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Waking up that morning to Jazz I smiled and ushered him out to go change as Alice would have my head, I went to my wardrobe and pulled out a pair of denim skinny jeans a white strap top a long sleeved grey off the shoulders jumper to keep warm and a pair of black suede boots before grabbing my black bag from one of the boxes and setting about getting ready. I left my hair down for the bike ride I would be getting and grabbed a few pins for my hair when I got to school that I'm sure Alice or Rose will nap so they can do my hair... Alice and her Barbie complex.
Shaking my head I zip up my bag and head down the stairs umbrella in hand. I heard a horn sound and look out the front room window, smiling as I saw both Jasper and Edward.
"Bells Edwards here!" I call, A moment later she ran down the stairs with her rucksack in hand brown jacket on and a pair of jeans. I grinned as I grabbed my helmet and let Bella out first locking the door behind me. Walking down the steps Edward helped her into the car and appeared beside her a second later not phasing her at all. I walked to the bike blowing a kiss to Jazz before I put the helmet on and got on behind wrapping my arms around his waist. And with that we sped off keeping pace with Edward and Izzy. After a minute or two I got bored and suddenly the bike sped up causing me to laugh as we pulled away from the car and headed for the car park. Jazz decided to show off and fishtail the bike before slowing to a stop in the parking space beside Rose's red BMW. I pulled my helmet off laughing as he grinned at me. "Show off!"
"You were gettin' bored Darlin'." I get off the bike and give him a kiss on the cheek.
"Well thank you for showin' me a good time Major." II watched his eyes darken as I teased him. But turned away as I saw a flash of silver, that flash being Edwards Volvo. I watched the eternal teen get out of his car and walk around to open Izzy's door. As she got out she looked around with a fake aura of confidence as she hauled her bag over her shoulder Edward closing the door and locking it quickly. I watched her mouth the words.
'You know everybody's staring.' to him,
'Of course they are, you're with the only single Cullen.' I watched as he repeated the words and she sent me a look to which I shrugged as she walked people clearing a path for them. After a few moments he threw his arm around her shoulder walking passed with a smirk. 'You will go to hell if you hurt her!' I call mentally. He threw a look over his shoulder at me. The other's got out of Rose's car and I gave Jazz a smile before hopping onto Emmett's back as he ran of to Calculus class.
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School that day had been a nightmare with everyone's thoughts, not to mention me and my mind reading buddy were at different tables and he was getting to know my sister more. After we finished that day Edward too Bells out as promised and brought her back in one piece.
The next three days had been the same gossip and a few snide comments from people who didn't want them together, some had eve asked me if I had hooked them up. Edward had wanted me to agree to it so they wouldn't need anything to be complicated. I was glad Izzy knew because now Jasper didn't have to leave when she need to speak with me though he would often breathe in my scent to calm his thirst for her blood.
Iz and me had decided to wash the cars today so I had a simple t shirt and jeans on as I rubbed a sponge over the bonnet of my baby boy. After about ten minutes I heard a bang and turned around to see Edward on top of my sisters truck. From the cab he hopped into the bed and then down beside her.
"Could you act human? I mean I've got neighbours." I watched the smile light her face. He ignored her comment with a grin.
"I'm gonna take you to my place tomorrow." he frowned and reached under the front fender to pull the dent out.
"Ah thanks." And then his statement registered. "Wait like with your family?" He looked over at me,
'Are you coming?' I nod.
'Naturally.'
"Yeah." he finally answers,
"What if they don't like me?" I snort at this,
"Classic, Iz, really." I tell her, Edward grins,
"So you're worried, not because you'll be in a houseful of vampires, but because you think they won't approve of you?"
"I'm glad I amuse you both." she mutters, his laugh dies and i know what that means, i look over at the truck coming our way. Billy Black was heading here. "What is it?" She asked after a moment,
"A complication." Edward answers. He smiled at her, "I'll pick you up tomorrow." he told her before walking to his car and driving off.
