A/N: So I promised that it would be up Saturday but you guys love me because in the hour inbetween school and work I write for you
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Moving
We spent the next few days after Renesmee's party packing up our house. It was a little bit depressing to see our house packed up into boxes. Most of our furniture was staying behind, just in case we ever wanted to come back considering we all knew that we would. Outside of the house were 9 U-Hauls and a car transporter that all of our cars were being driven up onto. Edward was nervous about this, having to have his cars on the bottom level so that if they fell off they wouldn't have to far to go. I honestly could have cared less. As long as Edward was happy with his cars and I didn't have to listen to his complaining, that was okay with me. Ann had been helping me pack up the cottage and wondering about my choice in books.
"I just don't understand how you can read those book. I had to read them in high school and I don't remember much about them but I know that I just used Spark notes for them."
"I just like the classics. You just have to read past the boring speech and look towards the essence of the book. The storyline is more so what I like about it. There aren't many books that have this kind of plot anymore. It's original and I really like that."
"I guess that I can see where you are coming from but I just don't read much anyways. I'm just more of a talker, a writer you know?"
"I wish that I could write but it just never really ends up working out very well."
"Some people just can't write it's not something that you should beat yourself up about. You like literature and that's great. I wish that I could appreciate it more but I just don't have the patientence for it. It's just like 'say what you need to say and get it over with.' I guess I'm not patient at all."
"I can see that." Ann was a little ball of fire. She moved at a mile a minute and that's not just because she was a vampire. It seemed like she had taken the position of my new best friend, as Carrie had taken that position with Alice. Carrie was all for fashion and Alice was excited to have someone to share that with. Renesmee loved shopping but nowhere near the extreme that Alice was. Carrie was on her level.
Nahuel and his family and Ann, Carrie, Alex and John all took the new opportunities in stride. They would be off hunting shortly and we would meet them at the airport in New York in 2 days. That's how long it would take to get there driving. Approximately 46 hours, not accounting for traffic, but that's driving the speed limit. Ann and I took many trips bringing stuff from the cottage to the main house, considering there wasn't a clearing to get any vehicle up there. Edward would have helped but he got wrapped in to help Alice.
"Come on, come on, pick up the pace," she yelled standing in the doorway clapping her hands together. Jasper, Emmett and Edward came down the stairs simultaneously caring boxes and garment bags. "Emmett, be careful with those dresses. They were expensive."
I chuckled to myself as he stumbled with it slightly just to make Alice gasp. They loaded what they could into the back of her U-Haul but it was already busting at the seams. They then started putting her things in Jasper's. Ann and I finished up mine and Edward's U-Hauls and smiled at each other as we closed the back doors in unison. My entire life was packed in the matter of the back of a U-Haul. We then continued to help the rest of my family, with Esme and Alice cringing at the sight of their delicate clothing and artwork being packed. Once we were finished, Rosalie and Edward drove the cars onto the car transporter. It was just big enough for all of our cars while Jasper's motorcycle was in the back of his U-Haul. With how insane our family was about their cars there was no way that we were going to drive them almost 3,000 miles across country. The Volvo was one thing but when it came to the BMWs and Mercedes it was a whole other deal.
We all said our goodbyes to Nahuel, Huilen, Makeeda, Naira, Adisa, Ann, Carrie, Alex and John before hoping into our U-Hauls. All of Renesmee's things were in one U-Haul and she had Camden as a co-pilot. She would need to sleep sometime within the next two days and at that point he would take over. Camden's things, which there weren't too many of, were in the one that Aedan was driving. The two shared one but it was nowhere near full considering they were nomads when we met them. Alice had bought a few things for them but I had a feeling that when we got to New York that was something that we would need to do.
