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Chapter 16

For the rest of the flight there, we simply talked amongst ourselves. The boys talked about an Xbox game they had all been playing, except Edward who had always been with me. He murmered sweet nothings in my ear as we got closer and closer. After a while of whispering to eachother Edward began delicately nibbling on the soft spot on my earlobe. I giggled, and then leaned back to kiss his neck a few times, letting my tongue out between kisses. Edward growled lowly and I giggled again.

After many hours up in the sky, we began to descend from the clouds. We all rushed to look out the windows and was greeted with a beautiful sight.

The most colorful beaches were laying beneath us, and the sky was reflecting on the water, making it a bright and vibrant blue. Beyond the beaches were many grassy fields and meadows, most untouched by human machinery. The Spanish like to keep things more natural out here; I'd forgotten about that. Off to the right and left were forests so thick and vast they seemed to never end. Sunlight shimmered off the colorful treetops and played on the wings of the birds. It was all so beautiful. And way out there somewhere, to the right of us and down the coast, was our seach house for our stay here.

As we began passing over small towns which eventually grew into a large but beautiful city, the plane began to get lower. I could see the airport ahead. We were all told to get buckled in and prepare for landing. After a bumpy landing, we unbuckled, got up, and left the plane. Stupid plane.

We entered the terminal in one big group of people. Alice grabbed our nads and bounced over to the luggage with us to help sort through it. As we watched the luggage conveyor belt turning, I thought This is it. We're finally here.

Every time one of our luggage would come around we would all grab for it; since we had to grab all three bags at the same time before it went away again. After a good ten minutes or so of waiting for the bags and then grabbing them off, one after another, we had successfully gotten all the laggage, without the guys' help. We stood with our arms folded across our stomach's when the guys came over to get their luggage from us. But we all stopped them.

We all told them at the exact same time and in the same tone of voice "What do you say?" The boys all looked puzzled for a moment, scratching their chins.

The Edward came up to me and put hishands on either side of my face. He stared deep into my eyes and said softly "Thank you for getting the luggage. Would you like me to carry yours as well?" I couldn't resist those eyes, and I wouldn't mind if I didn't have to carry my luggage. I wrapped my arms around his neck and stared right back into his eyes with my own. I leaned up and softly kissed him on the lips.

When I pulled back I told him "That would be fabulous. Thank you." He and I grinned at eachother and he picked up our luggage easily. I put one of my bags over my shoulder anyways and linked my arm through his. I smiled up at him and we walked over to where the adults and Lizzy were waiting for us with all their stuff already. Esme had a knowing glint in her eye, and she winked at me. I laughed and she laughed with me. So she knew. And she was fine with it? God, I loved my mother!

She nodded her head at me, understanding my unspoken words. I then heard her voice in my head, saying It had to happen someday, why not then? She reasoned. I smiled at her and said aloud "I love you mom."

She smiled back and said "I love you too sweetie. Now how's our unfortunate boys doing over there?" she asked, glancing over my shoulder. They were no better off than they were before.

I shouted to them "Hey girls! Give them a clue why don't ya? They can't all be as smart as my Edward!" They all laughed and yelled "Okay!' while the boys yelled "Hey!"

I laughed and turned my attention back to my lover, who was gazing down at me. His eyes held love, admiration, and even respect. I grinned up at him and said "You really are quite witty; it didn't take you very long to figure it out." I told him. He laughed his sweet, melodic laugh and I felt his cool breath on my face. I glanced back and saw Alice and Jasper coming our way. Apparently he'd figured out something that worked.

Kate and Garraett were following them, with both looking quite please. Irina and Laurent were just grabbing their luggage, while Emmett and Rose were in a heated make out session. I catcalled them and they broke apart, grinning at eachother. When everyone had gathered around with all their luggage, we hauled it out front where we saw more airport vans waiting. But they didn't take us toward the beach. They took us to the biggest car dealer in the area. All I could think was No way.

