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Chapter Twenty-One

At eleven o'clock the next morning Edward was knocking on the front door. Hermione picked Teddy up off of the front room floor and walked to answer the door. "Come in Edward, I just have to put some shoes on Teddy and grab his bag, then grab mine and then we will be ready."

Edward smiled at her, "You go ahead and get your stuff together, and I can put Teddy's shoes on him."

"Are you sure?" She asked, turning towards him.

He answered with a nod and held his arms out for Teddy, who went to him without a second thought. Hermione smiled at them and then ran upstairs to grab Teddy's bag and then quickly put on her tennis shoes.

When she walked downstairs, Teddy's shoes were on and he and Edward were sitting on the couch and Edward was just talking about random things to him.

"I'm ready Edward."

He looked up and his smile seemed to widen, "Great! Let's go then. Where's Charlie?"

"He and Harry Clearwater left this morning around seven to go fishing."

When they were situated in Edward's car and Teddy was buckled in, Edward started the car and began the drive to his house.

Edward awkwardly cleared his throat, "So have you thought about what I asked you yesterday?"

"Yes."

"Yes as in you thought about it or?."

"Yes as in I will be your girlfriend."

He smiled and looked back at Teddy, "Thank you, you mean so much to me Bella. I'm happy you decided to be my girlfriend." He reached his hand over and grabbed Hermione's, carefully holding it. Hermione smiled at him and she felt her heart flutter, but decided that she was just nervous because she would be going before them as Edward's girlfriend now.

When they arrived at Edward's house, Hermione was speechless as she looked at it. It was beautiful; the house was at least a hundred years old and painted a faded, soft white. The rectangular and proportional house was three stories tall and the windows were either the same windows that had been used in the building of the house or a perfect copy, it had an old timeless feel to it. It was completely surrounded by trees expect for the long drive-way they took from the road.

"It's beautiful Edward."

"Make sure you tell Esme that when you see her, she updated everything. She loves when we move to a new house so that she can fix everything up."

Hermione picked up teddy and followed Edward to the front door. He paused for just a moment before he opened it and walked inside, Hermione following closely behind him. The inside was very large and open, the back wall having been completely torn off and replacing it was a large window that showed the surrounding forest.

Just as Edward shut the front door, the six other vampires came to stand in front of us.

"Bella, it's so nice to see you again!" Esme said with a large smile as she held onto Carlisle's hand.

"It is very nice to see you again as well Esme and hello again Dr. Cullen."

Carlisle smiled at Hermione, "Please, just call me Carlisle, you're practically family now."

"Bella!" Alice said jumping up and down and she dragged Jasper towards her. Alice placed a small kiss on Teddy's forehead and then hugged Hermione. "Rosalie hasn't stopped talking about being able to see Teddy again since Edward told us you two were coming over."

"Now we have two Teddy's in our house! We have a big Teddy and a little Teddy." Emmett said with a large smile, which made Edward roll his eyes.

"What big Teddy?"

"Shut up Emmett," Edward said with a smile.

Hermione couldn't help but giggle, and then she turned to face Emmett and Rosalie. "Emmett, this is Teddy."

"Well hello little Teddy! You are just too cute!" Emmett began to make baby noises which made Hermione laugh.

"Emmett he is almost eleven months old, he hasn't made those sounds since he was five months."

"'Ose!" Teddy squealed while reaching towards Rosalie.

Rosalie didn't waste a moment before she walked over to Teddy and gently took him from Hermione. "He said my name Bella!"

"Babe, he did not say your name, he said Ose." Emmett said and Rosalie just smacked him in the back of his head as a reply.

"The first name Teddy said was actually Edward's which surprised me, seeing as Rosalie had known him a bit longer." Hermione said while sitting Teddy's bag down on the floor.

"So none of this bothers you?" Carlisle asked while looking at Hermione curiously.

"What? That Teddy said Edward's name before Rosalie's?" She knew what he meant, but they needed to realize that their vampirism didn't bother him at all.

Edward chuckled, "Um no, Carlisle meant the fact eh we are vampires and Teddy is becoming close with at least two of us."

"Oh, no it doesn't bother me at all. You are wonderful people."

Esme smiled widely, "You are such a sweetheart! Are you hungry?"

"Oh no thank you Esme, I ate breakfast about two hours ago so I'll be okay for a while. But if I get hungry I'll let you know."

"Would you like to sit down?" She asked kindly.

"Sure."

So they all moved to the front room and sat scattered around in chairs and on the couch.

"So how have you liked Forks since you've moved here?" Carlisle asked.

"Oh I love it here," Hermione replied. She truly did, and when she left she would plan regular visits back to Forks to see Charlie.

They all talked for hours about anything and everything. Hermione felt so comfortable sitting with the Cullens, so almost ended up speaking of the magical community more than once but caught herself just in time. She felt like the Cullens were now just more extended family that had being growing since she had met Harry and Ron.

Alice had been talking about some new fashion when she paused and seemed to get a far off look in her eyes; Jasper blurred to her and took her hand. Not a moment later she seemed to focus and a large smile appeared on her face.

"Well guys anyone feel like playing a game of baseball tonight?"