The driver of the car transporter was dropped off by his wife and looked astonished at the amount of cars that we had and the make of them. Carlisle led the way, with Esme behind him, then Emmett, Rosalie, Edward, me, Renesmee, Alice, Jasper, Aedan and our cars brought up the rear. We had a long way to go but the one great thing about being vampires is that we didn't need to sleep. We would be without our cars for about a day but that was fine with us. We had a few new ones to buy anyways for our new family members and those could be used until our cars arrived.
The drive seemed to take no time at all. It was only a few months earlier that we had driven back from New Hampshire. A lot had happened since we were back and I reflected on it as I drove behind Edward. I had said goodbye to my father, although I never visited his grave, my childhood home was gone, but to a good friend, my daughter was almost fully grown and Jacob had told her that he imprinted on her. When we left we were on good terms, I guess. He had agreed to stay away until he was needed because he didn't want to upset Renesmee further. She gave him a hug quickly at the party and moved on. They told us to call them when their services would be needed. It would take some time to be back on the same note with those guys. We had finally seen the welcome sign to Utica, New York and I almost bounced up and down with excitement. A whole new house, a whole new life and everything would be as normal as possible. However, this town was known for its snowfall. It doesn't bother me as much as it used to but snow still was not my forte.
The driveway up to the house seemed so familiar. When we pulled up we basically stayed in our convoy lane. Carlisle backed his U-Haul up to the front door and we all got out. By helping each other we thought it wouldn't take as long to figure out where everything was going and we wouldn't be bumping into each other too much. This move, however, was turning out to be very expensive. We didn't have any furniture, except for my father's chair. How ironic is that? After unloading everything, Alice and Esme took two of the U-Hauls to go furniture shopping and the rest of the U-Hauls went back to the distribution center. The family then ran back to the house. It was so nice to stretch our legs but we wouldn't be resting. We had a week before school started and we needed to unpack the house, help with the building of the other house, buy a few new cars and have a few family meetings on how everything was going down.
Once back to the house, I allowed Edward to unpack our room because he was so particular about everything. I just hung up clothes in my closet. It could have been the size of a bedroom. On the dresser inside, I put the pictures that I had taken from Charlie's room. The one of Charlie, Renesmee, Edward and me was present in the middle and a few of me and him from the wedding. I put his cologne right next to it and a picture of him in his police uniform that I found in the living room. I smiled slightly to myself and took out my old pajamas. I put them on to finish hanging up all of my clothes.
"You okay," Edward asked from the other room. "I haven't heard anything from you in a while."
"Yeah I'm fine," my voice breaking a little bit at the end. I hope he hadn't noticed but of course, I could get nothing by him. He ran to grab me but stopped short, about a foot in front of me. He eyed my outfit, holey shirt and all. He smirked slightly.
"Is that the outfit that I think it is?" I smiled at him and nodded my head. "Those are the pajamas you wear the first time that you knew I spent the night at your house." He wrapped his arms around my waist. "I think they are just as sexy now as they were then."
"Oh really," I replied wrapping my arms around his neck. "Then why don't you do something about it?" He placed his lips on mine and our lips moved together. The passion grew as he delicately pulled our bodies to the floor. Our lips never lost contact with each other until Edward slip my shirt over my head.
"This is exactly what I wanted to do that night," he whispered in my ear before nibbling on it gently. My shirt was on the floor behind my head and then it only took a matter of seconds before his was lying beside mine. Edward and I seemed to be off in our own little world, the way that it normally was when we made love to each other.
"Oh God," I heard Alice screech and then cover her eyes. "I am so sorry." I whipped my shirt back over my chest and looked like a deer in the headlights. I couldn't even speak.
"You didn't see this coming," Edward barked getting up off the floor and trying to find his shirt.
"Sorry I was distracted."
"By what," Edward asked with his tone not softening one bit.
"I'm keeping tabs on the Volturi and figuring out when the planes are landing and if everything is okay and what my room is going to look like. Jes Edward, I can't always keep tabs on who is having sex in this house. I would never get anything accomplished."
