Twilight Fanfiction

Transitionals

Disclaimer: I do not, nor will I ever own Twilight. I have used some phrasing from Midnight Sun I don't own any of it, it belongs to Stephenie Meyer.

Okay everyone, here is my first attempt to do Edward's point of view. Please let me know what you think, personally I don't think I've got a good grasp on his point of view.

Chapter 2

Edward's POV

High school, my form of sleep; if sleep was defined as the inert state between active periods.

I stared at the cracks in the ceiling of the cafeteria; imagining patterns in the plaster that weren't really there. It was one of the ways to try to block all the voices in my head. Being a mind reader is definitely more difficult when surrounded by hormonal teenagers. Their thoughts could drive me insane, especially all the girls who fantasize about me.

I shuddered just thinking about all the different things I had seen in the minds of these teenagers that made up the student body.

Today they were all thinking about the same thing. Forks High had a new addition. A young girl had joined the junior year, Alice's and my year.

This girl was in everyone's mind at some point today, and most, if not all were still thinking about her. What really surprised me was the fact my siblings were thinking about her too.

'Oh, she just walked in.' Alice started bouncing slightly in her seat.

Jasper instinctively tried to calm her down with his powers.

'Bella needs a couple more arms.'

Emmett's comment confused me and I glanced over to where the new girl -that we all had heard was called Bella- was. She was in line getting lunch but there was no way she could carry the tray of food. Both of her hands were holding onto her daughter's baby carrier.

The five of us watched as her oldest daughter stood up on her tip toes trying to see the food, she then turned and reached her arms up.

'Oh, Bella needs help.'

I was caught by surprise by Rose's concern for the girl. I had to remind myself that Rose loved children.

We watched Bella stiffen. She was stuck in a predicament.

"Would you like some help?" Angela, one of the genuinely kind people in the school stepped up beside Bella.

Bella turned to her.

"Hi, I'm Angela," Angela said kindly. "Would you like some help?"

Bella nodded. "Thanks Angela, I'm Bella, and that's Anna."

Angela picked Anna up and settled her on her hip. She grabbed a tray for Bella and they joined the line. "What would you like to eat Anna?"

We were surprised when Anna made a face and glared at Angela. What could Angela have done to upset the girl?

'What did I do?' Angela glanced at Bella who blushed. Angela didn't know what to say.

"Sorry about that, that was my fault. Anna's full name is Annabelle, and I forgot that she doesn't like people beside her dad and me to call her Anna. She prefers Belle or little Belle, as the family calls her."

Ah, Annabelle didn't like anyone but her parents to call her Anna. That made sense. My siblings and even Angela were thinking along the same line as me.

Angela nodded in understanding. "I'm sorry, what would you like to eat little Belle?"

Annabelle smiled at Angela then pointed at a banana.

"She loves fruit," Bella told Angela."

Angela nodded and grabbed a banana for the little girl. They soon had all their food picked out and paid for.

Angela set Annabelle down and led them to the table her and her friends sat at. I couldn't understand why Angela was friends with those people. Really only she and a boy named Ben were the people at the table that I would befriend. They were the only ones at the table thinking anything really kind about Bella.

'Poor Bella, she seems really shy, I bet today is really hard on her.' Angela set the tray down on the table.

I listened to the others thoughts. Most of them were rather rude. The guys at the table were thinking some rather crude things. One even commenting about Bella's figure. His lustful thought was disgusting while one of the girls was thinking about how Bella got her figure back so soon.

Snide thoughts from Jessica and Lauren almost made me get up and go to the girl. I paused before I could get up, wondering where that strange idea had come from. The need to protect wasn't one I was used to, it was strange, foreign, to me. Perhaps it was just some long lost instinct, the strong protecting the weak. Bella easily looked more fragile then her new classmates.

I went back to staring at the ceiling, but my extra hearing was focused on the new girl. I knew my family was no longer staring at her, but they were listening to the introductions that was going on right now.

