Chapter 2: the meeting

A/N: NEWSFLASH: Any speech "impediments" made by children is their speech, any questions on what the words are, please ask me!! And yes, Bella makes up words (i.e. chipperness) she's five, cut her some slack ;) thanks!

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I was sitting in between Courtney and Meghan, with Brooke next to her. I was really nervous. I didn't know whether or not I would get adopted or not. I hadn't at any other adoption day, but like I said, today felt different.

But then they started walking in. I saw a lot of families, but none really looked at me (not that I blamed them, there's nothing special about me). Until I saw one family. Their mother had wavy, caramel hair, their father had blonde hair, their daughter had black hair, and their son had bronze. They were the only family that even looked at me, plain Jane. Then they walked over to me. Well, the little girl bounced more than walked, but you get the picture.

"Hello, we're the Cullens. What's your name, Sweetie?" asked the mom, Mrs. Cullen.

Then Becky came up next to me. "Just as moral support," she whispered in my ear. I really liked Becky. She was the nice house mother. So I looked at them and answered their question. "I'm Isabella Marie Swan, but I p'fer to be called Bella."

"How old are you?" asked Mr. Cullen.

"I'm five years old and my birthday is September the Firteenth," I replied just as we had been trained. Yes, trained, Helga, the other housemother wasn't nearly as nice, and she trained us like dogs on how to act on adoption days.

"It's nice to meet you, Bella. I'm Carlisle Cullen, and this is my wife, Esme, my son, Emmett, my other son Edward, and his twin sister, Mary Alice, but we call her Alice. They're both five, too, and Emmett is six."

"It's very nice to meet you, too."

"She's the one, daddy! She's the one!" exclaimed Alice.

"The Alice has spoken," laughed Mr. Cullen.

"YOU'RE GONNA BE MY NEW SISTER!!!!!!" Alice all but shrieked.

I smiled not only at her chipperness, but also the fact.

Then another family came to us, but was looking at Meghan and Courtney.

"These are the Hales," said Carlisle. "They are looking for two girls about the age of these two.

I looked at their family and I saw they all looked a lot alike. They all had blonde hair, and the girls had light blue eyes, and the boys had violet eyes. They had two kids – a boy and a girl.

"This is Charlotte Hale and Peter Hale, and these are their children, Rosalie and Jasper. They're six," said Esme.

Jasper smiled shyly at me, and Rosalie did, too.

"It's nice to meet you, I'm Isabella Marie Swan, but I like to be called Bella. I'm five."

"It's nice to meet you, Bella. I don't like to be called Rosalie, I like Rose better. It sounds like a Gammy name." She giggled at the fact that her name sounded like a granny's name

"It's nice to meet you, too, and I'll be sure to keep that in mind."

I hadn't noticed, but the Cullen and Hale parents had left. Becky had, too.

"They're gettin' the papers," said Jasper with a southern dra' like they have in the movies.

I smiled at him in thanks, and he smiled back.

"I'm really excited about you coming," said Edward quietly. "You see, we're all like you Bella. I was 'dopted first by momma and daddy when I was just a lil' baby. Then Emmy was 'dopted when I was 'bout a year old and he was 'bout two. Then Ali was 'dopted when we were bof fhree and Emmy was four. Rosie and Jazzy were adopted from Texas at 'bout the same time."

"I'm excited, too." I was also happy that I wasn't alone.

Then the adults came back.

"Well, everything is set. You can get your stuff now, and we'll be leaving."

"Okay," I said. Then I ran over to Brooke with tears in my eyes.

"I'm gonna miss you, sissy."

"I'm gonna miss you, too. Meghan and Shortney have my number, and as soon as I get an e-mail, I'll tell you guys."

"Okay," I sniveled.

She gave me another hug then I hurried into my room and packed everything that was mine – which wasn't a lot. I could fit it into my backpack.

I walked down the steps and Alice eyed me quite pitifully.

"Are you ready, Bella?" asked Edward.

I nodded. He was really cute. I liked him already.

"Okay, then, let's go!"

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~~ Lissie 3