When the buses dropped us and our luggage off, we were taken around on a tour with Carlisle while he pointed out the most expensive and flashy cars. He said he was going to be generous and let us buy some cars, and two of them would be going back with us. The two that were going back home with us eventually were to be my car, and Kara's car. We were both giggly and excited. We ran around, looking at cars and dragging our men with us. For some reason, I didn't find any cars that appealed to me, and I asked Carlisle if I could get a motorcycle instead of a car. Of coarse he agreed.

Esme, Edward, and I set out to a good motorcycle dealer where I could buy a bike. As I glanced around, I thought there was nothing here for me as well, before I caught sight of a bike near the back. I fell in love with it immediately. My mouth dropped open and I ran flat out to it. Esme knew this was the one. I hugged her and Edward and went over all the details on the bike.

It was a hot red 2008 Ducati 848 with black leather seats and a killer engine. IT had been built for speed, power, and places where it's not always a striahgt, smooth road. This would do great in Forks when we got home. I loved it. Esme paid for it all up front with cash and soon I was following sme and Edward back to the Auto seller on my new Ducati. I hummed contently, listening to my baby purr. The meter read that it could go up to nearly 200 miles an hour!

As we pulled back into the auto-dealer's car lot, I saw that everybody was already waiting for us with their new cars. They fit their owners pefectly.

Kara had gotten a 2009 Pontiac Solstice Coupe convertable in silver; the small and flashy sports car fit her great. Rosalie had gotten a Mclaren P11 in silver with black leather interior. It was a super flashy sports car and she looked great in it. Alice had gotten the Alfa Romeo 8c Competizione in a striking red color. It was one of the flashiest and hottest cars I had ever seen. Then there was Emmett, who had to have a big manly car, so he got a 2010 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited in hot rod red with black interior. He just had to have his jeep.

Carlisle had already picked out his car for the trip. He picked a black 911 Turbo Porsch with more black leather interior. It was a nice car, I'll admit. Now that we all had our cars, we loaded the luggage and prepared to head for our home for the next two months.

Edward was going to ride with me on the Ducati, which when Jasper had seen it his eyes had bugged out of his head with awe. Emmett had said "Awesome pick Baby Bells!", and all the girls had giggled at the guys and complimented me on my choice.

We all pulled out in a line towards our beach house. As we drew away from the city I sighed with relief. It was back into the country. Into the wild, where I belonged. Our beach house was far far away from anyone else's beach houses, and only a few small town folk lived nearby, in the small town of Dalwin. The only people that lived anywhere near us though were local farmers and ranchers and people who hosted sports and stuff like zip-lining over the trees. I couldn't wait to visit them all.

As we sped on, we followed the dirt road that lead as far as the public usually went, until we found another dirt road hidden in the trees that led to the house. We traveled on the dirt road for about 15 minutes before we came out into the open again. The sight that greeted us was amazing.

The trees opened right up to the beach, with the waves lapping at the sand, putting streaks into it. The path from the woods led to a garage that was attached to the house on this side; facing the woods. The trees wrapped around farily closely to the back of the house, seeming to be a part of it. The waves lapped up not very far from the front pathway, which was covered in sand. The house itself was magnificent.

It was a white house with three stories, and had balconies along the back and sides that attached to the master bedrooms. The area of wall around each balcony door was huge panes of glass, and on one bedroom in particular on the top floor, the trees seemed to grow inside of it. Odd, but I liked it. The front porch was a wraparound of white and beige, with some sand lying on it. On the back side of the house, the ground floor where the kitchen was had walls made only of glass, letting sunlight light up the kitchen during the day. The whole scene was truly breathtaking.

We pulled up and parked the cars in the very spacious garage, with plenty of room for us to walk through it and for my bike to sit in the middle, all red and shiny. I stroked it once more before accepting Edward's extended hand in my own. We all walked together to the front of the house. Esme got out a key to open the front door, and we all went inside our vacation home. The inside was gorgeous already.

As soon as you entered, you were faced with a sand-colored stairway that led up at a turn. To it's left was the living room, where light brown and dark coffee brown sofas sat, along with matching chairs. They all faced a flat-screen TV. The carpet was also sand colored, and the walls were a light beige color. There was a doorway that led to the open kitchen and back door. On the right side of the staircase was a dining room, one that we would probably never use. Edward and I walked upstairs, hand in hand. We checked out all the rooms, one by one.

