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Matilda's POV:
So today was the day, I will see Jazz and Alice for the first time in a decade. I really hope that they don't press on whats been happening over the last ten years. If they do well what should I say? Never mind I won't think about it.
The thing I am most nervous about is meeting the Cullen family - What it they don't like me? They are all so so so pretty! I've been sitting in a tree over looking their house for the last half an hour and watched them as they've all assembled in their porch waiting for me to turn up. I'm just annoyed I can't hear them. Curse this human like hearing!
Time to go say hello now I think, Jasper is looking a bit nervous, probably thinking I will disappear on them again, although Alice is optimistic that I will turn up. Of course she is.
So I climb down from my tree and walk up to where they are all standing in a semi circle. Have I mentioned I can turn invisible yet? Well that's what I do, and I've turned invisible for everyone so no one can hear me or see me coming.
Alice and Jazz are on the edge of the semi circle, so stand next to them and stare at the woods like all the other grown ups. I quickly become visible and before my slow beating heart gives me away I talk.
"What are we all waiting for?" I say with a smile. Alice laughed and hugged me whilst spinning in a circle, bouncing happily - she had seen all this coming the moment I became visible obviously! Jazz looked surprised for a moment then calm and collected and gave me a hug in his stiff - ish manner and said "hello Cadet" (his nickname for me). The rest of the Cullens looked completely shocked at first, I suppose just appearing like that was a but strange, and the kind looking blond man was the first to recover. However, the big man with dark hair just looked at me open mouthed before the pretty lady with long blond hair pushed it shut for him.
"You must be Matilda." The blond haired man in the middle said, " In Carlisle, this is my wife Esme" Here is gestured at the caramel haired lady who smiled at me. "These are my sons Emmet and Edward. And these are my girls Rosalie, Emmet's mate, and Bella, Edward's mate." He gestured to each of them in then and I nodded once to each of them. "Bella and Edward also have a daughter who is around seven" Carlisle was still talking. "However she is not here right now."
" Please call me Tilda, or Tills or anything. I prefer only to be called Matilda if something is wrong or I'm in trouble! " I said laughing softly and they all joined in.
Once the introductions has been made I felt Esme take my hand, "Come in side, Matilda, you must be worn out after your journey from... from wherever." I followed Esme inside and the others followed us in.
Esme led me to their sitting room and - WOW! Their house was fabulous, with long floor to ceiling windows, luxurious white-gold silk curtains, white and wooden furniture and house accessories like mirrors and vases with flowers in, set at tasteful angles on top of them.
"Here take a seat." Esme showed me on to a modern white leather sofa.
I jumped up quickly and exclaimed hurriedly, "I can't sit down, sorry, I'll get your sofa all dirty!" I don't know why but I felt all stressed and tired, I guess I just wasn't used to such kindness after ...well doesn't matter about that.
I felt Jasper send calming waves to me and I nodded gratefully to him. "Well in that case, why don't Alice and I get you a shower and some new clothes? " The pretty blond lady - Rosalie - said to me. I nodded and followed Alice up their wooden staircase.
As we went out through the room Bella whispered to me as if we were in a conspiracy together, "Alice has been buying clothes none stop since she knew you would be coming." I giggled with her and then let Alice drag me to a bathroom.
The bathroom was about the size of a medium sized bedroom and the bathtub itself was as big as a ferry boat. Alice already had a bath running and was squeezing bubble foam into it. I looked around and saw Rosalie was gone! I poked my head or into the carpeted corridor and saw her coming back up to Alice and I carrying a huge soft towel.
"In you hop" Alice said to me and gestured to the bath tub.
I gestured to the door in hope that she and Rosalie would leave. It's not that I didn't love Alive and want to get to know Rosalie, it's just I was in no state to be seen. I was about to ask them to leave when Alice rolled her eyes and walked out of the door with Rosalie.
"Fine Tilda!" She said exasperatedly, "I saw what you were about to ask in the future." She giggled winking, " we will be in the room opposite, you have to come and see all your new clothes! " She and Rosalie clapped their hands excitedly and walked off, probably discussing what to make me wear.
I shut the door, firmly, and slipped of my tattered knitted jumper (a gift from Alice I found in our letter box in Canada this year) and peeled off my muddy jeans and sodden shoes. I hauled myself in the bath tub and the hot water soothed my aching back, arms and legs. I put my head under the water and watched with satisfaction as the water turned into a murky brown sludge colour as the grime fell off my body and hair.
I leaned out of the bath to pick up the towel from where I had placed it on the floor when suddenly the door opened and Alice dashed in. I quickly pulled my arm under the water and sunk down up to my chin.