"Here Belle, you can have your very own chair." I watched Ben in my mind, pull a chair up to the table between Angela and Bella, for Annabelle.

Annabelle grinned at Ben before she climbed onto the chair.

Annabelle's thoughts were sweet, innocent. The baby's thoughts were different to say the least. Being so young her thoughts didn't have much structure. Seeing everything from her point of view was interesting. I have to say she was well behaved baby. From her thoughts I knew she was hungry but she wasn't fussy.

I tried to get inside of Bella's head, curious to see her thoughts, but I couldn't. I couldn't find her thoughts at all. It was like she wasn't there.

Had she moved, that didn't seem logical, she'd have to take the girls with her.

I glanced back over at the table. I felt weird having to check on what my extra hearing couldn't find. Bella was still sitting at the table. She was picking at her food waiting for the baby formula to heat up.

Why couldn't I hear her?

'What's wrong?' Jasper asked me silently. He gave me a worried glance.

"I can't read Bella's mind."

Four heads whipped in my direction. My siblings all started sending me their silent thoughts.

'What do you mean you can't read her thoughts?' Rosalie

'Is that even possible, you not being able to hear someone?' Alice

'That is so not fair.' Emmett

'I'm not having any trouble feeling her emotions.' Jasper

"I don't know, this has never happened before." I glanced back at the table. For some reason I couldn't read Bella's mind. I'd have to talk with Carlisle about this. I didn't feel any different, so my lack of hearing couldn't be my fault; could it?

I turned away from the table but kept my focus there, I had to figure this out.

"So, Bella, how long did the school give you to get a baby sitter for your daughters?" The five of us heard Lauren sneer at Bella. Her mind was viciously judging Bella.

Bella sighed. "Anna and Cissy aren't mine."

Lauren, and most of the other people at the table scoffed at her. The five of us stared at each other. Annabelle and Cissy looked remarkably like Bella. Were they really not hers? I guess it could be possibly, but it didn't seem likely, not to the student body anyway.

"Yeah right, like that's true." Jessica spoke up. Her thoughts calling Bella a horrible liar.

Through Angela's mind, I watched as Lauren stuck her nose in the air superiorly. "She's obviously yours, she looks just like you. You might as well not lie, we all can see the truth."

Angela caught Bella's attention and mouthed 'I'm sorry' to Bella.

Bella gave her an understanding smile. She turned back to Lauren. "Anna would you get my wallet out of my bag?"

Annabelle got off her chair and rummaged around in a bag until she found a worn out wallet.

"Could you get your family's picture out for me?" Bella asked.

Annabelle took a picture out and gave it to Lauren without being told to.

I looked through Lauren's eyes so I could see the picture. It was obvious from the picture the Bella, indeed, wasn't the girls' mother. Their mother was the blonde woman in the picture, sitting beside the man who shared similarities with Bella. Maybe an older brother. They had the same mahogany hair coloring and soft chocolate colored eyes. Their noses were even the same. Definitely family in some way. Every similarity Annabelle had with Bella, she shared with her dad. It was clear though that the woman in the picture was her mother, they shared the same facial structure.

"That's my cousins Toby and his wife Tessa." Bella explained.

Lauren tossed the picture back on the table. "So you cousin just decided to let you take the kids to school today?"

Bella shook her head, her face hardened with pain but she tried to mask it. "Toby and Tessa left me in charge of the girls in their wills. My dad has temporary custody until I turn eighteen."

My siblings and I met each others' gazes. We were all thinking along the same lines of thought. Poor Bella, and those poor girls. Then there was the obvious question that we heard Angela ask.

"Oh, what happened?" She quickly added, "you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to."

I watched Bella from Angela's thoughts figuring that would be the best place.

Bella shrugged sadly. "A gas leak met a spark, and that's the end of the story."

'Oh.' A whimper broke through Alice's lips.

