Disclaimer: Sadly, I own nothing of the Cullens or Bella. Only my ideas and Nick and Chase.

Author's Note: A special thank you to Iamyoursoul! Your idea kind of gave me the idea of what's going to happen in later chapters. It's not exactly what you thought of but it inspired me. Thank you anyway!

Chapter 6 : New Families

BPOV

As we walked in hand-in-hand, I couldn't help but smile. I hadn't felt like this in 50 years. It was like an unexpected high. If someone had told me that I was going to find the love of my life, scratch that, existence again, and that he still loves me, I would never have believed it. I would have thought it was a cruel joke, but here I am, proving myself wrong. I thought I would never see him again, I thought that I didn't care, I thought that they, more specifically, he, didn't care. I was wrong on all accounts. And for one of the first times in my life, I was ecstatic to be wrong. It was then that Esme came over and hugged me,

"Oh, Bella! We've missed you so much! Will you ever forgive us for leaving you?" she asked me. I couldn't refuse. I had forgiven them long ago. I never blamed them, I only blamed myself. For not being good enough for their family, for being so insignificant in their lives. I was so wrong about all of that. It wasn't anyone's fault because nothing was done wrong. I now realized how much they all loved me, wanted me.

"Of course I forgive you. I couldn't dream of holding a grudge against the people I love." I said. Wow, that sounded sappy, but it was true.

"So… what are we supposed to do now?" asked Alice. That was a very good question. I couldn't be without Edward anymore, and he couldn't be without his family. But I didn't want to leave Nick and Chase out in this. They had acted like parents to me. They had helped me pick up the pieces when I was broken. When they found me they helped me, they could have left me there in the woods, they could have destroyed me. They didn't. They took me in and cared for me as one of their own. I owed them so much more than just leaving them. They deserved so much more.

"I… uh, well. Um, I – I… don't really know" I said, "I mean, as much as I would love it, we can't exactly all live together, this family is too large as it is. We can work something out though… can't we?" I looked at Carlisle, he almost always had a solution.

"Well, I agree with you Bella, our family is far too large. I think that we might be able to work something out so that you don't have to choose between families, if Nick and Chase would like of course." Said Carlisle.

"Of course, I don't want you guys to feel like you have to merge with this family because of me. But, I'm afraid I won't be able to travel with you anymore, I need to be with Edward." I said to them with a small smile.

"Bella, dear, you know we love you. We would be glad try and work out an arrangement with the Cullens, they are your family just as much as we are. There's no reason for anyone to be inconvenienced." Said Chase. I was so excited, my two families, coming together as one. This was the best day ever!

"OOH! Yay! Oh, Edward, you're idea will work!" Alice said enthusiastically.

"Oh! You're right! And I like it." Said Chase, I could tell already that she and Alice were going to get along. But they still didn't say anything about the actual plan. Stupid, psychic, vampire powers.

"I'm glad you both approve." Said Edward.

"Will someone please tell us what's going on!" asked Emmett. Poor Emmett, he was always out of the loop. Wait… so was I.

"Well, I was thinking that Bella, Nick, and Chase could move in and we can pretend we already know them from where we used to live. I mean they've already been doing that, well basically, except now they'll know the family down the street" Edward said, wow, he really did think of everything. My angel, the most amazing person ever.

"That's a great idea!" said Nick. "Except, you know what might be a good idea too? If you don't think it is that's fine, but you were talking about how your family is too large, well what if a couple of you came to live with us and pretend to be apart of our family?"

"That's a good idea Nick!" said Alice. After some small difficulties, we had finally come to a conclusion. It was settled. We were all going to move into a new town and enroll in the school there. Alice and I would enroll a couple months later. Alice would have been adopted by Nick and Chase when she was younger, and I was their niece, whose parents had just recently died in a car accident. Edward, Emmett, Rosalie, and Jasper were using the usual story, Edward and Emmett are brothers, Rose and Jasper are twins, all adopted by Carlisle and Esme to avoid foster homes. I was so excited. My life had finally taken a turn for the better, the first turn since I found Nick and Chase. Now my two families could be as one, no one would be searching for their soul mates, Carlisle and Esme had a new couple to go on double dates with and talk to other than their children, and Edward and I were both happy again.

A couple weeks later, Carlisle and Esme and Nick and Chase had sold their houses and we were all on the move. We had decided, well everyone but me, that we should start over in Forks, because that's where this all began. I don't think it's a good idea. I mean really. What if Jessica or Mike still lives there? They are going to notice if we look exactly the same as we did when they knew us, and Edward would still have the same last name, so would Rosalie, Emmett, and Jasper. No one listened to me. I just didn't think it was a good idea, we should go somewhere else just incase, but no, no one ever listens to Bella who went crazy… she doesn't know anything.



At the beginning of the year, Alice and I were very bored. We weren't allowed to go out where people could see us, because our house was supposedly "getting ready" for our arrival in a couple months. All we did was sit around and Alice gave me make-overs. She couldn't take me shopping so she decided to change my style. These style changes took around the same time a school day took. Monday I was a preppy girl, Tuesday I was goth, Wednesday I was emo, Thursday I was grunge, and Friday I was a goody-two-shoes. This pattern continued every week until we could go to school. She would have Rosalie go out for new clothes and make up every so often. The first day of school for Edward was torture, I didn't like being away from him for that length of time, with girls drooling over him wherever he went and I couldn't do anything about it. They thought he was single, but oh boy, were they wrong.