"What was that about?" She asks me. I shrug. Bells forced a smile as she went to greet the visitors. Putting the sponge down I jump Jake with a hug before giving Billy a one armed hug. "Come to visit your truck?" she asks in greeting, Jake smiles.
"Looks good. You got that dent out." he said looking closer though I could tell he was lying.
"Actually, we came to visit your flat screen. First Mariners game of the season. Plus Jacob here kept bugging me to see you again."
"Great, Dad. Thanks." Jake says sarcastically as he sends Billy an irritated look, dads cruiser pulls up and he climbs out with two six pack of beer.
"Pale Ale." He calls, Billy holds up the brown paper bag.
"Harry Clearwater's homemade fish fry." Dad smiles, they all head inside to watch the game, shaking my head I turn back to cleaning my car humming the beginnings of a song I wouldn't remember when I was done.
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I was riding behind Edward and Izzy, personally I would have went on ahead but she had wanted me to be there with her the first time, currently I was dressed in a longish dress, leggings and my black boots, my dress had a red, black and grey plaid skirt that was uneven and a black top that stopped just under my bust, sort of like a babydoll dress.
Pulling up in front of the beautiful house I shut she engine and got out looking over at my sister.
"It's... wonderful." She breathed, Edward smirked.
"You expected turrets, dungeons and moats?" I laugh and walk over to the door hearing her response.
"No... not moats."
Throwing the door open I shout,
"I'm home!" Walking into the kitchen the others not far behind I see everyone standing around, a cooking channel on and everyone working to prep huge platters, I notice Jazz, Jack and Alice are not here, I laugh at everything not noticing Bella looking at us. Taking a seat at the counter I smile at everyone Esme was the first to greet me with a hug followed by Carlisle strangely, I didn't think he'd been a hugging person. Rose sends me a smile and Emmett a grin.
"Bella. We're making Italiano for you." Esme greets my sister with a blinding smile and I turn to look at her, "This is Esme, my mother for all intents and purposes." Edward introduces, "Bon giorno?" (Hello?) Bella greets unsure of the language, Esme beams,
"Molto bene!" (Very good!) She compliments,
"Dove posso aiutare?" (Where can I help?) I asked Esme as I reach for a knife, she taps my hand,
"Non aiuterete, sarete mangiare." (You will not be helping, you will be eating.) I hold my hands up,
"Madre Spiacente." (Sorry mother.) after a moment I realize what had come out of my mouth and I clapped my hands over it. I was about to apolagize until I saw the look of joy on her face.
"You've given us an excuse to use the kitchen for someone other than Arc." Carlisle smiled, I shot Edward a look.
'Told you so. when do you bet against Alice?' he ignored me,
"I hope you're hungry." Esme tells her.
"Oh, absolutely -" Izzy tries before she's cut off,
"She already ate." Iz shoots him a look and I see the salad bowl slip from Rose's hand,
"Hey!" I thrust my hand out and the bowl stopped falling and floated instead. Slipping out of my seat I scooped the bowl up and placed it on the side before taking my seat once again.
"Perfect." Rose spat before walking out, I sigh rubbing my head.
"I just assumed - because you don't eat, you know..." Bella tried to explain.
"Of course. That was very considerate of you." Esme tells her,
"Ignore her. I do." Edward tells her referring to Rose, I shot him a warning look,
"Yes, let's keep pretending this isn't dangerous for all of us." Rose snarled from the door scowl on her face.
"I would never, ever tell anyone." Bella voiced,
"She knows that." Carlisle reassured.
"The problem is, you two have gone public now, so..." Emmett starts, a grin on his face.
"Emmett." Emse reprimanded.
"No, she should know." She turns to Bells. "The entire family will be implicated if this ends badly." I grit my teeth,
"Rosalie..." I bite out, she looked at me, "She is my sister." I mutter only loud enough for the vampires to hear.
