Chapter 6: Reunited

Nessie's POV

I waited anxiously for the door to open. I had a mixed feeling of emotions. I was both anxious and excited to see the rest of my family after ten years. How would they react? Would they hate me? Had I caused them too much pain to ever be forgiven?

As soon as they all saw me they stared at me in shock. Clearly my father had not forewarned them that I was here. Or they hadn't seen each other. After all my father is watching Lisa and Belle.

I tried my hardest to decipher the looks on all of their faces. My uncles just looked plain shocked. Grandma Esme just looked like she was about to cry. Aunt Alice was literally bouncing with happiness. Sometimes I swore she had ADHD and it's just gone undiagnosed all these years. Then there was aunt Rosalie. Her face displayed a number of emotions. Happiness, sadness, and even anger. It was impossible to say which emotion was the dominant one.

I suddenly found myself in my grandmother's arms. She held onto me tightly. I could feel her tears dripping onto the back of my neck. I started crying myself when the emotions began to overwhelm me.

"Nessie? Is it really you?" my grandmother asked me.

"Yes grandma. It's me" I bawled.

If possible she just hugged me even tighter.

"Hey you two have hugged long enough it's my turn already!" demanded aunt Alice. She didn't even wait for Esme to release me. She grabbed me and practically tore me away from her.

"Nessie don't you ever disappear on us like that again!" Alice practically shouted in my ear.

"I'm not leaving either again" I promised.

"Good squirt because we're not letting you ever leave us again!" Emmett shouted.

"Can't breathe" I wheezed out when Emmett hugged me. His strength had not diminished with time.

Emmet released me and I filled my lungs with oxygen.

"Sorry kid. I just got happy to see you again. You have no idea how much we've missed you and worried about you"

"Yeah we you're never going to get rid of me now. I'm not ever leaving again"

"Why the hell did you even bother to come back?" aunt Rosalie said in an ice cold voice.

I felt as if something had just died in me. Rosalie was a second mother to me. She loved me as if I were her own daughter. Now she was rejecting me. Did she no longer love me? I know I messed up big time but was it bad enough to hate me?

"Rose!" grandma scolded.

"No. Why should we welcome her back into this family?! All she did was cause us pain and heartbreak! She left without even caring about her real family! Now we're just welcoming her back as if nothing happened-"

"Rose stop!" my mother shouted. "Don't do this. Please don't do this. Not now-"

"Fine. I'm leaving. Sorry Bella" aunt Rosalie just before leaving. I watched as the door closed behind her.

I chose to go after her. I had to make things right with her. I loved her and it hurt me to think of all the pain that I caused her. We used to have an almost mother-daughter like relationship. She hated Jacob though; much like my parents did.

"Aunt Rose wait!" I shouted after. She didn't even listen to me.

As I was running down the stairs I felt another wave of dizziness overcome. I had to stop and grab onto the handrail to stop from falling.

As soon as I was at the bottom of the staircase I saw my aunt again, this time walking through the mostly empty lobby.

"Aunt Rose! Please wait!" I shouted.

I was surprised to see that she actually did listen this time. Though she still looked upset.

I grabbed onto the wall when the dizziness crept up on me again. I had to lean against the wall. Chasing after my aunt had left me feeling dizzy and ill. A fact that she did not seem to pick up on for she had shouted at me that she was waiting for me.

I found my strength again and was able to walk toward her. As I had just got done saying to my mom I was going to fight my Leukemia. We were going to fight our cancers together.

"Aunt Rose I am so sorry" I told her. "I am really sorry I-"

"Nessie why did you do it? Why? You left your whole family! You disappeared with that no good rotten piece of-"

"Stop" I said. "Don't you ever insult Jacob again. He was the love of my life. He was my husband! We loved each other and he always treated me with love and respect. Did we make a huge mistake by running away? Yes we did. I have regretted it for so many years now. But Jacob is dead now and I will not allow you to disrespect his memory"

My aunt actually looked shocked now. Until now I had never really stood up to her to defend Jacob.

I suddenly felt really tired and I had to sit down. My body was feeling weak again.

"Nessie get up" aunt Rose said.

I felt too weak to listen.

"I can't" I said.

"Yes you can Nessie. You're a perfectly healthy young lady" she said. I wanted to cry. I was not 'perfectly healthy' but now was not the time to bring up my cancer. Now was the time to fix my relationship with my aunt.

"Okay fine" aunt Rose gave in and just sat down in the chair next to me.

"I'm sorry. I know that you must hate me now-"

She cut me off. "Nessie I do not hate you! I could never hate you!"

"Then why are you so angry with me?" I asked, feeling very confused.

"Nessie I love you. To me you are my daughter. When you left it hurt me so much. It was extremely painful. I was always worried about you. Scared that something had happened to you. Then out of nowhere you just come back like nothing. It brought all of those feelings to the surface again. Why? Why did you leave? Why did you come back?"

"I have wanted to come back for a long time now. I just didn't have the courage to do it until recently. I'm really sorry. I just sant to make things right-"

I couldn't even finish my sentence before before my aunt cut me off with a hug. I hugged her back. I loved my aunt. I could feel the amount of love she still had for me. Nothing really had changed. The amount of hurt that she felt was because of the amount of love that she had for me. When I left she didn't lose a niece she lost a daughter. She raised me as much as my parents had and what I did hurt her.

"Nessie I'm sorry"

"But what made you decide to leave in the first place?" she asked me. "That's what I want to know. Not knowing has been killing me all these years"

I took a deep breath before I started the story. "I had some big news to tell them. It was about Jacob and I. But as soon as I mentioned that Jacob was part of this they threatened me and they forbade me from seeing him again. They had threatened to disown me if I saw him again. That would have been impossible now so I made a rash decision and left"

"What are you talking about Nessie? Stop being cryptic. What news?

"Mommy!" I heard my two girls shout at the same time. They had escaped my father when they saw me.

Lisa decided to climb on the chair and sit on my lap. Belle was happy just to stand right next to me.

"Mommy who is she?" Lisa asked me pointing at aunt Rosalie. "She's pretty"

"She is my aunt Rosalie"

I don't know what possessed my daughter to do it but she got off of my lap and walked over to aunt Rose and hugged her tightly. Then Belle went and joined the hugging action. My aunt hugged them both as well. I had a feeling she was putting the pieces together.

"You're really pretty" Lisa said again.

"Thank you young lady you are too. Both of you are. What might your names be?"

"Aunt Rose if you really consider me your daughter then let me introduce you to your granddaughters; Lisa and Belle. Belle was the news that I was going to tell my parents about that day.

The look on Aunt Rose's face was priceless.

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