The first room would obviously be Alice's. It had mixtures of blues like the ocean all around the room, with a balcony in the back. It had a huge closet and vanity, and was obviously meant for a girl or two. I called Alice up and as soon as she caught a glimpse of the blue colored walls she bounced right in, squeeling to Jasper that she wanted this room. Edward and I laughed, then looked over the other rooms. We found rooms for everybody but ourselves when we reached the last door on the top floor. Edward waved an arm at the door dramatically, saying "You do the honors."

I laughed and opened the door slowly, then stepped in. The first words out my mouth were "This is the one Edward; this is the one."

This was the perfect room for me. For one thing, the entire room was painted and colored in various shades of greens and browns like the forest around us. I was right earlier when I though the tree branch came in the glass wall. There was an amazingly huge tree branch that was inside, and ran into the middle of the room, creating a holding frame for the huge and thick matress in the center of it, also brown. Somehow, there was another small tree sprouting out of the branch. It filled up most of the celing, and grew out behind the bed. It was enormous, and beautiful. It made the room seem to glow green.

Apart from the tree itself, other small branches had sprouted from the main one to wrap its vines around mahogany colored dressers and a vanity. The closet was fairly small, but I was okay with that. There were birds twittering in the tree above our heads and squirrels playing on the limmbs. It was like the forest was welcoming me with making my stay more connected to them. I would be eternally grateful for this.

I dropped my bag and, after a moment of thought, ran and flopped down on the bed. It was so amazingly soft; the best I'd ever laid on. Edward set down the stuff and then he also ran and flopped on the bed, laughing. He stretched out for a second before relaxing back into the mattress. He then propped himself up on one shoulders and sat there watching me with those green eyes of his. I propped myself up so that we had mirrored positions from eachother, green staring into darker green.

I glanced around once more and said "Suddenly I like it here. The tree really is a comfort," I added, glancing up at the tree full of animals, "but there's something else to it. I guess maybe its just the natural feeling in the room. It's nice." I said, shrugging. There was no real explanation for it. Edward nodded his head in understanding and then rolled over so that he rolled on top of me. He locked his arms at my sides and held most of his weight above me as he hovered, staring straight into my eyes. I stared right back, and wound my arms around his neck, playing with his hari. Finally, he leaned down and kissed me lightly on the lips, gently.

I kissed him back just as gently, just as sweetly. He didn't kiss me for very long, but I didn't mind. I was just glad to finally be here. I smiled and flipped us over, so that I was laying on his chest instead. I wrapped my arms around him tightly and snuggled into to his warm chest. We stayed that way for a while, just laying there in eachother's arms. After a little while, Lizzy came in.

"I've got my own room now, on the first floor across the hall from Alice's room! I really like it!" she stated proudly. Then, looking unsure, she said "You're not going to miss me too much are you?"

I laughed and said "Of coarse not. We'll still see you every day silly." I told her laughing. She smiled, satisfied, and left quickly, hopping down the hall. I glanced once more around the room, and then up at the tree above our heads. I saw the squirells there, playing a game with the vines, where they swung from one to another. It looked like a lot of fun. I thought of how fun it would be, and decided to go and join their game.

I touched my fingers to the stone around my neck and thought of a bushy tailed squirell. One moment I was holding onto Edward, the next I was sitting up on his chest, feeling very small. Edward raised his head up to look at me, and laughed. I wondered what could be so funny, and seeming to read my mind, he said "They had put a garland of vines and leaves on your head. It's funny." he told me, laughing again. I put my little paws on my hips and stared him down. He blinked and erupted into laughter. It shook his whole chest, feeling for all the world like an earthquake.

I jumped off his chest and onto the bed next to him, glancing up at the branches. Them with a deep breath, I jumped over Edward's head and clung to the side of the tree. I began to scale up the tree, and thought to myself This is actually pretty easy.