"... Badly?" She asks before she jumps to conclusions. "Oh. Badly. Like, where I become a meal." Emmett chokes on a laugh, Edward grins wrapping an arm around her even Esme laughs, I smile lightly. Rose headed back to the front room, Emmett only seconds behind her.
"Hi, Bella!" I hear Alice's voice and look to the open window with a balcony, Alice jumps the rail Jack not far behind holding a bouquet of wildflowers. A second later Jasper comes in behind the his eyes a rich honey, my smile widens as I skip to him and hug him. "I'm Alice." She hugs her before pulling back, "You do smell good." I roll my eyes at her antics.
"Alice." Edward grits out from between his teeth.
"It's alright, Bella and I are going to be great friends." Alice assures him, Bella looks at Jack and extends her hand,
"And you're Jack, right?"
"Pleasure to meet you." He shakes her hand before wrapping his arm around Alice's tiny waist. She turned to Jazz and I.
"Hey Jasper." She greets, Jazz's smile was strained,
"Hello, Bella." I run my hand down his back discreetly and see Edwards look. 'Lay off, he's dealing with eight vampire's bloodlust, and one of them happens to have a blood singer.' he looked away his eyes slightly downcast.
"I'll give you a tour of the house." He mutters, just as he leads Bells out Alice speaks,
"I'll see you soon." I smirk at Alice's words, I turn to Esme,
"Posso mangiare adesso?." (Can I eat now?) Esme laughs and nods handing me a plate as I sit at the counter piling my plate high with food.
"How do you manage to stay so thin?" Jack wondered,
"Good metabolism." I shrug in answer scooping a spoon full of pasta into my mouth humming in delight.
About twenty minutes later Bell's and Edward stepped down the stairs and she promptly caught sight of the piano.
"Do you play?" Esme asked, Bella shook her head,
"No, uh... Cada is more the instrumental type... Do you?" She asked slowly taking in the beauty of it.
"No dear, the piano is Edwards." Iz quirked a brow and looked at him,
"You never told me you could play." I could hear the accusation in her voice,
"It's rude to show off." he shrugged,
"Of course, Edward can do anything..." She murmured, a second later she whirled on me and I held my hands up.
"Nope." I deny instantly seeing her thought before she opened her mouth,
"Please! You haven't played in so long." she reasons pulling her lip between her teeth,
"Go on Darlin' I haven't heard you play the piano yet." I groan quietly as he spoke, walking to the seat. Setting myself down I rested my hands on the keys my eyes closing on their own accord as a memory washed over me. (The Piano - Amazing Short - Animation by Aidan Gibbons, Music by Yann Tiersen.)
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"Come on Cadi! We haven't played in ages!" Kayleigh begged, I shook my head,
"And why should I?" I demand,
"Because it's my birthday and you wouldn't want to let me down." My shoulders slump at her explanation, it was true it was her birthday... And I didn't like disappointing her on any day let alone today. "We took piano classes for a reason." she reminded me, I roll my eyes,
"You dragged me to piano lessons because you wanted to learn to play an instrument, because I could play the guitar." I counter, she pouts and I nod quickly, "Fine but only for today." She squealed and hugged me dragging me to the bench as we sat down.
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My fingers had already started moving as I remembered the day, as the song moved along another memory hit me.
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Someone had knocked at the door and I ran to answer it, peeking out from the gap I open it wider as I see a police officer.
"Miss Arcadia Knight?" I nodded,
"Yes?"
"Would you mind if I came in for a moment?" he asked,
"I can't invite you in until my parents get back." I didn't see the pity in his eyes at my sentence.
"Forgive me Miss Knight but... This is about your parents." It was at that moment I began to feel numb my body going into shock. So I opened the door and let the man inside closing it behind him. Leading him to the front room he took a seat and I took the chair across from him. "I'm sorry to have to tell you this... But about an hour ago, your mother and father were in a car crash. The impact was fatal..." my hand shook and my vision clouded with tears as I blinked them away.
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I took a shaky breathe and another memory assaulted my mind.