I glanced at my siblings. Alice and Rose looked like they would cry if they could. Jasper looked broken from the intense feelings of sorrow, he could feel.

Emmett's face was blank, he looked like he was in shock. Could vampires go into shock?

I couldn't imagine the effects of what a situation like that could do to the two girls. I glanced through Angela's eyes and found everyone at the table was sympathetic included Lauren and Jessica.

Annabelle tugged on Bella's sleeve, and Bella gave her attention to her cousin. Annabelle took her hand and Bella stiffened subtly. Angela and the others at the table didn't notice, but I did.

The next second everything changed. Jasper and Alice stiffened. They both turned to look at Bella.

"What's wrong?" Rose hissed nervously.

Alice shook her head, she was trying to search but she was coming up blank, something was blocking her. "I can't see Bella's future, any of their futures."

"I can't feel them either." Jasper added.

I tried to read Annabelle's mind, I was coming up blank, just like Bella. I quickly checked Cissy's mind but it was gone from me now to. "I can't hear the two little girls now."

"But you could before?" Jasper voiced the question they all had been thinking.

I nodded once.

We all shared a worried glance. We decided then and there that we needed to talk to Carlisle about this. There was something different about the three new members to the population of Forks Washington.

Bella started glancing around the room. We all thought this was odd, and we hurriedly looked away from her, so we wouldn't be caught staring.

"Who are they?" We heard her ask. We could feel her eyes on us.

"They are the Cullens and the Hales. They're Dr. Cullen and Mrs. Cullen's kids." Jessica answered. She then started describing who was who. "The one with dark curly hair and the large muscles is Emmett Cullen. The blonde girl beside him is Rosalie Hale. The blonde boy is her twin brother Jasper. The other girl is Alice Cullen, and the last guy is Edward Cullen."

I couldn't help it, I had to see the girl's response to looking at us. I glanced at her and our eyes met. She blushed, and the warm red stained her cheeks. I looked away. I was good at this life I had chosen to live but I was hungry, or rather thirsty, and her blush despite my control still tempted me.

We all heard Lauren chuckle. "I'd stop staring if I were you. Emmett and Rosalie, are an item and so are Jasper and Alice."

"And none of the girls here are good looking enough for Edward, so don't waste your time." Jessica added.

I could hear the bitterness in her voice and couldn't help laughing. It was a good thing that none of the girls here appealed to me.

"How long have they lived here?" Bella asked curiously.

Jessica eagerly answered her question. "They moved down here from Alaska two years ago."

I was surprised when Bella didn't ask any more questions, surely she would be curious about our strange family, everyone else was. I glance over at the table again and found Annabelle holding Bella's hand and shaking her head. I didn't understand the action, something seemed off about it, but I wasn't sure what was off.

Bella glanced at our table a few more time before lunch ended. I glanced at her one time to see if I could figure out what was going on. She took in my expression and her face twisted in confusion.

For a split second I saw a strange look cross her face, but it was gone before I could figure out what it was.

When the bell rang Bella gathered up her stuff and carrying Cissy in her carrier, she and Annabelle left the cafeteria.

I made my way to biology, my thoughts circling around this strange new girl. I sat down at my desk and let my books slid onto the desk, spilling out so they covered the table. I was the only one in the class who didn't have a lab partner. Not that anyone would be comfortable sitting beside me for an hour.

Humans didn't know that they should fear us, but their instincts kept them from getting too close.

The door to the class opened surprising the students. As far as all of us knew, everyone in the class was here.

Bella walked in with Annabelle beside her, pressing her little hand against Bella's leg.

I ignored the thoughts of the other students, trying to get into one of the new comers heads. I was unsuccessful.

While Bella got her slip signed I stacked my books clearing off her side of the desk. She wouldn't feel very comfortable there, and the little girls wouldn't like being near me. Their subconscious would be trying to get them to move away from me.

I watched as Bella turned around and paused. Annabelle had to push her towards the table.

