25th August 2016

Dear Emma, we miss you every day, from here on out we are going to be jumping ahead in time, so you get a clear understanding of the main events in the lives of the people that you would have been around, especially your Aunt Rosalie, Uncle Emmett, Aunt Alice and Uncle Jasper. Today I will focus on the events surrounding Emmett and Rosalie, what was happening with your father and I, as well as your uncle and aunt.

As soon as your father and I were married we wanted to start a family. My monthly cycle had never been regular and when I did get them I was in a terrible amount of pain, that the only thing I could do was take to Advil and climb into bed with a hot water bottle. The first few times I got my monthly cycle around your dad I tried hide it. I was embarrassed about them. But your father, being the amazing man that he was, took me in his arms and let me cry from the pain I was in and the emotional roller coaster the cycle caused me to go through. In the time I had been with your father for just over a year I had only had 3 cycles, I knew something was wrong with me. I just was scared to find out what it was. I had done some reading on the internet and found something called Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome. This condition basically fitted all my symptoms. So after almost 2 years of trying to have a baby I agreed to seek help and to find out what was wrong with me.

After months of testing and minor surgeries the doctor decided that yes, I had Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome but also Endometritis. The doctors explained to us that there was very little chance that we would ever conceive a child naturally. So, after some consideration and listening to what the doctors said your father and I decided to try fertility treatments. With months of trying different drugs, more testing our lives seems to revolve around when things were scheduled, not like it was us loving life and taking it one day at a time.

Your father could see the affect all the drugs had been having on me. My mental health had deteriated to the point I was so depressed that I refused to get out of bed or do anything like go to work. Your father made the decision that enough was enough and stopped all treatment. I screamed, I cried but in the end your father was right this was not the way for us. That there had to be away that would have little impact on my mental illnesses.

So, your father and I took a break, well he did, I never gave up trying to fall pregnant, I did everything I could think of to try to fall. Your father became concerned with my obsession to have a child that he suggested I find a new therapist, which I had not done when I moved to Seattle. I did not see that I had a problem. Many women try all these different methods to fall pregnant and they do, so why wouldn't it work for me? Well nothing worked. We had been married for 2 years and still nothing.

So, I finally agreed to seek help with my obsession, as your father called it, and found a wonderful therapist not far from our home and to this day I still see her. But this letter was supposed to be about our Uncle Emmett meeting Aunt Rosalie.

So, about the time we were trying to have a child, your joyful, happy go lucky uncle was changing from the adult boy child. He was to become a melancholy man. We tried everything to find out what was wrong. The man that always saw the brighter side of life was depressed. So one day I took him out for coffee to help cheer him up. As we were talking and he admitted that he saw what Edward and I had, wanting just that for himself. He explained that he was lonely, wanting someone to come home to, someone he could cherish and love till the end of time. Emmett said that he had been on a few dates, even tried on line dating, but there was no spark, no sense of excitement when he was with these women. There was nothing there, he was depressed, believing he would always be alone with no one to love.

I pointed out to him that love has a funny way of either slamming you in the face or sneaking up on you when you least expected it and not to give up on finding his one true love, but let it take a back seat for a while and see what happens. This did not seem to sit well with Emmett. He was a man of no patience when it came to getting what he wanted and right now he wanted to find love, he wanted the whole nine yards. The uncontrollable all-consuming love, the house with the white picketed fence, 2.5 kinds and the dog type of love. There was nothing I could say to my strong cuddly bear younger brother to convince him that it would happen, he wanted it now. Just as his brother had found, he was ready to settle down. He had a good career as a personal trainer to some of the most elite and richest members of society in Seattle. His business was thriving, and now he wanted to focus on his personal life.

Suddenly, in the little café we were sitting in, a gust of icy cold wind blew in as the door was opened. Emmett turned around to look and was frozen mid-sentence with this love struck look on his face. I looked up and noticed this tall statuesque blonde walked in the door, looking as if she had just walked off the cat walk. It was as if life was suddenly in slow motion, Emmett just sat there not knowing what was going on or what to do.

As the blonde walked in the guy behind the counter yelled, " Hey Rose you're late again" She responded, "Sorry Henry, my truck wouldn't start last night and I had to put a new starter motor in before work. Sorry I didn't call. I lost track of time, you know how I am when I am with my baby"

The guy behind the counter just laughed. Usually this is a common occurrence with these two. What Emmett didn't realise, that I did, was that Emmett had found his one true love.

