching her with a sympathetic sadness in his eyes. The piano music cut off suddenly as Bella entered the kitchen, unaware that there was an argument going on in the other room. Sadie plucked at her chicken taco and didn't look at anyone.

"Rosalie, I will not chase Sadie away from this house," Carlisle told the female vampire. "She has come here in need and she doesn't bother anyone. If you would give her a chance, I'm sure that you would –"

"We're not going to be friends, Carlisle. Ever." She let her breath out in a huff. "That wolf-girl is going to mess up what we have and it's going to ruin everything that you've established for the family. Mark my words, Carlisle. She will throw everything into chaos for the rest of us."

"I like her," Emmett said, breaking into the conversation briefly.

"See? The problems are already starting, Carlisle."

You have no idea, Sadie thought, looking up when Edward entered the room with a knowing gleam in his eyes.

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A/N: Dear readers, how did you like that little bit? What do you think is going on or what's going to happen? I hope that you enjoyed or hated this enough to review because I love reviews big and small, nice and critical. Please let me know what you think in the review box and I'll get back to you. –Scarlet