Stay With the Cullens

Jasper's POV

"What are we going to do with her?" Edward asked the entire family, "She can't possibly stay, living with vampires."

We were all discussing, what to do with the little girl and so far it had come down to sending her to and adoption center or leaving her at the front door of a human family.

"She's been here for a month now," Alice stated, "I doubt she'll want to leave?"

"We have to get rid of her," I said sullenly, "Its for her own good."

During the whole conversation Carlisle, Esme, Emmett and Bella kept silent, while Alice and Rosalie kept arguing with Edward and myself.

I could feel my non-existing heart break at the thought of giving her away. We'd never even given her a name, but that would've caused her to become even more attached to us and vise versa.

As the entire month had gone by, the human girl had developed feelings for us all. She saw Carlisle and Esme as her parents, while the rest of us were like her older siblings.

"We have to leave her in the care of a suitable family," Edward insisted.

"We are her family, Edward! And we are not going to give her away to anybody! What the hell are you and Jasper thinking?!" Rosalie almost shouted at him.

At the moment, the little human was sleeping in the same room as Nessie upstairs, so they couldn't hear us, or so I thought.

Edward and I shot up our heads when we heard and felt the thoughts and feelings coming from upstairs.

I felt sadness and betrayal pouring out of someone's mind upstairs.

Edward sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, then he looked to Rose and said, "It seems we have an audience from the bedroom."

Everyone looked up to the stairs and knew who Edward meant as soon as we heard a small whimper.

Esme took in a deep sigh and went upstairs. A few seconds later she was coming back down holding the crying girl in her arms, while Renesmee came following them looking concerned.

"Its alright, sweetie," Esme cooed to the girl, but she just continued to cry.

"No, no," she said shaking her head and then looking to us with teary eyes, "You want me to leave to live with other people! You hate me!"

Rosalie shot out off the couch and went to the girl and tried to reassure her it was all a misunderstanding, but she wasn't convinced. She had heard Rose scream Edward's name and my own, so she wanted to hear it from us.

"Edward and Jazz were just being a bit snappy today," Rose told her, "They don't know what they're saying. They love you, just like the rest of us."

"Are they mad at me?" she asked, Rosalie as Esme wiped away the tears coming down from her eyes.

Rosalie shook her head at her, "No, of course not. They're just being boys, that's all."

Then, she looked up to look at Edward and me.

Edward's POV

I looked up at her and felt a twinge of guilt when I saw the sadness in her eyes.

"Do you really want me to go?" she asked, more tears bound to escape.

I sighed and looked over to Jasper, who was thinking to me, Maybe we should just tell her why.

I shook my head in disagreement, but he ignored it and spoke up to her, "Of course not. But…" he hesitated for a moment, but continued, "You don't know how dangerous it could be living with us."

She looked at him in disbelief, "How are you dangerous?"

He shook his head, "I can't explain it, but living with us could get you into trouble, sweetie, it won't be safe-"

"I don't care!" The girl exclaimed, tightening her hold on Esme's arm, "You guys are my family! I need you!"

I heard all of her thoughts practically screaming at me!

Please let me stay! Please, please! Please say I can stay! Please!

"Alright then," Jasper sighed in defeat, but I could hear his happiness coming from his mind, "We'll let you stay."

As I predicted, the tears came streaming down her face, but instead of sobbing, a wide grin spread across her face and she hopped out of Esme's arms and came to embrace Jasper.

Hesitantly, he placed his arms around her as well. It wasn't too serious though, we all knew he'd gotten better at controlling himself when it came to his thirst.

"I love you, Jazz," she said and Jasper smiled.

There was no cheering, no laughing and no wooing. But I could hear everyone's thoughts calming down and look lovingly at our new sister.

End of Chapter 3