When I got to the branch where the other squirrels were playing, they all turned and overed a vine to me. I took the vine, and swung on it to the opening. When I reached the middle, I jumped off my vine onto the next vine and swung further, then jumped to another vine. On this last vine, I swung to the next branch and landed. I let the vine fall back and glanced around at the other squirrels. They were each on a vine, and they would jump off their vines to the vine across from theirs, while the squirrel on the vine across from their took their vine in their place. Like a team, trading places.

I watched with awe, and one of the squirrels beckoned me over. I came over and gripped the vine I was given. When they gave the signal, I flew through the air on my vine until I saw the other one was near me. I jumped off my vine and onto theirs and swung back with ease. I chirped a squirrel's laugh, and did the vine switch game over and over again. After a while, Edward told me everyone was going to go to the water's edge and asked if I wanted to come too. I held up a paw for him to wait while I waved goodbye to my new squirrel friends. They waved back, and I scurried down the tree and jumped into Edward's open palms.

Laughing, Edward carried me over to the dresser. He had already put all his stuff away, and Alice had apparently come in to my stuff away so he wouldn't see. He opointed out what of mine was in which drawer, and I got changed into one of the swimsuit's Alice had picked out for me.

The swimsuit was a light red-orange mixed color with little beige flowers on it. The bottoms had them everywhere, while the top had little palm trees on them. This had been one of my favorites. Smiling, I pulled it on as Edward put on his swimming trunks, also a light red, but with coconuts on his. He and I joined hands and walked down the hallway to join the others who were waiting in the living room.

We were the last ones downstairs, and when we got down, everybody headed out the front door. Some of the boys had surf boards in their hands and a couple of the girls had boogie boards that were connected in two's. We all headed for the water. Alice had a boogie board and asked if I would try it with her. The boogie boards she was holding had Dolphin's swimming in water on them. I smiled and said yes, and the two of us waded into the water before the boys even did.

Alice and I got on top of our boogie boards, sitting on our knees, and used powerful arm strokes to get us further out into the water. When we were far enough out, we laid down on our boards to wait, our arms at the ready. Soon, a huge wave came careening towards us, and we rode our way up the wave before it started to fall. When it did, we rode it out almost to the shoreline. We were laughing the whole time, and got soaked of coarse, but we didn't flip over at all. Alice and I high-fived before passing the boards onto somebody else. I saw the boys about to go out with their surfboards, and noticed there was an extra surfboard laying in the sand.

Smiling, I picked it up and followed the men out into the water. We propeled out to the currents and soon caught ourselves on a wave just coming fresh out of the water. We all swam up the wave, and when I got to the top I stood up on my board without even a tingle. I watched the other boys climb up onto their boards with difficutly, and Jasper almost didn't make it.

When we were all standing, I curved down to the front of the wave and rode along its edge. It began making a loop around my head and soon I was inside a tunnel made of water. I slid my hand against the smooth surface of the water wall and surfed through the closing tunnel. Just as it seemed I wouldn't make it out through the narrow exit, I slid through and the wave crashed down behind me, spraying me with sea water. I laughed loud and full and surfed as far out as the shallows before hopping off my board. As I did, Edward came up behind me completely soaked.

His wet bronze hair glittered in the sunlight and threw small rays into my face. His eyes were alight with exhileration and he had a beautiful smile on his gorgeous face. I smiled back up at him and took a step foward to give him a hug. He opened his arms up for me and pulled me into his tight embrace. After a moment or two of just standing there in our hug, I pulled back and, with a last glance at him over my shoulder, went to sit with the girls again.

The girls were going to try to build a huge sandcastle, but they weren't entirely sure how.

I raised my hand above my head when Alice asked if anyone knew how and said "I do."

All their attention was focused on me as I explained the basics of building a sandcastle, and then the extra qualities. when the girls seemed to have it down, we all worked together to build. The boys tried to help once, but Alice shooed them away, saying this was a girl sand castle noly. The boys retaliated by building a guy sand castle. As we worked on our castle, I noticed with approval that they had listened when I told them how imprtant the foundation was.

We had the first full layer of our sand castle already done and gorgeous, when the men all started arguing over their pitiful mound of sand. They were apparently arguing over where the flag they had should go. We ignored them and build the remaining two layers of our castle. When that was done, we added the four corner towers and the one in the very center. We then made the top appear to have all the turrets and added all the fine details using our nails last. When we were done, Alice got a peace of some small, pink silk cloth, put it on a toothpick, and put it on top of our center towers, pronouncing it done.

