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Written by Nashmeira S. W.

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(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ Lunch For Two ✧ﾟ･: *ヽ(◕ヮ◕ヽ)

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On our way to the Cullen's, Dad and I had dropped off dad's police cruiser that he 'hit a deer with' at the station. Charlie had signed out the police search-and-rescue SUV until his car was fixed. From here we were off to the Cullen's and the drive was short, but then again, every drive in Forks was short.

Driving off the main road and down a long driveway, we saw the Cullen's home and both of us were thinking the same thing.

They didn't live in a home, homes were nice and cozy with just enough space for the people living there. This was a mansion, which had more than enough space for probably twenty people. Last head count I had put the Cullen's at seven.

Glass, almost an entire side of the house was glass. I knew the Cullen's were good with money but this house made Dad's house look like a cave. When we came to a stop, Dad whistled.

"I knew they were well off but wow..." Dad just nodded. The place was defiantly more than we were expecting and even with a family of seven.

As we got out of the large SUV that was my dad's police issues Tahoe as the Charlie walked out onto the porch to meet us. Raising a hand, waved at us as we made our way into their mansion. Casual greetings were had as we entered into a large white living room.

The outside was amazing but the inside, and whatever that smell was, added to the heavenly nature of this place.

Carlisle took the initiative and started the introductions.

"Welcome to our home," Carlisle said as Esme came to stand by him. "I think formal introductions are in order. As you know, my name is Carlisle and this is my wife, Esme." He gestured to the lovely women from last night. Her smile was just so inviting and her persona just exuded how genuine she was in her emotions. "She did all the planning and decoration of the house."

My dad got in his grove of being the polite local and reached out to shake hands with the matriarch of the family. There was only the smallest apprehension in the women before she took his hand and smiled.

"You have a lovely home Miss Cullen and if smell is anything to go by, I would say that interior decorating isn't your only talent."

"Thank you, but please, Esme is fine. There is no need to be strangers."

Carlisle picked back up on his introductions with the next two members of the Cullen clan, the dark haired, petite Alice, if memories served, and Jasper. The one that always looked in pain or maybe he was just pissed off, it's hard to tell. His eyes were taking in every little thing we were doing and it was kind creepy so I was a little surprised that the two of them approached me.

"It's so great to meet you, Bella. I just know we will be best friends, oh, and it's great to meet you to, Mr. Swan." Dad just politely waved her off much the same way as Esme did. "I'm so sorry about what happened last night and I guess it's partly my fault since I was so nervous. You and your dad are really hard to see correctly it's really strange." Carlisle's cough interrupted her, and she, like all the other Cullen's, gave us an award winning smile. "Sorry we'll save the explanation of what I mean till later."

After an awkward moment of silence, Jasper just nodded towards us and said, "Nice to meet you." I had never heard Jasper speak up til then and there was an obvious southern drawl in his voice.

"And finally we have our other children that I think you know. But in an effort to start over let me introduce them officially. My oldest son, Edward," Edward smiled at me, and for a moment I felt lighter, until I caught my dad in my peripheral vision eyeing me.

"It's nice to meet you Bella and Charlie formally," Edward said.

"Then we have Emmett…" Carlisle continued.

"Yo," Emmett answered with a salute.

"And Rosalie, whom I think has something she would like to say." I eyed Rosalie expectantly, then I noticed the turtle neck she was wearing and I grinned widely.

"I'm terribly sorry for what happened last night and I would…" I could tell that this was killing her to apologize. She fixed me with a look as she continued. "..like to help fix the damage I caused to your house."

Common courtesy dictates that I say, 'Thank you and we would be great to have your help.' But what really came out was no where near that.

"Yeah well don't try and murder me again or I'll pop your head off like Pez dispenser." I grinned.

My smugness didn't last long as I felt my father's very strong hand on my shoulder and an almost overwhelming feeling of foreboding. I was no doubt getting the look. Adding the physical interaction to the mix and I felt like I was six years old again. It didn't hurt but I felt really little and in his defence, I was being a jerk just because I could. Since last night, I could tell I was getting stronger and, to my own detriment, cockier.

"Dammit Bella, stop acting like a ten-year-old. We're here to mend fences," Don't you mean houses? Hee hee "and you smarting off to Rosalie at every possible chance is not helping. Now, stop being childish and apologize."

Chancing a glance around the room, I could see that even though it was directed at me, they were getting that small feeling that Dad was putting out too. Usually Charlie would never do this in public but then again we weren't in public and these people weren't really people at all.

