A/N: This chapter is set the morning after the party and has flashbacks that explain why Bella trusts Alice, Emmett, and Edward so much. It also provides some background information on the Cullen's, the Hale's, Bella, and her mom.

Chapter 4

Why is my pillow moving? Oh yeah, I fell asleep on Edward's chest last night. "Good morning, Edward."

"Good morning Bella. Are you gonna move anytime soon?"

"I don't want to move because your chest is very comfy, but I will if you want me to."

"You don't have to move yet."

"Good. What time is it?"

"It's about 7:30am."

"I'm hungry. Do you want something to eat?"

"Sure." We go to the kitchen and I start making chocolate chip pancakes.

"Edward, do you like chocolate chip pancakes?"

"Yeah. How do you like your eggs?"

"Scrambled please. Scrambled for Rosalie and Jasper, too. Can you add some of this cheese mix in ours?"

"Yeah. Apparently we like our eggs the same way, or at least the same way with pancakes."

"Does Esme ever talk about what happened when she was…younger?"

"You can say it, you know. Rape, I mean. And yes she does talk about it. She helped Rosalie through it when it happened to her."

"Rose told me that yesterday when we were coming here. She told me about when she was…raped, and when it happened to Esme. Does your mom ever mention Alice and your's sperm donor? I prefer calling Jacob that to any other term."

"Yeah. She calls our sperm donor that as well. She said it's easier to call him that."

"Do you think she would talk to me? I couldn't really talk to my mom about it, because I wasn't ready to deal with it and she wouldn't have been able to understand what I was going through. I had a hard time excepting the truth until I couldn't deny it anymore. It's not that easy talking about it even with people I trust. Thank you for helping Rose out when it happened to her. She told me how much you helped."

Flashback

"Bella, if you need to talk about being raped, you can talk to either me or Esme Cullen. Both of us were raped at young ages. Mine happened two years ago. She was raped when she was sixteen. Edward and Alice are her biological children. Emmett was adopted later though."

"Edward and Alice are the result of her being raped?"

"Yes. She was thankful that Carlisle was there for her, Edward, and Alice. Esme and Carlisle were high school sweethearts."

"I wish I had someone who loved me like that."

"Emmett's been really great. He was the one who convinced me to get a restraining order against Royce."

"Royce is the name of the guy who raped you?"

"Yeah. Edward helped out a lot too. He was the one who found me and brought me to see Carlisle. He's a really good guy. He kept Emmett from going out and killing Royce and getting thrown in jail. He also told me that I should talk to someone about what had happened. He even asked Esme to talk to me because she could understand some of what I went through and was going through. Did you know that Esme, Lorelai, your mom, and my mom grew up in the same neighborhood?"

"That's cool. Wait how did they stay friends after what happened with Lorelai getting pregnant and then Esme being raped and both ending up pregnant and my mom graduating high school that year and your mom already a mom of twins?"

"They were so close growing up that they leaned on each other for all that happened once they started high school, even though mine and Jasper's mom was older than the other three by four years. The four of them being so close was part of why your mom left college when they all found out about Rory, Alice, and Edward. And the week they all found out about Lorelai and Esme being pregnant, Renee found out she was having you."

"Wow."

End Flashback

I start cutting up some apples and slice my finger open. I see the blood on my finger and say "Edward, I cut myself." Then all I see is black.

"Bella. Bella! Hey, are you ok?"

"Yeah. I'm fine. Why am I on the floor?"

"You passed out and I caught you and laid you down on the floor. Are you sure you're ok?"

"Yeah. Thank you for cleaning up my blood. The smell tends to make me pass out. And yes I know people can't really smell blood, but I can and it smells like rust and salt."

"You are truly fascinating and beautiful."

"Thank you. Do you think we should leave the food in here and go get everybody or should we take the food out to them?"

"Let's take the food to them. You can get Rose's and Jasper's, and I'll get Emmett's and Alice's. We can come back for ours in a minute."

"Good morning everybody. We have food."

"Bella, did you make your amazing chocolate chip pancakes?"

"Yes I did, Jasper. Now wake up."

"Yes ma'am."

"Thanks Bella. Who made the eggs? You and Edward make them the same way."

"Edward made the eggs. I made the pancakes."

"Which we love by the way."

"Yeah, Bella. My brother can't make good pancakes. Normally I'm the one who makes pancakes. These are better than mine actually. How did you make them?"

"We can trade recipes later, because I am really hungry."

"Ok. Let's go shopping later too."

"Sure. I need to get some stuff for the twins and myself. In case you didn't notice yesterday I don't have a lot of clothes out here. Most of my stuff didn't fit anymore so I donated and sold almost everything before moving out here. I figured Rose and I could go shopping after I got settled in. Do you wanna help me unpack and then the girls can go shopping? I wanna get an early start because this is gonna take a while. Do you gentlemen mind doing the dishes?"

"Sure but you ladies get dish duty after dinner."

"Deal."

We walk up to my room and start unpacking while Rose gets ready. "Alice can you find me something to wear while I get the twins ready?"

"Sure. What's on your shopping list?"

"For the twins, dresses and skirts for Sarah, and shoes, shirts, pants, and coats for both. I need some shoes, pants, skirts, shirts, lingerie, and I'm almost out of make-up. I'm really glad you guys had an outfit for me because I don't have any dresses with me and only one miniskirt. The miniskirt is my emergencies only skirt. It still fits but I don't wear skirts that short around my kids. And anyway that's what I was wearing when I found out I was pregnant."

