Chapter 2

A/N: So here's chapter two. Read it. Now. I don't care what you were doing. This chapter needs your full attention now. Read it. Love it. Review it.

The drive to Forks, Washington was about two hours long. The entire time I talked with Esme and Carlisle. They asked me many questions about myself and my life. In turn, they told me all about their other kids and their family that lived in Denali, Alaska. Conversation ended when Carlisle turned down a small one lane dirt rode hidden from the main rode. I was slightly confused as to where we were going, but didn't question it.

After a few minutes of driving, we pulled up to a three story house. It looked at least a hundred years old and was white. There was also a large garage that Carlisle parked the car in.

"Your house is really beautiful Esme." I said, stepping out of the car.

"It's your home too, now." She smiled. "Let' go to your room so you can get settled in."

"Okay." I followed her into the house. The first floor was a very open space. I kind of looked like walls were knocked out to create a bigger area. As we walked past the living room I saw a piano on a platform. Most of the downstairs area was neutral colors like blue, brown and white.

"Your room will be on the third floor with Edward's room, Carlisle's and my room, and the library." Esme said as we walked up the stairs. "On the second floor are Alice and Jasper's room, Jasper's study, Rosalie and Emmett's room, and Carlisle's study."

I just nodded my head and continued following her. We made it up to the third floor and she stopped at a door.

"Well, I hope you like it. We asked Miss. Owens about you and she said you liked the outdoors and your favorite colors were green, brown and black so we did the best we could with that." Esme said. The only thing running through my head was how did they know that they would definitely adopt me? Were they just that sure? Or were they that excited about it?

Esme opened the door and I walked into the room. The walls were painted a deep forest green, with black, leafless trees stenciled on. The wall that was in front of the door was nothing but glass windows, showing the surrounding woods. All of the furniture in the room was brown and looked like tree bark. There was a large walk in closet that was half the size of the room itself. There was no way I would ever be able to full the entire thing up. The bathroom was as big as the bedroom if not bigger. The main colors of the room were dark green and brown. There was a large counter top covering the left wall and on the right was a shower and cupboards stocked with green and brown towels. In the middle of the room was a large, sunken in bath which – just for the record – was my favorite thing so far. When I made my way back into my bedroom, I finally noticed the bed. It was at least a queen sized bed, suspended in the air by a tree. It wasn't a real tree for coarse but it was awesome. The bed looked like it was wrapped in tree branches and they surrounded and grew above it too. The duvet was brown but the pillows were green. The only way to get into the bed was by climbing multiple branches fashioned to look like stairs wrapped around the tree trunk. To put it lightly, this room was flipping amazing.

"Esme, I love it." I said, slightly awed at the room.

"Thanks. I absolutely love to decorate, Alice, Bella and Rosalie helped with the painting and the boys helped with the bed."

"Who's Bella?" I asked, not recognizing the name.

"She's Edward's girlfriend. Bella is a sweet, shy girl. I think you'll like her a lot." Esme explained.

"So, when will I meet everybody?" I asked climbing up into the bed.

"Well, since they get out of school at three ten, probably around three thirty or so. That will give you some time to unpack since it's only two o'clock now."

"Okay. Can you come up and get me when they're here?"

"How about I just send then up?"

"Sure."

"I'll leave you to it." Esme said, walking out the doors and into Carlisle. "Oh, here are your bags."

"Thanks, you can just put them wherever." Carlisle smiled and put them next to the door. Once they both left I started the long task of unpacking.

About an hour and twenty minutes later I was mostly unpacked, except for my CD's, movies and books. I usually alphabetize all of them together by title. It's a lot easier to find what I want that way. The only drawback was that doing it this way takes forever. Thirty minutes later, when I was about a third of the way through my task, I heard a knock on the door.

"Come in!" I yelled. I heard the door open so I turned around from my position on my stomach to back and propped myself up on my arms.

"Hi! I'm Alice!" A short, pixie like girl was sitting right in front of me. Her black hair was cut short and sticking up in every direction. "We're so happy that your part of our family now! Do you like your room? Did you have enough closet space? I thought that closet was a little small." She said the last thing more to herself than me.

"Hi." I said, slightly stunned at how fast she just spoke. Damn, I could already tell she was a very hyper person. Joy.

I heard a chuckle from the door way. I looked past Alice and saw the rest of my new siblings. Most of them were smiling, amused at Alice. I waved at them and they all came into the room further.

"Well, I guess we have one less person to introduce." Said a large dude. My freaking God, he was built like a freaking skyscraper and looked like a body builder. He had dark brown curly hair and a large, dimpled smile. "Okay, so, introductions. I'm Emmett, and this is Rosalie." Emmett continued, pointing to a statuesque blonde girl. "That's Jasper, he and Rosalie are twins." He said, pointing to a boy with wavy honey blonde hair. "And that's Edward." Last Emmett gestured to a boy with copper hair.

I just waved at them.

"Sooo, do you like your room?" Alice asked again.

"Yeah, it's cool." I said.

"Basically, the theme of the room is the outdoors. And check out the windows!" She bounced up and pulled me with her to the wall of windows. She pushed the center one open and it swung out like a door. Beneath the window was a platform that you could climb down onto, and then you could also climb down onto the ground from there.

