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Chapter 7
That day Lane called Rory to let us know that Mrs. Kim had gotten them tickets and they would be out here tonight and stay in Seattle until tomorrow when everybody else had joined them. Michel, Sookie, and Jackson called and let us know they would be getting in early tomorrow morning. We decided to spend the day hanging out while the parents worked on setting up the funeral. The day was pretty uneventful until Jacob came over drunk and demanding to see me and the twins. Carlisle suggests taking a restraining order out and I decide to do just that. The next morning, we wake up late and get rooms ready for everybody else joining us today. I realize that afternoon that we had completely forgotten about Carmen, Tanya, and Kate coming tonight. "Hey Alice when we're the vampires coming?"
"Either today or tomorrow," she reply's flippantly. And then, "Oh shit. We completely forgot didn't we?"
"Yeah. Ok we need to have a meeting." We run and get everybody and head back to the Cullens' house. "Ok. What are we gonna do about the vampires coming either today or tomorrow? They said in our dream that they'd give us three days. Well today's the third day."
"Are they going to turn us or what?"
"We don't know, but we need to decide before they get here. So first who's willing to be turned and who wants to stay human?"
"Emmett, Rose, Rory, Jess, Edward, Bella, Jasper, and I have decided that if they offer to turn us, we'll let them."
"But what about bloodlust? And the twins?"
"Kate said that as newborns the bloodlust might be very strong. That's why whoever plans to stay human will stay here. The rest of us will go with Irina, Laurent, Tanya, and Kate. I don't know right now about the twins. We will deal with each discussion as we come to it. So to the parents, who plans to do what?"
"At least one set will need to be turned. Esme?"
"If my children wish to be vampires then I'll join them. Carlisle?"
"If you're in, then I'm in. Luke? Lorelai?"
"Would we be able to see our old friends?"
"I'm not sure. The bloodlust might be to strong." At this point we hear the doorbell. Esme answer's it and we see that it's the rest of the Stars Hollow group. Edward and I decide to take the twins and go upstairs. We get up to his room and about five seconds later are joined by Rose, Emmett, Jess, Rory, Alice, Jasper, and Lane. We fill Lane in on what's been happening.
"Why do we need to decide all this right now? If they offer to turn us ask them what our deadline for deciding would be."
"Personally I want to wait until I'm eighteen. The twins would be close to two by that point. I'd like to stay human until they turn two, if I can."
"I don't really care when as long as I'm with Bella, I'm happy. Alice? Jasper?"
"I agree with Bella. Let's ask them if we can wait until the twins are two. That gives us a year and a half basically."
"I'm with Alice. Anybody disagree with this plan?" Everybody agrees to the plan. We decide to spend the afternoon watching movies down in the basement. Around nine that night our visitors come to the basement. They introduce themselves. They explain what it would mean for them to turn us. They try to answer all of our questions. They give us the option of being turned right now or waiting. We ask them if we can wait and be turned after the twins turn two. They tell us yes. They also tell us that they will stay in the area and watch over us for the next two years. They also tell us that they have called a few friends in to watch over the ones headed back to Stars Hollow, and that any time we wish to be turned to talk to one of them. They tell us that it would be better to be turned close to the same time. After they leave we decide to just stay in the basement and watch movies.
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The funeral is mostly uneventful. I say mostly uneventful, because at the cemetery after everything is over and people are talking and mingling, Sarah wakes up and starts crying really hard. I pick her up and when her forehead touches my neck it feels really hot. "Carlisle she's burning up." We race to the house, taking Edward's car. Carlisle checks her out and says she's got a fever of 100.2 degrees. He gives her some medicine and says he's gonna stay with her and monitor how she's doing. Jasper comes in carrying Andy with Rose and Alice right behind him. Carlisle tells them what's going on. Edward holds me and tells me everything's going to be alright. I ask him how he knows and he says, "For one thing she's your daughter, and for another Carlisle is a brilliant doctor." I stay awake all night just watching her. Everyone but Carlisle and Jasper go to sleep at some point before midnight.
Around three in the morning Jasper comes up to me and says, "Bella, you need to get some rest. Standing here and watching her all night isn't gonna do anything for her."
