Ithaca, New York
Carlisle POV
While driving home from working at the hospital I reflect back on the past 6 years that my family and I have called this place our home. It has been a good place for my family and I. Everyone loves it here, Esme loves the home she renovated. Alice and Rose love the shopping, Emmett loves all the sports here and I know that both Jasper and Edward love school here. But I also know that it can not last, we have already stayed longer than we usually do in one place and the comments on our looks vs. our age have already started. I knew that it was time for us to move, I just hated having to break it to my family. The rest of the drive home I ponder where we could move to next.
Once I arrive home I am greeted at the door by my wife Esme "Hello dear, how was your day?" she asks. I just give her a tight smile and kiss her on the cheek before saying "It was good, but we need to have a family meeting" With a concerned look on her face she says "Is everything ok?" "Yes, everything is fine. Just we need to discus a few things as a family. Can everyone please come down here, we need to talk" I say in an even tone. A few seconds later I was joined by the rest of the family. "Why don't we all sit in the living room while we talk." Once settled in the living room I was about to speak when Edward spoke up "It's time to move again isn't it" he said it more as a statement then a question and I knew that he had read my mind. "Awww man, but I like it here" Emmett shouts out and I can see that he is not happy with the idea of having to move again. I can see the same sentiment playing on the everyone else's face as well. "I know you all love it here, and so do I. But we have been here for 6 years now and people are starting to notice that we do not appear to be aging."
"So, Any suggestions on where we should move to next?" I ask. "How about..." Alice cuts off what Esme was going to say with a gasp. Everyone looked to Alice and saw that she was in the midst of having a vision.
Alice POV
While listing to Carlisle explain why we had to move again all I can think of is how much I love it here. So close to some of the best shopping in the world! I knew Carlisle was right, we had been here too long, but it doesn't mean that I have to like the fact that we have to move once again. "So, Any suggestions on where we should move to next?" I hear Carlisle ask and just as Esme is responding I am hit with a vision
~Vision~
Rose and I are walking around what looks like a mall, but we are not alone. There is another girl with us, but I can't see her face. We are all carrying bags as we walk around, joking and laughing.
The scene fades to another one. Jasper and the same mystery girl are playing chess in a familiar looking living room. I can see Jasper frown, but then smile and hear laughter coming from the girl as she checkmates Jasper's queen.
The scene changes again. Its in the same living room, but this time its Emmett and the same girl playing video games and laughing.
It changes again. This time we are all together outside and it appears that we have been playing baseball. Once again the same mystery girl is the focus of the vision. She is sandwiched between Carlisle and Esme as they hug her.
The scene changes once again. This time it is just Edward and the girl. They are laying back and relaxing in a large meadow, surrounded by soft grass and wild flowers. She has her head laying on Edward's chest and he is stroking her cheek. Finally I can see her face clearly. She is beautiful. She has a heart shaped face framed by long, curly chestnut locks, flawless pale skin and dark lashes framing her large golden eyes. Her full red lips smile widely at Edwards crooked smile before she says "My Edward" as he continues to stroke her face. Edward responds with "My Bella" as he leans in as if to kiss her. But the vision faded before I could see any more.
~Vision Ends~
With a gasp I am brought out of the vision. It takes a moment for my eyes to refocus and when they do I can see everyone staring at me. But its the look on Edward's face that catches my attention, its a mix of worry, concern, hopefulness and just a bit of excitement. I knew that he saw everything I saw in the vision. "Well? What did you see?" Emmett asks impatiently. Ignoring him I look back at Edward and say in my head "Edward, what do you think? That house looked a bit familiar to me, what about you? But I have never seen the girl before". Edward nods and says "The house looks like the one in Forks, Washington. So did that meadow. As for the girl, I don't know. I have never met her before either, but I could feel a connection to her through your vision"
"Will some one please tell us what you two are talking about. What house and what girl?" Rose says. Edward nods to me and I turn back to the rest of the family to tell them about the vision.
