Author's note: Here's the next chapter and it is written in Edwards POV as suggest by coralthegreat.

Disclaimer: I'm just burrowing Stephenie Meyer's character to create some entertainment for everyone here.

Chapter Five

Edward's POV

I came back to the house after a night of doing nothing but hunting and contemplating my dark and unnatural existence. I tried to spend as much time as possible out of the house, having four siblings that were happily in a relationship with each other made it nauseating to spend a lot of time in the same space with them, especially since they weren't shy about their physical relationship.

It made it worse with my ability for reading minds. Knowing your siblings and even your parents were sexually active was one thing but actually hearing their thoughts and seeing their plans makes it an uncomfortable situation to be in. Don't get me wrong I love my parents and siblings - their my family.

As soon as I walked into the house, I knew something was wrong. From Esme's excited thoughts I found that a little girl was coming to stay for the day, while her mother went on a date with Geoffrey, the idiot that Carlisle worked with. Esme and Rose were busy cleaning the house, while Emmett and Jasper were busy playing a game on the Playstation.

"Mom?" I asked as walked into the kitchen.

"Oh Edward, your back. I assume you know about our visit?"

"Yes, are you sure this is a good idea? We are a family of vampires."

"Edward, nothing will happen, we are perfectly capable of looking after a little girl for a few hours."

"Fine, I'll go and get ready since I've only got an hour since she is here."

I ran upstairs and got in the shower, feeling slightly agitated that we were babysitting a human girl for the day. We were monsters, how could we look after a child? Anything could happen, we could kill her.

But Esme was so excited at the thought of looking after a little girl, since her baby died and she had never had the chance to raise a child. How could I be selfish and prevent Esme from having some happiness?

I heard Alice's car pull up in the drive, and head her thoughts as she ran into the house. She'd been to town and brought colouring book, puzzles, games and dolls for the girl to play with. I smiled at the excitement in her mind at the thought of the girl playing with the stuff she brought, and also the new shoe store that had just opened and her plans to go back and shop some more later. Alice did love her shopping.

I felt myself relax under the spray of the shower as I listened to the familiar sounds of my family moving downstairs. I took my time in washing my hair, and getting dressed before relaxing on my sofa with a copy of 'Sense and Sensibility'. I loved the classic romance stories. Perhaps it was my inexperience with the emotion of love that made me crave to know more about it.

I was so engrossed in Jane Austen's novel that I barely noticed the sound of the doorbell that echoed round the house signalling the arrival of the human girl. I heard the heavy footsteps of Emmett as he approached the door; I was surprised that Esme had let him answer the door but when I heard her thoughts I found that Emmett had left her no choice in the matter.

"Hey who ordered the kid?" Emmett's booming voice asked. From his thoughts I realised that he was trying to intimidate the child as his way of a joke. As Geoffrey began a conversation with Emmett, I realised Emmett had succeeded in his task at intimidating the child, as I could hear her heart rate speed up.

I heard Esme interrupt Emmett as she greeted the people at the door. As I listened to what was happening downstairs, I realised that the girl's mother had agreed to let her 5 year old daughter spend the day with complete strangers so she could go on a date.

As I listened to the mother – Renee talk to Esme I realised they weren't even from England, the mother had an American accent. So she was leaving her daughter with strangers in a foreign country. This woman was unbelievable! Risking her daughter's life on the guarantee from a man she met yesterday that the people she was leaving her daughter with were good people!

I was pulled from my thoughts about the irresponsible mother as I heard Geoffrey's car start and move out of the drive way as Esme closed the door. "Everyone come meet Bella."

I quickly placed my book back and ran down the stairs and into the living room. The little girl, Bella I think her name was, was very pretty, she had long brown hair and wide brown eyes and pale skin, and she looked like one of those dolls that Alice had brought for her to play with.

I was struck by a sudden overwhelming urge to protect this little girl from everything. I noticed she was very shy and easily embarrassed as her cheeks flushed a cute pink colour as Esme started introducing her to my siblings.

I took a deep breath to try and clear my head of this sudden urge, and that's when her scent hit me. Her scent was extremely floral in fragrance and was absolutely mouth - watering. The fact that she was a child was the only thing that kept me sane and not losing myself to the monster within.

Then it hit me I couldn't read her mind. It was like there was something keeping me out of her mind. For the first time in my whole existence I didn't know what someone was thinking. I stared at her intently, trying despratly to try and pick up something from her mind. But nothing came.

Distracted as I was, I didn't hear as Esme introduced me to Bella, "And this is Edward…"