"Jazz, I'm her mother. I can't go to sleep. I'm too worried. And anyway, what about you I haven't seen you sleeping?"
"Jelly Belly, will you please at least try to get some sleep? I'll stay with her if you want me to. I've been trying to sleep over on the loveseat, but I haven't been very successful."
"I can't believe you're trying to use my old nickname against me."
"Don't make me get your boyfriend to take you upstairs."
"You wouldn't. I'm not going."
"Fine."
He runs upstairs before I have a chance to stop him. He comes back down about five minutes later with Edward following him. "Now do you believe me Jelly Belly?"
"Jazz, you promised me you wouldn't tell anyone that my nickname was Jelly Belly."
"Technically speaking I didn't tell him about it. You did."
"Nuh-uh."
"Uh-huh."
"Actually you kinda did. I didn't hear what he called you."
"Ugh. You are both so frustrating."
"So are one of you gonna tell me how she got that nickname?"
"I'll let her tell that story."
"Any chance of me getting out of telling you this story?"
"Nope. I'm sure I could get Jasper or Rose to tell me the story."
"Ok. It started when I was six and Jazz and Rose were eight. It was summertime and we were at the pool they had in their backyard. Rose and I were sitting with our feet in the pool and Jasper was playing Marco Polo with some of our cousins. We were both wearing bikinis and this one girl said that my belly wasn't flat like Rose's and that it was like Jell-o because it wiggled when I moved. Well, Jazz heard that and told her to stop teasing me. Later that day, I accidentally spilled some Jell-o on it and Jazz said that I now had a Jell-o belly. Rose heard and saw all of this and said my new nickname should be Jelly Belly. She said it would fit because of my name being Bella and we wouldn't really have to explain how that nickname got started."
"Aw. That's kind of a cool nickname. And a really funny story. Now are you going to go up to bed willingly or do we have to drag you up there?"
"How about a compromise?"
"What's the compromise first?"
"I'll try to go to sleep, if you two will let me stay in this room with her."
"There is the other couch in here. What do you think Jasper?"
"One of us will have to stay with her and make sure she tries to sleep."
"I'll do it. You haven't gotten any sleep tonight either."
"Fine by me. Deal Jelly Belly, but Edward is staying with you to make sure you try."
"Alright."
Jasper goes up to bed and I curl up with Edward on the couch that Sarah's not on right now. I actually do end up going to sleep somehow. I know this because Edward wakes me up and tells me that Sarah's fever has gone down.
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The next few weeks are pretty uneventful. Everybody from Stars Hollow goes home a few days after the funeral. The girls decide that for the last week of July we need to take a shopping trip. When we tell the boys about our plan to go to New York for a week to do some major shopping they insist on coming with us. Carlisle checks with the hospital to see if he can get that week off. We talk to Tanya and Kate and they say that we can all go if we let them come with us. We all agree to that and head to New York. We get a lot of shopping and sightseeing done and head back to Forks.
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Alice POV
The night before we go back to school Bella and I plan our outfits out for the first day of our Junior year. Rose hangs out with us since she's going to the community college in Forks, which means she won't be moving out anytime soon. All of us are glad that Rose, Emmett, and Jasper decided to stick around and go to college here in Forks. We all know that if they weren't with us all of us would be even more worried about each other than we are with everyone together.
"Hey Bella, Rose, should I wear the pink wraparound shirt or the silver wraparound shirt with these black jeans?"
"The pink looks better on you, but the silver would also go good with the jeans. Which belt are you wearing?"
"I'm with Jelly Belly on the shirts."
"I'm not planning on wearing a belt." They both yell out, "pink!"
"Ok. Jelly Belly, whatcha planning on wearing?"
"That ice blue halter top and my black jeans. Rose are you gonna be with us tomorrow morning?"
"Yeah. I have to pick up some books so Jasper, Emmett, and I are gonna take Alice with us and you can ride with Edward. Unless we take Emmett's Jeep. If we take that all six of us can go in that thing. One thing I love about all of our family's being rich is that almost all of us have really nice cars. Whether they're classics like Jasper's or brand new like mine, they're all really nice."
"That's true."
A/N: Next chapter will be the first day of school. Please review.