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Songs for this chapter:
*Barely Breathing – Duncan Sheik*
*Rooftops – Lost Prophets*
*Next Year – Foo Fighters*
*~Edward~*
I stepped out of the shower thankful that it was Friday, the start of another weekend...It was our last weekend together as a family of five as Isabella would be joining us next week. Alice had been pestering me to talk about how I felt about her living here since she found out, she had a unnerving twinkle in her eye every time Bella's name came off her lips, the same way my mom and dad did; They seemed to have some kind of plan....Something which didn't have Emmett or I in the loop... which I knew could only mean trouble.
I stomped down the stairs...Walking into the washing room and grabbing my clothes from the drier...Sighing at the warmness they coated around my fingers...I walked back up to my room and back into my bedroom, putting on the clothes and hung the used towels on the rack in my bathroom.
Music blared through the house all of a sudden; from the room opposite mine... Ugh...Not again! I thought...Alice and Esme had not stepped a foot out of the spare bedroom except for dinner time and when they went to sleep...All the same, as much as I didn't want to have music blaring through the house...At least if it was GOOD music I would be able to let it slide but Alice literally had NO taste in music, going for the more feminine music which obviously as a man is nowhere near appealing.
We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes and the flashback starts I'm standing there
On a balcony in sunny air
Jeez Alice would MARRY Taylor Swift if she could...Although I doubt Jasper would be too impressed I have seen the way he looks at her and my god! Heaven help the person who intends to hurt Alice in the future...I do not think he would live to tell the tale afterwards.
I had planned to go to Biology for last period because Mr Clarke wanted me to explain 'Mitosis' to some freshmen wanting to take extra credit for the science subjects...I agreed for something to do but in all honesty I didn't warm to the idea of teaching a bunch of over-achievers... whose only relationship they would establish in their lives was with a Bunsen burner...Then again, who was I to talk I didn't have a very good track-record with the opposite sex...Actually I wouldn't call making out and the occasional-touching a record...What would you call that? I would have to see how I felt later on..I had no desire to go upstairs and write any music because I imagine Alice would scold me for drowning out Ms Swift...What was I going to do?
Emmett had been let out of the house last night to go to Rosalie's and I didn't want to ring him and ask if he wanted to do something due to the last time I caught him in a .... How should I call it? Inappropriate situation and I vowed never to ring him again unless the house was on fire.
Esme and Alice were busy with the spare room...I walked out of the confines of my bedroom and down the stairs to look outside of the living room windows...Pulling the white material back I realised that my dad's car was still in the drive...Why was he not at work?
I placed the curtain back and made my way down to his office...If anyone was worth talking to right now it would be my dad...I just hoped he wasn't too busy.
I reached his office and saw that his door was ajar; Should I knock? I couldn't hear his voice so he wasn't on the phone to someone...I tapped the door three times lightly.
"Come in" he said his voice barely audible through the door...His office went back a long way and he had the views of the forest surrounding our house to look at. I peered my head around the door to find my dad at his desk with the frame of his glasses in his mouth, he looked up at me and smiled...He wasn't busy.
"Edward...You okay?" He asked me taking his glasses out of his mouth and putting them down on the desk.
I walked in and closed the door behind me making the walk down to his desk..Why did he have to have his desk so far from the door? I couldn't hear the music from upstairs down here just the birds singing and various animal noises outside so he couldn't have the excuse of 'I moved it so I could get away from the noise' but he hadn't changed the design of his office in all the years I had been here so I really should be used to it by now.
I sat down on the empty chair opposite him, the desk in between us...Suddenly getting the feeling of being one of his patients coming in for a counselling session. My dad looked at me slightly confused.
"Why aren't you at work, dad?" I asked him after a moment.
"I am on a late shift tonight...Luckily I have just finished my paperwork...What's bothering you, son?" He replied still staring at me as if he just wanted me to start a full-blown chat about feelings and school and worst of all....Girls.
"I was just wondering dad..." I began trying desperately to think of something to say...I just wanted to cure boredom I didn't want to come in and be assessed. "What is Isabella like, dad?" That's it! Everyone in the house seemed to want to talk about Isabella, and my dad was a prime factor in that....Perfect! This should kill a considerable amount of time until I could think of a getaway clause.