Right then, the boys announced theirs done, and we all moved to block our sand castles from the other team's veiw. On the count of three, we all moved out of the way. I laughed out loud when I saw their castle.

The boys' sand castle was so pitifull that I had no choice but to laugh out loud. It consisted of a mound of sand with little blocks formed from it, and had a twig with a leaf on the end of it stuck in the top as their flag. We laughed at theirs, while their mouths popped open at the sight of ours. The whole time the adults had been watching us and laughing, while Lizzy was looking at shells in the sand where the water came up.

The boys stuttered a bit, trying to find an escuse about our castle, although it was flawless. Finally, they gave up and Emmett announced "Alright, alright, fine, you win!" he reluctantly announced. We all cheered and gave eachother high fives for a job well done. As I glanced along the sea shore, I noticed a blurry shape far out on the sand, coming steadily our way. faster than a human could run, and bigger too. I stretched out with my enhanced vision and saw that it was a grey horse with a bridle and saddle on, but no rider.

"Uh oh." I said worriedly. A number of things could have happened to the rider of that horse. I called Edward's name and he was beside me in a moments time. I crouched down on my hands and knees and told him to sit on my back. Looking confused, he did so. I touched one of my hands to my stone and transformed myself to a russet horse with a white mane and tail, with some white markings on my legs and a strange design like a tree in white on my forehead. I charged out to the other horse while Edward kept a tight grip on my mane.

When I reached the other horse, I slowed down and it stopped in front of me, looking exhausted. The horse was a boy, a little younger than I thought at first, and he was worried about his former rider. It had been a very young girl. As they rodse along the beach, someone had jumped out of the trees and taken her from him. He was a very loyal horse, since this girl had been riding him since she could walk. I agreed to go back to help find the girl with him.

Without another word, I followed the grey stallion along the shore of the beach to hopefully find the girl. We traveled for only about a mile along the sandy shores before we came to a place where the lind of trees practically went to the water's edge. the stallion told me that this was where she had been taken. I called out to the animals int he nearby woods, asking if any of them had seen the girl. I soon got an arrow path that would lead me straight to the kidnappers, who were still trudging through the woods. A helpful robin offered to follow them to keep tabs on the girl, and flew off to follow them.

I transformed once again, though this time in to my spiritual wolf form. I could travel faster this way, and would scare the kidnapers more than a horse would. The stallion, who liked to be called by the name his mistress had given him, Fiathful, said he would like to come with us. He allowed Edward to ride him, to make an appearance before I had to come out to help. I slowed to the same pace as Faithful and ran alongside him.

After about half an hour of nonstop running, I could sense them just ahead of us. I informed Edward and Faithful and I slowed to a walk as they entered the clearing that the kidnappers were taking a break in with the girl still held captive. I could see that she was tied up next to the stump of an old tree, with a gag around her mouth. She didn't struggle, though she looked like she was calculating something; a way out probably. when Edward entered the clearing, her eyes went back and forth between hope and caution. They settled on caution.

Edward had stopped Faithful and spoke directly to the bandits. "Hello there. I was told that a girl had dissapeared from the shore and came to help find her. That looks like the girl there," he said, pointing at the young girl, "and I would prefer it if you would release her from those pointless bonds and let me take her back home." he told them, sounding full of authority. Right now he had it.

The kidnappers laughed and said "Why should we listen to you? There's way more of us than just you all by your lonesome self. How about we kill you and just continue on our way?" the bandit suggested, probably the leader.

Edward shook his head and said "You are mistaken; I'm not by myself. My friend is waiting for me back there, would you like me to call her?" he asked them, sounding for all the world dangerous and powerful. The bandits merely laughed for a moment before the leader spoke again.

"Bring your pretty sheila in here and we'll see what we can do with her." he told Edward, commanded really. I realized I should probably enter as a human, and turned back into my human form with a touch of my stone. I then took a deep breath, and walked out into the open clearing. Some of the bandits whistled and laughed, and I could see the dirty thought going through their minds. I shuddered slightly, and went to stand beside Faithful with Edward atop him.

