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Chapter 18

Fairy Tales

"Esme?" he asked after he kissed her head. They were such a perfect match together, so right for one another.

"I was right you two are like Snow White and her Prince, just perfect together!" I said and they both looked at me a little startled and confused. "I was thinking of base designs for painting each couple and well I came up with Snow White and her Prince for you two, I hope you don't mind? It's just something that I do!" Esme smiled at me and looked up at Carlisle who looked pleased. They kissed chastely and then moved into the room, Carlisle's arm around Esme's waist.

"Who are we?" Rosalie asked eagerly and I smiled at her somewhat cheekily.

"Well at first I thought Rapunzel and her prince but then I thought to myself that Beauty and the Beast was a much better description of you both, no offence please Emmett!"

Emmett laughed quite heartily and replied "none taken Bella, I like to think I am a bit of a beast at least in the bedroom anyways" he scoffed. That comment earned him a punch in the ribs from Rosalie, a growl from Edward and a "really Emmett" from Esme!

Rosalie was positively glowing at my comments and I then noticed that she had a beautiful smile but I also knew that behind that smile there was an element of pain, some sort of personal loss which she hid away most of the time, not wanting anyone to get too close. I had always been quite intuitive where emotions and feelings were concerned and this was one of those times, Rosalie's anger simmered below her cool exterior and it reminded me of dad when mom, then Clara had died.

"Bella, Bella, tell us, who is Edward?" Alice asked excitedly and I blushed. I shrugged as I hadn't thought of one for him, why I couldn't say!

"Um, I er don't know, perhaps Peter Pan, the frog prince, the over generalized prince charming?" I answered and everyone seemed amused by the peter pan comment. I smiled as Edward shook his head though even he couldn't help but smile.

"What about you?" Emmet asked still very amused by my earlier comment. I hadn't ever thought of who I was unless it was in relation to Clara. When she was little I was the prince and everyone else, but as she got older I was assigned to the mother, friend or maid roles.

"I... I don't know, Clara always picked who I was, um I have not really thought about it much" I answered honestly. "I've been prince charming, the mother, all the animals, the villains, pretty much anyone who was needed for the story" I always let Clara be the princess and I was everyone else in the story.

"Oh no, that just won't do" Alice stated as she stared at me. I wondered if she was waiting for something to pop out and go 'boo.' Rosalie looked at me too though there wasn't the intensity of Alice's gaze in it. Soon everyone was looking at me and I blushed wondering what they wanted.

"Tinkerbell?" Emmet suggested and I looked at him pointedly.

"Yeah, thanks for that one but no thanks!" I said and his laughter boomed in the small room. Arching an eyebrow I looked at him and wondered what was so funny.

"Cinderella?" Alice asked before shaking her head, "Maid, well servant really but with a hateful family and talks to rats, nah!" I chuckled at that and she smiled too.

"Dorothy? From the wizard of Oz?" Rose asked and I shook my head.

"Nope, she ran away from her family to a strange old man, killed someone with her house, then again with water. Besides I like Wicked and Elphaba rules." I stated clearly and smiled. Rosalie nodded and Alice giggled.

"I was going to say Ariel and Jasmine but they don't suit either" Esme commented still in Carlisle's arms. I nodded, I loved the water but being an air-headed daughter that doesn't think before they act and blindly follows a man that she can't talk too, nope, definitely not me! Jasmine was strong willed, bored and playful but helpless and her daddies little girl.

Jasper spoke next, he had been so quiet I had forgotten he was even in the room "I have an idea, Bella you could be Sleeping Beauty and Edward your Prince Charming, coming to awaken you after a hundred years"

Alice began almost jumping up and down saying "Yes Bella, that would be sooooo romantic!" I blushed once again and noticed Edwards head nod ever so slightly! This family was something else really!

"I like Belle or even Mulan, or indeed the princess from the Princess and the Frog story" Edward suggested and I tilted my head wondering what he thought I was like.

Belle was selfless, intelligent and compassionate and loving. Mulan gave everything for her family and fell in love with a man that treated her fairly. She was forced to hide behind gender roles so she hid as a man to be a warrior. The princess in the newest story was strong and determined, devoted and yet able to see what it was that she wanted in life. I was none of these things, and I opened my mouth to tell him so.

"Tiana... I don't know" Emmet says and I looked at him smiling, "what?"

"You know her by name do you Emmet?" I asked and he looked baffled and everyone including him burst into laughter. Emmett just shrugged.

"I don't see you as her, she forgot about love and family in pursuit of her desire for her father's dream" Emmet answered and I looked at him, "I don't think you'd forget that" I stared at him my mouth hanging open. Did he think that I was dedicated and strong and devoted like her but better? Trying to sort my brain out I closed my mouth and blinked a few times.

"I see her more as a princess like from Shrek." Rosalie mentioned and looked at me trying to see something in me that would lean one way or the other.

"Fiona!" Alice and Jasper said at the same time and smiled at one another.

"I don't know Aurora was kind and wonderful and Fiona was brave and smart." Alice commented trying to sort out her thoughts. "But Bella wouldn't wait for some one to come and save her she would have done it herself."

"And she knows her history better than our teacher, not that that's a hard thing to do but still that with her independence it runes a lot of the princesses." Jasper said with a smile as I shrugged.

"Read enough history and it sticks, besides Clara liked historical fiction and I wanted to know so if she asked I could tell her" I told him and he smiled at me but didn't correct himself. I frowned and glared at him and he chuckled.

"Compassionate, loving, open, loyal and curious? Thumbelina." Alice said and I turned my glare to her. "What you disagree?" she sighed and I nodded emphatically.

"Come on this is silly, I am not like them. All of them stood against evil and won, and then found their true love and lived in happiness after battling to have it. Their lives were brave and were better for it. Brave, devoted, compassionate, strong, selfless and intelligent are not words that describe me. I may be loving but that's about it" I answered trying to prove my point. They didn't seem to agree with me.

"You helped your sister by giving parts of yourself to her, both physically and emotionally" Esme said and I looked at her. Yes I had done that but anyone would have in my place. I mean she was my little sister, who would let someone they loved so much suffer pain that they did not need to! "You may not see that what you did for her was amazing and selfless, and so much more but it was" I blinked at her words what would I call someone that gave of themselves for me? A hero, everything they had described me as, could I be that? No, heroes were strong and won their battles, I failed to save her.

"You willingly faced great pain for another; you have done many things for others that didn't benefit you much, if at all." Carlisle said and I sighed. I wasn't going to get them to see the truth but they seemed determined. Didn't most people try to help others? Wouldn't any sister give everything to save their sibling?

"You make sure that those around you are taken care of. Like when Jessica and Lauren try to pick on you and you make it into a joke, or Erik?" Edward said and I shrugged, they were friends and friends help friends.

"You do that for friends" I answered honestly.

"But not everyone does. You've given Erik a massive confidence boost, and when you spoke to the students about letting the whole mural thing slide you basically said that everyone special. More people are showing their talents" Jasper said and I couldn't disagree with him. I had a few people that showed me their talents, in art I met a girl that was an amazing photographer and a boy that could sculpt.

"Everyone's special and should be treated equally" I said and they all smiled and I couldn't help but join them. I let their words settle and wondered if there would be a day when I could see what they said was in me.