Dad smiled, his eyes lighting up again and he sighed contently.
"There's not much to say really, Edward...She's...Different...That's the only word I can find to describe her" he began...Different? In a bad way or a good way... "Different in a good way of course" he finished smiling at me....Did I just say that out loud?
"What does she look like?" I asked trying now to keep my thoughts entirely internal.
"She's small...No more than five-three I would say...She's naturally slender although now getting back to her normal weight...She has long, dark mahogany hair that curls at the end and she has big brown chocolate eyes to match...She's wise, much more than a normal sixteen year old. It's her birthday today you know?" He told me...Waiting for a reaction.
"Oh, really?" I said with a little enthusiasm.
"Yes...I reckon you will like her, Edward" He told me. Why would he imagine that I would not like her? Considering the effect that she has had on this family I was afraid to NOT like her...I would probably get burned alive.
"Why is that, Dad?" I asked suddenly finding curiosity in myself about my new sister to-be.
"She keeps diaries...I imagine that she is a deep-thinker, like the way you are...Although Bella probably isn't afraid in knowing that she has deep thoughts...Unlike yourself" The man had a point; I had never allowed anyone to see my diaries because they were MINE...they are a reflection of my life and I look in them to feel better about how far I had come and make comparisons about what my dreams were then and how they were now in the present day.
"You know, Edward I have a good feeling about this?" He exhaled with a smile similar to my own
"Do you?" I asked him.
"Yes...I reckon Bella will be a good thing for all of us" he stated...What on earth did he mean by that? Of course it was good that she was going to be with us in the family...I said before about my dad, mom and Alice having a plan and I was now feeling very uncomfortable about my dad may be taking this conversation.
"What does that mean?" I asked my dad, agitated about his latest remark.
"I just mean that she may bring something new in all of our lives somehow" Dad stated, sensing my growing tension.
"You have known this girl for how long, dad?" I asked in reply.
"A month, a day is all you need to make an impression....You should know that as well as I do, Edward and anyway...It won't be long now until she is here so you can form an impression of your own" He replied.
I don't know what to think about her...How could I when I hadn't met her yet?
"Yes well...Dad I don't know what to think about her, or this whole adoption thing." I stated.
"Is there a particular reason for that, Edward"? Okay this conversation had now turned into unwanted territory...Lord knows, I love my father but parents in general always seem to want to lift barriers and I had that enough from Alice...One minute I would be thinking one thing like how I wanted a soul-mate one day to spoil and the next I am in denial and vow only to have fun and not tie-myself down...Is this what growing up is?
"No..Dad, I just want to be open-minded" I exhaled trying to end the conversation there.
" Well...I will be telling her tonight about how I am going to be a new father to her" he began when I stopped him.
"Wait...You haven't told her yet? She's supposed to be coming on Monday dad" I told him...Astonished that he kept something like that from her, if she was as emotional as my family have made out then the whole thing can't have been easy for her.
"No, Edward...I got the final approval through today...I wanted to be absolutely certain that she was going to be ours before I gave her false hope" He replied.
"She has already been given the false hope...She is expecting to be adopted by strangers and then you turn around and say it's you...What makes you think that she would be pleased that you kept this from her" I told him, my voice now starting to raise uncontrollably.
"We have a bond, Edward...Much bigger than anyone else..As big as the bond I had with you and Emmett and look how you have turned out and how things have been made better for us." He replied...His voice was calm and I felt like such an idiot now because I had made an issue out of nothing at all.
"I am sorry, dad...I don't understand this whole thing, that's all" I stated feeling very stupid and exposed for my almost-outburst.
"You're growing up, Edward...You have confusion at the moment but there is no need to worry, Isabella will be welcomed into this family and I will say this now, Edward...You do not have to like her but you must accept that she will a part of the family and you must be civil and try your very hardest to treat her as such...She has come a long way and she is in a whole new country...Entering a whole new world and I do not want any more unnecessary hurt coming to her from anyone else."
"I understand, dad" I replied, smiling at him a little and he smiled in response.
"What are your plans for the day?" He asked me picking up his medical book and opening a page.
