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lots. of. love.

PLT!

~AliceSwift

I woke up to the unusually bright streams of light coming in through the windows and spreading across my face, warning me of the morning, letting me know it's time for the day. I stood up and got dressed in a white tee shirt and jeans. Esme, my mother, always told us that when she adopted we should all act natural and calm. Of course Alice was anxious. Well she is normally excited anyways, but if her excitement was a guitar it was as if it turned from acustic to electric and was plugged into an amplifier. I loved Alice deeply, but on these days she was the most annoying being I had ever crossed paths with on the face of the planet. I hoped that with the first time, Emmett, already out of the way, everyone would calm down a little bit. My mother had been insisting for months now that we must have another girl in the house since Jasper through our equal balance off. Not that she was truly mad of course, she was happy for Alice and Jasper as were the rest of us. So today was the day. She would come home in only a few hours with a new girl and I would have to get used to the fact of having yet another sister. Two wasn't enough anymore huh?

I assumed this time, instead of coming home with some fifteen-year-old Emmett, she would come back with a little girl. Not more than a few years old. Of course with Rose being twenty, my mother was too old to have children. She had spent so many years thinking about it and not enough doing something about it. I think that for her it was just a need to be needed. She had always had someone wanting her for something, so much so that, when I found the depths of it, I was amazed she hadn't gone insane yet. She had six sisters and five brothers, all blood related and all having been married with kids before she could blink. Three of my uncles had been married, had two kids, then divorced. Making two of the three have four kids, and the last have three. The other two had big families of at least six each. So all my uncles and their families would add up to at least twenty nine. Then two of my aunts had families of four. One had seven, another six, and one five. The biggest family in the whole clan was my aunt who had nine kids, and then her and her husband making eleven. That makes, with my uncles, sixty-six. Plus my family of seven, soon eight, making seventy-four, there was always someone that wanted my mom for something, so normally I wouldn't get to spend alone time with her. My chances would only get slimmer with today.

I made my way down the halls and watched my family operate in full motion with the excitement of the morning.

Alice was in her room, still in her pajamas despite her time limitations of about thirty minutes, throwing clothes out of her closet and complaining of what little she had to wear. For a guy who's wardrobe consisted of tee shirts jeans and maybe a few pairs of sweats, she seemed to have the Mall of America in her closet. She worked at a small boutique on the other side of town, it was the best job that someone with her experience and education could get.

I walked past Jasper's room and he was shuffling through his breifcase, he was planning to become a lawyer and was currently an intern at a local firm. Sure, he made coffee runs and fixed the copy machine when it jammed, but he was on his way to becomming a big shot lawyer. He had graduated high school a year early with a 4.0 every semester since the seventh grade. Smart guy, he'd figure out a way to make sure he got his fair share of the firm.

I was on the stairs and my dad had just put on his coat and left. I turned to go into the kitchen and found my mom sitting there clutching a cup of coffee in her small hands.

Alice, Jasper, my dad, and my mom-though she had taken today off- all had jobs. Rose was still looking and was aggravated when Alice got the job that she applied for. She was over that now though, and onto the new thing the irriatated her to no end, whatever it would happen to be today. Emmett was still in high school, so no one expected him to get a job, same thing with me I guess. Though he was only a year or so younger than me it seemed as if I had centuries of maturity on him. I was still looking for a job too, but not finding anything that thrilled me.

"Good morning." she said with a smile and bright eyes.

"Morning." I said and made my way over to the counter.

"So are you going to stay here with the others when I go or will you come?" she asked taking another sip but not dropping her eyes from mine.

"I think I'm going to stay here. It'll be a long day at the orphange, and I've had a bad week. Sorry." I said as I grabbed the pot of coffee off of the counter and got a mug from the cabinet. I poured myself a cup and went to go and sit across from her.

"No, that's fine, probably better. You remember last time." she smiled.

