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The Past.

Edward's POV

I told everyone to sit down. Everyone except Carlisle and Esme looked confused and slightly annoyed at being kept in the dark.

When everyone was settled I began I had decided to tell the story as Bella was still hyperventilating from shock.

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"Well you know that after we graduated from Forks High, Bella and I took a gap year.

We travelled around America. 2 months into our trip, we found out that Bella was pregnant.

Naturally we panicked.

We were going into college, and could never take care of a baby.

Also we didn't know what type of baby it would be. Would it be human or Vampire?

Bella knew that it was my baby and we didn't know what we would do.

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We rang Carlisle and Esme and asked them for advice.

They had some ideas but didn't know what Bella's parents would think.

So we rang Charlie and Renée and we all agreed to meet up and discuss it.

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We met up in Jacksonville.

First we determined that no one wanted Bella to have an abortion.

Also everyone agreed that we couldn't handle the baby when we were in college.

Esme offered to look after the baby while we were at lectures and we knew that all of you would like to help, but we didn't want to put that on you guys.

Charlie and Renée couldn't look after it as they both worked.

So after much deliberation we decided that Bella and I would return to Jacksonville for the birth, but then the baby would be adopted.

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We then continued on our travels.

We had a great time but were understandably anxious about the birth.

Nine months later we went back to Jacksonville.

Bella gave birth to a beautiful girl with Chocolate brown hair and bright blue eyes.

We named her Lucy Alice Cullen.

We looked after her for two days and Carlisle came to see her and did the routine checks and jabs.

He also checked to see any signs of her being a Vampire.

She did have the sharp teeth, but no venom… yet.

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When she was three days old we took her to the child welfare office, and explained our situation.

Carlisle came with us.

We chose a couple that were in their thirties to adopt her.

They couldn't have children for one reason or another and seemed like very nice people.

We met them and they were very nice and kind, all they were thinking of was how beautiful she was.

They took her away the very same day.

They agreed to send us all of her medical reports as she grew up

. We then left Jacksonville as we had to get ready for college.

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We thought about her every day and still do.

We went to see her a few times, she never knew we were there but it was a comfort to see her growing up.

Then when she was sixteen we heard that both of her foster parents had been killed.

We went to Jacksonville to see what had happened.

We were allowed to see the bodies through some connections of Carlisle's, they both had tiny pinprick holes at the base of their necks.

These holes had red, bloody rims.

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We were horrified. Vampires had killed our daughter's foster parents! This was unbelievable.

We had tried to keep her away from our vampire way of life but to no avail.

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Lucy was living with her foster mother's sister at the moment. The sister's name was Julia.

Julia gained the role of Lucy's guardian untill Lucy was eighteen.

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That was last year. And then a few weeks ago Julia wrote to us and told us that she was moving away from Jacksonville.

However she didn't want Lucy to move with her, as she was moving to London, and wanted Lucy to continue with her American education.

Lucy was then put into custody of a Mr. And Mrs Walker, who were close family friends of Julia's.

They went through various tests and were deemed suitable guardians.

But then it turned out the Mr. Walker's job was moving him and his family to Washington.

Or so we thought.

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Then today we saw our daughter, performing on stage with her band.

We had no idea that she would be here. So tomorrow I have decided that I will put my extraordinary persuasion skills to good use on the Forks high administration staff and see what I can find out.

Is that a satisfactory explanation?"

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I looked around to see that everyone's faces were held in masks of shock and disbelief. For the first time all of my siblings were speechless.

A/n please be kind it's my first fan fic. I don't know anything about the adoption process so if I got it wrong I'm sorry. Please review I like reading your comments!