"I will be going to school later...I just need to pass the time until that happens" I replied.
I got up from the chair
"I think I am going to help mom and Alice with the room" I stated nodding at him; he smiled and motioned with his hand for me to go.
I walked out of my dad's office and back up the stairs and lo and behold...Ms Swift had finished singing and was now replaced with the wonderful vocal styling's of........S Club 7!
God!! I needed to sort that girl out...Too bad if she had said she detested Classical music on more than one occasion it was because of Classical music that those idiots they have a nerve to call a band became famous in the first place.
I edged my way towards the spare room the music getting louder and louder although this time the music was mixed with hysterical giggling....Well, mom was giggling...Alice was cackling...As soon as my sister and my mom get into a laughing fit then you know it is about something that doesn't even scratch the surface of the word 'funny'.
I pushed the door open and found them attacking each other with paint rollers, Alice more covered than mom.
"Mom...Alice" I shouted at the top of my voice although it was hopeless as my voice was nothing over the blaring music...I would have a bad ringing in my ears if I stayed here any longer. My presence in the room had also gone unnoticed as the two of them were now spinning around each other and covering the unpainted walls with specks of purple...I took the opportunity then to sneak up on them as both of their backs were facing me...Mom wasn't easily spooked but Alice would jump a mile.
I quickly stepped towards them in light strides as I then threw my arms around Alice's waist and she yelled and escaped from my grasp and faced me, the roller hitting my chest and the wetness pouring through my shirt.
"Edward, for Christ sake!" She shouted as Esme was now facing me and smiling wickedly holding the other roller. I looked down at my shirt and then back at Alice who was still breathing heavily but also biting her lip to contain her laughter.
"Oh it's on now!" I stated pulling Alice up and over my back in a fireman's carry with her in my grasp kicking and punching my back in an attempt to try and get me to put her down...I ran over to Esme and took the roller out of her hand I then rolled the paint on Alice's backside and lower legs.
"Ahhh Edward....You bastard....Put me down, this is war" She yelled although still sounding like she was talking in a normal voice due to the extent of the music's volume.
"How can it be a war, Alice if you can't reach me" I taunted slapping the roller on her bare feet now, she punched me harder and growled loudly.
"If you don't put me down right now I will tell Esme what you didn't want me to say." She yelled in reply.
I groaned loudly...Damn her! She always knew how to play me...I placed her down and she then looked up at me, her face red and her breathing jagged.
"That's better...Now where were we?" she replied wickedly as both of us went to the pain pot at the same time and continued our attack on one another.
*~Alice~*
I climbed out of an hour-long shower in an attempt to try and get the paint off of me, I had won against Edward in our little fight and he had now gone to school for last period...Something about teaching 'Mitosis' Like I care! I got dressed in my old clothes that I kept for DIY and picked up a brand new roller from my room when my phone rang.
I never had a dream come true
Till the day that I found you
Even though that I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby
That ringtone could only mean one thing....Jasper! I squealed loudly and pressed 'Accept'
"Hi Jazz!"
"Hello honey, are you okay?"
"Yes I am fine...Just recovering from a pain attack but otherwise I'm all good. Are you okay?"
"No...Not really" His voice was breaking and alarm bells instantly went off in my head
"Baby, what is it? What's happened?" I asked unable to hide the worry and concern in my voice.
"My mom has had another one of her turns...I am in Forks Hospital right now...Can you come and see me please, baby...I really need you right now" Jasper's voice was breaking and I could tell that he was in pain and that he was trying his best not to cry over the phone...God the amount of times I had told him that crying was okay...He was still having none of it, after a year of being together.
"Yes of course, Jazz I am on my way" I said hanging up on him and grabbing my car keys.
I ran down the stairs past my mom, who looked equally as worried as I did...I stopped at the foot of the stairs and turned back round to look at her.
"Jazz is at the hospital...I will be back soon" I said knowing instantly that she wouldn't press me about the matter right now as I would tell her later...I never kept anything from my mom...I spoke to her about everything...I honestly don't know what I would do without her.
Mom nodded and I turned and flew out of the front door not bothering to close it after me...Jazz needed me and I would do anything to make sure that he was alright.