"You won't believe who sits next to me in English, Bella," Edward said the first day of school. We were all sitting around talking about who was still in Forks and deciding whether the wolves were still there. "It was Mike Newton's grandson, apparently he married young."

"Really? Wow, I would never have thought Mike would be one to marry young. He must have had kids pretty early too, to be a grandfather with a grandson a junior in high school at the age of 68 or something. His kids must have gotten busy too." I said. I couldn't believe Mike still lived here, I can't believe someone married him! Okay, that was mean, maybe he had changed after I died.

"Yeah, his name's Geoff. Anyway, Mike and his wife already moved out of Forks. You'll never guess who Mike's wife is though," said Edward. I was intrigued, who could have married Mike?

"It's Jessica Stanley!" squealed Rosalie. Wow, I've never heard Rose squeal before. I sat there with a look of shook on my face. Jessica? Why in the world would she ever settle down with Mike of all people? I mean she did date him in high school but, I would have thought she had to have gotten a little better taste since. I guess not. I guess at the same time I can't be that surprised.

"Wow, that was… unexpected, yet expected at the same time…" I said. Alice looked at me with a weird look.

"Bella, that made absolutely no sense whatsoever. And I'm totally loving the preppy look on you" she finished with a squeal of joy.

"Well actually it kinda does. Because that wasn't who I was expecting you know? But if you think about it, it actually makes sense, Jess and Mike being married" I explained, "But Rosalie squealing? That was definitely unexpected!" We started laughing at that. After a while of hanging out with my new family, Edward pulled me away for some alone time.

He took me up into his room, and onto the couch. I snuggled up against his hard body and I knew I was the luckiest girl, vampire, person alive. I had Edward Cullen and he had me. I smiled at myself at that thought, I still couldn't believe that he loved me, but I accepted it all the same.



"I can't wait till you can come to school, love," he said quietly, "It's extremely boring without you there, plus when you get there, we can make our relationship public and I won't have so many fantasies running through my head of me and girls who I'd rather die than be with." I could hear the distaste in his voice in the end which made me happy. But it did make me jealous that there were girls there who thought they had a chance with my Edward. I giggled at that thought. I loved thinking it too. My Edward… My Edward… My Edward… My Edward… My Edward… My Edward… My Edward… My Edward… My Edward… My Edward… My Edward… My Edward… My Edward… My Edward… My Edward…

"Bella? What are you giggling at?" Edward's voice brought me back. If I could I would have blushed, I didn't notice I wasn't mentally giggling like I had been for the past couple weeks when I thought of him as my Edward… oops giggled again. "Bella?"

"Hehe oh, …it's kind of embarrassing," I admitted.

"Please Bella?" He breathed close to my face. Oh no. He was dazzling me again… wait what was I supposed to be doing?

"…huh?" I said still dazzled.

"Your giggling? The reason behind it? You said it was embarrassing. Please tell me, I won't laugh at you I promise" he said. Oh yeah, my giggling, oh dear, well might as well get it over with.

"Well, I was sorta thinking of how I was jealous that there were girls who thought that they had a chance with you… and I kinda called you my Edward in my head and I giggled at it. I normally do whenever I think it and… I think it a lot. But most of the time it's mental giggling. And well, I kept giggling because I said 'my Edward' in my head about fifty times" I said and looked down. He started giggling. That liar!

"Hey! You said you wouldn't laugh!" I said with a pout on my face. Yeah. Definitely a bad idea to tell him the source of my giggling.

"Aw, love, I wasn't laughing at you! I was laughing at myself!" He said with another giggle.

"What? Why would you laugh at yourself when it was me who called you my Edward in my head and giggled at the thought of it… actually like fifty thoughts of it but still," I said, extremely confused.

"Bella, I wasn't laughing at you calling me that, I was laughing at the fact that well… I do that too" he said with that crooked smile that I love so dearly

I was still confused, "You call yourself my Edward in your head? Did you develop some crazy ego thing while I was gone?"

"No, silly Bella. I call you that in my head."

"You call me my Edward in your head? Again, the ego issue?"

"Bella, please stop being absurd. I call you 'my Bella' in my head. And it makes me giggle too. Though like you said mostly mental giggling. I don't usually giggle out loud. It messes with my manly figure." I started laughing. He joined in with me.

"It makes me giggle because I'm so happy that I have you again and I didn't lose you" he said after he calmed down.

"That's my reason too. Though I don't normally think it in insane quantities like I did about 10 minutes ago but yeah."

"I love you." He said

"I love you, too" I said as I leaned up to kiss him.

Okay this was sort of a filler chapter until I could come up with my plot which I did about halfway through this one but I liked this little encounter with Bella and Edward being complete fools with each other. Also, I am going to need a girl's name for the future and I am horrible with coming up with names it took me about a day to come up with Nick and Chase so I would appreciate it if you gave me some ideas, like your first names. I think you will want this character to be named after you so leave a review with your name and when I find the one I want I will post the chapter. Don't worry I'll still be writing while I search for the name. So please review! (Sorry for the long author's note)