I laughed very quietly before saying "I'm sorry Alice. We should have locked the door."
"It's fine because you two weren't actually having sex yet. Esme and I just got back with your furniture."
"We'll be down in a second okay."
Alice left shaking her head and I laughed embarrassed by the situation covering my face with my hands.
"I'm sorry love," Edward stated putting his arm around my shoulders. "I should have been listening to her thoughts."
"I'm kind of glad that you weren't."
"Why? So my sister could see us having sex," he asked with disbelief in his voice.
"Because that means that you were only paying attention to me." He chuckled slightly and kissed my forehead before he stood us up and we went downstairs. Esme was already moving furniture around the living room trying to figure out the best layout. Alice and Jasper were carrying in their bed and we went outside to see both of the U-Hauls stuffed full.
"The one on the right has our furniture on the left side," Edward said answering my thoughts, although he couldn't hear them.
We got exactly what we asked for, all black furniture. We got a black iron cast king size canopy bed, a black leather couch and dark iron and glass bedside tables with a matching coffee table and side tables for by the couch. Our cd player was then placed on top of a tall black and glass shelving unit and our cds and pictures accompanied the rest of the shelves.
After we had put all our furniture in our rooms we left the rest of the unpacking to be done later. We could get so much more accomplished at night anyways when all of the stores were closed and we didn't really have anything else to do. Edward, Renesmee and I took a walk to the car dealerships in town. We needed 3 new cars at the moment, one for Aedan and Camden, one for Ann, Alex, Carrie and John and one for Nahuel, Makeeda, Naira, Adisa and Huilen.
We hadn't yet to discuss the school situation but I knew that it would be talked about as soon as we were joined by the rest of our extended family. I was actually excited about going back to high school for the second time. The first time was miserable until I went to Forks but at least this time I would have my family with me. Looking at cars was getting annoying with Edward and Renesmee. I knew that I should have gone with Aedan and Camden, they didn't care what kind of car we got them, as long as they could drive. Well as long as Aedan would drive. Camden didn't want to drive, he absolutely hated driving.
The Audi dealer was first to deal with Ann's car and Aedan's car. I had a conversation with Ann before we left about what her dream car would be and there was an Audi dealer in town and they had exactly what I was looking for. A night blue colored Audi A6 with tinted windows with a black on black interior was exactly what she always wanted but she could never afford it. Then we found the perfect car for Aedan and Camden also. The Audi Q7 mid-size SUV. It was a phantom black color, the only color that they had left with tinted windows and a sun roof, which would be perfect because no human could see above the car unless they were in a tractor-trailer truck. It had premium black leather interior with silver accessories. Once we had the two cars we headed over to the Chevrolet dealer to get Nahuel his first car. Since it was the first time that any of them would drive we didn't want to get them too expensive of a car. It was a royal blue color on the outside and tan leather interior with silver trimmings.
Once we purchased the cars it was time to pick everybody up from the airport . Ann ran to the Audi that we bought for her and hugged it, jumping up and down and screaming. "Maybe I should have put a bow on it," I said with a sarcastic tone. Everyone chuckled a little bit before she ran up and gave me a bone-crushing hug.
"Thank you thank you thank you."
"You're welcome," I replied hugging her back.
Carrie, Alex and John joined Ann at her car while Edward drove Nahuel's car with Huilen, Naira, Makeeda, and Adisa while I drove Nahuel and Renesmee home in Aedan's Audi.
A couple of days later I was dragged along on a shopping trip. Taking the two biggest cars only made sense. Rosalie, Alice and Renesmee took Aedan's car and Ann, Carrie, and I took Nahuel's Chevy. I didn't mind driving a slower car because I was used to Chevys anyways. The drive into town wasn't a very long one and we ended up at the local mall. It was the first time that any of us had seen it and it was huge. We needed to get new clothes for all the members of our family. Carlisle had given both Ann and Carrie their own credit cards, black platinum cards with what I was assuming, had an enormous limit in which to buy clothes for themselves and their mates and each of us had 2 of our own. Alice took the liberty to by clothes for Aedan and Camden, Nahuel and his sisters along with her and Jasper. She had more credit cars than anybody. Rosalie did the shopping for Emmett and herself while I shopped, reluctantly, for Edward and I. Renesmee didn't need to worry about anybody else.
