Thank you for reading this book! Any reviews, about anything, are VERY much appreciated! I do not own the Twilight saga, or any off its characters, that honour belongs to Stephanie Meyers.
I will indicate the point of view of each section by writing 'POV...' and the name of the character. The POV will be whoever's I think works.
Enjoy!
Esme's POV:
So life was back to calm, more or less like it was before we ever meet Bella. Of course now Bella and Renesmee were with us and I love them dearly with all my heart - after all I have all my children with me now: Rosalie and Emmet, Rosalie was even becoming warmer and Emmet still his care free goofball self. Jasper and Alice, sticking to each other forever and always totally affectionate. Finally Edward, Bella and Renesmee. Living like any other young couple with their adorable little girl - except they are all vampires (or a hybrid like my sweet granddaughter)
I was just sitting in our new modern house, on the edge of Helena City in Northern Montana. I was on the edge of on our smooth white leather sofa (one of them any way) with my head leaning on my husband's, Carlisle's, shoulder. Bella was sitting on the edge of Edward's piano as he's played her favourite song. Rosalie and Emmet were playing with Renesmee in the garden and Alice and Jasper were...well who knows where.
Then silently, Alice and her mate were standing in the doorway. Behind him Emmet and Rosalie stood in the corridor, obviously recently dragged in by a bouncing Alice. Edward stopped playing and he and Bella took a seat opposite us. I presume that Edward had heard the couples thoughts and needed to come over.
"Please can we talk to you all," Jasper said in his signature straight and tall posture, with Alice wrapped like a vine around him. "It's urgent and important."
" Of course Jasper. " Carlisle said and I sat up so Emmet and Rosalie could sit too.
"Well.." Jasper began as he and his mate stood before us all, however it was Alice who finished.
" So it's kinda a long story but here goes, so Jasper's little brother -"
"Thomas" Jasper injected.
"So Thomas had an affair with a girl when he was about twenty, so Jazz was about ten years a vampire. That would have been okay, only the girl Thomas had an affair with was not a Texas born farm girl but was instead he had had an affair with a vampire."
"Thomas had very strong powers of persuasion," Jasper had taken over and they seemed to keep swapping over the story seamlessly. "Since he was part of my family. Then she took off quickly and it was only thirty years later as he lay on his death bed he heard about the girl he had the affair with. She had died years ago. Because she was pregnant with my niece.(*) I know I am not meant to but I went to see him, my little brother. He realised what I was and told me to look after his daughter."
"So by then, I had joined up with my Jazzy and we went in search of the hybrid girl. We seached for several years before we found her where she had been living with one of the hidden native Amazonian tribe. It had been alive for forty years and so we thought she would already be grown up. But no...She was barely four years old. "
"As Alice said, she looked barely four. We now suppose that since she was born by the opposite way round Renesmee was. Vampire mother and human father. So it takes her around fifteen years to actually be a year older. "
"So as we all know Renesmee, can jump really high like a vampire, however, my niece in law (but she just prefers to be my niece) , Matilda, can run as fast as a vampire."
" What's more after a few years of staying with us, she wanted to travelling alone to visit the world. So we agreed to each drop a letter in a box in a certain place in northern Canada on the first of January each year, deciding when to meet and talk about what's been happening. "
"So exactly a decade ago last January the letter in the box for us was only half finished so we stayed there a while in case she only left temporarily. But she never can back. We still have gone back to our spot every year but there has been no letter."
" Until this year. Now before I carry on you have to know that Matilda has always considered us her 'home on the move' , and now...she wants to come home. "
The couple had obviously finished their story now and stared at us all in anticipation. Jasper even showed a bit of nervousness on his typically emotionless face. We all just stared at them for a bit before Carlisle said slowly "how old Matilda?"
" About a hundred and fifty years old, however I know what you mean, she is really only ten or eleven. " Jasper answered after a pause of hesitation.
A young girl! I thought about this for a moment, I might actually get a chance to have a child, a daughter of my own! I felt a small smile tug on the corners of my mouth. Clearly Edward had heard that thought of mine and he nodded and whispered in my ear so quietly only I could hear it: "You will make a great mother to her."
In the end of all our many questions Emmet sealed her coming soon by saying "does she like football?" We all burst out laughing, much to his confusion. " What's so funny? "
Alice went blank for a minute or two then said "As it happens Em, I see she does actually want to play football."
" Well what you waiting for? " Emmet roared happily, "when's she coming? "
Jasper became serious for a second before saying, "She was nervous that you wouldn't like her so she is coming tomorrow to see Alice and I to discuss her coming as we haven't seen her in a decade."
" Well I think that's settled then, " Carlisle said as he stood up, "We will meet her tomorrow." Emmet looked gleeful and danced around like the four year old he mentally was. Edward smirked slightly as I thought that but said nothing.
But, ruining Emmet's fun, Jasper cleared his throat and looked apprehensive, "Well there is one 'problem'...Matilda has a sort of ability, she can turn invisible - completely for a long time. No one can hear her heart beat, thoughts, emotions or future. However you can feel her and she can choose who sees, hears her ect. "
We were all silent for a minute taking it in then Rosalie of all people says "Who cares in sure we will like her for who she is. I can't wait to see her tomorrow!"
Jasper visibly relaxed and then with a squeal of excitement, I was pulled upstairs with Alice chattering about rooms and which clothes will suit Matilda. In the distance I could hear Bella telling Nessie happily that she was soon to have a cousin more her age. I smiled happily and let myself sunk into the world of Alice's decorating plans.
* Some of you reading will tell me that it it's impossible for a vampire to have a baby as their body's cannot change. However I say they can, because Edward's body had to change to allow him to have sex with Bella on their honeymoon. In addition, I never said her stomach got bigger (it didn't) and you will hear more about that in a later chapter.
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