The figure remained in the darkness but I could just make out a smile, a familiar smile but I couldn't picture the face it belonged to.
"But Bella" Edward smiled "first I want to introduce you properly to my family" he was trying to buy time, I could tell.
"Now, now bro, Bella has waited long enough you should let her into the secret" Jasper obviously knew how I was feeling and was trying to lighten my mood a bit.
"No, no, it's fine" I said, I wanted to find out who this new member of the house was but I knew that smile. I could probably figure it out by the time Edward had introduced each member of the family.
"Okay" Edward was gleaming, that seemed to cheer him up for now. "first we have Carlisle, and I'm sure you two will become great friends judging by how many times Bella ends up in hospital" Carlisle smirked and held his hand out for me to shake. I took his hand; it was bigger than Edwards and seemed colder, if that was possible.
"It's nice to meet you properly Bella" his teeth shone as the light from outside hit them causing me to squint a little.
"Next we have my mother Esme, I'm sure you two will become great friends and look out for each other" the beautiful woman standing in the middle of the room stepped forward and squeezed me into a quick, gentle hug and stepped away allowing me to see her red, well proportioned lips and her lovely golden eyes to stun me into silence.
"Welcome to the family hunny" her pearly teeth almost synchronised with her husbands, just shining together in the faint light.
"Emmett and Rosalie, the pride and beauty of the house hold" Edward laughed as Alice gave a terrifying glare towards his direction.
Emmett stepped forward, standing several feet above me he seemed even taller than before and even though his height scared me his goofy smile made me chuckle gently to myself as he slapped me lightly on the back and walked over to his partner. Rosalie seemed too preoccupied by the TV in the corner to notice me so I just left Edward to move on to the small pixie like girl in the corner with Jasper.
"And last but certainly not least, my little sister Alice and Jasper." Alice turned delicately round to face in my direction, skipped over like a ballet dancer and quickly peeked me on my cheek, her scent was clean and fresh and her beautiful small face was delicately framed by her short spiky, dark hair. Jasper kept his distance but still half smiled, Edward had told me that he was the newest member of the family so I respected his distance; we didn't want any accidents today.
All this took less than a few minutes and I still had no idea who the figure reminded me of but I could feel her eyes on me even though she was a good 10 metres away from me.
"Come on Edward, stop changing the subject, Bella needs to find out sooner of later, we don't want to bore her to death do we" Emmett gave a warm grin from the sofa, still all I could see from Rosalie was the back of her beautiful, long, blonde hair.
"Okay, okay Bella I want you to let this sink in before you go running way from me okay" he looked worried, I mean how could me life get any weirder? "Okay, come on out jess" Edward waved his hand for the figure to come over. Jess?? What?? My best friend Jessica came skipping out of the corner to my side as if she belonged here. Okay, maybe my life could get a bit weirder.
"Hey Bella, what's up?"
I was shocked; Jessica never even talked to the Cullen's since she had known that she had no chance with any of them. She was embarrassed whenever they spoke to her, what was going on? A small wave of happiness hit me once again as jasper gave an encouraging smile over to me.
"Jess? What are you doing here?"
I felt Edward tense up slightly at my side but jess just acted casual as always and made her self at home on the stool in front of the TV.
"I asked you first, but I suppose I just came to give the Cullen's some…news that they had been waiting for."
I can't even describe what I felt, none of this fitted in to reality at all. Edward had the 'take your time' look on his face; there must be something I was missing.
"What news?"
Jess gave a questioning look to Edward and he gave a sigh. "Bella, jess came to tell us some news, that we thought could never happen in our lifetime, and we will tell you but not until you are fully settled with everything I have put you through so far. I mean its not right for a teenager to find out their boyfriend is dead and what jess came to tell us has shocked us all but its for the best…apparently." He put his hands on my shoulders "just don't run away from me straight way give Jess a chance to explain okay? That is, if you are ready for the news?"
I just nodded to save myself from exploding with curiosity. Edward turned to jess and left it to her to explain the situation to me. She tapped the seat next to her for me to sit down, I could tell this was going to take a while, so I made my way over, I took the seat next to her and listened to her story, or 'news' as she called it.