Chapter One – The Cullens
I gained my specialty in two years and had moved to Forks like I planed I had been working at the hospital for just under half a year now and had been asked to show the new doctor around which I had agreed to as it seemed like a good way to distract myself from James. I knew when he and his family would be arriving in Forks so I decided to visit them when they arrived.
The day of their arrival I was not working so I decided to take my favourite car and drove to the house they had bought. It was a little outside the town like my house it was isolated and was very beautiful. As its garden was very large I decided that it would be nice to take a small present when I visited. Hoping they would like it I took a small rose plant that I had been growing.
I arrived outside their house and knocked the door; it was opened by Dr Cullen who looked cheerful. "Dr Cullen I just thought that I would come and welcome you and your family to the neighbourhood." I smiled calmly. Dr Cullen was pale and had honey coloured eyes; my thoughts turned to James as I realised that they looked very much like the vampires from my past.
"Please call me Carlisle." Dr Cullen said.
"My name is Amelia Andrews and I work at the hospital." I responded. A lady joined him by his side.
"This is my wife Esme. Esme this is Amelia." Carlisle introduced.
"It's nice to meet you Esme" I smiled handing her the rose.
"It's very nice of you to have come all this way out here not may people could be bother by such a long drive." Esme commented.
"Oh the drives not so long for me I live a little bit down from here and it is no trouble at all." I replied. The rest of the family came into the entrance hall to see what was going on I guess. One of them spoke quietly with Carlisle then went and stood over by the wall.
"This is Amelia." Esme introduce me to her family. "Amelia this is Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, Emmet and Edward." Esme continued.
"It is nice to meet you all." I replied. Looking round it seemed Jasper and Alice were together and that Rosalie and Emmet where together. "Do you need any help because I am more than happy to lend a hand if you need it?" I offered.
"It is very nice of you to offer and I could use a hand in the dinning room as the kids are all sorting their own rooms." Esme responded.
Everyone headed back to their tasks and I spent the rest of the day morning and most of the afternoon helping the Cullens unpack. By mid-afternoon I knew more or less what the Cullens where like Alice was hyper and loves shopping, Rosalie loves looking good and being the centre of attention, Emmet is strong and childish and also loves to annoy his brothers, Jasper is quite and polite and Edward was very musical and intelligent.
Dr Cullen and his wife where patient, calm and polite. Esme loves interior design and is very loving and Carlisle is very loving and gentle. All of the Cullen children where adopted and had a great love of the adopted parents. Alice and I got on well as I promised to show here all the good shopping locations around and I had offered to show Esme where to find all the good interior design shops.
All the Cullens showed great strength and grace which made me more and more convinced they were vampires although I still wasn't sure if vampires were really or not but the more I thought about it the more convinced I became. Still the Cullens where different from the vampires from twenty years ago their eyes where a honey colour compared to the scarlet red of the others.
I left mid way through the afternoon as I had some paperwork to review for tomorrow. Carlisle walked with me to the door of my car and thanked me for helping and said that he would see me at work tomorrow. When I got home there were three messages on my answering machine. One was from chief Swan thanking me for helping him sort out the room where his daughter would be staying when came to visit last week and saying that she had loved it.
The second was from April saying that she had gotten word that Dr Cullen was super hot and the third was from one of the nurses saying the same thing and saying how lucky I was to be showing him around. I called April back first and told her how I had spent the sum of my day and that Dr Cullen was in fact very attractive. I told her about his wife and children saying they all had a certain beauty about them and that not one of them could be called ugly or plain.
April was shocked that I had spent so much time with them and that the reports where true. Next I returned Chief Swans call saying that it was no problem and that I was glad Bella had appreciated it. I now knew she preferred to be called Bella rather than Isabella as I had spent some time with her when she had dislocated her wrist.
Finally I called back Nurse Emma and told her the same thing I had told April – her response was very different as April had been more surprised than awed. It annoyed me no end that people where already taking about the Cullens like it was just a piece of gossip. I had become friends with them in the short space of time that I had met them.
Esme and I got on particularly well as I was one of the few females she had met that didn't spend all their time checking out Carlisle. I had told Esme about my parents without going into details about how they died or the people that killed them as I didn't want to let them know what I was beginning to think about what they might be.
The next day I headed to work at my usual time and as usual was five minutes early. This always gave me more time to get a report from the night staff before I began my rounds. All the nurses seemed to know about my friendship with the Cullens and about my visit. It didn't bother me that much and as always April arrived two minutes early to catch up on the latest gossip which seemed to be about Carlisle. I gave April a quick summary of the night's events and then we both headed of to work.
Carlisle was punctual and the two of us got straight to work under the watchful eyes of the many nurses who no doubt where checking Carlisle out. After a quick tour of the hospital Carlisle and I went our separate ways to deal with different patients. We had arranged to meet up during lunch to talk about the school and different aspects of the town. The kids where set to start school at the beginning of the semester in other words in a week.
Carlisle and I were unable to meet for lunch as we where both to busy to do so. After work we walked to our cars together. "Alice says that as you are off on Saturday that she would like you to take her round the shopping locations." Carlisle told me.
"Ok tell her I'll pick her up at seven and that anyone else that wants to come is more than welcome to. I mean it would be a good chance for Esme to go to the interior design shops as many of them are in or around the shopping areas." I informed Carlisle.
"I'll be sure to let them know." Carlisle replied. After a short goodbye we went our separate ways and headed home.
The shopping trip was highly successful Rosalie and Esme both joined Alice and I and it went down very well. I had noticed by now that none of the Cullens ever ate anything and that added to my suspicions that they were vampires. The fact that Carlisle was a doctor made me wonder that if they were vampires they clearly were not like any other vampires I knew about. Also I had never seen them go out when it was sunny another thing that made my list of reasons to suspect it.
A week later I found out for sure they were vampires as Carlisle and Esme decided to tell me since they knew that I was close to figuring it out myself. Edward can read minds and this is how they knew I thought they were vampires. Alice sees the future and Jasper can feel and manipulate emotions. They don't eat humans like most vampires instead they live on the blood of animals. I told them about what had happened to my parents and how I survived.
The Cullens where shocked by the events twenty years ago and also they were as intrigued by the ones who had saved my life as Carlisle said the colour of their eyes meant they lived of human blood yet one had been controlled enough to save me. After this I found out how each of the Cullens save Alice became vampires. It seems Alice has no memory of her human life or how she became a vampire. Since then the Cullens and I have had a strong friendship.
The Cullen kids stirred quite a bit of interests and according to Jasper a lot of lust. Carlisle is still in opinion of the nurses the sexiest doctor/male at the hospital and all of them envy Esme greatly – a fact that they would rather Esme didn't know so that they think they don't like her. I of course told Esme all of this so that she did not feel that bad about how all the females except me seem to shun her.
The chief's daughter is moving to Forks so I have been helping him get everything ready for her arrival. The news that Isabella/Bella is moving to Forks has taken over all conversation and the Cullens are no longer the main area of conversation. Bella will not like that she is the centre of attention but as nothing much happens in Forks she will not easily be forgotten.
I will of course try and help Bella adjust and things as she and I get on well. When she arrives I hope to help her make friends and get use to living in this small town. Even with all the events of the last three months my mind still finds time to think about James especially now that I know for sure that he is a vampire. If I didn't know any better I would have said I was in love with him but that is impossible I hardly know him.