"Can we see it?"

"Here it is."

"Wow. No wonder you don't want to wear that around your kids." Alice freezes and then a few seconds later gasps.

"Alice you get visions don't you? What happened?"

"Yeah. How did you know I get visions?"

"My mom told me about Esme having them when she was younger. Our moms had different talents. What did you see?"

"How about we go get the boys and take them with us?"

"Ok. Rose are you ready?"

"Yeah."

"Hey guys can you shut the video games off? Alice had a vision."

"Ali, what happened?"

"I saw Elizabeth. Her neck was broken and she had bite marks on her wrists and neck."

"Did you see when?"

"It was sometime during the day. It was really cloudy though and it was raining. She was in Seattle and she had a few shopping bags with her. Her car was about 50 feet away. I also saw Jasper running towards her. We need to go to Seattle. Wasn't she getting back today?"

"Yeah her plane should be getting there in about two hours. We won't make it to the airport in time."

"Maybe her plane got delayed. Let's go." We head to our cars. "Jasper and Alice you two go in the Porsche, Rose and Emmett go in the Jeep. Edward, can we take your car? The twins will fit in mine but I haven't driven it yet."

"Sure." Once everybody is in we race out of there. We get to Seattle in record time. Emmett and Rose check for Elizabeth's plane while the rest of us come up with a plan. "Rose?"

"Bella, I had another one when Rose and Emmett were in the airport. I saw her leaving the airport."

"The plane got here almost two hours ago. Shit! What are we gonna do?"

"I have a plan Rose but you have to calm down. Alice, you and Jasper take this mall. Emmett, you and Rose go with them. Edward, you and I will go to this street. It's got a few stores Elizabeth would shop at. We all meet up at the big mall in one hour. Everyone stay in groups of two or more. Call the others if you get any more information."

We head off in different directions. "Edward, do you think she's…do you think she's ok?"

"I don't know, Bella. I wish I did, but we'll find her. Isn't that her car?"

"Yeah. I'm calling Rose. Can you call Alice?"

"Hey we found her car. Here's the address. We'll wait for you guys to get here. Edward's talking to Alice right now. Hurry."

"We need to stay in here. The twins are in here and I don't want to take them outside right now and I'm not leaving them alone."

"I could…"

"No." I interrupt him. "We are sticking together. Great. Now it's raining. Here come the other's. Who's staying here with the twin's?"

"Bella, how about you and I stay here? Rose is gonna need Emmett, Jasper's gonna need Alice if anything has happened to his mom."

"Works for me. You guys hurry."

"That's the street right there." Jasper runs over there and then crumples to the ground. Edward drives over there. "Oh god. That's her. Edward, call your parents. I'm calling Lorelai." I hear it ringing.

"Hello?"

"Lorelai, it's Bella. Is Rory with you?"

"Yeah."

"Where are you?"

"Luke's"

"Can you put me on speakerphone? You two might want to be sitting down. Elizabeth was killed." I tell them what's been happening.

"We'll try to get there today."

"Ok. Talk to you two later."

"Edward?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm scared."

"It's gonna be ok. Hey everybody, why don't we get something to eat? Mom and Dad said to get some lunch and then meet them at their hotel in an hour."

We head off in our cars to get some food. We eat some burgers and then head to the Hampton Inn we're supposed to meet Dr. and Mrs. Cullen.

"Someone wanna tell us what happened?"

"Alice how about you tell them about your two visions?" We bring them up to speed on what has been happening today. "Esme. What am I gonna do? Rose and Jasper are adults, but I'm only sixteen. And what about the twins?"

"Bella, are they your children or brother and sister?"

"My children." I tell Esme and Carlisle what happened with Jacob including what happened last night. "Oh Bella. Would you consider being adopted by us. We would adopt the twins as well, but you would still be their mother. That's the only way the state would let the three of you stay together since you're not seventeen yet."

"I'm ok with that. Would the twins and I have to move?"

"Our house is big enough if you want the three of you could move in and so could Jasper and Rose if they wanted to."

"Rose, Jasper I want to live with you guys, but I also want the twins to stay with all three of their parents."

"Esme, Carlisle are you sure you don't mind us all staying with you and your family?"

"Rose, you and Jasper have always been a part of our family."

"Ok now that that's settled. Bella, you, Esme, and I need to sign some papers. Do the three of you want to go ahead and start moving your stuff today?"

"Yeah. Alice, do you think we could go shopping tomorrow? I just don't feel up to it today. We could invite Esme as well."

"Ok."

"Were you guys going shopping today?"

"Yeah. I don't have that much of my own and needed to do some shopping for the twins as well."

"We can make tomorrow a family shopping day. How do you girls like that idea? The girls can go shopping the boys can stay home and move everything in and the girls can get some shopping done. Bella do you want to bring Sarah and Andy shopping with us tomorrow or leave them with the boys?"

"How about we bring the twins with us for the first part, meet the guys for lunch, and have them take the twins for the afternoon? We can get the twins' clothing in the morning, and then get our stuff in the afternoon."

A/N: Who or what killed Elizabeth? What the killers are will be revealed next chapter. Review and I'll send you a preview of the next chapter. I'll post another chapter either today or tomorrow.