"Oh, I remember." I said and the memory brought a smile to my face. Emmett was so freaked out by us, we had all gone to the orphange that day to meet him. I guess he felt like an animal behind the glass at a zoo or something. Getting pointed at and whispers about him.

"Yes, well, I'll see you later. Can you clean-up a little bit." she stood up and grabbed her bag off the counter then motioned to the already spotless room.

"Sure." I nodded with a smile. She came of and filled her travel mug back up with coffee.

"By sweetie." she said and kissed my cheek.

"Bye mom." I said as she walked out the door.

About an hour later, around ten, Rosalie dragged herself out of bed. She was still in her pajamas, her hair was a haystack, and her make-up from the day before had run all the way down the her chin, but she didn't care.

I was still sitting in the kitchen, reading the news paper when she sat down across from me.

"You came in awfully late last night." I said, folding the paper and setting it beside me.

"Shutup, I'm not in the mood." she said rubbing her head.

"Is that what you say to all the guys?" I said teasingly with a laugh.

"I said shutup!" she stood up and yelled, her voice echoed through the halls.

"Well Rose, if you hadn't scared mom and dad half to death, then dragged yourself in here drunk at four in the morning, waking us all up and making us iritable, then I might give you a little sympathy." I stood up in front of her.

"I don't need your sympathy." her eyes pierced mine as her cold words slipped through her cleanched teeth and floated into the air.

We stared at eachother for a moment before she pushed past me and made her way to the bowls in the cabinet across the room. She got one out and slammed in on the counter before turning around to the cabinet above the sink behind her and grabbing a box of cereal. She slammed that down too and went to the fridge, poured milk in her bowl, screwed the lid on tight, and all but broke the counter with the force of the jug.

I wondered what was wrong with her breifly. I mean normally she was pretty pissy but she seemed extra ticked off today. It was probably just whatever stupid thing happened at her friend's party last night, hopefully she would be better by later. If Rose was still acting this way when Esme go there then we would all habe hell to pay for it.

I shook her behavior off and went back to my morning.

The clock's hands ticked and the dark clouds rolled across the sky and above the sun. The rain fell hard and made lovely backround music to anything that was going on inside. It was soon three o'clock. Rosalie had gone upstairs and was yet to be seen since this morning, Emmett had woken up about an hour ago and was on the couch watching T.V.

My phone rang from my back pocket. I hoped it was Esme, which it was, and that she had news that she had found someone who she thought would fit in great here at the Cullen house.

"So have you found one yet?" I asked, sitting down on the couch next to Emmett who was too fascinated in whatever game he was watching on T.V. to even notice that I was really there.

"Edward Anthony, the girls here are people too. They're humans, just like you and me. They're not things, or ones, they're people, and you better get used to that thought, because," her voice got quiet and excited. "I did find this one girl." I heard the smile in her voice.

"Really? What does she look like?" I asked, only half interested. I knew the answer I was going to get.

"Well, that would ruin the suprise of seeing you new sister, besides, you'll see her in about three or four hours. I promise we'll be there in time for dinner. Okay?"

"Sure." I smiled. My mother had this desire for the most simplistic things to be suprises and special. Like the desricption of a person, she wouldn't give it to me. Whether it was for dramatic purposes or just so the suprise was sweeter, she always kept things like this a secret.

"Okay, did you guys clean up around the house?" I hadn't but I would onlyhave to vacum and maybe clean the kitchen counter tops for the house to look spotless. Well, not Alice's room, due to the fact she dumped her closet out to find what to wear to work, but except that everything would be perfect.

"Yes mom, we cleaned." I said, already going to the closet to get the vacum cleaner.

"Okay, thank you. Now I have to go, I'm just now signing the papers." she said.

"Okay then, I'll see you later." I plugged in the vacum cleaner.

"By sweetie. Love you."

"Love you too." I hung up the phone and started sweeping the vacum across the floor.

I began to imagine what my new sister would look like, normally when I thought of this I thought of a cross between Alice and Rosalie.