Something about her face seemed off. Why did she hesitate like that? Could her instincts be stronger than most humans?

She set Cissy's carrier down beside the desk and took her seat; beside me. She pulled Annabelle up onto her lap.

I had had a slim hope that maybe being closer to her would allow me to hear her. I had never needed to be close to someone before, so I wasn't too surprised when I still couldn't hear her thoughts.

She glanced at me out of the corner of her eye; blushed, and looked away.

Mr. Banner lectured for fifteen minutes before he sent us off to read a chapter in our text books. I opened mine even though I knew everything that was in the book. This class was easy and there wasn't anything that Mr. Banner or the text book could tell me that I didn't know. For crying out loud I had two medical degrees.

Since I didn't need to read it, I pretended too while I focused on Bella and Annabelle.

Annabelle turned in her seat and pressed her little hand against Bella's cheek. This confused me. I needed to know what was going on.

"Hello, my name is Edward Cullen. You must be Bella Swan?" I used my calmest voice, hoping it wouldn't scare her.

She blinked and looked up at me. "How do you know my name?"

I laughed, being careful not to show my teeth. "Oh, I'm sure everyone here knows your name. The entire town has been waiting for your arrival." It was true, Charlie had let the men at the police station know his daughter was coming to live with him, not telling anyone the reason why. By the end of the week, everyone knew she was coming and they were excited.

"No, I mean why did you call me Bella?"

"Do you prefer Isabella?" I asked. This girl was so confusing. Hadn't she been telling everyone else to call her Bella?

She shook her head. "To formal, I like Bella better; but I'm pretty sure my dad calls me Isabella behind my back."

Annabelle pulled on her shirt and Bella gave her, her undivided attention. Annabelle crossed her arms over her chest and humphed. Bella giggled quietly before introducing her. "This is my younger cousin Annabelle. You can call her Belle."

Alright Belle it is. I tilted my head to the side thinking. 'I wonder if her cousins named Annabelle after Bella.' "Belle and Bella, that's easy enough to remember. What is the little one's name?"

She glanced down at the baby. "Her name is Cissy, Anna here wanted everyone to call her sissy, Cissy; so my cousin named her Cissiley."

So that was the reason. I laughed silently to myself. "You all have beautiful names."

She blushed, the added color to her cheeks made her skin shine. Bella was quite pretty. Where did that thought come from. I mentally shook it out of my head.

"Thank you." Bella quickly went back to reading.

I couldn't help chuckling. Belle saw the pictures in the book and wanted to see them. After a while she got tired of waiting for Bella to turn the page so she started looking at the pictures in the chapters before this one. She'd grab a page turning it so she could see the picture and Bella would have to hold it up so she could still read the chapter. She had to constantly turn her head in my direction, then back. To make the matter worse, the number of pages she was holding was growing.

I couldn't stifle my laughter even though it wasn't gentlemanly to laugh at her distress.

By the time she had finished the chapter she had just enough time to pack up everything before the bell rang.

I felt bad, I should have let Belle use my book to look through.

"What class do you have next?" I asked trying to be polite.

She glanced at me from where she was helping Anna put on her backpack. "Gym."

I nodded slightly. Gym was my least favorite class. We had to always be in control of our strength. It wasn't fun throwing games and moving at such slow speeds.

"Would you like me to show you the way?"

"I think I can find it," she said.

I had no doubt that she could find it. It wasn't too hard to find the gym.

'Yes she has gym next.' Mike Newton's thoughts bombarded me.

He walked up to our table and smiled at Bella. His thoughts becoming intolerable. "I'm heading to gym, you could follow me."

I glared at the boy. From his thoughts I knew he hadn't heard the news that Belle and Cissy weren't Bella's children. Despite this I was surprised at the way his thoughts were turning.

Mike didn't even wait for Bella's answer. "I'm Mike, cute kids." He took Anna's hand and placed his other on Bella's back; pushing her towards the door.

