Happy Birthday!
Jasper's POV
"Kathy, it's time to wake up," I said gently to the small girl.
Slowly, her eyes opened up and she smiled when she met my gaze.
I smiled back at her and she got up from bed and rubbed her eyes to get the sleep out.
"Good morning, Kathy" I said to her.
"Good morning, Jazz" she responded, with a smile.
"Time to get dressed, I'll be downstairs," I said.
"Okay," she responded to me with the same sparkle in her eyes.
I closed the door behind me, and heard as she entered the bathroom connected to her bedroom.
It had been 5 years since, Alice and I had found her out in the forest. Ever since that little 'incident' we'd decided to give her a name.
After a bit of thinking, discussing and a little arguing we decided to name her Katherine. But, of course, everyone around the house began calling her Kathy the moment she had the name.
Carlisle and Esme signed all the proper adoption forms for her to be our new family member. So, now we had a new little sister: Katherine Sheryl Hale.
We planned to tell everyone else she was blood-related to Rose and me. We didn't really look similar, but the way Rose and I adored her made it seem right.
Even Jacob had taken a liking to little Kathy, although he did have a tendency to call her Kitty most of the time. Which never made Rosalie very happy.
We had all gotten very close to her as her new family. Everytime she saw us, I felt the love for us flowing in and out of her small body. It always made my day.
Today was January 25th, the day Alice and I had found little Kathy in the forest and therefore it was her birthday.
I stepped down the stairs and saw Emmett playing cards with Alice, with Rosalie standing by them. Although, I didn't see much point in it, she always bettered him.
I smiled as I felt the frustration pouring from him and all around the room. After a few more seconds he'd snapped and flicked the cards away.
"This sucks," he complained, as he sank into the couch, Rose following him with a need to laugh, "Why the fuck do you people have to have those freaky powers anyway?"
Alice looked at him, amused, "I'm the freaky one?"
"Edward agrees with me, y'know. No one has to be a mind reader to see that," Emmett shot at her.
She humphed and walked away from him and came to sit next to me on the stairs, where I had been enjoying the show.
Her head came landing on my lap and I smiled and stroked her cheek lovingly.
Minutes passed and eventually, the whole house could hear Kathy's small steps coming out of her room and down the stairs to where we were all seated.
Alice got up, looked over to her and smiled. Kathy did the same and stepped into Alice's embrace when she had extended out her arms to her.
"Good morning, Alice," Kathy said, looking up at her face as Alice looked down.
Alice pecked her forehead and said, "And good morning to you, too, Kathy."
From the couch we all heard Emmett groan over-exaggeratedly and slump back, so that his head was hanging from the back of the couch. Rose looked at him and couldn't but laugh at how he looked.
Kathy giggled at the sight of this, but Alice glared in his direction and so did I. He looked over at us innocently and took his attention the TV.
"Where's everyone else?" Kathy asked us.
I smiled down at her and took her small hand in my cold one, "Carlisle and Esme went out to buy your birthday cake and Edward, Bella and Nessie will be here in a few seconds."
And, sure enough, 30 seconds later, they all came in together, from the cottage outside in the forest.
"Happy birthday, Kathy!" Nessie exclaimed and stepped towards her. Alice placed Kathy on the floor and Kathy went over and embraced Nessie as well.
I looked over to Edward to see he was holding a small gift wrapped box in his hand.
A few minutes later, Kathy was on Nessie's lap and they went on about talking of what it was like to be a vampire.
We'd told her the truth about what we were 2 years ago. But of course, we quickly added on about how we drank blood only from animals and never harmed any humans.
The surprising part was that she wasn't afraid of us, Edward and I were both sure of that.
Instead, she accepted all of us just like Bella had when she was human. Except Kathy wasn't quite the trouble maker like Bella had been when she was still human.
Edward playfully glared at me for the mental comment I had on Bella.
Then, the door opened up to reveal Esme and Carlisle holding a small box wrapped in gift paper and a large cake, which meant one thing: Jacob was coming.
"Happy birthday, sweetheart," Esme said like any mother would.
A delighted smile encircled Kathy's little face and she went over and hugged Esme, "Thank you, Mommy!" Then, she turned to look at Carlisle, "Thank you, Daddy!"
"Your very welcome, Kathy," he said kindly and he went to the kitchen and set down the cake and box.
"Well then," Carlisle said, as Esme lifted Kathy from the floor into her arms, "All we're missing is-"
"Jacob!" Nessie exclaimed and flew out the door to greet her werewolf boyfriend.
"Hey, Nessie!" We heard Jacob chuckle and then he entered the house holding Nessie's hand.
"There she is!" he said when he saw Kathy, "Happy birthday, Kitty."
"It's Kathy, dog!" Rosalie corrected him partly glaring, but Jacob didn't seem to mind and shrugged, "I think Kitty, suits her a lot more."
"You always come up with the weirdest nicknames, Jake," Bella said, rolling her eyes and a few of us laughed at how true it was.
"So," Jacob said, ignoring Bella's comment, "When do we start?"
"Actually, we start now," Carlisle said and we all stepped into the kitchen.
After singing the classic 'Happy Birthday' song, Kathy blew out all of the candles and she and Nessie received pieces of the cake, while Jacob practically inhaled the rest of the cake.
"Time for presents!" Alice announced and we all gathered around the table with Kathy in the middle of it all. It was a relief we had all gone hunting last night.
"Ours is first!" Emmett said, as he placed a large rectangular box in front of Kathy, "This is from your sister and me," and he wrapped his arm around Rosalie's shoulders.
Kathy smiled at them in gratitude and slowly ripped off the pieces of tape and opened it up to find a brand new set of water paint and brushes.
I felt her excitement coming over and she leaped up to hug both of them, "Thank you!"
Emmett chuckled and Rose hugged her back, "Guess you like it, then, good."
"We're next," Nessie sang and handed Kathy the small box that Edward had held, "This is from my momma, daddy, Jacob and me."
Just like before she gently took off the tape and didn't rip any of the paper. When she had taken all of it off, the gift was revealed to be a small, wooden jewelry box with Kathy's name in scripted on top of it.
"Open it up," Edward told her and she did so and gasped.
The small box began to play a little melody that made Kathy look at it preciously.
When the song ended, she looked up to them gratefully.
"Open up ours next, dear," Esme said as she set the gift before the birthday girl, "Your father and I hope you like it."
Kathy smiled up and assured Esme, "I will, Mommy."
When she had opened it, it was a hard-covered book that was titled 'Anne of Green Gables'.
"We hope you like it," Carlisle said.
Kathy looked up to both of them appreciatively, "I love it!"
"Last, but not least!" Alice sang as she handed our little sister our gift, inside the velvet covered case, "Jasper got this especially for you!"
Kathy giggled and I placed my arm around Alice's waist and corrected her, "We got it especially for you."
She snapped it open to unveil the silver locket we had gotten her. On it we had neatly engraved her name in script.
"Look inside," Alice chided and she looked inside to see two pictures. On one side we had placed a picture of Carlisle, Esme, Edward, Bella, Nessie and Jake all smiling at tha camera. On the other side was a picture of Rose, Emmett, Alice, herself and me, also smiling.
She looked up at Alice and me and smiled the smile I saw everyday, the one I never got tired of, "This is great!"
Kathy looked around at everyone and said, "Thank you, everyone. I couldn't have asked for a better family!"
End of Chapter 4
If anyone wants to know what the song was when Kathy had opened up the Jewelry box, go to and search in Lilium Music box version