We had gone shopping in the morning and needed to make trips to the cars quite frequently in order to discharge of our bags. We hit the mall separately in order to not cause such an uproar with the amount of money that 6 girls were spending together. We didn't leave the mall until it was almost closing and then we could barely fit into the cars. At that time we called Edward to have him drive down and get me and Renesmee who could no longer fit in the cars' back seats. Ann drove the Chevy home and Rosalie drove the Audi home once Edward showed up in his BMW.
"Thanks for coming to get us," I said getting into the passenger side of his car.
"Not a problem. I figured by you guys only taking 2 cars that one of us would need to come and get you. I know how you guys shop."
"You mean you know how they shop. You are going to be lucky if you have enough clothes."
"I'm sure that Alice bought me a few things, even though she had to shop for so many other people. She is a pro at this. Did you have fun Nessie?"
She didn't answer and Edward and I looked at her. She was already asleep in the back seat of the car. Edward and I looked at her with loving eyes before he put the car in drive and drove her home. He carried her downstairs to her room before putting her under the covers and kissing her forehead. I proceeded to kiss her forehead and turn the lights off before we walked back upstairs. Alice was already in the living room with clothes thrown everywhere. I noticed all of the different piles. Next time we were going to have to keep the bags separated. It's a good thing that we were all different sizes and had different styles otherwise it would have been impossible.
"Who's are these," Alice asked holding up a pair of lace boy short underwear and a matching bra.
"Mine," I said reluctantly.
"Label them next time please. We don't all need to be seeing your goodies."
"Alice you used to by all my stuff so don't even go starting with that."
Alice chuckled a little bit before throwing them into my pile, which was one of the bigger ones. Had I really bought all of those clothes? It took the entire night to get all of the clothes separated into the separate piles and then by the time morning came we were all dispersed in our own rooms putting our clothes away. Renesmee had woken up to a huge pile of clothes at the bottom of her bed and didn't even come upstairs to say good morning to any of us. I heard Alice yell a few times that her closet wasn't big enough. Poor Jasper, the guy probably had a foot of space in that thing. She ended up putting her formal dresses down in Renesmee's room in the basement because Nessie had the biggest closet of anybody.
By the end of the week all of the building was completed and most of the decorating was finished. Esme still didn't have everything where she wanted it even though she never left the house unless she forgot to get something. The night before we went to school, there was a house meeting. I was assuming that they did this every single time and considering the family had doubled in size since the last time they went to school, it was going to be a little bit more confusing this time. The "original" Cullens and Aedan and Camden sat down around our large dining room table, a dark mahogany, long rectangular table with matching antique chairs. Our newest additions then stood against the walls surrounding the table.
"Alice," Carlisle spoke first after we sat down. "Search the weather forecast please."
Alice face went blank and her eyes glazed over for a few moments before she opened her eyes and looked around the table. "We will be fine for the first week."
I saw Renesmee's eyes light up when she heard the news. I knew she was excited about going to school for the first time. I also noticed the way that Nahuel looked at her with almost loving eyes. I looked at Edward and he seemed to be in his own little world, not much paying attention to what was going on around him.
Are you alright Edward, I asked him with my thoughts. He nodded at me in response. Are you worried about Nessie going back to school? He nodded slightly again and looked at me. He smirked and turned back to Carlisle who was speaking again.