"Whoa, that is so awesome!" I exclaimed.

"I knew you would like it!" Alice squealed then hugged me. I just stood there awkwardly as she did so. I'm so not the touchy-feely type of person. She let me go after a minute then ran over into Jasper's arms.

Well that's kind of strange . . . the look of love they were giving each other was definitely more than sibling love.

Rosalie must have noticed me staring and startled me when he spoke, "If you haven't already noticed, Jasper and Alice are dating and so are Emmett and I."

I noticed how they held each other, and looked at each other with love and adoration. Most people would say that it was wrong, brothers dating their sisters, but I thought it was kind of romantic. They must all get a lot of criticism but they still love each other, that much is obvious.

"Wow, you're the first person we've ever met that didn't judge us." Edward said.

"Yes, I did judge you. When I saw you with one another, and when I saw the love you held for each other, I did judge you. I judged that you are perfect for each other. That despite what others think about you, you still love each other. The love you hold in your hearts is greater than outsider's opinions." I explained, looking at each one of them.

"Well, that was deep." Emmett said after a minute of silence.

"Yeah, the extremely quiet 'mute' girl is very deep." I said sarcastically.

Booming laughter filled the room as Emmett through his head back and laughed. "It's gonna be fun having you around."

"I'm an entertaining person . . . when I talk."

"Why don't you?" Jasper asked.

"I don't know . . . I guess I've never been one for drawing attention to myself. I prefer to watch everything than speak." I shrugged.

"You sound a lot like Jasper." Alice giggled. "He rarely speaks and prefers observing."

I turned my head towards Jasper who looked uncomfortable with all the attention.

"Well, I guess we'll leave you to unpacking." Alice said, shooing everyone out my door. "Just come down to the kitchen whenever you're hungry. We don't really have a set dinner time. It's just whenever we're hungry we get food."

"'Kay." I mumbled, turning back to my unpacking.

A half hour and many CD's movies and books later I was finally done.

I wasn't really sure what to do, so I grabbed my laptop and turned it on. I surfed the internet aimlessly for about an hour before I got bored. After a long day of packing and moving I was very tired so I decided to sleep for a little while. I grabbed a pair of pajama shorts and a long sleeved top and changed into them. I climbed into my bed and turned on my iPod. I lay in my new bed for four songs before I got very cold. Slowly I managed to climb out of my bed and pulled out a pair of sweat pants and sweatshirt before I buried myself under my covers.

It was sometime late at night when I woke up. I grabbed my iPod to check the actual time. The white numbers told me it was 2:14 in the morning. Moonlight shone through my open windows and a cool breeze whipped my long hair around my face. Since it was obviously much too early to even think about getting up, I pulled my duvet over my head in an attempt to block out the light.

After an hour of tossing and turning in my bed I knew I wasn't getting any more sleep soon. I pushed my covers off and walked over to my windows. I looked out at the forest surrounding the house. The moonlight lighted up the forest, making it glow. Before I knew what I was doing, I climbed down onto the platform and onto the ground. I wasn't thinking as I walked through the woods, only being led by my instincts.

As I was walking, one of my flashes happened. I could hear and see everything. The forest seemed alive in a sense, but it was so much more than animals and insects moving. It was the spirit of the woods itself. It felt . . . renewing, liberating.

Something inside of me changed in that moment. Something snapped into place. For the first time in my life I felt whole. Complete. Like nothing in the world could touch me. Nothing could bring me down from my cloud nine I was experiencing.

A smile graced my face as I unknowingly made my way back to the house, through my window, and back into my bed, falling asleep in a matter of minutes.

The next time I woke up it was a much more reasonable time. I got up and brushed through my hair and teeth before I trudged downstairs. The smell of food entered my nose and I shot downstairs. In the morning I was always very hungry.

"Good morning to you too." Esme laughed as I grabbed one of the giant muffins on the platter and taking a bite.

"Morning." I mumbled through my full mouth. Throughout this entire process my eyes were closed in exhaustion.

"Someone is obviously still tired."

"Very." I laid my head down on the table after finishing my muffin.

"Well after you eat a little bit more you can go back to sleep." Esme smoothed my hair down in a very mom like gesture.

"Eh. If I don't wake up early I feel like I've wasted half my day."

"Well, okay then. Oh! By the way, you'll be starting high school on Monday of next week so we have to go shopping for school supplies. Plus Alice ants to take you clothes shopping."

"Oh joy. Shopping." I grumbled.

"You don't like shopping?!" I snapped my eyes open in surprise to see Alice standing next to me.

"Jeez you're pretty loud for someone so tiny." I commented.

Alice didn't reply though. She just stared at me with wide eyes. "What happened to your eyes?" She asked, snapping out of her daze.

"What do you mean?" I questioned her back. Alice grabbed my hand and dragged me to a mirror hanging in the hallway.

I looked in the mirror to see my eyes were . . . dark brown.

A/N: Okay, sorry it's so short and it took me a long time to update. I've had major writers block on everything I've even tried to write lately. I wanted to leave it a little cliffy at the end there so don't be to annoyed with me. Oh, and Alpha May will find out about what the Cullen's are in a few chapters and Paul shall be joining shortly.

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JJ V (Mistwolfgirl)