I was surprised at the growl that threatened to escape my lips. A strange emotion swept through me and I felt the need to remove Mike from the area near Bella and the girls. Before I could though Belle screamed.

Her cries startled Mr. Banner and the few students still in the class room.

Bella's eyes flashed concern and panic. I could see her dilemma. Anna needed to be comforted but she had to carry Cissy.

"What did I do?" Mike asked. He didn't have a clue, surely it should have registered in his mind that grabbing a little child's hand was a bad idea.

"Come on Anna, let's go; I'll be able to hold you once we get to the gym." Bella said as Belle wrapped her arms around Bella's leg, crying harder.

"I could carry Cissy if you would like me to; then you could carry Belle." I had feeling she would say no, but it still felt like the right thing to do. To at least offer my help.

Belle shook her head and pulled away. She tugged on Bella's jeans I didn't need my mind reading ability to know that she was saying she was ready to leave.

"Thanks, but we'll be okay." Bella said before letting Belle led her out of the biology class.

I entered the Spanish class and sat beside Emmett.

'What happened? Rosie and I heard Annabelle scream on the way to Rosie's class.' He asked worried. So I wasn't the only one worried about Bella and the girls.

"I'll tell you later." I whispered so no one else would hear.

He nodded, and we both sat through the class, neither of us learning anything new.

We hurried out of class after the bell rang.

The others were waiting for us, leaning against my Volvo.

"Why did Annabelle scream?" Rose demanded to know once we had stepped up to the group.

I grimaced, upset by the little girl's scared look. That scene was burned into my memory. "Mike Newton happened."

Rose hissed. "What did he do?"

I quickly explained what had happened, to them. When I finished my siblings were all glaring across the lot at where the Newton kid was hanging out with his friends.

"Hey here comes Bella?" Emmett nudged me in my side and nodded towards Bella and the girls.

We all watched as Bella, headed towards the main office. She had to turn in her slip that she had all her teachers sign today.

From my siblings thoughts I knew Jasper and Alice were trying to use their powers. They still weren't working on the Bella or the girls. Mine wasn't working either, and I wanted to know why. I had at least been able to read the little girls' thoughts before, why not now?

Belle was watching the five of us closely. I could see the curiosity in her eyes, which was surprising.

Bella glanced at us briefly before looking away continuing towards the main office. She seemed to focus on Emmett and Rose. Emmett had waved to them, while Rose smiled, so I could understand meeting their gazes. A quick check on Jasper and Alice told me they were still focusing on their powers. Their faces showed their frustration; I had a feeling mine did too. Bella's face though was thoughtful, she seemed to be thinking hard about something. If only I could read her mind.

They walked into the building and left it a minute later.

Most of the student body had already left, wanting to get away from school as fast as they could. The five of us though, still hadn't gotten into my car. We were waiting, watching Bella and the girls.

From the angle we were at, and the fact that all the cars between our two were gone, we could see Bella easily.

She set Cissy's seat in the car, and secured it to the seat. She then slung her bag onto the front passenger seat. Carrying the backpack and the baby in her carrier was difficult on her. It was obvious in the way she held herself after she no longer had to carry either of them.

On the other side of the car, Bella lifted Belle into the car setting her in her seat, groaning slightly.

'Oh, poor Bella." Alice thought in sympathy.

'She looks like she could use help.' I still had to get used to this thoughtful Rose. She loved kids, but surprisingly her thoughts at the moment weren't for the little girls. She was honestly thinking about Bella.

'I give her another day before she can't carry that baby carrier through the whole day.' I couldn't help agreeing with Emmett's thoughts. Bella didn't look like she could handle much more. Eventually she'd get tired, and tomorrow wasn't going to get any easier.

We watched as she climbed into the front seat and drove away.

Author's Note

So what did you guys think about my first attempt at Edward's point of view? Don't worry eventually we will get to all the other members point of view.

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter.

Until next time,

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