I glanced over at the captive girl, and saw her wearing a look of deep suspicion and confusion on her face. I then turned my attention swiftly back to the bandit leader, who was looking me over with appraising eyes. I ignored his staring and said "I'm here, now let the girl go before bad things start happening to you." I warned them mysteriously. I didn't have time for games; Edward and I needed to get back home soon.

The bandit laughed and said "Your mysterious words won't work on me sheila; I'm too smart for that one." he told me, laughing with the rest of them. I shook my head in disbelief.

"More likely you're too stupid, in this case anyways. Now let her go, or I'll take her from you myself." I told him, my eyes going black. He looked confused as he watched my eyes turn black and then snorted.

"Nice trick little shelia. Why don't you just come over hear and join her on the floor?" he suggested, trying to say there's no other choice for you. Oh, how wrong he was.

I fought to remain calm and walked straight towards the leader. Without hesitating, I grabbed his neck and hoisted him up in the air in front of me, staring up into his face as his feet kicked the open air they were now standing on. I leaned close to him and whispered in a deadly voice "I've given you plenty of warnings now, so either give her up, or have a few bruises for a few weeks. your choice of coarse." I spat at him, and dropped him onto the ground. He sputtered and sat up to face me.

I merely shrugged and walked over to the girl, but two more thugs jumped in my path. Using some of my wolf strength, I pushed them both out of the way and went straight for the girl. I changed one of my nails into a sharp talon from a bird's claw and cut all her bonds, ungagging her mouth. Edward hopped off of Faithful, just as he came over to nose the girl. She breathed a sigh of releif, and hoisted herself into her saddle. As we began to walk out, all the bandits stood to block our path from us leaving.

I was getting fed up with waiting today, so I stepped toward the line of men and said "Do you want to bleed to death, or move? Because if you don't move you won't find yourself in happy place." I told them clearly. None of them moved, so I shrugged and touched the stone on my neck, calling forth my spirit wolf, and changing before thei very eyes, whch were now wide with fright. I growled lowly at them and began to advance on them in slow, agonizing steps. Every time I stepped foward they went back a few steps.

I then leaped foward in one massive bound so I was right in their faces and snarled at them in a truly terrifying way. They all screamed in terror and ran off into the woods, tripping and yelling as they went.

Humming in a satisfied tone, I loped gracefully back over to Edward. He patted my shoulder and hoisted himself upon me. With a glance at the girl, I asked her "are you going to be able to find your way back home through here?" She nodded her head in a yes and I nodded once to her before bounding into the trees. I bounded over fallen trees and around boulders and bushes, up and down slopes and across open meadows.

It took us only a few minutes to run out of the trees and onto the sand, where I charged down towards home. It took us ten minutes more to travel to within sight of our beautiful home. I charged across the sand, spraying it around with my massive paws. When we reached the path leading to the front door, I transformed back and stood there shaking the sand from my skin. Edward had somehow jumped off of my back when he saw me start to transform and was standing beside me now. He smiled at me with his milky white teeth and took my hand, leading me inside.

As soon as we stepped through the front door, everyone got up from their seats in the living room and rushed over to us, asking what happened and if we were okay. Finally I held my hands above my head and said "Whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA! Easy Killers! Let a girl breathe here!" They all took a step back. I gestured to the living room and they all rushed back in, eager to hear our story.

We all sat on the floor in a huge circle, and everybody connected their hands. I paused before grabbing Edward and Alice's hands, taking a deep breath. As I firmly grasped Edward and Alice's hands, the story began. They didn't seem at all worried as we charged through the forest to find the young girl, but they all gasped when they saw all the bandits holding her captive the way they did. Carlisle's brow was furrowed in confusion as he watched the the bandits demeaner. As the link faded, I noticed that a certain warmth in me faded with it. A certain light faded, like my hands had a power source in them that acted like a lightbulb, lighting up when it was in use.