I climbed into my car, turning off the radio which I had turned on the way back from school yesterday and floored it to the hospital.
I had never liked hospitals, although Forks hospital was more adequate than others, I parked into the first available space in the lot and got out of the car...Locking it behind me.
Walking through the double sliding doors I instantly searched for Jasper in the crowd of the waiting room...The majority of people stared at me as I came in, and usually I would feel slightly inadequate but I was doing this for Jasper, and nothing was more important than he was in my world..Ever.
I couldn't find him in the crowd...had he gone to his mom's room? Had he found out something new since he called me?
I edged my way over to the receptionist who seriously needed a new hair-do and a decent makeup job...Not to mention a new pair of glasses...Focus Alice, snap out of it.
"Hello, I am looking for Jasper Hale...His mother, Beverly was admitted here at some time tonight" I informed her in the steadiest voice possible because I was afraid for Jasper. "Do you know which room Mrs Hale is in?"
The woman studied me for a moment before speaking
"Are you family?" Typical...How do these people always know you are in a hurry....It was the moment of truth...I could lie and get sent to the room right now or I could be truthful and have to wait with the plague of the waiting room until he came out.
"I am Jasper's cousin" I stated...Never mind that I was lying...I needed to see my Jasper.
"Mrs Hale is in room 202" She told me, without another word I sprinted down the first available corridor not knowing where the hell I was going...I passed a room that said '180' so I imagined that I was on the right floor....At least I hoped to God I was!
What was it with hospitals? Everything looked the same! I carried on a little further until a reached a new set of double doors...I walked through them and saw another room '200' YES I was down the right corridor I passed '201' and turned a corner which turned out to be a dead end...Right at the end of the corridor I saw Jasper...His head in his hands sitting on a chair outside of an entrance to another hospital room. In respect to the hospital procedure I decided not to call out to him, instead I walked the long trail to where he was sitting...I crouched down to his level and placed one of my hands on his...He shot up, his red, watery eyes staring straight into mine, I smiled before he exhaled and stood up pulling me to him in a kiss.
I wrapped my hands around his neck and took out one hand to stroke his hair, his hands were on my face, lovingly...I snapped myself out of my haze of our kiss, realising where we were...I broke our kiss although in all honesty I could spend forever in Jasper's arms and nothing would ever come as close.
He kept me in his grasp as a few more tears escaped his eyes as I wiped them away...He looked so tired and so drained from emotion and I didn't know what to say to him, I wanted to make him feel better so badly but his life was so complicated and there was very little I could ever do to make the pain go away.
"How is she?" I asked wiping a few more tears from his cheeks.
"She's going to live this time." He choked out...His mum had suffered a lot since the death of Jasper's grandmother and he was also feeling the effects of his mother's choices as he had done since his Grandmother's death.
"Oh Jazz...That's good news!" I exhaled as he nodded tightening his mouth in an attempt to muffle new sobs and tears.
"Alice...I was so scared she was going to....I don't know what I would have done....God, Alice....Thank you...Thank you for being here." He said, tentatively. My heart soared at the sound of hearing his thanks...It made me feel good that I was able to comfort him and be there when he needed me, just as he had done for me.
"I love you" I said in a comforting tone, trying not to cry as well.
"I love you too, Alice...So very much. Will you stay with me? Just until I know that she is out of danger" He asked me still looking down at the floor.
I pulled my finger out from his hair and placed it under his chin; he looked up our eyes connecting again.
"Of course I will Jasper" I said as he smiled and locked our lips together again.
~*Carlisle~*
"Now are you quite sure about this, Carlisle...There is still time to reject the application you know?" Doctor Albertson asked me after he had got off of the phone with Forks adoption agency.
"I have never been surer about anything, Frank" I stated simply as he then nodded his head and put his back against the back of his chair.
"Well I can say that I am somewhat surprised, Carlisle. I knew that you and Isabella had gotten close as a doctor-patient relationship but I never would have thought that you would be the one to adopt her" he confessed
"Neither did I, Frank but the decision is unanimous...My family and I all agree that we would like to have another addition and we hope that Bella will, someday accept myself and my wife as her parents" Frank smiled and chuckled slightly in relief...I smiled back.