"Sorry to bother you Tilda but I needed to see what shade of blue went with your hair better. " Alice held up several jumpers and sweatshirts. "I just sit up a bit please, " Alice said and concentrated on the shades. "A bit more please Tilda," Alice said and I begrudgingly shifted up a bit.
as I did so some of the bubbles cleared around my neck and Alice have a small gasp. "Matilda! Why didn't you say you had cut your neck?" Alice scolded me.
"Its not that big" I said lying hugely. The cut went down the left hand side of my neck and down my back and ended on my right hip. "Anyway," I mumbled when she gave me a disbelieving look. " It doesn't hurt anymore. " I hated myself for lying again, but I had no other choice.
She had picked a jumper now and gave me a pair of dark blue jeans, underwear and a soft light blueish gray jumper that was trimmed gold around the neck line. When she left, taking my old clothes with me, I put them on and wrapped a small hand towel around my shoulders all the jumper wouldn't get wet.
I remembered which room I was meant to go into and knocked on the door. "Come in!" Alice's sing song voice said. I pushed open the door and found myself in the most glorious room yet.
Two walls were a pale blue - gray colour but the far wall was white with blue and gold swirls on. The last wall faced out and over the wood with a floor to ceiling, wall to wall window. There was a white dressing table and chair against the white wall the chair also had a gold seat with complimented the swirls perfectly.
There was a king sized bed with a large white and gold canopy over it. It would have looked tacky anywhere else but in this perfect room of the Cullen abode.
"Woah!" I said when I had taken it all in. "Is it your room Rosalie?" I asked
" Nope! " she shook her head and giggled slightly.
"Alice?" I didn't really think so because when ever Alice and Jasper came to see me they would share a bedroom or area in the tent we used, and this didn't seem like the type of bedroom Jazz would have.
"No silly!" Alice said giving out a tinkling laugh. I looked confused so she said "it's your room Tilda!" I gasped for a minute then in a rush of words started thanking them both. "Thank you, thank you so much. It's all beautiful!"
" Well look at this it's even better! " Alice dragged me to the full length mirror whilst Rosalie began drying and brushing my hair.
"What?" I asked
"Wait a sec, " Alice pushed the middle or the mirror and it opened to revel a whole other room full of...clothes? "Ta-da!" Alice beamed and gave a flourish of her arms "your wardrobe, " She then proceeded to give me a full tour of it, where each colour item was, each style of clothes was kept but I zoned out.
"Sorry we couldn't hold her back." Rosalie said smiling. I laughed.
"we would go down now, I think Carlisle wants to talk to you Tilda. " Alice said and walked into the corridor, waving a hand for us follow. Rosalie had finished my hair now and I beamed at her and the relaxed hair half up half down style and put my hair in.
"Huh?" I asked " What have I done? " I quickly followed it by yawning accidentally.
"Nothing sleepy. He just wants to get to know you, especially what you've been up to this last few years, we all do." I murdered a noncommittal sound and hope they wouldn't ask me that.
All the Cullens were sitting around a round oak table, Rosalie nipped in from behind me and took a seat between Carlisle and the big bloke, Emmet. Alice took a seat next to Bella and Esme,...so I had to sit next to Edward. What. A. Joy.
Edward is so odd just sitting there and not saying anything to me, it's a bit creepy. (N.B the character whose POV it is in, their thoughts will be in italics)
He smirked slightly then went back to sitting stony faced and grumpy.
"So Tilda, " Carlisle said to me, "I hear that you are Jasper's niece." He left it as an open question I could tell, for me to interpret as I wished.
"Um, yes" I began "but I lived with the Mahontis tribe in the Amazon for a few years. They are all some form of hybrid vampire like me. " I had had to stop here because I gave a huge yawn.
"So I hear you've been travelling the world. " Esme asked.
"Yes I have."
" I hope you didn't get lonely " Esme asked again with kind eyes. And must be a mother. She's is so-so-so someone's mother, or else she would a really good one I bet.
Next to me Edward nodded and I glanced up at him confused, meh! He probably just nodded to one of the others' questions, they all talk so quietly I can't here anyway!
"No I didn't get lonely but thank you for asking, ma'am, I met new friends along the way. And yes Ali, I did do some school stuff like I promised." I said laughing and rolled my eyes playfully .
I carried on answering questions thrown at me by the Cullens, however it became more and more punctuated with yawns and gradually I felt my eyelids grow heavy and my speech grow more and more slurred.
"Would you like to go to bed now?" Carlisle asked me. I nodded and started to rise from my chair slowly.
"Do you want someone to carry you up?" Esme asked me , worried I would fall asleep and hurt myself I guessed.
"No thank you, ma'am, I will be fine." I answered through a yawn. I do not want anyone touching me again , I hurt like hell all over after...DON'T THINK ABOUT IT MATILDA - it will just make you sad.
I dragged my aching and weary body to the top of the stairs but just then I felt sleep take over. I did try to stop it. But then all went black.