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I was a little girl again, eight years old and it was Christmas. I had a pile of presents to the side a large grin on my face as I looked up at faceless parents.
"Thank you for all my presents!" I told them, I was a smart girl I didn't believe in Santa, how can one man get all over the world in one night with 'flying reindeers'?'
"You still have one more yet princess." My father told me, my excitement built as I clapped my hands.
"Really?!" My mother nodded and reached right behind the tree and placed a long and wide box in front of me with a red bow on the top. Without any hesitation I ripped the paper off and a gasp left my small lips, sitting in front of me was a guitar! Like I had begged my parents to get.
I squealed a thank you before asking them to help me get it out so I could play it.
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I shook the memories off as I came to the end of the song, I couldn't reach the last key... But suddenly the key needed was pressed down and it was over. I looked at the key, that hadn't been my doing...
Clapping knocked me from my daze and I looked over at them, the Cullen's and my sister. Getting up I smile and take a sarcastic bow before stepping away and looking at Edward.
"Why don't you show off a bit, show Izzy what you can do." I suggest. I walked from the room and out the front door heading into the woods a short distance to clear my head.
"Darlin'?" I look over at the man with a southern twange and smile.
"Sorry Jazz I needed a breather. I haven't played in a while." he nodded in understanding before he tilted his head, "What?"
"I wanna show ya somethin'." Taking his out stretched hand he led me deeper into the woods as he began to tell a story. "Y'know, Me Jack and Em got bored one weekend last year and didn't know what to do? We annoyed Esme, so much so that she sent us into the forest and told us to build a tree house." He let out a laugh. "So anyway, we did build a tree house but not the kind that's usually seen." I tilt my head, he pulled to a stop and look at him in question, "We're here." I look ahead of me and gasp, in front of me was a tree house, in a literally sense.
A wooden bridge that led up to the door, lanterns on either side, and a little house with two stories but not overly huge, like a cottage but slightly bigger. (Picture on profile.) I rubbed my temple as I let out a low whistle,
"Nice."
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"Honestly you spoil her." a woman's voice said, it was vaguely familiar.
"Nothing's to good for my princess! She wants a tree house. A tree house she will get!" a male voice... my father? Exclaimed, lifting me into the air and twirling me around. A little giggle slipped through my lips.
"Thank you daddy! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" I squeal as I look up, there was a ladder leading up onto a platform and it was connected with a small wooden rectangle, a glass window at the front so I could look down at them from inside. I was so happy!
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As I came out of the memory I looked at the tree house in contemplation and slight anxiousness... I couldn't remember my parents faces.
My mother was... Elane? No! Eli- Evaine! My mother was called Evaine, Knight. She, She had... Red hair? And green eyes!
And my father, James? No, no, no... Killian! Killian Knight, with black hair... and, My blue eyes!
I was scared... I clung to the details of my old life trying to remember the most important people I'd had. I didn't have any trouble remembering Kayleigh. How many other things had I forgotten?
My first word? My first boyfriend? My favorite toy or teddy? I didn't want to forget, but I was...
"Darlin'?" I snap out of my thoughts and offer Jasper a strained smile,
"Sorry it brought up some memories is all." I walk up the path running my hand over the rail as I walked, looking up at the small house in the trees and opened the door. It was cozy, the front room had a small three seater sofa and a fireplace built into the wooden wall though it was stone. A coffee table in front of the sofa with a small bookcase pressed against the wall to the left of the fire place.
The kitchen which was to the right of the door was small with two black marble counters a sink and a cooker neatly placed in the corner with a fridge, empty no doubt. Looking curiously at the stairs I walked up the coming to a bedroom, the bed had a wooden frame a beautiful headboard and its covers were a golden cram colour, on the bed posts hung a canopy of nets to keep insets out though they were currently ties to the bed posts. The bed was set right infront of the balcony with glass doors to keep the wind out... All in all,
"It's beautiful." I whispered a smile on my face.
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