We arrived in the airport around noon, in a city named Spokane. I was dreading seeing Esme knowing how much I hurt her. I would rather be stuck on a plane with lots of innocent people then face her. We stepped off the ramp into the waiting area; in the back of the crowd was Esme and Carlisle. Carlisle had his arm around Esme as to hold her down from attacking me or revealing what we are…which ever she was decided on. When we finally reached them, all eyes were on me. I looked down at the ground as we stopped in front of them. No one was breathing; I felt some one's hand under my chin pulling it up so I was looking into Esme's eyes. She looked happy.
"Mom I am so sorry, I just had to get away….I….please forgive me." I gauged her reaction she looked shocked for a second.
"There is nothing to forgive son." She pulled me into her arms and squeezed me. My arms wound around her. "I love you and you know that. I knew that you need your space and time. At least you did not try to kill yourself." She added dryly with a forced laugh.
"Thank you. You're to kind to me. After I promised to never do this to you I turned around and did it to you." She pulled away from me to look at me.
"Never Edward, I understood why and under the circumstances it was alright." She gave me a smile and took my hand. "Now let's get home." Home sounded really good right now.
In the parking lot we walked to Alice's yellow 911 turbo porche.
"I thought you said we were living in the country?" I turned to look at Alice she beamed when I looked at her.
"No one around there cares. They just say nice car and walk away. We don't need to not stick out here because there is like a total of 200 people in Curlew. Everyone knows everyone and their cars too. They would have put two and two together." She was so happy to drive it around town. It was a 3 hour trip to Curlew but we made it there in about 1hour and 45 minuets. We ended up going over a mountain and we popped out at Curlew. Once we got there it was about 2 and the sun was lowering in the sky. We drove across a bridge and turned left. There was a river and everyone was down there. I looked out my window to look at them. It was hard to see at some parts because of the trees but I caught sight of some one that made me suck in a ridged breath. There diving into the water was…..
"Edward are you okay?" Esme was looking at me.
"I thought I saw…." I looked back and she was no where to be seen. "Nothing it was nothing." The last part came out as a whisper but she heard it and looked away from me. I was sure I had seen her. Maybe it was my mind playing a trick on me. We went over another bridge and took off down the road. Soon we can to a turn on the right. The sign read Lundimo Meadow rd. It was a dirt road with a lot of washboard. I bet Emmett was in love with it flying up and down in the jeep. We went up the road for a mile or so and then went down the road and the dipped down to the left and down a driveway with shale on it. We went up a little hill to pull in be hind the house. It was almost the same white house that we use to live in but it had only 2 levels and not as many windows. That and it had a nice dirt cover on it to make it a little bit tan.
"Welcome home Edward." Carlisle said as we climbed out of the car. Alice came by me and took my arm and pulled me into the forest that surrounded the house. We came into a part in the trees. About a football field size and the trees still towered above us. The sun was behind them and the color that came through was just as she had said. A color you would have to see to believe. Alice turned to me and smiled.
"Thank you for showing me this Alice. It is beautiful in every form of the word."
"I am glad that you got to see it. We have 3 years to see it and enjoy it together."