As I pondered this, the others began to disperse except for Edward, who sat faithfully by my side. I glanced up into his worried eyes, deep in concentration. I took his hands in my own and passes him the look of the ocean outside, and I felt my hands get warm and light up. As I glanced down at them, they seemed to be glowing; shimmering in a way. Intriuged, I kept hold of Edward's hand in my own as I raised my hand to survey it. It was beginning to sparkle and shimmer.

Finally I relaxed. I felt as if a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders for no reason whatsoever. Maybe there was a reason? The feeling of doing something good. Maybe that's it.

I sighed deeply and stood up, pulling Edward up with me. I held his hand and pulled him along behind me as I led him up to our room. When I opened the door I saw the tree and all the animals playing peacefully among it. A smile broke out on my face and I pulled Edward over to stand under the tree with me. As I glanced up at the top of the tree, I noticed it stretched even higher, and that there was a circular hole in the roof that it grew out of. Puzzled, I let go of Edward's hand and began to climb the tree with my bare hands.

I climbed up, branch by branch, until I made it through the hole in the roof where the tree pretty much ended. I climbed onto the top of the roof and saw a few small hatches in it. Curious, I walked over to the one closest to me and pulled on it. It silently swung open. I glanced down and saw I was looking into Lizzy's room. She was in there listening to her mp3 player and reading a book. She hadn't heard or seen me. I closed the hatch and went to the next one.

The next one was really strange. It had a ladder, and there was another hatch below the ladder. I climbed down the ladder and opened the hatch to see Emmett and the boys playing Xbox in their room. I closed the hatch and climbed back up the ladder and into the sunlight. Closing the top hatch, I went to over to another hatch, which went down a little further into the house than the last one. I opened the hatch to see Alice's room below me, with the girls happily chatting and doing eachother's nails. Smiling, I closed the hatch and went back up to the roof.

Two more hatches left, and I bet I knew where they went. To the adult's rooms. This house was bvery starnge. A tree growing in my room, hatches that lef from the roof to all the master bedrooms... very strange. The house was too tall for burgalers, so maybe as a way to get from one room to another? Maybe in case of an emergency like a fire or hurricane? I may never know, but it was fun to guess.

Satisfied, I climbed back down the tree in my room and dropped to the floor behind Edward. He had apparently heard, or sensed, me and turned around with a smile on his face. I hugged him and sat down on the carpet. Before I explained to him what I had seen, I had the sudden urge to look under the carpet. I grabbed fluffed up patch of carpet and liften it slightly, noticing it wasn't atached to anything but the corners of the room. I went to one of the corners and pulled the edge out of the side of the wall and pulled back the carpeting.

Just as I had thought. Under the carpet was soil, the reason the tree is alive in my room. The branch leading out was just one of it's overgrown branches. As I was glancing at the tree, I felt something stir in the dirt beneath my fingertips. I pulled my hand back and watched with amazement as a patch of grass appeared there, luscious and green. The more carpet I pulled back, the more grass grew in its wake. Soon a good protion of the room was no longer carpet, but a nice soft grass bedding.

I went to all the corners and unhooked the rug, rolling it up and stepping out to set the huge thing in the hallway. Glancing back through the open door, I saw grass had already grown all over the room. It was short and green in some places, in others it was tall and swaying. I watched with amazement as the floor of my room grew a huge number of beautiful plants and grasses and flowers, springing up in harmonized locations.

I smiled. I loved the way my room looked now. Like the wilderness itself. It felt like a true welcome home girft, as if I would see Jake and the packs walkng by and see Lecio hopping through the short grass, while the other animals ran around in harmony. It felt like home to me now.

Glancing down at the carpet, I knew it couldn't stay here. Grabbing the huge thing, I carried it carefully down the hallways and stairs until I was in the front room. Esme and Carmen were working on blueprints in there. They both glanced up when they saw me enter. They both looked very puzzled.

Esme pointed at the roll in my hands. "Is that the carpet from your room?" she asked.