"Then, Carlisle...It's all arranged...She will enter your lives on Monday...If that's how you word it and...Congratulations" Frank stood up and held his hand out to me; I took it and shook it with a handshake.
"Thank you, Frank" I said before turning and walking out of his office.
Now...I needed to tell Bella.
I got to her room and knocked softly...Hearing no noise I opened it ever so slightly and peeped around the corner to find her writing...In deep thought about something...How could she not have heard me? That girl could think...!
"Bella"? I called her, she shot up looking shocked but smiled when she realised it was me.
"Hello, Doctor Cullen" She addressed me back closing the diary and putting her pen down.
"Can I come in for a second?" I asked her
"Of course" she said before I stepped into her room fully, and closing it behind me.
I took a silent breath before sitting down in the usual seat in front of her; she looked a little confused and possibly a little apprehensive.
"I wanted to talk to you about your new family, Bella" I began; she exhaled and nodded in understanding.
"I wanted you to know that I know about them and I feel that you are going to like them" I began not knowing where I was going with my confession.
"I trust your judgement, Carlisle" She told me with a small smile...This girl was so similar to Esme; she had the ability to wash any uneasiness from me just by speaking.
"I am here to tell you something about them" I began; shock now showing in her face.
"Please tell me that I am still getting adopted by them, Carlisle" She exclaimed her eyes glistening with new tears.
"Bella...Calm down, of course you are still getting adopted...It's just that"
"They are complicated...They have problems like my mom did?" Bella stopped me...I could see her tensing up this is not how I originally wanted this to go.
"Bella, please just listen for a minute?" I asked her wanting to kick myself for not saying what I came here to say sooner.
Bella nodded and waited patiently for me to say something.
"The family...That you are going to be adopted by...Is mine"
*~Bella~*
"The family that you are going to be adopted by is mine"
Did I just hear what I thought I heard...I couldn't move...I couldn't think, I couldn't do anything but sit there and stare at Carlisle.
Mine
Mine
Mine
How is this even possible?
The family that you are going to be adopted by is mine
Am I dreaming? Is this real? Pinch yourself, Bella...Wake yourself up!
Mine
Mine
No...Wait a minute.....
Mine
Mine
Oh god, this WAS real? How could that be? The family I was being adopted by were called Masen....Dr Cullen himself had told me that....
"Bella?" Carlisle asked...I tried to find my voice...I needed to say something I was probably making him uneasy.....Say something Bella.....I don't understand...What the hell is going on?
"I don't understand" I blurted out unexpectedly relieved that I actually had a tongue in my mouth.
"I put my family's name down as Masen because I didn't want you to be disgusted at the idea of having your own Doctor adopt you" Carlisle explained
Why would he think I would be disgusted? This was unreal...This was....I have no other words for it.
"I am sorry, Bella if I have shocked you...I had the best intentions for it and judging by your reaction I can see that it was probably the wrong decision" Carlisle explained...His voice soothing me as it always had done.
"Carlisle...You haven't....I'm not....Disgusted" I managed to speak out.
"You're not?" He asked a slight smile appearing on his face as the corners of his mouth lifted
"No...Carlisle this is.....Great!" I exhaled and beamed at him he smiled back with the same amount of emotion.
"Now...I don't have to say goodbye to you!" I said the tears falling from my face "You do mean it though, don't you?" I asked suddenly thinking that this would be a joke.
"I can bring you the adoption papers if you prefer, Bella?" He offered and I shook my head.
There was nothing left to say...I didn't want to know anymore and I didn't want to think anymore...I brushed my diary off of my lap and crawled over to Carlisle wrapping my arms around him securing myself..He chuckled and hugged me back tightly.
There were no more words...I had no more words
I was joining Carlisle's family....
This was it now......
My new life......
As a potential Cullen.
The chapters will get longer as the story goes on...I realise how much I have written and put it on here and it is barely anything at all: D! I will also include Emmett, Rosalie and Esme POV later on too as I have been deserting them *Smacks hand*
Thanks for everyone who is favouriting this story again...I couldn't be happier.
I hope everyone has a good Christmas and New Year.
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