"We have a lot to accomplish tonight and it's something that you guys are going to have to memorize. Edward, Alice and Emmett are going to be the original Cullens. Esme and I adopted you guys when you were young teens. Rosalie and Jasper, you are twins again and Esme was your aunt when your parents passed away. Renesmee you are going by the name Vanessa Swan and Bella you are Bella Swan again. You were great friends with Alice and Edward back at home. You are cousins and your family was having a get together while you were at our house and there was a fire at your house. You never left again and we legally adopted you last year. Ann, do you guys want to go to school?"
Ann looked around to her friends and they all nodded. "Yes."
"Okay, Ann, you and Carrie are sisters who just moved here with your families. John and Alex you are best friends who are dating them and convinced your families to also move here. You are not related to us in any way. If you were then it would seem a little suspicious that we have so many kids living with us. Some of you are going to be sophomores and the rest are juniors. Bella, Alice, Edward, Nessie, Carrie and John are sophomores and Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper, Ann and Alex are juniors. Emmett you are going to be driving Rosalie and Nessie in your Jeep and Jasper is going to drive Edward's BMW with him, Bella and Alice. Ann you will be driving your Audi with Carrie, Alex and John. Since you are sisters and they are best friends, you can just pretend to pick them up every morning. As for Aedan and Camden, you guys are going to need to wait to come in until the middle of the semester. You haven't been vegetarians for very long and we don't want anything to go wrong. And the same goes for Nahuel, Adisa, Makeeda and Naira. You have problems with sticking to our diet and we don't want anything to go wrong so when we think you are ready then we will enroll you in the school and Huilen will be your mother when that happens. Everybody understand?"
Everybody nodded their heads.
"And I don't think that I need to mention this," he continued. "But do not tell anybody what you are. Stay clear as much as you can and walk at human speed, be a human for all intensive purposes. Nessie be sure not to show anybody your gift, it would be quite an uproar. And Edward, as usually, keep tabs on what people are saying and thinking."
"Not a problem," he replied before Carlisle dismissed the group. We said goodnight to Renesmee and tucked her into bed.
Edward gave her a kiss and walked up the stairs as I lied down beside Nessie in her bed while she put her head on my shoulder. Silence overcame the room for a few minutes.
She put her hand up to my forehead. I'm scared mom.
"Why honey, I thought you wanted this," I asked running my fingers through her hair trying to relax her.
"I've never been to school before and I want to make new friends but with daddy around I'm not going to be able to do that."
"If you want to make friends tomorrow then go ahead but just be safe. I will keep your father in line."
"Really," she said excitedly. "You would do that?"
"Of course I would. You need the opportunity to meet new people. We all had that chance at one point and now it's your turn. You shouldn't have to be subjected to hanging out with your parents and your aunts and uncles. It's not fair to you."
"Thank you mom," she said giving me a hug.
"You're welcome. But just remember to keep the mom thing on the down low," I said with a chuckle. "I'm too young to have a daughter. And don't show anybody your gift. We're cousins remember?"
"Yes. Hi, my name is Vanessa Swan, it's nice to meet you," she said trying to sound like she was introducing herself to people. "My family calls me Nessie though."
"Perfect. Now you should get some sleep. You've got a big day tomorrow little girl."
I kissed on the forehead quickly and went to get up.
"Can you stay with me tonight, please," she asked me giving me a sad puppy dog look with her big brown eyes.
"Yes, I will stay with you," I said a little bit louder so that Edward would hear me. I wrapped her up in a blanket before I put my arm around her and she snuggled into my shoulder. She was sound asleep in minutes. Her dreams were enticing that night. They were mostly about what would happen tomorrow and the people the she would meet and how the other students would react to us being there.
I'm staying here tonight, I screamed to Edward in my thoughts. I really wish I could hear your thoughts. It would certainly make talking easier. I heard him laugh upstairs. He was in the living room watching Comedy Central no doubt with some new stand-up competition on. I love you.
"I love you too," he said through the floor. I smiled to myself and held my daughter a little bit tighter and her like that until early the next morning.
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