Slowly, he rose from his seat and went to the counter to order another coffee. The blonde was now behind the counter serving customers before Emmett. As he approached he said the dumbest thing that could come out of his mouth. He asked her to marry him! She just laughed sarcastically telling him that this was not her first marriage proposal and it would not be her last. Emmett followed it up confidently by saying that she would not be receiving any more proposals from anyone but him. She just laughed again in his face telling him he was just some big dumb oaf chasing just another pretty skirt. She had heard it all and was not interested in his game playing. The guy working with her asked if Emmett was bothering her, to which Rose said that she was fine, just having some fun.

Emmett finally said that he would prove her wrong if she would go out on a date with him. She, no surprise at all, said no handing Emmett his coffee and ignoring him while serving her next customer. I was just laughing watching this all play out. But I noticed my lunch break was over and needed to return to work. So, I walked up to Emmett, who was still at the counter staring at the blonde bombshell, and whispered in his ear that we both needed to return to work, while noticing at the same time that Rose just glared at me, shooting daggers with her eye… I thought to myself this was an interesting development for someone sarcastic enough, showing nothing but confidence and clearly telling Emmett she was not interested, was clearly showing me something else entirely .She wanted Emmett as much as he wanted her, so I played on it just a little, getting Emmett's attentions by saying " Emmett honey lunch time is over and we both need to get back to work, will you walk me to the bookstore before your appointment and then after work we will go to your parents for dinner like we planned". Emmett just stared at me dumbfounded asking with his eyes what game was I playing at since he knew clearly that I was happily married to his brother ad he knew I had seen and heard everything that had just happened.

Emmett, keeping up with the game, took a quick look at the blonde bombshell, Rose, and saw something that he did not understand, but kept playing along with my game by saying" Darling you know better than that to distract me when I am on the hunt and I have found my target. You will not sway me from my prey." He then laughed, put his arm around me and proceeded to walk me out the cafe.

As we walked out I yelled over my shoulder to Rose that Emmett was my younger brother in law and the look on her face was pure shock with the realization of what she had done. She had let, possibly the best thing in her life walk out the door because of her own stubbornness.

As we stepped out into the cold winter air, Emmett asked me what the hell that was all about and I explained to him what I had seen and heard, not just form him but from Rose as well. How she kept looking at Emmett, that I felt the sarcasm was a cover for her really being interested in Emmett but she did not want to be played like she probably had been in the past.

Emmett was shocked by what I had observed and wanted to go back in there, pick her up and carry her off into the sunset. I told him NO he had to play it cool. We could meet for coffee every day if he wanted, to have our lunch breaks at the little café so that he could get to know Rose and so that Rose would see Emmett for who he truly was, the best big little brother in law a girl could ever want. A man with yes, no patience and a bit of a short fuse when he got frustrated, but a man with a pure heart of gold that would do anything for those he loved and he loved his family deeply. He had a special bond with his brother and parents. Now it was time for him to share his heart with a woman and that woman was this beautiful blonde bombshell named Rose, who worked in the café near our work.

As we walked away I heard the café door opened and looked over my shoulder without Emmett knowing and saw Rose staring at us, watching the man she wanted walk away, not knowing if she would ever see him again. Little did she know that I had a plan to get these two together. No matter what it took, from what I could see they were perfect for each other. Emmett would be Rose's rock all dependable and standing by her side and Rose would not take any of Emmett's crap, keeping him in line like none of us could.

When I got home from work that day Edward was just getting ready for the Jazz club and I informed him of how his brother was, as he had been just as concerned as I had been, but did not know what to do. So I told him to have no fear as his brother had met his future wife, if he did not fuck it up. Edward just laughed saying this is Emmett we are talking about of course he will do something wrong .He just hoped Emmett didn't cause too much damage until the couple were madly in love.

Emma,

Well my darling Emma this is how your uncle and aunt met and what a whirl wind romance it were married almost as fast as your father and me. I can say that to begin with your aunt and I did not see eye to eye, until one day something happened and we had an honest talk about our lives and found we had similar experiences. That she loved her big oaf of a husband and would do anything for him. But that she would always put him and herself first before the family's desires, she did not marry his family but him and if the family did not like it, it was their problem. She was not going to change for anyone

Love always Mum

Bella Cullen