"So my vision started off with Rose and I at a mall shopping, but we are not alone. There is another girl with us, but I could not see her face. We were walk around, joking and laughing. The scene faded to another one. Now it was Jasper and the same mystery girl are playing chess in a familiar looking living room, both Edward and I think that it is at our house in Forks. I could see Jasper frown, but then smile and hear laughter coming from the girl when she checkmates Jasper's queen. The scene changed again. Its in the same living room, but this time it was Emmett and the same girl playing video games and laughing. It changed again. This time we are all together outside and it appears that we were been playing baseball. Once again the same mystery girl is the focus of the vision. She was sandwiched between Carlisle and Esme as they hugged her. The scene changed once again. This time it is just Edward and the girl. They are laying back and relaxing in a large meadow, surrounded by soft grass and wild flowers. She had her head laying on Edward's chest and he is stroking her cheek. Finally I could see her face clearly. She was beautiful. She had a heart shaped face framed by long, curly chestnut locks, flawless pale skin and dark lashes framing her large golden eyes. Edward called her Bella (leaving the rest out because it was a bit private)"
"Whoa, wait a minute. Are you telling me that there is some girl out there that we are going to meet sometime in the future that can whip Jasper's ass at chess? I'm in, when do we move?" Emmett says with a huge grin on his face. Jasper scoffed at the idea of someone beating him at chess, but smiled and wrapped his arms around my waist before saying "Well as unlikely it is for someone to best me in chess, I have learned to trust Alice's visions. Plus I always did like it in Forks, lots of hunting and it was always fairly peaceful there, I'm in as well." "Well if Emmett is in than so am I and I do like the idea of having another sister" Rosalie says. Emmett's eyes lit up at that idea; only now realizing that is Bella girl would be just that, a new little sister for him to protect. He so did love the idea of playing the big brother. "Carlisle, a new daughter! We are getting a new daughter" Esme said with much love and excitement in her voice. Carlisle could not help smile at that fact. He loved each of his 'children' and he knew that he would love this new daughter with just as much love. "Well I guess it's decided, we are moving to Forks and gaining a new member of our family" Carlisle says. "Ok everyone, time to pack" With that everyone headed off to start packing up the house.
Edward POV
The whole time packing all I could do was think about Bella. I spent hours just memorizing her face in my mind, listing her laugh and branding her name on my metaphorical heart. She was my love, my heart, my soul, my mate and I have not even met her yet. I could not wait to meet her and with that idea I sped through packing. I was finished long before anyone else was done and I had to wait for everyone else to finish. Finally two agonizing days later we were finished and on our way to Forks. We decided to drive there instead of flying, which was fine with me. I was too nervous about meeting Bella to fly and I know Alice was too excited by the way she was constantly bouncing up and down in her seat. Jasper had tried his best to calm her down, but even he was excited at the prospect of no longer being the newest member of the family. I knew that everyone else was just as excited from the thoughts running through their heads.
Emmett- I wonder what she will be like? I hope she likes pulling pranks and I know she likes video games from what Alice saw. A new little sister, I can't wait!
Rosalie- This will be great, finally we are evened up. I wonder if she is into cars too, that would be great. Plus maybe Alice will drag her off shopping and give me a break for a while.
Jasper- She seems like an intriguing girl and I love the idea of having someone new and challenging to play chess with.
Alice-Yes, Yes, Yes...Sister...Shopping...Clothes...Sister...Yes...Shopping...Shopping...Sister!
Esme- I can't wait to meet her. I wonder if her name is really Bella or if its just sort for something. I bet it's Isabella, such a pretty name but Bella is just as pretty. I wonder what she is like. I hope she likes us and is willing to except us as her family, as me as her mom.
Carlisle- I wonder how she came upon the diet of feeding off of animals and not humans. The only other vampires I know that follow this life style are our cousins in Alaska and I doubt any of them created a new vampire. Did her sire teach her this or was it her choice. I have so many questions to ask her.
Smiling at the idea of how excepting everyone is of my Bella already I focused back on the road, the sooner we get to Forks the sooner I get to meet my soul mate.
Well as you can see all the Cullens are exciting about meeting Bella, but they all think that she is already a vampire! It will be interesting to see their reactions when not only do they find out that she is still human, but is also being abused and home and school. Can we say overprotective big brother Emmett?...maybe...
Working on the next chapter now. titled: First day of school and meeting Bella. Please R/R