I nodded my head. "Yup. It wasn't attached to the floor, and when I pulled it back my room began to change. I don't want it to change back. after I get rid of this, you should come and see it." I told them. I went to the kitchen and out the side door that led into the garage. I placed the carpet roll securely in the far back corner of the garage. Feeling satisfied, I went back in. Esme and Carmen were waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs. We climbed up and up until we had reached the door to my room. I stopped them there, opening the door for them. They stood there speechless,and I just smiled.

My room had completely transformed to look like the forest now. Grasses and wild plants of strange beauty and sized and colors were all around the room. My furniture had become part of the inner forest itself, and I noticed a few much smaller trees had sprouted in my time away. Completely at ease, and feeling quite chipper, I danced around my room and laughed. As I laughed, a bunch of colorful parrots flew out of one of the colorful trees and circled overhead before plunging outside. I smiled brightly at them before turning to see Esme and Carmen's reactions.

Esme was going around, touching a bunch of the plants and glancing up at the animals in the trees. She seemed to be trying to believe this was real, and was failing to do so. Carmen, on the other hand, was going around and smiling up at the animals she saw. She glanced over a tme, and I could see her joy covering her surprise. Esme seemed to finally be accepting it, and was glancing up at one of the colorful parrots. She shrugged and asked "Any more suprises you found in the house today?"

I laughed and nodded my head at her. she lifted her eyebrows questionably, and I waved my hand for them to follow me. I led them all the way down to Alice's room, and all the girls glanced up when they heard the door open and said many cheerful "Hello!"s. I walked around Alice's room, trying to pinpoint exactly where the hatch was. I knew that I only had to push on it and it would open. When I found the spot I saw it was near the corner of her room, just in front of her dresser.

I grabbed one of Alice's chairs and stood on top of it, and pushed on the ceiling, revealing the trap door when the ceiling opened. I climbed up and found a small throw-down ladder up here. I tossed it down and everyone climbed up behind me. I led them all up to the roof where they could see my tree sticking out of my room and all the other hatches. Alice walked curiously over to one and pulled the hatch up. Glancing down, I knew it was the hatch that led to Emmett's room. Grinning mischeviously, I held up a finger for them to be quiet and went down into the hatch. They stayed up top to watch me.

I opened the hatch and saw the boys were talking as they were playing Xbox. I stiffled a giggle when I noticed they were, again, talking about us. I motioned with my finger above my head for Alice to come down too, though the others stayed up there. She stuck her head through the hole with me and we listened to the boys talking. Jasper was talking.

"Alice is such a little sugar. She can be sweet and cute, but a fiesty little thing when she wants to be. That's why I love that devilish litle pixie." he said laughing. The boys laughed too, and Alice just had to say it.

"Aww, I love you too hun!"

The boys heads swiveled around, and me and Alice were having problems stiffling our giggles of amusement. They didn't see anything, and they even checked outside the door, to see us not there. They closed the door and Jasper shrugged. They sat down to play Xbox again.

Jasper shook his head back and forth and said "Dang, it sounded like she was right in here with us. Crazy little pixie, how'd she do it this time?"

"She had my help of coarse." I stated proudly. The boys glanced around again in confusion, pausing their game and looking under the bed and in the closet. I could barely hold my laughter in any more. All it took was for Alice and I to take one look at eachother and we busted out laughing. We pounded our feet and fists and cracked up. As soon as we started laughing all the boys looked up at the ciling and saw us hanging there laughing. All their mouths were hanging wide open, which only made us laugh harder.

When our fits of amusement had subsided, I said "You might want to close your mouthes before a bug flies into it." I told them. They all closed their mouths and emmett shook his head back and forth, saying "Impossible."

I cut it "Oh but it is possible brother dearest, hence the fact that we are currently hanging out of your ceiling."

He glanced up past us and saw everyone else standing up on the roof and they smiled and waved mockingly. Then they started laughing, which made Alice and I laugh too. Then Emmett asked the most obvious question. "How'd you all get up there?"

As I explained to him the series of ladders and hatches in the house, he seemed to understand. At last I waved goodbye to them and closed the hatch before they could try and ask any more questions. Aice and I climbed back onto the roof, and I told everyone where their rooms were. Everyone but Edward and I descended back down into Alice's room to go back to what they were doing before. As the hatch closed, I turned my gaze up towards the sky.