It seemed that since we were not hiding what we were any more from this odd family, meant we didn't have to keep up pretences of being normal. Hence, why Dad was laying it on thick right now and no doubt trying to make a point.

Abruptly the feeling of being scolded like a small child left me and both myself and my father looked around the room at all present. He realised very quickly how much he had been pouring it on. Charlie nervously scratched the back of his head.

"Sorry about that, Bella kinda set me off and well… I guess that's something we can talk about today. Bella, you have something to say." Charlie's last words were not a question and truth be told I had no interest in being on the receiving end of the look again if I didn't have to.I really could not wait till I could do that like Dad and Grandma.

One day payback will be mine!

"Well, sorry about that. I guess, sorry about the Pez comment." I knew what my dad said was true, I was being childish and looking at the gathered family, I really did want to give them a chance.

To her credit, Rosalie thanked me then apologized for the accident again. Normal conversation followed from there and it was nice just chatting even though deep down, we were all still a little on edge, but even that was slowly fading.

It was slowly turning into an almost normalday. I, for one, was starting to feel a little more at ease with the whole situation. There were not many people around that Dad and I could be around without making sure everything we touched didn't crumble. These days, it was like everyone and everything around us was made of eggshells.

So who knows, maybe this was a good opportunity.

A ringing noise broke up the conversation as Esme excused herself to go to the what I guessed was the kitchen. If her talent for cooking was as good as her tastes in home decoration, then we were all in for a very special treat, literally.

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Billy Black was not a happy man. Only moments ago he had received a call from his best friend, Charlie Swan, about canceling their usual baseball-game-Friday, not that it hadn't happened before. This time, however, was different because Charlie had ditched him for someone else.

"What did those leaches want from Charlie and Bella?" He mumbled to himself.

No good could come of those Cullen's, none. Something was most certainly wrong when the most anti-social family in town decided to invite the Chief of Police and his teenage daughter over for lunch; on a baseball-Friday no less!

Jacob wouldn't be home for a few hours but normally he would pass along any suspicious insight from around the reserve and town to Billy who, in turn, would pass the information along to Sam. But this wasn't just any news, this was something that had to be investigated now.

This couldn't wait.

Taking up the phone again, he quickly dialed a number and three rings later, a feminine voice greeted him.

"Hello?"

"Hello Emily, could I speak to Sam?"

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So here we were, sitting around a large, long dining table as Esme brought out the food. Carlisle was at the head of the table and to his left was an open chair that I assumed was Esme's place. My father sat to Carlisle's right, and beside the empty chair right across from me sat Edward. With the exception of him, everyone seemed to be paired off: Emmett and Blondie, Alice and Jasper, Carlisle and Esme.

Esme had outdone herself deciding to cook a roast that was mouthwatering. I looked over the food to Edward and he just gave me that stupid grin that made my insides turn to jelly. Without even realizing it, I found that my lips had turned up in a smile that for the life of me I could not get rid of.

What the hell? Go away dang it!

I was blushing and that appeared to be like permission for Edward to keep dazzlingme with his smile that only grew wider with my coloring cheeks. As Esme returned, this time with two plates, I finally snapped out of my reveling at the sight of Edward Cullen. Now, looking around, it occurred to me that my dad and I were the only ones with plates. Not surprising since they never seemed to really eat anything at lunch so why would they do it here? Dad seemed to think being blunt was the way to go so he just said what was on his mind.

"So, I'm guessing that you all don't normally eat food… that or you're trying to fatten us up." He chuckled but looking around, no one else did. "Ok then." He said, cutting into his roast beef.

"So what have you noticed so far?" It was Edward that asked this. I reached out for my glass of water and took a gulp. It was all seeming too surreal, we knew what we were but meeting other beings that were so far removed from what passed as thenormseemed to be throwing us all off.

"Well, you don't seem to eat food, and not even at school, you just seem to push it around on the plate. You're fast, like, really fast. You don't have any pours at all, that's a little freaky, and you all seem to have this glow about you." I said and eyes were darting all around to each member of the family at that last revelation.

I took the opportunity to take a bite of my roast beef.

Oh my gosh. This is amazing…

"You apparently have an inhuman ability to cook and that has to count for something." My dad said, taking another large bite. "Esme, this is absolutely fantastic." The woman's smile seemed to light up the room as my dad praised her.

"Thank you, Charlie."