Somone tall with dark spiky hair. Or someone short, with long blond hair.

But it now seemed impossible for either of those to be true because my mom would have at least told me that.

Now a different vision came to mind. I saw my mom talking to a little girl with blond curls, bright blue eyes and a round face. She would have a sweet smile that would make even the bitterest old man smile and a laugh that would put any artist's music to shame. My mother would fall in love with her and so would everyone else. Alice would buy her little dresses, Emmett would try to teach her how to play football, my dad would show her how to play check-up, I could tell her about the piano, my mom would show her any kind of love a mother could give her child. Rosalie, she might not do anything, I wasn't really wuite sure what she was going to say to the new girl today, I hoped nothing really. It seemed like it would be a shame for her first day to be ruined by some of my sister's harsh words.

But then again it was another thing for Rose to get used to, which always took a long time.

Three hours later things were chaotic.

Alice was rsuhing around in her rom, trying to find something to wear still, of course she would need a new outfit just for this. Jasper was in her room to, reasurring her that she looked fine in everything she tried on, but she didn't listen. Emmett was upstairs listening to some music, or reading a magazine or something. Rose was still pissed at whatever she had been this morning. My dad was hurrying around the kitchen, following my mom's orders to make dinner. I was up in my room playing my piano.

My roojm wasn't very big, and there was a piano downstairs that I could use, but normally there was too much noise down there. It was quieter in my room and I enjoyed being able to write music in piece, even if this did take up half of my room.

"Can everyone please come down the family room please, I have someone I'd like you all to meet." Esme called and I heard the fron door slam shut.

I saw Alice grabbing Jasper's hand and running down the hall. I heard Esme introduce them, I would be down there as soon as I firgured out this one part of the song. I heard my dad laugh, and Alice sounded excited, I honestly wanted to be down there and see my sister but I had to get this done or else I would never finish. Besides, Rose had already pulled herself out of bed and downstairs, and Emmett had bolted ouit of his room when he firgured out what was going on.

I heard Emmett and Jasper say hello. Then Rose refusing to welcome her. I hadn't heard her response, for that matter I hadn't heard her voice at all.

"Edward can you come down here please!" Esme called up to me.

"Hold on one second." I yelled, shuffling through papers to find tha part of the song that was similar to the part I wanted to come next, if I could find it then I coudl switch the notes I wanted to be swtied and I would be done.

Finally, I found the paper and rewrote the last notes. I walked down the steps so that I could see whoever was standing by Esme at the door.

She was beautiful, any model anywhere would have envied this girl for the amount of beauty she brought with her presence. Her brown eyes, which should have been boring, looked into mine with a sprakle of adventure and hope. Despite the uniform she was wearing, a pleaded skirt that didn't show her ankes and a long sleved shirt with a collar, the highest button done, she looked gorgeous. Her slightly curled brown hair cascaded down her back with such grace it hurt. The front pieces framed her heart shaped face making the perfect picture. Her pale skin tone and nervous smile should have thrown off her beauty, but somehow only enhanced it.

"Edward this is Bella, Bella this is Edward." Esme said with a smile.

This Bella girl was no four-year-old blonde with curls and blue eyes, but she was something just as special. I walked down the stairs to meet her. I held out my hand and she shook it without thinking. Esme must have secured her trsut in us on the ride over.

"Bella." I said as she shook my hand nicely.

"It's nice to meet you Edward." I nodded and pulled my hand away, though I so badly wanted for our hands to be intertwined forever.

"Alice would you mind showing Bella the house, I'm sure she would love a tour." Esme said smiling as always.

"Sure, come with me." Alice said and walked happily away, Bella following after her.

So there it is, please let me know what you think. I know this chapter was boring and not nearly as good as last one, but I didn't really have any huge drama planned for Edwrad this time. Next time though, I should have some details on why Rose is so mad, and maybe Alice trying to find out more about Bella. So come back even though this chapter wasn't very great because I promise next time will be better.

PLT!

~AliceSwift