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Emmett had been a nervous man for the last few weeks as he waited for a reply from Miss Swan. He was at one point sure she'd just decided not to come as the days passed in a blur. Until finally one day he got the message. She was on her way and in that second everything seemed to freeze and Emmett seemed to realize everything he had to do. He was used to living in a bachelor household above the store. The place wasn't the cleanest and he had none of the finery that a wife would need. He looked around the store and pulled some china and a nice lamp down carrying it up the stairs.

"What are you doing?" He turned to see his Brother Edward walking towards him. He was getting so good on his new leg that sometimes if you didn't know it you would think he had two perfectly good working legs. It was only the slight limp and the cane that gave him away.

"Oh um…." Emmett looked down at the assortment of things in his hands. "I'm…"

'You're what?"

"I'm getting married." Emmett said.

"Did you just say you're getting married? Seriously. "

"Yeah?" Emmett nodded walking down the stairs he'd been standing on and sitting the objects carefully on the wooden counter.

"How, What, Why?" a million words seemed to fly from Edwards mouth all questions.

"Okay lets start with the first question. How though one of those matrimonial monthly magazines." He refused to look at his brother when he said that knowing Edward would make fun of him for the rest of his life. "What? I'm getting married she's young and she'll be here in about a week she's coming on the stage. Why because I'm lonely and well the girls around here are okay there is no one I'd want to marry or they are married."

"So you just put an ad in the paper and how young is this girl?" Edward asked propping his cane against one of the stools and sitting down on another.

"She's seventeen." Emmett said.

"Seventeen Emmett Cullen are you freaking crazy Ma is going to kick your ever loving behind for this."

"And that dear baby brother is why you're not going to say anything to her about this until Miss Swan gets here."

"So you're marrying the girl but you call her Miss Swan. Interesting." Edward smirked.

"Her first name is Isabella but I swear Edward if you breathe a word of this to anyone you're so dead."

"Yeah mmm hmm sure." Edward got up and grabbed his cane slapping his brother on the back. "Congrats."

"Right I have to get this stuff upstairs." Emmett looked around him.

"You do that." Edward walked out the door. Emmett sighed he highly doubted his brother could keep a secret if only for a week.

Emmett went upstairs and tried to situate things around so they looked presentable to a female or how he thought they'd look presentable to a female anyway. Too bad he hadn't thought to wash any of the dust off the plates or fill the lamp.

Meanwhile Bella felt like her spine was going to break in half. She was sore all over from bouncing all over the rutted roads and she couldn't sleep because the old lady in the corner snored all the time. and the food at the inns was barely passable as food. Most nights she stayed in the stage to sleep not wanting to waste the precious resources Mr. Cullen had given her if she didn't have to. the days dipped into each other night into day a few people trickled in and out of the stage. A portly man who only talked about his five children waiting back home in California. A young woman who was visiting a cousin somewhere Bella hadn't caught where and two children who were on their way to live with their aunt and Uncle because their parents had died.

"Where are you two going?" Bella asked the newest twin. She believed her name was Rachel.

"We are going to live with our Auntie Esme and uncle Carlisle in Cistine." She said and pointed over to her brother. "That is my baby brother Jacob."

"I am not a baby." The boy who looked around the age of eight protested.

"You're younger than me so that makes you a baby." The girl shot back.

"How old are you?" Bella asked trying to difuse the tension between the siblings.

"I'm ten almost eleven." She said proudly.

"and you said Cistine that's where I'm going to only I'm going to get married."

"Ohh a wedding those are always fun. We went to one with Mommy and daddy once.. you know before the accident." She said sadly.

"Yeah the accident." Jacob's lip quivered. Bella had heard the porter say something about the parents dying in a tornado that had swept through Texas killing the mother father and baby sister. She felt horrible for these children and knew how it was to be orphaned but at least she'd been older when it happened.

"Do you like your Autie and uncle?" she asked.

"Oh yes they are very nice." Rachel nodded and so are their sons. Emmett is a big goof ball and Edward is really sweet."

The name Emmett set slight alarm bells off in her head. "What is your aunt and uncle's last name.

"Cullen Miss."

Bella felt herself go hot and then cold. Cullen which would mean that these had to be Emmett Cullen's cousins. She looked at the two sweet innocent faces and felt her heart break even more. "Do your Aunt and Uncle know you're coming?

Rachel shrugged. "We don't know we hope so. Mrs. Lexus she was our neighbor she sent a telegraph to them and then put us on this couch."

"Oh my." Bella breathed thinking about these two children alone on a couch and maybe no one would be there to see to them. Of course Emmett would be there but what would he do with two children. The hours passed along with the days as they finally pulled into Cistine and Bella mulled over the two children sleeping peacefully in the seat across from her they were now the only three on the stage.

Emmett was passing the wooden sidewalk as he saw the swirl of dusk kick up and the stage coming upon him. The stage stopped and he nodded to the driver as he watched him hop down and open the door. He noticed as a girl with mahogany hair climbed down the steps.

"Are you Isabella?" He asked stepping forward.

"Yes." Bella nodded "and you must be Emmett."

"Yes miss." He said. She turned away for a brief second. looking around.

"Miss is something wrong."

"Sir. I don't know how to tell you this but there are two children on that Stage who claim to be your niece and nephew. She pointed back to the stage where the two children finally straggled down from the interior wiping sleep from their eyes.

"Rachel, Jacob what are you doing here?" Emmett hurried forward and took each of the children by the hand.

"We're auntie Esme isn't she supposed to be here." Jacob looked up at him with wide eyes.

"No why would she was she expecting you."

Jacob's lip wobbled. "Mama and Daddy died and Mrs. Lexus said she told and then she put us on the couch and sent us here." A single tear slide down his little face.

"Shh now Jake boy it's fine." Emmett hunkered down and looked at the child. "We'll figure it out." Emmett looked up at the girl at his side and then down at the two youngsters. This wasn't how this day was supposed to turn out.

A/N okay so the Muse struck originally I was just like oh lets throw some people in with Bella and then I was like lets throw some kids in and that turned into this which will all be explained in a later chapter I promise. Thanks to everyone that reviewed and please do review you are all amazing.