"Adding in my two cents, I can't help but notice that you all share the same eye color. For a family that isn't related, to all have such an unusual eye color is a little bit of a giveaway. Then there is the blonde kid here, Jasper right?," a nod came from Jasper. "Well, he looks like he has bite marks all over him. Humans wouldn't be able to see them though. " My dad spoke up before again helping himself to more roast beef. As eyes grew wide around the table. "That's the only thing I can think of to add to what Bella already said."

Carlisle seemed to think for a moment about everything we had said and as did everyone else at the table while I followed my father and cut more of the roast for myself. After digesting all of our observations the room was almost silent, the exception was my father and I still eating. After digesting what we had said, Carlisle seemed to feel that being blunt was the way to go and I have to say I was a little surprised.

"We're vampires."

That statement hung in the air for a good two minutes, mostly due to my father and I chewing and giving sidelong glances at each other. Let me say this: we were shocked. Though at the same time, we had already known there was something otherworldly about the Cullen's. I swallowed, still coming terms with the new information that we had been given.

"I wasn't too far off, well in a away I wasn't. I was going to guess zombies." My dad's guess wasn't really that bad and a round of chuckles came from everyone at the table.

"I know there will be a lot of questions but we can save those till after you've finished eating. We don't want to ruin your appetite by talking about ours." Carlisle chimed in.

"I have one question now that's really important." I said, and I noticed that Edward's eyebrows had raised in curiosity. "Can you turn into bats?" That would be so cool, being able to fly and all. No one else had a chance to speak as a bellowing laugh escaped Emmett.

"That was the first thing I asked too when they told me I was vampire. See Jasper, I told you I wasn't the only one who would want to know that." Emmett said, the last part coming out pretty smug as he eyed Jasper, who in turn just rolled his eyes.

"Coffins?" I asked.

"Myth." Edward said.

"Guessing stakes are too, if I couldn't crack Rosalie open like a walnut then a pointy stick sure as hell even make a dent in you guys." There were nods of agreement all around.

"Sunlight?"

"Also a myth. However, we don't go in public on sunny days. We'll show you some time, I think that might also be why you mentioned the glow." Edward said licking his lips as if they were parched. "But you still haven't asked the most important question."

I looked at my dad, seeing if he had come up with the question then looked back to Edward and shrugged, not understanding. Then he spoke very slowly, his golden eyes boring into my own.

"What do we eat?" Again my father and I were caught off guard; we looked at each other then around the table. They all seemed to be waiting for us to have an epiphany but really, the issue here was that it was common knowledge, unless it was a myth too. Asking what Vampires eat, drink, was like asking, who was Luke Skywalker's father.

"Blood? I mean it is, right? Human blood? That's like the fundamental vampire thing, and if you say celery is your main source of food then being a vampire is kind of weak." I said. Emmett bursted again with his laugh, and there were a few more laughs around the table from Jasper, Alice, Esme, and Carlisle. Edward, for his part, just couldn't seem to understand us.

"Yes, a lot of vampires do sustain themselves on human blood but we like to think of ourselves as vegetarians. So the celery comment was well placed to an extent. We prefer to feed on animals instead." My Dad looked at Carlisle as he spoke and seemed to be in deep thought. "That's why our eyes are the color they are, it is due to the animal blood. Those that feed on human blood have red eyes while animal drinkers have golden eyes."

The conversation continued on, despite us eating and listening to Carlisle as he took control of the conversation. He explained more about vampires, the gifts are what really intrigued us and Alice's gift of seeing the future was especially interesting my father. The fact that Edward could not read our minds was a relief, but then we found that Jasper could read and manipulate our emotions. Jasper said he felt something odd about our emotions though and there was some kind of emotion that he couldn't place. It just seemed to be ingrained in us.

I guess in a way Jasper was right, it was ingrained in us. It was part of us and it was something that we would have to live with for the rest of our lives and it was hard to keep it under control sometimes if the last twenty four hours were anything to go by.

Finally, the explanations on the Cullen's side were done and my father and I were full. Esme asked if we would like some pie which we both declined and then promised to have a piece later. It was then time to present our side of the big reveal. My father just grinned as me and I looked around the table at everyone to keep the suspense going on.

"Well, this is going to be one hell of a tale."

Author's Notes

Please let me know your thoughts on the story and the direction that it is taking and also if you have a question about things coming up in the next chapter. I know it's a big moment that most of you have been waiting for, what the heck are Charlie and Bella.

I really hope there is an improvement in the quality this time around. I really tried to correct a lot of the errors and muched up sentences where my mind got ahead of my finders.

Q & A

If you all have any question please feel free to leave them in the comments and I'll answer them next chapter.

ginkgo00: Nope I had not thought about putting it under Supernatural but I have now, and it is.