Chapter 13:
Alice started to ask us questions.
-Have you got any new information? Why did you take so long? And why do you have a box? What happened?
-Slow down Alice, let us sit down and we will tell you everything.
And that's what happened as soon as we started to tell them our encounter with one of the instructor and how weirdly she acted and then our conversation with Lucy and her story, and finally what had happened when Bella appeared in the room. When we finished they just sat there starring at us for a while until Emmett looked at us with a confused and perplexed look.
-There's just one thing that I don't understand. How is it possible that she had gotten pregnant if vampires don't have access to the ability?
-Well Emmett, we were thinking the same thing but Rosalie came to the conclusion that while a vampire female can't get pregnant, a human could get since all her system does not work like vampires!
-You could be right Jasper but we should ask Carlisle.
-You're right. Why don't we do that tomorrow since we have two weeks of break and we will have our ideas clearer?
-Yes let's just have a little break and continue tomorrow.
And that's what we did. During the rest of the evening we were reading, playing video games, talking about things that weren't really important, and watching movies….
As soon as the sun was shining in the sky and that Edward had gone hunting with Carlisle and Esme, we all headed towards the basement and Jasper said:
-Alice, I was wondering if the walls were sound proof, so that we know what we can say and what we can't and how we must say it without making the others suspicious.
-Don't worry Jasper, I thought of it all and the basement is sound proof so we can say whatever we want.
-Ok great. So now, on the agenda we have two things to do.
-And what are they Rose?
-Well, that's simple. Emmett, first we will look in the box and see if we can find anything. Then, as soon as Carlisle will be back, two of us will go and ask him about weather humans can get pregnant by a vampire. In the meantime, the other two will stay in the basement organising the leads that we have till now.
-Ok, got it, so according to what you told us, now were going to look and find out what there is in the box.
Jasper went and took the box out of its hiding place and then he placed it on the table where we were all seated. Everybody was looking at the wooden box not knowing what to do. Finally Emmett took the box into his hands and stared for a while at the cover of the box, then he exclaimed.
-Well, this girl had definitely something to do with Edward and may be the cause of why he has been acting so weird since he came back from Forks all those years ago.
-And why would you say that now if we all had our suspicions that that was the case?
-Well that's simple little pixie, because on the cover of this box, it's written "Bella and Edward Forever" and from what we know this isn't any Edward, this is our Edward.
-Well yes, that makes sense Oh…. And Emmett?
-Yes Alice.
-STOP CALLING ME PIXIE! And on cue he reserved a slap on the head.
-Hold your horses' sis; you don't have to be so mean about it.
-Will you just open the box?
-Yes sir.
He went and placed back the box on the table, and then he went and opened the box. As soon as he opened it we all went to his side and looked in the interior of the box. It was beautiful. It was filled with carvings of what looked like swans, mountain lions and places that must have been symbolique to Bella because if they weren't, they wouldn't have been in the box. What caught all our attention was that one of the carvings was of our crest and that was the last straw? So it was now sure that Bella and Edward had some kind of history and by the looks of it, it ended in the wrong way. As soon as we were done contemplating it, we started to look into the contents of the box. There were pictures of what looked like a meadow and it was beautiful. It was a big field surrounded by trees, so it looked like it was in the woods. There was a waterfall which the water sparkled like diamonds due to the bright sun that was up in the sky. The field was covered with a carpet of flowers of different colours and shapes. This place looked like a paradise.
But there were also photos of lions and swans. As I was getting to end the pile of photos, I got a surprise because the rest of the pictures were all of her, Edward or both of them while the last one, was of a little baby boy with green eyes. I slowly stood up and took the one of the different things that there was and put them on the board.
-Rosalie, baby, what are you doing?
-I 'm just putting a few samples of the pictures that I went through.
-And what are those samples?
-Well, there's one of a swan, a lion, a photo of her, one of Edward and what looks like a photo of her son.
That last word had caught everybody's attention. All of them were looking at the photo of her and Edward together and the one of her son and what may be his son too.
-Well, they do look a lot like each other. Edward would easily pass as his father.
-Alice is right. If you look in closely, Anthony has the messy hair, the same mouth and I bet that he has the same colour of eyes then when Edward was still human.
They all nodded and then went back to what they were doing. A few hours later of searching and reading the rest of the family arrived back from hunt.
-Listen, me and Jasper will go and ask Carlisle, while you and Emmett stay here and try to sort out this board of information that we have.
-Ok but Jasper, could you give us James' phone number?
-Of course Rose, here you go but, why do you need it?
-Well I was going to ask him if he could find anything about Anthony James Cullen.
-Alright then everyone back to work.